skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand this, it's such a routine part of the doctor visit for my two sons for them to tell us what percentile the boys are in for both height and weight. At one point one boy went above the 75% in weight and we immediately made changes. Are pediatricians really not giving out this data on a routine basis?
No, it doesn't imply that, because static and dynamic are not mutually exclusive. A static language with polymorphism[1] has both static and dynamic aspects. A purely static language does not need (and thus won't have) runtime type tags of any kind, so any kind of dynamic dispatch (including multimethods) would be impossible at the level of the language (i.e. you'd have to implement it all explicitly as a library).

[1] It shouldn't need to be said, but this is HN so it does need to be said, but I mean OO-style runtime polymorphism here (or, with a stretch, sum types), not parametric polymorphism.
Yes, much to Bill Gates' dismay: http://gizmodo.com/5019516/classic-clips-bill-gates-chews-ou...
It's going to be the default interface for every new PC. It can be a Vista style flop and still be a gigantic market for developers.
Ah, but of course he would say that, wouldn't he, for the good of humanity!

The beauty of the argument is it gives everyone who witnessed the event a very strong motive to lie about it, so it's effectively un-falsifiable. I don't actually think it happened that way, but nothing Eliezer says (apart from that he cheated some other way) would be incompatible with the argument.

Small world, by the way.
I feel this is solving a problem that doesn't exist.

The problem with creating a WordPress theme isn't that it's missing buzzwordy tech like HAML, SASS and CoffeeScript. The problem is that the PHP behind WordPress is hideous. Even in version 3.x

If someone were to fork WordPress and fix all the spaghetti code, then I could stop writing themes like it was 1998...
Non-programmer leading a tech start up,why not?
Programmers always tell me that a non-programmer can't lead a tech company.

While in school, it is very difficult to find a partners/programmers who are willing to believe in your idea and take commit to it, even harder if you are in business..(I found programmers dislike business kids, ALOOT.)

I am a non-programming guy, had an idea and started looking for partners 4 months ago.

First round: I contacted probably around 30 computer engineering students around Waterloo through clubs and friends. 12 replied, 7 wrote polite rejections and 5 agreed to eat chicken wings with me (yes.. I could only offer chicken wings to people). Of course my pitch wasn't polished, then I got rejected by all 5 of them politely.

Second round: Contacted 16, 5 replied, 2 came to eat wings and I finally convinced one. Then, we started building and hacking, then realized we need more help since all of us are still in school. (I started learning Django and bunch other stuff 7 hours a day from 11pm to 6am. Then sleep from 6 to 11:30)

Third round: I only contacted 7 and successfully recruited 2.

I pitched to different developers total of 34 times so far. Spent roughly 320 bucks on wings, I only scheduled dates when there were wing nights...so the bills were around $15, cuz I would just get a drink.

In conclusion, As non-programmer student entrepreneur, I learned. 1. You get used to rejections a lot quicker, so thicker skin.
2. You refine your idea a lot more through constant bashing/questioning from developers since you
are such a tech amateur .
3. You appreciate and respect your partners a lot more.
4. It is not a race, if a slow walker gets to destination, he is still a winner.

Now, we became a small team of 5, just bunch of ordinary kids trying to accomplish extraordinary things. I don't qualify as the "crazy smart guy" at all, but a snail like me will find the snail way to build a product and company.
Lack of proper trials on the App Store is a pain. I've bought several more expensive apps (with no separate lite versions) that turned out to be poor. I've "Reported a Problem" in iTunes and said I purchased them by mistake. Got a refund each time.
A lovely interchange my wife overheard in a medical office:

Parent: "He needs to gain weight, right?"
Doctor: "Why do you think that?"
Parent: "You can see some of his bones!"
Doctor: "You're SUPPOSED to be able to see SOME of them."
I use NoScript -- not sure if that counts as an ad blocker (it blocks all JavaScript) but it definitely gets rid of ads.
I wonder if this is a threat to things like Square's Card Case or even Google Wallet.
LOL.

