skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure there's a real hard and fast rule, but once a word becomes separated from the person, it doesn't really make sense to capitalize it like a proper noun.

Compare "Keynesian economics" with Dr. Guillotine's invention the "guillotine"
Do you think a js parser should also cope with a 10GB source file with nesting a million levels deep?

I think it's pretty sane to suggest that a single statement won't be 4MB in length.
A grand experiment: What one thing would you tell your younger self?
Would you go to a hospital where all the equipment was at least thirty years old, where the newer medications weren't available because the old ones were good enough in the opinion of the head doctor? Learning about the new equipment, techniques and medication is just wasting time that could be spent on treating patients, right?

Whenever I patrol the PHP section of Stack Overflow it's like teleporting back in time a hundred thousand years and watching people bang rocks together in the hopes of making fire.

People are trying to do things that should be simple but are needlessly hard because of PHP's language design and the poisonously bad ecosystem. It's because most programmers in the PHP universe always build directly on top of the primitive library functions. For some reason this is the standard way of doing things.

The things you can get done in a framework like Django or Rails with a few off-the-shelf add-ons and some duct tape is so impressive it's somewhat terrifying. To do the same in PHP would take weeks, and even then, only if you know what you're doing.
Offhand, it could be leaked from your hard drive or any backup thereof, from email stored on any of your desktop or mobile devices, or from your email provider's mail stores or mail logs. There's probably other ways too.

EDIT: Apps. Any app you've ever authorized to use your Dropbox account could have leaked the email address - for instance, via plaintext logs, or malicious behavior, or well-intended but stupid behavior - by writing the email address in plaintext to disk, or uploading it to a remote server and then losing control of it there.
Kevin Mitchell has a very interesting take on intelligence here: http://wiringthebrain.blogspot.com/2012/07/genetics-of-stupi...

Basically he suggests thinking about the formation of intelligence to be something like trying to run an obstacle course while holding an armful of things and trying to drop as little as possible. Essentially, he is arguing that there is some optimal or standard brain and since any mutation introduced into the brain is more likely to be harmful than beneficial, more intelligent individuals are not those that inherited some specific genes for intelligence but are most likely those who avoided the most damaging non-specific mutations.

That’s [runaway selection of intelligence boosting genes] all nice, though admittedly speculative, but those mutations are the ones that we would expect to not vary in human populations – they would now be fixed. In particular, there is little reason to expect that there would exist new mutations in such genes, present in some but not all humans, which act to further increase intelligence.

To test this he suggests using symmetry as a proxy for robustness in the individual. This fits well with the fact that all attempts thus far to find a common genetic basis for intelligence have failed, the correlation between intelligence and immune function, ideas that intelligence was indirectly selected when optimizing for healthy mates and findings that Nootropic like substances tend to have the least effect on already intelligent minds. In the last case, it is interesting to note nootropics should then be viewed not cheating but more leveling of the playing field. Taking this further, genetics are not the only obstacle course - there is still variation in the womb environment and early childhood. The interplay of genes and the stability of process in the growing brain; affected by a lack of stimulation, poor nutrition and a stressful womb environ would likely have more impactful effects on intelligence than pure genetics.
This is awesome; I am certainly going to take that Scala course.
The article seemed to mention him complaining about money, but that could just be an indirect way of asking for donations, or re-inforcing the need for funding drives. (I've done this before, when we were hosting a VBulletin forum when we didn't really have jobs or much spare income in college.)
AT&amp;T will charge its users for using FaceTime in iOS 6?
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Whilst there is definitely an advantage to using tools that you already understand,
you might be surprised how much of your current skills are transferable to a different language.

If nothing else , learning another language will help you write PHP because PHP uses a number of paradigms , all of which are done better by other languages. So learning another language that is more tightly coupled to (say) Object Orientation (Ruby/Java) will help you understand program design better.

Depending on the size of your codebase , I think it's possible to overestimate the cost of changing tools.
For example, I have a ~100Kloc PHP codebase. When it was around ~20Kloc we had considered re-writing it in a different language. We decided it wouldn't be worth the time spent, I now kick myself for making that decision :)
I'm a bit surprised there isn't a buildpack for PHP. It seems like there would be a demand, since PHP it so popular (I know I would definitely use it).

