skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This intro is easy to follow, and explains things well. I only work on smaller projects at the moment, but it is a little embarrassing to admit that the closest thing I have to version control is some combination of dropbox and time machine recording my old files.

I will probably start by having Xcode create and manage a local repository, but it is also useful to know what is behind that.
I'm curious why he doesn't like git.
The team is in a great superposition to collapse into a winning eigenstate. Its interference pattern is constructive. The phase they're in is totally coherent. Their offense has got this great duality going, that you simply can't measure without screwing up. They've got this non-classical strategy that I don't understand. However I'm not going to comment on their position at this time; I don't want to alter the team's momentum going into the game.
Kwilt: All of your photos in one beautiful place
This may be completely not what you're looking for, but take a look at Cypress' PSOC devices. They have an interesting mix of analog and digital programmable blocks.
>I tried to find anyone working on it and failed. //

Inventors of anything submitted in patent applications should be named on the application. That is a potential route to finding who in a corp actually invented stuff.
The idea is, we've not had robots to do our
killing for us in the past.

A bit of trivia I picked up in a robotics class: Most of the common definitions of 'robot' include cruise missiles, which we've had since the 1970s at least.
We also tend to make comparisons between ourselves and things that are not ourselves as if they are discrete entities.
Learnt a lot about Messenger's features from this article, even though I use it prob once-a-week.. seems they haven't done that great a job teaching users / onboarding them to new functionality. Feel like that would be right up the Growth team's alley
A Few Thoughts on iOS vs. Android Market Share
Could you point to one with a difference that would be relevant?
The thing is, say not having your music on Spotify gained 0.5 million album sales. At $10/album that's $5 million. Over what period did she earn the supposed $6 million?

Taylor Swift and/or her management has played everyone like a fiddle in this PR game. She stands up for artists, makes a stink, and gets a lot of press and sells a ton of albums.

People now continue to write about this to prove her wrong, but only end up proving her strategy to be the right one.

Not putting her music on Spotify in a very public way probably made her more money than keeping her albums on Spotify. Her fans still have plenty of ways of consuming her music, so it's a net win for everybody.
The Dining Cryptographers Problem (1988) [pdf]
This is the coolest thing I -saw- heard today. Very nice.
That's a good point. I always associate the astronauts in the ISS with having very severe health effects from the zero-g, but if they never came back, perhaps they would be okay!
His premise that hipsters are nonconformists is false.

AdBusters has a great article on this: Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
Can't wait for the persistent memory leaks!
I downvoted nacnud because it's such a generic statement, you could post it to almost any thread. Net neutrality? "Think of the potential for viruses to spread!" iWatch? "Think of the viruses you could have on your watch!" New JS framework? "Think of the attacks it could enable!"

Yeah, of course, everything has security implications and some technologies even more so, but unless one explains them and states how they are specific to the technology being discussed (like you did, for example) then the comment doesn't really add any value.
Study shows marijuana’s long-term effects on the brain
The Mistake Not...'s unveiling of its name in The Hydrogen Sonata is one of the funnier ship name moments I can think of.
Yeah, I'm saying that people who say "life is fair" usually haven't had horrible problems like birth defects or having their house burn down. It's also a way for people who have had incredibly good luck to rationalize why they have it so easy while other people struggle.
If you read the source you will see that no independent benchmarks have been done yet.
It's nice to be an idealist like that, but like the capitalism vs. communism argument - when they made water free in Cuba, people just left the taps running. In reality, media like movies, games, and reality TV make massive amounts of money. If that money is spend on improving space technology instead of just sending people to a remote island to watch them suffer, it is a clear win, and doesn't take trying to force people to match your idealist image.
$5,000 per 20 users per year.
New architectures extend high-performance computing to the cloud
Techonomy 2014: A Conversation with LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner
Watch Rosetta land live
The US Dollar has gained strength since the financial crisis of 2007/09, not lost strength. There is presently no real threat to the US Dollar reserve standard anywhere.

And in fact it just went on a record parabolic climb in the last few months. Amazon is helped by this effect, it makes it cheaper for them to import goods for sale in the US. Exporters are the ones harmed by a stronger dollar.
Wow. (That's my entry in the understatement-of-the-week contest.)

"At this distance, the image resolution is 84.6 cm/pixel"

That means that if there was a human walking around down there, you could see her (barely, but you could). A car would be clearly visible.
Well do be fair none of the commands in this quicksort require user input at least :)
changelog looks pretty awesome and I'm pretty excited.

