skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Coding the Legos of the Future?
Who would have known that software agressively advertised through pop-ups, pop-unders and pop-everything-else on torrent websites would be malware?
That's not comfortable, but a reality.

i.e.: see point 23: "fire quickly"
"You have to fire a decent amount of people in this business"

"Looking across the 600 sales hires he’s worked with" (point 13)

Sounds like a lot of firings.
Not all that often, unless either a) you're in the habit of frequently making broad changes, or b) your build tool doesn't take account of modification times.
The problem is structural though. Replace the first past the post voting rules with a system that allows for coalition government, and you will magically see the diminishment of special interest influence across the board.
Show HN: My first game for iOS – Made with Unity
Thanks. It is all native. No special UI frameworks.
ShowHN: A better way to view HN,Slashdot and your Newsgroups
SageBump is basically what I see sitting on top of other news sites. Simply put, it is an aggregator of aggregators, customised to your preferences at 2 levels, on both a domain specific account level and a wider general site level.

Any questions such as why there is no other product out there like this, just let me know!

Thanks =)
Are you guys serious? The giant picture of the child's hand on the puzzle and a picture of that same puzzle on the ipad didn't give you a clue??? I'm sure other people have trouble drawing meaning from images but I believe it is a small percentage.
According to a March 2014 budget request, the Air
Force plans to spend $14 million on the project this
year, and a total of $40.6 million between 2014 and 2019.

I'm ashamed to admit it, but that seems incredibly cheap. I didn't think the military could change a roll of toilet paper for less than $50 million. (Much respect to those in the military - I think we're all just used to hearing about programs that cost hundreds of millions or billions of dollars)
That puts you in the vast minority of web users (I'm with you, fwiw). Given that, I wouldn't have any expectations that sites are going to tailor their experience to people like us. Video is used for these things because video works, and repeating in text what you showed in the video is repetitive for people who do watch the video.
Thanks. I didn't know this. I get that they need to monitor clicks for revenue, but mouse movements!
DEFCON CTF Qualification Challenge #1
To say that this social darwinist opinion is problematic is the under statement of the week on HN. How bold of a decision was immigration in light of the Irish Potato Famine or African Slave trade? Why was the decision to go to Australia less bold and less defining than deciding to go to America? It is also worth pointing out that America was discovered 10,000 years ago. Is that the discovery you were referring to?
> The most extreme case is David Whitlock, the M.I.T.-trained chemical engineer who invented AO+. He has not showered for the past 12 years.

It's hard for me to imagine that these people don't stink and that after a workout, run or hike they don't smell "strongly". I guess you can still rinse off in the shower to get sweat and grime off, but not use any soap.

For the sake of my lady, I'd have to at least give the undercarriage a good scrubbing.
Term limits would help in some ways, but as another poster mentioned it can give even more power to those that control the political money.

The most interesting proposal I've heard is to give tax rebates for political contributions. If you agree with the SCOTUS ruling that money equals speech then giving everyone some cash to spend on politics might give a voice to the masses.
...and said successor would find himself un-funded, and thus unable to run in the next election cycle. Being a congresscritter is expensive, and the state doesn't pay for it. That means incumbent or prospective legislators have to appeal to the very special interests to whom they're subsequently beholden to get the job in the first place. If you demonstrate that you're unwilling to do what they want, you won't get the money you need.
Monday Development S.A.
Stolica Wielkopolski to szybko ewoluujący się region. Nic zatem niesamowitego, że deweloperzy oddają do wykorzystania coraz to innowacyjne budynki. Budynki te, dzięki odpowiedniej odległości, wysokiej właściwości wykończeń wnętrz, a także przyszłościowym technologiom użytym podczas prac nad budowlą mieszkań, umożliwiają luksus i swobodę. Jakie jeszcze cechy charakteryzują budowle w stolicy Wielkopolski ? Generalny Wykonawca dba najczęściej o każdy pierwiastek mieszkań -budowane są zgodnie z najświeższymi trendami projektowania. Są funkcjonalne, przestrzenne i wyposażone w dużo nowych rozwiązań np. mieszkania Poznań Sołacz Monday Development -Okolica nowo tworzonych budowli ma pokaźne znaczenie w globalnej ewaluacji realizacji. Deweloperzy dbają o to, by nieopodal powstałych budowli istniały grunty zieleni oraz przedszkola. Porządnie rozwinięta infrastruktura, nieduża odległość od centrum to następne warunki, jakie powinny spełniać domy o najwyższym poziomie. Struktury nieruchomości muszą ponieważ realizować równocześnie prognozowania jednostek doceniających spokój oraz tych, którzy lubią przyjęty styl bycia.
It is both over and under diagnosed. Teachers are likely to refer any highly disruptive kids for screenings, while ignoring less disruptive kids.

