skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another "I had to disable it on my phone" here. I love to watch soccer and, once Google Now learns your favorite teams, it pushes those scores to you on your notifications tab by default. "Well, damn - I recorded that game so that I could watch it this afternoon. Thanks, Google, for ruining that for me."

Yes, I know now that you can disable notifications like that but I didn't realize it until after the 2nd or 3rd weekend this happened.
I like PHP as well, however it's the wrong language to build byzantine OO inheritance structures in. Yet, that's what new feature development seems primarily directed at: new OO functionality that adds a lot of complexity and new opportunities for developers to shoot themselves in the foot. Listening to PHP core developers' presentations, I get the impression they're trying to imitate Java.

The per-request execution model can be played as an incredible strength, but the moment some framework comes along, starting off by loading all of its code, then instantiating a myriad classes, subclasses, traits, and other crap just to serve a simple request - that's where slowness and bugginess comes from.

I think simple objects do work well in PHP, together with judicious use of the powerful array data structure, anonymous functions, and on-demand code loading.
Oculus had the backing of some of the foremost leaders in 3D graphical technology, verifying their goals, solutions, product and direction. This does not.
For PHP it would be laravel (http://laravel.com/)

Though personally I won't work with it unless it's running Twig for templates. To each their own, though.
Five Key API Trends from the APIStrat Conference
Either way, as long as GB = 10^9, and GiB = 2^30
Just a coincidence the history of feudal systems is the history of sadists tormenting the people they lord it over? Its all fine and good as long as you are one of the people with marriages and land bonds to barter. But the vast majority of people called it serfdom and died young.
Here is the Finnish visualization http://www.veropuu.fi/valtionbudjetti/
This is still unproven. There are only a few (¿one?) anecdotes of the experimental subjects, and they can’t show how amazingly good the result were because the device no longer works.

Another comment says that the device resolution was 32x32 (this article says that they see “dots”), it’s much better than a 0x0 resolution, but it’s the resolution of an icon. If you have ever drawn an icon, you’d know that 32x32 is not too much.

There are similar device for audition, but the wires don’t go directly to the brain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant

Let’s hope that this camera device or a similar device gets fixed until it’s useful in the long term. But it’s important to remember that there are a lot of technical details that need to get fixed, and a lot of clinical test to prove that it’s not a scam, snake oil, an optimistic misrepresentation or any combination of them.
Okay, you crunched reason #1 or #2 here :)
It's against Apples ToS to allow virtualization of OSX, though would love to seem them do with with Fedora or something. ChromeOS but with more power!
>And because you can now do everything the wireless way

Citation please? That certainly wasn't the case last time I was reading this corner of the research literature (6ish years ago).
If you mean GiB, say GiB, if you mean GB say GB. Tarsnap does, based on that over ten year old standard (IEEE 1541-2002) correct thing.

Blaming Tarsnap or people creating hard drives or other media is like when people use some old Frontpage and blame browsers that it's not supported, while IE (used by the majority!) does.
Tunneling your email through yet another service which then converts it into an image hosted by that service and keeps track of when that image was requested over public internet is not my definition of ‘privacy’.

If you need expiring emails, you also need some way to expire people’s memories and I’d rather not communicate with you in that case.
PolyPassHash: Password storage scheme to prevent cracking passwords individually
>http://www.scroogled.com/privacy

The first headline on that page is about google being accused of "wiretapping in gmail scans". Didn't both companies knowingly participate in mass spying along side the government? As far as I'm concerned, neither company is trustworthy. Who cares what a virtual document says in this day and age.

>Microsoft asks for explicit permission for any information sharing in their OS and software.

I just don't believe it. I can't believe it. For one thing, we know they're helping the government spy on people. But that doesn't matter, because if I sat down with just about any randomly selected windows user, they would have no idea what the MS TOS says, or any TOS associated with MS. I've never been using a MS service and had a pop-up come up and explicitly tell me they're sending my info to x y x.

IMHO we should do away with TOS altogether and rather than individuals having to agree to all sorts of crap they don't understand, the corporations should have to follow a TOS written by some consortium of smart tech-minded people and not bought and sold congressmen and lawyers.

edit: and also, how does the MS TOS work when I access a MS based server and upload information to it? I'm assuming it comes down to what the service providers TOS says, but then doesn't every service running on a windows based server need to have you agree to both the windows TOS and their TOS before taking your information (even if you agree to one TOS within another TOS)? Serious question.
Surprisingly familiar. But isn't it another idealogical exaggeration in a different direction? Cute though.

