skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highly specialised robots might be more efficient overall, but you lose the agility of being able to quickly give them tasks and repurpose them.

A lot of smaller businesses would take a general human shaped robot that they could visually and verbally give simple commands to (move all these boxes from here to over there, intuit that the stack needs to be stable), over some giant arm that they need to program/can't go outside/etc, even if it is more efficient at some specific set of tasks.

There's a reason Amazon are still using actual humans and barely organised heaps of unrelated products in a giant warehouse for a lot of their dispatch centres.
How is Valve a large player?
This year Valve released Dota 2. Last year - some counter strike. 2011 - Portal 2 (at last a real game). 2010 - nothing.

Yeah that is huge compared to EA or Ubisoft....
When I'm drifting off to sleep, I frequently hallucinate polyphonic songs. Real time composition. P=NP? :)
I got a scrollbar too but the page is neatly arranged to fit the browser's window so I didn't pay attention to it. It's the first time I've seen a footer from the top of a scrollpage.
And if you want a standard way of enriching your HTML for machine reading, there's RDFa (as well as microformats and microdata).
> Their last meeting was so brief that Eric [Morton's son] and Marylee [Morton's wife's sister] barely sat down. Eric, who was fifteen, was unable to look Michael in the eye. “I don’t want to come here anymore,” he choked out.

I remember going with my parents (I was in high school) to see my grandfather and deal with the hospital -- he had been hospitalized for a reason I don't recall and they found that his mind was damaged to the point that they couldn't overlook it. He said hello, tried to make small talk: how are things, do you have a girlfriend, any interesting developments in your life. Small talk is not one of my skills. I had nothing to say; I very often have nothing to say. And he turned and started admonishing my parents for forcing me to come: "He doesn't want to be here. We live in different worlds."

It hurt, very badly. I was there because I wanted to be there.

I can't imagine, even after twelve years, telling your father that visiting him twice a year is a waste of your time. What a staggering blow. No matter what Marylee believed (clearly, in this case, that Morton was guilty), the decent thing to do would have been to not discuss it with his son.
Is it me, or article suggests that Snowden learned "hacking skills" on 4 day java programming and ethical hacking course, which skills then he used to obtain classified information form one of most technologically advanced three letter agency?
I think you didn't catch the author's definition of an API: If the machine and the human can access the same resource on the same URI - it's one API. Don't need to convert the Json on the client side - it can be done on the server side whenever a client specifies that it wants the resource returned as application/json in the HTTP header.
I stopped playing games when I started using Linux. I've been part of the Steam Beta on Linux and things are going really fast. This is great news.
Reminds me of the Osama Bin Laden video where he's sitting in front of the TV looking at the public image of himself.. too compelling to be true.

note the filename of the pic in the article: swartz-double.jpg
Evidence isn't conjured into existence by the judge and then withheld by lawyers. It's discovered by the lawyers. It's not a logical possibility to prevent them from failing to bring it to everyone else's attention.
Even if this content is quite old, the idea of linking it here in those days is quite clever. Just tell me how many of you did not immediately think "Oh crap, my RSA is doomed!".
"the author would prefer you had API resources at the same URIs as your user-facing web content"

I thought one of the principles of RESTful design is that the internal structure of URLs shouldn't really matter - you should be able to navigate to any resource from being given a single base URL. So i struggle to see what difference it makes if RESTful API consumers see different URLs to browser users....
What does this mean for Nvidia and AMD?
Incumbents do have an advantage, but the other key in enterprise markets is that you have to recognize you're selling to executives who won't generally use your product, so you have to sell based on they perceive important, but deliver what the company actually needs. I have a lot of stories (those funny/ironic/sad ones) that I won't go into!
It will be interesting to see whether Valve can encourage the move to Linux gaming. Their biggest asset at this time is the distribution model of Steam, but that's not sufficient to get the big publishers to develop for OSX, never mind Linux.

