skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author may unconsciously agree with you: "You know, the rare occasions where everything works on first go and you are pretty sure you made a mistake." [so goes the first line of this blog] Writing blogs without mistakes is hard too...
The stream doesn't play for me as well, but I get the idea. And I think it's a great idea.

What do you plan to do with the collected data? It would be interesting to see whether there is a consensus among many people on what color some songs are or if it's more or less random.

If there is a consensus, it would probably reflect our culture's current associations with each color. It would be very interesting to see an analysis of that data.

Another idea: You could compare the colors with the cover art of the respective albums to see if there are matches.
I agree. Otherwise you are inadvertently asking for the color of the artist too. Very interesting idea, though.
Don't GSM mobile phones work similar?
This is really cool.

I think it would be better for user engagement to not automatically show what other users chose, and also to have the next song start streaming automatically if the user chose a color for the previous song. I could see going tvtropes on the site and inadvertently spending a lot of time there if it was easier to maintain my mental flow.
The ever popular info message! Same here in Germany...
Color me interested.
I only did a super short-and-quick scan, but it looked nice for newbs trying to get up to speed.

My #1 hurdle to adopting server-side Javascript is the terrible, utterly lacking documentation for anything CommonJS related. If you've got any kind of reference for that stuff, then triple bonus points!
To be honest, I was first a little excited when I saw the headline, but I realized it was a different person when I saw the profile picture. The title of the post is a bit confusing since I didn't know of the Utah-based Paul Allen.
I find I'm unable to determine whether a message is crap I'll never care about again or not.

Often I can't think of a reason I'd possibly ever use a message again, and lo and behold there's some strange reason I want to refer back to it 2 years later (e.g., figuring out my start date for an old job on a new application ... weird little cases like that).
Ask HN: (idea) A Blog on world's most creative hacks and side projects
I am inspired by a lot of projects posted on HN as "Weekend Hacks". Simply brilliant.

I am working on a blog to list out selected projects, know about their creators and the hacks. Already contacted few hacker's regarding their project, and first article is taking shape.

URL of landing page: http://hackers.li (Request you to subscribe)

I do not intend to make money out of it. Focus is on fulfilling the purpose of bringing out inspiring and creative hacks.

I am looking for suggestions or critics for the idea?
IEEE specifies exact rounding for +,-,*,/ and sqrt, but it allows the transcendental functions to be inaccurate in the least significant bit (creating a fast exact algorithm for these is apparently quite hard).

At one job, we were running our test suite on both Pentium4 and Athlon machines, and got into trouble because the exp() function returned different values about once every 10,000 numbers. We changed the regression tests to add a fuzz factor to the floating-point comparisons.
That's because D3 is minified and concatenated with the rest of our JavaScript on the page. jQuery is separate so that it will load from caches.
Clickable http://hackers.li
> Does anyone know if it's possible to program GPUs today without using a new, special purpose programming language? That would be the killer app for GPUs.

Haskell has an embedded domain specific language for it. (It's probably a monad.)
I wonder is there any way to hack-in the last.fm support? Or maybe even log in with one's last.fm account. I would be happy to offer some help with that.
Off topic: the heading is one of those sentences in English that can have different parse trees[1] and it got me confused for a moment as to why this is news! It was a late realisation and I had to read the article to understand.

Any thoughts on how such sentences can be written in a better way?

(wrong) Diver snaps first photo of fish, using tools
Diver snaps first photo of (fish using tools)
Diver snaps first photo of "fish using tools"
Diver snaps first photo of a fish that uses tools

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_fruit...
8-column tab!

Seriously, if you find that 8-column tabs make you run out of horizontal space, your code needs to be refactored anyway.
Most applications aren't speed critical, so on some-other-OS on some-other-architecture you'd probably get away with virtualization / emulation.
www.zennioptical.com is probably the place to go then. Get your prescription here in the states, then offshore the manufacturing of the glasses.
I just made reading one of my hobbies and I read the really good ones twice, keeping notes as if I was engaging in conversation with the piece the second time around.

You'll have to make some sacrifices. Reading is a large time/energy investment, no matter how you cut it, but it has by far the greatest returns.

I kept a reading list for a bit, but never really used it. I usually just pick out books as I see them.
So, how does buying glasses work in the US? The store I buy my glasses in has a simple and automated (but imprecise) device for quick checks, probably similar in principle to the device in the linked article. They also have all the optometrist equipment for more precise checks. (I think they share some equipment with an eye specialist who is next door.)

I only recently bought new glasses and after the automated check diverged a bit from my old values the store’s optometrist checked my eyes more thoroughly.

