skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I doubt you will convince many people.

I don't need to. The director of the NIMH already agrees with me, and high-level policy changes are under way to permanently change the status of psychiatry and psychology, demote them to the status of astrology. Didn't you get the memo?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/the-s...

> ... anyone who cares to look will find a vast psychometric literature that supports the validity of IQ.

Yes, that works for people suffering from a bad case of confirmation bias, and who can't grasp basic scientific principles. The rest of us will continue practicing science and advocating in favor of neuroscience as psychology's obvious replacement.

IQ testing will become valid only when it is based on science rather than anecdote. Assuming that ever happens.
Facebook autolike - our weekend hack
Our challenge was to take the Internet content consumption to the next level. With inventions like NeuroSky monitoring EEG signals became easy.

We thought we will build a product at the intersection of the Brain Machine Interface AND Internet content consumption .

Facebook auto-like is our hack
www.slideshare.net/ramaprasanna1/facebook-autolike-att-hackathon

It's an Android app that connects with NeuroSky sensors via Bluetooth. If you want to browse Facebook, pick up your tablet, sit back, relax and enjoy :) .

We read your EEG signals, scroll through the information based on what interest you.

We even like a page if you really like it.
We even send a printed picture that you most loved via LOB.com to your home :) .

ATT Hackathon. It was total fun !! :)
I have been writing and rewriting a post for the better part of a year on this same thing. I think I've finally accepted that a majority of programmers actually are not interested in learning new things.

I got into software because there was so much to learn and explore, so this realization still baffles me. Why on earth would someone want to do this job and not want to learn new things? It's like a baseball player who hates being outside.

Not only that, but often times I'm faced with the prospect like the author's, where people I've worked with actively prevent those around them from learning new things on the job. "No, don't write this standalone module in Python, our standard is PHP; it was good enough 5 years ago, it's good enough now!" (in a four man shop).

As someone who loves constantly learning more, it's suffocating to be around people who are so paralyzed. I simply cannot fathom the fear that drives someone to say to the offer to learn something new on the job, "no thanks, I'm happy becoming obsolete, and you can't learn it either, because I might have to one day support it, and I'm not interested in learning anything new!"
The second part is a quote from: http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm

The third part is very similar to the random example in: https://beacon.nist.gov/home

It’s apparently unrelated to the current article.
It's a nice practice and showing people how he can manage this type of thing. Couldn't be serious about it, even the real-time data might be fake.

There are a lot of people like to participate in the BTC game, it's not bad. But if people take it seriously, it may impact on BitCoin's credibility.
has the author never tried foam ear plugs before...?

" Eliminate distractions, and I mean eliminate
For a long time there’s been a fad in our industry of having open workspaces. While being right next to someone and being able to just look over and ask a question is ideal for communication, it can be the opposite for concentration. Headphones with loud music don’t solve the problem either. What I believe works best is quiet. Can you imagine taking a final exam in college with someone blasting music? You can’t concentrate at your best when any sort of external stimuli is demanding some of your attention. It needs to be quiet, and free of any visual distraction as well. People walking by, a television, anything like this should be avoided for you to stay in the zone. If your office doesn’t have a quiet distraction free area to work in, take it up with your manager. I’m personally lucky enough to get to choose when to work from home, and I often do so when I have a large piece of work cut out for me that I don’t need to communicate much more on."
Make HTML5 games with Phaser – Introduction
A Programers Lament – the real problem with the 'Year of Code'
“A programer wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds himself in a society where computer science education has been made mandatory. “We are helping our students become more competitive in an increasingly code-filled world.” Educators, school systems, and the state are put in charge of this vital project. Studies are commissioned, committees are formed, and decisions are made — all without the advice or participation of a single working coder or engineer”
>Ponzi schemes by definition hide the fact that there's any risk of non-payment

Ponzi schemes in general, yes. But, I was referring to this one, wherein it was out in the open.

>when you participate in a lottery you know - or can obtain - the odds of a payout up-front

Technically, yes. But, the odds in some games are so astronomical that knowing them is basically a non-factor. That is, people play completely hoping to get lucky, but not really expecting to win. I think the same applies with a Ponzi scheme like this one, wherein it's known that the music could stop playing anytime and the participants are simply hoping to get lucky.
Guy vs Girl Valentine's Day Expectations
Great read!

With your article in mind, what would you guess are the best investments following the same timeline?
Takeout was announced in 2011. Takeout for Gmail was announced in December 2013. Gmail has always supported POP and IMAP which are functionally equivalent to or superior to the MBOX archive format provided by Takeout, for most purposes.
I wonder if the Space Engine will be ported to the web once the WebGL2 spec is done. It seems to need quite high requirements for CPU, though, which means it will only get worse when ported to Javascript. Maybe it could take advantage of WebCL, too, by then.

http://en.spaceengine.org/
"When we disagree on something, for example, he always presents the most goddamned rational arguments laying them out in an obnoxiously coherent and systematic way."

