skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Hanson doesn't say "Why don't the study's authors discuss possible explanations for this finding, such as xxx?" Instead, he insinuates that the authors were perfectly aware of this possible explanation, but think that their readers should not be exposed to it for some nefarious reasons (that's what the phrase "why doesn't X want us to hear Y" means colloquially). This sentence leads me to believe that Hanson is coming to this discussion with some biases of his own.

Anyway, other explanations could be that the result is not real (which Hanson does discuss at the end), or that women from these colleges choose lesser-paying careers for some reason other than that they are married to rich men ... perhaps women at elite colleges 25 years ago were unusually interested in charity work. I don't think Hanson's proposed explanation is necessarily wrong, but that phrase "why don't they want us to hear about this?" really rubs me the wrong way.
I tend to value my friends and my own moral code much more than I value the moral code of lawmakers. I won't say it's OK to break the law, but when there is a conflict, I will always recommend that you follow your own higher law. Of course, this will also be dependent on the legal risk involved; I wouldn't do time to avoid an [minor] insult to a friend, but I would accept the fine or other slap on the wrist that I expect would be given in this particular case.
No more review copies of iOS apps that can access the Internet
I'm not sure why I would look for postings and contact you. I just listed my CV there and employers started contacting me through the site. Do you have to pay extra for that or something?
Well that was quick. Who's gonna notify the notifier?
Added a basic gevent example here that is apparently about 10% better than the http.go wrt transaction rate.

https://github.com/traviscline/web_bench

(notice: I realize this is a highly synthetic benchmark and reading siege results like this is not good benchmarking)
Creating a Web Startup on MarkLogic
I assume any consumer OS will generate a symlink for compatibility reasons.
What lack of resources? Every symbol in Emacs is documented in detail via describe-function or describe-variable. Emacs ships with four entire books; "Emacs", "Emacs FAQ", "Emacs Lisp Intro", and "Elisp". "Emacs" documents pretty much every user-visible feature in Emacs, and "Elisp" documents every programmer-visible feature. (And yes, they are built in; try 'M-: (info "Elisp")'.

And if that's not enough, it comes with nearly a million lines of example code, that you can get at with three keystrokes; describe-function / describe-key (etc.), TAB (to select the link to the source code), ENT (to follow the link). From there, you can edit the code, press C-M-x, and immediately play with your changes. Emacs is written in Emacs Lisp, and you can view the code and edit it at runtime. This makes Emacs Lisp significantly easier to learn than pretty much anything else, where all you have books with snippets of code that nobody ever used or ever will use.

Emacs does not lack resources for learning Emacs Lisp.
thanks, we'll have that fixed it our next build
And has reached 3.6 million users overnight. That's incredible! I bet the developer is kicking himself for not monetizing with ads right away, that's a lot of traffic and a lot of money.
Yep, they say they are working on it right now. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/80390/why-does-it-sa...
You seem to be glossing over a lot of details to make this sound like a good thing, just because you like Apple and you don't like Amazon and Apple wins in this situation while Amazon loses. For example, the pricing is discriminatory — Apple doesn't have to pay 30% of all its profits from its competing service to anybody. And shutting out entire classes of apps that are no longer financially viable isn't friendly to the customer.

Imagine if Apple didn't take money they hadn't earned at all — suddenly there wouldn't be any problem.
Gowalla CTO on the company's use of Ruby
Google Blocks Facebook Contact Imports On Android
New USDA Diet Guidelines Seen As Falling Short
We organized the page to showcase our top content/broadcasters, highlight joining crowds, and to simplify the navigation between categories.
I find it kinda amazing how rumor becomes mythology which eventually morphs into accepted fact. Apple has good relationships with game developers. They may not kowtow to egomaniacs, and it always seems a roll of the dice whether a given iteration of hardware compromises results in a pan or a plug from carmack.

I develop apps. This is how I make my living. It would take a complete reversal of apple's attitudes and directions to get me to develop for android. Apple treats me well, pays me on time, and has a viable market where the rules are consistent and reasonable.

Apple treats game developers well. Apple embraced OpenGL way back in the day so that developers could write to one API and deploy on multiple platforms (even Linux, presumably) This isn't Java, of course, but then, Apple also supported Java completely until it became obvious Java had lost in the marketplace (or market segment.)

Apple provides great APIs and functionality to support games on iOS. Maybe Google will catch up, but they're still working on allowing native development.

