skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://gist.github.com/1379492 - bindings for Conkeror, you can now insert Nyan Cat by pressing "C-z N" in a textfield. ~=[,,_,,]:3
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And worldwide Asians are underrepresented as Field's medalists. And Turning Award winners. And Nobel prizes in math intesive fields like Econ and Physics.
While it's not drag & drop, you should take a look at beets (http://beets.radbox.org/). It's written in Python and has fairly active development. It uses the MusicBrainz database for cataloging music and is pretty customizable as far as directory structure etc.
Your friend might not be nodejs, but it might be .... Javascript. One way to speed up data processing on the server is to avoid processing it as much as possible and delegate such processing to the client side. Hence, Javascript is your friend there.
Where are the learning environments that are just like games like Skyrim?
My Github repo is private right now. The JQuery is still a little rough. The biggest issue is uses images for the "tips" coming out of the cards. I would like to generalize that and make it more configurable. Plus I would need to throw together some documentation as well.
Right. (Swede here)

Norway and Sweden are virtually identical as far as I can tell. Though I haven't lived there, I work with norwegians and visit a few times a year since 2008.

Standard of living might be a bit higher, but not drastically.

Naturally, Salaries are a lot lower in Sweden, but so are the prices. Food prices in Norway are often double, rarely less than 150%.

One interesting detail is infrastructure. Due to all the mountains and fjords, building highways in Norway is super expensive. Lots of tunnels. Smaller roads tend to follow the natural, winding shape of the land, making them slow and long.
Only Europe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index#Figures
Until a publisher comes along who takes the effort to present eBooks properly, grabs a big share of the market and others follow suit. (see: iPhone for an example of how manufacturers take note of selling trends).
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Author says it is powered by google images. Which is ironic:

http://bing.jpg.to/ (what you'd expect)

http://google.jpg.to/ (not what you'd expect)
I started with http://hello.jpg.to/ and was delighted by the results, thinking that the web app translated my phrase into a variety of languages and then made a stylish motif. Eagerly, I typed in http://goodbye.jpg.to/ to see, again, what looked like a totally custom image based on random text that I put in. I have to admit, I found this to be http://totallyawesome.jpg.to/ at this point, pressing F5 and hoping for other stylized generations.

After not seeing any, I decided to just try my name ... and found a football player.
For the convenience of being able to carry it on your phone, make highlights and notes that you can search in the future, for the ability (if you're interested in it) of finding information about passages others who've read the same book found most interesting, for the ability to "loan" the book to a relative or friend in a distant state without having to send the book through the mail.

I'm not trying to say you're wrong or that I even disagree, I'm just trying to point out that people should have different expectations with ebooks and physical books (like I mentioned in my other post which was downvoted). ebooks are awesome in some ways physical books are not (and they're lousy in some ways that they really oughtn't be).

The point I most strongly agree on is where you say this is in its infancy (like the browsers wars). The first ebook I read was on a Windows PocketPC in about 2000 and it sucked. The whole technology has gotten dramatically better and I expect it will continue to, but it's not more than about 10 years old, really, and only really started gathering steam within about the past 5 years. And I'm not saying "therefore we should all have low expectations" but I, personally, am willing to look at all the things that have been done well and focus more on those than focusing on typography or whether editing is immediately correct.
I don't actually think anyone should be using PHP. Just like MySQL gives relational databases a bad name, PHP does the same for server side programming. And yes actually trying to write a server in PHP would be ten times more insane. Node.js might be nice for writing servers but so is Twisted or straight Python, Erlang, C, even java with threads as someone mentioned.
I'd rather prefer it to directly stream the image, not an <img src='...'/> to somewhere else. This version is not useful for anybody.
And by the way, "graduating from MIT" means nothing to me. I went to a university, you did too, the university you went to does not mean much (to me).

Good for you.

When you say you've "never heard of" black people learning how to use computers, it behooves me to refute you with the fact that not only are there are plenty of black people who know how to use computers, but there are plenty of black people graduating from the best computer science programs in the world.
Factory classes make less sense in a language with first class functions, but Factory functions are handy sometimes. As you can see in this example of a Factory function in Python from the standard library[1], it can be useful to return different subclasses depending on the arguments, but it doesn't have to be heavyweight like in Java.

[1]: http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections....
I made the jump into Twitter just a few days ago and because of my initial overenthusiastic following spree, I felt swamped and deluged within my first week!
Just tonight I ended up already wading through the crowd of people I follow and un-following them much like I did a year into using Facebook! Troublesome people that presented a huge conundrum were Guy Kawasaki - great guy with cool things to share, but ultimately just too much of it was too irrelevant! If only there was a filter... cough cough
Ironically, I came across Undrip's rap video soon after.
Then it's even worse, because the average congressperson is not nearly as bright as the average NYT reader.
Whereas Norway was able to build its wealth on oil, Sweden -- having only a tiny, tiny bit of oil -- had to build their country the hard way, with industry and commerce.

