skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great example of survivor bias. Just because you can list a handful of high-profile successes by no means discounts the arguments against Pinterest.

I can give you an equally invalid example of failure bias:
Groupon,
Friendster,
Myspace,
Digg,
Zynga,
etc
That's not getting people to trust you. That's being a beta. That's getting people to know they can dominate you.
> I don't understand why trusting LI with all your email is worse than trusting Google with all your email.

This is like trusting LI and Google with all your email. trusting any 2 parties with your email is less secure than trusting 1 party with it. This increases when only 1 of them is in the business of providing email. What is the other party's interest, and does this conflict with your trust?
Between this and Sketch I think I am ready to never buy another copy of Photoshop or Illustrator.
Intellectual Ventures is now the bitter pill tech giants have to swallow to maintain their intellectual monopolies. With legislation that makes trolling impossible, but still maintains the legal privileges, large companies will have their cake and eat it too. It would mean there's nothing stopping the likes of Oracle or Microsoft from lobbying for harsher penalties, looser rules and longer terms for patent law in general.

The cure for this problem would be a refutation of patents wholesale, or at the very least a repeal of software and algorithmic patents. Patent trolling isn't a problem that's distinct from legal patent enforcement, it just means some "little guys" can steal some of the intellectual free lunch the large companies have been having.
No privacy consequences with Facebook? I don't think that sounds right. They've been hell-bent on destroying the term since conception which isn't good for most users not mindful of that.
By "taking accountability" you mean he said he was taking accountability without actually suffering any consequences. That's not taking accountability, that's lying about it. Same with Harry Truman "the buck stops here" -- OK, which of the many terrible things that have happened under your watch are you going to quit over?
On well-maintained roads that the software has been specifically trained on, with very expensive sensors and equipment, with a human driver that can take over instantly. Not that the work isn't impressive, but this 300k-no-accidents claim is just marketing spin and doesn't tell us anything about how close the system is to being ready for use.
FPGA's and ASIC's are the only context I know for verilog and VHDL. Do you mean hardware solutions?
A topic I can speak intelligently about! (I am a Radiologist.)

This article is a great discussion of modern imaging technology and I 100% agree that MRI is incredible. But CT has become much more impressive than the single-slice scanners of yore.

Watch this video of a modern scanner rotating at full speed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnjqeB7Mk8

Currently, the race to improvement is about speed and lower radiation dose. The newest scanners can take hundreds of 2D slices in a single rotation of less than a second and reconstruct the image with a huge variety of algorithms accounting for body part, patient size, etc. that all allow for lower dose and noise resulting in better diagnostic quality.

MRI is truly the cutting edge of human achievement. Watch this video to see the forces involved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BBx8BwLhqg

And this for a detailed explanation of MRI principles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGcZvSG805Y

Medicine uses 1.5T and 3T routinely for imaging, but higher field strengths are in use for research purposes. Innovation lately has been about developing new sequences (ways to differentiate types of tissue), and increase speed of aquisiton and comfort.
Why Apple Want To Sell Us The iPad 2 for $399
When I saw that slide in Apple event which showed the price of the iPad 2 I was like "WTF is Apple doing?"

Then I said, wait a minute, maybe they are referring to "The new iPad" which was released in Q2 2012 or the "4th gen iPad" which was released in Q4 2012. But when I start reading the stories in The Verge and other tech site, I realized that Apple really want to sell us a "Two and a Half" years old device which run A5 processor without Siri and without Retina display for $399 which is just $100 less than the device they just announced !

I read some commentators trying to justify this move from Apple as they are trying to attract the education institutes and encourage them to use the iPad in their education system.

But this totally invalid, simply because the iPad 2 barely can run the iOS 7, and when iOS 8 got released this device will be dead and unsupported !

