skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The human brain is the most complex thing in the known universe. Scientists know a lot about it but there is a huge amount more to learn.

Looking at dreams and out-of-body experiences is interesting to help answer your question.

There have been studies trying to prove out-of-body experiences were real rather than created inside of the brain by placing phrases above hospital rooms to see if anyone remembers ever seeing these. To my knowledge nobody has seen any of these phrases during an out-of-body experience.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-body_experience

Dreams can seem just as real as real life so I'd speculate that there is nothing that happens in our brains that can't be explained by our brains chemistry.

There have also been many types of experiences from taking prescription and recreational drugs. DMT is said to transport you to other sides of the universe and allow you to see machines and beings that you could otherwise never imagine. I've heard of one person saying that they started taking a new medication and could create persistent worlds within their brains that they could visit and continue to build upon each night, then the dream world they created disappeared and never returned once they stopped taking the medication.
This is exactly what it's used for.
The line that stood out to me was the quote from Stepanov, about C++ being the only language in which it was possible to implement the STL. To most people, that would have been a hint that perhaps the design of the STL was flawed...

I think the STL may have been the worst thing to have happened to C++. It could have been so much nicer if something like Qt (the core part) was adopted instead.
Although the limited self driving systems we have already on Audis and the like are catching on already. I guess the driver has overall control so it's treated legally like a cruise control or similar. I think the main barrier at the moment to the adoption of the current limited systems is cost. If it became a $500 option I think basically all new cars would have it.
It looks like there's also a 30-day limit on "deployments" in the free tier. It's not 100% clear to me what that means, but I'd guess it means public-facing apps built on top of the API need a paid account to deploy more than as temporary/test setups.
The figure in the back of that picture looks like it could have been pasted in?
I see. Still, the attacker has multiple surfaces to try and trace them through. Unless they are very careful, you would expect that they tend to slip every now and then, making it possible to find them? I would imagine that a dedicated security team within law enforcement would be able to get a pretty good success rate, but that doesn't appear to be the case?
That struck me as very weird as well. I never heard of this CPU, so I looked it up. Turns out it's not supposed to go fast: the designers boast of a tiny implementation and dense code, and it only intended for "light administrative tasks".

The design is pretty neat. It's a stack machine, no registers, and literally a bytecode: each instruction is 1 byte long. The only exception seems to be a little hack in the IM (push constant) instruction to allow chaining to build long constants.
Enhancing the blit/memcpy functions would also be a good example of this.
Reminds me of http://captainforever.com in the way you scavenge parts and build a custom vehicle.
Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?
I am a developer and the startup I joined as employee #2 a year and a half ago has been growing steadily. There are now double digits employees and I've been given more responsibility and authority.

Aside from development, some of my responsibilities up to this point have already included project management, staff management and proposal writing. Now I am joining the senior management team and taking on more strategic responsibilities, including determining the direction of many of the company’s future plans and projects.

There are several paths I am looking at for preparing myself for my new responsibilities. I thought I’d start a discussion as out of the demographic on HN, I am sure I am not the only one in such a situation.

Self-teaching directions I’ve been looking at so far are:
-	Business Analyst processes.
-	Agile planning
-	Agile requirements modeling
-	Effective proposals
-	Business development

Although there is certainly no absence of literature in this area, I've found it hard to find good recommendations. Does anyone have any suggestions for specific books in those areas, or any other areas that would benefit a developer taking on a more strategic role?
20 times this. Sounds like they're already burying Windows Phone (which would really suck, since it's way better than Android IMO, especially since 8.1).
Actually you don't have to learn Objective-C or Swift.(http://www.smartface.io/ios8/) With "Cross-Platform tools" you can develop cross-platform apps only using one code. The Studio Which i use is Smartface App Studio. It uses %100 JavaScript and lets you build %100 native applications. In my opinion you should take a look.
presumably this could be done fairly easily using some RFID on the weights and sensor tracking in a wristband or ankleband to identify the activity.
we're using a computer and not allowing it to run code.

...from sources which some people find uncomfortable to be blindly trusting. From a security perspective, it's a huge attack vector - the majority of browser exploits require JS to work. Even if it's sandboxed, there's also the annoyance aspect; scripts can consume CPU and do all sorts of irritating things like breaking the back button and seizure-inducing animations.
Nokia can't market mobile phones under the Nokia brand until 2016.

Also, the company Nokia doesn't own a phone division anymore, they'll have to build one, if not from scratch, then pretty close to. That mean they don't have any competitive advantage over pretty much any other company in a similar situation.

Never mind that they really, really struggled to compete in the smartphone market - that's why they offloaded the mobile phone division in the first place.