I didn’t have to pay anything for those checks and I didn’t have to show my insurance card. (I also payed 200€ for the frame and 200€ for the glasses so I sort of expected that level of service.) I also just could have told them to make me +0.75 (left) and −1.25 (right) glasses without any checks and they would certainly have no problem making them for me. (It makes sense to check, that’s why something like that is unlikely to ever happen.) I don’t really see the regulatory hurdles. Are you really telling me that you can’t just walk into a store and tell them which glasses you want? Do you really need a prescription? That seems unlikely.

German health insurance (at least the mandatory health insurance I’m using) doesn’t pay anything for glasses, getting a prescription is consequently not really necessary. Maybe you don’t trust the optometrist and want someone with a PhD to check your eyes – that’s certainly possible (and that’s what will cost the insurance).

Just checking your eyes, though – especially if it’s not the very first check after you noticed that something’s off with your vision – is something private companies in Germany seem to be more than happy to do without ever getting the insurance involved.

By the way, those automated devices are certainly not quite as precise but their main disadvantage is that they are dumb. I have slight Astigmatism, meaning one of my eyes has problems focusing light into one point and instead focuses it into a line. The resulting image is blurry but only in one direction. The automated device in my store couldn’t detect that, the optometrist could.
Don't you mean at worst a false optimization?
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In the past decade, product really seemed to matter. I knew a few Saturn owners who loved the car, but the sedans that were being sold in the last five years of Saturn's life did not appeal to them, and that shows in the sales figures too.
Those are some pretty awesome stats. The one thing that drives me crazy about WordPress.com is you can't make money (google ads etc) unless you have a VIP site which costs a small fortune. Let me pay $5 a month to be able to run my own advertising and I'd move from self hosted to WordPress.com in a heartbeat.
Not so long ago hard disk space was abundant, then programmers realized hard disk space was abundant.
Tips for getting started with Node
I'd say the devil is in the "aggressively minimize codebase complexity" detail

If you can give reproducible instructions about how to do that, I'd say to hear them.
Or, you know, all those pesky laws. Like the ones that deal with what information you can legally store about minors, most of which GMail and Google+ would violate due to their very nature.

I don't blame them at all. It isn't Google's fault, it's the fault of whoever decided that 'protected' teenagers meant forcing them to lie about their age to get accounts on the net.
Nice idea. So far the only patterns though are girl singer = pink and rap = red.
That this plotless, flat, monochrome quarter siphon becomes a Major Hollywood Movie proves that the US movie industry is morally, philosphically, ethically, creatively and intellectually BANKRUPT.

"Conversely, coming up with a captivating universe, especially for video game adaptations, is no easy task." At least they acknowledge that tie-ins are a part of the "creative process" up front. Whoever said that is so ethically challenged that he or she didn't even think of the possible effects that would have on customers.

Feh.
Although, a lot of why it looks better is that there aren't any ad... I'd assume that this won't last.
That is quite interesting.

So, have you stopped using assignments instead of comparison operators, or does the compiler just prevent you from writing a logic error?
Google+ comes up short
"Some foreign-made computer components are being manufactured to make it easier to launch cyber attacks on U.S. companies and consumers". Ha ha ha! Greg Schaffer, the "official" in who said that, is just confusing reality with the plot of the Disney hamster vehicle, "G-Force". Next up: DHS reveals plot to train flys, Guinea Pigs, moles and rats to spy on counterfeiters, pirates, child pornographers and the tattered remnants of Al Queda.
agreed, but that's the point: "use 1==foo and keep methods small" is totally missing the point.

I'm not sure I can state it more clearly than "understand accidental complexity, aggressively reduce it".
I started thinking some of the same points myself. His content does get redundant after a while, and his rhetoric can get really abstract and allegorical; it's fine at first, but when you've read the 50th 2 sentence analogy to describe the same concept as the previous 49, it gets old.

Couple of other things though, I wouldn't put too much stock in the idea of him not writing his own blog posts. It's my opinion that he just writes them in bulk and then queues them up. It would really break the entire authenticity aspect of his brand if he weren't doing his own writing, and while I'm as cynical as it comes with marketing, I'd like to think that the Seth Godin/Tony Hsieh ideal is somewhat transparent. If it weren't and Godin et al., could propagate the ideas he writes about over and over again (a lot of the time for free), that be one hell of a game to keep up with, both in terms of longevity and consistency, and he doesn't seem to be slipping on either.
This is a tough one. I think your last option is the best of your list, but still, it could be the photo that uses the tools.

I thought of "First photo of fish using tools snapped by diver". Then I realized that could be about tools that were snapped by the diver, and then used by the fish. Or maybe the photo used the tools.

I think what we really need to do, is add more words to make it clearer:

A fish using tools was snapped by a diver. This is the first such photo ever taken.

But even then, the correct parsing relies on the fact that "fish" is singular, while "tools" is plural. If it had been multiple fish, then, really, I'm not sure how we could say it.
The problem with getting a stream of someone's comments is that (unlike blog posts and tweets) comments are not written to stand alone.