And if we take it financially, you can hit the market and find "The new iPad" which 2X faster and with Retina display for exactly the same price (I bought one for my son 3 weeks back)

For me, this prove that Apple really sucks when it comes to targeting the cheap devices market.
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World View offers 'edge of space' balloon rides for $75,000
I don't know how to define "willpower" so I found the initial thesis of his article off-putting.

However, Mr. Adams then appears to go into how he manages broad terms that are vague (like willpower) by structuring that term around concrete things like the dopamine rush he gets by being alone with his thoughts and treats the "willpower" to work out as a package deal that includes a vague term with a specific event.

Pretty cool little experience article that appears to give a little indication of how he manages things he thinks he should do, with things he knows he will do anyways to bundle up the positive reinforcement.
> Metrics as a general concept can and do encapsulate all the positive things you just mentioned (long-lasting value, what people need, etc).

How does week-on-week or month-on-month growth encapsulate "long-lasting value", or "what people need"? I'm not seeing the connection.
Fine, my comment was apparently irritating some people. I deleted it. It's unfortunate I can't discuss something that's been bothering me with the HN crowd.
AppSeed Relies On Computer Vision Tech And Your Phone To Speed Up UI Design
Recognize that BMW/Daimler/et al really don't want true self driving cars. It's not really in their interest, because it would radically reduce the need for car ownership and would open up a new world of on-the-fly car rental. Human drivers required = good business. I'm not saying its a conspiracy, just that they have no passion to disrupt their industry in this way.

This is spot on. The car industry has done a quite wonderful job of transforming the 'mechanical horse', a contraption able to take you between locations with minimal effort from the occupants, into an extension of your personality and some form of lifestyle statement. The weak point in their advertising is that it is very often aimed at the driver and the driving experience.

Automated vehicles offer the opportunity for greater efficiencies which will translate into fewer cars as making use of a vehicle becomes much more common than ownership of one. Thus the price of purchasing these vehicles will remain high and many owners will need to ensure their vehicle is bringing in a decent income as some form of taxi in order to cover the cost of ownership (shouldn't be a problem as at the moment, most vehicles probably spend the vast majority of their time parked, waiting for their owner). However, I can see that if the whole system can be made to work as an uber-efficient taxi service most people will have no need to own a vehicle.
CryptoLocker Ransomware
I wonder why they put a barometer in there. Is that actually useful? I would love to have a thermometer in my phone, but I can't think of a use for a barometer that isn't bettered by an online weather service.
Very valid points. Old hardware are more of a burden specially in case mobile devices.
Go for it. Start small. Bite off just a little at a time.

Understand that age is neither good nor bad. There is a lot of ageism in the industry, so one thing you should be prepared to do is strike out on your own if you need to (either part-time as moonlighting or otherwise).
It would be helpful if there were a list of all the new TLDs.
caaddr! cdaddr! cddadr!

those are the first lines from the macbeth witches if my memory serves correctly.
Everything they do differently is irrelevant as long as the user is asking them to do those things. If Gmail starts showing me fetish porn that's bad, if a fetish porn site does the same thing it's fine.

The only relevant difference is security/privacy, in which Google may be more trustworthy but even that is debatable, regardless of which side of the debate you land on.
I completely agree. I'm absolutely disgusted by this.
Also don't forget that the role of the wife went way beyond merely raising children and taking care of the house and home.
Logo is misused. It was never intended to be a tool to teach programming. It was designed as a tool that made the conceptions of Euclidean geometry available to direct experience and interaction -- and I think it succeeded passably well. For instance, if I were asked to calculate the internal angle of a heptagon, the first thing I'd do is reach for my mental turtle.

Still, I think starting kids with C is a bit much. What's wrong with Python?
Oh gosh, I didn't know he had died. This makes me very sad for some reason.
Katz talked freer, laughed harder, stayed up longer and dreamed bigger when he had a drink in his hand, friends say. Drinking brought a painfully shy man out of his shell.

I wonder if alcohol served him as an unfortunate remedy for his introverted person.