However, being disruptive isn't a particularly good proxy for "has ADHD" and someone without ADHD that is referred has a higher chance of being diagnoesd with ADHD than someone with that is not referred. This results in a lot of kids who end up being treated who shouldn't and plenty of kids who go untreated who could benefit.
Managing inhomogeneously bitemporal data with Datomic and clojure
This submission managed to break four rules. (1) It rewrote the title ("One 11-story building is the smallest country in the world"); (2) the rewritten title was linkbait; (3) the rewritten title was false; (4) the article is garden-variety politics. The latter, admittedly, is disguised a bit, but you need only read the last sentence to see its point.
Futuristic Construction Materials
If the clean room was located in Danger HQ it was still a clean-room implementation.
Well software hardening against EMP's is pretty horrible.

Hardware hardeneing is easier, just make large band gap's in your transistors.
Deedle: Exploratory data library for .NET v1.0 Release
Great product (at least from an ingenuity point of view; would be interesting to see how kids react to it)

Side question: What is this style of info presentation called? Basically, a full-page-width webpage, with very sparse information that slowly shows up as you scroll down. I'm not too fond of it, but I see it a lot lately, so I assume it has been shown to lead to higher conversion rates. Does this presentation style have a name?
A web-based version of Cosmic Osmo would have been pretty cool. Alas!
Thanks!

(by the way, I want to visit Singapore in the summer once I have my finals done. But that's beside the point.)
This is interesting because I actually have the exact opposite setup. I only wanted to see the news feed, not anything on either side. I added these custom filters to AdBlock+:

##*#leftCol
##*#rightCol

And it's just want I wanted
Nice to hear that AGG lives on. I remember exploring it in around 2002 and being mighty impressed with it.
TLDR: The ability to store fat is an evolutionary adaption, therefore obesity isn't a problem.
Relativity – Classical Physics – Speed and Time
"Another important thing to know is that no AV software is capable of intercepting a brand-new virus."

This is simply not true. Here's an test where AV products are frozen before the brand new malware samples are collected:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/retrospective-test/
It's Time to Kill Surface
It's a safe bet that this product is not for you. Constructive comments are one thing, but anger over the fact that the value prop of a kid's game doesn't resonate with you is...awkward.
Looks SO awesome! that's the kind of article i like to see on HN!.Looks great,cant wait my kids to try that.
Really? How much are a mirror that you have to fashion yourself, a fisheye lens, and an iPad stand going to cost you? And after you've found all that you still don't have the games. $58 shipped to you seems pretty reasonable to me.
I have two options fo ron the go. Depending on how heavy I travel these are: Thinkpad T61 or Packard Bell dot-s netbook.

Both run archlinux with i3 as window manager so I usually don't really notice perforamnce issues on the netbook.

For an editor I was always a fan of vim but I recommend using what you are comfortable with. IDEs like Eclipse are nice but if performance is at a premium I recommend jsut sticking to an editor and a shell.

