skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing site and resource, thank you so much for your time running it. Really appreciated it.
Founders reveal books that changed their lives
If you correlate your inbox with "things to do/read/act on", then of course, an empty inbox is a desirable goal. I certainly get too many emails and it's too important to me to respond to everyone that emails me. If they were mixed up in a messy inbox, I might miss an important message.
In those times, scientists were rather fond of their logarithm tables, in the same way they would of their slide rules, HP calculators and netbooks later on.

Imagine that your calculator break down every three-to-four months. After a couple of years, any hacker is bound to think "I should be able to take a couple of broken ones, pick working parts, and build a working one". Then, you discover that all of them have perfectly working '9' keys, but broken '1' keys.
Seconded. I'd be happy to provide time+resources. Ideally, you should just open-source the code.
There can only be one latest version, so it's not too different.
Kelly Starrett did a talk at Google recently on (roughly) this subject: http://www.mobilitywod.com/2011/06/episode-276365-mobilitywo...

He's got a PhD in Physical Therapy, so I'd rather listen to what he has to say about being healthy behind a desk than a story with a sensationalist headline.
GitHub open sources Linguist
> American children between 2 and 18 years of age spend an average of 6 hours and 32 minutes each day using media

Violent media is not the problem.
The current state of copyright law is far more a transgression against the bit about "securing for a limited Time" than against the 1st amendment.
Instead of shutting down, can't you hand it off to someone? Please!

Just to be sure, you know search isn't going away right? Its now integrated in. I'm not sure an external search is currently needed.
That's only $333,333 for each student. About the cost of going to Penn in the first place.
Suddenly, Facebook Shuts Down Apps Left And Right
"The 52% is for everything over ~50K. As a business owner, however, you pay this income tax on top of 20%/25% corporate taxes."

No you don't. You pay 52% wage tax in the upper bracket, but in that case it's not taxed for corporate tax since it's an expense. The companies profit is taxed at 23%, and if you pay dividend to the shareholder(s), then they pay another 22 or so percent dividend tax, making the total tax pressure roughly equal to the top income tax bracket, leaving aside special arrangements like starter deductions, WBSO subsidies etc.
In my defense, that's a written-at-five-in-the-morning tone, not a condescending tone. I'm not sure what I was trying to write with the "I imagine the author himself fails (1)" bit, as I am sure Bauer is far beyond me on the subject, as I admitted in my comment. Apologies to Bauer and to all for coming off wrong.

Writing 'cavalier attitude to truth' was a poor choice of words, but let me explain what I meant. I agree that intuitionistic math is logically more rigorous, and it sets a higher bar for what can be considered true. But because it rejects the validity of tools like proof by contradiction and the law of the excluded middle—tools that classical mathematicians use to disprove many concepts—intuitionistic math contains a much wider universe of possible mathematical objects. It sets a lower bar for what should be considered untrue.

So when you use mathematical objects that only potentially exist—that is, objects whose existence you can neither prove nor disprove—it seems to most classical mathematicians as more than a bit dishonest, because they work only with objects that must exist. (I brought up Nelson's axiomatic approach to infinitesimals because it is analogous in this regard.) Thus Russell's likening postulates to theft.

Intutionists get to play with toys that other mathematicians don't because the former are, in a sense, more broad-minded about what toys are (could be) out there. That's all I meant by 'cavalier attitude to truth'.

Like I said, I admire this approach, and have tried to pick up some axiomatic approaches myself when they're helpful, but I still do think that Russell's bit of pith is quite apt.
except that it applies to any base-n system. It's an artifact of the underlying system, not the base value.
Yes. I just like SearchYC a lot.
Law prof: What violent video game decision means for net neutrality
How to request art for your FOSS game project (and how not to)
Fortunately with a desk that goes up and down that is an easy one to fix ... someone just needs to do a study of the ideal proportion time and frequency for changing between sitting and standing.
I'm curious: What browser are you using? Chrome 13 on my desktop is really quick.
Insightful read:

"Even though today’s opinion is about regulations prohibiting speech rather than regulations requiring speech, it’s likely that the carriers will be able to frame the debate their way: We’d like to speak, to use all of our pipes the way we want to, without restriction. By forcing us to fairly carry speech with which we don’t want to be associated, you’re restricting our free use of our private communications medium."

. . .