Edit: Valve's game list: http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/
While this is great, its a bit sad that Valve is mostly doing all of this now, because they fear losing their dominance on windows to the native Store in Win 8.x

In the end its a win-win for everyone if it works out, just their motives are questionable.
That you could deploy them anywhere probably - if you put enough on rooftops you could squeeze enough juice for home operation and a change.

I can see something like that as a complementary power generator - it is very cheap if produced correctly.
A nice illustration of the central limit theorem! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem

This means there's nothing special about 3 - the more times you add uniforms together, the more normal it becomes. Also it doesn't matter if the uniform isn't uniform.
Using gender-neutral pronouns in English is the right thing to do...but this guy is a native Dutch speaker. Seems really insensitive and hegemonic to have jumped down his throat like that, considering.
Spotify's progress so far
interesting object!
Burdan sana ekmek çıkmaz!
If you define a loser as a kickstarter that doesn't reach 100% funding, you're right

The OP you're responding to though defined a loser as someone who has unattainable goals in the eyes of the people. In which case you can certainly lose your money.
OS X is not a good platform for gaming. It has a significantly smaller user base of which only an even more significantly smaller are gamers. Playing on a MacBook (or at least on my MacBook) is impossible, and I wouldn't buy an iMac for gaming.

On the other hand, you can put Linux on anything (for free!), from your mom's 2002 pc to the latest generation hot stuff. This means there is indeed a potential, and somebody just has to set the foundation.
Ditto. I'm kinda fed up of people focusing on websites when the story is clearly about a cool new phone with an advanced display.

If folks would spend a few seconds ignoring the site and thinking about the product they might enjoy themselves a bit more. By all means critique the site but don't let that be your only contribution.
Automated refactoring was one of the promises of Clang. Does anyone know how that's going?
My big reason to have a separate API falls under "all sorts of other things": The machine API exposes data objects. The human API (HTML web pages) defines interfaces to manipulate the data objects. In the presentation layer (human API) I manage collections of data objects, conditional inclusion of other data objects, etc. The human API is not a simple resource-access system, but contains logic governing interaction and relations between data objects. The machine API layer is basically a controlled data access layer.
Varnish Cache 3.0.5 Released
try and figure out what it is about our current system that disproportionately rewards the people that juggle with money over and above (for instance) people that teach our children.

This has been well studied. The answer is that compensation is proportional to marginal productivity rather than mean productivity.

I.e., consider a very important profession, say superhero. Having one superhero to stop the Joker is worth $1M. Having two superheros is worth $1.1M - Batman is sufficient to stop the very dangerous Joker, but two superheros can stop both the Joker and the far less dangerous Harleyquinn. The marginal productivity of an extra superhero is $100k even if the mean productivity is $550k. As a result, superheros get paid $100k because if any superhero quits, society loses only $100k rather than $550k.

An extra banker produces a lot of value. An extra teacher produces very little. Hence, teacher pay is lower than banker pay.

(As a proponent of the signalling theory of education, I'd also argue that the value of a lot of education is actually negative.)
You're not stupid, you're going to see a lot more of that in the future. Users of the HAL media type (built on top of JSON) have built something that does exactly this. Here's FoxyCart: https://api-sandbox.foxycart.com/hal-browser/hal_browser.htm...

I was literally about to open up my editor and start working on one for http://jsonapi.org , but then I decided to check HN first instead. ;)
Kotlin, Ceylon's close JVM cousin, is going to eventually add them as well.

http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2012/01/the-road-ahead/
I don't understanding why having two different URLs is such a big deal. And how do I open the new API thing in my browser?
It's not just the Accept header. It's thinking less of APIs and more of hypermedia, which happens to be in a machine readable format. It's about creating the conditions for service-independent agents to discover and use new services, without having to be custom-coded to support them.

