skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> During my interview I asked the lead researcher why he's going through all this trouble to collect data, when he uses the same product himself, and can pay attention to how he's using it and see the disconnects between the use cases and the UI directly? It was a fair question, but I don't recall him having a good answer, other than jotting a note and agreeing.

I'm surprised he didn't have a better answer. Experienced users cannot intuit the problems that new users will have, and the ones who think they can are the reason we have bad production interfaces. If you're used to pressing Control-Alt-Space, F, Shift-G to perform a common function, then that seems easy to you, and pressing F1 instead seems hard because it's not wired into your muscle memory. The only good way to find snags in your UI is to ask novice users in the field.
I'd be interested to learn a very simple processor

Look at Atmel ATTiny and Microchip PIC10/PIC12 series.
it's still restricted, but not on the munitions list anymore:

Legal challenges by Peter Junger and other civil libertarians and privacy advocates, the widespread availability of encryption software outside the U.S., and the perception by many companies that adverse publicity about weak encryption was limiting their sales and the growth of e-commerce, led to a series of relaxations in US export controls, culminating in 1996 in President Bill Clinton signing the Executive order 13026 transferring the commercial encryption from the Munition List to the Commerce Control List. Furthermore, the order stated that, "the software shall not be considered or treated as 'technology'" in the sense of Export Administration Regulations. This order permitted the United States Department of Commerce to implement rules that greatly simplified the export of commercial and open source software containing cryptography, which they did in 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the...
Third world countries are also mechanized. All of South America grows soybeans. It's Round Up all over. I'm from Argentina and can assure you that since early 00's soybean export taxes have paid at least one-third of the gov. budget.
I thought about this too, then I quit my job.

Now, that I don't work anymore, I feel much better.

I sleep till I wake up, bike into the city, code for ~4h a day stuff in a café and drive home when I have enough.

But when I got a 40h/week job, the 1 week work and 3 week slack-off pattern was more common :\

Well, now that I feel better, I try to figure out how I can make money with work, that don't requires me to get paid per hour, hehe.
Keep asking around. Good team mates at this point a very critical. A mate who knows your existing stack and works with your idea are critical so do lots of "founder dating". Don't rush it. If its a for-hire position also don't rush.

There are sites like CoFoundersLab which may have the right talent. Or AngelList has some as well. I would avoid oDesk/Craigslist now too.

Meetup will likely have events centred around your stack. You could go to some of those and find talent as well.
I owned just one 128kb 5 1/4 floppy

'Why would anyone ever need two?' I remember thinking.
Ah, the Haskell assumption that people who dislike Haskell's way of doing things just don't get it.

Why are you talking to me about Applicatives? Applicatives are easy. I'm not complaining about what the type system can do. I'm complaining about what it can't do. And it can't do a lot. For instance, it can't "safely" twiddle a bit in a vector without resorting to a compiler trick involving uninstantiable existentially typed monads. It can't produce DSLs that live outside the type straitjacket, so you get really complicated stuff, like the kudzu-like system of the Lens library, full of existential types and higher-rank types and restrictions, that still is not actually typesafe. And so on. I'm repeating myself already.

Monads and weird compiler extensions are not the same as a language that respects the programmer who wants to do something unusual. This is what I'm saying. Don't tell me about applicatives as a response. It's not a response, and it's insulting.
I remember reading a study on paleolithic humans that said that even they had atherosclerosis.
I don't think any credible health organisation or government body has ever claimed that what you eat has a serious effect on cancer incidence. I'm sure there are plenty of random books written by self-appointed experts who claim that though. They probably recommend coffee enemas for cancer treatment, too.

OTOH, heart disease has long been thought to be associated with eating high levels of saturated fat. Recent evidence is beginning to challenge that though[1].

[1] http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/03March/Pages/Saturated-fats-and...
Wouldn't you need to be doing `var self = this` in every function you have nested anonymous callbacks touching $scope though?
Finding a new Earth could be a sign we’re on our way to extinction
I feel like I get 4 hours of high quality coding per day. Then around 2 hours of lower quality coding. Anything more than that is usually futile.

