skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how that's really surprising. Your examples are all easily explainable to a very young child and can be described in physical terms, "9 apples split between 9 people", "half a cake times two" - even people who don't need such simplistic thoughts, the fact that it is relatable to real life does make it easier to grasp.

Whereas 0.999... just isn't relatable at all, it's a concept that purely exists for the sake of mathematics.

Not to mention, your examples are all sums, 0.999... = 1 isn't. You can call them all equations, sure, but the difference is that between "if I make changes to X then it can equal Y" and "X already equals Y, even though they appear to be different numbers".
Found: Bitcoin mining bot that is controlled via Twitter
The website is so full of hyped words I don't trust it.
Advanced doesn't mean better. And I think this could be done years ago without HTML5.

But it is looking nice! Inline editing is very useful!
Private Joe is really a solid game. Excellent work! Would you mind sharing some basic usage stats? Have adding the elements you list been worth the effort? The reason I am asking is that I created a HTML5 a couple of months ago (http://www.thearca.de/gardenmadness/), and I have been pondering whether it is worth the effort to create a FB version or not.
Skype is a huge company, there may have been some politics involves.
This concerns user/third party authored WordPress themes for the WordPress.org software. WordPress.com is hosted and administrated by Automattic, and they handle security like any other application provider. It's not likely that Wordpress.com is using this resizing script and if they were, you as a user would not have to take any action to fix it (and couldn't do so, anyway)
Wow, gem install && run the install utility and 'it just works.' What a cool project, and impressive that it just does what it claims to do, well and in such a jazzy manner.
Interesting; I didn't realize it was possible to control iTunes from alternate frontends via some sort of API. Instead of a new console-mode frontend, though, I wonder if it'd be possible to adopt player frontends from other client/server music players, like the ncurses-based 'ncmpc' frontend of mpd.
I'm surprised that I am commenting late and I am the first one.

Am I the only one that seems to think that this can be used for racketeering, money laundering, ext.

Also, balancing a dual currency economy by arbitrage? Interesting concept? Or doomed to be abused? Or both?
Thanks! family in AU has ipad1, we've got a 2 here, so I wanted to try to surprise them tomorrow. :)
That has really improved since the last time it was posted here. I'm blown away by this full page editor option.

http://www.aloha-editor.org/demos/3col/
Any word on when Gevent will be compatible with Python 3?
Wow, though I love Twitter, the thought of trying to 5-10x 800 million scares the hell out of me.
Not in technology! If you can code C++ or Java, you can get a job in a bank. If you can make electronics, look to Siemens or a multitude of smaller tech companies. The same sort of persons are sought by DSTL or Qinetiq, or even AWE. The bank may offer £40k-£80k for someone with no prior experience. The tech company may offer £40k. The government-run companies offer £20k-£35k.

I know this, because I am currently looking to find a new position somewhere and I have been looking around. That Times article refers to all public sector workers, including teachers, nurses and administrators. In these professions, I believe the article. In research and development, I do not.
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Folk are focusing on the two changes that make this more like chrome (tabs in title bar, and apparent removal of search bar.)

This has been in FF since version 4. These mockups are for FF 8.
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I find it good practice to hand write, what at the time I deem very important, emails I'm not 100% certain I should send. Sleep on it and then read it the next day. If I still want to send it then I type it up and press Send.
I invest time in doing things like looking over any third party libraries for stuff like this, too. The quality of the average WordPress plugin is quite low, and I'm surprised we don't hear about issues like this more often.
> Perl is very active here in Japan.

Considering the amount of legacy Perl scripts that I have had to rewrite since I got
to Japan due to a lack of Perl developers that can mantain them,
I'd think that Japan's Galapagos argument does not work so much
in this case. I think that it is also losing strength around here.
Crap, seems a fair number of my submissions end up that way. Maybe it's just me.
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Awesome work Dan. If you keep putting out awesome Vim stuff like this, I'm really going to have to ditch Textmate at some point and join the club.

For those of you who haven't seen before, Dan is putting out some awesome software like this about every 2 months it seems. And it is always awesome and useful.
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Not doing the right thing for fear of retribution? Staying quiet essentially allows them to do the same to others.

Fear should never dictate the decision process. They need to be reported.
Investors at different points in time have different things to offer a company. An angel investor brings more than money to a company in the first few years (connections, guidance, etc.), but they may not be able to help as the company transitions to a medium-sized firm. That, plus the fact that they still hold a non-negligible share of the company, makes it desirable to cash them out and return control to the core of the company (later investors, executive team, etc.). Especially if they have board seats, it doesn't make sense to have somebody who's not as qualified (or interested) with that much control. So, you buy them out.

