skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k...

This recent post shot down a lot of things being mistakenly attributed to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Well worth the read, since it actually explains the study in a more comprehensive way, rather than the somewhat sensationalized version most articles have. Essentially, it says that the worst people judge their abilities to be on par with average people, thus grossly overestimating their abilities. The smartest people somewhat underestimate their abilities, but not nearly to the degree that the truly incompetent do.
Sigh, it's "OUT OF WATER", not "ADD WATER". Only very new printers tell you how to resolve the problem ("Add Letter paper to tray 1"); old printers just tell you what the problem is. ("PC LOAD LETTER? What the fuck does that mean?")

And for the OP, it's "INSERT COIN" not "INSERT QUARTER".
I don't see anything like business accounts there unfortunately.
CNC operator in a machine shop. Dangerious, long hours, hot or freezing, and tons of pressure. The worst job of my life. I would go into the bathroom and silently cry. Now I study CS and programming all day. You could say that I like what I do now more, haha.
The power of find and xargs
Yeah, writing 1 line of text to a TCP connection is pretty hard, so if you can't use this code freely, your app is ruined...
I remember encountering several of these at the start of Van Vogt's sci-fi classic World of Null-A. I couldn't figure out if it was deliberate in any way, or just an annoying accident.
I know it's considered gauche on HN to say "thank you" for upvotes.

But thank you.

(I'm assuming the upvotes are a way of saying "I'm sorry dude, I feel your pain". If so, they are much appreciated.)
Duck Duck Go written in Perl
Finally: Gmail Introduces Rich Text Signatures
They didn't use the kill-switch on that at all, did they? I thought that was just banned from the app store, but not removed.
It's 2010, and there are still people pushing this tired old "climate change is all a made up conspiracy" crap?? I despair.
The later part of this presentation by Robernt Nyman show another point of view. He shows how you can work without polluting the global namespace and presents a somwhat philosophical conclusion that Javascript is not C or Java but seomthing else and we shouldn't try to treat it as such.
http://blip.tv/file/3004532
Outrageous---Obama is returning our tax rates to levels we haven't seen since that crusty old socialist Ronald Reagan was in office.

http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=2814...
That's like an old southern saying, "I'll meet you at the church. But I ain't going through the door with you"
The process involved here seems to be a backtracking search: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Backtracking
How to Have Culture in an Algorithmic Age — The Late Age of Print
The Windows compilers are more capable than old 90s compilers. But random source code written for Linux is a lot more compatible as-is with AIX, HP-UX, IRIX and others than with Windows.

Windows doesn't have forks (needs emulation via threads), second class support for things like symlinks, and isn't POSIX compatible (yes, I know you can get that as a separate install).

Porting a Linux program to Windows is like porting it to Novell, or some random mainfram OS. Not another OS in the Unix family.
"cold water is highly viscous and impedes swimming"

This is very size and speed dependent, but increased viscosity delays separation and can actually reduce drag [1], [2]. In any case, the viscosity difference is not huge and water temperature is normally not precisely controlled for swimming events.

"Most people [...] suffer from vasodilation in extreme cold."

Only when the core is doing well [3], the opposite (vasoconstriction) occurs otherwise.

[1] http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/204/1/81

[2] http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120798746/abstrac...

[3] http://www.springerlink.com/content/l776704k04017q43/
It would be pretty sad if someone used the immune cloud to distribute a virus

Yes, that would be horrible. Imagine a deadly virus which specifically infects immune cells to spread. We could call it something like Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
The article suggests that the document was negotiated over a 3.5-month period, with the wedding occurring part-way through it. It's not unreasonable to claim that both parties went to the altar with a basic idea of what was going to be in the final draft.
Most of the comments here are completely right. Meetups are the best way to meet people. Here are a few I'd suggest that I think are good for young people / college students involved in tech:
* NY Tech Meetup's NY Tech Student Mingle (posted individually on Anyvite each time; the first Tuesday of every month)
* Hackers and Founders NYC

Startup Digest (thestartupdigest.com) is a great rundown of events going on weekly - if you're a student, I'd subscribe to the NYC, Tech@NYU, and Columbia lists to get events that are relevant to students.
While it would be a benefit to this story, I don't see why anybody should have a duty to write both sides of the story on their blog - I properly would have written to Apple, but if they didn't give a good reason I can't fault the guy for not posting it.
The more intelligent ones?
Well, it's interesting accomplishment no doubt, but the CSS markup is littered with Webkit-specific commands. If the point of CSS is to achieve at least a modicum of platform-independence, isn't the purely academic?
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The examples are somewhat forced:

find ~/Desktop -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.gif" -o -name "*.png" \
-print0 | xargs -0 mv --target-directory ~/Pictures

What's wrong with this?...

mv ~/Desktop/**/*.{jpg,gif,png} ~/Pictures
This is an excellent reason why all published works should include a diverse collection of very ephemeral metadata.
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And don't forget the double-Paraprosdokian! One example which springs to mind:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=726#co...

