skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want an overview of the ideas behind this sort of research and a quick summary of some results, Greg Wilson gave a great talk on it[0].

I haven't read through the site to see what is there, but software engineering methodology and technique research* uses techniques from research of management techniques in business, making it closer to psychology or sociology. For more information, the blog "It Will Never Work in Theory"[1] does a good job of highlighting these sorts of results that are directly useful and has some explanation of the tools they are using to study software engineering practices. The book Making Software[2] goes into much more detail on software engineering research methodologies if you are interested.

*As opposed to CS theory research that could be used in software engineering, which is usually math.

[0] http://vimeo.com/9270320
[1] http://neverworkintheory.org/index.html
[2] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596808303.do
I've seen a lot of ads, for example, for household cleaning products (dishwashers, detergents, sponges, soaps, etc.) which are not social at all - they actually even more a-social than bedsheets, your house guests may happen to notice your bedsheets but would rarely know which soap you use to wash your dishes or windows. So while it sounds very persuasive for some products, one may easily poke holes in the concept applied universally.
On the other hand, young people (below 18) aren't that much into facebook anymore.

So maybe in the future, some other social network will emerge.
3D printing in space is important, but this article doesn't do it justice. Great, you've got NASA, to get SpaceX to loft your printer, so what? Why is this really a leap forward? What is this going to print?
This article keeps using the word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy in some sense I don't understand. Can anyone explain it?

About the romantic idea of genius: let's celebrate such people without mysticism. I'm glad I've gotten to meet some of my favorite thinkers and find out they don't shoot laser beams out of their eyes.
It's not clear who this new social network is supposed to be for.

If they want everyone, then it will surely fail. Everyone has Facebook already where their friends and family dwell, and no-one seriously care much about the NSA (I have nothing to hide!) or that they are the product (people have come to be tamed and accept ads as a normality of life).

They should probably target a particular audience, like linked in targets professionals, from what I see, Ello should maybe target designers and creatives.

Why should there be only one 'social network'?

I'd love a software developer social network where I can make friends, share some code that would be rendered nicely on screen, have conversations that can be private or public, ask questions that would otherwise be closed on SO, etc
Same for electronics hobbyists, graphic designers, photographers, ...

Facebook is the lowest common denominator, but it excels at no particular task: why can't we belong to multiple social networks, each geared toward something that is central to our life?
Ah awesome -- was really hoping I didn't come off as judgemental in the comment.

Mind sharing what you ended up using? I didn't see it on the post (maybe I didn't look hard enough?).

[EDIT]

I just realized the second screen shot is the changed app...

After a quick google search I found stuff like this (the first one doesn't look bad at all):
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/gui-ngui-skins-and-widgets-...

Is that usable?
If it's not decentralized it doesn't solve major issues of most social networks around there.
>
Government-negotiated rates places the pricing totally outside the realm of necessity or reality and makes it a purely political matter, and politics is a messy, fickle thing built on personal favors and tit-for-tat. Not having your political activity interpreted as corruption or bribery mostly depends on not pissing off someone with more power than you.

You might want to read how England does it. A national organisation (NICE) gives guidance about what care pathways and treatment should look like. Local CCGs (clinical commissioning groups) decide what they're goong to pay for.

Your description isn't even close to reality in England.
> "The curse of Lisp" is a well known phrase that's been used in hundreds of essays:

If you actually look through the Google results, there are not that many 'essays' about that topic.

> There has been much debate about why Lisp has not taken over the world of computing. It was invented in 1958, it was taught in all the best schools, yet it has not gained mass traction.

This fate is shared by a lot of things.

The whole idea that Lisp needs or will get 'mass traction' is just complete bullshit. There is no reason for that expectation.

> Your statement "it is not limited to Lisp" is simply ignorant.

No, it isn't. The whole idea is just unscientific bullshit.

> There is something special about Lisp: no other language has received so much praise and so little use.

So, what. Lisp exists since 1958. During the last 50+ years people have written a lot about Lisp. That's it. There are now many times more articles published in the past year about Java and its ecosystem than over Lisp during its whole lifetime.

> Essays like the Bipolar Lisp Programmer are important contributions toward understanding what the problem is.

Tarver has very little idea what he is talking about. He lives in his own world. Everybody at an university has seen similar behavior in different contexts. But I would not call it 'bipolar', because this is just a bullshit label, failing to describe anything credible.

Lisp got used in a lot of innovative projects often in a R&D and University context. As a rapid prototyping tool, as a research vehicle, ... That their 'products' are not polished and tend to fail, is just normal. Innovation fails a lot. Also Lisp was often a prototyping tool. Prototypes tend to be reworked into products using a different technology. Just like somebody makes a prototype using a high-end CNC machine and later uses different production technologies for mass production. It also attracts people, who are innovative. It's just like startups, which fail a lot.

