skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU is making some surprisingly good decisions lately when it comes to matters such as data and "intellectual property". I'm glad to be living here.
Not related to redesign (or is it?) but it would seem Microsoft is showing surprising interest to node.
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(i) You shall be authorized to use iTunes Products only for personal, noncommercial use.

Is the first restriction listed at http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html

I'm no hyperchicken, so don't put much stock in what I have to say.
Yeah, but I would like to hear about the back and forth with MegaUpload 'demanding" that this be put back up ... so what happened? Were they met with HUMAN opposition?
Definitely agreed. The public education system needs a cold hard look and it needs to be overhauled. We haven't really changed it since its inception, and it's just assumed that it works.

But its core assumptions are being proven false. A one-size-fits-all education is failing most of our students, the students who are slower and can't catch up, and the students who are faster and are held down.
Thanks I saved both of these stories off after reading them. This story gave me the chills. I have NO idea how the author made me feel like the narrator.

I was absorbed with the story and I could feel the silence of my companion as he traveled behind me gazing at the disappearing stars.
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The 1-Second Method
See the albertzeyer comment.
Next time somebody tells you about their own "bleem" just consider it, and don't throw them to the street as a heretic.

Mathematicians are aware of bleem. It's what you get when you remove the induction axiom from Peano arithmetic: A number which is not in the set {0, 1, 2, ...}.

In general the higher up you go in academia the more open people are to "variant realities". Most of our analysis of curved space-time comes to us thanks to mathematicians who thought they were playing with entirely theoretical constructs ("what happens if we remove the parallel postulate?").
For some weird reason his javascript only sets -webkit- prefixed CSS properties; it's quite likely this would work in firefox (and possibly eventually IE10), were it not for this.
it's not just CSS3; there's some javascript too.
As compared to what? Azure is Paas and, for what it is, seems to be a reasonable value. Of course there are ways to do things cheaper and/or more secure but often I find those comparisons are apples and oranges. And often the comparisons are complex and very situation specific (e.g. one is not automatically better or worse in terms of security or cost). I personally am glad to see node added to the Azure toolbox.
Toronto's Public Library Collects More Fines than Canada's EPA
You don't need to be all those things, just some.
Lua is actually pretty verbose. The MoonScript codebase is about 1700 lines of MoonScript and it compiles up to 3k lines of Lua (and that's without whitespace and comments)

Things like classes, comprehensions, and other syntactic sugar really do help with writing concise and easy to read programs.
Why do we need ebay, Yahoo, LinkedIn logos on the front page?
How to Dispel Your Illusions by Freeman Dyson
I don't know. Barrkel's example seems better to me because there's an obvious practical need for it. The trouble with most of the work on parsing I see is that it's just not hard to hand-write a parser. I used to avoid doing so, and then I wrote one and was surprised: once you factor in error-handling and whatever other meaningful output your system may need from its parser (e.g. text extents for ASTs), the overall complexity of a hand-written one can easily be less than one made with tools at a supposedly higher level of abstraction. And that's not counting the time it takes to learn the tool (which is not trivial, as they don't always have good debugging support) or the complexity cost of having the tool in one's stack (also not trivial, since they typically have their own languages, complicate the build process, and so on). This experience led me to mentally discount the whole field, hence my perhaps overly dismissive comment.
I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until the point where an actually intrusive ad (according to their criteria) gets the green light based on making a payment. Until then, it's just conjecture.
A blog engine is the type of CRUD app that node is not well suited for. Just because they could write it in node, doesn't mean that they should.
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If any of this is "crystal clear", then you need to revisit your username choice.

It's fine to form an opinion based on limited and partial data; you have to. But the strength of your opinion should be based on how much data you have to support it, and you should revisit it when someone presents you with data that contradicts it (as the grandparent post attempted to do).

I'm not sure what to make of your "average black person is less intelligent" point. Are you seriously arguing that a debatable genetic difference was the principle reason antebellum blacks were picking cotton?

You can, and most people could discuss it, but it's an extremely weak point. (E.g., individual != average, and in-population range is very large, so you'd expect to see the appropriate percentage of black landowners, successful business owners, etc.). Hmm.

