skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesnt really matter ,journalism is already dead. Free news means sponsored news,therefore it's not news,it's marketing.

The future of news is to raw/unredacted/untransformed datas with tracable origin that people can analyse themself and decide to trust / not to trust. Exactly like the Snowden leaks.We dont need "journalist" to source/filter the data.

People then will be able to mashup the data with apps designed for that.
Nowhere does it suggest that the kid is some kind of genius. Not in the original article, nor in these threads. It's clear that this was a school science project and that he was encouraged by his teachers (and his reviewers) to pursue it.
This was my immediate reaction as well.

I want to love SONY products. But for the past decade, it seems as if they actively try to piss their users off by building a perfectly good product and then crippling it with arbitrary vendor-specific lock-in.

Remember ATRAC for Minidiscs? If I recall correctly, Sony's first flash-memory music players tried to force you to use ATRAC instead of MP3.

I wonder if this lock-in makes sense in the local Japanese market and it's simply a matter of poor international understanding. Or if their local market gets similarly annoyed.
Think about various experiences, and observe the patterns by which your body becomes tense.

If the pattern matches a chronic condition, that is your cause.
This is hypocritical. Any other defendent found to have committed what amounts to gross professional negligence that deprived someone of a basic right (freedom to move about) would be looking at some combination of (1) a revoked license, (2) severe damages, and (3) paying the harmed party's legal fees. The longer the US government continues this kind of hypocrisy the more it risks being replaced.
I think I will disagree. (Although for sure this is a definite matter of opinion it's not a science but an art in determining public perception).

Anyway it's a bit of a Streisand effect. They are focusing on something and making it stand out even more.

When in the minds of the general public it very well would be forgotten. Or not even known about. Not everyone pays attention to what the tech press says, what hackers think, or what Road and Track cares about.

Lastly they are attaching a negative to a positive emotion buying experience. People buy cars on emotion. And the whole idea of discussing safety and accidents in this detail on something that is an emotional purchase doesn't work in my opinion. It's raining on the mind game parade.
Has Kurzweil done anything of note while at Google?
Is this even news? What's the ratio of software developers in general or at least at similar companies?
They're being responsive, not aggressive or defensive. If someone makes false accusations or in a blown out of proportion way, do you just take it and not react? I know how I feel when I let someone walk over me or is being a bully.
I love motorcyles and motorcycle-commuted for years, and yes—it sure beats driving a car. But it's not a counterexample here! There is no comparison to walking or biking, especially to work. As I said above, the effect is astonishing.

If I'm walking or biking somewhere, especially anywhere work-related, it feels so damn good. If I know that in the past I'd have been doing it in a car, it feels twice as good. If I see lots of other people in cars trying to do the same thing, I have the moral problem of trying to control my schadenfreude.

The one exception I'd make for automated vehicles, but it's only a partial exception, is trains. As someone once quoted on HN: "Everybody hates buses and everybody loves trains." Trains don't have the quality of walking or bicycling, but they have some other lesser quality that still feels pretty good. Well, maybe motorcycles and trains are tied for second. :)
Just chill. Don't worry about it. Do something that you enjoy and don't feel guilty about spending all your time at it. Don't feel guilty for not doing much or just "wasting" your time. This is your mind/soul telling you something. Listen to it and pay attention. Maybe you're burning out, maybe not. Give yourself the freedom to just chill for a few weeks and not get worked up about what you should/should not be doing.

