skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RESPECT! Video looks great. Bu there still some minor fixes you could fix!
The advantage is that this guy, who otherwise wouldn't have been able to accomplish his goals, did. He did because PHP was accessible. And till other languages are as dead-simple to accomplish small-to-medium tasks, PHP will continue to have fans such as the OP.
Yes, but I am not going to waste my time with it when you are not willing to debate it in good faith.
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Though it should be said that a social CAM application is a funny idea.
Fun fact of the day: It is in violation of the law to publish a photo of the Eiffel Tower at night without permission, because the visual is under copyright.

A French court ruled in June 1990 that a special lighting display on the tower...was an "original visual creation" protected by copyright. The Court of Cassation, France's judicial court of last resort, upheld the ruling in March 1992. The Société d'exploitation de la tour Eiffel (SETE) now considers any illumination of the tower to be under copyright. As a result, it is no longer legal to publish contemporary photographs of the tower at night without permission in France and some other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Image_copyright_cl...
Is there something specific we are looking for?

--Edit--
Oh, I think you meant to show how they display their release notes. Hinted from the previous comment.
Too bad it is on such short notice, would have really loved to come by.
How about buying 500px?
The first display I browsed the web on was 640x400 (an Amiga) at 14" (but it was a 5:4 display, so it was bigger in surface area than a 14" 16:9 or 1.85:1 widescreen display, closer to 15" or 16" today). I'm currently browsing the web on a 15" 1080P display.

(640 * 400) / (1920 * 1080) = 0.123

As I mentioned, we have "gone retina" a few times since the beginning of the web.

And, it's not that I don't like it. Of course I like it. I just explained that I went out of my way to obtain a 1080P laptop. I once went to great lengths (custom cable, huge and complicated custom X configuration file) to hook up a massive 75 lb workstation monitor to my PC because I wanted a really high resolution display. It's just that I think it is ridiculous to freak out about something that follows the natural progression of technology that we've been following for decades.
They couldn't become an Instagram because they knew their growth wasn't sustainable or real in any way. They had to sell or they'd fade into obscurity.
> I use it inside the company I'm working at as a part of video series that all developers new to JavaScript are required to watch (during office hours, actually).

What are the other videos? Thanks.
I would upvote this twice if I could. I have read the underlying paper

Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C., Dickens, W., Flynn, J., Halpern, D. F., & Turkheimer, E. (2012, January 2). Intelligence: New Findings and Theoretical Developments. American Psychologist, 67, 130-159.

http://psychology.msu.edu/pers_hambric3/PSY493%20Spring%2020...

Daniel Willingham reviews in the submitted post, and the paper is a joint review article on the last decade and a half of research on human intelligence by an all-star group of researchers.

After edit: I see other comments are asking about what the research shows about genetic influences on IQ and environmental influences on IQ. Here is some FAQ information on that, originally part of another comment I posed here on HN:

The researchers in the Behavior Genetics Association are making increasingly cautious statements about genetic influence on human behavioral traits as more data are amassed. Here are some of the latest statements by some of the leading researchers.

Turkheimer, E. (2012). Genome wide association studies of behavior are social science. In K. S. Plaisance & T.A.C. Reydon (Eds.) Philosophy of Behavioral Biology (pp. 43-64). New York, NY: Springer.

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Turkheimer%20GWAS%...

"If the history of empirical psychology has taught researchers anything, it is that correlations between causally distant variables cannot be counted on to lead to coherent etiological models."

Johnson, W., Turkheimer, E., Gottesman, I. I., & Bouchard, T. J. (2009). Beyond heritability: Twin studies in behavioral research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 217-220. [I am personally acquainted with three of the four co-authors of this paper, one of whom regularly exchanges links with me by email.]

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

"Moreover, even highly heritable traits can be strongly manipulated by the environment, so heritability has little if anything to do with controllability. For example, height is on the order of 90% heritable, yet North and South Koreans, who come from the same genetic background, presently differ in average height by a full 6 inches (Pak, 2004; Schwekendiek, 2008)."

Turkheimer, E. (2008, Spring). A better way to use twins for developmental research. LIFE Newsletter, 2, 1-5.

