skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is intrinsic motivation something everyone is born with? Or does it need to be learned and reinforced with positive outcomes?

Um... If it needs to be reinforced, then it is extrinsic motivation. That's pretty much the definition of 'extrinsic'.

>people may never really develop an intrinsic motivation to work

What is 'work?' Aren't most people happy to sit around socializing? Aren't people happy to sit around posting their thoughts on online forums? Why isn't this work? It produces value.

>So, you just stay in your comfort zone forever.

I guess suffering is what makes life great, then? What is the goal here, if not to let people be comfortable forever? What is the point of having a discussion when you throw out the basic premise?

I could make a very strong argument that regularly beating one's children is the best way to raise them, and rationalize all day long with statistics and claims about how reward and punishment are obvious common-sense drives for human behavior. But at the end of the day, it's those beaten children who make the world a worse place, so what good does it really do? If the goal is to have a world where children aren't being beaten, then surely beating children is not a reliable way to achieve that.

So what is the problem your argument is trying to solve?
I mostly quit contributing because of the deletionists, but I have some recollection about one of the "alienated" communities the article mentions. For a while there was a concerted attempt by multiple webcomic authors to insert references to their webcomic in seemingly as many articles as possible. So you would get edits for example to the ISS: "$CRAPPY_WEBCOMIC mentioned the International Space Station on January 8, 2007 when $WEBCOMIC_CHARACTER bought a telescope and $IRRELEVANT_TEXT". While I didn't care that much if every webcomic got an article, they were basically using Wikipedia as advertising and would get into fights when you tried to make it not advertising. After a while you start identifying "problem communities" and start treating those contributions less charitably.
So, legitimate question: how is it possible to get North Korean comments out of a compiled binary?

Somehow I doubt that any supposed North Korean hackers would have followed the tenets of free software and distributed the original source to Sony along with the malware.
Not on Amazon?
Recently I've read a bunch of people who want eink screens.

I'm a bit confused: the refresh rate is terrible for eink. Typing text would be painful. Maybe the year 2020 will have great quality fast eink but today it'd be a pretty lousy experience.
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So many parallels to other industries. The greatest chefs often describe how they'd held every job in a restaurant before becoming chefs.
Raising $13M on Kickstarter? That's impressive. I'm kind of intrigued by this whole Coolest Cooler thing because of this guy
Can't seem to buy it on you tube

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Isn't (2) a relative issue? In other words, if everyone else also worked three hours a day instead of eight, then the prices of goods would change to reflect that.

There would be only 3/8 as much "stuff" (including services etc), modulo productivity effects, to divide among the same number of people. So on average, you'd be able to afford 3/8 of what you could in a 8-hour-a-day world. Regardless of whether prices changed and in which direction.

What is consumed, must have been produced. If less is produced, less is available to consume.
Sweet! Do you have any recommended books for learning iOS with swift?
Now thats efficiency.
It's US only. Seems torrent there is.
Obviously any one person's experience is only anecdotal, but I'm still waiting to discover that anyone I know in real life actually likes iOS since v7. However, I seem to know plenty of people who wish they hadn't upgraded, or even who returned a new iPad with a recent iOS because they thought they were getting what they'd seen before (iOS 5/6 generation tablets that friends/family had) and hated the new one so much.

Personally, we're still pre-v7 on our iPad here, after reading way too many reviews about severe performance drops on this device after the "upgrade" and learning that there is no way to go back once you've done it. We literally ignore any updates for the system from Apple and just carry on happily enjoying the product as we bought it, making us almost uniquely satisfied among iPad purchasers we know.
Oof. You found a legitimate bug with their integration -- they've now fixed it.
Eww. What made you think to try? Does that work on Stripe in general or just this site?
This paper has a lot of false information in it. The sawtooth wave example is just not correct. There is exactly one band-limited (i.e. no frequencies greater than half the sampling frequency) waveform that corresponds to a set of samples. In the case of a sine wave sampled at twice the frequency, that solution is the exact sine wave that was produced. The video I linked to above has a demonstration of this signal reconstruction, using an analog oscilliscope to show that sine waves are reconstructed perfectly when sampled at only 2x the fundamental frequency.
If it was Sony it would not be a surprise after that complete failure to protect their network.
Don't feel bad. Actual skill and ability isn't much of a hiring factor with companies like this.
It must've been broken on the server too then? I call BS...

The way stripe checkout works, that token is passed to your server and you do an API request to stripe with the token. The token merely represents your card. The charge is done on the server.

