skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not enough of a C programmer to say anything about the actual product GCC spits out, but I'm certainly glad of the work the clang team has put into improving error messages: http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/amazing-feats-of-clang-error-re...
From p. 14:
> The Bad: Continued
> 6. The new Finder defeats spatial orientation.

Et plus ça change, ...
I can see that working if each of the 7 tables was their own individual entity, but I am talking about a composite object here. Normalized data.

How do you manage a transaction across 7 different controller methods?

I am not saying their isn't a nice way to do this, merely using this as an example of why people may not like Rails. It forces you to figure out the Rails way of doing things. And that may not always be the best way for you, especially if you are an experienced developer.
Agreed.

btw, since I know your tastes lie close to mine, are you coming to Lincoln soon or what?
"sequel" for SQLite and MS SQL server.

SQL for everything else.
In the recent years the booster for me has been the "Command-T" plugin, which makes it super fast to open files.

I can _highly_ recommend this plugin, even if it's a bit harder to install than most other Vim plugins.

Check out https://wincent.com/products/command-t and http://amix.dk/blog/post/19501#Command-T-for-Vim-an-awesome-...
Needs categories.
Because initially iron oxide was the cheapest pigment. White paint, which might seem the default choice chromatically, was more expensive to make.

http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=1...
3d cube spinning in pure CSS
Ask HN: Tool for creating words-follow-vocals style presentation?
I'm looking to create a presentation that shows the words being spoken on screen, moving around to show various screenshots, videos, etc. Something like Cee Lo's "F You" video: http://bit.ly/9UXB6e (NSFW)

This is not for a music video; it's a product walk-through.

Can you recommend any tools for creating such a presentation?
Not really - most people tend to end up in gaol.
well if wikipedia is to be believed it had a 28 mill budget so 67 mill today. 67 doesn't sound like much compared to Avatar or Lord of the Rings but it's still a hell of a lot. And IIRC Harrison Ford was the only big name at the time, which saved them some money I'm sure.
This is why we have Flattr, although I don't think it'll get up to 100K daily payments.
Both, depending on the day and my mood.
What I meant was that past services that tell both people make the relationship a little flat. Flirting becomes a little pointless, which is no fun.

In the instance you specified, she is still uncertain as to whether he knows she's interested, which is enough to keep her wondering and somewhat emotionally invested.

As of right now we aren't keeping track of "success rate", but I think we'll eventually put up numbers as to how many people have both displayed their interest in the other person.
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There are tons of such activities in the DC area. I have lived in DC for a few years, and I suspect that the OP was not keyed into such activities in the DC area. There is a very large population of highly educated individuals in the DC area across a wide range of professions, industries, etc. There is a thriving private sector in the DC area, and it is not just government-oriented. Hilton and Marriott, for instance, are based in the DC area. The DC area has one of the highest, if not the highest, proportions of knowledge workers in the country, including a very large IT community and a healthy startup community. Also, the OP must have been too far out in the 'burbs. The DC Metro system is one of the best in the country, and it extends out into the suburbs. In many areas of DC and closer-in suburbs, you could easily get by without having a car if you live near a Metro station. Zipcar also has a very large presence in DC. Overall, the DC area offers a very high quality of life professionally, culturally, and educationally and in terms of opportunities for a range of outdoor activities and professional athletics.
To the extent that that is a problem, it is a past-tense problem. It has already happened. This won't add to the existing problem in any significant manner.

The real problem is that we don't need enough orchestras to actually sustain orchestras as an industry anymore, and the attempts to get around this fact are based in emotion, not fact or economics. I do not celebrate this, in fact I have the same emotional reaction many people do, but nevertheless I see it clearly: Classical music is not economically viable. We might as well record what we can while the orchestras still exist; at least the recordings will sound as good in 100 years as they do today.
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Oh, so I can finally use the WTFPL on Google Code.

Still not going to use GCode, though. There's nothing about it I like better than GitHub, aside from perhaps the issue tracker.
Yes, but that's not equivalent to Esc, use this:

inoremap <C-c> <Esc>
OK, the jab about SSL was misguided. On my first read of the article, I thought it was about protecting cookies from eavesdroppers. I didn't consider people attacking the app because I thought it was kind of silly that you'd leave yourself open to that. Oh well, turns out I'm wrong and the world is crazy.
I tried that search and when I hit 'enter', it filled the rest in and did the search
www.instantdomainsearch.com has been doing the instant lookup thing for a while.
As someone living in nyc for the last four years, some of the things that I noticed when I spent a few days in SF last month :

1. Cabs advertise could computing instead of strip clubs.

2. It was tough to find cabs in the Mission district.

3. The city never seemed like much of a walking city. The neighborhoods are far apart and everyone has cars.

4. There are lots of cafes and on average they serve better coffee than nyc.

5. The food is a little bit cheaper than nyc.

6. The architecture seems much for uniform and nicer than nyc buildings. Sure nyc has its brownstones, but there are not that many of them.

