skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A social network centred around libel? Sounds like a great idea.

Surprisingly, I was able to find the first person I searched for. However, all of his reviews were very negative, and pretty far from the truth.

I tried to use the categories to find more people, but they're sorted alphabetically, with no option to narrow it down to a city, or anything else. I don't really care to blindly search through 25000 professors.
Yeah, but services these days that are announcing the usage of a NoSql storage aren't doing any machine learning, they are just storing comments, tags and relationships.
Good code needs few unit tests
not if linq is constructing the queries, according to the article, which i think is what we were discussing.
This is pretty much what Nassim Taleb alluded to in "The Black Swan": relying on Gaussian-based models for phenomena that fall in "extremistan" instead of "mediocristan" when Mandelbrotian-based (more fractal like) is dangerous.

Looks like this has already been extensively discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=811864
Embracing the Anthropocene
> Why is a purposefully acquired taste superior to one that didn't require effort?

Some songs are instantly likable, often because they are simple and their hooks are easily grasped. I would compare them to children's songs. You know the tune and words, and may find it fun to sing along with once in a while, but as an adult, you're not going to get anything deep out of "Row Row Row Your Boat" over the long run. Enjoyment tends to decrease with time and exposure.

Other songs are not instantly likable, but as you get to know them, they reveal wonderful, joyous tidbits and layers, and your enjoyment grows with time and discovery. They are not so simple as to be grasped immediately; they must be learned and examined, just like any other advanced subject.

There is nothing wrong with popular, easy art, and it's not really a matter of acquired tastes being superior, just that acquired tastes can ultimately be far more rewarding to the individual, as they provide lasting, increasing reward in exchange for your effort and attention.
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I'm not comparing The Fame Monster to the Diabelli variations.

She's (very) commercially successful -- her revenues have surely long since eclipsed the entire D&B economy totalled over time.

Among commercially-successful acts, her product happens to be a lot more richly constructed than the competition. But the Mac isn't loved for it's BSD kernel -- it's the complete package. Gaga's success should be instructive to anyone hoping to make a splash in any industry.
I've more or less stopped paying attention to favicons ever since I started using chrome because they don't show up on the URL bar anymore. They're still there on bookmarks, true, but I basically don't use bookmarks anymore either. And most of my bookmarks bar is full of js bookmarklets (like Readability) that don't have favicons anyway.
Jazz as a genre is more complex than virtually any other genre of music. It employs more subtle and more complex harmonies which are usually not used anywhere else, neither are seen in music textbooks. Plus improvisation which essentially is composing on the fly - something not every musician is capable of keeping up and not every listener is capable of understanding. In other words (and this shouldn't be news) jazz is a language that you need to learn in order to enjoy it. That's the point of the article.

(Some parts of jazz though are pretty "accessible", such as Billie and Nina, but if you forget about the lyrics and the emotional side of their art and leave only the music, that for the most part wouldn't be a good example of jazz.)
the article gives an example of how to do compiled queries. which strongly implies that "ordinary" linq queries are not compiled as you seem to expect.
Never talk to police. Never ever ever. Back in high school, I broke up a fight. I came between two people and stopped them from duking it out. A nice, kind, female police officer started talking to me. She asked me how old I was. I replied that I was 18 (Ontario had 13 grades at the time and I was in OAC, the last grade). She then asked me if I'd laid a hand on any of the people. I said, "yes I pulled back my friend and separated them". She then warned me that I could be charged for assault and tried as an adult. At first I thought she was joking, so I kind of chuckled, but she let the thought linger over my head while I tried to figure out what she was getting at. What she really wanted me to do was play along with the report of how things went down, which I'd disagreed with. I quickly weighed the options, determined that no charges would be laid if we just helped this officer out and kept her paper work to the minimum, and went along... Not my proudest moment, but perhaps quite smart.

What's my point? You think you know what you're going to do in a situation like that, but the police hold all the cards. Things can escalate uncontrollably. All you need is a peace officer having a bad day (e.g., maybe the wife yelled at him earlier in the day) for things to get really bad. I've seen people get picked on by police when they literally didn't do anything except ask "Why?" and often in a polite way. It's quite possible that the author really is the victim here. It's certainly more plausible than the border guard's story. When crossing the U.S. border, I'm terrified to even wish them a good morning/afternoon. They're terribly rude, uneducated, and a freaking embarrassment to the U.S..
Unconscionable.
Not all people are like you.
I don't know, the fusion with hip hop has brought out huge crowds of young people over the past couple years to jazz gigs here in NYC. Chris Dave has an unmistakable J Dilla influence in his music -- this show was packed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6C6higMMMM

You don't necessarily need to go back to swing like Wynton does to get people interested in the music again. We forget that jazz standards were pop tunes back in the day, so it's nice to hear young guys now playing Bjork arrangements or KRS-One tracks.
Actually it's very simple. If you don't need children don't make them. I measured it once and storing stuff in attributes had ~10 times faster parsing in MSXML.
This reminds me -- I never look for my e-tickets in my email. I just show up at the airport and print it there.