Why not just go the whole hog and run wordpress inside ruby, using tenderlove's Phuby bridge/adapter/thing.

https://github.com/tenderlove/phuby

Demo of him actually using this to run wordpress inside rack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXERy8Y2eVo

Or, you know, spend a day knocking together your own blog in rails.

I guess it could be good if you are wedded to a preexisting client base which demands wordpress, even for new projects, in which case my sincerest condolences go out to you.

To be fair, I'd imagine that those people who are raking in big $$$ doing WP themes must have something like this set up already.
How dare you disagree with the mob! This isn't Reddit, you know!
Yup - exactly the kind of think I'm talking about.

I once had an employer ask me about coding standards (this was when we were a dev team of only two people, looking to grow), and the idea was to discuss a coding style document, and put it in place before our team got bigger. My initial reaction was, "I don't care about coding standards." However, what I discovered is that I did care quite a lot about it, but didn't care to argue about it.
"Sort of". I use Ghostery (http://www.ghostery.com/), but mainly use it to block 'like' buttons and various analytics/tracking services. I also block a few ad networks that are either consistently obnoxious or really slow-loading, but I don't use it mainly as an ad blocker.
I got the feeling this plugin was for people who need to— for whatever reason, be it work or otherwise— make a lot of Wordpress themes. In that regard, it's pretty neat. I wouldn't go so far as to learn HAML and how to use the RVM just to make a friend a blog theme, though.

Still, I dislike how the programming community jumps on someone for making something interesting— even if it's not immediately useful for everyone. I get the same feeling in reddit's /r/programming whenever a post pops up about someone using a "NoSQL" database. It seems the majority of comments tend to be people negatively criticizing the OP's choice instead of providing something constructive to the existing project.
What I really want is to be able to download a word press theme and have it magically applied to my rails app or have some plugin that let's me do this.
This looks really like what I needed, it looks awesome!
I could see it spiraling or even curving, but it still seems highly unlikely that it would turn around 180, pass by a point where it previously flew over, and cause that much damage after passing through a concrete wall. "back towards" implies just that.
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Absolutely. i got your TCP segment with data on your WIFi, and sent a TCP RST from a location with the lower overall latency - so both your SSL connection got reset.

While you hit "reload", I establish the connection and login.

Your attempt is the second login attempt. As you propose, it's denied.

Your next steps, while I am changing your contact email and other info ?
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I block things like third party cookies but don't block adds on sites that I frequent. However if I go to a new site the adds are blocked by default; if I find myself going back to the site I unblock it.
I'm not a Wordpress fan, but for better or worse, there are Wordpress plugins that do many, many things. For certain sets of needs, you can just grap WP and several plugins, throw them together with a half decent theme and you're done. I don't advocate that, because I enjoy craftsmanship and elegant solutions, but some businesses can be built in weeks, not months, using WP at very low cost--maybe the cost of the theme--if you're smart enough to put the pieces together yourself (you are).
Don't VCs see how incredibly destructive this is to the startup ecosystem?

I think the answer is somewhere between no and they don't care. The fact is many people including myself, dust themselves off and go for another round so the negative effect of destroying the market is offset by the fact that it can be almost an addiction to be in the market.

What they can do though is ruin their name to the point that they become a second rate player. Which is exactly where you run into most of these guys.

I got really emotionally involved in the Zynga story because of my history, which is unusual for me. But to me that issue was far more concerning to the industry than the bad VC's because that was most likely the VC's and the operations team working together to deprive other latter entrances for capitalizing on their risk.

In this case the very people that generally are on the receiving end of VC dilution, are perpetuating the same victimization. That has the ability to kill the industry, an entrepreneur will, take another swing but a developer who was never going to get as rich as the entrepreneur, getting screwed, is going to leave the industry and become a high paid developer. Then because options are looked at as a bait that can be yanked, developers are going to demand full market rate, plus the options just for passing over more stable gigs with established organizations. It's only going to take one more Zynga for that to happen.

