skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems unlikely. Relative to print, production cost of video is high, airtime is limited, the audience is less sharp and more fickle, and producers are much more profit-focused. It'd be miraculous if TV news managed to overcome those handicaps and get up to the level of print journalism.
"I have found some bad documentation. Microsoft is doomed as a company!"
It's really crazy how your eating habits are influenced by your parents. My mother is really into eating really healthy and both I and my sister eat healthier by choice now. I remember when I was really young my mom's friends were impressed that I willingly ate vegetables...they were actually impressed by that! I would always notice the look on my mom's face like "...uh why wouldn't he?" It's really kind of sad that eating your vegetables nowadays is impressive.
This is awesome! I've often lamented how messy Wordpress is compared to Rails. Yet, there's nothing as mature and easy for anyone to use as Wordpress in Rails.
Here's my experience in primary care: obese parents bring in their obese child with a complaint of some minor illness. My sense is they tend to be less confident in themselves than leaner folk, so they tend to resort more frequently to more physical positioning to get an antibiotic for their kid's viral URI. It probably doesn't help that they had to endure more stress at home before rising to the necessary motivation to move, then moving itself is more of an effort. By the time they've been sitting in the waiting room for an hour and the clinic room for 10-15 minutes, they're just in a foul mood.

Being in a closed room with large, physically unhappy people can be intimidating, never mind that there's a waiting room full of other patients. Rather than addressing ancillary issues head on, it's infinitely more convenient to focus on customer service for their immediate issue.

The issue needs to be addressed in a more benign setting.
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No extensions (no ReSharper, for example, no Nuget), no integrated source control, no memory/performance profiling, basic UX as compared to full VS - things like that.

edit: - to be fair, Xcode doesn't seem to have a plugin system, but Xcode still is far more capable than Express.
Is there also some other 4-level parking structure somewhere? The scribd documents don't zoom quite enough to actually read the text.
In the 9 years I've been using Ruby, I've not once missed having namespaces. A lack of namespaces is a valid complaint against C and Objective-C, not against Ruby—since you can use either nested modules or classes to achieve a similar effect, and often with better design results.
>We could hire a full-time support person and let them handle it and still have about $400k net (taxable) left over after other expenses, basically forever. Doing nothing.

WELL… if you ain't busy growing, you're busy dying. It's not going to be Forever. Once your current customer acquisition rate drops, you'll start to lose revenue by just normal attrition.

Good luck to you, though! Sounds like an amazingly sweet gig you two have built and I wish you the best.
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The website has gone in beta a short while ago, and I'm looking for feedback regarding the concept, the UI, security ...
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but I'm worried they're teaching a whole generation of kids that science is inherently dangerous.

I used to work at NASA on space shuttle launches. If I told you that some of the appeal did not come from the fact that one in 50 of those things was likely to go off like a firework, I'd be a liar.
I don't think it's an insurmountable challenge. It seems like over the past decade, a number of cable channels have started producing more HBO-like content with decent success. FX with Nip/Tuck, Justified, etc., AMC with Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead, and even Starz with Boss.
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We actually have a couple of goats we'd like to sell, but are having trouble finding a buyer.

Goats-as-currency have very poor liquidity, fungibility, and divisibility.

Bah. Baaaah.
It seems as if this happened at Camp Parks Military Firing Reservation, which they say is surrounded by foothills.
>They weren't lucky, they were unlucky.
exactly right ! these are too careful, and would normally have officials from local emergency services and experts in hand when they do this. they may be financially responsible for the damage, which might be adequately covered by their insurance, but hopefully no criminal charges...
Da truth.
The nice thing is that it is no problem to test Newton’s first law of motion again and again and again. If you do it right you will always get the same results.

That’s what Mythbusters is all about. It’s not about rigorous mathematical demonstrations of why something can or cannot be true, it’s about figuring stuff out in a way that actually makes it possible to see the result (and not necessarily as the result of a calculation).

That’s a less powerful and much more tedious approach than our usual methods of gaining knowledge but it is a lot more accessible and just good entertainment. Since Mythbusters is less about gaining knowledge and more about entertainment it’s also the appropriate approach for the show.
OLD NEWS

(if you watched any interviews with KR, you knew this years ago)
Indeed. I would say that because of various inherent cognitive biases, people are likely to interpret terms such as "overweight" as a comparison to their local average, rather than a medically-established ideal weight range.

Such abstract thinking just doesn't come naturally. We are incredibly biased here because our jobs often require little else except abstract thinking. This is massively atypical.
You can also sign up for the BizSpark program.

