skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are all of those true?

Why is a manual toothbrush better than an electric one? I recently bought an electric one and I feel like it cleans my teeth a lot better.

I've used some really great stainless steel pans, but they were evidently extremely expensive. Teflon doesn't have great durability, but you can get a decent non-stick pan that will last maybe 5 years for under £50.

I think those pods are a stupid, overpriced, wasteful way to make coffee, but it's perfectly nice, and the pods keep the coffee fresh (although so does tupperware, without the waste). It's also not the same as percolated coffee.
Is there particular motivation for $2000, or just using the article's number? It seems that there's clearly some optimal number, and I suspect it's >0, but I'm not sure how it should be determined.
That one is a must read. It definitely opened my eyes when I first read it, and I thought of myself as someone very security conscious at the time.

Since then, I think I've actually become less security conscious though. The sheer number of ways you as a user of any of the useful parts of the internet are screwed is mind boggling. At some point, you just throw your hands up in disgust.
I don't know about that. NIH's annual budget a few years ago was about 20 billion dollars. WhatsApp was sold for almost nearly 20 billion. The studies funded by NIH cured diseases, extended lifetimes, made lives better. Why don't we get 5 more WhatsApp so that existed postdocs are paid better, and those thinking of academia actually join it and make discoveries to make human lives even longer and healthier.
I wouldn't care about OS X doing that if iOS didn't eliminate that "by default". It frightens me that Apple might someday eliminate it on OS X too.

These controls are a great idea as long as the user has ultimate control. Apple does not seem committed to the idea of letting the user have control.
Many businesses make a tidy profit despite a large number of users being non-profitable "free riders" (Dropbox would be the canonical example).

My claim is not that every human would be immediately elevated to self-actualization. Obviously, a great many would stay home, drink beer and watch TV. My claim is that civilization as a whole would profit; paying people who contribute nothing is merely a "cost of doing business". (And don't forget: there's still an incentive to work for those who want better beer and bigger TVs.)
He addresses that. The browser has a different security model than the OS.

The OS's model is based off of the user being the unit of security. If a user runs a piece of software, that software can interact with all files owned by the user. It can make web requests to anything.

The browser's model has the unit as the webpage, not the user. Each webpage is sandboxed from others. If one webpage is malicious, in theory it cannot modify users files or even other webpages.

The difference in model makes a malicious webpage significantly less scary than a malicious program.

Your example, of running your whole OS in the browser, is unrealistic; in reality you'll be running each piece of the OS in a different isolated tab.

This model can work since the web was built for each site to be independent and self-contained... We've already gone too far down the rabbit-hole of native programs being extremely powerful to easily fix that.

The OS might not be lost though. You can run scary software in a VM. You can run each program in a separate chroot. Perhaps soon you could just spin up an lxc (with docker perhaps) for each different program you want to run. These methods of running software all basically transform the OS into using the browser's model.

It's also worth mentioning that the browser model has inherent security flaws for as long as it persists the executable on external servers; you have to find a trusted channel to access the data everytime whereas the program only has to be verified once after downloading.
Neat, thanks a lot for the run-down!

Getting back to the thread-starter: Why do so many people kill Smalltalk so fast? After reading your comment, my answer to that question is: because doing it The Right Way entails learning a lot more than just the programming language itself, and it isn't clear (to me) what motivates those things.
It's a bit sad that we keep reading these articles and keep falling into the same trap of rush-to-defend-your-favorite-language and rush-to-complain-that-your-favorite-language-was-omitted. I find these articles seldom thought-provoking and the comments they inspire even less so. It's like reading "10 best ski runs in the country" or something. It's entirely subjective and hardly anyone will agree for any decent set of reasons.
OP might have graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy.
I'm not a customer anymore, but was very happy when I was. rsync.net is the perfect service for this.
Good point - US based project.
WATCH this guy play the entire HAPPY with a set of wine glasses & 2 cooking pans
I have read the brief. It basically says to constantly apply the "machine or transformation" test to a patent to determine if it's standalone software or something substantive. It also mentions how some software doesn't rely on a specific type of machine to execute.

