skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The research, led by David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, shows that incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people's ideas."

This seems to overstate the actual results of the experiments. More here: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k...
I believe it's cloud.typgraphy.com resource loading that's causing that slowdown.
It's an API, so I have this code running now:

for i in xrange(10000):
print i
trivia = requests.get('http://numbersapi.com/%d' % i).text
math = requests.get('http://numbersapi.com/%d/math' % i).text
if 'boring' in math and ('plain' in trivia or 'boring' in trivia):
print math, trivia
break
time.sleep(2)
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Awesome to hear! The post newspaper journalism world is just taking shape, wonderful to see such a strong voice riding that wave.
With regards to issue #1. The drain of numerous applications using the GPS hardware on the phone and thus killing battery life makes me wish Google Latitude had an API that devs could use to request my GPS co-ordinates. If you can login via Facebook why can't you do location via Latitude ?
I didn't know that Alpha can tell you what planes are currently visible overhead, holy crap, that's awesome!

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=planes%20above

Ran the query and looked at the sky like an idiot, only birds! And it's pretty clear today, too. Can the flight schedules be that off?

Also learned how many calories a cubic light-year of milk chocolate is: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfr...
Why are people so reluctant to change? Ubuntu, Apple and Microsoft are changing their UIs to add a new layer of usability, which can always be disabled. This is clearly a transition release, like Unity or Mountain Lion, which will set the foundations for the future of PC operating systems.

The author is free to switch to linux whenever he wants, but using Windows 8 as scapegoat is a quite poor excuse.
I'm more disappointed in the "I'm an X major and I love you so much!" comments. I'd like more questions regarding Alpha pro. It's a tempting purchase for a lot of people, myself included, but so much of it seems like nifty stuff I'll play around with from time to time, but never actually use.
You can host it on private github repository or any similar service, before signing non-compete. If that is not enough, you may want to let your employer know about this through email or add it to your resume.
I imagine this should be quite easy to build with JavaScript and lightweight Node.js server.

If somebody was going to work on something like that, I would love to help. Mail in the profile.
Nice little find in the comments of a blog. Rich Hickey himself speakes about some of the things people probebly care about http://blog.fogus.me/2012/03/05/datomic/.
Nobody targets X as an API anymore and haven't since Tk, this is a canard.

In general, given the demographics of desktop Linux, it's safe to assume everyone has GTK and Qt working, so pick whatever suits you and go for it. (Spotify is Qt IIRC)
It's not really analytics-- it's about creating a deeper relationship between the merchant and payer. Payments are just a means to do this.

Watch this interview with Jack starting at around 16:00. Comments about NFC around 18:00.

http://www.livestream.com/techonomy/video?clipId=pla_98a128d...
He stated he's going to be answering questions from 3pm to 5pm ET, so should start seeing some responses shortly.
It was my understanding that most CS programs include a course covering formal languages and grammars. At my school it was called (creatively) Theoretical Computer Science.

Learning to break apart a regex and rebuild it as a state machine is where the real magic happens.
Why is 'overseas' emphasized?
Well that went unnecessarily ad hominem.

A harder lesson to learn is that 250,000 users don't make you a lot of money.
Yeah, this seems similar to complaining that Microsoft makes so much money on a PC, but Google doesn't make any money because no one directly pays Google through a Microsoft-owned app store.
I would love feedback! ❤
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It's a fairly rational argument to have a preference/affinity for programming languages based on communities surrounding them. He stated his preferences, and that's perfectly fine. You might have been too quick in passing that judgement.

Unless a quantum computing breakthrough alters the way we control computers, there will never be a one-language to rule them all. We'll continue having a wide diaspora and will take evolutionary steps to bind ideas together. Preemptive and comprehensive security model might be just one of those ideas.
http://numbersapi.com/1321/trivia has given me both "1321 is a most unremarkable number" and "1321 is an uninteresting number", to give an upper bound. ;-)
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Democracy isn't really about freedom at all. When the majority can overrule and extinguish the rights and freedoms of the minority, that is not freedom. It's more about mob-determination than self-determination.
Funded LA startup seeks lead developer
-about to launch disruptive web and mobile app for transportation industry

-we want to transition dev from agency to in-house

-ground floor opportunity to "own" the technology and build a team

-competitive salary + equity

-fun and funky office in Venice Beach

please contact jonathan@freightconnections.com with resume and relevant links to your work
what is the smallest uninteresting positive integer?

Doesn't discovering that unique number instantly make it interesting? :)
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Some cool pictures of animals. I am sure you will like them.
Thanks! This thing is actually a bit of genius.
It's pretty ironic getting an invalid security certificate for hacks.mozilla.org (yeah, I'm using HTTPS everywhere). Somehow, it's using the cert for a different subdomain.
Athenian democracy was subject to bouts of mob rule - note the treasurer incidents. Courts were barbaric, and really amounted to popularity votes as jurors had little legal oversight. At the assembly level, for their credit, the criteria for citizenship required military training and voting for war generally meant you had to actually do the fighting - hence the level of peace.

