skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see no mention of it in the readme, but one of the things I missed while learning Racket was the ability to use images and media the way that you can in DrRacket. It's a silly feature if you are actually experienced with either tool, but when you're learning (especially with the beginner guides on Racket's site) it sure would be nice if you could follow [almost] as you would with DrRacket.
A comment to the author of the article:

I don't agree with your point about non-immunity. Cultural imprinting works because it leverages the desire that humans have to portray a certain image or belong to a certain group.

As rational humans, we can eliminate the pull of such ads by building our own understanding about the group the ad is appealing to, and how that ad appeals to the group. Equipped with this understanding, we can find far more effective ways than drinking Corona to portray the image of being chill and relaxed.

Alternatively, we can reconsider our willingness to be included in that group. Once we realize the only thing binding Corona drinkers together is their collective vision of some beach, we might realize that there's more interesting people to drink with.
you mean like charge a $1 for 2 day trial of unlimited use?

or give 14 day trial before card is charged.
I have 1161 entries dating back to my first on August 18, 2010. I really love the service, but understand if they have to shut it down.

Thanks to the founders for keeping such an easy-to-use service around for so long. I'm off to find an alternative. My list of features isn't long. A daily email with a reminder and a previous post from the last year, month or week. It's that simplicity that kept me using the service.
iirc, geiser supports images in a racket repl inside emacs.
some people just need it for one time job others more regular. I guess for one time usage I should charge and for regular users require a credit card...but they will cancel it and extract as much as they want in the 14 day trial....

or I was thinking if it's a huge pdf file, charge per row of data extracted.
I don't regret taking the leap, but I also didn't need to be convinced nor did I carefully ask people what they thought. It's sort of something that needs to be done because you're the right kind of crazy.
The implication that this gentlemen became an alcoholic because he quit his corporate job and became an entrepreneur seems pretty far fetched. The guy was probably either already an alcoholic or didn't actually become one. There's a huge difference between drinking to cope with stress and drinking because you are an alcoholic. The latter needs no stress to cause him/her to drink.
http://justgetflux.com/
It seems like they're closing down in a clean and responsible way.
You can use views or stored functions to abstract stuff...
Summary: someone who is working on a product to search by speech and images issues a press release predicting that people will soon have half their searches being speech and images.
Great article, horrible layout. Fix the layout by pasting this in the console: $('div#main').style.width = "100%".
They used a 7-year old version of Symatec antivirus, and they didn't do even basic routine scans. What further analysis is necessary?
The first round was for range; the second for effect. If the second volley didn't hit, the third almost certainly would. A forward observer was required.
Did anyone check into them this time before trusting them initially?
Looks to me like the repl will display images but you can't just embed an image in the source code as in DrRacket. Any ideas?
There are a variety of studies on genetic correlations of behavioral traits, based on twin and adoption studies, and they do suggest genetic links. Read Bryan Caplan's "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids" for a good overview (his intellectual goal is a completely different topic).

Indeed to the extent that there are lots of people walking around with an unsubstantiated notion that immigrants are genetically less able, less intelligent, less moral...perpetuates the problems.

Some immigrant groups (e.g., Vietnamese refugees) don't seem to need a "fair shot". They do well all by themselves. Why is that?

Scroll up - the numbers just don't add for poverty as an explanation. If you think your other factors do explain variation well, lets see some numbers.

Racism by the rest of society doesn't work well as the sole additional variable, since African and Caribbean immigrants tend to outperform African Americans. That also cuts against genetic explanations, BTW.

I just don't think the story is as simple as you or the OP are making it out to be - too much unexplained variation.
Apple doesn't allow beta apps on the AppStore.

All of this is clearly laid out in their submission guidelines. As is what they expect in a user interface.

They want you to put forward polished apps, not almost-finished apps. As they say in one of the first points in their submission guidelines:

"If your App looks like it was cobbled together in a few days, or you're trying to get your first practice App into the store to impress your friends, please brace yourself for rejection. We have lots of serious developers who don't want their quality Apps to be surrounded by amateur hour"

Yes, this raises the bar for developers, but by doing so it also cuts out a lot of the crap.

The AppStore is already overflowing with apps in every category, and the overcrowding would be even worse if they lowered their submission standards.
Why do you think local food production would be more efficient? My gardening projects have been case studies in inefficiency.
> read up on Operation Mockingbird

Did you read anything I posted? In what instance was somebody bribed AND blackmailed at the same time during the Mockingbird?

Please go back to Wikipedia and try again.
I forgot Rockstars dont have time for BS that dosent make them millions.

I wonder when majority of people will dislike Startup folks like they did dislike Stock Brokers thanks to thinking like yours.

Greed is good. Right?

