skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his masterpiece is having persuaded a lot of very, very rich people to give away huge chunks of money to charity, and the amount of money he gives away to various charitable causes himself, and being personally involved in making sure it is used in the right way.
Another vote for Scivener here, BUT you might be interested in git-scribe also (https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe)
Without copyright (the law) there would be an even bigger incentive to obfuscate things or move them to the cloud. DRM only exists because the law by itself doesn't work. This is not an easy problem to fix.
MetaFilter.com has a good community.

It's not focused on any subject; maybe a little inclined towards humanities/literature, but by no means limited to it. I sometimes see the same articles discussed there and on HN.
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I think they're in their mid-20s. They screwed up, apologized, asked how they could make it right, got crucified some more, and now have fully prostrated themselves before DHH and the court of public opinion. It's a horrible experience for them, and I reckon they've learned something. One of the lessons they've likely learned is that people are perfectly cool with successful, experienced entrepreneurs casting endless screeds against inexperienced folks who should have known better but didn't. Wonder if they'll have a chance to apply that lesson when/if they become successful themselves. Given their penitence, a little mercy is in order.
> the simplicity of the language makes it appealing for teaching courses on Turing machines.

I'm not sure. Untyped lambda calculus can be implemented on a universal turing machine and a UTF can be emulated through lambda calculus as they are equivalent, but they're not the same thing. So teaching untyped lambda calculus[0] would not help much with turing machines.

And then, you're got the fact that unlambda removes lambda and uses combinators instead, making things even more perverse.

[0] via e.g. Programming with Nothing http://experthuman.com/programming-with-nothing
I'm surprised someone hasn't built an ad supported Imgur clone yet, kind of like a you-tube for images. They could determine context by tracking the websites giving referrals, parsing comment content, scanning and analyzing the images.
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I made a slight mistake there. I meant fundamental attribution error, not actor-observer bias.
Reminds me of Forth Haikus: http://forthsalon.appspot.com/
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A similar theorem exists in probability theory, called the Lovasz local lemma.

I think the goal of rjpilton's analysis was to do things using elementary methods. That said, you might be able to use your approach for a quick and dirty approximation.
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The way i always browse HN, is by clicking comments, and than the article, so that after finishing reading the article i can go back and view the comments.

it would be great if there was a link that would go to comments, and comments had a little script that would forward automatically to the story based on originating url, and some query string param.. it would just need to differentiate the page loads that happen after browser back button was hit (possibly originating url would be different)

it would also be great to turn this thing on for all links in settings page, but a separate link next to each story wold also work..
Powered down doesn't mean turned off. It powers back up when it knows the server would like to push something.
With some Android applications polling for new data every three to five minutes (even when not in use), [...]

This is actually the providers' own fault. If you want to keep a connection to a "push service" like gmail, imap, voip or jabber, you usually do so by maintaining an idle TCP connection, where the server can push notifications to you.

However, thanks to the IP address shortage, almost all 3G providers deploy NAT and only give private addresses to their users. That means that their gateways are maintaining connection tracking tables, which usually have a certain timeout after which idle connections are kicked out.

So as a developer, you are forced to regularly send keep-alive messages to prevent getting dropped. And because there is no documentation on the timeout, and it is better to be safe than sorry, most developers go somewhere below 5 minutes.
That doesn't change the point though, does it? Obviously, not everyone has a tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task, depending on both the person and the task. In fact, if an estimation group routinely did this, we wouldn't call them estimation groups (at least I wouldn't).
I think the clear delineator for me in this space is:

"Am I writing to get on the front page of HN, or am I writing this because I think it needs to be said?"

I haven't had a piece on the front page here, but I could see how someone could get addicted to that.

I've often thought about writing one of those opinionated pieces as my entry back into blogging, but decided it wasn't worth writing.

So I agree with you 100%.
I am very curious as to how much truth there is behind the statement "unregulated nature of space" and especially curious, if true, how long it will be before governments start attempting to
Could review papers can be written which become proxies for those articles? (They would presumably include some updates, so they add some value).
Disclaimer: I worked in print design for a while on Mac+Win. I know typography and optics. The linked Website is butiful, so are the fonts there. What I'am writing is propably off-topic and a general objection to some statements made in the comments here.

1) the google web fonts directory is very nice, but does anyone really consider those fonts for readable body text? They are great for headlines and short snippets but a complete article - no thank you. There is a great difference between fancyness and usability.