I'll take the downvote rather than pile-on with criticism that is almost certainly misplaced. I find it very unlikely the GP downloaded the movie for free. If i'm wrong, I'll gladly retract, but the presence of the test key in the comments is hardly an indication that it'll work on the server.
BitPay allows it as does Coinbase
Rotten Tomatoes gives Stars Episode III and The Shining within 2% rating of each other.

Rotten Tomatoes is pretty horrible for determining if a movie is worth seeing.
If you have my problem (bad perf running Yosemite on software rendering), it's far better than using Quartz Debug to disable Beam Sync. Pure curiosity: what's your computer?
and several European country's put on a 1963 German version of a 1920's British comedy sketch "Dinner for one" on new years eve.
For convenience:

Outside of the US:
http://imgur.com/iWvOgFI

After removing hiddens:
http://imgur.com/2E1dALE
Not sure about how movies are filmed, but you don't have to shoot video frames at 1/FPS. That's just the slowest you can shoot. If you're shooting in broad daylight, each frame could be as quick as 1/8000, for example.

Shooting at the slowest shutter speed possible should make the most fluid video.
Exactly what I was thinking. This is something most of us want, and this is a chance to vote with our wallets.
Looking at the file names, it seems this film had the codename 'Elephant'?
Ah ok, so here I think is the slight confusion.

If you make the constraint/assumption that during reconstruction that you rebuilding a time domain signal composed of series of sinusoidals, then you're in the clear at just 2x sampling. For example, in Figure 2 in the article, it states that 2x sampling only provides frequency information, and not amplitude and shape. This is true if we assume that we're trying to directly reconstruct -any- periodic signal. Then if we sample at only 2x of the signals fundemental frequency, we are in fact stuck.

This can cause certainly cause confusion. So I think the usual way (I just dinker with DSP for funsies and a little bit at work, so I might have got it mangled) to deal with this confusion is to remember that sawtooth and square (and whatever) signals are chocked full of high harmonics that also must be sampled at or beyond the nyquist limit for you to be able to construct it.
Ask HN: What do I need to know if I plan on selling my company?
I have a startup company and one of the things we put in the business model was the possibility of being bought by a larger company.

Is there anything I can do in terms of paperwork, financials, software, or anything else in the event of a potential buyer, to have my ducks properly in a row to make sure the purchase goes as smoothly as possible?

Any resources, advice, or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> This sounds frighteningly lefty

Thats not 'lefty' I have the same goals and Im not 'lefty'. Where we might differ is HOW this can be achived.

I want to creat a dynamic market economy that grows and gives other people the same conforts I have, meaning that I can work 8h and always have awesome new gadgets or I can work 4h and just read books on the kindle all day.

What is really 'lefty' is focusing on inequallity instead of individual wealth. It drives me mad that the focus is inequalily instead of individual wealth/consumtion.

I have looked at lots of this 'Happiness' research and I dont have a high opinion about it (even when it confirms my priors) because its not clear at all how to measure happiness. I think, we need to provide liberty, once you have liberty at least your happiness mostly depends on your own action. I dont think society should be in the buissness of providing happyness, because that is even more elusive goal then providing freedom.
No.

Linux makes for a good server setup, but the desktop side is lacking in high-quality applications that are considered standard on other platforms. Linux simply has too many cooks to ever achieve the mostly homogenous experience of Windows or Mac. That is both it's blessing and it's curse.

Besides, I get 90% of what I need from Linux on a Mac and the other 10% I can get from a VM running Linux or a remote box.
Sony offered online distribution companies the chance to host it, only some accepted.
Yosemite is running on VMWare Fusion inside OS X Mavericks.
Taxes are at historic lows, we should raise taxes regardless because infrastructure is crumbling nationwide.
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@ibdknox ported Light Table from node-webkit to atom-shell a few weeks ago (https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/tree/atom-shell). I haven't looked at it myself, but I heard some noises from him about easier deployment and smoother UI (possibly from better handling of the webkit and libuv event loops).
worse yet are voicemail systems such as Lync that try to transcribe it for you - no need to look for pen and paper, because it's just gibberish most of the time. when I see a Lync "voicemail" message, it means that I email the sender and ask what they want.
I think you need to look at the fact that a lot of people are considering BI solely because of expected advances in automation.

If we're looking at a situation where a vast, vast amount of the value created in the economy is pumped in by a handful of players who own large automated factories and most knowledge-work that we know today is done by specialized AI, then we might be in trouble on the jobs front.

So I think what a lot of people are looking at is a situation where for the average person, there is no job for them in the greater industry - the engineering and technically skilled folks required to build and maintain the machinery might be a fraction of what is required now.