"Today’s news is that the absolutist approach of the current Supreme Court to protection of speakers of all kinds – including distributors of speech – signals that the carriers will be likely to find a sympathetic ear there."
I always liked the idea of renaming Perl 6 to Rakudo, being the major/official implementation. It's also what most other programming languages do. A major, leading implementation, as well as others following. This would also make it easier for newcomers.
Yahoo launching HortonWorks, Hadoop spinoff company
STREET ART UTOPIA | We declare the world as our canvas
From my experience, it's probably your shoes. I've been using a standing desk for about a year and can definitely notice a difference in my feet dy to day depending on the shoes I'm wearing (personally, I find five fingers the most comfortable for me, but I think that's because I move around the most while wearing them). I did notice that adding a mat (currently it's just some really thick shelf lining, although I've thought about getting one of the restaurant style floor mats) made all shoes feel better. The shelf liner costs ~$5 so it's worth giving it a shot. Mixing in some sitting breaks as well (~30 minutes a few times a day) can also make a big difference since it gives your feet some time to rest.
The huge super-dotty background actually makes my monitor sound different when I have his page open. I can literally hear the scanlines firing. And this is a laptop LCD. I've never heard this sound before.
s/base/units/
Congratulations to my my dear friend of 12 years, David Gorodyansky of AnchorFree, makers of HotSpot Shield! :)
In this case, I find it likely there's an underlying common cause. I suspect the real culprit is the overall activity level of the person, and sitting is just a part of that.
1) Normal users do not understand URLs, at all.

I agree with that but you can't contradict the underlying technology to make it easier for users to understand. That's just being lazy (in line with your other statements of Chrome envy, etc).

Seems like patchwork to me. If users don't understand URLs then come up with a better way of explaining resources on the Internet to them.
Great tool all these years, thank you.
Yup, I hadn't thought of this until just now.
Rakudo is by no means more official than any other implementation (for example currently niecza is quite strong, see https://github.com/sorear/niecza/ for the code).

Renaming Perl 6 to Rakudo makes about as much sense as renaming C to GCC to MSVC.

Rakudo, while a nice name, is also too easy to mistype - even core committers (me included) have frequently misspelled its name in commit messages etc.
I'm always Devil's advocate. ("I say: lettem crash!")

My life expectancy without the sitting is about 80. So this is a good thing. 65 years is enough for me.
Counter-example: http://suckless.org
Look into a standing floor mat like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Sublime-Imprint-Anti-Fatigue-Comfort-N...
From the article:

“I became disillusioned with the way the United States was going in general. I myself had no health insurance and no way of getting health insurance as a self-employed person.”

Uh...no way of getting health insurance? How about PAYING for it? I hardly make any money, but I can still afford the $120/month I pay for my health insurance. Even if you go to a country like Europe with socialized healthcare, you are still paying for it if you are making money, via taxes. In fact, you are paying MORE for it since you are paying for your health insurance plus insurance for all of the unemployed. Taxes go over 50 percent of income in many European countries. In other words, there is no such thing as "free" healthcare - someone always pays for it.
Now on exercise 15! Best US$1 I've ever spent so far! Thanks Zed!
I've been espousing this for years! If java can do it, so can perl. Go go perl 14!
I believe the point is "Why wait UNTIL you're rich to enjoy a lifestyle perceived as only being available TO the rich."
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Search is integrated? Where is it?
Up vote!
Right, well the whole point to a "cure" is to not have to make lifestyle adjustments. Anyone who's looking to be rid of their diabetes without having to adjust their lifestyle is going to be disappointed by this research and it's conclusions. In fact, I imagine that some sufferers will be outright livid once they realize the full implications of the research results.

Basically, we're getting more conclusive research showing that type 2 diabetes (runs in my family) is a lifestyle disease. In other words: if you are diagnosed with type 2, it's your own fault.

Specifically, insulin resistance is caused by higher-than-normal levels of fat in the liver and pancreas. Belly fat doesn't matter much. Arm fat doesn't matter much. It's the fat in your organs that's gumming up the works. People are more or less prone to developing fatty organs, so diabetes rates vary between genetic/family backgrounds.

To me, this is all fantastic news. I imagine that many of us are prepared to make a few comfort sacrifices in order to avoid these types of diseases. There is still a very persistent mindset, though, that all body issues (even obesity) are caused by external factors and that the sufferers are just helpless victims. I wouldn't expect that anyone trapped in the "my type 2 is out of my control, but the cure is just around the corner" mindset is going to be welcoming of the crash diet research.
a second point for a second comment?
Justin.tv/TwitchTV is hiring programmers to build the future of gaming video
To paraphrase the police, if police officers are doing their job with in the letter of the law then they have nothing to worry about being recorded.

I'm not sure why the framing is 'spying' on the police, as the police should welcome such monitoring to ensure that all officers are performing their public duties to the public, tools like these are extremely helpful in weeding out the 'bad apples' and I fail to understand how recording a public police force in public performing their public duties could be considered spying.

Surely, the police would welcome evidence of the overwhelmingly positive effect they have on society being made more public. The police know the value that CCTV can bring to the public, these tools help the police realize the benefits of constant recording of their own members and should welcome efforts to verify that their records match 3rd party records so they can weed out those who would seek to distort the record. It's well known that the police sometimes have problems with evidence going missing, these tools help restore the evidence that understandably goes missing during an investigation.

