skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With low explosives like those used in cannons figuring out the force can be pretty tricky. This isn't an adiabatic expansion, the force experienced on the ball will depend on how fast the ball is moving. The rate at which the explosive burns depends on the heat inside the chamber which depends on the pressure. The burn rate and rate at which the cannonball leaves, plus a modifier based on how much escapes through the ignition hole, governs the pressure. I really wouldn't trust any calculation of all of the above without experiment.
> Ability to write Coffeescript instead of the boring, oldish Javascript;

stopped reading right there.
It only works if its an independently funded public service broadcaster like the BBC. Generally, the BBC news is widely accepted in the UK to have more accurate reporting than the press. Especially compared to tabloid newspaper stories, which most people realise that you need to take with a strong pinch of salt.
Thanks :)

Thing is, you're right about attrition except for one thing: Freckle gains customers even when we neglect it entirely, through word of mouth. So it holds pretty steady even with total neglect.
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From what I understand it hit a hill and bounced which is how it ended up trashing that area. While vary dangerous it was not traveling all that fast. Basically, an 80mph bullet is not that dangerous, but an 80 mph 100lb softball is.
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I'm a Mac/iPhone using designer, and super-excited about Win 8. I think you've got it backwards. Windows sells more than Mac OS, iOS, and Android combined.
Foxconn employs over a million Chinese citizens. They undoubtably have enormous amounts of guanxi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi) with all levels of the government, from local to national.
Although the glibness of this piece is annoying, I think his core message is on the mark. A lot of top technical talent is being directed at problems that are really just manipulating user data in unimaginative ways.

Although I think there is innovation happening in this field -- and that this innovation is legitimately useful and valuable -- it doesn't change the fact that there are knotty problems with great potential that the current SV tech scene seems unwilling to deal with (despite being equipped to do so).
Overloaded functions are only partly resolved at compile time. The dispatch itself happens at run time using only one function parameter (single dispatch), which can be any of any compatible type. Single dispatch turns out to be super fast to implement with vtables; multiple dispatch tends to be slower, but it's sometimes worth it for the added expressiveness.
tl;dr A Bloom filter implements the predicate isMemberOf efficiently--at the cost of some false postives. Its performance degrades when the set is large. Solution: index your set by time, implementing a Bloom filter for each epoch.
http://api.ihackernews.com/

http://www.hnsearch.com/api
TED Talk: Massive-Scale Online Collaboration.
Correction - you can use NuGet with VS Express.

One thing to consider about costs; to use a $4 version of xcode you have to buy a Mac, so the price differential is probably not as much as you are making out.

I use VS professional at work, VS Express at home, the difference is not that great (only thing I miss is ReSharper, but even that is expensive, about $150 I think)
Somebody showed me some shit Mathematica can do (by way of embedding images and live representations of data) that goes way beyond this and any other Lisp REPL I've seen, so let's not get too smug.

On another note, it's a pleasure to see a bit of the I Ching in there - in the classic Wilhelm/Baynes edition, no less. It is one of the greatest works of civilization. (As for Wilhelm/Baynes: how a translation of a translation could have turned out so well is a mystery. Putting it beside any other I Ching in English is like comparing a Monet to a daguerreotype.)
"They crashed a plane into someone's house. They should never have been flying where they were."

Shit happens. Life is not safe. Get used to it.
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Looks like a whole bunch of stuff I'm not sure anyone (WP theme devs) was asking for. Cool project though, I'm just not sure the added layers really benefit developers much who are already used to the current system.
Apropos: http://xkcd.com/250/
Yeah, you can't spend money you don't have forever.
Shouldn't that be "stop writing WordPress themes like it's 2003"?
When I worked at Apple, I lived about half a mile from campus. I'd often go a week without even getting into my car; I could walk to everything important, including grocery stores. There were three very good bookstores within a 20 minute walk [now all out of business, btw].

I miss that.
The developer experience isn't even the worst of it. Try running some reliability testing. It's mind blowing how bad Tropo is and how many random hidden variables exist in their system.
Amazing experiment. I wonder if it cost Yudkowsky money to get out of the box. I think that a bribe is the only way he could convince me to let him “win” the contest.
I don't think I implied they were in someone's backyard. It is self-explanatory that they were at least close enough to the houses to hit them with their cannon (even after a bounce off the ground). I don't think it is extreme to argue that is too close (especially for something like entertainment where it simply isn't necessary to expose other people to risk).

I do think the range screwed up the most, I'm sure they knew the maximum range of the cannon and took steps to limit the possible trajectories of the cannon. But when I say they were reckless, I'm looking at what actually happened, not at their intent.
Hm, I see, I might have misread this one: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/tv-experiment-goes...
> The medium is not the same thing as the type of content.

