skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have time to test the actual app right now (it seems like a great service). So my only review could be about the front page, which is pretty, but the features animation (images fading & sliding in) is not implemented well. the previous image fades very slowly and for no apparent reason, every time a new image slides in, my browser lags (it could be my browser though; Safari 5.2 beta).

Also, I think your sample documents are not good examples of what your app can do, and a couple of them (1st, 2nd) are kinda low resolution.
No, but quadratic is faster and the result (here) is close enough to be good.
When was South Korea a military dictatorship? [Oh, nm, learned something new today.]
Why did you choose to copy http://simple.com/ ?

I don't think the design really fits your service.
I think the problem is that he could have said that people who feel superiority for their reproductive organs (or whatever) are annoying. The thing is that he seems to say that women who have that problem are annoying, which completely overlooks the problem. What I mean is that it doesn't matter if it's women or men who feel this superiority, so there's no need for specifying gender.

Imagine if instead he said: "I hate black people who steal". Of course he does! But he must also hate white people who steal, in fact, he hates people who steal. There's no need for specifying race.
They are not removed, just hidden by default. The view menu and the customize menus are your friends.
Personally I chose to ignore this point of view

I don't think this is an issue of point of view, entropy and thermodynamics are very real and as of now, the best models of reality point to it being a certainty.

imply that absolutely everything is completely without a point

I personally don't subscribe to that philosophical position, I brought up the topic of the eventual end or the universe as a thought experiment about the acceptance of death and at that point all relevance will be gone, but in saying that, I personally feel that, even if nature is temporal, things can have a point and have meaning now even if they don't have permanent meaning in this nature. Further we cannot rule out the existence of a higher natural order in which there is further purpose. That being said, meaning, point and the eventual lack of both have little to do with the reality that this nature will end, until it does end. Even if purpose is absolutely temporal it is significant in that temporal space, which is enough to give it a point. Acknowledging that a temporal space will end, does nothing to minimize the point of that temporal space and the actors within it. Rather it is a realization that it is a self contained system and that the point or meaning exists within that system, the value is within the system not external to it. Once the system is gone it has no value, but that does nothing to diminish the value inside of the system.
I've used Fastmail for a couple of years, after I decided to leave gmail. Very happy with it - it's the only web service I pay for.
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You really can't use the word guys as they are not being discriminated in this world (in the majority of cases). Copying and pasting from another comment of mine.

Imagine if instead he said: "I hate black people who steal". Of course he does! But he must also hate white people who steal, in fact, he hates people who steal. There's no need for specifying race.
Take a look at Guard, which has support for a variety of notification methods.
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That's exactly the sort of thing I'm coping with right now. The best currently available treatments can only mask and slow the progression of symptoms; the only really effective therapy at the moment is to try to build redundancy into the system at a rate approaching the loss of "primary storage". That includes nutrition, aerobic exercise (which, admittedly, looks a little bit silly when performed by someone who has difficulty controlling his limbs and maintaining posture) and keeping the ol' mind as active as it can be. That's hard, too -- it is very easy to let frustration overcome you and decide to lie down and die. But as long as there's a life worth living after the grunt work, it's something I'll keep on doing.

That said, I'm not holding on to life for its own sake. At some point I will either become incapable of any real physical activity OR too stupid to live. I've gotten a little taste of both when I've needed to get a baseline reassessment of my condition (which is not a typical presentation of anything, but seems to be more like Parkinson's than anything else on the menu). It's a bit of a race, really. I'm hoping that stupid wins, and that when it happens I do something so spectacularly stupid on the way out that it will make the news the world over (and perhaps win me a Darwin award).
Your quote left out the part about the "prebate" check. That seems to be the part by which you can adjust the regressiveness. The simplicity is certainly appealing.
Actually, Rand's view was that government wouldn't provide electricity, roads and education. These goods and services would be private and paid for by the people who wanted to use them.

Defense was a different matter, in that in her view, that was one of the legitimate functions of government -- protecting the individual rights of the citizens.

Rand acknowledged that every generation stands on the shoulders of the productive people who came before them.

Yes, if Bill Gates was born in Somalia he probably wouldn't have followed the path he did. If Somalia was a nation where individual rights were respected, as Rand advocated, everyone in Somalia would be much better off.
I read about this in 2011 in Ian Stewart's book The Mathematics of Life. I see the relevant passage can be viewed in Google Books.

http://books.google.com/books?id=u4X4cRaZlJUC&pg=PA199&#...

