skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freud wasn't a scientist, he was a philosopher and clinician who talked about things that are now considered part of psychology. If you limit things to psychologists who were clearly scientists then things have pretty much been converging. There have been a few big shakeups particularly with regards to the rise and fall of behaviorism, but it is a bit of a stretch to call them "pretty much completely reject[ing] the findings of the previous generation" and similarly large shifts have occurred in other fields (c.f. phlogiston theory).
Yes it's ridiculous, I'm just saying it's not atypical for these kinds of contests.
Has anyone tried to verify this?
defend your statement.
He list of Main Fallacies discussed in SILENT RISK | Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ruby has maybe half of this built in, at best.
Those same workers could have traded in their 5000 Stellars for $50 on Stellar Forums. Everett was actively selling 5K Stellars at $50 [http://forum.stellar.org/t/i-want-to-buy-your-stellars-50-fo...], while buying them at $1 on Mechanical Turk.
This is the same bug.
FYI:

Unfortunately, due to financial regulations in the U.S. and India, Xapo cannot currently ship debit cards to addresses located in the U.S. or India. --> http://help.xapo.com/95428-Is-the-Xapo-Debit-Card-available-...
I'm getting an endless page reload even before anything appears. Might be a mobile thing.
List of sorting algorithms
“My Parents Open Carry” – the pro-gun children's book
This was my first thought too. Can anyone elaborate on features Moose has that Ruby doesn't?
A GPS screen is not a simple dial. Reading small text on a computer you interact with in your car is quite different from determining the orientation of a glowing pointer.
>How many adults buy their booze illegaly today? none

What about adults between the ages of 18 and 21?
to make it feel just like a real debit card
No one is taking this project lightly and I don't know why you would suggest otherwise. You keep vaguely alluding to "the nature of the commits" but still have yet to give a single concrete example of what you have issue with. I take it that you don't actually know any C and are just repeating what you've read somewhere else.

I have extensive C experience, and I have looked through the code. While there have been plenty of bug fixes in the commit log - as is to be expected for a project of this scope in its pre-alpha/alpha stages - I have not seen anything that resembles a security threat, much less something as serious as the heartbleed bug that you keep bringing up for some reason.

At this point I have to conclude that you're either a troll with too much time on your hands, or being paid to spread FUD.
Working for me, Nexus 5 with Visa Paywave

Edit: Reading that is...
Don’t fly camera-equipped drones over our police stations, LAPD says
Everyone I Know is Brokenhearted
An alternate perspective: I've used Perl for 10+ years, but switched to Python 5 years ago. Moose was a hack to bring Java patterns to Perl, but I feel Java patterns are not developer friendly these days.

Python patterns are still solid today, so I gladly choose doing things the Pythonic way over the Perl way. Not to mention the meta reasons to use a language (community, libraries, ecosystem).
smartcards are a decade old? Try 3+ decades.

Cost of US infrastructure too high to change?

Banks pocket, depend heavily on $30B/year on bank account overdrafts alone, and have supported smartcards in Europe and around the planet for 30+ years.

Retailers prefer to be cracked (Target, etc) rather than protect themselves with better equipment and serious IT defenses.

Typical financial (payment) services: sh!tt!est possible product for lowest possible investment.
The throwaway line in Aliens that spawned decades of confusion
Three-fold:

1) Killing animals for food is something that happens in nature.

2) The purpose of this study is to inflict psychological damage. Death isn't the worst possible thing.

3) Monkeys are a lot more intelligent. Indeed, that's why the researchers are studying monkey psychology instead of pig psychology.

I'm no vegetarian either, but I think looking back 50 years from now, we'll look back regretfully at how we treat certain higher functioning animals like primates and cetaceans today.
Not only is he arguably violating Mechanical Turk's terms of service by simple asking people to sign up for this in the first place, he's even gaming MTurk itself by creating multiple Amazon accounts with pseudonyms and spamming the marketplace with requests. Cute, Mr. Forth, really, really cute.

