skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is much better than Scratch for young kids (the mouse and keyboard are from the 20th century)

As a father of two young boys, I don't think that "tools are from the 20th century" is the reason that it's easier for young kids. It's more about touching and pointing being more intuitive than typing and using a mouse. Kids will adapt to whatever tools they are given. The fact that most of us these days will put kids in front of a touch-enabled device before a keyboard doesn't mean that the keyboard is any less useful or important. It's still going to be a while before touch-and-gesture will be a better tool than typing for writing code.
There is a wide gulf between, "We think it's best for you to take a leave of absence from school" and "Banned from campus". There is a difference between working with a student, and exiling them.
It's not so great these days, at least in the free version. Ads every other song, sometimes more ads than songs in a given hour, and (at least on my phone) it's a battery hog. I prefer Slacker.
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I've never heard of them. They must be good.
Couple of more sentences: Almost 40% of the students who access our services at the Counseling Center report having had suicidal thoughts. The vast majority of those students continue to be seen at the Counseling Center and remain in school.

Likely there was something extremely dramatic about this case that made the college believe he was a clear threat to himself and/or others if he stayed at the college.
Those are too social network orientated for what I wanted. I appreciate they do model themselves after Twitter, but for me the appeal of Twitter is that it can also be read anonymously - like a pretty RSS feed or Growl service - if that's all you want to take away from it.
It's actually a video. The Watch plays a graphic that the iPhone parses (somehow) and pulls out pairing information. Once they've synced up, they play the same video before continuing on in the process. It was pretty slick.
Let us not forget John's excellent Hackers Diet.

I've been logging weight for years at www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet.

Lost around 30 pounds, which made me happy.
As xlib said, the screenshots were taken with the official client. I have a contributor who is working on a free (as in freedom) texture pack that we can use when we start working on the client.
Even if the script itself is not "practical", it's very informative. It makes it quite simple to translate into another language for the times when you don't want to shell out to another process.
Well, there was that one co-pilot in March this year that intentially crashed the plane (giving us more deaths by counter-terrorims measures than by terrorism in recent European history). Of course, it is hard to say looking back what was really the cause, but the link has been made.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/germanwings-crash-i-have...
I thought Pandora offered playlists in their paid tier? I've never paid for it so I don't know the details of their full service.
Ask HN: What does your favorite custom shell script do?
While we may talk often about other pieces of the software development lifecycle, shell scripts don't usually get to take center stage. Let's share some creative little scripts we've come up with over the years!
That is of course ignoring the other aspects, like battery backup for the house, better for the environment (?), the ability to do solar tie in, and any possible government incentives.
Honestly, if I was running a company that relied on IP, I'd be worried that Congress will probably fuck it up even worse.
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If anyone is interested in GPS, we're looking for a software engineer ready to learn about it. (Full Time, Austin)
You missed an additional subset of users. I live in an old neighborhood that experiences power outages and fluctuations once or twice a year. This is fantastic and something I will be installing as soon as I can. So older neighborhoods, rural areas with inconsistent power supply. All of these potentially benefit from this.
The problem here is with heroin doses that cost about a nickel to produce (barring government interference) being marked up 100x, forcing a life for addicts consumed entirely with a degrading pursuit of cash. A heavy heroin addict who has easy, cheap access to heroin is like anyone else with a mild chronic disease.
I've made my peace, somewhat, with my phone activity being tracked and everything. But this point about smartphones trying to mimic PCs is where I draw the line. I don't like the push for everything mobile to replace everything desktop/PC because I frankly don't trust smartphones to be powerful enough and secure enough to handle much more than to-do lists, social media or the occasional bank transfer (never done on a public wi-fi network of course). Of course I'm stubborn in preferring a full-sized keyboard, mouse and I dunno...computer for tasks like programming, photo editing (no, putting filters on photos is not what I consider photo editing) and gaming but that's how I think smartphones should be used vs. full-fledged computers.
I can recall several people from my own college experience who sound just like the brother in the article. They seemed happy on the surface but when in an intimate setting, reality came out. The intimate setting for us was our fraternity meetings where brothers would bring up that they were have personal problems. Frequently they would share a lot details. I think it was probably one of the best examples of a community coming together to help people without getting recognition and wasn't all just drinking and partying.

