skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read the paper, but it's worth noting that the paper is not in <i>Nature</i>, as the linked article claims, but in <i>Nature Cancer Review</i>. <i>Nature Cancer Review</i> publishes news and commentary. The paper is published as a "Perspectives" article; such articles are meant to provide commentary on "the implications and applications of science in our society." It looks like "Perspectives" articles are not even peer-reviewed (only "Review"-type articles are). Very unlike <i>Nature</i>. Rosalie David's last paper in <i>Nature</i> was in 1987.
You haven't made an argument against an NGO operated cafe, you've made an argument against an NGO operated cafe that pays out all its earnings.

Also, assuming that they have any sort of tax or cost advantage (if only from people willing to donate time/effort), for the same amount of business they have more money to put towards their purpose, be it for investment in more cafes or for educating more students now.
Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP by Michael J. Quinn

It's been kicking around in my closet for too long now. Free to any HNer who could use it, though I'd appreciate it if shipping were covered.
tam.ww.com > 207.192.70.33
Cheers.
This was awesome. It's one of the few things I've seen that literally shows a transformative event on video.
I hope they stick to their word on this. I'm tired of the search results on the Graph API disappearing for hours at a time.
I'm doing a bunch of customer development at the moment. Would love to chat before you use it in production somewhere.
Isn't minecraft making like, a house a day in revenue? Is it really worth tossing ads in forums?

Anyway I'd suggest you guys chat with CPMStar - http://www.cpmstar.com, they're the king of gaming-ad-stuff.

Drop me an email (check my profile) and I'll pass you the addresses I know there.
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I would guess that most Afghan fighters are more tribalist than either Islamist or nationalist.
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Can I have nyc.ww.com cnamed to nyc.wizard-domains.com (which I'll add for this purpose!) I see that it's taken but inactive. Otherwise nycme.ww.com. =)
Ask HN: Review my new site, txtspoof.com
Throwaway account.

I created a site that lets you send text messages as other people. It's US (and GSM carrier) only for the time being.

Launched about a month ago and have gotten a few thousand users, couple thousand hits a day, and a decent amount of income. It's pizza profitable, if you will.

My biggest question is regarding usability. Is the site navigable? Do you get the purpose right away? How does the site look?

My second question is...what do you think? I've been getting called a forum for cyber bullying on the web by no less than FoxNews. At the same time, I've been getting praise from a lot of young people who I think are just using it to have some good-natured fun. I genuinely believe that the site does have some serious use cases as well...mainly in anonymously tipping off people.
I'll be implementing the ability to have your number blocked soon to alleviate some of the more negative reactions people may have, as well.
http://txtspoof.com Clickable
I think it has more to do with how his runtime performs. :)

Tuning Lua code really isn't that hard, the language is tiny and has both semantics and performance characteristics that are easy to reason about accurately.

There's a good sample chapter from _Lua Programming Gems_ on Lua performance tuning (http://www.lua.org/gems/sample.pdf), FWIW. That and a good profiler will get you far.
Divided technical leadership was, indeed, important, up until the point where the hardware platforms converged. At that point it became a stumbling block to progress in application software.

The problem was that the hardware platforms were converging in terms of functionality, but not at the all-important register and ISA level. Consequently the OSes were not converging at all. Let's assume I don't have time to read a 27-page .PDF -- do the authors address the economic impact of the lack of a common platform for application development?

It's possible that somebody would have duct-taped some sort of graphical shell to CP/M and gained some traction, but at best, they'd have ended up doing exactly what Microsoft did by duct-taping a graphical shell to MS-DOS. People who walk into computer stores want to be told what to buy.

In the end it won't matter, if you believe that HTML is the next platform. In that case we'll all end up running dumb terminals anyway, and it won't matter what chips and what OSes are handling the UI. But that was never something that was going to happen in the 25 critical years between 1985 and 2010, when the commodification of high-performance PC hardware took place. We will not see another "window" of opportunity like that, and we absolutely would not have seen that one happen without Wintel, or something very much like it.
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Thanks for the link. Corrected now.
Wow, great story, I have a similar one, a guy registers Orlando.com because orlandosurfnet is not available and he wants to do an ISP. Anyway, ISP does not go so well so he slaps up a booking engine from HRN now hotels.com and starts making a little bit of revenue. So HRN, Disney and a few other players are all after the domain and bombard the guy with lawyers. I am pretty sure he had Aspergers or some other form of high functioning autism. So I think it freaked him out and he just was not budging. So we go down to his office, talk to the guy take him to lunch find out what he really wants to do and just don't bombard the guy. We finalized the paperwork that day and grabbed it out from under the other players. Anyway, your story just reminded me that a little honest conversation and a little less business can go a long way some times. In the end everyone got what they wanted. Well not everyone but all the parties I was interested in did.
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symkat.ww.com CNAME -> symkat.com