I can't speak to how it has been done in the past, but it doesn't make much sense to me to force all involved parties to wait for IPO + 18 months to divest from a company, especially if they're going to actively hinder the companies growth.

Also, the terms you get from shifting pre-existing shares (e.g., employees) around are probably better than creating new ones. The later investors get a greater chunk of the pie for less money because the company doesn't have to create new shares, and the early investors would prefer to get cash today than more highly valued shares tomorrow.
When I read this article, my first thought was that this would make a great option in a/bingo. UCB1, which is one of the bandit methods discussed in this thread, looks like it'd be relatively easy to implement: you just calculate a simple formula for each alternative in the test and choose the alternative with the highest result.

While it would definitely take some time and testing to see whether the bandit method worked better in practice, it might be even easier to work with than the current state of a/bingo. Instead of writing one line of code to choose between alternatives and then checking back after a bit to see which one worked best, you could just write a single line of code once and not worry about it until you wanted to clean that program up and standardize on one choice.
This is a discussion of jwz's posting and the comments to it, not of the original. Therefore not a dup.
That's true; I was oversimplifying the issue. Most shared hosting web hosts run PHP files with the same user that you FTP with. If WP can't update itself in these cases then the user cannot write files via FTP. If a user connects via SSH then chances are they are comfortable changing directory permissions to do an update.
My first thought was the other way around: How much would I need to do to make ViTunes control my mpd music? (There seem to be a couple of older Python Vim plugins to do this[1][2].)

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2856

[2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2369
U.S. might get downgraded - but do rating agencies matter?
I have previously written about the how the rating agencies currently hold a dangerous level of influence over our global economy through sovereign ratings. With one press release, these agencies can cause massive selloffs and panic in the markets worldwide (see Europe). The ongoing debt crisis has focused many on the question of whether or not our debt ceiling will be raised. But there is another, equally important, matter that deserves attention: whether or not the U.S. will get downgraded. If the U.S. raises the debt ceiling, this by no means saves the country from losing its coveted AAA status. In fact, the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Rating Agency has explicitly indicated that a plan providing for less than $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years is likely to lead to a downgrade. Some commentators have cautioned that a credit downgrade, in and of itself, would be devastating. Financial analysts estimate that a downgrade would result in $100 billion more of additional interest expense for the U.S. - per year. Over 10 years, this would be an additional $1 trillion of additional interest expense incurred. It would seem logical that any plan which contemplates less than $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next 10 years should factor this in. So the current plan of ~$2.7 trillion in deficit reduction should probably be around $1.7 trillion. But this is only true if you actually take the rating agencies to heart. Which brings up a legitimate question: why listen to the rating agencies in the first place? These are the same agencies that facilitated the real estate bubble and bust by assigning top ratings to debt instruments made up of sub-prime mortgage loans - debt instruments that are now considered "toxic." The agencies, as Thomas Beck (author of "Constitutional Separation of Powers: Cases & Commentary") points out, have long treated U.S. bonds as the gold standard by which all other debt instruments should be measured - even when they knew Washington was engaged in a colossal Ponzi-type cycle. It was able to repay its existing debt only by taking on new debt, and then pay that newer debt by taking on more debt, and so on, and so on. Beck, in his article (sourced below) goes on to ask, "Could any careful lender conclude that such behavior by a borrower warrants the highest possible credit rating?" For a country that now borrows $0.40 cents for every $1 dollar it spends, it shouldn’t take a rating agency press release to illustrate that the U.S. is not the same credit it was 10 years ago.
"406
Following
350
Followers"

is not exactly a position of great influence.
Chinese Tea from the Min River Tea farm tastes like shit. Yeah I said it.
Wow, this look's exactly like what Node needs to be able to break out of the single process and have multiple nodes communicating with each other.
I like their style, and I would've made the same move. Though I'm speaking on the outside looking in, Union Square seems to be much more connected with the industry and their investments. I think they probably "get it" more than most. Props to Turntable.fm.
You're right. Any of those scenarios are incredibly far fetched and don't make a lot of sense.

However, that doesn't mean we should just ignore evidence that doesn't fit the official story. If we discover evidence contradicting our current hypothesis, we can't simply ignore it because we don't like it. That's bad science.

