skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is where a pure functional language like Haskell really shines.

Haskell might be a turn off to some people because it doesn't allow the quick and dirty solution for people who know what they're doing, and I'm sure there are those who have been permanently turned off to "protecting the programmer from himself" by such limp-wristed languages as Java, but you've got to admit there's merit to a language where instead of spending 5 years going through the school of hard knocks with production bugs, the programmer is baffled from the get-go and has to go ask an expert right away, resulting in much more solid code from the first version.
Where there's smoke, there's fire - I think at this point Yelp is going to wind up paying out some bucks, but will likely refine their internal sales process.
Seems like even their administrative panel is down, so I can't even log in...

http://appengine.google.com/
You sound like we need YouTube to publish videos or that we need Blogger to publish a blog. We don't. Well we do, but only because we have asymmetric bandwidth, and no low-power, easy[1] to set up home server. The second we have that is the second these platforms become obsolete. For many reasons, I would very much like that.

About aggregation sites like Hacker News, you do have a strong point, though.

[1] I mean as easy as Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, Twitter… Any harder and it won't work.
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Change your email to something fake, randomly bang on the keyboard to create a password you don't know, and logout.
You're using a rice cooker right now, right?

I messed around with my rice cooker a little bit and it seemed like my temps varied a fair amount. I switched over to using my crock-pot and it's made my temps remain much more stable.
Are my favorite bartenders going to be sent to jail?
We use godaddy in our company for email and webpage hosting. It's not been a great experience.

Storing passwords in the clear sucks. Why would they do that, unless their audience is primarily 'non-technical' people?
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It would be nice if they linked to this on the standard interface page, where they mention Aristo.
Now we're officially more than half way to a full creative commons release (manuscript asciidoc sources to come at the end).

There's over 150 pages of content out now, so I hope folks can make good use of it. Enjoy!
Has the Golden State gone bust?
They have a very long history of being pranksters -- when did we start to think of them as avenging antiheroes?
Heh actually I wish I had all of those things located nearby, I've never been disappointed when I've spent the time to go to all of those.
Yeah, I use a Black & Decker RC880 rice cooker, and I get very tight temperature control. I may have gotten lucky.
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure there are laws in place (at least in some states) that provide a minimum time for a light to shine yellow before going to red. Basically, if the stop light has a yellow light that is short of the minimum, you can fight a ticket for running a red right. Not sure on the particulars here, but just something to consider.
I'd been considering using AppEngine for small project, but I'm not sure I can rely on it for even that.

There were some issues following a 30 minute maintenance last week (which fell during a USA early evening period as it was) that lasted for several hours, and now this.
Does the new missle defense agency logo look familiar?
I've worked with Blake a lot, my company developed their current e-commerce site. He's a great, passionate and fun guy. One of my favorite stories about him is when we were asking how he gets thousands of pairs of shoes through customs in Africa. All he said was "Oh, Bill Clinton helps me take care of that." That in itself can tell you how powerful his socially conscious business model is.

He's the kind of guy that would fit in perfectly at HN, he's not technical but he's extremely entrepreneurial. He had a variety of small successes, some failures, and finally hit it big with TOMS Shoes.
That can be wise, but not entirely practical when you think to yourself all day, "I can't solve this problem. I'm going to sleep."
Ask HN: Decent ads for a technical audience?
Does anyone know of a decent ad networks to use for a technically-oriented site? (I.e., what ads don't piss you off and cause you to use an ad blocker?)

I have considered The Deck (http://decknetwork.net/), but it is exclusive and seems to be pretty difficult to get into.
I don't think the goal is to prescribe exactly the same look and feel for all apps. A useful analogy here is to look at what has happened in the Mac world (I won't use the iPhone as an example as the App Store reviewers impose HIG compliance everywhere).

Nearly all Mac applications have the same feel to them - even third party apps. This is what makes the Mac experience so nice, apps all work the way you expect them too. But, the final interface can often look highly unique. Think of applications such as Delicious Library.

Interface guidelines are for those parts of your app that aren't the core. They are for providing a layout that is reasonable and familiar to users when your application doesn't need to do better.

For example, think of Delicious Library. Obviously, the browser screen of DL has nothing at all in common with what the HIG suggests. This is because it is the core experience of the app, and Wil Shipley felt that it was important enough to bring his own feel to the app. But open up a preference panel, and it looks exactly like a preference panel on any other Mac app. There was no need for Wil to spend energy trying to figure out how to layout his preference panel, he just followed the HIG. And now users of the application get that comforting, familiar feeling when they open the preference panel.
It sounds to me like you're worrying about problems you don't have. You're talking scalability and acquisition before you have a single line of code, let alone any users.
It would fall under SPAMMING.
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>The new theory cannot just beat the old theory on the new data, it has to beat the old theory on the old data,

Erm, yes - if you come up with a new theory of gravity, it had better explain the current orbits of the planets.

