skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm also frankly astonished that we have to preface stories about autism treatments with how wonderful autistic people are and how we're not trying to "eliminate their uniqueness".

Even the most profound and obvious disabilities are adopted by parents who refuse to see it as a disability. They take this so far that they will resist attempts to correct it. This is huge in the deaf community, for example. There is open aggressive opposition to cochlear implants, because they are seen as robbing deaf children of exposure to 'deaf culture'. It is a complex issue, because children need to be given cochlear implants long before they are capable of making decisions for themselves, so they are often crippled for life at the hands of their own parents - parents who can not share in the same treatment because they are too old. The lowest weaknesses of the human spirit are on display in some of these people, denying hearing to their children because they don't want their children to be 'better' than they are.
Going out to sea and looking up was an experience I'll never forget.
I'm fairly sure chronometers start at >1000$ dollars and truly expensive watches use either expensive metals or gems to signal their value. Also there are no Rolex, Patek Phillipe etc. that have that price. Quartz watches are uninteresting as a status symbol.
I would like to see a new recruiting trend where recruiters double as pseudo career mentors ( hence freely consulting people who are skilled but don't know where they fit in. To fulfill this role these people would probably have to be mentors in a specific industry first and recruiters second). However, I doubt this would make a good business since apparently shoe-horning employees to employers via linkedIn and resume's seems to work, but I figure there might be a subset of the recruiting industry that could possibly make a business out of this idea.

This is what I would like to see as I am very career-confused myself :)
Sure, recognition can be traded for money. It has value. I would wait for them to fold or for a significant number of years to pass (basically for plausible deniability and any no compete to pass).

But really, why work on the same thing twice? Pick a side project that steps on someone who isn't your employer's toes.
At first I was thinking I had to have one of these. Then I read feature page where it subtly tells you that most of the functionality is based on being tethered to an iphone. What a pity.
Well, I agree with most of your statement, however, in your scenario you only have a choice in what experience you want if you have the money to buy the unsubsidized phone- anyone else has the choice to buy the subsidized bloatware phone or do without (which is more choice than they would have if the subsidized phone did not exist...)
that's odd, I'm seeing all images here in my firefox in windows... What version of Firefox you using in what OS?
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I thought the motion and immersion were awesome but the graphics were less stellar than I expected. Obviously that is probably the easiest thing to improve. So for first person shooters it could be the best thing ever, but for general purpose gaming I'm not so sure it is worth the hassle (much like 3D).
Counting Google's unreleased moonshot products as innovation seems like counting one's chickens before they hatch. It is easy to innovate in the abstract, much harder to fully realize a vision in the form of a product.
Just saw it. You are absolutely right. My bad... Will fix it tomorrow.
This is an interesting thread on reddit about someone who claims to have been blackmailed by the same person: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2fwzcb/the_satoshi_...

He put a bounty on the hacker and the hacker pulled back. Satoshi could offer a much more enticing bounty.
The 6 plus is actually largerhttp://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Apple-iPhone-6,Sams...
I don't judge the functioning of a democracy by how long a prime minister stays in office, I judge it by whether the citizens have the unfettered ability to vote, whether non-incumbents can get on the ballot, and whether election results accurate and largely free of fraud/corruption.

On all three of those metrics, Japan does better than, say, the United States.

If the will of the people is 'meh/who cares/none of the above', then that's a different problem, IMO.
MS, give me one million and I will tell you a secret to save you billions.
Oh come on. Not even gonna bother to ask you to back that up.
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/830/

"We can't be sure, but we've analyzed genes on several of your chromosomes, and its hard to avoid the conclusion: at some point, your parents had sex."
Why is 'rewrite in c/c++ the first thing anyone does when they acquire a wildly successful project.

Notch should give Mojang to me, the first thing I'll do is rewrite mine-craft in a combination or Haskell and Erlang.
This. Even with the lights on the decks of the cruise ship I was still able to see layers and an expanse of stars I haven't seen since I tramped around the the Nelson Lakes area of New Zealand when I was younger.
Seems like a prime candidate for a unikernel like mirage (http://openmirage.org/blog/announcing-mirage-20-release)
By upgrading your image server to thumbor you would go from 0kb to 0kb for 0 images, thus saving NaN% (using WebP images).

Did I break it?
I have fond memories of my Creative Nomad II: http://www.nextup.com/img/Creative_NomadIIc_Large.jpg
" Three of the principle axioms of parallel machine design - memory coherence, synchronicity and determinism - have been discarded in the design without, surprisingly, compromising the ability to perform meaningful computations. "

http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/architectu...
> Haptic feedback? Agreed, awesome idea, but no reason it can't be on my phone and buzz my leg instead of my wrist.

