skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agh. Here's me still thinking it's still 2010.

Yeah, unfortunately things really haven't changed since the review: we're still on the same major version (2.6) that we were when the review was published. (Hence the comment at the end about development seeming to have slowed a ton.)
If that happens, you call the cops like the victim of any other kind of assault.

Like any other assault, you need proof that abuse actually happened and you just didn't slip and fall. And how is a 8 year old kid supposed to know? Also what about the threats to bring them to China, free to beat them as much as they like, if they told the police? (And yes all this actually happened).

That's my point. Having an Asian significant other would be too much of a reminder of their shitty upbringing

Maybe that's true to a small extent, but the statistics from Okcupid shows that skin color is a much greater factor.
And I strongly suspect he was hit by more than one.
That does not mean the acceptance rate is near 80%.

Imagine 100 people apply, 50 of which are Asian. 5 people get in, 1 of which is Asian. 20% of the total accepted are Asian, but the acceptance rate among Asians is 2% and 8% for other races.
Downey's PDF is presented as a series of puzzles with hints and answers. It makes for an enjoyable few hours sharpening your concurrency skills. Covers much more ground than the "igloo book". Uses Python and C for examples -- much nicer than reading old-style Pascal code.
classic infographic spam, check below the image, there is a link.
FWIW - I made "the simplest possible Wordpress theme" in an effort to understand what the bare minimum Wordpress theme requires (to get into their theme directory). You can see it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/simplest
How is Megastore different from BigTable?
this will be great for generating website background, can be saved to image?
can final images be used in commercial products?
What's the point of a "hierarchy" then, if the "upper" levels do not depend on the "lower" ones? Basically what you're saying here is a tautology: one is able to operate at a "level" that, well, one is able to operate at.
there's also this, showing free developed countries that filter child porn. 3 other maps for other types of blocking too.

http://map.opennet.net/filtering-soc.html
Regarding "the inevitable future": why the heck would we bother? The post itself gives precisely the reason that this won't happen:

> This world of pervasive video necessitates beauty. It values physical poise, wardrobe, and the tenor of one’s voice.

I can answer the phone in my underwear. I can't video-call someone in my underwear. That's a reason to avoid video-calling, not a reason to get dressed.

The kinds of new technologies that see instant adoption are the kinds that make ordinary life easier and more comfortable. Video calling is harder and more formal than voice-calling (which is itself harder and more formal than textual communication.) It won't get used in the majority of situations, where the informational content just needs to be efficiently pushed to another person with as little personal effort expended as possible.

The one use it will have is in status signaling, in situations where one needs to show they really care and are expending a lot of energy on the call (calling your wife, calling your grandparents, doing a phone job interview in a suit.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid_Kordestani
Why video chat will never succeed, by David Foster Wallace
Is his network closely connected to the PG/YC network?

Yes, he's an investor in both YC funds and one of the most prolific investors in YC companies. He's also a regular speaker at the YC dinners each round.
Ah, it seems you're suffering from a cognitive bias. ;)

Some people on HN do not fit your self-reflected view of useful, busy and productive. Reading continuously is a good way to keep the mind sharp and moving even when the body can't do much. On good days I can type a few pages, but other days, I can barely operate a trackball to use the web. In addition to books, code and other tech/science/research news aggregation sites, HN is a real blessing.

I'm happy to say I often spend all day here reading on HN.
I'm physically too useless to be a real hacker or entrepreneur any more, and I can't contribute too much to HN, but someone has to flag the spam in the 'newest' queue so the rest of you don't have to see it. I actually happy to be your janitor. It's a whole lot better than not being able to be your janitor, and it's often the only way to say thanks for all the interesting articles and insightful posts.
You know cantelon, I'm going to think twice next time before I take up a position that the people who agree are quiet, and the people who disagree are loud. I put my perspective and reasoning up as impersonally as possible, and people are voting up someone who blames everyone else for their problems, saying he hates me and "fuck you"? It's... I dunno man, there's been some good discussion but I'm incredibly disappointed with some people just empathy-voting up raw hostility. I'll answer this though -

> Sometimes obsession with external validation masks the same things.

Y'know, I don't care about someone's motives if they're conducting themselves well... if someone gives to charity out of a desire to glorify themselves, that's totally okay in my book. Likewise, someone who invents just to have their name on an invention or innovation. A lot of great scientists, inventors, philanthropists, builders, and people who did good things really liked seeing their name in print. So be it, if they're doing good things.

> There are no easy answers as to what is best for any given human, but there's definitely a market for those looking for the kind of easy answers that Amy Chua is selling.

