skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it rather depends on how homogeneous you plan on making the user interface to your web application. The more repetition in the design, the more you benefit from being able to factor it out into smaller components, and functions are obviously more suited to this than partials.

So if you're writing a web application with a small number of unique views that have been carefully constructed by a dedicated designer, then maybe Enlive is the better choice. But if you're designing a web application with many views that tend to share a lot of common traits, then by factoring out common UI elements into functions, you can often end up with a far smaller and cleaner view definition.
tumblr gets a cut whenever someone "buys" a tumblr design. Have no idea what that equates to in revenue but they are getting revenue.
I thought about that some time ago but I use the laptop mainly to browse the web, never more than 10 tabs, and login via ssh in a Linux desktop. Maybe it is slow because of that, but the main problem I have with this is that I get no slowdowns running Linux and FreeBSD in the same computer and with the same use case.

This computer stays up for several days[1], and I suspect the main cause is because of Chrome leaking memory.

[1] Now: 20:16 up 43 days, 23:41, 2 users, load averages: 0.38 0.31 0.26
That to me is exactly the core issue. It's not as if these people were staying in their obscure subreddit, they were leaking out into advice forums and posting IAMA pedo threads and so on, scoring upvotes due to typical young male contrarianism. It was all creating the general impression that this was acceptable behavior which was commonly discussed by Redditors.

(I saw a post from a sixteen year old boy describing himself as a "ephebophile" because he liked girls from school. It's just bizarre that kids are learning this sort of inside jargon and using it describe completely normal behavior.)

From a broader community perspective, there's no reason to hang out a sign saying "creeps welcome here". They'll show up on their own, and its not as if Reddit needs their traffic.
Oh god I'm so happy to be a professional programmer and understand this humour.
If you're wondering how they did it: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Groups_Files
I concur, and that's a succinct description of how this discrimination has been made possible, but it's completely orthogonal to my question.
Since this is a circuits course, I assume they would use a circuit simulation.

I personally think this is the best circuit simulation to learn the basics of college level analog and digital circuits (it is animated), but I highly doubt the MIT course will be using it: http://falstad.com/circuit/

I used a customized version of it in my own research, and within minutes engineering students (who had already finished their intro circuits classes but still showed misconceptions) were better understanding the behavior of circuits: http://usu.academia.edu/edtechdev/Papers/161483/Designing_An...
Creating ASP.NET HttpCookie-compatible multi-valued cookies in JavaScript
Forget the NFC argument - look at payments behavior
Bram Cohen: My goal is to kill off television
I'm using .Net (MVC3) for my current web startup. I thought about python, I thought about RoR, I thought about Java, but I decided on .Net.

Why?

I knew C# well at the time, maybe not the best out of the languages I know, but well enough to hit the ground running. And I knew with MVC3, I would be running in no time. Visual Studio is an awesome environment IF you have a fast PC. I have a fast PC. LINQ, and LINQ to SQL, is incredibly powerful. I can drastically alter my SQL DB, and have my ORM code auto-generated immediately.

Out of the box, .Net takes care of a lot of the detail. I can optimise this detail later if I need to (I hope).

With the aim of this code being maintainable, and having hated maintaining a large python code-base before, I wanted to use a statically typed language.

Importantly, I knew .Net was going to be scalable when I needed it be (stackoverflow.com as an example).

How is it going?

Very well. But I've not launched yet. I have no regrets, and think C# is an amazing language to work with.

I would generally consider myself language agnostic, so whilst the decision was hard, I was confident it wouldn't matter too much in the end. Hopefully that will remain the case, but you never know what's around the corner...!
NI MATE: Real-time motion capture & sound control for Kinect
Did the house need to pass inspections / safety?
"Our findings indicate that, as a lower bound, international box office returns in our sample were at least 7% lower than they would have been in the absence of pre-release piracy. By contrast, we do not see evidence of elevated sales displacement in US box office revenue following the adoption of BitTorrent, and we suggest that delayed legal availability of the content abroad may drive the losses to piracy." (Italics are mine)

Here's a link to the actual paper:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1986299
ReStructuredText to everything
What about micro nuclear reactors ? eg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S

I'm unfamiliar with the details but simply based on the concepts :

- It solves the large scale catastrophe potential, a small reactor should threaten a very limited area (correct me if I'm wrong)

- It can be installed incrementally because of small unit costs and could be distributed/mass produced dropping the costs.