I don't know your details but this could be your mind and body telling you to change for the better. Do you exercise, do you sleep well (at least 7-7.5 every night). Do you have hobbies outside software? Do you get out and hang out? How's your personal relationships? All these things matter and if something is really out of sync your mind/body starts to fight you. Listen to it. The trick is to have a balance to your life and still get to where you want to go. Sometimes the balance shifts in one direction or another but it's always good to try to maintain the balance.
Facebook refuses to call a drone a drone
The body of most printed stuff is typeset in serif fonts because it improves legibility. Even on my fairly low definition e-reader, reading a book in a sans serif font feels weird. Moreover, the stroke width of sans serif fonts is usually fairly unvarying, which seems to offset what you gain by ditching the serifs:
http://www.matthewrobinson.co.uk/Measuring-Type
apt-get build-dep beanstalkd
apt-get source beanstalkd # or in your case, download the newer source-package
cd ./beanstalkd-1.x.x
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

This should do the trick. There are a lot of variations regarding the last line. Just google for Debian packaging or Ubuntu packaging tutorials. It really works well for minor changes. If you need to deploy it to several machines it's also possible to add a custom flag to the package version...
Still see the scrollbars a week later. Would be interested to know what kind of bump you saw in traffic being on front page of HN? When my product was on front page of HN for a day or so I saw maybe 2000 hits on the site.
Dogecoin’s Jackson Palmer on Fast Transactions, Many Tips and Much Inflation
Well, everyone will probably experience this kind of micromanagement once in their grad school career, but you won't see it the whole time unless you have a truly bad advisor. Some of it just comes from forcing the grad students to work hard for a while so that you learn to work smart. A first year grad student will spend forty hours a week in the lab, pressing a button every ten minutes and recording count rates into a notebook. She'll get chewed out by her advisor for not spending enough time on research. She'll turn into a third year student who spends eight hours a week in the lab, pressing a button and recording count rates into a notebook. By the time she's a fifth year, she'll have made a little machine to press the buttons and OCR the count rates for her. That machine will run constantly while the grad student spends just forty hours a week in the lab doing practical research.

The usual attitude I've seen is: I don't care how much or how little time you spend in the lab, as long as you get the job done on time. Granted, "the job" may be winding twenty solenoids, each of which takes eight hours to wind, and "on time", may be seven days from now. Similarly, your advisor probably won't care if you take weekends off, but the calculation he asked you about at six on Friday still needs to be done monday morning. When you do it is your business.
Sure there is.

If your blood has been drained and there is no brain activity, then you are not alive, correct? And by today's standards most doctors would mark you as dead and ship you off to the morgue.

The concept of death can be challenged because dead really means 100% unable to bring back to life. It's not possible to bring dead people back to life, so people who are not alive, but not 100% dead beyond the point of no return, still have a chance to be alive again.

Basically there are two meanings of dead: "no neural activity" and "irreparable damage to the brain", if there is simply no neural activity but the brain is still physically intact, then you're in a pseudo-dead state.
What is then? I know they are used alongside PLDs, but I thought PLDs still dominated that use-case.
"This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."

Agree. I'd love to see what happens to the vehicle and driver if the object (say an alternator) hits the tire instead of the under-body.

Or skips up and hits the windshield.
I don't take Elon for a dishonest person.
Really, you found it shocking? I thought this concept is pretty much well understood by anyone who's seen an infomercial.
Wow this is really awesome and I'd like to participate so I'll ask a couple questions.

I'm in my last semester of university for CS (starting graduate school in the Fall), what kinds of 'pre-reqs' would you suggest in terms of languages/programming paradigms/statistics knowledge?

What is the weekly number of hours we should be prepared to commit?
MS Office for iPad Seizes Top Four Free Spots in Apple's App Store
There is a very good bullish article on Blackberry.

http://market-ticker.org/post=228889
Isn't this a little bit like being glad that American phone records aren't being processed in Israel?
How does Apple convince victims to sign an NDA? Is it attached to a massive cash settlement or something? I'm surprised the cover-ups haven't loudly backfired on them yet.
So people fall for this stuff people they haven't learned about Plato's law of forms, that contradictions suck, and that words can have multiple meanings.
You can't just take a snipe at that whole thing without explaining what you mean. It's a crazy car crash. Here's the Yahoo news story about it:

