skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh my god. I'm going to make Dogebook
I think it will track how long it's been shaken, right?

After tricking you for a week by shaking the brush for 1-2min, perhaps it'll form enough of a habit that going to actual brushing won't be as hard (we tend to be attached to the things we hold more often).

Kids think they're fooling you but the joke's on them...
Christ I'm sick of people describing these as Ponzi schemes. It displays a distinct lack of economic (and modern history) knowledge. Especially when the intent matters.
The writer is not Mark Stephens, the PBS Cringely whose name is the first Google hit, but a current InfoWorld staff writer. I suspect they would share this opinion, though.
kill it. kill it with fire.
this product collects the kind of personal data that should not be handed to third parties. too ripe for abuse. too much insight into your existence.
a scary Orwellian nightmare.
I have done a 2x 40 minutes train commute for the last year, before I started I bought a Kindle and read a lot of books. I have found it to be very productive, if you are really motivated you can read books which are related to your job. So when you arrive at work you are ready to apply some new things you learnt.
Otherwise I sometimes catch some sleep if I am tired.
Sorry, which one? I'm not getting it. Mixed feelings on the branding, but my mind didn't go to dystopia until I read comments here.
Two of the references given seem incredibly sloppy:

1. "a surprisingly large amount of Google’s ad revenue is driven by just a few adwords." links to an inept infographic pie chart organized by volume (so "keywords" that earn more money can have smaller slices) and the "keywords" are actually "keyword categories", The authors of the infographic do make the claim he repeats, they just don't seem to present any evidence to support it, since they snip the long tail of the data and are more interested in selling software to those who want to make money on the high CPC terms.

2. suggesting that Google's revenue and profit will peak when the growth rate of internet adoption peaks seems odd enough that without further explanation I'd assume basic innumeracy as the cause. The source suggest internet growth until 2040 which seems a bit more positive for those betting on the internet and/or Google given the article's premise that they're linked.

2.b Also, that growth is a binary use/don't use metric, it takes no account of e.g. someone with a laptop buying a web enabled phone, or simply using either device more.
Dogecoin absolutely is a joke currency. The currency's name is based on an internet meme. Dogecoin has about as much credibility as Coinye cryptocurrency http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/yeezus-balks-kanye-west-su...
To focus only on the actual website issue:

Could it be in order to govern the information, rather than "copyright" per say?

My thinking is that, from Yale's perspective, having a 3rd party (and especially a student) be the go-to source for course info might be a bad shift in power.

When it's all in good kind, it may not look bad, and even if it is well intended, there are a few problems that could arise:

- Bugs in crawling code causing some course information to be false, omitted or stale.

- Changes in OCI causing said crawler to keep stale data and fail to update.
- Students complaining to Yale with wrong information.

all the way to the more paranoid:

- 3rd party maliciously falsifying information.

- Generel confusion as to which information is reliable, driving students to have a more, rather than less, difficult time finding and verifying class scheduling.

I'm all for net neutrality and strongly against censorship in all forms, but "playing devil's advocate" can't there be a somewhat "legitimate" reason to shut the 3rd party page off for Yale students?
What the Doge's coins actually looked like:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monete_di_Venezia
+1 Nice work.
Makes sense; I use emacs in addition to just the emacs-like readline bindings, so C-u conflicts with "prefix argument". I also nest screen sessions using ^Z as the outer one's escape key and ^O as the inner one's, partly so I can use C-a / ^A.
Right and a computer with twice as fast CPU but same amount of memory will be twice as fast. Except it won't because some tasks are memory heavy and IMO discovery of novel theories probably requires both and something else.

We'll have lots of little specialized "Intelligence" like language recognition, or tax fraud detection, or synthesizing perfectly spoken human language, or maybe even writing small CRUD applications etc. But the thing is human like IQ isn't akin to trying to make airplanes, but making birds. Making super human AI is akin to wanting to make huge birds. That can transport us. To stars.

If human AI happens it will be a fluke or result of long evolution. Super human AI will happen almost likely by evolution from AI.
The 'dust' issue was resolved recently by changing the minimum transaction amount. AFAIK, this vulnerability affects many other alt coins that haven't had the masses of people looking at their implementations.
Yeah, I get what you mean, and I've written some powerful stuff in Excel that avoids the issues stated. However, sometimes it's frustrating to try and work around the small idiosyncrasies in Excel and I can totally see why someone would use something like this instead.
One could ask the same thing about Guantanamo. If those people are sufficiently dangerous that it's necessary to keep them imprisoned for 12 years (and counting), then the least they should expect is to be charged with something and tried for it.
About 10 hours of crawling through forums, VMWare documentation and a couple of conversations with people about ESXi. So all of it pretty unreliable ;)