Update: If you don't believe it, here's a screenshot straight from HIT Scraper, a Greasemonkey script MTurk workers often use to display job listings on Mechanical Turk in a more easily parsable fashion:
http://imgur.com/DOAIuy3

Not sure how he pulled this one off, considering Amazon is now requiring a verified SSN or tax ID for requesters to purchase money to post HITs, but there you have it.
They probably never would have heard of stellar in the first place, if not for this mechanical turk job.

Most people aren't even aware of Bitcoin, let alone all the random pump-and-dump schemes floating around.
Scientists don't get to write the rules about what is and isn't morally acceptable in society.
> Moose was a hack to bring Java patterns to Perl

Say what now? Moose draws from most heavily from CLOS and Smalltalk, as filtered through Perl 6. I don't know of any Java influence in Moose at all.
Scientists Discover Massive Species Of Extinct Penguin
I get paid the same as when I was in SFBA. I don't understand why people think they should be paid less for working remotely.
>Just because we can break dumb mechanisms like these just means we have to show restraint.

Why the flying fuck would I show restraint towards a system that claims to be designed for the safe storage and transport of money?

You bet your ass I, along with ten thousand others, tried to find ways to game/break Bitcoin. And guess what? We can't, because it's well designed.

If Ripple/Stellar are gameable, they deserve to be gamed.
I think most people are aware you're only allowed one Facebook account thus the fact that it's a one-time deal is implied.

I also think most of the turks probably thought it a good trade: $1-2 USD for 5000 funny money. I imagine most turks, like most people, aren't familiar with cryptocurrencies and the only way they will ever hear of Stellar again is if it becomes so commonplace that the giveaways are long a thing of the past.

Compared to the rates that the other MT tasks pay, I think they made out pretty good.
was this other people's experience? e.g. getting a refund?
Not entirely apples-to-apples but there was water contamination in west virginia earlier this year and it was over 5 days before water drinkable again (that was due to a spill though and not algae).
Twitter's User Problem: No smart people at helm!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poospatuck_Reservation
Generally speaking I agree with you. However, in this specific case there were a couple of reasons we chose the path we did:

1. We had experienced bugs with the currently running release which we were fairly sure would manifest when we removed the damaged core from the network. These were primarily around MAC learning.

2. We had performed testing ourselves in a non-production environment and were already planning to take a network maintenance to update these switches in the next few days.

Given those factors, we judged that introducing another variable in the new version was less risky than proceeding with the defects that we knew about in the existing version.
Moose is a killer library for Perl. I really miss roles when working in other languages. I often feel like I'm fighting the language if I can't split out some common program logic into a separate module and compose it in.

I can get by in C++(using multiple inheritance and the CRTP), and Haskell(with typeclasses).

D has some interesting features - like template mixins - that look promising, but I haven't been gutsy enough to use it for any new project.
I prefer not to publicly name the vendor. This is about problems on our network, and it's ultimately our responsibility.
I worked at a CompUSA in college. Believe me, any type of fraud or theft that you can think of has happened.

Being brazen is incredibly effective. One time, I was stuck stocking the storage area above the shelving units up near the ceiling, and was sitting there waiting for the next load. I literally watched a guy walk in with a red t-shirt, walk to the back of the store, pick up the most expensive computer, and proceed to walk out the entrance doo without paying.

There was also a gang of people who would work out of Chinatown tour busses. About 30-50 Asian tourist types would flood the store on a weeknight, 3-4 people would engage employees while a partner would raid small valuable stuff. One time we lost every USR external modem.
The Quick Sort algorithm expressed as a Hungarian folk dance
Show HN: Play Skwerd
I'm a UX Designer & this is bang on.
Did you read the linked article? It's not the prettiest intro I've ever seen, but for perl users its benefits can be seen on http://www.houseabsolute.com/presentations/intro-moose-class... vs http://www.houseabsolute.com/presentations/intro-moose-class...

Ruby code wouldn't be as verbose as this, but still once you're used to building classes with Moose accessors, types, traits etc. in a mostly declarative manner, going back to hand-rolling checks and exceptions on bad attribute values, not to mention accessor methods and so on definitely feels like a step backwards.

