skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not changing the message of the post. The only difference is the demo referred to. The point about Dart being too verbose made remains the same in both 'hello world' and 'fibonacci' cases as you can see, it was simply a matter of being in a cafe using a mobile phone where switching out to another tab, opening the golang site and finding a demo to check that they had the 'hello world' example most sites provide was difficult.

The person attacking me for 'changing' my post has been on News.YC (ahem 'Hacker News') for 70 days, called criticism of the boilerplate code shown in the Dart demos 'FUD', and wrote three separate replies to the same point. Judge for yourself.
Value is subjective. Nothing has "true" value. Everything has value because people give it value including, since so many people use it as a counter, water. Water is definitely the closest thing we have to "true" value today but looking into the future I can definitely see technology eliminating our dependence on it.
Rolls-Royce to 3D print aircraft engine parts
You'd need to install Dropbox and then also save your project in your Dropbox folder.

Dropbox isn't a backup solution, and you're doing two steps when you could just do one - install backup software.
Apparently you have to "emulate" functions in Dart:

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/emulating-functions/

After reading this I got the impression that Dart is yet another attempt to make the client side web accessible to Java developers who can't be bothered to learn JavaScript.

I think TypeScript is a much better attempt at making JavaScript statically analyzable, because it actually addresses concerns of existing web developers instead of just shoehorning yet another "Java runtime" in the browser.
I haven't done any gaming with it, but web video played in the browser works the same as locally. I haven't tried any full screen stuff like movies though. For regular application usage there is no perceptible lag for things like scrolling, editing, highlighting, etc...
Connecting on LinkedIn is pointless gamification
How the death of BitTorrent helped take the edge off broadband growth
if the objective of this is to make the car cheaper, you shouldn't really expect Renault to abuse this. If it isn't, then someone else can come in and offer a cheaper package.

I feel like if I were to make a same form-factor battery for a car I'd get sued on design patents. Cars have always had super tight vertical-integration. It might change, but this situation is pretty close to the status-quo.
New antibiotic kills off persistent infections
Martini: web framework written in Go
Silly; they claim if you lose your job and can't make battery payments, you can't even drive your car. If you lose your job and can't make gas payments, same effect. This is just another model trying to make an electric car affordable. Why all the vitriol?
Yeah, but Node.js actually has a valid use-case: code that needs to be non-blocking. Most of the time, you want web servers to behave that way. Yes you can do that in other languages/frameworks, but Node.js is the only one with an ecosystem where most modules are also non-blocking by default. If you look at the languages/frameworks that have survived their initial hype, it is almost always ones where there is a use-case that the language/framework uniquely solves well.

C/C++: Easier than most of the other low-level languages. Used when performance and/or memory management are critical: kernel, database, embedded system, etc.

BASH: Dammit, I just need a script that executes five commands in a row!

PYTHON: A scripting language that properly handles gigantic numbers and seamlessly integrates with R. The scientists love it!

And the list goes on. Of course those languages have other use cases, but the point is that they all have at least one use case that they are the best at. However only time will tell if Node.js ends up being the non-blocking scripting language or something else will take its place.
I more or less cover it in this reply:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6732192

The world needs to stop giving in to corporate control schemes.
Ah, nice, and that URI (after first redirecting) suggests they are using the Web Search API that used to exist,and is still around but rate-limited:

> Note: The Google Web Search API has been officially deprecated as of November 1, 2010. It will continue to work as per our deprecation policy, but the number of requests you may make per day will be limited. Therefore, we encourage you to move to the new Custom Search API.

The Custom Search API is not free, and I think doesn't let you search all of Google either, but only 'custom search engines' set up with certain hosts.

All sorts of interesting things you could do with google if they gave you an api.
nice page, not as confusing as the other japanese sites...
Would be even nicer without flash ;D
Ask HN: What Should My Little Bro Learn After HTML & CSS?
> It doesn't need to integrate with your IDE (doing so would be somewhat pointless, IMO).

It's somewhat neat, actually. Not necessary by a long shot but 1. there's a chance the IDE understands the precompiled languages (and offers syntax checks, autocompletion, etc...) and 2. you don't need to run the compiler/watcher because the IDE takes care of that when you or it saves, as part of its normal "stuff to do when saving".
Jurassic Park has an awesome scene of epic hacking....
"...but its deflationary nature would mean people won't be willing to use Bitcoin to buy actual stuff."

It's all about time preference. For certain goods people have a very high time preference. For other goods, it's low. Would I forgo dinner simply because I think my Bitcoin will be worth more a week from now? Probably not since I have a high time preference for food. I need it to survive.

