skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cute how people react these days. Strategy, which in the end is what currently (mostly) keeps the world at peace, is discarded.

And what is to take it's stead ? Politically motivated assigning of blame. In reality the America-Japan situation is morally much more complex than given credit here. America used, with reluctance, weapons it developed from a blueprint stolen from enemy forces that intended to use it against New York (ie. from Hitler). And they used it against a country that had invaded half of East-Asia, and was running genocides, rape campaigns, and all sorts of fun stuff all over the place. Does "the end justify the means" is an interesting discussion, but it is not even considered here : all that matters is showing one's political colors.

American government bad ! And while the Japanese government was far worse, let's just not mention that. Let's also neglect the reasons things were done, and let's not go anywhere near the result of those actions. After all, while the act itself is definitely in the "not OK" department, you can hardly feel sorry for the enemy in this case. The reasons the action was taken are at the very least very serious reasons, worthy of extensive discussion in any judgement. And the result of those actions ... well, frankly, look at what happened ! What could possibly have been a better (realistic) outcome ?

And being against nuclear weapons is very stupid considering that it is well documented that those weapons were indeed what kept the Soviets from attacking America. Without nuclear weapons, WWIII would have followed WWII after a decade and a half at most, probably less. That much is a certainty given historical evidence released at the fall of the Soviet union ...

But of course we can't have the American government, now totally different from what it was in 1945, escape blame for an absolute moral standard, can we ?

After all, that's the important part. Blame.

Here's what I want to say : if you judge with absolute moral standards, we all deserve the death penalty. Laws, even moral laws, while useful as a baseline, are a very bad idea when people use them in absolute terms without context.

So don't.
for the record arc is built on scheme.
I am not a web designer
How to Count Cells, Annihilate Sailboats, and Warp the Mona Lisa
Those who downvoted you won't be happy until we've devolved into playing Zork-like text adventures and using Lynx. HTML5 will become like Flash/Silverlight ;)
I homeschooled my gifted-learning disabled sons. I am very aware there are many kinds of intelligence. This piece isn't the place for getting into all of that.

Thanks.
Today is TCO/TCE day at HN! Haskellers learn "Dont' tail call, map/filter/fold"

re: haskell: Unfortunately or otherwise, due to influx of devs,the nomenclature has gotten mangled re Maybe/Either and all the other things that (data) can do:

- ADT used to denote abstract data types,

- Algebraic data types used to signify sum (e.g. Maybe and Either) and product (e.g. record) types, I think many people use it for only sum types now (hard to quantify my impressions of current usage, tho)
Since I arrived here at Bob's Turkey Farm, I have been treated with nothing but the finest standards of hospitality a bird could hope for. Gourmet food is literally shoved down my throat - portions seemingly increasing by the day! - and I scarcely need to do anything, which is just as well as by now I've become rather plump.

[I don't really know much about China's economy. This is just about the notion that things will be great since they've been great for a while, and doubters are simply jealous]
Microsoft Ushers in the Era of Motion-Controlled Personal Computing
How should a startup founder value her time?
I think he gets it. He's responding to companies blindly mandating jQuery as its development language whether it's the right solution or not, due to its popularity.

I will however fault him for taking the job in the first place. I apply to JavaScript jobs, not jQuery jobs.
PSD to HTML Conversion at the Crossroads: Challenges 2011 and Outlook 2012
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Also free in the UK:

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We've added a share/preview feature at eBookBurn.com (https://ebookburn.com/help.html#share) which lets authors do this with early drafts.

It's all digital, though, with no print-on-demand option.
Some women do not seem to understand, or somehow forget, that they are a "protected class" in society. Men do not hit women. Men are polite to women. Men put women first. We are all trained that, from an early age.

You may agree or disagree, but that's the state of society at the moment. If you don't want to be subject to different treatment than a man, don't identify as a woman. I'm not really aware of any other solutions at the moment.
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nope, I don't need to treat the men around like chinese porcelain vases, thank you! ;-)
Women are treated different on hacker news in the same ways that women are treated differently in the world (US worldview) with some slight variance due to the makeup of HN posters. We have differences... while mostly physical there are differences in men and women's brains. Different is not bad. Many of us can relate in childhood saying one thing to a guy and that same thing to a woman and getting different responses. In addition, being "chivalrous" is still kept in high regard by most women and some men (though deteriorating rapidly). Chivalry amounts to treating women different from men in much the same way your hypothesis on your article espouses. Since the HN community is 1. Generally smarter than the overall populations and 2. Generally more introverted and thus has less female interaction they will tend to revert to social norms (chivalry) and from female interactions from childhood rather than adulthood.
Not exactly answering at all but a short, entertaining view:

