skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not inherently related to Middleman, but I'm hugely grateful to it because through Middleman, I stumbled on to Slim, which is a nicer-looking Haml alternative that even allows Markdown. I've started using it in my Rails app and that alone was a game-changing improvement.

The way that Middleman can be so easily extended with plugins and gems the way that a Sinatra app can, while still maintaining the simplicity of a static app...It's really a breakthrough for me.
python3 destroyed it's ability work as simple calculator. Try this on python3:

>>> answer = 1 + 1
>>> print answer
FYI, 'disillusioned' != deluded/misled/deceived
In 2014, don't make goals; make systems.
But how would you do that? Hiding biasing factors is a simple, actionable approach. Do you have a better idea?
Another way to look at it is that we're so rich as a society that we can afford for most of our young people to take a four year vacation where they sex it up and dabble in underwater basket weaving.

Yet another way is to look at as the result of a shrinking job market and job pipeline clogged by boomers who won't retire. If there is no work, and there isn't, reducing eveyone's working life by 4 years isn't unreasonable.
Personal service will probably continue. In fact its a large part of the American job scene. Somebody cuts your hair, your lawn. Somebody does your taxes. Some of these can be done by robots, but its hard to replace the human interaction.

Will that mean personal services will become as rare as employing a butler is now? Maybe. Or maybe some of these will never be efficiently replaced by bots. And new ones may come up.

In some countries, the 'haves' employ dozens of 'have-nots' in an effort to allow everybody a position in society. With robots, it may be enough to nanny an industrialist's children to school each morning. Then return to your bot-run apartment to enjoy automatic perfect coffee and read your blogs.
yep. getting stuff done in academia today is quite similar to startups, s/investors/government-agencies, s/grants/investment-rounds, s/papers/pitches, s/prototypes/MVPs, s/hiring-students-and-postdocs/hiring-employees, etc.
Forgive the flippancy but it looks to me you'd see WW III as an opportunity for entrepreneurial people. Step back and have a look yourself.
Top Posts (Out of 365) On Humanizing Technology in 2013
You would be sure that US is not doing this at all 1 year ago.
Its too bad this actually makes things worse if you are a heavy mobile user. Since all emails are archived (even those awaiting todo/reply) using this workflow on mobile now requires quite a few navigation points just to see these emails.

In my opinion multiple inboxes leaves the screen looking cluttered anyway.
Paradigms of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy - EdX videos
Depends on why. If it really is because regardless of what social expectations there are, women are just less interested, that's harmless. But I think it's obvious that with a look at history and present attitudes, we can't assume an observed difference in interest is neutral that way.
I'm not sure if that's a good analogy for your point. The success of a band often requires more than people that can play music well together

The Beatles had Brian Epstein for example (aka The Fifth Beatle)
Indeed. But nothing in these slides suggests that this stuff wasn't used that way. In contrast to PRISM a lot of the techniques Jacob presented seem like they would only be useful for targeted work. The crucial question of where those targets are located and how many there actually are is left open. That is what makes me uncomfortable about this sort of presentation. I'm concerned that it does real harm to legitimate intelligence programs by conflating them with unrelated mass internet surveillance programs.
It's interesting that there are so many comments about how uncomfortable people get around it due to not knowing if they are being filmed/recorded... why didn't Google simply cater for that by adding a small, hardware-controlled red "recording" LED indicator to it? I think it would work wonders to the rejection around Glass.
I made all of those mistakes, and also learnt the hard way. Great post.
Wouldn't it be? All those rations to hoard and trade...
"An intermediate step would be robotic tools that could be controlled by a surgeon as effectively as their own hands."

But that is basically already were we are today right? And it's way more efficient than "as their own hands": a friend surgeon was explaining me that robotic tools were used not only because they were way more precise than human hands but also because they allowed for far greater freedom of movements, being able to rotate on way more axis than our human hands.

This is one of the main "problem" with robots: it's not just that they're "as good" as we are. It's that they're way more precise and can do things we can't.

There are also, if I'm not mistaken, surgeries that have been performed across countries, with the surgeon in one country controlling the robotic arms in another country.
Why the US isn’t the world leader in speedy Internet access
WWII (or any other time of turmoil) was a huge opportunity for some entrepreneurs, and we needed them to restore order and stability after the conflict. Obviously there was some profiteering, but I don't see it as inherently wrong to look at times of trouble as opportunities.
The phone manufacturers have been doing this for so long that they have the process down to an art. While I think Google could gain this ability in the future nothing they have done with hardware so far makes me believe they have the ability to drastically overhaul hardware in a short period of time. If they do radically change the Google Glass hardware so that it doesn't have the "glasshole" look or drastically improve the software I will be shocked.

