skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My grade school class toured the Enrico Fermi 1 nuclear power plant in the sixties. They had a movie showing us that by the time we were adults that all cars would be nuclear powered.

When it came time for questions I asked what would happen if one of those nuclear powered cars were in a bad crash and its reactor was compromised?

The guy rolled his eyes at my teacher and said next question ;<). Later the teacher told me she thought it was a perfectly valid question and he dodged it.

Several years later that plant had a partial fuel melt down. They said no radiation was leaked but there was dispute about the official account. There was a book (and later a song) written about the accident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Almost_Lost_Detroit
I didn't want to spend too much time with a product name, we were thinking up idea's and Cherry Pop was suggested and it just sounded good at the time.

It had the hint to sex that we wanted, (plus, you're popping your cherry asking some provoking questions I guess!) but also wasn't too generic, so that we could do a brand around it.

A product name is definitely hard, and we're having to tackle the problem of people not realising they should search for 'Cherry Pop' when they want a game like ours - so it's a work in progress.
When? The author appears to define her own Array type as well:

scala> class Array
defined class Array

scala> class WrappedArray(xs: Array) extends Seq // a Seq adapter for Arrays
defined class WrappedArray

scala> implicit def array2seq(xs: Array): Seq = new WrappedArray(xs)
array2seq: (xs: Array)WrappedArray

scala> new Array().ident
<console>:13: error: value ident is not a member of Array
new Array().ident
I'd probably be doing Phone Gap myself too. I may even give it a go for the next product, just to see how well it works.
IPhone app lets you find your representative and talk to them, instantly.
unfortunate that there needs to be a --enable-flaming option :(
I particularly like "Stage Line for Commit".
I used http://www.acndirect.com.au/ through my accountant.
Upload your solutions to your website or pop them on github.
Sitting next to the developer of MacGap (we both work at Twitter), the first thing that I asked was "what about Fluid?" http://fluidapp.com/ -- and Alex's first retort was that this was open source, and free.
Fantastic. I am very much looking forward to the book!
A friend used to say that most things he was warned about started with "Men over the age of 35..." and so once he hit 35 he would stop smoking, drinking, eating horribly etc. We would usually discuss such things on a smokey patio with beers.

He's just shy of 35 now, so we'll see ;) Sounds like your dad had a good sense of humor :)
I'm from the Opa team and we did not post this here. The press release is intended for business users, who want to know that kind of information. For developers, opalang.org is enough, isn't it?
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HubSpot open sources data on 4000+ Twitter Apps.
Glad to hear this just before I launch my campaign!
A friend told me one time about a theory he read about, that has to do with how the brain interprets goal accomplishment with sharing your goals. Apparently, the idea is that if you go around telling people about your goals the brain gets the same kind of "high" as if you had actually accomplished them. This diminishes the likelihood of you completing them because in your mind you've already gotten the benefit and the rest is just a lot of extra effort.

I wonder if it's the same thing with Facebook and other social networks. By "socializing" on FB the brain gets the same kind of high as if you had actually spoken to the person, thus making you feel satisfied with the social interaction so you don't seek them out.
If you're going to head to Mountain View, visit the Computer History Museum. It's nice to know from whence we all came.

Though the place makes me feel particularly old when I realize how much gear in the museum is stuff I've worked on in the past...
The comments here are generally calling these “old-style” figures, but—while I’m aware that this is what some people call them—I think the term is a poor one. The old-style figures are better referred to as text figures and the so-called “usual” ones—which @funkah prefers—as lining or titling figures.

The difference between them is not really simply a stylistic choice: text figures are basically lowercase numbers and titling figures are uppercase ones. Saying you don’t like them is like saying you don’t like lowercase letters, and that you prefer everything in uppercase. Using titling figures in running text is like typing in all caps—it’s screaming at you.

It’s not so much that the text figures are old and were abandoned, but rather that typewriters simply left them off to simplify things. And since computer keyboards were based on typewriters, they never made their way to computers either. And then they started being used exclusively in newspapers and advertising. If you look at books, though, you’ll see that they never really went away. Only now are we finally getting them back—and that’s the entire point of OpenType and it’s a good thing.

Now, the difference between text and titling figures isn’t precisely the same as upper- and lowercase, since titling figures are generally used in titles despite the fact that titles can be mixed case; and they’re also used in tables of numbers. (Although there is another dimension of figure variation—namely, whether they are proportional- or fixed-width—and fixed-width lining figures are typically used in tables so that the places line up.)
The argument he was responding to was unsound. The parent comment attempted to refute the claim that piracy is a legitimate problem by pointing out the ease at which it is done. Jayzee's analogy was never meant to compare shooting someone with sharing a song in terms of severity. Rather, it was demonstrating how flawed that line of thinking is.
No, I hadn't heard of it, but I was operating slightly higher, in cognitive neuroscience, and doing a lot of fMRI and intracranial EEG work. For those domains, the biggest packages are SPM and Fieldtrip, both of which run on Matlab.