(Remember to mouse over the red button.)
It worked for me too. It's like reverse-brainwashing.
I am not sure about the magniture more energy - after all the neither the zeppelin nor the balloon would need the energy to stay afloat, only to maneuver.

But there is a much easier solution to your problem, and it is called an anchor.
I'm building a bootstrapped start-up, and we need a designer with a start-up building mindset. I'm not in NY, but would be interested in at least chatting and seeing what you can do.

contact me @ levi@scoreyard.com when you have time.
Not necessarily, some find it energizing. In my case (a night owl all my life) it also depends on the social group around me.
I'm more disappointed that it's 2010 and people are still talking about Climategate on HN.
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Those systems are still around, and people are still porting software to them.

For instance Git which is a fairly popular package created in 2005 runs on at least: Linux, GNU, GNU/Hurd, GNU/Linux, Tru64 UNIX, GNU/kFreeBSD, SCO UnixWare, SCO UNIX SV, Darwin, various versions of Solaris, Cygwin, *BSD, AIX, IRIX, IRIX64, HP-UX, Windows, MINGW.

Older packages like Perl and Emacs compile on a much wider range of systems.
Ask HN: Sealing SAS based app in US and Europe from India
I am a web developer from India, building a web app (SAS model) to sale internationally. What are the legal processes I have to do before start the services? Or I can directly put PayPal/or some other payment service and start receiving payment and latter I can withdraw to my personal account.

I want to build trust, so is there any certification I have to buy from any third party agency.

Please suggest.

Your help will be appreciable.
E-mails are plain text. "Rich text" has no business there.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/

But generally the CSS spec seems to be increasing faster than vendors implement it. Or rather every vendor is creating new extensions and pushing for them to go into the standard so their effort isn't just for fun, leading to the bloat.
I should clarify that, if we find the right person, we are looking for a graphic / UI designer to partner with. The option of revenue or equity sharing is on the table for the right person.

Being able to write code is a step in the right direction.
>> The "module" would still suffer from monkeypatching-related collisions

I mean that the module implementation will be a leaky abstraction because I can still do something like "Object.prototype.boom = true" inside a module and cause widespread brokenness. This encapsulation/robustness problem isn't something a simple macro can fix very easily, unfortunately, so both the module proposal that you linked to and your macro proposal sound like using a hammer as a screwdriver for that particular problem.

>> The `s' in `defs' stands for "statement"

Ah, that clears things up. I'd prefer something like a "defexpression" though, which would allow

var a = module A {}

On a side note, var a = if (blah) would be cool to see too (well actually, I'd be more interested in var a = for(blah) ).
Weird, as a non-native and non-fluent english speaker, I don't suffer that effect.
Doesn't Fox News ever Google anything before they start wagging the dog?
Why are urls not linkified in these textual posts?
Nassim Taleb's take on excercise [pdf]
To get to your core comment, I agree that my analogy makes no claims about this scheme's efficacy. The posted article claims 25% to 45%, but who knows how ideal the conditions have to be to reach that level.

You are also absolutely correct that treating at the tailpipe is even better (for exactly the reasons my analogy makes clear).

That said, I will defend my analogy. My point was that dealing with NOx at the road surface will likely be more effective than dealing with it more generally in the atmosphere-- in part because the effective volumes aren't as huge as you might think (see the comment I was responding to), and in part because you're dealing with the NOx at higher concentrations.

I'm sure you're right that NOx disperses rapidly, but I'd bet that concentrations still are demonstrably higher at the roadway surface than, say, a block away. For example, this study found a factor of 5 difference between NOx at the side of a busy intersection, versus that some distance away:
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/2745/2010/acp-10-2745-2010...

Second, I bet the boundary layer isn't all that thick at the road surface. After all, by definition you have cars passing along, stirring up a lot of turbulence. (Besides, even in quiescent conditions, you still get diffusive transport through the boundary layer, due to concentration differences-- and destroying NOx at the surface will set that up for you.)
No registration:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10566318.stm

I haven't checked whether the content is the same, however.
Because back then the only math you needed was enough to count the animals on your farm and the size of your harvest?

