skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Articles like this always drive me nuts.

Adopting some smug position painting a person/institution/other work with an ethnocentric or culturally insensitive brush gives many people license to make ridiculous statements while insulating themselves from critique. After all, if you disagree, you must be some bigoted monster.

Like any other performance art, TV reflects the zeitgeist of the society at large. 1960's TV in particular had to fit in a prime-time slot of ONE of three television networks -- you needed to appeal to a mass audience. I think Star Trek is a show that has to be viewed through the lens of its time. For example, the fact that there was a black woman prominently featured on a major network show in a positive way was a huge step forward in a way that is difficult for many to appreciate today.
Sounds like there is either more to this or this is a strategy. I'm guessing they would like to sell but can't do to possibly of being sued by Twitter over their name. Not so much that Twitpic can't continue but they can't get further funding or bought out due to risk.
Imgur has taken clear steps to hedge itself from its dependency on reddit though.
Regardless of what you call it, parents who don't have the luxury (or desire) to stay at home all day need a way to take care of their children. That's a pressing real-world problem for millions of parents, not just "some". And it makes perfect sense to entrust the schools with that responsibility (in part, if not in whole): they do it anyway, for some amount of the day, and they have great resources for children (sports teams and equipment, books, musical instruments, knowledgeable teachers, etc).
Is anyone else noticing latency? In particular, keypresses seem slow when another element immediately preceeds them.
Sounds a little like the modern day hummingbird, which is continuously hours away from starvation.

Maybe this species continuously grows, and that conditions were just right for this one specimen to keep going past the mean age.
65 tons -- for those who prefer measurement standards that even the Washington Post uses.
Oh I spend most of my time thinking in the box. I find that when I'm out walking I can see that box more clearly - I think that's part of the "out of the box" thinking.
Once the article equates Voyager with the original 1960's series, just about any absurdity is possible because by the time people are returning from where no one has returned before after staying where no one stayed before [Deep Space 9] we're comparing the results of mining the last dollar from a franchise in the age of 1000 cable channels to a show that was on that was on the chopping block each season when there were only three channels and TV was in Black and White.

Uhuru was a bridge officer. Spock was mixed race. Sulu and Chekov showed that the animosity of the 1940's and that of the Cold War were transient. It was McCoy and Kirk and Scotty who were always teetering into the irrational and poor judgement. They were the ones acknowledged as most likely to create a 'Planet of the Nazis'.

It's Picard for whom that doesn't really seem possible. As a character, he lacks that level of flaw. He's been sanitized. We're in the realm where including a blind person requires cool sunglasses. There's no Captain Pike of The Menagerie to make us uncomfortable.

Indeed, the robot as object of romantic interest and as the subject of enquiry into the nature of personhood is...well, just another white guy. And in classic middle-brow morality play idiom, the price a female character must pay for falling in love with the wrong sort of person is death.

There may still be 100 more economically viable episodes to come, but when the iconic leather jacket is combined with water-skis, the writers are just going through the motions.
DataStax Raises $106M to Take on Oracle, Microsoft
I always preferred Babylon 5's handling of societies, they weren't monolithic or such. In particular when Sinclair introduced Earth's belief systems. http://youtu.be/uvmtHGwRSuQ While many alien races were not always show as diverse there was enough internal strife in the majors to show major differences.
I hope this takes off and everyone wins because

1) Less false complaints are filed against cops

2) Cities don't get sued because cops behave better

3) No one gets unlawfully harassed by a cop ever again.

On the other hand, I've seen criminals interacting with cops in person. They do not have an easy job.
Any coffee shops or bars that sell coffee on the way? Or perhaps a bus route where you walk to the bus stop and get the bus back?
In case some people are on the fence about the whole idea or have questions:

The Anti-Deathist FAQ: http://carcinisation.com/2014/07/13/an-anti-deathist-f-a-q/
That's less than a first year salary for a first year junior banker.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-20/goldman-sachs-said-...