I do, however, hope that Python will push out Matlab one day.
I don't budget books. (Well, the actual budget has to do with available shelf space and how much of the floor my wife is willing to let me pile books on).

About ten years ago I read a bunch of books on MPEG2/4 and some other video-related stuff. I wasn't doing much in the field, it just seemed interesting. Eight years later it turned out that the project I was on needed this type of expertise, so I was able to contribute on stuff that people hadn't expected me to be able to. It was fun.

You can't easily foresee this kind of thing. I'll probably never need to know the details of how Vax/VMS did its free page management, but I might run into a related problem, so reading that OS book 25 years ago might pay off.

What I see from people who /just code/ is that their skills rot far faster than people who like to learn stuff. If all you do is code, after ten years you have another 100KSLOCs of Java or C++ or SCHLOPBOL under your belt . . . and who cares?

I like to learn stuff and hopefully get a chance to apply it. Otherwise I'm just a garage mechanic who fixes bicycles in my spare time.
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I tried getting rails working under cygwin a while ago, and never had much luck. If you're using a windows system, my suggestions would be either to use Rails Installer:

http://railsinstaller.org/

(haven't actually tried this myself, but I've heard it's pretty solid) or to run a unix VM in virtualbox or vmware. I did the latter and had no problems getting everything working with the help of rvm.
So the reason to use both PHP and ASP.NET together was to get access to the php library from C#?
I'm pretty sure that's the renderer and has nothing to do with opentype support.
Hasn't the schedule been out for a few weeks?
What do you reccomend for ground transportation?
Then you've got a flash of unstyled content, which just looks plain ugly.
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This is most likely due to people trying to push down comments and these comments sitting at 1 point score. This creates a gray comment and the crowd heaps on and buries it without giving much further thought.

HN should really mark 1-point comments in some way. This is long due.
OT: "Lua". It's not an acronym.
Those aren’t f’s, they’re long s’s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s.

You should read up on typography before decrying things about it. Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style or Warren Chappell’s A Short History of the Printed Word are two great places to start.
Arrays are not sequences, in either the standard Scala library or his condensation of it. The goal is still to define a single extension method for two unrelated types.
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"MacGap was forked/ported from Phonegap-mac. It's under the same license (MIT)."

I'm more curious why he forked Phonegap-mac?
Ask HN: I'm an experienced backend developer, but clueless about GUI app dev.
I'm a rather competent developer, but my areas of competency are perhaps quite narrow. I have been making software for over 10 years. I've made servers, device drivers, command-line utilities, big and small. I have never done any form of GUI development, and frankly, I don't even know where to begin. Whether it be native applications or Web 2.0 apps, I'm completely lost. The closest thing to a GUI that I have worked on was viewed in Netscape 1.0.

I can (and have) read API documentation, which is usually sufficient, but when it comes to GUI app development and design, I can't see the forest for the trees.

Are there any recommended books that cover a language or toolkit specifically for GUI development, but which also teach the process of good design from scratch?
No more "bubble" talk until you actually define what you mean by "bubble."
How's the cook going to feel about getting out of bed at 3AM because I have a sudden craving for potato pancakes with bacon & sour cream?
> have it work automatically on native Java arrays

Correct me if I'm wrong, but he is not operating on native Java arrays at all.

He redefines Array, redefines Seq and redefines WrappedArray as a subtype of Seq. He adds ident to Seq, and since Array isn't a subtype of Seq, ident is not a member of Array ( he points that out too, and provides a solution as well.
He is operating in his own "tiny parallel universe" as he says in the post. He even redefines String and CharSequence (which threw me off because isn't java.lang.String & java.lang.CharSequence already in the namespace so the conflicts etc...) Then he wants a Seq[Char] ( not the scala Seq but his redefined Seq ) to mimic the redefined String! The whole thing is quite crazy & terribly fascinating imo.
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8684955-game...
If it is indeed something that can be installed onto a PC, one key difference between this and the other media distributions may be whether it is cablecard certified. From what I understand, you need to be in order to receive encrypted HD broadcasts over cable tv. This is what I am looking for.
Why not? I don't get why beauty should be relegated to print.

Additionally, eventually things will get faster -- even now, with proper caching using a good CDN, it should be completely unnoticeable.
Fluid is just a browser that opens to a specific URL, there is no way to distribute with it (aside from just publishing a webapp).
Less that 12% of Hacker News Jobs listings reply to emails when you apply for any work.
Ask HN: Where is the startup FAQ for programmer/founders
I'm working on a startup (can't discuss it yet) with several others. As the sole programmer, I obviously do all the coding. The code only exists on my laptop and my personal server at rackspace.