Indeed... or like the everyone is a unique snowflake craze, eh? There aren't easy answers. I dunno man, I come in here to share an alternative point of view. There's some good feedback/disagreement, but I'm a little surprised and let down by people giving the nod to really personal nasty hostility.
I can answer the phone in my underwear. I can't video-call someone in my underwear. That's a reason to avoid video-calling, not a reason to get dressed.

Under current standards in the current time, I agree. But from a historical perspective, it's likely that standards will change over the long-term, as they did for, say, women's beachwear or corporate dress.

If we reach a time when almost everyone is working from home in their PJs, we should also wind towards such dress being accepted in semi-formal contexts. Consider jeans in the workplace now. Even 30 years ago, a CEO wearing jeans at a board meeting couldn't be taken seriously whereas now it's almost a cliché in tech firms (compare early 80s and 2010 Steve Jobs). The dress of the typical tech CEO now would probably induce fainting or rage in the board members of the typical pre-1960s corporation..
I like to think that I know C# pretty well, but I must admit I haven't had that much time to fool around with .NET 4 as I like. I knew about dynamic types and ExpandoObject, but I didn't know you could operate on the ExpandoObject as a Dictionary, something which (IMO) greatly expands its viable usecases.

If nothing else, at least you enlightened one .NET developer and I'll definitely bookmark your post for future use.
Play the Tic/Tac/Toe challenge between Hacker News and Reddit
Very Excited to launch http://www.TeamPinch.com on Facebook.

This is a simple game of Tic/Tac/Toe played between Hacker News and Reddit over the period of a week.

Teams make one move every day.

First move is by hacker news so please go to http://www.TeamPinch.com and play now.

At midnight Central Standard Time (CST) the most popular move for the day, voted by the this group, will be taken as the group's move and the game progresses to Reddit.

Please also help me tell Reddit this and call them to the Challenge
I'll try it.. Tnx!
Concurrency in Go: A Call Center Tutorial
Selected three files and started uploading, some seconds later it crashed my Chrome (10.0.628.0 dev on Win7). And that header is really a mess (like richcollins said). Too bad I can't say anything positive about it (I would if it worked for me :)).
Your BlackBerry or Your Wife
I'd like to know more specifically the choice of acceptable instruments. My observation is that the choices of piano and violin are not limited to Asian families (at least, not in the US). There seems to be a link between people who wish to foster academic excellence in their children, and the choice to have them play piano and/or violin. I'd be interested to know if anyone here has any insights as to why those particular instruments are chosen, and I'd be even more interested to know why other instruments would be strictly excluded (whether by Asian parents or those of other heritage).

Personally, I think it is a good idea to have kids learn piano for at least a couple of reasons. First, I think the visual layout of a piano can help attach a physical understanding to the concept of intervals and chords (specifically the distance between notes, and the clustering of notes in specific patterns to form chords). For me personally, I think that was a benefit, even though I play piano very little, and not very well. Secondly, I don't recall ever meeting an adult who took lessons as a child for any length of time (and then quit) who as an adult does not wish they had continued. Now surely there will be at least 7 people on HN who will now speak up, inform me that they hated lessons as a child, happily quit when they were able and never regretted it for a second. But unless my memory is failing me, that must mean we've never met (or at least we've never discussed piano lessons), and thus my statement still stands :-D To that I will add, that even with a number of "I quit and I'm glad" entries, I still think the majority of the adults in question wish they hadn't quit.

Oh, and a third reason to play piano: they make nice weighted, touch-sensitive keybords now that do a pretty decent job of mimicking the feel of a real piano (at least close enough for me), and you can move them from room to room and house to house by yourself. (You won't have to get 3 to 5 of your soon to be ex-best friends to help you). We sold our old upright piano about 3 moves ago, and I've been celebrating the sale ever since :-D
The version number was touted by tech blogs and other media, but not by the Chrome team themselves, a point which they made in response to a comment here on HN if I remember correctly.
Purely feature wise they might might be comparable, but features isn't where PSE's strength lies. Photoshop Elements has done a lot of UI work to make common tasks really easy. Someone who has never done any photo editing before can probably sit down with PSE and quickly get pretty great results without any major problems. The same can definitely not be said about The Gimp.
Graphics editing in a browser window
I have it as an App Tab in Firefox 4... I don't know what you count that as...
Yeah, the stages are more important though, rather than just REM sleep. People who are sleep deprived (or depressed) will frequently descend almost immediately into REM sleep, even during a nap.

