skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the difference between corporate influence and political influence regarding news? Politicians influence the news from their beginning, the only difference being that they pay reporters and media outlets with tax money.
Given the small revenues that a news article generates, I fully understand the temptation to write for a check. Hey, at least the journalist doesnt have to blackmail any company/individual with disclosures they want to remain secret.
From a certain angle, My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk can be thought of as a book about midieval selfies.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375706852
Slow motion cannabis cut with samurai sword
True story: I went to the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center in Thailand last year. Showing in prime position was an 'exhibition' about the dangers of counterfeit medicines, sponsored by a major international pharmaceutical syndicate and facilitated by a European consulate. It was mostly composed of art by children in Indonesia on the subject. The whole thing gave me the heeby-jeebies.
Wow, it is "scary stuff"!

They had the opportunity to help Tesla(or be Tesla), and they made everything on their power to destroy it, remember the GM first electric car. Now it is scary because it survived and it is the future, not them.

This people is frightened by the future so they try to delay it as much as they can.

They are worried about themselves, rent seekers trying not to lose what they have instead of caring about their customers.

In business you have to care(genuinely)for your customers or you are dead. Like dinosaurs.
I use st exclusively. It's bound to my new terminal key mapping and I've never found a reason to use a different one. I tried urxvt and xterm but stuck with st.
> "The future of the car is in Silicon Valley," a vice president of the San Francisco-based Bay Area Council Economic Institute boldly predicted

I think I'll go ahead and challenge the boldness of making that prediction when that's your job title. He might end up being wrong, but even if, for instance, California law prohibits all automobiles or pictures of automobiles within 100 miles of SF for any use, no one would really blame him (and I think it's almost certain he won't be _that_ wrong).
People who have been fat and then lost weight have a different metabolism than people who stayed at the same lower weight throughout. Most people who lose a significant amount of weight gain it all back and then some within three years. Your theory that losing slower would be more sustainable than losing faster is interesting, but do you have any actual evidence for it? If calories in/calories out were all there was to it, shouldn't it take no willpower to merely stay at the lower weight once achieved, regardless of how quickly that loss were achieved?

As for me, I think the real issue is that we still really have no idea why people have collectively gotten fatter and thus have no advice to give that consistently works to completely reverse that process. What we have are guesses as to what might work. And most of these guesses are wrong.
Early versions of Unix didn't require a lot of resources. The first machine I used Unix on was a PDP-11/45 with 256K (yes, kilobytes) of memory that happily supported several users. A PC/AT would have probably performed reasonably well running XENIX if it had enough memory so it wouldn't have to swap all the time. (The Unix I used on the 11 was Version 7 from Bell Labs.)
> ...was scolded like I was some drug addict just looking for a fix...

It's tough dealing with drugs and potential abuse. You know if you're really in need or not, but they deal with people wanting them for any reason just because, and so the skepticism starts to show. There's the default assumption at hospitals/pharmacies of just locking everything down so the healthcare providers themselves can't abuse them too.

My father was in the ER the other month for severe abdominal pain. He got morphine _after_ it was discovered that his blood pressure was through the roof and he wouldn't tolerate even a light touch in the area. Then multiple people were required for disposal and documentation of whatever was left over - after someone had to go get it from an automated dispensing cabinet and _then_ scan both the drugs and his bracelet QR code to verify the order (+allergies+other things). It was impressively thorough.

In comparison, my neurologist and doctor are really freehanded with nerve pain meds for my legs. Can't really recreationally abuse anticonvulsants or antidepressants or lidocaine patches, I guess. Also on the pain front, having something that can be directly tested goes a far way for the disbelief/skepticism that might otherwise be a problem. :(
Related: http://datascienceatthecommandline.com/#tools
Did anyone else get thinking about the implications of this theorizing on artificial intelligence and integrating the simple robots that are going to start entering society? :)
This is way I built sagebump over a weekend as a side project for myself.
It applies merging aswell as custom filtering using open source algorithms I came across on HN and elsewhere. I only wish more people gave it a go, I seem to be the only user at the moment unfortunately. Feedback is totally welcome if anyone wants to take a quick gander.
Use this link for a "Technical filtering pass" http://www.sagebump.com/?view=technocrat&info
Homoiconicity is either a trivial property (we can define an AST!) or a not-relevant-to-macros one (probably best expressed as "we have quote", which is basically true of JS).

This post by Dave Herman nicely expresses the problems with homoiconicity as a concept: http://calculist.org/blog/2012/04/17/homoiconicity-isnt-the-...
> Scary trend in corporate control of the local news.

Local news has been in a death spiral since the early 1990s, and no longer exists in most places that aren't big enough to have skyscrapers. I think there's a strong case that this is better than nothing, and that the honesty of its patronage limits the damage (and will encourage competition).

