skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if they do keyword blocking, but there is a lot of manual spam filtering via the 'flag' link.

Usually I check the profile of the user who submitted it to see how long they've been active and what their karma is before hitting 'flag'.
I should have just seen that this was from Huffington Post and not bothered clicking.
My goal is to do telecoms work in Antarctica. Let me know :)
I agree sliders would be overdoing it. But what about penny, nickel, dime, quarter options. Of course, they'd have to be abstracted for an international audience, but make it analogous to coinage, spare change, something tangible that people intuitively relate to. I agree that you don't want too many options. You want just enough flexibility.

I think a really innovative approach would be a pledge/rescind model. Let people freely pledge up front up to a certain liberal limit then present them with the registration, payment, tedious paperwork all at once after the fact. Let them welsh out on as many pledges as they want. What is a pledge that is later rescinded worth? Less than a penny obviously but more than nothing at all. I think most people would willingly agree to follow through on their donations even with given the opportunity to back out, if the details weren't too burdensome at the outset.

The problem with every microcurrency scheme I've come across is that it enforces the kind of rigid transactional exchanges that fit traditional commerce models when, with a little imagination, they could do very interesting things with the networking and computational possibilities available through the internet.
Any kind of club or casual sport would do. Bowling is my thing. Besides the fact that I love it and would do it all day long if I could, I have/get to talk to a lot of people there. I belong to two leagues and travel to tournaments once or twice a month.

I'm pretty sure if I didn't have bowling I wouldn't talk to anybody at all. There would be pressure to.
What would be the consequences if this is accurate? What assumptions are based on the size of a proton? What kind of technology was previously thought impossible because protons were just too darn big? Because (as a non-physicist) I can't think of anything.
In the long run, the amount of luck in poker approaches zero.
You know that table where you just have an id and a blob or text field? Start with that.
First thing I thought about after reading this was the robot waiter in Rocky IV.

While this is certainly very cool (and I would totally buy one just to play with if money was no object), I'm rather skeptical about how many of these things they're going to manage to sell - $15k is pretty steep for iChat on wheels.
The China Study (book) suggested that, almost universally, food from animals = bad, food from plants = good. I started reading it about a year ago and gave up a few chapters in because it came across as very selective in its facts, so I can't give the precise details.

The article (okay, I only read the summary at the end) suggests that, while the book has some legitimate points, much of it is very biased and selective reporting of the facts. Go figure.

tl;dr - Radical claims about nutrition are found to be somewhat exaggerated. Also, eating food causes cancer, so try not to do that.

(If anyone did actually read through the entire book and/or article, feel free to elaborate a bit)
Dating Outside Your Gene Pool: Fortune 500s And Startups Make The Perfect Match
My results for HN vs reddit:

Average over 10 runs: tie

HN: 1681ms / reddit: 1652ms
commanda, you're correct but you answered the wrong question, the poster wanted to know why have marriages at all and not why alimony exists :)
Your reasoning is based on a movie clip. However, I have a hunch that there are statistics that can back up your claim. My hunch, of course, is based on my current personal experience with undergraduate life, which indeed seems to be a large body of students taking college for the sake of taking college.
For this reason I don't see myself ever getting married. I can't even fully understand my childhood friend, how will I know if the women I married will not drastically change 10-15 years from now and use it against me knowing very well that the system is in her favor? There is nothing you can do, even a pre-nup is not safe.

Thanks to the divorce culture of USA, why would any sane person would want to get married?

For me the worst part of this case is that she was offered 80 million, 4 times more than what she was entitled for.... and she wants more?

Utterly despicable.
I love how that got down voted and the general amount of HIV fud in this thread - I actually do HIV research, I would know.

Most HIV people get infected by one strain, but it mutates so rapidly that in a single individual, multiple strains co exist at different levels (a major one and many, many lower levels ones).
Compare hiring a NW admin and system admin at ~$8k/mo. each. An MSP can provide you with a lot of servers / powerful servers before you even come close to spending $16k/mo. Choose your MSP carefully though. At a minimum consider the SAS70 report from several before choosing. That will 'cull the herd' of the MSPs who make claims and promises but don't back them up with verification from an independent auditor.
Very cool! My wishlist:

1. 360 degree camera (so I can walk in any direction without turning around)
2. 3D vision (in the operator interface!)
3. Wings, jet pack
4. Multiple lasers
5. Vuvezula
If you live with someone in a committed relationship for more than two years, your automatically entered into a common law marriage, even if you don't realize it. It's hard to avoid it if you want a relationship! How do common-law divorces work?
By most employer's definition of "master" ... NO !

As for what you produce in that first month, you'll throw it all away before the year is out. If you can avoid it, don't try to learn a new language and develop a new product with it.
It fairly common throughout all of canada. Probably in various countries in europe too.
They must. Every time I've submitted something from this site, it has instantaneously not been visible. Just did a test, and had the same result.

