skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why this is necessary for him to develop this project further. Sure he'd like to graduate before working on it further but surely he could use the money to fund the actual project and worry about finishing his professional qualification afterwards? Even once his loans are paid off he doesn't promise any funding towards the actual project...
My first thought when on the iTunes web page of Pixelmator: "$29.99, wow this is nothing for that many features"

My second thought when on the App Store Page of Pixelmator: "Update [for free since I bought yrs ago Pixelmator]": WTF these guys are awesome
Don't know why this in on HN, but I enjoyed reading it. Hot stuff! This discussion about it looks pretty lame - arguing over whether or not Kennedy was abusing his power or sexually abusing this woman is ridiculous as it robs this woman of both her agency as an 18 year old and now. At 18, like it or not, she was an adult. There is not any "raping" described, and she acknowledges having thought deeply about why she agreed to do this or that. She used her own adult (teen, yes, but also adult) mind to decide what to do. Sure there is a power differential, and in this case an extreme one, but so what... THERE ALWAYS IS! All relationships, especially sexual relationships, involve a power differential / dynamic. This is what makes it fun. Each person is trying to achieve a certain level of "control" over the other, even if that is done counterintuitively by ceding that sense of control to the other. If one brutally and forcibly wrests control over the other, then it is rape. But, if both people are adults making their own decision, then it's simply a typical human sexual relationship!
Well, if I had to lose some empathy in order to work myself out of depression, I'd probably be okay with that in the end.

I think your observation has some merit.
"A virus has been detected in your driving software. Please upgrade now to remove this threat" ... and the consequences are potentially a lot more damaging than PCs.

When the target gets big enough, it will happen. And how to protect against this, when we don't really understand the weaknesses yet - a rogue radar/lidar imitator sending false echoes, strong EM fields messing with electronic components - it could even be an intermittent connection fault in a communications bus. Plenty of unknown unknowns in this field.
You should do some google digging on early Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon commentary. Granted, Facebook and Twitter don't have Google-level revenues, but early commentary about them was pretty much "they CAN'T make money on a social product". Facebook made over 4 billion dollars in 2011. Amazon's first years had some great commentary as well.

It turns out that EVERY SINGLE TIME someone builds a product that zillions of people love in an enduring way, they are able to hire world-class value-extraction experts who can make zillions of dollars.

Pinterest has the extra advantage of intent-- shoppers pinning products that they want/love gives Pinterest a lot more power to advertise cleverly than Facebook/Twitter. Unsure about Snapchat and RapGenius, but the key question is "With that audience and that growth, what could the smartest people in the industry turn them into if they were armed with functionally infinite spending money?"
Where's your data? According to Google, their cars have gone 300,000 miles without an accident under autonomous control. At this rate, we wouldn't need auto insurance... so probably this liability cost will simply be part of the car's purchase price or a new type of insurance product offered to those who buy these cars.
Good start but it would be great to see something targeting trolls which threaten small companies and individuals, maybe something forcing them to do a class action against all companies that use Apple IAP frameworks rather than allowing them to target everyone one on one.
HTML5 Developer Conference - Day 2
Calling yourself a hacker implies you lose 4th amendment rights
PHP.net serving malware
Live coding => Smalltalk (1972), Lisp Machines (1979)

Fast dynamic languages => Self (1986)

WebRTC => oN-Line System (1968)

It doesn't look very futurist to me.
I was thinking the same thing. This solution didn't even cross my mind because… well who would ever use anything like this?
“The first generations [of autonomous cars] are going to require a driver to intervene at certain points,” Clifford Nass, codirector of Stanford University’s Center for Automotive Research, told me. “It turns out that may be the most dangerous moment for autonomous vehicles. We may have this terrible irony that when the car is driving autonomously it is much safer, but because of the inability of humans to get back in the loop it may ultimately be less safe.”

This reminds of the frame problem in earlier AI[1]. Artificial systems can be built to deal well with a given frame having given specification but they can to the boundary of these frames, they fail to gracefully change their approach.

[1] http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Frames/frames.html

Edit: changed link since the Minsky article is more descriptive. Wikipedia only describes a frame as a data structure but I (and I think Minsky) would see them as a metaphor for the structure and limitation of AI system.
Good. Please keep them there.
Yep, I guess it is good occasion to recall Vitor's presentation for those who still don't know it.

"The Future of Programming", http://vimeo.com/71278954
Interesting.

Incidentally, I think the intuitive idea that the last resort antibiotics are the most powerful ones is a bit of a misconception. The ones used as a last resort tend to be the more toxic ones and the ones that have to be given intravenously. The reason they still work is probably because they were used sparingly while there were better alternatives available. That delayed the development of resistance.
My guess is that he meant "fat"
> "With that audience and that growth, what could the smartest people in the industry turn them into if they were armed with functionally infinite spending money?"