All I am saying is that there are holes in the official account. Why are people so afraid to look deeper into these matters?

You are trying to use a straw man to attack any views other than belief in the official account. I have made no speculations about why the government has supressed certain facts. Certainly it's possible there is a more realistic and less flippant answer than "The Bavarian Illuminati/the Jeeeeewwwws/Citibank/Oprah Winfrey", but you are trying to lump curious scepticisim in with lunacy.

That's not fair. It is foolish to assume that either the US Government is not lying, or there is a massive conspiracy. It is also possible that there is a more boring and simple reason why the government has withheld information. But regardless, any questioning of even a minor detail and suddenly you are label a conspiracy theorist.

You are purposefully shutting yourself out to anything contrary to your views; I don't feel that is what I am doing.
Very well then a sum based explanation:

1/9 = .111...
2/9 = .222...
3/9 = .333...
4/9 = .444...
5/9 = .555...
6/9 = .666...
7/9 = .777...
8/9 = .888...
9/9 = .999... = 1

the .999 = 1 issue is not a math problem so much as a symbol issue. Those fractional representations of ninths are presented to 4th graders if i recall correctly, yet adults will argue that there must exist some number between .999... and 1 even though both symbols represent the same value.
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> every application having different and increasingly obnoxious methods of giving you "important" notifications;

This is one area in which the browsers seem to be getting better. Consider the humble Javascript alert, which used to grab and hold focus so that you could not interact with any other browser window or dialog until you had addressed the alert. Nearly all of the browsers have now switched to less intrusive alerts that display but do not dominate.
That depends on how many keystrokes it takes compared to the equivalent mouse actions. `c3E` is faster than moving you hand to the mouse, highlighting three words of text that you want to replace, and moving your hand back to the keyboard.

Assuming ViTunes uses a similar set of actions to play music, I could easily see it being a faster way to find and play the songs you want to listen to.
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Generally showstopper / crash bugs. The review process can move pretty quickly in that case, if you are a big dev.
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> do you really think that protections for that work are going to become less popular?

I dont know. What I do know is that the majority of my peers does _not_ support IP in its current form...

> Did we ever have a formal, democratic vote on land ownership?

...while the majority of my peers _does_ support the notion of ownership of physical items. I also personally do not know anybody who doesnt, so the motivation to push for a vote on something where the result is "obvious" is relatively low, but I of course wouldn't oppose it.

> You could say the same things about any kind of property.

So you in principle do agree that the public should be more directly involved in the creation of laws which it is required to abide by.

The whole concept of trial by jury of peers implies that the peers had a role in the creating of the law, and that they do not merely decide whether a law created by a authoritative, undemocratic body, which the majority of them might not even agree with, has been disobeyed.
I believe those studies were done with non-experts. Editors like vi and emacs are expert-systems: the upfront cost to learning how to use them is high, but once you pay that cost, you can be extremely efficient in them. I've used vi (well, vim, but just about anyone who uses "vi" is really using vim) as my primary editor for... eight years now. I feel far more comfortable in it than in editors that expect me to do mouse-and-keyboard inputs. I am, however, not a master. If you've ever seen vi or emacs masters write or edit code, it's clear they are faster than they could be if they were in a mouse-and-keyboard interface.
You have a good point there, it is impossible to define what is good and what not in flavors.
It is like asking what is the best dog bread?
And yes, the review about service is more important.

This guy (Brian) at the end admitted that he did what he did just because he was unfollowed in twitter. What a guy!
This makes me so happy! As a Canadian, the current polices are incredibly frustrating.
New Layar Vision recognises real world objects and displays AR objects on top
Minor point: this is a blog entry, not an article. I don't believe "The Economist" holds their blogs to the same standard as their articles. Certainly the voice and formality is more relaxed in their blogs.
Last year I wrote a fan letter of sorts to Professor McCracken, thanking him for his ForTran book, which I credited as my inspiration for what became my life work. (Ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1710523 )

He replied to my letter, saying:

===

"I love your story!!! Warms my heart like little else. I am absolutely delighted to have had a hand in your choice of career, given that you are pleased with the choice.

"By golly, I too think my books were clear! I'm still teaching. Not Fortran, but beginning CS. When I get frantic I pick out my first Fortran book, or a later one, and look for a good example. It's usually there!

"Makes me think of writing a book in a modern language. For about two seconds. The energy isn't there any more. Love to teach, but writing a book is a very much bigger deal than it was back then, and I don't see how I could hack it. Well, I am 79.

