skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this compare with htmldoc?

http://www.htmldoc.org/
People should be clear if they want to do something academic or commercial. If you want your code to be "secret sauce", then don't publish in academic journals, write a memo to investors or customers. If you want to do science, publish and be open and testable. Scientific publication serves to communicate and spread ideas, not to gain "reputation points" you can then exchange for credibility in the marketplace.

On a less polemic note: To address the reproducibility of computational experiments, Andrew Davison presented his Sumatra project at Euroscipy 2010 (http://www.euroscipy.org/talk/1960). I thought I'd throw this in here as the OP's gripes are a problem in all of modern science, not just computer science. It's also a reminder that making the code available is but one element of the problem of reproducibility/falsifiability in modern science (though probably the biggest one).
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I don't get them confused, because I don't do sysad work.

I do, however, frequently frown at the similarly-named "createuser" command which (as I'm sure you guessed from the name) adds a user to a PostgreSQL database cluster.
It doesn't even work with style sheets. Can you specify what it works with?
When he said that he had just been voted out of office, and therefore perhaps not as enthusiastic about this whole "democracy" thing as he usually was.
Ask HN: Rate This Startup Idea - VerifyMyHIV.com
tl;dr - Free HIV tests for sex workers, paid for by their customers who can verify the results online.

The idea is to provide free HIV tests to sex-workers in clinics located in red-light areas. The result is given verbally, immediately. None of the workers personal details are recorded, except a clear photograph is taken. The worker is provided with two passwords. One password can be given to the worker's customers who can go online to verify the results for a fee (date of test, photograph, result). The other password can be used by the worker if they wish to delete the results.

I'm thinking of this idea in the context of Pattaya, Thailand. There are tens of thousands of sex-workers, male, female and transgendered, in a small geographical area. Many are not tested on a regular basis and don't have a way to reliably prove their HIV status. HIV tests are available locally for about $10 - this can be a lot. Some don't want to know their HIV status. Anecdotally, some work even though they know they are HIV+.

I'm hoping it is a sustainable business model and will help to cut down on new HIV infections. Ideally it would become standard to verify HIV status, and customers would start to provide verification of their own status to sex-workers. It might also be feasible for users to self publish HIV negative status on gay dating websites.

Some caveats - HIV tests can be false-negatives, especially if infection is recent.

Interested in your thoughts on feasibility, problems, pitfalls, privacy issues, medical issues, moral and ethical issues, legal issues, technical issues and anything else really.

n.b. I don't own that domain name, will call it something else.
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The US is still the wild west in many ways.
I wonder if apartments on the Jersey side of the Hudson (Hoboken, Jersey City, Weehawken) are now going to jump in price on airbnb.
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> variables and functions with nondescript names referencing other variables and functions with nondescript names

That's pretty much language independent. You can do that in any language, but should never try to. You can write clear and simple code in C, but that requires some attention and knowing how to encapsulate functionality in a pretty way using language which doesn't always help you.
>there are big signs next to the sinks that say "NO BATHING". I felt ashamed.

Sorry, I'm not clear what you're ashamed of? That there are people that would want to wash in the sinks or that they are not allowed to?

I don't think it would be a fair description of all homeless people to say they belong to an underclass.
Mine was also marked as spam (Also Gmail).
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"perl6 is another language in the same family as perl5. It is not meant to replace or succeed perl5. They are incompatible yet complementary."

The success of perl 5 is in no way determined by perl 6. Perl 5 development continues unabated. As jrockway says here, "Think of Perl 6 as Perl 5's Clojure".

Though my personal opinion is that the naming, and the confusion it creates, sucks and makes it really easy to think that perl (5) is dead because perl (6) hasn't been released yet.
I have this experience all the time. People know I am self-employed, and 'do something with computers'. I have to sit through half baked ideas at dinner tables, 'I'd like to have a website that did x', or 'do you think I could do somethign with a website?'. Sometimes I give very specific advice, right down to suggesting which platforms to use and what sort of domain name to get. There was the personal trainer who needed to find more clients, the person with mild success on ebay who wanted to build it into an online store, the educator who wanted to use the net to build inter-school learning materials. They all listen and get excited, nobody ever does anything. My wife tells me I am too hard on them. If I can douse their dreams with a few throwaway comments, then they aren't burning very bright to start with. I think a lot of people engage in dreaming as a way of escapism, not as an actual life plan.