That's just it. Move on nothing to see.
A million times this. I was ill for a long time. Coke was the only thing that settled my stomach.
Likewise most 3d graphics software like Maya, Houdini, softimage ICE etc. These types of node-based interfaces tend to arise in applications which need high interactivity and have a fairly specific domain. They usually don't scale well to more general programming. For example, they are great for representing the flow of data through a network of functions but not so great at showing things like loops or recursion. That said, I do think graphics (and music) apps are at the forefront of "visual programming" but they are often not talked about in the context of programming language research. Language designers should be looking to them for inspiration.
Audio Technica ATH-M50X
Just got it recently and they're awesome. They do not have active noise cancellation. Since they are over the ear, they cover the ear and with a good set of ear pads, they block out all office noise (unless you work in manufacturing ;) )

Based on reviews that I've read (not compared personally) they are much better than comparable beats.

These cans are a tad on the expensive side but worth it
>> "On the other hand, young people (below 18) aren't that much into facebook anymore."

I'm not sure how true that is although I hear it all the time. I think young people are using more social networks (Snapchat, WhatsApp) but that doesn't mean they've stopped using Facebook. My younger brother and his friends spend most of their time on their phone on Facebook.
It used to be the standard way of teaching control structures. "so you want to write a 'while' loop? Then what's the invariant?". Also, the invariant is the best comment/documentation you can add to a complex loop.
Example of Google's Closure Compiler eliminating the memory leak:

var theThing = null;

function replaceThing() {
theThing = {
longStr: Array(1E6).join("*"),
someMethod: function() { }
};
}

setInterval(replaceThing, 1E3);

http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home
Many people who are classified as blind have some kind of vision perception — just very, very degraded compared to "normal" vision. So while they might not be able to read, they would be able to at least make educational guesses as to where text might be.
Step-by-step Guide on How to Co-Founder Troll (ie Reggie Brown / Snapchat)
Flickr is actually not a bad option. It's been around the longest and Yahoo is actually finally putting some weight behind it. Compared to general file storage services like Dropbox, Flickr offers 1 TB of space. You don't have to worry about hitting the ceiling on limits. Also, although many people associate Flickr with professional & public photos, it is very easy to make pictures private by default.
This could be used to carve tunnels usable for water cooling. Instead of cooling chip cover, there would be substrate-level cooling.
5th grader finds Dead Kennedys CD at school library
Bed sheets - sheets themselves may not be the hottest product category, but I've seen many mattress and mattress store commercials. Tempur-pedic, Sleepy's (I have heard that jingle so many times I doubt I will ever forget it), etc.

Yes, but at least around here, mattress ads actually try to convince you about the quality of their products, by talking about the technology and showing how work. I've never seen an ad that was just a person sleeping peacefully, Corona-style.

Nobody notices what brand of sneakers you're wearing... at least, I rarely even look down that far, and I can't believe other people are that different.

Really? Do you know many teenagers? I don't look at them either, but I can tell you that both my sixteen-years-old brother and most of his friends definitely do.
How Apple Pay Could Work on Apple Watch Without Touch ID
Geez, a bit of competition would be nice -- makes for better products. So only Zuckerberg is allowed to mediate all our social communication? Lucky him.

I seriously care much about having my private communication snooped on. I'm someone.

I hate ads, I'd prefer to pay a social network so that I do not have to see ads.

> They should probably target a particular audience

> Why should there be only one 'social network'?

A better question is, why do you think that multiple social networks must serve niches? Why can't they all compete for the same pie just like in practically all areas of commerce? Are you saying that I should only get my full-fat milk from company A, my semi-skinned from company B, and my butter-milk from company C? Because that's what it sounds like. You wouldn't tolerate that in other areas of your life, why are you unconcerned about it when it comes to something so personal -- your social communication and its history?
From Wikipedia:

>Groups will have, in addition to GPs, at least one registered nurse and a doctor who is a secondary care specialist.

Doctors and clinicians deciding just how much they're going to get paid. Not subject to any kind of market or competitive force that may work toward an equilibrium based on supply and demand. The government has said "Here's a massive amount of money, fight among yourselves about who gets how much, good luck".

Politics is very much at play here, as it is in any system where the prices are determined by committees or small groups instead of the free market. This includes the current system in the US, which is effectively controlled by a handful of paper pushers in the insurance industry, leeching billions out of our system each year without providing any value and ever-inflating the costs for the patient.

