skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude... Don't feel bad, you join the ranks of 1000's of lottery winners, except you have skills... You're the 1% if not in net worth... definitely in brains... Do something
> children younger than about 7 can pick up new skills, like language and music, much faster than adults can.

I don't think this is true. I think a determined adult learns faster.
Haven't test it out yet. But i fully expect Google DNS to be a lot faster then Route53, which I dont think it was build for speed at all.

It is also a lot cheaper then DNSMadeEasy or EdgeCast DNS, both i consider to be extremely performant for a small price.

Looks like Google are starting a price war with Google Drive, Google Cloud infrastructure.
> I'm gay and I also find the cultural crusade for gay marriage objectionable

That baffles me. Do you not have any friends with non-citizen partners? Do you live in a really rural place or something? Are you mostly friends with straight people? I'm trying to understand how you haven't come across couples like that. Those partners can't currently come to the U.S. and work, unlike their straight counterparts. And depending on where they are from, in many cases, there is no country in the world both partners can live and work.

That seems righteously messed up to me. And maybe you think we should be able to sponsor immigrants without getting married (as I do) but that law isn't on the table and same-sex marriage is. Given that, I don't know why you would prefer same-sex marriage to be illegal.
I think not coming from a CS background has resulted in me reinventing the wheel on several occasions. (I thought I'd had a brilliant insight, only to be told it was well known.)

I'm credited with a few innovations (like NRVO), but for the most part I just put together novel combinations of other peoples' ideas :-)
As someone who does know what Hypercard is, I'd like to see the same thing, and also, a glimpse at what the code looks like.
I think there are some major changes being made to regain this position and it is backed with some really cutting edge products, along with smarter financial decisions. I think the only thing they are lacking is the respect due to past mistakes, mistakes that have been removed from the line completely over the past year or are in plans to cut in the next few months. They plan to marked high-end only and it looks like serious thought in filling the need of better software and developers. I have no inside, but I would not be surprised if you start seeing HackerNews worthy projects popping up from Sony Developers in the next few years.
This is a bad idea.it's easy to change the user agent to whatever you want.
Just what I'm looking for, thanks.
200 comments and only one person has observed that this whole font silliness is superseded by a print driver setting that has been standard for decades.
Thanks for Hack, it's exactly the kick up the ass PHPs community needed :)
Note that the author is only assuming that bitcoin/altcoin mining was the intended goal of the attack.
Tales of the Unexpected and Royal Dutch Shell Prelude FLNG
Shitty article, but I didn't know that some board members actually stepped down when Eich was elevated. That's a really huge vote of no confidence.

Translation: they saw the shitstorm coming, got overruled, and got the hell out of dodge.

I really was wondering why the corporate PR on this dropped the ball so badly.
McKibben: Red, White, Blue and Gold(man Sachs)
FWIW that is in Season 5. Season 6 went even higher!
Oooh, or maybe folding when the response's value (value meaning the score + initial + decay over time, etc) is below some fraction of the parent it gets folded out.
no sqrt(n) error bars?!?
First of all, thanks for a thoughtful response.

I think your comparisons between race and gender are superficial. There fundamental differences between the two concepts.

We still have separate toilets for men and women, and nobody suggests it's offensive. I haven't seen fashion designers catch any flack for preparing separate collections for different genders. It is normal to sometimes seek the company of your own gender, e.g. to have "a ladies night out" - but deliberately inviting only white friends would raise eyebrows, to say the least. Nobody's weirded out by a bachelor party, either. There are many gender-related or even gender-exclusive traditions, places, institutions, and businesses.

In other words, we aim for a post-racial society, in which race is considered outdated and irrelevant to personal and social relations. The gender dynamic is different. In some respects gender is, in fact, separate but equal.
i'm having a hard time sourcing either side of the argument, but kids learn a ton of shit.

an adult learning a language has the benefit of both abstract and pragmatic knowledge of language, having spoken at least one for some time. they don't need to spend time learning, for example, how to move their tongue to make different noises. an adult learning a language also has the benefit of being able to read, or listen, to facilitate their learning. a child learns a language without any of this groundwork.

i feel like maybe you are underestimating the sheer amount of information a child has to process and how completely foreign everything we take for granted is to them.
Work like a network Enterprise social and the future of work
That's exactly what Amazon trying to prevent.
Before anyone considers experimenting with Donepezil or other acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in hopes of enhancing their learning, it should be noted that there are plenty of unknowns and a few serious concerns around altering the cholinesterase levels of otherwise healthy adults.