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Big Trip Up Yonder, by Kurt Vonnegut

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30240/30240-h/30240-h.htm
I Have a Cunning Plan (or, Making Money by Doing Good)
Contrary to DDG, it is really personal content (not ranking) here (i.e. content that might be accessible only to you). I think the ranking is still personalized when you disable Search+.
The myth of a data free trade policy
User generated reviews and risk mitigation (1)
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Pepsico Achieves Positive Water Balance in India
Pepsico recently announced that all their plants in India are water positive.
Same in Sweden. And I too have vanilla ICS on a Nexus S.
Taking personalised search to creepy levels: bye bye Google!

I'll use your gmail, but I'm moving to DDG for search.
Yep. In the web company where I work we hire 2/3 new employees per week.
The usage of "nerds" by several of the US Representatives bothers me a lot. It's already putting up a wall and does invoke the "revenge of the nerds" picture. My wife (who is not in tech.) even said, "at least we know where all the jocks and bullies went after graduation, they became senators and congressmen". While her statement was mainly joking, I feel she does hit on a point. That point is that they are further portraying the negativity to education that we see a lot in the US.
How would you go about showing causation?
They say "no personalization of results based on your Web History", which sounds like this affects ranking.
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No, horror stories like infants dying of tainted baby formula because farmers tried to increase the protein count of their milk (by lacing it with a known poison). Like a child dying from being run over twice by cars because nobody thought to pick him out of the street. Like parents abandoning or killing newborn girls because they wanted a boy. Like criminals enslaving young men to work at brick kilns. Every once in the while, there might be some lunatic gunman in the US (as there are in every other country). In China, there is a pervasive sense that human life is cheap.
Who are the go-to cybersecurity help groups?
My wife is the manager of budget and reimbursement at a hospital, and from many conversations with her, I can imagine that this article is accurate. However, if I were writing this, I would have given greater emphasis to the effect that Medicare has on these problems.

The article does mention that Medicare typically pays fees that are below actual cost for the procedures, and that hospitals must therefore increase charges to other customers (the article says they must do this to make profit, but actually they must do this just to break even and stay in business).

But the problem goes even farther than that. Because Medicare is essentially a monopsony and gets to call the shots as far as charges are concerned, it actually matters far less what the actual costs are. As a result, few hospitals today have modern cost accounting processes, and so they only have wild guesses as to what a given procedure costs. Obviously, then, their charge list is going to be made largely from guesswork, and so it's very much expected that two different hospitals will, at the micro per-item level at least, have very different charges.

Medical care is the most highly regulated industry in the economy, and so nothing you see happening is going to bear very much resemblance to reality. And in the coming years this isn't going to get any better. What you are likely to see, though, is increased politicization of these charges, as the political process takes even greater control of the industry.
- In the graph, 61% appears to be inline with 51% .

- Would be interesting to see deviation bars on those values - my hunch is that real identity is not different from pseudo.

- It's false to suggest that pseudonymous users contribute more comments. You need comments per user data for that. Your graph just shows that pseudonymous accounts are easier to use.

- Why is everyone here attacking their data. Disqus is huge, this is an interesting topic and it would be interesting to have more data from them

- While writing your blog post, please also report separately the number of responses a comment evokes, or the length of the comment. It would also be interesting to have the number of edits per comment.

- Also post comments per user for different login sources
You are reading my post too far: I was not bashing anyone. If anything, I was complaining about the writing, not the stack itself (which I have used daily and still use from time to time since I moved to a mostly Ruby shop). I was hoping the "behind the scenes" to be a bit more technical and a bit less ad so the article, while an interesting story, was a let down.
"All things considered, Puppet is probably the best choice at the moment."

then:

"It sucks, but it’s got a lot of momentum behind it."

And that's his article, basically. Great.
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I am not certain about this, but I think true TrueType fonts are only slightly improved by font smoothing technologies like ClearType and Quartz. Where as fonts made specifically to be used with ClearType look like utter crap on LCDs without it.

And that is Microsoft's way to embrace and extend TrueType fonts in a proprietary way, make them look like shit without the Microsoft proprietary ClearType.

Obviously this can't be true for all fonts, but if enough people, running MS Windows on LCDs experience the difference, then perhaps Microsoft can create the perception that ClearType is essential for any font to look good.