2) One Exemple is this myth, that OSX' font rendering is always better thant the rendering of windows' rendering because OSX applies more anti-aliasing to the fonts. As soon as you get to a certain font size - usually the one you use for articles - anti-aliased fonts are a pain-in-the-eyes.

3) They might appear worn out but those boring old fonts, like Verdana, that took months to built and cost real money are still the most reliable when it comes to body text. They are boring because there are few alternatives.

4) Microsoft payed above average for their fonts. Maybe more than the customers appreciate. But everytime I sit in front of an iPad, MacBook and the like, those dirty fonts destroy the whole product for me. The only way apple is gonna get rid of that cheap rendering performance is by investing in their rendering engine (not gonna happen) or by introducing retina displays in all of their products (more likely to happen).
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nginx + PHP-fastCGI and caching your WordPress is probably the best route. Xcache for PHP if you are feeling frisky. Host your static assets from CloudFront (gzipped CSS/JS/images).
Not that I'm trying to argue against this being an evil practice, but out of curiosity, how many YC startups would consider it OK to poach staff from another YC startup? Would it cause bad feeling?
Ask HN: What do I do with href.ly?
I own href.ly (and hrefly.com), now what do I do with it?

I've had a few ideas;

offer a service that shares a list of links
offer a service where you put in one link and share it simultaneously with all your social networks
offer a service that lets you do something to the url..that something, I am unsure of.

Anyone have any ideas that stick out for this domain?
This is the same argument that was had about whether it was OK to make photocopies of content in books and magazines at the library, or record a radio broadcast or TV program. I would agree with you that up to a point it is: the content is made available to or broadcast to the public, and that implies a certain license to personally do what you want with it once you receive it. Hence copying or scanning printed material for later reference, time-shifting TV programs and sports events with DVR is generally and legally recognized as "OK" (I believe that "fair use" is the legal term here).

Likewise when you put your creative content on the internet, you are implicitly granting some license to people who view that content. They can view the source, study your CSS and javascript, save it for offline viewing if they want.

But when you take someone else's content, be it a book, a TV broadcast or a web site design, copy it either completely or substantially, and then proceed to personally profit from that work without the permission of the creator, you've crossed the line. Granted the distinction between copying (bad) and imitation (flattery?) can be fuzzy, but in this case it seems very clear.
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No, but it might be over 10 times more profitable than a $20 million movie, or over 100 times more profitable than a $2 million movie. Big budget movies have a greater potential RoR.
I never get arguments like this. In a perfect market every entity tries to get as much money as the market is willing to pay. There are some pretty extreme example such as this one, but in the whole that is a good thing!
Yes. It was wrong. No one is defending that. Breaking a traffic signal is wrong and killing someone is wrong. The point I think the op is making is that, people have been way too rude for the level of the mistake they have done. They are already insulted and name called. Why take it further in the blogs, newspapers and so on.
A proxy card that is actually backed by various real credit cards. Automatically switching your balance across the optimum set of deals? This is kind of like what Simple.com do, except with credit.
What's the cost per kg to get a satellite into space and how do you solve that problem, knowing there's no financial ROI ?
I really don't like Elsevier, but the alternatives do not really exist.

Most open Access aggregators are of dubious quality and don't provide an interface for peer-reviewing. Even worst, the harvesting standard (OAI) is implemented in so many different ways and no two sites/platform implement it in a consistent way. Scopus also extract references, citations, addresses, etc. which are necessary to compute influence and impact.

Microsoft Academic and Google Scholar are starting to look as an alternative, but I'm wouldn't be surprised if they licensed their data from Elsevier&Thomson.

Until these services are duplicated in the Open Access community, Elsevier will still be needed.
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http://blueprintforge.com/ for those who were wondering.

BTW, worth linking it in your profile. It's well written, content is engaging too.