After those hours, if I take a long enough break to clear my head, I can keep doing stuff.
Why does it seem to be so difficult to run a Pi off of batteries? It draws less power than many phones. I was boggled that the Raspberry Pi AdaFruit store, which has dozens of different Pi-compatible displays, keyboards, cases, and exotic sensors and output devices, doesn't have a single external battery pack.
Unless you have Flashblock.
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Aedes aegypti is a domestic animal here. And we have no lack of moskitoes to fill their niche at Brazil (the best news being that most of them didn't evolve along humans, and are harmless).

It's worth looking at any biological alternative to the widespread use of insecticides.
>Green revolution did, but that wasn't GMO.

The green revolution did a lot of good, but GMO is potentially doing even more.

Have you looked at modern strains of GM rice? That stuff is absolutely amazing. Incredibly drought and flood resistance, and can thrive in a huge range of environmental conditions.

As GMO tech progresses, we'll probably just see better and better stuff. Imagine plants with antifreeze proteins to resist cold snaps.
If we are talking about getting into the "zone" where we "create" - I think people would be really, really shocked at how little productive work one can do in a day. I think 4 hours is a huge-over estimation. If you could find someone who did that over a long term, they would be a rock star.

I'd be ecstatic to average one "creative productive" hour a day, averaged over a year. 99% of my actual "new" productivity comes in these tiny little sprints of brilliance, the rest is just coasting, waiting for inspiration.

I'd guess I get about 2 1/2 - 3 productive hours in a good week. The rest is just doing things like research, diagnostics, administrative work, email, meetings, post-mortem reports, etc...

Thankfully, I have a job (network engineering), where a lot of the work also involves auto-pilot tasks, like configuring network equipment, doing simple triage/diagnostics, delivering/ordering equipment, helping people, teaching people, etc...

From the outside it appears to be "productive" - but in reality it's the sort of thing you can do in entirely reactive manner without having to engage any ueber-higher order brain functions - I could probably do it for 10 hours a day without having to exercise those brain functions.
1) I'm a mozilla employee working on Firefox OS. So, I have a pretty direct connection to what's happening there ;)

2) There will be an official announcement on Mozilla's blog for sure (https://blog.mozilla.org/).
Origins of the Open World: Mercenary
It would facilitate more convenient discussion if you had the option of getting notifications that someone has replied to your submission or comment. Along those lines, it would be cool to be able to "subscribe" to a thread and receive notifications whenever someone posts a reply to anyone.

The notifications can be on the site itself, like a little box in the corner that shows the number of unread notifications, Facebook/StackOverflow/Google+ style. And/or set up notifications as emails (though personally, I already get tons of spam in my inbox, I'd rather just have on-site notifications).
A similar trial was done in the Florida Keys 2 years ago. The genetically modified mosquitos (same company I believe), were able to reduce the mosquito population immensely. Key West if they didn't carpet bomb it with insecticides from the sky would be miserable.

[1]http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/9/genetically-...
Stuff like this could work great for ARA smartphones.
Argentina is running into issues with land going fallow now from too much Soy, and not enough crop rotation last I heard. Or is that not correct?
> the $35 Raspberry Pi, which was introduced in 2012, with its 700MHz ARM11 processor and 512MBs of RAM, is looking a little dowdy these days.

Someone has fundamentally understood the reason that the Pi exists.

Also, these guys have immediately blown their trustworthiness by deliberately creating confusion between their brand and an established one ("[fruit] Pi").
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The Simplicity Toolkit vs. The Complexity Toolkit
What evidence is there that paleolithic humans had robust health?

I suspect there was a real (literal!) survivor bias is the healthiness of paleolithic humans while they were alive. In a hunter/gatherer society you had to remain healthy enough to be mobile. If you didn't you were probably left behind, and then you died pretty quickly.

Does the high levels of "fitness" of those alive mean they had "robust health" in general? I'd question that: I think cause and effect has been switched, and the only paleolithic humans left alive were those who remained in "robust health".
This is probably as good a thread as any to ask which single-board ARM computer has the best performance/price ratio, preferably one that's more powerful than the Raspberry Pi and can do duty as an everyday system.
Freedom of speech and religion does not entitle people to open bigotry and harming others. People need to stop bastardizing the First Amendment to justify everything. You are allowed to say what you want and the government can't jail you for it. It doesn't mean anybody else has to listen to you or tolerate you.