If others follow Zynga's example, developers will demand that the industry pay the full price of the developers risk up front, that is going to limit the ideas that get funded, and it will be bad for everyone. But we deserve it if that happens, greed over humanity deserves destruction.
True, but you have to pay to publish on Android Market. IIRC its $100/year.
The Windows Store will have desktop apps, but only with a link to the developer's site for download. Don't think there will be any package management or updates for desktop apps.
> the quote above that its actually a good thing to replace StartNow with Babylon

He meant it was good for Microsoft to stop paying them to screw people; not good for CNET to keep screwing people in the service of a different client.
Anti-free software? I don't think free software is antithetical to the movement for charging a leg and an arm.

I think he meant "free as in beer", not "free as in speech".
From this article, consider the source.. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-share-more-...
Desktop (non-Metro-style) apps will be able to be promoted in the Windows Store if they meet Microsoft’s Desktop App certification requirements, and will be discoverable via the Windows 8 store. Windows 8 Desktop Apps will be neither licenesable nor downloadable (i.e., able to take advantage of the Windows 8 fulfillment service) from the Store.
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Makes no mention of how the quality of Digg's content fell head-first down a staircase. All the rock star developers in the world can't fix bad editorial decisions.
I use AdBlock and Ghostery. Ghostery is super useful. It throws out so much crap that I am not interested in. On sites like techcrunch, engadget or thenextweb it usually cuts the number of requests in half.

Rant:

It is sure getting out of hand in a big way: it is not uncommon for tech news sites to send you 1.5 MB of crap surrounding a simple 200 word story.

I am getting so tired of that. Specially on mobile. My iPad has a 250 MB data limit, so with 10 pages like that I am already on 50% of my cap. Which is ridiculous.

Maybe it is time for some serious server-side proxy filtering. Like moving things like AdBlock and Ghostery to the server side?
I only block Flash using FlashBlock for Chromium. Running Flash on every site is a high security risk.
I'm not really up on this stuff, but that strikes me as an implementation detail. Does it really need a new name?
Having to buy a Mac is a good point. I did not think about that.
Typically the house is framed in wood. The outside is sheathed in plywood, insulation/wrap, and then siding. The inside is covered in sheetrock. There is generally fiberglass insulation inbetween. That makes each wall roughly 5-6" thick (15cm). Sometimes the outside of the house is lined with brick but that is mostly cosmetic.

Most homes are built on top of cinderblock basements, but some areas have a simple slab or a crawl space depending on ground water table height.

It has a lot of advantages over all brick construction. The spaces between the studs make running piping and electrical trivial. Sheetrock is easy to repair and install compared to plaster. The wooden frame is renewable.

A lot of commercial work is done in a similar fashion but with aluminum studs instead of wood, I think it is a fire safety thing.

I also believe wooden frame homes are safer in earthquakes, but truthfully the reason for their use is low cost.
ceol, that's almost correct. you need to keep the plugin also on your production server, but the compiled assets gets "baked", so wordpress just serves static files.
php developer is an oxymoron
I found it really interesting that someone piped up in the blog comments disagreeing with the measure for overweight: "Since so-called overweight – BMI 25-30 – is the longest-lived cohort, parents aren’t the only ones with screwed up perceptions, IMO."

Denial's everywhere, I guess.

Tangentially related: I was buying a coat as a gift for my mother, and was perplexed by the sizes. So I went to my local expert:
Me: "What's up with all the women's sizes? They're all 1-X, 2-X, etc."
Wife: "Oh, 'woman' sizes mean fat. Misses means normal."
Me: DOES NOT COMPUTE

So even sizes in stores work to make people feel they're ok. 1X isn't "extra large" It's "woman sized". WTF?
So true. I could have all my CDs and books at my fingertip.
By default, yes. Only whitelist sites that I support and aren't abusive with ads/tracking
Wordpress is far and away superior to any blogging platform available on Ruby. It makes wonderful sense to write Wordpress templates in a somewhat more productive environment than raw PHP, then compile them down into something which requires no dependencies on the actual server. This gets you all of the many, many benefits of Wordpress (great plugin support! huge community! deploys at any commodity web host! SQL vulnerabilities patched weekly+!) while having your template development not hindered by copious amounts of spaghetti code.