People with kids need to pay $1000/month for day care in the NYC area. The price for an average 3 bedroom home that's commutable to NYC has to be over $500,000.

Yes, $72k/year will go a long way in Alaska.
There is a relationship between walking and EMDR
http://www.emdr.com/general-information/what-is-emdr.html

Since walking involves alternate motion of opposite sides of the body, and was part of the activity someone was doing when EMDR was discovered.

Some think that alternately engaging the two sides of the brain causes an increased activity in the corpus callosum, or something along those lines.
After playing with this a good bit, here's my favorite:

http://demoseen.com/langton/#@@1o..+..-1o..+..-<>..$.^

It makes a cloth/napkin, and then slowly absorbs blood from the four corners.
Since most of the online definitions of bonus that I've found are with my own in that they include the idea of a bonus being above and beyond what is expected compensation, then I'm going to chalk this up to our having differing connotations of bonus.

In my case, a bonus is extra pay, usually tied to performance (individual or corporate), while yours appears to be 'another category of compensation for work done.'
I would say that users have a vested interest Twitter's continued service.

Also, I don't think substitution has anything to do with dependence. If "dependence" signified inferior substitutes, I'd expect "independence" to signify fungibility rather than autonomy.
This sort of thing would be exactly what should go into the "Friendly C" dialect being chatted about the other day--for things like zeroing memory, it's very unexpected that a compiler would be like "nah, not feeling it...nobody will notice anyways".
Dirty Browser Enumeration Tricks – Using Chrome:// to Identify Firefox Plugins
Great App! Congratulations to the team, I beat your product will be a huge success!
Delivery Hero raises another $350M
Rule 96: "Experience may be fine, but testing is better. Knowing something will work never takes the place of proving that it will."

my motto: "It's only as good as it has been tested to be"

I'm constantly reminded of this, most recently when I noticed my local Fire Dept doing checks on their specialty (gas powered) chainsaw tool every tuesday around 7:45am as I drive by on my commute.
that works great for a place that post is delivered to, but what about when you want to specify a different location. What3Words is the better solution.
FYI Not everyone found it rude. Copying-pasting into google translate wasn't that hard for me.
well, i guess not
I never used it, so take my post very lightly:

I think it's mostly a placebo effect, plus the whole cultural heritage. Much like alcool, we give ourself permission to be more daring and out of the box.

Think about tea: when we drink it, we don't do it just for the flavor, but the "relaxing experience" label attached to it. We think of asian monasteries or comfy London cafè, nature and meditation. We want to shape the experience in the same way that it's sold to us.

Cannabis means peace, nature, harmony, media representation of the "trip", enlightenment. Also, creativity.

Placebo effect is the most powerful trick.
I don't get it. Why not just change the name and keep going?
It's because i've read them, and I know they suck(feature-wise). It's like mongodb all over again (replace your rdbms).
Finally someone gets this right. Awesome user experience here!
Project Hieroglyph: Fighting society's dystopian future
The issue is obviously one of semantics but your concept of dependence is not the widely accepted concept. Dependence means completely reliant on - no substitutions would do. The thing you're dependent on is a requirement, not a preference. For example, you are dependent on food. Remove food from the equation and you will perish. You are not dependent on Chick-fil-A.

Twitpic is dependent on twitter. There are no substitutions that they can make and still survive. They can't port to a service comparable to twitter as there are none.

EDIT: Whether or not users are dependent on twitter is up for date. I imagine it depends on their use case.
As a guy named Steven that used to be working on a context-aware life logger and now has an emoji app side project, this post made my day.
Lets put this in perspective. Some twitter pictures are going to disappear. In the grand scheme of things the people who had the luxury of using this service will survive just fine. Please stop the navel gazing.
Sadly I don't, and it was a self-project I was doing to learn OCR (to scrape price tags in grocery stores) and thus I never backed it up on github.