On the subject of skepticism -- it's perhaps worth mentioning that James Watson is an accomplished scientist, but he's not considered an expert on the study & measures of human intelligence any more than you are. Arguments from authority should at least offer an authority in that field, not just from any field.
Is the film available online?
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I definitely agree. I just think that Facebook is much better at networking than at socializing, and people tend to confuse the two. I have hundreds of friends on FB, but it's not my first choice if I actually want to have a conversation with any of them.
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Coffee pot physics
> UHC systems is prioritization based on needs (rather than money)

You seem to be confused. The reality is based on manpower, but you seem to think that manpower is the same regardless of the system used. That isn't true. Manpower is defined by funding, pure and simple. Lack of funding? Lack of manpower. This is the current problem in Canada.

So, you can prioritize treatment, but it's meaningless if you don't backup that treatment with proper funding.

Essentially, you want prioritization based on needs and manpower, but you don't discuss funding in anyway. You also ignore who sets prioritization.

Now, collecting funding is relatively easy to discuss: taxes. Of course, the flip side is paying. The government can put requirements on the cost for various services. But unless you are suggesting all doctors must accept government insurance, this doesn't affect private costs. Those costs will go up. Essentially, if you want more money, go private (again, same thing you see in Canada). This pulls workers from the public sector, and swamps the system. That's when you get 3 years waits for services, sub-standard workers, etc.

By ignoring who sets prioritization, you also skip past a sticking point. Who controls that? Government or doctors? Well, regardless of who you'd want, it's the government. After all, they are defining what they will pay for, and the costs. Even if the doctors say one thing, say something is needed, the government doesn't fund it? So sad, too bad. Your paying for something that isn't covered. And don't think for a minute it will make sense, either, what they cover. I'm not talking about rare diseases or conditions.

No. It's easy to suggest how you think things should be done, and make simple remarks like "Just base it on need." It's akin to me saying "Don't get sick." or "Save money for your health care." It's like if I say to a poor person "Get a better job."

"Just base it off need."
This reminds of me of the hotfile vs warner brothers

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111110/10135116708/glimps...
BackboneJS modular app using RequireJS
If there were developer jobs paying that much, there'd be a line of people at the front door every day wanting to get hired.

Quality people are easy to find, a quality company is not.
Like this idea and have tried it and continue to to do this at my startup. But for a startup, it can be challenging for a few reasons.

1. We're already stretched thin so we generally need folks who can contribute quickly. If the person requires lots of oversight and guidance, that can take time which is already in short supply. That said, we've had some freshmen who put seniors and even experienced hires to shame. So this is clearly person-specific. If you're hungry, humble and happy and have some basic fundamentals down, we can usually make it work.

2. We can train them up and then they go to big high paid job later. This is always a risk in any market, but an intern can learn a ton with us in a couple of years which makes them more marketable to the big boys. Of course, it is our responsibility to make them love us so much that they want to stay, but when leaving school with big student loans, parents/friends who might feel working with a known brand is better, it can be tough to turn down the big paycheck/brand name.

Despite the challenges, we continue to think the pros outweigh the cons and so will keep trying. We're probably a bit more selective than when we started, however, given some lessons we've learned along the way.
Doug McIlroy[1] invented pipes, by the way. He's also the author of spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak and tr. He has written some fascinating papers, like Squinting at Power Series[2].

Thanks Christian Neukirchen for posting this on his blog[3], Mark Dominus[4] for asking for a copy and Doug McIlroy for sharing in the first place.

[1] http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/

[2] http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/squint.pdf

[3] http://chneukirchen.org/trivium

[4] http://blog.plover.com
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Take a position and defend it until realizing you're wrong, then switch sides
A fairly large number of women coders have children for much the same reasons a lot of professional women have children in general. Also, many women don't like attending male dominated events because of how poorly they are treated by a small minority of men (or drunk men) at those events. I have no idea which is more important, but I don't think they are care just as long something they are doing works.

PS: People are lumping in 'nerdy' activity's when think it's a little more general than that. You can make attending a gun show a lot more inviting to women based on the same basic ideas.
The "speaker" says something, then people a little distance away repeat the message so that those further away can hear what was said. GP's point is that most people will hear each statement repeated several times, by multiple people. This has strong psychological effects.
Cherrypicking? I'm just using the examples you cited. Both of which required legal enforcement to maintain inequality.

Whether or not you like the current outcome (and I don't proclaim to support it or even believe that it will be the same in 50 years), you cannot credibly argue that today, in the western world, women do not have legal parity with men. It's been a rough history but here we are (finally). Further policy changes are no longer the realm of gaining legal equality but pure social engineering based on your esthetic preferences for what you (possibly fancifully) believe gender participation ratios in various activities should be. Like the poster that kicked off this particular subthread, I believe this goal requires quite a lot more scrutiny than the first-wave feminist goal of legal equality.
This has already been discussed at length, the reason Apple's Appstore terms is incompatible with GPL is because the 'App Store' restricts the number of copies you can make of the downloaded binary while GPL explicitly allows you to make as many copies as you want.