And they are very, very good at it. As a result, Sweden seems comparatively more active, in terms of industry and business in general. They have a lively entrepreneurial spirit, and a lively Internet startup scene. Norway is still lagging in this area, perhaps as a result of having become docile by not having to fight for its economy.

In terms of living standards, Norway and Sweden are on the same level, and at roughly the same gini index. Sweden's GDP is about 30% higher, but Norway's is 45% higher per capita.
I attended a video games conference here in Australia last week. There was an interesting session about the pro's and con's of using a publisher in the mobile space.

I learnt that they don't pay large advances, you have to develop your game first, nor will they put a marketing spend in writing, they want to see how the game will do first.

As far as I can tell, the only reason you would work with them is that they have the phone number of the guy in charge of the app store and can call him and beg for your app to be featured.

This piece reminded me of it because I think these print guys need to have a look at what a traditional publisher is actually going to do for them. How much marketing money are they going to spend? How are they going to get your book in front of people? How much risk are they willing to take for their share of the success.

You have to look at what you actual want a publisher to do for you, and make sure they deliver. You can't just go to them because "that's how its always been".
It's still worth it when you're outside the US and want to get certain books that aren't published in your country or aren't imported in their original language. Then you save some money on shipping and a lot of time (the cheapest shipping takes almost a month to certain parts of the world). But yeah, ~$13 for an ebook is outrageous.
> With the HTML5 offline application cache, all of the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, will be cached locally, atomically stored and updated in MobileSafari's WebApp cache; you can therefore go to the website, even without any Internet access, and still get the site. If it is implemented well, you will also be able to browse previously downloaded news, which could be stored in HTML5 localStorage or Web SQL.

Something nobody has yet to actually do. Sure, it CAN be done. But it's significantly easier to deliver those features with a native app over a web app. Web app developers refuse to ever admit or acknowledge this, but it's 100% true. Web apps just aren't there yet, and won't be any time soon.

> So, no: I think you are drastically over-generalizing

I don't think I am at all. I'm certainly generalizing, but not over or drastically so. You couldn't even provide a single example of a quality web app that fits your previous description. That pretty much says it all.

> You may think you have had bad experiences with web applications, but frankly you probably have only ever used one or two (maybe even zero) HTML5 offline applications (they are fairly rare.

Of course. I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm wrong, and my experiences are invalid for x reason. Responses like this drive me crazy. It's borderline "no true scotsman" IMO. Oh sure, those high profile web apps suck, but those aren't REAL web apps.

The bottom line is even the best web apps still have to utilize the newest technology and options to deliver basic, basic stuff that even crappy native apps have had forever, and they still can't reach the quality of a native app. I'm also completely unconvinced that your browser's rendering engine speed will be able to provide as good an experience as a native app.

The ONLY real advantages to web apps frankly are for the developer. It makes cross platform development & deployment much easier, and they don't have to pay Apple the 30%. It's worse for the user/consumer in almost every way.
In LaTeX, switching between putting all the figures on their own page or putting them inline takes the equivalent of an #ifdef. It's really easy, and doesn't require any special knowledge of typesetting.

Remember, TeX started out with the goal of being able to automate the typesetting of a very large, very complicated multi-volume book (The Art of Computer Programming). Novels are almost too easy, and adding a few pictures to a biography is mostly trivial.
This post has been on Hacker News multiple times. It usually comes up on the weekend when people post a lot of Clojure stuff. If you read the article, it says that the Clojure implementation was meant to mirror Norvig's Python implementation. The clojure code could certainly be written more succinctly. I thing there was another article that did this. Would have to look it up though.
Good observation.
But if you embed it on webpage (in which refer header is sent)
it would turn into real image file, which means it WORKS when you include it in forum, blogs, etc. :)
Is his new TV show worth watching?
I really don't think you can blame Amazon for the high prices of ebooks. From the publisher's perspective, ebook prices are disastrously low.

There does seem to be quite a bit of inconsistency on the part of the publishers, though. They complain that ebooks are destroying their business models, and then restrict Amazon and other retailers to charge comparable prices for ebooks, but they don't treat ebooks comparably themselves. Ignoring the fact that releasing an ebook doesn't require physical printing and the multitude of material and labor costs associated with that, they don't seem to apply the same editorial (and typographic) effort that they do with printed books.
Not working for me? I keep getting this: Sorry, image not found. Please try other keywords.
So, you only read the most non-controversial articles and you don't have private information that you'd rather not share with your community, about the links you've visited? Do you put your browser history in a public area? Please don't make the assumption that everyone is living an open life or doesn't want their 'friends' (work colleagues, extended family) to know every aspect of their online personality.
Think of it in context. A few short years ago nobody had e-readers because books that people wanted were not available, and nobody cared to publish books in electronic format because nobody owned e-readers. That's why Amazon and others had to come up with fast and cheap ways to scan thousands of paper books. There was not enough sales to pay for adapting each title for the new format, but prices for ebooks had to be high enough so that ebooks weren't jeopardizing paper book sales (otherwise publishers won't agree to have them scanned).