In other words, I doubt very much that we will see consumer mobile phones from the not-Microsoft-owned bits of Nokia.
Racked up over 700 hours on Counter-Strike: Source (over 400 on CS Office alone). Probably paid around $10 for it on Steam. Fantastic value.
I just found this, I didn't even know it existed.

1998 - Low-level exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields: health effects and research needs.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9453702

2004 - Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields as effectors of cellular responses in vitro: possible immune cell activation.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15352165

2009 - Amplitude-modulated electromagnetic fields for the treatment of cancer: discovery of tumor-specific frequencies and assessment of a novel therapeutic approach.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19366446

2011 - Treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with very low levels of amplitude-modulated electromagnetic fields.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21829195

2012 - Cancer cell proliferation is inhibited by specific modulation frequencies.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22134506

2013 - Targeted treatment of cancer with radiofrequency electromagnetic fields amplitude-modulated at tumor-specific frequencies
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845545/
Abstract: In the past century, there have been many attempts to treat cancer with low levels of electric and magnetic fields. We have developed noninvasive biofeedback examination devices and techniques and discovered that patients with the same tumor type exhibit biofeedback responses to the same, precise frequencies. Intrabuccal administration of 27.12 MHz radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF), which are amplitude-modulated at tumor-specific frequencies, results in long-term objective responses in patients with cancer and is not associated with any significant adverse effects. Intrabuccal administration allows for therapeutic delivery of very low and safe levels of EMF throughout the body as exemplified by responses observed in the femur, liver, adrenal glands, and lungs. In vitro studies have demonstrated that tumor-specific frequencies identified in patients with various forms of cancer are capable of blocking the growth of tumor cells in a tissue- and tumor-specific fashion. Current experimental evidence suggests that tumor-specific modulation frequencies regulate the expression of genes involved in migration and invasion and disrupt the mitotic spindle. This novel targeted treatment approach is emerging as an appealing therapeutic option for patients with advanced cancer given its excellent tolerability. Dissection of the molecular mechanisms accounting for the anti-cancer effects of tumor-specific modulation frequencies is likely to lead to the discovery of novel pathways in cancer.
Microsoft releases a phone running Android, Microsoft releases hardware running Linux, pigs are flying and hell is freezing over etc etc.

The real news is that this is not just an Android phone, it's a really good Android phone. It has a front facing camera, a decent SoC, enough RAM, what appears to be an IPS display (according to some sources), likely very decent build quality, and a price that is likely to dip below €100 or even $100 soon enough. Android phones in that price range are generally extremely bad quality, but this seems to be a very decent package.
Yes, and I argued against precisely the opening paragraph, I did not argue against the stats legitimacy. It simply does not follow that because there is a great degree of randomness in sports results that sports fandom is based on numerology. Sports fandom is based on the fact that people like playing and watching sports, not reading the result in a paper having never seen the game and making grandiose conclusions about which team is better based on specious reasoning. Everyone knows the better team doesn't always win, it's self evident. What matters are the plays that brought us to that point.

The whole thesis that sports viewing is pointless because it's random is an infuriating straw man. Why not just stick to the thesis that soccer is random and leave the value judgement aside? The exact same thing could be presented without pissing people off with an implicit value judgement of something which the author doesn't care to understand. This sort of innocent condescension is a big reason some youthfully exuberant geeks get picked on in school.
That pseudo-win-phone interface was my first thought too, a really bad idea IMHO, as you pointed out it will only confuse users.

Something I also thought was that the idea is to create a better opinion of the windows phone, and to confuse users to buy windows phones in the future. I also wonder how nice this pseudo-win-phone will play with all the other android apps.

(Disclaimer: I have used a WP7.8 phone and hated it, since then I developed a hate for the windows phone, I feel so limited when compared to android)
Universities force students to learn, otherwise students will fail courses etc. I usually make plans to learn stuff etc next to my courses, but while I'm motivated to do so, it never seems to be enough. Therefore, I fail to do this additional work because nobody enforces me to do it.

I hope that the author of the article at least thinks about motivational problems such as mine before going through with it.
"It will cost 99 euro ($135; £80) when released in July."

Is that the price with a 2-year contract or is this going to be a great value phone?

Will I be able to wipe this phone and install stock Android? Skype, Outlook, Bing, and all that other MS crap is unwanted. I'm actually a MS supporter and understand the need for them to create all of those services but I personally don't/won't use them.

Also, why are UK citizens against adopting the euro?
The game is very easy to understand.
(Your Turn)You select a digit from the rack and your opponent try to guess the digit you've selected.
(Opponent Turn)Your opponent selects a digit and you try reading your opponent's mind to guess the digit your opponent played.
It's all about intellectual guessing.
If your opponent make a wrong guess the digit is added to your score and vice versa
You should check the game website and also watch the game trailer on the website.
http://mydigitgame.com
Comments aren't just used to put notes in the file. They're also used to comment out code.

