skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good question. the font icons appear beautifully on retina displays, because they're vector. can't think of any reason they wouldn't work with a webview, but haven't tested this. in terms of native apps, i don't know, but will look into it
Having been interested in VR since the early 90s, I have to say I am more than ready for any kind of good, hi-res, low-latency VR system - this definitely looks promising, given all the high praise from Gaben and Carmack.
Wouldn't that be prohibited as "preparing derivative works"?
He should be barred for life from any police or security work. He's nothing but a thug.
Being into fitness does not mean you share an identical interest/taste/discernment with everyone else who is into fitness.

I think you are missing the point of subreddits. They are not for finding people that agree with you, they are for creating communities with all kinds of opinions. I go to /r/fitness exactly because I don't share most of the ideas there. I go there to learn something new.

If I want to know everything that happens in the world of fitness, I subscribe to /r/fitness. With automatic recommendations (and without subscribing to /r/fitness) I'd never see stuff that I didn't know I was interested in.

That's the problem with automatic recommendations - paradoxically, you can't discover new interests with their help. You can discover what's happening inside your sphere of interests, but you can't discover new interests.
Neat. How are you doing it?
Getting a good handle on FP has been one of the best things I've done to better myself in the paradigm I get paid to write code in by day.

I haven't personally found a whole lot to warrant the "functional programming as universal panacea" meme that's been so popular lately. But most decent imperative languages have pretty good support for many features of functional programming nowadays, and spending some time working in a functional language will teach you to make better use of those features of your native one. To that extent, polishing my FP skills has led me to like my by-day language (C#) even better.

Even failing that, learning new ways to think about and code solutions for problems can only improve your ability to think about and code solutions for problems.
While I agree with your point, I believe "projects with 'random' (assigned) partners" to be a bad idea as far as encouraging social interactions. From my experience, no one enjoys being randomly assigned a partner (at least in high school) and starting your social contact with an unpleasant experience might ruin the chances of proper interaction.

I think you make an excellent point that a lot is at play during high school though. It seems like most kids are fine and don't notice gender differences before their teens and that the social issues manifest and strengthen from the start to the end of puberty. Teenagers are mean and that period of life is when people judge the most based on looks and social aptitude. Solving this situation (which probably can't be solved readily) would most likely raise everyone's social interaction skills, smooth the social differences across the board and solve a lot of gender stereotypes (and even other problems).
ferruh abi seni seviyorum be :) very good.
i went to academic summer camps basically from sixth grade on (Duke TIP-affiliated stuff), and one year i took chemistry class. one of the three weeks was "uncontrolled oxidation" week. lots of fun. :) the biggest takeaway was that potassium perchlorate plus almost anything equals cool. i think my favorite was equal parts potassium perchlorate and sugar in a half-coke can. take outside and add a couple drops of sulfuric acid--ten-foot cone of flame.

for reference this would be, hmm, i think 1995? somewhere between 94 and 97, anyway.
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You still need the graph to run the recommender. This algorithm would help new users get up to speed quickly, with better results when the social graph is large; it's just another network effect.
Python support is in beta. We've actually already supported Python since 1.0, and it pretty much worked, but it remained an experiment and felt a little unpolished. Today, we've officially elevated it to "beta" status, meaning that it isn't terribly well documented yet, and may not feel as polished as Ruby support, but generally works well. We will publish blog articles and documentation about Python support in the near future. If you would like to stay up to date, please subscribe to our newsletter at http://eepurl.com/nXXrL

In a nutshell, you put your WSGI application code in passenger_wsgi.py. Point the virtual host's document root to the 'public' directory, and it just works. Very similar to Rack/Rails support, with passenger_wsgi.py substituting config.ru. See this for an example of Django on Phusion Passenger: https://github.com/kwe/passenger-django-wsgi-example/
interesting, didn't know there was already a little cottage industry here. I'm totally not advocating it, but I'm curious how would anyone know (assuming the spinner actually outputs quality copy)? I guess it would be up to to the prosecution to prove it, or the defense to lie about it, should it come to that.
It would be interesting to use a command line interface that acted like a text adventure game.

> get file.txt
YOU PICK UP THE FILE
> inventory
YOU ARE HOLDING:
file.txt
> gzip file.txt
FILE.TXT HAS BEEN COMPRESSED
> inventory
YOU ARE HOLDING:
file.txt (compressed)
> drop file.txt
YOU CAN'T PUT THAT HERE, THERE IS ALREADY A FILE.TXT HERE
> rename file.txt file.txt.gz
FILE.TXT HAS BEEN RENAMED
> drop file.txt.gz
YOU PUT DOWN FILE.TXT.GZ

Obviously not ideal, but at the very least the idea of inventory-as-clipboard would be useful on the command line.
Great point.

I think the article speaks specifically about women because it was written by a woman, drawing from her personal experience.