Something I've always wondered though is where this stemmed from. I find it unusual that both children from this one family happened to have problems with depression. Perhaps it's a coincidence but I often times wonder if depression really stems from hardship or if it's something less complicated than that. Many of the people who talked about having mental health issues in our fraternity were VERY well off. In fact, between all the people I've known in my life to struggle with mental health the most common attribute I remember was having two parents that worked despite having the means for one of them to stay home. Perhaps my observations are entirely coincidental but it's always seemed that these people needed more attention than anything else. As a result, just having a place for people to talk openly was immensely valuable. Our university had something called "A Place to Talk" where they were trained to be active listeners and not give advice. It's hard to actively participate in conversation without expressing your opinion but that's what they did. I really think they saved lives and probably money on a regular basis.
dropped a wrench across the terminals on the deep cycle backup batteries inside a telco switching center. Had to disconnect the whole bank of batteries to fix it because the wrench welded itself to the terminals. it wasn't a tack weld either.
Sorry, that link is broken. Here's a working one:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ipt0hu2PHDgL8HCxkZN2...

The first part of the slides is on using the apps and the second part has a bit about how we developed it (but without speaker notes, it may not make a lot of sense).
> We need an open alternative to Twitter

Like App.net?[1][2] It would seem you need much more than just being open and "letting third parties do the hard work of experimenting with user acquisition and engagement" to succeed in this space.

[1] https://github.com/appdotnet/alpha

[2] https://alpha.app.net/
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DragonBox is the best. I have bought literally everything this company has created... and I will continue to do so.

Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLA-fde2eR0

That is the typical response to the game... My own boys were solving equations within a few hours... This is clearly how math should be taught...
What exactly was RMS wrong about? MS didn't try to sue Mono out of existence, but they could have. If Mono had become a critical part of the Linux world, they very well might have.

If MS didn't want the free software community to be wary of that threat, they could have made legally binding promises not to sue over patents (no, making something an "open standard" does not do that [1]). Failing that, RMS seems correct that it would have been dangerous to depend too greatly on technology that could be clearly be thwarted by lawsuits from MS.

Ironically, if MS had encouraged the free software community to use C# back then, MS would probably be better off today.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_standards_covered...
1. As already posted, no, coal does not produce most of the electric power. It does dominate other sources though. The problem with your rejoinder is it assumes the past, not the future generation fleet. Musk's goal is to enable renewable generation, eliminating coal.

2. There are no particularly toxic materials in the batteries. Landfills accept discarded lithium batteries as regular waste. While lithium is not currently economical to recycle, by the time the industry is as large as the lead-acid battery market (a very toxic product chain) it will be just as easy to recycle lithium.

3. What toxic materials are you referring to? I'm not aware of anything that stands out, especially compared to coal mining, or tar sands production, etc. Lithium mining in particular is a very similar process to the one that produces table salt from salt flats. The biggest problem is the use of water in areas that are very water-poor, ie the Atacama desert.

4. Silicon is non-toxic and inert. There are some hazards associated with dust particles during production, but those are easily handled by proper manufacturing processes. Perhaps you were thinking of thin-film solar panels, which may use e.g. Cadmium? They're less common and seem unlikely to displace silicon PV in the near future.
Your second point is a good reason for legalization. If it were legal, you could be sure that you are buying pure MDMA or other molecules.
Is this specific to what Go offers, or is it just a CSP implementation? I can't tell from a glance at the page, but let's give credit where credit is due if it's coming from Hoare's ideas.
I think pump.io is meant to be more like a G+ alternative. But you are right. Open sourced distributed alternatives exist if that's what you want all you need to do is join. GnuSocial, pump.io, Diaspora, RedMatrix, Friendica, Twister, BuddyCloud etc etc. Each has it's own community of users. Sure your close friends probably wont be there but were they on Twitter when you joined?