One can reduce the problem by always including the parent, but that is often too much or too little context. For a stream of omments to be worth reading really requires some indication of what older comments are necessary to understand any given comment and probably some changes in the habits of comment writers.

And yeah, the inability to make views worth reading of comments by selected authors makes me try to stay away from trees of comments like we see on reddit and HN. (HN however has other things going for it though that offset my dislike of trees of comments.)
It's an intellectual exercise if you want to learn how git works. One of the best ways to learn something is to attempt porting it.
Non-IDE Python programmer comments, please?
> Tool use, once thought to be the distinctive hallmark of human intelligence, has been identified in a wide variety of animals in recent decades.

I don't get this. What would prompt a scientist to make such a claim, especially when something as simple as smashing an animal against a rock counts as tool use?

I was at the zoo watching a gorilla for 5 minutes and saw it repeatedly throw a stick into a tree to knock down leaves and eat them. I find it hard to believe that in the millennia of recorded observations of animals, that no one observed a single instance of rock-bashing or stick-throwing.

Edit: I can't find much information on wikipedia, but the article on tools ends with

> Now the unique relationship of humans with tools is considered to be that we are the only species that uses tools to make other tools

I guess until we find out we're not?
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It's the "panic" action, akin to a "close dialog" button. Clicking outside (should) default to the "safe" choice, in this case, "no".
Compare the study in question[1] with a list of the nations ranked by IQ[2]. The lists are in about the same order, because math accomplishment is driven by IQ, IQ is strongly influenced by genetics, and different countries tend to have different genetics.

much further separated than kids of different ethnicities in the same country

No. African-Americans, for example, have an average IQ of 85, very much like an up-market African country. Go read The Bell Curve.

only extremely bad families have a major environmental effect

The siblings in the adoptive families have nearly the full range of accomplishments of the general public. The possible explanations are (1) a sibling's accomplishments are mostly determined by internal causes, or (2) a sibling's accomplishments are substantially influenced by environment, and they experience a wide range of environments (even within the same family).

Other studies use twins raised together. The twins are more similar to each other than to their non-twin siblings, and the differences are explained mostly by IQ. This suggests that accomplishment comes mostly from internal causes.

the environments they were looking at were actually very similar

In terms of opportunity, they are extremely similar by adulthood. In the U.S., annual income at age 30 depends mostly on IQ, regardless of race, ethnicity, and other factors.

[1] http://pirls.bc.edu/timss2007/PDF/T07_M_IR_Chapter1.pdf

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
Any reason why you don't set the "charset" on your pages? I'm seeing some unknown encoding "question marks". (chrome/mac)
It's cool, and I've seen this happen before with 30 year old banking code, but it is easier with the simpler languages. Write me a Ruby to JavaScript or a Common Lisp to VBA converter and I'll be much more impressed.
Is It Time for Apple to Shut Safari Down?
Hmm. Are you referring to this?

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/acc-cuda.pdf
Yeah. I've tried to make the most of current mores with the 'x more comments' link, which shows all of a comment's parents. What do you think of that?
You can still use halogens.
Why Mark Suster should be every bloggers benchmark
I've played very little with GO, and it seems to be a nice language overall.

Anyway, it's designed to allow easy parallelism. It's a system's language for parallel work.

The only thing that I don't like about it is that the built-in types get special treatment (if you want to write a map yourself, you can't use the same syntax). This indeed feels like a design smell.

GO is still very useful this way, but I do hope that it gets generics/templates sometime in the future.
"Supporters of the new rules, who say the fluorescent lights save money and reduce energy demand, don't understand the fuss."

This quote is a prime example of the problem. A group of well-meaning people decide to make other people's lives "better" by deciding what's best for them, and ignore personal choice because they "don't understand the fuss."

There are many places we could be looking to regulate in order to improve energy efficiency, but the most politically expedient at the time was light bulbs, presumably because lobbyists would have fought harder against things like shutting down coal plants, making autos more efficient, etc.

People like their light bulbs. The quality of light in a room is important--it is one of the single most important elements of how a room looks and feels--yet anyone who points out that CFLs, LEDs, and other high-priced alternatives to the incandescent bulb are harsh and unpleasant stands to be dismissed by supporters of this new law.

CFLs have failed to dominate the marketplace on their own, so they're being mandated, and now we're seeing rebellion as the deadline draws near.

When it comes to promoting behaviors in a society, carrots work better than sticks. I would love to see some kind of X-Prize for improving our energy consumption, and real market solutions that would be welcomed by consumers.

Forcing people to change the way their private, personal homes look, and then dismissing their concerns with "what's the big deal?" is absolutely absurd.
Fly.