"Thanks a million for your mail. Definitely made my day."

===

I'm glad today that I got to do that. RIP, Professor.
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I liked all of those including Rome (and I haven't seen all of Deadwood). Also a big Firefly fan ;)

Out of curiosity, have you seen Band of Brothers and The Pacific, and what did you think of each?
Valid point. But it's not about the difficulty - the macros are probably easier. I just simply don't like the pattern of the compiler discarding the information and the macros (indirectly) reconstructing it.

If you need the information then the straightforward thing to do is not to discard it in the first place.
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If you were designing something illegal and profitable, would you use a third party's site to control your system? Why would you give them the power to shut you down? It's not like it's hard... The messages follow a pattern. They have to be easy to find.
As a subscriber to the Game of Thrones reddit, am I absolutely flaging this.

I know I am not supposed to complain about stories on HN, but I feel I have to say this. Let us not have "Oooh, look at these special effects!" type of stories on the HN front page.
I would love to be able to install it on my Android to, it is only available in the U.S. market, I live in south America
If you define a startup as a company still looking for a business model as Steve Banks might, then twitter very well fits in that definition. It's also easy to label companies with a startup culture of moving fast, raising capital and innovating a "startup".
IIRC the monster Groupon round paid out early investors--typically a sign to run away (IMHO, something I said just the other day [1]). This deal at least seems to offer to buy out employees (which, to be frank, I would take at this point) so that's better.

But still... Facebook has taken in over $2 billion in VC funding but has a valuation approaching $100 billion. Twitter has taken in $1.16 billion for an $8 billion valuation.

I personally think Twitter is at serious risk of losing relevancy (this decade's Myspace) and they've reached a point where they need to figure out a business model (although technically they've just bought themselves another 2-3 years).

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2829358
A question for the Matas and the SoundCloud folks: If you upgraded to Backbone 0.5.0+, would you use the built-in pushState support, or would you still need additional functionality that your custom routing provides?
The Fallacy of Modern Web Development
@jtaby's drunken rant that JS developers need to stop experimenting with MVC frameworks and start focusing on delivering amazing implementations, a la the new iCloud.
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As far as I can tell, all changesets in Git are summed by SHA-1. The sum is also an ID for the changeset. You cannot change a changeset without modifying its' SHA-1 sum. This design make Git secure from tampering.

The ID for Hg changesets are some 48-bit numbers, like fb43b575b296. I do not think that this size is safe enough.
It's probably just that the example is overly simple, but...

1. The spec speed up is from good mocking, not the service object approach.

2. Tying behavior to persistence is appropriate when it's appropriate, i.e. when it happens every time the object is created/updated. He's right that a slew of after_save callbacks is obnoxious, but Rails' observers already well encapsulate such behavior.

3. In this example case, logging isn't appropriate, because he doesn't want to create an activity feed when a user is created. Instead, he only creates an activity feed entry when a user is created on the website, i.e., through the controller. In that case, it would be perfectly reasonable to include the log creation as another line in the controller code in the success branch of "if User.create(params)". For this example specifically, if that happened in many controllers it could just as easily be a method in a module that was mixed into them ("create_user_and_log"), or even a User class method ("User#create_and_log"). It's a stylistic choice rather than an architectural choice.

That's not to say the approach is without merit—it definitely has some. But what you're really doing is trading a "controller level" unit test (I've always hated that they're called "functional tests" in Rails) for a regular "class level" unit test. If that sort of encapsulation floats your boat more than, say, a module for your controllers, then by all means. I just don't see anything crazy, or heretical, or awesome here.
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In terms of aesthetic appeal of a rendered image, lighting and textures are everything.

A thousand times this!
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thanks and this is awesome news. It doesnt matter to me now but god would I have killed for this 5 years ago.

The fact that the number of applications for H1B is less than the number available shows how much better the quality of life in India has gotten.
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Working in a standard government position isn't the same as working at the NSA.

Similarly, working in a standard UK government position is nothing like working at GCHQ.
oh. well, in that case, i like my titlebars too. i guess if someone doesn't, they can use a WM without titlebars?

also, chrome gives you the option of disabling the titlebar, so it must be possible.
startup = A company with no real revenues yet? but with potential?
Disgree. The NSA's public image is that of an all-powerful Big Brother style agency since nobody knows anything about them publicly. There's nothing in that public image that has anything to do with 'general malfeasance' though.
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