Do you have industry experience with billboard advertising? I might rebuild it if there is an actual demand for it.
exactly, I think most incubators in Portugal are there for the real estate and few offer real incubation/acceleration plans.
I love Seahorse!
I'm one of the developers. Would love to hear people's feedback. We're trying to create an automatic but fun way to stay connected, and building some interesting contextual awareness along the way, e.g. https://steventheapp.com/e/Q1fJnL/subway
Or just jump in the shower if I'm too lazy to walk
U.S. Mail Delivers Amazon Groceries in San Francisco
I've had mine for about 4 years now and it's fine. Perhaps you weren't emptying the tank often enough, which is when it fills about half way for whatever reason. Otherwise, no idea, sorry.

Having said that, I was expecting wonders from it when I first got it, but the suction isn't as amazing as I thought it would be. I suspect it's just very good suction considering it's bagless. I'm tempted to switch to a Miele as well when my Dyson dies...which it seems to be taking its sweet time doing. But I suspect I will miss not having to pay for cyclical costs (i.e. bags).
Twitter could issue them a license on their brand name, with the contract limiting its use to catching and redirecting old links. As long as there is a nominal license fee, that should satisfy the trademark lawyers.
How about: human behavior is a complex system exhibiting chaotic behavior and is mathematically proven to be unpredictable? And don't even get me started on the absurd over-reach of the conclusions of almost all social science papers. They'll study Westerners and proclaim to have discovered something about humans - ignoring the monumental variable of culture. They also project their own values on research constantly. How many times have you seen research reported as "health benefits of sex"? And how many times have you seen the same research reported as "health dangers of abstinence"? They're the exact same thing, but a matter of cultural perspective. If you view sexuality as a normative part of human life, then observing that those who have fewer orgasms develop prostate cancer is a health danger of abstinence. But if you view sexuality as an aberration, something that's not a normal part of everyday life, then you report it as a benefit of increased sexual activity - establishing that you think the current level is 'normal' rather than 'so low as to present actual biological danger'(which is the truth).
Why the $160 Suit Makes Sense
It's basically a catch-22 situation, if you don't run a (good) virus checker you have no idea if you've got a virus or not.

It's not like in the 90s where viruses would just destroy stuff and taunt users, modern viruses are often silent stealing data or turning machines into sleeper cells on bot networks.

Viruses no longer rely on downloads to spread either (downloadable software is in a death spiral), they now commonly spread through zero-day exploits in browser software and extensions (flash, pdf readers, java, etc.)

You don't have to visit dodgy sites either, many viruses are spread through legitimate ad networks or compromised web-servers (hacked wordpress installs are often used).

Any software on your machine that handles data received from the outside world (including games, word, skype, etc.) is an attack vector.

If you're not running a virus checker you're essentially just hoping you'll be lucky. Being careful will only take you part of the way.
It's now on YouTube (watch it before it's gone)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjNkbLBEqg
Whatever makes you feel better about yourself, you will believe.
Research and business benefit from pooling the best talent in one place. So what if some students get in from legacy or money. That's a price paid to have a large endowment at your disposal.

Sounds like the authors of the article and the books referenced are just jealous of Ivy League students. Students joining frats? Glad they don't do that at lesser universities.
Shake Shack Filing for IPO at Valuation of 1B
2 minute introduction to Category Theory [video]
So its basically my mind, something within my control that does all the enhancement that I feel after doing it?
There are currently approximately 50 locations, so that's a value of $20M per shake shack location.
Sony quietly starts selling Digital Paper E Ink tablet online
amazing. so happy we could make your day!
Interesting, but this is 9 months old.
That's kind of my point. How is forcing that indie developer in live in Alaska, much different from the Soviets shipping someone off to Siberia because they didn't get with the plan?