Maybe a balanced version, where feuding between an agrarian society and an imperial nation rises to war, with atrocities mounting by the imperium's secret police as the naieve masses of farmers slowly accept the need for fighting back? Oh, that was Tolkien's version.
I think it's a mistake to think that Westeros has been the same for 6000 years. Rather, the people of Westeros are making the same kind of historical errors that Medieval people commonly did.

Evidence: the phrase 'stories about knights before there were knights' (I think this is from Bran).
The example reminds me of a web page presenting the Awesome Unpredictability of Chaotic Systems that left me underwhelmed. You'd click on a pixel in a flash object and it would start moving in a lemniscatish path defined by some differential equations. The lesson to be drawn was that this system, easy to define, makes it "impossible to predict" the position of the particle at any given time, in the sense that tiny changes in the initial position led to rather wide gaps between the particles at time t=t_1 (maybe two particles released at the same time from adjacent pixels end up across the lemniscate from each other at some later time).

The lesson I actually drew was more like so:

Hm, if you release a few particles into this system you'll quickly notice that they all seem to be traveling along the same rough lemniscate. The lemniscate is a tiny minority of the entire space, so learning the differential equations lets me substantially improve my predictions of where the particle will be at any moment. ("It's probably near the lemniscate" is much more precise than "it's somewhere in space".)

If the difference between the best winter and the worst is a 40% longer duration (admittedly, not pleasant) and 15 degrees centigrade... there's plenty of room left for real variation. ;)
Speaking of Heroku-like deployments, is there something I can install on a blank DigitalOcean VPS and have it configure a simple PostgreSQL instance and whatever dependancies I have in my Gemfile?

Then I can deploy with a single command?

I have done this a ton of times with Capistrano but it's always a pain in the ass for new projects because I need to install Nginx, PostgreSQL, RVM, Ruby version, etc etc etc. Lots of busywork I don't really care about.
On what planet are business wiki's and social networks the norm.
The dictionaries used by spell checkers are generally not composed by developers.
It just shows that the old doc was a brave maverick that had the courage to go through with it even without the funding he needed! That's why everything probably fell through after his death. He probably funded most of it with his time and money, took all the shortcuts he could because he had to (hence the poor reliability - it failed after eight weeks), and asked the patients to pay for the rest.

It's not a dystopic science fiction story, it's how slow and cumbersome and real world engineering based medical research works, and how the only way to make any meaningful progress fast enough (if you're not in one of the few well funded and well staffed places in the world, working on one of the few projects that are considered "important"), is to work around the system, cheat and look for sloppy shortcuts, ask the poor patients for money directly, and how everything crumbles when the one genius/madman that pulled all those tricks to make it work goes out of the picture.
At 200000 miles a year and 6mpg average fuel efficiency, a 1 mpg improvement is $25k in savings. I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner.
did the Reform break the church near-monopoly on education?

I was under the impression the printing press had been the big thing there (and also the main enabler of the Reform, which could have been a random isolated heresy otherwise)
One problem with flight notifications: If family/friends forward you their flight itineraries just to keep you in the loop, Google Now reminds you of their flights as well. It simply scrapes for the flight data; it doesn't check the email to see if its your flight.
I've noticed two things as I've grown older.

1. Time just seems to move sooo fast. When I was 6, 30 minutes seemed like forever. Now as I close in on 40, 30 minutes feels like a handful of breaths. I can easily spend 2 hours on something, feel like I made no progress because the time is short. Even into my 20s, I felt like I could crank out tons of things hour after hour. Now the work of a week feels like the work of a day.

2. I think why this happens is that I've noticed I feel like I take in more space-time at once than I used to. Hypersmall details I used to obsess over seem to blend into an entire scene. I'm gulping space-time rather than sipping it. I think it's because I have much more experience and knowledge than I used to that I just automatically filter out most things. "Bigger picture" isn't just a word to me anymore. I've largely stopped thinking in hyper-local ways and started thinking more strategically, in terms of systems rather than components and in terms of aggregate behaviors rather than individual behaviors, etc.

I have to consciously focus down my attention onto small, local concerns when it used to just happen. When thinking about business ideas, I don't think as much about smaller concerns like the technology stack or whatever, but where I can take the entire idea over the next 5-10 years. Ideas grow like trees in my mind stretching out for a decade without mush effort, but looking at an individual leaf (which used to be easy), is exhausting.