Tools like these are a great way for citizens to help the police do their job, and aid the police in collecting evidence that might be cost prohibitive in the current economic climate. It would be great if the police could distribute these tools from their websites and make them more available, perhaps on the back of their business cards they could make this information available.

The Vancouver angle is especially interesting, as in the heat of the moment RCMP members in the Vancouver area often remember a different version of events than was recorded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser_in...
http://www.bcpolicecomplaints.org/monty_robinson.html

"Robinson, in a bid to get his driver’s licence returned, told a B.C. Supreme Court that he had two stiff drinks at home before returning to the scene of the accident, which caused him to fail a breathalyzer."
I agree.

Nobody want's to invest time into learning something called "Perl 5" when there's something already out there called "Perl 6". Yes, some research into it will reveal that they are now on two separate dev paths, but there is still some mental stigma associated with investing time in learning an "old version" of something. And learning the "newer version" quickly reveals that it is not widely used/supported yet. They are basically two separate languages and should be treated as such.

These days the arena Perl competes in is extremely competitive, and these seemingly small issues will continue to be disastrous for Perl.
I am a healthy 24 year old male, no health problems in any way. I was quoted health insurance in an attempt to find it after college, the cheapest plan was $690/month.
Seems like most successful companies of any kind "almost never were." Is there any company that was successful right from the beginning, with no real hurdles?
Scroll all the way down.
Ding ding ding.

Hence why Chrome is looking to eliminate the address bar :).
Well, he has a day job, spends significant amounts of his free time on answering questions on the Perl 6 specification and changing it when necessary, and attends many perl conferences (YAPC::NA, YAPC::EU, YAPC::Asia, OSCON) (where Perl 5 and Perl 6 peacefully coexist and share both speakers and audience, fwiw).

Did I mention that he also has a family, and a local church in which he is very active?

Update: I forgot, he also helps Tom Christansen to bring out the next edition of "Programming Perl".
I'm Your First Customer: Fraud Detection as a Service for Payment Aggregators
> Would it make sense to have an automated email to the effect of "Thanks for contacting us. Here are the frequently faced problems." ?

It depends on the target audience. If it consists of geeks/people familiar with computers from an early age, then, yes, they might read that, otherwise you're going to do what MicahWedemeyer does (and what myself I'm doing, for a Groupon-clone website targeted to women): emailing your users predefined passwords, hoping they'll actually change them after the first time they use them.
I just picked this up on AppSumo. I'm coming from PHP and C, so this will be a nice chance to try out Python.
Microformats are still supported, but they've been replaced by HTML5 microdata. If you're developing a new website, microdata is the way to go.

The microdata schemas supported by the three major search engines are documented at http://www.schema.org. Also, Google still supports microformats: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
IPads in the Classroom: What’s Missing?
The author of this article appears to suffer from the same problem a lot of non-Californians do: they think Southern California, and specifically LA, is the entire state.

It would have been nice to see at least a paragraph or two on the Bay Area's versions of these problems.
Would you be willing to release the extensive HN dataset you have collected?
I really like the redesign; I think using mono-color schemes is important for small areas (phones etc..).

One suggestion; more space below and above BUMP logo.
So let me get this straight. There is a "private" company owning most (if not all) of the Internet infrastructure in this country and to boost their profits they have conceived a scheme where they are going to discriminate bits that are send through their infrastructure by "deep scanning" and determining what bits are send through to bill accordingly?

Wouldn't it be easier (and cheaper) for them to just increase costs of their infrastructure across the board? Call me paranoid but I suspect that there is something else going on here, these guys are determined on their "deep scans".

And what about SSL?
Not to be dense, but I think that publication agrees with my point. The abstract advocates the responsible use of media, not its abolition, and about midway through the piece draws this distinction:

It is not violence itself but the context in which it is
portrayed that can make the difference between learning
about violence and learning to be violent. Serious
explorations of violence in plays like Macbeth and films
like Saving Private Ryan treat violence as what it is—a
human behavior that causes suffering, loss, and sadness
to victims and perpetrators. In this context, viewers
learn the danger and harm of violence by vicariously
experiencing its outcomes.

. . . which is more or less what I was saying. It's not the medium, it's the message.

Certainly, it makes the point that taken as a whole, media like television and video games don't treat violence well, and hence if you track how much kids are watching without being concerned about what, you see negative consequences. And I'd certainly agree with that. But I don't think such an average figure merits demonization of the medium as a whole.

I still think the crucial point is whether you're writing about and exploring life; whether you're doing philosophical teaching -- in a word, whether you're consuming literature -- or whether it's just entertainment. I hold that the vast majority of works in any medium are just entertainment, but that there are worthwhile ones, even in video games.
"I find your claim that 90% of the content on the NY Times is 'not much better than the content farmed stuff' absurd. Most of the writing on the NY Times has a clear voice and purpose, and much of it is original."