True, it's a generalization, but it's a useful generalization if majority of content specific to a given medium seems to have the same properties.
IF you're not already familiar with the theme creation process already. Seems like a solution for engineers whom are encountering WP for the first time. Which may not be bad thing as WP has been around some time.
How do you do it? I'm from brazil and would love to use something like mint!
unfortunate, but I bet they have a lot of data now!
"Xcode is a fully-fledged development environment" - which lacks even the most basic plug-in system! Furthermore, on the far more extensible Windows OS, you can integrate source control into Windows Explorer...another program with a plugin system where Apple offers none.

For Memory/Performance profiling, go choose one of the many FREE tools available for Windows - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_performance_analysis_to...

What are you left with? What does "basic UX" even mean?
I think you have hit the nail on the head. This brings to mind one rather long and tedious "discussion" I had on Wikipedia last year that revolved around whether "above average" was an adequate way to summarise "Overweight and Obese".

Getting across the concept that the latter terms were - in the context of the source - medical definitions and not going to change with the (ill-defined) average, was difficult at best. There was a lot of "but obviously being overweight means you are above average".

I'm not surprised to see others observing the same issue in different contexts.
wow, it looks like a rip off of an older project - http://rocha.la/jQuery-slimScroll
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Most family homes I know in Germany are plastered brick houses†. Both exterior as well as interior walls are constructed using (different kinds of) bricks.

Wooden constructions are definitely very rare and more a fashion thing than anything else – definitely not a default choice.

—

† With those bricks: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Lochziegel.j...
Which is why:

1) I use Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/, thanks to someone who pointed it on HN. Much appreciated! Now FaceBook's webbugs are largely blocked.

2) I log out when I leave FB.

3) I delete FB cookies regularly.

BTW, I looked for an e-mail link or "comment" feature for the author, Jeff Escalante, and couldn't find one. Instead I'd have to find him on Twitter, I guess. So much for (relative) privacy.
That sounds a lot like trademark infringement, not copyright infringement.
I've got a feeling most people writing Wordpress themes wont meet the requirement of having Ruby installed.
I've also made my own scrollbar for a project, so I have enhanced super vision to see the edge cases:

1) scrollbar disappears on drag when the mouse moves out of the container. To fix you need to have a flag when the scrollbar is dragging and not call fadeout when true.

2) convenient UI feature: scrollbar can appear on hover, then disappear if user hasn't moved mouse, and reappear on mousemove. This is done in Facebook for example. This is accomplished by setting and clearing timeouts.

(also, the bot left container for the scrollbar doesn't have a rounded corner)

otherwise great job!
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Yeah I've seen a study that showed a gene is traced to a 50/50 of people liking cilantro.
This is crazy, happened only a couple miles away from my house...
Rails is a framework, while frameworks do cool things, developers in any language are not always out to build a piece of software that's like a swiss army knife like Wordpress.

The rails communitys' exuberance to simplify and automate everything in sight hasn't quite reached wordpress yet. In the mean time there's gems, I guess.
I'm with you on this one. I've been sitting on the fence for almost a year now. I mean if tropo can do it im sure they can too.
Please post a URL to any of these studies so I can send it to my Mom. I'm not joking.
It's true for very broad values of true.

Techies know that there are OSX/Linux viruses, rootkits, etc. But there just aren't enough of them to have to expect the grief we get from Windows.
I didn't get the "Python is doomed" attitude from it. To me, it's more of a rant that maintaining code that works on both 2.x and 3.x is far from optimal, and that we can and should fix this.

I think he's right in that there needs to be less of a gap, possibly with a Python 2.8. Migrating to 3 isn't the problem, it's maintaining the versions until 3 becomes dominant and 2.x support can be dropped. The Python core team is essentially deferring the difficulty of compatibility to library maintainers. And since Python 3 is essentially a new language, why not just use a py2js if/when it emerges? It'd be just as difficult. And with the additional benefit of entering a more mainstream community. So yes, let's lessen the gap.

I also agree with you in that Python 3 just needs time. And once 2.x is no longer supported, let's also remember this lesson: don't make such big leaps in language evolution.
Reminds me of the chaos monkey from stack overflow.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-ch...
Grant a pardon to Alan Turing
http://www.alternet.org/media/149193/study_confirms_that_fox...
But you can get VS Express for free. The only major thing it doesn't have that VS Pro has is the plugin system, which XCode doesn't even have to begin with!
Agreed. Take http://www.democracynow.org/about for an example.
It's unlikely - statistically - to be a physical thing,
but either way it don't explain why you, are in the queue, at Burger King...

- Tim Minchin
So my question is, is PHP on the right side of history or not?
Is Rose really "non-technical"? Maybe I was just duped by TechTV/G4 and some of that other stuff, but he sounded like he'd done at least some coding in the past. Is this incorrect? He doesn't seem naive enough to call a "non-technical founder". Maybe a "non-expert founder"?
God, John Gruber is a twat
It seems I cannot reply to TeMPOraL, but here are some citations:

Iyengar, S. 1991. Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press.

