skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People will eventually trust it based on how often others "fool around" with the app. I don't see any great reason to input fake crushes, so I'm not anticipating this being a huge problem, but I could be wrong.

Previous services emailed you anonymously when someone else had input your email, which was the way they admitted to being interested in you. However this just made people curious as to who was crushing them, so they input a number of random friends' emails haphazardly. Those friends did the same. This system promoted curiosity, which demoted sincerity and eventually the sites just ended up with a big email list.

Since facebook will give people a good idea of who's using the app, we're hoping that this medium will be adequate, without the use of anonymous emails.
Squeakquel!
No, we built our own little wrapper, basically doing the same thing as we did for audio. A few JSNI methods, more than anything. It does almost the same thing as GWTCanvas, only with far less functionality, and more toned to our needs. We did this for two reasons:

1. We didn't need 80% of the functionality that's in GWTCanvas (and canvas in general), and the 20% that we did need was a little buggy. We thought it'd simply be quicker and more efficient to build our own rather than modify or fix GWTCanvas.

2. <canvas> is, to paraphrase Tim Schafer, slower than molasses going uphill in january, on crutches. Might as well be using Flash, really. It also doesn't work on some browsers (we're unofficially, quietly, don't-tell-anyone-I-said-this, going for mobile device support as well), and doesn't work the same way across all browsers either.

What we've done is use a graphics abstraction layer, so that when the time comes that we implement it with the DOM (which we're slowly working on, but canvas will do for the moment), we need to change virtually nothing in the rest of the code.

Afaik the other half of the Flax project is writing a blog post as we speak about how we implement Canvas. I'll be sure to submit it to HN. ;)
Maybe dislike is too strong in your vocabulary - but in mine it's "things I don't like; and would not cry if they got better/changed tomorrow". I'm not talking about hate here - sure, people are able to uncompromisingly happy (as I am, when I'm working on python) but the poster above pointed it out - If you have not found those things yet, then you don't know your language and tools that well. Or else you don't know what is possible with other languages and tools.

So, attribute any emotional level you want - in my book, dislike is far from hate, and means you would actively work to change the item if question, if given the power.

I love working with Python, with Django, with Linux/OSX, VIM, Textmate, etc, etc. I love working with them, but each has it's failings, and it's important I know them. Sometimes knowing your own limitations, and those of your tools, and thinking critically about both is the most important skill a person can have.

It makes them think how things can be better.
Apologies!
"One in-between possibility could be to retain the standard syntax/semantics but target an existing VM with a bigger development community"

I think that's a great move for a number of languages as they lose popularity over time. The Scheme on lisp machines was outpaced by version on compiled machines, and is the version we use today.
As an amateur violinist, I'm more excited by the access to sheet music provided by this project. I bookmarked the sheet music page with a mind to dust off my violin when I get home from work tonight.
Wait... Did you just compare being HIV positive to a handicap?As in something you get your own parking spot for?
Tech bubble ten years later: the money's not back
thank you for making '[I' my hey-i-learned-a-neat-thing-of-the day!

(from the doc, [I:
Display all lines that contain the keyword under the cursor. Filenames and line numbers are displayed for the found lines. The search starts at the beginning of the file.)

sweet!)
Sweet. I really enjoy seeing people play with email search as a way to dig up info on yourself. We put a lot in there, it's nice to see Google isn't the only ones making any use of it.
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I don't think it's quite so drastic as you make it sound. In the original post he makes says the choice is between blowing the whole budget to hire a world-class symphony to record one piece, or contracting with a lesser-known organization (he suggests in Eastern Europe) to record a number of different symphonies. Either way we are talking about serious, dedicated musicians performing real music. I have attended concerts by some of the big names--LSO, LA Phil, San Francisco Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker--as well as by many lesser-known ensembles. The difference in quality would be lost on 95% of the listening audience. As a classical musician it might be obvious to you, a little less so to me as a mere fan, but to most people it will just sound like professionally-recorded classical music. Certainly light-years ahead of what's out there today.
Wal-Mart introduces wireless plan under own brand
Good point. I'm most certainly an introvert (I scored straight 100s in S and C on a recent DISC assessment), but not what I would consider shy. I'm not afraid of talking to people; I just normally don't have anything to say (or prefer to keep my snarky responses to myself).
> most phrases I use repeatedly are the result of trying out a lot of ways to say things and iterating

Wow, I knew you were into A/B testing, but damn!
OpenPoker
I agree. If I'm just editing text, like an email or a readme or a blog post or a typical config file, I'd rather have a quick, lean, dedicated text editor. Some of these editor-as-IDE environments start to feel a little like an incredibly pimped-out Pinto though.
As a 5-time burner, I've always enjoyed the contrast between the orgy of purchasing that precedes arrival to the playa, and the commerce-celibate environment on the playa.