I wonder if it's because modern PHP apps (such as Symfony) have some external dependencies (such as on the APC cache).
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Through a compromised system. As noted above, and in many other places, there are many attacks that focus on harvesting email addresses. Until the exploit is verified, you cannot say for a fact that the disclosure is Dropbox's fault, you can only say that it is a probable source.
> The people putting photos into facebook don't have $4000 camera rigs. They have $500-1000 camera rigs

If you're lucky. Mostly it's pictures off an iPhone or equivalent.
Teaser for 'Tears of Steel' new open source blender vfx
I don't think we've even scratched the surface of the things we can do with Twitter's API. After playing with tons of them, Twitter's potential to inform so many projects, publicly or privately, is huge. I love it.
SKYPE GOES OPEN SOURCE......FLAWLESS VICTORY: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1799228
UX Tips: UX Maturity Model
IMHO Ember.js and Angular.js outsmart Backbone.js in every possible way.
OK, so I guess what I am saying is that I do not think it is separated yet. The relationship is very close (because of the precise meaning) and the guy only died a few years ago (well, 12).
Aerographite: Lightest material in the world produced
Survey Reveals Rapid ROI with RFID
It's reasonable for you not to believe me, which is why I dug up the link:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2210604

Except I think the author would point out that there isn't just _one_ heritability for things like height because height would be much more heritable in environments where everyone has adequate nutrition as opposed to in environments where nutrition was a matter of luck, for instance.

Rereading the blog post I was referring to, I'm not as certain that the author would actually agree with me here, but at the time I thought the point was so obvious that anybody who thought about it would agree.
It's not a priority compared to WYSIWYG results between composing/reading mails.

The flip side of the coin is fixing HTML rendering in Word such that we can pass Acid tests, but considering the sort of mail people send, what sort of tasks Word is used for, and the fact that a working renderer is a mouse-click away, and you can see that it's just not cost-effective to take on this work.

I guess the third side of that coin is to take out Word and use something else as an email composer, but that would break all sorts of things I can't even begin to think about and is even harder than making Word a great HTML renderer (which I think is completely doable, but again, not ultimately worth it).

I'm also not on the Outlook team, so they likely have a different perspective than I on this topic, but that's how I see things.
I actually had a moment of speculation in that direction, but then figured that it would be contrary to the trends/momentum in... I don't know, "design" and "image" and, well, "looking pretty".

Thanks for the information. And I'm kind of glad to read it. :-)

P.S. Shame on me, for not looking further into the release notes -- although I did take an initial look but didn't note this change.

P.P.S. http://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/06/site-identity-ui-updates/
Apple Rolling Out iCloud.com Email Addresses with iOS 6 Beta 3
> It shouldn't be necessary to write them in the first place.

I love Go's lack of semicolons but I don't extend that to some foolhardy attempt to write JavaScript without semicolons. In JavaScript, support for proper semicolon-less style is clearly lacking in practice if not in spec (if it weren't lacking this wouldn't be a oft-recurring story, but it is).
The comments on the blog post say it's because of Google Closure Compiler.
I think this comes from the desire for the Internet to be our little cool exclusive playground like it used to be - the communities were only filled by tech-savvy people who were interested in seeing what great things the Internet could do for them.

Now, the communities are more reflective of large-scale real-life communities, and the days of exclusivity are gone.

That doesn't mean we can't still have our cool, exclusive communities like Flickr where great content is shared and applauded and modified, etc. - it just won't be as special as it used to be, and it won't have a very wide impact.
ZSpace: A Real Holographic Display Worthy Of Iron Man
You thought that figuring out how to vectorize the solutions was "child's play"? Sure, coming up with any-ol' working solution was child's play, but figuring how how to get the solutions to be one or two lines of code containing only matrix operations wasn't child's play. It wasn't rocket science either, but I had to put on my thinking cap a bit.
15 Jobs, What I’ve Learned – I Don’t Want To Do “This”
What about a program that reads it's source from it's debug info?
Even the worst possible environment...say, repeated concussions to the head via a hammer, will still result in a human scoring far above any non-human.

I'm pretty sure you're wrong. I think research suggests that dolphins, parrots, bonobos and some other animals have tested higher than humans.
really though, just google's servers because google is the only spdy-enabled site where https is forced. twitter doesn't come in over spdy unless you type in https.
I usually build things that I blatantly don't know how to do. When I was first starting in Ruby, that was a scraping app to pay my parking tickets (I never got a parking ticket again after completing the app, ironically).

I usually watch Railscasts and absorb some concept I have little direct interest in but I'm somewhat curious. Those concepts have a way of creeping back into the things I'm building for fun.
Dear Marissa Mayer
Please put your suggestions for Marissa in the comments below. Maybe someone who knows her will share HN's suggestions with her.
> Guys, we're all programmers, or designers, or both.

I'm quite certain HN participant aren't all programmers or designers. They're not all guys, either.
Curious to see if anyone else had any tidbits or advice from their experiences in a variety of jobs.
It wouldn't be so bad if standard practise was to put them in a separate files/folders with the original authors header left on with a link back to where it was downloaded.