If politicians did this, the world would be a much better place.
> Why not just say - "Android is unforkable" and leave it at that.

Because that's the most ridiculous part. Amazon already did it. Microsoft's own mobile division is in the process of doing it themselves! Others have also done it. To say that something so many people have actually done is undoable is a little bit crazy.
It actually works pretty well, at least in Thunderbird. I don't use gmail for my personal email, but my employer uses google apps. IMAP access lets me have both accounts in one interface.
Are you kidding? You talk like they are journalists instead of a bunch of lazy hacks.
Upstart took years to add support for setuid/setgrp and still doesn't have basic features like a respawn delay which shipped in launchd (or 90s inetd) before upstart was released. There's still no integrated way to reliably kill malfunctioning child processes and the commands will block until success so you're going to need to kill -9 a lot when e.g. adjusting a script for a daemon which forks.

I was rooting for upstart for years but it's hard to take seriously as a project when basic sysadmin tasks are still gratuitously hard / unreliable.
I hope you weren't seated at a desk when you wrote this out; it's a pretty horrific knee-jerk reaction.

Nowhere in the article does it suggest that sexual assault based on clothing is ok. It's actually a well-reasoned article which draws some good parallels between the way you act, and the way people react to you (not just sexually, but professionally and socially).

For my part, I think it's unfortunate that the advice given in the article is good, but at this point it's fairly true. I've worked in professional office environments for the better part of my life (in engineering), and dressing provocatively as a woman IS a sure way to make people treat you less seriously.

The author's points about women sending signals, and their typically passive role in engaging with the opposite sex is spot on. We just need men to come to the table and work on their social graces a bit more I think (and some women to stop playing the 'flaunting it but upset by attention' game).
BOY WITH VOICE
If I'm already using gmvault, is there any advantage to downloading it directly?
ask people if they use Apple Maik (on iPhone too) and that drastically changes
I hadn't read this, but I recognized the author's name as the author of one of my favorite (no longer running) webcomics[0]. I guess that means I would probably enjoy his other writings[1].

[0]: http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=1
[1]: http://www.galactanet.com/writing.html

... hmm, now I'm a little disapointed in myself that I didn't recognize the domain name too.
Well, if Britain can do it, why not Turkey? Sure, the details differ, but the story is the same essentially.
I have 500$ how to double the amount in one week?
I'm waiting all your propositions
This only holds if meth and playing flappy are on par in terms of damaging your life.
> If politicians did this, the world would be a much better place.

If politicians did that, they wouldn't be elected. The last approximation of an intellectual to run for high office was Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s. The voters didn't trust him -- he seemed to be too smart.
Great vision! Like your vision on energy usage
there are some browser extensions for that
I did get that point, I just feel that what she's asking of women is crazy for the net gain. If I had a child who was being bullied at school, I could stop that by forcing him to stay at home for the rest of his life. But that would be a crazy solution to a problem. Asking women to dress conservatively so that if they get raped, society will be more likely to side with them, is crazy. Sure, it will probably help change perceptions in the long term, but it is just not a reasonable solution. Asking women to change their behaviour to accommodate those who are victim blamers (whether they are concious of what they are doing or not) is not fair.
AND he's in Vietnam. Huge sum of money.
That sounds like a challenge to me. Let's start with your Mom...
Some of the comments on this article are really pathetic. Look, people, there's a difference between condoning bad behavior and pointing out what victims can do to help themselves. If you're talking to a victim of sexual abuse, there's very little to be gained by telling them what the abuser should or shouldn't have done, but there is something to gain by telling the victim how to help themselves.

This article is about tactics for dealing with the current screwed-up situation, and the crappiness of humanity in general. If there's going to be debate, let's have it be about the effectiveness of those tactics, not attacking absurd caricatures of the article's arguments.

Somehow, when you warn people about thieves and try to help them avoid being targetted, no one gets confused and accuses you of justifying theft and blaming the victim. While the stakes are higher here, the logic is the same.
It's a challenging issue, all right. The important part that I don't see many people discuss is the nature of international relations, most of which is based on how other national leaders and decision-makers will perceive your actions.

Consider: North Korea is run by madmen who have at least some primitive nuclear capability. They regularly make wild accusations and threats against the US. Say they do manage to mount a nuclear device on a long-range rocket. What's to hold them back against launching it at a major US city? Whenever people discuss North Korean (or Iranian or...) nuclear capability, the usual line is that we don't need to worry about it that much, since it would obviously be crazy for them to use them against the US, or any other nuclear power. What is it that makes it crazy, when they've already done so many terrible things to their own people?