Mobs form when there is no responsibility for their vote or actions. That's why in unrestrained democracies, the mob majority can disenfranchise the minority so easily and quickly.
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That's my question, HattoriHanzo is my name on Reddit. I tried reaching him a year ago when that happened. But sadly, nothing came of it. It's not my fault everyone else wants to know :/ I still use and suggest other to use WA against my better judgement.
I think there's a fundamental flaw in your logic there.

If I put tarantula behind your sofa, then we can say the probability of there being a tarantula behind your sofa is pretty much 1. If you have 5 sofas in your house, then the probability of there being a tarantula behind a random sofa in your house is 1/5.

However, it doesn't follow that the probability of finding a tarantula behind any sofa is 1/5. All we can say about that is that it's non-zero.
You're right - it's a band-aid (or maybe a bandage, given that it can be effective) - it's fixing a problem that shouldn't be there. But if it allows some well-spoken members of minorities (i.e. Obama) to fly under the radar, succeed, and set a good example; so it does help fight discrimination.
Going in, I expected it to not be a PITA to assume UTF-8 like in Plan 9. (I guess I was naive.)
Hey thanks. It's now small enough to indicate it's not main content, but big enough to read without having to bump the font size of my browser. If you're this responsive in your business endeavors, I predict great success for you.
But STM is from the 80s -- 1986 to be precise.
This blog post has a some more details:

http://blog.webworks.dk/2012/03/webworksengine-html5-game-en...
Why apps needs a different kind of VC funding
Outside the US it was quite possible to make decent sums pre-smartphones, however, there was an art to getting your foot in the door, but that was less work than the marketing now needed to stand out among the vast competition.

Generally the hardware makers are getting screwed too. Only Apple aren't because they also own their ecosystem and exercise enough muscle to scare operators.
From past experience at lectures, he tends to avoid questions about NKS. His magnum opus turned laughing stock is kind of a touchy subject.
Looks like he's getting preemptively skewered by the Redditerati.
Found a small error...
I was in the "Lab0: Using the tools" and I put "500uA" for the answer to "Current flowing into source (amps, with correct sign)". I got an Unknown Error javascript alert. When I removed the "A" from the answer box, all was well.
> Are you testing your code on ie6 running on a 486?

I test all the way back to IE 5.5. Try browsing a site with a heavy jQuery dependency in IE 5.5 (StackOverflow is a nice example). Those sites tend to implode.

> Those 'Frankenstein' queries are ridiculously easy to read and to type.

You sure about that?

A: `$(someForm).find("input[name=whatever]")`;

B: `someForm.elements.whatever`;

B is quicker to execute, type, and read.

Try running some speed tests on `find`. You'll notice it's pretty inefficient.

> Nobody is searching the entire dom for matching nodes.

I should start counting the number of times I encounter `$(".stupid")` reading source code. The count would probably be in the thousands.

> What does that even mean in this context?? How does it further your point?

Using "CSS selectors" to traverse a tree of nodes is utterly stupid. That's what recursion/tree traversal algorithms are for. What's nice is tree traversal is rarely necessary. Selecting via `id` or `name` (through an `HTMLCollection`) is quick and easy.

> enlighten us then...

I've posted 3 comments now on this topic. Shall I link various DOM specs?
Yeah that makes perfect sense. Have Android handle the actual GPS interaction and allow app developers to poll for that info. Then, have a global setting in the phone's settings that says how often it can poll the GPS. Get on it, Google!
Nginx does not play nicely with vary headers (plus suggested workarounds)
A few weeks ago I was listening to a show on NPR about how to get into programming (I believe one of the founders of Codecademy was a guest) and one of the guests said something that has been running through my head since:

5-10 years from now, entry/junior-level programming will be blue collar job.
This commercial solution seems to be languishing in relative obscurity: http://www.querycell.com/
yup control's are one of the most important aspects in a platformer of this type. Look at a game like super meat boy, which imo has control's even better then the mario games(which is saying quite a bit.) They spent A LOT of time just experimenting and fine tuning because they completely make or break the game. Anyone that played super meat boy knows exactly what i'm talking about the, the game would just be too frustrating if the control's wheren't so tight.

As an aside i think a good setup for this type of game would be using an xbox360/ps3 controller, the directional pad to control mario, shoulder button L1 to jump and L2 to run/shoot fireballs, the right analog stick to control the portal gun and shoulder buttons R1/R2 to shoot the portal gun
Datomic reminds me a lot of the tagged-token dataflow architectures of the day. Really cool.
True enough, I am. However sorry I thought you meant that it only annoyed people in a development sense, ala some sort of perfectionism about Firebug call chains or the like.