Instead I tend to find the same POS code repeated 20 times in the codebase.
Yeah, it took me a while to sadly realize this visualization tells us nothing useful about primes. otoh, it does tell us a lot about composites. Hover on 29. The pattern is completely useless - you get one wave of period 29, and the other wave of period unity.
However, hover on 28. Now you get 6 waves - of periods 1,2,4,7,14,28 - these being the divisors of 28. The intersection of these 6 waves produces those interesting floral patterns. But obviously, this whole experiment tells us much more about 28, a composite, than 29 the prime.
...but until that happens (if it ever does), presumably you're in 100% agreement that we'll need to make sure that batteries, and other toxic components of personal computing industry end up somewhere besides unprotected landfills.

Which is, of course, precisely the point of SF's decision not to support products that don't appear to have such safeguards built into their lifecycle.
An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory
Why though? If it's about on-the-job performance, alcohol can affect that just as much, and we don't test for alcohol use outside of work.
There is, it's just not officially supported: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php . Github lists it as having 82 forks, so people are definitely playing around with this.
I think it's generally a good idea to avoid declaring multiple variables in the same line (unless you have a very good reason). The space you "save" isn't worth the maintainability penalty. This is a habit I have from C where

int* a, b

declares "a" as ( int* ) and b as ( int ). Instead, I just write

int *a;
int *b;
Dave McElfatrick: One of the writers of Cyanide & Happiness. (IAmA)
Please create a simple, universal login for all Yahoo services and move toward a standardized UX for this and login status indication. It seems whenever I try to do things that require a login (managing domains, etc.) I have to use google to find the appropriate login page on yahoo.com.
That is prima facia absurdity. It's like saying "no doctor would just prescribe pain killers without checking for addiction signs", yet it happens all the time. There is a phrase for it - doctor shopping. How hard is it to believe some techie doctor would allow, or formalize a guy doing potentially important research on himself, particularly if it is presented well by a competent scientist.
True, and that was part of what I was trying to articulate.
Odersky's own Scala book has some large examples that are based on sections of SICP. E.g., the digital circuit simulator.
1. Like what?

2. I know, but you did ask. I wouldn't bother incrementally changing the schema for such a small project - I'd just throw the dumps in version control. I'd roll back in the same fashion.

I guess we have different definitions of 'simple web project.' I'm thinking a 100-200 hour project that's going to see 5k visits per day, max. What are you thinking?
This is a great point. I imagine whoever wanted to do the analysis would call Storage Wars and try to get them to work with you and give missing information such as that. It would be good PR for them to help out.

I'm mainly interested in how large the leaps are from competing bid to bid relative to the margin actually realized from liquidating the unit. My intuition says that the jumps will be larger on high margin units and they'll be more fine detailed when lower margin is present. Essentially, you're crowd sourcing the value of the unit.

While that may seem obvious, if this was proven to be true the best bets would be very small incremental jumps above the current high bid to signal low margin. If you did that you could convince the other bidder that you have information he doesn't have and since no one wants to be involved in a low margin liquidation the opposing bidder would have an incentive to bow out.

It's creating the allusion of information asymmetry.
What The New Microsoft Office Gets Wrong
This article is very hard to digest because of the writers switching of "intelligence" and "IQ". Intelligence =/= IQ. IQ is a score on a test, and intelligence is a vague set of mental skills and processes to solve problems of varying degrees and subjects. To say that they are equal is like saying that athleticism is equal to the number of pounds you can bench.

If the writer is talking about IQ, then these investigations aren't interesting, as IQ is a very small subset of intelligence (the ability to solve those types of problems on a test, which you can easily train for). If the writer is talking about general intelligence, then the writer really shouldn't be mentioning IQ at all, as it is notorious for being confused as actual intelligence.
Ask HN: Do you agree about the best forum and source code repo?
IMHO, the best online forum is StackOverflow and the best SCM tool is GitHub.
Discuss why you agree or don't.
If I have a machine with many gigabytes of memory and ~100MB of stack space available (the latter requires some tuning at thread-creation time with current runtimes, but the former is frankly routine)? Yes. Yes, I'd expect my software to handle it correctly.

The fact that you think otherwise is precisely the problem. If you don't want to write correct software (which, frankly, isn't any harder than writing broken parsers) you might want to reconsider your career choice.
IPhone 5 to have 0.5mm thinner screen
Yes, I think it should.

For a very simpel reason -- you are not implementing a new language, but writing a parser/evaluator for an already existing one. And you shouldn't change the language (as much as all of us have a beef with Javascript).
I'd like to add tone generation so you could hear the various harmonics being added and removed as you worked up through the numbers, occasionally hitting a pure sine wave as you hit a prime number.
Cleaner for who ? Easier for who ?