I'm not exactly sleep deprived but have a messed up circadian rhythm that messes with my hours and I frequently have intense dreams within the first 30 minutes of sleep. Fun for me but not a great sign ;-)
Thanks for the interesting article. Readers should take care to notice that it is dated summer of last year. It is still an interesting opinion.
In my opinion there is.
In Photoshop you can attach dropshadows (layer styles) to layers. This will save you a lot of time when something changes. I used Photoshop and Gimp. I can create the same images in Gimp but it just takes a lot more time. For hobby that's ok, but for work it's not. Thats why people are willing to pay a lot for Photoshop.
One thing that is bothering me in Gimp is that there is a layer size. Seems like a minor thing. But these are the little things that get in the way of working quick.
the majority of that punctuation isn't part of the ruby syntax, to be fair.
+1 for effort

But I have a hard time seeing people get interested in a game of tic tac toe that takes a week to complete, unless I am missing something?
That means 3 months of "a bit too hot" (although 90ies isn't too bad), and 9 months of "pretty good". Someplace like Oregon, where I grew up, has 2/3 months of beautiful summer weather, and 9 months of mostly crappy weather.
You're right.

The other good thing about 3dNow was that it was the first attempt at cleaning up Intel's x87 mess.
> so if you're doing work targeted at a computer screen, it probably doesn't matter anyway

Actually, it matters regardless of output device. With higher bit depths, less rounding errors accumulate over time as the image is processed, for example when effects are applied, yielding higher overall output quality.

Here is an example, although after many iterations quality loss can be much more dramatic than visible in that picture: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/16-bit/page-3....
There are several good alternatives to GIMP depending on what you're doing. GIMP is probably the best for traditional photo editing, but there seems to be more programs oriented toward illustration. In particular, I like Krita.

I don't really know what the deal is with the low development interest in GIMP. I think maybe it's that Photoshop's professional niche generally isn't comprised of big fan of computers in the first place, so they are more like the Office crowd and just want to use what they're used to; they're hostile to any change from the start.

I also think that the extremely long development cycle of GEGL, which was necessary for the most commonly requested features like increased bit depth, CMYK, etc., may have turned developers off.

I'm merely guessing here, though. I definitely agree that GIMP has a lot of potential, and a few dedicated developers could really take it places.
I agree Photoshop sets the expectations high.
But I don't agree that a non-commercial product cannot reach that level. Take a look at Blender.
I am scared that your four year old will now compare the visual excitement of virtual worlds to reality.
I think it is exact, but just a part of the total image is shown in the frame (the lower left part, look for it).
How is Evan Prodromou a poor candidate? I don't know him personally, but he seems to have solid credentials.
This reminds me of Why The Lucky Stiff's response to a critique of Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080526055424/redhanded.hobix.co...

"The problem here is: the author of the article is trying to do academics, to gain knowledge, to build a career. And my cartoons and stories have patronized him, belittled him, by treating him as if he wasn’t a real professional. This is a terrible breach of conduct. He has accolades innumerable. He has done no small deed. His peers are all gathered around him, wishing him the best and swelling with nothing but respect and esteem for him. NOW WHAT IS THIS CARTOON BOOK DOING HERE??"

On a more serious note, it sounds like you were just above the level of material that the textbooks were trying to teach, or maybe the format just didn't work for you. But why shouldn't learning be fun?
Dragging a file into the browser window (Chrome 8, Win 7) I get a popup saying "Invalid extension: <full filename>".

I guess it can use some more work.
Automatic Construction of Travel Itineraries using Flickr
Thanks.. I am hoping it will pick up as it nears the end. after all, somebody's got to win and it is an interesting group IQ experiment.
I might be horribly wrong in all this but I HAD to test the hypothesis :-)
I agree with you, I'm talking about more specific but anoying things, like for example:

When using the Move tool, Instead of moving the selected layer by default, the option checked is "pick a layer automatically" which never does the job.

Text editing its a pain compared to photoshop.

Lots of filters dont have a real-time preview, which make applying them a futile exercise of guessing

Layers have bounds that doesnt correspond with the content of the layer (maybe somebody finds this useful, I hate it)

The plugins for Layer effects are all a mess and its easier to do it by hand

Its impossible to select a group of layers, and I dont mean to apply some filter or edit them, I mean to organize the layers. Move up a group, etc. There is no way to create folders of layers... There is no way to hide/show a group of layers...

All this kind of quirks make the program anoying to use for big projects, and I hate it because its completely capable of getting the same results (at my level) than PS, it just takes a lot of time because the UI...
Yes.

I used GIMP exclusively between 1999 and about 2009. There was always something coming in the next version that would fix GIMP. Color profiling, single window, better text tools, etc. They never did. GIMP doesn't even bother subscribing to GNOME's HIG. It's cast adrift in the world of Linux, and after a decade of using it I'm now happily on Pixelmator on OS X.
At what size for a consumer app do you start getting "noticed"?

