skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s both mean and strange.

What possible gain could there be from excluding the UK and (seemingly) allowing access in continental Europe?
I got that too, but tried again and it was fine.
could it mean that some of the galaxies we see are entirely anti-matter galaxies? Woooo.
Yes. I'm sure there are others, but the most prominent is probably the wordpress app.
Probably the most useful piece of advice I've ever heard regarding this kind of discourse: A mediator friend of mine once told me to always attempt to briefly recap the other person's point before beginning a counter-argument. That way they know you heard what they said, and they have the opportunity to correct any inaccuracies before you get going.
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Hey thanks for posting this - it is great to get a reminder of these kind of upcoming events/challenges/contests :)
Ask HN: What's that storybook reading site featured on here?
A few months back there was a HN submission of a really slick story book reading site that a parent/grandfather could use to read to their child over the web and share the book reading experience. I can't seem to find it anymore but I want to recommend it to a friend.

Thanks
Can anyone explain me the value of URL shorteners? I never understood this "cool" trend... OK, they're useful for SMS (that's why it's so popular on Twitter), but what else ?
The byline for Backtrack Linux puts it best:

the quieter you are the more you are able to hear
Yes, but we've actually had to switch from threads to a fork() model for reliability reasons, in our main usage scenario.

Our C# software has to integrate with buggy third party C++ plugins which amongst other things may crash or completely fragment the address space (hello OutOfMemoryException when there is 1GB free).
Will it be possible to reverse the menu page's home and set it on the right-hand display... to accommodate lefthanded users?
Accusing Haskell of being "less advanced" because it actually exposes Monads to you and permits you to use them is very much like accusing C++ of lacking power vs. C because it permits you to overload the square brackets.

I addressed this a bit in a response to jrockway (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1170325), but wanted to make it clear here: my complain is not that monads are exposed, sugared up, and/or "allowed", because I think that's great - to the extent that we are "stuck in the IO Monad" in other languages, I agree, that is not a good thing. My problem is that (to some extent, at least) dealing directly with the pattern is necessary if we want to handle stateful computations, and it's less convenient than simply writing the computation naturally, with state.

My accusation (and I know it's not a new one by any means) is merely that Haskell artificially limits its expressive ability and that state monads are a workaround, not that all monad usages are a problem (or even a symptom).
Is it "login" or "logon"? Boondoggle debate.
(not trying to start a fight, just pointing out) note that my point implies all private communication as well. Cookies, email, chat transcripts.
Why the iPad will take some time to really take off
IIRC, (a version of) The Daily Show is broadcast on UK television. We wouldn't want competition now, would we?
Yea this article really backfired. I was considering relocating to do a startup in NYC from here in LA and now I'm really turned off.

I mean I had an entire 2BR house to myself with a yard and a garden and a deck, with a full kitchen in the middle of the city 10 min drive from Downtown, Hollywood for $1500 a month.

Also it doesn't snow here.

Moving to NYC where the only way to save a buck is to get a studio apartment with no kitchen or heat is really making me rethink this NYC thing..
The title of the article (not this post) is outrageous! "Cat Parasite Affects Everything We Feel and Do"

Even the content of the article itself disagrees with the title:

"He's not suggesting that it's a big player in cultural evolution. Lots of other things are more powerful, ranging from geography to weather to the availability of natural resources."

And that's the "popular account". Consider what the actual research paper probably said. Reminds me of this comic:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/files/2009/05...

Side comment: This is a bit of old news (2006).
I need independent verification before I can believe such an improbable study.
Throw in some sweeping generalizations based on your high school experience, find a way to tie it in to Lisp, and you might even make a career out of it.
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Tin foil hatted.
Django-cachebot: Automated caching and invalidation for Django
duplicate

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=789517
Article headline is ridiculously overstated. How about: "Cat Parasite Has Some Odd Psychological Effects In People Who Are Infected By It, And So Probably Had Some Minor Influence On Cultural Evolution, Which Isn't Really All That Surprising, If You Think About It".
He's a genius. Read his Soprano's recaps for Slate from a few years back: http://www.slate.com/id/2163797/entry/2163798/
According to Evelyn Waugh, the truly elite (Ronald Knox was his example) refer to the OED as "Murray's".
You can, but then it's stuck in drive/neutral. Seeing that the brakes and neutral are still operable, it should not be an issue. I don't even know why people are being advised to turn off the ignition. Shifting to neutral while braking reduces the load on the engine.
Not wanting to be a pedant, but I think the exact quote is "ChatRoulette is like Russian roulette, but five of the chambers are filled with cock."

Regular roulette doesn't involve a gun and chambers... unless you run up gambling debts to shady people, I guess.
Some people shouldn't have children.