This is not theoretical to me. I grew up in the area, and do not feel that McClatchy (who basically has a monopoly) has managed its East Bay mastheads in an effective or useful manner.
Moog is a little like Apple. Their hardware is more expensive than the competition but the build quality is amazing and their synths are a pleasure to use. They also hold their resale value very well so they're a good investment for the long term.

Moog also happens to do bass sounds better than anybody else. You'll find Moogs in most serious hip hop and dance music studios.
The DEA failure that prevented a potentially major medical breakthrough
> Simple, useful software

I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those.

Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user. For example, "Cram is a functional testing framework for command line applications based on Mercurial’s unified test format."

Simple is in the eye of the beholder.
See also Awelon, https://github.com/dmbarbour/awelon/blob/master/AwelonProjec...

"My goal is to unify programmer experience (PX) with the user experience (UX). This is an elusive goal. It has been pursued for many years, with many different hypotheses for what such a unification might entail and how it might be achieved. Related projects include Squeak Smalltalk, ToonTalk, LambdaMOO, Morphic, Croquet, Emacs, and HyperCard. A relatively successful effort to unify PX and UX was the Unix command line, where users would build short programs of process pipelines."
You are aware that Unix was written on the PDP-7?

4K-word of RAM and tape drives.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-7
Italian restaurant protests Yelp by asking customers to leave nasty reviews
For anybody who is trying out different window managers, I'd suggest giving herbstluftwm a shot.

http://herbstluftwm.org/
For me it gets to 100% and then nothing happens. (Firefox nightly though so I guess I am probably asking for it)
this article is dumb, but what do you expect from usa today? i work and live in the detroit area, and have lived here most of my life (also lived in silicon valley, fwiw). there's no doubt there's some great innovation being done on the west coast, and these local guys could use a kick in the pants - a literal kick in the pants (i mean i would love to kick some of them...i worked for some of these pricks). but it takes a good deal more than some infotainment radios, and interesting r&d project to displace a major sector of the economy. it's much harder than you think. as the article already points out -- manufacturing is long gone. competition is good -- viva competition.
Really? I read a lot about diabetes since several people in my family suffer it. It seems quite unanimous on most journals.

I'd love to see links to independent research stating sugary soft drinks are not related.
(Shrug) I benefit from Asian economies every time I buy something built there, and every day I wake up in a country that's not at war with them.
Beware of what you post to social media, if you ever want a good job
Form and its Usurpers – Game developer on Internet gatekeepers
Jepsen II: Linearizable Boogaloo [video]
I've always thought, if there was a simple, efficient way to simply <?Ruby puts("use Ruby like PHP") ?> then a lot of good stuff could happen.
> sites like Hacker News and Reddit have shown that readers are plenty smart, and capable of sifting through the bullshit,

Oh? I've had the opposite impression. That Reddit adequately demonstrates that readers are impulsive, poorly informed, narrow-minded, and easily manipulated. On subreddits with the most passive style of moderation, the comment threads are a self-congratulatory shouting match where any contradictory information is shouted down regardless of its merit. On the other hand, where conversations are productive and good information is rewarded, those subreddits are moderated strictly and editorial control is frequently used to remove distracting comments or guide conversations.

In my opinion, Reddit validates the usefulness of a gatekeeper for news.
My initial reaction is that this doesn't seem like a good idea. Emacs already has a package manager which works across platforms. If you use homebrew to configure your emacs instance on OSX how are you going to provision an equivalent emacs instance on e.g. a linux VM?
Spin-in startups from Cisco
I never said that soft drinks aren't a cause for the modern obesity epidemic, just not the cause. They're noteworthy, though, because cutting out soft-drinks is incredibly straightforward and simple and effective.
"readers are plenty smart, and capable of sifting through the bullshit"

The shared links that pop up all over my Facebook from friends and family who I otherwise wouldn't think would believe such nonsense says otherwise.
If the Silicon Valley mindset wins, cars will be made by contract manufacturers, not by vertically integrated manufacturers. As others have pointed out, there is a lot of expertise in Detroit. That expertise will have to go obsolete. Self-driving "cars" could mark their obsolesce. A self-driving "car" is going to be nothing like current cars, and 100 new business models will bloom alongside their new forms.
I'll see your "kin selection" and raise you "comparative advantage". :-)

Economic theory says we're better off letting other countries do the stuff they're better than us at doing. If Shanghai makes better cars, it helps both them and us "perpetuate survival" if we just go ahead and buy their cars and spend our effort (and our savings!) doing something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
Nationalism, even as a vessel for those ideas, is obsolete.
I want to buy half a dozen commodore 64s and stash them in my attic. I'm pretty sure they'll be worth a few hundred each in 10 years time.
Why would it necessarily be contracted? All the big players in SV are currently hell-bent on vertical integration. SV is not immune to it.
Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear
> they show that for all of our fortifications against dirt and disease, those efforts are ultimately futile.