Of course it's unfortunate that consumers are now left with sub-par product, but I think it was necessary to get the ecosystem going. Beautiful typography and ebook-appropriate formatting will get there, just give it a little time.
Hawking is wrong. The population isn't "growing exponentially". In fact, it's set to level off mid-century and start decreasing. We're not going to just keep growing like bacteria until we all die.

Having said that, let me say a large extinction event is certainly possible - we may have barely dodged one in the late 1800s:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/has-the-earth-come-close-to-...

But to plan for something like that we would be better off tunneling into the earth than trying to colonize Mars. The other planets will never be hospitable to human life, and there's no point in bothering with them until we have the technology we need to make the colonies independent. We're a long, long way from that, and sending more rockets to the moon doesn't get us any closer.
I think making into an embeddable widget is a great idea. Although the element would need to be fairly wide for it to look nice given the two columns. In the mean time, you can always link to it. I took some care to make it so that your personal lnti.me url is almost identical to your LinkedIn public url.
Interestingly the new polymer notes are made (or licensed) from Australia, who has had the notes since 1994, and make polymer notes for all the countries using plastic money (there are about 5 at the moment, including Vietnam and New Zealand).

Of course Australians invented the plastic notes so they could go surfing with their wallets.
"Norway is the third option. Norway ploughs the money into a sovereign wealth fund"

The older I get the more impressed I become with how this was, and is, handled. Especially when you see how it could have tourned out ..
FWIW, I agree most prose works great and think you're right that the technical book experience is where it's most clearly lacking (not being able to quickly flip to an appendix or back / forth 5 pages is a big annoyance of mine).

There are ways I think it works poorly for prose, though, too. The most obvious example to me is the George RR Martin Fire & Ice books. When I'm reading those, I very frequently want to flip from a section of the book to the maps of the world described in the book. I read a physical copy of the first two books but went to Kindle (both the 3rd generation Kindle and Android app) for the third and it's tedious to set a book mark, navigate to marks and notes, find the map, and then navigate back to the bookmark. Additionally, the map images in the ebook are of such low quality that they are nearly unreadable. Lastly, there's an appendix of the families represented in these books at the back (who's who). When reading the first two books, I often would consult that, too, but once I'd done that with the Kindle book, it made it really painful to switch back and forth between reading on my phone vs. my kindle, because the "sync" function is "sync to furthest page read" - which is at the end of the book, not my current place in the book.

All of the above gripes with that book would be plain to see for anyone who bothered trying to read the book on a kindle - and it should be obvious to the kindle team that "sync to furthest page read" breaks when a book has an appendix / index or something that readers are likely to consult.
Possible to track specific YouTube video that is not mine?
...which is exactly why we need to spread out. Dont put all the eggs in the same basket, etc.
I'd like to find out where a specific video has been shared, but I did not post it to YouTube, thanks for your help!
tl;dr,

people often claim that greater variance in mathematical ability accounts for lower numbers of women in high level scientific positions. this is doesn't match the data: one can't mathematically fit a gaussian curve to explain the distributions. thus the supposed scientific explanation for why women are underrepresented is actually faulty science.

likewise, genetic explanations cannot account for the recent and rapid ascendancy of woman in such technical areas (though we have a long way to go). participation at the highest levels of academic competition has increased dramatically.

given the holes in these, and other, explanations, it is both scientifically and morally irresponsible to posit innate differences as the governing factors. yet despite these arguments, many people still feel they have the station to proclaim some scientific basis for what would otherwise be evidence of continued unequal opportunity.

the scientific claims of a human group's inferiority must withstand scientific scrutiny far beyond that expected in physics for, say, proving faster than light neutrinos. yet the scientific rigor of studies of human inferiority is actually far below that of physics. i ascribe the difference to politics.

an actual big problem preventing women from advancing: being successful, as a woman, is anticorrelated with being liked. this is far from the fault of men alone -- it is a pervasive cultural bias.

see Sheryl Sandberg's TED Talk: why we have too few women leaders.

http://blog.ted.com/2010/12/21/why-we-have-too-few-women-lea...

likewise, academic success among some african american communities is occasionally dismissed as 'acting white.' social pressure is a powerful, powerful thing.
Yes, that's weird..
btw, I just manually patched this.
You've made an interesting point, but budget is a very poor measure of effort. Grandpa's pension mostly circulates on Earth, while NASA budget throws extremely hard to design and produce stuff into space.
You know, you could say the same about lots of other countries and they don't do it, they invest in highways and other kinds of waste. Think of my home country, Portugal: we have mountains and rivers everywhere, we have the ocean, we have Europe's most dry land (Alentejo) and how much of our energy is renewable? 45%. And in 2005 it was around 15%. It could have been like Norway since the nineties...
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Solutions_by_Programmin...
> Mojang won the rights to use the name Scrolls.