Upgrade process doesn't look too fun though... Gonna have to do a side-by-side migration; no upgrade package provided.
I like that description, meta-data placement of events in time.

I suffer from memory fatigue. I remember most of life past my third birthday (though informational processing is hard--I can remember thoughts I had while the trig teacher in high school spoke, but not necessarily what the teacher discussed). About age 20 I stopped being able to intuit the "how long" something happened and switched to what you're describing.
Setting out poison, traps, or mines, as we've done for centuries, is pretty similar; it's meant to kill in our absence, and can easily go wrong.
Experimenting with product hypotheses and solving for ad personalization at Spotify
I'm using plugins that means I'm not tracked that much. What would I see if I had such a history?

EDIT: Turns out you need a history of googling this stuff. My heavy Python phase in school was timed wrong it seems.
This is a mathematical model with no experimentation behind it. Basically, a hypothesis. The next step would be for social scientists to device some field experiments.
Hey thanks for the reply, was very curious what you were using it for...

So, this is pretty crazy, but why not try a small rewrite of some non-trivial functionality in Go? Other than being a language hipster (which I admit I am a little bit), I point to these reasons:

1. Go's ease of cross-compilation is outstanding, so much so that everything else I think of (java, python, C/C++) are not as easy

http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/08/an-introduction-to-cross-c...

2. Go is trying to be used in a "systems language" context, so it's relatively quick

3. It's not C++, and is relatively safer

If you're with me till now, then you've realized the real problem with something like Go for this is the GUI library -- unfortunately there are not enough that have been around long enough to be as stable/trusted as TCL/TK.... so that's a bit of a problem.

You could also make the UI to your app a website, rather than a GUI application?

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What about a your-app-is-a-website type framework like TideSDK?

http://www.tidesdk.org/

You can encapsulate and separate your engine code (which is doing the heavy listing), and just have the client be something that sits on top of it.

Sorry, these solutions are quite pie-in-the-sky and I'm sure that you guys are focusing on getting things done (for which L/Tk is perfectly fine), but if you guys are small, I think you might have the agility to move onto a different solution, and I can't help but suggest these things, because I think working on a TCL/TK stack might get things done, but you're gaining experience in a technology that is thoroughly antiquated... So yes, you'll get things done, and you guys will do a great job, but at the end of the day, when it comes time to move to something else, not a lot of the knowledge you gained will be useful?
I actually think that some meta info involving downvotes can be quite interesting. For instance, "view controversial" on Reddit. You could provide that while still ignoring downvotes for sorting, if that's what you wanted.
It's strange that the <span> in the login object is never used. Also that the handleAuth function uses the existence of 'logoutUrl' to decide wether it should refresh or redirect, but uses it for nothing else.
I'm with you I got my first 1TB HDD last year thinking it would last a few years. Nearly full now. Why? Because with all that space available I've changed how I use disk space - why throw stuff away. Also that I've moved to a higher grade camera and moved to consuming video stored on HDD rather than from discs.

When we're creating fully immersive 4D environments in place of holiday snaps then I imagine we're going to be using quite a lot of memory waving through our holiday review with friends.
What implications does this have for us simple folk?
I guess he meant pseudo 3 lines.
> We’re going to have to figure out how to give machines moral codes even if it’s not something we want to think about.

The author of the linked article may want to read some Asimov.
8 of the Wackiest (or Worst) Ideas for Nuclear Weapons
Trey the Zombie from NeighborHood
I'm not a ruby guy but the implementation is quite interesting.

The syntax looks very readable compared to other library-level implementations. There seems to have been some abuse of the "::" constant access operator and a lot of meta-magic + eval but the results are pretty nice.

I find the type-mapping in the Constructor class pretty interesting as well.
Not to mention their new etsy-a-like, 11main.
MadNotes app
If you often find your thoughts running away from you by the time you get to jotting them down, then MadNotes is an iPhone and iPad app worth checking out.

What we have here is an app with a very easy-to-use interface and highly intuitive, gesture-based functions that allow users to take notes quickly and easily, and have them organized neatly in a list format.

This app can be found in the Productivity section of the App Store for free

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/madnotes/id914641938?ls=1&mt=8
Infographic: Managing your operations infrastructure – a cloud alternative
Maybe it's because i'm not american, but that article is completely and utterly nonsensical to me. Is there some kind of injoke going on i don't understand?
Dev_array: A Useful Array Class for CUDA
Is it just me or does it seem like there's an outlier in the table that accompanies the article?
That comment should not have been downvoted like it was, there is a real problem with concussions and the science is clear. If I had a son I don't think I would let him play football.
Biometric 3 Factor authentication
IBM went all the way with this in the AS/400 back in the 80's. Single level store - RAM and disk were unified storage. with no ability for a programmer to tell the difference (RAM was purely and operations problem).
Seriously this. Don't worry, Windows 11 will certainly require 1TB to run MaterialAeroMetro 2022.