Honour is just a myth?
Who eats 1200 calories for lunch? A whole Chipotle burrito and a drink is only 900 and you'd have to eat that much for breakfast, dinner, and lunch to get past 2500 calories.
"They say many companies do not even know they have been breached."

This is the scariest fact of the whole article. We hear about Sony, Target, Home Depot, etc. on the news, but how many others are out there that we don't know about? Dozens? Hundreds?
It fills you up and offers no nutrition, making it harder to eat enough calories in one day.
My favorite is this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7093993
The 10 phones that fueled the big-screen revolution
As someone who ran a wireless ISP for 3 years, there is the possibility of new competition. Wired networks are crazy expensive, but we were able to build a profitable infrastructure by renting rooftop space on tall buildings and doing directv style installations. Consumers weren't willing to pay much, so we ended up focusing on business customers. If enough people are willing to pay for neutral pipes, it might reinvigorate competition in the space--at least in dense urban areas. Our big fear at the time was fiber rollouts. Neutral nets would be a competitive advantage against big players we didn't have back then.
Great! Except you haven't told me anything about Vi(m) does that Netbeans, Eclipse or IDEA cannot do. We have powerful plugins too! I promise!
Nanotechnologists Carve Tunnels Beneath the Surface of Silicon Chips
Whoahahaha no, this does not make bitcoin seem more appealing. At least with credit card breaches nobody loses real money permanently.
Racket-mode's author is Greg Henderschott, creator of Cakewalk. He's active under the Racket tag on StackOverflow. Based on his comments there, Racket-mode is primarily driven by his needs, and these aren't fully met by Geiser...I think he has also used it as a way to learn more about Racket.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakewalk_(company)
This is a welcome article to read this week. I'm in the process of winding down my abortive startup and fielding a lot of questions from confused friends who think I'm just months away from giving them a ride on my yacht. The reality is much, much different. I look forward to having a fulltime job again and having time for music.
It looks like this was a unity game, so no access to the default UI stuff.
I haven't read the paper. I know it sounds like a cop out (have you?). But then if I'd read it, it wouldn't really have mattered as I'm not an expert in the field. I'm no more qualified to criticize his data as someone who refuses global warming or evolution. Yet in all three topics, I can still hold an opinion that I believe to be the right one, which isn't the opinion of the average citizen, journalist or politician, but that of the average scientist. And here we see scientists overwhelmingly opining the validity of evolution, global warming, and that Rushton's work is utter bs. His work has been routinely dismissed on scientific grounds by the vast majority of scientists who have bothered to look into them. On them I depend for my own opinion. You may dismiss me on grounds that if I haven't read, analyzed and researched the paper's data, theories and conclusions, that I shouldn't speak on it. That's fine. I disagree but I can see why you'd say that. But to dismiss the fact that overwhelmingly scientists have looked upon his work unfavorably on scientific, but ideological grounds I think is myopic.

Anyway, I'll return the question... Did you read and believe in the validity of his data, theory and conclusions in this paper or in a general sense? And do you believe that the majority of scientists in relevant fields agree with his conclusions? You have my answers on these two (no and no), I'm curious to hear yours.
Ask HN: What's the current least bad solution for storing personal photos?
I was all ready to switch all my photos to Everpix. But after its well-publicized shut down, I'm now a little hesitant to trust that kind of service.

Dropbox seems like they're making a play for photo storage, but I'm not sure they're quite there yet. And I guess there's also services like Google Drive or iCloud, but these always seemed opaque and poorly designed to me.

Anyway, I'm curious to know what people use. I've got 50GB of photos sitting on my hard drive and I need to do something about it!
Sounds like an easy default is to keep the profile private until the user chooses to "create" the profile.
Find the Best Double Stroller for My Kids Here
That experiment would not accurately test the emotional inception theory. The theory states that given ads associating a product with a positive emotion, people will eventually feel that emotion when they see the product in the store, and be compelled to buy it. Your experiment tests whether people feel that emotion when they use the advertised product after having bought it. You might assume that these answers would match, but that is a dangerous and unnecessary assumption.

I have an idea for a more accurate experiment. Survey a number of people about what brands of some product they buy, if any. The product should be something that does not currently have many ads for it (like bedsheets), so that cultural imprinting is not a factor. Then send them a weekly email newsletter on some random topic. Each newsletter would also contains ads for a certain brand of that product.

The people would be split into two groups. For half of them, the ad for the product tries to associate the brand with a positive image. For the other half, the ad tries to associate the brand with a neutral image, while otherwise keeping the text the same. This splitting into groups ensures that “honest signaling” is not a confounding factor.

To ensure that the participant opens the newsletter and sees the ads, participants would be asked to search each newsletter for a piece of information and reply to the email with that information.