- Power loss from transmission is cut down to a minimum because this sort of micro reactor would be installed close to the consumers.

So any drawbacks I'm missing ? Why not subsidize that (if we have to subsidize something, simply going on technical/economic merits, I would prefer they don't subsidize anything) ?
It might be worth checking out jayq[1] if you're just looking for a more straightforward DOM manipulating experience. Also, for clean interactions between Noir and ClojureScript, take a look at fetch[2].

[1] http://github.com/ibdknox/jayq
[2] http://github.com/ibdknox/fetch
If you hate email, you're doing it wrong.
I'll talk a fair amount about ClojureScript during the course too :)
Not quite the same level of destruction, but Centralia, PA has been almost entirely abandoned since 1962 due to an ongoing coal mine fire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
Updated accordingly. We used floats instead of ints which means that it should have been 21 not 22.
Your post immediately made me imagine a go-between that enabled people to send a physical/voucher gift to an email address or social media account. Sender would choose something and pay for it, but assign the recipient as a virtual address. The recipient would then hit the go-between and arrange fulfillment, choosing the postal address themselves.

If you could get it tied into the networks and built up as something of a tradition within Facebook/Twitter /Pinterest (as you said, Facebook would be perfect for it), it could get some traction.

Maybe have it trawl recent posts for gift suggestions in various price brackets.
Occupy has lots of things in common with startups, which we talk specifically about in the story. "Disruptive. Small-d democratic. Transparent. Tech savvy. Design savvy. Local and global."

The IPO part is a joke, sorry the humor was lost on you.
If you record a song, and I copy it to my hard drive without permission, I'm a dick. Same same.
I don't think labor costs account for much of the difference. You can pay the salaries of 10,000 US construction workers for 7 years with a single billion. (I seriously doubt they need to hire that many people for one reactor.) And, due to cheap shipping these days, the cost of materials is pretty much the same everywhere.
I use Jekyll + Github Pages. Love it. Don't know about gists, though:

http://pages.github.com/

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
HTML5 Rocks has a whole new look
Just not as much as they pay in finance, I suppose.
I'm not against Reddit's move, but I do think they're being more than a little naive if they think it will stop here.

hueypriest (Reddit admin) says:

/r/trees isn't in remotely the same legal area as CP stuff. Not even close. They'll ban /r/trees when they pry it out of our cold dead hands.

And yet, facilitating a drug transaction is almost definitely illegal. Posting torrent links is at least legally dangerous. Sure, these things haven't become problems yet, but neither were the other things a couple years ago.

What the Reddit admins are saying right now is that anything goes, as long as it doesn't represent a plausible legal threat that can be waged against them. This is fine. The problem is that Reddit doesn't know that they're saying this. They think it's about CP, but it's not, it's about legal threat.
> you don't seem to hear people say things like "I'm done with Ruby, switching to Python

No, it's usually more along the lines of, "Ruby is beautiful (but I’m moving to Python)" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3179370 :)
Sal Khan is #7 on our Most Creative People In Business List from June: http://www.fastcompany.com/most-creative-people/2011/sal-kha...
The course is challenging if if you're knowledgable. Enjoy :)
"The project at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Ga., is being undertaken by Southern Co., which operates four electric utilities in the South, and three minority partners — all aided by a massive federal loan guarantee and other incentives."

So yes federal taxpayers are paying for this too. Loan guarantees are not free. By the way, the loan guarantee for just these two nuclear reactors will be 8.3 billion which dwarfs the half a billion dollar Solyndra loan guarantee everyone is complaining about.

