skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember those, I don't think enough people realised/needed the utility of them at the time for it to gain critical mass. Not that many people in the population at large, have friends all over the world that they need to have accurate timesync with.

It also might have benefited from being based on UTC instead of a decimal time. It was awkward to describe any time below an hour as you needed to break down into fractions of a beat to describe regular time intervals like 15 or 30 minutes. Whereas maybe a UTC-beat watch with 86400 seconds/beats in a day could be more relevant? Probably not, it'd still have huge hurdles to overcome with the network effect, apathy and such.
> The mind is an emergent property of the brain.

This is the kind of pseudo-science that gets so much attention nowadays. Incredible.
What's interesting is that Google Play will already automatically surface the reviews from anyone in your extended circles.
I don't really have this problem. I mostly use command-tab to switch between apps, which seems to honor the desktop I'm on. For browser and shell I right click the app and choose "new window" in the desktop of choice.
Possible backdoor in evasi0n iOS jailbreak
I read the will.i.am bit differently, in that of all the quotes out there, his is the only one that is not unreasonable and focuses on the student, in comparison to the assorted political and business folks who are saying "learn to code because we want to use you". In my mind, Gates' is somewhat decent too, but a bit optimistic (per Papert above).
You are inventing a problem that doesn't exist. I can literally have a cabinet in a first class data center in 2 days and it takes 15 minutes of my time. You save assloads of money this way vs AWS which is incredibly expensive. You can buy an equally performing server for the cost of a month of renting the VM from amazon (for the big ones obviously, you can't buy servers as slow as a ec2 large instance.)
> GP, just pretend your kid was kidnapped and be dead in 24 hours if you don't find him. Now, say, you have an unrestricted access to the kidnapper who knows where your child is.

This is why we disapprove of vigilante justice. Because it can make any course of action seem like a good idea, given that you are sufficiently emotionally involved.
I'd pick somewhere in northern Europe probably. I might take the U.S. option if you could guarantee I was in the top 75% of the U.S. income scale. If I could really be randomly assigned anywhere on the scale, though, the U.S. seems too risky, because the low end of American lifestyles is really low, not even reaching the level of first-world poverty. Driving through parts of Mississippi was pretty surprising for someone who had never been there before: actual dilapidated shacks without running water, like you see on National Geographic documentaries about poor parts of the world. And urban American poverty, while it has running water, comes with too high a risk of violence.
You mean non-fiction, or all books?
If you put your phone in airplane mode before the time the alarm goes off, it presumably won't be able to go off. I don't know if our will still go off later. At worst, I guess you could uninstall it (and possibly reinstall later).
The x86 encoding actually makes sense once you begin to write its instructions using octal instead of hexadecimal numbers: http://www.dabo.de/ccc99/www.camp.ccc.de/radio/help.txt
(this isn't mentioned in the Intel or AMD docs).
Leaving aside the many other problems with your scenario, why would a birth certificate come in handy? At best, it would prove that you had a child at some point. It certainly wouldn't show that any particular child was yours (unlike a paternity test).
There is quite a distinct difference imo.

One certainly could describe html and css as 'declarative' programming languages in that sense, but I think its a pointless definition then because all data fits that same definition - so why not just call it data?

The key thing here is about what is encoded, not what the output is. A C Hello World program encodes a call to printf along with a data string as a piece of executable code in the entry point of some executable format - the fact that printf is a library function is deceptive - because the encoding of that is important too and it describes how to interact with the OS to output text. HTML containing "Hello World" encodes merely the string and gives you no choice of what is done with it - nor can you interact with the OS, the hardware or any of the surrounds without introducing more (e.g. JavaScript).

However, the fact that you edit it directly in a text editor makes it coding. I have no disagreements with that at all... but the fact that HTML and CSS are difficult to use data formats doesn't qualify them to be 'full' programming languages imo.

As for scorn, I have no scorn towards HTML and CSS because of their perception of being code. I do however have plenty due to the design and real world implementations - not because they are 'easy', but in fact they are much harder than they need to be due to a combination of poor design and poor browser implementation. I can qualify that a lot, but its an article of its own I guess... not a comment. :)

Any decent programmer should be able to design a superior alternative to HTML and CSS imo. Its not a difficult task.
1/10th of a day is just as arbitrary, maybe less so, then 1/24th of a day.
"But leave it to the economist to find that money makes you happy while ignoring that some countries seem much happier."

From the article: "Though some countries seem happier than others, people everywhere report more satisfaction as they grow richer."

So I wouldn't say they ignored it, it's pretty explictly mentioned AND talked about in the same sentence that they say that satisfaction scales with income.
>In addition to being fast to deploy, cloud infrastructure lets you easily scale up and down to try things out

And you can buy a single server for $5k that will outperform $5k/month of EC2 VMs.