There's no reason health care has to be a distorted market. Free market principles are applicable in health care as they are in any other field. While it's true that people need medicine to survive in many cases, people also need food and groceries to survive, but we haven't had to nationalize a grocery chain heretofore. There is enough competition in the space to keep prices low. There would be ample competition in the medical space if we could break the insurance cabals that currently exist.

The powers that be rather like our current system, and they love it now that the ACA has made it a crime to not purchase their product. They would certainly also enjoy the "print money til the doctors are happy" system proposed by many left-leaning persons. The one thing they're most afraid of is the one thing that restores equilibrium and stops their ability to gouge, which is real competition and a true free market undistorted by unfair practices and insurance company leeches.

Non-catastrophic medical insurance should be outlawed and clients should have to pay their doctors directly, forcing doctors to charge a reasonable amount of money or have no clients, forcing suppliers to charge a reasonable amount of money or have no customers, forcing medical schools to charge a reasonable amount of money or have no students. We can't just keep saying "The expensive way of doing this is easy and great, so let's just have the government pay for it." Things must be self-sufficient.
I feel you in the pain of dealing with interlacing, but Carmack was envisaging a more flexible solution than plain two up interlacing. In particular his solution also made HDR imaging possible, which sounds like a worthwhile win to compensate for the pain of interlacing.
You have the right to say this while being the lowest ranking employee in the company, not CEO. But when you're CEO, you have other people you're responsible for, you hired them and they depend on you being able to run the business so they can feed their families. Saying "fuck you" to the customer who is bringing you 10% of revenue is not what CEO can really do.
I used to work as a care assistant. I basically agree with the parent but while reading about massive psychological toll of being rejected I could not help but think "try to observe a half-conscious guy in terminal stadium of cancer moan and scream from pain for hours before he finally dies" - I was working night shifts and after THAT I could not believe that sun was still rising.

And working as a minimum wage 'robo-slave' in a pen factory for one week when I was at high school made me realize that this kind of work is no cake either.

Entrepreneurship, however hard, is still one of the easiest methods how to make a living.
OpenGL in 2014
Host Your Golang App on Digital Ocean with Dokku
Doctors are human and are subject to the same cognitive biases as everyone else.

What you want is a bunch of statisticians looking at the research and patient outcomes.
That is essentially what region inference in the MLKit compiler does. http://www.elsman.com/mlkit/

It has some unexpected properties: it can sometimes produce dangling pointers because it knows the target data will never be used, even though a GC would treat it as live. And on the other hand it will often promote data to an excessively long-lived region (because region lifetimes have to be nested). So current versions of the MLKit use GC as well as region inference.
Jumping into webdesign
A free market healthcare system assumes people would be getting back at least 7.5% of their salary every year, if not more.

That doesn't work for various reasons:

- People will spend the money and won't have enough savings to save their medical bill.

- There is an economic crisis and people use their savings for covering their mortgage payments.

- Most importantly: for some people the medical bills will be higher than they could set aside at that point in their life or at all in the case of a chronic condition or e.g. a form of cancer that is very expensive to treat.

There is literally a quota of, say pacemakers, for example, that can be purchased in Germany every year.

Germany apparently has quota, but they are budgeting and adjusted to the need. Again, I know of no cases in my wider circle of family, friends, and acquaintances where they could not get some important medical condition treated and with nearly full coverage of insurance.

In the nineties, we had inefficiencies in The Netherlands that sometimes resulted in long waiting lists. These issues have been resolved at the beginning of the century... Through government interference.

You might also want to check on research, which shows time and again that countries with universal insurance outperform the US, both on quality and cost per citizen. E.g.:

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/f...

There is a frequent misperception that
trade-offs between universal coverage and timely access to specialized services are inevitable; however,
the Netherlands, U.K., and Germany provide universal coverage with low out-of-pocket costs while
maintaining quick access to specialty services.
Skeptics were arguing that the talks will be uploaded to YouTube anyway, and stuff like that. I'm interested in looking to meet people beyond the event as well. Let's see. M
"So if a theory (like emotional inception) says that something as flat and passive as an ad can have such a strong effect on our behavior, we should hold that theory to a pretty high burden of proof."

When I was adolescent I went to a(my first) music concert, it was an incredible experience, I even met my first girlfriend there. I was surprised that it was Coca Cola everywhere.

For me this was freedom(from my home environment), adventure, joy, friendship, and even sex.

Way more than pixels on the screen.

Today is not Coca Cola. I do B.A.S.E jumping, love going downhill with my bike and when I go to see or meet the Gods of the trail or Skydiving doing incredible things(them,not me) I see REDBULL EVERYWHERE in the events they participate.

Pixels on the screen are probably not that good, but they affect millions at the same time.