Any book by Ian Stewart on mathematics is a good read.
The incredibly rich already have many options available to avoid paying taxes. The concerns you raise are valid, but there might be ways to address them, perhaps by taxing different categories of items at different rates (or perhaps changing the sales tax by price). Maybe 3% sales tax on groceries, but 30% sales tax on automobiles over 50k for example.
One of Lua's predecessors, Sol, was a data language strongly influenced by BibTeX (http://www.lua.org/history.html). Lua's table syntax also bears a strong resemblance to JSON.

I don't know about embedding it in Erlang, but anecdotally, it works quite well as a data dump format.
It just means they have not been asked to identify an actual person for an actual case. I would not take this as proof that Epson (or any other company not on this list) printers are free from the ID dots.
The NYT has a registration wall that seems to pop up at random. At the moment with FF I can't get through unless I had r_=1 to the article url, but with Chrome it's not there at all. Strange...
> It will be like going to sleep and waking up in the virtual reality environment.

The question is: who will be waking up?

Basically the same issue is with a hypothetical teleporter. To teleport you from here to somewhere else we scan all the atoms in your body and digitize that information. Now we send the data over the internet to another place on earth. We rebuild you there. At the same moment that we use a defibrillator to put life into the new you, we shoot the old you in the head with a gun.

So you'd step into such a teleporter?

I haven't seen a convincing answer to these questions of consciousness/soul/identity. Perhaps there really is no difference between going to sleep and dying, it's just that in the former instance the old body is reused for new identity. Perhaps there is no persistent identity at all; in every moment in time there is a single separate identity. Perhaps time itself is an illusion: perhaps the universe is just one single snapshot in time. There are so many possibilities and I have no idea how one would even start to formulate a testable hypothesis. Does anyone have a recommendation for reading more about this topic?
> A better grade is more important than delivering in a reasonable time?

Consider a business tender. The brief is to get the best result by a specific day. Multiple contractors have the same time to complete the brief. Those who can provide the best result on the final day will win the contract.

Using your memory is a great hacking tool, probably the best there is. Those students used any tool available to get the job done. That's the true hacker spirit.
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For the record, I'm entirely in favor of serious long-term investment in medical research, and I agree that infinite X (where X is lifespan, health, or any other thing we like) sounds pretty swell.

That said, I'm pretty sure that's the same sort of argument I'm suspicious of. It's not an honest question that "will you"; it's an argument that the answer to that must be no. Not because of any evidence that has been presented, but because you can't think of any answer.

And I think it works because he's assuming an answer to the question he's purportedly asking. We don't really understand what minds are or why bodies age. We don't even understand exactly what happiness is. And he's presuming that a choice like that is possible.

What we do know is that a choice like that is currently unavailable, and I think it's dangerous to build too many sky castles on the assumption that it is.
I can't even count how many mistakes this article makes. A random sampling:

- Relational databases were designed for a world where availability is unimportant, like transaction processing. Um, no. OLTP has four letters, not two, and the first are as important as the last. Tandem was providing five-9's systems in the '80s and '90s for ATM networks, lottery systems, airline reservations, credit cards, etc. Tandem is a fault-tolerant relational database in hardware.

- Up-front schema design is a poor fit in a world where data requirements are fluid: I don't think "up front" means what you think it means. You can change schemas on the fly nowadays; your schema design is no more up-front than your coding is.

- You can't have millions of columns in a relational database: True, and you wouldn't; you'd normalize that. This is an important difference, but not a disadvantage of relational databases, any more than saying "In a relational database, you'd join URLs with IP addresses, and maybe five other tables; this design isn't even conceivable in a NoSQL database."

- To optimize relational performance, you "do away with joins wherever possible": 1995 called, and it wants its MyISAM back.

- Two-phase commit is so obsolete, even banks don't use it: Of course they do. You still need a two-phase commit to make sure the other end got your data; whether "got your data" happens in the customer path or during reconciliation is a design decision. How, exactly, do you think they discover that you and your spouse both got the money?

- "relational databases were developed when distributed systems were rare and exotic at best." That's nothing; when Von Neumann machines were developed, we didn't even have transistors. Some legacy architectures keep on working.

- "absolute consistency isn't a hard requirement for banks": see above. Yes it is.

- "So the CAP theorem is historically irrelevant to relational databases: they're good at providing consistency, and they have been adapted to provide high availability with some success, but they are hard to partition without extreme effort or extreme cost." ... Wh... Bu... That's not even wrong.