And on unrelated note:

He got real good at optimizing programs, and he learned to get the job done with the least amount of instructions and running times.

I like the culture of code bumping back in the day. Although, we now live in a time of abundant CPU cycles and memory, there's still value in that, even above many layers of abstraction. Sadly, increasing number of programmers do not care or even aware of their programs' resource footprint on the hardware.
OK, am I getting you right? You say the system is totally ok, shall take no blame, because it just is that way?

That naturalistic argument (don't blame it on the missing rain, that your crops died) is good for natural processes. But you are talking about a cultural/societal process here. So this system was designed in a special way. It could have been designed in a more ethical way. In a way to internalize externalities.

It was designed intentionally is what I wanted to say. And that invalidates a naturalistic argument.
Good point. And hospitals themselves are very costly. In case you need another reason.
Getting it as well, First thought it was my chrome.
For me, it's c++ highlighting and symbol identification is so bad it is useless. Native clang integration would fix this.
I remember reading that one and the hilarious part is, it is not how it is supposed to start off.

He seems at first disappointed other sites have attempted to answer the original question, so in his own wonderful style he tries to solve the other weird engineering aspects of it.

He seems cut from some of the same cloth as Douglas Adams but with advanced math knowledge.
Every time I get an email from LinkedIn with updates on private profiles of people I am connected to I could forward that email to anyone, is that a privacy lawsuit waiting to happen too?
That's brutal, and hard to read, especially when I've experience shreds of that loneliness, that unreasonable fear that you have nowhere and no one to go to.

Each morning I read a note to myself: "The high score isn't money, it's people who love you".
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>> The typical "mess with this" kind of action would be walk up on the edge of a freeway and pop up a full sized STOP sign on the shoulder.

I am pretty sure, these autonomous cars will get info about road signs, etc through an authorized satellite system. So you can pop up with whatever sign you want, it is not going to matter.
>Unfortunately, if you study how evolution actually works you'll realize what it means for resistant bacteria. Once a fully resistant bacterial strain evolves, a process that takes between decades and centuries, all other species of bacteria will quickly copy the resistance, in a matter of months to years. Which is exactly what we've seen happening.

This is the important point that people forget. Bacteria are experiencing an extremely accelerated time course and can evolve and exchange advantageous mutations very quickly. We have only had antibiotics for 100 years, which is 3-4 generations of man, but billions of generations of bacteria!
I have a high end lenovo ideapad using linux. I liked the specs for the price. (16GB ram, terabyte of space, high end i7) for 1200. Some would debate the RAM or hard drive, but I personally needed the higher ram for the kind of work I do (yes 8GB wasn't enough) For most web development work though, I couldn't see it mattering that much. Actually having hard drive space is great too.

I definitely wouldn't get this thing for traveling though. It has terrible battery life. If I had my way, I'd get an ultrabook like sputnik or something else. The specs for the ultrabooks aren't quite there yet.

In general, I'll just suggest lenovo as the macbook alternative.
Journalist Or Activist? Smearing Glenn Greenwald
By that logic isn't every popular website/service in the world a "DDOS problem" because it attracts lots of traffic?
other browsers (such as opera, firefox) do the same
In my opinion Matlab the language sucks even for its intended use. What makes the complete package arely acceptable to work with is the environment, the documentation and the included libraries.

I did 5 years of image processing in Matlab but then switched to Python 4 years ago. One of the best choices I did in my programming career.
MOOC for next-gen education from Foradian who already has 40k+ institutes
Php.net down due to malware 
As seen at 12:15 IST
The site remained unaccesible.
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Building the kernel, xnu for OS X 10.9 Mavericks
That would be against all economic theories I know. I'd demand is lower, profits use to go down too.
I understand part of your reasoning, buying a car for the joy of driving, and probably some sport cars wouldn't be as affected, but for the automobile industry, it's going to be a hard blow.
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Jason, this is amazing stuff.