Lots of people watch porn, even when it is just "pixels on the screen".

A significant part of the advertising industry do not use pixels at all, they use text, they are called "copywriters" and what they do is tell stories.
Fair point. I'll have to try and use connections in the valley to see if any introductions can be made. Thanks a lot for your inputs. :)
What's great about his talks is how smooth they are. I'm not sure if that's a good analogy, but his talks are like waves in the sea. They are rolling from one topic to the other, nice and clean.

That's what it looks like when person knows what he's talking about and quite passionate about it - such person wants to share his thoughts and experiences.
As I said, I'm from India and getting a visa, according to the official website takes around a week except under dire circumstances. Hopefully should get it in time. Where are you from?
I've seen people refuse to use LDAP, and request a JSON (not rest) API instead, thus disregarding the security benefits of using a protocol that has 20 years of experience for dealing with access control and authentication.

Not really. HTTP/JSON is just a transport mechanism, which is not particularly secure in LDAP (it just uses SSL). The layers above of the protocol can simply use HTTP/JSON as the transport mechanism, like multiple existing LDAP-to-JSON gateways show. There are no security benefits being lost.

There is great value in using and understanding it, because not every problem is a nail that can be hammered with a few GET requests.

That would be a good argument against a proposal to replace the existing protocol.
اجازة عيد الاضحى 2014 للقطاع العام والخاص وعدد ايام الاجازة ووقفة عرفات
Cannon battles of WW2
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/capitalsh...
For anyone else who thinks the site is a bit weird and has a hard time finding their profit model:

> Ello is completely free to use.

> From time to time we offer special features to our users. If we create a special feature that you like, you can choose to pay a very small amount of money to add it to your Ello account forever.

> The vast majority of Ello's features, the ones that all of us use every day, are always going to be free, and we'll keep improving them. When you choose to pay a small amount of money for a feature that you get to use, you help support Ello as an ad-free network and help us make it better and better.

-- https://ello.co/wtf/post/why-no-ads

That sounds like an okay business model to me. Depends what features will be paid and which will be free, but given the motivation behind creating the site in the first place, it'll probably be reasonable.
.. in the context of survival. What if the first action of a 'real AI' is to switch itself off? We will have missed the forest for the trees. Maybe it happened already ..
A couple of months at least.

It could take more than a couple of weeks for many users to realize the service is shutting down (skip past the email in their inbox, etc.)

Even if a user receives notification with the full two weeks notice, they could be on vacation and unable to download the files.

They could figure "Oh, I'll make a note to download my stuff when I get home from work" then forget all about it.
I'd venture a guess it's the TSA, with the backscatter machines (radiation), millimeter wave machines (pornographic pictures - not really but definitely privacy-invading) and groping people inappropriately, including children all having been or still being policy during the Obama administration's operation, and the president having direct control over the TSA.
> VR in education is going to be huge

I've been seeing this repeated a lot lately, but I am going to say not with current hardware it isn't. The potential is obvious, but since SDK 0.4.0, the Rift comes with a huge on-screen disclaimer that can't officially be disabled (much to the annoyance of developers) that it is not for use by minors.

The reason is that much more research is needed to determine whether or not VR headsets are safe for developing eyes and brains. When you are using a VR headset, you are continually focused on infinity, which is not natural.

Sim sickness also continues to be a problem. Again it is not known whether there are potentially damaging effects while the brain is still in development. I would expect especially younger children to compensate for sim sickness for more readily than adults do, but who knows if that is at the expense of their balance and coordination in the real world? Right now, we don't.

University-level education, yes: VR will yield immediate tangible benefits. The truly big gains for general education cannot come until these problems can be worked out, which hopefully will be somewhere around CV3-CV4 (say around 5 years out). It won't be a solved problem within a year or two, unfortunately.
In battle with Amazon, all local businesses need is love
If you're interested learning about accessibility —especially the broader issues outside of problems with vision — I'd strongly recommend having a look at http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/a-web-for-everyone/

(Disclaimer: One of the authors is a friend so I may be a bit biased, but we did first encounter each other on discussions about accessibility in the 90's ;-)

The technical advice in it is mostly written for web folk, but the framework of accessibility/UX it places that advice in is pretty much applicable to anything.
if you don't know history, you are doomed to reinvent it.
The one thing you should realize is that in the past, people were not more stupid. They just had less, or different context. Regarding bit trickery, chess programming is full of it.

Curiously, it's also the area where strong static typing breaks down, as it is sometimes preferred to view the same set of bits as a value of a different type to be able to manipulate it in another way.
Nice! Took me a while to find what looks like the internal shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YkCh7uOw1Y&t=22m42s
David’s Health Tech Newsletter: No. 26