That's what I was trying to get to above, Microsoft has clearly embraced web fonts, will it also try to extend them in a proprietary way?
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As far as I can tell from the facts given in the EU you would have paid about the same amount the author had to pay out of his own pocket (~ 700 USD). If you had no health insurance at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent If SOPA goes through as some intend it, it won't matter if the "plaintiff" is correct or not about infringement of design or any other form of IP, there will be no plaintiff in the traditional sense, just a complaint and a web site that disappears.
Parallel and concurrent Haskell, Marlow [[PDF slide deck]]
Don't get me started on the logical hoops MG must jump through

I don't think there are any hoops. This post is just plain and simple nerdbait.

edit: Or at least I hope so. I'm not familiar with much of his other writing, but for someone in his position the only real explanations I can come up with for posting this other than nerdbaiting question his credibility.
> Medical care is the most highly regulated industry in the economy, and so nothing you see happening is going to bear very much resemblance to reality.

You make it sound like one follows from the other in an obvious way. Can you expand on why that would be?
Part 2 (about 150 slides altogether; Goldilocks deck, not too dense or fluffy. Favorite: "WTF is WHNF?"):

http://community.haskell.org/%7Esimonmar/CEFP2.pdf
SEO Pricing: 600+ Agencies Share Costs of Services & Pricing Models
Show HN: Rdio Remote Control for Chrome
Sorry, but isn't it just outright fraud to charge > 400$ for a medication, which has a "retail price" of a few $?
the directions said to code as you would professionally

I'm curious to know if anyone wrote test cases for their code. I didn't see any here, but maybe they are in a separate file or weren't allowed to be submitted to the study.
Bottom line is that if you're middle class and don't have health insurance, a serious accident could bankrupt you. The system was designed with the idea that you don't exist, and would never actually pay the rack rates that hospitals charge.

Planet Money had some good coverage of the joke that is medical billing a couple of years ago:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/07/06/128338526/ex-ambul...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/07/01/128243987/medical-...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/11/podcast_paying_doctor...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/08/the_wild_wild_west_of...
I don't like this in a lot of languages. But it's not a showstopper, just an annoyance to be aware of.

That said, there should be no reason not to have your new modern programming language support tail calls. It's short-sighted, and can negatively affect more than just the trivial recursive case.

So, new programming language inventors, if you're reading this, support tail call optimization and proper tail recursion from the beginning. Your language will be better for it.
Yeah, and if everybody did that the network would melt in 2 hours, and you would be bitching about how slow it is...
This argument considers the downside risk (85% chance of not getting paid anything) but does NOT consider the upside risk (small chance of getting filthy rich but still much bigger than the chance if you work as a $150/hr consultant). That makes the math wrong, even if the idea has merit.
"You can import classes from namespaces but you can't import functions."

IIRC one of the arguments for the \ namespace separator was that it would allow for namespacing functions. Someone (perhaps a few people) had demonstrated a :: separator namespace patch, but it would only work with classes, and it was felt that \ was the only legitimate option because it would allow namespacing of non-class code.

EDIT - I can't find refs online - I'd read that in a recap of the issue in PHPArchitect about 2 years ago.

Awesome...

"PEAR has been around since before PHP5's release in 2004 and there are 179 modules hosted at pear.php.net for 5.0+. (And only 19 for poor PEAR2 and PHP 5.3) Contrast with npm which has been around since August 2010 and hosts 6,157 packages."

I'm no fan of PEAR, but when people start showing off how many XYZ something else has, I always have to wonder if it's because the default/core/base platform doesn't provide much out of the box. And... hey - downloadable packaged code is fine and all that, but you run the risk of version hell pretty quickly. npm is, imo, already hitting that - more than 6 months ago all I wanted to do was download node and run vows and zombie. No dice - I lost count of the errors I hit trying to make that work because of some version incompatibilities.

I get your point, but java/ruby/node and other platforms with extensive third party library ecosystems can quickly become dependency nightmares.
Right, that and it ignores chef entirely. Although, even with Chef included, his conclusion isn't wrong.
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To me the design of HN actually inherently helps the gender balance. Here comments are read at face value & not pre-judged according to who the poster is. I like that.

The comment is at the forefront of the post. The user name is not emblazened atop of the post in size 72 font (unlike in other forums) A distinct lack of user icons, real names & sigs make HN so comment-centric that I come back here most of all.

I've never felt what the OP has described. Welcome yes - no fuzzy warm comments when I declare "hey guys, girl alert" (just to clarify - I don't do that!). No unusual responses - even with a quite obviously female username.

I think where the community bustles here is on controversial posts. Personally, I don't comment on those types of thread.

