skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This site is a masterclass in how to build a niche online community. Nice work.
The environmental movement was an important course correction. But now we have gone too far to one side to the point where society doesn't recognize the value of progress or humanity itself. We need to incorporate those environmentally conscious attitudes into a more subtle, balanced, and fair assessment of our place in the universe and our ability to grow.
I would like to see a comparison of the personal assistant functionalities that you are speaking of. This study did not cover them at all. I feel like they are a much more powerful use of these types of technology rather than just searching the internet for some factual data. I would not be surprised if the tables were completely flopped on the personal assistant test, with cortana on top and google now on bottom (based purely on second-hand knowledge of cortana).
Who made the choice: Definitely, Google. On the paper, it is SIS. I worked for SIS a decade ago: yes, they are nice folks, they did not provide health insurance. They had some $120/month insurance, which covers like $10K a year--and this is not an insurance at all. That's why I did not buy that insurance.

SIS won lots of security contracts based on the price alone. Guardmark, one of its competitors, provides a good health insurance for its employees; but they can't compete with SIS, which does not provide any benefits.
41, Software Engineer at a start-up. Most of our team are above 35 (8 of us) and they're all seriously A-team. I'm the weakest link in the bunch (though I make up for it in other ways).
37. Write code everyday and loving it. I run my own consultancy - www.heptaxel.com.
I'm not sure the query is really easily understandable. How much it costs? I assume it's to figure out which marking to cut on the stick wrapper?
Not to mention mouth shapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FefFfvriAwQ
China surpasses US as world's largest economy based on key measure
Google isn't making fun of the inquiry, it simply bring up the relevant snippet from the provided web page.

The result Google also gives you is wrong (since its also a just a snippet).
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I'm happy to hear we're on the same side, then. This time I agree with what you say about CFAA. The punishments are too high which, as you say, gives prosecutors an unfair amount of leverage. I'm simply trying to inject a dose of realism into the YC conversation on this issue: unfortunately, I don't think any judge is going to strike down, or meaningfully limit CFAA any time soon. The legal arguments just are not there.

Damn. Oh well. What can we do? :)

> If we want it fixed, we need to come up with a strategy to get Congress to fix it. That won't be easy, but I think it may be the only way. (Of course, CFAA is only one of many criminal laws that need to be reformed in precisely the same way. Drug laws are, of course, another great example.)

Agreed.

> I do want to try to dispel just a bit of your cynicism about the criminal justice system, though. Unfortunately, I can't say a lot about the state systems, but I can tell you from extensive first hand experience behind the scenes in the federal court system that the plea bargaining process (and all the rest of it) works pretty much as advertised.

This was the State of Florida system, not the Federal one, so it's probably corrupt in different quantities than the one I witnessed firsthand. :)
>> "...'We're in an unreal world now where the concept can get you $25 million -- where revenues and business plans, you don't need to have those," said Hagen. "But that blip's got to end at some point.'"

Now more than ever, Mr. Hagen. Now more than ever.
Show HN: Oyster Hour - Find Oyster Happy Hours
I think that's a really interesting point that isn't adequately considered. It's also surprising that there isn't more liability and therefore risk associated with systems that make mass breaches (Target, Home Depot, J.P. Morgan, etc.) possible but I suppose no one's particularly concerned about consumers.
Yep, the original URL was http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-514893.html which domain (com.com) is now owned by a domain squatter. http://zdnet.com/2100-11-514893.html is a 404.

The Wayback Machine has it though: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-51...
I think this analysis is kind of pointless. Who asks their phone trivia questions? You want directions, reminders, etc. Siri seems a lot smarter about following spoken context in that situation.
I never heard of this until just now and this is my good friend that wrote the post.

It reminds me of Halo from the show Continuum. The early alpha version before it gets deeply integrated into your physical being.

Fast-forward 10 years and we'll be wearing these things, only they'll be called iBod and it will be a combination iWatch and iGlasses and freakishly integrated in our lives.

Ready Player One!
For anyone who experience 'inner chatter' when trying to sleep, I highly recommend meditation. A few months ago I noticed that during meditation classes I kept drifting off, so now I am using it as a sleeping tool. The act of focusing on breathing and practicing to be thoughtless helped me through the initial stages of sleep.