It is entirely possible that I am wrong. But the look of Google Glass has barely changed since it was unveiled in the beginning of 2012. If they are truly going to try to push a consumer version of a brand new line of products you better be damn sure that when someone puts on Google Glass they instantly become attached to it. They want to know where they can get one. To do that you gotta test the hell out of it and make sure there are no sharp edges. That hardware would need to start getting into people's hands now and if they've just released a new model how much runway are they going to give between releasing the "golden master" version to their tester and getting it to market?

I've used Google Glass personally and seen dozens of people try it on around me as well. Most of the reactions are "Oh that is cool" but none want to actually buy the product. Compare that to the Occulus Rift where the people I've seen use it want to know when they will be able to buy it.
The problem with liars is not that they lie, it's that sometimes they tell the truth.
The right thing to do here was for them to apologize for taking a quote out of context and fire the reporter. Now that ship has sailed, I think her magazine is probably toast.
I was happy to find this, because I've had a number of similar debates - some with very intelligent people! My appeals to the mechanism of action went over everyone's head and convinced no one. Citing studies got us lost in the weeds as they asked questions about the study that I didn't know the answer to. (Who paid for it? Did they adjust for ___? Did they try ___?)

I agree with the problem, but I don't agree with several points. I'm also not sure about the solution.

> "Today, it's common that a licensed doctor prescribes a homeopathic medicine, which is scientifically known to be ineffective."

Are there really? How common is "common"? This is the first I'm hearing of it, and I'd like more than the author's word. Perhaps a study? :)

>"the profession is regulated by the state and the doctor obtains his license only after finishing a school (where he is taught scientific method along with any specific knowledge needed in his field of expertise), having some actual hands-on experience and taking the Hippocratic oath."

This is actually one of the problems - our culture's over-reliance and expansive trust in state-mandated licensing. The state is simply not qualified to say who can do what or whether they're actually competent in a field, especially once we start talking about specialties.

Because the state lacks the time and experienced professionals in a given field, we came up with certification boards. There are some great boards made up of real-life specialty experts who certify doctors as being competent in their little niche.

Unfortunately, this gets us into the same problem: how do I know which boards I can trust? I guarantee there are homeopathy boards that certify doctors. Looking into the legitimacy of a board is just as hard as looking into the legitimacy of a paper.

The answer has to be education - anything you can do, the "alternative science" crowd and profiteers can do, too. Unfortunately, neither I nor the essay's author seem to have a great cure-all answer for people who don't have the time, interest, or intellect to educate themselves.
The RIAA forced me to shut down a successful website/apps I built in high school
The heart warming satisfaction of convincing my company to use unit tests, and seeing them come online for the first time.
About the placebo effect: its not about what you know, its about what you feel. Enter a bakery, smell the cinnamon and yeast: your blood sugar responds. Doesn't matter if you know this is a placebo effect, it still happens.

So it's consistent that people in a non-blind test can still benefit from the placebo effect. Just going through the motions can affect your attitude, your activity level, your health.

For instance, I smile at myself in the mirror each morning. Changes my whole attitude. Doesn't matter how fake or forced; doing it and seeing it are a strong enough effect to mold my mental health. Even if I don't mind being a grouch myself, I do it because my family and friends benefit.
That said, a quick glance over the PC/ERC to ensure you cite-and-compare is a good idea. It's always easier to answer questions in your paper than the rebuttal. Or next year's submission.
Please take this rant somewhere else.
On a free market, shamans and doctors invest their own time and money and can lose their savings if their method does not work. In the long run only precise scientific methods give reliable results while shamanism has random results. People vote with their money for the most efficient and better proved way to solve problems (provided kings, churches and governments do not interfere). Of course, this iterative process does not give you a short-term guarantee that you'll be healed, but neither does any sort of absolute authority.

We don't necessarily need a lot of people to understand a lot of complicated things. We just need to not interfere when some people think they can solve things better than before, even if you think they are mistaken. Doing otherwise creates a larger scale hazard (cf. today's patent and regulatory environment).
Simplicity and code size are important. With a large complex project like MPIR (which, being derived from GMP is certainly faster) it is very difficult for newcomers to make contributions. This typically means you are already contributing to GMP (or MPIR) or not at all. So we might hope to develop a larger community around bsdnt because of the lower barrier to entry.