How is the PTO expected to be able to determine the difference between a "standalone software" patent from "software as part of a machine/transformation" patent? And if they can't and the law is only applied in retrospect (e.g. patent validity challenges), how does this abstract "machine or transformation" concept prevent litigation which seems primarily driven by intimidation not expectation of victory.
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The only thing I've used it for is switching between HDMI-SPDIF and analog speaker/headphone outputs without needing to restart programs.
Cortana came from the mega-popular XBox game Halo. She was the AI who guided the player around.

The name Siri is Norwegian, meaning "beautiful woman who leads you to victory", and comes from the intended name for the original developer's first child. - (Wikipedia)
One reason that may not happen is that unless something drastic happens, supply for faculty positions will continue to outpace demand by a couple of orders of magnitude.

The average professional baseball player spends his life in the minor leagues, never making much, never seeing any real security. But the upside of being one of the lucky ones is such that you'll never have a lack of talented people trying to play in the big leagues. Academia's upsides are not financial, but the dynamics are basically the same.
I think some of the virtualization of devices and device sharing works a little better with Pulse. I think the UI is little slicker for some of this. I still use ALSA for post-processing on my media center, and I have used Jack for music applications. In general Linux audio is a clusterfuck, but once you dig through it all it is hard to criticize without advocating making an even bigger mess.
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Xcode doesn't have a public plugin API. Every single one of these packages, including Alcatraz itself, is relying on undocumented and unsupported functionality. I would very strongly caution against installing any of it.
The Bismark and Tirpitz were arguably well balanced as battleships, their failing was not being aircraft carriers.
Quote: "Now, we’re left with almost no options for custom hosted OSM tiles."

As to "custom hosted tiles", yes, but you can always download the entire current OSM database, or any selected subset, and generate your own tiles by converting from the original vector data. There are a number of programs designed to do this for you.
In the past year especially, many of the loan uses we are seeing in Kenya are computer or internet-related. The internet is spreading fast among young adults. Here is a pretty typical account, posted a few days ago by one of our new members:

"Despite being born and raised in the rural parts of Kenya, I have managed to train and get tech savvy. I grew up with no electricity and i first saw a computer when i was 19years old when i enrolled for further studies. I put in long hours after classes just to be able to catch up with my peers. I learnt to create programmes and i had my first commercial software in the second year of campus. In my fourth year of campus, I had to drop out of school because of lack of school fees. I got a job that enabled me to save up enough money to clear my studies."

https://www.zidisha.org/microfinance/loan/anana/5997.html
You're simply wrong. It is in Google's long-term financial interest to continue to provide objective, trustworthy search results. For a non-Google example of something similar, see the recent story of Apple CEO Tim Cook challenging a shareholder who challenged the impact of Apple's environmental policies on Apple's bottom line:
http://gizmodo.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-shuts-down-anti-enviro...
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I don't have much confidence that the dozens of other starry eyed bitcoin startups out there are any better prepared than Mt. Gox was at operating a high stakes financial exchange.

This phase in bitcoin history would be less painful if there wasn't so much hype driving the price up. There's going to be a lot of bugs, hacks, and developers learning how exchanges actually work in the real world, so it'd be better for bitcoin if that maturity phase happened under calmer circumstances where less money was at stake.
I thought it was really clever. It also puts all the "posts" that you create as you walk around later into context.
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Viable production-ready implementations existing on all major server platforms (without having to jettison favorite libraries here and there), is a pretty big one, but I guess that might go without saying (or maybe outside the scope of "language" proper - but that's the elephant in the room).
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But what it does give you is the option to re-search on "PuTTY" from the quick-info box, which I almost always do when looking for an authoritative info source.
Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge because of NDA
You're missing hardware - and use cases.

I tend to like headphones that are connected via USB. Those are 'soundcards' and switching sound between those wasn't really possible without PA.

I often like to look at the output sources and mute (or reduce in volume) some sources, leaving the rest intact.

My use cases really just revolve around those. Works fine for me. flashplugin-nonfree is a nice example for something to mute, btw..
I don't think the percentage rate is that big a deal, even at 25% (although I'd probably go for ~15-20%, assuming 10% default rate and 5% cost of capital) -- the area where I'd try to subsidize or otherwise avoid passing through cost/profit is fees.