It's crazy because, according to MAD, any such attack, or even a specific threat to make such an attack, would result in a full-scale launch against their country. Millions of casualties, the total destruction of their culture and way of life. Everyone in the world, most especially leaders in North Korea, and China, fully believes that the US will carry out this threat if attacked with nuclear weapons.

Now, let's say Iran manages to detonate a primitive nuclear device in a coastal US city. The textbook MAD reply is a total destruction of every Iranian city. You can make the case that this is crazy on it's face - there is no imminent threat to stop, and those millions of people who would die didn't do anything to deserve it. Say that what Hering and the article author seem to want happens - that no weapons are launched, and a more measured, conventional reply is used. What do you think the North Korean leaders will think then? Or China and Russia? That's the more important question to ask.

After that, might North Korea think that they can use a nuclear attack to try and extract some sort of diplomatic concession from us? They're a harder nut to crack with conventional weapons, and they have more firm backing from China. If they get the idea that our MAD policy is toothless, they might try something that could lead to a much greater war, even possibly a much bigger nuclear war.

We've been living in a world for a long time now where the Kim Jong-uns of the world have very good reason to be terrified of using nuclear weapons against the US. Are you willing to see what happens if that is no longer true?

There are terrible people in this world who are prepared to do terrible things to everything we hold dear. To keep the world safe and stable, those people must believe that we will do even more terrible things to them if the situation calls for it. Keeping that belief in place may sometimes require us to actually do some terrible things ourselves,
There is some list of unpaid 'investors'.

If they are operating as they say, the balance should always be less than 1.2 times the amount put in by the first entry on that list (or so, they could be combining payments or what not).
Summary:

They created a new office that has the authority to block any website url / domain / ip address without prior notice or court order. All ISPs are required to apply restrictions within 4 hours. Plus, all ISPs are required to log HTTP access + IP + Date pairs and store them for two years for government access (again, no court involvement)
Thanks, really appreciate it! Would love to see an hydrogen economy.
In The Shadow of Genius
His Dave Chappelle moment.
The Finnish fundraising law states, any fundraising or donations needs a special permit issued by the responsible Finnish authority. The Finnish National Police Board has sent a request to Wikipedia to explain how their Finland fund collection activities are inline with the Finnish laws and regulations.

Definitely understandable.
Thats why you work for a company where your skills are the product. Everyone loves selling a better product, so you'll get upgraded... If you are a cost center, then you'll be nicked and cut and eventually hacked at until there is next to nothing left.
Gamble it. Stock futures, state lotteries, or casino table games.
Dear god, I hope so.

Mtgox is the giant raging zit on the face of Bitcoin. The software and service are so terribly, inexcusably bad, and they have always been that way. The market price on Mtgox has been artificially high ever since I can remember, because no one can withdraw their money. Users wait for their withdrawals for weeks, and sometimes months. As a result, a dollar in your Mtgox account is worth less than a dollar. Now it is artificially low, because people can't transact Bitcoins either! The other exchanges, meanwhile, tend to agree pretty closely, because it is actually possible to move bitcoins and dollars between them.

Imagine if ETrade, say, was so bad at moving money that you had to pay an extra $100 for a share of Google stock. That's what it's like. Or if everyone used Google's DNS servers but they typically took 3 seconds to respond. And yet people use Mtgox, and talk about it, and it's listed on all the sites and apps that track the market price on different exchanges.

At first, everyone chalked up Mtgox's problems to the sheer difficulty of running a Bitcoin exchange, and then, to the difficulty of running the biggest. Well, now it's no longer the only or the biggest exchange, and no one else is having the same problems, at least at this service-destroying level. I can't comment on the difficulty of establishing relationships with banks to move millions of dollars -- I'm sure it's hard -- but Mtgox has also had a lot of plain old scaling issues, and the transaction load is not even that high by web scaling standards. Last time I checked it was 30 per second or so. Their security is nothing special; they've been hacked before. I have heard only negative things about their engineering competence.

I'm a casual fan of Bitcoin but a big hater of bad software, bad customer service, and companies that act in a sleazy manner. I hope Mtgox dies.
Computer engineers go by a number of different stage names: they are software developers, programmers, coders, hackers.

Computer engineering is an umbrella term, although it's usually implied that they have an above-average understanding of hardware. It's not a synonym for programmer.

Marc's mind was a symphony of brackets, tags, semi-colons and logic operators. To me, it was just noise.

Yet at the end she mentioned him specifically writing in Ruby (Rails) and Common Lisp.

Otherwise, it was a decent sentimental story. I'm not particularly a fan of emotionally manipulative glurge and I can't help but smirk at the whole "learn to code = write markup" equivocation and the general try-hard tone, but it was okay. I can see it being motivating.
Just as they would never turn off Jabber support in Google Talk, right?
Exactly this, with the addition that there are actually three things I want to see when reading code, only one of which can often be elegantly expressed without comments.

