skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can assume that it's incredibly, incredibly unlikely that they'd be equally intelligent, willing and able to have meaningful conversations with us.

Aliens being less intelligent than us is a less interesting and threatening idea than aliens being MORE intelligent than us- so we tend to focus on the latter scenario.
As an opposing datapoint, I actually had an unexpected A/B result when testing the recent S3stat redesign. Trial signups for the new version were better, but only by a percent or two. Not really enough to bother switching.

But I also tracked all the way through to purchases (which typically happen after 30 days of use), and I'm glad I did. After two months, the people seeing the new version were converting twice as well as the ones seeing the old version. As in, double the sales. As in, wow.

So I guess it's entirely possible that users do in fact respond to pretty design. The only thing one can do is test and see.
It's not total votes that counts, but rather votes per time. So two posts of the same age and same vote count could be in different places if one has recent votes and the other older votes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632860
It sounds like (at least in this case) the correct type of regulation is in place (I'd heard that the USA favoured building multiple competing networks a la CDMA vs GSM) but if they can flagrantly ignore the rules to put people out of business then clearly whoever is overseeing the regulation has no power to enforce it (or has suffered extreme regulatory capture and doesn't want to).
I encourage you to become more familiar with the IRS and the Dept of Welfare and Social Services, the cost they ensue, and the level of fraud/corruption/waste.

I also encourage you to personally meed and observe those being served by WSS, see the ineffectiveness and vicious cycle these people are trapped in.
I think the title is a bit too bait-y and trollish for its own good. I almost flagged it on sight and I'm no Apple fanboy by any measure (the only apple product I've owned in my life was an old iPod). I assume it's a slashdot reference but still.
How is photoshopping a bank statement/utility bill for the sole purpose of activating a Facebook account a "criminal offense"?

The same question somewhat applies to government-issued IDs depending on state/country, since many laws regarding falsified IDs only apply to purchasing tobacco/alcohol.
You know web designing & develop it yourself.

So that if there are any trouble, you can fix it.
Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos
Novelty and luxury are a huge part of our global economy, and as time progresses, I expect that to increase. Yes, it would be an enormous cost to have an original work of art created by an alien master artist shipped to your home / corporate headquarters, but it's the kind of thing that I think those wealthy enough will want, even in a world of 3d printing.
Scientists Identify A Mathematical 'Crystal Ball' That May Predict Calamities
Sorting the sub-lists to find the 5 medians by itself is at best a O(nlogn) as per this example. That would make the algorithm non O(n). Or am I missing something?
This is amazing. If I understand it correctly, the study found that what you think about when your mind wanders affects your mood (seems obvious), but the content doesn't directly correlate to the change. In other words, certain negative thoughts can make you happier, and positive thoughts can make you less happy. Generally, thinking about the future and yourself leads to an increase in mood (happier) even if the thoughts themselves are negative.

One of my side projects is an application to track whether or not people are feeling positive or negative correlated to external events* (news, weather, location, situation, etc). Users (all 2 of them!) record how they feel by entering a short description of their mood. Recording correlation of internal thoughts is on the roadmap. This sort of research is hugely interesting, and potentially very useful for improving mental health.

* If you have 30 seconds to spare you can help make it better - pop over here http://usrlab.com/mood and rank a few words by clicking on the most relevant smiley face. :)
This is really inspiring, for the most part; dont let HN comments stump your aspirations.
> Different planets, with different atmospheres, geologies and ecosystems, would lead to comparative advantages in production though, which is the primary incentive behind trade relations.

Not just advantages - some organisms rely on extremely complex symbiotic relationships and environmental stimuli (e.g. fungi in the genus Morchella). Reproducing these conditions, even with advanced technology, could be extremely challenging or impossible, which could create enough demand to justify physical transportation of goods. (This is essentially the plot to the science fiction novel I'm writing.)
GCW-Zero gets OpenGL ES and experimental MXU support
The EU imports massive amounts of wine from all over, so yes, Russia might just turn out to hurt their own interests with that ban, as it's quite possible Georgia and Moldova will simply find other markets and get less dependent on Russian trade.
Please read the paper itself, please. It is very funny, and the author rarely misses an opportunity to make a clever pun.
> The only problem with using Linux is that there isn't (as far as I can tell) a good Linux UI that's very touch-friendly. The closest one is Unity, and well, that's all I need to say there. (I realize some people like it, but I'm just not one of them, sorry...)

I hope Jolla and Sailfish will help in that department.
Instagram is taking over amongst young people.
How would you formulate such a law? What does Germany's Telemedia Act actually say?

I can refuse to let you into my house if you won't show me your passport. If you don't have a passport, then I can just refuse to let you in no matter what. How does that change if I'm running a business? Or a web-site?