It's given me a lot more understanding of what my parents are going through as they age, things I never really understood when I was a precocious child, but now make perfect sense. I don't know what they're going through now, but now that I understand roughly the trajectory of my own mind and thinking, I can kind of see how they're arriving at where they are.
Keep in mind that Satya was running the Tools Division that makes the C# compiler, before he became CEO. So if the preparation you speak of had been happening, it was still happening under Satya.
Additional improvements, or bling? That's kind of the point, breaking functionality for mere shinyness is silly. If you need javascript anyway, that's different of course.
This bug was fixed just seconds ago. The power of HN :)

You can still load the invite/resend page, but you won't get any user info from it.
I used Memrise and found it surprisingly easy to memorize the order of half a deck of cards.
WalMart has the Glass center who's whole purpose is technology for cutting cost. Its a thing they do.
How does TypeScript help prevent bugs in JavaScript
It's hard to give advice when the product is so vague. But depending on how users can "access the core technology", it's possible you could just integrate a membership plugin into your WP install and achieve most of what you want.
That looks like a normal truck on the road today. Isn't that what they have now?
>Are there any similar devices that have been installed in people that have been more successful?
When I was following the retinal implant research several years ago, you'd typically give the patient a few dozen pixels of vision and then the electrodes and the neurons they're stimulating would drift out of sync.

It sounds like there's now a commercial product for people with severely limited vision (Argus) which claims to have stable implants over multiple years in hundreds of patients. Not sure what the quality is like though, and not sure if the technology generalizes to the fully blind (who may have entirely atrophied optic nerves).
My suspicion is that Ballmer's departure was choreographed to coincide with seemingly "sudden" 360 to make it seem like some sort of internal revolution instead of a carefully planned business strategy. I certainly appreciate it. As a career c# developer it has given me some sort of new cred around the office like I was on the inside track on something cool instead of a guy who was hooked on some lame corporate language.
>I also feel that their "if you can't compete on product, slander" negative ad campaigns (e.g., scroogled) will continue to hold Microsoft back as a company and as a culture.

Well wouldn't the PC vs MAC ads be similarly slander? Apple got away with it, heck it even increased its sales, and for a long period of time, not only was it listed on Apple's website but it was also the general consensus that owning a MAC meant not worrying about viruses.

Despite most people (including me) disliking these slander commercials (especially political), they kept being made because they are effective and they work.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQpPqPKbAw
Just to add to your second point, one of the reason that time moves faster is that, in a sense, it is moving faster. When you're 10, a whole year is increasing your life by 10%. That's a huge percentage of your life. By the time your 60, that year is a much much smaller percentage. Thinking of it like that, it's not surprising that 10% of your life seems longer than ~1%.
There has got to be a graphical way to present this study. It could reveal far more than cherry-picking summary stats and writing them out in dry prose.
The fact that they've just recently promoted the mastermind of the "Scroogled" campaign to Chief Strategy Officer probably doesn't help:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/business/mark-penn-ex-clin...
> What the fuck? An experimental surgical procedure is being conducted, and nothing is recorded outside on elderly doctor's brain?

The data may exist. But it's non-trivial to recreate an experiment or interpret results with only lab notebooks, especially for experiments which were not completed. Despite the best of intentions, even with well-kept notes, not everything is recorded – the doctor's not-completely-formed thoughts (e.g., on topics such as where the experiment should go next, possible issues that might arise) would be the key to moving forward and might not hvae been recorded because they weren't at an advanced enough stage to commit to writing (in the sense that not everyone immediately writes down every idea they have about something, even if that idea later becomes crucial).
Effective or not, I didn't like many of the more negative parts of the "Get a Mac" campaign at all, for all the same reasons.
Relations are another interesting thing. That would make phishing much more effective. Though I suppose somebody's Yahoo profile page should get them access to that as well.
I am reasonably sure "credit" means "belief" rather than faith (i.e. I believe you will pay back, I have faith in $DEITY).

The difference is relevant: the banking system works based on the fact that I don't have to trust you 100%, I only need to believe you will be able to pay back, and if you don't I will come and break your legs (or equivalently, I will recur to the judicial system and ask for my pound of flesh).

It doesn't need trust, it only needs accountability.
> But isn't it another idealogical exaggeration in a different direction?

Yeah, probably! It's just.. an interesting angle, really!

