skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's intentional, unless Microsoft intended to give Google Chrome prime placement (more likely to be in the first 3). More likely this is just sloppy coding that wasn't QA'd properly.
radix sort ftw!
Very cool! Purity doesn't help defend against that either, unfortunately.
Or at least use a sane source control system.
Sounds like a win-win
How NodeJS saved my web application
Nifty! You implemented a full "cross product" or "permutation" directory structure of all tag sets of all sizes, with symlinks at the leaves.
I don't share your intuitions about opposites. Risk-management is in any case a middle-of-the-road position. A person might rationally decide that the best risk/reward balance, given their particular goals, was to get a job. (Especially if these goals include doing a lot of stuff outside of work, since startups don't give you much free time.)
Lighthouse is good for a lot of things, but it is lacking for big projects IMO. We use JIRA internally and its a big step up from TRAC, especially with their agile greenhopper product. A little pricey IMO for private use, but its free for open source, so why not?
Thats what git-svn does with tags when you import, in my experience.
Ask HN: Is it me or does NBC simply not get the whole online thing?
Just tried to connect to NBC USA-Canada game live. Prompted me for my cable provider then required me to drop pop-up shields and is now asking for my Comcast email address (which I never use and can't remember).

Following the blog instead.
I liked the quadrilateral (as opposed to quadratic) touch.
Please. Python is so wildly C-like that it uses zero/non-zero for conditions.
I think some file systems at least aren't as incompatible with this idea as one would think. In linux (all fs?) one has hard-links, which pretty much decouple the file from its location. And from what I remember in earlier FATs, you have different mechanisms for file management and location management (File Allocation Tables for file management, and special directory files over it).

As to why there is no application to take advantage of it... maybe because it requires too much mind-bending. Most people stay as far away as possible from hard links. When you delete a file you want it deleted, not just "not here anymore".
Six Types of Timelines You Can Make with Preceden
This isn't that hard to do. Many of the new condo and coop buildings in NY suburbs have a simple driveway that leads down a ramp to the parking garage (below ground). The ground floor is used for retail space like a coffee shop or deli, floors 2-X are used for condos, and all parking is underground.
IE not interpreting text-indent on submit buttons?
Thanks! Good to know, even if I may end up copying the files to my own server anyway.

Edit: I assume the plan is to keep this list updated with the latest version of each lib. (?)
Preceden, a startup I launched on HackerNews about a month ago, has been doing fairly well. One of the common requests was an Examples page, so I put this together. It shows a few different types of timelines you can make using Preceden.

If you have any ideas on how to make it more compelling or additional examples you can think of, the feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Ah, the multithreaded assembly programmers who use self-modifying code for synchronization. Sorry about having forgotten about you guys.
I'm working on a script to crawl the Google and Microsoft listing pages and keep things up to date. Eventually I may expose an RSS feed as well.
True, although its not any different than running Analytics or Adwords.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the case that the best English majors and the best Engineering majors (or business majors) have similar (high) levels of meta cognitive ability. I also wouldn't be surprised if the mediocre students all had similar (low) levels of meta-cognitive ability.

Having fought my way through a number of Greek and German philosophers, I can tell you that there is no shortage of dense and difficult material to read in the humanities. (There is plenty of English lit that isn't a cakewalk either). In my current line of work I often find myself reading technical papers involved in computer science and engineering. I can tell you that while there is sometimes math that I have trouble with and have to learn, the level of of writing is certainly not more difficult than Nietzsche, Wittgenstein or Joyce.

What I intended to convey was that in general the particular major probably doesn't make as much difference as we would think.
I think it is misguided to believe that you can learn any career in four years at college,
I would argue that it is more important that you learn how to learn, so that you can keep learning for the next 60 years of your life/career.
A good student will use his or her time at college to develop meta-cognition.

As a matter of fact, a quick Google turns up a plethora of information about reading comprehension and meta-cognition (in both the sciences and liberal arts). There seems to be much less information about specific majors and meta-cognition.
Care to explain yourself?

All using a CDN for JS libraries does is have the same exact code get to the user faster and not eat your bandwith. Unless the CDN threw some extra code in, which someone would eventually notice (seriously marring the company's reputation), it doesn't send any info to the company hosting the code.

But it is a good point. You should make sure you really trust the company hosting the code for you.