Me? I just dream is was 2008 again, and sales were 30% higher.
I wonder what Wolfram thinks about Frink.
If this is an easy way to create a web app that adds two numbers on Clojure, I'd say Clojure is not ready for web development yet.
Interestingly, Edmund Burke (the founder of post-enlightenment conservatism) had a similar line of thought. The basic idea is that cultural institutions and their impacts are much more complex than we think they are, so radical changes are ill-advised.
> Perl has one of the most featureful object systems in existence.

Having primarily used Python for scripting, I am not too familiar with Perl. Could you explain a little more what you mean by this?
But not much more data than a webserver crash in a fully concurrent situation. One enhancement that I didn't bother to implement because it would muddy up the example was a timed flush so that data never just sits around in memory because the queue isn't full.
Why is that? I can't understand why you'd need to pay $50k to house a convicted criminal where does all the money go - anyone got a breakdown of expenses?

If you allow private corp to build the prison you're always going to get screwed, they can increase the cost per capita each year just short of the amount where it will be worth using another supplier or building your own. That's a big yearly increase.
Which library is used to render the PDF file?
Thanks! Had some free time on my hands yesterday.
"....prison labor is now used as cheap labor to compete with foreign countries, instituting a new age of under-the-radar slavery."

Your comment is being downvoted because if this statement is true (and you reckon it's BS), then it provides a strong incentive to lock more people up, and lock them up for longer - i.e. political and economic motives to lock people up, rather than reasons tied to justice. Reminds me of 'The Shawshank Redemption':

"Warden Norton eventually creates a scheme to use prison labor for public works, undercutting the cost of skilled labor and receiving kickbacks for it. Norton has Andy launder the money under a false identity, in exchange for allowing Andy to keep his private cell and to continue maintaining the library. Brooks, freed on parole, is unable to adjust to the outside world, and hangs himself; Andy dedicates the expanded library to him. In 1965, Tommy Williams (Gil Bellows) is incarcerated on robbery charges. He is brought into Andy and Red's circle of friends, and Andy assists him in getting his GED. Upon learning of the crime of which Andy was convicted, Tommy reveals that one of his old prison-mates, Elmo Blatch (Bill Bolender) had claimed to have committed a nearly identical murder. Norton, fearing what Andy might do if released, puts him into solitary confinement and has Tommy killed by Hadley, claiming he was an escapee."

In other words, the warden killed a prisoner who had information that would have freed the main character. The warden had the prisoner with that information killed, as he wanted the main character around as he was a former banker who was helping him to commit bank fraud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption#Plot
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Tab Kit is a plugin worth looking at.
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A careful analysis by legal blogger Jack of Kent:

http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/07/integrity-and-honesty...
or C) he was tyrannical or D) the army supported him or E) the people didn't care or F) he subdued the people with drugs or G) ...

False dichotomies are the sceptre of the philosopher king‽
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43.

It would be horrible to manage without any grouping mechanism and hierarchical organisation. Thanks Tab Kit.
Which of these sites has the best support for data portability?
Apologies, it was a typo. I know how to spell it.
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It sounds like they were probably right to make an enquiry as to whether you'd committed wilful damage to public property. Perhaps their tone was out or maybe you were over defensive about a simple enquiry WRT the perpetrator of an apparent crime?

In full consideration, genuine question, would you rather cops simply drove by when witnessing people with damaged public property in hand or would you rather they stopped and made some sort of enquiry?
This is a great tutorial. Over the past few months I've been struggling with getting a "barebones" app up and running with Clojure. Leiningen has really come into its own in 2010 and tutorials like this will be great for people who need a basic template in order to bootstrap them into the whole experience.
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All the NYC BnB rentals will start listing their terns as: "You must intend to stay 31 days or longer."
I think webkit would be a better renderer.
http://search.cpan.org/~doy/Moose-1.08/lib/Moose.pm
This article is probably from 2002.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/msg/3037543775aa8...
I think that the title should have (2002) to make it clear.
Tell that to 300,000+ USD Millionaires in mainland china ( I am sure its fare greater now as this is an article from 2006 ) http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_06/b3970072....

I come from a lower-middle class background ( military family during the 80's and early 90's ), grew up in many different small cities and never finished high school. I am in my mid 20's now and have the wealth that people here like to refer to as 'FU Money'
Because the benefit to the owner of the building (the one paying for it) is almost zero.
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Apple taking the position that theyre only as good as everyone else?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533664
You don't need IDE, all you need is REPL.
BASIC offered REPL with primitive line editor.
You can use JS REPL:

http://www.jconsole.com/

jconsole (based on JavaScript Shell 1.4)
Features: autocompletion of property names with Tab, multiline input with Shift+Enter, input history with (Ctrl+) Up/Down, Math, help
Values and functions: ans, print(string), props(object), blink(node), clear(), load(scriptURL), scope(object)

5 * 5

25

f = function(X) { return XX; }

function (X) { return X X; }

f(5)

25

print("Hello, World!")