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

"Unfortunately, that fundamental intuition is wrong. Heritability isn’t an index of how genetic a trait is. A great deal of time has been wasted in the effort of measuring the heritability of traits in the false expectation that somehow the genetic nature of psychological phenomena would be revealed. There are many reasons for making this strong statement, but the most important of them harkens back to the description of heritability as an effect size."
That video is an advertisement straight out of a scifi flick.
I'm willing to, please don't withhold enlightenment to spite one guy.
It's a risky situation, if you ask me. Consider the data that tools collect on us:

- location and contact history (cell phones)

- message history and address book (email, social network)

- interests/activities (calendars, event tools, feed
subscriptions)

- browsing history

As an engineer, think about the evil fun you could have with that data. You could really mess somebody up if you didn't like them.
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If you want the easy-but-legal way out, try this one (but strip out the lines with comments first):

#Start of program
#End of program
You're exhibiting a severe lack of historical context.

My first display for browsing the web was 14" at 640x400. I currently browse on a 15" 1080P display.
The point is actually more subtle than that though. What they're saying is that holding social class constant, genetic difference is more important for the wealthy than the poor.

For example, kid A and kid B are both wealthy and have significant genetic differences related to factors affecting intelligence. In this case kid A and kid B are likely to have significantly different intelligence from each other.

Conversely, kids C and D are both poor and have similar genetic differences to A and B. They will show much less difference in intelligence from each other.

That fact is certainly not obvious, but it is fascinating.
Similar output is produced by Conway's Game of Life if its thresholds are tweaked away from the defaults.
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SocialCam's main competitor, Viddy, just raised at a $370M valuation, and some data[1] show SocialCam at around 2X the traction of Viddy (post-sharkfin for both). The modest scale of this acquisition is not the kind of comp you want to see if you're Viddy, especially with their Series B terms[2].

I'm curious what the HN crowd thinks – has mobile social video peaked, or has it just not been done well enough yet?

1. http://i.imgur.com/ncvPr.png
2. http://www.businessinsider.com/viddy-series-b-terms-2012-5
I'm pretty happy about the click-to-plugin. I have to use java on two sites and absolutely hate it when any other page has java content. I already use flashblock to get this behavior with Flash, and having it for the media plugins would be great too.
Before Facebook became huge, Flickr was probably the most promising social photo-sharing site.

But there's definitely still a niche for people who don't want to weave every single aspect of their online identity together in one profile. If Yahoo! can allow Flickr the independence to emulate the photo-sharing aspects of FB without the "we're tracking your every move" rapacious identity profiling of FB, it should be able to revive the brand. Not only that, Flickr might actually become the kind of "Facebook-like" place that Yahoo 360 tried to be, or that Google Plus is still working on becoming.
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Reading the article and the comments made it more clear to me. Twitter is using some minification tool (maybe Google Closure) which attempts to reduce the number of characters used. Using commas you can reduce two characters by avoiding some brackets.

if(true){dothis();dothat();}

if(true)dothis(),dothat();
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What does 500px offer? They don't show any information to people who aren't logged in, except sample pictures.
As someone else said. It's that they didn't develop it. It had (has) great potential, but it languishes.

How can they not have an iPad app yet?

They have not integrated social into it very much. For example, one is able to comment, but one cannot arrange by timeline vs popular (there is no up or downvoting comments). One cannot say "show me all the comments I've made".

There is no easy way to showcase photos in a group (other than the pool itself). Basically the concept of "galleries" that they have for individuals but instead for groups. In other words better "curation" tools for groups -where most of the exciting conversations happen anyway.

Search is horrible.

They do have a very captive audience but they need to act before people migrate to other services. Facebook is okay but it's different.

On the other hand, they have not made using it "creepy" and they have resisted plastering it with ads (for the free users). I like that it's just my photos an my interactions with other enthusiasts and does not relate to my life elsewhere.
I was in France recently (Paris) and I took pictures all over the place with a very visible film camera - including on the train.

Of course I didn't go shooting strangers directly in their face. I think I'd you do that most anywhere people will get upset because what business do you have taking a close-up picture of a stranger without their permission? That's an intrusion just about anywhere.

At least in Paris, I found the city to be crowded with tourist snapping photos of everything. I didn't see anybody giving the slightest care. I had always imagined France to be a photo-friendly place considering the reverence for film and art and being the birthplace of photography. Perhaps I didn't see enough but, at least, it's hard for me to imagine people getting violent over photographs just based on my personal experience. Because with the amount of tourist taking pictures there would be blood running on the streets.
GitHub for CAM?
http://ncannasse.fr/blog/time_for_new_adventures
JavaScript minifiers use commas to avoid braces in control statements. The following two statements are functionally identical. Apparently the Closure Compiler goes overboard and just uses commas everywhere, even when the comma offers no length advantage over semicolons.

if (a) { b(); c() }
if (a) b(), c()
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Scott, that is a correct point, but that important warning works both ways in many controversies about scientific findings on issues that people think they know about from personal experience. Human intelligence research, when discussed among laymen, is particularly an area in which people make strong claims on the basis of "it's obvious that" or "everyone knows" when the strong claims are neither obvious nor things that everyone knows.