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The Apple philosophy on their store has always seemed much more in tune with $1 purchases than $20 ones. No one really needs refunds or trials for a $1 purchase.
I believe grandparent is talking about the custom scroll bars which appear in gmail if you are viewing with chrome.
No, it's a military firing range. actually went over the hills. looks like a pretty big open area.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=camp+parks+prfta&hl=en&...
There's a listener written with McClim that's easily installable with quicklisp. It's the one captured in the wikipedia article screenshot actually.

(ql:quickload 'clim-listener)
(clim-listener:run-listener)
PDFs also aren't working for me. Does anyone know if there is a higher-res picture of the rendering posted? I would love a version as close to 1920x1080 as possible! (http://cdn.iphoneincanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Scre...)
How could that possibly work?
If off-springs of these genetically modified mosquitoes die, then only original, non-modified genes would propagate.

I would understand if genetically modified genes gave mosquitoes some advantage such as ability to resist infection. I believe Bill Gates released such mosquitoes on TED talk.

But modifications that cripple mosquitoes are doomed.
The problem with Eclipse is that the UI and UX are terrible, so it really doesn't matter what else it is good at.

Unless someone actually likes Eclipse or is already very familiar with it I cannot recommend it over IntelliJ.
"2080
Bicentennial Man"

Didn't occur to them than that person would have to be 131 year old now....
A lot of developers don't like declaring more than one variable on one line, that's a style choice.

There's nothing wrong with it, especially in JS where accidentally deleting a variable declaration can suddenly turn your variable global.

The problem with the code is more that the code stinks, even after you remove the formatting problems, it looks more like .Net code and it doesn't make any sense.
That sounds like any contact I've had with TV news or newspapers from the inside. To be charitable, the way I'd put it is: they can only afford the time to write the story, but not enough time to really understand the story.
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When, or why would you ever delete a branch?
A number of studies have consistently shown that TV news makes people dumber: more misinformed, more irrational, more confused, and less able to draw reasonable conclusions or make good decisions.
That is certainly what my money would be on. Below a certain age, kids don't tend to become fat unless their parents let them (that whole being provided for thing sees to that).
You can run VS on a Mac, you can't run XCode on a PC. So if you don't have a Mac, $4 doesn't quite cut it.
FWIW, I'm trying to fix this. Anyone else who's passionate about this, WebGL, Quartz Composer or other video graphics technology, get in touch with me.
> Then I will. It's a conspiracy theory, worthy of all the mocking typically associated with such a thing.

When we're talking about a company what's the difference between a "conspiracy" and a "plan" or "strategy"? (Serious question.)
Hi there, I think password is working perfect. And we just need to figure out a way to remember all passwords into our brain in a unforgettable way.
Here is what I do:
Password for xxx:
First GF's birthday(yymmdd)+favorite city(2 letters, first letter CAP)+ high school student no.+last 3 letters of my all time favorite movie
this would result: 760925Lu201228can
And you can store the statement in your gmail. Only you will know the answer. Then you don't forget!
Also I have 3 level passwords.
High Medium Whatever
High: I will think of a password as I demonstrated above (at least 4 questions).
Medium: I will think of a password for just 2 questions.
Whatever: would be a stupid password but for accounts I don't care if it's hacked(stack overflow, github..etc)
Among all tools, maybe it's better to write your password and put in your pillow. and forget all the technical stuff.
> There's a lot to be said for teaching experimentation and the scientific method, but I'm worried they're teaching a whole generation of kids that science is inherently dangerous.

I wouldn't even say 'dangerous', I would say 'real'. Exploding things are real. Making rocket fuel from sugar and fertilizer is real. Computing the angle of a falling ball is NOT real unless you happen to fire that ball from potato gun. Computing velocity of a block sliding from a wedge is not real, is terribly and utterly boring.

Our education suffers from total detachment from reality. Physics lessons are boring, and it's right that kids point it out.
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Holy grail == hold down a button and drag.

Many web browsers already have this functionality (sort of) with middle-click.

Forcing the user to navigate to some tiny on-screen affordance which takes up screen real estate is a terrible design (except in the special case where the scroll bar is at the extreme edge of the screen).

Mobile web browsers seem to get this right. Touch the element you want to scroll & drag it; an overlay pops up to show your relative location. Intuitive, easy, and doesn't take up screen real estate.

Scroll wheels (especially Kensington's beautiful "Orbit" scroll rings on their trackballs) are pretty close to the mark too.
Start with Jane Jacobs (google her, quite famous), then read her "The Death and Life of Great American Cities". It's helps you understand why cities work, why they don't, what makes a neighbourhood, what destroys them and how almost everything city planners and governments think matters, actually doesn't.

