skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing a lot of baffling names on the Top 10 list.

What are all the aspirational car brands doing up there?

And Intel?

I doubt BMW or Intel is selling any more cars or chips because of facebook engagement.

Their products mostly sell themselves.
Ok, Starbucks is in.

Hipster coffee shops, out.
Ugh I really hope this anecdote is from the early nineties at the latest but I have serious doubts...
Hey look, another climate change denialist who doesn't mention the fact that we are measurably acidifying the oceans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification

Humans are releasing enough CO2 into the atmosphere that is being absorbed by the oceans as carbonic acid and killing ocean life.
WordPress demands $10,000 for DMCA takedown censorship
How'd you get them?
Wasn't aware of this but not surprised. My original comment was going to be to the part of "taking them out of craigslist" since people trying to use craigslist have to sift through their ads clogging up stuff.
>Nintendo is actually pretty clueless with market trends in general.

The whole Wii brand is itself perhaps the best example of it. I can not think of a more terrible name - or rather I couldn't until they released Wii U. Any success these consoles have is in spite of the branding, not because of it. (Which might go to show that branding is not terribly important after all, since the Wii was obviously very successful, and Wii U apparently did well at E3 this year.)
One thing that you have to respect about Google and Android, like a constantly changing (dare we say gentrifying and revitalizing) urban neighborhood - they aren't afraid to try new things, tear down old things, invest, and divest.

John Gruber had a much favorited tweet during WWDC that he revisited in his blog.

"Microsoft: one OS for all devices.

Apple: one continuous experience across all devices.

That tweet was massively popular,1 but I missed a word: across all Apple devices. Microsoft and Google are the ones who are more similarly focused. Microsoft wants you to run Windows on all your devices, from phones to tablets to PCs. Google wants you signed into Google services on all your devices, from phones to tablets to PCs."

http://daringfireball.net/2014/06/only_apple
That's not invalid and I don't debate that. JSON is obviously ubiquitous. It's just a bad format. A typical case of worse is better.

https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit has a few interesting corner cases, for example.
Me either. It seems like we kinda reached that point a while ago where hearing "Find us on Facebook and Twitter" became so repetitive from a business that you really couldn't help but tune it out.

That's just me, though.
This article reeks of cherry picked data and is written with a vitriolic bias. When you get to the end and "Fuck you, pay me" is repeated three times, it's a good reminder that you're reading some bullshit on the internet. Facebook is an affordable and effective place to advertise a brand, and it's worth paying much more than they charge.
A House With The Window To The West
It's hard for me to believe that 88% of a "random" sample of men know what "codec" is. Perhaps this vocabulary test was given mainly to people in Flanders. If so, I'm quite impressed with their general knowledge, especially of English words. I'd bet that no more than 8.8% of "random" males in the USA would know what "codec" is.
Curious: why choose to pay instead of using a free service like couchsurfing.org?
Like I said, it's a complex matter, and opinions differ.

But ultimately, it boils down to demographics. The Japanese haven't been having enough babies. One way or another, the people who think they're going to retire comfortably are in for a nasty shock, because there just aren't enough young people to produce what they expect to consume. And inflation looks like the most likely mechanism for this to happen.

As for the government debt, there are two ways out of the mess: inflation or default. And there's no way they're going to opt for default when they can just keep printing more money.

The only real solution (real in the economists sense of the word) is mass immigration, and that's not going to happen until Japan is absolutely desperate. The "200,000 immigrants" the article mentions isn't nearly enough. And in any case, Japan has such a poor record on immigration policy that I confidently expect them to bungle this one, too. Look at the failure of their recent "skilled migrants" program, or their disastrous program to recruit trained Philippino nursing staff, or the abuse and corruption in the "trainee worker" program, or ... I could go on.
Not wanting to subsidize Myrvhold != not wanting to pirate either. The option was presented, you don't have to take it.
It's amazing how often the cranks and pseudoscientists in math, evolution, 9/11 conspiracy-theories, and global warming turn out to be engineers.
No matter how you measure it, the Government of Japan is up to its neck in debt, and is still sinking.