I usually want to see (1) what the code does (2) what the code is intended to do and (3) why the code is intended to work that way. Usually only the first can elegantly and most easily be expressed in code.

For instance, I read a performance-critical function that would stop processing data and return early in an obscure corner case, but performed better than the best way I could think of to handle the obscure corner case. There were at least 3 possibilities: (1) the author made a mistake (2) for reasons I couldn't see, the corner case was impossible or (3) for reasons I couldn't see, the consequences of mishandling the corner case were never as bad as I thought they could be and the performance gain was worth it. I had to look up the revision history, call up the author and ask him which it was. It turns out the author had missed the corner case, but I try to as rarely as possible assume I'm smarter/more insightful than the original author.
Please don't link to paywalled articles.
I guess I'm in the minority that doesn't find this story uplifting. The memory reset is the biggest problem, since it doesn't allow the main character to learn from his mistakes. At the end of time, the main character will have his memories and personalities merged. Then he'll look back on countless lifetimes of the same mistakes and regrets. It would be like if someone slipped you some Ambien (to prevent memory formation), played the same prank on you 20 times, then showed you a video of it after you sobered up. "Ha-ha, you fell for it every time! Classic!" Except instead of 20 times it would be billions (possibly trillions) of lifetimes. And instead of one prank, it would be countless heartbreaks, regrets, failures, and insecurities.

And that's only looking at the character's own "choices." (Is it really a choice if you can't stop yourself from becoming John Wilkes Booth?) The cruelty inflicted by nature would be much greater. Disease, famine, famine, disease, famine, typhoon, famine, rattlesnake bite, famine, tsunami, etc.

Now I wonder if a sugar-coated Lovecraftian horror story was the author's intent. No other kind of god would set up a system where you're forced to repeat the same mistakes for billions of years.
Just because they don't know what the acronym is doesn't mean they don't use it. Ask if they read the mail sent to their gmail address through outlook or the mail app on their iphone.
And here I was going to pile on with Scorched Earth until I looked up Gorillas...

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

Maybe the market was just oblivious in the early 90s for not putting cute animals on top of all of these tropes sooner.

How long until we see roguelikes starring cats? RTSs where you draft little fuzzy lions and bears?
"These people of the deepweb are crazy!"
Put your money where your mouth is: http://longbets.org/
Even if you know the industries that will grow exponentially, it doesn't guarantee stock success. I've just recently seen an episode of Haven, where one guy gets sent into the past and tells his grandpa to "invest in the microprocessor". I immediately thought "what does that mean?! Invest in Intel...or VIA?". What he said would is no different than saying a few years ago "invest in smartphones".

So if I tell you nanotechnology, biotechnology and 3d printing are "the future", in which company do you invest now?
Here's a direct link to the start of the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-7...
I doubt anything legal will return that fast without you putting $500 worth of sweat into it. Good point forgot about gambling.
"www.cacert.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided. (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)" (with Firefox)

May want to fix your own site's certificate acceptance before issuing to others.
I don't think you really know what ad hominem means.
Thanks! I'm still developing an investment thesis. In the software world, I believe platforms that own transactions will have a chance to transform into new "standards" and push us towards true internet economies.

To your question, if I were to dream about 10 investment/innovation:
• artificial photosynthesis
• contour crafting
• hydrogen combustion
• new simulated reality (IMVU/Second Life—perhaps Oculus Rift)
• embedded chips (in human body)
• ubiquitous computing (Nest, fridge and appliances that talk to each other)
• IPv6 privacy
• consumer grade Bitcoin
• robotics/humanoid
• semi-autonomous AI
Why are other email providers better than (Gmail - web interface)?
I don't see it as optimizing for disk, I see it as optimizing for time, by presenting relevant events vis-à-vis showing every irrelevant detail. Much like a movie or novel doesn't usually show its characters going to the bathroom, neither should my coworkers have to sift through my misspellings, dumb decisions and irrelevant debugging.

I agree that we could benefit from saving more (e.g. relevant exploratory sessions, though those tend to happen in the REPL, not in the code editor), but I disagree with an indiscriminate approach.
kind of seems like he purposefully gave you just enough to cover your deposits
I think they'd definitely do it. Google has decided to flip the switch and monetize as much as possible lately, having to use the Gmail app would be in line with that.
This seemed cute the first time I read it, and it explains the "why I am me?" question that most religions just don't.

But I realized, this is would be an absolute disaster if true. True story: life more or less sucks if you aren't near a local maximum of a food chain.
Pokerbot - Grind it out! https://github.com/mdp/JsPoker