I'll quote from the second foreword to LotR[1] (written in 1966) (excerpt somewhere from the middle), because I like it and it's somewhat relevant to all this (tl;dr: just read the second paragraph)

As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical. As the story grew it put down roots (into the past) and threw out unexpected branches: but its main theme was settled from the outset by the inevitable choice of the Ring as the link between it and The Hobbit. The crucial chapter, "The Shadow of the Past', is one of the oldest parts of the tale. It was written long before the foreshadow of 1939 had yet become a threat of inevitable disaster, and from that point the story would have developed along essentially the same lines, if that disaster had been averted. Its sources are things long before in mind, or in some cases already written, and little or nothing in the war that began in 1939 or its sequels modified it.

The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and before long he would have made a Great Ring of his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth. In that conflict both sides would have held hobbits in hatred and contempt: they would not long have survived even as slaves.

Other arrangements could be devised according to the tastes or views of those who like allegory or topical reference. But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse 'applicability' with 'allegory'; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

(I've been listening to the LotR audiobook during my walks in the woods etc. recently. Recommend+++.)

edit p.s.: it wasn't me who downvoted you. fwiw, while your tone was somewhat condescending, i thought your comment did add to the discussion.

[1]: e.g. http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?16713-LOTR-The...
I'm someone who has been using Anki for over a year now and I'd like to say that the value that I've gotten from Anki is equivalent to the value I'd normally need to pay $1000+ for with traditional modes of learning (books, courses, etc.). Even at $200 Anki would be a steal.
> If the difference between the best winter and the worst is a 40% longer duration (admittedly, not pleasant) and 15 degrees centigrade... there's plenty of room left for real variation. ;)

But if you do allow for that larger variation, you will soon run out of people to observe it. Long-lasting supplies scale somewhat linearly, but if you want to have fresh meat at the end of the winter, too, you will need quadratically more fodder at the beginning of winter to feed the animals, for example.
Innovative experiences are a large part of that. A young person can do new things every day. An older person has to work to find new things.
Why Every World Map You're Looking At Is Wrong
As the guidelines[1] put it:

>What to Submit

>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

[1]http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is likely more efficient for trucks to only turn left. Turning right often takes more time than turning left, as a right turn can often involve waiting for traffic to move out of your way. Back when I drove trucks, any time I had to drive in SF, I purposely chose left turning routes for this reason.

The reason fuel efficient trucks are so much more expensive is because they are bought by companies with accountants and finance departments instead of guilt-ridden liberals. They have to actually demonstrate ROI in order to sell well. With the margin padding that manufacturers and dealers expect, that ROI is often washed away. With a company like WalMart doing the design, with contract manufacturing, they likely could make a decent return.
Replacements need to come from somewhere or he'll run out of characters to kill off.
I really don't see why people are downvoting this comment. You may disagree with the poster's opinion but it is not posted in any way that is deserving of downvotes. Personally I agree that big pharma is much more interested in long recurring solutions to a problem then any one time permanent fix.
The old Wired article posted by edward has more details. It looks like the machine sent signals directly into electrodes in V1. Seems crazy to me!
Blender suffers from a presentation issue (and has for years, almost a decade now): they like to show the very impressive results, but they struggle in explaining how what they do is different. People understand how they can edit Wikipedia; coders get Open Source, but most people when seeing that bouncy result have little idea what they can contribute in terms of work, or what makes it so expensive.
This is a great idea! I'm terrible with names and faces, and this occurred to me as a way to improve that. It's definitely heartening to see that someone has done it with good results.
You're claim has minimal basis in history. The number of sadists tormenting their serfs is surely non-zero, but also not systemic. For one thing, lords DEPEND on their serfs for their well being. Their serfs economic output is crucial.
both are correct. It's just some people decided that prefixes (G-, M-, etc) taken from a certain standard should mean differently in their area of expertise.
>> Because there have been plenty of trials for non-invasive glucose meters

And maybe this GoBe device IS an inconsistently accurate glucose meter?

What you're saying is this device already exists, but is not good enough for diabetes. But could it be good enough for dieting?
Mathematical beauty is not only for pleasure, according to the great quantum theorist Dirac, who taught us that we should let mathematical beauty guide us in our discovery of new physical laws.

This is how Dirac was able to predict the existence of anti-particles before they were discovered experimentally, and his philosophy about mathematical beauty is a cornerstone of modern theoretical physics.
> “There I met people who were blind as well. (Blind) people over there were so included in society I almost didn’t think about my blindness for a time.

> “Then, when I came back here I realized that part of why I was chasing these dreams of seeing again was because that’s the way, in this society, I can be included. Despite the fact that when I’m right here working on my property, I’m not traumatized by my vision loss because I’ve moved on. I’m able to do what I need to do. It’s just that when I’m among society, I’m told I am not really allowed to eat, because we will not give you a job, because you cannot see.”