- "consistency requirements of many social applications are very soft." I like the Facebook example from a recent article on causal consistency: I de-friend my boss and then post that I'm quitting. Certain kinds of consistency are in fact critical to social applications.

There are many good reasons to design around a NoSQL database instead of a relational one. This article provides fewer than zero of them.
Using pjax with Clojure and Noir
Ok, Hackathons are good for engineer development. They still suck for software development.

And Hackathons are very distinct from software sprints. The later being the business end of a lot of design, architecting and planning with clear goals.
PS: Hacker Dojo is a hacker space in Mountain View. "Hacker space" is the word you're looking for.
There's no such thing as baseline speed

Of course there is. The "hello-world" microbenchmark tells you something about the core stack performance of the frameworks relative to one another. This tends to be surprisingly indicative of the relative real-world throughput per node that you may expect for a more complex application.

I.e. Rails (ruby) scores 4 times lower than Python in that micro-benchmark. This is pretty close to the difference that I've observed between real applications on the respective platforms. If anything you'll see the difference magnified in a complex application, but it's unlikely to turn around.

Whether that matters or not in the big picture is a different question (it usually doesn't).
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[Implying they removed a feeding tube]

My response:

You didn't feed him? He died of starvation? That could be painful. You should kill him using exit-bag with helium gas. I'm being serious.

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I took CV in college and it completely changed how I looked at math/programming. Highly recommended!!
You're arguing a point I never made. I said the United States is "converting toward" fascism. I really think that the majority of Americans have no idea what fascism really is, because they're so engrossed inside a propaganda machine that makes the current political situation seem completely normal.

I think articles like this really need to be read by Americans more often:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/04/20114261271...
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Also doesn't track when people go directly to download your files, for example finding PDFs through Google Scholar.
The movie was referenced in the article.
Why do i need to specifically use groupdocs.com? Atleast 3 answers please.
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Ping irons
If you have enough cache capacity to keep every individual listing in cache then you could simply write a script that periodically hits the detail page for each listing to make sure the latest version of each listing is always available in cache.
I agree. You try to do everything because you realize you've done so little during the time you've had.

I guess that's the normal way of being though. It seems like it is every child's fate to not appreciate their parents enough until it is too late, and to repeat this same cycle when they have children of their own.
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Information architecture is the 4th item? What does that even mean?
So PHP framework rocks?
Bemmu, is your wife Japanese? I'm willing to bet that if you did an A/B test, with A=Bemmu and B=Bemmu's wife, you'd get more yes answers with B.

(I'm aware that this might sound cynical to some, but it's pretty much common sense if you have lived in Japan for some time.)
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That is so mean...and clever.
As far as I can tell, I'm being totally consistent. My point is that people are failing to distinguish between what they want (to live forever) and what they can achieve, and that by doing so they are causing a lot of waste and suffering, not achieving as much as they could.

I agree that a world without aging would be better. I also think it would be a better world if the moon were made of cheese and I could get there by building a tall enough ladder. But if I spend all my life building ladders in service of that desire I'm a fool.

We don't live in a world where people live forever or can avoid old age except by dying young. All composite things decay. There are so far no exceptions, and no solid theory that suggests otherwise.

I am entirely in favor of medical research that seeks to improve and extend human life. But by not coming to grips with our impending deaths, we aren't living as well as we could. Take the guy upthread who thinks he will live forever. People like that check into hospitals every day unprepared for the reality they face. As the article makes clear, that wastes a lot of money and causes a lot of suffering.
Human life length is not totally up to chance. A person's choices affect how long that persons lives quite a lot.

Being able to get rid of senescence might be nice, but making everyone die at age X does not make sense.
Nothing new.

Skype also allows you to freely choose the sending number of your SMS (however, it first checks if you can receive SMS at this number).
The comparison is reasonable as long as you test against an equivalent feature-set on each platform.

It might actually be an interesting exercise to gradually layer more features on top (such as the dispatcher chain and different templating/ORM layers) to discover inefficiencies in the various frameworks by comparing the relative performance impact.

E.g. if you involve the dispatcher and Django suddenly gets 20% slower but Rails only 10% slower then that might hint at an inefficient dispatcher-impl in Django.
Thought it might be cool to list places where developers hang. Anything I miss?
I think you've missed the point
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Forbes article was great and there is a link to the source. I tried to read NYT article, but it was too long. NYT articles in general are full of the fluff.
[from business perspective]
The news cycle, attention span, and ability for anyone anywhere to blog/twitter about topic and "steal" your traffic. Makes breaking news and reaching crit-mass attention now! Makes A/B unrealistic and not worth the investment. Even on "static" items like this researched article you see how they failed to be firstest with the mostest and lost the traffic.