After that, read the Malcolm Gladwell article how her findings can be applied to office culture.
http://www.gladwell.com/2000/2000_12_11_a_working.html

After all that, apply all that to offices you've seen.
Some of the express tool limitations are quite surprising really, like the lake of source/revision control.

You might only be a hobbyist, but source code control is still good practice.

Either way, my point isn't really that the tools cost money, but that Microsoft will make more money from good quality apps being sold through their marketplace than they ever will do from sales of Visual studio to smaller developers.

This is especially true given that Microsoft are willing to almost give away Visual Studio in small licence quantities if you sign up as a Microsoft business partner.
I had a hard time convincing people not to use Flex in 2007 based on my intuitive sense that it was "wrong". It imposes an event model on programming that is "against" the way the web works, so the abstraction tends to be leaky. Someone that understands how the web works tends not to like it, while you could see web novices appreciating how it simplified the programming model for certain kinds of data linked controls.

I had very similar intuitively negative feelings about ExtJS last year. It's not one of those things you can just swap out, you have to write the web application in a particular way to support it.
> A number of studies have consistently shown that TV news makes people dumber

While I believe that and I like the conclusion, my inner rationalist screams:

[citation needed]

:).
Yeah, it's about short-term profits but also because many people still don't think of style or taste as being important to their long-term profits either.
I'd say long-form investigative documentary essays and films that take months to years to produce are a significantly better form of journalism than TV news.
Express is hobbled; no plugins (so you can't use SVN/git plugins), and doesn't ship with things like the 64-bit compiler.

It's basically trial-ware. I have no problem with paying for tools, especially for commercial product development.

However, the price point is high for a hobbyist tool, and the free version is frustratingly hobbled.

Given that I can use IntelliJ, Eclipse, and Xcode for free (Android/iOS) -- it will hurt broad adoption.
This is meaningless waffle from a social scientist, unworthy of any attention. There's no data, just the regurgitation of tired old primate stereotypes without any real insight.

I was really looking forward to some interesting data, and now I feel bitterly disappointed..
When people talk about hiring web developers, it always seems like there is such a strong emphasis on them knowing one and only one language. Like Kevin Rose said: "you end up with lots of PHP developers, but at some point, PHP isn’t a problem anymore and you are stuck with all of those developers."

Was PHP the only language these people knew? And they were incapable of learning anything else? I don't get it. I don't call myself a "C++ developer" even though I use C++ every day at work. I know several languages, and I am confident that if I wanted to start learning a new language tomorrow, I could get up to speed on it and its relevant libraries fairly quickly.

Were these so-called "PHP developers" completely incapable of learning Python or Ruby or some other language? I don't understand how you can be a software developer and only ever use one language in your life. But for some reason this seems to be common when I read articles about web development.
What indicates the cannonball struck the hill at all?

The article only mentions it went 'over' the foothills. It presumably could have bounced off, but that doesn't seem to be corroborated.

At the end of the day, whatever precautions were in place were clearly not sufficient. You don't shoot cannonballs into residential neighborhoods and go "oops".
I’m not sure whether they really are blowing up more stuff? Maybe someone should check that myth?

There were some really awful myths this year (I hated the Green Hornet show and that other show where they promoted some other stupid show on the Discovery Channel, also the Obama episode) but recent episodes have been pretty good and my subjective impression is that they have done a lot of low key myths in a big way. Also, the myths that are actually about explosions have become more sophisticated.
"That stunt should never have happened where it did"

yep, they really should have picked a better location, like a military firing range ....
With only one of each item, it sounds a little like the eBay store in "40 Year Old Virgin". "I want to buy it now. I have money..."
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I think the parents are right to interpret the terms that way. They are not misinterpreting the weight of their children, they are just answering survey questions based on their own points of view and relative observations.
Short version: Rose, like so many non-technical founders, had no idea what developers actually do and how to hire and manage them.

It's not exactly a unique story, in fact it's not limited to start-ups, it's pretty endemic in the whole IT-business.
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Incidentally, the maintainer of the archive, Ham Richards, taught me and thousands of beginner Computer Science students Haskell in the introductory CS class. I sometimes wonder what he thinks about Haskell's recent popularity.

I don't recall using imperative programming languages until at least sophomore year.
I've actually met quite a few developers who aren't willing to try new technologies, and those who identified themselves as "PHP developers" were very overrepresented in the set.