I'd love to see sources/evidence to the contrary.
Poll: As a founder, how much time do you spend on your business?
Let's restrict pool to businesses that bring enough money to support at least a founder.
4 hours work week or less
~10 hours per week
~20 hours per week
~30 hours per week
~40 hours per week
~50 hours per week
~60 hours per week
~70 hours per week
~80 hours per week
>=90 hours per week
Kind of meaningless since they only push 5Mbps streams.
Try to solve some problems in one line.

http://united-coders.com/christian-harms/10-one-line-solutio...
Ah, with that edit I agree, with the caveat that I was never exposed very much to ye olde-school Xe applicationse.
True. I'm not making it look like Worse is Better ALWAYS wins. But it is funny how often it does, contrary to common conceptions.

The 'fight' between (P)NaCl and asm.js is by no means over. It's hasn't even begun. I have no clue if NaCl is popular for games, I've saw some on Chrome Store, but they always felt weird.

I just like to remind myself that making something is often more important than making it right.
Aye. The article also makes the well-know blunder of asking this question:

> Is Python interpreted or compiled? The question isn't really well-formed.

which is then repeated:

> C compiles to machine code, which is then run directly on your processor. Each instruction instructs your CPU to move stuff around.

No, "C" does not "compile" to machine code. The C compiler compiles C, and sometimes does so to machine code, and there are a C compilers that compile first to a form of bytecode or other symbolic representation, then to native. <language> is compiled/interpreted is a sad leftover from the heavily-diluted introductory computer books in the 1980s.
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If a designer's coding tasks take away from her creativity and focus on design, then yes, she should code less. But it's important to know what can be done with new technology. Only a bit of coding knowledge will tell you that.
I believe what you're referring to was dubbed[1] "nominative determinism" -- the idea that people feel a (statistically-detectable) attraction to careers befitting their name.

The most charitable thing you can say about it: it's not been disproven as of yet.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9664000/9664697....
If you improve ratings artificially, that's probably not libel. Would it be any kind of crime?
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Yes, total agreement that the situation is different with kids. Still I'd recommend to enjoy the moment and then take a picture afterwards. And then go through the pictures with your kids when they are older and able to understand and tell the story. The picture in itself of course has an intrinsic value, but it is the story of the shared moment that counts.
It's not my name: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

And I don't feel one bit sorry about it. I guess I could call it Stanford(/MIT) way, but MIT is nicer, juicer target.

Also asm.js is the Worse is Better compared to PNaCl. It's simpler, it's a 'hack' of JS compiler, it's not as fast as native performance of PNaCl. But it epitome of the said approach.

C is also Worse is Better approach compared to Lisp and it had some of amazing people, work on it.
Thanks Orta you've been resupportive to us :)
Since my persona on this account is public, I won't go into details, but I do view it as any other job....my investors want me to focus on building a company. That means competitive pay compared to what else I could be doing, which means a substantial salary.
Right there's nothing to do with Ripple Labs, we named it through a hackathon before we found it out.
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Yes we hope it can be really useful, maybe for conferences and events, never know. We'll see how it goes :)
> radicalized American

And yet tried for nothing and convicted of nothing. It is a perversion of justice, full stop.
> many people think the thermostat changes the temperature that the burner generates,

There might be many such people but that is not what he said. I apologize that my comment clashes with your aesthetic preference of what a discussion should look like.
Widg.it - Sell anything, anywhere
At least for now, it's not meant for private/sensitive messages.

We're more focusing on allowing people to join chatrooms which the location information are to help people easily find them, there's also an invitation feature to let you tweet your room and people can join all over the world.
1984 was Orwell. Huxley was Brave New World.
It's through the internet
Would it even really be a concern? If a professor had their own rating raised, they could be dealt with internally.
Unlikely, if 2008 proved anything.
Now I want iHY notebooks.
The interesting part is that most of the bytecode-level security problems in the Java world come from the JIT compilation, where it stops being bytecode again.

But yes, bytecode isn't magic pixi dust that makes things secure; it can be a tool to make things more secure though, with effort.
The tax analysis is based on past losses not future losses, that's why the tax expert says they'll get them up until 2019, rather than indefinitely.
Yep. Some of us are lurkers.
Yes you can by inviting people with our per room invitation feature. There will be a need to have chat room concept so people know what to chat on.
You can check these benchmark results with other options:

https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench/wiki/VPS-Hosts
Does RetroBSD really work with only 32K of RAM? Their frontpage just mentions: "RetroBSD needs only 128 kbytes of RAM to be up and running user applications."
He also has a degree in math!