Also, having to quote everything makes writing JSON by hand a pain. Why would you want to use it over a nicer format?
M.phase – beautiful app for controlling digital audio workstations
Except it doesn't have the Google Play store or Play Services, so it's not going to appeal to the usual Android user.

As someone who uses Windows Phone, I keep scratching my head wondering why Microsoft even bothers.
Reminds me of Kerbal Space Program. Neat.
Why doesn't the European Union and the UK just adopt the US dollar?
Hmm, just wondering. Why do you think windows phone is better than android?
Android is easy to hack about with, custom roms, the source is open and out there (most of it anyway)and generally has great usibility.
Microsoft really needs to get back on that path of completely changing the game in the mobile realm. I don't know if this is the start, but its sure as hell better than releasing the same thing slightly updated over and over again (Don't mimic Apple with this strategy, it won't work for you MSFT)
Why are the US against adopting the Euro?

I'm only partially joking there. The Euro has had large amounts of turmoil in the past three years which has involved large bailouts of some countries. The inevitable path appears to be closer alignment of fiscal policy (including taxation and public spending) which is sovereignty that the UK public is opposed to giving up. There's a strong anti-EU sentiment in the UK with a significant proportion in favour of the UK leaving the EU.
Because money with the Queen's head on is innately more stylish.
so people see Tiles and Cost - same Tiles but cheap cost - Chuck WP phones and go with X devices :P
Did anyone notice the specs section in this article?
"A front facing camera for taking selfies"
The strategy makes more sense when you consider this originated from Nokia. Nokia had three lines of products: feature phones, the mid range and then Lumia. The mid range was problematic. The phones could not compete with low end Android phones, because the operating system was getting outdated. On the other hand Nokia's Linux projects (Maemo/Meego and then Meltemi) had failed or were driven down to save money. Windows Phone had it's limitations on hardware support and probably Microsoft did not want to take it to low end devices. So they needed something and they ended up on Android. Skinning the phone to look like Windows Phone made it feel like part of the larger product family. In future it would have then been easier to get the users to migrate to low end Windows Phones. Maybe there was also a "political" twist. Nokia was negotiating with Microsoft about the sale of the mobile phones unit. Maybe it put more pressure on Microsoft when they saw that Nokia was moving towards Android.
There's a fundamental difference between gaming and movies/music/books that isn't mentioned here: star power.

Movies have super star actors. Music is driven by super star musicians. A lot of times, the name of an author is bigger than the title on a book.

While dedicated gamers may know well who is making their games, the majority of gamers do not, and don't need to. If you go to a movie or a concert, you can see the face of the actor or musician. An author's good name is extremely important in selling a book. At the same time, you can play through a game for 60 hours and never spend a second thinking about who made it.

This opens the door for game studios to treat the labor of game developers like a commodity, which allows them to sell their games like a commodity, which allows gamers to demand so much for their money.

Anecdotally, I went to college to learn how to make games. I did, and when I got out, there was heavy competition for $40k-$50k jobs working 70 hours a week building menus for games. Instead I became a mercenary coder for the highest bidder and made more than that working 20-25 hours a week.

I used the 40ish hours a week I saved to play video games.
I doubt they are burying it, I rather assume they are just going to continue with it - and I think this phone is an indicator of a business strategy to simply expand, not only by using android but also by using the name 'Nokia' which still means a lot.
I'm not suggesting it appeals to the Android user at all, it appeals to the prospective smartphone user. As long as you can install basic messaging apps on these things (which you can), this is a really good deal.

This is a market segment which can also easily be filled by Windows Phone - it's probably even better for that. That I also find baffling. Windows Phone doesn't seem to be compatible with the particular SoC used in this device, but that is a problem Microsoft should be able to fix...
The UI is Microsoft.
This looks more interesting than the (pricey) Wolfram offering, but they certainly have a weird password fetish if you try to open an account. Never found anything so fierce before, and I just wanted to take a look...
Okay…

By the way, why do we need std::function at all? Every time I saw it, it was to work around some dark corner of C++ type system or template dark magic.
T-Shaped people and not being the I in team
>My response is that graduating from college is the first thing you can do where it's reasonably hard, takes a multi-year effort, and is completely optional

That's not entirely true - taking a job also falls into that category. Not saying that college isn't a valid choice, but 3 years of work at the same point can be an equally valid choice.
Beacuse, at the moment, the Great British Pound is exactly that. It's stronger than the euro, it's regulated by britan and it is minted in the royal mint.
Long live the queen (or something like that)
Ouch, cloud credits at $180/M. That's 0.18c for 1000, or 100s of compute time. $6.50/hr for computation, and that's buying in bulk, it's almost $11/hr if you buy in blocks of $15.
I don't know why you're being modded down, you're exactly right. Just like the Ovi Store on Symbian, the Nokia Store offers a fraction of the apps that Play, Microsoft App Store, and even the Amazon App Store offer.