Unfortunately, nuclear subsidies in the US dwarf the very few incentives we have for renewable power. Almost the entire budget of the Department of Energy is devoted to supporting nuclear in one way or another.

Edit:

This is the link showing the amount of the loan guarantee:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/business/energy-environmen...
Besides of that OS X works really fine for me, although I do not use it to serious work, which is programming in C++, Python and R since I work as a statistician, I will upgrade the memory to 8GB and see if things become better for me.
How to build the best of breed web apps
> Now, people looking at those pictures may be sexualizing these images in the head

No, it's not only on their head. It's written right underneath the photos by redditors, ie: "my d* is so hard right now". So the picture by itself may be harmless, but the post as a whole puts children in a highly sexualized context.

To make matters worse, threads sometimes include links to fully illegal material on some download server. The bikini photos sometimes are just the thumbnail...

I doubt that's the case with Toddlers & Tiaras.
Haven't heard anyone arguing for the elimination of the chemical industry after the Bhopal accident.
True Fans Instead
They're really not. They're for banning these subreddits because they don't like their content, not because they may represent a legal threat.

They, at best, misunderstand the issue at hand.
Pay to get a science or math PhD? Nice one!

Seriously, you can get funding to do a PhD in science or math almost trivially.
All points are well taken. First, thank you!

Re: Validation of demand? No, I'm not sure of my demand. Further, I KNOW my market is spread quite thin over the geographic area, however, this is one giant test to begin with so I'm prepared for demand to be non-existent. I've hedged myself against this risk to be able to recoup as much as possible if this tanks in glorious failure.

Additionally, my market (18-30 male) is not a explicit selection but is more just representative of the majority of the groups I'm attempting to attract. There are some channels I will explore that touch the retiree market which is likely more profitable, but also harder to reach through the usual channels I'm used to (online and grassroots meetups).

Re: Flow. I agree the format sucks. However, this version was just updated this morning. This is what I started with: http://cl.ly/3x1n1531162f2H1o1Q1Q Was this a step in the wrong direction, you think? I felt it was too sparse on information and didn't provide enough for someone interested but too lazy to get in touch to ask their burning question that's stopping them from registering. Unfortunately, my personal bandwidth is tapped and can't invest in a redesign to test against. Next event.

Re: Text. I'll improve the text rhythm and see about tightening up my copy. I didn't think about the font-size with the design I was given, but it can only help to fix it.

Re: Eventbrite signup fail. Yes, I know. Not aware of a way to do with Eventbrite. There are a lot of things that are short-coming about their registration system. Another reason I'm likely to roll my own and use something like Stripe to process CC next time.

Thanks much for your thoughts!
It's baffling to me that so many people seem unwilling to accept the idea that maybe, perhaps, we've learned a few lessons about building safe nuclear reactors over the last 50 years.

It's also baffling to me that the widespread ecological disaster that coal- and oil-fired plants directly cause (and I'm not even referring to climate change!) is somehow more acceptable than the limited, mostly controlled circumstances of a handful of nuclear reactor failures (which Chernobyl has proven is not a permanent state of affairs.)
Incremental and generational GC.
As a long time Perl guy (I had a few websites break when my ISP upgraded from Perl4 and all my email addresses broke with unescaped @ symbols), I think of strict and warnings as being like speed limits. It's a _really_ good idea for inexperienced drivers/perl-programmers to stick to them. Once you've got a bit of experience behind you, you can choose when to ignore that good advice - and just like teenaged boys in cars, mostly people make that choice before they're actually experienced enough to have made a good call, and the near-misses/speeding-tickets/accidents as a result of those poor calls is what ends up becoming the foundations of real experience later on.

I'm firmly of the opinion that telling everybody (especially inexperienced Perl programmers) "you've got to use strict and warnings" is the right approach - with the unstated acknowledgement that if you know what you're doing and are prepared to accept the risks, you'll occasionally choose to ignore that advice.
Off-topic, but I put together a list of HN members on Tumblr not too long ago:
http://blog.dozierhudson.com/post/9596967319/list-of-hacker-...

