skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I wonder how many mysterious performance problems can be traced to things like this?
This happened to me a few times. I did have a new account but after I made a few successful sells it still happened. Shipping to California took a week or more plus an additional 3 days of "review" period, it really sucks. There's also a new charge called final value free where they take a chunk of what you sell and keep it, apart from the seller fees already. If you sell something for $200 you better believe it'll be $170 before it's over with.

I don't know if it's greed, or they really are trying to be helpful but it's starting to be a pain. eBay is turning into MySpace, I wonder who the Facebook will be?
OP, what does this line do?

if (wn == 1) pwn = '1-ին շաբաթ';

It looked like something related to week number; looks interesting.
"Because in addition to that $200 for the bus ticket, they'd also need money on hand for first month's rent, security deposit, probably some new furniture and houseware, etc. plus enough saved up to be able to commit to the lease without knowing how much income they'll have... if/once they do manage to line up a job."

These concerns are not unique to the current generation. Pulling up stumps and moving in search of work and prosperity has ALWAYS been risky (hell, I've done it three times so far, once while massively in debt). It's just that now there's a very strong trend towards risk aversion, which makes it that much harder for the entrepreneurial spirit to flourish.

In fact, it's even worse than that; With the internet, it's easier than ever before to find a job before you even decide whether to move or not. And yet more and more people remain complacent in a 13% jobless rate area when 3.3% is available for the taking.

Of course, the good news is that for those who ARE adventurous, there's never been a better time to move and take advantage of the opportunities created by the fear of the majority.
Note that I said believed to be Aryan descendants. I have seen the studies de-bunking Aryan invasion based on the genetic make-up, but I don't believe there is a consensus yet.

More importantly, I was pointing out India as a country fragments itself at all levels. You know what will change if the Aryan invasion was a myth - nothing as far as the north indian and south indian fragmentation is concerned.
Opencredo launches WebTrader (Scala, Lift, CloudFoundry)
FUNNY

I was trying to figure out what the "avg:" was in profiles. Then I compared a couple, and one bully (bullying someone else this time) had modest avg: while the victim had very high average, but bully has very high "karma" --- which seemed counter-intuitive. Low value posts but high karma? So I wasn't sure what "avg:" was if not post points.

But I believe it is post points. So, for high "karma," bully must post a LOT, but his posts are not well received (even though high "karma" would suggest otherwise). So (guessing) "karma" seems more about quantity (than quality) in bully cases.

Then, since I have negative "karma", I got curious about my own "avg:" since I didn't realize I had one. So I checked.

Apparently when your "karma" is negative, you have no "avg." :-) YC/HN just leaves the value blank. So I am holding steady at -19 YC/HN "karma" and have no "avg: [this space intentionally left blank by YC/HN]"

:-)
The same thought occurred to me. Perhaps Google is like Lake Wobegon, where everyone is above average. :)

But a kinder interpretation is to note that there is a kind of threshold of intelligence which, if most everyone is across it, makes technical communication much easier. This fact mixed with (false?) humility to yield the mistake.
Check out ShQQ, a Haskell module that does something like that:

http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/shqq-embe...

> λ> let x = "/proc/uptime" in [sh| sha1sum $x |]

> "337ec3fb998fb3a4650a18e0785f0992762b3cda /proc/uptime\n"
There is nothing wrong with being uninterested in the finer details of CSS.

I make websites because I want to share information and programs I have written with people. I want to do that as efficiently as possible, so I can get back to making more interesting things.
What OS do you use? I usually just type 'date' on the terminal.
What do you mean by "spirituality" which you think we should not give up?
How does one get 5gb/mo of 3G/4G data access without contract at walmart for $30/mo (via a sim chip)? Tethering a pay as you go?
تردد قناة صوت الشعب الجديده 2012
Instagram May Soon Be Valued at $500 Million
Looking for Location-Based Love
SFBrowser File Manager With PHP and jQuery
This is super useful for entrepreneurs or anyone serving this market. What do real estate profs think re: its utility?

Could this be a site addon (widget) which aggregates to your site in 'lenses' (i.e., real estate, veterinarians, etc.)?
Why not keep the money in an interest bearing account and give the interest to the people who own the money? It's not so much about eBay earning interest, it's about me not earning interest (among other things). eBay not earning interest doesn't fix that.
You have to remember that this is relative to SQLite, which has a global write lock of its own.
I feel it's no more of a curse than an OS drawing GUI widgets for me so I don't have to. If I really need to customize things I can, but for now I have a fully working application without lots of fiddling.

After all, could you not consider a web browser a tool for the lazy web developer who doesn't want to learn how to make slick cross platform native applications?
That is like saying I code html/etc in notepad because anyone using anything else is uninterested in the craft.