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/second-tesla-model-fi...
no it's not, it's perfectly clearly documented in code. The smoothing is common practice in this area of software engineering.
While I agree with the general point this comparison is not fair - if you sell more cars, more cars may be affected.
Preorders open for William Gibson's latest book, The Peripheral
Still wishing they'll completely open up the data and end the 9292 monopoly. Recently a lot of Dutch public transport data has been opened up but you kinda need it all to make an effective 9292-alternative.
A fascinating glimpse into a truly imperial, repressive culture. A lot of soldiers' envy in this one.
Sometimes ngen produces worse code than the JIT does since it has no knowledge of execution state. Compile your assemblies which can be easily optimized, but you may actually be better off losing a couple of cycles waiting for the JIT to compile a method on first call in certain cases.
I believe they update when the car is parked at home.
Yeah Paul Graham writes about this in one of his articles.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
>And for all the people bitching about how AA is religious -- it's not! The "higher power" thing is more of a philosophy than a religion.

Bull-fucking-shit.

I've read the AA "big book" (enough of it that I could stand). It is a religious book. The part about non-believers is especially offensive - to me. It quotes from the Bible, it explicitly refers to the Judeo-Christian God. Many court have ruled people can't be forced to attend AA meetings because it violates the first amendment's freedom of religion clause.[1] If it wasn't religious organization, then it wouldn't.

AA can actively harmful - to some people. This whole "go to AA if you have an addition as a first step for everyone" is complete and total nonsense.

If people seek AA, struggle with the concept of a higher power, you know GOD, they might think they can't get better. If you are religious, seek AA, if you are not, don't. I disagree completely that AA is a universal treatment. It is not.

As I said before - I know an addict, he avoids getting help because he believes that the 12 step programs are offensive. (I share the same opinion - however I acknowledge they work for some people and that's good - I just disagree they should be the "go to" programs for everyone) He knows AA doesn't work for him, but he doesn't know there are non-religious programs and people who have gotten better without religion.

Preaching AA as a first step or a cure all is harmful to these people.

Do I have personal experience with addition - absolutely. I was never an addict, but I grew up all my life with an addict parent.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous#United_Sta...

United States courts have ruled that inmates, parolees, and probationers cannot be ordered to attend AA. Though AA itself was not deemed a religion, it was ruled that it contained enough religious components (variously described in Griffin v. Coughlin below as, inter alia, "religion", "religious activity", "religious exercise") to make coerced attendance at AA meetings a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the constitution.[88][89] In September 2007, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated that a parole office can be sued for ordering a parolee to attend AA.[90][91]
How timely since I'm working on this issue right now.

The biggest issue I'm struggling with is how to set up automated testing for cross-platform node.js code. vagrant-windows is dependent on the woefully out-of-date WinRM gem and no matter what workaround I try I simply cannot get windows working in vagrant. Furthermore I simply know too little about working with windows to even attempt to fix up the WinRM gem and vagrant-windows plugin.

If anyone else here is working on cross-platform node.js code, how do you handle automated testing?
If you're right, then I misread the article, which is quite possible.
When did Wired start using the Buzzfeed article title generator?
While Sony certainly deserved the infamy for letting the 2005 rootkit debacle happen under the Sony name, it's worth keeping in mind that it was Sony BMG – literally a different company from Sony Corporation, which makes consumer electronics, and also a company that hasn't existed since 2008, when Sony bought out the rest of BMG and formed Sony Music Enterntainment.

It was also nine years ago. We have to move on eventually.
Bringing back the bold is an interesting strategy... I'd imagine at this point it doesn't cost much to manufacture it and they don't see it canabalizing any BB10 devices. I'm assuming this is a play in markets where BB still has a shot, (Latin America, Africa, etc.) Places where the Bold may compete against feature phones and may still be viable. Think of the Bold as a new version of the Nokia bricks that stayed in production much longer than needed for the US markets.
A miracle drug that kills every kind of cancer tumor
It's a well known technique... Stream of Consciousness writing in the morning is very effective at clearing out the mind before the day starts.

