skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the mentality of some devs around who just complain and bitch.

Sorry to be blunt but I am fed up looking for updates of companies which ate least try to change something and then see a long string of lazy-azz comments from 'developers' who learn/know jquery and friends and world begins and ends with this.

Apologies to those who don't bitch but try to see the big picture here.

Oh, and I am not presenting famo.us and native Android is my bread and butter.

But it does not lock me up in my small world of know-all and all-else-is-sh.

@ famo.us team
Thank you guys, at least you are trying to change and expand boundaries, companies like your and CodenameOne are the real attempt of small shops to oppose these Google, Apple and Microsoft suckers who don't want to change and will never change if it depends on them.

Keep trying, there are many developers who will back you up!
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the ICL8038" sure is amusing and interesting. It answers questions like the one given in the article, and my favorite, number 7: "This waveform generator is a piece of junk. The triangle wave is non-linear and has large glitches when it changes slope."

http://www.intersil.com/content/dam/Intersil/documents/an01/...
Why is GitHub not opensource?
Etherpad 1.4 released, doesn't pretend to be anything than what it is
Another conclusion to draw from this article (which I really enjoyed, by the way) is that Big Data has been turned into one of the most abstract buzzwords ever. You thought "cloud" was bad? "Big Data" is far worse in its specificity.

I can't count the number of times I'll be talking to some sales rep and they'll describe how they scan the data within whatever application they're demoing and "suggest" items using "big data techniques". In almost all cases they're talking about a few thousand or hundred thousand records, tops.

I've found that when non-hardcore techies talk about Big Data, what they really mean is "they have some data" vs before, when they had zero data.

From the article:

"Consultants urge the data-naive to wise up to the potential of big data. A recent report from the McKinsey Global Institute reckoned that the US healthcare system could save $300bn a year – $1,000 per American – through better integration and analysis of the data produced by everything from clinical trials to health insurance transactions to smart running shoes.

What these consultants mean is that by having just some data compared to the silo'd data that is the norm in US healthcare, they could save a lot, and they're right. My previous company had a large data set (20+ million patients) and we'd find millions of dollars of savings opportunities for every hospital we implemented in, but that's because we had the data, not because we were running some kind of non-causual correlation analysis like the article references. It was just because we could actually run queries on a data set.

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Off Topic - how annoying is it that when you copy & paste from the FT, they preface your copy with the following text?

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This is a great comic. I just wish he had preserved the old format which was deep-linkable instead of switching to a "pretty" javascript interface.
Creative Routines
This article reminds me of the argument [0] between Noam Chomsky [1] and Peter Norvig [2]. TL;DR (paraphrased with hyperbole) Chomsky claims the statistical AI of Norvig is a fancy sideshow that doesn't understand _why_ it is doing a thing. It just throws gigabytes of data at an ensemble and comes out with an answer.

[0] - http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-c...

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norvig

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Norvigs rebuttal, http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
I see two issues with your comment. First, the quoted formula doesn't assume a zero value for human life. Second, even if you assign an explicit finite value to human life, a lot of people will call that psychopathic.
> everyone agreed the law required, but nobody was happy about it

That's cognitive dissonance. Aaron was simply the voice of reason for one of the arguments being held in consideration - open and free information. Nobody is happy about following the law when they realize the laws in place are the less important piece of a greater discussion.
Why TypeScript Isn't the Answer
I used to run an Ultima Online server on RunUO when I was in high school. Consumed me for 3 years but was a real blast and gave me the introduction to programming that would later lead me to majoring in CS in college.

I thought this was going to be about Richard Garriot's new game, 'Shroud of the Avatar' which he said he would have called 'Ultima Online 2' if he could have obtained the rights. Apparently 'Shroud of the Avatar' is trying to finally deliver a true 3D version of Ultima Online, and it looks like they have reunited a few of the old Ultima Online developers. What I find interesting is they've chosen to work in the Unity3D engine and have been able to crowdsource good portions of the map design by releasing various dungeon/city kits. This got me thinking down a similar path to the 'Shards Online' developers. Its clear players want to develop their own worlds, its expensive for developers to do it, so why not try to bring these interests together?