So the marginal contribution of low-skilled Joe Blow is going to be very low or zero.

Now, getting to this situation without mitigating it would probably lead to violence, etc, so this line of reasoning has lead a lot of people into looking at BI.

While I think you have a very valid point, I think that setting up the right carrots and sticks inside a BI system to ensure that the right amount of development occurs is something that can be done.

One of the major effects of simply giving the poor a regular source money is reducing their cognitive load. In the past, it was seen that this stress would encourage the poor to keep working, as it was seen that poverty is caused by lack of motivation.

Today we know that this just screws them over worse. Stress inhibits brain development and constant lack of security decreases motivation to try and improve the situation. Opportunity costs make most prospects look impossible, and an awful lot of people simply don't have the time to stop and figure out what they should do.

So let's get rid of that yolk and see what happens when we give everybody a secure environment to develop themselves. I think it's worth going through the effort of figuring out how to arrange the carrots and sticks to make it work. Don't you?
I always use this fact as a kind of analogue to explain position-momentum uncertainty in physics. From a blurry photo of an object, you can easily measure the speed, but the position is uncertain due to the blur. From a very crisp photo, you can tell exactly where it is, but you can't tell how fast it is moving because it is a still photo.

It's a good way to start building an intuition about state dependencies.
"Visual voicemail" moved me from strong dislike to being mostly OK with it. At most it usually requires tapping my phone twice - open app, play message. Still need to potentially transcribe, I guess, but there's too many people and places that will never switch to texting anytime soon.
Wikipedia deleted articles about Olympic athletes, not just minor athletes.

I tend to agree that there's a bunch of stuff in Wikipedia that's pointless. But so what? How much does it cost Wikipedia to host the Tigress from Kung-Fu Panda page?
Unequivocally yes. As a developer having an identical setup on my local machine that I do on my server saves so much time. Besides none of the commercial OS's have a package manager that comes close to the package managers on linux / bsd.
YC: It’s a mistake to use marketing-speak. Marketing denoise applied
It looks like the secret code was the test code, which accepts test cards:

4242424242424242 for Visa

And rejects test cards:

card_declined: Use this special card number - 4000000000000002.
People don't want a webpage on some random website. They want their Truth in Wikipedia.
Another thing to consider is that the law is heavly focused on full employment and there are lots of benefits. This is true in almost all countrys, laber market regulation have a clear focus on this.

We have no idea what the (abstract) free market laber time would be. For better or worse our economys have devloped into a kind of paradigm that is not focused on flexibilty. This has devloped in the industrialisation and should be more relaxed now. In some places (most places programmers work) working hourse are allready much more flexible.
At some point I'm going to attempt shimming CoreGraphics or wherever it ends up to fake 3D acceleration by proxying the OpenGL calls to the host without using a real driver.
Would make more sense for adobe to allow exporting flash projects in webtechs directly(without hacks like today's export feature).Because Shumway isnt going to run FLV videos or do sound synthesis.

> I still like Flash.

Me too.Though I moved to js,processing and openframework for multimedia projects.Flash IDE is still one of the best tool to learn programming.I would have hated learning programming through javascript frankly.

> Adobe's stupefying negligence and apathy for the platform

Yeah,that's insane.They had a huge community and they just blew it. Again,as I said earlier the whole emscripten toolchain + WebGL could still make Flash IDE relevant in the future,but I doubt Adobe wants to throw more money at it.They fired most of the flash team and outsourced the rest to India.
No one is being forced to send a message. If it feels like a big burden to type up 140 chars or a few lines of an email to send a message, maybe that message isn't important enough to bother someone with. (talking internal business here, not personal or external)

The reason I dislike voicemail for internal business - not sales, support, biz dev or personal calls -
is because it often implies that a call wasn't planned, which means that someone wants you to make decisions on the fly or they think that your time can be interrupted whenever they feel like it. Of course there are a thousand exceptions to this - but I prefer other means of communication for internal business interactions.
Worth noting that directors use high speed film to portray a feeling of confusion. The lack of motion blur gives that sense to the scene. E.g. the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan uses this effect.
You're trying make an opinion a fact. "Better" has always been subjective when it comes to the senses, and I suspect it always will be. See the whole ridiculous audiophile cottage industry that can sell people $900 wooden volume knobs for their hi-if systems.
Does anyone else find it funny that Google will work with Sony to sell this movie, but the hacked emails reveal how Sony is going after Google (Project Goliath) to get them to censor search results? Strange bedfellows...
> From comments on HN, it seems Bush was taken seriously in other circles of the world,

Not sure if you heard the news, but Bush quickly invaded Iraq. I think it's safe to assume he was taken seriously.