The way to reality-check someone's impression of how the world works is to gather more data. In human intelligence research, James R. Flynn (a co-author of the paper under review here) has enjoyed particular success in making claims that run against the "everyone knows" bias of individual differences psychologists, and then being backed up by other psychologistics (and getting published in the top journals in psychology) when data are found to back him up.

Here is what Arthur Jensen said about Flynn quite a few years ago, and he hasn't retracted this statment: "Now and then I am asked . . . who, in my opinion, are the most respectable critics of my position on the race-IQ issue? The name James R. Flynn is by far the first that comes to mind." Modgil, Sohan & Modgil, Celia (Eds.) (1987) Arthur Jensen: Concensus and Controversy New York: Falmer. Here's what Charles Murray (all right, neither a psychologist nor a geneticist, but, as the review points out, an author who has written about these issues) says in his back cover blurb for Flynn's book What Is Intelligence?: "This book is a gold mine of pointers to interesting work, much of which was new to me. All of us who wrestle with the extraordinarily difficult questions about intelligence that Flynn discusses are in his debt." As N. J. Mackintosh writes about the data Flynn found in his book IQ and Human Intelligence: "the data are surprising, demolish some long-cherished beliefs, and raise a number of other interesting issues along the way." Flynn has earned the respect and praise of any honest researcher who takes time to read the primary source literature. Robert Sternberg, Ian Deary, Stephen Pinker, Stephen Ceci, Sir Michael Rutter, and plenty of other eminent psychologists recommend Flynn's research.
For many years I've owned what I think qualifies as a "killer" .com domain (i.e. three letters, cool sounding real word in English and other languages) and I would have been open to this arrangement with the right party (i.e. depending on your business plan, backing etc.). I still might be at some point in the future but right now I've got other plans for it. It would be relatively easy to set up some kind of escrow arrangement through lawyers.
What practical problems, aside from address range exhaustion, does it solve? I've read some technical articles about benefits of IPv6, but most of them keep returning to address size problem.
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Because their numbers were boosted using shady tactics that Facebook are starting to stop, when Facebook completely kills these apps their real traffic (videos people are actually uploading) will become non existent.
Thank you, yip click - hold down mouse and move it left. Thats my afternoon bumped now lol
I am a little skeptical of this data. I live in a food desert despite being 2 blocks from a Mexican grocery store and a half mile from a Food Co-op. No it's not a Safeway, but they both packed a lot of variety into ~20,000 square feet. If you can live with tortillas instead of hot dog buns (one thing I know the Mexican store is missing) then it's fine.

The solution to food deserts is not more supermarkets. Our small markets fit our community. Putting a huge supermarket+parking where they are would make walking impossible for our poor and elderly residents. A real solution is strengthening our food distribution systems so that our local stores have better access to fresh produce.
Here's the thing: I'm not interested in being a 'programmer', I just want to build out my product ideas. And right now I do it with the language I know best: PHP.
350kb of JS is still a ton of JS. I remember deploying YUI almost five years ago now, and 130kb was 'too much' JS.
imho ruby is simpler than php.
well, it's more like, she has $300 Million now, but her compensation going forward now, win or lose, will probably dwarf that of staying put at Google and personal portfolio growth for the next few years. She's not doing it for the money, but her personal wealth only stands a huge boost.
If they removed the branches between 0 and primes, and then removed branches beginning from primes, I don't think there would be anything left.
Well yes and no. It is kind of easy to think that start button shifted a little to the left and only shows up when you take mouse over it. Makes sense, at least not alien as suddenly linux. Plus the windows, task-bar, control panel, etc everything is same. Just a cover of metro start menu, which they can completely ignore if they wish. I have been using win 8 as my primary OS since it was released in beta, and i introduced my mom to it, she understood basics of metro in a few minutes and never had a problem with it. Although she is a computer operator at a school so she is a heavy computer users (as compared to an average mom her age)
Nearly all of social cam's traffic came from the timeline. Viddy is just content uploaded by me or you, so I'd venture to say most of their traffic is real but SocialCam was embedding YouTube videos of women in bikini's, funny clips, etc and whenever you watched one of them it would post on your Facebook timeline, just watching a video made you a user. This is why half of my Facebook friends seemed to have SocialCam accounts but not one of them had actually posted a video.