Ad-ridden, privacy-destroying malware I'd imagine. Since that's all the "smartest people" in the biz are working on: getting people to click ads and subverting the web.

The Facebook Jr's out there won't like to hear it but that's the cold truth.
Memristor RFID chips. The cars have to be powered to move -- so you get the cars to ping road-embedded sensors, which then respond with the latest value they've been programmed with. They could get get programmed either over the 'net, or by a maintenance truck passing by and pinging them with a cryptographically signed message.
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> On one excursion, she met Vice President Lyndon Johnson. When she told the president about the introduction, he lost his composure.

> “Stay away from him,” he commanded, likely worried that Johnson could use knowledge of the affair against him.

This probably wasn't the only reason. For all of JFK's misbehavior, he was nothing next to LBJ. When one of his secretaries was staying at his ranch, Johnson confronted her in the middle of the night in her bed, saying "Move over. This is your president." He was also fond of urinating in public and once urinated on one of his secret service agents. In another incident, he got frustrated at some reporters asking why he sent troops to Vietnam, pulled out his (reportedly large) penis, and said "this is why".
I think one of the key things is that work life and family life in the internet age need not be so separate. Household businesses can thrive and work together to accomplish great things, with unconventional organizational structures (or entirely informal ones).

When LedgerSMB forked I remember working late hours in a hotel room with my wife and son (I had a contract for my business that took me out of town, and we all decided it would only work if we all went), and having sessions with Chris Murtagh who would be typing with one hand, and cradling his infant son in the other. Almost every work break would be spent with my family, except for lunch that year (and only that year). Almost every hour not spent with my family would be spent working. Work and family formed the warp and weft of my life.

Fast forward five years, and what's happened is that these have become even more integrated. I schedule my work around family time, and my family time around work. In emergencies I may have to rebalance. But these are all deeply integrated.

In the distant past, this was actually the norm, so it is not that I can do something today that none of the great men in the past could do, but rather that I can return to the solutions which have worked. To some extent the internet enables this, but it isn't really enabling something new. It is rather re-enabling something very old.

Interestingly I don't think double entry accounting was invented by monks sitting in monasteries, but by the collaboration of merchants (whose families were effectively helping run the businesses). Many of the great things we take for granted today were actually built in such a way.
given that many cars manufactured today are drive-by-wire, isn't the exact same argument applicable today?

What makes you think that updating your driving software will be like installing iOS 7?
LinkedIn has a pretty poor history because of their SHA1 "encrypted" password leak.

They also have numerous business practices that I find shady.
Passing your email through them offers yet another conflict of interest.
Where's your evidence that people are mislead? I don't have any data either, but I suspect exactly zero people came away thinking that bacteria have conscious desires, just like zero people believe that wind actually bites or people actually get butterflies in their stomach.
Thank you for saying that! Hacker News use to be an amazing resource — now it's a tabloid magazine that you'd find in a supermarket
I think basically they are "not there yet".

Latest BMW 7-series: "A new Enhanced Active Cruise Control system builds on the last-generation Active Cruise Control System with Stop & Go to add the ability to brake to a complete stop if the driver doesn't react to stopping traffic in time. The system alerts the driver to the situation along the way, but will ultimately take over if it deems it necessary."

That sounds quite lame actually. Not the kind of system that instills trust and confidence in the driver. I don't want to hear the damn thing beeping at me every time it has to do its job.

For example, see: http://f10.5post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=457861 - seems like a pretty knowledgeable bunch of BMW owners speaking from experience.

Maybe by the time you solve it well enough, you may as well be steering.
You are only a loser if you think so yourself, but don't worry. You are a winner! Like stated out, it comes out clear that you have a great set of professional experiences so getting yourself a decent job should not be a problem in my opinion.

I recently started reading How to win friends and influence people[1], by Dale Carnegie and already after 4 chapters it has changed how I think about how I interact with people. Get yourself a copy of this book and read it.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...
When I got to learn UNIX in the form of Xenix, I was already comfortable with many GUI systems and IDEs.

Eventually I used most UNIX systems, commercial and free versions thereof, including the tools most HN folks love. However I am a mouse/keyboard person and love my IDEs.

Every time I look at someone using plain vim/emacs with a few text terminals open, I see someone working in a UNIX System V system.
The concept of limiting a user's action with an energy bar should not be attributed to Zynga. I played games before Zynga that was limiting the number of "turns" I would have access to.
In a discussion on Quora over where the "next Berlin" will be, someone mentioned Warsaw, Poland. I replied that that's a ridiculous notion - rents here are already far higher than in Berlin.
You know what will be an unmanageable liability? When the insurance adjusters start taking into account the fact that you could be reducing your risk of taking their money by switching to a self-driving car, not to mention the fact that if you get into an accident with a self-driving car and you were in control the liability will be all on you (and them).