In most parts of the United States, those "fortifications" consist of houses built with delicious organic materials in various stages of decomposition, sewage systems that are too rudimentary to prevent anything (not even raw sewage itself) from traveling in the wrong direction, and entrances with a "pet door" that allows free passage to anything smaller than a bear cub. It really is quite primitive, if you think about it.

A modern tower built with steel and concrete, with a proper sewage system and a strict no-pet policy, filled with minimalistic furniture, would probably go a long way toward eliminating roaches. Unfortunately, we humans still seem to be naturally attracted to warm, moist, organic stuff -- the same that is beloved of all other lifeforms, both pet and pest.
> This idea that gaining/losing weight is hard is nonsense.

This isn't necessarily true. Everyone is different. Extreme ectomorphs, for instance, can have a very difficult time gaining weight, even with professional assistance and much effort.

> I ate 5 meals a day plus a snack while bulking, little more than rice and dal and some eggs while cutting. It's called self control.

It's also called unhealthy. Bulking and cutting may be appropriate for competitive bodybuilders, but repeatedly gaining significant amounts of weight and then cutting to body fat percentages not much above essential levels is almost certainly no better a model for overall health and wellness than a lifestyle that results in obesity.
Thanks for the info, I'm going to check out the reviews.
You have to pass to graduate. IIRC it is part of MIT's "sea grant" charter.
My high school had 12 terminals on a TRS-80 Model 16 running Xenix. It was mostly used for a COBOL class. 6-8 MHz 68000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#Model_16.2C_Model_16B.2C...
In the past 20-30 years, automotive engineers have invented a lot of ways to make cars much safer (e.g. crumple zones). It sounds like you're saying the designers of self-driving cars will throw all of that expertise out the window -- I assure you that they will not.
The new pricing is very good, and you shouldn't need to pay until you're running a lot of traffic.

I find the iOS SDK to be pretty solid. Push notifications also work really well.

I have also noticed requests fail from time to time
, but it hasn't been too much of an issue.

What I don't like is the query system. What would be trivial in SQL is sometimes difficult or impossible.

I also just don't like that cloud code queries are all asynchronous. Promises help, but complex operations end up as a huge nest of promises. I just have no need for server-side code to be asynchronous.

The console has been slightly improved, but the data browser is still a bit painful. They like to break the back button quite a bit too.

I have one large app using Parse as a back-end, but otherwise I just use it for push.
Just FYI, there are a multitude of grammar errors in that FAQ; get it edited to avoid leaving a bad impression. :)
Bionic Pancreas
Nothing like current cars. Except they'll have wheels, suspensions, door, bodies, propulsion systems, etc. Don't believe that a self driving car changes much beyond who is driving the car
You are correct :(
Then add: a more aggressive earned income tax, a more generous child tax credit, or a guaranteed minimum income (or some kind of hybrid plan). If the problem is that some people can't afford things, attack that problem directly.

Legally guaranteeing that parents can put their 26-year-olds on their family healthcare plan is also regressive (it doesn't help uninsured families), but that didn't stop it from being enacted.
Xamarin makes me sad, here's a bit of truth and my open letter to them
I tend to ask this sort of piece to identify clearly "What is your ideal?" (I'd ask the author, but I can't, so asking the piece has to do.) Like so many others, I think that this does a lot of hand wringing but won't answer that question, either because the author hasn't examined it herself, or because on some level they either wouldn't like the answer or wouldn't want it to get out.

Of course the answer will vary from person to person. But rather a lot of artists would, if they answered honestly, seem to want to live in a world in which they are paid string-free money to just Art, and when it comes down to it, that's not realistic, nor is it particularly fair to anybody. I mean, that's great and all. I'd like to be handing string-free money on account of the sheer radiant awesomeness of being me, but that's just not on the agenda here.

It's not as if government money is string-free either... it just so happens that the artists in question like playing the tunes that the artist-funding portion of the government is calling. Which is their right, but makes this whole thing a lot less about the Morality of Artistic Funding and a lot more just grungy money grubbing.
> Design is complicated and very much like taste - subjective.

The problem is "Design" is a bit like UX/UI ,it doesnt really mean anything concrete,but some vague thought process to create a product.

Usability is not subjective,that's why I prefer that word.

Usability is a hard science,there are rules,just like in programming.

You want a product to be smart,to facilitate whatever your user is trying to do,to make simple what might sound complex,but you also want to get user's feeback because they'll always try to use your app in unexpected ways.