Briefly: Acetylcholinesterase terminates acetylcholine neurotransmission events by deactivating the acetylcholine, allowing it to be reused. An acetylcholinesterase inhibitor such as the Donepezil used in the article inhibits the action of acetylcholinesterase, which in turn enhances acetylcholine neurotransmission in a dose-dependent manner.

Highly potent acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are used as poisons (Sarin gas, for example) because they interfere with all of the acetylcholine-based neurotransmission that happens throughout your brain and body. Less potent inhibitors are used at lower doses in Alzheimer's disease as it is hoped that they will improve cognitive function and perhaps even slow disease progression. Thus far the results have been mixed.

Now the bad news: Cholinergic neurotransmission is widespread through your brain and your body. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are a very blunt and non-specific way to manipulate that neurotransmission. Unfortunately, you can't just enhance memory formation and learning related neurotransmission, you amplifiy cholinergic transmission indiscriminately everywhere. As a result, it's possible to get some quite negative effects as well. There are reports of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors causing or at least inducing PTSD-like symptoms ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17308243 ). Furthermore, we just don't know the long-term effects of these medications on young, healthy adults as they've primarily been studied in elderly populations.

In short: It's potentially very unwise to use Donepezil or similar medications for the purposes of enhancing your learning or your memory. Leave the experimentation to the carefully controlled studies until more is known on these powerful substances.
And they left 3 board members remaining, which means they could have blocked Eich's appointment. I don't get it either.
Just goes to show you - it's sometimes better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Imagine if Tesla hadn't opened stores in these locations - they would be indefinitely, unconditionally barred from doing so unless they had flouted the auto dealer rules and went forward with the stores regardless. Now they have a foothold. When you realize that the stakeholders (in this case, New York State Politicians) have a political interest in you flouting their rules then the rules just don't seem that rul-y anymore.

It's also what's going to get their foot in Texas, as well.

Elon Musk is one smart dude.
I always liked this one...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a7ac256b1db7bbb775f559bfa736b962/...
It's post modernism. One of the principle elements of post modernism is that the structure becomes the decoration. The internal becomes external. The scaffold becomes external. The walls are stripped back and the plumbing is visible, and you might even add some extra scaffolding and pipes that serve no real purpose anymore.

Serifs themselves are another example of this phenomenon. When the first "Sans Serifs" were produced, as part of the modernism movement (unlike post modernism, modernism is about stripping back decoration and reducing things to their pure functional nature) they were called "Grotesk", and the hacker news of the day widely panned them for being useless and illegible and stupid.

Now it's just boring and normal.

In a post modernist web page, every element has border 1px, normally used only for debugging purposes, and a label explaining what type of HTML tag it is and what its attributes are.

It's a cheeky rebellion against art history. It's embracing the absurdity of our technological ignorance.

It's the teenager saying the word "LOL" out loud like it has no history or context.
Hi Andy, to set the record straight:

I received about $700 total, and I was living with my parents (most of that $700 was from my family, but there were several other people who donated). I actually still have a list of the donations, and I covered this topic in my Kickstarter page (which is not yet public). I probably should have returned the original donations as it was not a huge amount of money, but I was planning to surprise my original backers with something -- cat is out of the bag now I guess. I still remain friends with many of the original Genesis fans like David Sahlin, Collin Popel, and Seiji Tanaka.

My parents were very supportive, but at the same time I had been living with them 8 months post college, and it came to the point where they were hinting more and more that I get a job and move out. After I launched, it became pretty clear that I was not going to support myself off of Genesis even though the reception was very positive (there was no equivalent of Kickstarter at that point in 2006, unfortunately). Not more than 2-3 months after launching I got an offer at my the startup my brother worked for (which was not lucrative, just $35k year to work 80 hour weeks). I put in 10,000+ hours of work into Genesis, no one was more disappointed than me to shut it down. I did what I could and released the source code, hoping that I could return to it later. I made several attempts over the next couple years to make Genesis-related projects (most of my failed game engines) or make something that could support me to do so. For the most part, I've been working 80 hours or more trying to make up for it for the past decade.

The only situation in which my current project will become vaporware is if I run out of money and have to get another job, and I am really hoping this does not happen because I have put so much work into it again. Thank you for bringing this up, if I can do anything else to make up for Genesis please let me know.
I remember getting a Sony Clie PDA, the software was a pain to sync and then they stopped supporting it. Really irked me back then
here is the simplest way to handle it: Just make your whole source code folder(or even your home folder) which contains all your projects to be gopath, and forget about it.

Go can live peacefully with any other project.
Bio hack for entrepreneurs
In reinforcement learning, you are supposed to have large learning rate at the beginning and smaller and smaller learning rate as you go, eventually reaching zero. It would make sense for brain to use similar strategy.