The principles stated in the article can probably be appreciated by and applied by any group that's feeling marginalized in the tech industry.
The post is aimed at people who spend too much time perfecting a single idea, and not enough time getting it out there.

The comments (andyswan's at least) are aimed at people who spend too much time getting ideas out there and not enough time perfecting a single idea.

IMHO it's easier to nudge the perfectionists toward success than the "ROOMBApreneurs".
The biggest complaint that I've heard from female engineers who have been around for more than a couple years is that there are so few of them, and that it is such a male-dominated industry. I can't speak for them, but I have my own complaints on this front, as a guy. Overlooking the specific gender biases that women face, there are real differences between how men and women work and interact, and I find it rather tedious to just work with men all the time. I have come to despise many aspects of programmer culture, and I feel that a lot of what I dislike is due to a heavily male influence. "Rock star", "ninja", "brogrammer" and the like all sound like words generated by immature men in roles of power. I think that the more egoistic, individualistic trends in work behavior are outgrowths of a distinctly male influence. This behavior contributes to the poor perception of the profession.
I know at least one HN reader doing crypto work at the NSA. I'm sure there are others, and they know their audience.
Thanks. Will take a look at your site and get back to you.
What bugs me is the fact that no one is complaining about low presence of men in female-dominated industries. But god forbid if there are 10 male programmers and 9 female ones, DISASTER!
No idea. It's being shared amongst my group of friends on facebook. Sounds intriguing, at least to me. (I've applied).
The early days of the K8 were awesome, the FX would kill whatever Intel threw at AMD, it was brutal. Even cheap Athlons were better than highend Pentiums, and prescott? a disaster, plain and simple.

Is ironic that AMD hired Keller since Intel too found it's way out of the Netburst fiasco by going back to Tualatin, which at the same time had more in common with the good old Pentium Pro than it did with coppermine and katmai.
it's no secret as they are a licensee of arm chips
Thanks for your reply! That certainly gives me a bit of motivation to learn a functional language.
I do listen to music sometimes when programming, but it's interesting to note the study cited in DeMarco and Lister's Peopleware (IIRC) where they found programmers (in a ridiculously contrived study) who listened to music produced "less inventive" solutions than those who didn't. I've always taken that as an interesting caveat.
Welcome to the Twitter Olympics
Why 3D films are probably here for good
The article appeared to be arguing: women underperform because they spend mental effort worrying about stereotype threat. So let's educate them about stereotype threat so they'll be more conscious of it.

That sounds obviously counterproductive. Did I misunderstand?
Google has a new calculator UI
Today when I was using the searchbar as my search bar as a calculator I noticed something different.
"stable since it is used in production" - if only thats always the case!
>> it's been hard for competitors to get any traction... even when the competitor has better technology.

This. CraigsList's search features for cars are abysmal. AutoTrader.com, on the other hand, lets you do awesome stuff like "find me a Toyota or Honda sedan costing less than $12,000 within 15 miles of me", save that search, and get email alerts when new matches come in.

But in my market, all the sellers were on Craigslist.

Sucky network effects.
Improving your editing skills (one of my glaring weaknesses) are a near-perfect example of sharpening the saw. You already use an editor, now you're learning to use it faster.

I guess if we're going to play with the metaphor, learning to use a bicycle is not sharpening the saw, it's learning to use a new and better tool.

So if we go with editors, learning to type faster is sharpening the saw, just like training to walk faster. But switching to Emacs is like learning to ride a bicycle where you used to run.
Yes I noticed too. :-). Hope all is well with PlaceChallenge. I looked your work. Quite nice. Did you make any other product web sites other than PlaceChallenge web site?
I believe that in the future that's the way to do it, but not right now.

Besides, I'm not a fan of automatic recommendations as they have a lot of drawbacks. Their major problem is: they won't help you find something you didn't know you liked.
I had to use a couple databases from dbpedia to get all the information (the death location syntax wasn't uniform) to make my own more manageable database.

As for the server, it's just Node.js and Socket.IO
This seems basically the same as the FSF's copyright assignment practice for GPL products, or Apache Foundation's practice, for basically the same goals.
I'm not missing the point of subreddits at all, and I would suggest that you are so far down the rabbit hole of the cure all subreddit that you refuse to acknowledge the point.

I have never said that subreddits should go away. Ever. Each post that again argues one versus the other is tossing up a distraction.

They are not for finding people that agree with you

Correlation isn't about agreement: An upvote does not mean "I agree with this". It means "I found this interesting/useful/enjoyable/educational", whereas a downvote should mean "I find this uninteresting/not useful/unenjoyable/not educational".

In no universe does that preclude learning new things. Quite the contrary, in fact.
While you make a point that it doesn't always have to do with harassment, your second argument is very weak. There's nothing anyone but yourself can do about "[...] a person's perception of herself and what people might be thinking, not the way others are acting."