That kind of cookie usage just makes it Somebody Else's Problem instead of your problem.
Although the author of the post cribs about the same underneath UI with dropdowns and ribbons etc., isn't that's what the users have liked about it all the way long?
While technology makes this easier, it isn't new. You could hire a PI to follow the CEO of a competitor. You could break in and bug their offices.

None of this is legal, and if discovered there would be a legal case to answer.
> Is the implant upgradable?

I wonder how many blind people are going to hold off on this in the hopes that it gets better in five years.

> a second to restore perception

I imagine that this is aimed at people who've gone blind, and therefore have all the neural infrastructure to see and perceive; but it does raise an interesting point of what would happen if you implanted this in someone who was blind from birth. (It brings to mind deaf-from-birth people who have rejected their aural implants, though I think that was largely due to the crapiness of the state of technology at the time, everything sounded like it was being shouted through a pipe full of tin foil and gravel.)
I think that this is a good idea, I've seen people in the internet marketing space sell themes and templates like this. What you should do is customize the template for different niches, i.e. one for lawyers, one for doctors, one for dentists, one for chiropractors, one for restaurants...
I'd like to point out a Common Lisp buildpack. I've used a fork of it and it's pretty spiffy. (Now if I only knew a simple app I could give people. :-) )

https://github.com/mtravers/heroku-buildpack-cl
Funny, I had a very similar experience to the author's with my first child. After hours of inconsolable crying and running on a bare handful of hours of sleep over the last several days, I remember looking at him and thinking "Oh wow, I can totally understand shaking a baby now." Thankfully, I didn't, then or later, but it made me way less judgmental of other parents, and gave me a much better appreciation for the value of sleep. Amazing how much easier things are when you're at least semi well-rested.

The kids have turned out better than my first startup did (thank God for that), but there are some definite similarities between the two, as Jason points out. I can't think of too many other experiences which contain such intense combinations of both positive and negative emotions. And yet, with both, it's almost impossible to imagine choosing not to have the plunge if you had it to do all over again.
Uglify uses the comma trick a lot, and from my experience, Closure Compiler doesn't rely on it very often.

Regardless, the actual bug is in Opera as the resulting javascript is legit, even if its absolutely crazy to have 4MB of script be only a single javascript statement.
Factual's drivers "Keep on Driving"
Number theory is a big field and prime numbers are its core. There are tons of discoveries about prime numbers in the history and now people are quite focusing on Zeta function and the Riemann hypothesis, check out this chart http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Riemann_z.... Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number
Hotmail ran on Linux for a very long time.

Skype may yet transition to Windows servers, but MS are hardly going to insist they make it their first and only priority. That would be insane.
Ask HN Mods: How you decide which posts to kill?
I don't want to make it another post about bashing mods for their moderation policy. I just don't get their moderation policy. I want to understand how they decide which post to kill.

I created a post - "Indian student directed her love for art into hand-painted footwear startup". It is about a startup and it is also about a non-tech hack. I thought it is qualified enough to be discussed on Hacker News but it got killed. It doesn't affect me personally but I'm curious to know the reasons behind it getting killed.

Link : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4256225
It's just that your original comment seems to demonstrate an incredible lack of awareness of basic general knowledge as to such as, oh, humanity's experience with waste management over the past couple of thousand years.

Like, you know, how we managed to figure out, way back when, that we can't just dig a hole anywhere and call it a toilet, despite all the naysayers at the time who must have been saying "I don't understand all this expensive and inefficient indoor plumbing stuff, when just burying our waste in a pit that just so happens to be near the big creek where we get our drinking water from is a perfectly viable option. Most of it won't seep out of the pit, and the creek runs so deep and flows so fast, after all."

So forgive me for (hoping) that you couldn't possibly have been serious with your original riposte.
The useless pedant in me is thinking that the difference is:

1) pay for damages: provide monetary compensation for materials, labor, etc to have the experimental device replaced or restored to working order

2) fix his glasses: McDonalds takes the glasses, performs all operations in house at a corporate location, and return the device in working order.

The rest of me rejects the pedant, saying the effects of both are the same, therefore they are effectively the same statement, which I am pretty sure is reasonable and the intended meaning of those "discrepancies". :)
Why Marissa Left Google: She Had To
Page 2 of the OP, highlighted comment, quote:

"Hi all,

We are actively investigating your reports. If you have any additional information, please email security@dropbox.com, and we’ll be sure to follow up

Joe"
"Guys" is the gender-neutral term for a group of mixed gender people.

Here is an interesting discussion on the topic: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/is-guy-gend...

Also if this is confusing, I'd suggest taking classes on a language other than English. I know that at least in French, mixed-gender-groups take the masculine plural form.

In fact, here is another discussion (same site): http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19074/what-is-a-f...

"Guys" can also refer to a group of women.
NASA Hypersonic Inflatable Tech Test
Consider if they're unmanned drones. We're headed in that direction already.