Microsoft's store allows GPL software (and other open source) by simply saying that when it comes to open source software the oss licence will take precedence over Microsoft's own licence terms.
This massive Google Earth display in Paris includes 48 screens
In non hard subjects, the 'correct' answer often crosses into opinion.
This is leading to vigilantism, by the government and by corporations.

This is one the most pointed comments I've heard about copyright litigation and wanton take-down notices.
You sound like you missed the entire point of a college level literature class. You must have made your TA's life a pleasure arguing that your homegrown, self reinforcing, critiquing system was just as valid as those being taught in class.

Just so you know, you're exactly the same as the student arguing creationism in a biology class, the young earth model in geology, or the solipsistic freshman in Philosophy 101. Just another thick skulled, pompous, snowflake student who would rather pretend to know everything than learn how to think different (AKA in the manner being taught in the specific class). That's ok, you probably moved on in life calling the professor and TA idiots and never skipped a beat while whining about your C.

This comment was constructed using the rational system where I can't be wrong and you can't be right.
I am very glad to see the images available, and am sure that a lot of very good work was put into the scanning and transcription, much less the political fight that eventually allowed the rights to the expensive scans to be made public.

That said, it is a bit sad to see yet another manuscript viewing UI in yet another siloed archive. More specifically:

- There is no way to link to an individual page, so while the manuscript is "online" it is not addressable as part of the linked web. Scholars who write about the manuscript will be unable to link to a specific item or to share linked-data with one another.

- How long will these URLs be valid? "http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04004/ seems like the sort of thing that might get changed at the next departmental reorganization or database change.

- When viewing the manuscript, the hidden "contents" tab is far more valuable than the open "introduction" tab, and by default each manuscript is opened to page 0, which usually requires about ten manual page turns before landing at even the title page.

Some things that would be very nice to see in this field:

- An accepted metadata format or REST protocol for manuscripts, so that we could use a viewer of choice

- An inventive scholar to write digital scholarship that comments on these manuscripts using the full power of hypertext to link pages together, trace themes or ideas through different parts of the text, compare proof or notation methods between different texts in the corpus.
Good. That's a simple and elegant solution.
Keeping up with release notes or changelog is something hackers do, no?

I personally like how Hacker News and r/programming aggregates new changelogs of software I care about.
This raises the question, is it better to hire young unmarried developers with no kids if only to clear your conscience knowing that if things go badly you aren't putting an entire families well being in jeopardy.
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Anyone from uni of wash or who applied can corroborate this story ? Is it considered a top regional school or is it just the lack of seats/professors
If you make this into a Wordpress plugin it would be on every install in a week.
It's obviously in its early stages, but I like the idea. Seems obvious that editing websites in the website itself is much more straight-forward than using some kind of backend (for small-scale CMS).
Is this under copyright? If not, then someone should just download the whole thing and reupload it in a more accessible format.
In December have Social Calls instead of Sales Calls
To make the Higgs detectable means making a sufficiently high concentration of energy to make a Higgs particle. That concentration of energy is dependent on the mass of the particle (and hence energy by e=mc^2). The Higgs boson is theorized to exist at relatively high mass, hence making it difficult to create. This higgs particle will decay into a shower of other particles and these particles will decay, and all these remnant are detected and analyzed to recreate the original event. So no, Higgs is quite well understood and we expect to find it for strong reasons.
Inline editing is quite nice. I wonder if I am missing something about this: it seems to only offer italic/bold/underline/strike-through and no structural options?

Plug-and-play inline editing for various CMSs would be nice. If this had more features, I could see using it with a structured, lightweight CMS like Perch [1] to edit structured content inline with the published pages.

[1] http://grabaperch.com/
The point is, intelligent people at the time thought that it was biologically predetermined that some men should enslave others. For a more recent, horrific example, it used to be legal to sterilize people without their permission if they failed an IQ test. A Supreme Court justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, endorsed this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Board_of_North_Carolin...

It is entirely possible to be an intelligent person too blinded by the social norms of the time to give people the benefit of the doubt, the justice, and the mercy that they deserve. And a true skeptic ought to recognize that, and be afraid of embracing any belief that feels natural or true.

