skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why positive encouragement works better than criticism, according to science
Futamura projections would completely blow this guy's mind. It's amazing what ignorance of computer science causes people to think is new and special.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_pro...
It is easy to say today that everyone knows what the concept of a shopping cart is and that anyone could have come up with the idea of applying that concept to online shopping.

This is why a common argument against software patents is, if not to abolish them, then limit their life cycle. 20 years for a shopping cart patent is way too long.
Can you imagine if Friendster was granted a patent on the type of social networking that MySpace and Facebook implemented, and they were denied licenses to operate while the patent was in effect, they couldn't launch until 2022.
"Okay, now I want to bring it back home. My mother's eighty-one. She doesn't get around as easily as she once did. A year ago she broke her hip, and since then I've been concerned about her. I asked her to have some security cameras installed, so I could access them on a closed circuit, but she refused. But now I have piece of mind. Last weekend, while she was napping--"

A wave of laughter rippled through the audience.

"Forgive! Forgive me!" he said, "I had no choice. She wouldn't have let me do it otherwise. So I snuck in, and I installed cameras in every room. They're so small she'll never notice. I'll show you really quick. Can we show cameras 1 to 5 in my mom's house?"

A grid of images popped up, including his mom, padding down a bright hallway in a towel. A roar of laughter erupted.

"Oops. Let's drop that one." The image disappeared. "Anyway. The point is I know she's safe, and that gives me a sense of peace. As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind."
It's almost certainly ZigBee then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee#Radio_hardware
I just read through some of the comments. So much negativity!

Goes to show how all the little negative "suggestions" and "comments" DO NOT matter. If people pay you for your service/product that is all that matters...

Great to see such a massive success Jason.
If your small business pays average salary less than $50k the IRS will give a 50% tax credit on employer's share of premiums of a plan purchased on the exchange.
I worked at a .edu for ~8 years. While I never had to experience it firsthand (thank $deity), I can't begin to count the number of horror stories I've heard from my peers at other organizations with regard to PeopleSoft. I don't believe I've ever heard of an implementation even going "okay".

Side note: those of you building apps aimed at specific industries, consider education (both K-12 and higher ed). As I said, I was at a .edu for ~8 years and, in my current role, I deal with a lot of K-12 schools. Both will spend outrageous amounts of money for decent software applications.
this has to be the most overtly Huxleyan branding I've seen on a consumer product

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing for the product they're selling, which is both cool and odd in a 1984 kind of way.
How are the students interests, abilities, and future career paths served by taking bad courses from professors with no interest in teaching, because they're too busy giving interviews / doing research? Perhaps Yale should let the students balance all factors, including what their peers thought of the class. It's not as if the website casts a spell on their feeble brains and removes any consideration of critical thought. Is it Yale's duty to protect its customers from truths they "cannot handle"? Would you say Yale should ban Amazon book rankings, in case the student doesn't know how to handle a one-star ranking and decides to burn the book?

Many rankings are indeed subjective (books.. classes.. movies) - in fact that's rather the point: to render ones opinion.
Mobile-App Use Increased 115% in 2013
"Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Hannah Arendt
The best thing I did with view controllers is when I stopped using IB and move all my view code into a separate UIView hierarchy. Cleaner, more reusable and version control.
Unless I'm mistaken (I may be) GOG is primarily in the business of selling old games, which is why the publishers are willing to forgo DRM on the titles.

Publishers of new games (especially expensively developed new games) are more likely to fear a loss of revenue, especially in the crucial early period after release, without DRM.
Convex Hulls in a Few Lines of JavaScript
Ask HN: Where is Vidalia for OSX?
Searching found me [0], but I can only find the TOR Browser Bundle on the tor project website.

I'm looking for the Vidalia onion program like on Windows.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jmj4bILqiY
Good interpersonal skills are a crucial part of most teamwork. The judgment here might be a bit over-the-top (referring to candidates as "serial killer"-like), but the idea of weeding out a candidate due to bad interpersonal skills is definitely one I agree with strongly.
Also the name of a song by The Police, also with decidedly negative sentiments.
I think the answer is "don't use a language that you don't want to use". If Nimrod works for you, that isn't a reason to bash Rust.
We have Cox in my state, and I have been incredibly impressed with how reliable they are for Internet. It's refreshing to just take my connectivity for granted and not even remember the last time I've had issues or slowdowns.

The only real downside is that when I recommend Cox to friends, I have to be very careful how I say it.
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If you're a self-starter take advantage of all the free resources available and throw down for some quality books. If it's over your budget and you may never use the skills professionally it's difficult to see how it could be a "good return on your investment".