I would very interested to hear what kind of product you made.
Maybe you should market Perl as uncool and weird and without annoying yuppies like DHH. ;P
Learning to write code
There is this simple thing I want to do. I have an web entrepreneurship idea and want to develop it into product all by myself instead of going for technical co-founder. Please help/suggest/recommend over learning programming (I am targeting 6 months to ship my product).
I assume you're referring to the ultra low voltage sandy bridge parts parts. AMD's Ontario and Llano, coming out later this year, will be very competitive with these parts. Not to mention cheaper to produce.
Would be nice to have to source -- I could tweak it for people like myself who are trying to learn the colemak layout. The initial word set would just come from the home-row and slowly branch out to other letter positions.
Another missing feature for me is lack of a CYMK color palette. Vital for sending images to the printers.
I think our money needs to be working towards things that we actually care about: advancing science and technology, creating art, socializing, and so on. Putting it all into a big game of craps is not going to improve the human condition in the long run. I mean, it's an interesting game, but not interesting enough to justify the entire economy revolving around it. And people don't play because they find it interesting.
Here's another that's been sitting in my bookmarks:
How to Build a Custom WordPress Theme from Scratch - http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-build-a...
Venturocket
Zip your stuff in javascript
Very good infographic, would have helped if more info had been provided. Useful anyway
Yep. Replays are exact, which was a conscious choice on my part.

I plan to explore inexact replays in the future. It's not difficult, just a bit of fooling about with the random number generator.

The main issue right now is that you can't tell the difference between two similar Silks unless you have them side-by-side. Solving that problem is something I'm looking into for future versions. :-)
On the internet you are your own public relations agent, so I can imagine why people wouldn't want to use video chat because I can think of reasons similar to those described why I wouldn't want to video chat frequently. Video gives out many more cues than audio only, or mere text, and if you're doing anything in a professional capacity via the internet you might not want the person you're communicating with to be able to easily obtain lots of incidental information about your life. This will apply even moreso as jobs are outsourced to poorer areas of the world.
I'm just saying loafers isn't a deal breaker. Past societies dealt with it by not allowing it. If we ever realize a future utopia we could probably live with a small percentage of the population spending their whole life doing nothing but gaming. But it is my strong (completely unprovable without actually trying it) suspicion that many people who game their lives away actually would rather be doing something else (e.g. working in a space station), they just don't feel they have the option.
congrats, guys!
Alex, try hitting 'e' once you've woven a Silk. The little transparent <img> that pops up to the top right is full-size. Right-click it to save, and double-click it to hide.
3D Diva
Actually, the numbers I get are much lower than that (almost two orders of magnitude), but I suspect it is at least partly due to bad usage of couchdb.

I am actually working on simple benchmarks representative of what we do to see if there is something worth submitting as bug issues.
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Ask HN: What makes a blog great?
I will get right to the point: what do you think is the recipe for a great blog? What makes for a great blog? What's your secret?

I'm sure most of the people will say: QUALITY of the blog. But what is quality without exposure. If you have exposure but no QUALITY then you're certainly doomed to fail. There are a lot of examples like this.

So to recap: What do you think makes a great blog, starting small and ending big?

Thanks,
Daniel
YES! Am addicted, completely! How can i stop, please help.
I've read a book by Niel Postman where he points out that the medium your working in changes how you craft a message. I believe he was right in stating that a text-based medium promotes reasoning to a greater degree.

I think Marshall McLuhan's views on this are worth revisiting as well, though he's currently a bit out of favor among media-studies and communications-studies folks. He's admittedly a bit extreme in parts (he seems to sometimes really believe that the "medium is the message"), but there's a lot of good stuff in Laws of Media on how different technical choices for representing and conveying information will structure and influence the information that's conveyed, as opposed to being mere implementation details.
Too bad that I was apparently downvoted for the rest of the post.
Videochat failed because it tried to replace something the telephone was good at and unique. However, it may work to mitigate the need to travel for face-to-face meetings... or to uniquely provide common-space environments for distributed offices. The second option would require large high-definition screens and high-speed internet.
Except we've had capitalism for thousands of years now and the majority of people who seem to have those large aspirations are psychopaths who want to rule the world (or at least the ones who manage to achieve really large scale success of their goals).

I also think "due to capitalism solving most of our problem" is a bit of a stretch. It's solving most of the problems of the rich people of the west but I bet the world's hungry don't find it so grand. Especially since there is plenty of food to feed them. There's just no money in doing so.
Possible reason for the iOS alarm clock bug
seen Google Short Links by Google Labs?
http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?pro...

http://bit.ly/pro/ is also worth a look
Nice concept - keep up the good work!
Same way I do it. Too much good stuff to distract from work otherwise.
Good point. These are idiomatic constructs that require familiarity in order to effectively use them.