After three months of the newsletters, participants would be surveyed again about what brands of the product they buy, if any. If emotional imprinting theory is accurate, the participants who were shown the positive images should have increased their purchasing of that brand of product more than the neutral-image participants increased their purchasing.
Where are you getting 15 to 60 day review process from?! Numerous sources report an average of 5 to 10 days.

The only one I've ever heard of going anywhere like 60 days was the Gmail app, and that was almost certainly a cycle of rejections; when it finally shipped, it barely worked at all, and tended to crash.
Baby Trend Sit N Stand Double Stroller Review
This at best shows that alternate models can work.

It doesn't answer the question, if Apple switched to a more open model, would it be good for their customers?
I for one, like that there is some level of curation.
"I like this idea in principle, but in practice I wonder about the implications of it. Normally the database is a sort of special-purpose component with its own resources and scaling methods. I think if someone actually did apply the full power of this system to build their whole web application logic into the database server they might run into problems if/when they need to scale up due to coupling the database and application layer. Everyone who didn't build their web application logic in the database would pay the performance penalty for parsing / authenticating requests in a scripting language instead of in compiled C code. The database layer is one possibly rare place where people will be counting milliseconds of overhead per request as a problem." This.
C2 wiki
I would very much welcome this.

Love the new json/jsonb datatypes and this would be a great way to use those.

I'd personally prefer pg to mongo and even without the HTTP API I could see myself using it in the future, though with an HTTP API there would seem no reason not to use pg.
Carmack has been a hero of mine since the mid 90s. He was also the inspiration for me to go into computer science. Always a pleasure to listen to such a technically dense talk on the cutting edge of a subject dear to me. I highly recommend his quake-con keynotes as well for those of you who like this video.
That's what REST is supposed to solve. Unfortunately, the API responses given here don't seem to take advantage of it.
The probability grid is very neat. One question though, it looks like Ship.DIRECTION_VERTICAL and Ship.DIRECTION_HORIZONTAL might be flipped. It seems consistent, so it's ok. Just the label "vertical" actually means "horizontal" and vice-versa.

for (var i = 0; i < this.shipLength; i++) {
if (direction === Ship.DIRECTION_VERTICAL) {
if (this.playerGrid.cells[x + i][y] === CONST.TYPE_SHIP ||
this.playerGrid.cells[x + i][y] === CONST.TYPE_MISS ||
this.playerGrid.cells[x + i][y] === CONST.TYPE_SUNK) {
return false;
}
}
Yep. Unity. (author here)

However, in effect I did the same as using default assets by buying assets that were ok across platforms.
Exactly. No public posts? No public profile. Mention to the user that they're doing something "profile-oriented" that's going to start appearing on their profile if you really want to do the silly "activity-log" approach to a home-page (that is, every YouTube video or Blogger post the user likes and comments appears on their page) - once the user starts doing actions in public, that's the time to lazily create the public page, and that's the time to ask the user the hard question of "hey, I'm going to start collecting all your public commentary and public likes into a single place so everybody can see the stuff you say and like, is this good? yes? Awesome. No? Let me set up a pseudonym for you to do that"

Google obviously wanted people who were active public commenters/contributors on their properties (YouTube, Picasa, and Blogger) to automagically be part of Plus, and that's not a terrible idea (obviously treating commenting and sharing as the exact same operation without distinguishing it to the reader is a terrible idea, but that's just a detail). But why foist Plus on all the lurkers? Lurkers don't add value to Plus anyways.
Open Security Operations Center
There's a little-known repo I'm keeping an eye on that is attempting to do just this using Haskell: https://github.com/begriffs/dbapi
I have been using MEGA since its launch, and have been quite happy with the service.

https://mega.co.nz/#fm
Maybe I'm just less aware of what other people do than others, but I find this fundamentally unconvincing (the argument that this explains most of what's usually considered emotional inception, not the existence of the phenomenon in some cases).

> Beer, soft drinks, gum, every kind of food (think backyard barbecues). Restaurants, coffee shops, airlines. Cars, computers, clothing. Music, movies, and TV shows (think about the watercooler at work). Even household products send cultural signals, insofar as they'll be noticed when you invite friends over to your home. Any product enjoyed or discussed in the presence of your peers is ripe for cultural imprinting.

Your choice of coffee shop or fast food communicates something to your peers if you're seen there, which, as far as I know, is often fairly uncommon, depending on your situation. It's nice to be culturally aware, but that doesn't constrain your consumption of music, movies, and TV too much (especially music) unless you watch very little. 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. Household products? Maybe once in a year.

Nor do I find all of the anecdotes convincing.

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.