I have never needed email to fly on an airplane.
Yes. Start with "analysis.c" --- the code in their works with completed request/response pairs. Look for "scrape_response()". Note how the strcspn's and pointer math approximate simple, unrolled regular expressions.

The database code (the "pivot tree") is a bit tangley as a data structure.

http_client.c has really tight URL parsing code.

This isn't written in a very modern style (I like that about it, though). For instance, look at "check_for_stuff()", which implements basic content sniffing. In a modern C program, you'd probably see an array of structs containing function pointers and names, each pointing to a tiny function looking for a different bit of content. Here it's one big unrolled function. Likewise, modern C code would probably just regex the HTML responses instead of hand-coding HTML parsing. But on the other hand this actually exists and works, and that's a good goal to have too.

The I/O loop in Skipfish is definitely the right way to do network programming in C. This program is simpler and faster because it doesn't waste time with threads. But if you do something similar, use libevent.
If you like hard sci-fi and haven't read Watts's novel Blindsight, I highly recommend it. It's the only sci-fi story I've read that has dozens of footnotes referencing real papers published in real journals. On the Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness, it's aggregated diamond nanorod.

The book is CC-NC-SA licensed and available for free online: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

It's also published in real paperback form: http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640/
One on One: Christopher Poole, Founder of 4chan
An interview with Christopher "Moot" Poole, founder of 4Chan.
Top Tips Hiding Figure Flaws Through Dresses
Oh, you're not in the US? Nevermind.

(Hint: you do not need an ID in the US. It's annoying if you don't have one, but the TSA has procedures for this case. The airline may want an ID if you don't pre-print your boarding pass or want to check a bag. But they are going to be more flexible about things not matching, as they actually have a customer to lose if they fuck you over.)
I still don't see how this is going to work. Are we really supposed to test our apps in a buggy pre-release simulator and just hope it works on a real device when people purchase it on the App Store?
River2 connects to the public web through Dropbox
If anyone wants to use 80legs for this challenge, just drop us a line at http://www.80legs.com/contact.html. We might be able to set up some custom free plans.
The author makes a good point, but how many ways are there to enter phone numbers/credit card numbers/dates? Can't these sites be a little flexible?
Data Visualization: Economic Upswing
Tell HN: Friendly tip: Include upgrade option from sign up page.
We just re-designed our website and added the option of signing up directly to our paid plan Whoo! from the sign up page:

See: http://carbonmade.com/signup

Previously you had to sign up for a Meh account before upgrading to Whoo! Now just about 50% of new Whoo! accounts come from people signing up directly from the sign up page rather than upgrading from Meh.
It's more a question of whether you even continue to validate the number at that point; personally I'd choose not to since you already know something's wrong. Hence I treat it as a short-circuit validation trick.
This is excellent: it starts with general publicity guidelines and methods, and then spends a lot of time on what has to be the most difficult type, dealing with a security vulnerability. For that it covers everything, what to do and not do and when, etc.

Highly recommended.
Simple to build, just make sure you grab libidn:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.18.tar.gz

It also defaults to white text, so set your terminal background to black.
How to disappear in America without a trace
Sandra Bullock And Jesse James
Perfect timing - I've been playing around with arcade-style games in Clojure, trying to get them to work as applets.
The wiki page has more information and is on the Google code site.

I'll just delete this since the other thread has more informative comments.
Why Google Should Buy Palm
I was just wondering if we can extend this to any field. Is it true that every field will have its standouts and then a lot of mediocre members that dilute the image for everyone else?

I think the problem is that the barrier to entry is so low in a lot of technical fields right now because demand is high. Companies are willing to hire a lot of mediocre programmers (or outsource to places of questionable quality) because they simply need something and the cost of failure is not catastrophic.

On the other hand, medicine and law have high barriers to entry, and you would be considered a fool to hire a doctor or lawyer who did not have the appropriate degrees, certifications, and licenses. This is not true with technology these days.

It's like the programming industry doesn't even have a bar to jump over.
Which static site generators did you evaluate, and which did you end up choosing?
can't you do that with a laptop?
Fnid, very good write-up. For sales, I heard from a Harvard Business School study that good sales people enjoy rejection, or at least turning rejection into positive feeling. There are 100s of rejections for 1 good sales. Good sales organizations have been trying to foster environments that celebrate rejection and make it seems normal. So for those "people don't get it" encounters you have, just view them as a mild rejection and move on to next prospect.
So someone who makes a competing method of building iPhone apps writes that Apple could ban Adobe, then pitches their own...
This issue has been addressed for compiled code (don't know anything about IronRuby, though). There are a bunch of tricks, like frequently checking the dongle, decrypting code before using it, etc.