Maybe it's the type of posts the OP is posting on or that she mentions that she is female within her comment that gets a skewed response.
Everyone helping with PyCon is an unpaid volunteer. At the highest levels, like what jnoller is doing, that means roughly 1000 hours of hard, unpaid work over a six month timeframe. It is a second job.

In return, the chair doesn't even get a free ticket to the conference. Everyone pays their way to the conference - even the chair, just like everyone else.

That is part of what makes PyCon great. You go to other conferences to be catered to. You come to PyCon to contribute.
This makes sense, as I think Westerners cottoned on to the fact you can watch popular Western movies on these sites for free, even if you have little interest in Chinese KFC and Nutri-express adverts.
Wow , I'm glad I don't have to expend mental energy on stuff like this.

Universal Healthcare, get it.

It's really good. Honest.
Very interesting. Tell me more :)
Oracle already have a big data solution, its called Coherence. I wonder why they aren't using that?
The Forgotten Drug of Abuse: How Junkies Grew Addicted to Talwin
Don’t be a goblin
I know a lot of people balk when they see the C titles for small company employees but I tend to disagree. The top tech guy at a small firm is the CTO, he is leading the technical vision of the company and doing all of the technical decision making. Even if he does the lower level grunt work the upper level work cannot be discounted in favor of it. Just as if the CEO plunges the toilet he should not be considered the janitor, just a CEO that is willing to get his hands dirty. I fear the aversion to such lofty titles hurts technical people and this is due to perception. The perception may not be internal but it can be from business partners or vendors. I have seen many cases where a young technical guy will be dismissed by solution providers trying to sell to the company leaders because their perception of the technical persons influence of the company. Conversely I have seen when a technical person is introduced as the CTO, they instead try to gain the confidence of that individual instead of trying to undermine his recommendations with the rest of the executive team. The point is titles may not matter to us, but they do to a good deal of people. Utilizing them helps level external individuals perceptions of who calls the shots for what.
To me, the biggest part of this announcement is this:

We’re also introducing a prominent new toggle on the upper right of the results page where you can see what your search results look like without personal content. With a single click, you can see an unpersonalized view of search results.

Google's slowly been making their results more personalized, without having an easy way to opt-out (if you use a Google account). Now that there's this prominent option, I'm less bothered by them adding more personalization by default.
A new Adobe Flash Vulnerability allowing unauthorized Webcam Access
Anti-SOPA crew woos gaming giant Electronic Arts
That's exactly how I felt. A small step, yes, but it's another small step in the direction of "wow, Google knows me better than I do." In the ideal world where corruption didn't happen, this sort of thing is awesome... I'd imagine it'd be pretty nice to be able to Google my life (and friends).
Developer sentenced to death for alleged Western propaganda video games
Nokia store passes 11 million downloads a day
Someone always pays. Just because it's different doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong. If you're receiving a call you're still using up airtime. If you don't pay then the caller does. Why is this such a big deal?
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The lean approach to web design
> What if I want to search for "beach-side photos" of my friends of the opposite sex, or of my friends' friends? Can Google accurately show relevant results, without me, a poor stalker, having to soullessly click on countless links?

That's a billion-dollar industry all in itself.
If you are worried about a stalker, not befriending him/her on Google+ and keeping your personal content private are the obvious solutions. I am almost sure that you were being sarcastic, but just in case you were pointing out that this increases the ease of stalkers - well so does nearly every other communication and content publishing (and retrieval) technology ever created. Phones, forums, blogs, smarter search engines, social networks and faster/cheaper internet connections - everything made a stalker's life easy. Knives make it incredibly easy for bad people to hurt others but we do not condemn the man who invented the knife or the company that produces them for it.

> ...If anything, I want to have such an unique and unprecented...

I, on the other hand, would love to know a place that my friends (whose interest are much similar to me than a general average of the world) loved. It also means that the place would probably be closer to home, or more accessible than the general global destination that the world is talking about. Going to the same holiday destination as a friend doesn't make you less of a individual as you are suggesting. And still if you believe that you want your destination to be unique, then 1998 Altavista would be a better search engine - because whatever popularity metric you choose to rank result, if it is any good it will end up showing a frequently visited and appreciated destination above unique and rarely visited others.

And even if you are correct and I am simply and utterly wrong about this, they do provide a not-personalized search that will give you the vanilla ranking results. I do not thing that they will serve the purpose but they will take you to the DDG like suggestions if you like them. I am surprised that many are not appreciating the changes here, especially after knowing the fact that many had the same concerns that they want Google to give access to not-personalized results!
Just to clarify: I am not complaining and generally agree with your observations. These were my thoughts in response to a remark by someone who did voice a complaint.

Thanks.