With his name on so many high profile cases recently, I'm hoping he'll make it into Supreme Court.
Soda - no, but it doesn't stop at soda, it even doesn't start there. A lot of valid use cases for generating/analyzing this data.
Right, so chances are dogecoin is and will remain lower-valued than bitcoin in the aggregate. That's relevant how? Surely multiple virtual currency bubbles can exist concurrently.
That's not quite it - people hold these currencies based in part on what they think about other participants, so you end up with a situation resembling the blue eyes puzzle described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic).

That's a much more rational position. I mean, you'd have to be an incredible idiot to think that Dogecoin was worth something eo ipso, but slightly less of an idiot to think that there were other people who thought so, and even less of an idiot to think that other people thought that there were idiots who believed that Dogecoin was valuable, and so on.
> 1. Flat UI will continue to grow

God, I hope not. Yes, Win8 was first in that regard and look how well that's doing. Especially the flat, tiled mess that is metro. Where even the most die hard Windows fans who try to sell you on Win8 say "When you use start8, it's not that bad."

Also, dumping skeuomorphism in iOS7 does not mean you just have to a) crank up the brightness to 11 and b) apparently break out MS Paint and design all your interfaces in it.

Is the stitched leather not making sense in a calender application? Yes.
Did they really need to go ahead and remove every bit of polish from the UI? No.

Just look at iBooks. They left the page turning gesture including animation of a page turning. Apparently there is the line Apple drew. But what was wrong in using a nice book shelf as a "background image"? You can't stress that enough. Many applications have background images. And a shelf for books makes sense.

What do they have now? Nothing. Why, nothing at all. The book covers are now floating in a white void. Apparently that is what "flat" and "modern" design is all about.

So I guess the next iteration of iBooks will see the multi colored book covers removed and replaced by white, 90 degree rectangles in which the titles are written in a uniform black font. Cause that is what is considered "modern" now by the looks of it.

If there is a god, people will get bored of the flat, 1990 looking UIs very quickly. And why wouldn't they? How long can you look at interfaces like that and not be reminded of your old DOS editor. At least that used ASCII art to give you a drop shadow on your window.
Yeah! i tried some challenges in CodeEval and they're all cool!
I think "mother knows best" would have been much less creepy.
It's just fantastic to hear from the Cocoapods team. Ripple wouldn't exist without it!
Funny enough, ~ sigil will probably be retiring in favor of box.

let x = ~"Thing"; //old code
let x = box Thing // new code probably

Note: I said probably because it's probably because:

A) Not sure it will be implemented

B) Not sure if that will be syntax

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PS. Any link to dispatch operator periodic table?

Also I take your scala and raise you a Perl:
http://glyphic.s3.amazonaws.com/ozone/mark/periodic/Periodic...
Also the Chair's report which covers where each country stands on issues: http://wikileaks.org/tpp-enviro-chairsreport/

Edit: This NY Times article was posted on the Wikileaks twitter as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/politics/administration...
Just use Tide,

http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/
I can't help but wonder if it's too late for that at this point. Users expect a page to be "loading" while they're not looking at it. Loading and running both swf and javascript often takes part as the initialization of the page. It's frustrating to a user when they open multiple tabs and expect them to be loaded by the time they switch to one, but the page is just now starting to load.

Maybe this is a symptom of the fact that loading orders, preloading, etc isn't built into the standard, but is hacked on top?
That's not what the parent comment is saying. I share her/his view that this is pretty lame, and I don't mind being dismissive about it.

Adding more dongles to a problem doesn't fix it. Are the people who would be best served with this really sitting around with an iPad and dongles?

I'm surprised this isn't just a big joke.
Right, but there are now a growing number of people who think Dogecoin is the one. Which will be just as self-fulfilling.
Because mostly it's not the artists who want to lock it up, and it's not the artists that stand to gain most from locking it up, it's the suits.
I'm sorry to disagree, but I promise you that at least the strong extroverts would be happy to talk to somebody at least. Just by the numbers that should make up and not too small part of a train passengers. Plus it is easy to wander around or pretend to exit on the next stop in case the situation gets too awkward.

In fact I would argue that this is exactly the right social environment for practicing social skills as it takes place outside the typical peer groups and "save" settings. In a setting where people know somebody already a sudden change in social interactions might come across as weird and odd. The same thin a train is totally random and chances are super small to meet these people again.
Go on then: it pays out a lot to early "investors". It can only maintain this rate of return as long as adoption is increasing. Why is it not a Ponzi scheme?
> It's not been disproven as of yet.

Well, if you're committed to the idea that it must be true, I guess it hasn't been disproven... but it's been very, very severely discredited...

See e.g. http://andrewgelman.com/2014/01/10/look-whos-3-years-date-wh...
What is funny about premining critique for the altcoins is that Bitcoin is the most egregious example of premining, Satoshi in effect having premined 5 to 10 % of current coins. Sure, you may say at the time there was no choice but to keep hashing until others joined the party. Still the end effect is still the same - a large amount of BTC is controlled by an unknown entity.