Once someone starts selling these things, insurance for city drivers who insist on driving themselves will skyrocket.
Funny thread, but just in case somebody takes it seriously:

(And to those taking the thread seriously: this is all
in jest. We won't change the indexing base. The idea
is so preposterous that the only kind of response
possible is to laugh with it.)

--Guido

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-Septembe...
Might work if you don't have a family. All three meals at work? What better way to set up a freeway to divorce for any potential employees who are married?
Single-Page vs. Multi-Page Mobile Apps
You place a large hindrance on discussion if you require every discussion that mentions natural selection to give an entire introductory lesson on evolution. It's a ridiculous notion, especially when there is unlikely to be any misconceptions taken from this article. The purpose of the article was to explain why bacteria become resistant to antibiotics and how our use of antibiotics has led to this, and it does a fine job of that even if some uneducated people still can't describe the modern evolutnary synthesis.
i concur. i'm a longtime linux/mac user, and I find some things on the windows machine I keep around for steam just really baffling.
It might actually be quite appealing to them in the "fewer people own cars" scenario. The remaining people who want to own their own car will probably be willing to pay more, and businesses renting them out will almost certainly be willing to do so (since they'll be making money off them). Their margins would probably go up a lot.
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For graphics, you guys should look at the RPGMaker community. There are plenty of sprites ready to use that would match the universe you have chosen. I am trying to find an adaptation of the http://terrariumjs.wiselabs.net universe where I could use these sprites instead.
iWork 13 - a huge regression
It is a common misunderstanding. Xiaomi updates its beta channel once a week, and stable channel once a month. It is still an amazing pace though.
I taught Kindergartners to code using "Project Europa" it was truly Object oriented, didn't require them to learn syntax, and they loved making Robots do things. TC Lego Logo is a good choice as well.

The problem with most devs trying to teach kids is they don't know how to make it approachable, and to have draw. "I can make the robot dance" is both. "I can make a web page pretty" doesn't appeal to every kid, and the amount you have to do to see something do something is a lot.
Yes, it is ironic but whilst human operated vehicles are still using the roads it actually requires much more sophisticated autonomous vehicles to 'join in'. Automated vehicles will greatly benefit us be being able communicate their intentions to each other allowing roads to run more freely as continuous adjustments to speed and direction make stopping for traffic virtually obsolete. Now throw an essentially unpredictable human driven vehicle into the mix and you get problems and the onus will be on automated vehicles to deal with this.
Humans use 0-based indexing. You're not born one year old.
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Still not as bad as Voyager, where the ping time is an entire weekend.
And the following comes to mind:

You load sixteen tons, what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store
using nsset instead of nsarray is my recent hobby because i've only recently realized that many operation i did on arrays are in fact intersection or membership tests, and that those are already implemented in the lib.

anyone knows if membership test in nsset is also as faster than in nsarray as described in the article ?
>Would you say that accessing coordinate 0,0 is a "logically invalid operation"?

If you have a matrix that starts at cell 1,1 then trying to access 0,0 is absolutely a logically invalid operation. I'm not saying that 0-indexing is illogical, I'm saying that dereferencing null/nil is illogical.

As for the rest of your post, the scenario eridius came up with is pretty weird, at this point I'm just going to shrug and give up on analysis.
I read that people on their deathbeds, when asked about their regrets, wished they hadn't spent so much time worrying, and had spent more time with their families.
"Ad-ridden, privacy-destroying malware"

I was commenting on the revenue potential, not the ethics or quality of the product at the end of the process.

That said, I still love Google Search-- it's nigh magical how it shortens the distance between my brain and the answers it craves at any given moment. And I still watch youtube (yet another service that some said would never make money), even with the ads. And I still use Facebook to stay connected with friends while I travel the world for the next 6 months or so. I don't see any (present or future) privacy consequences with these services, and the ads hover right around the "tolerable" range.
What you call a "forceful reproach" is nothing more than name-calling. If your argument is convincing, you need add nothing more.
This article from a while back supports your thesis: that Powers, who rarely gave heavy criticism to his boss, rebuked him. After accepting the fellatio, of course. Figures.

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/02/12/mad-men/?sing...
Being true to yourself is all it matters.
Here are some numbers albeit a few years old:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/census2010/t_sf1_h1_n...

There are about as many seasonal or occasional use residential units as there are rent controlled units ~40k. That's out of more than 3.3 million residential units.