But this subscription thing is a perfect example of the disconnect between android lovers and reality. Apple has offered a new mechanism to make payments to developers. Do you think developers are angry about this? You think we're switching to android because Apple allows us to sell our software by subscriptions? Why would we be angry? This gives us more flexibility, and saves us the hassle of setting up paypal or whatever.... I've got thousands of customers, and I can assure you, less than a fraction of a percent of them visit my website.

As a developer for and a user of iOS this just furthers Apple's value to me.

I've considered porting apps to Android. I'm not inclined to because I'd rather spend the time making new apps in a market I know is viable for my type of apps.

To win me over, Android would need to:
1) Provide native development (in progress)
2) provide a level of APIs and frameworks of comperable quality to Cocoa touch
3) provide a hardware reference platform and require android licensees to build to it (apparently impossible)
4) develop enough of a market of that common reference platform such that I can develop no more than 2 variations and address >%90 of the market (I develop two versions for iOS an iPad and an iPhone version.)
5) Provide a market where I can sell internationally, where people can easily buy my product, and where people are in the habit of doing so. Right now that's three things the android market doesn't offer.
Try out the semantic desktop using Aperture
As someone who works in a deal-a-day startup, I can only describe your comment as naive. Deal a day sites seem very easy to implement technically, but trust me, thats only 10% of the equation.
You need a Facebook App Breakup Notifier app.
Well, I can trace back 3-4 generations, at least in terms of surnames and maiden names, and none of the people I've talked to are even from the same parts of Europe or know of any relatives with the same last names (with one exception for Miller, which is a very common name). I've talked to several Ukrainians, one Portuguese, and one Argentinian - whereas my family is English, Dutch, German, Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian. As far as I know I didn't have any Ukrainian ancestors, at least not in the last few generations.

>I think people have an overly narrow definition of cousins where 23andme has a much more strict genetic definition.

Well, I consider someone to be a cousin based solely on our most recent common ancestor. If someone happens to have similar genes to me but we haven't shared an ancestor for 5,000 years then that person's not a cousin for any useful definition of the word.

It also might be that Asheknazi Jews, as a historically small/insular community with, therefore, a smaller gene pool, have a different experience with the relative finder than people with less, uh, incestuous (broadly speaking) family trees. Edit: Just logged into 23andMe and saw this relevant thread: https://www.23andme.com/you/community/thread/6449/. So I guess my speculation was right, and my concerns should be disregarded if you aren't part of a similarly small population.
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True, there are many possible configurations, but a few (I don't have widespread experience with Python based hosts because most of my Python work has been on my own servers) hosts I've used have mod_wsgi installed with a WSGIDaemon process pointing at the application directory with index.wsgi being one of the index handlers. What you are supposed to provide is an application with a route through an index.wsgi file. In Pylon's case (this is how I have my server setup) index.wsgi is simply loading the Pylons app and providing it as a wrapped "application" class as a callable. Very standard and very easy.

As an example, here is the index.wsgi front-controller that loads my Pylons app (note, mine is more complicated than I'm showing here because I use virtualenv to contain the app):

from paste.deploy import loadapp
application = loadapp('config:/home/my_app/production/production.ini')

The host makes sure that the Apache vhost has mod_wsgi configured to run a WSGIDaemon process for the /home/my_app/production directory - typically (in the case of WebFaction) they give you an interface that handles all of that (so you can run multiple apps out of the same top level directory) in the course of creating your "sites", the same exact process you would go through for creating "sites" for a PHP based application.

Also, you don't need to tailor RPM's to the distribution, you can package your app as a python egg (which is cross-platform and contains the dependency links in your setup.py). I almost think this is easier than (S)FTP'ing the app up to your host. If your host gives you SSH access (which all $5 a month hosts do as far as I know - the crappier ones put you through a verification process, but a good one will give it to you the minute you are signed up) you can easily rsync the app up and then run "python setup.py whatevercommandyourappuses" and bam - you're good to go.

You could even put the database creation steps into the setup.py routine - "python setup.py build", "python setup.py install" <---- build necessary directories, then build your database tables for you. Much safer (and easier) than supplying an install script that can be accessed publicly.

I will concede though, that the whole scenario I've just described wouldn't be easy and fast for the average joe due to their inexperience with Python and/or the command line... That kind of thing makes me wonder though why we don't have basic programming courses as a requirement in high-school. If only my father (a lawyer) knew what sed/grep/awk could do for his manipulation of documents... I'm digressing now and I'll stop.

I know it isn't a PHP vs. Python thing - it just frustrates me when people make the argument for an inferior tool in favor of ease of use when ultimately (as per the scenario I gave above) the more powerful tool can save you time... I came from PHP land and will not go back - thanks in part to Python and the other methodologies I've learned.
See my other comment, gevent appears to outperform in my initial test.
Energy Efficiency Startup Transphorm Emerges From Stealth
China has no problem taking on projects like these.