When it comes down to spending 10 hours on a fancy button that works in all browsers vs spending that time adding features I welcome tools such as bootstrap and jquery.
clever url folks.
I love the OPA documentation page.

That is all
PhoneGap/Cordova 1.5.0 Released
This is a good opportunity for me to re-read http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...
Foundation by ZURB is another awesome framework, then there's Blueprint, YAML and can't forget 960gs. Personally I use none of them, I developed my own framework that I've dubbed Frankenwork as it's a culmination of the things I like from each of the well-known frameworks.
George, I really like your laundry-list post - and you're right, it could be much longer (at the very least, break "web programming" down into frameworks). And it inspires a thought that is only tangentially related to the OP's point, and that is the utility of fragmentation. There's a curious phenomena that when you list all of the languages out like that they all seem so...equivalent.

And yet they are only equivalent in the same way human languages are: there is a shared core of ideas that are expressible in any language, and then there are things which are easier to express in some, and which cannot be expressed in some others.

The proliferation of computer languages seems to be strong evidence to the claim that programmers do NOT believe in the equivalence of languages. And perhaps pg is right, that we already have a winner, Lisp, and most people are just too blind to see it.
> This has profound implications for Mozilla.

That's where Boot2Gecko comes in. Successful or not, that's the motivation behind the project.
Can I just say (as the curator of Built With Bootstrap) that we're very much looking for sites with great flair and creativity. At the same time we believe everyone deserves a fair and equal chance at some free promotion (http://builtwithbootstrap.com/post/19008579170/love-it-or-ha...).

At the end of the day, use what's right for the job and if you want to let the world know about it, give us a submission and we'll get you on there for free.
Actually I just wrote the first draft of one of the essays I said during that talk I should write.

Writing essays depends on having uninterrupted blocks of time. Between kids and the growth of YC I don't have as many of those as I used to. I should try to arrange things so I have more.
Simple, but awesome. About two years ago I had the idea (but never implemented) to try and re-make various since use web tools and calculators using modern web technology. Things like interest/mortgage calculators, voltage drop calculators, difference between two dates, etc.

So many of them like Time.gov rely on stuff like Flash or Java, or 1998 style Javascript, which I don't really dig. Definitely a nice little hole there for making something cool.
What are you talking about, he's using standard banner-style-indent with lisp-close-brackets (i.e. the closing brackets are on the last line of the body, not below the body)

I use banner style in all languages and it works well.
Google Translate says it's Armenian and means "1st week"
Jane McGonigal shows how games make us resilient
Unfortunately, this isn't really practical.

- It requires solidarity by criminal defendants, many of whom will go to jail for a long time absent a plea agreement. It is literally, the prisoner's dilemma.

- Absent posting bail, you stay in jail until you go to trial (which can be a long time in a scenario where everyone is in fact going to trial). The "excessive bail" clause of the 8th Amendment, in practice, has been eviscerated. Bail is routinely set so high that the only way it is affordable is to pay a bondsman. This means that it's easy to punish people prior to a trial for exercising their rights. A stay in jail prior to trial can be as or more destructive than being convicted - you likely lose your job, your housing, possibly custody of your children, all without any process.

The judicial system has ~ a thousand years practice at maintaining control and getting the outcomes (overall) that the State desires. It is not a simple matter to "force" it to do anything.
I'm curious why no one has a good answer for the comments questioning why the compiler doesn't optimize out the +0/-0 instead of converting it to a floating-point, which triggers this issue.
> what if you could plug a cable into your brain and experience your wildest dreams, as vividly as real life?

Tough one. Even if everyone is offered the same choice, I'm not sure I'd take it, because I (think I) value actual interaction with my peers (I trust the brain stimulator could provide realistic fake interaction).

The point is, if I really valued internal stimulation only, I would plug into the machine in a heartbeat. But I do care about the outside world, so I'd probably wouldn't do that. That's why I don't think it is impossible to build an AI that actually makes sure it optimizes the outside world, instead of mere internal reward signals.
inconsequential indent level. Makes it impossible to analyze algorithms at a glance. If you are consequent about your indent levels and get a lot of experience writing code like that, you can glance over a piece of text, notice the main keywords and indent levels, and you immediately have a good idea of what the code might be doing.
Culture makes companies hard to turn around
I've been hit by nasty slow-downs with denormal numbers a couple of times. It's much easier to hit these problems with single-precision floating point, where near underflow happens much more quickly than with doubles.

As a folk-theorem of numerics goes though: such problems are often a symptom that you're not doing quite the right thing. Should your numbers really be that small? Often recasting the problem slightly avoids having to turn on low level flags or other hacking.
The Connection Between Wi-Fi and Illness is Real
The handling of internationalization is surprisingly good. Texts, including town names, are almost all shown in the preferred language, and the size variations introduced by the translations are well handled.
"Placebo is amazingly powerful"

Not really. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/spin-city-plac...