In fact now that I'm doing a lot of Python these days I've come to the horrible realization that it's Moose which has made me yearn for a language with stronger emphasis on typing and correctness than Python can provide!

Edit: and I don't mean "like java", where it only ever seems to get in your way...
Moose does useful things and gives you stuff "for free" once you've told it what
type something should be. And allows you trivially inherit/override type
declarations, rather than jumping through hoops as in Java.

It's a full about-face compared to the liberation I felt going from C/C++/Java to Ruby back around 2006-2007.

Slowly working through Learn you a Haskell, but doubt I'll get a chance to use Haskell professionally.
A lot of people are also upset because they signed up for the beta paid a $15 fee with the promise that there wouldn't be any additional fees. 2 days ago, they decided to institute a $5 a month account fee.
Oh, sorry, I meant, "Wow, Unidan sucks. I always knew he'd turn out to be a bad egg. Good riddance."

Better?
Should be worryingly easy to piggyback this onto popular android apps. Good time to start keeping your phone and wallet in separate pockets...
I'm not a pro, and wouldn't see myself becoming bored as a straight performer, unlike the talented people at Orpheus. I'm not qualified to conduct, nosiree.
But OCC has 27 headstrong and capable individuals who all chafe a bit under the baton. No wonder they break up into "core" units to make the initial rehearsals a bit more manageable! Sounds a bit precarious to me, and without inculcation from the old-timers I could easily see it devolving into a mess.

The conductor has a better shot at hearing the performers then the performers do - I had the experience of singing near the orchestra's percussion section and all I could hear were drums, drums, drums. But the podium isn't all that perfect a listening post either (as you mention), and I'll guess that during tech rehearsal the conductor frequently wears a set of headphones tended by the sound desk.
I've gone C/C++/Java -> Ruby -> Perl -> Perl+Moose -> Python.

Moose is the opposite of Java: it has a type system which actually does work for you and brings you amazing helpful stuff for free, whereas Java makes you go through rituals and pain to use a type-system that mostly only ever gets in your way.
Is your contention that [social] psychology need not rely on an empirical approach. How then are you to claim it's "scientific". Perhaps the best question to ask here is what do you consider, succinctly, to be the basis of the scientific method?

I did indicate that I'm happy to accept other methodologies as beneficial and am certainly not wedded to positivistic approaches in all fields of human understanding. Are you perhaps pushing the meaning of "repeatable" in the current context beyond the bounds of "supporting the same breadth of conclusion with equal confidence".

It is however not scientific to rely on unrepeatable experimental results. If an experiment is unrepeatable then the conclusions are proved false. Note that the question at hand is not whether the initial experiment is valid or useful. Science after all is axiomatic and the world, generally, non-deterministic so far as one can tell [though I know there are many dissenters on this point].
Very cool! You might also want to check out sparkler, which uses macros to let you do this with a little better syntax: https://github.com/natefaubion/sparkler
It's not that making a random decision will remove or reduce anxiety. It's that making a non-random choice 1) won't improve the predicted outcome and 2) won't reduce or remove the anxiety either.

Given the alternatives of either 1) not making a decision, 2) drawing out the decision for a long time, or 3) failing to act in time on the option, simply making a random initial commitment addresses the decisionmaking aspect.

Many decisions are capable of being reversed or changed later. If you're ever in a situation where you must decide (stay or jump from a burning building, say), there's still likely to be an option which is least bad. Even those who jumped from the WTC on 9/11 were making a decision. The outcome wasn't optimal, but in the circumstances, it may well have been preferable to the alternative.
Very awesome.

Also see LiveScript http://livescript.net/
Wish i was there, it's been a long time since i went to a hackathon
- [Turn on NFC](https://github.com/MatusKysel/EMVemulator/blob/master/src/co...)

- [Dump card into Downloads](https://github.com/MatusKysel/EMVemulator/blob/master/src/co...)

- [Read card from Downloads](https://github.com/MatusKysel/EMVemulator/blob/master/src/co...)