Edit: Oh, right. When I read the comment I was thinking more of it letting them steal all of the info on the page, or something, which would be doable if they inserted extra code.
that was, in essence, what i was trying to convey.
Techzing Interview w/Central Desktop Founders (Relentless Execution)
I loved listening to these guys talk about their success...bootstrapped web app to millions of dollars. These guys sound ridiculously practical and down to earth (no BS).
Yep, but those are more concious business decisions. This is the kind of thing someone might decide to do on a whim without thinking of the repercussions and make suitable adjustments to privacy polices, etc.
You've never heard of access logs?
I think the OP's point was that you're giving all of the traffic information to the CDN, i.e. they can monitor the people that you're sending to them.
In Italian Google Case, American and European Ideas of Privacy Collide
This is cool. Hadn't heard of it before (so thanks for the post).

Though, the common problem I've seen with interactive timelines like this is that the text get selected when I move it back and forth. I wanted to use the SIMILE Timeline widget awhile back for a corporate project, and found that IE (any version) had the text-select problem, which was problematic for the "enterprise" standard browser.

Now I'm even experiencing it in Firefox. Seems like we've (the web dev community) been fighting with text selection problems for years and still haven't found a good solution to turn it off when dragging? Bummer.
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You don't say. And here I was thinking that fiction could be instructive...
It depends. Media as insipid as Newsweek will have trouble competing against the in-depth analysis around us. The Advocate is going to have trouble competing because the news in the gay community is better distributed by AmericaBlog and Bilerico, the interest stories are by individual bloggers sharing their stories and linked through aggregation sites, and all that's left is celebrity gossip (covered by Perez Hilton if you want.)

We still need people covering the news, the basic fact gathering. However, facts aren't copyrightable. The rest is opinion, and it's just not as expensive anymore.

Newsweek is in trouble.
Krugman is wrong. In many circumstances, countries are competing with each other. For instance, imagine Kuwait produces oil, and Japan produces automobiles. Kuwait trades oil to country America for automobiles. Now imagine Japan enters the market and makes automobiles that are much better and cheaper than America's. Kuwait will now start buying automobiles from Kuwait instead of America. America will find the price of oil skyrocketing and it's standard of living collapsing, unless it can produce automobiles that match the quality and price of Japan's automobiles.
All of you Kung Fu people should come and join http://kungfupeople.com
Built (Django, Python) by a programmer and a technical project manager.
He also has a good job in which Inuit is giving him some free rein to innovate.
Oh they get it alright: it's a threat. If you're watching it online you're not watching ads run by your local NBC affiliate. The network affiliate business model is a dying model, but it's not going down without a fight.
A Perfectly Framed Assassination and the current state of spycraft
I’d sort of assumed the traffic information was one of Google’s primary motivations for hosting all these libraries.
Ideally you want to avoid any confrontation. We were taught things like if you get into an altercation (non physical) it's best just to leave because that guy that stormed off might just be looking for a weapon or friends or liquid bravery. If someone wants to mug you give them your money. If they want your car give them your keys. No one gets into a fight unless they feel pretty confident about winning - maybe it's because they are much bigger than you or maybe its because they have a knife, a gun, or 4 friends. It's generally better to not find out which.

That being said, if you do end up having to defend yourself we were taught to disable them then back away quickly. Ideally, don't turn your back to them and run. The only thing I'd really be aiming to break is their will to get back up and come at me.
Considering IE mostly shows up in the 5th position according to this article, who cares? Does it really matter? Mountain out of a mole hill.
Oh I see. Makes sense. I'll have to give that a try
Actually, this does solve it for the most part (or so I thought).

Whenever you release the mouse, an invisible text box will be selected via some JavaScript, which deselects any text that was selected while dragging it. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well.
Aikido surely... for when you build something compelling, you can deflect VCs as they come at you and make it look like their fault.
The Philosophy of Punk Rock Mathematics (interview)
It's not an ignorant argument. Of course Apple isn't going to own or control every piece of the puzzle for getting its products here. But there is a reason their factories are in China and not in a country that has, you know, actual labor standards. Steve Jobs needs more money and people like you need cheaper products. I'm sorry. They don't own the factory so they are absolved of guilt and people like you can shop without thinking about the bad externalities with the current arrangement.
A practical defense to a mugging is really just to give them your money (or avoid places where you might be mugged). Even very skilled people have a high chance of being cut if attacked by someone with a knife. It's just not worth it over your wallet.