You are not a good skeptic if you are willing to consider beliefs that are bizarre or taboo. Religious fundamentalists do the same thing, too. You are a good skeptic if you're willing to question your own intuitions.
I missed November, but here's my first ever MVP: LetterPush
I thought the point of the original TC article was that we should stop pandering to women and it's jus a fact of life that a majority don't want to do startups. That's fine and it's not knocking women. I can see how the thing about babies could have confused people into missing that point though.

I really think you don't see many women doing it because there aren't a whole lot trying to. When you've got an applicant pool that's already a minority and you know that a good portion of any applicant pool won't get a particular job then it's not at all surprising to see that not many women get into startups. If there aren't many trying to start and a good portion won't make it to the finish line then this isn't surprising. I think it's more wrong to try to find minority candidates for the sake of finding minority candidates. Let the cream rise and if it doesn't consist of minorities then it's not our fault.
True irony:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fragmentation

[EDIT] actually this one is accurate:

"the disintegration of norms regulating behaviour, thought, and social relationships."

- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fragmentation
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Disagreement downvotes... such a shame. I disagree with you, but find your position to be valid and reasonable.
The Infinite Conversion Loop
Personally, I've always used AdBlock not because I hated ads, but because I hated distracting ads. In fact, I remember when I first installed AdBlock being sad that text ads might get blocked as well. I especially want to support those website owners who wish to have ads but are respectful to their readers by not making them distracting ads.

Regardless of if money is changing hands as a result of any agreement, I think this is a great move that will be able to positively affect the web advertising landscape.
It's not the same, but it's not that different. They both die because of lack of empathy and indifference.
I would submit that events restricted to members of a certain class are not in and of themselves evil. If someone sets up a workshop for “Right-Handed People Learning Code”, I as a left-handed person would not react with outrage.

But when members of one class are systematically excluded from some role in society, exclusionary events are a problem if they contribute to that system. A workshop for “Men Learning Code” is a bad idea... and so is a workshop for “Women Learning To Teach Preschool”.
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Shouldn't it be "Hiring Employee #2" instead? When starting a business, you should always pay employee #1 (yourself) even if it is a small amount at first. Many businesses fail because the founders forgot this simple yet essential step.
As far as legal contracts and forms for start-ups go, Orrick offers a "start-up tool kit": http://www.orrick.com/practices/corporate/emergingCompanies/...

I'm not sure if their license allows you to modify and redistribute.
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What's the thing about article titles posing questions? The answer is always "no."

My guess is during this decade, there will be a push toward becoming inaccessible and exclusive. The internet club is a bit overcrowded and their door policy has become lax. I wouldn't be surprised to see identity management and personal automated PR agencies start springing up as a service. If you can't filter yourself, just pay someone (or something) else to do it.

Major Domo Bot: "Do you really want to send this tweet: 'im soooo wasted on teqiuza!!' to your business associates? I'd suggest editing it to 'Having a great time in SoHo!'"
Still; I think that the experience of deriving mentioned language constructs from almost nothing is a great learning experience in itself. It's this kind of teaching - along with efforts as "The Elements of Computing System"[1] - that facilitate an - in my opinion - better learning experience that just 'learning this stuff from the blackboard'.

[1]: http://diycomputerscience.com/courses/course/the-elements-of...
Could Pi somehow actually be Bleem, hiding in plain sight all this time?
Money laundry....

=> Hongkong => BVI

http://imgur.com/a/7fqbg
In the DC area too. The positions that need 5+ years experience and need TS/SCI/FSP still pay $60K/yr.
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As a mild introvert, being social in-person requires effort. Being "social" on facebook is effortless. Clearly this is why facebook is enticing, but this should be a red flag. After all, few things worth doing are effortless.
Kindle Fire seems to have a poor user experience
I've seen Thoughtbot do this with Copycopter (https://copycopter.com/) as well as Plone and others. It's a great way to sell user-editing features to your clientele, but I would always start with actual copy prior to enabling it as real copy is just as important as functionality for product design.

Yes, the marketing folks will just send you a bunch of disjointed word docs and expect you to assume that they'll fill in the blanks at a later date. Something that never happens.
Perhaps beside the point, but part of journalism is good writing and the topic of the article includes writing quality.

"... turned out to be a MacGuffin, a detail that was very much beside the point..." -- is the reporter showing off he knows the word MacGuffin? He simply defines it immediately afterward making the word needless.

As Strunk and White says, "Avoid fancy words: Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

Then "Even a broken clock is right twice a day, but there is nothing in Mr. Padrick’s professional history or the public record that I found to suggest he is any of those things..." ... using old cliches doesn't help either. It just adds words with no meaning.