skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He explicitly clicked on the "see personal results" link at the top of the search results, the screenshot is not what it looks like if you just type jquery into the box and click search. You can see the "Personal" title at the top of the results that has an X on it, and on the left hand side of the page "Personal" is selected.
I have not jet seen a ClojureScript-to-Clojure websocket library thing. Would be cool to see.
OK, so stellar systems coalesce in a fractal scale pattern, and if there are metals in the source cloud, they don't evaporate from the sub-stellar size fragments when the first star in the system lights up.

Nice confirmation, interesting study.
'Nuclear family' teams have to be small - the folks you work every day with on a single topic.

In a given large system, you can and should have many small teams working independently.

Another small team should act as the 'curator' or 'middleman' for communication between teams.
Women getting their panties in a bunch about something as minor as that is the reason they aren't taken seriously in the workplace (to the extent they aren't, I mean).
Actually what kind of benefits an IRC bouncer provides over running irssi on my server? Aren't those advantages that you listed (except the push notification function) can have in irssi as well?
League of Legends Opposes SOPA
Looks interesting. I'm just starting a new project so will give this a try and let you know how I get on.

How come you're not using it for your linecomments.com blog? (Eating your own dogfood and all...)
Agile indeed. It works with software b/c you can change it on the fly. Once you pour concrete and realize you made a mistake you're in for real problems.
The setting is unfortunately hidden. You need to click on the little arrow that's next to the chat login next to stream to find it. If you're not signed into chat first do so then click the little arrow again. From there you can add and remove circles from your chat.
Soundcloud's API docs are quite impressive esp. their use of apigee console to test things out in the browser: http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/

There's also a startup dedicated to (startup) API docs :) http://turnapi.com/
I cannot even start to grasp the meaning of 100B planets.

I read that if the "Milky Way" was the size of China, then the the sun and 6 closest planets around together would be the size of one quarter.
Mountains and valleys, and stop lying to yourself
That's too bad, because under a law like SOPA, the social sites will be affected first.
I find this more interesting not from a SOPA standpoint but because comcast has in the past given me false responses instead of NXDOMAIN. Anyone happen to know if this could prevent such a thing, or at least provide a mechanism of testing for it other than blacklisting an IP?
For a while their was a "no tools" restriction. That one really struck me as odd. Some high-school dropout is given broad powers to play mr. security guy at the airport. I didn't fly for about 2 years after someone made me miss my flight because I had to check a jewelers torx security bit screw driver I had accidentally left in my bag (this was some custom, "let's charge you bucketloads for this bit" style screw driver); as if I'm going to disassemble the plane with that thing. so I decided, fuck them; I was not going to give them my money.
Can you talk about choosing the background image? It looks really fantastic
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Wow, Comcast voluntarily switched to DNSSEC even though it required them to shut off their DNS-hijacking ad servers? They just went up a few notches in my eyes. (http://blog.comcast.com/2012/01/comcast-domain-helper-shuts-...)
They should also target the offices of the MPAA, RIAA, Viacom, etc. for a blackout. And if people really want to do something effective, they should boycott movie theaters, iTunes, and Netflix streaming that day. Am I the only one cynical enough to think that the Google is only against SOPA so they'll get a special exemption from the law, like McDonald's and the health care law?

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2010-10-07-h...
Google seems a lot better with long tail terms than Bing.
I tried several times and failed several times. What won me over in the end was the need to do some project management and the discovery of Org-Mode. Those checkboxed lists and tables are pure magic.

So what I really needed was a use case to make me use it properly. Once you see the awesome power of Org-Mode and try to imagine what else you could do, you see the potential of Emacs.
After that, it is the all-too-well-known cycle of "This is rather tedious", "there has to be a better way to do this" and finally discovering yet another new keyboard shortcut.

Also, get into the habit of using isearch (C-s, C-r) as a replacement for many of the Vim search commands (fFtT/? etc.). This makes Emacs a lot more manageable if you are used to Vim motions.

But really, I don't feel the need to use only Emacs or Vim. I switch freely between them depending on the task at hand.

That said, I did and do have trouble getting over the fact that Emacs seems to be unable to handle mousewheel-scrolling properly and has rather poor support for code folding. Not deal breakers, those, but come on, this is 2012!
That is true, I over simplified things. However, the point remains.
Thank you for finding that! If you go to the chat settings on the Gmail page (where I usually use chat), this option doesn't exist.
Right, I don't know know how most DNS client implementations handle time-outs but this could range from not mattering at all to degrading the performance of everything - imagine if twitter was taken down, then half the world's websites (I'm exaggerating a bit) that reference Twitter buttons would grind to a standstill (try browsing things like TechCrunch in China and you'll see this).