The fun starts at the costume shops of Haight street -- with BRC-themed displays for weeks before, and ever-more -frantic shoppers leading up to event kickoff (and even midweek for later arrivers). The CruiseAmerica RV rental place near Oakland Airport seems to be nonstop burners the kickoff weekend. (They probably bring in extra vehicles from around the country to meet the demand.)

As you snake up I-80, every highwayside REI, Target, and Wal-Mart between SF and Reno has evidence of burner purchasing. Wal-Marts have special front-of-store presentations of exactly the camper/raver/cycling/desert supplies burners need. And plenty of Home Depots, from SF to Reno, are filled with people buying building and art supplies.

And then: you reach the 'oasis' of no commerce at Black Rock. The contrast is beautiful; the experiment in intentional and temporary community is perception-altering, with lessons for the rest of the world.

But if you fail to notice that it's the wealth and specialization of a giant, competitive, cash-seeking economy that made it all possible, you're blind to the whole picture. Barter economies never invent EL wire and computer-controlled LED displays, among other things.
A couple years ago I connected the NIA Neural Impulse Actuator to Max/MSP as a software synth control mechanism, but I was heavily limited by the proprietary software converting sensor data into keystrokes. This project is really great because it would let hackers get around limitations like that!
Not a lisp programmer, I take it.
My Startup - CampusLIVE
Here is my startup - we've built a social network on top of FB Open graph and 250 mapped out universities and course data. students can see who is in their dorms, classes, etc. What do you think?
Share when you get some data :)
Just wanted to vouch as well for yegg's amazing response. He fixed some l-key issues I complained about on duckduckgo within just a couple weeks, and responded to me within a day.

Maybe yegg could drop a comment on how he manages his time to do all this?
Except for the fact that humans are really bad power sources. Tour de France riders generate about 500 watts. A quick googling turns up this article: http://www.sportsscientists.com/2009/07/tour-de-france-2009-...

Basically you wouldn't even be able to keep the lights on, let alone run the televisions, AC, fans, etc...
Chrome with windows is the same...
I am logging queries. Do you have any tips/suggestions as to how to do my own predictions?
In Soviet Russia, day programs you!

Let's hope capitalist Hallmark never hears of this 'holiday'.
I also switched to DDG at the prompting of an HN commenter, and agree entirely with the points made in the OP.

The only downside really is just in the formatting of the results - I can get 11-12 results in a google search in a full-height window and about 8 in DDG. Sure, some of that is due to the very nice "disambiguator" box (or whetever they call it), and the results are indeed generally higher quality, but it is also due to large title fonts and designey white space, so I personally would like a bit of that back.

(No I haven't sent this to DDG feedback because for all I know it is a personal peeve and everybody else likes it this way)
Nobody Understands Probability
Not exactly.

The headline is a classic example of how people misinterpret "insufficient data to disprove the null hypothesis" as "evidence for the null hypothesis".

The truth is that from the data presented, we can't say much that is statistically useful. They didn't measure an effect, and didn't disprove it either. The one thing we learned is that the hand gel doesn't give an overwhelming benefit.

However if they had followed 2 groups of 500 people and had a similar success rate, they would have had overwhelming evidence that the gel helped a bit. Or it they followed 2 groups of 500 people, they might have found a smaller difference, and we could have this conversation again only with a smaller possible effect and more data collected.
By "something" do you mean Ruby itself, or the fact that most Ruby implemenations are slow? If it was the former, then I think you're responding to the wrong statement. The statement was about "5 things you dislike about the tools and languages you use". So it wasn't about disliking Ruby itself, but rather things about Ruby.

If you were indeed saying that you don't care enough about the fact that "most implementations of Ruby are relatively slow." to raise that fact to the level of "dislike", well, I guess I find that hard to believe. I mean, sure, it generally won't matter. But even if it only matters a small portion of the time, what is there to "like" about implementations of a language being slow? Wouldn't you always dislike that fact, even when it didn't particularly matter in most cases?
Can everyone stop making everything "instant"?
Sounds a little similar to why I am a happy transplant from Boston to PDX.

Cost of living, surroundings, easier/cheaper access to delicious foods. (mmmm salmon)
"Dislikes" may be stronger than you want, but would you agree if it were changed to "recognized shortcomings"?