As for why people would want this, it's actually good hardware for the price, and if it's ever rooted and flashed with a full Android ROM with Play support, it would end up being a nice phone overall.
My mx5's worth about $2000 so for $12k you could have a self driving one. Though there's not much roof space to bolt the thing on in an mx5.
I'd like to see Nokia back in business (used their phones all my life), but it indeed looks quite unlikely.
I think the STL may have been the worst thing to have happened to C++

I think opinions on that greatly vary. I for one find a majority of what is in STL very well-designed and very usable.
That makes sense. It was a real question I had, I have no opinion of the matter.

I guess the UK sees itself as having a more stable economy that other European Union countries, so it would benefit from having a separate currency (but the other countries would be hurt by not having a very strong country adopt the euro).
it had already been developed, it would have made no sense for them to scrap it.
This could hurt manufacturers, who produce Android smartphones. If MS produces the phone in a low-budget segment and with decent quality. Manufacturers could consider WP with a higher profit margin, but that's my first guess.

My second would be hurting Google by not providing their services as default, while increasing traffic to their own cloud services.

My third guess would be increasing their global smartphone marketshare by entering the Android market and it's massive apps marketplace.

And a fourth guess, if 200.000 app makers enter the Nokia store, they could easily email all of them to consider converting their app to the WP market... With some clever subsidizing in place (eg. 0% cut the first 6 months, instead of the default 30%), it could increase the WP Apps quantity in a very short period.
Are you an insectophobe because you crush bugs? No - because our society doesn't have this concept.

By the same token, it's not correct to label Nabokov to label a homophobe for not sharing progressive attitudes of a society that came 100 years after.

Such labels are judgement calls - which must be made in the context of the society the person lived in.
It's my understanding that a "good" college football team generates considerable sums of money for a univerity. You're probably thinking about the cost of starting a football program or maintaining an unsuccessful football team.
Coding is a creative endeavor. In contrast, forensic accounting is more similar to reading code someone else wrote and trying to figure out what the hell they were thinking when they wrote it.
Show HN: Dynamically generated, individually-printed maintenance log books
On 1 July, roaming data charges in the EU finally get slashed
>Looking at dreams and out-of-body experiences is interesting to help answer your question.

Two points on this:

OOBE are a different class of experiences. It's a completely different state characterized by theta wave activity whereas mystical experiences are associated with delta and gamma waves. Having a malleable sense of self and experiencing dream-like states aren't equivalent phenomena.

People experience what is traditionally considered real(physical reality) and have naive interpretations of what that is(flat world, anthropomorphize animals, finite universe, etc...). Same goes for any other state of consciousness. An interesting counter example is shared hallucinations in such dream states. If you and someone else experience the same phenomena within the same state it goes from a 1st person experience to a 3rd person experience. That doesn't mean the hallucination is there in a physical sense but at the same time the experience suggests and underlying "realness" to it.

>Dreams can seem just as real as real life so I'd speculate that there is nothing that happens in our brains that can't be explained by our brains chemistry.

That's my point. Finding neural correlates doesn't prove/disprove anything as both sides of the argument often like to believe. The experience of the world is also just brain chemistry. We only know the world through experience(and by association biochemistry) so it's not a useful distinction.
This is different from anything I've done before because the end product isn't a web app or service but an actual printed, bound, ink-on-paper book. What makes it interesting is that every copy is dynamically generated for that particular customer, combining data from several web APIs and our own database to create unique content based on the specifics of the vehicle and order.

The site is very minimal at this point (we just hit MVP), but we're building in the rest as quickly as we can. I'd very much appreciate any feedback or criticism.
Technology is Just a Tool
@vidarh Lotus doesn't depend on Lotus::Model. I kept it out from the dependencies because of the reasons that you've described. Future versions of Lotus will have some facilities for Model, but it won't be a requirement.

EDIT: BTW Lotus::Model is shipped with an SQL adapter that is a nicer wrapper on top of Sequel. If you love this library you will love Lotus::Model too.
It would because this sends a very confusing message into the market.

If you want to please everybody you end up pleasing nobody.
Topless On A Piano
Having briefly looked at this I don't think I'd recommend it, especially if you are a "non US person reasonably believed to be outside of the US". Minimising dependency on Google, or any single company for that matter, is a good idea.
That's not true. Online gambling is legal in Canada but my bank has taken it upon themselves to block deposits to Betfair.