I have no interest in the specific code behind Twitter, whether in the presentation or behind it, but rather simply note that the general twitter experience is a poor one.
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Our social networking pages are being policed by outsourced, unvetted moderators.
For someone thinking about building a java version - this might help: http://schemacrawler.sourceforge.net/

(I don't think that it supports noSQL.)
if(ESPN_API.CommercialApplications == NOT_ALLOWED)
{
// Work for free to further ESPN brand
// Can't make any money
ESPN.GoPoundSand(TRUE);
}
else
{
// Now they are being realistic
// We can all make some money
ESPN.MaybeYouHaveADeal(TRUE);
}
Sorry, I didn't mean "you" "you", I meant "one" "you".
Ask HN: Will any [big] company pay for "Open Decision Process Tool"
I have a simple idea, I want your feedback on. This idea will be more applicable to a company with >100 employees.

The idea is simple.

* Company can have a companyname.decision.com, which will work with SSO (Single Sign On) - Should help with privacy and security.

* It will have two views - Admin and Users

* Admin can add a decision, remove a decision, get reports, comments

* Users can see all the open decision - Provide input and comments. Have a clear picture of the inclination of a decision(e:g: how many people agree that pets can be allowed in side company.)

At the end of the day decision lies with Management, but still makes the process transparent.

I'll be charging for the tool.

That's pretty much it. Your feedback is welcome.
^-- Dunning-Kruger in effect

If you are actually in the climate science field then I appologize. I'm assuming that you don't have a rational reason to disagree with the widespread scientific consensus.
Hi thanks for the question. Overseas was emphasized cause developers in other countries tend to be cheaper in cost. I found that developers in U.S average around $40-$60/hr while developers overseas can range from $10-$20/hr. This is based purely on my experience on oDesk.com. Hope that answers your question!
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I know many developers who make a living from the App Store. Yes, they usually have a spouse to help cover health insurance and they may disappear for weeks on client projects.

The catch is that they make money by writing and maintaining apps for organizations, large and small. From small non-profits to Fortune 500. They handle everything, including walking the client through the initial App Store registration process. You would never know they wrote the app because it is always under the official client account.
You are exactly the person this article and post was written about.
WordPress Bootstrap 2.1 now uses Bootswatch themes
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Democracy will never work because it can only work if EVERYONE is educated enough and by default humans are notoriously stupid and unaware of their own stupidity.

And here is what thinking like that gets us:

http://www.archive.org/details/nazi_concentration_camps
Creative Commons like this project uses?

The FSF and OSI are both clear about what liberties a licence must give to people for it to be called open source / free software, and "must allow commercial reuse" is one of them.

Software that includes a non commercial clause doesn't get built upon much and so clauses like that don't get much traction.
Walk a mile in Egor’s shoes
Ask HN: How do you find Freelance clients?
I have used both the 'Who's hiring (Freelance edition)' thread here, and many other job boards and such.

But...it's a lot of hit and miss.

Are there any reliable strategies for finding web app development freelance work consistently?
Big thanks for the feedback Jon.

1. Bounce doesn't actually (at least it isn't supposed to) use your GPS all the time. It should poll for updates every 30 minutes until it gets closer to when you need to leave, then we ask for updates the closer we get to your "Bounce time."

2. Yeah, we'll make it smarter so you can customize which events it notifies you for and which it doesn't.

Thanks again.
That's just patently untrue: either GTk or Qt would work perfectly. I don't see why the desktop environment would matter--the program doesn't have to (and probably shouldn't) care whether I'm on Gnome or KDE or Unity.

Moreover, all the popular environments support both GTk and Qt fairly well, and both are cross-platform, so you would actually be supporting more users than with a Mac OS-only program.

Really, fragmentation like this is not nearly the issue people make it out to be. Basically, everybody can use everybody else's programs on Linux, with the exception of very odd or customized systems. And the sort of people who have very odd and customized systems can fix problems themselves.

EDIT: Also, you could use wxWidgets. That would give you a native look on all the platforms you support.

I would also like to clarify that I understand an OS X user wanting to write an OS X-only program. The real issue is dissuading others from supporting Linux because of non-existent fragmentation issues. They simply do not affect people using GTk or Qt, in practice.
My thoughts on your website (not the app, jonschwartz already covered that)

1) Nothing in <title></title> (or favicon) [Looks like you have since added a title!]

2) I chuckled once I realized your app Bounce, used Unbounce as its landing page tool.

2a) That being said, I'd switch off Unbounce as quickly as possible. Unbounce free gives you only a 200 unique visitor limit, so the minute you might want to start using the A/B testing and other data (when you have a lot of traffic), you get kicked off.