Suppose I have a wonderful new theory of gravity, it doesn't work for anything on earth, or anything you can measure in space - but that's ok because that's old data and doesn't count.
I really thought we were going to take some steps forward in the UI world after the whole Facebook/ReadWriteWeb fiasco. Am I the only one who thinks this a bad idea? Now users who have already managed to get lost on your site will be presented with irrelevant information rather than something that helps them find what they're looking for.
zing! should've taken that acquisition when they had the chance. "what's done in the dark eventually comes to light"
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These are indeed excellent resources.

Another great resource is the official Git User Manual, which I didn't know existed until just the other day: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual....

I am brand new to git and I've been pleasantly surprised at both how thorough and also how newbie-friendly the User Manual is.
I understand where you're coming from but I don't think anyone expects that he change his blogging platform for this post (as far as I know Blogger doesn't allow you to create custom 404 responses).

As CoryMathews pointed out, his actual website has working implementation:

http://bluesmoon.info/foobar
In the past when a state government attempts to tax Amazon on affiliates, Amazon has chosen to simply shut down all affiliates in the given state, but not yet at the scale of California.
I'm 31 and this is refreshing to hear, however my concern is not so much what other people think as it is job security. My perspective is that by the time I'm 40 I want to have a solid nest egg, and by the time I'm 50 I want to have my fuck-you money, and only then do I only feel secure being a programmer/creative for the rest of my life. Otherwise I feel like I better bone up on management skills to hedge my bets against age discrimination in my 50s and 60s.
The minimum yellow light duration is regulated to 3s by the Federal Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.

In CA, the timing is additionally required to be no shorter than the Caltrans Traffic Manual, which sets a higher minimum time depending on the speed of the road.

If you get a ticket and the yellow is shorter than that, you have a very good case for getting it thrown out.
I wouldn't do it at all. If I wanted escrowed access to a VM, I'd stick a "break glass" SSH key on the box.

I'm not sure how "extremely secure" this "password-decrypting server" design really is, by the way. SQLI is often equivalent to remote code execution. Even when it isn't, XSS is equivalent to operator access, and operators can use the feature that decrypts the password.

Passwords are hazmat. You shouldn't be storing them, at all.
Great add to the community. I'm coming from a social entrepreneurship background but now building a web startup and seeing just a ton of flow between those two communities. Actually run mixers for startups in SF that explicitly connect both - people seem to really dig em. Thanks for sharing this.
Likewise the folly of those who say, "Every scientific paradigm imposes some of its assumptions on how it interprets experiments," and then act like they'd proven science to occupy the same level with witchdoctoring. Every worldview imposes some of its structure on its observations, but the point is that there are worldviews which try to minimize that imposition, and worldviews which glory in it.

Er -- except no, you've missed the point entirely here, Eliezer.

The point isn't that you step inside the paradigm and judge one as being somehow "better" than the other. Your choice isn't the false dichotomy of everything either being all the same or there being shades of better or worse. The entire point of paradigms is that, inside of each of them, they conform to those values that create the paradigm. So everybody sitting inside a paradigm, no matter how well educated, is going to be praising that paradigm. This is why the word "science" is way too overloaded for discussions like this. Do you mean reproducible, falsifiable model creation through abdcution, deduction, and induction? Or are you referring to the much more common Bayesian best-guess method of science? Seems like you're talking about the Bayesians, but there's a big difference which you've glossed over.

And from the outside it doesn't look all the same, either. What we can observe about various paradigms is measuring the extent of their vocabulary and measuring the rate of paradigm change.

Epidemiology isn't witch-doctory because epidemiology has a vast system of symbols, models, and data around how people get sick. We can pick up these symbols, models, and data and do useful things with them. Witch-doctory has but a few. Epidemiology has changed many times in the last two hundred years. They pick up the same data, symbols, and models ad rework them into new paradigms, increasing the richness of the field. Witch-doctory has not.

We can't look outside the paradigm, but we can certainly make subjective observations about what's more or less useful to the outside observer. I can be a Zoroastrian and still pick up enough useful information from Physics to walk on the moon -- no matter what the status of the Grand Unified Theory is. At the end of the day, it's always going to be pragmatic distinction, not a epistemological one.
Give AppEngine a chance, you may like the way it works. Yes, the downtime sucks, but Google will at least be fairly honest about the reasons which is generally better than my previous host. Which got their machine owned, and my PHP scripts backdoored and they said it was a simple hardware issue.