Programming does not teach you how to think. It's a great way to practice problem solving and critical thinking in a specific domain that has some carry over to "real life". If you are interested in how to think check out a website like Lesswrong.com and read a lot of books, be humble, listen and hang out with intelligent people that have different views than you do.

Good luck.
Can you clarify? It looks pretty real to me

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/07/goodyear-workers-ki...

It looks like the police don't get involved for political reasons.
Which Secure Site Seal Do People Trust? Results from randomized panel
Ask HN: I just gota new macbook. How can I check for NSA sabotage?
Specifically, Intel chips that are known to be sabotaged, or programs I can run to search for network interference?
It would have been really cool if the developers of this (really nice, AFAICT) site moved it to (or also made it available via) a Tor hidden service.

The students would regain access to their data (I realize that it has now been e-mailed to them) and it would be a great example of exactly how Tor can help "bypass" censorship.
You seem to have confused "wants" with "needs".
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial - go to the "Persistence" page.
They discuss range measured in miles, so I don't think wifi would fit the bill.
"The price of a good programming book is about £20. "

If only we had a global computer network by which you could find a much cheaper used copy. Or even a free loaner copy.
>>Do you know any human beings who don't have a body?

Why do you begin with an assumption that being human implies a body?

>>People may be able to do without (many) parts, but that doesn't mean that people can do without any kind of body at all.

Why?

I gave a simple thought experiment which described, why you wouldn't even need a biological brain, let alone a biological body.

>>they are so tightly interwoven that it's very difficult to even talk about it sensibly.

Yet if a person meets an accidents, suffers multiple organ failure and loses both limbs in the process he/she remains a human as he/she was before.
I'll add a vote for the "bootstrappers" version of this.
Although I was able to make it work for my situation. Great work though. Definitely a useful tool!
Goals and improvements are important, but are these tools really effective, or are they praying on our vanity? How effective can this possibly measure how many cups of coffee or water I am drinking, how many steps I'm taking, if I'm medications or not, etc.

This one takes the cake.

"Get notified if the fridge door is left open and it gets warmer. At the same time, keep track of your snacking between meals."
Net Neutrality and Economic Equality Are Intertwined (2012)
I also created something somewhat similar[0] for my school (Penn), and the only reason we didn't get shut down was because we don't make it easy to know how professor stack up against one another.

[0] coursegrapher.org
Likewise. I turned out ok. I think.
I would say in such a case you are the one with your new body, albeit you will wake up with a little surprise.

Doesn't this happen with transgenders all the time. They are born male and suddenly discover they are women trapped in male bodies?

Does that make them less human?
"It's sad times we live in when creating culture is labeled "labor", "work" and so forth."

It's sad when idle consumers come to believe they are entitled to the product of another's labor for free.
> And how do you propose to get a simpler*
> language with equal control and safety?

Easy - write your own compiler! :)
I understand that quite well, but your statement only applies to a perfect simulation of a universe of roughly equivalent information density. Simulating a smaller universe or excluding details which have little impact on the outcome are both reasonable ways around the problem.

This entire thing is a digression anyway, as I was attempting to illustrate that a computer can most certainly simulate consciousness, not trying to start a discussion about the feasability of building a complete simulation of our entire universe.
You violent extremists are true scum.
trust, but verify.
Tip4commit is opensource
No. It is still discrimination, howsoever euphemistic you make it. He was not to work in India. He was coming to the US and needed to have equal salary as any other employee working there.
Japan to test 'magnetic net' that can fish out floating space junk
oh man when does this stop? these guys are clearly breaking the law all in the name of "keeping us safe from terrorists". This needs to be stopped. All the perpetrators of this program must be brought to justice with a court that adheres to the principals of democracy and freedom.
Sweet I thought I was the only metalhead on HN.
Ugh, this resonates with me completely. Every time I see these guys I think: Ok, I can use Greensock's TweenMax and get every single bit of performance as these dudes are getting in their crazy hyped render engine. Its just totally, completely, silly IMO -- but that said, I'm also willing to be proved wrong. (It also makes me think of Mr. Doobs Periodic table that he put out after the very first demo using the Three.js CSS3 renderer that he wrote. How many lines of code was it, 10, 25? Both clocked at 60fps.)
The most interesting aspect for me is that I can run Flask / Django in PyPy / I wasn't aware of this yet.
well publicly known feature

I sure didn't know about it, and wish I did. I'd love to be able to use it!