7. Some of the highest yelp rated bars in the Union Square area were closed on Sunday nights. This would never happen in nyc.

8. I couldn't imagine how people go out to bars if they have to drive.

9. The weather gets a little too cold in the evenings/nights.

10. Restaurants serve more generous portions of wine and the average restaurant has a pretty good wine list.

11. I heard the tenderloin area was sketchy, but at least in the area just around Union Square, I never saw anything like that.
The U.S., especially the southeast.
Couldn't you just sell "a bunch of shiny plastic discs that may or may not have software on them" and not run into this issue? I'm assuming these discs were printed by Autodesk. Copyright doesn't apply if you're not making a copy of anything, right?
You can type it... Just slowly

My combination is just kj.
see: http://www.filestube.com/aa5f505d33f0097103e9,g/Pragmatic-SQ...
Addressed above and apologies Michael
I don't think your search is working correctly. Google's 'instant' shows its prediction's results. Yours shows the results of the exact characters already entered. Yours only shows the prediction if you hit 'enter' and let it auto-complete.
Well, maybe it is my renderer (Chrome in Mac OS), but it looks like a rotating plane. Not a cube.
According to Linus it is pronounced lihnux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfHm6R5le0
This provides the uncertainty that makes relationships fun and interesting in their early stages.

Um, isn't the "uncertainty" the whole reason that you haven't just asked them out in the first place already? Isn't it the whole idea of not wanting to ruin a friendship or 2 or more (in the case where you or the other person are "taken") the whole reason that a person keeps their feelings secret to begin with?

How does this app actually aid with those issues at all?
Thanks a lot for the data point. I guess the real lesson is to show an interest in and affinity for a position and just apply for it, requirements be damned.
It has to be a number that works for social butterflies too. "Crushing" means something different to everyone; friendship, dating, hookup, marriage, etc. People also change their 'crushes' at different rates depending on their lifestyle and personality.
Thanks. I'm excited to see how it scales!
Zuck dominates the board. He can pretty much do what he wants.
I'm living on the border of Sunnyvale and Mtn. View at 23 years old, and it is depressing as hell. Absolutely nothing within walking distance that's worthwhile, no one remotely my age, nothing going on other than the farmer's market (forgive me for not being excited about it). There are some positives, but I had no clue how BORING this place was before I moved here. I'm moving to San Mateo or farther north ASAP, but then will just have to commute even further...
Disinfecting hand gels don't affect swine flu infection rate
Your comment made my day pm. Thank you.
I've thought about moving to Portland for similar reasons but I just can't deal with that much rain.
Cellulostic Ethanol at $2.35 a gallon
I have been wanting to do a slowfeed movement for years
For skeptics, or those who's looking for more information, I'm talking about Civil Code of Russia, Part IV, in effect since January 1, 2008.

A lot of people talked about how it could be abused, and it seems, they were right.

BTW, while looking for information in English on this, I found this gem from http://www.ustr.gov/:

Poor enforcement of IPR [Intellectual Property Law] in the Russian Federation is a pervasive problem. In the November 2006 IPR Bilateral Agreement, Russia agreed to improve IPR enforcement while the United States agreed to step up IPR training programs and technical assistance for Russian customs and law enforcement officials. In 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office conducted six IPR training programs for Russian police, investigators, prosecutors, judges, and customs officials and in total trained 149 Russian law enforcement officials. Russian Customs has drafted an “IPR Enforcement Handbook”, which will be used by all Russian Federal Customs Service officers. Additional training programs are planned for 2010.

http://www.ustr.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reports/2010... [PDF]

Good job!
ctrl-[ is also equivalent to Esc
Same here, I still get surprised when someone says char(coal), I always read it as char(acter)... I'd go with c-out and c-in however.
There are many who would say that people with Asperger's aren't just "disabled", but — to use that usually-awful "PC" term but I think it's appropriate in this case — differently-abled; and, thus that our society is richer for having people with Asperger's. This is, of course, a complicated subject.

I think there are few without pathological issues that wouldn't be happy to see HIV/AIDS vanish: it doesn't do anybody any good... it kills people. If we had a button we could push to fix HIV, I think we'd all push it. But if I had a button that would "fix" (even to say that feels offensive to me, read the scare-quotes as very strong ones) Asperger's, I'd certainly be far more hesitant to push it.

