skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Green cars aren't cheaper, but people that choose the color green also choose cheaper cars on average when compared to people that buy any other color.
Look at brubeck (mentioned here). It doesn't support the different state management styles since Python's coroutines are broken, but it does most of it.
The social web is dead. The spying became too scary.
The question is who pays for the funeral.
On a more personal note, it would be great if someone could compare this with meteor.js (which recently got featured on HN)? I mean a brief comparison would be really great..without having to dig up the docs in detail..
I know this is off topic but are there plans for a learn lua the hard way.
I was part of the team that rebuilt Narrator (the built in screen reader for Windows) for Vista. A few days after we had a minimal version running I tried to use it with Visual Studio to make a small change with the monitor turned off. For me it was next to impossible.
Kickstarter Saving Hardware Innovation?
strange. can't see this without being logged in.
So sign language isn't really one-to-one, but that is something that I really want to work with, so I look forward to getting a unit. I think this system has a lot of potential as a learning tool! Awesome job guys!
نتيجة الصف السادس الابتدائي 2012 الترم الثاني جميع محافظات مصر
On Chrome in Windows 7, the smallest text under your initial images is dropping bars.
From the release notes: "Gopher over IPv6!"

I'm really tempted to set up a gopher server on an IPv6-only host, just to try this out. While perhaps pointless, it's a testament to open source that NMAP includes this.
Rory Sutherland talk from Business of Software 2011
Plain English. Nice job.
As always the unintended consequences.

Why does a user buying an extra iPad case constitute something that needs to be banned by law, isn't it covered by caveat emptor?

If government can mandate people to buy insurance what's wrong with a company putting insurance as a default? Perhaps instead of making defaults companies should petition the government to make such coverage mandatory.

Haven't consumers shown their preferences by continuing to do business with these companies?
Building Twilio Client for Android
Fair play, didn't read the blog post. Just watched the video
I'm more conservative than libertarian, but I'd argue that since laws generally have unintended, often negative consequences, the bar has to be pretty high before establishing a new law.

I'd also argue that in America, there's far too many laws on the books already that criminalize trivial behavior conducted without criminal intent. That plus prosecutors more interested in winning than justice equals prison time for people who accidentally failed to follow an obscure regulation.

Many of those 'dark patterns' could easily be implemented inadvertently and without malice. If I flub my product design and accidentally make my email opt-out options confusing, I deserve a little negative feedback, not jail time.
There are thousands and thousands of orphan children out there, why not adopt one? I'm not deaf, and thankfully have no physical illnesses (except that I sit too much in front of a computer), so there's no statistical reason to fear that my genes could go wrong, but I'm sure I'll never have kids.

I don't want to judge other people, but to me, the idea of having a child while there are millions of orphan children (a huge percentage of them are healthy and very smart) who would love nothing more than a home is very unethical.

I know that this might be a controversial view and most people don't feel this way, but I just wanted you to know that there are other alternatives.
The name is a turn-off for me, as a recovering soda pop drinker.
To sell or not to sell?
Microsoft isn't going 'back to the old look'. They're moving toward a simpler, flatter, more "authentically digital" look. The Windows 8 desktop doesn't look like the Vista desktop, but it looks even less like XP or Windows 95.
VP of Palo Alto's SAP Arrested in LEGO Bar Code Scam
Coda 2 Upgrade Pricing for Mac App Store customers
Naegleria fowleri ("brain-eating amoeba") has a fatality rate estimated at 98%
Why I Am Learning To Code
> off-topic: You have one of the coolest facebook usernames. Completely stumped me for a while!

Even though you warned me, I was still taken aback: http://facebook.com/about.xhtm
Ask HN: Hacker news clone script in Ruby?
I need to build an Hacker news website in Ruby?
(Obviously not about Hacking. I just need a similar upvote algorithm)
There have been a few IAMA's on reddit from children of deaf parents. I googled for one but found several. You might find them interesting:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fto7h/iama_hearing_chi...

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p529d/iama_16_hearing_...

http://fr.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sdtr1/iam_13_year_old_g...
Majority of Americans Agree: Protecting the Environment Creates Jobs
Heap sounds like overkill to find the middle value in a running list. What's wrong with simple stack and keeping track of how many integers you've received?
They both have descriptive, helpful websites.
And this can solved, for the purposes of a rank beginner, with a $80 setup by a competent guitar tech.
what did we achieve from going to the moon (there was nothing there)? Only a few people even saw the moon, ~900 million of people on facebook. Even people like Neil Armstrong has come against going to the moon again and is against SpaceX
Mike from Minnesota who stopped by New Relic
Mike!

We would like to talk to you more. Figured I would try this mode of communication.

Regards
Darin (dswanson@newrelic.com)
At worse, a mis-representation, but hardly a "lie" or "false claim".
Say what you want, but that demo was absolutely brilliant.