These days, high school is much more focused on being a generalized preparation for a college education, giving students a wide variety of knowledge in hopes that something of that lot interests them enough that they know what career they would like to further pursue.
Ultimately, yes, but the standard hasn't been ratified yet. Prefixes are an important part of the process that moves CSS forward. It gives browser developers an opportunity to show their stuff without breaking the non-prefixed declaration. This means that your prefixed code can continue to work, even after the standard has been ratified. This isn't a perfect solution, but it's far better than browser sniffing because it's explicit and easy to find/replace once standards exist.

Eric Meyer breaks it down very well:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack/
Working retail at cvs. For a given 8 hour shift on a saturday, I figured most of these people are coming in to relieve some kind of sickness. I can only imagine how many things I was exposed to.

Thinking about the job now, perhaps I came out of it all with a stronger immune system.
Indeed. Why does HN suddenly want to make me a lifeguard?
Totally disagree, we need our media to talk more about the facts and less about opinion. Debate the facts, not the debate. I would love to have a purely data-based news feed, maybe something for a startup: have some kind of microformat attached to news stories that contains the metadata about the topic & the hard facts. Something like Freebase for news?
Crap, you're right. I completely forgot about strings and regexps (and E4X, for that matter) when I wrote that.
For China, I feel like this is a slippery slope that will (despite the governments best efforts for many years) put the country on level ground with the rest of the world.

Thus, China's enormous influence over the rest of the world will decrease, their mad profitability will decrease, and the level of respect they receive will increase.
Now if I could only configure it to bottom-post by default I'd be happy.
And I've seen one written in Perl that does the current weather.

EDIT: http://miscellany.kovaya.com/2007/10/get-weather-on-your-hp-...
ROAM?
Does this have any applications for game development?
1.8 GB for 30% of $2.99? Is there a file size limit for free apps?
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In rust there is no global mutable state. All mutable state is local to a process. This means that GC happens per task (similar to erlang) instead of per process. This emphasizes safety over performance. You can still drop into C to get back to your shared mutable state if you want.

That being said, looking over some of the core features, D seemed very similar in spirit.
Just proxy/VPN out.
This is really interesting. I work for a company that maps the seabed and generating 3D models is part of the job. We have an application that renders the points into a 3D model. For this, how do you go about rendering the map? Got any tips? Where should I start?
Besides the rich text editing capability is the option to have a different signature for every email address associated with your account.

This will further increase the usability of Gmail for me, especially in combination with the recently added feature that allows to send emails with a different email address directly from Gmail.
And here are the HN comments on that Duck Duck Go architecture post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=525048
ditto for begin/end
Finally! We can now all use colors! And perky styles! And images!

Excellent! I am seriously considering just dropping all HTML email. Want your email to be received and read? Use the god damn plain text. You now, just write the email.
China is continuing to permit Google to show a link to Google Hong Kong, after likely withholding Google's ICP license renewal if they continued to automatically redirect to Goog HK. I don't see much opening up here.
Prenups can be disregarded for all types of reasons. The main one I've heard is when one spouse makes, whats considered to be, unreasonable conditions, ie., "Sign this contract or I won't marry you".

That's why Elon put in their that little line that witnesses and council were there for the postnup. If one spouse has council and the other doesn't when they sign a prenup. that prenup is toast.
Does anyone live in a small town in the middle of no-where (Iowa)?

How do you find people who you can bounce ideas off of?

Is the best thing to do start a blog and build a reader base to bounce ideas off of?
Game developers today can afford to draw millions of triangles per frame running their terrain engines on their fast GPUs. Flash can't use GPU rasterization yet, so I had to use exceptional cleverness to fit in the budget of 1-2 thousand triangles per frame without visible popping. Maybe this could be useful for Flash games, though.
Nice work. It's working on my MBP now.
If staying awake is an effort for them, then yes, they generally are going to be more intelligent because they are dedicating more than the rest of the population, on average.
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Lynne Cox, the only person to have swum a mile in Antarctic waters and to swim the Bering Strait.

"Dangerous marine animals aside, the [Gulf of 'Aqaba] swim was among Cox's most physically challenging. A battery of scientific studies done on Cox over the years has revealed some startling facts about her physiology. First, the muscle and fat in her body are so perfectly balanced that she has neutral buoyancy, meaning that she neither sinks in water nor floats. As one researcher told her, "You're at one with the water" - a critical energy-saving advantage during long-distance swims.