It is also big news to folks who write a lot of templates, because something like this allows them to create a toolchain which spits out WP templates, as opposed to having to e.g. having a template framework that templates are built against. This means that they can do across-the-board updates much more easily. That's a huge win if, for example, you're a company that publishes 100+ templates and somebody reports an XSS vulnerability in a commonly repeated component of one of them. (I don't know if their other 99 templates are patched yet so I won't go pointing fingers, but suffice it to say this happened.)

+ Kidding, kidding. OK, mostly kidding.
If they want to attract more people, it should be free/cheap until you make a certain amount of money. They might have to put restrictions on the number of apps you submit, or charge for app reviews.
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Kevin isn't associated with Digg anymore. He's been working on Milk, and Oink in particular.
yes, he is, or at least was when he started. I read that he hired some freelancer in Canada to build the initial Digg site rather than having worked on it himself.
I've dived in the Wordpress codebase a few times, I think it wouldn't be very hard to rewrite major parts. However, I don't think you can fix much without breaking tons of plugins, themes and 3rd party tools that integrate with Wordpress.

And if you are going to break the plugin ecosystem, might as well use Habari, which is much nicer: http://habariproject.org/en/

Too bad all the available plugins fit in a single page: http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Available_Plugins
Thanks for the link, this is great!
AdBlock and Ghostery.
AdBlock + NoScript. The web has been much more tolerable for a long time, thanks to these, and it is always amazing how much noise is on the page when I navigate with an alternate browser.
Announcing SilkJS: a synchronous JavaScript environment
I like paying for things.

I'd rather pay $5 - $50 for a mobile app than see ads.
The Fed wants savers to invest in riskier things -- new businesses, new projects, expansions, etc. -- so it has pushed rates on safe investments like treasuries to zero (three-month US treasuries pay 0.01% right now). The idea is that this will provide an incentive for savers to invest in things that will produce economic growth.

Yet despite the Fed's success at pushing rates down to zero, savers still want to invest predominantly in assets perceived to be safe (like treasuries and FDIC-insured bank accounts).

When consumers are strapped under the yoke of debt and can't buy more stuff on credit, no government effort to get businesses to invest more can work...
I usually just provide a default argument to get:

dispatch.get('two', default_strategy)
No, because these days I do 99% of my web browsing on a tablet (iPad and altered NookColor) or mobile device (iPhone). While I could block some ads at my router at home, but the risk of false positives doesn't outweigh the benefits. And that wouldn't help when I'm not at home.
Steal This: 'Tis the Season, Ye Merry Retailers, for Shoplifting
I'll quote Wynn Netherland on a post about his take on the very same problem:

"I'm a Rubyist. But I'm also a pragmatic front-end developer. When I have to write a full-stack solution, I pick Rails or Sinatra because writing Ruby is a joy and the Ruby ecosystem is so darn cool. But when I have to create a CMS-based site for myself or a client I love the usability and community behind WordPress. Although I can reluctantly lay Ruby aside when I extend WordPress, I really miss my syntactically awesome stylesheets. Until now."

http://wynnnetherland.com/journal/sass-up-your-wordpress-the...
You get Subversion and Git with Xcode and that's it. Exactly 2 choices. This is simply not a big deal in Windows where SCM can be directly integrated into the graphical file browser!!

Furthermore, VS Express can easily be configured to support 64 bit compilation. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1865069/compile-64-bit-ap...
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Alternatively, I use the "Incognito" mode in Chrome (FF has the private browsing mode, but unfortunately there, you can either be in that mode, or the regular one, but not both).