Well they basically say "It's illegal to ask for and store personal information like that". "Fine", you say, "I'll just deny you access unless you do this and that". "Fine", they say, "We'll see you in court".

It's like anti-discrimination law. Sure you're free to run a business, but there are legal limits to what you can do.
i Own a YAMAKASI CATLEAP Q270 SE 27" LED 2560X1440
PLus another smaller 22inch HP screen.

The CATLEAP is exceptional for its price. 1/3 of the Dell Utrasharp Price !
Jeff Bezos 'Invented His Way Out' of Failure
Second, if you're European, check out the European Court of Human Rights

I would suggest looking at the Data Protection law, rather than ECHR, since that takes many years. Everyone not in the USA and Canada with a Facebook account is covered by Irish Data Protection Law. Contact the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (or check their website) to see what your rights are http://dataprotection.ie/
Maybe because many of them dropped out of elementary school due to poverty and gangs.
Not to nit-pick, but are your normal hours 08:00 - 18:00. I thought normal office hours is closer to 09:00 - 17:00?
They wouldn't be taking his community for nothing. I'm sure he's getting something from it.
I always realy like these kind of data. Not in a morbid sense but just to see the real data instead of marketing driven FUD. Another thought that I always have seeing data like this is that it gives a clear view where the government should spend their/our money.
Contributing to Cassovary, an Open Source Library for a College project
We don't have a service component (yet) and a designer did the logo/app design so the icon/screenshots of the app was the most important to showcase.

We used CloudFormation to build a Wordpress server on EC2. Then I used Apptamin's free app launch theme (based on Thematic).

It was pretty easy, but it could probably be more customized longer term...

Check it out here: http://whizzlearning.com.
The milk thing has another possible/likely reason: Lithuania holds the EU presidency at the moment, and will host a summit that amongst others will involve free trade agreements with Ukraine, as well as initiate talks with Moldova and Georgia about further cooperation. Russia has made it very clear they take a dim view of more ex-Soviet states coming under EU influence, in part because they want their own customs union and closer integration with these countries.
Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research
How many ways are to call a javascript from html?
In my opinion, despite some of the worst parts of Angular, we can use Angular as an integration with existing front-end web framework. We can make AngularJS work smoothly with the site running normal Ajax request, single page technique... (as I made Angular working with OpenERP few days ago).

By this way, we can save a lot of time dealing with DOM and re-use all existing technique too.
I've had pretty good success giving away free accounts to my products to anybody who writes me an email asking for one. For Twiddla, there's actually a line on the pricing chart suggesting you do so if you're a teacher or student.

Marginal lifetime cost for servicing an additional account is roughly $0.00, give or take a penny. Marginal benefit from a happy customer with a fresh free subscription and a Twitter account is somewhat higher.

So while you can spin it as goodwill and charity, the bottom line is that it's just good business sense.
>Something totally unheard of in charities or churches for that matter?

The difference here is that charities can easily be replaced or you can choose a different one. There would definitely be oversight to expose problems and shut down fraudsters.

>I cannot see how this would not lead to a very disproportional distribution of welfare. Very few people, I guess, would rather give their money to rehabilitated murderers or sex offenders than to orphans or abused women for example.

You would be surprised. Sure those like you would give it to orphans and widows. Also, charities generally don't "turn down" people because they just got out of jail. If fact, I suppose that it could be mandated that they don't.

There are easy common sense rules for all these types of concerns.
Is it even meaningful to talk of guilt without morality?
I didn't even know I was a registered member of Adobe's site until I received their password change email a couple of days ago. I don't know when I registered, it must have been at least three or four years ago while I was into Flex. Anyway, when I recieved the email I looked for information on when the breach occurred. According to krebsonsecurity.com, it happenned some time in the second half of September. This means I recieved an email prompting me to change my password about a month (!) after the breach occurred.

And that's not all. After I got the email, I wanted to close my account. Believe it or not, unless you're willing to call their US phone number (from 6 am - 8pm, Pacific time), you can't do it. Well, i'm not from the states, and I'm pretty angry that Adobe makes me jump through hoops just to close my account, especially in light of their recent security problems.
Facebook's problems are their own. Why should HN community bother with their problems?

- What's wrong with secret questions?
:)) I don't upload images/scans of important documents on the internet what makes Facebook think they're special.

I use my card online (because i have to) and I'm constantly checking my accounts for shady transactions but there's no way in hell I share my id on the internet.

Every bit-coin website that asked for this lost my business and if Facebook does the same will happen to them.
> Just upload the genetic code.

Yes, though you'd still need to have a biological assembler from the original biosphere, for the genetic code is just a set of instructions for nanomachinery common on Earth, not a XYZ blueprint. Most of the information that form living creatures is embedded in the workings of replication machinery, not in the DNA itself.