Version control i would recommend git.
Yeah, but their 3D video compression sucks
All issues with the article aside, it does seem like a poor idea to prescribe stimulants to a 3 year old for a disorder that is still hard to diagnose in early elementary school.
Antibacterial chemicals, not antibiotics. But you're right in general. It's something that we do that we have no evidence is actually good for us. We live in symbiosis with bacteria. Sterilizing your gut would kill you.
Speaking of airports, the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5[1] was not without problems..

On the day of opening it quickly became apparent that the new terminal was
not operating smoothly, and British Airways cancelled 34 flights and was later
forced to suspend baggage check-in. Over the following 10 days some
42,000 bags failed to travel with their owners, and over 500 flights were
cancelled.

Of course, Berlin's new airport[2] is in another league:

Originally planned to be opened in 2010, Berlin Brandenburg Airport has
encountered a series of delays due to poor construction planning, management
and execution. [...] any dates prior to late 2016 are considered unlikely.

Originally budgeted at €2.8 billion, already in 2012 that number had increased to €4.3 billion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Heathrow_Terminal_5#Open...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin-Brandenburg_Internationa...
> Then they must find a copy of the virus, examine it and add it to the list of virus definitions used by their software.

Strictly speaking, this isn't true. The major AV companies use file behaviours to try to stop viruses as a first line of defense, something like "if a file is an executable and it tries to run some manner of encryption on files in the My Documents folder, its likelihood of being a virus is high". AV companies use file checksums as a last-ditch effort because most viruses out there are polymorphic (they have some unused data section at the end that randomly changes, which busts checksum detection).

A lot of AV companies also offer virus cleanup services, so if you do happen to get hit by a virus that snuck by, they can help reduce the damage.

Nobody's saying "use AV and you don't have to ever worry again". AV is just another piece of the defense puzzle, along with user vigilance (don't click that link in that email from "eBay"), operating system restrictions, network restrictions (to help prevent data egress), and so on.
It doesn't look to me like an original source is the basis of the kind submission here. The byline is "New York Times," but this submission is not from the New York Times website.

The submitted article mentions a study published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and I see that the CDC has a homepage on ADHD[1] with numerous subpages.

Searching Google News for more news on the recent statement discovers stories[2] leading back to the 16 May 2014 report in the New York Times[3] mentioning statements by a CDC official at a recent conference (that is, not yet an official report from the CDC nor a peer-reviewed journal article). The conference presentation, according to the New York Times report, is alarming to many doctors who work with young children.

The bit about ADHD as an evolutionary adaptation is tacked on in reference to ideas from "Journalist Thom Hartmann," who doesn't seem to have any particular expertise in health reporting. There are better sources for the same underlying idea, that some of the behavioral signs characteristic of ADHD may not be maladaptive in all life circumstances.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/index.html

[2] http://www.indianagazette.com/news/home-lifestyle/rise-in-ad...

http://www.the-leader.com/article/20140520/NEWS/305209955

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/among-experts-scrutiny-...
Show HN: "Email This Page" with a single click
How do these games benefit from including a tablet?
From what I can learn from the video the tablet assists you with counting points and lets you know when you've arrived at the right answer. Sure, it makes things more convenient. But what is wrong (from an educational point of view) with letting children add their points/checking their solutions themselves?
Samsung is making a VR headset for its phones and tablets
Great input device! Very cool work.
There's also an extended version of that joke involving Italian car mechanics and Swiss lovers.
Does this work using localStorage? What about PouchDB?
> Getting off caffeine is trivial. Adderal withdrawal can be very serious for many people. I consider most ADHD meds to be pretty serious drugs. I don't think that's very controversial.

Caffeine withdrawal is no joke either. Getting off caffeine is not trivial, and "can be very serious for many people" as well.

Whether or not your statement is controversial, your implication is not pharmacologically correct, in the sense that caffeine and amphetamines are both comparably serious drugs. It is not very meaningful to compare the addictive potential of two substances, but to the extent that we can, the two are roughly the same[0].