From my own perspective zot (RedMatrix) should be the future. Whether the socialwg agrees is yet to be seen.Though I have a feeling zot will be the betamax to socialwg's eventual vhs
To recover my collections and playlists i used:

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PutYourUrlHere&strip=1

1. Seach your profile (or your profile's collection, playlist etc.) with Google.

2. Don't click search results, just copy the URL of your profile

3. Replace the text "PutYourUrlHere" with the URL you copied. It is important to include "&strip=1" at the end because it opens you the text version of the page, otherwise it won't work.

My cached profile page was from 28.3.2015, so at least I managed to save most of my data. groovebackup.com was not as useful as this approach.
>Also, I suppose the machine will be built with Linux compatibility in mind.

Yes, but one more thing: there are coders in the Pandora/Pyra/emu scene who have no problems whatsoever with blowing away Linux and shipping their games as a bootable SD card that runs in raw mode. This is already/has-already happened all over the small-/elite-/tight-/indie- gamer scene, please keep in mind. Among one of the reasons Pandora (which is 4th or 5th-generation 'scene'-hardware) has been and Pyra will be (!) a success, is because its being done by passionate technologies who have overcome many other battles besides being able to write raw assembly for hardware they designed, built, and produced themselves.

;)

>Ubuntu seems to run on certain tablets, it seems; hopefully phones are also workable.

The best thing to do is just trust the team, and run the official linux distro - to be based, indeed on Debian/Ubuntu (I think, could be wrong) - on the Pyra.

The Pandora is running Angstrom, which has its roots way back to things like the Sharp Zaurus 5500 and so on, which means its sort of built for small, light, and efficient. It has its own package management/distro, etc.

So as an OS, its supported the Pandora quite well; mine boot directly to the PND-Manager (PND is the 'app bundle' of Pandora) which shows me everything - whats installed, what can be updated, what it does, etc. My kids just use it like an iPad. Everything is free/open/cool/elite too, just browse the http://repo.openpandora.org/ repo and you'll see for yourself; some gems in there. To be running in my pocket? Hell yeah.

But anyway, Angstrom supports a very healthy app eco-system on the Pandora, it must be said.

I think the team wants to move to standard Debian for the out-of-the-box on Pyra, although I could be wrong on that; its such a vibrant scene I sometimes go a little blind/daft trying to keep up with Evildragon, ptitSeb, notaz () and the team are up to ..

( - http://boards.openpandora.org/user/76-notaz/)
Those who push a pro-drug agenda have to preach what will work.

You are got going to get the middle classes, the average parent on side by talking about some peasant farmer half way around the world. They cannot imagine it, it does not seem real.

But talk to them about their kids, or kids of family members / friends that is something they can relate to and possibly know of a few examples indirectly
Seems like the America Invents Act has created a great opportunity for a non-profit to organize lawyers/law students with engineers for purpose of filing briefs to dismantle the massive pile of software patents out there. I could see it as a grass roots/crowdsourcing effort.

Does anyone know of any such org?
The critique seems to be on Twitter's long term strategy.

Shutting down 3rd parties helped them get users back on the native platform, buoying their short term results. However, without the 3rd party developers the native platform is becoming less and less interesting.

We are in a very hot tech market right now so valuations are a little out of whack. Facebook has had fairly strong results the past few quarters which give investors hope Twitter can do the same. We will see!
It was bad for Twitter's brand but good for Twitter's application, ecosystem and momentum.

This is nothing new, and another tale of caution for people building companies that entirely rely on another company's good graces and policies.
Christ, HN really needs to fix their link parsing.
Watch Elon Musk announce Tesla Energy in the best tech keynote I've ever seen
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You're the one who don't get it. This watch is very nice and non-blind people also wear it. For people like me with small wrist, this watch is very big and its a "shame".