- [Respond to NFC requests](https://github.com/MatusKysel/EMVemulator/blob/master/src/co...)
We don't really know why text-based submissions are faded by default, or
more accurately, I don't recall pg ever saying why it was done. On the
other hand, we can obviously see the effect fading of reducing emphasis,
and from the HN guidelines we know attempting to attract attention is
discouraged.

A text-based submission puts the words of the author at the very top in
a prominent and unfair position for attention. The very slight fading of
the those unfair top-most words has always seemed to me to be an attempt
to compensate for the prominent position they get by default. I could be
wrong, but it just looks like a way to make the playing field a bit more
fair while still allowing a discussion to be started with text alone.

As for favoring link-based submissions over text-based submissions, my
guess for the reason has always been sitting in the title of the site;
"News," whether the original name, "Startup News," or the new name,
"Hacker News." The term "News" implies "new" and the time-based ranking
techniques are an attempt to keep the "new" stuff where it will be seen.
In other words, "new" gets more emphasis and prominence.

Calling the fade effects on comments "censorship" seems a bit unfairly
rhetorical. If someone wanted to reverse the rhetoric to make the
feature seem unfairly beneficial, they'd call it "curation" instead.
Either way, the fading does reduce emphasis and prominence, but the same
is true for all the ranking and other aspects of the site.

If a dissenting opinion is well written but was "unfairly" down-voted in
your opinion, the fade effect gives you the needed feedback to take the
"needed" corrective measure of up-voting it to compensate. It may not be
a perfect system, but it's still much better than bias and competition
issues caused by displaying per-comment points.

Though how to use up and down votes have never been formally defined,
their use has never been "purely subjective" since the terms "up" and
"down" and even "flag" still have general but vague meaning. Maybe I
lack the needed imagination, but I simply can't imagine a regular person
using an "up" vote to indicate disagreement, disapproval, opposition,
annoyance, discouragement, or punishment.
I am trying to solve the natural human loneliness problem
Hello,

I have some ideas and have tested some with moderate success via landing pages.

But would love to connect with anyone else that is interested in this area. I truly believe technology has a role to play in alleviating loneliness.

If there are startups or companies currently solving this problem, please link them as I'd love to check them out.

Otherwise, how can we solve the loneliness problem? What would help you to not be lonely?
(I work for NVIDIA, but not on the Shield team, and am speaking only in a personal capacity, not a corporate capacity.)

There has been a source release to build Android, at least [0] -- the open source teams, I've found, are very very careful about pushing source the same day they push binaries of updates. I think that WiFi and accelerometer bits are in the kernel, and since they're in the kernel, the source is available [1]. It looks like the binary blobs are for camera, GPS, GPU, and Icera (3G/LTE radio); if you're using Nouveau, then although GPU usage may not be the most power-efficient, you should have most of what you need to run the system.

[0] http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=manifest/android/binary...

[1] http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=linux-3.10.git;a=shortl...
My 3D printouts don't stick to the bed during printing
Works for me too - Nexus 5, MasterCard PayPass. The app in its current form isn't dangerous, it takes ~2 minutes to read the card and if the screen goes off or the reader loses contact you have to start again.
18 to 21 year olds are likely to pay far more than market prices. They are not likely to purchase homemade liquor when getting an adult to buy for you is trivial.
I don't really have a position when it comes to gentrification in general, as I believe circumstances are different in each area. But in the area where I'm from (SF bay area), I believe the majority of the fault lies with property owners and local/state government. Current homeowners in San Francisco lobby hard to limit development of new housing and have basically succeeded in limiting new development to SOMA and Mission Bay. They do this out of self interest to drive property values up under the guise of maintaining the character of their neighborhoods. They're able to do this because of Proposition 13, which prevents their property taxes from increasing along with the value of their property. Local policies like rent control and below-market-rate properties only serve to further limit the available housing and make it harder for the working poor to afford to live in San Francisco.