Thing is, you need to measure the dept against some measure of economic activity ( or actually against some measure of pay back capability), and then the funny thing is that the higher the dept, the easier it is to get to sustainable levels by deficit spending. So dept goes from D to D + d and GDP goes from G to G + x d, solving for a critical multiplier x0 where the ratio stays constant,

x0 = G/D

So the more dept you have, the less productive need your stimulus program to be to reduce dept. Additionally, for this you can replace the measures by inflation adjusted measures and you get the same result, with some dependence on the real interest rate. ( Which can be negative.)

Additionally it is surprisingly hard to get hyperinflation, just printing a few percent of GDP in new money per year will not do the trick. ( Try occupation of a major industrial region, after the end of price controls plus a lost world war.)
He should rewrite the title.
I suggest...

10 Ways Journalism Has Changed You Won't Believe
Game Maker is actually pretty nice now that it comes with a physics engine (although I was annoyed when it took me like an hour to reimplement a project it took me weeks to do in an older version because everything was just there) ... I just wish it used something other than GML for its scripting language.
You got me stuck on your game for two days. I think I might just start coding an incremental game of my own. Cheers!
You can pretty much accept that now. That's how almost all public-facing job postings look for modest-living jobs (believe me, I've been scanning them). I'm assuming modest-living covers all standard bills allows for some amount of disposable income/savings per month in the low hundreds.

The two 'overrides' are choosing a field that allows demonstration of competency (programming, art, writing, etc.), and a network of referrals. Even with demonstrations, you may get passed up for someone with a degree.
Heh. Reminds me of http://www.blendogames.com/qc/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass http://www.nngroup.com/articles/2d-is-better-than-3d/
I agree with your sentiment. For instance, I have a friend who went to college but never used her degree, she is a stay at home mom. I feel that the cost of college is inflated by those who go to college just to go. Sure it's nice to have a degree, but I feel that college should be taken more seriously and not to be used as a babysitting/maturing center for 18-20somethings.

Just because one gets a college education does not mean they leave enlightened and educated OR that they will maintain their education through their life. An ASU online education, especially, will not ensure that people are education, credentialed sure, but definitely not educated, and I say this as an ASU student myself. They are always trying to get more and more people through the doors, we have a high acceptance rate but strangely enough we are a top school for recruiting.
in layman's terms anyone?
They were successfully brute forced in 2009: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_signing_key...
Happy to mirror this content as well, if uploading is an issue we can also accept a hard disk sent to the datacenter.
"Build an audience that secretly belongs to a social media mob at your own peril, and don’t be surprised when the brands and publishers that own their audiences are the only ones that survive."

Umm.... Buzzfeed's audience doesn't belong to FB. Neither does Upworthy's. Anyone can visit BuzzFeed.com without going thru FB. Anyone can receive an email link to BuzzFeed.com without FB. FB is just ANOTHER distribution method. It's a bonus, like search engines. Of course everyone wants to take advantage of it, if it's there. What the hell is this article even saying? Don't go to FB. It's an additional distribution method, that's all! Nobody is putting all their eggs in it.
Marshall Brain's Manna which has been mentioned before on HN is an interesting take on where automation and robots will take us.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Or it could be part of a sigmoid. How to interpret depends on whether you're an optimist or a skeptic.
> Some random bad design: if you turn off location services, which I do because of the marginal battery life, Maps will just sit around waiting for a location--it won't tell you to turn it on in the preferences.

I turn off location services (not because of the impact on battery life[0] but because I don't want to send my location to Google 24/7). Every time I open Google Maps and try to find the current location, I get a popup telling me to turn on location services[1].