> which may explain why some US citizen boycotted French products after we said we would create a worldwide axis against war.

Some US citizens just like to complain about foreigners to be more patriotic (as if that would help). I would doubt most people could explain anything about french foreign policy.
1) People seek purpose in their jobs. The jobs that provide this usually require an investment of time.

2) People seek status. Status comes from relative wealth and intelligence, which requires an investment of time.

3) People usually don't have the choice to trade money for time. You usually can't say, "I'm going to work 5 hours less per week and in return take a smaller salary". Hourly workers can (sort of) do this, but they're the ones who usually can't afford to do this.

All that said, there still are plenty of opportunities to exchange money for more time and people (IMO irrationally) pass these opportunities up. Ex. paying for food instead of taking the time to cook, clean, shop. Ex. paying someone to clean your house. I'm not really sure what the explanation for this is.
There's always the Dell XPS 13.
The trouble with books is they become out of date, so its better to learn online in some fashion.

You could do a quick, short course such as BitFountain's http://bitfountain.io/course/mini-iOS8/.

I did the full iOS 8 with Swift course when it was on sale a couple of months ago, but it's back up to its $499 price.
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It’s a mistake to use marketing-speak to make your idea sound more exciting.
Its not just Macs that have soldered components-a lot of ultrabooks also have soldered RAM, at least.
Wherever possible, a company would have three workers filling out a shift rather than one.

I think there would be productivity effects, though, as noted by another poster. And not everything scales linearly in the necessary manner for this to work (but many things do). One upside, though, is that the number of jobs would drastically increase.
The corollary is that it should be possible to produce a movie-like quality in games, by over-framing and compositing a blur between frames. The result would have actual motion blur and update at say 30 fps, but without the jerkiness we normally associate with that frame rate.
Bad science combined with terrible reporting from the BBC where "light emitting e-book readers" become in the headline "e-books"...
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Could that be due to the brightness difference between seeing it in the theatre and watching it on your TV? TVs tend to be set brighter.
We should start by chaing laber market laws that pushe everybody into the traditional work day schedule.
It's really fantastic to see Mozilla become a sort of steward and incubator of the open web. Considering that Mozilla originally came from a revolutionary (at the time) and somewhat desperate attempt by Netscape to counter the monopoly power of Microsoft/IE. If I'm remembering correctly, this was the first high profile corporate OSS dump (years before Java, for example) and shortly thereafter was largely considered a failure since Netscape became irrelevant and the Mozilla project didn't stop the MS juggernaut. Therefore it would be a number of years before a company was willing to take a risk like that again.

Of course with hindsight we can see that the Mozilla folks played the long game. Quietly working in the background they produced a product (Firefox) that actually did largely kill IE dominance. You can argue the role that Chrome had in this, but my opinion is that Firefox created the market for non-IE browsers. Without this trailblazing Chrome would not exist.

Congrats to everyone responsible, from the beginning to the present day.
I, personally, want the T420 with a better (16:10) screen and speakers. The processor is also starting to get a bit long in the tooth for what I do.

I don't even need a 4:3. (I prefer two side-by-side columns for coding.)

Oh, and the system should wake from sleep properly 100% of the time rather than 96% of the time (as my t420 does) and I shouldn't have intermittent wi-fi problems (as my t420 does.) So, I think the bigger key is having the tech work perfectly rather than look pretty.
People are not effectively switching because they are not evolutionarily or socially hard-wired to do so. We are going through a societal disruption on the order not never seen before in human history. To place all the blame on workers not adjusting is akin to blaming a person for not being prepared for their first cardiac arrest.
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That's not entirely accurate. It's true that a camera will capture the image during a certain interval of time instead of a definite point in time (obviously) but the length of that exposition time is not necessarily connected to the framerate.

For instance if you have a digital camera where you can select the framerate (pretty common these days) and if the exposition time was simply the frame period, it would mean that the image at 30fps would be exposed twice as long as 60fps and the resulting picture would look very differently.

Of course you can mitigate that by changing the aperture and other parameters but in my experience in practice you can select the exposition time and framerate independently on digital cameras. With very sensitive sensor and/or good lighting you can achieve very small exposition times, much smaller than the frame period. If you're filming something that moves and unless you want to be blurry on purpose you probably want to reduce the exposition time as much as possible in order to have a clean image, just like in the video games.
Have you tried to change jobs that appreciate your skills more?

Making yourself more valuable is not the only thing required in order to get paid more.
Because human happiness and value are not measured in absolute terms.
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