(see also GEB for more detailed discussion about where exactly the "information" lies in systems)
By 2019, Humans Will Be Outnumbered By Lego Minifigs
Cloudera CEO Mike Olson Discusses the Big Changes of Big Data
So your solution is to fork Wikipedia into smaller and smaller pieces? These seems like a bad idea.

Also, I don't know who created the original page, but how do you know it wasn't someone not on the core dev team? Perhaps everyone involved _did_ follow the rules, but interpreted "notability" differently.

Also, don't go all appeal to authority on us. I've been an editor for over 7 years now.
that's the beauty of it, once they've started providing data and build contacts using the service, you can require more identifying data and they will provide it not to lose what they already invested.
Even threatening to lock them out of their data will work.

It's a common escalation in scams and emotional abuse.
Except where most larger companies do require you to declare outside work or advisory/consulting arrangements, and would hold you in breach of employment terms if you did not.

USA labor laws are messed up!
Similar story for 2011 Q1 MBP, it seems like the Graphics are defect for several models and suddenly started to fail for several customers about now... +800 posts, NO RESPONSE AND CENSORSHIP FROM APPLE!! Think twice before buying a new Macbook Pro:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577
I agree this bug is annoying.

But Apple censoring it's forums is nothing new. They've been doing it for years. And frankly, most companies do censor their forums.

No one likes it. And Apple is infamous for not responding until an issue reaches the mainstream press. So the best thing anyone can do is reach out to the mainstream press. Get this issue on the evening news programs and trust, it'll be fixed in a couple of days.
It's worth reading the linked article before commenting on it.
Flagging does push a post down the ranks; I've never heard of summoning a moderator. Flags alone can also kill stories entirely if they come before it gains many points. The voting ring detection and flame-war detection code also push a post down the ranks.

So, the Lessig post could've been flagged, the comments on it could've triggered the flame war code, or a moderator did it.

What almost definitely didn't happen is "Apple fan boys at work" flagging down anything anti-Apple. When you use the flag link any more than extremely sparingly, you lose the privilege, permanently.
Strange juxtaposition:

"“Buyers are smart, and if they start figuring out that one of the costs of buying Apple’s products is that they’re constantly nickel-and-diming you, they’ll switch,”

but earlier:

"So I could pay Apple $79 to replace the battery, or perhaps spend 20 bucks more for an iPhone 5C."

If they can't even figure out that an iPhone 5C costs more than $99 dollars, then the chances of them figuring out anything else seem slim.
There is no legal requirement in the US to have a picture ID card, either. Unless you want to drive. Or, in an increasing number of states, vote. Or get on a plane without a ton of hassle. Or... well, you get the idea.

It is possible for something to be "not legally required" but still have a very high degree of adoption due to the inconvenience caused by not having it.
They should look different, but "feel" the same.
Antennas on mobile phones need to be designed to take into account the environment around them - other chips, other antennas, metal body of case work, likely position of head relative to phone. They are customised to the particular application.

Trying to design one that will work regardless of the combination of other components chosen is a difficult challenge.
I'm not saying that people are consistent in their positions. To re-iterate my original post, I'm just surprised when people are surprised that someone who acts unconstitutionally in one area does so in another.
Having a "plain" website can be an advantage depending on your audience. I can say I trust places such as http://prgmr.com/ and http://tarsnap.com/ more than I would trust some "Delightful Xen Servers" or "Delicious Backups" startup-site.
It definitely should have been caught in Quality Checks.
There's another interesting angle to this. My boss always tells me to emulate Apple and Google engineers. He says "If they can create a phone or a search engine without glitches, I should be able to create a mediocre form without a defect".

In your face, boss!!!
The most superstitious thing that you might've encountered in software industry
That's true. But in the context of American politics, Feinstein's position on gun legislation has been blatantly unconstitutional. Why then the surprise when she extends that disregard for the constitution into other areas of politics?
I can't see this working for consumer phones in the short term (though long term we'll get to the Beats Audio stage where the tech is completely commodified and the packaging will become all important).

However, right now it seems ideal as a prototyping platform, or even a way to produce short runs of devices that need (most of) a commodity smartphone plus a couple of random sensors or connectors.
Hey Guys is this the write Place to ask this question? I mean I think we are all some kind of tech geeks, I assume and most of will design a web site ourself isn't it? I don't know this is My humble opinion.
> Support from Apple was pretty straightforward for my friend: "Your phone is out of warranty, sorry, we will not help you." The fact that this warranty is illegal under EU law is left out

In most EU countries, it's the responsibility of the store that you bought it from, not the manufacturer. http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/
Client Requests Through the Years
Gang violence is the default state; it is the behavior that children will naturally develop without being socialized (and return to, whether child or adult, in the absence of authority).