Gas stations - don't advertise because usually you don't have multiple stations right next to each other. Since the service is a commodity, everyone goes to the closest station.

Why not two-faced - because it's easier to remember something if it's clear, well-defined, and repeated often, and that includes unconscious associations. No need to bring in cultural factors.
The most useful kitchen information product I've ever used is a photocopied page, laminated.
Zenefits’ Leader Is Rattling an Industry, So Why Is He Stressed Out?
Focusing on the hardships of entrepreneurship is just a different way of romanticizing it.
That's not really the point. If there are 50 bad apps for every good one the store would be a horrible place to browse. If Apple enforces some level of quality then it becomes a better place for developers to sell their apps.

I have the unpopular opinion that apple is already too lenient on app quality. I've been rejected quite a few times. In almost all cases the customer was better off for it.
The Paleo Lifestyle: The way way way back
A few months ago I built something for myself that started from the same idea of simple journaling/reminders but I chose SMS instead of email.

http://carmela.io

It's basically a 2 way SMS reminder system that allows for flexible and simple scheduling. I've been using it for months to SMS myself and record thoughts throughout the day. At the start of each day I get a link to my recent summary which gives me performance metrics along with past content (see screenshot)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hhpzt3g77ujy1go/Screenshot%202014-...

I haven't really focused on how to make a business out of this and OhLife shutting down is another data point around whether or not this type of service can be monetized effectively. For me email would never work to get me to do this kind of activity. SMS does work because it's invasive enough, on a clearer channel than email, and even simpler to respond. (even though my response rate over the last week is as low as it's ever been :-)

Comments and thoughts welcome as to whether or not people would be into something like this. I've actually been working on another idea that uses this app as a foundation but I (along with a few others) do use it everyday for journaling.
Oct 4th, and they're deleting everything?

Can you imagine getting back from a trip to discover everything had been deleted.

It seems like they should give more time than this.
First Impressions on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus – Hands On
If you're not following their Twitter, you should https://twitter.com/atlasobscura
"The fallible human mind participates in the beauty of an infallible abstract realm that, in the view of many mathematicians, exists independently of the mental and physical worlds." Kurt Gödel

Gödel++
Therein lies the problem. Waiting for exploits to be developed, before releasing fixes is reactive. More proactive code auditing could reduce the number of zero-day vulnerabilities.
Because all the cycles are allocated to the verbal system rendering motor system immobile.
It's very important to note that if its good for customers it's great for developers. If customers trust the store, and it's a pleasant place to shop, then customers are more likely to spend money.
Pre-encrypt -> Amazon S3. Easy-peasy.
I wrote (part of) the patch that lets geiser display images in the REPL. It's only for interactive use: when a function returns a picture, Emacs displays it. It's not part of the file.

The way Racket embeds images into your source code is actually somewhat interesting. If a `.rkt` file includes a rich element (eg. image, table, GUI structure, etc.) then the result file format is not strictly human-readable anymore. Instead, the source code is stored in the homegrown 'WXME' format which, while text-based, is not actually human-parsable anymore. That makes source code diffs a pain.

Emacs could technically parse these files on load and write them on save, but that might be a bit tricky. The Racket library that reads and writes this format is documented at http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/WXME_Decoding.html?q=wxme .
Interestingly, I had never heard the phrase "loop invariant" despite having taken math courses on proofs and a lower-level (300-level, quicksort, etc) algorithms course.

I'm curious. Is this like a "supper vs dinner" or "pop vs soda" variation that depends on the region your university is located?
And how would they go about capitalizing on the bad PR, considering that Bitcoin security is far, far worse than even the sloppiest credit card system? Virtually every business dealing in Bitcoin has been hacked, and this basically always results in the full balance of their bitcoins being stolen and the attacker getting away with it clean.

The credit card system has its issues, but even these massive thefts of numbers generally lead to no financial losses for customers and modest losses for banks and retailers, and the attackers often do get tracked and caught. The biggest complaint on here is that the losses are not high enough to convince these companies to pay serious attention to security.
He moves but, is too fast for the camera speed.
To quote my actual post:

> the Agile methodology allegedly favored by Google and Spotify

That's why I put that "allegedly" in there, along with links to where the claims were made.

I see these claims in the business press from time to time, but I rarely believe them.

BS reporting is a catch-22. Since I repeated the claims, I get well-informed debunking. If I'd ignored the claims, I'd be getting poorly-informed debunking from people who saw it and believed it.

I'm pretty happy to get well-informed debunking, rather than poorly-informed debunking.
It's a far off goal to be sure. But they're already making progress. Changing it to "Half of North America" seems quite doable as more and more people are living in cities. We just need wealthy benefactors to continue buying up useless land and committing it to the cause.
Why innovators hate MBAs