[0] Neither GPS nor Google location services has a noticeable impact on battery life - the thing that will have a noticeable impact on battery life is when an app holds a lock on the GPS/location services (which actually has nothing to do with whether location services are on, since they can lock locations services even when they're off - an easy example of a culprit here is Foursquare's main app).

[1] https://imgur.com/pGh3TUE
Unfortunately one of the skills experts develop is the ability to detect bullshit arguments. It is difficult to convey skepticism to a lay audience.

One of the red flags this Rutan thing immediately sets off is that it is INCREDIBLY long, and despite that, doesn't provide any sense of what the structure of the argument it is providing will be.

Does he dispute the data that scientists have collected? Does he dispute the analyses? On what basis? Can he attribute the effects the scientists are pointing to to other causes? Does he simply think that the effects don't matter?

The main thing that's clear from all of his graphs is that he thinks that there's a lot of "scare tactics" going on.

But the fact that this thing is 100 pages long and doesn't appear to have any structure should trigger alarm bells by itself.
How America became uncompetitive and unequal
Robot doctors, online lawyers and automated architects: the future?
Based on what? Reference?
I think the reason that, as the article puts it, "anonymity soured" is less that the 'net was full of dickheads than that suddenly large companies found ways of encouraging people to give up their privacy in exchange for shiny trinkets. Facebook and LinkedIn both operate off the premise that "Hey, share with us all your intimate business and you'll get something out of it", and a lot of people fell for that.

By and by, though, the mainstream is perhaps (and I'm being cautiously optimistic here) realizing what all of us back in the days of chatrooms and BBSs and whatnot in the 90s already knew: you should be very careful about what you tell people you don't aren't meeting face-to-face.
If you don't hit the locate button but instead just get directions from "my location" you won't get the popup.
>The idea behind LLVM was to have the various compiler stages and tooling be re-usable and plugin like, unlike the monolithic design GCC had.

More specifically, the idea behind LLVM was "life-long program compilation and optimization" in stages at translation time, link time, install time, and runtime. The natural way to realize this was modular components at different levels working around a good serializable IR.

If your goal is a traditional once-and-done AOT compiler, you might be forgiven for architecting something more heavily coupled and interdependent like GCC, whose IR was an afterthought (by 15 years.) LLVM's focus has shifted somewhat, but those original designs created a kind of serendipitous foundation.
In addition there's also the less rosy issue that if G.Hash becomes more powerful than the other pools and starts doing small-scale theft or other activities, it's safer for your money to "pick the winning team".
wtf is 'brand engagement'? does that mean likes and comments on a post? it would be great if either article spelled that out because if companies are just chasing eyes and clicks, that seems like a stupid game to play that could lose value as brand realize it doesn't necessarily mean conversions.
Bitcoin hack to ignore transactions sending to 1dice addresses
Mark Andreesen: Turning Detroit into drone valley
Setun – Soviet Ternary Computer
I've noticed that brands now post far too much stuff. Back in the day, if you 'Became a Fan' of a brand/band/organisation, you might expect maybe two posts a week, maybe less. Now liking a page means you can expect to be subjected to 5+ posts per day. No wonder people are hiding them from their feed/being more careful with what they follow on Facebook. People don't necessarily want to see 20.1% more posts from a brand than they did this time last year (and from a user end, it's good to see that Facebook is cutting it back).

On a related note, recently my group of close friends created a group on Facebook, which was originally to help with organising events/activities (because group messaging was becoming unweildy and distracting). The requirement for adding someone to the group is 'would anyone else be upset if the new member invited themselves along to anything posted here', so it's relatively small - about 20 members. But we've been using it for about 3 months, and it has almost become a social network in itself - people post things during the day, we interact without worrying how it looks to outsiders, and there are no posts which are 'showing off' the way facebook status updates sometimes do. I'm not being constantly marketed to. Facebook is fun again - like it was in university.
The article is much about look and not enough about what makes Android different.

The two biggest changes in Android were the Fragment class and a greater emphasis on multiple layouts to scale UIs across many screen geometries, and Google Play Services.