Anyway, I certainly understand your analogy. And if I had a child on the way, I'd hope they didn't have Asperger's, or any other syndrome.
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You're describing a problem that arises as a consequence of using an ORM, any ORM, which is not at all Rails specific.
Do you consider Microsoft's actions as ethical

I honestly don't know. Operating in such an environment ethically convoluted. I just don't think those ethical complexities are particularly important or worthy of handwringing when the problem at hand is 'the man comes and forcibly and arbitrarily takes your property'.

or not an obstruction of justice

I am not sure what you mean by 'obstruction of justice' in this context.
Why jk twice? I just use jk. Almost never appears in actual writing, and it makes vim much easier to use.
WRT your question about buying a book for half price that you can't resell it's been going on for a little while now with college textbooks.

Case in point: my accounting textbook (a new edition) comes in three versions:

a $200 hardback book which can easily be resold at the end of the semester like any other book

a $120 unbound version that is three hole punched (so you can put it in a binder) but that no bookstore will buy at the end of the year, making it hard to sell

a $40 e-book that you can load from virtually any device (I believe that there is a iPad app even) but the e-book is impossible to resell thanks to the magic of DRM.

Based on my experience in the class there is a about even spread among the three.
I could swear this was on Hn awhile ago, but here is the EFF's take on the matter. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/musopen-wants-give-clas...
yeah we have issued a smack down to the guy who set up our wordpress for not putting links in there. sorry about that. and we do need to buy some of the variations of our domain name. but hey, we're a startup!

regarding the CDN. Totally agree, you can't just assume it's a CDN based on CNAME. we're working on some smarter ways of identifying the CDN you're using based on a few things. we walk the dns resolution tree. so we'll see, for example, that img.yoursite.com is cname'd to xxxxxx.cloudfront.net. we're building a database of known cdn's so we can easily identify what CDN you're on. we also want to let site owners tag their own domains to self-declare which things are cdn's and which are self-hosted. all of these will help to give us better data.

oh and we love feedback, so please tell us if you've got better ways!
I have jj in my .vimrc.
It may sound bad, but it's a legitimate feeling to have; there's a horrible feeling of stagnation and boredom when you are the technical escalation point for everyone you know - or at least there was for me.
Apple products taking over US college campuses
We do not take into account CDN's with custom CNAMEs at the moment. I responded to a comment above that addresses this. See above.
What we really need is a better app store interface on the iPad. Apple's implementation is terrible[1]. AppShopper shows it would be possible to do. I'd even pay money for such an app. The app could include "spotlight apps" too, as another source of revenue.

[1] It is terrible because it always resets itself to the beginning everytime you launch it. Couple that with the fact that installing an app causes the app store to close, means you just can't search around very effectively on it. Simple example: navigate to the third page of top apps, find an app you like, install it, go back to the app store, you've been pushed back to the first page and have to redrill down to page three to keep perusing.
IMO, IDEs are better for almost everything, except for actual text editing. For that, vim and emacs are still the best (I prefer vim for plain text editing prowess, but emacs has a lot of other goodies which make it closer to an IDE, but still not as good).

Obviously, these are only my personal opinions.
Like several other people here, this website doesn't work for me. Just sits there "forever" with a score of zero. Refreshing the page doesn't help. I suspect it might be in my case because I entered a HTTPS url?
I spoke too soon. It finished finally, and with a score of 97 :D

It took about 10 minutes I reckon to run though.
JetBlue crash and burn user experience
This and other crush-matching apps aid with these issues by eliminating the chance that you could be rejected. CrushTease isn't really novel in this sense, other apps provided a medium so rejection won't happen, but there was no "happy medium" (no pun intended) that prevented rejection but maintained a level of uncertainty. That's our goal.
There is a startup out of dogpatch NYC who's doing a similar idea, but last I heard it was limited to college students.

www.goodcrush.com

Edit: It looks like they pivoted away and turned into something I thought about doing a while back.
PubMed Instant - Makes med/bio literature search easy & fast
The idea in some form probably has merit but

You'd need strict supervision to make sure no one was so amped up by the game that he hurt himself on the machines. And the captain would need to coordinate when someone moved from one machine to another. For example, if you were being attacked and needed stronger shields, you might move your most buff teammate to the machine controlling shield power until the threat was over. If speed was most important, you'd put your speedsters on the treadmill. Or maybe at some point everyone would have to "lift" at the same time to get over an obstacle. The variations are limitless.

sounds a lot like it would actually get in the way of an effective workout. It's not a good idea to just arbitrarily jump from one kid of exercise to another, and if the game was any sort of actual game (as opposed to just a leader board)the emergent gameplay would mean just that
I also have instant overload but I must admit, this is one of the better instant apps I've seen! And no begging for a job. :)
Ok, I'm not selling the software I'm selling the license. Or, I'm selling the media and packaging not software, no way.

I'm sure it's not the case but more absurd things are held up regularly. Just need expensive lawyers to argue the point with a straight face and earnest demeanor.
Since the founder is reading this thread, I'll ask here: why do you require people to log in before downloading anything?
> Would anyone buy such a book.