On a more technical level, the divide-and-conquer integer division algorithm in BSDNT is brand new, as is the basecase division. There are also technical improvements in the mullo, mulmid and mulhi interfaces, with 2 words overflows. The FFT I hope to include in the next version also represents significant improvements from only a couple of years ago (though it is already in MPIR).

There are lots of other innovations, such as a dramatically simplified build system, on account of the inline assembly. The zz0 interface is a new idea; it allows one to use light weight signed multiprecision integers in the low level multiprecision natural number interface (nn). And we also test that our pseudorandom generator yields the same values on all systems by taking the sha1 hash of a long stream of output.
Yeah this is the main problem but I don't think it's really fixable in the near future.

There's 3 types of content:

- Arbitrary written content

This is where markdown shines and IMO completely solves content creation.

- Arbitrary written content with mixed in assets

Nothing works here. Ever try floating some text to the right of an image when you don't have access to CSS or the raw html because we have to assume the content creator has no technical knowledge.

Even wordpress fails horribly at this but it's such a common thing you want to do.

- Structured content that has clear properties

This is pretty easy to design a nice UI for because it's no longer "anything". For example a todo item or a photo that belongs to a gallery. All you have to do in this case is create a form field for each property. It's something a non-technical person could do.
Based on this website they are putting A LOT into presenting it to the public as pretty polished http://www.google.com/glass/start/

That isn't a developer website that is a website designed by marketing.
They cynic in me assumes that even tech savvy people would much rather rationalize away NSA access to their Apple products than give them up.

The easiest rebuttal is simply that every smartphone is equally at risk.

A last resort will be to simply say "meh, don't care"

That's how good/sticky Apple products are
This reminds me of another HN article this week, about trash journals and staged conferences. They accept any paper and give the participants a check-mark on their college graduation requirement.

In that case, its not hurting anyone (much). The experience is good for the participants, and if they're all sincere then some actual science may get done anyway.
I am not sure about the future of these "website builders". They have been around a long time, however for anything serious they almost/always disappoint.
hey,guys. i am from china. I just wanna say, happy new year. and internet has not border.
Those circumstances does make the removal less controversial. However the better course of action for Square Enix would be to release the server software and let people host their own servers. Why destroy the whole community and prevent people from playing your game?
Sure they want to know more about it because it looks completely alien to them but when they've tried it on and understand it's capabilities do a lot of those people express interest in purchasing one?

My anecdotal evidence is that I've seen lots of people try on Google Glass and while they think it is interesting none of them actually want it.
Hilarious blog on Jetstar experiences
Ask HN: Making extra income with books
It seems a good source of extra revenue for many here is with books/ebooks. I am interested to know who has published what (links please!) AND how you went about publishing.

- Did you go with a traditional book (paper/hardback)? If traditional, did you sell online or within an actual store.

- Did you create an ebook? If so, which platform for distributing has worked out the best for you (3rd party, on your own, or a mix)

- Did you go with all text or do you have images or graphics? If you have done both, what can be noticed between the two?

It would also be helpful to know the income you generate, on average, from books (not necessary but I am curious to know). I have always talked about writing a book of sorts but have never fully carried through. I have started off and on and have written many tutorials for coworkers, I would like to take enhance those as well and maybe make some extra income from them.
//Insert New Years Resolution Here//
Introducing the FreeBSD Test Suite
Quality experience translates into repeat customers and steady growth. Not features; not highly-paid sales teams; not flashy design. Just support the customers you have with good empathetic skilled staff, beef up the quality of your pipes and codecs, make the on-boarding experience clean and clear, and the customers get on board.
Puppet Library: A Puppet module server compatible with librarian-puppet.
Congrats

It's good to have some competition in this area.

I used mostly NTL (which can use GMP) http://www.shoup.net/ntl/ and it provides some good resources, maybe it's too high level for the goals of this project, but you can always take some idea.

But the downside is that NTL is GPL as well.
Palava - open source webrtc platform
NSA:TOR
NSA: We have seen several targets using Tor. Our goal was to analyze Tor
source code and determine any vulnerabilities in the system. We set up an internal
Tor network to analyze Tor trac, in the hopes of discovering ways to passively
identify it. We also worked to create a custom Tor client which allows the user ner
control.
If that is really Thiel's favourite graph, then I just lost an enormous amount of respect for him because of this obvious problem of the graph.
Yup -- definitely use your discretion here. I'm nervous about asking a lot of these in a first interview, but once I have an offer I'll ask pretty much anything.
I love the Monkees.
One way to deal with this is to ask at the beginning of an interview how much time there is for questions. Once you have an offer, you can also schedule extra interviews just for you to ask questions.
Python 2.x vs 3.x use survey
"Where do you see yourself in 3 years?" is actually a good question, if overused. If answered honestly, it gives you a sense of what is important to a person (titles? achievements? freedom? money?) That's really useful in hiring, because you want to bring in people who want different things so there aren't conflicts over finite resources.