Unfortunately I am an owl, so it's still a fight to try to sleep in the first place.
Often the byte count is enough to determine the URL. It's also a key component of how BEAST et al are able to extract session keys.
A little background on this:

I really like Oyster Happy Hours (when Oysters are sold at a discount, usually $1, and also usually with other drink and food specials). However, I realized that it was very hard to find where and when all of these events were occurring, especially in NYC.

So, I built an iPhone app that makes it easy to see nearby Oyster Happy Hours, based on your location and the current time. I manually compiled data on over 100 Oyster Happy Hours for this, and we currently have data for NYC and San Francisco.

If you like oysters and live in either SF or NYC, check it out!
This blew my mind. The "scala" example he used was literally a java code snippet pulled from here http://batsov.com/articles/2011/05/12/jvm-langs-clojure/

IT'S LITERALLY JAVA SYNTAX, COMPLETELY INVALID SCALA.
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IMF warns ultra-low interest rates poses fresh financial crisis threat
40, Freelancer, Developing web applications
The Science Behind Why Slow Thinking Lowers Your Stress
and, they know where people are looking/surfing/...
"And they want to avoid competing with other search engines to be the browser of choice for existing portals. In fact, Page said Google doesn't have any real competitors at all, which may be why they don't intend to do much marketing."

Interesting to think about in light of Peter Thiel's lecture for "how to start a startup" at Stanford. He is correct that the narrative has changed. Contrast the above quote with the one Thiel used in his lecture from Schmidt, which basically said "Google is not a search company, it's an ad company," or some variation thereof.
2700K can still have a spike of blue in the wrong spot. this is a 2700K bulb: http://www.designingwithleds.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/...
I'm not in favour of the 'golden key' but saying that the existence of a golden key violates the Constitution by fact of existing is not true.
As far as a free one is concerned I recommend Easycron – Best cron job service
35, enterprise consulting, I write code every day
That's really interesting to me, because my daughter (6yo) asks Siri that question about 10 times a day on the 5S and the answer comes back in about a second. Whether we're on LTE or wifi. I wonder if there's other factors at play.
how does this compare to Birdseye? [1]

[1] http://www.birdseyebirding.com/
Just to be clear there are only two types of actual US currency out there. The paper stuff and a leder of what 'banks' (or governments etc) control maintained by the FED. So, now you have a seperate DB not actual cash or physical currency. Which means you have counter party risk. Now if the US government can decide to insure 3rd party's which is almost as good as cash but as anyone that has delt with a banking error knows there is a world of difference between cash and IOU's.
The biggest improvement in the past few years was deep neural networks. These were behind Google Brain and Microsoft's Adam:

http://www.wired.com/2013/02/android-neural-network/

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/microsoft-adam/
That is not in fact what liberal democracy is about.

Democracy requires us not to use the apparatus of the state to suppress opinions by force. But that's it.

It certainly doesn't require us to provide material support for all opinions, no matter how toxic. Neither does it require tolerance of speech that goes beyond opinion. Incitement to riot, for example, is a crime. So is making threats, or conspiring to commit other crimes.
It's a word. Specifically, its a word indicating magnitude. I'm not bothered by such words.
My test for when these are truly advanced:

"What's going to be on my ballot?"

Can Watson even answer this?
Well, Kain's article is a description of the exact kind of harassment campaign described in the original article. So the first sense I meant is that the contents of the article are the exact thing talked about.

For the DMCA: "unverifiable" is probably a better description than "unsourced", but the part I wanted to highlight was how this whole thing followed the exact playbook described in Kathy Sierra's essay.

Second, while Kain is trying to take a balanced approach, he unfortunately only looks at the surface of the issues, reporting the accusations in great detail. This is a dynamic that's also pointed out in the original article: uncritically accepting a new martyr while glossing over the original harassment. Lots about "gamers are over" and TFYC, virtually nothing about the mob harassment for anyone other than Phil Fish. And absolutely nothing about the organized astroturfing in the IRC channels, which has been documented extensively.

The accusations are repeated without much introspection, in a way that it can be used as an apologetic hammer against either side. It may not be actively harmful in itself, but it doesn't do much to actually inform the reader of all of the issues.

For an even-handed look at the topic, I'd rather suggest, say, a scholarly look at the issues that acknowledges some of the problems: http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/we-will-force-gaming-to-be... or at least an article by someone who is less personally involved than Kain is: http://www.vox.com/2014/9/6/6111065/gamergate-explained-ever...
I didn't read it that way. I think her point was that we have a lot of good reasons to look at the possible downsides of potential advances, rather than naively assuming they won't have side effects.
TLDR: "Theil is wrong, because TV and iphones."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElcYjCzj8oA#t=7m34s
Cool idea to use the alexa top 1m.

