skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of an article I read a while back about the nature of consciousness and memory. It was about a deaf guy in a less developed country that didn't know what to do with deaf people. He wasn't taught sign language and grew up deaf and dumb. It wasn't till he was in his early 20s that someone from a developed country visited and helped him learn sign language, though it was tough. His "eureka" moment came when he realized his teacher was naming things (chair, apple, etc). Before that he didn't even have the concept that things could have names!

After a few years he was a normal functioning adult. When asked about his life before learning sign language, he describes it as "the dark time" (or something to that nature). That life was very very different for him—just kind of an indistinct haze, almost like a dream.

The article was positing that consciousness and memories are strongly dependent on our inner monologue. And that for a person with no language skills (like the deaf man or infants), complex memories just aren't possible at all—life is just a haze.
Critiquing the critique of Facebook's new PHP spec:

You used affect when you should have used effect. They probably don't teach that in the CS PhD program:)

Of course my post may be subject to Muphry's Law. But still. If you're going to spend so much time establishing your credibility, do you really want to ruin it by demonstrating you don't have a basic understanding of English grammar?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
Especially if it were in a residential area where you had been deliberately careful. If I got a ticket saying that I'd been driving 40 in a 25 zone, when I had been carefully watching my spedometer at ~20s, I'd feel pretty wronged.

I'm not sure I'd have the resources to fight it, but I would certainly want to.
It's grey because you have already visted that URL.

It is missing the up-arrow because you have already up-voted it.
Chile also has better weather, though I agree that Perú has tastier food.
People use legacy solutions because they work.

If tutorials started with while you are developing set your browser to developer mode which only allow HTML5 tags to be used.

Web developers copy code, that is one of the reasons the web is so great.

But if they copy code and it works they will move on without realizing that they are using deprecated tags.
That should teach me to read HN while eating.
Years ago I did something kind of similar. I created my own Twitter client (never public and now defunct) but one of the features was that it would prevent one user from monopolizing my stream by hiding their posts after the three most recent. So say someone was live tweeting an event I would only see their three most recent, and after that it would display a collapsed bar to let me know it had hidden something.

Made skimming much easier, I still miss this feature.
+1. I won't use a service that forces me to connect with some 3d party.
Yep, precisily
Would be more fun if it allow parallel edits by multiple people ...also link with Google maps to help setup say a menu item for a restaurant i wish to visit for lunch?
True. I think the focus on self-direction is a tangent. The real potential for MOOCs is individually tailored pacing and material at scale. Self-direction is all well and good for the students who are capable of such. But even for those who aren't, there's great promise in the idea of "custom" curricula and even "custom" pacing of standard courses.

Our current education system is based on standards and Gaussian distributions. Some aptitudes appear to be distributed that way. But a lot of things aren't, like learning styles, speeds, comprehension methods, imagination, specific interests and aptitudes, and so forth. We can't dream of assigning an individual tutor to every student in the country. But we can dream of a world in which technology enables every student in a standard course to learn in a personally optimized way.
What stops them from dumping the firmware? Technical or legal limitations?
10 rules for designing emails your customers will want to read
It is actually a shared inbox that a team can use to offer customer support for their product/business. There is an embeddable "contact us" form but having your customers send support requests to your support email address seems to be more popular.
How can you ensure that a financial network is impartial?
Checking whether mf.type is NOTHING or JUST is your boolean. It's linked by providence to whether or not getFoo() is a runtime exception. With a true ADT getFoo would not be accessible unless mf.type == JUST, but in this example it's up to the programmer to enforce that providence.

So that's the blindness. The pre/post conditions around how mf.type relates to its surroundings cannot be expressed first-class in the code. You are required to do risky things like call potentially partial code.
That is absolutely the intention. Currently the docs are lacking, but we will try to add directions about running your own server in the next few days.
Wait till you try the Android app. I have no words.
Whoa. There is absolutely no stripe.com URL boost, or any other kind of URL boost.

The stellar.org post set off HN's voting ring detector.

Edit: I (perhaps mistakenly) assumed the parent meant that HN itself was boosting certain URLs, as opposed to, say, name-recognition by users. The latter kind of thing is no doubt a factor.
It looks like they had/have an free iPhone App. Did they even try putting ads in it?

No ads or subscription options on the site either.
Is it similar to Lastpass?
You should consider porting it to sandstorm.io - that would be perfect!
Comes to no conclusion as to the best programming language for you to learn.
0.625% will be granted to employees for 4 years. Does this mean they won't be paid after 4 years? Also can you elaborate on how the 0.625% will be divided between developers & founders?
> You just mentioned examples that are very likely patentable.