As the father of an 8 year old, I'd love to know how you got the kids to the point where "Create a web page called big-green-circle.html" and "Hint: use the events onmousedown and onmouseup" made any sense to them.

(alternatively, just put your curriculum in an ebook - I'm sold already)
LIDAR can be augmented or replaced by other sensing technologies that penetrate precipitation better than human eyesight can; the algorithms will most likely still work. When the road is coated with snow, the cars could do what human drivers do: analyze the behavior of other cars, look for emergent traffic flows (in my experience a four-lane freeway becomes three well-spaced lanes in well-packed but not deep snow, and flows surprisingly well), and follow the pack.
> Recognize that BMW/Daimler/et al really don't want true self driving cars.

They don't have a passion to, but they must. Capitalism forces companies to adapt to competition, even when it isn't in their individual self-interest. BMW has to, because if they don't, Toyota will.

Companies make necessary self-defeating choices all the time. Newspaper companies have websites. Barnes & Noble sells e-books. The Empire made the Death Star.

I think Capitalism is a pretty broken concept, but I think this particular facet of it tends to work.
I think it is just personal preference.

I switched from Matlab to Pyhthon and I am totally happy that Python starts counting at 0 (which is very important if you do image processing). But even after four years of working Python with the open interval notation of the last element it seems wrong to me. I think it is related to the fact that the Matlab version is more direct. a[1:3] means: give me the elements 1, 2, 3. That is very clear and obvious. In python a[1:3] means: give me the element 1 and 2. This is not that obvious and even after four years of python sometimes I have to stop and think about it.
What are the consequences, though? Yes, they have a lot of data about me. What can they do with it that damages me? And even if we can imagine something that benefits them at my expense, every news outlet DREAMS of publishing a "Facebook ruins user's life with privacy invasion" story. Doesn't take many of those for wholesale evacuation of Facebook, does it?
Great answer, thanks, glad to hear you've tested the alternatives and it's just that I've been away from the child learning picture too long.

Out of curiosity, in your research, did you ever come across any material on how to teach symbolic logic (be it math, CS, music, or linguistics) specifically to children not naturally talented in it? This is a problem I've become interested in recently, but haven't dug into the research yet.
I understood the article just fine. It's not wrong to say that in Go, text (called strings in other languages) is nearly always represented in UTF8 format and is commonly stored in variables of type string, or sometimes []byte.

Perhaps I should have left out the word "internal" since it's exposed.
>why should I stay sober?
You'd be like a spare pilot in a plane. Probably won't touch the controls but need to be ready in case you have to.
"As soon as he started drinking, you could see a little smile on his face. That's when he could talk to people, or tell a joke."

Coders in general are susceptible to alcohol for these kinds of reasons. Add in flexi hours (hey it doesn't matter what time I show up as long as I ship code, right?), and it's practically the ideal job for a functioning alcoholic.

I've seen dozens of fellow programmers slip down the slope. It's particularly bad in the financial sector in London, where "trader culture" of hard drinking, drugs and women is seen as acceptable. Usually it's well concealed until early to mid-thirties. Often their situation rapidly degenerates after a relationship breakup or family bereavement. What's fun and social when you're with your friends in your 20s isn't so much when you're 35 and lonely.

It's striking how casual and uninformed the general attitude to this drug is in our industry, e.g. http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-creativity/
I find this study to be slightly unfair - if you're a trained expert in detecting tumors, then your eyes are looking for undefined shadows and tumor-like growth, not for gorillas. If looking for gorillas was their training then they'd spot it in a heartbeat.

In the end, what is this trying to say? The paper says that the experts were better at detecting lung growths than the novices (thankfully), so all is well?