If ISPs wanted to avoid this scenario, it would essentially require fracturing DNS[SEC] into something the US Govt has the authority to sign properly without effecting the rest of the world - in other words a completely divided national internet.

Or we could just all switch to using DNSSEC servers on the Barbados Islands or something in the future.
"IF"... not!

NetFlix + Amazon is a better experience.
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Unless you indicate causation of biology, cultural evolution is inherently cheaper and faster than biological evolution. It should be the null hypothesis. Additionally, there is evidence against any biological explanation; that he doesn't feel the need to recite a huge body of evidence isn't a sign of anything other than hacker news commenters appears to be willing to talk about subjects they know nothing about.
Great initiative.A lot needs to be done to tackle corruption in India.But at least this can be a start.
There is: Apps can register to handle certain URL schemes, so all you need to do is put in a redirect to (for example) "okcupid://profile/109" and, since Safari doesn't handle URLs with the okcupid scheme, the OKCupid app will be asked to open the URL instead. But again, this would require the plus.google.com team to actually implement it.
iOS apps can register foobar:// hooks. If a site redirects to a URI with a custom protocol, it'll wake up the app that's tied to it.

(I'm not sure how they're detecting whether that hook is registered or not, though.)
"Fair use" is pretty specific. Most interpretations allow to use a clip in your work. But if we are taking about a clip of a movie on its own, like the first 10 minutes, without any transformative addition/change, I don't see a "fair use" defense.
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I use Comcast (I'm in Boston) and I once called their phone support to see if I could get the "Domain Helper" disabled, and the tech had no idea what I was talking about. Switching to Google's DNS servers helped.
It also happens to me.
While I disagree with your post, I think you make a peculiar error to which I am responding (and it is this error that is the source of my disagreement), and my post will only make sense in the context of this thread. Furthermore, I too am advocating for constructive change, just of a different sort. By adherence to what I see as the spirit of your request (discussing constructive action) I hope I may justify a lack of adherence to to the letter of your request.

What kind of constructive action am I advocating? Nothing less than to continue the argument, in the most charitable and reasonable spirit we can attain. We are arguing about the most important of things: our moral aim. That is, "what is it we ought to do?" Should we promote diversity in computing? Tied up with this question of aims is the question of facts, namely: "Does promoting the politically correct notion of diversity mean the same as promoting the kind of diversity which will make computing as a profession more capable at achieving its ends?" Certainly, if there is a kind of diversity that brings the profession of computing closer to its ends (whatever those may be, and that too is in question) then I imagine that promoting such diversity is considered wise by all here.

What is primarily in debate is whether or not politically correct diversity (diversity of gender and race, primarily) is the same as effective diversity. If, like you seem to think, both kinds of diversity are the same, then doing what you suggest is in fact constructive. However, if politically correct diversity is orthogonal or (Ada Lovelace forbid) contrary to effective diversity, then your actions will be at best ineffective and at worst destructive. The whole point of this argument is that we want our profession to do what is constructive, and recognize that we need to sort out as a profession what in fact is constructive.

Hacker News is a great place to have this kind of discussion since a) you have willing and able participants, and b) the clear tree structure of posts helps considerably since well-formed arguments all tend to take such a structure. There are other sites for discussing what "can/should be done (or what you are already doing)" for a particular agenda.

The attitude you give off in your post is one of "deeds, not words", which in my experience is equivalent to an attitude of "words, not thoughts". You are dealing with a crowd which is perhaps best known acting upon those beliefs of which they have been rationally convinced. Do you not agree that it is better for people to hold and act upon beliefs of which they have been convinced by means of reason? If so, why then do you speak so glibly of "tak[ing] apart the logic, rhetoric, and nitpick[ing] every word" which is nothing less then the process of analytic reasoning? If not, why are you here?

P.S. Note that I have not actually taken a stance on the issue in question in this post.
Maybe Google needs some A-level product managers.

Anyway, building a G+ app doesn't exactly require an extra 30 points of IQ and 5 years of school than making a web page display readable.
This needs to be at the top of the thread, rather than all the formal-logic-obsessed debate-club navel-gazing currently sitting there.
Could you post or email me a screenshot of this? I don't have my iPhone handy to reproduce it but I'll point the right people to this if I can explain it well enough. My handle at google.com.
yeah, don't get me wrong - I'm (sorta) happy with that, but I don't think they're 1200 real users.

You don't need to register to use 90% of the sites functionality, so most people probably never register.

But it's free to register, so of those that do, probably only 10% come back and use the site regularly. Certainly it only seems to translate to about 100-200 uniques a day.

I'm still getting about 2-10 registrations a day, so hopefully (given a long enough period of time) that number will go up.

The big problem at the moment though is that I've submitted to all the app directories that I could find. This made a huge difference in google page rank for "disposable email" (made it up to page two at one point). Now though, with no new links I'm slowly sinking (now down to page four).
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That study; I do not think it means what you think it means.