I'm fine with short term loans at 25%. As you say, $50 at 25% for a month is $1.04. The problem is when a $1-5 fee is applied on top of that, giving interest rates >100% annualized. That's the kind of usury which has been common in the US payday advance industry (although better now in most states after regulatory action), rent-to-own, etc.
http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/?_=...

Your claims do not reflect my personal experience, and do not seem to be very well substantiated.
Redneck conditional anti-pattern
If you've used ALSA and Pulse for an extended time (assuming you used dmix), and you never found anything wrong with ALSA that you needed Pulse for, then you really aren't missing anything.

The pros of pulse are that it intercepts audio outputs from programs including legacy ones looking for OSS, it can work over a network (so you can have audio streams from one machine output on another) and nothing can ever grab the audio sink from pulse assuming you use the pulseaudio-alsa shim wrapper. I find this very useful, because it means the worst thing a misbehaving program can do is make some awful sounding trash underrun PCM nonsense come out of my speakers, but it can't seize my sound card.

Other advantages are that most GUI programs (Veromix is amazing) target pulse, but in practice you can use ladspa / lv2 plugins with alsa, you can use per-channel volume control and multiple outputs via dmix, and alsamixer is really intuitive even if it is ncurses based compared to pavucontrol.

From a developers perspective, having used alsa, pulse, ports, etc - I'd never touch any of that nonsense (again, at least, and if I don't have to). Depending on the applciation I'm either using gstreamer if I'm Linux native or SDL / QtMultimedia if I'm cross platform. But you get a lot of very peculiar sound mixing features from using alsa / pulse apis directly (pulse especially, you can do all kinds of nonsense to your streams) that might bind you to them over more abstract APIs.
Yes, but you're still distracted, and that's the problem.

The obvious difference between a phone call and a conversation had with someone in the car is that the person in the car is also placing their life at risk. Unlike the person who isn't there, they can (a) see and (b) intervene when you're starting to drive like an idiot.

It's not that a live conversation is any less distracting. It's just that it comes with a built in safety mechanism.
> so they are not starting from scratch in terms of voice recognition/processing.

If my Kinect experience is any indicator, Microsoft may not be starting from scratch, but it has a long way to go. Kinect voice recognition works well enough to trick me into thinking that it's actually going to work this time, and fails often enough that I feel like an idiot when I finally give up and pick up a controller. I think I'm just going to unplug the damned thing, as it serves no other real purpose for me.
I can see it now.

"OK, Cortana, show me how to get to Mars."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCCk1atehQc
Making an espresso with a mostly manual machine is an enjoyable once or twice-daily ritual for me. The flavour is most important, but I actually enjoy the time spent making the coffee. However, each person may value the various aspects of caffeine consumption differently.
The problem facing universities is that if they slow the rate of new PhD students and postdocs, they will quite simply have to shutter the labs. The entire system is built on the backs of very cheap research labor. That superstar researcher you see on television talking about the big new breakthrough from his or her lab hasn't written a line of code or laid hands on a beaker in 20 years. His or her job is to get a grant, hire students and postdocs to do the work, and immediately start chasing the next grant. Universities run on the 40% cut they get from these grants, which is why there's so much pressure to get funding in the first place.

Everyone knows we have too many PhD students, but no one can afford to be the person who doesn't hire more of them, since that would mean your lab has one person working, writing papers, and chasing funding, and the people you're competing with have an army doing the same things.
The Aeropress is a great device for brewing a single cup of real coffee.
if you add up all of the taxpayer funded entities and pension funds and savings bonds I get about 48%
So basically he does a web search for "Windows ssh client" (generic seo spammed terms) when he knows he wants putty (specific) and is surprised that the official putty page is not the #1 hit.

I'd hardly call that a bulletproof argument.
You're treating knowledge as a binary, which it isn't. My way deals more gracefully with thinking you know and being wrong: since you always say what you know, but allow that it may be just a guess, you're always prepared to back off and rethink it. But if you treat knowledge as yes/no, then when you think you know and you say that "yes", you're ready to go full-steam ahead and you're less likely to turn back, since you already "decided" that "I don't know" wasn't the answer.
This is very relevant to recent college graduates, as well. Being a junior dev. myself (albeit at a much larger company), I think the key advice is: Ask a lot of questions. If you don't understand something, just ask somebody.