Edit: Looking at the pictures, it's clear that they shortly hovered over the gorilla. Maybe there's a "The Emperor's New Clothes" effect here at work? No-one wanted to report the gorilla in fear of being made fun of?
I saw the same thing happening with people who lost a lot of weight. I am pretty sure it's a combination of fear to get back to a previous unwanted state and a frame of mind that can't stand the idea of remembering how we once were when looking at someone depressed or overweight.
I understood that the biggest problem is driving in non-highway, e.g., urban, situations. How will you deal with children playing at the side of the road? Bicycles? Mopeds?
>Bacteria don't desire anything, and they don't seek out anything or plan anything.

When you say this, aren't you are making precisely the same mistake you claim the expert was making?! I am sure Dr Arjun knows very well that evolutionary goals are local and specific to the circumstance a creature finds itself in.

>The intelligence that the hominid lineage has evolved gives human beings advantages that bacteria will never possess.

:-) how anthropomorphic! Intelligence may not be a survival trait as you seem to assume. We simply don't know that. Btw, bacteria has been a lot longer on this planet than primates. We are way out of our depth when it comes to understanding how they work (I am simply paraphrasing a friend's statement, he is doing fundamental research on biochemical pathways)
Argument binding in python - about partial and lambdas
Addon unveils details behind Web economy - how they pay for us
Rather seriously consider porting it to the Mac and adding actual tablet support. This could be a hit if done right - see Paint Tool SAI for some inspiration.
1) Your average user has no idea what an iOS cert is doing.

2) Your average IT department in any publicly traded company would NEVER let this fly.

3) Any general council would shat all over this. No one likes fighting with lawyers, and this is a battle I'd never put on my plate.

It's odd to assume generic users understands IMAP or what a proxy is. Remember how Apple makes products for dumb people? Yeah. They ran a campaign on that.

On top of all of this, they have a "if you're a Google Apps admin" section where the only way to block it is to disable ALL OAuth applications.

No self-respecting CTO/CIO would let this occur in an organization they hope to responsibly grow.
Something I've yet to see explored is the difference between negative and positive willpower. For example, I find it very difficult to motivate myself to do something I don't want to do, and easy to procrastinate. But it is relatively easy for me to have the willpower not to do something that I do want to do.

On the other hand, many people seem to have the opposite problem; they find it relatively easy to do things that are unpleasant, but difficult to restrain themselves from indulging in the things that they enjoy.

Of course, you can have a mix of both problems, and it might vary based on what makes the activity unpleasant or pleasant. If something is physically addictive, then someone with strong restraint might find an exception there. And if a task is stressful or painful rather than merely cumbersome or boring, someone with strong proactive willpower might still have difficulty with it.

But I think it's worth investigating because it seems plausible that these are entirely different problems conflated by language. And it seems likely that totally different strategies would be needed for managing them.
What the author does not understand is that the vector for self driving cars will be Zipcar, Getaround, goget and other 'car sharing' companies. Cab companies might get in on it but they will struggle to deal with their large existing workforce.

There was another article on here the other day in which Elon Musk said that the last 10% was very difficult but it's easy to see how a car sharing company could offer a self driving service by avoiding that last 10%. They could do this because:

* The car might not have to go very far from it's pod to your location
* They don't necessarily have to go in driveways and other hard to reach places. "closer than public transport would get you" is good enough.
* The service can be restricted to urban areas with good map coverage

As other people have noted the opinions and even the technology of the major car companies is irrelevant.
Re: the remedy for introverts, yes.

I'm a strong introvert and I find that a few drinks makes me feel like what I suspect an extrovert feels like. Personally, I'd much rather socialize with a few drinks in me; and if there's a large group involved, it's almost mandatory for me to enjoy myself at all!
Lenses do one thing right, which is abstracting data access instead of abstracting data.
Sublime Text has a huge plugin base. Making it compatible you save thousands of men-hours on reimplementing stuff.
NSA accused of spying on Merkel's phone
It's good that there's effort going into improving captchas but IMO the big issue is finding something that also works for users with poor or no sight.