skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I say that quality of discourse has been degrading and general utility of the net has been suffering? the article brings back memories of archie, usenet and local irc chat rooms.
There isn't anymore a general sinkhole for various activities on the net. Technologies suffered, like usenet from spam wars... yet it is good to have a set of open protocols that would provide foundation for how people use the net, so that it is not fragmented across different levels of technologies. Web had done most of the damage, not sure how to fix that.

Any comment? I would rather have usenet like hierarchical database access to articles rather than weighty web driven portal that will not very parseable and has a tendency to change over time and often disappear. If there is an underlying protocol to save and distribute semantic data across the web and we could agree on that, that I think would be awesome. I heard of open data, but I doubt that can replace RFC based protocols of yester yore.
IMO.

my 2d.
> I suspect that an admonition to "think mathematically" is not even wrong.

I am not suggesting that we admonish students to think mathematically. I'm suggesting that we teach them to.
huh? Patents do expire after X years.
The time tracking app to end time tracking
Timely is on a quest to rid the world of time tracking. It's aiming to turn the problem of time tracking on its head; by allowing hours to be scheduled in advance, and for time tracking to be automatically accounted for.
Good thinking on the $100. I suppose it never really occurred to me to donate like that to get a conversation going. Power to the people!
The simple fix would be to give you a grace period after the acquisition of the patent (if you file or purchase) to actually put it to use or else you lose your claim to it.

This would abolish the patent trolls as well as stop companies from doing preemptive filing because its "good practice".

But maybe that's a too simplistic view of the situation.
Agreed... back before electronic transactions were a thing, cash was about as untraceable as bitcoin, and taxation was still effective.
Because my firefox often freezes for a while when I open something like video section of thedailyshow.com

Given how cheap memory is, and the fact that almost all new devices are multicore I see this as a big positive.
>Here are a few languages/systems with default isolated heap runtimes between concurrency units: Dart's isolates, Erlang's processes, Nimrod's threads, Web Workers in modern browsers. Anyone know of more?

Tcl runs an interpreter per thread and communicate each other using message passing.
The UK Patent Office certainly searches far, far more art than just the global patent literature. They make use of many specialist databases, extensive internet searches (carefully tailored not to disclose novel material), journals relevant to the art.

The search and substantive examiners in the UK are one and the same (or were a few years ago) and the majority I knew of had doctorates.

Your example of mismatch according to a word/phrase is laughable. Novelty means novelty of the invention [defined by the claims], no matter how it's claims are worded, not novelty of the claims. If indeed USPTO examiners are searching only on specific word forms then I'd be amazed; that certainly isn't the case in Europe. You give an example of adding "continuous" - the problem here lies in that either that is anticipated or the objection is that it's obvious based on prior art. If an obviousness objection is made the applicant can claim that "if it's obvious why hasn't anyone done it already" - that then forces their hand to leave the analysis to the courts.

The classic UK example (quite old now) of the breadth of prior art is citing a children's comic against a "doggy doorbell". The breadth of related arts used in searches has vastly expanded since then.

In addition to that search and examination is divided up based on the IPC/ECLA classification systems (and additional subdivisions cast over those that are local) - which allows for specialisation.
I wasn't blaming you; I was blaming Slate. A non-linkbait headline would be, "Doing _____ would, all by itself, go a long way toward reforming the patent system."
So sorry. Some of us just think that if we have a standards compliant web browser we should be able to use it to view things regardless of what device it is running on.
Yet you won't know what you're really good at until you've tried it.

And that takes time - basically, the 42 year old just had more time to figure out what he's good at.
According to the Wired article about the radioactive container in Genoas port (2011, http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/10/ff_radioactivecargo/al...), Cobalt-60 isn't the first choice for dirty bombs. There are nastier isotopes out there.
"Each began with a scientist who had reached an initial opinion as to which of two opposing hypotheses is more likely to be true."

Herein lies (at least) one problem. Scientific publishing is about presenting experiments + data and then interpreting the results in the context of hypotheses. Interpretation ought to be about evidence in favour of or against various hypotheses ... and not about forming an opinion about a particular hypothesis (and then designing experiments to validate that opinion)

One can't though ignore the current culture especially in academic science. No Assistant Professor is going to get a paper into Nature or Science by carefully presenting a balanced assessment of evidence for and against a hypothesis. It's a crying shame, because the current culture is implicitly training our young scientists to behave in an unscientific way.
The elephant in the room that's being ignored here is the business model.

I'm typing this message right now on an Android tablet and a Bluetooth keyboard. I paid $150 for a pretty nice device, and adding the keyboard and mouse brings that to about $200, a lot less than any netbook. Perhaps a $300 netbook is better spec wise, but this thing is smaller and cuter and even turns heads in rooms full of macbook toting developers.