Outwardly, Android looks much much prettier. But it's the same Home app, with an evolved but fundamentally the same AppWidget architecture under that prettier face.

Android's core features, like AIDL-based IPC, Intent and filters for Intent types, and ContentProvider have been remarkably stable and constant. And they have been under-appreciated and under-exploited, with the exception of ACTION_SEND intents for the "Share" menu. Too few apps expose an API or expose their data through a ContentProvider. Too few apps provide Intent matching for actions other than ACTION_SEND.
Planescape: Torment's Vision Statement (1997) [pdf]
> Having to kill an app or cleaning their local cache are things I don't want to do on my phone.

I haven't had to do this in a long long time. What apps were you using that required you to do this?
Transportation Department Aims to Regulate Smartphone Maps
> You haven't made the case that the NSA's shenanigans are in any way "inherent" to the internet as currently designed and implemented.

Not the NSA's shenanigans, the shenanigans of any properly resourced foreign (or domestic!) intelligence service. After all, the U.S. itself suffers the same problem in reverse from China and Russia and God only knows who else.

If there's anything I've learned from hacktivists, it's that if you leave your stuff on the open Internet it will be exploited eventually, the only question is who will be exploiting it.
Sorry for not being clear. I meant a merge in the form of {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3} merged with {"b": 20} returning {"a": 1, "b": 20, "c": 3}. Like Python's update() or PHP's array_replace_recursive() although PHP's a little richer.
Yes, I do: https://i.imgur.com/srw0gMj.png
Good point, I only wish I'd seen it in time to fix my comment.
How to get customer validation done using online survey?
I need to get input from consumer to understand market need. I tried with few groups on Facebook, Twitter but not great response. It's more over from friends. Looking for general feedback. what's the best place to conduct user validation test?
Well, I viewed the article as nothing of value - the actual study (done by Simply Measured) is more interesting. This article is nothing more than a republishing of the results with the vitriol that you rightly call out.
It has a Wikipedia page :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Edit: it was pointed out earlier further downthread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7894415
So Argentina, Uruguay or France are not relevant in football history?
Not to mention the absurd piece claiming that spain was able to get their first Cup because they put their regional differences aside... or when they say that in the 60s and 70 the whole world was north american culture except for Brazilian football... and so many more...
A very, very bad article. Sad, bc there are so many interesting things to say about what the title talks about
>In other words, unlike everyone else in the world, Abe listened to Milton Friedman, and the results are looking good.

This is absolute horseshit. Japan has been following Friedman's proscriptions (QE forever) for the last 20 years! Look where it got them!

Abe has actually continued in these footsteps with one fairly minor difference - he's mixed in a 25% Keynesian spending kick with the QE. This has propelled a bit of inflation and wage growth, along with the business-as-usual propping up asset prices.

Now this author is trying to claim that this was thanks to cutting corporate taxes and QE. These are the policies that Japan DIDN'T change with Abe. Furthermore, these are the policies that are causing the Japanification of the West's economy.

Abe's plan would have been a major success (instead of a dribble of success) if he just cut the Milton Friedman inspired bullshit QE entirely and printed money and spent it on employing people until inflation and wage growth were up to normal levels.

>Boy, was I wrong. I was wrong, wrong, wrong.

He's still wrong, wrong, wrong.
What a horrible title. 71% of men knew "bodice", that's hardly "not known to men".
> Battery life is still not acceptable

How do you know this is an Android issue rather than a hardware-specific one?

It's hard to come to a strong conclusion without having hardware that runs both iOS and Android.

Unless there are major power-oriented architectural differences in iOS, which I would be interested in hearing about if that is the case.
Thank you very much!!! :)
If you heat water under a high enough pressure, when you release the pressure it instantly becomes stream.

Normally, when you boil water the vapourisation happens piecemeal. That's why you see bubbles rising to the surface. For supercritically heated water, the vapourisation is a runaway chain reaction, triggered by a reduction in pressure, so the whole body of water flashes into stream.