I am still to figure out if this helps me in anyway, but it's a start ... :-/
Adaptly Momentum: Combining Paid, Earned, and Owned Social Media Metrics
AdBlock. It's the main reason I primarily use Atomic Browser on iOS. Ads on mobile are just ridiculous.
I also use dnsmasq as a DNS aggregator and filter. I also have a number of domains (doubleclick, tynt, adbrite, tribalfusion and some others) set to have an IP address of 127.0.0.1.
> $99. And only after being able to play with the full/complete development tools and simulator for free. If that's what Visual Studio cost, I'd pay it now.

The "full" tools isn't a fair comparison. Visual Studio is much more feature-rich than Xcode. Apple does not give away the equivalent of Visual Studio for free.

Maybe Microsoft will add some of the "must-have" features to VS Express in the 2011 edition.

> As an non-MS developer that's just now working with Windows 7 and Visual Studio (C++, and the AVR Studio 5 that's built on top of the VS shell), I can state definitively that the full version is necessary to get any real work done.
At the very least, I need VCS integration, a profiler, and an x86-64 compiler.

From what I've read, it's possible to get Express to do amd64 compilation. There seem to be some gymnastics necessary, though. I'm not sure why it doesn't work out of the box.

As for VCS and a profiler, there are other profilers available, and VCS doesn't have to be integrated. These are not necessary features for the IDE.

Having worked on Unix for several years, I find all this "must-have" stuff bizarre. The tools might be necessary, but the idea that they must be integrated is pretty weak. Having a good IDE is very nice, but a text editor and a bunch of command-line tools can get the job done. (With that said, I definitely missed VS.)
Thanks for the explanation.

That's cool and all, but why wouldn't I just define an interface with method foo(), then override foo on my classes? This feels like class-based OO turned inside out.
>rather than a medically-established ideal weight range

Is it really "abstract thinking" to accept an arbitrary "medically-established ideal weight range"? Shouldn't we evaluate the criterion set by the medical community too before we accept it? I hear constant criticism of the BMI system for determining healthy weights, yet I've never really known another standard system.

While I agree that it's bad to compare your chubby kid to the obese kids and write off the weight problem because fatter children exist, I'm not sure how far we should run with the insistence on conformity to numbers like BMIs.

If my children are in the "overweight" BMI range (which isn't applicable to them yet as both are under two) but I still feel that they've been exercising, eating well, etc., and are generally healthy, I'm not going to sweat it.
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I use a multi-drug cocktail against crapware: AdBlock+FlashBlock+NoScript+Ghostery
After some training the web experience is Awesome.

Browsing for anything other than a few minutes without these is impossible for me anymore.
I am sure there was a fully trained crew on hand.

The riff on TV news though, that goes a bit over the top. I talked with the guy who ran the KRON news division way back when it was relevant (we were at a fundraiser and making small talk) and I commented on the challenge of making TV news accurate. His response was that the pressure to 'be first' put negative pressure on 'be accurate' and likened it to software bugs in video games as I had mentioned I was a programmer. His take was that the speed to getting the story out was primary, vetted only by confirmation by one reliable or some number of unreliable and unrelated sources, but accuracy developed over the life of the story. Each update was a bit more accurate than the previous one.

I suggested that seemed like it didn't serve the news consumer well, but he made the argument that they defined 'serving the consumer well' by measuring market share.

I came away as a much more critical viewer of news from that conversation.

That being said, Discovery is going to make bank when this episode is on TV. If I know how a lot of people are with respect to TV (and my experience is from being on Battlebots) then they send a film crew out to video the damage with a waiver that says "sign away any future claim against discovery and we'll pay to fix your house and PUT YOU ON TV!" and they will totally go for it. Maybe Jamie coming by and doing his "over the top amazed" kind of thing looking at the hole etc etc and talking with the 'regular' folks. It will be a highly rated show and draw lots of viewers. They will make some public service announcement about not trying this stuff in what is left of your home, and everyone will be happy. The folks with a hole in their house and car will have their 15 minutes of fame, the show will get a big ratings boost (look for the episode to air during sweeps week) and become another story for the mythbusters crew.