Overall I have been really impressed with Google AppEngine, it has served my needs. I'm not happy about the downtime, but as a paying customer I'll just email them and generally I'll end up getting credited for the downtime.
You don't think GoDaddy tech support can do that already, even without your password?

Remember, most of these companies have a somewhat-reasonably-tested customer visible web application, and an absolutely horrific "put-a-tick-in-the-URL-and-watch-the-fun" backend customer support web application.
I'll update my implementation later today with a geoip lookup. It will only work in the US and Canada, but that's better than nothing.
Reviving the BitC project
See http://github.com/zitterbewegung/bitc
BitC is now slighly less than dead. Has anyone else tried to revive? I plan on taking it in a slightly different direction. First off no i'm going to eventually move it torward C( I don't like C) Next step is to add more haskell / ML style programming features. Add a macro system (probably first class) Suggestions would be nice. Also try some termite style concurrency.
That's not a solution, that's a hacky workaround.
The actual 404 page is on my website: http://bluesmoon.info/foobar-or-anything-you-want
There was a time when there were chemistry sets for sale as gifts to kids ... Mostly rather mild stuff - pretty colors, bad smells, melted plastic.

This is hard core chemistry lab. Choice bit on a particularly explosive paper:

If the paper weren't laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you'd swear it was the work of a violent lunatic.

P.S. the URL posted is not for the exact piece which is currently at the top; that's http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_won...

P.P.S. don't miss out on the comments - some are as amusing as the post, and there's even a call for a web business at #46 ...
haha :) XML is better than scraping HTML (though YQL lets me do that too). I prefer JSON, which is one of the reasons I pass the service through YQL and get JSON out the other end.
I face this dilemma of using Chrome for speed and small footprint VS gazillions of firefox extensions...
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I bet if you had said "Way to godaddy!" you would be sitting at -2 instead of -3 right now
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Ahh, ok. Yea, tree rings are a horrible proxy for temperature. "Global cooling"/"Global dimming" (small particulates suspended in the upper atmosphere) and an increase in pollution etc. has messed with them. I have long been more skeptical estimates of past global temperatures than our ability to predict future temperatures. Most of the other proxy’s for historic temperature are highly dependent on ocean currents and we don’t have a good proxy for figuring those out prior to accurate temperature measurements. Pluss we are trying to look further into the past than the future so the number man made changes to the enviernment (deforistation, urbon areas, the sahara etc) are even more extream

IMO, the major issue dealing with global temperatures is actually how ocean currents effected and affect temperatures. You can model changes in gas concentrations but ocean currents estimates are closer to predicting weather than climate. Also, we have high quality mesurments over a range of CO2 consentrations, but so far global ocean currents have been fairly steady.

PS: Global Cooling is actually a well accepted part of current clement change models; the assumption is the effect of particulates suspended in the atmosphere is not going to increase so while they offset a significant amount of global warming they are not going to increase anytime soon. However, looking at the past we need get an accurate estimate of the effects which is hard.
You missed the part about control. If they have the power, they should have the responsibility. And maybe the accountability as well.

A publishing platform can choose to be neutral (no power), or it can choose not to be. Of course safe harbour should apply to neutral media. For those that are not, however, I am not so sure. Almost, but not totally.

About the paper makers, you missed another point: anonymity. It should be very easy to reach the actual author of a paper, so this makes no sense to sue the paper maker. If the paper maker published all this stuff anonymously, and can't (or refuse to) disclose the author's name, however, that's a different story.
Definitely. Regarding the "diversity" issue, I think there's verifiable evidence that first-generation immigrants tend to be far more successful in the startup / small business enterprise than those who've been in the US for many generations.
I'll add it to my site, kind of makes me conflicted... its a great cause but i really don't want my users to see a 404 error :)
Michael, this was posted yesterday, and has recieved a bunch of comments. why have you posted it again?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147209
The list doesn't display correctly in Chrome. How ironic.
if there's enough interest in this, I'll put the code on github and anyone can get it from there.
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It seems like KC is TC from scratch ( and including Win32 support) but its page claims "successor of QDBM". What do you you think? Did TC hit its limit with current codebase?
I think "Infringer!" sounds really malicious. I could imagine Hollywood B-type movie with this title.
"satan's kimchi"
They have enough cash to beat out an animal hospital in a fight of attrition...

Worst case they blame the one sales rep (this is not yelp company policy blah blah), pay up, and promise to play nice in the future.
The problem is "technical audience" is still too broad to guarantee relevance.

Relevance is the most important thing when placing ads.