I've been asked to for access to the code. Even though we've finally incorporated over a month ago, I haven't signed anything yet.

So I ask, what do I need to know to protect myself. Is there anything I need to sign. Do I need to worry about my partners running off with the code if I haven't signed anything.

I feel so clueless about the process, and it's been hard finding substantial information on the process.

Also, as a founder, what do I do about the non-compete agreement everyone has been asked to find. I'm not thrilled about it, especially as it requires no competition for 5 years, around the world.
> The vapor pressure of molten lead has got to be pretty low

If you go to the bottom of the Kaster link: Cast Number 12 was a whistle. The casting was in multiple parts, and I never figured out how to assemble it (I actually thought it was supposed to be a biplane. Probably the fumes again.)

So you were supposed to assemble this thing and then stick it in your mouth. :O

> You're probably OK.

There are those who disagree with you. :)
I'm a computational biochemistry student, and I don't think this is possible. We can gamify protein folding because this is a well-understood, well-characterized problem. What we don't have the slightest clue about is how to restore original cell state, eg. rid cells of aggregate intracellular waste, repair non-trivial DNA damage, restore the extracellular metabolome, etc.

I think we should stop funding/granting scholarships to liberal arts majors. Let them become STEM majors.
Does something like this exist for windows?
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I graduated highschool in 2007 and science class was devoid of experimentation. I remember there being a bunch of hype months in advance for a day where we just watched our teacher do something with a bunsen burner. I don't remember what she did with it, but it was undoubtedly within the realm of making food-dyed water boil over a flame.
The problem with his example `retweet_count` is the blanket statement in the API:

The timeline returned is the equivalent of the one seen when you view a user's profile on twitter.com.

Thus:

- the value is capped at 100 (since the retweet count is displayed up to 100)

- the value can be "100+" (https://twitter.com/#!/SEGA/status/144219968773423104 says "Retweeted by ivucica and 100+ others")

Now, I don't disagree that the documentation should explain retweet_count more clearly, but I'm surprised that people trip up on this particular issue.
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CALEA requires all your communication devices to have back doors... stop focusing on corporations and start looking at the law and your politicians.
Unless we're just talking about adding an aspect of fun to research so existing scientists enjoy their work more (or tend to pursue it more eagerly, etc.), a necessary but insufficient condition for gamification is simplicity; and if we can find a way to break complex research down into tasks that are simple enough for almost anyone to complete, why not just underpay people on Mturk to do it and skip having to make it fun?
Percona XtraDB Cluster: No-nosql?
this is with all dates/times in a good planning format
What might interest HN readers the most is the (almost) complete implementation of the Minecraft protocol:

* https://github.com/minefold/hubot-minecraft/blob/master/src/...
* https://github.com/minefold/hubot-minecraft/blob/master/src/...

If you've ever thought it would be cool to write a bot for Minecraft, this is a great starting point. At Minefold we regularly use our own Minecraft bots to do load testing and diagnosis of our servers.
They have the ability to re-establish control, which is much better than the lack thereof.
You're getting downvoted a little unfairly. I disagree with you that old-style figs are like long S's. I strongly disagree that we're better off not having the option. I'm inclined to believe that people with visceral negative reactions to old-style figs are really just reacting to being conditioned to lining figures.

But having said that: the kernel of easy- to- agree- with in your comment is, for a lot of the figures that tend to get typeset on web pages, lining figures are the more appropriate choice.

That said, when set in running text and when describing things that are, effectively, proper nouns (IP addresses, street addresses, phone numbers), old-style figures often read better and are more attractive.
Can someone summarize what is going on in layman's terms?
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Why does this load JQuery for nothing but a simple JSONP request?
Cellphones increasingly used for financial transactions in Kenya
This is surprisingly common.

I once worked for a SaaS provider in the recruitment industry. I was brought on to begin working on a 2.0 product, but one day they asked me to work on their 1.0 system instead.

Inside I found horror upon horror. My personal favourite was a table called TableRow_TableRow.

It contained six fields:

TableRowId_1
TableRowId_2
Info1
Info2
Info3
Info4

This table, it was explained to me, allowed anything to be related to anything. Super-duper flexible. Those four "Info" fields were varchars that could store anything -- anything! -- which made them tremendously useful of course. Why didn't I get it? It was written by graduates from my own school, after all!

TableRow_TableRow had four billion rows. On commodity hardware. Without any constraints. But with an index on every field. And they wondered why it was so slow.

I was sometimes brought in to discuss the 2.0 architecture. The tech lead felt very strongly that "Everything should be called a node, and nodes should contain nodes, it will be super-duper flexible!"

My pleas that creating a graph database inside a relational database would perform horribly and be a wellspring of nightmarish bugs fell on deaf ears. My argument that perhaps we could, you know, just model the domain were dismissed as inflexible.