I'm a bit surprised that article didn't hit the front page tbh.
Also Deliverance.
By forbidding to use old art for music or even movie extracts, they set the bar higher for independent movie filmmakers.
> Allègre is an ISI highly cited researcher.[1]

I doubt it's ok to paint him with a wide brush. He seems like a very intelligent person, extremely respected in his field and who's not afraid of a good controversy. Exactly what was the context of the falling objects dispute I don't know, but it's a fair chance there's some context to it. From a cursory look it seems to be more about how to teach the phenomenon then about the physics involved.
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Surely there are other alternatives than that... someone working for one of these tech giants has a lot of options other than working for another tech giant. Like starting her own company.
> 19. one word: Banking (Banking isn't it)

Some of the others might be jokes or further fetched, but this is obviously not, and you'd be silly not to see that this is going to happen soon.
which law are they breaking? i thought discrimination only covers specific things such as race/age/pregnancy status.. and everything else is off limits. i.e the company may reject someone based on his music taste or propensity to wear green pants..

also, could there be a situation where there is some conflict of interest based on nature of business of both firms?
Azul nicly shows how you can have about 1000 cores with global memory. I for one would much rather build work with architectures like this, and so will most people and thats why I think its a model here to stay.
Summary:

a kneejerk reaction inspired by his fear of a legal precedent where a "physical file must be deleted where one of many users with ‘links’ engages in illegal activity"
Joel Spolsky (I think) wrote a good article about why he adopts a stance in his blogging even though he knows it's always got exceptions to it. Can't find it for the life of me though.

There is something to be said about presenting a clear message. It's easier to follow the flow and a critical reader should be able to take the point an author is making without blindly accepting the conclusion.
Isn't is sad that the lingua franca of client side development is a language that constantly surprises you in a bad way instead of one that adheres to the principle of least surprise?

Yes, there are always good reasons for why a piece of JS code behaves in the strange way it behaves, but I wonder how many hours have been wasted around the world just because of some of these quirks. All the technologies out there have their quirks, but the JS case is pathological.
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A silicon bar of 12x1x1 micrometer cooled to near absolute zero more often takes energy from incoming photons than imparting it on the photons, once more confirming that quantum mechanics accurately describes the experimental system.

I think "First quantum jiggles detect in object the researchers or PR department chose to label as 'solid'" is more accurate. I doubt an experiment like this one hasn't been done before, because we've had the technology to do it for quite a while. There also wasn't any reason whatsoever to doubt the outcome. It's great that they checked, but to present it with a headline such as this one, suggesting there is something profound about this result, is just unwarranted.
It's important to have clear and powerful linguistics. Sticky linguistics make sticky minds. Compare inuits, with their multitude of words for snow - they probably have richer and clearer discussions on snow.

The same thing is true in programming languages - eg people who go back to basics and throw out the cached thoughts that make up a web of assumptions that everyone clings to, and in the process create something weird yet powerful (like Haskell or whatever).
Please don't build a self-building satellite! The thing will expand until it hides the sun from us!

There are already plenty of biology databases, it's just that people don't know yet what to make out of that data.

Build an Etsy for Intellectual property

They stole my idea! I think it's good time to build that
Homebrew expects ruby to be installed at /usr/bin. RVM installs it in ~/.rvm/bin/ruby-$VERSION. Even if you symlink there are compatibility problems. I'm sure it's fixable, but non-trivially so.
The downside in Australia is that the great majority of less-financially-oriented people put their money into 'super schemes' which are designed to swindle you and on average give you a worse return for your money than just leaving it in a bank (without even accounting for the excessive fees and charges).
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Right, they'd have to go to court and be found guilty of copying this copy-written work... I guess you're right that it's not guaranteed, but it's hard to imagine this wouldn't be a slam dunk.
Perhaps, my point was that if you screw up your Ruby installation on Mac it is a pain to get things right again. RVM is the recommended way to install Ruby according to ruby-lang.org.
I just want to be able to throw up a button on a page, choose it's place/size/color, and then be able to just say "add rounded corners" with a checkbox

We had all that in tools like Powerbuilder, back in the 1990s. AFAIK you still have that if you build your site using Flash (though I've never used Flash to build anything, so I don't know).

The world decided that browser-based apps were better, warts and all. In a way it's a shame that plugin vendors didn't take seriously the concepts of security, performance, and openness, the web could have ended up a very different place.

Likewise, more developers would probably be happy to use WYSIWYG layout tools if they did not generate hideously formatted, immensely verbose and complex markup that is nearly impossible to hand-tweak when needed, or if the tools themselves were not so complex that mastering them was just as much work as mastering HTML/CSS.

I would be interested in a tool that lets me visually build a basic page layout, something like a wireframe, and generates clean markup and CSS that I then easily enhance/fine tune by hand. I'll check out this Lean Designs tool that's been mentioned a few time here...
Jiggles, twangs... who comes up with these names?
souldn't be impossible to do. i use opera mini on android, ios and symbian and it's remote compression reduces data so that i can browse the web all day and get nowhere near my 50mb daily limit.

it would be possible for google to create a service/api that does something similar for other apps.
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Nice - "Because web designers want font families, not just fonts." Thanks for the link, Chris.
> A blockade is criminal behavior.