Contrary to public perception, it is not correct to say that amphetamines are inherently "more serious" than caffeine; the means of ingestion, dosage, and (most importantly) the individual's personal biochemistry vary enough that you cannot compare those two drugs directly.

[0] The reason it is not a meaningful comparison is that the actual chemical compound is only one small factor that influence substance abuse and/or dependence. The means of ingestion alone is far more significant than the actual compound being ingested, which often surprises people to learn.
It's not prima facie ridiculous that the DVD player might be conscious, as let's assume it is prima facie ridiculous - then it would be prima facie ridiculuos in 1969 with a tape player, in 1979 with a VCR, in 1989 with a CD-ROM drive, 1999 with a DVD-ROM drive, in 2009 with a Blu-RAY drive, in 2019 with x, in 2029 with y, and there is no reason it shouldn't still be prima facie ridiculous even if at some point along the way the thing happens to be conscious as a side-effect, without this being necessarily visible in its outputs. So you can't just call it prima facie ridiculous and be done with it - you need some other argument.
For that matter, in The State of the Art a Culture ship actually observes Earth in the 1960's.
They do not equate to it, but they can cause it. In the example the OP was giving the phone would have been compromised by a side-loaded app. Quite possible.
Vinod Khosla is back with some more predictions about the future of healthcare
sounds very similar to http://mydoor.co/
But that can't be done without the right people in office, and the first step towards getting the right people in office is to identify who the wrong people in office are.
I don't need another Markdown Parser. I need another Markdown.

Markdown has outgrown its original spec, yet Gruber both clings on to it and is unwilling to update it. Meanwhile, different websites and different parsers proliferate, each adding new extensions with varying degrees of usefulness and compatibility, all under the name "Markdown" or some variation.

I wish GitHub would drop the name "GitHub flavored Markdown", give it a clever new name, a cleverly branded website and use their bully pulpit to cast off Gruber's shackles and effect change.
Confessions of a Perpetual Freeloader: When to Jettison the Freemium Tier
0x20 Lessons Learned as a Professional Developer
Sagebump is a highly customisable aggregator or aggretators.

Have any questions or feedback? Then let me know!

Thanks = )
It benefits the companies which sell tables and such games.

If the game benefits from it, I have my doubts.
Pfiser, Microsoft, and IBM all sponsor the startup accelerator MassChallenge. So they all have put some money towards helping grow the startup ecosystem, presumably because it is in their interest somehow...

http://masschallenge.org/about/sponsors
I've yet to see a mobile SSH client that's as usable as Terminal Monkey.
I agree with your statement that ADHD is a completely mislabled condition.

HOWEVER, "executive function disorder" is too general. Medically, it refers to a class of disorders that includes not just ADHD, but also Asperger's syndrome, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and more[0].

I agree with your general sentiment; I just want to point out that we cannot use the term interchangeably, as many people who have executive function disorders do not have ADHD.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_dysfunction#Executiv...
I hope this allows Javascript games to completely displace Flash -- without becoming as big an attack surface as Flash and Java became.

Right now implementing an HTML5 or JavaScript multiplayer game is still a considerable exercise in navigating browser differences.
The Strange Scourge of Light Pollution
Exactly whose jurisdiction does Guantanamo fall under if not America?

And why are the laws of that jurisdiction not applied to those people?
That's exactly right. The only thing you ever know for sure is you can always improve the process.
Bullshit. He didn't flee to Russia. He was fleeing through Russia, and we made it plain we'd down any plane we thought he might be on. What is he supposed to do? Leak Russian secrets? At this point, there's no good he can do better than remaining free and remain vocal - and that's what he's doing.
Good write-up, but IMO these kinds of posts are not useful for most people (despite there being many just like it) - the 30,000 foot view is too much information for a beginner but too basic for someone who is knowledgeable in the field. In my ten years of being fairly immersed in machine learning there was maybe a one month period where an article like this would have been very useful, and that was a couple of years in after I had mastered the basics of the more useful techniques (like generalized linear models and SVMs) and was ready to learn what else was out there. Honestly, learning the high-level overview was not hard at that point.