Placebo mostly just /feels/ amazingly powerful. For some symptoms, like pain, this is good enough. But it doesn't really have much of an effect in terms of treating an actual physiological problem.

A lot of homeopathy/other placebo is administered by CAM "doctors" who think that it actually works! The idea that someone with that little real knowledge and a wealth of misinformation about how the human body works (ditto biology, basic chemistry, or the scientific process) is trying to treat medical problems is, frankly, terrifying.

See also:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/benedetti-on-p...
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-rebranding...
You should do some research before claiming that there isn't evidence for something. If you look at the wikipedia article on tDCS, you'll find a number of peer-reviewed citations regarding its safety and efficacy.
Additionally, this doubts the ability of the US Justice system to keep up if its pushed. Yes, its already pretty slow and inefficient, but most other countries would probably think that it would be impossible to prosecute and detain as many people as the US already does. Just because its hard to imagine scaling the system up even more, doesn't mean they couldn't scale it.

Politics around "we need more jails to keep dangerous criminals away from your children" almost always result in more jails and more prosecution. Logic rarely prevails. I feel confident that the US would just attempt (unfortunately) to double their capacity.
It's because it looks like a landing page for an internet marketing ebook. I scrolled to the bottom to make sure it wasn't that or a mailing list full of the secrets for success that somehow got to the frontpage.
So once again a large company introduces filters / AI / algorithms that screw up and occasionally (Or not so occasionally) screw the little guy.

and you know that, unless the little guy can get media interest to help on his behalf, there is nothing he can do.
Totally random first-thought possibility but could the app implement something similar to Shazam (can't remember if that's the app's name or not - the one that listens to songs and identifies them) to "listen" to something and recognize what time in the movie it is at?
Wells Fargo & Co. sets up BPO in the Philippines
Much better than the alternative (all consumption, zero production), but still not quite ideal in my personal experience. A two-phase approach is better - first comes the dead-zone, which is getting from boot-camp to the front-line. Sad as it is, you can't just jump straight into everything. I tried that when I first started learning to code, and I hit the same experience as you with JS - constant fallback on StackOverflow. Extremely frustrating since progress was unnecessarily slow and I didn't understand the fundamental philosophies behind the coding process and structure.

My current approach which is presently proving fantastic (we'll see where it goes) is to 1. bust through the dead-zone with brute force (I nicknamed it the dead-zone because it's precisely that for me - I can't get passionate enough to crank through it without imposing a strict regimen of study because it's not a project I can own and challenge myself with) and 2. get to working on a concrete personal/work project asap. Once I'm on the project I become obsessive and learn rapidly how all the pieces fit together - but that initial phase of consumption is invaluable for broad grasp of the subject at hand and understanding how all the pieces integrate into a whole.

That said, the ideal circumstance is that you're able to produce piecemeal as you progress through the initial consumption phase as well - Learn Python the Hard Way is a great example that's worked very well personally as an intro to Python, precisely because of its piecemeal hands-on approach. The Django Book tutorial is a nice counterexample - had to rush through that one so I could begin a project and incorporate what I'd learned before I forgot it as there were significantly fewer opportunities for incremental imprinting of acquired knowledge. It wasn't a bad experience, as I did manage to get through it in time before I lost the majority of what I'd learn, but that kind of consumptive material is severely limited by time - if you find yourself forced to consume something like that, get through it as fast as you can and start producing whenever you feel your knowledge slipping away.

TL;DR Consume a bit as fast as you can then produce
With arrests, HBGary hack saga finally ends
Airline Apps That Check You In & Follow Luggage
I think perhaps you are the one who needs to read up about it more.

> Placebo is astonishingly powerful

I would agree that placebo is "powerful", in that it can provide surprisingly powerful subjective effects...however it's mechanism is fairly well understood and it's nothing special.

Placebo is not an effective treatment overall, and the places where it is effective are things like say pain... in those cases it works by releasing endogenous pain relievers. Ditto for things like relaxation etc...

> Placebo usually works really well compared to no treatment

Well of course it works "really well" compared to no treatment...

Positive thinking, receiving attention from people around you, etc are all things that can have a positive impact on your health but these are not part and parcel with "the placebo effect".

Even so, I find the claim that "placebo works really well" dubious, and I'd ask you to provide a basis for support if you wish to make it again.

The fact is in the end, the placebo effect is small, unreliable, requires you to lie to your patient....and you could achieve as good or better results with real medicine.