Mind, how many people will focus on the ginned-up irony of this story and not even think of all the children who died from parental abuse in those three months?
Is anyone working on a reMail "clone" for the ipad? Could be a fun little project.
Yes, most recently with GUIs where the the graphical bits can't just sit there. Work-related but hardly enterprise.
QR - Easy Redis queues with Python
I agree with you - some patterns, like functions (yes, we're really starting to stretch the word "pattern" here...), appear because they are symptoms of good design. Sometimes, maybe even most of the time, monads appear as symptoms of good design, as well.

But sometimes they appear as workarounds for language limitations, and that's where we run into trouble. I feel like most pure languages in any paradigm run into this problem a lot, and it's why I vastly prefer mixed languages.

I don't know that I fully agree with what plinkplonk says; I don't really think monads or type classes should disappear in "better" languages, because they are very powerful tools to have in the box. I'm just concerned that in Haskell, because those powerful tools are there and relatively painless to use, other tools that have many fine uses have been pulled out, and the language loses expressive ability as a result.
Yahoo Graffitti is a similar game
http://games.yahoo.com/games/rules/graffiti/rules.html?page=...
The thing is, though, that people expect the inclusion of "I think" even when what you're stating is _obviously_ an opinion.

The statement "The world was created 6k years ago" could be a scientific/objective truth. So by adding "I think" people won't feel like a fool by disagreeing with you (otherwise they might be unknowingly disagreeing with a fact). On the other hand a statement like "Redheads are hot" is obviously an opinion. Prefacing that with "I think redheads are hot" sounds unnecessarily insecure to me, but I suspect most people would add the "I think" qualifier anyway.

I don't think it makes sense that a statement like "tomatoes are gross" is more threatening than "I think tomatoes are gross", but it might very well be the case.

On a tangent, I find that when people say something that I know to be (objectively) wrong, I tend to correct them by prefacing my opinion with "I think...", or "I heard that...", or "I read somewhere that...", and I always end my disagreement with a (tonal) question mark. Even when I make a statement or correct somebody, ending with a higher pitch (question mark style) works wonders to avoid offense.
Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral
It's not - it was an option during sign up. It's just useful in case they have new features in the future and need to reanalyze your sample you won't need to send in a saliva sample again.
Good idea, particularly since it appears they got Mixergy's blessing, but I found one of the things refreshing about Mixergy was it does do is demand your full, sustained attention. After a few years of living in micro-media world, I've found podcasts, talks and even (shh) dead-tree books are the best way for me to actually learn something, rather than just feel like I'm learning something. What's your retention rate on all those top 10 bulleted lists? Yeah, mine too.

Still, a great service for deciding which talks to actually listen to :)
um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying.

"See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."

<sigh>
If you do it and get up voted the second time than it is ethical. Otherwise, it is unethical.

Seriously though, there should be a system where you lose points for every submit that doesn't get any up vote. If you really believe your story is interesting, you should be allowed to risk losing points as long as you want... until you run out of points.
It certainly seems that the NoSQL movement is largely fueled by two facts:
1. MySQL sucks
2. Oracle is expensive

I'd love to see Postgresql get more attention, as I feel that they have scaling up and scaling out handled fairly well, whereas MySQL/InnoDB has a hard time even scaling up (which is why the Drizzle project even exists).
I find the second statement to be nonsensical because it is written like a fact, but can't be proven or disproven. Why do people speak like this?
I've looked on the Clojure website, and I can't seem to find documentation on Clojure's default syntax for pre- and post-conditions. Can anyone point me to it?
Cless Alvein said it well:

http://alvanista.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/black-and-white-pa...
RH: Productivity comes from being able to focus. Interactive development environments (REPLs etc) help you focus, by letting you try things immediately.

This couldn't be more true and becomes clearly apparent when moving from languages that require compile-deploy-run cycles.
In the UK, purchases shoot up in March as people make up their allowances and budgets before the new tax year (which starts April 6) :-)
Nice chance for some free advertising there. Maybe they should kill their software more often?
While it is easy to say "put it in neutral", this is not quite a simple as it once was. With the popular serpentine shift patterns on modern cars a lot of people are surprised to find that neutral is no longer just a spot on the transition path between park and drive. To take a frequently cited example, the ES350 whose stuck accelerator killed a CHP officer and his family has a shift pattern that makes getting into neutral a bit more tricky than you suggest (particularly when you are shooting down the road at over 140 feet per second.) The driver response to these incidents may factor in to some of the problems and the fact that Toyota is the company with a problem may have politicized some of the government response, but to suggest that the solution was as simple as you claim reveals a profound ignorance of the facts at hand.
Ah, good point. I'm personally used to zsh, which doesn't have that particular misfeature.
Or this comic:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1623
I wonder how long it will be before they offer a combined option that includes an iPhone developer certificate and access to prerelease software on both platforms. Surely they'd want developers to feed both ecosystems by building great Mac apps that come with mobile companions.
Not everyone will steal your idea
That's why I prefer Ruby over Python. It unifies loops and iterators using closures. At the same time the syntax "pretends" to be simple so that you can start using Ruby straight away without having to understand continuations and closures. But I think a language which manages to hide the complexity of monads without removing them will blow Clojure out of the water.
And they've pushed back the UK release a whole month, to late April!

