skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't necessarily matter what the culture of the person who had the idea is. It matters who has the courage to do it. Execution trumps idea.
I'm the guy that created <script> -- big dummy me first used language="JavaScript", not type= -- type came in HTML4 (where Dave Raggett invented "text/javascript", never registered; see RFC 4329).

Yes, I added language= at the start, but the default was JS and I had no particular intention to support other languages using one or more VMs. I see what you mean now, though -- thanks. Hope this history helps. It's less meaningfully intentional than you thought. More like blind future-proofing.
Just curious -- and be honest -- the snippet at the end they ask you to decipher (and they say "Most programmers find it hard to understand unless they have a functional programming background, so don't feel bad if you don't get it immediately") did you have trouble with it?

For me, I thought I had the answer after maybe 30 seconds of reading it, but decided to "check my work" by walking through it again, and only then, a moment later, did I realize what it was actually doing with that recursive call.

I'm just curious about their "most programmers without a functional background" remark. So: did ya get it?
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Turkheimer by no means represents a consensus view in genetic research. Moreover, I find some of his positions to be quite at odds with my view of what scientific philosophy should be. For example, he believes that the study of race and IQ is not a "legitimate matter for scientific inquiry". You can spin all the pseudoscientific rationalizations you want to make that claim, but as soon as you say that some subject is off limits, and that subject just happens to be very related to a taboo social and political topic, your motivations become suspect in my opinion. But then that's why, apropos of the linked article's ending, I'm a libertarian.
TNG is a great show. They really don't make television like that anymore.

Young kids probably wouldn't watch it if it wasn't in HD. Its like people of my age watching black and white movies. The dated special effects would be too boring and sadly might hinder people from appreciating the show.

A faithful HD remaster would greatly extend TNG's watchable lifespan.
The CBC series does seem offline. Can anyone locate alt. links ?
The problem I have with that line of thinking is it encourages halting the progress of technology based on fear of the unknown, a classic human foible.
"One person who buys a house they can't really afford is not a big deal. Let such a person make that bad decision if this is their inclination is a libertarian attitude. But millions of people make a similarly bad decision affects us all."

I don't think it's exactly a stretch to assume that such a (putatively) topical example was related to current events.

Besides, in the process of describing why the crisis wasn't caused by markets, I answered your objection anyhow. When the free market was making the decisions about mortgages, they did in fact make it in a sustainable way. Once the lenders were detached from the consequences of their decisions by the government, that broke. There's no better way to ensure that we don't have a housing crisis than to use those market mechanisms.

Note carefully I didn't say "if we use those mechanisms, we'll never have a housing crisis". I said there's no better way. It's basically impossible to completely prevent periodic crises.
I've already worn out my keys on this one, but I find the refusal (it's a "design decision") to support most recently used (MRU) tab switching order in the Chrome browser to be extremely frustrating and obstinate. I am quite often trying to switch back and forth between two or three tabs within a larger open tab set. And so are many others, apparently, from all the comments online on this topic.

What happened to recognizing and supporting how people actually work?

Yes, there are extensions that kind of get around this, but the Chrome security model prevents their hooking Control-(Shift-)-Tab.
Business and intellectual property resources for start-ups
Business and intellectual property resources for start-ups:

http://www.pinskylaw.ca/Resources/resources.htm
"From a practical standpoint, all these apps are integrated with the web. How the code is delivered, or what runtime is used, are just technical details."

How standards are made, what must be implemented in an interoperating browser, are not "just technical details". If that were so we could treat browsers like bespoke server installations, with different language VMs, databases, etc. That would fragment the web into non-interoperating silos.

On the server side, subsidiarity is the rule. Different sources of authority over domain names can provision as they please. But the servers all speak HTTP, HTML, CSS, JS, PNG, etc. -- a relatively small set of content languages. And the browsers must all agree on how these work.
A redditor explains how to make readline and bash more user friendly
Er, whose idea was it to write: "Hey Startups in private beta: Want some awesome beta-testers? Invite some emails in the list below!"

I don't recall consenting to anyone using my email address to spam me about their website...

EDIT: It's gone now.
The OJ-ware License: the Beer Ware license for San Francisco in the 21st century
No, you have to use a drop-down menu to find physical books, a logical decision considering (as I recall) eBook sales have eclipsed paper book sales on Amazon.
I like this.

Clear user flow. Less distracting colours - Dark colour against mainly light BG should = call to action. Iconography, search icon instead of go. Removing the cart from the blue bar gives it separate visual identity than search.. Less help text/descriptive text.. more white space.