Android devices will always be able to beat Windows 8.1 devices pricewise because the biz model for Microsoft is that device manufactures pay something in the high $XX for a Windows license.

They can demand that premium because of all the software that exists for Windows. Windows RT deliberatly dumps Win32 compatibility because they want to have a cheap tablet OS they can sell that doesn't command the price premium without cannabilizing the market for Win 8.1
If you want to see a biotech start-up working on a very interesting obesity drug, check out http://zafgen.com/

They just release the results from their Phase 2a trial and results are amazing. After 12 weeks on the highest dose, patients lost an average of 24 lbs, which is competitive with bariatric surgery.

If the drug makes it to approval, it could be a real game changer for the healthcare system.
I don't see him as being cynical. I think these are questions worth asking given that the OP is asking why diet pills aren't prescribed.

It's looking at a problem in a systemic way rather than isolated events, at least according to me.
Hacker News loves North Korea!

I can't help but share some videos from my second trip there -- http://joshuaspodek.com/summary-of-north-korea-videos. Especially the ones singing with North Koreans in Kim Il Sung Square, playing Frisbee with kids, and all-around reinforcing that the people there are the same as people everywhere, just in different environments.
Just an FYI, but after a handful of people asked me to, I went ahead and made this a Github repo, located here[1].

I'll leave the Google Doc up for posterity, but I might eventually pull it down, or just modify its contents to be a link to the repo.

[1] - https://github.com/bmelton/DMCA-Takedown-Denial/
Cobalt 60 isn't particularly dangerous. I remember holding it in my bare hand in chemistry lab (encouraged by the teacher). Also, I'm never worried about when this stuff goes missing because it's so easy to detect to the smallest measurement - which means it's usually found quickly as was the case here.

Now if this was Cesium 137 that would be a wholly different matter
There's no way to know without knowing how much of the stuff was in the container. There could conceivably be enough to kill after brief exposure to the chest and head. If they picked any of it up, they will absolutely lose fingers or hands.
The Web As A Preservation Medium
This is interesting. It has been almost a year since the deadline for the implementation. I have no indication that anything changed at all. Take the following google search experiment

site:gov.pt filetype:doc (90k results)
site:gov.pt filetype:docx (451 results)
site:gov.pt filetype:odf (0 results)

Maybe that's not fair, as the final deadline is actually in July of next year. I guess, as a portuguese, I should know better than to expect things to get done before the very last moment.

Edit: formatting
No. The PS3 had OpenGL ES 1.0 with Cg as shading language, but almost any developer worth his/her salt was using LibGCM.

With PhyreEngine being used as main prototype engine.

Lots of nice technical documents available at http://develop.scee.net/publications

PS4 API is called GNM, http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-how-the-cre...
Because they're ultimately beholden to big business? I mean, we have no idea how many drugs work yet the FDA goes after 23andme and other organizations (selling stevia as a sweetner before they allowed it recently, etc), etc with questionable motives. I think there's an obvious double standard when it comes to big pharma.

I'm not attacking the FDA per se, but the entire USG. It seems like the buck stops with congress and congress is simply beholden to their financial backers. It doesn't help that SCOTUS is largely conservative (money is speech, citizens united, etc) and the POTUS's direction of the FDA is mystifying as well.
CSS Object Model (CSSOM) Draft Published
I visited the Montreal office recently and I must say that they don't seem overworked at all. Some were excited about their work, some were relaxed. If they are pulling long hours is probably isn't because of some weird ego war - it would be because they seem genuinely interested in their work.
This looks pretty awesome. Excited to give it a try.
Another similar incident, this time in Juarez.

http://www.window.state.tx.us/border/ch09/cobalto.html

The hapless Sotelo--who, remarkably, seems to have escaped serious contamination--was arrested in 1990 on theft charges. In the prison where he still awaits sentencing, the guards call him El Cobalto--the Cobalt Man.
Mostly obviate my foot.

The number of issues that would need addressing to make it possible for everyone to eat a healthy diet (hell how do we go about making cheap, convenient, healthy food on such a scale?) vastly exceeds the number involved in coming up with post-hoc remedies.

More relevant questions are surely those which enable us to do something about the problem in the foreseeable future (such as diet pills) rather than pondering about how things could be better if we were able to solve dozens of complex issues over an unrealistically short timespan?
Imagine you are look at a CD from the center, you would see matter in the middle but not above nor below. It is a little bit the same thing except the solar system and our Earth are not located in the center of the galaxy but somewhere close to the edge.
Timeless India
Nichelle Nichols Almost Gave Up. Guess Who Persuaded Her Not To?
I am surprised at the selloff given that bit coin is completely impervious to government control. That is the whole point of bit coin. We buy bit coins because we all read about what happened in Cyprus and we don't want to worry about capital controls ourselves. We bit coin buyers are innovating beyond government sponsored/manipulated money (and hopefully getting filthy rich in the process).
Fun with Esprima and Static Analysis
Ahh but that was Cesium 137. Much much more dangerous
>there's no need to alarm the general public until concrete evidence is brought to light.