Some Artists use this and call it "morning pages" (Check out "The Artists Way". )
Fair point - it doesn't actually mention the word "genius".
Original Game? Ever play Triple Town?
It's not this post that's terribly wrong, but the widespread fallacy of equivalence between tiny companies and large corporations. It's not inconsistent to think it reasonable for small startups to avoid hiring each other's employees, yet that scaling this up to a significant part of the labor market is problematic.
Don't know why this is astonishing; hell, Fight Club devoted a full 2 or 3 minutes explaining this. Big companies are evil, etc.
Looks great but many items are not described in full, and the comparison table is not clear on the differences/advantages between the two.
Stackoverflow question comparing Multipeer with WiFi Direct: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19067794/ios-7-multipeer-...

Multipeer and WiFi Direct are not compatible. Stackoverflow user @barbazoo hypothesizes Multipeer is using Bluetooth Classic.

iOS Bluetooth Classic is known the be under the Apple MFA Accessory API tight control and lockdown, including the MFA authentication challenge-reposne. Apple controls the MFA encryption keys (either in software or by the accessory authentication chips). It makes it inaccessible to other platforms.
Show HN: Metric – My first Android app
yeah, i'm very surprised and disappointed how much YC has allowed itself to be gamed just like any other industry they seek to disrupt.
Despite Loss, BlackBerry Has Some Hope for Future
Similar hack in Craigslist and Google: changing to a black ground saves a few watts per user per year. But this adds up to tons of C02 over all users.
Teslas aren't exceedingly expensive. They're not cheap, but they're not iPod vs Amazon MP3 expensive.
It just takes discipline. I'm not a google employee, but I run an online business entirely on my own (and have been doing so for 15 years). I simply don't reply to work emails after 6pm, and don't check my email much after that time either. (If I do check my email, it's more to check for personal emails).

The only possible urgent thing is if my server goes down. However I get a text message if that happens, so I don't need to keep checking my email.

You're not doing yourself any favours by answering emails all night. You will be much more productive if you relax or do something other than work after 5 or 6pm. I also take naps during the day, walk my dog twice a day and/or watch MASH and other TV shows in the afternoon. If you looked in on me you would think I was a lazy bastard, but in fact I'm more productive than any other developer I've ever met.
Hugh Herr Presents Bionic Legs Made For Dancing
This looks great. I think highlighting a bit more of the actual app side (rather than creating games) would be beneficial. Lots of features in the video for games, but nothing about tableviews etc.
Migrating GOV.UK to new infrastructure
Good fucking almighty riddance! BlackBerry devices are an absolute nightmare to develop on. I would know, I have been for the past year for a bank, both native and jQuery Mobile.

I might go into therapy for a few months once this project is over.

I'm debating whether to even list any of these projects and related skills on my resume for fear of pigeon holing myself as "the blackberry guy". Honestly most depressing job.

My environment is a locked down, lenovo x120e, running Windows XP. Awful. It's sort of good because when I come home to my beautiful $10k+ mac setup, a single tear roles down my cheek, and I can fire up xcode and do some serious relaxing. Yes, Objective C relaxes me.
Connections like these are why HN is amazeballs. You can make a simple comment and someone here will have a technical interest in helping you out.
BlackBerry has great apps and services.

BlackBerry should give up their os and produce Android phones with these exclusive apps and services. Because nobody's interested in owning a Blackberry os phone today.

It used to be a "white collar" phone,now the iPhone is the "white collar" phone.

"Os" wise, Between Android,IOS and WP,there will be a place for a fourth player only if that player is really innovative,and invent something other players dont have and markets it well. That's why I dont believe in the Jollas, and the Firefox oses, nothing new,nothing Android phones cant do.

The whole "html" os stuff has been tried already,it was a failure and android phones actually ship with browsers... hello? we dont need "html" oses...