It's a shame because there are some articles that I think other HN readers would enjoy - not to mention the stuff I have in the pipeline.
Even becoming competent depends on the level of prior experience and knowledge. First time programmers ... not likely!
Linode (VPS)
MSNI (merchant)
Twilio
Pingdom
AWS
MailChimp
Comcast (build server resides in garage)
Have you been divorced and milked out of your hard earned money? If not, how would you know if it's worthed?
seriously.

+ is sooooooooooo 1600s, we should restandardize with ʮ for addition so that + strictly applies to string concatenation...
If you're feeling DIY, any classic xkcd comic could be printed and etched onto yer mug :-)
So the net of all this is that smart people think they're smart and dumb people think they're dumb. But smart people underestimate their smartness and dumb people underestimate their dumbness. Academia at it's finest. I feel dumb.
Varnish guy's hatred for autoconf
Get romantically married, but don't sign a contract with the government! By not singing some paperwork you can both avoid of alot of problems (but not all). Frame it like this: honey, I want to get married with you, not sign a business contract with you. Or I want to get married with you, not with the government too!
I would say it isn't just javascript, but Chrome in general. Animations of course are the most visibly noticeable effect of whatever is causing it. Might be the way it compartmentalizes it's processes/tabs and parallels just isn't as good at that sort of thing.

Safari and even IE run really well however.

I agree, the only way to really know how well your stuff will run is to run it on real hardware. I might have to look at VMware fusion again, maybe they are more accurate in this regard.
Going into the wilderness to meditate and attain nirvana. No I'm not joking. I've got a tent ready, I've read the Samyutta Nikaya (Connected Discourses of the Buddha), and I'm going to the Ansel Adams Wilderness near a stream, under a tree or overlooking a cliff.
Here's a contrary viewpoint:

Online gaming/gambling right now exists in an almost-perfect state of deregulation. This deregulation allows low-rake, low-vig games to flourish, and is IMO only reason why it's possible for consenting adults to play these games (online poker being the classic example) with positive expectation.

Regulation of online gambling will likely create games with 20%, 30%, and 40% vigs, as this is what a politician means when he says "regulate and tax". Most state lotteries currently extract around a 30-40% vig, meaning only 60-70% of the money going into the system is paid out as winnings. Other state-mandated games extract similarly huge percentages. Nobody complains because the money gets funneled into "education" or "public works", but state-mandated forms of gambling are far and away some of the most pernicious gambling instruments ever foisted on the public.

The endgame: if online gambling is ever widely regulated, the tax burdens and regulatory requirements imposed will be passed along to customers (who are mostly clueless about things like "rake" and "vig" anyway) and this will create a world in which the only available forms of real-money gaming on the net will be ones in which adults stare drooling at the screen, pressing pretty colored buttons in the futile hope that they can somehow "beat" a game which is now mathematically unbeatable.

I support the call for regulation. But anybody who thinks politicians like Barney Frank are going to protect low-rake, low-vig online gambling of any sort are likely going to be disappointed. Preserving a low rake isn't even on the menu.
having finished undergrad this June, I completely agree
This post title is trolling. The article is actually about a book that tries to criticize evolution in the way social "sciences" are made: a thick haze of theory and very scarce empirical data.

Might be interesting for those that think that social sciences are worth respect, in spite of their flaby methodologies.
I find it interesting but not to the extent its permeated conversation outside of psychology. I remember cognitive dissonance had a similar standing in pop psychology a while back.
I pay 19.99/month for 512 Mb, 16 Gb disk and 200Gb transfer with linode. I couldn't be happier with the performance I am getting.
Don't forget the green laser pointer.

I agree that this is way too expensive. I bet, just like the Segway, a lot of the money goes to keeping it on two wheels when a 4 wheel device would do just fine. I'd like to hear the economical justification that a company uses to buy this.
نتيجة الثانوية العامة 2010
More videos:

http://www.anybots.com/

http://anybots.com/#anyblog
Bing's homepage consistently loads faster for me too. But Google's search results tend to load faster.
I've had courses that have challenged me to study because either the topic was difficult or the professor was a researching mathematician who rambled in lecture.

However this article made me notice of a trend of having less free time: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/04/...

Personally, the culture outside of the classroom was that you had to be involved in many different things: work, clubs, career building, etc. Like studying itself would not make you a successful person. Is this forcing professors to make me study less? Am I gaining less knowledge because of it?

I wish I knew, but I'm too busy studying to know ;)

EDIT: Well to be honest, too busy surfing the internet instead of studying. Yes it's an addiction and an uphill battle to fight it, but it beats being addicted to WOW like my previous roommate. At least I have a small insight into the thinking of entrepreneur-ing hackers.
You can do that if you want straight As!
Same. Running a business is not easy, but it's the easiest way to get there IMO.