The only thing worth debating is whether the GUI design pendulum will have swung between Flat/glossy an even or odd number of times by then :p
I'd like to see more substantiation than the guy's own site. The PCG "family" is omitted from every graph that I saw. Also, from my own testing, Mersenne Twister appears to have enough randomness for non-cryptographic purposes. I've never had particularly predictable sequences from it.
This. For example, I thought bros were hipsters and vice versa.
Well, I can pick on OpenBSD's favorite: CVS repository corruption does happen, but CVS has no active integrity checking. You'll only detect it if you go far enough back... or run a conversion program. If you're lucky, you discover while it's covered by backups, but these issues can sleep for years. This caused a migration I was involved with to just become a scrape, as the code at the tip was fine.

(I'd also say that atomic commits are an excellent reason to leave CVS behind, but that can be argued.)
That is not the role of math, it is the role of science. If he did actual science, he would also need to try and disprove his mathematical model with experiment. Since, it isn't science, he can skip that step and just publish his idea as truth.
Plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus
Roundup of SalonQP 2014: London’s Premier Watch Exhibition
Migrating to the Ghost Blogging Platform
The main gripe I have with many git tutorials is how quickly I am exposed to git internals, before even describing how to do basic things like "get the last commit id" or " find where a file changed". I am only slightly interested in the tree structure used to store my data, and as a beginner much more interested in cooperative work flow with a group of developers.
From the chart, Stanford and Duke looks like they're in a class of their own..
Of course it can. The question is, why would you want to?
Slightly off-topic :

If the author or someone interested in the realm of mobile DB read this : there is definitely a niche to be taken right now in p2p db syncing ( think iPad apps connected in a local network and replicating their local datasets between each others). I have been trying couchbase-lite recently which advertizes this feature, but it's clearly not their focus and it shows (dirt-slow replications, hidden timeout settings, buggy binary objects syncing, etc).

Just my 2 cents.
Scientists develop thought-controlled gene switch
It's entirely possible that I just don't know enough about go's interfaces. Wasn't it explicitly stated up-thread that you don't need to name the interfaces you support? If that's the case, I don't see how you get around the possibility of a type seeming to support (because of what's defined for it) an interface that it doesn't (because those functions actually do other things - obviously or subtly).
How about those poor Roombas out there forced to suffer a life as a Doomba?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSOkNr0X4ZU
Maybe it depends where you search from? If you're not in the US while searching you might not be that interesting.
Also, it'll be a wide and fallow field for the NSA's insertion of backdoors.
This looks very useful! Do i need to root my device to make this work? Otherwise, how did you guys achieve this without root access?

Thanks!
What Are We Stacking Again? How CloudStack Paved the Way for OpenStack
Here's an interesting fact that a lot of people don't seem to realize about Alibaba: they're an advertising company. They generate over 50% of their revenue from ads.
How to Simply Describe and Explain Twitter to Friends
May I quote you? :)
Just tried it. You need to enable Accessibility for the app in order for it to work.

What other access do you get when getting the Accessibility credentials from the system?
In general, commentators are too quick to delete downvoted comments. Often, a comment that is initially downvoted will return to positive within a day or so, if only it is left alive.

Although my brothers and I played football (one of them professionally), I share your concern about concussions. If football doesn't solve this problem in the next decade it will deserve its eventual obscurity.
for 1618 (golden ratio x 1000) there is a straight line right in the middle of the screen. Best visible when scrolling
Alibaba’s 'Singles Day' Sales Bigger Than Black Friday
Google perhaps should be more worried than Amazon.

Alibaba is an advertising company, not a retailer.
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iOS: Tweetbot, Facebook, Instagram, 1Password, SportsCenter
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Loves Tesla, Oculus Rift
Guessing so that installation process is portable and isolated from original host.
Ah, that's much better. Thanks!
Open Source isn’t just about code – other ways in which you can contribute
Yeah, this is a common smugly-stated POV on many subcultures. Being a hipster (or goth, or punk, or whatever) may have some counterculture aspect or appeal, but there's a lot more to them than just "not conforming."
Why do we conduct qualitative research?
Chicago's Founder Equity tries new twist on venture fund model
Instead of offering to pick a different name, why doesn't Groupon just go ahead and pick a different name? What was the point of angering everyone?
These caches are currently implemented with SRAM, a technology which uses 6 transistors per bit. Find a different technology (such as memristors) and our entire set of tradeoffs are likely to change.