Didn't they just not get an injunction on using the name?
Which keyword did you type? Try using shorter words like http://stevejobs.jpg.to
I mentioned morality because I believe it trumps bad law - I have no moral issue with DVD ripping for personal use, or with region-free DVD players to circumvent region restrictions. Or with using proxies to access Netflix from outside the US, for that matter.
with google.jpg.to I was taken to http://www.google.com/intl/en_com/images/srpr/logo3w.png , pretty much what I was expecting.
The Evils of Codification
While it's true that Sweden doesn't have oil, it does have considerable natural resources: mining, forestry, and hydroelectric-power account for about 30% of its exports (about 350 billion SEK = US $50 billion). It's the 2nd-largest producer of wood and paper products after Canada, I believe, and mining's traditionally been a huge part of the economy, though it's less important now than it was some decades ago.
Interplanetary warfare would be extremely resource intensive. You can't very easily occupy a planet.
I don’t understand the point you are making. What makes you think that consumers wouldn’t like a subscription model for books? I don’t see how presenting top-ten lists makes any argument. Maybe I just missed the point.
I assume that people are influenced by the media they watch. African American media 15 years ago had no computer scientists featured
On the other side, while we're on one planet we can fix ourself. But once spread across the stars ... wars, fanatical religions, police states, etc. may stay with us forever.
New Zealand is similar - the majority of electricity generation is hydro. We're similar in that we have a lot of mountains and a small population.
If my Kobo would just (word)wrap code samples in ePubs, I'd be happy. It lets them run off the right edge, with no control to horizontally scroll to see the rest (awkward as that would be).

I guess once I grok ePub a bit better, I can editing the texts to change the code samples' formatting.

Also annoying: It will landscape PDF's, but not ePubs.

/grump
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Refer header is not a good way to distinguish between embedded images and images accessed directly by user. AFAIK that header will have the same value both when you load an embedded image and when you click on a direct link to the image.

I did a little bit of research about it few years ago; the summary can be seen here:

http://temporal.pr0.pl/devblog/2009/09/14/eksperyment-podsum... (pl_PL)

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js... (en_US)

Basically, I was able to distinguish between embedded and directly accessed images by analyzing the content of Accept header. It wasn't perfect (it didn't work for Opera), but I think it could be good enough to do something useful with it.
Slightly (or completely) off-topic but you really are a taxi driver? I'm curious why you read HN and how you found it.
Thomas, it would be nice if you could zoom properly and have the font-size adjust on your blog. (Using Chrome)
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"Save the world" is such a broad term. It really depends on what things about the world you find to be most important.

If your primary concerns are safety from hazardous ocean-based weather, security of offshore energy generators and fisheries, and a better understanding of the ocean's effect on climate change, Liquid Robotics' technology would certainly qualify as "saving the world".
I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted.

Anyways, who says Earth created "Politicians, warmongers, prophets and priests, etc.."? Kids fight among themselves without any of these lovely things to help them. As does everything in the living world.
Graduating from MIT don't mean you would be beneficial to starting a tech company
The lengths to which this article goes to construct a model sympathetic to the author's views are incredible. It takes data showing a greater variance among males than females:

- in mathematical ability

- among schoolchildren

- on a standardized test

and generalizes them to:

- many different types of abilities

- among the Y Combinator applicant pool

- on the Y Combinator application process

Not only that, but by its end, the article is postulating a model in which literally one in a million people have sufficient aptitude to be accepted by Y Combinator - whether they're interested in it or not!

Even if you grant the author all of those assumptions, plus the risk aversion thing, you're only down to 13% women, three times what TechCrunch says Y Combinator actually accepts. I guess you could add another independent 99.9th percentile ability requirement, but then you're talking about one in a billion people being Y Combinator worthy. Or you could try to find a different, more tilted risk aversion statistic -- but at that point I think we'd be cherry-picking citations to fit a conclusion.

So, sure, if you accept a whole raft of dubious assumptions, you can explain the 4% acceptance rate by aptitude alone. But enough dubious assumptions can explain almost anything.