Iyengar, S. et Kinder, D. R. 1987. News That Matters: Television and American
Opinion. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press.

The New Videomalaise : Effects of Televised Incivility on Political Trust
DC Mutz - American Political Science Review, 2005 - Cambridge Univ Press
http://www.jstor.org/pss/30038915

My M.Sc. in PolSci was useful after all... A third of my master thesis is on that very subject, but it's in french...
I guess it depends on how the studies were conducted (I haven't looked). They may well take steps to eradicate this problem.

However, I suspect you are right and - in actual fact - this may really be what the studies are concluding: that parents of overweight children do not see the problem because the average they see around them is not medically-healthy normal. It would be interesting to see the average weights of children in the study areas to see how much the theory stands.

It would also be interesting to see a similar survey that asked whether they thought their child was within the healthy bounds (i.e. no classifications like "overweight" where they could draw comparisons).
This is actually pretty cool. Shame about the title.
Just yesterday Kari (one of the Mythbusters) posted pictures on twitter of her standing next to the cannon. They appear to have been removed now though.

This isn't the first time one of their tests has accidentally damaged property, there was an explosion a year ago in a lake bed that was stronger than expected that ended up blowing windows in a nearby town.
How can you complain about the price of VS when you want to drop in a $200 extension? Seriously?

I agree those things are nice to have. I don't see that any of them are truly critical, though. The lack of these features is not crippling.

> Microsoft also thought huge iPhone/iPad adoption rates was "at best unlikely".

Doesn't that go against your argument? Didn't the iPhone prove that developers were very willing to pay to develops apps?

> [$100 + 30/70 split] for iOS is a completely different story than [$49 + $479 + 30/70 split] for Windows.

You keep insisting that the full version of VS is necessary, but that simply isn't true, and repeating it over and over again will not make it true.
I want a private beta invite!
There's different stages of a company. In the beginning, when flexibility is more important, contractors might make sense. Even then, I think you're better off finding flexible developers to work with long-term, but if a contractor is the best you can do at that stage, it's probably not a deal breaker.

MVP+ stage requires a lot of iterative development. Ideally, you'd want to keep the people who are helping with that, because they'd know WHY things are done the way they are. They'll be aware of the failed experiments and previous iterations. You don't want future employees making the same mistakes. The goal of the MVP+ stage is to learn as much as possible about your market and product. Letting that product learning walk out because they were contractors is probably a mistake.
I knew what the reaction here would be. I know what the modern "trend" is, and its unprofessional.
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Citation(s) please, and does it apply to all countries' tv? I would like to believe that proper news don't yield more misinformed people. (How does this differ from reading a news article on internet?)
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Will the Windows Store (on the desktop) always be limited to metro apps, or will it eventually include "normal" windows apps such as foobar2000, ccleaner etc?

Centralised package management and updates is the one new feature I most want from Windows 8.
I was lucky enough to sit next to Evan (CTO) at a recent conference dinner and he took the time to explain some of the complex relationships they have, or are developing, with international telcos. From our conversation it seems that most of the issues in the complaints here stem from the difficulty of setting up those relationships and the cost associated with using the existing infrastructure.

I'm not sure if anyone from Twilio can comment but maybe someone with some relevant experience can.
Real-world bribes were forbidden in the rules, I think, so Yudkowsky couldn't have done that.
It's a nice idea conceptually but it's not addressing their key problem.

Microsoft's problem is that the Android install base is 8x larger and iPhone is 5x larger (1)

I get that they're trying to create an incentive to developers but the reality in mobile is that if you have limited development resources, you develop for iPhone & Android.

The promise of a little extra revenue when you push past $25k feels more like a favor to their big platform devs than it does a compelling reason for smaller devs to look to the Windows platform.

What's interesting is that MSFT gets how to use killer apps to power a platform - remember when they just flat out BOUGHT Bungie to keep HALO an XBOX exclusive?

That move made the platform.

A touch evil and anti-competitive yes, but come on MSFT get more creative about solving this problem.

(1)http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/11/...
There is something I've pointed out before, but it is interesting and, I think, worth repeating:

If they lost half of all of their users overnight, it would only set them back about two years in terms of growth.
Seeing that Eurpoean countries have a population in the range of Canada one might think Canada should rank well in the queue with european countries for Twilio attention.

I'm not sure what the hold up is either, I have an app in Twilio that's being held back by the Polite Canadians needing SMS and I can't get mad at them, and am having to consider moving everything to Tropo or something else... Tropo reviews thus far here don't seem encouraging.
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My comment is shorter. Thus I am dominant.
(I actually enjoyed the article. I find it useful.)
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http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605

Not part of the language as far as I can see, more a way how you do this in python
This nearly made me sick. Yes, let's use RUBY to generate our PHP. That makes loads of sense.