Litecoin apparently was one of few altcoins to avoid premining that is everyone (who followed BTC forums that is) got off on equal footing.
It's nice to have very common features be syntactically lightweight, and sigils are incredibly lightweight compared to two-or-three character keywords. Rust code uses these pointers in all but the most trivial code, so they'll be showing up a lot; in contrast, I suspect as a non-C# programmer that ref and out are not as widely used in most C# codebases as ~ and & are in Rust. There are also not that many sigils, all told—three sigils for pointers plus a few other operators that appear in this table.

Additionally, this table is different from the tables of Scala dispatch operators, Perl operators, &c because of its regularity—it has two axes and a good deal of the information presented is a straightforward function of a cell's position in the table[1]. For example, the entry in the Owned column and the String row is going to be an... owned string, which is going to be prefixed with ~ (like every cell in the Owned column) and have a base type of str (like every cell in the String row). This is a far cry from the table of Scala's dispatch operators, in which there's no consistent indication of what a given operator will necessarily do aside from a general grouping of like operators.

[^1, edit]: That isn't to say that ALL the information is a (predictable) function of a cell's position in the table. Some of that irregularity comes from arguably expected consequences of Rust semantics (e.g. of course you can't have a bare string, because you can only have bare values whose sizes are known in advance, and you don't know how long a string will be) while some is genuinely arbitrary, like the syntactic sugar for functions.
Doesn't the 20-25Mbps speedtest focus on "speed boost" where Comcast gooses the speeds for initial connections (so web page loads are faster, but sustained downloads are slower)?
- Many US judges are elected. Many (more) aren't.

- Judicial recall certainly imposes accountability, even on unelected judges. Election, in fact, doesn't impose accountability anywhere; only re-election would do that.
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Now make it work across all browsers and operating systems required by your customer.
These are great, I'm sure. But the Snowden releases showed dumping data in it's raw form as Wikileaks does kills the important stuff. Data needs analysis and interpretation. I haven't got time to read and interpret all these pages.
I wasn't disagreeing :)
>> A third-party solution that an individual can decline to install and not participate.

A third party solution that they can't get hold of because the 'official' one only runs on windows and intel, and the ps4.
I don't really have the time to read through this. What are the key points?

I know the TPP is an agreement negotiated in secret by (probably non-elected) representatives who have corporate best interests at heart, which probably means it's hideously bad, but I don't have the time to read through it all myself.
Don't forget there are two types of languages:

1. Languages that people moan about

2. Languages that people don't use

I'd love if magical syntax fairy would make Rust easy to read as Python, but I think the complexity fits the domain. Safe manual memory handling is probably gonna look weird because of guarantees it must make.
We could make all the laws we want about Net Neutrality, it wouldn't change the fundamental flaw that made this problem possible in the first place: too much centralization.

I hear that the US, there are only 2 ISPs: one of the big 2, or the little local one. In France, we have about 4. At the other end, we have Google, Amazon, but most notably we have YouTube and Netflix.

Clearly the market is not efficient. Why do we have so big players in the first place? Why do we tend to have only the big players?

Because of the infrastructure. In the way the internet is distributed, artificial economies of scale and barriers to entry favour the big ISPs (this is clearly the case in France, I suppose the US is the same). And, we have asymmetric bandwidth, which kills peer to peer exchanges. If people were allowed to host servers at home, there would be no need for things such as YouTube, Blogger, or Facebook (search engine are still a thorny problem, though).

If we got rid of this over-centralization, it would be harder to discriminate your bandwidth in the first place. Net Neutrality would be the default, instead of something we have to fight for.
> can't there be a somewhat "legitimate" reason

Of course there can be legitimate reasons. If the 3rd party inserted wrong data, or did 1,000 requests per second, causing high load on the servers, then I would call it legitimate.

However, the ones you've listed are not legitimate, because of the term "could." Anything could go wrong. An editorial in the local newspaper could have wrong information about the courses, but that doesn't justify the university excluding that edition of the newspaper from campus stores.

Things go wrong all the time. Someone may have printed out an old copy of the schedule, and based decisions on that. Or left a page on the screen for a week. Which means the system must already have support for people using stale information. Anything else is unreasonable. So long as the additional burden is not substantially higher than background, I don't believe there is a "legitimate" justification here.

As for copyright, this sounds very much like like Feist v. Rural. Quoting from Wikipedia: "Feist had copied information from Rural's telephone listings to include in its own, after Rural had refused to license the information. Rural sued for copyright infringement. The Court ruled that information contained in Rural's phone directory was not copyrightable and that therefore no infringement existed."