You're observing that these gang members haven't been socialized out of instinctive self-congratulation in their writing, or out of instinctive pack behavior. I don't see the disconnect.
Why stop there? They could ask for the SSN as well.
This comment tree is now at least six nodes deep. That suggests a reasonable degree of interest :)
Or snapchat.
It's totally within the terms of service as far as I can see, since it is on topic.

Exercising your warranty rights is a perfectly valid solution to a technical problem.

It's always been common to suggest to people that they try restarting their devices to fix a problem or going as far as reinstalling the software in question. When neither of those work, replacing the device if it is non-functional is the next step and exercising your warranty rights is a legit way to implement that technical fix.
Anyone care to comment on where we might use such a thing? Is it already in use? And does it compare favourably with BSON?
"Anarchy is the mother of order". Each new generation gets that virus for a time. Summer of love. Summer of code.
Produce More Successful Albums - Lean Music
The "bundle exec dance" is unnecessary. Bundler doesn't need to be more integrated, it needs to be less integrated. Half the mess people get into is because the boundaries between these systems break down.
Wow, this is awesome ! :) Good job, mate.
I use my real name, and I lost my last job triggered by online comments I made (not the only factor). I still don't think it's a big deal in general, I also have reference threads on quite technical subjects.
Although i can build a site on my own from scratch. I am not a designer so it takes a lot of time to come up with something which i am satisfied with. So this is what i do to produce decent looking ones in short span of time.

I normally bookmark sites/admin which are impressive under different categories. I do lot of scouting in builtwithbootstrap.com and builtwithbootstrap.com. This helps me to arrive at a layout idea and color scheme to make the website look professional. I steal small css snippets from many different places(not all from one place) i have scouted and put them all together. After the layout is done - i do the customization to all the snippets till i feel it has a look of it's own. Then it's usually bit of jquery, follow little seo recommendation and google analytics. Newsletter/contact form is normally done with a bit of php. This process helps me to come with something decent in very little time. Once uploaded and if the product/project gains traction - will immediately outsource the website development.
Google are trigger happy with killing products but I am not aware of many announced and undelivered ones. But I don't follow them too much.
I have been contemplating dumping Facebook more and more as the year goes on. I've used it probably every day for six plus years. I've gradually come to the conclusion that I can live without it and can easily keep up with all of my friends and family.

There's so much trash, hostility and political arguing on Facebook these days, at least on my network. Some days it reminds me of a dramatically bigger version of MySpace.
All privacy questions aside, I quit Facebook simply because every time I used it, the "after taste" was that I'd wasted my time and made myself stupider in the process.

The good news is "real life" still works perfectly fine for social interactions and a positive side effect is another source of distractions eliminated - I'm a fan of http://focusmanifesto.com/
William Shatner Interviews GDI Co-Founders
Google does not test their support pages?
I'm actually quite interested in how to fix that. The naive solution that springs to mind is sticking a local cache between my dev environment and the upstream sources, where I can control precisely what versions are available. Is that doable?
For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit language
I planned to respond to this,

"Sensationalist garbage? I'd be in favor. <etc.>"

and then I read the article. Unfortunately, it is sensationalist garbage. I don't know why you were downvoted.

The author's point of view seems to begin and end with "using violence-related metaphors in your speech, makes you a bad person".
First, I don't believe these accounts have been hacked. The most common hack is the owner left a computer with his account logged in. Eithet that or the owner tried to log from a different location than those facebook associated with the account.

Have a look at how websites which don't require real name and identities do it and there you have your answer. (Or just look at how facebook does it other than requiring ID).
Spreadsheet forumlas that build a Web Application

Story: When a business needs custom software to solve a particular business problem, such as a special inventory management issue, a recruitment process, expense management or whatever is custom for their company. Normally they would have to go out and hire a custom programming company to use a very high level technology to create a solution. This is very time intensive, complicated and because the programmers don't understand your business, often there is a massive communication gap and projects often fail. Cell Master is a much easier way for business owners and people inside of your business to create custom business software. It is effective because you understand the business, you understand what the software needs to do and how it needs to work. All you need is just some basic excel skills, knowing how to use excel formulas, and you can have the same potential as the expert programmer. So this means you are going to be able to create the software faster, you will be able to modify and adapt the software, it will be a lot more cost efficient and you will be able to create the solution that you want, not the solution that the programmers think you want. You will be able to create an interactive web application that solves your business problem with your own custom software. You will be able to do it with only excel skills, you don't need HTML skills, web server skills etc. With only spreadsheet skills, you can create your own custom web application.

Hello world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oogKKfbRyMQ