[from journalistic perspective]
They A/B "test" at the journalist level. They hire several, the ones that write popular / prize winning articles are kept, the others get downsized.
I completely agree with this perspective, and think it goes beyond putting marketers in their place to also building pretty deep trust with your future market. The idea I took to NYC EDU Startup Weekend (not exactly a hackathon but often similar outputs) sounded attractive for lots of teachers I pitched it to, but ultimately they were skeptical it could be done.

By using Startup Weekend to create a MVP, we were able to switch the discussion from "What if we could..." to "We've built the product. What do you think?" Before we had even incorporated, teachers and administrators who saw the before and after could rest assured we could implement on our vision and continue to iterate on it.
How does one go about finding developer resources for closed applications like Oracle ATG (or really any of the above list)?

I'm employed by an eCommerce vendor myself, so I'm sure I'd have an intuitive understanding of general architecture, but actually understanding the internals of a system as an outsider seems like a difficult proposition.
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life,” - Steve Jobs

A few months ago, this was one of the biggest quotes around the internet. For a lot of people, death is a catalyst to do something that matters. In the biography, Jobs talks a lot about how he's in a hurry because he feels like he's going to die young.
A conjecture is an assertion made on the basis of incomplete evidence. I'm not familiar with Turing's work in this area but if (as others have commented) he studied PDEs and that appear to mimic biological processes, yet did not find a definitive link, then the conclusion that a connection between the two may exist can only be described as conjecture.
Jitendra Malik, the instructor for this course, is a giant in the field of Computer Vision. I've heard he's also a fantastic teacher.
Japanese marketer figures out the secret to getting retweets: Self Humiliation
There is also a second edition, which updates some chapters with much more recent resulst (AFAIR, the book is from 1992.) In addtion, the author (Dick Grune) also co-authored a book on compilers ("Modern Compiler Design"), which I like a lot as it has a sound treatment of non-imperative programming language concepts, too. (Plus I think the treatment of BURS plus usage for instruction selection is best described therein as well.)
Thank you,

I have had some "experience" in python programming but I dont just want to learn scripting; I also want to learn visual programs, but yeah I'll try out the books that you recomended. So far I have been learning through itunes-u and some free stanford classes.
I hate the "Simple Man" song cover by shine down.
Fuck You!!

Think about that song.
This doesn't work on my cellphone's voicemail. I guess the new systems closed that hole.
I think that depends on which government we would be talking about. I don't think they all shoot people on sight.
$150 does not seem worth whatever effort would be required to custom code most of the software. Especially for a one-off art piece. I think the goal is to make it functional and aesthetically pleasing, and that's what makes it a fulfilling experience for the artist.
Even more general: Some way of tagging HN articles to identify their subject (e.g. geography, programming language, etc) and then allowing readers to express their interests and so rank articles according to personal interests rather than just voting by the masses.
Thanks I did finish alot of things at codecademy and all I have learned so far was either through w3schools, codecademy, or iTunes-U. Thank you for your feedback I will try and work how you said
Hitler wasn't dictating at the time of his death, but Stalin was.

Stalin's death lead to a good change.

When somebody stay in power for too long it leads to stagnation.

Human civilization has other measures against such stagnation (such as 2 terms limit for presidential position).

However limited life span still adds extra protection against society stagnation.

It's not obvious if benefits of unlimited lifespan outweight potential problems.

I think that doubling life span would probably be beneficial overall, but it's hard to say if further life span increase would.
Is this new? I thought this has been a well known fact for some time.
Agreed that the title (and opening graphic) are irritatingly sensationalist.

Still, a better understanding of the chemical association between event memory and emotion is very interesting. Even if it's not used to develop widely available drug treatments, being able to manually and precisely knock out the link has great implications for developing effective psychological treatment of PTSD, depression, etc.
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Thats why he was reminded of it.
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Thanks! I may have included IRC
I think if you tried to teach programming to two groups of people who had minimal programming experience, one using say the normal python interpreter and one using this tool, the latter group would acquire a better understanding of what is going on in less time.
Thank you very much. Ya, my concept of speed does not matter as long as I do it right. I have looked at alot of iTunes U tutorials and have also finished alot of codecademy couses. Thanks for your effort!!!
If you worked a few hours on it and it was good, I'd happily pay $300 for your labor.