Get in touch and I'll add you to the list.
Living Under a Rock Question:

What is up with all the startups using .ly domain or "ly" in their name? I can understand using a foreign top level domain in order to find available domain names, but that does not explain why we don't see ones from all the other international TLDs.
I'm assuming you're being sarcastic -- but the "everyone tweets ten Tweets per hour" figure sounds like it's off by at least one (if not 2 or 3) orders of magnitude.
It's an intelligent book by folk who've read von Clauswitz and Sun Tzu ... but also Machiavelli, Moltke, Lidell-Hart, Jay Forrester and on and on.

It's on Amazon for $10.
I hate to point out the obvious answer, but it's a good introduction with links to several implementations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMQP
I saw enough to make the judgement the majority of it was illegal. They had no intention of posting legal content.

Again, why were those illegal and not the examples I gave? "Artistic value" is not a criteria of the Dost test. Why they were posted isn't either.

If those subreddits were illegal, then so are: many magazines, Wikipedia, Facebook (where a lot of them come), Google (try a search for 'jailbait' images), a huge number of movies, various TV shows and more.

Okay then, if I were to claim, "The ones I saw were illegal." How would that change anything? There was still blatantly illegal content actively posted to and promoted on a forum.

If your goal was to win an argument of semantics, you should rethink your strategy.

But (IMO) you still haven't managed to tell me why are those illegal and not the examples I gave. The only reason you gave (artistic value) is irrelevant to their legality, according to the test.

No, most of them admitted to wanting sexual gratification out of the images. You must not have visited the subreddit. This wasn't some grey area.

I very much doubt you could tell what most of 11600+ people said.

But in any case, if I derive sexual gratification from your posts, do they become obscene? The reason they are posted is irrelevant to determine their legality.

You were the one to first compare them. You should take your own advice. ;)

That's disingenuous. I brought them as examples which are relevant to the point being discussed - whether the images are illegal or not.
"The API000 shield building safety functions include shielding plant structures from impact loads, such as tornado missiles,
protecting plant equipment during seismic events, similar to containment and shield structures in other reactor designs."

I don't know of any tornado missile that can manage getting through 6 ft of concrete reinforced with layers of steel rebar. Also, even if an earthquake did happen in Georgia, the last 9.4 quake in Japan was against a shield building that was designed more then 40 years ago. I think we can have a bit of faith in some new designs that we're designed without a slide ruler.
Given another reply that you posted, I'm not sure 6+ hours would be reasonable using Ubuntu without a massive battery slab. Even with a bunch of tweaking, battery life tends to be lower than what one would get with Windows.

I would suggest you look at HP EliteBooks and Lenovo ThinkPads. For instance, a ThinkPad W510 or EliteBook 8540w.

I personally own an HP EliteBook 8540p.

-2.53 gHz i5 CPU

-NVIDIA NVS 5100m (equivalent to the GeForce 330m)

-15" matte 1600x900 resolution (quality comparable MacBook: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5881&p=...)

-4-5 hour battery life, although I'm still using the original battery

-built like an absolute tank

I got it off of eBay for $600 last summer. The models I mentioned above can have 1080p configurations, and I know for a fact that the 8540w has the DreamColor configuration, which is about the best display you can have in a laptop; they're quite rare, however.

You'd probably have trouble picking up brand-new, refreshed models for under $1000, but that would be the same case for a MacBook.
Your map styling looks really great, nice job!
There is a very valuable post and discussion to be had about why a developer may choose Linux over Apple for their primary dev workstation. This isn't it.
Perhaps that's because most people who think that the claims are BS have never worked with codebases that are expected to exist and be maintained for at least a decade with minimal downtime.