I am not the target audience, though.
public: the show moved, fair game

private: what the partners said or didn't say to each other, dynamics of their relationship

good taste is to use all public info as pr, bad taste use private info as pr.

I listened to dan's special again, something just doesn't sound right about it. he wishes john good luck but then implicitly blame's john for not doing one last goodbye show. this is where the (implied) private stuff comes in, who knows why john didn't want to do one last show, maybe john's just an asshole, maybe dan was an asshole and john doesn't want to see him, maybe they're both assholes, who knows. i don't, that's private. so dan should've kept those speculations out of the public ears, but instead he frames john as the guy who didn't feel like he owed it to the fans to have one last show, when the reason for that is probably private. sorry, something just doesn't sit well with me about that.
It has a "Railsier" "Convention over Configuration" type ethos. Certainly more opinionated, if nothing else, where as Backbone is more of an empty canvas & instruments to cover it.

There are technical difference as well, but I think that's less of an issue.
I've been thinking about this a lot with Hallo (http://hallojs.org/), and I'm starting to come to the conclusion that the traditional way of doing tables in WYSIWYG editors is simply wrong.

What is a table editor would essentially be a database query, with data coming from your CMS or some other system? Then instead of building a generic table by hand you could do things like Insert a table of attendees of this event, with columns displayName, company, and email.

I'll try to do some experiments with this in the summer.
Web-browsing users might be the most serious threat to your organization's data
...since users are never in any one process for very long by design the risk is smaller.

You might design the interactions to be brief, but how do you actually enforce that when you need to upgrade or reclaim resources?

To make this more concrete, suppose you have a shopping cart. Sure it probably only takes most people 5 minutes to check out from start to finish, but what about the stragglers? Do you have a nice way of timing out the coroutine handler due to inactivity, and saving off state when that happens?

Or do you just solve it the HN way ("Unknown or expired link," hmm what does that even mean).
Are Dads awesome too?
I'm not sure what you have in mind (perhaps finding the mean? but why the stack?) but that would not work for median.
I remember when all the major networks covered a space launch. The count down, the NASA checklists, Walter Cronkite talking to some ex-astronaut type person explaining what was going on. This feels like that (except for the fact that not a lot of coverage other than NASA TV and a web cast). I appreciate that it will be on earlier on the west coast, waiting until nearly 3AM was killing me :-).
Keep in mind they didn't sell all of the company, only a fraction of it. The biggest shareholders are basically the same as before the IPO... the idea is not to price that one day to perfection, it's to maximize the value over a period long enough to unwind the rest of your position in the secondary market. If you IPO a company and the IPO "busts", it reduces investor demand for shares when you actually try to sell the rest of them out into the market.
I feel like I'm reading a global warming deniers thread and the evidence provided is the current temperature outside.

Time will tell. What happened today doesn't actually mean anything in the long run.
Admittedly, I'm not a huge Facebook user, so maybe this is ignorance on my part, but...

If you're already in the store buying a sandwich, why are they even promoting the Facebook account? When I buy a car, the salesman doesn't ask me to go watch their commercial on TV afterwards.

Does the number of "likes" factor into how often their ads get served?
"So far, Facebook has defaulted to the laziest of all revenue models:
ads. It is clear that Google is the king of ads,
and this is because intention beats behavior."

A well-turned phrase, but actually Facebook has intention in a way far more nuanced than what Google captures. When I "like" something on Facebook not only am I sharing my intention, but a very focused one that directly reflects my interests. I may search Google for things not directly relevant to me (homework, curiosity) I may buy or look for things on Amazon that are not for me (gifts, price comparisons) but if you like something on Facebook chances are that Facebook can strongly infer what other things you may like--Netflix has in fact profited off of this exactly (as has Amazon) and it is possible to build a recommendation engine from this data that will have greater potential than Google's because it can predict what ads will be likely to resonate with customers.
Why Business Intelligence Guys Shouldn’t Do Analytics for IT Operations
Thanks for mentioning this! I read this bit on the project page:

The big change from previous versions of ipy.vim is that it no longer requires the old brittle ipy_vimserver.py instantiation, and since it uses just vim and python, it is platform independent (i.e. works even on windows, unlike the previous nix only solution). The requirements are IPython 0.11+ with zeromq capabilities, vim compiled with +python.

And had a moment of panic. As the guy who wrote ipy_vimserver.py (the playing mentioned in my previous post) I am both glad that this awesome project ivanov wrote evolved from it, and horrified that people were using it :). (particularly after searching for ipy_vimserver on google, and finding a lot of issues people were having...)