It's very naive to tout the benefits of central authority without considering the costs. A government that has the power to push through massive public projects isn't going stop there.

One of the main reasons projects on this scale are so difficult to organize is that there are so many independent stakeholders with diverging interests. Glorifying the state's ability to steamroll these interests for the sake of 'progress' is dangerous stuff.
Developing physics-based games
The Year(s) of the Growing Startup
really? how? (unless it's confidential ..or illegal :P )
That's quite the hyperbole.

When I was studying Electrical Engineering, I noticed that SVDs cropped up frequently. From memory, a quick list of situations where I can recall using SVDs :

- For computing homographies in Computer Vision

- For clustering in Machine Learning

- For noise reduction in DSP

In general, when the problem can be modeled using linear algebra, SVD often proves to be a versatile tool ( for linear optimization, eigenvalue problems, least squares, etc).

However, that doesn't make it the most important topic. I could just as easily name a bunch of other techniques that are also frequently used : FFTs, Linear programming, Monte Carlo methods. If you're an electrical engineer, all of these would be useful. Yet, I wouldn't call any of them the most important topic.
Chinese gamer dies after 72 hour game marathon
It's not that it self-perpetuates, it's that nearly every other Unix does it that way, and thus there's an expectation that ifconfig, if it exists, has similar functionality on all platforms.

If you're going to deprecate a command, make running the old one either:

1. Not exist, and thus have the shell throw an "command not found" error

2. Print a useful message like "Use <newcommand> instead"

3. Work, but do #2 as well.

The current situation is like leaving a pair of rusty pliers out in the open, and hiding the brand new socket set when the goal is tightening a bunch of bolts.
I apologize if this is already news, but I only discovered it today. It is exactly what I was looking for when trying to manage the 10TB of HDD space I have, but do not yet have control over it.

The submission title is a little bit of a misnomer, as Aperture only uses the ontologies from the semantic desktop (http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Semantic_Desktop), but it is close enough for a HN title.

I hope others find this enjoyable, too.
i believe you can make jsTestDriver to work with any other test framework such as jamine js.
"... something else that know one will recognise ..."

Really??
In a previous comment I conceded the fact that some trappings of an excellent Python deployment solution would require more knowledge than is common to the average "I want a site that I can post content to" user.

However. I still think a well engineered application that could cater to many of the $5 hosts' python setups could be just as easy to setup as a PHP app.
I've yelled at people for asking smarter questions than that. Some people read cover to cover, some will skim. Being a hacker has nothing to do with this, any more than being a chef would.

Anyway, personally, I almost always read books cover to cover. If it isn't a 'good' enough book to do that, I stop reading it and move on to a less shitty book. In my experience, authors basically never jabber like morons, then suddenly have something really important to say, then back to jabbering. Plus, any good book will progress, explaining concepts as they are introduced, so your assumptions about what a term means or what any implications are on chapter 20 might be completely out of whack and stupid, which you would realize if you had read chapters 1-19. (This just happened to me regarding a book on futures and options trading).
When I didn't own a kindle I used to buy and read a lot of kindle books on my iPod touch. Even now that I own a kindle I share it with the wife, and we might both be on a bus/airplane without internet wanting to read.

I really hope this is not the way forward.
The source code is located here[1]; for some reason it wasn't directly linked to in the blog post.

1. https://github.com/karthick18/inception
The maximum depth you can go is city and not address? Where does your data come from? I remember looking into this open source database for geolocaitons called openstreetmap. I think they power the open mapquest apis. From what I recall, they have some MASSIVE database on geolocation data.
The betacandy.com site seems to be returning a blank page for me.
You're a veritable fountain of ideas.

Hey, you know your therapy idea, I often wondered about that myself. But aren't you begging for prosecution to practice psychotherapy without a license?
It's a good list of counter-intuitive behaviors. That said classifying them as "irrational" is an over-simplification. When you take the individual and situation into account, these are often very rational behaviors. People have different utility functions, cost/benefit tradeoffs, and approaches to maximization.
Meta-question: Will this termination inspire the same anti-"proprietary walled garden" rhetoric as Apple's imposition of new terms for subscription sales? If not, why not?
It's 350 to list a job in the job section, 500 for the ability to search and contact people based on their profile (for 1 week).
HTML5 local storage isn't ideal for this. It can only hold five or six ebooks at a time.
That's the fun about Android, its a real mass market open OS and all the bugs are visible!!! Too bad its not for everyone to fix (or maybe its actually good?)
Pro Tip: How To Be A Jerk In Email
> Rebuilding something like Office will take a decade and will likely have no benefits at all.