It's not sustainable and they knew it, Facebook will eventually kill off this kind of traffic so they sold out before the wave completely fizzles out.

Great job to them, was the right decision.
> that "bundle/t1-more" file is a whopping 4 129 653 characters.

I'd have to imagine that 355kb is the compressed size, but that character count (assuming one byte characters, not UTF8) works out to be 3.938 megabytes.

That's a lot of code. Even more when you consider it's been minified.
>It was designed to prevent companies from keeping new inventions to themselves as trade secrets.

That is one interpretation of the intent of patent law. In the USA, our Constitution spells out the intent pretty clearly:

>"to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

It's worth pointing out however, that Apple is acting in complete accordance of your version of intent though (patent law's purpose = disclosure of technology). All of the patents they are litigating on have been disclosed and readily available. It doesn't change the substance of the fact that they are not wielding patent law abusively.

>However, with the patent office basically accepting everything as an invention, it has now turned into the opposite. The simple algorithm I could have come up on my own _without_ consulting any patent is now illegal for me to use. Without the patent society would have been much better off since many, many programmers would be able to independently come up with the same solution given the same requirements.

Again, this is different, and has zero to do with Apple and everything to do with the how patent law is designed. I agree with you whole-heartedly. But as long as we focus the blame on companies exercising their rights in absolutely mundane ways in accordance with the law instead of the law itself, I'm afraid not much is going to change. It really misses the point. And I'll stress it again, of all of the disputes on the patent landscape, Apple seems to be one of the least abusive litigants, in stark contrast to FRAND litigators and patent troll firms.
Then why even bother listening to what people who do want to be programmers write about your tools?
This is an interesting result noted from the paper:
"Even when improvements in IQ produced by the most
effective early childhood interventions fail to persist, there can be very marked effects on academic achievement and life outcomes."

As noted by the author, this suggests that IQ only captures a portion of early childhood intervention benefits. And goes counter to those who suggest that early intervention programs serve no purpose if IQ doesn't remain high (IOW, IQ is only a portion of what constitutes success in life).
I think you want to have a good, close look at MOAI:

http://getmoai.com/

Its a C/C++ based engine that includes a Lua VM, wherein you write your real app code. The engine runs on Android/iOS/OSX/Linux/Windows. There is a 'host' element to the MOAI project, where native stuff happens for each environment, and the host itself ends up running the VM to interpret the Lua code needed.

Another approach is with games, where a 3D engine is built in C++, with the NDK (on Android) used to interface with a 'wrapper' app that gets the library loaded and in use. I used this approach with a 3d game which uses the same C++ code for Android/iOS clients .. it was a fair bit of work, but the result is that we can do the game logic in C++ and forget about the platform-specific stuff.
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I think he meant "El Padrón de los Números Primos". Patrón means "boss", not "pattern".
I'm talking about the hours of service, not the hours of prep and cleanup. Prep and cleanup hours don't bring you revenue. In fact they cost you money in fuel and employee expenses. Food trucks may do a dinner service but there is no comparable continuous volume like there is during the lunch hour when there are tens of thousands of people with limited food options in search of food at the same time.

With a restaurant you can prep and serve simultaneously. The ideal setup would be to have a restaurant sourcing a food truck to soak up revenue from additional corners of the city from a central kitchen location.
This seems very likely not to be a programming style choice but some kind of optimization trick by a JS minifier/compiler. I don't think this has anything to do with the typical semicolon war.
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Although I fully agree with the author's critique of cookies for instance, the idea of replacing them with something "better" frankly scares the crap out of me. Especially when the word "identity" is being used.

Ever heard of evercookie? Does that not scare you? Would creating a clean, well-understood solutions that users can actually control not be better than what we have now?

There is just so much wrong with cookies, it's really surprising that no HTTP upgrades propose anything better. For one, cookies confuse session information and client-side storage, and thus work poorly in both roles.
The simulated pixelated black and white image in the video is a lot higher than the 25 x 23 resolution mentioned in the article.
First saw this 30 years ago - did it in Basic at the time. Two solutions - the pedantic one, where you include the source in constant declarations, then the code that prints the constants twice, once with declarations around them.

The other - an empty program. Run it - nothing. List it - nothing.
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