It's just not a good practice...placebos belong in research as a control, and very rarely in certain situations yes it can be useful to dispense them...but not in an effort to "treat" people with the placebo effect.
There is ResoMail which does it, and it seems it's not very popular.
From QuickDraw to Quartz 2D
An great introduction to the history of Quartz2D
To check it out without using the chrome extension one can paste this piece of Javascript in the URL

javascript:(function(){var st = document.createElement('link');st.type = "text/css";st.href = "https://raw.github.com/Primigenus/Cleaner-Hacker-News/master/cleaner-hn.css";st.rel = "stylesheet";document.body.appendChild(st)})()

Latest chrome deletes the "javascript:" part so you may have to write it manually.
They're only turning into operating systems because the operating system vendors, all of them, have gotten "deployment" completely and utterly wrong, and the web has got it halfway right. It's not that the web is massively good at deployment, it's just that everyone else is so bad at it that the web wins despite being worse as an app dev platform in almost every other aspect.

This is what the web does right that OS's get wrong: cross-platform development without any vendor lock-in (not even dev tools lock-in), no installation required before using an app, no permission grants required before using an app, implicitly up-to-date without restarting the app (every click has the potential to load an updated feature), highly granular downloading of features on-demand (downloading the behavior behind every click as you are working, which is crazy when you think about it), and secure and reliable distributed computing. The only thing it gets wrong is offline support (HTML5 appcache doesn't cut it).

So, right now as a developer you can build your apps on a platform that gets deployment right (the web), or one that gets app development right (native). Someone will build a technology that combines those benefits, and people will use that instead of HTML/CSS/JS to build applications. I'm looking forward to that.
Viggle, the app that let's you earn rewards for watching TV
Very nice design! I'm going to use this permanently.
(Disclosure: I have never taken a financial math course.)

http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Prog...

Apparently at the time of writing it's worth $34.78 on paperback. You could argue that that's the printing costs. However, if I were to copy that book with a scanner and distribute it online for a cost of $0 it would be copyright infringement. Thus the words and ideas themselves must have some form of economic value. (Or at least perceived economic value.)

You can already measure one variable associated with reading: Time spent. After all, by some metrics time translates to money and vice versa. And okay, the benefits of reading are nonlinear. So instead make it a probability. What is the chance that the book I am about to read will, even in conjunction with other books, will have justified the amount of time I spent reading it? (You can probably use some subjective measures here like happiness generated from fantasy.) In the case of reading to enrich your knowledge in a particular field you ask an important subset of that question: What is the chance that this book will, even in conjunction with other books, have a significant impact on my ability to work in my chosen field versus the chance that if I went and started one of my projects right now I would succeed?

Theres more than one project I have right now for which I've said "Nope, need to do more reading.".
And here is a version that is a greasemonkey script so that you don't have to install an extra plugin (for Chrome anyways). Just download in Chrome or drag and drop onto Chrome.

https://github.com/overshard/greasemonkey-cleanerhn

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/128106

(Direct GitHub Raw Link) https://github.com/overshard/greasemonkey-cleanerhn/raw/mast...
It's not the +0/-0 that causes the issue, it's the repeated dividing.
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@Mystical answers in the comment section:

Now that I look at the assembly, not even + 0.0f gets optimized out. If I had to guess, it could be that + 0.0f would have side-effects if y[i] happened to be a signalling NaN or something.
Nice, I personally like this one better because it has bigger type:

http://stylebot.me/styles/248
Ask YC alumni: Three 17-year-old Montrealers want feedback on S12 application
We are ready to submit our application for YC S12, but before doing so we'd appreciate to get some feedback from YC alumni on our answers. If you're interested, we would have you read our application while getting your feedback in real-time on Skype.

We want to know whether:

1. Our answers are as matter of fact as they can. If there are things you think we should cut, we'd like to know.

2. The language is clear. English is not our first language (we are french), so we just want to make sure that what we wrote is understandable.

3. You think we have any chances of getting in. We are extremely confident that we will, but we think that YC alumni are well-placed to tell us what we should expect. Yet even if we don't get in, we will still move to Silicon Valley this summer.

We've been working a lot on our answers since February. We now think our application is good enough for us to submit it but we want to have all chances on our side and thus get as much feedback as we can before submitting it sometime next week.

Please contact me at frabrunelle[at]gmail or post your email in the comments if you are interested.

Thank you very much for your help.
"There's no shortage of smart, hardworking engineers. There's a shortage of smart, hardworking engineers willing to work for the kind of money we would pay if we just outsourced it to a cheap country" ~ Company CEO
A site that lets people crowd-source commercial products, like mobile or web apps. I think the hard part would be figuring out the value he person contributes to the product.
Intro to the Curator's Code: Honoring Attribution of Web Discovery
Believe what you want. If they use bootstrap with no tweaking at all, they don't deserve any attention for their design.