As for Jollas,what's the point if It's to use android apps? can already do that on android phones...
Wow. Long-winded arguments, I assume you're referring to the depth of his explanations that he gives painting a clear picture of situations? Do you rather people give shallow explanations? Most people aren't used to founders and CEOs being so proactive and engaged with the public. I've never heard him "lob" insults (like what you're currently doing and even suggesting censorship of speech?) - he does however state his thoughts when he thinks something is a bad idea or not the best idea.
No one in government is going to stop printing documents any time soon. Abandoning printing might be the most efficient solution but it's also the most disruptive solution. His solution is elegant in that it would receive little in the way of friction whilst providing tangible benefits.
Argh, another blog where there are no posting dates. Is it that hard to tell people when your post was written? The post starts off with "In the past week..." but we have no idea if this was written 10 years ago or recently. It may be interesting content but without a context it's confusing to know if this is new or old.
I'd like to point out that my experience with european PhD advisers (I had two, one trained in France and my current one is German) has been completely opposite to this: I'm allowed to set my own hours, I'm actually encouraged to go to the gym, and while I am expected to work a bit harder when deadlines are near, this extra effort stops the very second the deadline has passed. I also get around 20 working days of vacation.

I don't know if it's either a different culture or if only we get to read about the bad experiences and never about the good ones - I read many stories like this one, but I've never heard it from a first-person perspective. In either case, there are places where you are treated decently as a grad student.
My questions were general/rhetorical, but it sounds like you're doing well. Congrats!
Tesla to have iOS MDM
LABELs don't work for OPTIONs ( in selects)
A long time ago unfortunately. The articles themselves are pretty good most of the time, but the titles are terrible. They always make sure to mention a big name company/product that may or may not be tangentially related to the article. I'm really sick of this behaviour.
Interesting—do you have any links to back this up?
Is there something like this for kids? Been teaching my kids to program and I cant find one easy enough to use (ages 5-9) outside of PPT (yes, I consider slide transitions programming). Scratch is ok but its not fun enough for them or maybe too advanced.
Keep in mind that BlackBerry Limited cut 40% of its workforce (4,500 employees) in September 2013, and in November 2013 they received a $1B cash injection from Fairfax Financial. If things continue to go poorly in 2014 then we can expect some more shuffling in leadership.

Competition continues to be quite fierce in the mobile handset market. Notably, where is HTC's 2013 Annual Report? Surely they're dealing with similar troubles.
> This removes the agency of humans that might ask complicated questions (journalists) – so I don't believe it qualifies as news or journalism, at all.

Journalism at most newspapers died long before the process of uncritically transcribing information from external sources into publication format started being automated. That's what makes the automation invisible -- and therefore, acceptable -- the transition to robotic regurgitation long preceded the actual use of robots to do it.
Please fix title -- it is called a "Cheatsheet" in github. I see no spreadsheet anywhere. Thanks.
I hope this program grows. The thirst for high-quality data engineers is unquenchable.
Cool! Will look forward to seeing it when it comes out...
Very nice visualization.

Reading these old proofs is quite tedious but having this visualization makes it much easier to follow.

Still, trying to understand Euclid makes you thankful for the more than 2000 years of advancements in mathematical notation and theory.
This is a great evolution of the open source SpriteBuilder. Kudos to the developers for putting something together that really looks usable by the average Joe - like Hypercard. On the other hand, I doubt many average Joes still know the reference to Hypercard.
Yeah, but he was just that good.
Facebook is building drones with lasers to bring Internet to the world
Last day to apply to Y Combinator, here’s our 1 min intro video.
Alert System Will Warn Mobile Users Of Terrorist Atack in Japan
Big data: are we making a big mistake?
Why does art hang in a gallery? Because the artist (or at least the owner) wants people to see it.
I agree with you that BB10 is a really great and thoughtfully conceived OS.

On the other hand, so was webOS, so was MeeGo...
Why would I use this instead of a REIT?

Why can't these development companies get traditional funding?
Other topics have been covered already, duh.
Yes, exactly! I didn't reference it inline for fear of sounding pretentious.