I'm interested to see if the curated approach of 'Shroud of the Avatar' will beat out the have-it-all approach of 'Shards Online'.
Interesting whatsapp conversation
One of the best ways to increase transparency would be to make the source for HN available. There's already an official GitHub repo for issues -- why not have the source there too?
This is true, I suppose the difference here is that workers are offered some level of protection. I have had a Finnish person tell me he couldn't legally take on additional work before.
Peter Attia wrote a great article on sugar here:
http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/is-sugar-toxic

The conclusion at the end of that article is:

"So, in response to the question, “Is sugar toxic?” it seems to me the answer is, “yes, sugar is probably chronically toxic to many people.” And so is water. And so is oxygen. My sincere hope, however, is that you now understand that this is probably the wrong question to be asking. The better question is probably “What dose of sugar can I (or my child) safely tolerate to avoid chronic toxicity?” The goal should be to figure out your toxic dose, then stay well below it. (It’s probably not wise to consume 95% of the toxic dose of APAP just because you have a really bad headache.) What makes this important, of course, is that with water and oxygen, the toxic doses are so far out of the range of what we normally consume, it’s not really necessary to expend much mental energy worrying about the toxicity. But with sugar, at least for many of us, the toxic dose is easy to consume, especially in world where sugar resides in almost everything we eat."
Okay. That's me right now. How to leave the survival mode in the long term? I involuntary slip into it again and it again...
Progressivism vs. the Pursuit of Happiness
"Don't show me something complicated. Show me how you can make something complicated, simple"
- My mentor when I started development
I honestly can't see how/why people care so much. Maybe I'm not doing HN right, but I usually don't have a lot of time to read a thread and make a cogent comment and stuck around for discussion. This is unfortunate; I think discussions are better than just one-off comments. But add to this the vanity of checking if my comments have been downvoted? Man, I've got better things to do.
Great perspective. I do feel like it's a bit of a slippery slope though. One should be proactive in life, and not just let things happen to you all the time. But when things are out of your control, you can choose how to react to them. Very helpful reminder.
From the article:

"If I give you a dollar for a burger, then I've lost a dollar and gained a burger, and you've gained a dollar and lost a burger. Assuming this was a fair trade (that dollars and burgers are of approximately equal value), then as a result of the transaction we've simply rearranged who has which good, and no additional value was created in the process. What I've lost you've gained and vice versa, so that the total value between us has not changed after the exchange is over."

I can see how a person would think that, but it's not really correct. If that was true then nobody would have any reason to hold either dollars or burgers or whatever; we'd constantly trade them for one another since they are of literally equal value. Who cares which $10 bill they have in their wallet? Nobody since $10 is $10 is $10. Hell, most people don't even care if it's $10 or 2x $5 or $5 and 5x $1, so long as they don't need singles for the vending machine.

But we don't see that kind of behavior in the economy, which leads us to the conclusion that when people exchange things they're not exchanging things of equal value. They are of nominally equal value, which leads to there being a price. But if they were truly of equal value then the guy selling a burger is making $0 profit (something he is unlikely to do) and the guy buying a burger technically isn't any better off either. Why would two people make an exchange where neither is better off? In aggregate they wouldn't even if there are some exceptional cases where they would.

When people exchange things they are trading something which subjectively to them is of equal or lesser value than the thing they are getting. That also explains why people buy just one burger instead of ALL the burgers. When someone is hungry it shifts their subjective valuation of burgers higher and money lower; once satisfied their preferences shift back to "normal" and they stop buying burgers.

An economy already has value creation "baked in" because when people exchange things they only do so when it increases total satisfaction. People tend not to make trades which decrease satisfaction or merely hold it equal. The transaction cost helps ensure that is the case.

Everything else equal before the trade satisfaction was X, after the trade it was X + Y. Y is the amount of increased satisfaction that prompted one or both parties to engage in the trade. Now obviously someone could argue that Y is negative but that doesn't hold water. People don't buy things that are "too expensive" or "crappy" or whatever you'd like to call it.

I will concede that my argument might seem tautological. I might even agree. In the absence of a third party with a gun I can't see how or why two people would choose to enter into a trade that don't benefit at least one of them, and probably both.
I get what you're saying; startups can be frantic and match almost all of those points. But a startup shouldn't exhibit sign #2. No matter how crazy things gets everyone should have a vision of what the product should be and know what goal they're trying to reach.

I think a startup where you can consistently observe sign#2, without being in a UAT[1] phase, is a startup that's about to fail.

1. http://www.techopedia.com/definition/3887/user-acceptance-te...
Does anyone have a link around the paywall?
Humans actually can't do this:

http://i.imgur.com/Ul3ti69.jpg

As we look down, the upper eyelid automatically follows.

Try it in front of a mirror. Tilt you head back and try to open your eyes as shown in the image above. You won't be able to do it.
I continue to be astounded by the unprofessional, predatory manner in which MIT, JSTOR and in particular the federal prosecutors in this case handled themselves.

The article also reiterates that the ridiculous CFAA charges centered on the claim that Swartz had unauthorized access to MIT and JSTOR’s networks (he was signed in as a guest).