That isn't true even in the US. I suggest you go and read on wiki about strike action which includes this helpful paragraph:

A strike may consist of workers refusing to attend work or picketing outside the workplace to prevent or dissuade people from working in their place or conducting business with their employer. Less frequently workers may occupy the workplace, but refuse either to do their jobs or to leave. This is known as a sit-down strike.

And perhaps you can then go to the article on picketing, which is exactly what these guys were doing.
You'll still need to renegotiate regularly since the value of the relationship drifts over time. Are you still worth exactly what you were on the day you started your current gig?
Thank you, it's nice to hear this as a resident. Alas, I'd also go for "decent" because although the transit system is good, it's being sabotaged by the city council - it prefers to fund building highways through the city center, and to sell off the profitable parts of the public transit company. Dark times are ahead, what with much of the rolling stock nearing the end of life and much-needed extensions being deferred indefinitely for purely pork-barrel reasons.
Christopher Nolan is given command of a 200 million budget, that's not his compensation for directing, writing, and producing. He probably earns a few million per movie - for creating something that brings his employer over a billion in revenue. That means he is only making a thousandth of what he generated. That seems like a fair return to me.
Well they not only ripped off someone else's work, they picked the work of one of the most fiery, well-known personalities in the web business world (DHH). When you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
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Why does $83,000 have a bar twice as long as $94,000?
And where does DuckDuckGo get their results from? Bing.

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
There is a Vietnamese restaurant here in London where waiters have QR-codes in the back of their tees. Just last week I was there and some older guy was following a cute tall and slim waitress around with his iphone, trying to scan it. Creepy as fuck, but I guess it was justified by the QR code placement.
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Perfect engagement strategy Ivana!
Of course you're allowed to your opinion. It's just that people tend to downvote the really unintelligent ones that don't actually add to the discussion a lot. I'm sure that if you'd have given arguments for your statement instead of wording it as a brainless and inflammatory one-liner, people might have given you the same courtesy instead of immediately reaching for the downvote button.

And in my opinion, that's a good thing. When there are no arguments, not even a statement of what exactly your point is, inviting discussion and what you say happens to be exceptionally uninformed and moronic, then yes, have at it with the downvotes because I don't need to read it. If the opinion would have any value whatsoever, somebody else is going to make it in an informed manner and back it with arguments.

> The key seems to be, in order to be high on the list do not have protests and uprisings in your country.

FWIW:

Let's assume, for the sake of argument you intended to say "violent protests" (regardless which side to blame for the violence, gov or protestors) as otherwise your statement is simply factually incorrect and any discussion may as well end here.

Assuming that, you're (deliberately?) confusing cause and effect:

Being high on the list gives rise to less (violent) protests and uprisings in your country.

And suddenly, given that people value freedom as one of the highest things, and will go through great lengths to achieve it, that makes perfect sense.
I don't get why Wonga specifically is so respected among VCs. Isn't there tons of these kind of companies around? It's the old good business model of usury.

In Finland we have tens of companies offering short term cash loans based on text messages. I know few of these guys. If well-executed, these companies are money making machines, but they have very little of moat. You can enter this industry easily, if you have enough cash for initial advertising.
It will be interesting to see how you track that.
My problem is that it justifies one of the points made in the letter, that: if you are a scientist who makes a case against global warming you are actively excluded from the scientific community.
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I agree. I'm not sure where the ambiguity around professionalism came about. But, I truly doubt anyone misunderstood what you were saying and decided to take it apart on some weird technicality. DHH could have been the bigger man and I believe his words would have carried gravitas had that been the case. He has the right to publicly react how he likes, but it seemed a bit childish to me and didn't evoke any sense of empathy.
Note that the first paper you cited is at least partially in response to the second paper you cited.

"This simplistic view leads to the assumption that one can obtain the performance benefits of a column-store using a row-store: either by vertically partitioning the schema, or by indexing every column so that columns can be accessed independently. In this paper, we demonstrate that this assumption is false."

...

"We conclude that while it is not impossible for a row-store to achieve some of the performance advantages of a column-store, changes must be made to both the storage layer and the query executor to fully obtain the benefits of a column-oriented approach."
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Thank you, there!
I hope some of it will be helpful to you as well.
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