A breath of fresh air from Amazon, lets hope they take this redesign throughout quickly. I like designs that carry me through the site on a soft fluffly cloud.
I created a "license" and put in on GitHub:
https://github.com/felixmiddendorf/ojware-license/blob/maste...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2984233
Writing Tetris in Clojure
It will probably have negative effects on my sales. The new changes will showcase digital purchases/downloads and I'm selling physical goods.
I've been struggling with my studies for years. I was supposed to graduate as civil engineer.

Now I'm finally getting better, but it took several things:

1. Baby steps. Spring 2010 was the first time that I understood that taking less courses means that I have more energy per course. So I started with one, then two, then three. Now I have five ongoing courses at the same time, and I don't (quite) feel overwhelmed. My studies progressed last year at modest speed that is about 1/3 of the speed usually recommended, but my grades improved significantly.

2. Seeing psychologist. She told me about the benefits of taking it easy at first. And my friends didn't have to listen to all of my troubles.

3. Doing something really interesting. I switched to mechanics. I'm particularly into product development. I really don't seem to mind a single course that is not so interesting if it gets me closer my goal (this was actually a big surprise to me).

4. No TV. But movies with friends is a big YES.

5. Getting good IRL friends. I don't feel the need to IRC anymore.

6. Clear shift between work and leisure. If I walk 800 meters to school and spend there 8 hours I can count that I get something done. I might check HN few times, but I just cannot browse the Internet for the whole day.

7. Might seem counterintuitive, but no work on Sundays. Jews we're right. Having at least one day a week when you just don't do anything productive can boost your productivity a lot. And it surprisingly helps to actually have really good time when you're not working, you might think that it drains your energy, but it doesn't.

8. I don't really know if it truly helps or not. But I often think about what I want in life, and how I'm going to get there fastest.

9. For some reason, it seems that getting older helps a little. Maybe it's because you get a stronger feeling about wasting your life.

10. There is no word "should". You either do, or you don't. Sometimes you might do something. Some stuff you haven't yet started, but it's stuff you're going to do, not something that you should do.

11. & 12. Make starting easy for yourself and plan what you're doing. I find it easiest to start by planning. So I plan what I do today and I actually start doing it tomorrow. Planning what I'm going to study tomorrow takes like 30min so it's not a biggie. I feel like I have started so it's easy to continue. And I get sense of control of what I do. Planning counts as doing!

13. Don't ever plan to grind through everything at one go. Those 14 hour work days are going to ruin your motivation to the next job.

14. Get a calendar and a clock. Use them. Then get completely rid of them when you have a day off.

Everything here actually just boils down to three things. Remember to have free time and make it good and remember to plan really well what you're doing.
Lol, love that vid. :)
Actually I happened to have gone down the same road as Rob Conery: http://wekeroad.com/building-things/tekpub-a-six-pack-and-yo...

Except in my case, since I was learning as I went, I didn't have time to figure out why the less-mature technologies weren't working just right. Or I'd look at a problem and see it solved nicely for relational DBs, but still needing some manual work to make it work with a NoSQL DB... and when it came down to actually getting stuff done, I hated writing code I didn't have to write.

That's actually an interesting thought: if you're trying to learn a technology, doing a startup is the wrong thing to do. Because ultimately you are just wasting precious time on things that the business side doesn't care about. I hit that "conflict of interest" quite a bit through this process.
Great advice. I'll be checking out RescueTime. Do you use the pro version or just the free version?
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You said copy-paste - are you using the OS copy-paste or readline's kill ring? C-a C-k is pretty fast, and then can be retrieved with C-y.
Yes, but it would have been significantly more baffling if the word "sieve" didn't hint at its behavior.

Still, I'm not sure that a functional background would have helped, or maybe my background is more functional than I think. I know some Python, and I read a few articles about functional programming a couple of years ago, but I don't think I could give you a clear definition of what functional programming is.
I love the new masthead/search area, but I still think the main content area needs a little work -- everything has a "floating in space" look to it because the layout doesn't contain enough visual anchors to prevent it from looking unstructured.

All in all, I like where this is going.
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It doesn't matter whether the market is right or not. What matters is that the market is. Politicians routinely forget that. Communism's core failure was ignoring the irrepressible nature of market forces. The same applies to our system of capitalism.

One of the core factors that drove the credit crisis was ignoring market forces. "Too big to fail" led directly and obviously to recklessness. Bankers knew that they had nothing to lose and everything to gain. In a system where a government explicitly or implicitly guarantees banks, there is little incentive for anyone involved to guard against cataclysmic failures. As we so often do, we privatised gains and nationalised losses.