That's what I mean. How is the "recipe" for Playdough supposed to be different than a specific recipe for chicken noodle soup?

> The difference is, you cannot try to patent a recipe if your only "utility" is "it helps my restaurant run better" or "it can help my book sell better".

That's the utility of any commercial process. To make the product more desirable to customers. The utility the of process to make Playdough is that it helps you sell the product as compared with some other recipe that turns to stone on the retailer's shelf after a week.
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"I'd really like to see more transparency when it comes to title changes."

I think dang is working hard to be transparent about this topic. You can see a number of examples of this by reading through the following search result [1].

Cases in point:

He has reverted titles to their original form... "Ok, we'll change the title back again." [2]

He is open to suggestions...

"If anyone suggests a better title, I'll change it again." [3]

"That's a fair suggestion and we changed the title accordingly." [4]

"We'd happily change the title if someone can propose a more accurate and neutral one." [5]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/#!/comment/forever/0/author%3Adang%20...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8050702

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7557464

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8104621

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7959549
I hope he realizes this, as much as I hope everybody else realizes this, that the only reason why he got the violation reduced was because he brought his attorney on board. Anybody who lives in California whose contested a ticket knows that 9/10 times (if not even more than that) judges side with the officers -- whether they have a strong case or not -- the State of California certainly doesn't want it's residents to get any ideas.. if you know what I mean.

I wonder if his attorney cost more than the actual citation? Most people can't afford lawyer fees, so cops in California get away with this small stuff all the time without any fuss, whether they were liable or not. Congrats Joshua Block -- BTW I loved "Effective Java"!
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This looks really cool.

My mum (not me, unfortunately for you!) works in Accountancy and the entire industry is spreadsheet-driven. IT bods on HN might not realise this, but the accounting department of nearly every BigCo that isn't a development firm basically relies entirely on Excel.

I've already signed up (tom at cishub dot co dot uk) but the key point here for me is how easy it's going to be for her -- a non-technical accountant, but excel expert -- to integrate it with her existing spreadsheets.

Also, wether it'll require modifying existing spreadsheets and/or ways of working to take advantage.

Definitely one to watch, could be a ridiculous moneyspinner if you get it right.
Yes, "how we get into this mess" is incredibly complicated and yet far too much a "pit of failure" for developers.

But that doesn't mean we have to just accept it'll never change.

I take a sense of pride and ownership in the web, and I have big hopes for its future. That means I have to want to try to make it better, not just keep it afloat. I just hope I can inspire others to do the same.
Well let me preface with this: I'm not an economist and of course harbor my own bias(just like everybody else), but I'm educated enough to recognize when systems and people are being gamed.

Why can't our government(or any government for that matter) print their own money and issue it to its people, which is then freed from the private central bank's interest? Instead, we allow the banking industry to self-regulate and it in turn does what's in its self-interest.

I've heard historians and anti-neoclassic-economists refer back to the success of Tally Sticks(1100 - 1854), Colonial Script(1764 –– 1776), and Roman currency before they switched to a gold standard. But, I'm not an authority on this and sincerely would appreciate any literature that contradicts it.

The only modern example would be cyprtocurrency, and the verdict is still out on that. Hell, even if more states and nations moved to North Dakota's banking approach we'd be better off.

I don't have all the answers, but I know humans can do better and it starts with the average-person continually investing time to educate themselves about monetary policies and the history of currencies.

The current monetary system has feed global wars, imperialism and possibly the worst financial inequality in mankind's history. Unless you're a banker or in the financial industry, I don't understand why you wouldn't want to try something new?
Because diesel fuel burns as soon as it's injected, you don't even want a stoichiometric ratio of fuel because you can't get an even air-fuel mixture.
Its not strange at all, otherwise it would be too easy to create a bunch of email accounts and "mine" stellar with them. With Facebook they have account history, number of friends, activity, etc as proof of validity. Its not a perfect measure but its much better than just allowing arbitrary email signups.
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Sadly, we're overdue for a big one.
January 2, 2018. :)

I played with binary representations of unix timestamps for a minute in an attempt to locate a date that is also a "nice round number", but didn't come up with anything striking.
I'm not sure I would place any significance on something I have seen many native speakers screw up consistently. If you're not familiar with the author, you could take the time to read the blog post he linked to where he talked about HPHP and phc
How do I get started if I want to build an Android app?
What road are you talking about in particular?