As for that video - all of that and not a single Shark OR Jet.
I wonder how the government will define copyright infringement -- does this mean anyone with copyrighted material on their computer will be "banned from the internet"? (also - what does that even mean?)
Lost Descartes letter found with Google search
These standard imperial justifications you and others give are part of the reasons why we are looked upon negatively by the developing world. We have exploited on a massive scale and very few Americans/Europeans care. We are a hug part of the problem and out collective morality is so poor that we actually buy the argument, 'We don't actually do the exploitation, we pay someone else to do it for us.' This is a shitty country.
I've downmodded you for complaining about my housekeeping habits.
NITA:"we want to regulate the web"
I've tried just persisting through them but never lasted more than 2 weeks. Though every few months, they'll stop for maybe a week, and then come back. Caffeine makes them less bad, which is annoying because I don't like the energy swings, but every time I give up caffeine the headaches get worse (not just immediately after, but even a month after)
How can you measure that? You can't make a grand premiere of the same game with and without protection.
As someone who has been upvoting and submitting AGW-related articles, I just want to defend why I do so. Over the past several months, it seems as if the HN community has been plagued with a deluge of articles promoting outright and utter climate denialism (no, not skepticism-- there's been precious little of that). It is my hope that by offering and supporting articles which give substantive answers to denialist rhetoric, we can move past that kind of denialism and back to a community which values both solid scientific evidence and a healthy skepticism.

The current strand of denialism articles shows that the HN community is becoming one where perpetuating blatant falsehoods is seen as a constructive and valuable mode of discussion. Despite being somewhat of a relative neophyte on HN, I am still concerned with this monumental shift in tone.
Tiny Core- A 10 MB Tiny Linux Desktop
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sigh That's really quite embarrassing. You can see the source code here: http://www.browserchoice.eu/resources/scripts/page.js

The bug is at the very bottom of the file.
I've been going through "Yet Another Haskell Tutorial" for the past few days: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/docs/daume02yaht.pdf

I've been having fun with it. I skipped to the exercises on page 20, and started reading and doing the exercises from there.

I downloaded a full platform install from: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
We can only bet on the black swan events that will shake our civilization to its very core, for better or worse. These events are unpredictable, unconvincing by all evidence of the present day, and extremely high impact.

Given the increasing complexity of modern civilization, it should be no surprise to us that we fails to predict and continue to fail to predict and be blindsided by the major disruptive events of world history.

Even the use of mathematical models in finance feed back into a ever fast growing feedback loop, escalating the speed and severity of impact when these mathematical models on ever increasingly fast computer simply fail to perform.

The fate of USA is unknown, but it is surely going to be something unexpected, gigantic in impact, and blindingly fast.
I appreciate your rationale and I agree with you and this article but frankly I'd rather see no AGW articles at all than continuing the kabuki play here as well.
I was taught in hapkido to hit the person in the balls. We weren't allowed to do it in class obviously but we were told that was a valid technique.
What's the vulnerability? It's not explained.
Most of the side-effects the article warns about are because of aspirin's blood-thinning effects and the possibility of causing gastrointestinal bleeding. Ibuprofen isn't a blood thinner, and the chances that it'll cause GI bleeding are much less than with aspirin. The doctors you talked to definitely knew this stuff.
Doesn't that depend on which positions are likely to be chosen by people? On what basis should we assume the 5th position is not favored?
I'm borderline beginning to think these should be flagged, and here's why:

The problem is that this is Hacker News. New stuff. If an article just causes the same knee-jerk reactions to it by all same players? Not only is the article not new, the entire discussion is not new.

This is why, for instance, I have not posted many climate articles over the past month even though I have read a lot of them, pro and con. Scientists emails get hacked? Hell, that's an awesome HN story. You have hacking, scientists, climate science, politics, startups -- all rolled into one.

"The Twelve things Deniers won't tell you"? Or "Ten Reasons Warmists are Wrong"? Not so much. This is a fairly intelligent group, and I think we've covered a lot of this material already. Submitting non-news articles -- on either side of this -- is beginning to look a lot like trolling to me.

I'm a firm believer that it is vital that this discussion continue among educated people of varying beliefs. But 90% of these stories are starting to get a herd mentality aspect to them, both in submitting and voting, and that's not a good thing.
Yep. It's weird that this is the same company that owns part of Hulu.
vague recollection of such. don't pay attention to news outlets so I don't really know.
Wait a minute, you don't think a third party who you barely know having complete control over you sounds incredibly risky?
Why is switching from rb to js to get server side event-driven code better than using a rb library like EventMachine? Or is there another benefit of node.js that I didn't pick up?
Winning the race to irrelevance on the island of stapled paper merchants.
I wonder... if they say "However, these files are allocated before MongoDB starts accepting connections. You therefore have to wait whilst the OS creates ~37 2GB files for the logs." and then just run:

head -c 2146435072 /dev/zero > local.$i

Can it be lazily allocated by doing something like `open(); seek(2146435072); write("\0");`. Is a sparse file required to return "0" when reading empty places? (or does it just happen very often)
Doesn't this prevent anyone from whitelisting your code in NoScript? As a user, how could I ever know that you've reviewed what the CDN is serving right now? ECMAScript sandboxes are not nearly good enough yet to run untrustworthy code.
a. Where is the assurance that the labor is voluntary?