Got this error though:

phantom stdout: TypeError: 'null' is not an object (evaluating 'element.value = text')

phantomjs://webpage.evaluate():3
phantomjs://webpage.evaluate():4
phantomjs://webpage.evaluate():4
TypeError: 'null' is not an object (evaluating 'element.value = text')
The business geniuses who foisted this idiocy on us (software professionals) are now saying what we said 10+ years ago: it's an obviously dumb idea that doesn't actually save money.
Why the Trolls Will Always Win
On the contrary, I have to believe they do care. Many here might not remember or know, but early on, Facebook was very unstable due to the sheer server load. Performance is still an important metric for them. It is why they created HHVM, Hack, and React.js.

How often do you hear of Facebook going down or breaking completely?
Well you could argue they would have no real ability to financialize ads if they didn't do real work on those products.
Free speech, sure. But freedom of association, too. And accepting the consequences of one's actions.

If misogynists and abusers want to go and construct their own forums, nobody can legally stop them (as long as their discussion stops short of the various sorts of criminal speech, like conspiracy to commit). But nobody is legally obligated to support them, either.

Reddit tomorrow could say, "Welp, we're not going to host people who cause harm in way X". And that's perfectly American because they'd be exercising their own rights. That they choose to support abusers is legal, but it is well within everybody else's rights to point that out, with volume and at length.
Speaking for my mom, she's switched a few jobs in the past few months, after a stretch of about 10 years at the same government contracting company. She's a ColdFusion developer by training, and even though there seems to be constant demand for CF developers, she feels frustrated that she can't pivot out and work on new things as much as she wants. She's been asking me recently things like, "What's node.js?" and "What's angular?" She takes notes on what I say, does her research, and tries to pull it off in job interviews.

I think what she views as optimal now is finding a job that will let her explore any new technology. She got excited about an opportunity with the .NET stack, until they lowballed her with an offer about half of what she's currently making (developing a same-old jQuery website).

She's getting calls from recruiters every day, so it's surprising to me she's having such a hard time finding the right job for her. Also she doesn't think she's competitive with the younger crowd, so she's not even looking at certain jobs on the West Coast.
At the same time that means we can work at a higher level of abstraction. I see this daily in my work. There is a load of work to be done in providing tools for the none-Western world and that work has barely started, for example. Or environmental management, which hardly uses modern IT tools yet. I am not afraid of running out of work in my lifetime.
in New Zealand, toast covered with Vegemite, a salty paste made of brewer’s yeast

Up next, a crowd of angry Kiwis heading for the NYT offices. Vegemite is an Australian thing, New Zealanders eat Marmite. (Of course, to an outsider like me, they're both about as palatable as dipping my bread in soy sauce.)
New Relic Browser Goes GA
For those that didn't get the reference - this is a reference to the web game pandemic in which the objective is to design a virus/bacteria/parasite to infect the entire world - Madagascar is the hardest country to infect in this game because it only has one port in the game.
The irony is that any company that is legitimately better than their competitors has no choice but to become a monopoly.
There were not random queries. In fact, they were picked because we felt they were likely to trigger a knowledge panel.

For a good believable test your sampling methodology is very important. In fact, you want to have a random sample that is free of biases instead of somebody cherry picking queries. Perhaps you may do random weighted sample of queries with weights = frequency which represents usage pattern more closely. In any case, it's very important to describe your sampling methodology or otherwise this kind of testing has little value.
Cites recent layoffs but has no real stats on the decline of outsourcing, near shoring, etc. Weak.

Part of the problem with India is lack of standards.
There are people who are good at programming in both the US and India and people who are bad at it.

The problem is in the US most of the bad ones don't end up getting a CS degree where in India they do. This means there are a lot of people in India who have a little bit of skill and can get a job but not do it that great. Their US counterpart might have switched to business or something else as they are less expected to get a tech (viewed a good a job) related job by their family. Obviously there are more complexities but bottom line its not just the cost it is the quality of work.
Google mapped out an Arabian desert in Street View using camels
I can't speak extensively for Siri (infrequent use on my iPad) or Google Now (no Android), but I've never had to repeat an instruction to Cortana for a reminder or directions. Not repeating myself when giving voice instruction is essentially my holy grail.
Banning those people from Twitter would do plenty.