Is there any easy way to make this work (and to check if your computer supports it)?
I forwarded the link to a friend who works in the admissions office at Yale. Can't promise anything but she said she'd be asking some questions.
news.ycombinator.com/y/politics

news.ycombinator.com/y/programming

news.ycombinator.com/y/startups

Subcombinators :-)
My understanding: Tor, the current version of TBB (3.5) no longer has Vidalia included(TBB is complete package for non-tech; actually has V but in seamless integration), but V can be downloaded separately, just as the other components can be found at Torproject separately; look for self-build or earlier vers. than 3.5.
This cuts both ways, though — with private insurance, insurers have a financial interest in focusing on current rather than lifetime expenditures, leading to both subpar outcomes in general and overestimation of costs related to lifespan-shortening behaviors like smoking.

With that said, high taxes on tobacco products in particular are primarily seen (by proponents and detractors) as means to reduce smoking for general, not exclusively economic, public health reasons.
What you've failed to explain is what's so "unnatural" about the browser as a platform for a game. I think you're wrong about that, and it should be pretty obvious why I want it to run in the browser and why I rewrote it in JavaScript. It seems like you're just pretending to be dense. So what exactly do you mean by "unnatural"?

It's not a circular argument, because JavaScript is not the only reason to use a browser, and browsers are not the only reason to use JavaScript. There are so many other good arguments for writing a game in JavaScript and for using web browsers as a platform. For example, the ubiquity of the platform, the available of so many libraries for rendering graphics and implementing user interfaces (as I mentioned above, somebody's already written a WebGL library for rendering digital Lego bricks, for example), and so on.

I've already proposed (and implemented) JavaScript as an alternative to C++, just as I earlier proposed (and implemented) C++ as an alternative to C. I've ported SimCity to numerous platforms, rewritten it in C++, and written user interfaces for it in PostScript/NeWS, TCL/Tk/X11, Python/GTK and OpenLaszlo/Flash. So I have a good idea of its requirements, and I think JavaScript in a web browser is an ideal language and platform for it at this point in history. Do you disagree with any of that, and can you suggest anything more "natural"? If not, then keep quiet, and we're done here.
The Kelly criterion doesn't quite apply in this problem, since you are asked to optimize a more conservative strategy, namely to guarantee (with high probability) a certain amount of winnings rather than maximize log(winnings). In fact the Kelly value for f (in the problem's notation) is 0.25.
>I'm sure the perpetrators would be perfectly willing to stand trial for assault and property damage, maybe they already have.

How honorable. It's hard to earn a living, it always has been. That doesn't give people the right to use violence to stop other people competing with them. The more violent person is not entitled to an easier life.
Company was not offering a "raise to $50K". He was initially working in India, and was to be brought to US - where the cost of living is much higher, and there has to be equal wages for same job regardless of national origin. Have you really read the article?
In France we do have a limited supply of taxi licences. But they are usually owned by the driver.

Since they worth a lot (~250k€) and that taxi driver is a liberal profession, they acts as a retirement plan / life insurance.

This is why taxi unions gets really upset when there is a governmental plan to raise the amount of licences, or when any unregulated competition shows up (motorbike taxis, "private drivers", and now Uber).
I got confused for a second and thought I was still reading 'The Circle' while reading this page.
Chrome 32 Hits Stable With Tab Indicators and Refreshed Metro Mode
Minor thing, but if you like HAML check out Slim. Very similar and does some things a little nicer.
half of those accounting terms scare me. I'm more than happy to just keep selling software and not leverage myself to appease some rich guy who doesn't respect the art of software and just wants a ridiculous return.
Personally, I'd like to think that I live in a country that is above accepting such clandestine activities against its own citizens, allies and the citizens of its allies as the status quo.

This is not such a naïve viewpoint as you may think since I would expect it to be the average of the viewpoints that many Americans held about its own government up until a year or so ago. To most Americans, a year ago the NSA didn't spy on US citizens, not did it eavesdrop on the communications of the leaders of its own allies.

If you asked the typical American a year ago if s/he believes that their government spies on the leaders of our allies like Angela Merkel, you'd probably get an overwhelming negative response. If you continued your line of questioning and asked if it is acceptable to for the US government to do so, you'd probably get mixed responses. If you then went on to ask if it would be acceptable for the German government to spy on president Obama and other US politicians, you'd probably get a reaction where US citizens would consider that an act of war.

The truth is that many US citizens hold very very very different opinions of what is acceptable than those in the intelligence community.

I don't know about you, but the simple fact that such a wide disconnect exists between what citizens collectively think about how their government is operating and how it actually is operating is a fundamental failure of how our democracy currently functions. Leaders in a democracy should have a legal obligation to work to keep their constituents as best informed of how they are actually doing their jobs and attempts to hide or be less than honest about their activities should be viewed as attempts to subvert democracy. Anything otherwise, prevents I, Joe Q. Citizen, from honestly and effectively exercising my right to vote. If such policies mean non-American leaders will have a greater insight into how our politicians are acting in foreign policy negotiations than our leaders have about those non-American leaders are acting, that is the cost of being more ethical. Ideally that disadvantage is made up for in the long term by establishing a norm of greater ethics that those leader's citizens expect them to meet.