Taken further, there's no need for anyone to be alarmed until concrete evidence is brought to light.
tlogan was not saying SO was not valuable, he specifically said that it did not provide much value for experienced programmers. SO can still provide value to the masses of less experienced programmers out there and be extremely valuable.

In my experience I have found this to be true. When first starting out stackoverflow was crucial to my learning process, now it seems I've answered all of my own questions the last year or so. And I wouldn't even claim to be extremely experienced. Thus, SO has certainly become significantly less valuable to me, but I would have never gotten this far without SO.
There are two major things missing from your list.

First: the lipostat mechanism needs fixing, because evolution built what worked, not what would be ideal. Exposure to overeating should not result in a life sentence of obesity.

Second: replace capitalism. There is a reason why there are food deserts, why people have to make the choice of nutrition versus quantity, why people aren't educated on nutrition, why people don't have the time or emotional energy to work at food after they've done working at work, and it's capitalism. Or more precisely, any money-and-work economy. Capitalism just makes it run wildly out of control.
Because death is not an appropriate response to stupidity or theft.
Yes it's using the keyframe APIs, it might be more like an experimental code style for now, but we will keep revising to make it better.
Why don't we live on soylent hooked up to our computers in nice safe plastic bubbles?
I don't think parent was equating current times with post-WWI era Europe in the least. He was simply saying that people who inherited a challenging/dangerous geo-political landscape went on to create an unimaginably worse geo-political landscape.

The current challenge is global terrorism, but the swing towards authoritarianism by Western governments may end up being FAR worse than the threat of terrorism.
A major point of the article is that obesity is not a single disease, it is many different diseases. It might be one of various neurological, psychological, endocrinological or digestive problems, or a combination of several. Not surprisingly, cure or mitigation will differ from individual to individual based on the underlying problem.

IOW, what works for you may or may not work for others.
This is why I thought putting the CyanogenMod installer app in the Play store was a watershed event, with Google acknowledging the role of aftermarket Android distros in keeping older OEM devices current. Too bad that didn't last more than a week or two.

The chart isn't entirely fair, since Google Play Services is a kind of overlay for some APIs that can be kept current without an OS upgrade. But that also has the effect of making closed some parts of the Android system.

Overall, Google could help enable, and could more strongly encourage OEM partners to provide upgrades. I'm not sure why that isn't a condition for Google logo and app suite licensing.
So What If Everyone at Harvard Gets an A?
There's another cost to consider: if you do this more than infrequently, learning the tools will save more time than consulting SO repeatedly — particularly if you end up adding and debugging extra steps. Not a big deal for something you're running once but I've seen people running carefully constructed gargantuan shell pipelines multiple times a day because it was "too hard" to learn how to do it all in a single awk / perl step
I agree, but they caused it themselves.
Here you go: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sky-survey/id518884826?ls=1&...
What choice do they have? The don't have the market share anymore to launch a proprietary alternative based on DirectX.
I was surprised as well that they said they would die. I find that very unlikely without more details.
:) Doesn't look comfortable.
It's also an unstable country in the middle of a fight it's not winning with tens of thousands of casualties a year. Parts of the country are not really even under government control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War
Right. . . but once it leaves that staging area, no backsies. So in order to replicate the kind of consumer protection that credit cards offer, probably you'd do something where the buyer doesn't do anything, and instead has 180 days to vote to cancel the transaction. At the end of that 180 day period, the 3rd party automatically votes to release the funds from the merchant.

From the buyer's perspective that kind of arrangement might feel like they paid for the product right away. But from the seller's perspective, it's a terrible deal because they never get paid until half a year later.
I thing he is referring to the link, not the standard. They just gave up after the first search page at google for sql. They could have pointed to a book or something. w3schools sure gives a bad smell to the thing.
I have read that dirty bombs are a myth and technically infeasible.
I'm seeing two keywords which HN loves: Tesla and Bitcoin.
App Platform co-creator on Delivering Better Apps Faster with Business/IT Love
It's really hard to make a case that can't be opened with an angle grinder and a diamond cutter disk.
There are thing you can do to make naps more effective. I do well with a 20 minute nap in mid-day, but I'll feel groggy if I nap for too long. It's better if I don't lie down, but instead sit in a comfy chair, so I don't go too deeply asleep. If you drink coffee, have a cup before the nap, and the caffeine should kick in about the time you want to wake up. Other suggestions can be found on line.
And your point is? The website is based on Flash and there is an iPhone app available. Now, how is this related to browser standards?
What about "if you're so [self-]important that you can't be bothered to disregard comments that don't conform to your idea of how the discussion should go". (I don't believe that BTW, surely there's space for discussion and meta-discussion).
Thanks, that's really interesting.