Right now, we're doing the equivalent of having to extend the browser for each single site we want to access. Imagine that if Chrome users wanted to access HN, the browser had to have a "HN module" to interact with it. It's ridiculous, but that's where we're at with automated web agents.
Did you present a plan of how to inflate the price of the start-up rapidly for a quick sell-off?
Well, the reverse is true, don't users ever learn ?
Great. Now you know exactly how the jury felt when they ruined this persons life based on a complete lack of evidence that he committed a crime (never mind the withheld evidence against it).

Quoth the article: "We all felt so strongly that this was justice for Christine and that we were doing the right thing," says Mark Landrum, who was the jury foreman.

Righteous fury is the worst enemy of justice.
Is It Fair to Steer Students into STEM Disciplines Facing a Glut of Workers?
It won't be a win for Microsoft if this transition takes off. Also, of course profits and control are the biggest motivations here, not some inherent wish for linux to succeed.
Holiday planning by Debian packages
Right now the only thing keeping me from running linux full time is the Adobe Master Collection (PS AI LR ID AE...)
This reminds me of a hydra. You cut off 1 head and it grows 2 more in its place.

They need to realize that they are tilting at windmills.
Cool design. Going to stick with Popslate (http://www.popslate.com/) so I can keep my iPhone
It's because your parent is making a different claim than the author. The author is saying that you shouldn't be running two different services to expose the exact same data, which is not the same claim as "your API has the same URLs as your web content."

A lot of this comes down to what you mean by "API"...
I'd disagree - the hint was normally that content was disappearing off the bottom of the screen.

I had entirely missed that you were meant to scroll. And even when I found out it was irritating - I'm on a desktop with a mouse with a scrollwheel, and the distance I had to scroll was enormous.
Aaron is still an inspiration for me , don't understand the point of such videos , creates nothing but anguish for this system.
Nothing. The people that buy 250 watt, 300mm^2 GPUs to play games will continue to buy them.
That's very clique-y.
I bet there were people who campaigned for the innocent man to be executed based on exactly this state of mind.
It's not exactly brain surgery though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
Scrolling doesn't work on Chrome 31.0.1650.57 on Mac OS X 10.9.
All the cogs of the brain are well known and documented since years and their interoperation as well. But we still don't know how it all work together and what function is implemented by it.(I mean publicly. Some people may already know and keep it secret)

This is like DNA. All the puzzle pieces (molecules) were known but what was missing is how these pieces fit together. It was a aha moment that made the difference between before and after.

For the explanation on how the cortical neural network works the aha moment is the only missing step. All the puzzle pieces are known (of coures in the hypothesis that only bioelectrical mechanisms are in play).
I wish Oildrum.com was still around. They would probably point out that these gains aren't that sustainable as the wells have relatively large drop off rates.
Oh yeah, it's the same thing overhere. I used to love watching the BBC's program where people "flipped" houses. Nowadays the reruns come with a official warning, ha ha!
Personally I think the movement to Linux will greatly help Linux, but will hurt gamers. My opinion. We will see what the future holds.
Agree that Kotlin has slightly better interoperability and IDE support (but Ceylon is interoperable with Java too and has an Eclipse-based IDE).

But I like Ceylon more because:

* Union and intersection types.

* I find the type system cleaner and more elegant.

* It's an attempt to build a whole new platform with a new SDK. Kotlin is, in a way, just a syntax skin over the Java platform.

* Reified generics. Kotlin got rid of them.

* I personally find Ceylon's "String str" more readable than Kotlin's "str: String".

* Type-safe metaprogramming.

* Comprehensions (not 100% sure Kotlin doesn't have them).

* It's compilable to JS.

* Slightly more regular syntax, more readable generic declarations, better web documentation, currying, spread operator, etc.
Anyone here watched "Life is Beautiful"[1]?