Within large companies those types of codebases are normal. The upfront development cost of applications is significantly less than the long term maintenance cost - especially once you've factored in the cost of hardware over the time period, and having to keep institutional knowledge of the applications amongst development teams, sys admin teams and network teams.
The slippery slope you describe simply does not exist. "First they took the CP, and I said nothing..." is not a valid concern, primarily because CP has always been an issue, and whenever it's come up it's always been removed from Reddit. This change in position is not nearly as large as it seems.

Contrast, as you seem to want to, with /r/trees. How many posts in /r/trees get taken down due to their questionable legality? How many posts in /r/letstradetorrents (apocryphal) get taken down due to their questionable legality? None and none. The nature of CP on the Internet is unique, and not viewed similarly to anything else on the Internet. Reddit isn't saying "as long as it doesn't represent a plausible legal threat that can be waged against them", they're saying, "as long as it's not CP, and as long as it's manageable through an ad-hoc process."

Due to the SomethingAwful attack, or due to some other, unknown reason, the volume of CP was too high to continue to deal with it on an ad-hoc basis. That is all.
A full 50 year fire. Sounds a tad worse then any nuclear failure I know of. Even Nagasaki / Hiroshima were livable within a year.
Would it be easier to "leave behind" Facebook if your stream/wall (whatever they call it) was less active?
I may be the one misremembering, but I recall Sandberg's hand raising story differently from the author. From what I remember, Sheryl said that she would take one more question. It was not until after she took the supposed "last" question that the women put their hands down, whereas the men kept their hands up under the assumption that the "last" question was not truly the last. And the men were right, Sheryl kept answering questions, and it was not until later that she realized what had happened. I think a woman from the audience came up and told her what had occurred.

Why do I bother pointing out the difference? Because it's not that women don't think that their questions are important, as the author claims, but rather that women are more likely to play by the stated "rules." At least, that is what I take away from the story.
Why not just create a CSS generator. That helps someone tweak there button down to the very last detail, and then just charge them 50 cents for that one button.
Wish I had some time for A/B testing. I'll probably keep the funnel as it is now for purity's sake and consider including this in a better approach for next time.

The sideshow was a bit technical, but it was made specifically for a tech talk event where the demo was more 20-something programmer alpha-geeks. It was a hit. But definitely not for the 18-30 low-income bracket. Agreed. Including the slideshow and movie were last ditch efforts to build (or lose?) some last-minute credibility.

Thanks for your thoughts!
She's not old enough to know the consequences of her actions on a scale with which she, by posting herself nude, is dealing.

Kids kill themselves over this stuff, it's not so simple as, "deal with the consequences."
Like what @mikeash is referring to. China is planning on building tens of these things in the next few decades. They are creating factories to pump out AP1000s on a standardized system.

Vogtle is a brown field site (their are already reactors there) and like most American plants, they are all built custom made. Every one of the U.S's 104 plants are different. It made engineering maintenance hellish. This stems from many things, but the easiest explanation is location specific laws and protests. By the time you get clearance to build it, a lot of things will have changed. Hence, standardization goes out the window.
The good news is, you don't have to type "use strict" anymore; it's the default if you opt to declare Perl 5.11 or higher as the minimum for your module or script.

People seem to hate typing "my" to declare a variable, but that's fine. I appreciate the number of times that's caught bugs for me, and I appreciate the clarity of scoping it allows for. I never really figured out scoping in Python, because you never declare variables. In Python, you could write:

def foo():
def reset():
x = 0
def inc():
x += 1
def print():
print x

And it would compile, but not be what you mean. In Perl, you'd write:

sub foo {
my $reset = sub { my $x; $x = 0 }
my $inc = sub { my $x; $x++ }
...
}

and know exactly what's going on because you had to explicitly declare $x. You can instantly tell that the Perl is broken. But the Python looks like it works (but doesn't). That, to me, is a big deal.

Of course, it doesn't actually matter because you're not supposed to program like that in Python. But if you chose to anyway, ...
Scientists, test your code before you publish your results.
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