The nonsense message of American democracy is another one that's always bothered me, so it's enlightening to see how these are connected.

FWIW, despite all the propaganda and even our school history books, democracy never was a core value of America. There is virtually nothing democratic about the design of the federal government, and even those aspects that are democratic were nothing new at the time the Constitution was written. America was not a bold experiment in democracy. That was old hat: the Dutch were already doing it, and heck, the Greeks did it a couple thousand years earlier. What was a bold experiment, seemingly entirely forgotten in today's discourse on Capitol Hill, was a limited government that wielded only a small set of powers that were explicitly ceded to it by the people.
Some small portion of the population naturally needs less sleep: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genetic-mut.... For everyone else, you're not going to beat those people by trying to emulate their sleeping habits.

There is definitely a "sleep is for losers" kind of machismo that pervades professional industries, but it's stupid. While sometimes you have to cut in on sleep to get something out the door, making a habit of not getting much sleep isn't likely to be a competitive advantage for you in the long run. Ironically, its the sorts of professions that glorify not sleeping that tend to require the quick thinking, creativity, and careful attention to detail that is undermined by not sleeping. It's worth while to cut into other things to make time for adequate sleep.
Increasing Sales with DiSC - Overcoming holiday slumps
> Sadly, for Android I'm likely required to target versions 3.2+, which means some functionality might not work as well or look as great compared to what's possible in the newest versions of Android, especially if I find myself using the lowest common denominator of API's. I don't like to do extra work just for a small part of the audience, so that is something I'll try to avoid (perhaps some people will hate me for this?).

This is a bunch of nonsense, support apps back to 2.2 or 2.1 is not difficult and you can easily target higher level APIs even if you use an older OS version as a base API level.
"how do we go about making cheap, convenient, healthy food on such a scale?"

We need people to stop worrying about "casual gaming at scale" and start worrying about "living a good life at scale".

It's just that, there's not usually as much profit in the solutions that actually work or matter.
Ask HN: Why did Apple buy Topsy?
So while Silicon Valley screams of sexism, we're still far short of diversity with the lack of representation from an ethnic minority (racism).
I don't think it is when decided and inflicted by a third party, but self-inflicted death on grounds of aggravated (c|st)upidity is hard to feel sad for.
The Coming Global Wealth Tax
Pretty sure the lethality is being grossly over-stated for the purpose of sensationalism
Because the markets have been flooded with either snake oil products or unproven chemicals like ephedra. Nothing is a replacement for diet and exercise. Diet drugs should be used in tandem with proper diet and exercise.
> I remember holding it in my bare hand in chemistry lab (encouraged by the teacher).

At a (not so remote) time, students used to put their hands into mercury to demonstrate that it is liquid but not wet.
New Site Tracks the Cracks in Oracle’s Empire
Because I don't have to type the path every time.
* Delegate the stuff you're not very good at. (As a consequence, get good at recognizing the delegates' quality.)

* That man wasn't doing that for the first time, and he had partners (if that qualifies as "other people"). The man also did stuff he wasn't good at and only gradually changed his habit, the results are what inspired the post writing.

* Chose your enterprise wisely.
Well, it's not really fair to blame Slate either. Their business depends on getting people to click on links, link bait is effective, so they have little choice but to use it. This is one of the reasons that IMO the requirement to submit original titles is counterproductive. The interests of site headline writer are not generally aligned with those of the HN audience.
For some reason it asks me to login to see the page. Google cache to the rescue: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?biw=1600&bih=78...
This is so well done - I especially like the galactic reference in the lower left corner, that shows the FOV and direction. I promise not to say anything unkind about Flash for at least a week.
one response to Greenspan's statement:

“[Congress|WallStreet] has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of [Congress|WallStreet] is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.”
Perhaps the naps empowered their get-shit-done mindset, which in turn allowed to be seen as a "producer"
Despite panic, China’s regulation of Bitcoin leaves room for optimism
When was the last time MSFT updated DirectX? I think they killed it off not to long ago with the release of X and its just part of the OS now.
I find annoying that magazines and newspapers don't add links to original documents.

Here's the bill's page at the Portuguese parliament website:

http://www.parlamento.pt/ActividadeParlamentar/Paginas/Detal...

The bill itself [pdf]: http://goo.gl/71AWFY

The original tables are available in this document:
http://dre.pt/pdf1s/2012/11/21600/0646006465.pdf
Is Your Compiler Undermining Your Secure Coding?
Well, these thieves are citizens with poor reasoning powers.

Being "regarded as civilized people" might be of interest to you, but I don't really like this habit of dehumanizing people when one doesn't like them.
Microsoft Makes Moves To Protect Customers From Government Eyes
- Okay, thank you for your feedback collyw.
Its back up now...