skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
relief

A friend asked me this morning if I fancied the Turing event this evening in Manchester. I'm currently skint and a bit under the weather so I had to pass. Seeing the list of speakers I momentarily felt a lot more unwell until I realised that this wouldn't be the same event!
The large-number-of-categories result was the most novel and surprising to me.
No, I absolutely was not defending language like "piddly shit". I was attacking language like "meaningless penis measuring contest". I think neither has a place on HN.

I have nothing to say about PHP (because I've never used it) I was reacting to a specific comment in jbm's post, which generalized languages and debates around them. Sorry for derailing the thread from the topic of PHP, and I probably shouldn't have made a little dig with "severe flaw".
Same here. Arrow buttons of some sort would help.
Google to launch Amazon, Microsoft cloud competitor at Google I/O 2012
I would be much more interested in a breakdown by age group with a representation of how large a percent of the total that represents. It seems to me that as we age, we have to die of something. I would be a lot more interested in why we die young.

Edit: Here is something close http://www.cdc.gov/Injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCD-Age-Grp-US-2009-...
I see, although it does leave the question - if New Zealand is in the future why do they have Hobbits?
Thank you, you may be the only one that caught my point. Technical articles by women don't often get submitted here and those that are don't get many upvotes, but articles claiming discrimination or industry wide hostile work environments are quite popular and usually feature long discussions and front page status.
ICANN, ICANT

[edit] In all seriousness though, is there any actual news about the specifics of why he resigned?
When do you commute? It says Cambridge to Bedford is about an hour, which is true at the start/end of rush hour. It's usually more than that if I get in my car after 3:30pm or before 6pm.

P.S. Hi from Bedford, MA. :)
"they garden to demonstrate that they are better than people who save money on food"

I think you'll find many more people who garden as a hobby or as a social exercise than people who do it for the smug value.
In practice it is very difficult to sell shares of a private company.
I would have been really entertained if this link returned a 404.
I was just using regular Wolfram Alpha.
But you'd have to guess that. It's not standard behavior.
Science Confirms: Bieber Fever Is More Contagious Than the Measles
The physicist in me won't think it's cool until there's some monte carlo simulations of commute times with some additional random walk information for alternate routes and stop light entropy, then a log-likelihood fit to find the best fit commute time.

Just kidding, it's alright, it's kind of off for the SF/PA commute though, by nearly a factor of two for many places in SF, unless you're doing absolute worst case scenario every day of the week.
I'd probably take an i7 Ivy Bridge over the Xeon Sandy Bridge, especially if it meant a lower price point. I don't really make good use of all those cores in any case, though the L3 cache penalty would probably be felt.
I think you are confusing "missing a requirement" with "not prioritizing a few other people's requirements". That pip is missing this feature has always been documented, I always knew it was a missing requirement, but I did not have any personal motivation to resolve that.
"What I'm saying with my argument is that the odds that we ended up in a "set" of universes similar to ours is exactly 0."

I generally use the anthropic principle in the context of evolution and our existence on this planet—of all planets in the universe—versus our existence in this universe. You could certainly take it to that extreme, but it's a much deeper venture and we know so little concrete data about it.

How many universes are there? Is it an infinite set, as some suggest? We don't know. Do they differ in their stability or cosmological constants? We don't know. How many universes have there ever been? We don't know. How much time has ever existed? We don't know. Does time even exist outside the 4-dimensional space of our universe? We don't know that, either.

But we do have a very good theory about how we came about, as sentient lifeforms, on this specific planet around this specific sun in this specific universe. That's quite a lot, actually.

If you can prove anything mathematically about the probability of our universe's existence by random chance as opposed to some outside factor, then book your flight to Stockholm. My most humble hypothesis is that you will require more data to run those numbers; data that we do not yet have. You could make some guesses, but that's all they'll be.

In the end, it boils down to the age old endless question: originally it was "how were we created?"; then it was, "how was the Earth created?", then "how was the solar system created?", followed by galaxy, space, the universe, whatever's holding the universe, ad infinitum. At the ever-expanding edge of our knowledge, "God" seems as good a word as any to describe that mystery.
Interesting article about unit testing as it relates to API development: http://blog.seatsync.com/2012/06/unit-testing-as-path-of-lea...

Unit tests of lower level back-end functionality is always a good idea, but I find it actually makes API development simpler because it frees you from the problems and complications inherent in testing via your target client.

Disclosure: I wrote the article.
I don't see Retina as priority for the desktop line at the moment. Sales of standalone iMacs and Thunderbolt Displays are a rounding error on their income streams and ordering 27" panels would soak up a lot of HiDPI panel output that would be much more valuable in portables.