Hello, World!
Another nice example can be found in the last "Functional Web" column on IEEE Internet Computing by Steve Vinosky:
http://steve.vinoski.net/pdf/IC-Getting_Started_with_Google_...

In the July/August 2010 column, Getting Started with Google App Engine and Clojure, guest columnist Aaron Bedra shows how to use Clojure, a relatively new but robust Lisp implementation on the Java Virtual Machine, create and deploy an application using the Compojure web framework on the Google App Engine platform.
Exactly. Some data in my field (NLP) is available, however usually at high fees.

Coming back to the topic of source code. I think there are three additional reasons source code is often not published:

1. Some scientists (I am trying to avoid making overgeneralizations) are bad programmers. Sometimes just enough hacks are stacked to produce results, but the result is not something to be particularly proud of.

2. Rinse and repeat. It's often possible to get more out of a discovery by applying it to multiple datasets. If the source is published, others could be eating your lunch.

3. There is a contract that avoids publishing source code.

My PhD project is financed by the Dutch national science foundation. Fortunately, since software developed in my project adds to existing work under the LGPL (creating derivative works), my work is under the LGPL too. Copyleft can help you if (3) applies.

I try to follow the same strategy as the author: make software public on Github once a paper is accepted.
Apple's position is that they're educating people about RF & cell phones. You can't fix physics with a software update.
I don't know about that, but Gruber's pointed out lots of bullshit App Store rejections, for example. It's always seemed to me like he just calls them as he sees them.
That depends on whether you think Apple is just getting more attention about this problem because they are Apple, or because the iPhone 4 problem is much worse than other handsets.
Someone please explain to me how this campaign is going to lead to Apple being portrayed as anything other than a bunch of poor sports.
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That is a TON if code for such a simple fiction.
I like how they had the dialpad open to make the phone look more complex and less attractive. Nice touch.
I live in NYC, and while I think AirBnB is decent idea, I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a building where the landlord - or another tenet - were renting out their spot like a hotel or hostel.

At the point you are doing that with any sort of regularity you should be subject to licensing, insurance, etc.
More likely than who? Anyone else in an organization?

Also, the elaboration of "Providing deep domain knowledge" explains it as deep domain knowledge of product management. The is akin to saying the engineers have deep domain knowledge of engineering, and doesn't explain why project managers are more likely to be lynchpins than other positions. But then again, he didn't mention what these other positions were.
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Apple's behavior reminds me of someone who's voted down on a site like HN on Reddit and then pulls out links to people who said similar things but were voted up. We get it logically, but for some reason we interpret it as childish and petty.

It's notable that they didn't go to these lengths with the G4 Cube overheating debacle. Apple's gone from selling almost entirely to a devout fanbase to a general appliance company and I think the change in PR strategy may be giving them a shock.
I dont own an iphone so I cant comment on the quality of the iphone 4, but all the other mac adds seem to be about how macs are better than pcs and about simplicity and about "think differrent". This ad is about "see were no worse than everyone else", while the underlying physics point is valid - why waste ad dollars on communicating your equality with other vendors ?
There are a ton of hostels and cheap ways to stay in NYC.
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Interesting startup lesson here.

NYC -- famous for high cost-of-living. So folks start micro-leasing as a way to recoup costs. Several startups are created as a way to coordinate these micro-leases.

Response? Government steps in and shuts it down.

The reason social problems, like housing shortages and the political responses, are important to talk about on HN is that big companies solve big problems, and nothing happens in a vacuum. Sometimes your biggest competitor can be the political status quo.

I find the governor's remarks true, yet unconvincing. Kind of like a lot of politician-speak. Politicians (of all stripes) learn from the legal, public relations, and polling professions how to take any position on any side of an argument and make it sound somewhat plausible and reasonable for Joe Six Pack giving the entire matter 5 minutes thought.

In the absence of public uproar, this was done for commercial reasons. Dig deep enough and you'll find somebody with a checkbook.
If (Government && GetRidOfCash)
$response = MakeCashUnusable($year=2012); // Returns array with multiple options

echo $response[0];

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echo $response[1];

"Success! New law implemented that will effectively make it so painful to use cash that everyone will start buying everything possible from overseas companies who still accept PO's ( checks, ach and wire-transfers ) because the shipping cost are more easy to predict than cost associated with absolute compliance with this new law."
From where I'm sitting, it seems like several large swathes of the American public do not understand what scientific laws are about. Many people seem to operate on the notion that if you feel strongly enough and shout enough, you can make whatever you want to be true, so long as enough others back you up.
Starting with the land, water, and air of this Earth, there are many resources that no one created, and no one has the right to give you. We parcel it out, and we say that this patch belongs to me, and this patch belongs to you, but the 'fairness' of it is always imperfect.