If it's something like 15 Av NW in Ballard, it's pretty obvious that you're meant to cross at a light, even if you legally have more of a right to cross at the uncontrolled intersection one block away. It's unreasonable to expect a highway-in-all-but-name to stop for one person when marked, lit crossings exist within five blocks at all points along the road.
In India, the population density around many streets in the city is very high. As a result, all streets appear traditional human scale though they are not designed for that.
http://im.rediff.com/money/2009/apr/28city5.jpg
http://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/legacy/2012/09/06/R...
"Why do we revert to orginal titles" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466

The question has been asked, and answered, very many times.

The guidelines have advice about threads like these: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Foul. Just foul.

> But when it rains hard—a quarter of an inch in an hour might do the trick—some four hundred sewer pipes around the city begin flushing untreated waste, using the rivers as municipal lavatories.

> For the statistically inclined, the figure to watch is the number of colony-forming units (of bacteria) per hundred millilitres. Beach advisories are often set at thirty-five.

> The skies opened. Grzybowski sampled again, and the C.F.U. count in the river exceeded 24,196, the highest possible measurement. “Pretty much raw sewage,” he reported. The would-be swimmer felt a wave of compassion for the seahorses. ♦
Ditto, I've been using it for at least a year. For those of you new to it, make sure to check out the mobile app.. I use it for time & location-based notifications all the time.. love when it tells me what to buy WHEN I get to my grocery store of choice.
For people who are wondering what sets Helpful apart from all the other support tools out there, do note that this is built entirely on Assembly. This means, its ownership is split between the people developing it. Hopefully, this will lead to new open-source business models, which we can all agree on, are a healthy alternative.
I wonder how this compares to Sketch?

There seem to be a bunch of Mac-only vector apps coming out in recent years.. Not just these direct Illustrator competitors, but HTML5 animation tools too like Hype, Paintcode, etc.. that provide vector drawing and animation tools, and are coming from small teams and cost very little (relatively speaking)...

Is this because there are more powerful native components in OS X that make it easy/easier to build this kind of application now?

Or did the whole Adobe thing just reach a critical mass of disgruntled-ness and this is the result?
3 wheels and a handle (instead of steering) gives them a serious advantage.

Unrelated: Any non-Indian visiting India should definitely try a Rickshaw ride once, you'll feel scary good experience.
traffic killed our frontend for a hot sec. Should be good to go now. Thanks for the patience.
If you just tried to submit the article, HN detected an earlier post of that URL and just added your vote to it, instead of making a new post with the same URL.
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When changing a URL, wouldn't it be fair to check first if the same URL was submitted before? I submitted the now linked URL about 3 hours ago.
I love the idea! What metrics do you judge to automatically judge the quality of the templates in order to improve the algorithms?
I agree with the main point - that MOOCs work best for students who are self-motivated - but I think you're not giving the average college student enough credit.

From my experiences as a student in both environments, I think the motivation required to successfully complete a college course is about the same as completing a MOOC. I don't think that an increase in the amount of content delivered online at a college level would increase the failure rates, because the students who aren't self-motivated would fail out anyway.
You're saying mods are responsible for some things that are user actions.
It would be helpful to understand why a particular template might work... why the algorithms landed on a particular design.
Okay a brief more about me:
1)Missed out on gsoc by a little bit .. My idea discussion thread
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/archesproject/Ys4ejT...

2)After that kept on looking for open source projects ... found some to do as well ... but could not sustain it.One of the major problems is that i like to interact and discuss things and when that doesn't happen,i get disconnected!!I belong to a local engineering college in delhi and it becomes hard to find people who discuss stuff about opensource and other things.
When you say 'machine designed' I imagine a designer going through and intelligently choosing colors, photos, font sizes and dimensions because they went to school, they know what looks good, they have a good education. What designers have worked in your toolkit to produce these, and where did you learn design? If this is intelligently designed, I would like to know more about the process. From what I can see, I understand why designers get the money that they do.
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If the affect/effect error was in isolation it wouldn't have been a big deal. When combined with a rant of how much of an expert he was the contrast led to quite a bit of cognitive dissonance.
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Voyager is only traveling at 17km/s because of orbital maneuvers. These thrusters would probably not be used for delta-v. However, they would be great for reliable attitude control. Currently attitude is controlled with reaction wheels, small fuel based thrusters or magnetorquers or some combination. Reaction wheels fail, fuel based thrusters run out of fuel, and magnetorquers are weak.
Except I didn't submit the article and I hadn't upvoted it or looked at it yet, which is why I was confused. Thanks for your answers.
JQuery's CDN is Down?
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I think the whole point is that it isn't legal and more importantly to the senate, it isn't constitutional.

No one wants to prosecute anyone in the CIA. It's terrible politics. But this isn't legal.
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It's pure speculation, but I still believe they have something up their sleeve to make use of all this bandwidth / data center space. Hopefully we'll see something soon.
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It's impossible to run out of plutonium so long as uranium fuelled reactors are running. It's a common by-product of the fission process.