To answer your question, yes an employee that refuses to work with African American employees due to their personal beliefs and bigotry should be fired. Why is bigotry towards sexual orientation different? If an employee is a public face of the company (such as the CEO), then he or she can and should be held to an even higher standard.
The Show HN link from the original creators has a link to a site built out of wagtail.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7231164
My Android immediately becomes the remote control of my Sonos system whenever I approach my house, so it seems to me that Android's network service discovery is adequate for at least some purposes, whether it uses mDNS or not (I'm pretty sure Sonos uses multicast HTTP, FWIW.)
I meant dynamic polymorphism, which is different from parametric polymorphism.
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wut? And i thought the hbo SV show was satire...
Interesting set of comments. Clearly the RasPi does what it does, for those who want that, really well. As embedded/single board computers go, it has been very successful. The flavor of comments about the Banana[sic] Pi are very similar to those made about PCs, especially in the earlier days, of the form "I want it to be more like <computer I'm used to>."

I have come to believe that this is really a form of saying "I want the computer I have at the price of this computer which can't do what I can do on the one I'm using." Sort of a having cake and eating it too sort of comment.

Looking at the various entrants in this space, the Pi, the Beaglebone Black, the Galileo, Etc it is clear to me that manufacturers are exploring this space. Its unfortunate that there isn't a lot of coherent feedback to them. I was talking to Carl Helmers last week (we were at the same conference) and mentioned that once again there is probably a need for a journal like the one BYTE magazine started out to be. A place where folks to deconstruct the various offerings that manufacturers were putting out there and having discussions about worked and what didn't work in that space. Unfortunately magazines are somewhat out of favor and there hasn't been a really solid tech site to fill that particular niche.
Nature will find a way... until humans kill it. If we can eradicate some species we can eradicate them all - except those little tardigrade things. It's one thing to slowly evolve enhancements to slow pressures/opportunities in the environment. It's another whole thing to be able to withstand a quickly-emerging, severe bottleneck in your particular environment.
Are you saying CEOs and employees are the same? I assume you'll get a lot of blowback for other reasons for this comment, but just logically - what are you talking about?

As a side note: in Eich's case, he didn't "deserve" to be fired the same way G did - it just became apparent that he wasn't going to be a good fit for the community, and for Mozilla the community is their employees (basically)
I would like it if HN could be divided into separate sub-topics, or have each submission tagged with a few topical tags, like "web development", "javascript", "compilers", "linux", "graphics", etc. For bonus points, allow HN to be customized for each user so that they can subscribe to their favorite topics, which then populate the front-page and /best page.

I find that keeping up with news on HN is essential to me learning new things and becoming more skilled in my field. However, HN caters to a wide variety of interests, and it is time-consuming to have to sift through a bunch of posts on topics that I'm not really interested in.
That video didn't debunk anything. It's just 22 minutes of straw man. It's never been about eating exactly what hunter-gatherers ate, and it has never followed any assumption that the hunter-gatherer diet is best possible diet.

It is based on evidence that hunter-gatherers showed excellent health, and those transitioning to a neolithic diet showed a health decline. Following that, it takes the sensible action and imitates the fundamentals of the diet, backed up by more cutting-edge studies starting to go against the "high-grain, low fat" spiel. It never claims to be "the best possible diet", nor the actual diet that hunter-gatherers ate. It doesn't need to be either to be a smart decision for your health.

Of course, I get the feeling that this is not really about whether or not the diet is valuable. People tend to take sides on the matter, and videos like these only worsen the problem. Most diets around are healthier than what you normally eat.
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First, I'd like to point that those are gender, not species. Those together add to thousands of species, and you forgot at least about Lutzomyia.