Just as articles about rent regulation usually focus on a rent controlled apartment, rather than the far more numerous rent stablized (~1 million) because they make for better stories, so too do empty floor is luxury building on fifth avenue.

But I fail to see much relevance to the larger housing market. Particularly as it relates to the type of working class people this article talks about.
The pilots' confusion in the Asiana 214 crash [1] [2] was likely due to uncertainty about how/if autopilot was managing the airplane, and what the human crew still had responsibility for.

"The difficulty of re-engaging distracted drivers" -
This is the danger that will be faced in driverless cars just like Asiana 214. If the expectation is that drivers must retain full "Situational Awareness", it seems like a lot of the benefits of being "driverless" are lost.

Perhaps it should be called "Assisted Driving" instead under given this expectation.

I can't believe they'd call such a vehicle a "driverless car", when the software simply gives up when there are too many things going on. Seriously, that software problem needs to be solved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

[2] http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/07/13/asiana-crash-t...
it crashes BBM and the SFGate iOS app http://www.imore.com/blackberry-working-bbm-fix-following-io...
Merkel's call to Obama: are you bugging my phone?
How about you go ahead and do that and let this guy write whatever code he wants. Simple enough.
Thank you - that "building was easy, compared to knowing what to build" put a lot into perspective. And reaching out to external people to build the polish is a surprise, but obvious in retrospect.

I am afraid that for such a helpful and clear answer, you get a mere 1 karma point from me - but thank you.
Eventually, software will handle that situation better than any human.

In the video you show 2 out of 3 affected cars crashed. In an automated car world eventually 0 out of 3 cars would have crashed.

Compared to any driver, a driverless car will react faster, and knows more accurately its own speed, and the speed and position of the object moving across in front of it.

A driverless also knows better than most drivers what is possible, including braking distance, turn radius etc.

So when the software is written to handle that situation it will always do better than I would, and sometimes do better than a fully alert Sebastian Vettel.
I would only say that it is a violation of trust if they somehow installed the certificate on your phone when installing the linkedIn app...

If a user knowingly installs this, with the understanding that linkedin is essentially a proxy for their entire email ecosystem - then they are knowingly trusting linkedin.

To be honest, I can see this being used by sales reps. They are often interested in connecting to people and understanding peoples backgrounds. They also move quite freely between organisations, and don't have a religious tie to their email and/or privacy (in the sense of their corporate email privacy).
She does. I don't remember the exact maker ans model (It is not one from GSMK).

"...she posed at a technology fair with a secured version of a Blackberry Z10; on the back of the phone there was a decal of the black eagle that is the emblem of modern Germany."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10...
Am I charging too low?
Hi all

we've recently created a Facebook application, which is not extremely complex (very shortly it is a slider with multiple tags per slide sitting inside Facebook page tab). It is b2b and targets first of all fashion and furniture retailers.

Several people I've talked advised me to charge more (we currently have a free plan with limited abilities and paid plans starts from 9.95 per month).

However I am not sure: the plan was to target SMB market and app is quite simple, so I afraid that higher price will not work very well.

So I am curious to hear more opinion on that matter.

Link to app - https://apps.facebook.com/lookbookcloud/

Cheers
Alex
But specialization comes with heavy costs too, which is why cross-training was so trendy in automotive manufacturing for a while.

If folks specialize they often lose the ability to coordinate their actions with eachother.

The way I look at it is that human beings are as bound by the CAP Theorem as computers are, except that humans are fundamentally unable to achieve full consistency. All specialization and generalization needs to be done with that in mind, namely that all knowledge is incredibly local.
Lower blood sugar may be good for the brain, study shows
It's so bot safe that even a human can't solve this!

Finally a good way to keep potential Customers from using your product!
Yahoo purchases image recognition and machine learning company LookFlow
professional gamedevs are NOT going to care, not unless your game (using your engine) reaches $1 million in revenue.

real time simulations are hard. professional game devs need technology that enables them, and right now the engine-of-choice is unity (or some other 'real' engine).

Now hobbiests/hackers, sure, maybe they might find interest in your engine. But really no professional will care unless you can prove it's benefit.

Making a fun game is hard, making a good engine is damn near impossible.

PS: i am a game industry professional, and I've created my own engine.
Pretty much this. Although when it comes to internet speeds I tend to get the the fastest i'm willing to pay for. There is nothing like fast internet.
Would it help at all to signal over RF to a low-orbit relay, and then go optical just between two points in space? Much less atmosphere to contend with...
I usually go back to Pinterest to find the specific thing, and sometimes I'm directly browsing through my pins while trying to think of a gift. But it's a leaky system of course; for example, sometimes I've pinned a Flickr photo of the thing instead of an image linked to a website that sells the thing.