It's frequently lost upon this crowd (I'm guilty of this myself) that half of the population in the West frequently wears clothes which lack pockets.
JS SIMD will support the ARM Neon instructions. Here is the spec http://esdiscuss.org/notes/2014-07/simd-128-tc39.pdf
Why do they make it so difficult to access the data? There's a single page with a couple paragraphs about the API but nothing more. I'm assuming you have to pay some money, but it doesn't say how or how much!
Thank you for an informative comment. That is mind-blowing. At first I was skeptical, but I was able to confirm the $30 billion number [1].

That is about twice as much as NASA [2].

[1] http://www.nih.gov/about/budget.htm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Annual_budget.2C...
Stripe: Apple Pay
MIT Tech Review: The Apple Watch May Solve the Usual Smart Watch Annoyances
A simple presentation is like a simple product.

If they can't keep the presentation simple and elegant, how can they keep the product simple and elegant.
ARM's not working with them, but the JS-SIMD standards are being developed such that pretty much and SIMD unit will work with little to no work. Instead of making the commands 256 bits wide like current Intel SIMD ops, they're using 128 bits, which will work with ARM's neon as well with no problem.
Round LCDs do have an undeniably cool look: http://www.zerotohundred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MG_5...

But I have a feeling Porsche has just used an ordinary square panel here, with its edges concealed by the gauge bezel. A watch designer doesn't have room to pull off a visual trick like that.
The Dart SIMD API [1], which this work is based off of, is supported on ARM chips with NEON. I'm sure the JavaScript API will be too.

[1]: https://www.dartlang.org/articles/simd/#implementation-statu...
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I think that this is (quite) a bit like claiming (verified) compiler optimisations are impossible because they, too, have to re-write any given expression only to a semantically identical one. One wants to detect only pairs of statements that are semantically identical; this does not require detecting all such pairs.
Completely agree! The antenna band on the back of the phone looks so hideous to me; that really is the deal killer for me.
What's the "cutting edge technology" that made it possible where others would have gone right by it?

Computer enhanced sonar?
So, it's basically a tiny external screen for your iPhone right? Snore. Wake me up when they put cellular capabilities in there.
Many young people have negative net worth because they keep taking out student loans hoping to get a job.

Your scenario about the costs and difficulties of maintaining a house won't generate any sympathy with young people. There are zero people that I know from my graduating class (2009) who have purchased a house since college.

If you're seriously concerned about having saved enough to retire by the time you reach retirement age, maybe you should keep working. My parents have planned to push their retirement back about a decade for that reason.
I don't see that as being a problem that people are looking for a solution to. You're describing interacting with a very heavy desktop-type computing system, but the headset only solves the output problem. If I need large numbers of application windows arranged in space, I also need much more sophisticated input devices. Head tracking, eye-tracking, Leap Motion style stuff, all of that can be useful, but it's not enough for typing this comment into this input box, for instance. Better voice helps, but it's still not good enough, and it also adds yet another social factor that needs to be overcome, as people don't really like talking to their computers on average.

Maybe eventually this is the world we'll be living in. Right now, and for enough of the foreseeable future to worry about trying to predict, people with those needs will want to have a real keyboard and mouse or trackpad, and at that point, they will just use a laptop. Any benefit you get from the VR is, I think, outweighed by the downsides of not being able to just look around the actual physical environment.

You don't have to beat the competition on every axis to succeed, but you do have to eliminate any axis for which you are an immediate non-starter. I think the headset makes it an immediate non-starter for widespread general purpose use.
This might be a stupid question, but does Objective-C have versions? Objective-C was always talked about in terms of the iOS version, even when the language itself was changing (eg blocks).
lol it's almost like you think they are real programming langauges
It doesn't matter what they call you, you'll be dismissed as irrelevant and incapable.
This has been said many-a-time and by, frankly, bigger names.

Unless we can come up with an alternative revenue source to suggest Oracle use instead to fund client-Java then it will continue no matter how disapproving everyone is. Oracle isn't exactly a company who cares about how much they're liked.

I have no idea exactly how much McAfee pays Oracle, but I also have no suggestions for alternative revenue sources (as ads on the download page are poor generators). At least it isn't spyware/malware, we can be thankful of that (jokes about McAfee aside, it is still better than the Ask Toolbar in my view).
For US citizens/residents with billions, taxes are pretty much a constant 25%, since

1. almost everything is capital gains (which comes to 23.6%). Note that this was 15% under GWBush, so it was even better back then.