Yup.
I'm not supporting the above statement, and the blithe logic it displays, but I can't go along with this, either. If that is as deep as the analysis of motivations goes on Hacker News, none of you should ever be allowed to vote.
Interestingly enough, Bloomberg has started offering "Quant" tools to MLB teams: http://www.bloombergsports.com/proofferings/

They specialize in providing data and analytics on financial data. Clearly they didn't think it was too much of a leap to go from analyzing securities to analyzing baseball players.

As far as specific links, the Red Sox employ Bill James (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James), who is a fairly famous statistician, to help them run the team. He invented Sabermetrics, "the analysis of baseball through objective evidence". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabermetrics)
Intel takes the wraps off its Nvidia killer
Ah, I see ... I think we're in agreement.
I am going to be graduating soon so I know it is best to go where the jobs are. SF probably has the best tech scene in North America. But I know if I move there I will hate it with a passion.

3 hours to Tahoe and no train or any form of public transportation that goes there? That put the nail in the coffin, Vancouver is on the top of my list now sadly tech jobs are harder to come by over there on top of the whole immigrating issue.
"Squeal".
How Open Angel Forum Helped Backupify Raise $5.5M
Assuming you're not simply being facetious, what would that look like?

Some sort of meta-rss feed that delivers a 'best-of' for weekend perusal? Perhaps it could be collated/curated and then printed in a handy offline version for weekend digestion?
I don't disagree with anything you have said. My main point is that having very amateur work mixed with serious work means serious musicians will not trust it as a name. And that's fine -- it sounds like the founder understands this.
Easiest way to access files and media: Tonido iPhone app is approved
Illustrator CS5 gains HTML5 chops
If it wasn't obvious, I was being sarcastic.

Actually I sort of would like to see them try, just for the entertainment of watching a fiasco 10x worse than Facebook Beacon unfold.
Although true in this case, that was not my intended meaning.

A few of the "magic" things I've encountered thus far in Rails can be easily demystified by looking at the code. However, like magic shows, knowing how the trick is done doesn't mean that I can't enjoy the spectacle of it. The execution of the trick is every bit as important as the mystery.

I'd put forth this definition, which applies to both magical performances and magical code:

Magic is taking something which is traditionally considered impossible and making it look effortless.

Some magic tricks really are effortless. Others require painstaking setup and flawless execution. Same thing with code, but only the former is really valuable in production systems.
University officials were banned from using (fossil fuels | artificially hydrogenated lipids | fax machines) for a week. "we just wanted them to see the impact these technologies have on their lives."
Well, I also live in the Mission next to Valencia, where it is ludicrously easy to catch a cab, though I appreciate that it's impossible to catch them in, e.g., Sunset, so I didn't mention it as an advantage.

Of course, in London you literally can't catch a black cab outside of the center (they're not even allowed to do so past a certain radius) so you have to call a minicab. So SF still wins.
Bu they are seeking $11,000 to "hire an internationally renowned orchestra to record and release the rights to: the Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky symphonies."

And they've already raised the money through Kickstarter.

Doesn't this invalidate your point or am I missing something?
I would guess it is along the lines of "I am surprised Apple allowed this app in the AppStore"
Major breakthrough in tractor beam technology
Can you explain to the rest of us what the problem is? Personally it's great! Developers are getting notice in the world. Doesn't sound like a problem to me, and if someone hires him for his programming prowess, that's great!

Are you reading sarcasm into the original post? That's my guess.
M-O-N-G-O
"(No I haven't sent this to DDG feedback because for all I know it is a personal peeve and everybody else likes it this way)"

The way I see it, Gabriel's job is to decide whether it's a personal peeve or not. Your job is to ask for new features and "complain" about the old features, so that he can hear what real users think.
I do deadlifts and power cleans. My deadlift is almost double my power clean.

I like to pick the bar up from the ground. Also putting the bar down between repetitions allows me to re-set my back.

Keep practising, your flexibility should improve. I'd use the hand position of the hang clean phase also for the deadlift phase---because the weight will be so low compared to a proper deadlift that you can afford to use suboptimal positioning for this part.
> The real problem is that we don't need enough orchestras to actually sustain orchestras as an industry anymore

I don't understand how you reach this conclusion. Orchestras exist primarily for their live performances, and the halls where they perform seat just as many people as they always have.

Classical music is alive and well, from what I can see -- what makes you think differently?
Sam from Rapportive here: even if we got hacked, we couldn't possibly disclose your emails, because we don't have them. We don't read your emails and our servers don't have access to them.