The yield rates on giant panels right now would probably be atrocious, driving up costs. And Apple clearly doesn't need Professional Imprimatur to make money anymore.

But in a year or two, 200DPI will be table stakes for anything with a display.
I don't agree with that approach. It sounds nice for a sysadmin, but as a programmer I don't want to have to wait for you or the distributor to approve and package the libs I need to work with.
I don't know much about Erlang, can you expand on why you think it'd be a better fit? Is it just memory usage?
I work at a web design agency about that size. Good luck finding any budget for testing. Clients don't care, and if you budget for it most will go with a lower bid somewhere else.

As someone else said, it's basically account people clicking around, you fix stuff, they click more until they feel comfortable presenting it to the client. Then you find out that some bigwig at the client has a 5yr old blackberry where the layout doesn't work right, and that becomes your focus of your debugging for a week.
And different jobs - a printer jam doesn't do quite the same damage as an explosion in a coal mine.

Accident RATES in factories have gone down a lot, construction/farming a little less so - but the number of peopel exposed to the risk environment has dropped a lot
> Nope. Credit score is about the ability to repay in the US. Parent doesn't know what he is talking about.

OR I'm not in the US. Other countries exist. I'd be surprised if credit companies even in the US don't share the information on "low or no profit users" - ones who religiously pay off loans without paying any interest.
i do not understand... apart from a joke what is this? i do not even find it funny...
I am. It's my first web service and couldn't justify the expenditure
of a cloud based service. In fact, because it's my first experience,
I'm a really better off with the entire control. I can see exactly
what happens, when it happens. I can also switch database as I see
fit, the only requirement being to be runnable on my machine.

It simply runs on my working computer, on the background.
- 5.8 GB
- 4 CPUs @ 2.33 ghz

If I ever need to get more power/memory/bandwidth, (which would be a
nice problem) then I'll reconsider.

I suppose this is all a question of scale. Is your startup getting
10s, 100s, 1000s visitors a day?
Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
There are some neat things about it. Being able to retroactively distill an interface from code you do not have the source to. Sometimes I wish I could do this in c# when I mock stuff up.

Goroutines and channels are cool because they are simple to use. We have tasks in c# and I could construct channels in countless ways. But go makes them dirt simple.

I don't like the terse c-like naming conventions but that is a manner of taste. Makes it feel more close to the metal and less enterprisey I guess.

I wish there was go#
Error 451: Proposal for Web Standards to Indicate Censored Content
It would seem so:

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/08/09/197219/eve-player-l...
Google Maps API: Massive Price Cut In Wake Of Developer Defections
Do you have paying users ? How many if yes ?
Ed Felten: Protecting privacy by adding noise
Chrome is more popular than Internet Explorer is!
so do you have paying customers ? If yes, what is the approx. volume ?
A way to write client-side php
Suicide reporting is highly sensitive to politics/society. In some jurisdiction suicides under 18 were classified as accidents since minors couldn't legally have made a conscious decision. in others cases were "given the benefit of the doubt" to spare families
I have emailed Reddit about the legality of this project. (Have not received a response yet) So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site.

So consider this a small preview I suppose. I plan to port this to a Chrome Extension.

Do you guys find this format much more readable than the current completed IAmA?
Looks fake. PS - SOPA is over.
this comment is the second result on Google for "whois endosquid.com" within 40 minutes of posting the comment on Hacker News.

wow.
It says my commute time is 48 minutes to my work (in Denver). In reality, it is 25 min, at rush hour, 90% of the time.

Worst case is a surprise bad blizzard, it can take 2 hours if that happens (about once every four years)
Turing Machine as a Google doodle
Coming to a Google homepage near you. Soon !

(I had to use the shortened URL as otherwise it was not allowing because of an old duplicate!)
Times seem inflated in Austin, too. The smaller the time, the greater the error. The ten-minute area should be two or three times larger, but the 45-minute area bears some resemblance to rush-hour reality.