If you're really set on using an ad network (rather than managing advertisement yourself) use something that will let you approve and reject specific ads for your site, like http://www.adbrite.com/

Props for putting some thought into this, though.
This is a really cool idea, I would like to have a drop in, embeddable <script> widget type thing to add this to my 404 page. I just don't have time to spare to port this code to django/python, a simple script will work on any platform.

Anyone care to spend a little time on this? Possibly cleaning up the design to be more aesthetically pleasing and possibly multiple themes/color schemes?

Again, really cool, I like it. Does some good and is cute at the same time.
Message passing circumvents locking, but not necessarily synchronization and I would not describe using it as easy. The difficulty in concurrency is maintaining an understanding of all possible states at any given point and message passing doesn't fix that.
tl;dr you can deadlock in occam
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Try the nocturnes (You can get Daniel Barenboim's renditions with bittorrent: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4107877/Barenboim_-_Chopin_N...). That's what I started with.

For an assortment of great Chopin playing, check out this playlist of Rafal Blechacz at the Chopin competition in 2005. He on all 5 first prizes at the competition. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=01CC65D4BAEF5E85
Happy that their status page stay up this time. Last time (236 days ago) this happened, it was not.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=685093
Well, this seems like as good a place as any to ask:

Can someone point me to a paper that provides a reproducible experiment that measures both the accuracy and precision of the latest climate models?

I suppose I am one of those illiterate, flat-earth "denier's". However, if such a paper exists, I would have no further doubts. And until such a paper exists (assuming it currently does not), my only claims are that the science is unfinished, and that clean energy is probably a good idea anyways.
It is funny that you mention that since I commonly refer to kimchi itself as "Satan's salad". I've never read a chemistry article that was this entertaining.
Hydrogen sulfide, for example, reacts with four molecules of FOOF to give sulfur hexafluoride, 2 molecules of HF and four oxygens...and 433 kcal

433 kilocalaries from 5 molecules? Am I reading that right?
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Yeah. I used to disagree with you, but now I agree.

You should write up a definitive guide for password security. For instance, I want to know if we should still use salts in the age of bcrypt, etc. Tell us what to do, man.
I'm on the list and have seen some interesting companies.

However, I also put my email address in the AngelList part, figuring, how bad could it be? ... pretty bad. I am now thinking of making a "how to pitch me via email" post.
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Try the Preludes. For anyone who might think of Chopin largely as a 19th C. salon composer they are shattering. They're also mostly quite brief. Some last only a minute or so. Epic especially are Nos 8, 12, 16, 18 and 24.
this is such an awesome list, the best thing about it is that safari and chrome support a good chunk of these as well, I never even knew pointer events were implemented.

add websockets(which are coming soon), and the one features that really dissapoints me since noone seems to want to address it, clipboard access, and you have a pretty solid base to build most applications.
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That was great. What does Kiln get you that Mercurial doesn't?
I would go further and state that this seems like it could be borderline criminal negligence due to the inherent safety issues.
Yes,

It's also amazing how any foolish idea can justified by the call to "Save The Children".
Recommendations for good recordings of works from these composers?

I played for about 15 years and love a lot of the music I learned and performed. At the time though, it was so familiar to me that it never occurred to me to track down recordings of those songs. If I wanted to hear something, I'd just sit down and play it myself.

Now that I don't play so often, I'd like to hear some of those songs again, but I'm completely psyched out by the number of recordings available. Any suggestions for Chopin recordings and perhaps some Debussy and Rachmaninoff?

This is the same, admittedly silly, reason I don't go to many plays. There are so many out there and I don't want to waste time and money on a sub-par product.
I for one, blame Python's GIL! rolls eyes
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I've never had much interest in chemistry, but after reading this article, I found myself digging through the archives. And then I found myself thinking, "Chlorine Trifluoride is scary stuff! He says that's because it's a damned impressive oxidizing agent. What exactly does it mean to be an 'oxidizing agent' anyways? Hmm..." I'm now sorely tempted to spend the remainder of my day sifting through chemistry stuff online.

This is exactly the kind of writing that the scientific community needs. This is outreach and recruitment at its finest, and we could use a lot more of it. People ask, "How do we get kids interested in science?" Prof. Lowe's blog isn't the entire answer, but it's a hell of a good start.

Correction: As noted below, Dr. Lowe is not a professor. My error, but everything else still stands.
I agree. Smaller scale agriculture seems like it might result in better health, but directly purchasing the goods from producers isn't necessary for that.
Uh,

The authorities don't know which children are missing in your area either.

Most child kidnappers are clever enough to move locations and not tell people. There could be exceptions but it movement seems to be more the rule.