Cheers.
There's no reason to assume their P/E should be the same. P/E is only one of a range of ways to compare company values, and there are lots of reasons (growth, risk, etc) why the P/Es of two different companies might differ. I don't agree with FB's valuation, but the argument has to be more complex than simply comparing P/Es.
I agree 100% (even though I don't know what or if they changed the Django ORM - most likely yes)

Use the tools to launch faster, then optimize.
http://evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

This might be a good start. Doesn't really take time into account, but I don't see that part being too hard to add.
If 10 people are sharing a file, it is kinda questionable that should result in 90 instances of pirating (9 x 10) when there's only 10 people and 1 song involved.

I guess you could argue that if 5 people worked together to steal a car, they all get charged with attempted theft of that car. In other words 1 person doesn't get charged and 4 get to go free, or they don't all get charged with attempted theft of 1/5 of a car.

I would think though that could be an argument against the supposed lost revenue. I'm sure the content companies are doing the math to show the highest figures possible.
OS X Mountain Lion Brings iOS-like Automatic Downloads for Apps
I wonder if i'm the only one that finds Gruber annoying to listen to after knowing what kind of person he seems to be. I guess i'll swing by DF weekly instead of daily...
Well I have one :-) I still have to put some content on it though...
The news, to you at least, might be that HN readers don't read each and every article religiously on the front page, day in and day out.

Thus, a large subset of us can discover and discuss an article after multiple postings.
Here's a reddit thread with that same question, about three years later

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ke5ao/how_can_y...
Carrying the internet around in your pocket is, indeed, revolutionary.
Because tables are a basic, centuries old, typographic feature that is also needed -no ifs or buts- in HTML editors?
The making of the term 'pink slime'
Ditto Whatever-star from Perl6 which is more akin to Scala's underscore but using an asterix (http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/day-19-whatever/)

Here's the Ruby examples in perl6 (all work in Rakudo)...

[10, 11, 12].map: (* + 87).chr;

@owners.map: *<name>;

"alpha\nbeta\ngamma\n".lines.map: *.uc;

NB. A limited version of Whatever-star is also available for perl5 - https://metacpan.org/module/Whatever
This is a big problem with podcasting in general these days. If you want to listen to even 3 shows per week you could be looking at 4.5 to 5 hours worth of material. I would love to see 5by5 maybe splice up these shows into chapters or otherwise offer some time index that allows me to skip to the parts I'm actually interested in. I would have no problem with a pre/post-roll ad for each segment. There are a number of 5by5 shows I'd like to listen to but I just don't have 10-15 hours per week for it.
You mean like Sid Meier and Chris Sawyer?
Small, cohesive goal oriented teams with clear well defined goals can achieve so much.
You're in a big hole already. Stop digging.
not using this for pr is not talking about who said/didn't say, did/didn't do what. using it for pr is talking about one-side of a two-sided relationship. Dan's 100% correct to tell his listeners the old show they listened to isn't on any more and his hope they try some of the other shows, takes about 30 seconds. but unfortunately he doesn't stop there, and that's where it crosses the line.
I was developing a Liferay portal for a client which needed (in my idea) complete accessibility. I used my iPad to move in the page and was a big experience, most of my initial design was not tested over visual appearance but semantic accessibility.

If you own an iOS device do activate VoiceOver and try to surf YOUR applications (and more important, your WEB applications). Even better, let someone else do it for you.

You'll discover how hard and difficult can be to READ a page not designed to be read but scanned with eyes.

Please, do it. Blind people have the same right to access your content and features.
Motorola/Google a done deal, dealing with a larger iPhone + a new iPhone 3GS
"It reminds me of my realtor who would put houses on the market extremely underpriced generate huge amounts of interest."

Different situation. Pricing the IPO lower (as others have pointed out) would bring less money to facebook. And of course in the case of real estate there is no obligation to sell even if someone offers the asking price or even over the asking price.
What's interesting is how the upper class words are the french words. This is due to the Norman invasion. So the germanic word "cow" which the farmer deals with gets turned into "beef" for the lord. The lowly germanic "chicken" becomes a french "poultry". A simple germanic "house" is not as grand as a french "mansion" or "manor".
I'm reminded of an interesting story from a great podcast (99% invisible) about a blind architect.

http://podbean.99percentinvisible.org/2010/11/19/99-invisibl...
Does anyone else feel that 410TB of user data seems quite a lot? If I have my maths right, even if all the 80 million objects are user data (as opposed to, say, logs) thats 5.3mb per object. Considering that most pinterest photos are from the web, that seems quite big.
It doesn't look like a rigged demo http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7409264n
Meteor covers the client and the server, and tries to hide the different roles they play and how they communicate with each other. Ember is purely a client-side MVC framework, server's up to you (besides some conventions).
Interestingly, this T-Mobile prepaid sim I'm on blocks me from nmap.org
Seems like a sensible stack.

However, is it not reasonable that would someone not consider node.js, as web stack as well?