If a citizen votes based on lies and misinformation, are they really participating in a democracy?
More than a Soldier
Let coders code and managers manage

That's where managers often go wrong; they think a team of developers is something to be shaped. It's more like a movie director and his or her team, and the manager is a producer, providing resources and clearing away obstacles. In a well-functioning team there may be little need for active "managing," and when a manager takes it upon himself to do this, he can get in the way.
For Netflix yes, but I doubt that explains Amazon Prime.
What problem does this project seek to solve? What pain points does it address?
It actually isn't too difficult to be involved in a system handling millions of requests a day or hitting the limits of the standard Rails stack as a consultant. It probably won't happen if your client is Ma's Diner and you're building them a brochureware site.

Many clients are not Ma's Diner. Many projects are not brochureware sites.
>The unprincipled among us may encounter other obstacles.

Too ashamed of the violence you promote to be explicit about it huh? People like you belong in prison.
Now I'm not sure if this is a slam dunk. My friend works developing a fantasy sports startup, he's talked about all kind of legal grey areas around the legality of where you get those stats. He didn't go into specifics though.
I think this would be cloud ready as it seems supremely easy to scale a node webapp within the OS. I prefer express-apps currently, thought I'm looking for something a bit more minimal, e.g. follows the UNIX philosophy - do one thing, and do it well. Would love to use Go for this.
I get this piece of feedback a lot when I give my talks, since I usually try to pack about 6 hours of material into 20 minutes. But honestly, I get really bored when speakers do slow down, so I'm kind of conflicted: am I aiming my talk at myself, or am I aiming it at a person that supposedly exists but I don't intrinsically know?
Why a failed Kickstarter campaign might be your key to success
Go with aws , they have a free tier service. You can easily get a cloud machine there in a mini instance. Plus you get to play with their web console or use their command line and interact with your instance from your linux machine or mac.
Let me know when you find that grave, because I'll join you after eating a huge bowl of chilli.
I'm surprised that we haven't DDOS them yet, lol.
What kind of tools would you like? email me ben@wpengine and let me know!
Ha, I had to Google that.

Let me use one of the examples provided by Crito below.
Simple Git Workflow is Simple
Also a British documentary from 2011, very good, imho:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of...

http://vimeo.com/38724174
Should probably save this pedantry for elsewhere.
Doesn't look ready.
Ask HN: Must have Web app tools like gitlab, graylog, etc
Hey guys, I was wondering what tools everyone is running in their organizations.

I have been running gItlab since the summer and I just recently discovered graylog. These two tools are so fundamentally useful they have completely changed the way we work. We stumbled upon airbrake recently and probably will be giving that a try soon.

Our scm is git, builds are with maven, stored in nexus. We don't have ci yet, or anything that monitors performance, or an agile project management suite.

Anyway, I'd love to hear what's out there. Thanks!
Proud to have worked on this site with a great crew in Chicago.
How does a site this old get so many upvotes? whatever, I guess it's worth bringing back into the collective consciousness.
The Hammer Jammer
What do you think about Greenwald's opinion that it's the goal of the NSA to intercept and record all information or communications?

If this is true, than releasing this information may be seen in a different context.
Ask HN: So your manager fires one of your coworkers no word why, What do you do?
Today, one of my coworkers got fired, great developer and the company just fired him today. I hate when this happens and management doesn't share why they let go the person, but I work for a startup and this makes me worried that they can pull the rug under my feet. The developer that got fired was a key developer in many pieces of our stack and maybe he made a mistake recently but I can't see why someone would get fired just like that. We all make mistakes or life gets in the way a good manager talks to you before they just fire you. Companies can be so cruel :(
Why Provisioning Matters
Can you? I was told that airline tickets get canceled if you fail to complete a leg of the itinerary.
That sounds like a blast. I'd love to provide guidance (but unfortunately busy with other work) to make that happen.
That would be the death of Python 3. Promoting adoption is already hard enough...
How to Roll a Blunt
Different use cases, Rust isn't for you it seems.

The whole point of Rust is to make memory management safer.
This is one of the most horrendous brandings I've ever seen. Maybe, the horrible branding is intentional, but it's damn too creepy for sane users who dare using their product.
I know your comment was mostly a joke but thats actually a great distillation of the paper. Apart from not caring about a Christina Aguilera documentary, it does seem like a powerful pitch to me. I guess it reads somewhat more like an request to help make something happen that otherwise wouldn't rather than a presales channel.