In unusual cases temporarily tweaking learning rate can be profitable, and it could apply to brain too.
Intel Pushes XenGT For GPU Access To Virtual Machines
>> I'm always amazed how we don't look at our diets before resorting to drugs to treat conditions

these aren't mutually exclusive. you seem to be suggesting no one is studying how diet affects brain function?
^ This. It is roughly the equivalent of them never investing in your seed round, and then again passing on your A round. That is a signal, just not a strong one of any sort.

Where signaling may seem off is when they invest 500k in your seed, and then don't invest in your A. They were heavily committed and liked your company, and then for some reason lost interest in investing any more.
Questionable science? Sign me up!

I bet if I wash down a Donepezil with my Soylent every morning I'll be king of the valley.
This will last for about 2 seconds. One of two things will happen - the auto manufacturers / dealer franchises will get to a bunch of legislators and legislate the closing of Tesla's stores.

Or - they will see an opportunity and open up stores themselves. I look forward to seeing a GM store, a Chrysler store, and a Toyota Store, right next to the Apple store in the mall.

In that case - goodbye auto dealers. it would be a mistake to underestimate their political power, though. I have an auto dealer franchise for a client that has over a billion of revenue in a year - an auto dealer that's only present in a couple of states.
GNU APL 1.3
l remember having to dish out twice as much for memory stick and memory stick duo when everyone else has cheaper SD card support. Minidisc player was pretty cool but was a luxury before it because obsolete.
I only got a ps2 for GTA 3, what about yourself?
This seems reminiscent of the "wolfram language" stuff a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps it's a trend, but I can't shake the feeling like I am seeing a rehash of the 4GL fiasco of the 90s.

I have a lot of respect for Chris. So, I hope I am wrong.
If they are really downloading apps to inspect, I suspect the email is an automated template.
NASA's new spacesuit
Tim Berners-Lee founding document of the web.
already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7490151
Why? Maintaining a fork is pretty trivial so long as you don't deviate so far from upstream that it's hard to pull in upstream changes.

Every time I use a library and need to make changes that are unlikely to be accepted upstream, I just fork it and update it as necessary. If upstream adopts features that solve my original need, I kill the fork and use the original project.
But then how would you automatically identify the app name as shown in his email? I think it's easier to download the app. Only ~1m android applications out there. You can probably crawl the android store with just 1 or 2 servers using the algorithm I described below with a trie. Identifying patterns from random data seems way harder to get right, but maybe that's because I have a CS background rather than a statistics one.
Git: Commit message guidelines
Also, the silver lining in this is that it led to where I am now. My honest opinion of Genesis is that it was doomed from the start: I was a young, naive coder and did not know enough to make a project that ambitious work (even now, I still have my doubts in myself). I learned a lot over the following decade that hopefully puts me in a more capable position now. Also, for a bit of further clarification, my first job was at Goowy Media (not a game company), although I got job offers from EA and a few other companies but I did not want to work in the game industry (it is fun if you are independent, but mostly pretty bad conditions otherwise)...

All of that said, I myself am going to warn people against giving me money. This is obviously a very ambitious, very risky project and I want everyone to have a very realistic idea of what I am up against. Some people are willing to take that risk for the chance of producing something new and interesting, but not everybody.
Go on you Amazon.
But someone went through the trouble of writing the template. Most companies wouldn't even bother checking apps in the first place.
This approach has one fatal flaw. While Go can precompile dependencies for faster builds you loose this ability when breaking out of the go project organization.
If you are using CGo and need to build for your RaspberryPi you need to build on an ARM (i.e. your Pi) and there every optimization counts.

As for organizing larger projects I go with vagrant. It allows me to control my Dev environment including non-go dependencies such as ImageMagick.
That extension does a simple redirect, which means Chrome populates the address bar with the target URL. So it's not possible to open a new tab and type a search term.
Seems like arstechnica can't stop churning out shitty articles about this. But anyway, RIP Mozilla.
Mansfield woman says missing drone ‘freaked me out’
Show HN: Pingsure, test your webapp every hour.
Please give us feedback if you would use such a service.

Our Pitch:

Website is http://www.pingsure.com

We have made “getting integration testcases suite ready” extremely easy.

Its as simple as signing up for an account and select the testcases you wish to run against Production server. We write the testcases for you and get them up and running in 48 hrs (max).

Our Confusion:

Generally everyone believes that testing is never too much. The more you test the better. So such a service should definitely act as a last line of defense.