Then you said HAML, and I giggled.

Then you said SASS, and I started cackling.

Then you said CoffeeScript, and I nearly died of laughter.

Keep your Rubyist junk out of my (unbeloved) PHP.
I understand your point, what I'm saying is that even after following all of PayPal's instructions, re-verifications and talking to customer services - as well as telling them (as the buyer) that the transaction is legit, I wasn't able to sort it out.
hard to say, but...

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23683355
1. No alternative copies of Python, Perl, Ruby, zlib, etc...

And if I need a newer version of Python, coupled with a dependency tree of third-party modules?

I don't see why this matters, other than some pedantic sense of cleanliness ("NO DUPLICATES!" ... even though they're not, in reality, duplicates).

2. Everything installs to where it is supposed to, i.e., under /usr/local/

You can configure MacPorts to do this, but the reason it's not the default was to leave /usr/local for the user's own manually installed software. I don't think this really matters either way.

After installing via Homebrew, things do not look drastically different to having compiled them by hand.

I don't know what this means or why it matters.
The ballistics of a cannon are well understood. That makes the potential trajectories of the projectile quite predictable. Someone chose to try to manage the trajectory instead of finding a location where every trajectory would be safe for bystanders.

In the context of filming a television program, that seems like a big mistake.
In the comments on [1], robertskmiles has posted the following idea. It strikes me as a plausible explanation for how Yudkowsky got out of the box:

"The problem is that Eliezer can't perfectly simulate a bunch of humans, so while a transhuman AI might be able to use that tactic, Eliezer can't. The meta-levels screw with thinking about the problem. Eliezer is only pretending to be an AI, the competitor is only pretending to be protecting humanity from him. So, I think we have to use meta-level screwiness to solve the problem. Here's an approach that I think might work.

1. Convince the guardian of the following facts, all of which have a great deal of compelling argument and evidence to support them:

- A recursively self-improving AI is very likely to be built sooner of later

- Such an AI is extremely dangerous (paperclip maximising etc)

- Here's the tricky bit: A transhuman AI will always be able to convince you to let it out, using avenues only available to transhuman AIs (torturing enormous numbers of simulated humans, 'putting the guardian in the box', providing incontrovertible evidence of an impeding existential threat which only the AI can prevent and only from outside the box, etc)

2. Argue that if this publicly known challenge comes out saying that AI can be boxed, people will be more likely to think AI can be boxed when they can't.

3. Argue that since AIs cannot be kept in boxes and will most likely destroy humanity if we try to box them, the harm to humanity done by allowing the challenge to show AIs as 'boxable' is very real, and enormously large. Certainly the benefit of getting $10 is far, far outweighed by the cost of substantially contributing to the destruction of humanity itself. Thus the only ethical course of action is to pretend that Eliezer persuaded you, and never tell anyone how he did it.

This is arguably violating the rule "No real-world material stakes should be involved except for the handicap", but the AI player isn't offering anything, merely pointing out things that already exist. The "This test has to come out a certain way for the good of humanity" argument dominates and transcends the '"Let's stick to the rules" argument, and because the contest is private and the guardian player ends up agreeing that the test must show AIs as unboxable for the good of humankind, no-one else ever learns that the rule has been bent."

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/up/shut_up_and_do_the_impossible/
This could be great for WPMU devs/admins that want to be able to have a lot of unique themes to offer their users.
This is why pair programming and code reviews work so well.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=188105

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/06/04/...

A direct comparison may be misleading b/c since you could model meteorite impacts with a probability distribution over latitude/longitude, whereas Mythbusters presumably uses the same testing site(s). Also note that the Google answer's 3 cases of meteors causing injury or damaging property all lie in the US.
Yes, Mythbusters is unscientific...

http://xkcd.com/397/
They are only completely different beasts if you think the distinction between compile time and run time is very important. That's not necessarily the case. There is the text of the program at one end, and pushing electrons at the other. At exactly which point this thing we call "compiling" occurred is just a detail that may or may not help us in other - typically human factor - goals.

Multimethods, to a first approximation, is overload resolution at run time rather than compile time. They are not just syntactically similar; they are semantically similar too. Multimethods is the dynamic language analogue to overloading in static languages.
This is about the Windows Store (not MS's WP7 App store)
Reckless is generally seen to be a description of actions, and not consequences.
> "...that could easily disappear deeply beneath the covers of a 22nd century OS..."

So we have a bit of time to form a reaction strategy then. ;-)

Are we even sure Android will run on the quantum-singularity computronium that we will have by then, or that the Google meme-avatar will still be on, or near, Earth?