Finance will continue to grow as the preferred choice of those who want to avoid being punished by US society and forced live in Alaska or not have enough to eat or a safe place to live.
That's really, really cool. I want to make a gallery system for these, where people can submit theirs and others can modify from there. Btw, I just added a polar mode (the grid is treated as polar coordinates, and converted from there); the & instruction switches to polar and _ brings it back to cartesian, so you can actually blend the two. http://demoseen.com/langton/#&m.$!~PFP!!..
ObjectSpace isn't really a major issue. JRuby disables (most of) it by default for performance reasons and I've never had to turn it on for any real code.

Ruby has been a major source of improvements in software, especially tooling and web development, over the last 10 years. A lot of the newer languages have borrowed concepts popularized by Ruby (gem-style package management; bundler-style dependency management; same-language build tools like rake; rails and sinatra-esque web frameworks). And a lot of tooling for other languages has been written in Ruby (sometimes later replaced by same-language tools). I'd compare the role Ruby has played to Perl in the '90s.

I certainly hope Ruby doesn't go down Perl's path. It may be protected from that fate by two differences. First, there's no Perl 6-like project to distract attention and effort from the actively used version. Second, Ruby remains by far the best general-purpose language out there for those of us who like Smalltalk-style OO languages (everything an object, message passing, extreme late binding).

I too would really like to see Swift escape the Apple ecosystem, for a number of reasons, even though I'm unlikely to use it myself.
GREEEAT APP and TEAM!
This is more akin to bit.ly shutting down imo.

Yes, we "survive," but that's a pretty lame measurement of the impact. URL shorteners leave a bevy of broken links everywhere, linking to content that is now lost somewhere on the net, twitpic's departure leaves use with a big hole of the social web empty. Thousands of tweets are now without context.
Yet it has not succeeded. Most of users base browses the sites "Viral" gallery. Which is nothing more then a "Reddit's 24 hour greatest hits", a surprisingly low number of images make it into imgur's gallery from imgur itself.

TL;DR No reddit, no front page content on imgur.
Reddit thread where Katie from pornhub announces that porn sites will join: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2fg8ky/large_us_tech_f...
Sharing just got a little easier
I'd like to point out that you have ascribed to me some sense of scorn towards others, and that you have insulted my approach to argumentation, but that that does not constitute a refutation and does not address the points I'm making.
Here is an interesting excerpt.

> “Psychology Does Not Yield Repeatable Results”
How replicable (repeatable) are the results of psychology compared with those of the hard sciences? Larry Hedges (1987) decided to find out. He compared the replicability of findings in particle physics, ostensibly one of the most rigorous domains of physics, with those of several areas in psychology, including the effect of teacher expectations on students’ IQ scores, gender differences in verbal and spatial ability, the effects of desegregation on educational achieve- ment, and the validity of student course evaluations. Using various statistical metrics of consistency, Hedges found that the results of particle physics studies aimed at estimating the mass or lifetime of stable subatomic particles (e.g., the muon) were in general no more consistent that those of psychology. Hedges’s findings suggest that the claim that psychology’s results are far less dependable than those of physics are not supported by data.

> Still, we should not overstate the implications of Hedges’s (1987) findings. As Hedges acknowledged, he did not sample randomly within either physics or psychol- ogy, so his results may be unrepresentative of the domains within these broad fields. Nevertheless, Hedges observed that the results of studies in several other domains of physics, including the estimation of chemical and thermo- dynamic constants, appear to be about equally consistent (or inconsistent, depending on whether one chooses to view the glass as half full or half empty) as those within many domains of psychology.
I've had this book for years, and have read it a couple times. It is quite interesting, and has been available online for free for years.

The code included with the book is written in some old dialect of BASIC with which I am not familiar. I actually tried just a few months ago to see if I could find some references as I am interested in porting the code in the book over to Python. If anyone recognizes the flavor of BASIC and knows where I could find reference material for it, I'd be quite appreciative.
Can someone explain this line:

static void * (* const volatile memset_ptr)(void *, int, size_t) = memset;

I've written some C but that is utter gibberish to me.
No you don't need an app Build a responsive web app instead
How are you pairing up writers to those who want something written? I applied as a writer, but nowhere did it ask to list any previous experience, examples, specialty etc. What's the process of selecting writers?
Why are you chained by your fears?
Cassandra isn't designed to replace relational databases for all use cases. There are certain use cases where Cassandra excels, certain use cases where an RDBMS excels, and plenty of ground in between where you're making tradeoffs.