>Also -- buying and managing colo is a fairly specialized discipline

What? That is like saying "buying and managing phones is a fairly specialized discipline". No, it isn't. You give money, you get service. Not complicated. People have been able to handle this just fine for longer than you've been alive.
So real pirates and music "pirates" share that it's not their goal to kill people. The latter still kill far fewer people, and the former still engage in much more violence.
>Nice casual racism.

That's not racism.

>While I question the notion of a "clash of civilisations[sic]," you're saying this like it's a bad thing.

I don't see where he assigned a value to this prediction. It seems to me that you've done that for him, both in this comment and the one accusing him of racism.
I disagree. Sometimes you can't do things due to circumstances, not willpower. This is what is keeping me from downloading the app. Nice concept though.
Nice, a long time has passed since i saw a PHP project HN.
I hope he goes. I might be wide of the mark, but my guess would be that RSA have probably bit themselves by booking Colbert at this point in time.
Maybe it can't buy happiness but it can definitely buy off unhappiness, some of it anyhow (adapted from a line in "Psycho").
Must Be Global Warming: Great Lakes Freeze Over, Earliest In Nearly A Century
I'm not a habitual watcher of his show but it seems to me like he's pretty good about knowing when to turn it off, or just turn it down a bit. One interview on his show where I remember him being very close to completely straight was with an astronaut who had walked on the moon, which I feel indicates that his priorities are about right.
Good job on launching something.

Two small things you can easily fix:
* Your app icon corners are wonky, probably because you aren't making them square for the large images. Apple will do the cropping for you.

* Same thing with the screenshot, I would make sure it's the right resolution so you don't get artifacts.

But these are superficial things that you can fix easily. Congrats again for launching.
Chrome extension to highlight submissions and comments from Hacker News leaders
And as long as we're discussing "out there" time notations, I'll throw out my support for a calendar system that makes more sense. 12 30-day months with a 5 (or 6) day "Holiday Month" at the end. Adjusting the "week" to be 10 days instead of 7. 3 weeks a month, 9 weeks a quarter, 36 weeks a year. Work 7 of the 10 days in a week would be the same as a 5-day work week (2 more days off a year actually).
This appears on HN coincidentally after the discussion on rating differences between cultures[1], so that different countries may have different views about what a scale of 1-10 means.

A 7 in Brazil might not be a 7 in India, for example.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7044833
Source code https://gist.github.com/EdGuiness/8387313
Since I end up using Windows more than I'd like, I'd like to see it. Thanks.
Thank you for the summary. Is anyone really surprised by those points?
It says it's not compatible with my Android 4.2 device.
Is Connection series good to watch for understanding Industrial Revolution better? I would like to understand Industrial revolution better if there's any documentary or book out there along the lines of "Ascent of Money" - the book. I loved reading that book.
The server sends the tweet so you could turn the phone off and it would still get sent out.

At the moment, a viable cheat is faking location on your mobile device.
I am in Canada :)

It just wasn't in the chart.
This doesn't even seem to be anywhere near as advanced as Freenet.

To call it a "new Internet" is a huge stretch and an insult to actual projects that are dedicated to building a successor that extends the present infrastructure, like cjdns (which itself originated from Kademlia, largely known for being used in the eMule network).
Poole: The Jekyll Butler by @mdo
As a child my father had a laptop with OS/2 on it, and on the laptop was an OS/2 sticker. So for me my father's laptop and OS/2 were interchangeable, even synonym. Then one time he showed me a bunch of floppy disks and tried to explain, that those floppies are OS/2 ;-)
I noticed that there weren't any lanes painted on the streets. Does anyone know when that practice started?
The most interesting thing to me is that this is sponsored by Gumroad and Mailchimp. This suggests that self-publishing is at the end of the early adopter phase, and perhaps on its way to becoming mainstream. Would love to know more about the corp. involvement here.

(And yes, signed up.)

Update: By "corp. involvement" I'm not suggesting this is a shill for Gumroad and Mailchimp, but rather it's interesting they see enough potential in this sector to agree to sponsor this. Also it is an interesting wrinkle on the self-publishing / info product phenomenon to get sponsors for your book.
Have you seen the speech he gave Bush? Right in front of Bush?

I most certainly want him to speak to RSA.
It is entirely reasonable to demand some professionalism and set some standards in fields besides medicine and law. Already, many engineering disciplines are regulated and require a license to practice.

As computers become more and more woven into society, the consequences of having incompetent programmers are becoming more and more severe. Just one example currently in the news is the Target breach. Millions of people are affected by that. Or healthcare.gov, anyone?

Now just imagine when cars drive themselves, computers control your money (bitcoin), and "apps" supervise your grandparents' health.