We're seeing regular protests against tech workers, but I believe these are naive and targeting the wrong people. Expecting to continue to rent in a desirable location as demand for housing in that area increases and new construction is blocked is just ignorant of the basic laws of supply and demand. You either need to increase the supply or demand will push the prices beyond what the poor can pay and they'll be forced to move. Blaming people for wanting to live somewhere is counterproductive and lets the profiteers (current property owners) off the hook. Ironically, the same people protesting against Ellis Act evictions (landlords evicting long-time tenants so that they can convert properties to condos/TICs) are the same ones arguing to maintain the character of their neighborhoods. It's a position that can only be explained by a denial of reality.

One comment about what you wrote:
> That's why formerly dingy dive bars start selling $5 Pabst Blue Ribbons, shitty apartments start adding amenities and increasing the prices, and everything follows from there.

You say that as if it's a natural phenomenon devoid of any human involvement. But there are humans making the choice to make more money servicing the wants of the wealthier population while ignoring the wants of their previous patrons. It's an understandable choice, but it's a choice none the less and one that they need to be held accountable for. My point was that the displaced population wants to blame only the new residents and not the businesses and landlords that choose to service those new residents to the detriment of the long-time residents. That those businesses and landlords are making a choice for significant financial gain and escaping all criticism seems wrong to me. For better or for worse, they're the ones that actually changing the neighborhoods. If current property owners and businesses refused the financial temptation and maintained the status quo, there would be no gentrification. Every change is voluntary and the result of a landlord choosing to sell or rent for more money or a business owner choosing to make more money by changing their service.
This is great, and it is also worth reading "Destructuring in Clojure and Ruby":

http://eyeofthesquid.com/blog/2013/09/29/destructing-in-ruby...

which has some great comparisons. As it says:

"As with many things in Ruby, the better question than “Can it be done this way?” is “Is it wise?”. "

There is a lot that you can do in Ruby that is more gracefully done in Clojure. Brian Carper brings this out even more clearly with his post "Keyword Arguments: Ruby, Clojure, Common Lisp":

http://briancarper.net/blog/579/keyword-arguments-ruby-cloju...

That post shows the exact point where keyword arguments in Ruby can become ambiguous, which is the exact moment that Clojure's clarity becomes obvious.

Also, Jay Field's post on the subject of Clojure destructuring is where I got a lot of practical starting ideas (such as using the :keys directive):

http://blog.jayfields.com/2010/07/clojure-destructuring.html
I'm glad I'm not the only one! Explaining why I'd possibly miss anything from the Perl world can sometimes be like pulling teeth.
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This is sort of a silly problem since Twitter started at 100% off-Twitter and has exceeded all predictions at bringing people into their own experience.

There are numerous, straightforward solutions to this. Twitter can require third party apps to show ads, for instance. Twitter can continue to copy functionality from third party apps and then squeeze them down. Or Twitter can worry about this once they are monetizing the bulk of their user base at 99% of the potential.

I think this is genuinely a challenge for Twitter to solve, but I suspect (hope!) internally they spend much more time worrying about getting more users, how to meaningfully innovate and how to make Twitter more essential for the majority of their "sometimes" users.
The Social Laboratory: Singapore's Surveillance State
That's only 77 fahrenheit, for anyone else that was curious.

sdm, that's really not hot :). Where I live (southern US), highs over 37 celsius are not uncommon in July & August. You might melt!
I haven't seen a magstripe transaction in probably a decade and I live in Cyprus (hardly a technologically advanced country). In the past couple of years everyone also got issued a contactless card which doesn't need a pin for sub 20euro ttransactions and obviously no need to insert it in the card reader.
Not just not enough shops, but not enough product to meet demand. Supposedly the legal growers weren't nearly ready for the explosion in demand on this year's crop.
An interesting opinion you have there.

However, based on years of legal alcohol use by the public, I'd disagree.

Besides the health and freedom issues, your opinion sounds like it's biased.
I use XPrivacy. I realise that's out of reach for most users but it's been very very useful for me to allow/deny use of NFC/GPS/connectivity. (Yes I know about the new bypass trick)