2. You can avoid state taxes by relocating to WA/TX (If I recall correctly, this was Bezos' motivation for starting Amazon in Washington). A lot of billionaires live in 0% state capital gains tax states, except the ones that need to live in CA/NY for the tech/financial sector respectively. If you live in one of those, then think of the total taxes as more like 33% total (federal + state)
Which watch are you using? I've been using a pebble and while it's good it doesn't have the level of interaction you're discussing.
My brother has been using swift to learn some programming.

I don't have a mac, let alone iTunes.

Is there a legal way for me to download/purchase a manual to help him with his progress?
What website did you put into it? If your site loads images via javascript we don't capture it...
Gps satellites all send slightly incorrect information... A separate radio signal correction is transmitted to correct it. That way, during wartime (or in high value target areas) the US can basically mess up enemy gps enabled weapons by broadcasting misleading satellite and correction data.
> Google says you can shrink smartphone UX to a smartwatch

Citation needed. As GP said, the Android Wear team has considered the UX for wearables from the ground up.

You're delusional.
Oh Please:

"I trust a lot in my intuition,” he said. “When you start doing this kind of stuff, you start to develop intuition.” He has also experimented with biofeedback tones to achieve different brainwave states and sun gazing to stimulate and heal the mind and body."
> I judge it by whether the citizens have the unfettered ability to vote, whether non-incumbents can get on the ballot, and whether election results accurate and largely free of fraud/corruption.

Free of corruption, Japan? Really ? You have a twisted understanding of Japanese politics then.

And by the way, Japan is very much like the US in the fact that you have a bi-party system, with one party more often than not always in power. Hardly a good sign of a healthy democracy when there's so little choice available to voters.
The language manual is free at apple.com
Everyone left that matters is on #sponge @ irc.esper.net recruiting and planning Bukkit's successor called Sponge, it aims to be something like Bukkit+Forge.
The language itself hasn't had any official version numbers since 2.0 (in 2006), but the runtime has (not very public) version numbers if you look at the source: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/
Generally yes, although the cashier might be momentarily confused when the machine prompts her to get a signature since everyone else just uses their pin.

The only place it won't work at all is self-service kiosk.
Microsoft Is Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Maker of Minecraft
Craftbukkit was never licensable under the LGPL. From the projects inception, it contained proprietary, closed-source Mojang code used without a license. It's LGPL license was invalid from the start.

From the get go we were plagued with issues and obstacles we needed to overcome, one of which we were sadly unable to tackle despite our best efforts: the legal barrier of licensing and permission. When starting the Bukkit project and even getting involved with hMod before that, we all knew that our work - no matter how well-intentioned - fell into a dangerous legal grey area. - EvilSeph[1]

This calls into question the legal standing of all derivative works of Craftbukkit.

The contributors still have copyright over the things they wrote, but they also weren't writing them in a vacuum. They were creating derivatives of Craftbukkit under the assumption it was valid LGPL.

The LGPL wasn't violated because it came out that Mojang controls the Bukkit project. It was voided before these contributions came into question. It's not clear what license, if any, the contributions by Wesley, et. al. fall under.

I am very interested in the legal issues of this whole situation and am constantly looking for the best resources I can find. If you're curious, I suggest reading some posts by /u/VideoGameAttorney on reddit[2]

[1] https://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-its-time-to-say.305...
[2] http://www.reddit.com/user/VideoGameAttorney
Okay, can you give me an example of a ui element that would be usefully different on a 6" phone vs a 6" tablet?
Apple knocks it out of the park – will be first trillion dollar company
You can get a few centimeters past the skull with ultrasound stimulation:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/ultrasound/Histologica...
They say it's energy scavenging - like passive NFC tags essentially.
Your statistic confused me until I realized you were [assumedly] referencing females who keep their phones in their purses/bags.
Maybe it's just me but I'm not drinking the kool aid about Apple Pay in today's announcement. Aside, I really hated the fact that to watch the event you had to use a Safari browser, same with watching Swift tutorial videos on their website, using latest Chrome on a Mac...

Maybe I'm old school but I'm actually finding that payment options are getting worse, not better. This is another example of further fragmentation. Tap cards, stripe cards, chip cards - all the machines have different interfaces, some touch screen, some with pens. Not sure about you guys but I forget my credit card pin compared to my bank card pin half the time. I have a way to many accounts to remember already. What happened to just a signature?