This is ridiculous. Now British iPad developers be a whole month behind most of their customer base (the US is the biggest market even for most UK developers)! Can't Apple at least find a way to get iPads into the hands of the many developers over here, even if regular users wouldn't be supported?

We're being held back weeks for no good reason and will have to organize getting them sent via intermediaries or hop on a plane to pick some up.. which is a crazy, unnecessary waste of money. As such, we'll miss out on being early on the iPad App Store which is a massive disadvantage. Poorly played, Apple.
FTA top of p.7:

Jones: We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.

Is there an argument to be made that someone having done vast amounts of work in an area gets to claim ownership rights? If so, is that still science?
I believe there is a distinction between acting in a way to meet expectations, and acting in some way to gain attention. You seem to be speaking of the latter in your last post, and of the former in the one prior.
Unavailable in Canada.
Flash exports to HTML Canvas and JavaScript via Dreamweaver
We had a problem in one of our data centers and as the service migrated we threw some 502s. It's okay now, I'm hearing. Sorry bout that!
As fascinating as I find the work Chris is doing and writing about over at the OkCupid blog, I've been pretty disappointed by his willingness to use all that data to "objectify" in demeaning ways (calling people ranked low in his attractiveness scales "hideous", the poor-black-women thing, etc). Thanks, Coates, for the welcome critique.
I see no reason why they can't be both, evil and morons. :-)
I'm seeing it fine in the UK. There's a bit of firefox configuration to do first, but I got around to that a few months ago, then forgot about it - it just works now. You can probably find it if you google.
SAGE Electrochromics Gets $100+ Million to Manufacture Dynamically Tinted Glass
You are an optimist.

Windows Mobile, under various names, has been under development since the late 90's. Microsoft had more than a decade to come out with a usable product and failed in that regard year after year after year. If Windows Mobile 7 turns out to be usable, I will start believing in miracles.
Seeing as how the government is in charge of setting the safety standards for the nations interstate highways and is responsible (via the NHTSA) for regulating the safety of cars on the road I am wondering how in the world you would not think this is the sort of thing Congress should investigate? If you are looking for a specific justification, examine the commerce clause of the us constitution.
Where I am (Sweden) the full episodes are locked, but the partial clips are free.
You can also expect to win the lottery. A couple times. In a row.
The Benefits of Exercise on the Skin & Best Ways Exercise Benefits the Skin
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste...
Yes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.
It's funny to me that the article frames it this way. I understand the comment = opinion perspective now, but I grew up saying "I think" a lot for a different nerdy rationale: I considered my statements to be like logical propositions, and there's almost nothing you can be totally sure about, so why wouldn't you qualify? Otherwise you risk making false claims unnecessarily, which undermines the system we're building.
That seems like it would discourage novel content. People would be less willing to risk points on something they're not sure will be voted up.
In spite of all the hate IE gets, I have to concede that their developers are rather decent people. I'm sure the cake [1] they sent to Mozilla was a gesture of honest goodwill.

[1] http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=24004
Looks awesome on video, but that isn't surprising. Who would make an ad which wouldn't make their product look awesome?

ps. @2:55 on the second video: IE6 just doesn't stay dead
I'm surprised the IE team hasn't made more progress considering the easygoing attitude they express with these antics including that cake they sent to Mozilla for FF3. I guess being fun doesn't necessarily mean your software will be too.
Redpoint Invests $4.4 Million In Fast Growing Posterous
Could content-range be used to get similar functionality for downloading without the server-side cgi?
New Urbanism
Top 5 iPad apps I’d pay good money for
I like this list. It's interesting how brain can see new meaning if you force yourself to connect a seemingly unrelated title to the body of the post. It kind of clicks with the philosophy of "love yourself".

See, if you love yourself you aren't an egotistical moron, you love yourself too much to let that happen. If you love yourself you won't let yourself be in position of being any type of jerk, etc. Because as opposed to admiring yourself, loving yourself goes a long way, much further than vanity.

So the guy basically provides actions which will indirectly make you happy after a bunch of ricocheting off of others. These are subtle details that do create overall appearance, image. It's like they say - you only need to cover hands, neck, and head to stop feeling cold.

For more direct effects on happiness I would pick #2 (be yourself), #7 (do not seek spotlight), #8 (criticism), and number #11 (be happy). The last one is a bit absurd, but think about it - happiness is a cause, not an effect. Instead of achieving it, better to force it on yourself in advance, then everything else will come. In fact that's the /only/ way it works.
1) That's an interesting opinion. Got any proof?