Seen Amazon's ebook sales figures?
Electric car jointly made by Tesla and Toyota will debut at LA Auto Show
What Happened to Yahoo (and What Could Happen to iAd)
>>>Yet, I have never felt as disturbed by overbearing government as I have in SF. There are a number of examples that I wont go into but the overall feeling is that of an overbearing, authoritarian state that tries to force you into doing things the SF way. Not only does there seem to be more of this in California in general but in SF in particular.
You won't even provide an example... Come on, this is HN back it up with some evidence.

>>>Also NYC women > SF women. Period.
That is entirely debatable. The women in NYC are going to be much higher maintenance. I really like the women in SF, they are much more intelligent and down to earth. Not as much as Portland, but better than So Cal and NYC for sure.
R and S already have completely different scoping rules (S is dynamically scoped, while R has static scope, although quite broken according to the article). So it might be totally possible to develop a third language with mostly the same syntax (so snippets from papers that don't explore the darker corners of the existing semantics can be reused or easily adapted) and this time consistent scoping rules. If it would be worthwhile, I don't know.
My 2cents: Have fun. A career is worthless if it's not fun.
Because too many have abused the site with bots and automated scripts. It has literally taken down the site more times than I care to remember.

We also have to keep track of things like who is uploading what for DMCA protection.
Building a next generation of statistical computing.
Not sure why people are downvoting him either. On my OS X Chrome, "Blow" is the beginning of a line, not the end of one. Rendering differences browsers make strategic linebreaks hard.

It's a shame, because that would have made the article much more fun.
Are you logging your queries? If you have enough searches you could build your own predictions. You're also proxying results, so you could use those to build an index too.
Acquisition condolences
Some companies do, others don't. Often what you think would be your business model turns out to be totally wrong and you need to change it. Even if you have a business model you should still be looking for others until you know the first one works.
As far as I'm concerned, that's quite a cop out. You can understand the magic if you go so far as to drudge through the Rails core code. It's really simple to do, as its all on GitHub. If they are "dynamically put together" (which I'm assuming you mean things like method_missing, etc.), you should increase your level of Ruby knowledge, as that will get you farther when reading the source code.

http://github.com/rails/rails
The study revealed that only 42/100 from the group who used antibacterial hand gel contracted rhinovirus infections vs 51/100 for the control group. Similarly, 12 from the experimental group got swine flu vs 15 in the control group. Wouldn't that suggest that the antibacterial hand gel had a measurable, albeit small, effect?
Almost every time I dig to find out how the magic works, much like the performance art, I end up disappointed, scared or both.
That's assuming he did not turn 30 :P
To be fair, the sparse matrix package is still very rough. I am highly skeptical of the 1sec in java vs 8 hours in scipy, though.

In general, numpy/scipy is quite faster than R: it does not have the pass by value semantics for once. I am also skeptical about writing a "new" R: the main value of R is in the R packages. Any new language would threw that away.
University Bans Social Media for a Week
"Dislikes" may be stronger than you want, but would you agree if it were changed to "recognized shortcomings"?

Let's use Ruby for an example. You discounted performance because it never matters in web development. Fine. Here are 5 more issues that do come up in web development. Not using native threads makes it easy for a poorly coded C extension (for instance a database driver) to block all threads. Common classes of errors (eg typos in variable names) can only be caught at run-time. Some widely used libraries use monkey patching, and with dependencies it is very easy to pull one in without realizing it, only to get burned later in what should be an unrelated library. By default gem does not run unit tests at installation, which makes it less likely that developers will get prompt feedback about issues like platform-specific code or unspecified dependencies. While mix-ins are convenient, they provide opportunities for conflicts and make it harder to track down the source of a method when you're trying to debug something.

I don't even use Ruby very much. If I did, I could easily come up with a much larger list. (My primary language is Perl. You should see the list of complaints I have about it! Yet I still like it. And for the record I like Ruby as well.)

Edit: I only included 4 issues initially, so I just added another.
Giving up on Google
Kindle's new ad burns iPad
when you have to spread your updates across 7 different controller actions (methods) to make it work the Rails way, it most certainly is a rails problem.
I was in the marching band my first quarter. There are 200 people I know at every football game.
This resonates well with my experience. One of the first-time burners in our group said that the most shocking thing to her was that "everybody is doing exactly what they want to do at that particular moment".

It's like vacation on steroids -- everybody is happy because they are doing exactly what they want to do right then (in the context of the event, of course).
I created a YouTube Instant Search and it's not hitting any road blocks... it loads all videos and image thumbnails from YouTube, and auto suggestions from Google and it loads pretty fast check it out: http://www.youtubeinstantsearch.com