The laws of physics dictate what the ultimate limits of a techology are; they do not dictate which technologies you actually choose to use.
Tesla: The Origin Story
Flashlight – The missing plugin system for Spotlight
Flashlight – A plugin system for Spotlight
I'm sure stuffing the manifest is important but I doubt they will do so at a loss or even a push.
> nobody "tricks out" ICBMs

Russia does :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepr-1
It also stops generating primes for n=40. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_for_primes#Prime_formu...
This is cool. Another interesting implementation is one that runs in the browser and applies filters to locally captured images using the Canvas API. Here's an example:

http://www.noupe.com/development/howto-build-an-instagram-cl...

That really fascinates me because we now have access to taking photos, reading in the raw data and manipulating it without sending a single byte to the server.
The source interview is much more interesting than this blog's summary: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/11/nicholas-carr-glass-ca...
Getting Backbone to talk to React
To me, it is one of Git's strengths, that it's internal data structure is simple enough to describe and understand, and doing so brings great clarity to the rest of its operations. For example, knowing that "creating a branch" is literally just writing 40 bytes to a file makes them much more approachable.
It really is. We will sacrificing quality for the ability for everyone to have access. In addition to this, I'm not sure I want the government with the ability to control free speech on the Internet.

I predict that if it is classified as a utility, there will be additional provisions that will erode our freedom of speech on the Internet.

There are already proposals to make it illegal to parody things like presidential candidates.
Productivity hacks are stupid. Here's how you get things done
With One Rumor, Telegram Messenger Is Gaining Popularity in India
God damn I just "topped up" my paltry 1GB per month in the UK at a cost almost twice that.

I don't care if information wants to be free, but I want my bandwidth to be free :-)

Edit: more seriously is control over the bandwidth usage. I notice my phone does a lot of background work that I either don't have control over or might do but is so diffuse to control I cannot be bothered. A few tens of dollars a month is annoying but it's not making me choose between food or bandwidth as it might in other areas.

I would hope that phones like the locked down android become more widespread or some other approach (can you write an app that controls other apps bandwidth?)
I like this idea, particularly if you communicate the number of hides. The poster is made aware of how the comment has been received, so there's feedback while not affecting other users.
esr knows how much of the open source community's success is driven from social factors as opposed to technical factors. I'm excited with his progress as well.
Given the record rate at which China is accumulating debt, and the fact that when you account for real inflation their GDP growth is down to a few points annually (if not contracting already), and their demographics are a ticking time bomb ('old before rich'), you don't think it's a bit early to call this the China century?

It was supposed to be Japan's century.
The graphs of failures don't show the PCG scheme because their number of failures is zero.

The performance graphs show a whole bunch of PCG generators.

You absolutely can predict the Mersenne Twister after 624 outputs (there are several blog posts out there). The Mersenne Twister is also huge (2K of state) and some people claim that as a result it's not cache friendly.

But yes, it's a new thing, so it needs people to look at it.
I was expecting to read about a "genius" plan they had for winning games, like moneyball or something.
Lol that image is so "kids, math is cool, like the Matrix": http://media.coindesk.com/2014/10/math-behind-bitcoin.jpg
But he does. From last week:

But I got to thinking, early this morning, about the fact that I haven’t been able to settle on just one VCS. I use git for most things, but there’s a use case git doesn’t cover.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6502
In my recollection, the Multics OS (1964) was the first attempt to make this practical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
Extend media and srcset for bandwidth
out of interest, which modern stacks allow "live coding" your application? That is: no need to restart for various changes you make. You are playing/changing/creating with the objects that make your aplication.

I am currently doing mostly Objective-C-programming in Xcode, which is a rather simple IDE in this respect.

In the past I used more java, but at this time only simple changes were possible live (using Eclipse back then), for a lot of others I had to compile and restart anyway.
CouchDB dev here. PouchDB is an amazing companion to the world of syncing databases and the CouchDB devs couldn’t be happier that the PouchDB devs are going to such great lengths pushing the sync vision of CouchDB to all sorts of browsers and devices. Thank you! <3
Author here. This application uses CamanJS [1] which depends on Node-Canvas [2], a Node implementation of the Canvas API. So all the cool things you can do with Canvas in the browser you can also do on the server side.

But I see your point. Love what you can do in the browser these days.

[1] http://camanjs.com/

[2] https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas