skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is good advice. On a first date, after introductions, I present a brief presentation slideshow to the prospective mate where I lay out a dating schedule in Gantt format denoting dates, first kisses, sex and falling in love, including sexual position diagrams. For a personal touch, copy-and-paste both your Facebook profile photos onto the people in the diagrams.
Plus vasectomy sounds scary painful and potentially dangerous. I'm done having kids but I don't wanna get snipped. Granulomas? In MY testicles? It's more likely than I think.
Is bitcoin one of the most strenuous tests of the SHA-256 algorithm ever run? Besides the obvious benefit to the bitcoin ecosystem, this systematic hashing could provide useful data to a cryptographer. If there is ever a flaw in the algorithm discovered, I bet that bitcoin will play some part in it.
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San Francisco Chronicle Comes to iPad
The Weather Factory, Dare To Be Digital 2011 Part 1
Bizarre to be giving contraceptive advice on HN, but you should really look into IUDs. They're far less hormonal than the pill, and only require maintenance every 5 years.
Yup, they never are. :) But I will try with the keep alive flag later, thanks. I need to find some time to build something more relevant, put it on EC2 and then benchmark it properly.
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How to solve an everyday problem with pure functional programming
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Yes, that's my understanding. But it doesn't require that the tasks are "pointless" -- just that they are hard to compute, but relatively easy to verify.

There are lots of problems in bioinformatics and physics that are hard to compute and easily divided into chunks. Find one that also has easily verifiable results and you've got a pretty good candidate.
I know I don't think in code, but rather translate it from English into whatever programming language I'm using.

Really? I think the only time I do this is when something is sufficiently tricky that I probably have to draw it to work out what it should be doing ("Ok, so I pass this in here, and then it could flow through to here or here..."). Otherwise, assuming I'm sufficiently fluent in the language I'm programming in it just "flows" out, as when I'm speaking in Spanish (a second language I speak well) - there's no intermediate translation from English in either case.
Google Maps Implements Road Highlighting on Road Search
You're on to something. Apple is announcing this now so journos get it out of their system before the show, and are primed to write about the real event.

Apple wants everyone talking about the same thing on show day, and leaking the small stuff is the way to do it.
Seems irrelevant…
Is it absurd to arrest domestic hackers who commit actual harmful crimes - e.g., stealing ten thousand credit card numbers and going on a shopping spree, or selling them off to other criminals - by sending armed policemen to their house?
Skills become outdated over time. The skill of mental calculations, I think, is not really that valuable on the average nor is it unlearnable later on if you sit at a cashier's desk at some point ... but the skill of doing quantitative calculations mentally greatly helps me make connections that I suspect I won't make otherwise. I think this is because I'm morphing pictures in my head instead of crunching numbers.

Next step - lets allow all kids to use google search during their tests.
Depending on where you draw the line between "major" and "minor" economies, the US can be the only major economy to do anything at all, since its economy is bigger than that of any other country.

However, in my recent and local experience, small-denomination paper is not so unheard of:

Country Smallest paper bill in USD PPP GDP/year
Argentina $2 0.50 $640B
Brazil 2 reais 1.26 $2200B
Uruguay $5 (now rare; usu.$10) 0.27 $41B
Homeless people in Miama have been following a similar scheme for a while now, albeit less scary and more annoying. Of course, now the city is beginning to replace the machines that print tickets, with those that electronically keep track of funds, the homeless people disappear and the city increases their income by forcing people to pay for a spot which a previous car had payed for.
The Sins of Ubuntu
Hi! My startup [1] is based on an algorithm that can measure the emotional impact of text. Our blog is where we post interesting results from applying our algorithm.

[1] http://effectcheck.com
When is the last time you had a use for exactly 1/12 oranges?

"some bit more than 5" is plenty of precision for nearly any conceivable situation in which your example could appear.

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http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cedar#new_http_stack_he...
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> Except for that part of the population that believes contraception is immoral.

And since that belief is evolutionarily beneficial, you can see how it would eventually turn into a bigger and bigger problem...
Also (strangely) carries the assumption that these guys can't be multitasking and looking for other moneymaking opportunities, which might or might not include dealing.
WHO: Cell phone use can increase cancer risk
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It stops people from selling you used parking tickets?
Intel's Cedar Trail Can Triple Boot
There is no doubt in my mind that if Java had added just a few features of these languages we wouldn't be having this discussion. My MVP would be lambdas, type inference, properties and extension methods and that would probably have been enough to make explorations outside of Java mere curiosities. In the mean time, I'll keep helping out on JDK8 to get 2/4 in there.
Sadly, they get around all the regulation by not making specific medical claims. If they did, then regulation would come down on them like a ton of bricks (as it did to producers of Cherries at one point). It's the difference between saying "Product X will cure Y" (illegal unless it's gone through all the testing) and "Product X may promote health" (which is entirely legal). It doesn't make much sense.
There have been attempts to fix the value of gold for currency purposes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Gold_Pool but these tend to simply prove the silliness of bothering with commodities when fiat currency is inherently more elegant and functional.
I believe this is the article you're referring to? http://www.dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter....
Idea: Instead of asking for someone's vote, have them type out a paragraph and measure which shift they use
Inaccurate. I frequently get things that I don't ask for. Also, asking for things inappropriately is a great way to annoy people.
Ask HN:  Did someone from HN put my idea to use?
About a month ago, I made a post on HN titled "Taking a Chance - Free Startup idea" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499308 ). While browsing engadget today I noticed an article that looked surprisingly similar to my idea called Bronze ( http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/31/bronze-makes-your-music-collection-sound-downright-lazy/ ).

I was wondering if anyone here knew the creator and if he, in fact, did bring my idea to fruition.

The Bronze website is: http://bronzeformat.com/

If so, that would be awesome. I put the idea out there with no expectations, and it would be great to see what other people think of it now that someone has built it.
...I wonder if programming-related skills like the ability to work concurrently at multiple levels of abstraction also prevent cognitive decline.

Almost certainly. I don't have a reference but I remember reading an article about a couple who were both neurologists. They were both in their 60s IIRC, and they each took on a new arbitrary hobby each year to exercise their brains. It could be anything, as long as it required a non-trivial amount of concentration and mental effort. I'll see if I can dig the article up, it was really interesting.
The purpose of double blind review is not to anonymize the work of well known authors - conferences, informal conversations, etc. guarantee that the work of established members of the community will be known, even before Google.

What double blind review does is give the unknown author a fair chance as there is always the outside possibility that it is the new work of a well known author that the referee has simply not seen yet.
Ab initio molecular dynamics modelling. If anyone's got a few thousand spare CPUs send 'em my way!
The future economy may not (I'm guessing will not) be bitcoin. It will probably have a few very different ideas built into the core of it. But the foundation is being laid right now as we discuss the problems of bitcoin.
iCloud: Instant win in buzzword bingo.
I like the idea of writing out the steps a user takes to tackle a problem then pick the one or two steps that your product/service and improve upon (or remove altogether).
There may be a startup idea hiding in this thread...
Ask HN: HN submissions start from score 1
Hi Folks,

Why do all submissions start from score 1. I would imagine starting from 0 is the more traditional way of doing this. Also, the sumbitter/commenter never gets that score of 1 added to his/her karma. Is there a reason for this?
clickables:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499308

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/31/bronze-makes-your-music-c...

http://bronzeformat.com/
I believe the insights gained from doing quite a lot of arithmetic by hand are genuine.

But what are the insights gained from doing them by hand? I agree that learning arithmetic is important. But we spend a lot of time (or at least did) on things like times tables. I remember looking at a page of 30 long addition problems as a kid. I knew that the hardest ones were at the end, so I'd start there. After about three of them I realized -- every one of these is virtually the same thing. But I have 27 more to do.

I was lucky. I actually had a teacher in 3rd grade who let me work at my own pace and actually got math books not in the school curriculum (and looking back, she probably did this out of pocket). But I imagine there are a lot of bright kids who just gave up on math and school out of sheer boredom.
Are you faking good customer support?
they are irritating, but there are extensions to most browsers to get rid of them. this page got me to add esources.infolinks.com to my JavaScript Blacklist set.

it would, of course, be better if people stopped doing the stupid thing in the first place...
NRT is just part of the story, since in order to provide a proper (near) real time features in a distributed architecture you need to build it around it. For example, not doing pull replication, but push replication. The whole distributed nature of elasticsearch compared to Solr was not discussed in this blog post, but its a big differentiator.
"But how do I contact a human at Google..."

Full stop. Sorry for being so trite, but you don't. Doesn't matter if you have millions in ad revenue or whatnot. Lack of customer service is one of the biggest reasons from staying away from google offerings.
Absolutely none of this is officially supported, right? (It looks very much like "game on, DotCloud", from what you've been finding, though....)
"Except for that part of the population that believes contraception is immoral"

If you're thinking of Christians, it isn't necessarily all-or-nothing. Although I believe the Catholic church disapproves of all contraception, Protestants typically approve of anything that prevents fertilization. Once the egg is fertilized, it's considered a human life worthy of protection; prior to that, the egg and sperm are just cells. So this would be considered fine.
Uhhhhh-huh. But how does the algorithm work, and (more importantly) how do we know whether it works or not?
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Elderly Japanese Volunteering at Fukushima
The original article he's responding to mentions true generics (i.e. runtime supported). Despite all of Scala's great features, it still compiles down to Java bytecode and lacks these features that are available in the CLR. The "glacial rate" (as someone else put it) at which the Java language and runtime progresses is a major turn-off for people who want to move to the Java platform from C#/CLR or other platforms where these features already exist. Edit: and with Oracle at the helm now, it's even more of a turn-off...
I assume the actual algorithm itself is not open sourced.

I'm wondering if there's anything that trips it up, like adding points to a comment's "hostility" score for profanities, which some people use when they're fucking excited about an idea.
Cool site, but how does it help me 'stand out' more than my own site does? Also, it's not very clear from the homepage what the pie charts are and what a score is indicative of. After reading the blog post it seems like that score is pulled from the sites you add to your account, but you might want to make that clear from the homepage.
Actually the largest price driver of gold now is 'fear'.

Since many countries price their currencies to the USD, the USD has become a defacto currency. This means that inflationary pressure on the USD affects the whole world.

Gold prices are up as people are speculating that some countries will price their currency against gold. If countries don't do this, or if people stop believing that countries will do this, gold will go down in value.

Ironically large company stocks are probably the largest most stable and fluid currencies left. I think the term is fungible.

So if you buy stock in say a microsoft or a google, the changes are that those large company stocks will trade well if your home country's currency is inflating. The reason is that large companies diversify their holdings and optimize those holdings for profit. This is something that governments rarely do well.

I have started to wonder if investing in a sort of International Dow Jones as a currency base makes sense. I don't know how it would work, but it would be better than using gift cards as part of a currency as suggested by a few.

As for bitcoin as a currency, it seems to be based off of the cost of energy/ computing efficiency, however the currency does not seem to have been designed to match the USD, but rather make use of a set of tech features that were convenient to demonstrate it's proof.

It seems clear to me that Bit Coin Miner's will find the largest profits in using FPGA's, and that is unlikely to create a cloud structure that is useful for other things. How can you virtualize an FPGA?

All currencies are imperfect.
VIOLA = one stone will kill multiple birds (no condoms, no pills, no snipping , NO FEAR of having unwanted Kids, No FEAR of STD, etc. etc. etc.)
I don't think any of it's supported. Redis will run, but you can't exactly get to it (no TCP routing mesh apparently). It really just seems like they made it really easy to add new languages.
Cloud-synced bookmarks and notes - preferably with a social profile like that of Kindle[1][2]. The way I read books is to make a lot of notes and highlights; I know some people don't do this, but this helps me summarize books more easily and "reread" them, if I need to. Picking out your favourite passages of Aesop, The Art of War and The Prince is extremely convenient. That not how everyone reads and digests books, but it's definitely how I do - and I assume that many students will want to do the same with their textbooks.

The book selection is also very meagre[3] (at least in this country), but more important, some of the available free books are typeset from hell. It's just a copy-paste of Project Gutenberg and similar endeavours, which are not formatted for iBooks at all. This does not inspire me to buy any iBooks, and it leaves me to wonder how the (free) book user experience can be so bad, when Apple make such an effort of vetting apps from trivial ailments.

Another, perhaps minor, thing is that I can't highlight across pages, which drives me absolutely bonkers.

If I were an author (or worked for one) and wanted to release a book on iOS, would I distribute it via iBooks or create a native app for it like Al Gore did? I honestly don't know, and I have a feeling that my hesitation has more to do with the shortcomings of iBooks than the allure of making a standalone app.

[1]: https://kindle.amazon.com/profile/Craig-Mod/52461

[2]: I'm sure it would be in Steve Jobs's best interest to make us forget Ping as soon as possible. Better to replace something vapid with something slightly high-brow.

[3]: It doesn't even have A Song of Ice and Fire!
Does East Africa have a Mediterranean climate?
Kids Fireman Bedding
Little boys love fireman, and they will love this bedding set. It is hand crafted and pre-washed for out of the bag comfort!
What's new about these, does anyone remember Super Eagle and 2xSAI used in emulators like VBA and ZSNES to stretch out and smoothen up old low pixel graphics at decent fps that gives smooth gameplay?

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art_scaling_algorithms
i won't be surprised if eventually small demographic countries banning this procedure :-)
what i gained from learnign math using trig and log tables, pencil and paper to calculate fractions, multiplying them, more numbers, more calculations, => feel for a solution. yes, it is subjective, by looking at a problem there are no magic that pops out, just a feel for what would be a correct answer. objectively, the experience how to simplify is a great gain as well. ... then i studied logics. today i can calcualte areas, circumferences in my head, faster then using my phones calculator. the precesion is acceptable for my daily use.
I don't mean to come across as hostile or undermine the effort that's been invested, but I can't help but be a tad skeptical about these visualizations, especially given the fact that the author (in what might be construed as cavalier fashion) presents seemingly nebulous metrics like they are absolute matter-of-fact ("Anxiety/Confidence Ratio", "Hostility/Compassion Ratio", "Depression/Happiness Ratio").

It would certainly help if the algorithm used to compute these metrics were shared and dissected. I tend to believe that sentiment analysis is much more art than science, given how tricky and profound context can be.

To conclude, I'm not going to end this comment on a negative note. I'd much rather reserve my vitriol and caustic criticism for another thread and day and abstain from calling this an attempt at gaming HN to promote a startup.

I do this not out of a lack of indignation towards what I've just read, but because I'd like to end this seemingly hateful comment on a note that isn't bitter or negative but is instead quite the opposite (without using a single word that would help the OP's algorithm figure this out).

And with that, I throw down the gauntlet. Analyze this!
Quite. And what's to stop the 5 criminals from carrying guns as well? Pull a gun and get yourself killed in self defence. Great job, Captain America. This is why guns are a stupid thing to give to the public.
I like to use social engineering when I need to reach top bloggers, and sometimes lie... "I'm facing a crisis, give me some advice... blah blah" Then 5 months later, tell them "Thanks so much for your life changing advice, it inspired me to start my startup... Hope you can tell others about it"
This was largely a result of Seymour Papert and his work on constructionism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructionist_learning

The trend has been away from this as programming has gotten more difficult and the general decline in resources for developing and updating school curricula.
That is only one way of writing that snippet. Another would be:

def apply() = l.map((f) => f())

Is that more clear?
Any method to do it without surgery would be even more invasive than surgery. Off the top of my head, the only thing I can think of[1] is inserting a long flexible tube down the urethra, hoping that it ends up in the right place (it's not very helpful if it ends up in the bladder), and then sending RISUG through it. Likely to be very painful and not work particularly well.

[1] There are only so many ways to get to the vans deferens without surgery, so I'm not too worried about missing something obvious.

Or nanobots, I suppose, whenever we get those. That doesn't seem likely to be any time soon, sadly.
I would say a combination of luck and your own projects. You have to make up for your lack of industry experience with your own personal projects and show that you have the skills or the initiative to pick up new things quickly.

My short story:

I graduated college w/ a degree in EE and after working for a defense company for about a year, realized I hated it. Web dev/design was my hobby and I had hacked together a lot of random projects, but never had any "official industry experience". On my resume I had listed a lot of side projects I had. I applied to a few places and a few called me in for an interview and also a short test of what I knew. This is where you will get a chance to try and prove yourself. I was nervous as heck, but thankfully, they gave me a chance and the rest was history.

I don't think I would have been given the chance had I not been doing those things on the side. The other nice side effect was that because I actively worked on projects, I actually knew what I was doing and for some reason that surprised a lot of employers(?).

I think the one thing I took away from that was that if you're passionate about learning and improving, you'll be better off than the majority of people just there looking for a job. "3+ years" exp. or whatever had a different meaning for me after that.
No, I'm not suggesting that at all, merely stating an observation. As long as people know the operation doesn't protect you from contracting STD's, that's good enough for me. It's their choice whether to still use a condom or not. In my opinion it can't get to market fast enough! Even if it doesn't end up being 100% effective, it's another layer of protection.
No, this is not the proper way to handle UTF-8. PHP is binary-clean, meaning that binary is left untouched. This has nothing to do with UTF-8 except that if the user submits a form encoded in Latin-1 and you want to produce a UTF-8-encoded result, you're fucked.
I don't mind the phrasing, per se. I do mind when people who aren't Dustin Curtis use it.
Holding back progress in one area as leverage to try and force it in another is nearly always a bad way to go. STD's and unwanted children are both problems. If we can fix one of those we should absolutely do it.
Uncrop!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFkb0d1kbU
Virtual machine!!!
First thing I thought of was Breaking Bad. However, instead of the cops finding an old man cooking up meth, they'd find a very demure, focused man on a computer.
It is not silly if you have asynchronous indexing because your content is generated by your users, one document at a time. If you want real-time indexing, that's the way to do it.

This is the default behavior for IndexTank. When an indexing call returns, whatever you indexed WILL show up in search results. We don't give you the option to commit or not commit, we simply designed IndexTank to be fast enough when indexing in real time. I'd like to see us included in that comparison as well.
I'm guessing the I use left shift since several of my passwords have capital letters on the LHS of the keyboard.
Regrets from the death bed.
Press release: http://com.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf (PDF)

Site very slow at the moment, mirror:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/56731822/pr208-E
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>And with that, I throw down the gauntlet. Analyze this!

Sure. Scored with EffectCheck:

Anxiety - Very High

Hostility - High

Depression - Very High

Confidence - Low

Compassion - Low

Happiness - Very Low

I will post a longer explanation detailing how/why it works, since others have had this question as well.