Just think about goods in technology. They are extremely deflationary. Using the deflationary logic people use to criticize Bitcoin, why would anyone buy an iPhone 5S or Nexus 5 today when they know it's going to be cheaper 6 months from now?
I have them all in a text file and the text file is encrypted with an gnupg key.
Not even so much "brain training works" as "practice makes perfect". It was a fun way to practice, and I thought it might be helpful for other people looking for a way to brush up on the basics.
Can I use Watson cloud to compete on Jeopardy or other gameshows? build it into a google glass app or something?
How are the word vectors generated? word2vec?
Looks like a Listly user added one that they thought should be on the list.
"It's abundantly clear now that there are more than enough people who are willing to be jerks under their real names."

The frightening thing is that most of these people probably are not consciously trying to be jerks -- they simply do not realize that their behavior counts as "being a jerk". Thus, it's trivial to see why having to use their real name does not matter much if at all.
When you use voodoo in attempting to get justice, calling it voodoo is an obstruction of justice. QED.
I went to jQuery after HTML/CSS. It's been extremely useful, and it was pretty simple to pick up.
A Listly user must have added one that they thought belonged on the list. I guess this could really become the top ##, depending on how many additions are made.
Do you have a link to counterfeit bitcoins?
They weighed the cost of having variations during manufacturing and installing larger batteries after the car has already been delivered or resold and decided that it would be cheaper and give the car a higher resale value if the battery capacity could be upgraded remotely at any time.
The lack of anonymity holds Bitcoin back from being an effective digital equivalent to cash.

I was just thinking about this the other day. If you have one well-meaning blacklist on certain Bitcoins, you could have dozens. Stolen coins, drug coins, "Democrat" coins, coins spent on Sunday. Like anti-spam lists, each Bitcoin user could choose which blacklists to pay attention to when receiving coins, but won't necessarily be privy to all the lists that divvy his seemingly fungible pool of Bitcoin into coins that are more portable and coins that are not.

It's not unworkable to have one list that everybody pays attention to, though even that is contentious. It's the ones that will follow that should really cause concern.
yes sir, word2vec (edited parent)
It wouldn't surprise me. Microsoft wanted to ship their new game console with audio/video sensors that constantly record. I wouldn't be shocked if they decide to ignore the consumer backlash and send back "some" data via an encrypted channel.

edit: Thanks for the interesting link to that patent.
That's interesting. In contrast, some people, for example, me, tend toward overconfidence in chess.

Specifically, I'm more likely to lose the first (speed-chess) game of the day, especially if I have not played for a few days, than to lose subsequent games because until I have the cold water of reality splashed in my face, I tend not to put in enough mental effort!

Feeling confident, in other words, makes me relax, which is great at a party, but exactly the wrong thing when I am playing chess (or doing math or debugging a program).

(Specifically, I use the fear of losing or anger at just having lost a game to create enough tension for me to play chess well. By "tension" I refer to activation of my sympathetic nervous system, i.e., what is informally referred to as "adrenalin".)

When I am carrying enough tension to play chess to my potential, I tend to get pessimistic -- with the result that I resign a game every now and then that I should have continued, but that effect is very small compared to the (opposite) effect of my underestimating the amount of mental effort required to win.

I'd be interesting in hearing more about how chess is for you (or your 9-yo kid).
That's a good point. I really should go back and split them up at some point.
Healthcare.gov 'Obamacare' website lacking most basic optimisation techniques
Thank you raquo that worked like a charm. We now have them dead to rights. I will do a write up for HN at some point when everything is resolved. Simple and effective solution, thanks again.
Just today I ran DiskUtil and verify disk told me my disk needed to be repaired, but I needed to do that by rebooting into recovery mode and running DiskUtil there. So I do that and it tells me my disk can't be repaired, back up what data I can, and restore my disk. Awesome right. Ran verify disk again and it says the disk is fine... Fine!? You just told me it needed to be repaired and you couldn't repair it. And now its ok. Who knows if I just lost a bunch of data or what. Fortunately I have a backup.

Please Apple give us ZFS so we can all sleep at night.
Ha! If you have a userbase of thousands of PCs, or PCs & Macs, or PCs, Macs & mobile devices, you absolutely have to have a standard operating environment, for many reasons, and if you believe otherwise you have no business commenting in this thread. You don't need to use something like Tivoli, but you do need a standard desktop image, standardized software packages and a method to provision/deprovision machines, management/reporting software, some kind of license management scheme (to prevent over-installation of commercial software, especially stuff that uses a corporate license key rather than individual keys), anti-virus and security systems, a way to force full disk encryption, a method of dealing with Patch Tuesdays, a way to push standard browser configurations or proxy .pac files, and innumerable other things.

Believe it or not, most employees' job at most companies has nothing to do with computing. They use computers to execute some other responsibilities, but the computer is a tool and all they want is for it to be as easy as possible to use, and for it to "just work".