- MIT officials openly mocking Mr Swartz - "LOL" -

http://www.bostonglobe.com/2014/03/29/documents-how-aaron-sw...

- JSTOR equates downloading files with loss of physical property while simultaneously admitting this is an inaccurate comparison -

http://www.bostonglobe.com/2014/03/29/documents-how-aaron-sw...
"At the end of the day, it takes more than vision and hard work to drive a dream into existence... it takes investment. It takes capital. This is what the deal brings to the table."

If you think capital is scarce--either in general terms or for a project of this calibre-- I think you are making a false assumption. The world has never seen more capital chasing so few ideas so freely as in the past 10 years. Just something to consider, objectively.
Out of curiosity, when does it effectively become "big data"?

I ask not to be snarky, but it might be the case that it's "big data" to someone else, but not necessarily to you. I figured it was a relative term for your industry/business, but the hacker crowd definitely seems to peg that amount in the millions of data points before calling it big data at all.

Seems fair, but I'd rather clarify.
Equally valid symptoms for having dysfunctional leadership.
Circle troll commenced?
OK, a few suggestions (which you might be sick of hearing, but restating the basics can some times help)

1) Get the calendar for deadlines for assignments and dates for the exams for all the modules. Synthesise all the dates onto a single planner. Work out the order of priorities.

2) Make a time plan for the week and try to stick to it. The plan must include breaks and (at least) a day off a week. Do things with other people in the day off and at certain times of day like meals.

3) Get topic lists for each module and check them off as you study those topics.

4) Find other people at about your 'level' of confidence in each module and try to buddy up with them for study periods in the library...

5) ...find a place to study that isn't your own room/house/wherever. Libraries can be good, as you have to get work done, but somewhere else helps as long as it is away from where you sleep (&c).

6) Reduce friction to getting started. Keep notes, study guides, any equipment and textbooks for each module organised. Pop them into your bag as you go off to the study location. Pack the night before if possible. Put the bookmarks to module Websites on your Web-browser tool bar. Use a password manager so you don't even need to authenticate.

7) Google The Pomodoro Method for the actual study time. The author has gone commercial now but there are summaries. Its easy.

Any good?

EDIT: 8) At the end of each study day, prepare the stuff you need for tomorrow. Try to find an easy task on whatever is on the time plan that will get you started (the Hemingway strategy).
I think that you should have kept reading the article beyond that point. From the article:

Of course, when I give you a dollar for a burger that's not really a zero sum transaction, because otherwise we wouldn't be motivated to enter into the transaction in the first place. I give you a dollar because I want the burger more than I want the dollar, and if you accept the trade it's because you want the dollar more than you want the burger, so in a fair exchange we both feel like we've come out ahead. In other words, there is some additional value in our fair exchange that is not accounted for in the burgers and the dollars alone.
http://fs-uae.net/
"In the absence of a third party with a gun I can't see how or why two people would choose to enter into a trade that don't benefit at least one of them, and probably both."

Well, at least that they don't both believe will benefit them.
Good idea, added, thanks. It helped a bit, but eyes are indeed the weakest point.

Even if material rendering would be perfect (which it isn't), there would be still missing eyelids deformations and there are no eyelashes.

One day, step-by-step, right now I'm glad there are some eyes at all, previous model I experimented with had eyes closed ;).
Yesterday something about Auroracoin (never heard of it before), now Litecoin is undergoing some big change, and meanwhile the value of my bitcoins went down 10% overnight. Can anyone explain to me what is happening? Why does anyone care about Auroracoin and a Litecoin protocol change and why does it drive another cryptocurrency's value down?
Not really sure why this is getting up-votes.

Maybe I'm missing something but this article feels fairly incoherent and the analysis looks like something I'd expect your average marketing or product manager to be able to do rather than anything more sophisticated.
This lightbox deserves attention
It concerns me that people think this is true. I would bet that HN regulars include very few of the worlds experts on tech subjects; for the most part the world's experts are too busy to hang around on a web forum to chat. That's what makes them experts: focus and hard work.

Which leads to my second point of concern, which is thinking that a person's HN "reputation" means anything beyond HN. I would be very surprised if it does. Speaking of bitcoin, it seems to me that the generally accepted experts tend to be people with a deep history of working on crypto currencies, or at least a deep history with bitcoin specifically.

I've been participating, moderating, and in a few cases researching forum communities for about 15 years. It's easy to fake expertise; just make sure all your comments and posts are well-researched and fact checked before posting. That's not the same thing as being an actual expert--it's the difference between a Ph.D. in physics and an undergrad writing a research paper. No matter how accurate and readable their paper is, the undergrad is not an expert. And forums tend to disproportionately reward readability, humor, and writing style, over substance.