We tend to severely underestimate the number of people who just want to do their job with the skills they already have with little desire to try new solutions to problems they already know how to solve. There are a surprising number of developers like this that leave the office at quitting time and not pick up a computer again until the next morning.
I think this is missing the architectural problem with Flex- it was more than just Flash widgets. If it were just Flash widgets- that would be fine, and you could swap them out. The problem with Flex is that it takes over much more of the application, handling communication with the server. I always felt that Macromedia/Adobe were trying to just a little bit too much for you to create vendor lock-in.
what do you mean? like an API?
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I would agree that there are competent developers who want to stick with a single thing and aren't interested in changing languages.

The distinction for me is that competent is not necessarily good. For me, good is a higher bar than competent. That's why I said any good developer, any one I'd want to work with (as you say), wouldn't be a problem with switching languages.
But if you are willing to pay US$ 500 for VS on a Mac, you should be willing to pay US$ 600 for Xcode when you have a PC. Plus, it comes with a free Mac Mini.
Criminal charges are incredibly unlikely. This was a freak accident, in which they took plenty of safety precautions, but somehow managed to have an accident anyhow. They didn't actually hurt anybody. There are no real criminal charges that could be brought against them.

And it will only be lawsuit city of Discovery Channel doesn't offer an appropriate settlement. I'm sure that Discovery Channel has plenty good insurance, and plenty of cash on hand, and will over to cover the costs of the damages to those involved, plus a little extra to keep them happy. There will only be lawsuits if they don't offer a reasonable settlement, which I would find unlikely.
Peoples' perception of various tastes vary dramatically, partially through genetic factors (some people are even termed "supertasters,") but also with age. There is research showing that children perceive bitterness especially strongly, and that this attenuates with age.

See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3087510/ Age modifies the genotype-phenotype relationship for the bitter receptor TAS2R38

So when some children say they don't like vegetables, it may not be such an illegitimate claim after all. I personally still cannot stand brussel sprouts, into my mid 20s.
They have. http://www.kcra.com/r/19016582/detail.html

As I mentioned in another post on this page, this isn't the first time that stuff happening on this range has had an effect on the town that surrounds it. This is just the first one to have potentially serious consequences [that has involved the Mythbusters].
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A lot of iOs apps basically already do this with "free"/"express" versions which have limited functionality and try to upsell. That would imply trials might not be an awful idea, given people are willing to put extra work into making free/gimped versions to get users hooked
The article's pretty clear. Proview registered the iPad trademark in 2001, Apple licensed it for use outside of China in 2009, but then went on to use the trademark in mainland China without signing a licensing agreement.

That's copyright infringement, plain and simple.
As a researcher, I was surprised that the author assumed that any of my work was ever elegant. Research projects are ugly and messy because you know that they'll never need to scale. If you can actually make it work, that's when you start on elegance.
This seems to happen a lot. I've seen many surveys where group x is seen as "uninformed" when in reality, it's because the group has a differing opinion than the person giving the survey.
I want this feature for the Apple Campus whenever they're building new stuff
Sometimes, in the real world, shit happens.

Yes, a cannonball going through some houses should not happen. No, that does not automatically mean that somebody "screwed up badly".
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Exactly. I'm a little appalled at the rampant speculation, the apologetics in Mythbuster's favor, and the blind raging and blaming against them. We need to know the actual facts of what went wrong before we can make any determination of:
a - who was at fault
b - what actions are reasonable to ensure this never happens again
c - what repercussions might be appropriate

For all any of you know, there was a bad mix of powder. Or a mislabeled measuring cup. Or a rusty screw that broke loose at the exact wrong moment and allowed an unexpected pivot in the cannon. Those are nonsense reasons of course - we simply don't know yet what actually went wrong at the firing range.
Yes, but not quite. Consider the following example:

static void Main()
{
Bar( 12, 15 );
}

static void Bar( object o1, object o2 )
{
Foo( o1, o2 ); // error
}

static void Foo( int x, double y )
{
Console.WriteLine( "int double" );
}

static void Foo( double x, int y )
{
Console.WriteLine( "double int" );
}

static void Foo( double x, double y )
{
Console.WriteLine( "double double" );
}

static void Foo( int x, int y )
{
Console.WriteLine( "int int" );
}

This does not compile as the compiler does not know which of the four versions it should call. As jules said overloading is resolved at compile time by looking at the compile time types. Multimethods are dispatched at run time, by looking at the run time values. In this case that would be the "int int" version.
The Mac App store has a greater variety in pricing. $4.99 seems to be a pretty popular price point.
That particular type of TV news. Not all TV news.

The medium is not the same thing as the type of content.
Haha, yes, but I mean it seems to imply it requires a starting pair; one additional photo selected by the human as a match in addition to the one we desire to find matches for.