CQL was designed to resemble SQL in order to present an API that is reasonably familiar for most developers. It's quite limited when compared to SQL because it focuses on the areas where Cassandra excels.

(Disclosure: I'm a Cassandra committer.)
Because the CTO does not have any legislative, policy, or regulatory authority. Their only job is to improve the way the U.S. federal government uses technology.

What's the fear, that their appointment will lead to a broken IT procurement system rife with conflicts of interest, perverted incentives, and no accountability? That's what we already have now.
Sigh. $7 Million fine to Verizon for knowingly selling customers private data, $19 Million to Google because people can't keep their kids from playing with their phones.
Ask HN: Best way to learn a new framework/technology
I am a seasoned developer and learning new frameworks/technologies is part of our life. Everybody says "Read the documentation." but after reading 3-4 pages of it then I get distracted. So here is my approach:
I start with a very easy use case in mind. After getting an overview of the target framework, I will:

Step 1: Find use case related methods in the documentation.

Step 2: 99% time Step-1 does not work. Find a tutorial on that use case.

Step-3: If a good end to end tutorial is found. Repeat the process for next use case. Else Step-4.

Step-4: Ask on Stackoverflow. Repeat the cycle for next use case.

I may never use these frameworks in production but never get full confidence in my learning.
There will be a lot of interesting learning to come out of this. I'm not sure if it is better or just different. Perhaps it's better because it IS different.

At some point companies have to try it and see what works and what doesn't. Interesting to see Zappos do that.
interesting. i wonder if they had to mate at an early age or never, and if after they got to a certain size that they barely moved at all, just stood there and used their necks to reach new food
Nvidia  Launches Patent Suits Focused on Samsung Galaxy Phones, Tablets
Using the wisdom of the crowds rather than relying on analysts opinions
Good catch. We added the date to the title.
The Hit Show ‘Silicon Valley’ Gets Startups Right
Love this app so far! It's an easy and handy tool for storing and sharing my photos in an organized and private way
Tell that to software companies that love having everyone in the same place in the same office if possible. Like Google.

If a company is going to have remote workers, they need a culture of supporting remote workers, and they need to be writing things down a lot more, which does have it's own overhead compared to talking to someone beside you.

As peoplesoft said, when you add more programmers to a project, you increase communication overhead. Working in the same office probably has something to do with that overhead.

Also you want to make more than $72k/yr (which is about $120-150k pre-tax btw) on a savings and investment aspect. And to fund projects that matter to you.
As far as access to professors; I went to a school with approximately 30k undergraduates. There were some phenomenal professors there, and if you merely showed up to one of their talks and take an interest and you immediately stood out to them.

Going by my data-point of one school, it's not particularly hard to get interaction with professors, even when nearly all the freshman classes are taught by TAs.

I got to meet and interact with some wonderful physicists, just by being interested in what they had to say. I wonder if it is easier or harder to do that at an Ivy.
> On the other hand, I've seen criminals interacting with cops in person. They do not have an easy job.

Wouldn't that be a positive for the police as well? If a suspect is belligerent, the presence of a camera would help to prove that.
Like any other performance art, TV reflects the zeitgeist of the society at large.

While it wandered a bit, I think that was the point of the article, or rather Science Fiction reflects the zeitgeist of the society at large.
The First Successful Demonstration of Brain-To-Brain Communication in Humans
It declares a function pointer variable named "memset_ptr", and assigns the value of "memset" to it.

The "void *" before the first parenthesis is the return type of the function. The stuff in the first parenthesis applies to the function pointer variable. The second parenthesis lists the types of the arguments to memset.