2) Maybe they should, but they clearly don't.

3) Yes, they are poorly socialised. There may be many reasons for this, including built-in brain differences.

4) Most people, from what I can tell, is much better socially skilled than they are mathematically.
Wouldn't shifting to neutral make the engine rev up really high? Does the computer limit the RPMs to prevent damage?
Home Made Solar Charger for the Nokia N900
Here's some info from wikipedia in case you're wondering what the XKCD strip is about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
At the same time, if you think your novel content is not likely to get up voted, why would you post it ?

Ideally, I would like to see a StackOverflow-like karma system on HN. For instance, let's say you get X points for every up vote, it wouldn't be that scary to lose X/2 points for submitting a story that doesn't get up voted but yet, you would think about it twice.
Looks like they're blocking predominantly English-speaking countries.
Easy for them to laugh - they don't have implement IE6 workarounds.
Book Titles: Men, Women and the Words that they Choose
Well, the edit was technically part of the joke. I may have to wait for 2012 to get my medal, but thank you.
"User Experience" is becoming such a buzzword.

I remember back when the "UX" guy was a freaking human-computer interaction psychologist who did lab testing...
For better or worse, "beware the coming fascism/totalitarianism" seems to be a topic that consistently gets upvoted here. Extra points if it involves IP.
Down voted for suggesting empathy?

Amazing.
It's by-definition kind of hard to know when something is geo-locked if you can see it just fine.
http://www.groupboard.com/products/

Oh the memories. :D
It would be very difficult to evaluate Toyota stock. This kind of media events can warp public opinion about a company for a long time. I think it would be very hard to put number to this. I would bet that even if tomorrow the government comes out and says "oops, my bad, everything is fine" you wouldn't see a sudden reversal.
Depends on how you look at it. I work on an internal CMS that has <100 users but powers large websites serving millions. The app is internal but the product goes to the external-facing websites.
Thanks Gabor (et al)! This is fun to look through.

I'm loling at the BuccheitTimer.
Heroku now supports alternate deployment stacks (beta): REE 1.8.7 and MRI 1.9.1
Unless its to tell their friends "lol ur f0x0red"!

Nah, ok lets get a thread going on proxy mechanisms to help handelaar open up this website.
This is awesome. Hopefully this also makes Git easier to use on shared hosting, where setting up public git daemon or giving out ssh accounts would be out of question.
Comedy Central is broadcasting The Daily Show here in Germany. CNN, too. A crappy cut-together version, but still.
Correct - also, even with physical access it was an immense 100 hour effort to get the key.

I'm not frightened.
Mirrors instead of Reflection
> many nerds actually like being interrupted in mid-sentence when they're wrong

Not being interrupted in any kind of debate is TERRIBLE. It means the other guy will forget exactly what you said that he disagreed with. so then he'll argue with some vague memory of what you said. plus everything you said after the part where he disagreed is a waste of time.

i got into a big argument once because i wouldn't let someone finish their point b/c i knew they were going to forget what they said in the first half that was wrong and i didn't want to waste my time listening to the rest which was irrelevant.

> If nerds can master such arbitrarily complex things as the Linux operating and the complete rules of D&D, why can't they learn the rules of social norms?

Social norms actually are more complicated than D&D. There's more to know. If you actively play D&D for a year you could learn and remember all the rules. Learning all the social norms takes far longer -- even after your whole childhood including 4 years of high school very few people know all the norms, just most.
Sudden acceleration complaints by year/make
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1242358...

For model year 2009, Volkswagen had 11.5 complaints per 100k vehicles, whereas Toyota had 7.5 and BMW 5.8
Innocent question: Won't the server and client side code tend to be so different, they'll appear to be mutually exclusive? I understand that you're referring to basic concepts and syntax, but surely a lot of server side code simply won't execute in a browser's sandbox, correct?
That's why I toned it down -- I still thought it was cool, though. Apparently the parasite evolved by convincing rats that cats smell like fun, because it needs to make it to a cat's stomach to reproduce.
http://clojure.org/special_forms#Special%20Forms--%28fn%20na...

It's part of the fn form (and by extension defn).
IPad Application Design
I always thought that Mercurial was designed for simplicity and minimalism, while Git was desinged for feature completeness.

However, given the very late adoption of HTTP, and the extremely unsatisfactory implementation of "git pull", I wonder whether this is true anymore.
I just got back from Chile and, while I can't speak for the government incentives, I was very surprised at how developed it was for a South American country. Santiago's metro system put anything else I've ever seen to shame.

The landscape was strangely similar to California except it gets colder as you go South, and warmer as you go North. And yea, the surf was pretty awesome too.