I think a solid machine learning book coupled with a chart like this (http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_map...) is the most useful way to approach machine learning.
And if you look hard enough, you can find soap that doesn't have antibacterial chemicals (no triclosan). I carry around a small squirt tube of liquid soap for this reason, and also because most soap in public bathrooms is atrocious in other ways (doesn't lather, dries the skin, etc).
"The reason I wanted to try the solution that I posted is that I didn't want to include IV, IX, XC, ... into the list of symbols as they are made up of base symbols (just for the sake of the exercise)."

An interesting choice - it seems to make the problem harder than it should be.

This is really solvable in about 6-8 lines of code otherwise.
We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
You are trying to shave a yak, but political yaks are much harder to shave than devops ones.
i use a gmail extension that does the same thing
Sounds like you got in at just the right time, congratulations!
NASA is working in imperial units? Why?
> Do you know who can see what you are posting on Facebook, including your photos, birthday and personal cellphone number?

> Chances are that you don’t.

Wrong guess. Chances are that I perfectly know that I have set everything to public so that I force myself to think about what I post.

Because if I don't friend someone now, it does not mean that I might not friend them in the future just because they're family of my sister's future husband or whatever. Or the famous "friends of friends" share option that basically includes everyone on my continent.
The article and video were about over-diagnosis of ADHD (in children) in the US if I'm not mistaken. About the discovery of America etc - my bad, yes I was referring to the historically rather recent influx of European settlers after the Columbus "re-re-discovery" to be "exact".
Show HN: Bubble – an iBeacon-powered web browser
You protect yourself by not clicking on executables you don't trust (or running them in a VM). Its not magic, and its better than a false sense of security from anti-virus which is easily bypassed / poisoned (for example, even a clean bitcoin client will set off AV alarms).
Mobile Panel Looks at How to Engage Students through Their Devices
I found in current version of Safari, the rendering of webGL still have some issues on Retina display, It also cost too much energy.

So I will be satisfied even if Apple can only solve the most of these problems on desktop platform and make it on by default.
It's a much smaller, and probably far easier to identify set to enumerate the "right" ones currently in office. I'm pretty sure that set could be counted on the fingers of one hand, across both houses.
Exploring Mobility
I read through this quickly and completely missed the part where MacKeeper is Malware. Malware is a strong word for something that just has questionable utility.
If it really does work (sounds like it!), they'll just need to invent something to help aid the transition, before it can be really find mass-adoption.

From the way it sounds now, I'd make the switch only if I could find the time to take a month away from life... Maybe a vacation where all I do is remodel my house and have groceries delivered.
We new net neutrality codified in regulations so that google et. al. can't change their minds.
The educational world is besieged by companies convinced that their technology is not only the solution to our educational woes, but a fat business opportunity waiting to be exploited. Teachers in classrooms have been burned so many times by technology that fails to deliver and uneven implementation across the district, that they instinctively cover their wallets every time a new company shows up promising to "revolutionize" education.

Remember "Baby Einstein"? The company (owned by Disney) makes promises about how using their products will help develop young minds and was contradicted by researchers at the University of Washington. Lawsuits between Disney and UW followed, but Disney did ultimately offer refunds to parents that bought the DVD's. This is a classic example of a for-profit company making dubious claims about the educational value of their product.

And Educators get these proposals all - the - time. I've been in the educational/web space for 20 years, and frankly, nothing turns me off faster then saying your new start-up is going to solve education problems. Maybe it will, but you'd better be different then the long line of failed products before you...
Not a bad idea in the last, but I strongly suspect my kids would be more interested in creatively disassembling the iPad than playing with Osmo.