Even their so-called original writing often isn't original at all. Just look at their article on Choquequirao from this week, which took up half of the travel section:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/travel/in-peru-machu-pi...

Seem at all familiar? Probably because it's practically a word-for-word rewrite of this article from 2007, with a couple paragraphs from various other articles thrown in for good measure:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/travel/03inca.html
This type of reasoning is bad: you don't die 15 years earlier, your life deteriorates earlier, making the good years less.
Depends of if the designer has the same itch as the developer.

The software (at least in my perspective as both) is completely different and so the two problem spaces are rarely going to collide in exactly the right way.
CrowdStar’s New iOS Game Top Girl Sees One Million Downloads in 10 Days
It'll be interesting to see whether this game can lead to real-world purchases.
I wrote an article on this subject a few weeks back. It is not a step-by-step "how to write code," but rather a good way to understand the approach to self-teaching yourself computer programming.
Note that there is an exception if the ISP does it on ideal grounds, tells the user and doesn't use it for its own profit. This was an amendment by a extremist christian party that accidentally got voted in by the labor party...
Has there been any study about whether standing desks are actually any better? I can easily imagine that sitting motionless for 6 hours and standing motionless for 6 hours have virtually the same effect on the body.

That is, let's not be so quick to patch the problem with the first thing that isn't a chair.
What happens to user experience in a minimum viable product?
What limedaring said, plus not archiving is known to reduce loading and searching speed of GMail.
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With SearchYC gone, is there still a way to get an RSS feed for a user's comments?
Kudos for spotting, that. I feel stupid now.
I echo the sentiment of many other HNers. Thank you for all the great work, and the invaluable resource. I can't count how many times it has served me in the past.

I wish you the very best - I am almost expecting something even more kickass out of you guys soon.
Absolutely, I completely agree with everything you say. But the grandparent post seemed to be arguing that Americans simply need to be "taught" the right way to live, and that's wrong. Suburban life in america is subjectively better in many ways that urban life (for some people, obviously not everyone). You need to "fix" that part first before expecting people to move where you want them to.

It's a policy problem, not an education problem.
It's a bad idea to keep citing the same thing over and over, especially without tying it into the discussion. Otherwise people will focus on the rampant flaws in the link and ignore what you're saying.
A quote from Learn Python the Hard Way: "Warning
Windows is a big problem for Python. Sometimes you install Python and one computer will have no problems, and another computer will be missing important features. If you have problems, please visit: http://docs.python.org/faq/windows.html (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex0.html).

Why waste time messing with it? In the time you spend fucking around with Windows, you could have set up a Linux system. And Linux is the OS more commonly used by startups and physics labs (which is why the OP wants to learn how to program).
What I'm talking about is that the author made up some meaningless statistic (ie "net price") to support an assertion with no basis in reality -- that tuition at the 4-year public university costs about the same as a 5-day vacation.

By that logic, I asserted that my home's "net price" is $16,000. A figure equally opaque and equally useful.
Why the devil can't I see certain text? I'm not a user of reddit so is this some kind of joke? I'm reading this on my iPhone.
EaselJS allows a parent-child display list relationship and mouse interactions with sprites. http://easeljs.com/
The reason why it only applies to the most significant digit is that I can say for certain that quantities of 1_ will appear ~2x as much as quantities in the 2_x family. However, I can't say whether numbers ending in 1 are more common than numbers ending in 6, because although 11 occurs more than any number higher than it, it makes up a minuscule proportion of the numbers ending in 1, and 16 occurs more than 21, 31, etc., so there's no clear way to predict what number will occur most in any digit but the most significant.

Thanks for offering your views. My analogy may be wrong or weak and maybe there is a better one to be found.
"It is far better to do two queries (get the set of reviews with their member ids, then get all of the member from this set of ids and merge it at the app level) than do a join."

Is this way really faster? We've been moving the opposite direction in a Rails app (from iterating over data in ruby to joins). We have a fast RDS instance that seems to far outperform our app running on Heroku for complex data manipulation.
Quit spamming and read the research it is based on. It is not of the best quality.
Parental figures anyone? Kids are going to see violence and sexual acts if they really want to do it; and just as with adults prohibition does not help the problem.
I would say try to do what Raveable does with hotels (aside from the hopelessly broken UI). Parse and quantify the reviews that are out there. Crawl the scattered reviews in forums, comments, blogs and find a way to analyze, weigh and present them in an easily digestible form.
I've tried both extensively and the conclusion I've reached is that staying in one position, standing or sitting, for many hours is the real culprit. The only real cure to sedentariness (which is probably what really shaves off lifespan) is to be as mobile as possible.
Also on an iPhone. The reason is they're using a 'spoiler' tag that hides the text until it is selected. Unfortunately we can't do that...