It maybe be harder or impractical for them to get it or process it, but saying "no new fuel is produced" is false
Anything else is declared misleading linkbait.
It's a bit confusing to keep track of the 4 defendants. Did the ones who walked free admit to shooting people?
Asking what your position is is now "bullshit"? You are right, this conversation has been over for a while.
I don't think all (probably not even most) suicides have anything to do with having made a mistake that needs apologising in the first place.
> Which is much better than the currently edited version.

Not in my opinion. The speeding ticket Mr. Bloch fights is a secondary point to the main purpose of the presentation.
HN Needs More Transparency
HN seems sometimes to be falling into a trap of being heavily over-moderated.

Posts just disappear, titles change, posts drop off front page suddenly, etc.

There should be more transparency regarding admin/mod actions that affect posts. There should also be transparency showing the various weights/auto-moderation that is applied to posts.

Perhaps show mod/admin edits on posts, and have a page where users can view current system-applied auto-moderation rules.
14/15. French Lessons (didn't like French). Spent about 6 weeks building a program that listened for instructions and ran windows binaries for lock/logout, or moved the mouse randomly across the screen.

Ran the program on teachers PC when she wasn't looking, ran the client on my PC, spent the next hour confusing the teacher.
The article mentions Apple still hasn't moved over iTunes (store, movie, music, Match) or Radio service traffic, among other things (those are still on Akamai/Level3). I'm sure Apple's planning on moving at least some of these services over to their new CDN.
Yeah, agreed. Plenty of places will accept US currency at par with Canadian, and many cashiers have no idea how to check if the money is genuine, if they check at all.

A flood of fake US $20s in Vancouver could really screw people over.
great! sounds incredible
School seems like hell!!I just literally don't want to go there in the morning and just want to get back as soon as possible.The problem here is i don't find any excitement there.People just don't care about coding and tech and teachers have hard problems solving problems and it's a vicious cycle as jobs will only come by marks and marks will only come by "rote" learning.
~2008,~15.

I was interested in building websites and after my curiosity getting the better of me, I ended up playing with SQL injection. Instead playing with my own websites, I thought it would be more fun to find the same vulnerabilities in other sites.

You can imagine my excitement and disbelief when one of the largest online DVD retailers in the world ended up spitting out over 600,000 records complete with SSN, full name, address, credit card number/expiry/CVV, email. Among these records I found the information of a certain female CEO of the world's 2nd largest food and beverage company (or someone pretending to be her). Of course, about 70% of these were expired, but I was just curious. I had no intent to use them (okay maybe a little itch).

My excitement quickly turned into fear as I realized the legal implications of such a feat. And against my better judgement, I contacted the company and let them know about the vulnerability.

Fortunately, after warning me that they would use the law to its full extent in punishing me if they ever found those records leaked/used, they left me alone.

Around that same time I also compromised various government departments of South Asian countries (think Indonesia, Malaysia, etc). But they never replied when I notified them.

Still scares me to this day.
"Kodak's motion-picture film sales have plummeted 96% since 2006, from 12.4 billion linear feet to an estimated 449 million this year. With the exit of competitor Fujifilm Corp. last year, Kodak is the only major company left producing motion-picture film."

I didn't realize Fuji had already discontinued manufacturing motion-picture film. I keep thinking the film business will hit rock bottom and the trickle of remaining demand will be stable enough to maintain what little is left of the industry. Sigh.
AFAIK some keywords, such as NSA and perhaps Snowden cause this.
Their SSL cert just expired.... How much of the internet is down right now? :P
Working on that: if you email me: jesse.noller@rackspace.com I can confirm for you. I run a report regularly that enables a developer+ right hand support drawer.
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Semantics and a poor choice of wording on my part. T-Mobile may be based in Germany, but they do operate in the US and are one of the most well-known cellular providers.
Very nice. Though I often rock Segment's "Analytics.js is my favorite wrapper"
"Digital files need to be regularly transferred, putting them at greater risk of being damaged."

Wait, this doesn't make any sense to me, isn't much easier to make a backup of a digital file compared to an analog movie? The digital file can be replicated any number of times with no loss of fidelity, and can be transported on the internet. How is film a better preservation strategy?
Initially we made a statistical analysis of 10K web sites on particular design choices such as layout, color scheme snd colors, fonts, decorational elements. We also made a rating review with 500 people to judge themes with some ratings... Then we backpropagate the ratings to suppress some parameters and produce newer themes with more of the good ones..
Do you have any more information on the correctness of the calculations?