And for a time-based license you'll need a dongle with a clock in it to prevent the simple workaround of setting the clock (and general system state, etc.) back in time.
I live in Chicaog, and I don't think you can make Lake Michigan rise 160ft. Not enough liquid.

We do have an interesting phenomenon called the "seiche":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiche

A thunderstorm moving west-to-east across the lake blows water towards the east side. It piles up there and is "held" by the force of the outflow of the thunderstorm. After the thunderstorm moves by, there is no force holding the water on the east side of the lake anymore, so the level tries to equalize. The result is that the lake level rises in Chicago, and then falls, and then rises, as the level reaches equilibrium.

The most I have personally observed is about a 1 foot change. Mildly amusing, but again -- one day I am going to die, and it's not going to be because of this :)
Good design =! many images

Minimalist search pages can look better than Google’s without being any bigger.
The Betty Crocker Secret to Keeping your Email List Hungry for More . . .
Is it sour grapes to complain that on multiple occasions that Google recruiters have contacted me unsolicited? That they've told me that "A Googler recommended you for an open position?" That they couldn't identify the person or the position or the reason for the recommendation? That they knew nothing about me or what I know or have done and can do? That they promised to ask the recommender for more details and talk to me again? That they've disappeared for several weeks and then said "Let's just go through the normal interview process and figure out where to put you?"

At least the much maligned headhunters (sorry, "IT Recruiters") are more honest about their intentions.

This has happened multiple times, every one unsolicited. I'm sure it'll happen again in 12 to 18 months.
I don’t like that you’re drawing a line between talent and education.

I would probably arrogantly classify myself as someone with a “good ear” but because of my experiences with different music and musicians. I often say people think too much when they listen to music when they need to just take it in. But if I didn’t have the same exposure to the music world, I know I wouldn’t be able to do that.

I’m sure the same thing applies to anything you can call art.
FSF is all about ideology. More or less it says that, since digital information can be duplicated at negligible cost, it should be freely distributed with little or no restriction.

I don't think it is appropriate. We are already undervalued enough for people to get the fruit of our work for free, no strings attached. My personal take is that open source licenses should make distribution of anything but source code illegal. Want binaries? You pay for them and get a regular commercial license. Don't want to pay me for that? Hire a fellow programmer to build my code for you and I am ok with that (as long as you do not distribute the binaries).
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The point doesn't follow from the headline. The argument isn't that unit tests are bad per se, it's that good code has fewer testable abstractions, and thus requires fewer unit tests.

Which is basically isomorphic to "good code is tight code". Duh.
Not enough data types in CL or Scheme's reader (Clojure wins here) and no standard between the lisps.

But, there was something Lisp did right that no other mainstream scripting language has - it separated the reader and the evaluator. You can eval Perl or Ruby or Python, but not securely read it. This goes for Javascript too - you can eval a JSON, but you'd be an idiot.
I had no intention to offend and I am sorry if I did. It was not, however, gratuitous. Religion is something you must seek and imposing a religion upon kids (or merely teaching it as if it were the truth - or worse yet: that there is a truth) may damage them for life.
A Rosetta Stone for jQuery & YUI3
I don't see how Adobe would be any different from MonoTouch or the Unity Game Framework. Given those apps are allowed I don't see how Apple could reasonably ban Flash apps (other than "to further hurt Adobe")

I guess there is a danger for developers in that they could spend time on their app only to have Apple arbitrarily decide to ban all Flash apps. But the question is whether that danger is any bigger than the danger of Apple arbitrarily banning your app for some other benign reason.
Not hell, merely irrelevance.

The web standards (SVG, SMIL, etc.) are far more important. Having something that multiple parties are free to implement means that the problem space can be searched in parallel and much more efficiently.
> With all that said this is not really a topic worthy of a forum like this. :)

Unless we find a way to hack religion to suit our purposes ;-)
I mean this is in 2003 though. 100,000 page views a day is practically nothing. If he said that in 2006+ it would've been a bit different.
In fairness their product runs on OSX so it wouldn't be subject to the same issues. It does seem kind of underhanded in a way but they made disclosures so I'm not sure you can hold it against them.
But if you do test driven development then aren't you forced into testable abstractions?
I think we're hitting some browser cache issue. Could you try force-reloading everything? My graph shows the numbers I mentioned above. Maybe the old version showed something different (if I wget the image without any caching, I still get MP: 0.11s, PB: 0.47s, JSON: 1.2s)
heroku's awesome but the lack of minute or five minute cron is dealbreaker for me, thus i need my own servers to be able to schedule mailings
I used to have mine set at two minutes, but recently changed it to one. I found that I edit pretty hard for the first 2-3 minutes after submitting, but all the major changes come in the first minute, and whenever I reconsider and delete it's almost immediately.
That would not prevent him from being jailed for murder.
There is a big difference between not believing in any god, and actively fighting/repressing those who do.