There is a scene where the father of the boy "translates" what the German officer is telling to the prisoners. This is essentially what all UI (API included) does. Yeah, it's a lie, but it's a lie that actually shields us from the awful truth of how everything works.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Beautiful
Some people (think they) can't create, and settle for the lower hanging fruit of destruction, to still feel some kind of agency and power, and distract themselves from jealousy and self-loathing. Kicking a dog, trolling forums or kickstarter... it's all the same? That's my theory anyway.
Show HN: Free company accounts for (almost) all UK companies, even private ones
All companies registered in the UK are obligated to submit their accounts to Companies House each year. These accounts are on the public record. However, until recently, there were two issues with third party access: the format (not machine readable) and the cost (1 GBP per document). Both of these issues will soon disappear: many companies file accounts in XML (XBRL or iXBRL) because they have to prepare this format for HMRC (the UK's tax agency), and Companies House began (at the beginning of November) to publish zip files of the accounts filed each day/month.<p>That said, if you go to Companies House web site to find the most recent accounts for a particular company, you will still pay 1GBP for the privilege, as (i) you won't know which zip file to download and (ii) you won't be able to parse the XML and to search the company names.<p>I've tried to that for you. The site is still indexing the last year's accounts, but you can search for a company name and click to get their last accounts. Most are readable in a web browser, because iXBRL just adds machine-readable tags to an XHTML doc.<p>Many private companies in the UK are dormant or small, so many of these accounts have little more than a balance sheet. Any ideas for cross-sectional analysis? This would obviously require some parsing, which wouldn't be straightforward due to the variety of namespaces involved.
Great, thanks! It's helpful to know that such definable numbers are in fact a superset of computable numbers [1]; I was naïvely assuming these notions to be equivalent.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number
It is possible because a prosecutor's incentives are to get convictions above all else, and because prosecutors are rarely (almost never) held to account for such crimes. Even when prosecutors deliberately obstruct efforts by the defense to obtain that evidence, going so far as to ignore an order from a higher court, the punishment is relatively small.

Ken Andersen was allowed to resign as district judge, and also to resign from the Texas State Bar, he was given a 10-day sentence for a criminal contempt charge for which he served 5 days in jail.

link http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2013/09/from-too-littl...

another link http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/why-michael-morton%E2%80%9...
Will it run in a Windows VM on Linux?
noops are removed by the scheduler.
Depending on what is happening precisely, this might not help.
World Births and Deaths in Real-Time (visualisation)
I take it you have very little experience with the GMAT. It is impossible to verify that a certain GMAT score belongs to an email. The only easy way to verify a GMAT score is to be a b-school and have applicants select your school for score reporting.
Why is playing on a MacBook impossible? (not a Mac user, serious question)
Learning Rails at General Assembly - one year on retrospective
For starters, the links on the left never show that there are two screens (even with scrolling that is harder to see than in should be). Why not just make a site that works?
People need to learn to stop generalizing from fictional evidence, especially wrt. to sci-fi tech.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...
Not a gamer, why would that be?
Bitcoin does not artificially limit the total number of keys. Transactions with up to 3 keys are considered "standard" by bitcoind, meaning they will be propagated and mined by default. But non-standard 5-of-8 transactions are also valid. If someone relays them and mines them, they will be valid for every node. In practical terms, non-standard transactions mean longer confirmation time, that's it.
Show HN: Bringing logs to log in
24 Days of Hackage: linear
Couldn't it be argued that Aaron undid himself? He was not entirely blameless (although I do agree with those who have issues with the way the Government reacted).
I don't understanding why having two different URLs is such a big deal.

It's not about having different URLs, it's about having different code. If your "API" is just your website with a different view/template, why would you have different URLs?

And how do I open the new API thing in my browser?

It's already open: it's the website. If you want to see the data that your code is getting, you get your browser to ask for it, using for example: http://jsonview.com/
The back end is swappable. I think right now you can use Mongo or MySQL. If you want to use something else you have to write your own DDL. They hope that more people will do that in the future. Or presumably, they will do it themselves, once they think it's a priority.
Kotlin is a very nice replacement for Java but I really like the ambition and thought being shown by the Ceylon development team. I sure do hope that they get an IntelliJ plugin completed sometime in the future.
Where did the increase come from? Is it fraking or technology related?
Until Linux fixes its desktop story I'm going to stick with my Windows PC.
Looks like it needs lazy-loading - it's loading a lot of images that aren't on the splash page. Caching-wise I think having query strings on most of the background images is going to cause problems.