That said, I completely agree that we should get rid of them. And think it's more likely than you stated, if we can extinguish so many species, it can't be so much harder to do it on purpose. Currently we are barely trying, with techniques from the earlier XX century.
Curry flavored promises
Actually we could do it, it's basically "just" loading gaia's system app packaged for android web runtime. That would still need quite some work as we don't have yet feature parity on some api support.
That sounds like a cool contributor project that could be mentored.
Dart and AngularDart on the front end. Scala + Play! Framework in the middle tier. Scala + Akka on the back end. PostgreSQL. Jenkins for CI, Ansible for deployment.
I actually liked the original title better, as it communicated the main point of the article -- that a ton of critical infrastructure is riding on the shoulders of a very small number of people -- better. Changing it to "Steve Marquess and Stephen Henson of OpenSSL" doesn't really get that point across, since it doesn't make clear that Marquess and Henson essentially are OpenSSL.

EDIT: It is definitely refreshing to see editorial decisions like this being explained clearly, though, and the community being asked to provide feedback. So my thanks to dang for that, even if we disagree about the title :-D
There was a national science foundation study a few years back that suggested if you removed ALL mosquitos from the earth, there were in nearly EVERY case alternative food supplies for animals that currently eat mosquitos.

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2010/07/scientists-go-ahead-kil...
I'd go so far as to say that any claims of cereus types of foods being "healthier" are specious as well. As long as you're getting the required sustanence and not dying of anaphylaxis or whatever, you're good.

This is true, so far as it goes. But obesity is unhealthy, and some food types are much more likely to make people obese than others. Specifically, "foods" (in quotes because often the worst offenders are drinks) with high caloric density and low satiability mean people take on huge amounts of calories without feeling full.
He no longer works for Microsoft
Sure, but your dual-core x86 machine will be larger, likely require a fan, and eat quite a bit more electricity than the Banana Pi.
You use the term 'front end' very differently to how I would. Some of things sound like middle tier.
I've noticed that particularly in web development there is this trend of writing - and using - countless frameworks that add much more complexity with little gain, and where the response to existing complexity is to... add more of it. IMHO that doesn't seem like a very good way of doing things, since now you have to learn not only JS, but also all these extra indirections piled on top, to understand how your web application works. It's not doing any favours for the browser that has to run all this code either. On the whole, this just feels to me like an immensely wasteful way of doing things.
Archimedes had that conceptual argument, but the modern definition is based on a lot of math Archimedes didn't have, including model theory and the algebra of ordered fields.
Global flows in a digital age
I appreciate that you're here to answer questions, Matt. Two questions if you're still around:

1. Are you saying that Dustin lied about submitting a drivers license? His blog post clearly states that he submitted a drivers license. So are you saying he is lying?

2. Why do you allow clients to pay you before you've properly identified the freelancer? That process seems completely backwards and asking for trouble. I would expect that a freelancer would need to verify their identify before they are allowed to even be listed in the marketplace, way before you would accept funds on their behalf.
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It's a big and slow mosquito, seems very badly adapted to here (but somehow, it spreads at cities).

Why, between several thousands of other species, do people keep pointing that this one will grow to fill the aegypti's niche?
Is Bitcoin Really The Next Internet?
Just sent you an email. Curious to know what kind of CMS you're using as I'm working on a similar project.
I think this is true for marginal zones (low quality soil) where there shouldn't be soy but that's the only crop that will make a profit. Part of the problem is the insane taxation.
With the costs of growing other crops I guess it's not that bad, it's not good soil anyway. The good zones are doing OK.

Not an expert, so take it with a grain of salt.
um. quite often true for me.. before figuring it out : hard. after figuring it out : easy. sometimes i describe things as complex or non-trivial..hmmm...
THINK Pascal was doing this on the Mac in the mid 1980s... TP was an amazing piece of engineering given its functionality and the environment it provided.
This is my go-to video when I need inspiration. Really opened up my mind when I first watched it a couple of years ago.
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I know it's not exactly what you're thinking of, but still interesting: http://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
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Detailed download numbers documenting A Dark Room's rise to #1 Paid App
It's a programmatic advertising exchange. There are many fitting the same description out there.
To be fair ngmin already fixes the injector problem, in most cases.
Just watched this video, very inspiring indeed.
I wonder what the next stage of this will be. Will programmeers of the future marvel that we even had to use keyboards at some point?
You meant SCO Xenix right?
I submitted this a couple years ago but it got no traction then:

http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Part1.html (Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience)

Here's some details on the Apollo guidance computer:

http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch2-5.html

Edit: just resubmitted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7657876