Email sent! <3
Possibly. But the question was, was a proprietary OS needed at all? I wasn't defending Microsoft or Intel specifically, just pointing out that the PC revolution damned sure was not going to happen if left up to Apple, Commodore, IBM, and the Unix geeks.
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We're not connected with the people behind Minecraft, we're totally separate entities. The forums and wiki are community ran and while we've had brief discussions with the Minecraft company (Mojang) nothing has come of it. The general consensus is that we're best operating as separate entities, it means Mojang can focus on game development and we can focus on growing the community, it means that we can remain impartial (although whether or not that is an issue, I have no idea). We've never had a penny of Minecraft proceeds :-)

I'll send an email now, it'd be great to talk to some people over at cpmstar!
Also, Lua has a couple bignum libraries available (a GMP wrapper, etc.) - it's explicitly noted in the manual that using doubles for Lua numbers by default is just a pragmatic trade-off, and they can be adapted as necessary.
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Oh sorry mate my mistake heh.
The problem I have with GWT is that fundamentally Javascript is a better language, warts and all, than Java.
Its from his TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movemen...
I'd add a pair of channel locks to cover %50-%70 of your DIY plumbing needs.
Yes. While I understand annoyance with floating point accuracy bugs (having been burned by inch/mm conversion and pi/radian bugs before), numbers over 2^53 are large enough that they aren't likely to appear unexpected - if your domain needs bignums, you'll probably know it - so it's a reasonable trade-off.
More of a reader on HN than anything, and if the 20 karma limit is strict then I am asking for upvotes :)

but could you http://techbio.ww.com -> http://techbio.org?

(The .com is domainered.)
More anecdotal evidence!

Last night, I jokingly asked my SO what 30/4 was. They said 8.25. Seriously. And they're an academic that does math for a living.

I never got past single variable calculus, but I can do most 2 digit math in my head, accurately.
> the game is what you the player want to make it

Interesting -- I know nothing about it, but it sounds like it might appeal to people who want to learn video game programming, at least perhaps the ones that don't want to go into hardcore engine programming.
In a comment a bit over a year ago, I noted that JS was being increasingly used as an object code; I asked whether people thought it was suitable for that use.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=792547

There was some disagreement in the replies to my comment, but the general consensus seemed to be that JS is very suitable for use as an object code.

But this article makes me wonder. Increasingly, we're compiling HLLs into an object code that only kinda-sorta has integer arithmetic. Is this a good idea? I'm dubious, to say the least. Certainly this property of JS puts some nontrivial constraints on the design of an HLL that can be efficiently compiled into JS.

In any case, interesting post.
There is a theory of autism as "extreme maleness." The autism researchers I know don't give it too much credit, though.
You know I have been watching these with interest. I think someone is trying to beat the turring test. The always seem to be in context, but don't seem to quite jive with the conversation. I have seen some that are pretty decent. I wonder if someone is using the voting system as feedback as to how well the bot is parsing the conversation and developing a convincing response. It is the only logical explanation that I can think of, They are never a good troll, they don't pitch viagra or some other crap, but obviously someone has put the effort to get it onto the board. The question is why. My thought is the kind of guy that would be trying to beat the turring test would be lurking on HN. Just a thought.

Update: well ok maybe not for this guy I see he posted later on down in the thread. But his first post did follow a pattern that I have been noticing in other threads.
>build a graphical HTML5 game as a finale

sounds great, I'm interested.

My favorite programming class was an intro course in python where we generated fractals, programmed maze solvers, built conway's game of life, and had an option of creating a 3D pool game for final project, etc: http://cs.northwestern.edu/~akuzma/classes/EECS110-s10/index...

Although the course is intended for people who have never programmed before, it allows you to do a lot of cool stuff by deliberately not explaining how the libraries used are implemented. I don't think using external libraries in tutorial books is bad, as long as you change\vary the library being used each problemset or chapter. Then no one library is enforced as canon. The student just learns the generalized methodology of hooking in with other people's code and writing a decoupled application, which are essential practical programming.

I think it's OKAY to risk throwing in slightly off-topic components in a learning-by-doing book. The best "django" book I've seen had a chapter all about jQuery\JavaScript.

Games are still always good problem domains for enhancing student engagement even if they are text-based. Having now looked at the sample chapter, I'm sure you did a great job and I'll put it on my to buy list.
How Yahoo's Latest Acquisition Stole & Broke My Heart
People individually are (usually) reasonable; but the mob is stupid, prone to fads, shallow thinking, and at worst hysteria and social panics. It's part of the reason nobody does direct democracy: it doesn't work.