I will agree the focus is more towards backend and asynchronous API's traditionally, but the amount of front-end/UX orientated modules are growing every day.
> It means that Apple will pull Coda 2 in about 7 days after its lunch.

Citation required. Can you back up that statement? Everything else that I've seen indicates that Apple will require apps submitted after June 1 to be sandboxed. I've seen nothing indicating they'll pull old apps.

Furthermore, what's to say they can't get custom entitlements? Apple is extremely eager to have every app sandboxed and has emphasized many times they'll work with apps who need permissions not in the standard set of entitlements to build custom entitlements.
Do they know you're there? Do they realise that they can do interesting research, and build a product, and get a chance at funding from you?

Has anyone tried to solve that publicity problem?
This is kind of a weird problem, because it requires you to keep all the numbers in memory, so the "streaming" aspect is a lot less useful. And then once you have the list in memory there are linear median finding algorithms. The only way out that I can see is if you expect the incoming data to follow a normal distribution you can short-circuit the entire problem and just calculate the mean.

EDIT: One could construct a "Counted B-Tree" which is a pretty straightforward augmentation of the B-Tree (quick google result: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/algorithms/cbtre...). The insertion cost would still be of complexity log(n), the median could also be retrieved cheaply, and the data is kept sorted, but it takes more space.
Well, then just ignore them --or show them with bold and _italics_, Markdown style.

Although, I think modern terminals can do bold fonts, e.g this gives you bold in bash:

echo -e "\033[1mtest\033[0m again"
I have a coworker who is blind that gave a presentation a couple months ago about creating accessible websites. This isn't really about how to code; instead it is more about how to make websites accessible. He has a couple demos of using JAWS.

http://blog.nerdery.com/2012/01/developing-accessible-websit...

Also, I recognize the irony of a video presentation about browsing the web blind.
No such convention. Windows does some funky detection of when the exe might need to elevate privs but it detects anything with the word setup in the filename.
Putting on gloves is kind of goofy and severely limits the applications.

Also, this is the first iteration of the tech. The same tech can be used to cover a football field and more.
Tools are there to make things easier. It doesn't make you any less of a developer just because you use the Refactor command rather than manually change 20 files. In fact it makes you a better developer.

No offense but I would NEVER hire anybody who subscribed to your way of thinking.
They have "a right to access your content"?
Is there a law specifying this? What are the penalties for breaking the law?
Any word when twilio client will run on WebRTC? Sound quality on the current flash client makes it almost unusable...
I've noticed that pattern as well and took the same thing from it as you did.

It does align with my natural bias however, so gotta be careful about confirmation bias.
New database of 5 billion healthcare claims could revolutionize healthcare
Why is it hard to share screenshots?
At first I thought that you were veering into dangerous chair by armchair lawyering, but then I read the article. It is borderline libel (meaning that a jury could find the statements libelous). [Note: For legal purposes, libel is written/published while slander is spoken and they have different material elements but they otherwise refer to the same concept.]

Also, curiously, other than accusing Safer of outright lying, the article does not actual refute anything that Safer claims. Safer notes that Thiels fellows are provided social instruction (specifically, "networking skills"), but that clip is merely an aside to a longer video piece on the nature of the fellowships themselves and place in the national discussion on education.
So this will run approved software only as well?

Well, that's a big turnoff for a dev. Why instead of maximizing the short term profit you concentrate on the long-term and make this system open with certain limitations to assure your business?
I can't wait until next week, when these daily articles about Facebook's market capitalization and Mr. Zuckerberg's net worth go away.
Your comments about ASL and English are interesting. There are people who only/primarily speak ASL and don't speak English? Does this account for the low literacy rate the OP mentioned?
I work on adaptive mobile robots as part of my research, and I'd be very interested to see how the LEAP compares to the Kinect in this area. I submitted a developer kit request, so maybe I'll get to find out.

Also, from the Ars Technica post on LEAP:

"The company says the breakthrough in resolution comes not from the hardware, which consists of relatively standard parts, but from what CTO David Holz calls 'a number of major algorithmic and mathematical problems that had not been solved or were considered unsolvable.'"

I'm conflicted by that statement. As a current academic, I hope they publish these supposed breakthroughs, as hiding them behind trade secrets makes me sad. As an entrepreneurial-minded person, however, I understand the desire for competitive advantage.
The insulting and derogatory remarks is stuff like:

"Also, it's GitHub's fault that they use an existing secure method of transferring source code instead of writing a new protocol that's easier for you to use. Because 4 step-by-step instructions are too hard to follow. OK."

"I'm not even asking that you understand it, but simply be able to follow very, very simple instructions."

"If you're a dev, source control is one of your tools. Learn it or find a tool that holds your hand more. I don't know how it gets more hand-holdy than step by step instructions that take 4 minutes to carry out."