Also, every route seems to be treated the same. In the morning, the road I live on is always empty in one direction and congested in the other. I used to commute against traffic and now go the same way as everybody else, and I could go twice as far in ten minutes as I can now. The numbers will never be accurate until you ground them in real traffic data.
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter is my personal favorite piece of non-fiction.
That's good. I look forward to a time when Haskell will be a relevant point on my resume.
SVG, Use it Already
I was actually surprised at how little it has changed relative to the amount of safety regulations and technology. I always pictured the years around 1900 as being much more physically dangerous.
The answer, as far as I can tell, is that it makes it easier for Python (and Ruby and Perl) developers to share code and stay on the "latest and greatest" versions of their libraries. I mean, as a library author, what would you rather do? Just create a single egg, gem, CPAN package, or whatever? Or would you rather create three or four versions of the same package (one for Debian-based systems, one for Fedora-based systems, one for Gentoo, one for Arch, etc.)? I understand that it can be frustrating from a sysadmin perspective (pip, especially, isn't sysadmin friendly at all), but from the perspective of a library author, eggs and gems are much preferable to debs and rpms because I know that they'll work in a reasonably distribution independent fashion.

EDIT: I know that's not a satisfying answer. But, as far as I can tell, it is the primary reason that runtimes like Python and Ruby include their own package management rather than falling back on the package management that the OS provides.
Very interesting concept - thanks. It's stuff like this that makes reading comments worthwhile.
Good call. Corrected :)
Agreed, generally I believe that in this type of scenario that its far better to reach out to potential competitors or to companies (where appropriate) who can incorporate the product horizontally or vertically into their service/operations.

The comment was just providing some perspective over Flippa, that its not necessarily a place to sell sites for a few hundred bucks which I should probably have made clearer.
I'm sorry for being a stupid consumer but I still don't understand what cue is doing. I understood Greplin (search everything I have in the cloud), but I don't get what is point of Cue.

Which problem does it solve?
Maybe I'm not such a busy person. Or maybe the problem is that I don't care too much what is happening outside my email account.
Absolutely, but Penrose was a brilliant man; he surely understood the biological and scientific explanations of it all. Yet, he still held some mysterious belief that there was something magical about the process. This belief comes from the self-selection bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection_bias) (NOTE: not natural selection or evolutionary selection; there's a conflict of terms between probability theory and biology there—sorry for the confusion) I spoke of, and many people share it. From our individual perspective, or even from a human-wide perspective (which are the ones most familiar to all of us) we appear extremely special, extremely lucky to exist at all; to have been in the right place at the right time to undergo this process of evolution.

The anthropic principle simply invalidates this mystery: it is not special, it simply happened, and because it happened, we exist to observe it.

It doesn't care to explain evolution in any biological or scientific way; it only seeks to remove all doubt that it was able to happen at all.
The big change in death rate is due to stopping infectious diseases among infants.

The causes of death among older people is trickier because of changes in medical reporting procedures. Somebody who 50years ago would have died of "old age" now has to have a reported cause of death.

Since the ultimate cause of death is stopping breathing/heart stopping - you get a lot of cases of 90+year olds who die of pneumonia / heart failure. This tends to get reported in the press as "massive rise in heart disease"
I find it fascinating that Google is more than a decade old already and yet nobody has been able to completely copy all of their major innovations.
Twitter Crash: Hack Or Hardware Fail?
This would totally be usefull for wordpress sites when you install that one plug-in the designer just HAS to have... that proceedes to barf all over your javascript
At least Turing had some small evidence for his beliefs. I've always been a bit taken aback by claims for developing "atomic theory" by the ancient Greek Democritus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus). Since Democritus was going totally on guesswork, how can you credit him with starting a theory like that?
The problem is the distributions packages are often horrendously out of date. I have stopped using them entirely even for things like Numpy and Scipy which I would really rather use them for (as they take a long time to compile and rely on several C libraries and a fortran compiler). It isn't my favorite thing to have my fabric task compile all the dependencies but there isn't really an easy way around it.[1]

In general I think pip has drastically improved my work flow and code structures. For instance: I no longer use submodules for my library code, I pip install the git repositories. Huge improvement, way easier to manage.

[1] Obviously, you can get around it if you do things like copy the virtualenv and fix the paths as in the OPs post. However, I wouldn't call that "easy".
This is also a bad joke.
> If they don't want Secure Boot then the user can turn it off.

Unless you're on ARM, in which case you're screwed.
Great project. Would you please allow the slider to increase to values greater than 60 minutes? Unfortunately some of us poor souls in the Northeast regularly have 2 hour commutes into NYC.
What we saved by having hard hats at work and guards on machines - we lost by you commuting an hour in your car without a seatbelt
Probably a good business move on nVidia's part; doing a lot of extra work for free, for a single sale in the hopes that it leads to a better relationship is typically not profitable.

Furthermore if China wasn't willing to spend $10s of millions more on a $300 million project, one has to wonder how important it was to them.
Agreed on DC - the places that I plugged in from northern va. (22102, 22213, 22046, etc.) all seemed to be showing the best-case times. Some places that it says are a 5-10 commute are more like 30-45 minutes at rush hour.