3) You need a video to show this off -- before I download an app I want to know what it looks like, how it works, things like that. I know the android market link shows off a few pictures, but I think you should also have them on your website as well.
Agreed.

But the fact that they've setup an internal division to explore the changes in technology and their impact on publishing is a solid positive indicator.

That said, large models are slow to shift, and there's plenty of examples of boneheaded executives within all media clinging helplessly to the titanic.

Hopefully the leaders at WaPo are genuinely interested in the lifeboat that cmdrtaco is sure to provide.
Yeah, the GPS thing is surprising. My understanding of Android development is limited but doesn't Location Manager allow for cell/wifi location detection? I'd really like to see this with GPS as an optional or last resort fallback.

For instance, I'm here in my office and have no GPS coverage and bounce is stumped.

Neat idea, needs better execution, looking foward to updates.

EDIT: One other point of feedback. I have an appointment at the Panama Hotel in Seattle. That appointment shows up in Calendar and maps figured out the location without a problem, but Bounce thinks I'm going to Panama. The republic. Is there any way to pull this from Maps?
Constitutional Republic yes

This is a form of Democracy.
I actually love this. What would be a great feature is the ability to "add to clipboard". I found myself wanting to share one, and it was a bit of a bitch to copy and paste it (the structure on the page just doesnt lend well to highlight and copy)
This is freaking awesome and I can't wait to build it.
Unfortunately not; the most recent book I read on the period was Gathering Storm, by W. S. Churchill (not the most unbiased observer, but very engaging reading).
Very, very biased article:

- What about you divide the prices you mention by the number of people required to make the product. An app developper's team is often less than 5 people. Apple's iphone team is probably more than 150 people including all the overhead. Well make the math, you'll see that developers are pretty well off, thanks.

- It's already been mentioned but there are heavy costs involved in both the creation of the device, and the Network.
These overhead costs have to be included in the price.

- And finally, it's still the law of the market. If these prices weren't right, you can be sure that they would change. Why do developers keep doing what they do if the pay is shitty as you seem to imply? Well they do it maybe because it's actually not all that bad. Maybe they do it because that's a relatively easy way to monetize the great skills they have (no need to build a company, blabla.. you make a great app, you sell it). Oh, and by easy I don't mean that anybody could do it, far from it. I'm just saying that for a guy incredibly gifted like some of these developers, creating apps is probably a much better deal than having a regular job.
Hi Ian - quick question that you might be able to answer (since you're currently out there!): do you happen to know what the policy is if a founder wants to take his non-business partner with him (i.e. long term gf or wife)? Is it something generally discouraged or is it fine if one covers the costs out of ones own pocket? Do you know of any team founders/members currently down there that have done this? Thanks!

I had a skim through the FAQs on the startup chile site but couldn't find a direct answer.
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Honestly it wasn't meant as a canard — this was basically my thought process when I was thinking through an app idea. I'm surely uninformed and some of that is a function of my own laziness, but it's also a reflection of how much diversity there is. I feel like it's akin to Kissinger's rhetorical (at the time) question "Who do I call if I want to call Europe?"
All republics that actually are republics are democracies; true republican government is a form of democracy.
Congrats Rob! WaPo Labs is lucky to have you. Excited to see 14 years of slashdot learnings applied to Social Reader/Trove and to reinvigorate journalism-at-large.
I gave it a whirl. Entered some ruby and clicked post with no title entered. Nothing happened. Just back to /post...
Good call. We'll start working on a video shortly.

We use some rudimentary location lookup APIs now, but hope to improve them going forward. We should have place lookups soon (e.g. starbucks, etc.) but places that don't show up on Google maps searches probably won't work.

Thanks for the feedback.
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funkah: I assumed. Please excuse the obtuse sense of humor.

I was just trying to stress that a modicum of success writing apps doesn't necessarily pay out that well. (I've avoided some of the more distasteful privacy-agnostic and annoy-ware revenue streams however.)
In a system where people are protected from one other by individual rights, someone being too lazy or too greedy (if that is even possible) can only hurt themself.

How can your laziness or greed affect me?
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With as much thought and subsequent execution that has gone into the design and development of the iPhone, there appears to me to be a glaring issue around one of the most fundamental interactions on the device, namely, finding an application on your dashboard.
Using "CSS selectors" to traverse a tree of nodes is utterly stupid.

Clearly your opinions differ from the majority of the web community.

Why do you think we now have document.querySelectorAll?

Have a look at the mdn article: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Document.querySelectorA...

example given on that page: var matches = document.querySelectorAll("div.note, div.alert");

also :

http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/

Makes perfect sense.

That's what recursion/tree traversal algorithms are for

No. That's what highly optimized browser internals are for.

I test all the way back to IE 5.5

Why? ie5.5 is 12 years old.