It takes like 5-10M in capital to make 10k/mo "safely" on a long term basis now, which rules out an investment-only strategy for almost everybody.
Thats a very good perspective (& attitude) to have. Go for it. My best wishes!!
Judging by your question, I am assuming you're planning on mastering one of the above said frameworks. If that's the case, the answer is yes (i.e. you're going to put in a non-trivial amount of time AND effort).

Here's how I did it the last time I tried something similar:
1) Grab a decent book with plenty of sample code that builds towards a working product. This way, you get to see the moving parts and the theory. For Rails, Hartl's railstutorial.org is excellent - you build a twitter clone. Their much older book RailsSpace is pretty good too. While you're at it, checkout tryruby.org.

2) After doing 1 above, now pick a project and get building quick. Use the sample code from above and tear it apart.

3) 1 and 2 works really well if you do it with someone who is already either proficient or interested enough in going through the exercise with you.

0) Well, 1-3 would go a lot smoother if you already know another language or two, some decent background with data structures. Of course, that's not necessary, but useful nonetheless.

4) Regardless of what happens, keep plowing ahead. You will hit random errors or whatever. Keep with your schedule - "Finish chapter 4-6 today or whatever" and soon enough you can definitely finish the book in a week or two. Then the following two weeks is where you will learn the most with your own project!

42) You definitely will know enough to do something non-trivial, but again mastery depends on your case. As a friend of mine says, "anyone can learn to spit out a few words together, but writing an elegant sentence (or solution) is not that easy always... same with programming"

Good luck!
Frankly, if you don't enjoy being called one, you shouldn't talk like one.

If I started talking like a racist, I think I'd have to expect some people to make assumptions about me, regardless of my actual feelings on the matter.

[Edit: grammar goofball]
Lua is a full programming language -- you can use it to write a complete application without depending on external third-party tools.

I usually take "scripting language" to mean "a language only suitable for combining pre-written components", since that seems to be the only useful definition. Other definitions are too broad (containing such languages as Python, Java, Haskell, and Forth) or too narrow (excluding QuakeScript, JavaScript, or Bash).

In particular, I refuse to call any language a "scripting language" merely because it uses dynamic typing, implicit compilation, or high-level concepts.
If the wealthier spouse ceases to be wealthier throughout the process (hypothetically, because of astronomical lawyer's fees), are the tables turned?
*Eastern Conference Championship.
Does http://apps.ycombinator.com/ work?
Additionally, I am disappointed that HNers have given upvotes to that comment. If you would actually look at the content of the article, you would find that it is well-researched, quality writing. This article was covered by several popular sites, including Jezebel.com.
Hackers and Founders is Co-hosting the meetup with WePay and MixPanel. So, we're handling dual reservation systems for the meetup, Both on Facebook and Meetup.com.

Hope to see you there.

~Jonathan, organizer http://hackersandfounders.com
The heart of physics right now are two theories that disagree with each other. One is Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which is about gravity. The other is called the Standard Model, which is about quantum mechanics. (The whole Higgs boson issue? That's about measuring the last unknown parameter in the Standard Model, which is the mass of the Higgs boson.)

The hope of physicists is to be able to find a theory that combines the two. Because they fundamentally disagree, we know that one or both, probably both, are both somewhat wrong, but we don't have any idea how and where the theories begin to fall apart. Therefore if we can find experiments which show problems, then we can get insight on what the problems are with the theory, and hopefully that will lead us to a better theory.

To draw a parallel, in the late 1800s it looked like physics was nearly done. The big problems were solved. The remaining discrepancies were small. And of what practical use was it to know more about the movement of light, why black body radiation didn't look like what theory said it should, and whether there was really such a thing as atoms? Yet the answers to those few small puzzles lead to world changing discoveries from nuclear power to transistors.

Nobody can tell you what is left to discover. Nobody can guess the power of unknown scientific theories. But through history, science has proved its worth repeatedly in outside proportions. Isn't the hope that this could happen again worth at least some resources?
It reminded me of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ppAM5aPXA
Bingo! If you're constantly pretending to be someone else, and doing things you despise, just for the chance of a date, of course you're miserable!

If you have no interests with many women in it, cultivate others. I used to be all code code code, and other nerdy endeavors, but that simply won't do. There is so much out there, surely you can discover something that suits your interest AND has a population of women?

I moved to Seattle about a year ago - so far as dating goes, this place is a bit of a wasteland (MANY single and desperate software folk here), and while I don't do anything specifically to meet women, I have no qualms about opting for some activities over others. Be yourself - be an optimized version of yourself.
That's some pretty pathetic collision avoidance, given that the website advertises "Its built-in guidance system takes care of the rest by avoiding furniture & people..."
"... This is in contrast to where I've actually had success with women in the past - amateur classical singing and opera. There the population is about 75% women, with many of the men being gay. There, I can get a taste of what dating is like for the rest of the world ..."