In a city, you cannot say that you have sole right to a piece of property, to do with as you please. Everything's too packed in together. If you're blasting music at all hours of the night, that alters the composition of the air around you. That may increase or decrease wealth, depending.

To put it simply: the wealth of New York City was mostly created by the city; the plumbing, the roads, the zoning laws, the building codes, the fire departments. The city government is the only entity that can really claim to have created that wealth. An individual building owner's contribution is very small.
I've read the article a few times, and I'm still not sure what point the author is trying to make. However, this quote from the article appears to neatly contradict the title (if that faithfully represents his premise):

How do we manage complexity? We use a number of simple design rules.

Perhaps simplicity is the answer.
Maybe. But here is the thing – do you think it is fair for someone else to subsidize your children (at the cost to themselves)?

It is usually the duty of parents to raise their children (and pay for their education). The left however feels that it “takes the village to raise the child” (nice way of saying that someone else should pay for education, etc…). This means that dysfunctional people and families can externalise the consequences of their actions.

If we think of it in a crude way: wouldn’t the most fit evolutionary strategy in such a system be to just get as much children as you want? Since someone else will bust their but to pay for the raising and education of your child.

This is unfortunately what happens in many countries, and it is quite sad. In my country there are 13.4 million people on government grants and there are 12 million people working. Of those that work, only about 3 million pay tax (75% which is paid by 750,000). Of the 13.4 million receiving “social grants”, about 9 million are child grants (government pays them for each child under 16, thereby encouraging people to get children. Many people receive the child grant from their children before they stop getting their own grant).

The point of this is that each tax payer is paying to raise 3 children that are not theirs. Is that fair? Should someone really be allowed to get children if they cannot afford them?

This is also one of the reasons I believe that democracy does not work in most countries – especially countries with a high population or which is not homogeneous.

The excuse of “family location” is BS. Many people have put off or postponed having children until they can afford them, and at least kept the number of children to a minimum. Many people also at least put in the effort to raise the kids that they have properly.
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Meanwhile, there are people of privilege or wealth who are renting places for $500 a month next to Central Park. What a world.
Rich Hickey on Clojure (SE-Radio podcast)
Makes me think of Rome before the fall. I can't help but wonder if this brings success, or just what success brings.
Ask HN: Site license problem
A quick question about license key management for a webapp that's usable by groups (schools) as well as individuals.

A school would buy a license for X students. I'd rather just give them one license that all X can use, rather than make them hand out X licenses.

How, then, can I make sure the license cannot simply be shared online with students not at that school?

Thanks for your help.
Most folks wandering around the planet have no clue about RF and near-field effects, but then most folks wandering around haven't had much experience with carrying around RF devices or with gear operating at picowatt sensitivities.

But that gear is now increasingly commonplace.

Please explain to me why you believe that knowledge - regardless of its source - is bad.

Please also explain why that knowledge - again, regardless of its source - makes you a "poor sport".

RF is not magical.

OK, yes, there are some days when RF and antenna design and EMI does seem is magical, but that's not the same sort of magic. And you can learn why your receiver was getting bagged by that metal sign that was wired onto the chain-link fence actually is re-radiating spurious signal. Once you find the EMI.

Or once you realize that grabbing onto the antenna or getting into specific spots of the near-field might not be a good idea.

Again. Data. Goodness. Even the biggest idiots on the planet (and Apple is not among those folks) can get stuff right once in a while.

So. Why is data a "poor sport"?
I'm looking forward to Strange Loop in St. Louis October 14 and 15. I haven't been to this before. The speakers list includes Guy Steele, Douglas Crockford, Joshua Bloch, et al: http://strangeloop2010.com/speakers
Don't put online anything what makes you uncomfortable published in local newspaper with your full name and photo.

It's even worse online. Local newspaper has no search engine and uncountable number of copies.
I found out about this interview thanks to Dave's comment on http://programmingzen.com/2010/07/09/thoughts-on-clojure/

He also links to a post discussing the interview:
http://whiley.org/2010/06/23/rich-hickey-on-clojure-se-radio...
This is exactly why I'm growing tired of social news sites too. Instead of responding in disagreement, you get downvoted. The whole thing is cowardly and/or lazy.

Whomever downvoted me, you are telling me that you wouldn't mind a constant rotation of complete strangers taking residence in the apartment across the hall from you with no recourse for liability?