We don't think its a shame that this watch is too big for all people, we just hope that a smaller model exist even if it is less readable for blind people.

Its your turn to think about what you wrote. You seem to think that this watch is reserved for blind people. Don't you think that non-blind may think this watch is beautiful and want one ? Do you really think that having a smaller model make impossible to also have the big one ?
Discussion from the last time around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7067803
When did KickStarter stop using PayPal?
To be clear - the only access to the firehose that has been cut off is for people who want to resell that data.

The writing has been on the wall for that for quite a while - there's really no reason for Twitter to sell data to a third-party, who can then sell that data to other people.

End-users of the data are still free to purchase the data from Gnip/Twitter and do whatever they want (within the TOS of Twitter)
Sure! Depending on why you want to end the drug war, you could end up replacing it with something as bad or worse.
Funny how old standards are often very capable, SMIL, VRML, SGML but too heavy. Smaller descendants appear and grab the market.
Please take it with a pinch of salt. The keyboard and mouse are not obsolete but when you see a young kid putting so much energy in learning how to drag and drop objects in Alice ( http://www.alice.org/index.php ) instead of creating things the multitouch devices bring a solution.
Reemo bets on gesture control as a natural way to manage the Internet of Things
Not a chance without an investment in energy use optimisation and/or a change of habits. 12kW is a _lot_ of power.
Why is this so difficult for some people to process? We have very well regulated markets for cigarettes, alcohol, prescription drugs... why would this be any different? And even if we moved to state-sponsored rehab, do you have any idea how much money is squandered on the "war"? I don't hear these aforementioned fiscal conservatives complaining about that.
My 2nd ever comment on HN asked them to fix this. Still broken, almost 3 years later :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4112327
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Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.
We might see parallel seqscan soon.
As are MDMA, ketamine, LSD, mushrooms, 2CB, cocaine, heroin, amphetamine, methamphetamine and all the rest.
> as this is written by a member of said family don't we need a counterpoint?

I overlooked it when I first read the article, but after the family member's story is a response by the vice president for student affairs. Read it to see their perspective.

> with all the people saying that W&M are just 'covering their asses', do you believe that they should be held liable for the intentional actions of their adult students?

I don't understand what you are saying here. I suspect that W&M's actions (like immediately banning the student from campus, and resisting having him return even after receiving a doctor's bill of good mental health) were motivated by "covering their asses". Of course I do not believe that W&M should be held liable for the actions of their students... nor have I seen anyone suggesting that. Did I misunderstand what you were trying to say?
It was posted at 10am last month. The hour shift might be accounted for by the fact that DST started in the US between the March and April posts.
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Do you like the person you are now? How do you know TV didn't help shape that person.

There is wisdom to be had in learning first hand why a bad thing is bad, rather than just being told it is forbidden.
Please, can we stop calling it SSL?

SSL means something very specific; something that people should no longer be deploying. The article notably uses the term 'Non-secure HTTP' which at this point in time means HTTPS leveraging TLS (probably at least 1.2) but leaves some room for future interpretation as newer versions or entirely different standards arise.

No one is advocating for 'SSL' here, and continuing to use the term 'SSL' or 'SSL/TLS' when we really mean 'TLS' further confuses the situation.
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Agreed. I'd love to have a living situation where a tesla or electric vehicle was realistic for me. They're just better pieces of engineering. But sadly due to renting an apartment, parking underground, and so forth, it's not a life style I can change to.
Well, when we are talking about a change in Firefox, we are talking about every developer, not just the ones who hang out on HN.
"shame" can be defined in a couple of different ways. You're fixed on the feeling of humiliation. It can also be used in place of "pity" e.g. "It's a pity I didn't win the lottery." I don't feel ashamed about not winning, it's just a shame as it would've been useful to me.
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