I'm not trying to criticize your posts or expertise specifically; I don't know either well enough to comment. I'm just sounding a general cautionary note about taking online forums too seriously. They are great for entertainment, social gratification, and light education. But they are no substitute for the work of creating real accomplishments.
Pyringe: Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting into Python processes
> “It could be that doctors are getting better at identifying these children, there could be a growing number of children with high intelligence [who are autistic], or it could be both,” she said.

The article doesn't mention that the DSM-5 went into force last year. The criteria for diagnosing Autism has changed since the DSM-IV, and this could also explain the jump in diagnoses.

(This is alluded to with the line "Milder forms, such as Asperger’s syndrome, are now considered to fall along the autism spectrum." -- The entry for "Asperger disorder" in the DSM-5 is now replaced with a pointer to see the entry for "Autism".)
Use inotifywait
Direct link to the CDC report :

Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years — Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States, 2010
Surveillance Summaries
March 28, 2014 / 63(SS02);1-21

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6302a1.htm?s_cid=...
How do you qualify smarts?

I read massive quantities both technical and fiction and have done so for past 30+ years, but I feel the more I read the more I learn how little I know and time is running out.
Top Startups Built On Docker
Yeah, beet sugar is a relatively recent innovation that postdated the widespread availability of cane sugar.
Or Carmack and Abrash will say "fuck it" and find an organisation (Valve perhaps :) that won't prevent them.

The technical minds should have a fair chunk of leverage here simply because of how much of the capacity to evolve the product in truly exciting ways will reside in their head.
What deserves a patent is a, possibly large, investment needed to show that an abstract idea can be a practical.

The magnitude of the investment is one of the reasons people tend to accept the concept of patents more in some field than in others.
open the article in incognito mode in Chrome
Big Data used to mean petabytes, ie above the limits of performant scale up.
so this hardforks into a new currency and you can still sell LTC on an exchange which still supports it. Sounds like built in double spent.
Ask HN: How to get started developing for Bitcoin?
Resources, etc.
Ask HN: How does the software and hardware interaction work?
As a software developer, I realize that I have almost no idea about how the hardware actually works and how the interaction with software is achieved. I know, of course, some theory about computer architecture, but I still can't figure out how bits are represented in a hardware board or how a processor can do the things it does only using basic arithmetic operations.

Where could I learn about this stuff? Can you recommend any good course, videos or articles?
there was no indication that the US Attorney's office cared in the slightest whether the alleged victims wanted Schwartz to be prosecuted

Nothing gives federal authorities a crime and punishment hardon like someone rocking the boat. The Middlesex DA didn't even want prison time [0].

[0] http://www.cnet.com/news/swartz-didnt-face-prison-until-feds...
There's a download link on the top-right.
The patent situation has become a circus. There's a company claiming a patent on video advertisements preceding video content, and they're suing every online media company in existence hoping for shakedowns.

I once jokingly suggested a patent about paying online, but lo and behold, someone has that too.
I have some Wired issues from mid 90s in the bathroom and the tone is the same.

It seems pretty much everything they write about is supposed to change the world in a major paradigm shift.
Because I heard no other big news regarding cryptocurrencies, and 10% value loss sounds like a big change to me.
5 3D Printing Predictions For The Next 5 Years
Whilst, in the example you provide, it might be the case that "N = all", the cautionary tale offered in the article is that you always need to make sure you are asking the right question, and it is pretty easy to confuse yourself.

So you said "if i work for facebook and i want to figure out something about my users", and for whatever you were doing, looking at your existing user base might be the right thing to do. Perhaps, though, you actually want to know something about all your potential users, not just the users you happen to have right now. Whether or not your current user base offers a good model for your potential user base would then be a pretty important question, and one that almost certainly isn't answered by "big data".

I think that, as with most of statistics, the key point is "think about your problem", and that focusing on a set of solutions rather than the problems themselves can get in the way of that.
> We don't need the Litecoin developers.
> We need the majority to support this to make this hardfork work.

This is a pretty interesting comment from the person who is proposing the fork. I wonder how the currency will split if a sizable amount of people switch to this method of mining? Will the devs be forced to accept their fork or will this just split off into a litecoin 2.0 that is ASIC resistant which previously mined coins grandfathered into this new fork
The Court should provide machine (processor) level protection and rule that high level programming is obvious, in that it requires only routine experimentation. The challenge for the court is how to make room for machines whose novelty is a software control. I would argue that there should be a moving element test. Is there a software/hardware interface.
Given that Microchip's PICs didn't make the list, and that Atmel's AVRs used in the Arduino make up an even smaller volume, I'm not surprised.

There is a whole world outside Arduino, and it's much, much bigger.