Then the GFC hit, the 2.0 project was cancelled and I was sacked. What a relief.
Joe has no incentive to become educated. His odds of affecting the outcome are essentially nil [1], so it's all the same if he votes based on his tribal affiliations or self image (e.g. "look at me, I'm so very not racist!" or "look at me, I'm so religious").

[1] Math can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1750757
> Canonical shares post-purchase services revenue from the sale of content, applications and subscriptions through Ubuntu TV products with OEM’s and distribution / channel partners.

From: http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/commercial-info
We may be witnessing a kind of aesthetic path dependence. Text figures may be better, but if you have lived your whole life without seeing them then they will look out of place.
The collages are generated by us using the highest quality FB photos available to us. Its printed at 300 dpi. The quality if coming from a decent camera can be quite good. Even droid and iPhone images uploaded with the mobile client are more than acceptable for most consumers.

Our plan is to integrate other image services over time.

Thanks for all the feed back!

If you want you can get a collage half off by usin the discount code 'friends2012'

Thanks
Their Groove Salad station provides consistently unobtrusive ambient, conducive to the zone. Which is the soulful station that you like?
Segoe UI is so good that I have Firefox set to use only it (which of course renders this entire page meaningless for me). I can even read light text on a black background in it, which previously has always sent me scurrying for Readability.
When you incorporated, did you use a lawyer? Startup lawyers can help you with the necessary documentation that need to be signed to "protect" yourself.
It's a good point, but I felt that it was enough of a code change to fork - and callback-mac wasn't getting that much love (or accepting pull requests). However, it may be that that project gets merged back in, as I might be made the official maintainer.
Arrays are not collections, either in Scala, or in the blog's condensation of it. But the blog nevertheless tries to define a single extension method that works for both sequences and arrays. I do not think this problem has a simple solution in any language.
Classic leapfrog tech! Expect to see this more widespread in dev world than in US for a long time
Very cool stuff.

However, it would have been cool if they included font-stretching so you can manipulate glyphs.
Ahh, it's Portugese for Moon.
I know the guy who wrote it originally. A real hacker. He wrote it way before this DLR extensions, I think it was even in .NET 1.0 and it was already sort of usable. He knew a lot from Rotor (the open sourced part of .NET) and he was using it to hack the internal memory structures (ie. the Object structure) of .NET without reflection
A single US drone consumes 500 times the total bandwidth of the 91 Iraq invasion
I am completely, wholeheartedly, emphatically, and unabashedly in favor of finally bringing control over OpenType features to CSS—finally!!

But this syntax they’ve come up with is an absolute horrifying mess. Ugh. Please say it ain’t so!

font-feature-settings: "smcp=1”;
font-feature-settings: "swsh=1,cswh=1”;

Seriously—that’s how you get small caps and swash? Seriously?? These look like optimization flags for a C compiler, not CSS.

I’m guessing that these are probably mapping through to the underlying OpenType features directly somehow to support arbitrary aspects of a particular type, but it still needs to be less of a mess for the “normal” stuff.

Why can’t it be something readable and self-documenting?

font-features: small-caps, contextual-swash;
Sometimes comments are just comments. If you need a link to figure out whether to take a person seriously (i.e. their comment has no merit free-standing - I'm not sure this is true), a link to a blog ought to be sufficient.

I know I frequently click on the links people provide when they make blog comments, but I don't think I've ever looked at someone's Disqus history. Disqus cuts across multiple sites in potentially drastically different arenas; it's too horizontal. But when someone provides a link, they usually mean it to be relevant.
Google, Facebook, iPhone, Android, Tumblr, etc. had markets that seemed all stitched up (i.e. search, social network, smartphones, iOS dominated smartphone market, blogging).

I would hazard a guess that in 2012-2014. Facebook would have taught the mass market of the concept of social network and grease up adoption of more specialized ones thereby widening the addressable userbase for players that have a great product.

We can see this happening with Instagram, Pinterest, Etsy, Reddit which are all social networks with 1 or few social objects at the center.

For example, Facebook has 800M and Instagram has 15M. thats 1.8%. I would guess that as Facebook gets more and more bloated - that ratio (1.8%) will get bigger as more & more users will need a more insular group and specialized features. In turn, niche social networks will have a higher ceiling of XX% of 800M/1B total social-network-exposed people (courtesy of Facebook - the social network gateway drug so to speak)
I don't understand why stacks are still so small. On nice operating systems memory is only needed when it's touched, not when it's asked for, so making the stack large doesn't cost anything unless you need a large stack. On 64-bit systems you could make the stack a billion gigabytes and still have 95% of your process' virtual address space available for the heap.

On Windows the stack is one megabyte by default. We live in the future and we're still afraid of recursion without tail-call optimisation and arrays on the stack. Ridiculous.
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