The problem is that few people will answer it honestly, and that's a shame. I'd be happy if someone said, "I want a high income and short working hours." It may not be the socially acceptable answer, but it'd give me a clear, no-bullshit sense of what the person wants and if he or she were talented I'd find a way to work with that.
> The last thing a successful female founder wants or needs is a quota or lower bar of entry for things like yc.

I don't think anyone is arguing to lower the bar of entry for women in YC, instead (as far as I can tell) they are arguing for ways to increase the number of female applicants to YC.
This sounds great in principle, but it would turn the way congress does business upside down (maybe not a bad thing). I've heard stories about hundreds or thousands of pages being added to bills by staff just minutes before a vote. I suspect the way it works is that the legislators tell their staffs what they want the bills to do, rely on them, and have no interest in actually reading the result (and who can blame them - ever read legislation?).
Which is the best possible result, in my opinion. If they know they don't have a good answer to one of these questions, you probably don't want to work there. I've made the mistake of ignoring that principle in the past, to my own detriment.
The old story is true: ask a farmer at the turn of the century (next last anyway) what they wanted, they'd say "a horse that pulls harder and eats less hay". They never said "a tractor".
A pity Jython isn't simply another scripting language using the Java scripting engine API (or, if it is available that way, a pity the article doesn't show that)
Similar to Innovators/Visionaries vs Pragmatists (http://www.chasminstitute.com/METHODOLOGY/TechnologyAdoption...)
"An obvious example: Sokal hoax. Physicist Alan Sokal have written an scientific article permeated with most obvious scientific nonsense and deliberate vagueness and managed to have it published in a scientific journal."

The journal was Social Text, a "cultural studies" journal. At the time, according to the same wikipedia page referenced in the article, Social Text did not practice peer review.

The fact that Sokal was able to get his paper published tells us nothing about the value of peer review in science
Buffer anyone?
Not to pile on, but even if you disaggregated student loans on a per-individual basis, this graph would still be misleading because it does not include a line for the median wage of non-bachelor holders over the same period. In general, to know whether something is a good investment you must at least consider the next best alternative.

Even this suggestion wouldn't be that great. To make a simple apples to apples comparison, we would need the graph of salaries of representative samples of comparable bachelors and non-bachelor holders. I don't really know what 'comparable' means in this context but it might be something like comparing the salaries of kids who graduated from college with kids who didn't go to college but could have (and maybe received comparable on the job training).

One might also think that college affects, for instance, your likelihood of getting a job but we wouldn't want to get too complicated.
That's a nice but naive sentiment. You can rest assured your hardware is similarly trojaned - whether it is your CPU, your Ethernet controller or your network switch. No, I do not have first hand knowledge about CPU trojaning by the NSA. But given everything else, I'd be surprised if they don't have access to the CPU itself.
Thanks!

I'm a huge fan of PCG, and this is a nice document to add to my collection. I gotta go back to my generic pcg lib I started making a few months ago.
Rust tutorials
Really? You lost respect for this guy because he decided to present a graph that shocks readers into realizing there's a bubble in higher education?
Stop Telling Women They Just Need to Know How to Code
Back on iOS 2 (or 1 or 3 maybe), there was a browser-based jailbreak that exploited a flaw in the iOS PDF viewer, so there's definitely precedent for such a thing.

http://www.jailbreakme.com/#
I made PocketSuite (http://PocketSuite.io). It is an easy way for busy people to send invoices, accept payments, book appointments, and stay in touch while on the go.
Don’t Fight Depression
It's a good way to think about it, that the US is now in a Cold War with the entire rest of the world.
Point 1: You didn't go Godwin on "removal of private gun ownership", you did it on mere registration. Changing parameters to defend your point is bad arguing too.

Point 2: I'm a pro-gun liberal. I'm also opposed to gun registration. I kicked you around on it not to support gun registration, but rather because you're making my side of the argument look bad. I don't want the people I agree with making crappy omg hitler!11!! arguments because it makes my job that much harder.

Point 3: If you can't show how gun registration is bad (or ineffective, which is my usual tack) without saying omg hitler, you're not going to convince anyone that you're right.
Reminds me of http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/11/working_backward...