The desire to fix "market imbalances" is only that, a desire. The evidence is that most attempts to fix the market only make things worse. If we merely want to be seen to be doing "the right thing", then it's reasonable to legislate and hope for the best. If we actually want to improve the world, we must recognise that the market is tantamount to a force of nature.

Decades of trying to control wildfires led only to fiercer, more devastating fires. It was only when we realised that fires are a natural part of a forest ecosystem that we began to reduce the damage caused. Attempting to prevent any negative outcomes of a free market is similarly futile.

We can't control markets. Khruschev and Breshnev couldn't, nor Greenspan or Bernanke. All we can do is nudge it a little, build a firebreak here, drop a bucket there. Until we recognise that, we're doomed to the cycle of boom and bust that has dominated post-industrial economies.

People do stuff. You can attempt to change their incentives, but they'll still do whatever makes sense to them. That's the core of libertarian thought. Accept that lack of control, accept that the drug war can't be won, accept abortion and gambling and credit default swaps, then try and work out how best to mitigate the externalities of those things. Legislate based on what is not on what we think ought to be.
I took no shot at Dart because we all know nearly nothing about it.

My whole talk was about how competing browser vendors work together to standardize and evolve JS. In that light, bailing to a proprietary move like Dart is entirely relevant and not linkbait.

This is a non-technical, or really meta-technical point. Lots of JS and web standards work is about techniques for solving technical problems, hence meta.

Any well-funded company with smart people on staff can "do better" for a given point-function or language in the set of languages. On the web, such better-is-better approaches won't get traction without being adopted by multiple competing browsers.

The best way to get adoption is standardization. Forcing reverse-engineering, open-washing as if that helps competing vendors more than a little (assuming their hackers can even read the delayed-open source as a reference), fragmenting web content are all "less good" in my view.

A browser with market power can try these tactics. They may backfire, or make a messy "now you have two problems" world.
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I'm a bit shocked at your statement that there's no message in Anathem. The message I got out of it is to question my assumptions about the flow of history, most specifically about things that "everyone knows are true". For instance, why doesn't everyone know that you have to plan projects in certain ways if you expect them to get done at a certain time? Well, in part because the idea of getting done at a certain time is new to this half century (which is a small amount of time in history) and because the idea of project planning is about as young. Even now those ideas are getting disrupted too by other things that everyone's suppose to know are true.

Basically Anathem introduced me to the historical progression of ideas and the constant forgetfulness of that process as its practiced by at least Western society. You can make the argument that academics know that this isn't the case, but I'm not sure that they're not caught up in the same progressive forgetfulness as the "common person".
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-win-tweets-and-influence-s...

600 some tweets, still going. Works good in certain verticals - works really good in web analytics/online marketing.
My worry here is computers will learn to write articles specific to every individual.
The computer will know what other articles we liked and what we didn't like and just try to write to what we want to read. This will make it even less likely we'll hear an opposing view to our own, if the computers are giving us what we want to read.
Read EAT THAT FROG by Brain Tracy, it would surely change your life.
Patents: Can the giants protect the minnows?
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Synergy+ is still awfull and hasn't been updated in years. The only benefit? It works well cross platform. I've succesfully had Linux/Mac/Windows sharing keyboard/mouse.
How Startups getting funded is similar to Bands getting signed
I mostly agree, though I don't have a strong position on the correct answer. But as someone who does study complex systems sometimes in my day job, I find that argument for libertarianism extremely unconvincing. Most complex systems you find do not, left alone, function in any sort of reasonable way. They are full of crazy oscillating attractors, pathological feedback loops, more-stable and less-stable states that you (or an actor in the system) can deliberately manipulate it into, etc., etc. "Well-behaved" dynamical systems are comparatively hard to design even when you're deliberately designing, and ones you just find somewhere are usually not well behaved.

Which makes me particularly skeptical of "the market just works" type analysis, which claims that this particular complex dynamical system does not have all those pathologies, and in fact can be analyzed with fairly high-level, aggregate laws like the classical economics analysis of supply/demand adjustment. Heck, even fluid dynamics (another complex system) doesn't work that way--- all our general laws about how pressure/flow/velocity/etc. relate only apply to specific flow regimes, and can have different or even opposite-of-normal relationships in different flow regimes (especially anything turbulent).