Also, thanks for the plug :)
The nice thing is that you can build around all of these with the same system and people can take what they want from them. There is no reason why any of these elements would need to be mutually exclusive.
I don't disagree with any of that. Maybe it's because I was born there. It just felt old and crusty. Moving to SF was a shot in the arm in all kinds of ways for me and it just feels a lot more energetic than the DC scene did.

I grew up in Alexandria and lived in Reston for 6 years. Yes, reston is far out...but that's where work was. 5 minute drive to work in the DC area? Sign me up!
Agree on DC's Metro system, it's fantastic. I go to DC regularly and never really have to take a cab, even if I need to get somewhere in one of the suburbs. People in DC tend to rip on the Metro because of occasional outages, but I don't think they've experienced other systems in larger cities. I love living in Chicago, but the "el" could definitely learn from some of Metro's practices.
"Embarrassing And Damaging" Zuckerberg IMs Confirmed By Zuckerberg
For those who didn't make it all the way down:

People often intuitively think of probabilities as a fact about the world, when in reality probabilities are a fact about our model of the world.
>>once you've run with something long enough, you hit a wall.

Hmm... resonates. Sounds like an insight.

That would implicate flexibility in languages, editors and frameworks -- so you can tunnel through the wall.

More Ruby/Perl than Python and more Emacs/Vim than most IDEs. Etc.
I've been on duckduckgo for a few weeks. It's different in a very good way. The only time I reverted to google was to try instant, which I find a great improvement.

It's brilliant that there is still quality innovation going on in the search space. It's an old industry now, after all.
Intel 'to revolutionise PC industry' with new chipset
How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people
I agree that this is true, if you have no desire to learn how Emacs and your chosen modes work. If you are willing to dig in, the ability to fix your tools with a simple C-M-x is indispensable, and is a feature that no IDE has.

What features do you think Emacs is missing?
Same story, different source, no comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681517
511.org will tell you how long it takes to get from place to place in the bay area.

It really depends on the bus line how frequent they come. The 9 and 47 come right by my house and come every 10-15 minutes if not less. They are both heavily travelled lines. The 12 also comes by and it's less travelled and probably averages one bus every 25-30 minutes or so.

There is also a bus schedule that they "try" to adhere too. That's true for almost every city, so you can just look at the lines that run by where you are going to be and see how often they come.

Finally, all of the SF MUNI Buses and trains are gps equipped so you can check a pretty accurate estimate of when they will be at your stop online or through various smartphone apps. Very handy for preventing you from having to wait at a bus stop for more than a few minutes.
Konami. Yeah, THAT Konami.
what would that look like?

http://hackermonthly.com/
"I’m curious to see whether this news makes it onto the Mac sites that’ve beaten Adobe up for a perceived lack of enthusiasm about HTML5 (tough, as it just doesn’t fit that sterile, stupid narrative). The funny thing is that these changes build on the SVG support that Illustrator has been shipping for ten years. Sometimes it just takes a while for the world to catch up."

Adobe's not helping themselves by being so openly hostile towards Mac sites. Not sure why they would post anything like that in a company blog.
I still think Windows is significantly better in the window management department. Exposé is nice, but Windows 7's mouse gestures for maximize/restore are just brilliant, I prefer the taskbar to the dock, and the top menu is a liability now that many apps are ditching menu bars altogether.
Sometimes it cuts the other way though. Take Flickr: bought for just a bit more than Dopplr by a company with significant problems, today the #2 photo site in the world (after Facebook) and more relevant and vibrant than ever.
Ah, I have a 1 bed/1 bath. That explains things.
San Diego is full of tattooed 'bros' and college kids. And has less jobs. It's industry is based on tourism and hospitality, so unless you're already wealthy or own a hotel or restaurant it's not great for many people. It's a better place to visit than live.
You can change the font size in the settings, if you have not already done so.
In this situation, am I supposed to delete my submission or is it alright to leave it since it's a different source?

I don't know the etiquette.
"That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially."

Sure, people should be willing to do things of their own accord without needing any motivation at all, but we live in a world filled with motivation to do all sorts of things - why not try to use some of that influence for good?
Hi retailslave,

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If you're looking for an unpaid, just for learning internship, and if you live in NYC, send me an email at kevin at recojeans. We're looking for an unpaid intern right now with some html or other web language skills.
flickr is huge, but I don't think yahoo has done very much to advance the original feature set. which is also true for delicious. though I agree there are cases, I'm hard pressed to find many. Maybe android (google), but not dodgeball (google).