Every bit of harm makes things worse. Ergo, every time we eliminate some bit of harm, we make things better.

The Twitter harassment is obviously material, because a) many accounts of harassment mention it clearly, and b) the harassers do it because it works.

Further, the harassment shows obvious patterns of escalation. It is entirely reasonable to believe that if the harassers get no oxygen on Twitter, there will be less escalation.
This is Comte's Positivim, we need to turn that page, cause the phylosophical roots of this come from two centuries ago(not that the age matters but in the sense we are "stuck" here); While it was essencial to science and progress in the XX century; We need to see we also did a lot of harm in our frenetic pursue for progress; So we need to see thats not always for the better, also bad things can come with it and we need to be more clever, giving we have more educational resources than past humans, and figure out how to avoid advance without the destructive side effects
Dev here...

We have tied together parts of https://github.com/daviferreira/medium-editor, vanilla-js and jquery :)
Siri gets this right:
http://i.imgur.com/ueKduWW.jpg

It's also worth noting that Siri gives more verbose answers in "Hey Siri" mode, presumably because it assumes you're not looking at the screen.
What Does GTAT's Bankruptcy Mean to Apple?
Airbnb: Can hotels work with vacation rentals?
The reverse is true: there a more two income earners now but household income hasn't increased as much. Per person is flat.

http://youtu.be/akVL7QY0S8A?t=9m2s
This just remind me that patent terms are too long ... but perhaps save that for all the other threads complaining about the IP systems across the world.

Move along, nothing to see here.
My main problem with the proposition that "OOP is awful" is that the argument is basically "it's not the best so it's the worst".

The expression problem is not solved by every language, but basically because Lisps and Haskell solve it in their own ways, it is concluded that OOP is worthless.

There are a number of practical reasons OOP could be liked, other than the marketing of it to the Enterprise. It's a natural way to model real things. The syntax lends itself to things like auto-complete (foo.ba<tab>). And being liked is enough to make it not-awful if the people who like it are skilled enough -- it's sufficient even to say it can be better than other paradigms for some people.

Don't mistake that for me saying that OOP is the best at anything, but it's not the worst at everything.
Well, 60-70 years is about the horizon over which previously secret programs become revealed. The US has been continually caught performing unethical actions in secret which either involve human testing (occasionally on their own citizens) or subverting medical programs for ulterior motives.

There was drug testing that the US got caught at 50 years ago, and only halted 40 years ago.[1] And in the past few years, they subverted a vaccination program in to being a tool of a spy agency.[2]

Had the Nazi regime merely "reformed" rather than been completely replaced following a war, apologized 60-70 years after the fact for their genocide during WW2 which they'd attempted to keep secret, and been caught at least once a decade running similar covert programs, I'd think citing a well documented historic case of their misdeeds would actually be a pretty good way to show exactly why people don't think highly of them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

[2] Any recent news about how they found bin Laden.
Formatting and pronunciation issues are a major stumbling block for these interfaces, though. If the device (or service behind it) can't identify "ten to the power of" when it sees 10^, I can't rely on being able to converse with my device for significant problem sets.

Solving it isn't really easy, either. When reading a document is a caret a power, a regular expression operator, an exclusive or, or a nose on a smiley? :^)

A lot of context identification work has to be sorted out for smart agents to succeed.
I think that's probably true.

I also think that there will be more political will for a stronger safety net as technology displaces more jobs. And there'll be more wealth to support it.

It'll be rough for a while, but things will turn out ok.
The 21st century Manhattan project is pervasive surveillance. And just like the Manhattan project or Apollo, we'll all be getting something out of that for many years to come.
This is a really insightful comment. I feel like I understand the world of high-performance programming a lot better now. Thank you!
I haven't tried cortana. Google now is really awful at being a personal assistant because it doesn't keep much context.
The GP said "more infectious", not "more lethal".

Your comment is violently agreeing with his point.
38. Senior Software Engineer in Seattle. Writing Scala code to do realtime analysis of voice calls (we also analyze voice recordings). Team is probably all over 30 (I've never asked).

Previously a developer at zulily building their supply chain software. When I first started the SC team was all around 30, it was only right before I left that the first under 30 was hired. There are a couple now.
Oculus + this.
It's a prisoner's dilemma sort of thing. The best outcome for ME is if YOU dump lots of money into it, so I sit around on my hands hoping you take action, while YOU do the same waiting for ME to take action. As a result, we arrive at the worse outcome- nobody does anything.