Especially the first one: women are better at math in some cultural settings and worse in others, suggesting that the gender gap is culturally determined.
In order to prove that these things were biologically determined you would either need to show that they were present at birth, across a large number of different cultural contexts, or had direct, traceable biological causation. In the absences of any of those three, I and most social scientists will assume that gender differences are the product of culture.
You can use Sublime Text 2 and install Lint plugin. Voilà, automatic JSHint-ing while coding in JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Perl and Objective-J. http://1p1e1.tumblr.com/post/14262857223/9-reasons-you-must-...
Reworded:

I either gravitate toward women who tend to respond to my advances negatively or have some behavior that puts women off. Therefore, I'm sexist and consider most if not all women inferior to men in ways including ability in math, engineering. Because I can't get them to sleep with me.

...What??
Where does your "$100 million+ in value a year" figure come from?
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I'd assume music and CS would be more closely correlated, and there is lots of research into music too. Most relevantly, the transition to blind auditions wiping out gender disparities in orchestra makeups.
Are you aware that Google's entire business model is based on scraping content from websites?
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Parent means that less API users (product competitors) is better, not less end users.
Thanks Michael and Clojure/core!

fixed. (please keep the original thanks though, for your other Clojure projects)
Here's a userscript that makes HN show all subdomains. If you're in Chrome, just click on "Raw"to install.

https://gist.github.com/1522657
My biggest worry for gozman is that he'll start seeing rejections for template based apps. Apple has been cracking down on these kinds of apps even for very high profile companies. For example, one company I know of has a template based app for every major college in the app store right now. The only difference between them is the icon, splash page, and theme colors inside the app along with distinct data feeds. Apple is threatening to remove all their apps unless they do something to differentiate them further.
Oddly, the thing that triggers ire seems to be the presence of a left paren at the start of a line. (Many constructs in Clojure involve fewer parens than the same construct in Java, so the mere number of parens is therefore not a reason to avoid Clojure.)
> Not that you have anything to prove to me, but I reject all your examples, and think you were too cavalier about judging K&R.

I don't think it's necessarily cavalier. If I was asked to review code that aligned with the K&R examples today, I'd kick it back.

I'd much prefer a codebase that compiles with -Wall -Werror today than one that doesn't, one that doesn't use floats for integers, one that doesn't use strcpy even from a literal string to the heap, and one that doesn't put a braceless `if` inside a braceless `for`, and I suspect you would too.

It's a good book to learn 1988 C, and if you're just going to learn it for your classes and go off into the exciting world of Java and C# it's probably fine, but it's not the right book to teach someone to write production-quality C.
> Forgot to mention my own personal white whale. Google's geocoder is far from perfect, but it's the best I've seen

Lulz wht? Google's Geocoder is by far the suckiest of any of the ones I evaluated. I'd highly recommend Bing or Yahoo before Google's geocoder.
Fair enough. Started something like that, not sure I'll ever finish it, though :-(

https://github.com/roboprog/buzzard/blob/master/bzrt/src/bzr...
So that's why the percent was higher for CS degrees and then steadily declined, there was interest and now there is less http://rarlindseysmash.com/images/entries/degrees.png. Something is happening here.
It seems to be decently made. Haven't been able to crash it but it seems more to be a competitor for something like UFRAW and Adobe Lightroom. It focuses more on correcting things from the camera than being an image editor like the gimp. It does look interesting it appears to support 16bit images and a few other things like that that the gimp doesn't currently.
It's interesting that Reddit will get a huge number of hits by people going to see it go dark. Too bad there's no way to monetize a dark site.
Thoughts about Smashingmagazine.com's redesign
Stamping EXEs And DMGs
It looks like they basically ask whether you want to use the site or the app the first time you visit on a device, and if you choose the app, it sends you to the App Store and sets a localstorage setting that triggers a redirect on subsequent visits. (Edit: OK, it's a little bit more sophisticated than that. But I think that's not too far off.)
That's correct. If you don't have the app in question installed, you get a nasty "Page could not be found" error. There are hacky and unstable JS tricks you can pull with setTimeout to send the user to the app store if they don't have the app installed, but I haven't heard of any reliable way to deal with this (pretty glaring) failure case.

Even just the ability to suppress the error message would be more or less fine.
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I'm using an extension in chrome for that...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/home

For me it displays as (plus.google.com)
I'm not talking about timeouts; I'm talking about immediately returning an error (apparently DNSSEC will break if you return NXDOMAIN, but there are other error codes). If browsers retry or hang after getting a DNS error, I guess they'll have to be fixed.
You know your solution is garbage when it starts with "the first thing we need to do is change fundamental human behaviour"
As much as writing a novel is just writing sentences with correct syntax.
On the latter point, sometimes people are downright ecstatic to do so; if someone wrote up a little piece of software and stuck it online, and then never heard from anyone, they're often really pleased if you write in with a question, because it means someone actually is using the software for something.
Brutally honest? You're projecting your own personal failings onto all women, and it has absolutely no bearing on this discussion whatsoever. What's more, it will haunt you if you don't deal with it now.