Even if you have a BYOD policy, you still need management around it for a lot of the reasons I listed.
On the flip side, assume it is deterministic. Do we have any means of reconstructing a previous state of the universe in order to test this hypothesis? Hells no. Even assuming we can cordon off a piece of the universe, can we measure/manipulate all the state of that piece of universe?

Hence a better question is, "is the universe deterministic, and free of nonlocal effects and hidden state?"
Funny this came up today. Had a flashback moment with a colleague yesterday when he mentioned BASIC (Beginner All Purpose Symbolic Instructional Code?). My earliest memory of "programming" was copying cheat editors for Ultima and Wizardy from the magazine Nibble(?) for our Apple ][. I then progressed to operating a bbs running Forum-PC and learned Pascal by hacking the software. Good times!
I don't doubt that this would slow the growth of Bitcoin. It most definitely would. But for the people who are really into Bitcoin, this still doesn't address the issue of money supply and centralization.
>It's abundantly clear now that there are more than enough people who are willing to be jerks under their real names.

I hate this argument, because the argument has never been that no person would be rude under their name, it's that there would be less rudeness:

I think axiomatically we can assume that real-name policies won't make people more rude (except maybe on the topic of real-name policies). Here by rude I mean the stupidity of the sort you basically only find in online comments.

So we can then say that there just as many (or less) people being rude on the same site with real-name policies as a site without. I feel less incentive to be rude when my name is next to the comment. I use YouTube. Therefore there is less rudeness thanks to this policy.

For every website I use that has a real-name policy, it has been effective in reducing the amount of rudeness by 1 person's worth.

I would really hope for some scientific studies on how much awfulness we could avoid by people owning up to what they say.
The nyud mirror doesn't work with ssl. The "Non-SSL" warns people of this.
#IPython speaks to #golang for the very first time.
Cheap DIY whiteboard substitute for teams on budget
Yep. I think everyone in the discussion likes (either optional or mandatory) type safety. That's why we want the syntax to be better. Type safety doesn't require semicolons, wrapper classes, wrapper functions, explicitly defining whether everything is public or private because there's no default, or lots of brackets.
The point is, by the time they get there, this filtering has already happened.
Ex-Googler here. Working at Google is very different than making a presentation representing your own idea. At a big company, assuming a collaborative culture, your teammates are rooting for you to do well and you don't go into a meeting expecting that to be the last word if they don't like your idea. OP had already quit his job, staked his reputation/ego on his demo, and had to speak for himself in a tough room, so I think it's reasonable to feel some level of nervousness.
I use it on a personal project as a kind of two factor authentication method.
I don't really think it's that important either, and I thought it was an interesting article that described some bytecodes people might not be familiar with, but you had started your article with "What is the most commonly used bytecode language in the world?" and I was responding to that question.

I suspect that it's JVM, due to it's ubiquity in phones, and thought it might be worth pointing out since most people don't know that they have a JVM subset running on their SIM card. We really do have miniature bytecode interpreters running everywhere; and vulnerabilities can lead to security issues that allow your SIM card itself to be rooted[1]

[1]: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/161870-the-humble-sim-c...
I only miss the bigger-size player in feather. Still using it though.
Search "YouTube feather beta". It removes pretty much everything from YouTube except the video and is an official Google feature. I didn't even notice this g+ thing till reddit and HN started going off about it.
Why Are Gas Prices Falling?
He's probably got better signal there than I do down here on the ground. Cell towers have a range of about 5km at the absolute minimum, and a whole lot more than that if there's no hills in the way (e.g., if the phone is directly above them).
I count that as highly unlikely. I think it's more likely for hackers to find an exploit than for the NSA to willingly collect and sell information.
Source code archaeology
Cheaper at the onset does not imply cheaper overall. Renault is already fleecing their customers with one of the highest maintenance costs of all makes (higher than BMW for instance).
You're discounting all kinds of external social factors that lead to this.
The people at Google need to open source the comment data if they can't figure it out themselves. I could take a crack at it and at least I'd get rid of the comments that spout "nigger" a hundred times.
The Suppression of Water-Powered Cars
I think partnering with a handful of other ex-freelancers would be a better route to creating an agency than building one single-handed.

That's how a consulting firm I used to work for got started, as a partnership of 5 (I think) developers. About 15 years later, they're now ~200 people strong.
Ha! Good find. I feel like I remember re-reading that but deciding that it did mean what he wanted it to mean. Clearly not, now that you point it out.
Sriracha made its debut in Malaysia approximately a month ago, being sold for MYR 21.90 (28 oz) and MYR 13.90 (17 oz) by Ben's Independent Grocer in Solaris Dutamas.

Pretty nice profit margin there, now that the wholesale price is no longer a secret...
If you lose a job and can't afford to pay for the car(but still might have some savings to pay for gas) it usually takes a few months between you missing a payment and you losing the car to the bank or a debt collector.