More remarkable, however, was the discovery that Cox's body is superbly adapted to cold temperatures. On entering cold water, a person's surface blood vessels constrict, forcing warm blood to the vital organs at the body's core. Normally, however, this is a stopgap that works for only a short time. By contrast, Cox's vital organs are insulated by an evenly distributed layer of insulating fat. Warm blood shunted to her core remains warm dramatically longer. So effective is this "internal wet suit," that Cox's temperature actually rises during a hard swim in cold water."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Cox
Get the Weather on your HP 4200
It is probably personal bias, but I find this article lacking. I tutor once a week in a GED class and find there is definitely value for the students outside of the GED itself. My main responsibility is to help the students develop their math literacy. Sure, they might not use the Pythagorean theorem once they get out of class, but you can be sure that they will use the knowledge they gain about percentages the next time they buy something on sale. There are literally hundreds of examples where, IF the student takes the time to learn a concept, they will be able to apply it in their life regardless of whether or not they actually get the GED or not.

(Note: I tutor at a community center and not in a prison, so this probably changes the demographic a bit.)
Nope. I don't adapt the mesh from frame to frame, I rebuild it completely on every frame. That's the first half of the "msec" diagnostic, so you can see I optimized that part quite a bit. The general idea (bintrees of right triangles, splitting based on screen-space error) is indeed taken from the ROAM paper, but everything else from that paper I threw away and made up my own algos.
Buy a lamp?
Yeah, something with gravitas like Yahoo! or Bing, right?
Rich more likely to walk away from mortgage
Thoughts on Clojure
They have probably started to work at night...
> Because back then the only math you needed was enough to count the animals on your farm and the size of your harvest?

I can't think of any complex topic -- on par with school maths and science -- that took one hour a day for 180 days to learn, outside of the time I spent in school.

> These days, high school is much more focused on being a generalized preparation for a college education, giving students a wide variety of knowledge in hopes that something of that lot interests them enough that they know what career they would like to further pursue.

Translation: High school focuses entirely on college preparation to the detriment of encouraging useful, immediate work that demonstrates the basic cause and effect of applying real work output to produce genuine value. It strongly discourages interested teenagers from focusing on a specific area of real-world economic exchange, and perpetuates their state of child-like helplessness well into their 20s.
The researchers were not trying to hide evidence of a decline in global temperatures over the last decade we have plenty of actual thermometer readings to show temperatures in recent years. What they were trying to hide was the discrepancy between actual temperature readings and the temperatures suggested by tree ring data. They have relied on tree ring data to show that the earth was cooler in the past. If the tree ring data is not reliable (as the discrepancy in recent years would suggest), then maybe the earth was actually hotter in the past than these researchers would have us believe and perhaps the hot temperatures of recent years do not represent unprecedented global warming but just natural variation in climate.

Sounds reasonable (unless there's some other very solid evidence that the trees really are linked to temperature as the model says, and just nobody talks about it because everyone who knows thinks everyone else is too stupid to bother with).

Now let’s see if the media can report the result in a way that is not itself misleading.

It's the media, their "core competency" is writing to attract eyeballs for advertisers. I'd take that to mean they'll be (accidentally, even) misleading by default, and since they don't know more than the rest of us they won't know to correct for that.
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The more of these sorts of things I see, the older I feel. I can recognize (I think) when they are done well, and I can appreciate their style, design, architecture or whatever. But they simply have no hook in me; I don't get it. I'm not knocking this project, I'm just saying out loud - because it's really struck me - that I'm probably on the wrong side of some birthdate line. (Cf. intelligent grandparents who never did learn to set VCR times.)

I also suspect that people my age (41) or older who like this sort of thing are faking, but maybe that's just envy talking.
They Reykjavík municipal government headed by The Best Party is using a web application to solicit ideas: http://betrireykjavik.is.

The source is up on GitHub: http://github.com/rbjarnason/open-direct-democracy

It's not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction. You can vote things up or down, make arguments for and against proposals etc.
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I wonder if there's any "left-eyed" robins out there.
Indeed. With zsh (and I guess more recent bash's), a lot of find is no longer necessary.

The real nugget in there is using xargs AT ALL. A lot of people don't know about it and continue with the -exec option of find. Which works fine still, but is horribly inefficient. Although to be fair, I haven't found this inefficiency to be even measurable (in real time-wasted units) unless the process being exec'd is slow to start.
There are several other sources of barriers. Network effects is one; goodwill/brand is another; execution/operational excellence, etc.

Think about Ebay, Paypal, Facebook, Amazon. The vast majority of what they do is pretty far from rocket science. (By that, I mean a startup could create a technically credible competitor for their core business.) However, those companies have erected enormous barriers to entry in the form of network effects, brand/trust [of buyers], network effects, and brand/breadth/operational excellence.
If this is true, and if the more intelligent people were really much more intelligent, then they would just start waking up earlier.
Nice, and very fast indeed. Only thing I don't like is the inverse control, maybe because I'm hardwired to maya viewport. Keep up the good work, nice to see flash isn't dying out. Can't wait to see that rumored 3D API.
Its called Journalism, and many deplore the lack of it on blogs.