I think that field could benificiate from all these machine learning experts.Imagine apps that really adapt to their users,trying to learn patterns,adapting the UI depending on usage etc ... I'm not aware of the researches in that field,but it could be the next big thing in usability.
Doesn't seem to be working for me. I'm on OSX 10.10 public beta 3. Here is what I see when I hit the low E on my guitar: http://cl.ly/image/2E3d0w2D3I1u

The note changes to E, but am I supposed to see something in the black area?

Not sure if it's related, but when I open the application I get a bunch of these messages in Console.app

9/21/14 6:40:06.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: appleeventsd(31) deny file-read-metadata /Library

And several of these

9/21/14 6:40:06.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: appleeventsd(31) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ocspd
Now I'm curious what the significant political issue was.
I knew just from the title that I was going to suck at this game.
> AI For Everyone: Startups Democratize Deep Learning So Google And Facebook Don't Own It All

> In particular, several companies aim to democratize deep learning by offering it as a service or coming up with cheaper hardware to make it more accessible to businesses.

Couldnt spot the "democratization" of AI here (unless democracy only to those that can pay?); also, given the current trends, small interesting startups get acquired by the big ones early.. and we end in big monopolies again..

The only way to runaway from this cycle is open-source.. otherwise we would still using windows XP and IE6 by now

Until good open-source initiatives can happen, we will be lock in the hands of a few forever.. I hope we still have some open-source heroes left out there..
"To their victims, cockroaches commit a personal violation. In the words of George A. Romero, they creep up on you. And there’s nothing you can do to stop them" - My exact reaction to the U2/Apple fiasco. Thanks for the free album but please don't force it on me - that's a personal violation.
Which is fine, because that is merely a small part of the point. Using better languages is "normal", and we already have a 20 year history of doing it with Perl, and a nearly twenty year history of doing it with Python, the larger point being, "anyone writing these scripts knows how the hash bang works". In my mind, adding to the complexity of a system by requiring Haskell and this library is counterproductive when the goal us to improve maintenance efficiency.
LOAD * ,8,1

... The only C64 command I remember now. Which if I am remembering correctly, meant load the first program (usually a game in my case) off the terribly unreliable, usually at least partially corrupted 5 1/4" disk.
Wow, crazy. I had no idea.
The author doesn't delve too deeply into gender specific consequences of personhood as it is described here, and I think the article is better for it. It's unfortunate that this paragraph was included as an exception, because I think it distracts from the author's point.

The point I got was that when people concede agency for their behavior to another (e.g. work, spouse, political/social organizations), they lose personhood. There were better examples for the author to use.
I've always wondered why there isn't an open source clone of Azul's Zing JVM. The patent issues can be sidestepped by developing in software-patent-free jurisdictions.
‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust
This isn't really news is it? Putin and Xi both defining what is and isn't allowed to be shared/said/stored in machines on their soil. The next step can start pretty much at any point, its going to look like the old ARPAnet, where a set of protocols, defined by group sharing a common interest in communication, creates a network that empowers new work and new industry. Back in the 70's the big issues were bandwidth and signalling technology, today the big issues are interference from the government. But from an engineering standpoint its just getting signal through the noise. As I mentioned earlier, UUCP through Tor has a lot of potential for creating a pretty decent source routed email network without central control. Add homomorphic encryption on routing/packet management and you have the basis for building the first network within the network.
From Our Community: Mompreneur Tips, Mobile Ad Trends
So do buses. Busses differ from cars by all these components being significantly different. Self-driving cars will be at least as different.

> Don't believe that a self driving car changes much beyond who is driving the car

Except everything. Current cars have one occupant a high percentage of the time. That occupant drives the car. Change that and every design parameter changes.
This is a fair point, but I feel like whenever it's brought up, it's focused on to the exclusion of all else. (I'm not saying that's what you're doing. Frankly, this is a backlash against my misspent youth).

Efficient markets mention nothing of capital, and the tendency for it to self-perpetuate. I can trade my oranges for your turnips and we both benefit, but what happens when you eat my oranges and I sell your turnips for a pear orchard? You could argue that rational actors would tend toward investment rather than consumption, and I'd point to a negative/extremely low U.S. savings rate. Humans behave like rational actors, but we aren't. Or perhaps we are, but our utility functions are incomputable, or have conflicting interests with different weights at different times of the day, etc.

So, revering markets for their sensitivity, speed, and efficiency, I am nonetheless suspicious of them. Markets didn't take us to the moon, but I'm glad we went. Markets allow the smart to get wealthy, and the stupid to get poor. We should remember the latter as we celebrate the former.
I feel you've just perfectly described the variety of newsrooms that produce the stories we read every day!