With this technology your car can be disabled as soon as a single payment is missed.
There's a large enough class of people that would tone down what they say if they were tagged about what they say ( what if I could link you back to some posts on Stormfront?), or if the person they were wishing to die had a name.
Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?
I'm looking for a cheap logo for my MVP. I'd be more than happy to pay a professional designer for a logo, but only after I have validated my MVP. Right now, I'd like something that looks good enough but does not cost a lot. I know about 99designs where the minimum cost is $299. Are there any other websites for cheaper logos, say around the $100 mark?
But now all those people who don't care about trolling with their real names now know your real name, too. So, win-win?
NO. Google is trolling. www.gifti.me/i/iPwWl.gif
yes, GSM limit is about 35km, while 37k feet is about 11km, so looks like it should work. We perceive height differently than length.
Awesome website! Don't have much else to add - others will be better at pointing out UI/UX issues - just wanted to show support!
Only US for now. Expanding to Europe to soon!
There are some really good cheap prosumer level EEG devices on the market now, for example the Avatar EEG (http://avatareeg.com/) and a few of the Emotiv devices.

I've been working on a side project (https://octopusmetrics.com) that allows you to connect these devices to your computer to record, visualize and analyze your EEG data in the browser. I think it's great that there are people out there thinking about how to do this more cheaply as it'll bring _real_ EEG devices into the price range where it'll be more available to hobbyists.
I emigrated. I suggest all others of like minds do the same. Let the US suffer brain drain for a change (unintentional rhyming ftw!)
My 2011 MacBook Pro broke in September of this year. I took it to the Apple store and they replaced the logic board (this would have cost ~$600 but I have AppleCare).

Last week the issue arose again, so back to the Apple store. They replaced the logic board again, and chalked it up to bad luck when I enquired why this would have happened again so soon.

They wouldn’t acknowledge it as a known issue.
There is quite a bit of current in a laptop battery, enough to stop a heart.
> Corruption in file data is arguably worse because it's much more likely to go undetected. Over time, it can propagate into all your backups. When it's finally discovered, perhaps years later when looking at old baby pictures, it's too late to do anything about it

This applies to every OS I guess (except with ZFS or BTRFS)? This is my biggest concern currently. I'm mostly using one drive with ext4 that I back up from time to time, what if the files silently corrupt and it propagates to my backups, I wouldn't notice until it's too late probably. I guess rsync wouldn't sync the wrong data unless the files have changed since it syncs based on modification stamps. Investing into a proper RAID or ZFS is "expensive". I'm so paranoid about this I'm probably going to do it at some point.
Don't see where in that link the extension cord issue is mentioned.

I don't think anyone can fault a car manufacturer for this issue. Long extension cord with too small gauge wire will cause voltage drop. It's the same for any electrical load.

Actually now that I think about it, I guess they could include dynamic power factor correction in their charging hardware and software. But it seems like a silly extra expense just to correct for someone buying a cheap extension cord. I think my 100 foot 10awg cord that I used to power the neighbor's stuff after Hurricane Sandy was under $100.
So you think that all the reports dating back to the 60s when superhet transistor radios appered, are likely bunk?

Wouldn't that imply a worldwide, secret pilot conspiracy, especially with incidents where the pilot has been able to reproduce the interference by asking the passengers to turn the device back on?

It's certainly very unlikely that an iPod will cause any problems. That doesn't mean it's physically impossible, as many people seem to think. Which is why I recommend reading the FAA report, which goes into a lot of detail on exactly what considerations they've taken, the risk analysis and why they are changing the rules now.
Master statistician weaves Google images into visual quilts
What is wrong with this message?
Hey Dave - Your visualization is cool, no doubt, but I'm not seeing as much structure in the 3D cloud as I see in 2D visualizations. In 2D, the words form clusters of similarity which are pretty obvious, but I don't really see that here. What training data did you use for word2vec, and for how many iterations did you run t-sne?

I ran some visualizations of my own a while back, and they're a lot less aesthetically pleasing, but you can see more structure and clustering.

https://raw.github.com/dhammack/Word2VecExample/master/visua...
https://raw.github.com/dhammack/Word2VecExample/master/visua...

(It could also just be a WebGL thing, because the third dimension seems to have a lot less variance than the other two)
Why link BoingBoing and not directly to her actual blog post?

http://vihart.com/google-youtube-integration-kind-of-like-tw...
Because we lead the world in freedom!
I was recently on a transatlantic flight during which our Boeing 767's right jet engine caught fire and blew out. It was a terrible experience and I can assure you that at least for the first 5-10 minutes nobody on the plane was buried in their books or personal electronics. Everyone was suppressing panic and desperately paying attention to whatever shreds of information we could get from the flight attendants. The whole excuse about wanting people to pay attention during an emergency is total crap. Once your body kicks into survival mode the last thing on your mind is your phone.