If you don't want to do any sports, it's fine. If you want to stop other people that fancy playing sports, then you just got yourself a sport.
A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas
I don't think they are. I've mentioned it to my nerdy friends (who would be more inclined to know about these things) and THEY don't even know.
A Tale of Two Startups
Location Isn’t A War Between Two Sides, It’s A Gold Rush For Everyone
How Cheap Could Computing Get: Free? NComputing Thinks So
The argument is that good code [...] requires fewer unit tests

Great point, my mistake. Title and headline updated (was: Good code has few unit tests). I really wish it were "duh", but measuring code quality by "unit tests per line" [1] is frighteningly common, and seductive in its simplicity and intuition.

1. Not necessarily directly. It might be in the form of "I'll add more unit tests to improve this code" (unit tests either cover an interface or they don't; going in to 'add more unit tests' to 'improve' code means you didn't define a clear enough interface to begin with). Or "our open source project has more unit tests than another" (but I won't point fingers).
What you say is that the fantasy that god X exists is real and has measurable effects. Like software, it's not the software that makes the computer run, but its manifestation in electrical charges their representation creates in the processor's data lines.
does that get reflected on more month-to-month sales?
notifications are auto-fetched when you open the app, they just have to load from the server (all iphone apps must abide by this for now, until background apps are allowed). the "pull down to refresh" is there for obsessive people who feel like they must constantly refresh to get info.

I know there are a bunch of unpolished aspects, but that is part of the "release early" mentality. This app will get tons of iteration.
Indie Dev Rants About App Store at GDC, Apple Pulls Game
I was a bit confused about this as well. The DB builds a query plan from the SQL. Linq builds an SQL query, so they're two parts in a chain, not interchangeable.

The confusion seems to come from "preprocessing" the query twice. LINQ adds another layer of preprocessing.
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Most patients with chronic hepatitis B infection will be positive for hepatitis B surface antigen. Hepatitis B surface antigen is on the viral coat, and its presence in blood implies that the patient is infected.
> Music is entertainment and emotions.

If that's the case, then I'd say that in WWF vs music, WWF wins every time!

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you think all post-renaissance painting is shit, too.
I love this piece "You need to move past the mindset that location is the feature. Build products under the assumption that you have a user’s location and that you can use the social plumbing we’ve been building for the last nine years."
I posted it because there have been comments here on HN about your eye patch. To me that made your post relevant.
Put differently: if the goal is making money, lisp is frequently not the best choice.
Apple's competitors have always had them beat on the spec sheet. It's the user experience they can never match.
While I appreciate the sentiment of the article, and I agree that drawing is of the "1st degree" (I also believe speech to be of the first degree) a mistake is made here about the nature of drawing. Some of the argument falls apart when you realize that act of drawing is not simply a question of representation. There's a whole world to drawing which is about things which do not exist, or rather those things which have no being outside of our thoughts. Or drawing a scene which shows more than could be experienced in real life- thus the beauty of many old, old drawings as well as a great deal of contemporary ones.
Ahh...sorry :(, I submitted this from my RSS reader site...the domain should be fast company, not google. Fast company uses feedproxy.google for their RSS feed...

Sorry.
Jekyll and nanoc3. We went with nanoc3, which was the first one we were able to get working right. I have very few preferences other than "want Ruby" and "must actually work".
Nolo press publishes a lot of good books for people who want to learn about various laws:

http://www.nolo.com/
Back in the day people would get up and shout when they felt the music. You guys need to give it to us on stage so we can give it back to you, it goes two ways

That's the main problem. Jazzmen are expecting their audience to make the show and only then, they will give them a show back. That should be the other way. Musician are there to make the show, then the audience connect with them and the show becomes a whole.
The difference being that Unity for iPhone requires Mac OS X (and builds an XCode project for deployment), and MonoTouch requires Mac OS X (though it handles the signing in its own IDE, if memory serves me right). This is more about Adobe potentially reverse-engineering the signing process to run on Windows, if I'm reading it correctly.
I think the term "pad" describes a product like this very well.

Apple was now first, but after the wePad, xPad, multiPad, netPad, etc., related names will just be other generic terms...
I'm using EyeTV with my Mac to view TV.

German company. Great products.
Creating Apps Just for Cars