But the response we have got until now has been more on the average to cold. Everyone likes the idea though. But until bought, it does not prove the business model. We did make the mistake of building the product without validating the product need. So please give feedback/criticism.
I have kind of stumbled on to the same line, though I'm in the early stages of getting over the shock of it all as it was not something I was looking to do and considering where I am located (India), I never would have thought it would be possible.

I guess there is no one right way to do this. A lot depends on your own abilities, strengths and the terms in which you can get clients. If you have leverage and can deliver well, the timing is not an issue.

In any case, I'm glad there are more people doing the same :)
The other side of the equation is that serif fonts are easier to read. What is the cost in time and/or productivity that a person might lose by utilizing a font that is less easy to read?
Yep. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-u...
There may be a standard project organization that "makes sense" to people familiar with Go, but based on the amount of confusion out there about this, that page is obviously not succeeding in its mission.

Consider items like these:

> The GOPATH environment variable specifies the location of your workspace. It is likely the only environment variable you'll need to set when developing Go code.

> If you keep your code in a source repository somewhere, then you should use the root of that source repository as your base path. For instance, if you have a GitHub account at github.com/user, that should be your base path.

> To compile and run a simple program, first choose a package path (we'll use github.com/user/hello) and create a corresponding package directory inside your workspace:

> $ mkdir $GOPATH/src/github.com/user/hello

Keeping the above snippets in mind, here's my thought pattern while reading the page:

So... I have only one workspace for all my work and I can set GOPATH once, in my .bashrc? Or I have one workspace per project and I need to set it differently for each project, kind of like a Python virtualenv? But then what's the difference between a "workspace" and a "project"? I do have a github account with a bunch of different projects -- err, repositories -- so that seems to reinforce the first way, but I don't typically work on them at the same time, so why would I combine them into a single Go workspace? And what's a "base path"? I must have missed that definition... nope, it's not in there, ok, I guess it's the root of where I'll put my... _new_ code? (Is it going to sync down all my repos?) But wait, here's an example where they say to create a Go "package" directory github.com/user/hello -- AHA! A Go "package" is like a git repository! Wait, that doesn't make sense... I'm planning to check this whole directory structure into github as a single project -- err, repo. Or am I not supposed to do that? But then I'd have to recreate all this on any machine where I want to work... is that really the intent? Yep, sure enough, they eventually say I should put the package directory into its own repo. So yes, I'm really only supposed to have one workspace for all my Go projects (I think). I wonder how Go manages dependency isolation for completely unrelated packages -- err, projects? -- that have the same output filename but are in the same workspace? Anyway, it sure would be nice to have a shell script or something to set up the workspace scaffolding for me, since I'm not supposed to check it into github...

And so we end up with folks like the OP doing exactly that. I'm sure there's a way to beat your head against this stuff until you eventually "get it", but it ought to be far easier than that to teach people coming from other environments.

At the very least, it would be helpful for this page to start by explicitly defining the mappings between the way Go uses words like "workspace", "package", "project", etc. and the way other languages/environments use them.
Fintech entrepreneurs: If you want to help solve the underfunded pension crisis in the world, and/or help increase the wealth of the bottom 95% work on building a product that allows non-accredited investors to crowd fund real estate, where the investors own 100% of the property and the sponsors earn a fee for managing it.

If the bottom 95% were allowed to crowd fund real estate wealth would very quickly be more evenly distributed.
Comparatively, bringing fiber to NYC won't be so expensive (considering the results).

At this point, it's not about comparatively. Optimising $240m a year is so fucking good when it's a short switch. Low hanging fruit.

How do you optimise your apps? "Oh, this 100ms optimisation that is a one-pointer is comparatively not worth it, let's not do it"?
I remember learning about a study in a neuroscience class regarding language and how, before the critical period in a child's mind, they could learn many languages because their brain had not settled on any one particular language. The "shape" of words (word length, voxels, parts of speech etc) effectively became hard coded in their minds after the critical period ended so they could easily recognize that language, but from then on they can't learn languages easily as precritical period.

Anyone familiar with the topic care to further elaborate on this phenomenon? thanks
Scientists are learning to embrace online lab notebook
His talk on Persistence in VR was very informative for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-2dQoeqVVo
Language is completely different for kids. They don't so much learn language as acquire* it- it's not, generally, effortful. They just do it.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition

Also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis
But those ads have 2 AdChoice icons on them, are huge click targets, have a border AND say "This advertisement will...".

If you can't figure this out, you won't be able to use paint.net anyway.
Apple has 'done everything it can to put repair guys out of business'
Well definitely it is an interesting idea, outsourcing your QA. But as you pointed out the problem really is to validate if people want it or not. Personally, when you outsource such a core part of your service, co-ordination becomes an issue. But it is a valid idea.
Wikipedia is getting a redesign