Also, not related to the commute times, but the crime rates look strange. At least, it's showing Arlington, VA as almost completely red (very high crime). Maybe the data is right, but that would be surprising for one of the richer, more yuppified areas of the US.
You're rather neglecting the past thousand years or so where the Catholic Church would have you executed for thinking the earth wasn't flat. And let's not even mention their issue with women, witch hunts, and of course the Inquisition.

And you're somewhat misleadingly misrepresenting that Wikipedia article. It actually says that the no-conflict position is an unofficial stance of the Vatican.

It also (rather importantly neglected by your comment) says that their position is that humans are indeed special and need the existence of god. That's rather a conceited view of our species, but then this is coming from the same organization that spent much of the 13th century burning whole french villages...
This data looks really good. It even seems like express subway services are taken into account, which is rare for this kind of thing.

It would be nice to see biking times in addition to car/public transit, however.
On a more serious note, I used to puzzle about this when I was in Grad. School. There used to be people whose research I personally (at that time) thought to be trivial and used to think it was unfair that they were publishing papers and stuff. I recall what a mentor told me at that time: 99% of research is garbage but this is what we find post factum. We do it anyways so as to be able to take the 1% which drives progress. Also, the nature of cutting edge research is that progress goes slowly, which means that polished results from say 50 years ago are going to look amazing. As I went deeper into research, I was able to appreciate this more: There are things we do, ideas we derive that help us make things more rigorous but sometimes we have to explore other less thought off avenues.
Running a book like a startup
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That's just not how Apple's first customers saw the product. It wasn't minimally viable, it was absolutely amazing compared to your other options at the time.
I don't think it has parity, for all of the reasons halgari noted, but I really don't feel that it offers much over F#, either. F# is a very solid answer to Clojure in all ways except macros: it solves similar problems in the same problem space, doing some things better and some things worse. I happen to have a slight preference for F#, but at any rate, I don't think you're missing anything by being on one or the other.
Cue puts smarts behind all that data.

Case in point: this last Wednesday, I had a going away dinner for a friend. This was put on my GCal. This came via a Facebook message. Without me doing anything, it put 2+2 together. When I opened Cue that morning, there was the event, with a link to the message.

When I fly in August, it knows enough to put all my travel info (passes, emails, events, etc) together in the same way.

Search is still there, and it still rocks. The added AI on top of that makes this killer - I would have used Greplin to surface that data, but Cue was smart enough to do it for me. It's solving a roughly analogous problem, but doing it in a much smarter, faster way.
There is really no exact equivalent, but you could give buildout[1] a go if you find yourself in need of a maven-like tool in Python land.

[1] http://www.buildout.org/
Seems like it's working now.
What are you Majoring in?
I am transferring to a university and am about to decide on my Major. I have a few options, but I am incredibly indecisive right now!

I would like to hear your story. What's your major & Why... ?
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The probability that it lands on exactly. 4 is exactly the same as the probability of it landing on any other particular number. You place additional significance on . 4, but that is for cultural reasons.

If I flip a coin 5 times in a row, HHHHH is just as likely as any other combination, but humans have the tendency to think that is weird or special.

Anyway...

If I understand your hangup correctly, it seems you are mistakenly thinking that all imaginable possible realities should have been equally likely (as positions on a random dart board would be). Of course this is not true; a reality where snakes developed internal organs that function as internal combustion engines which they use to power propellers is very unlikely indeed. The reason of course is that this reality did not arise by picking one randomly from a bag of all possible realities, but rather developed over time through random mutations that were selected for by natural selection.

Now, of the possible realities random mutation and natural selection could have created, this world could be said to be equally likely. There is not some sort of "future purpose" as Penrose says, that is being driven towards.
Depends what you're interested in, but as an iOS developer I highly recommend Jonathan Zdziarski's "Hacking and Securing iOS Applications", published by O'Reilly. It's a good primer, and covers a wide variety of both exploits and hacks.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023234.do
LinkedIn announces Global Women's hackday event in Mountain View and New Delhi
Yes. This is exactly why I wasn't happy with the original. If people live to be 90 and die of heart disease, that is a huge victory. In the chart I linked, it shows that cancer and heart disease start being the number 1 and 2 killers at 45-64, which seems like that is an important group to address. However, if more people start making it to 95 and dying of "heart disease", we are probably better off researching safer cars than cancer.
I'm happy to remove the comment. What guideline is this in direct opposition to? Genuine question, not being snarky.
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Does your startup have what it takes to change the world? To be a game-changer?