Instead, we elect representatives who have a balancing act: they need to help create policies with some depth - at the very least, thinking about second-order effects - without alienating their core constituencies.

Not alienating your core constituency is very different from upholding every promise you make to different segments to your core constituencies; most importantly, because these promises are often contradictory. I believe politicians make those promises because they need to overemphasize group membership with each individual segment, so that they can win enough support for office. But it's one thing to tell your friend you back them 100%; it's quite another to do something which destroys the friendship.

What would happen if every politician were held to account, to their promises? I can think of two scenarios in extremis: every politician in the field acts honestly (i.e. doesn't break their promises), and thusly cannot gain enough support to be an effective legislator; or every politician acts dishonestly (i.e. breaks their promises), politics becomes ever more infected with cynicism, and legislators are made weaker by this cynicism and perceived lack of legitimacy.

In both cases, I think it's corrosive and damaging to democracy. I'm not a fan of sites like this.

I think it would be better to keep track of donations / campaign contributions (and including organizational affiliations of personal contributors, etc.) and actual votes, and how these votes affect these individuals and organizations. In effect, build a performance-measuring tool with the assumption that politicians are paid shills; make the bribery of contributions obvious, ultimately to try and reduce their effects.
I have quite a bit of Python and Django if you'd like
He's just linking to twitter and Taleb. Whether or not its true is beyond me, what's sort of irresponsible is everyone pointing to everyone else for confirmation w/o any sort of definitive source.
Unfortunately I've nothing Apple specific; however, I've been saving to get Knuth's magnum opus.

OTOH, I can definitely paypal you the cost of shipping and promise I can use them.
As another commenter noted, the news is simply that the phone is available (in stock) once again. I've been waiting for several weeks, and thought others may have been waiting as well. They tend to sell out so quickly that I thought posting would let my friends at hacker news have a chance to purchase one if they wish. While it's not necessarily representative of the majority of the hardware in people's hands, there is value to having a test phone that supports the latest version of the OS.

Of course, the interesting part of the story (at least to me) is that the phone seems to be much more popular in death than it ever was in life. I've noticed the number of accessories seems to be increasing rather than disappearing as you'd expect for a $500+ unsubsidized phone, and that google can't seem to keep them in stock (although this may just be due to the amount of orders they're making now vs the past).
I'm sorry if this is a total dumbass question:

Why would anyone want this? They would have to trust jacquesm (as well intentioned as he may be) to continue to have awesome intentions forever... and if he/she ever sold the domain, everyone who has setup a subdomain would probably loose all the links they might have built to it.

The only reason I could potentially see this being useful is as a url shortcut... but still, you risk the same situation as when/if a url shortner like bit.ly goes out of business.

When you're building your brand equity, you got to make sure you own the equity that you're building. If you have a domain name, use it. If you don't like it, get a better one.

Maybe I'm just missing something.
Git bare vs. non-bare repositories
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation; Hopcroft Ullmann (the cinderella book), Object Oriented Python; Goldwasser Letscher, An Introduction to Database Systems; Date, C Programming A Modern Approach; K.N King, Mastering Algorithms with C Loudon, Computer Logic Designs and Applications; Hsu. Live in Chicago, happy to help.
This is a wonderful, wonderful gesture.

I'm a massive lurker here, but if it's cool:
greg.ww.com else gregk.ww.com -> g.electro-h.ca

Thanks for chance.
And the dangers of these multiple kinds of radiation are...?

Damage to cells and damage to DNA. One is repaired.

Modifying protein structures results in one of the above, as does causing higher energy molecular interactions potentially causing abnormal chemicals for a particular area. We've now covered every effect radiation can have on your body. One is guaranteed permanent and thus cumulative. One is not, and is only dangerous in higher degrees, and by the time that gets high enough to kill you, you've suffered massive genetic damage and will probably die anyway from cancers.

All this of course is ignoring the possibility of radiation creating prions. I've heard of no studies which have found this to be the case, so I don't include it. And they cause cellular or genetic damage as well, so they're still accounted for, just more remotely.

The different kinds of radiation effectively just determine how much damage (energy of the particle / wave) and how far they penetrate. ie, alpha particles typically only penetrate up to a few centimeters, but have massively more energy, while gamma rays can easily pass through you entirely, with beta particles roughly in between.
Jobs and Zuckerberg Reportedly Discussed Ping Over Dinner
I've done that with my own tools, as an adult. I have not observed that being a specific age makes this sort of thing more likely. To avoid losing your tools, make anyone who uses them agree to put them away immediately after use (yourself included).
I guess you have not read the mantra around here, according to PG and I am paraphrasing here so forgive me if I don't do it justice. He does not want it to prosper beyond it's core focus. My understanding is that he is not interested in creating the next Slashdot or Reddit. As a former Slashdotter with a extremely low user id, I understand why, I witnessed it happening over time. With that prosperity comes a watered down environment where memes, on liners and +5 funny's, and flaming trolls such as yourself are the rage. It kills the brand and drives people like myself away. I lurked here for a long time before deciding to join, and the reason I finally did was the fact that there is a concerted effort to keep HN from becoming Slashdot.
Deflation is the result of demand for money rising faster than supply. Look at a basic supply/demand curve for an explanation of this.