It's like someone needs to come up with an interface for payments. That universally accepted. Think of a wall socket for power, 3 prongs, supports 2 prong interface. Works great.

Lets step back. Oh wait, we have one. It's called CASH.
Cash seems to make more and more sense these days. No overage fees for using your own money. Accepted everywhere already. It doesn't get malware and steals your data. It doesn't need charging or have bugs. Doesn't seems as easy to spend when you physically see it leaving your old school wallet.

I for one won't ever use my phone for payments nor will I be looking to work on apps trying to convince others that its fairy land for payments and makes your life better because of revolutionary Apple marketing spiels. Virtual apps on the app stores, fine, I see it makes sense. Brick and mortar, I just don't see it.
hahah.. from all videos player i think apple video player sucks!!. I hate that.. not to say Apple event last night (MY time). I think youtube or google services are better video player. hmm.. why apple always wanted to create and use their own video player but they denide to develop it. I cannot play video in some websites. Sucks!!! Apple should change this. BTW Im apple fan though.
This looks awesome!

I'm curious. How are you dealing with the different namespaces and range of information used in the iXBRL/XBRL files? When I tried to parse these a while back, I ended up writing a lot of ugly try/except stuff.
It's like punching a tv when it stops working. It can sometimes help, but in general, the method is way too crude to fix a complicated machine and can easily cause more damage.
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To answer te question about the cartoony animations, a fairly popular piece of software in internet marketing (IM) communities like Warrior Forum is Easy Sketch Pro. Be warned though, like with all internet marketing products, not all reviews are real (affiliates pushing products). It's okay software for the price, but if you decide to buy it I would recommend to use a new e-mail alias, unless you like to receive other IM offers and upselling - a lot of them.
> having Mobile Suica combine with Edy

Not to mention the Suica + Pasmo combination a year or so ago that meant you didn't have to carry around two cards anymore. It was pretty amazing. It's at a point now where I'm really reluctant to buy phones that don't have mobile Suica/osaifu keitai support.
Hacker News for Applied Mathematicians
Hi, I'm a student who's currently studying computer science and thinking about a double major in applied math.

I'm fairly interested in applied math, and I'm wondering if there are any Hacker News style forums for applied mathematicians (where people talk about applied math, the various industries that applied mathematicians work in, etc..). I realize that this is kind of vague, but it would be great if people could list some forums that seem to fit the description of hacker news for applied mathematicians.
Stop this MS h8 shit m8 if anything, MS will bring some stability to that company. Right now it's just a bunch of children making shittonnes of money for an indie games accident. They didn't work for it, they got lucky. Notch just prefers to be a little bitch on Twitter over everything while spending his 10mil a year on holidays.

Anyone who can bring accountability to Mojang will be a good thing.
The Mac App Store is not (yet) the only software source, though that restriction is available as an opt-in setting in System Preferences.

Applications from outside the App Store run just fine, as long as they're signed with a developer certificate. The certificate presumably costs $99/year, but you don't need Apple to approve your application.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290
No. Based on the information presented, someone thought she had worked as a recruiter when she was at Google.
Stupid question but is Swift just compiled into Objective-C? I'm asking because I'd like to know if I can write an app in Swift that can run on iOS6.
Obviously by number not a minority, but in the way they sometimes get treated or by perception or whatever, they seem to be considered a "protected class" or whatever the legal term is that you shouldn't discriminate against.

I think the point remains however that any group that faces a generation of discrimination/hazing/whatever you want to call it seems to find a way to revisit that same act on a later generation once they are in power.
swift compiles to llvm not objective c.
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I've taken a hard look at every single smartwatch that's come out to date and found them wanting. I couldn't at any point bring myself to wear a device that needs to be charged every night and isn't "always on" yet doesn't have all the features I wanted. Little by little they got closer, but nobody had nailed it until Apple did.

I think it'll initially be seen as a superficial luxury, much like a smartphone. Then without much effort and without anyone noticing it'll become a device that's at first convenient to have and then inconvenient not to have.

I'm definitely getting an Apple watch and it'll take some amazing competition to steer me in another direction. I guess this means I'll have to get a Mac some time too.
That's fantastic! Now, too bad I can't watch your video tutorials on my Macbook Pro using Chrome. Or Windows 7 using Chrome. The messaging on the site declares it requires Safari. So much of the open web... Quietly moves along to Android.
Not when you have a hit as big as Minecraft. Kids growing up with Minecraft today will still be playing it nostalgically 30-40 years from now.