I think that allowing to launch better, faster, safer, leaner and stabler versions faster with less bugs and for less money, while, at the same time, uncovering and correcting bugs that have been in the codebase for decades would be a plus.

> ignoring that Linux was based on the even older Minix

That's good, because it was not. One could say it was inspired on Minix and Unix.

> OS X/iOS are based on BSD, Darwin and Unix

OSX is more closely related to NeXTStep

Your history lessons are failing you.
If you are able to read random parts of a book on an as-needed basis, then it's probably a reference book. Of course you don't usually read something like that straight through.

Most books are difficult to read in random order, though. Maybe you aren't reading many non-reference books.
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago
Is this evidence that WP is feeling the heat from frameworks?

I can imagine that after years of using WP there would be a significant portion who are looking for something more full-featured or performant or whatever, there are myriad reasons for changing platforms. That reasonably intelligent (or moneyed) people can so easily learn or hire to write a completely custom site seems uncontroversial. The enterprising RoR or Dj coder would do well to sniff around WP site owners.

In other news, WP has a new version coming out, which I imagine was the real point of WP starting this controversy. Cheap publicity, blog mentions, yadda yadda. Learn from history: upgrade early and often!
I wonder if that's been fixed in the OS X/Darwin version of Mach, seems like the only time I ever reboot my MacBook is for system updates.
Yeah, I failed to toe the party line that Apple is evil, and therefore everyone else is good.

So long as ideological purity is demanded by ideologues, hacker news will continue to be a thought-free echo chamber.
It's too bad the author didn't include gevent in the post, as it seems to be the fastest way to do concurrency with python (see http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers). I'm surprised it was faster than the Go example. I wonder if a Cython-based handler would take it even further...
Depends on what part of the animations you're doing. SVD is a technique you'll do on Transformation matrices to find certain things out.

I'm not saying the OP's contention that SVD is fantastically useful is that true. I am saying understanding matrix math down to the point of SVD and being able to do it when you spend much of your day doing transforms is useful for animation beyond setting EaseInOut and going about your day.
Even if you want to be totally Machiavellian about it, the value of a friendship is not necessarily proportional to their maturity.
Paul - Will be good to see what you guys come up with. One branding thought (and take this with a grain of salt as we run one site called ChubbyBrain) is why not lose startup in the name. It gives you room to grow in the future if you decide you do need to change/alter focus. At present, the name The Startup Foundry boxes you in. Just an unsolicited $.02.
Yeah really. Incredible innovations affecting people's daily lives all over the world. Peter comes across as somebody who prefers his parents generation's view of how great it used to be to all the exciting and empowering stuff happening today.
A documentary was made a few years ago on Caltech Basketball's impressive losing streak: Quantum Hoops.

http://www.quantumhoops.com/
That's very good to hear.

I wonder, did you get any benefits from implementing the hResume microformat? Was it worth the effort (I don't see many tools using it)?
I've been reading a lot of Gary Taubes lately (Why we get fat, Good Calories Bad Calories) - and, at times, I get so frustrated with what is apparently non-science based advice that we get from the USDA, that I wonder how it is that they continue to be seen as an authority on what we should eat to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
A reddit comment on prospects of clean energy by "an industry insider"
Yeah, particularly strange for somebody who sees himself as a libertarian. Oh well. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."
Stand by ...

OK - done: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2255435

Again, just one per month, taken on the 15th, and just one on that day, taken between 15:00 and 15:30 (except for Jan 2011 when that wasn't available)
State Dept. to Spend Part of $150m for Egyptian Transition on Digital Training
I tried to integrate my site, Scribophile, with FB a few years ago when the API was still relatively new. The idea was to give the user the option of adding a wall post to their profile when they posted writing to the site.

The API had the exact same problems then... unanswered questions, confusing documentation, complex code examples. Something that seemed so simple--post a link to someone's wall, with their permission--turned into a multi-day codefest. But I finally got it working!

Until one day a few months later, when the API changed without warning. And that's what I think the biggest problem with the FB API is... they (at least back in the day) change it constantly, without much warning, and don't update documentation in a sane way. It's impossible to build once and forget.

I finally got a complaint from a user one day that the FB integration wasn't working. When I went in to check the code, I found that FB had almost completely changed their JS libraries and made significant API changes. Instead of going through that hell again, I just removed the feature.
This is excellent, I'm working on something identical for a different demo! There must be something in the internet-water.