On the usability tip, why don't you allow making the dialog appear near the user's mouse? Having to move it from the link (or wherever the user's mouse is at the time) to the action buttons is unnecessary.
I wrote this originally for an internal brown bag as a gentle introduction for SQL-oriented folks. Glad it helped!
Was in about the same position as you. One of my degrees is in biomedical engineering, was good enough that a couple private companies paid for my MBA and living expenses. Since I couldn't stand the bureaucracy around the FDA I focused on the software and hardware. Then used my biology / biomechanics background to create cool products in a wide array of fields, but nearly all of them had something to do with biology/neuroscience (ie, medical SaaS, equipment/software for the apparel industry, mobile learning tools, artificial intelligence, etc).

Forget about the money, find something you enjoy. If you like biology, find problems in the field that need to be solved. Then solve them. If you are look for some extra money, I did part-time design work for a couple large Fortune 500 companies in areas I enjoyed (both physical and software). Pay was pretty nice.

Remember engineering and the sciences teach you how to think, it's up to you to apply it to other fields. If you're analytical programming is really easy to pick up. It took me a week to learn and make my first app for the iphone. Three weeks to make my first Rails app w/ graphics and a back-end. Learn Object-Oriented-Programming first, after you grasp that it's really easy to pick up new languages since most of the differences are just syntax.
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What do you mean by 'obtrusive'?
It resonates with me as well, as I'm the founder of an enterprise focused startup. Some of what the author says jibes with the ideas I was already working on... the point about customer support, in particular. Remaining engaged with the customer and helping ensure that their use of our software is successful, will be crucial to our success, IMO.

As for User Experience... I care so much about that, that my first co-founder is actually a UI/UX person, as opposed to a backend developer or a bizdev/sales/marketing person. Emphasis on User Experience will be woven deep into the DNA of the company...
Does the fish have a 'tool'??
Definition of tool 'A device or implement, esp. one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function'. I'll give the fish a break because it doesn't have hands. But is a rock a 'device used to carry out a particular function'?

I'd argue that in this case, the rock isn't a tool. Lots of animals use their natural environment to their benefit. But I would think the fish would have to use the rock in an original way for it to be considered a 'tool'.
Feel free to use Gitteh, then: https://github.com/libgit2/node-gitteh.

There's more than one way to do it.
Everyone in debate knows they're just there to win rounds. People often argue ridiculous things (e.g. "your plan to explore space should be rejected because it reifies western colonialism") just for a kick. If you asked them whether they believe what they say, I predict 90% would say "no, not really".

After a while, it gets boring. That's why I quit. But the activity actually gave me a great appreciation for the limits of my knowledge and the relationship of words to truth. Once you realize that a good argument can be made for almost anything, you start questioning the default rationalizations we all grow up with.
I like the CSS stylings.
I think that they are reorganizing the results based on if you are signed in with an account that has plus or not. There was someone who posted that their Google+ was "already" in the top 10 results and twitter wasn't even shown, but it was only true if you were logged in.

Hopefully they aren't doing something too drastic; there's allegedly already an ongoing antitrust investigation about how google orders its search results.
It sounds like this does a naive conversion of syntax to syntax. That will work for most code, but anything that relies on type specifics will fail. For example, Pascal integers are (I believe) 32-bit ints. But addition of such values in JavaScript can create a double value, instead of overflowing.
Halogen light doesn't look like real incandescent light, and it's a major fire hazard.
This is why social networking sucks: It's all about putting yourself in a box, which is the last thing I want to do socially. I want to express myself, not be placed in an echo chamber.
Great idea, but not hearing anything on iOS Safari.
Thx :-)
Tries to blame Google+ for what is essentially an Internet wide issue. There are thorny legal issues involved that aren't limited to just COPPA.

Facebook did just fine restricting its website to just college kids.
The equipment in the optometrist's office uses Shack-Hartmann equations, while EyeNetra uses its inverse of that. Therefore, it is gives similarly accurate results, based on which, a Doctor can prescribe the glasses. The reason the optometrist's equipments are expensive is because they are fighting against human eye, which is very efficient in absorbing light. EyeNetra is really an optical hack, but quite an elegant one at that.

Edit: clarity.
Even though HN has seen enough of my site in the last couple days, I also have a little tilemap demo using the two approaches shown here (4-bit and 8-bit). I initially wrote the 8-bit version (I had to make a lookup table mapping the 256 possible neighbor combinations to the 48 unique tile types for each type of terrain) and it looks like this: http://a1k0n.net/jsrpg/

But eventually rejected it for being "too blocky" in favor of the 4-bit version which has a smoother demo: http://a1k0n.net/code/jscroll/b/

The tilemaps are autogenerated as well: http://a1k0n.net/jsrpg/tiles.gif and http://a1k0n.net/code/jscroll/a/t.gif
As a scouser, I'm always amused by Mizage Software's window management program Divvy.

Seriously people, Google your package names or you might end up looking like a divvy.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=divvy