The point about investment is that incentive to invest results in money being available for people who have the drive, energy and motivation to change the world to realize their dreams, even if they have not done it yet. If money is not available for investment those people's dreams get shattered before they change the world. This is a Bad Thing. (And generally results in a stagnant economy and persistently high unemployment.)

The current experience of bitcoin should not be deflation for the simple reasons that bitcoins continue to be issued, and should be issued for very good reasons.

You are right that an inflationary regime favors investors and producers. However it turns out that favoring investors and producers results in favoring the people who are most likely to result in investing in our future and producing things that make us all better off. Therefore favoring people who are trying to change the world for the better is a _Good Thing_ (tm).
1. We're talking about changing laws, so it would affect all lawyers pretty much equally.

Can you elaborate on this point? I don't see how a change in laws must affect all lawyers pretty much equally at all.

2. I don't think any supposed '"We don't get paid unless we get money for you" ambulance chasers' have a lot of cash either.

Seems like they have enough cash to take out huge adverts on TV and in phone books.
The Air is what Jobs shipped when he couldn't ship the iPad yet, but wanted to focus on elegant ambient computing.
A decent php dev can figure out how to hook up a memcached server and install apc. Most of the work is already done, I think it would be worth the couple hours to learn about caching, IMO. A little caching can go very far.
> Browsers and protocol standards are lacking in this respect, because they don't yet support templatized URLs.

? says "hi, I'm a question mark, and I'm feeling a bit lonely over here..."

> some metadata that tells the client how to fill in the template

Like a <form> </form> maybe?
My friends and I run a franchised food stall. After few months, we learned that manpower management is very critical as the turnover rate is very high in this business. Also stock management, to save operation cost.
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I am driving to Startup School from San Francisco and back. If you need a ride, ping me at 626 354 3675 or yury@yury.name.

If anyone else can offer a ride, leave a comment.
> You haven't made an argument against an NGO operated cafe, you've made an argument against an NGO operated cafe that pays out all its earnings.

Ah, there were some unstated assumptions in my post.

1. NGO leadership are usually from a different talent pool and background than business leadership.

2. Business leadership tend to outperform NGO leadership at growing a business.

This leads to the idea that a cafe operated for charity might produce less good than a cafe operated for business, as described above. I think it was definitely true in that specific case. Whether the NGO could've run in a more expansive, business-like fashion? I don't know. I'm inclined to guess no, but I'd be open to being pleasantly surprised.
Well, historically women were discouraged from doing anything intellectual. I read a biography of Ada Lovelace and she regularly corresponded with a medical doctor who in his letters advised her to not to so much math. It was believed that thinking too much would weaken the body. Good thing she didn't listen!

In adulthood, she also corresponded with her childhood math tutor. He wrote to her that his daughter was precocious at math, and he feared it would do her damage, so he actively discouraged his daughter... so much so that his wife complained to him that the daughter was now quite intellectually deficient.

Ada Lovelace only got where she was because she was raised by her mother who hated her poet father Lord Byron with such intensity that she considered it the ultimate revenge to completely prevent Ada from reading any literature, and spend all her time doing math. But most girls, like her tutor's daughter, were subject to the opposite treatment. It's not surprising that most women didn't do very much math.

>There is a reason 2 sexes exist... It is the behavioral and mental differences of the sexes that make the 2-sex species much stronger than otherwise.

Wow, that is the most bullshit explanation for sexual reproduction I have ever seen. The actual reason for the existence of sexual reproduction is still very much under research, but one plausible explanation is that it increases genetic diversity a la http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_Hypothesis

It certainly has absolutely nothing to do with making the species stronger. Natural selection does not work on a species level, only on the level of an individual organism or gene. If a species is not "strong" it goes extinct.
"109 new bugs were reported in Bugzilla"

I'm not sure that a post about developer love should contain the word "Bugzilla" unless the sentence begins with "We're migrating away from..."
1. Not rendering in mac chrome correctly.. http://i.imgur.com/rtgIn.jpg

2. Do you get the purpose right away? - No, I don't really see any utility for it other than what you stated. If someone really wanted to send a message anonymously, you can create a throwaway email account pretty easily.

3. I like the overall design. I would like to know who did it for you.

Best of luck with this.
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