This is a very accurate observation. I remember reading a news article, "So You Think You Can Cancel Me?" ~ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/10/2815250.htm this year making the same claim.

"... Rock Eisteddfod didn't just provide emasculated nerds with an alternative to the Jock Eisteddfod that is competitive sport. It meant for a few blissful hours each week, we had the girls to ourselves. Girls who would dance. In tights. To a soundtrack of Jamiroquai. ..."
The kind of humour I enjoy includes dry self deprecation

Yeah, self-deprecating humor is definitely romantic death, I've kicked the habit over the years.

The reason I asked about interests is that 95% of my time is spent with interests that women find uninteresting - programming, reading history, reading economics, sports. Thus when I talk with women, I make sure to only talk about the 5% (design, architecture, society, relationships, psychology, travel) that women find interesting. In this way I am both authentic to myself ( I am genuinely interested in these topics), but also can make decent conversation.

I'm really not after help, though I recognize you and others would sincerely like to provide it.

I used to have a similar attitude to you, and similar droughts. So I feel oddly compelled to give the unsolicited advice that I wish someone had given me.

I have the personality of leader, and I'm going to develop myself into more of one, and women can just go to guys like you when they want to tingle and shit.

The arts of leadership are in many ways the arts of seduction.

make a ton more money and get a lot more power

All the best to you, but in the modern world this is one of the least efficient ways to try and find female companionship.
Maybe in 0.8 or 0.9, Jeremy? ;-) It could "solve" the "problem" of wrapping compiled code in anonymous functions and having to attach exports to `window`.
I apologize for taking so long to respond -- I needed to get to a point where I had the time to properly listen to and consider the video. (So I waited until it was time to shave. Laptops are wonderful. ;-)

I went into the video with an open but critical mind, and attempted to stay that way even as I realized that he was presenting a point of view which I would not usually agree with. So, while I think he presented some casually interesting points, I also find it curious that he seemed to be committing some of the very same errors which you are criticizing others in the scientific community for committing, as well as other errors which even I -- as a layman -- was able to catch.

It's entirely possible that his presentation is merely incomplete, and that he has good reasons for drawing the conclusions that he was presenting, and he merely couldn't present those reasons to a non-scientific audience. (Which would be pretty much my side of the argument in this thread, so I'm totally willing to accept that possibility.)

I won't devote the time to a point-by-point analysis of his presentation, unless you express enough interest in continuing this to make it worthwhile, but in short:

+ He completely -- and carefully -- ignores various geological records which go back many hundreds of thousands of years, and which have a high confidence of accuracy in the climatological community;

+ Those records do present a regular semi-chaotic rhythm reminiscent of a strange attractor, and our era appears to currently be the zenith of that rhythm;

+ And if those records are accurate, then current measurements exceed any previous maxima of the last many hundreds of thousands of years;

+ He seems for some reason to draw the analogy that the climate is correctly modeled as a chaotic system of some sort -- i.e., one which is extremely sensitive to initial conditions -- even though this is still a matter of debate within the climatological community;

+ While the Titanic may arguably be one example where taking no action may have resulted in a more favorable outcome, coming up with or inventing countless counter-examples is trivial, so this does not support his case at all;

+ His "gambling models" proposal is quite silly, if for no other reason than that one of the biggest unpredictable parts of the climate are related to human activity.

A lot of the rest of his presentation seems to be an argument-from-ignorance. I think he is framing the discussion in such a way as to suggest we have less information and less knowledge than we actually do, and then within that frame, he is arguing that we haven't the knowledge to decide what to do.

But I'll think about it some more.

EDIT: Funny, I pulled up a random-ish TED video (searched for "climate"), and ended up watching a 4-minute presentation which is pretty much exactly the point I've been trying to make: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/rachel_pike_the_science_be...
When Canada was still arguing about how to handle gay marriage, several Canadian politicians (both gay and straight) did, in fact, argue in favour of abolishing marriage as a legal institution. It was seen by many people at the time as a compromise position.
Ah, but all of your compiled code is already wrapped in a safety function. (perhaps that's what Trevor was referring to). As for attaching to exports or window, that's going to have to be something that you do by hand regardless. If everything is added to the exports, then there's no point in wrapping in the first place...
Have you been married to a wonderful spouse and had your life enriched beyond belief? If not, how would you know the risk is not worth it?
Work starts when I wake up and ends...well, frankly, lately I've been dreaming about my work. I used to have a day job, then I founded a startup, and now I'm contracting/consulting and taking on paying clients for Rails and iPhone work to pay the bills.

That said, I certainly get your point. Thanks for the encouragement.
For the physics geeks: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/43128