One argument for why there should be some intervention would be: the classical-economics analysis of how economies should work is an appealing one, but is not in fact how they always work, so the government's job should be to dampen out the pathologies and turbulence that would take us out of the "normal" regime where the classical laws do apply. That's sort of the line taken by ordoliberalism. The question would be whether it can, on the whole, do more good than harm. But I wouldn't start from the assumption that what you get without government intervention operates "well" or "ideally".
Turkheimer by no means represents a consensus view in genetic research

Who else would you suggest? One of the links I put in my first reply here is co-authored by Bouchard, Gottesman, and Johnson (all of whom I know personally, as they are based at the university where I join their discussions of human behavioral genetics research), and if they are not part of the mainstream, who is?

What is the citation for the statement you attribute to Turkheimer and put in quotation marks in your comment? Where could an interested reader look up its context?

I invite readers to take a look at Turkheimer's list of publications

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/vita1_turkheimer.htm

and see for themselves how his writings fit into current literature on human behavioral genetics.

After edit: I just remembered that another reason I especially like recommending Turkheimer's writings, besides the fact that he is an eminent authority on the facts he writes about, is that he is a researcher who changes his opinion on the basis of evidence. I thought that Turkheimer is an especially interesting example for Eliezer in that regard, as Eliezer writes a lot about human beings examining their unspoken biases and fitting their thinking to evidence.

Here is a link a bibliography to several scholarly, recent sources about genetic study of human populations, including how uninformative the socially determined category of "race" is in genetic investigations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropol...

Most bloggers don't look up scholarly sources like this, but my respect for my fellow HN participants prompts me to make use of my alma mater's university library and other libraries in my town to look up the most reliable sources and share them here.
I find it relaxing to actually use my calendar. If I have stuff that I can schedule somewhere in near future, but I don't have the time to do it now, It's lot nicer looking at my calendar than my TO DO list.
Read 2 books:

1.Getting things Done

2.The Now Habit

If it's just getting mired up in what to do, the first will help

If you have agreed to do silly things, the second one will.
For people who don't "get it", I ask them if they think a Monster Ethernet cable would make the colors of the websites they view more crisp and vibrant. If they say yes, don't even bother.
I suppose this may do for articles that just deliver some facts. However the kind of stuff I enjoy reading doesn't just barf up some facts in the form of sentences, it provides insight into what the implications of those facts may be and also draws from the past to better put things in context.

That's not to say their technology couldn't be improved to search the web and see what past events are relevant, but providing good insights about the implications of the facts will be a whole lot tougher. I don't think journalists need to be shaking in their boots unless they only deliver the quality and depth of results that this algorithm delivers.
I am considering getting this as my next Android phone, upgrading from an HTC Hero running VillainRom.

What do folks around here who own it think? Or should I wait for the next Nexus or whatever Motorola-Google produces.

I specifically use my phone for some reading while mobile(thus need its big screen) and web use including navigation using Google maps (so battery life is important). Other than it being responsive, I don't particularly care about the performance.
If the cost of producing even the sort of dry, statistics-heavy content the program presently excels at was a primary factor then we'd have outsourced it to India or the Philippines by now. You'd certainly pay less than $10 for an article like this:
http://www.builderonline.com/local-housing-data/new-england/...

I'm willing to believe the underlying machine learning technology is very clever, but I'm also willing to believe a specialised toy script could produce similar results, even if you had to hard code the minimum winning margin for a "rout".

As for the Freakonomics comparison, they seem to have missed the appeal of Levitt: that his ability to posit a plausible causal relationship between two apparently unrelated variables. Any idiot can summarise "remarkable findings" based on spurious correlations.
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Ask HN: startup idea - Market place for unused coupons?
Market place for unused coupons.

I thought about creating a marketplace where people can exchange coupons they purchased from sites like Groupon, but haven't used yet.
Do you think this is a good idea? anyone implemented this yet in the USA?
I do not have any experience in testifying (or in finding work as a programmer) but as a general rule, the people who succeed tend not to be the kind who worry that they'll get a black mark on their Permanent Record (or on B Corp's version of their Permanent Record).
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It was great while it lasted.
how long does a regular digital clock run that you can just buy at the store? Probably a long time, that would be cheaper, and who cares. Give the rest of the money to the needy
I believe that Groupon gives refunds, but it still might work with other sites.
This is as likely and will be taken as seriously as the possibility of addressing the grievances of the people that committed 9/11.

To continue the over-generalization - that Anonymous has not (yet) claimed responsibility for any violent acts is the only thing separating the two in the eyes of the government (and the general public.)