Go talk it out, either with a friend or a therapist. The longer you wait, the harder it will be.
I haven't seen GrubWithUs before, it's a really cool idea. But it seems to have no solution for people with particular and/or strict dietary restrictions, sadly.
Nope, but I bet she's be in a situation where men expected her to drop everything to make herself sexually available for a stranger.

Everyone wants to be seen as desirable, but it is not an entire gender's fault that the specific women you've approached don't respond to your advances. It may seem counter-intuitive, but the best way I've found to get dates is to treat women like interesting people instead of potential dates, while putting effort into making myself conventionally attractive (working out, getting regular hair cuts, careful grooming, conversational techniques). It's a lot of work, but it's been more effective than deciding the problem is women. Women talk to each other: the friend you make today has a bunch of friends she can set you up with tomorrow. I mean, if the problem is "all women" you might as well give up.

Plus, in the meantime I've met a bunch of interesting people and had interesting conversations I'd otherwise have missed out on because I was only considering women as potential romantic partners. It is possible to have fulfilling intellectual, emotional and social relationships that have nothing to do with sex. If you do care exclusively about sex, I recommend escorts or online hookups.
Does anyone have any pointers to tutorials on how to get started building OSM maps? For example, if I have my own "map" of the US (a simple graphic image), how do I go about connecting that up to state boundaries and plotting lat/long on it, and then breaking it all up into tiles? I feel like that part of the puzzle is always missing from blog posts like these (though the post is helpful for the bigger infrastructure picture.)
Sometimes learning how to do something well means you need to learn how it's done poorly. Pay attention to things that "don't work" to your eye and avoid repeating those mistakes when you design.

IMHO good web design is simple, accessible, and looks (and works) the same across multiple browsers/platforms.

Maybe start by reading a blog like this one http://www.kmhkreations.net/2011/10/12/10-tips-to-designing-... and then build off those ideas as you continue your quest.

As the author notes, "If you decide to follow these you may not achieve Internet success, but these tips will surely help you start out on the right foot."
The reason it's OK to extrapolate in this way would appear to be in this fact (from TFA):

"Unlike other prominent planet-detection techniques, which measure the shadows of planets passing in front of their stars (transit) or measure the wobble of a star due to the gravitational tug of a planet (radial velocity and astrometry), the gravitational-lensing technique is unbiased in the selection of the host star."

To know more, we have to read the story in Nature, which is here:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7380/full/nature1...

Look at the error bars on their percentages. Super-earths (planets of 5-10x earth mass) are present on "62 +35 -37"% of systems. So, your intuition that the extrapolation was shaky is correct.
I call shenanigans. Practically every "content" site out there has its own app, and loudly proclaims its existence whenever you visit its site with a compatible device. It's simply not possible that "it never occurred" to you. You can obviously choose not to install a Google+ app if you like. But I don't believe for a minute that you are surprised at the need for it.
I just found this post I think it sums up the sentiment pretty well: http://www.one37.net/blog/2012/1/11/why-samsung-is-the-next-...
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It says a lot about the UI and concepts of Google+ that the tech-savvy HN crowd have spawned such a long thread trying to understand how to use it.
Even if you weren't somewhat wayward of the point, you'd still not be considering touch devices, which the parent was more likely to be referring to.
Is that 'They also consumed less power' correct?

http://datasheet.digchip.com/205/205-00367-0-970.pdf gives typical power dissipation as 42W @1.8 GHz, 1.3v

For a later design, http://datasheets.chipdb.org/IBM/PowerPC/970/PowerPC-970FX.p..., section 3.1.5 gives 60W for the 2.2 GHz version at 105 degrees Celsius.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_4_micropr... gives comparable values for the TDP for 2002-era Pentiums.

I get the impression that IBM's data is real max (but 'Maximum power at 85 C is the ONLY value that is guaranteed by Manufacturing Test.'), while TDP may be lower than max (Reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Design_Power)

Or am I overlooking a factor for #CPUs?

I always thought the water cooling was either an effort to decrease noise or over engineering or preparation for more cores and/or more speed (either of which were a necessity to keep up with Intel chips).
Stop Online Piracy Act
Hey hacker world(: I was wondering if you have heard of the Stop Online Piracy Act and if you have I wanted your opinion on it and if hacking or downloading illegal things on the internet is considered stealing in your opinion.

Please be nice, I'm purely curious...