Gets good PageSpeed and YSlow results however.
I'm Italian and I've seen that movie in Italian. I didn't know there was a dubbed version. It loses so much value. The original version is so much better.
Hmm, wonder how much of their 80M settlement the MPAA will actually get...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/hotfile-settles-c...
What's broken about it?
I think the price fluctuation is the biggest problem with bitcoins in this scenario. Let's say I need to pay my parts supplier $50000 in April, how many bitcoins should I ask for today, assuming the bitcoins will be transferred to me in February? Large companies struggle with this problem even when dealing with relatively stable currencies.

Is there a functioning futures market for bitcoins yet?
Some sites are enjoyable when they use the scrolling down animation effect, this site was horrible. It wasnt clear that I even should scroll down and when I did it never ended.
Sorry but uhm, didn't he undo himself? Seriously stop saying that someone "undid" him, killed him, or even take the blame for him killing himself.

Yes injustice is all around. A lot of people have been convicted for murders they have not done, later released because of new DNA evidence. These people have been in jail for decades, falsely imprisoned, and while released, their name probably never clean, but hey ...still alive.. Guess they had some sort of outlook.

Aaron was facing charges for something he knew he did was against the law, but he didn't accept the world where that thing he did was against the law.

So he took his own life.
And This appears to be the lesson from the life cycle of High Signal to Noise ratio sites.

Initially there is the bleeding edge, and then there is the long noisy end.
But a lot of the regulation changes aren't really about safety - things like standardised suppliers of tyres, or limiting the amount of track testing allowed. Sure, unlimited budgets would allow some companies to absolutely dominate - but that's not really any different today.

And yes Vettel is possibly the best driver. But the car and the support he gets from the team give him a pretty good head start.

F1's not about the best car you could build (or even the best "safe" car you could build), or about the best driver. It's mostly about the best car you build within the set of sometimes arbitrary constraints set by the FIA.
I will not hack on your codebase for free in an interview
The driver performance just isn't there. If you have a cross-platform game and run it on the same Apple machine in OS X and on Windows, the Windows version's gonna be WAY more performant.

As a lesser frustration, most Windows games I play natively support the Xbox 360 controller, whereas almost no OS X ports do.
Git for Grown-ups
At least on OS X there aren't scrollbars visible until you need them (start scrolling).

There is that small hint on the top right, but if the page is scrolled any amount--even an amount that doesn't move the page at all--the hint goes away and there are no visible scrollbars. It's a terrible UX.
I never mentionned super. Anyway, thanks for the link.
Not enuf grunt :(
(Link)[0] to the actual announcement.

[0]: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2013...
photoshop is slow enough natively. Running in a VM might be good enough if you use it occasionally, but for people who use it daily I doubt it.
Because it's a laptop? It's just an inferior experience, especially since the hardware isn't what you'd call beefy.
I use Linux mostly but log into OS X or Windows for those. I could probably run them in a virtual machine though.

The one thing that keeps me from using Linux exclusively are pieces of software that I use to make music but are only available on Windows (e.g. Guitar Amp Plugins by LePou or various processors by Variety Of Sound). I don't see those coming to Linux anytime soon, sadly.

If Reaper would come out in a native version for Linux and someone invented a way to use Windows VST plugins in it without a performance hit, I might dare switching.
I don't see the equivalency. The prosecutor abused his official position and the legal system to personally advance his career. If anything, we should hold our officials and authorities to even harsher standards to ensure equitable treatment under the law.
"non-us copyrighted"? Ever heard of the Berne Convention?