The idea that all of this critical technical infrastructure is built out by Pepsi-fueled kids who reject education, experience, and scientific rigor in favor of whatever circle-jerk beliefs they invent amongst themselves as they "hack" on PHP, is frankly appalling. Such teams are the go-to choice for clueless corporate PHBs who only see dollars per hour as the hiring criteria.

But hey, that's the status quo, and I doubt you'll ever see companies move to be in favor of setting some professional standards, because the business priority is cheaper workers.
The thing that stood out the most for me is the complete absense of bicycles, I even went out to check when was its invention (apparently around one century before this footage).

Something else I noticed is how much cared after is Hyde Park right now, although it doesn't look bad at all on the footage. I can't say I was surprise as the Central Park in New York City also changed a lot (probably even more than Hyde Park), mainly during the 80s if I'm not mistaken.
Fair enough; mentioning it in passing is not completely ignoring it.

Yet a realistic headline would have best been: "For happiness, your country is more important than your income".

It seems to me that any intellectually honest and curious person looking at the data - instead of trying to prove their pet theory - would immediately remark on that most salient feature.
If you like C# then use C#.

I think there are some people who see C# as a "Microsoft Thing" and won't have anything to do with it.

As for Python, I don't particularly care for it, but many people find it to be a satisfactory language in the sense that you find C# satisfactory. That is, there are lots of good libraries that you can do to get many tasks done quickly. Performance doesn't matter much in applications that are limited by network latency, disk I/O or waiting for database calls to come back.
And this is why the college bubble will burst.
In the past I purchased a bottle of Nyquil at Target. They wouldn't complete the purchase without scanning my drivers license. I was not feeling well at the time, so I complied.

I'm curious if they stored the information from the magnetic strip on the license and, if so, was that information stolen as well? Also, if they did, is it legal for them to do so.

I haven't even heard anyone from the news even bring this up, but I think it would be much more serious than the cc data.
"This post is a little like programming pop science"
That's Jeff Atwood for you.
Re-phrased: Would you rather make $100k in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Miami, or Havana?
So that it would be easier for the NSA to crack it?
I'm the guy running the course. Basically I asked both companies if they'd want to sponsor it, and they said yes. Zero content is written for the sponsors, but I do include their logo on the website and in the emails.
I think that is because we have the ability to talk about it on a much larger scale than that of previous generations. The real test will be what the next generation thinks about itself when they become our age.
Now chart the medication of psychotropic drugs in those countries.
It's not arbitrary. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal
I just wanted to thank you -- I'd never heard of freenet. I know sometimes "how is this different than x" is not considered constructive to some, these posts genuinely pique my interest. Anyone who is interested - https://freenetproject.org/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

edit: "While Freenet provides an HTTP interface for browsing freesites, it is not a proxy for the World Wide Web; Freenet can only be used to access content that has been previously inserted into the Freenet network. In this way, it is more similar to Tor's hidden services than to anonymous proxy software like Tor's proxy."
Big in Japan
It's a joke about filters. You must be fun at parties!
I'm curious what the result show if you did not have to work for your money? While money does not make you happier when you work for it I wonder what portion of that is due to the additional stress, long hours, and responsibility that comes with high income jobs.
This is a nice example of a "commitment device", "a means with which to lock yourself into a course of action that you might not otherwise choose but that produces a desired result". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_device
Even if not, the decrease in earnings per year of $1,387 is a 5% drop, that would indicate that the median college graduate earned $27,740 more than the median high-school graduate PER YEAR.

Of course, that is before the "narrowing" of the gap-- the number is now $26,382 PER YEAR.

This annual difference in earning is much, much higher than the median debt amount for almost any college.
Concept map = good.

Clickable concept maps with useful explanations behind each link = even better!

Awesome!
It was a nice idea but I think Swatch made a big mistake by taking their headquarters as the base to calculate it.

It needed to be an independant concept to bring other companies/competitors on board.
It's a question of persistent data structures and sharing. Efficient code without mutability tends to recreate only the parts that change, and so you don't have to store a fresh copy of the whole world each update. Of course there is nothing preventing you from doing this in an imperative language, but a preference for mutability discourages it.
If the creators are watching, I think it'd be interesting to benchmark against the current Respect/Rest.
> It's a long road from "gee, I changed something, better copy everything" to something as good as FFTW or ATLAS.

CUDA implementations of FFTs and matrix operations are faster than both FFTW and ATLAS, and they are neither sequential nor functional.