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Edit: added note about reduction in pressure being the trigger.
The article says it's based on "the first 500K tests completed" of http://vocabulary.ugent.be/wordtest/start

Then the sample is probably taken from internet dwellers who are interested in seeing how good their vocabulary is. I wonder if that's also why Paladin is so high up on that list.
The problem is the correlation between better income and degree is weak

Oh is it?
He offers very little charity to the subject of his critique and dives right into reactionary rhetoric. I waited patiently for the slide with the lizard-people but it didn't come. Sadly, it seems, this whole boon-doggle has been caused by grant-seeking academics, ratings-obsessed media, and opportunistic eco-political activists. Too tame for my liking.

I'm not involved enough in climate science to know one way or another if the IPCC's findings are biased. However I like to believe that the simple solution is the answer: that a team of hundreds (thousands?) of highly-specialized people have staked their lives on this project. From talking with my acquaintances in various science fields I find it improbable that people do it for the money. You could have a more comfortable working environment writing Javascript web apps to share photos with strangers. That leaves out grant-seeking academics -- hardly pay dirt. Ratings obsessed media? Even Al Gore's stunts pale in comparison to the deluge of profits from block buster films. Weather is a good scare for news but murderers and corrupt officials tend to make the prime time. That leaves opportunistic activists?

I guess? Seems unlikely that they'd have been able to orchestrate a conspiracy of this scale on their own simply to get their message out. Fudging ICPP data from hundreds (thousands?) of experiments alone would be rather difficult to do as an activist on the outside...

but what about on the inside? Might make a flop of a movie but I doubt it could be true.

All we have here are some lofty claims that science is wrong and a lone test-engineer has found the truth: climate change is just a scare tactic used by the Alarmists to fool you into... buying electric cars, trying to use less energy, and recycling? I don't get it.
I don't disagree with anything you are saying.

But often economic management is delaying a crisis until another problem makes it go away.

If Abe can get the economy growing again it makes it more likely other changes will occur - like the female participation rate increasing.

The consequences of that are unpredictable. One possible scenario is that it could partially reverse the trend of a shrinking workforce.

Economic growth also makes inflation unnecessary to repay debt (since tax receipts increases with growth giving the government an alternate path to repaying debt).

Also worth noting is that some inflation (non-hyperinflation, but higher than comparable nations) would help devalue the Yen, which would make Japanese exports more attractive again.

Anyway, I guess my whole message is that focusing too much on too long-term consequences is often unhelpful in economics. The system is too chaotic to predict that far, and usually tends towards equilibrium.
> but most of what I've read (and that's not a lot, I'm no expert) seems to have indicated that it hasn't really worked.

Well, the primary goal was reflation, so by that measure, it's been a resounding success so far. Growth, exports, and consumer spending have been boosted a lot, too. I'm a little worried that the sales tax increase will reverse this trend, but we will see.
"Cleaning local cache" particularly befuddles me. My first smartphone came loaded with Gingerbread and I don't remember ever having to do that, much less having to do it in recent memory.
Namegrep, domain name search for hackers
> Carbon Dioxide content is very small, invisible on a bar chart.

Anyone raising the point that "CO2 is only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere" immediately makes me suspicious. The implication, I guess, is that because it is a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, CO2 can't possibly be that important.

But of course every plant, every animal, and every person you know is made out of carbon that was very recently atmospheric CO2. So it's at least a little important.

And if someone is .0001% ricin, they are dead. A few parts per billion turn a crystal of silicon into a semiconductor. A dosage of 0.05% chromium turns a crystal of aluminum oxide into a ruby. So even small chemical changes can have a big effect.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_point
I thought the Z-Machine technology was really interesting. It seems that it was what caused games like Zork to be successful, but also what caused their graphical games to fail.
Gibbs Sampling in Haskell