Like it or not, 90% of documentation for enterprise code bases, websites, frameworks, etc. is in developers' heads. It's not written down. It's not obvious from the code. There are edge cases you don't understand. There are hidden dependencies. There is tight coupling and opaque architecture. You have to ask. It won't bother people... much.
But I didn't say that.

I said there's a 7% unexplained gap in salary amongst government workers, implying that even controlling for most factors salary discrimination still exists.
then you end up as abrasive as Theo De Raat.
It's hard to imagine that the name Siri wasn't also an intentional reference to the name of the company that originally developed and named it, SRI.
perhaps i'm geek-culture-ally handicapped here, but what did Wave reference?
I've left academia and returned, then left and am returning again. Thanks to the sequester, the NIH and NSF funding situation is bleak--I know successful PIs who currently have zilch. They're pursuing consulting contracts to make ends meet--at least in engineering this is possible. At this point it is trolling--pure sadism--to suggest that confidence and hard work will overcome the destructively competitive working conditions many academics look forward to every day. (I suppose I could be confident, for an additional charge.) Why is it trolling? Because the troll will never ever acknowledge his expectation that scientists (and science along with them) should thrive in a plutocracy as if it were a meritocracy [cf. Leiter, Brian, The Truth is Terrible (February 22, 2014). Daniel Came (ed.), Nietzsche on Morality and the Affirmation of Life (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2099162 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2099162]

I happen to be returning to academia after leaving a non-academic job a few months ago. I spent the intervening months working an application with a friend. Over the past decade we have been attempting to solve a certain problem for ourselves. After dead end upon dead end, we have a prototype. Now, on the verge of re-joining the academic precariat, a potential customer has asked us for how much we would license our software. We'll see how that goes.

The probability of my landing a tenure-track position anywhere is less than the probability that the software venture succeeds (perhaps this isn't surprising, judging from my posts online here). One tires of playing zero-sum games for diminishing payoffs against people who should be your collaborators. This is the kind of the cost-benefit analysis one doesn't do explicitly that seems to underlie decisions to leave. (I am rational, according to a cost-benefit analysis I haven't done.)
I'm using Crashplan now but when my subscription runs out I will switch to Arq+AWS Glacier. I'm currently around the 300GB mark for backup space. Using glacier this would cost me $3/month, about $36/year or half as much as I'm paying for Crashplan ($60 with a discount).

Even if it was more expensive for me, I would still switch, because I don't trust Crashplan completely. There have been stories from users of backups getting corrupted when they needed to recover, and the upload speed to Crashplan is so slow it took months for the full 300GB to upload (I'm getting around 0.5 - 2Mbps up on my 100Mbps/100Mbps connection, I believe they are artificially throttling it to discourage people from storing a ton of data). This means new data takes a long time to be 100% safe, especially when for example I dump my camera's memory to disk.

On top of that, if their upload speed is this low, their download speed probably is, too. If my data crashes, I need the backup yesterday. I can't wait a week to download the 300GB at 10Mbps.

I believe Amazon's speeds would be much higher.
Difference: you were in gradschool, not online where people feel entitled to attack others for any difference in opinion.
There is more than enough energy on Earth alone to destroy humanity. Most likely an AI would want to maximize it's energy. Covering the entire face of the Earth with solar panels, or even building a matrioshka brain from the mass of the solar system.

An AI not specifically programmed to value human life would have no reason to keep us around. It'd either kill us because it sees us as a threat, competition, or just annoyance, or it would kill us by accident as it consumes all the resources it can.
> It looks like a big ball of mud to me :(

That is of course the most popular of all architectural patterns. :)
This only seems to work for two people at the moment (i.e. no group calls), but for that use case, it seems promising.

As it happens, for the past few days I've been trying out a lot of tools for online video/audio conferencing, and made a summary of their features here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C1gAWPBmAWsQEo78ysds... (I didn't include Awesometalk because I'm only looking for group meeting tools, not one-to-one video chat)