CUDA, C, and Haskell all have domains they typically outperform one another. The math vs. simulation divide sketched in this blog post is more an expression of the author's own psychology more than anything else.
The Tensilica guys took this thing an extra step. ie- profile real code to find out what constants are most typically used, enumerate the top n constants, encode the constant with 0..n-1 in the immediate instruction - the immediate value is a hardware based lookup. You can still do arbitrary immediates with longer instructions but you can apparently get some nice code size reductions using this technique.
One thing that bothers me about "write your book" courses and howtos is that they rarely specify what type of book the course is geared towards. In particular, is this course for fiction or non-fiction writers?
Use this to build Litecoin shopping carts. Pretty cool!
> Pux tries not to consume computation time to build all routes dynamically (like Symfony/Routing). Instead, Pux compiles your routes to plain PHP array for caching, the compiled routes can be loaded from cache very fast.

symfony/routing compiles routes only once to PHP code ([1]), and then that generated code is used for matching all subsequent requests. (There are multiple route matchers, but the default one works like this.)

It's amazing that Pux manages to be close to 50x times faster.

How is this achieved ?

[1] https://github.com/symfony/Routing/blob/0ee25e6580bd4169c128...
Paul I've signed up - it's a no brainer not to. I will commit to completing the course, and if you need me to publish a review or help out then let me know my friend.

Best wishes, and thanks.
Julian.

PS. So far it's super slick, and I can't wait to get started.
So many partnerships die because you believe the other person is capable of being responsible and disciplined. If he is having problems completing the task, this will be an ongoing issue guaranteed.

Also this seems very one sided and it usually never is. You must allow for a balance but at the same time hold people accountable. As throwaway420 said, become methodical.

In the case I am wrong and you have been a good partner, you need to cut the dead weight and find people who are as serious as you are. Whether it's this project or a new one, don't get stuck in these situations - its poison.

Also, you have to know when to walk away, for the sake of the friendship and your sanity. Get serious and stop being a friend, because he is slowing you down and this will NOT end well.

1. Have a meeting and let him know that you guys need to set a deadline for hitting that first finish line. This must be a hard deadline, meaning either he walks away from the project and you find someone else to take it up or you scrap the project all together. This seems very harsh and I recommend you try to word it positively, always hoping for it to be in the best interest of both of you. Don't be too nice though, because you should be upset, he's wasting your time.

2. Stick to your deadline and do what you say you will do. This is a life lesson. The only instance you should consider extending this deadline is if you see serious traction and even then, you set a hard deadline again. Traction is not an opportunity for you to go back to the way things were, stick to what works.

3. Start working on your backup plan. NOW. What will you do if this fails? If you need to find another developer, who will it be? How will you wind this down if it doesn't work out and still keep him as a friend? If you still believe in the idea and he doesn't want to hand it over, is it worth losing a friend over?

It's OK to be nice, but it's not OK to be taken advantage of. I was too nice when I first started doing business and I would always take pride in that even when I got screwed. Have no doubt, it may not be intentional, but this guy is taking advantage of your niceness. Put your foot down because your dreams and goals in life should never be in the hand of anyone other than your own. He may be driven and ambitious, but not as much as you are.

With the right co founder, they will push you as much as you push them. There is a momentum that a business needs in order to be successful, it is not an on/off switch. Talent is no excuse for stagnation and I hope this all works out for you.
Seems you could use APIs like this to make your own exchange.
Is it that complicated? An American life is generally considered (by our government) to have a value somewhere in millions[0]. Back-of-the-napkin math suggests that from an order-of-growth analysis, it may well be just about lives saved. (Roughly, each million lives saved saves a trillion dollars in economic value.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#Estimates_of_the_...
As a lower bound, the lifetime earnings of an individual are $1m and up: http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acsbr11-04.pdf
> I've been thinking a lot about experimenting with different ways of living together and creating new forms of community.

When I was in college, I lived in a student cooperative during my senior year. (Ridge House in Berkeley — any co-opers up in here?!) Living, studying, working, cooking, and partying together with 37 other people in a beautiful old house that was, however briefly, our collective property, was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. For once, even as a life-long introvert and loner, I felt like I was part of a close-knit community that stretched back for decades. I saw so many lifelong friendships and relationships form during my brief time there, and I've been looking to recreate that experience in my adult life ever since. (From what I've seen of my fellow ex-co-oopers, many of them feel the same way.)
It requires location information, but I guess your device probably has that.

It's a cordova application running a meteor app, so the .apk was generated from a config. We're pretty new to cordova apps so there may be some problems that we're unaware of.
Both. Although I am a non-fiction writer, I was careful to make sure the ideas (and they're all general) fit for both genres.
Monad is a wonderful abstraction and not at all hacky. In my C, I miss the ability to parametrically combine "things that produce values".
"but all that analog stuff is dead."

I still wear a analog Watch
Maybe, but that ship has sailed. No-one is going to reform this.

There are many problems with time (see http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_...), but the number of hours per day or the number of days per week or month are none of them.