Going to school is rarely voluntary, given an option they will opt out too, so what's your point?
The book Googled discusses all this in depth.

My personal opinion is that news will become a utility, like electricity or water, payed for with taxes.
as daniel notes, this really started on HN with the hacker stories. unfortunately the naturally contrarian nature of the HN demographic led to some over-zealousness on the AGW skepticism. your response is understandable. I just think that any serious discussion of GW delves too much into economics and any lightweight discussion delves too much into politics.
I guess it's impossible to create a real test, but at least they should have some numbers? I don't know enough about the gaming industry. Maybe if it sells well, it could either be because it is one of the rare hit items, or because of the reduced piracy. Or maybe they could see some obvious deviation from the sales of "normal" games.
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No, America just winds up also buying much better and cheaper automobiles.
I'm currently using MongoDB for a new system. I'm glad to see them reporting such a good experience at that scale. My deployment won't be anywhere near as large, so it's very encouraging. It will probably continue to run in a screen session like they say they did initially :).
1) People are driven to accumulate achievements.
2) People are a bit confused about which ones lead to their long term happiness and prosperity, and which don't.
3) Owners of a service can increase the stickiness of their service by embedding an achievement system.
4) Are the service owner's goals aligned with yours? Partially, but not in a deep sense.

It all highlights the need for improvements in our psychological defense kit needed for modern society, along with for example, general awareness of how marketing functions to manipulate us (another thing with good and bad).
Who would require them to be insured if there were no government?
Did anyone write a solution? I wrote one for fun (not looking for a job) and am interested in comparing findings. Here's the biggest ring I found (assuming there isn't some huge flaw in my code):

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The reason Apple uses Chinese suppliers is because the Chinese are the only ones who can do the supplying. There is no other place to get a computer made. Apple could start a factory in the USA, but it would take 10 years to spin it up. Chinese labor would need to be imported because nobody in the USA has the right expertise.

The factories in the article are not Apple's. They are Chinese factories owned by Chinese companies run by Chinese people. This isn't old school imperialism. This is new school global trade. Apple already leans on the Chinese to clean up their labor practices, which is arguably more imperialistic behavior than doing business with them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the high speed of the CDN isn't the only (or even primary) benefit. In my opinion, browser caching is a much bigger plus. As soon as a user downloads one of these hosted libraries (by visiting a site that calls for it), their cache is primed for every other relying site they visit. Correct?

Assuming this is true, why would someone use the Google API Loader javascript call ("google.load") instead of linking to the file directly? Linking directly allows the browser to use its cache, while using google.load needs to make an external call to Google, bypassing a big benefit of the caching.
And could be (partially) negated by requiring western suppliers to demonstrate some kind of parity in their supply chain.
The methodology used by the Industrial Production Index is extremely problematic. Any index that uses Fisher price indexes introduces huge amounts of subjectivity. For instance, the decision to use an "overlap method" rather than a "direct comparison method" is subjective ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_index ). Choosing one method rather than the other can dramatically alter the resulting index. The result is that the index ends up replicating the assumptions and opinions of the index creators.
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http://laudyms.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/niall-ferguson-compl...
Unfortunately, the government has just as strong a history of protecting the thieves and pirates from competition as it does protecting others from them. Goldman and Enron are possible because of government intervention in their favor.
Very interesting, but it's far from having the features required for an actual web server. GET-only is very limiting, for obvious reasons, and I assume that this system of using a redis queue wouldn't work for file uploads without a lot of hackery? Or am I missing something?
> First, debating the stages of decline may be a waste of time -- it is a precipitous and unexpected fall that should most concern policymakers and citizens. Second, most imperial falls are associated with fiscal crises. All the above cases were marked by sharp imbalances between revenues and expenditures, as well as difficulties with financing public debt.

Long article that says little and manages to contradict the few points it makes. Read 'The Tipping Point' instead. If not, be prepared to read about a dozen different rephrasings of

>Defeat in the mountains of the Hindu Kush or on the plains of Mesopotamia has long been a harbinger of imperial fall.
That's brilliant - I just learned about this in class a few weeks ago where we saw 2d simulations. Thanks for posting.