If your issue lies with what other people MIGHT be thinking, then the issue is within your own self-confidence.

I agree that stereotypes are destructive, but only when they actually are present. One should be careful not to feel threatened by hypothetical thoughts from hypothetical co-workers before the fact.
I know this is typically poor form, but I would give as a resounding response: "get bent"
See: http://only.in/yc

Three friends and I built this site over the last few weeks.

Feedback appreciated!
What a strange way to describe these trends. Bizarre.
What difference does it make that the purchase originated in an app? That MY app, using my bandwidth on my device etc. Same argument.

The reason they do it is, of course, that they can. I call it a shakedown, but lawyers may have another name.
Firefox Add-ons Cross More Than 3 Billion Downloads
That does not imply that the best male mathematicians or computer scientists were male: it suggests the most widely-recognized such were. That's like saying the best writers are mostly European because that's where most of the Nobel prizes for literature have been awarded. By the time you have gotten to that prize you have gone through a large number of potentially-biased filters.

If men were better at running companies, companies that hired women would have worse performance, the opposite of what was observed. It is far more likely that men are in charge because they always have been and such decisions are made by humans with systematic cultural prejudices. In fact, such prejudice can explain gendered difference in advancement. For example, see http://www.west-info.eu/files/SSRN-id2018259.pdf about how men with stay-at-home wives denied women opportunities for promotion and saw companies that employed women as less successful than those that didn't.
I do client work and frequently find myself onsite where I can't connect my computer or phone to the network yet can use a computer on their network to access the web.

So, a fair amount.
I wonder how the revenue distribution will look like for the Windows 8 Store. Say, a year from now, when things have evened out and an appreciable fraction of Win7 users have upgraded.

Given that Microsoft will always be promoting Xbox LIVE games more heavily than any other games, I suspect we'd see a significantly less even distribution. Still, that might provide incentive for indies to raise the quality bar as much as possible.
I'd rather work for the CIA, at least they have morals.
Here's a video interview of John Carmack discussing this headset at E3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyuMVazQPos
Digg, Reddit, and Hacker News are easy to browse for a reason.

I like the redesign, but I don't think it fits with social news Digg-style. When I go to a site like reddit or Digg, I know I'm not going to like every article posted. Mostly, I want to find what is interesting to me as fast as possible. Sites with large images and scattered, newspaper-style layouts make it hard for me to find what I want. This layout would work on a focused blog where I know that I am interested in most of the articles, but not on a mass news aggregator.
Their major problem is: they won't help you find something you didn't know you liked.

This is patently untrue. It is more likely to find you stuff that you didn't know you like than the lowest common denominator strategy.
"The only thing an IQ test is good at is measuring how close the test taker is to thinking the same way the test maker does."
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2012)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
The Basics around a Program/ Project Management Office
Ever since watching the Google I/O 2012 presentations where there are live demos in the slides, I've been trying to find a good off-the-shelf toolkit for doing these sorts of presentations. One example that really wow'd me was the Google Application Engine "Endpoints" demo, where they were interacting with the site they had just pushed in the slides.

I wanted something like that where I could take the javascript based backend driven visualizations we've been doing for internal use at CrowdFlower and show those off to the world. I also want something that can work with webgl¹ for some other fun deck-related things.

So I looked at a bunch of HTML presentation toolkits and was pretty irritated. Then I found reveal, and it is by far the best for hacking in. Its dependencies are minimal, its css and js is easy to understand and hack, and its markup structure is very clean. I really appreciate the project.

¹ By the way, don't try and do webgl without some toolkits. The API is messy and the error handling for shaders is incomprehensible. I'm using Three.js or scenejs, depending on requirements.
This is a bit similar to the "exploration vs. exploitation" problem [1]. Is it better to explore new avenues in hopes of higher returns later, or better to exploit current knowledge of the problem to maximize current returns?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Pardon the technical difficulties this month

Also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323612
The only people I have ever seen use the terms rock star or ninja are women in HR/Recruiting.
Label me as OCD guy, but please fix the headline (Friedly->Friendly) :-)
ShopLocket raises $1 million
> I swear sometimes they don't even ring the doorbell.

No need to "swear", they've been caught in that exact act several time by people who'd cleared their daily schedule entirely (or taken a home-work day for office drones) to get their package, either catching them trying to leave after having pinned/dropped a notice or plain not saying them the whole day.

And that's beyond their basic "rules" such as a home number not being clearly visible from the truck means you don't exist and fuck you very much.
Right on, really excited for these guys :)
i guess the new digg is the old reddit....
I still would call that relevant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Job_perfo...
This thread makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a toothpick. The nitpicking is outrageous. Think about your last project with a tight deadline. OMG a bad meta tag made in! Should we delay the release? If you are running a business not a personal site the answer should ALWAYS be no. This is a website not shrink wrapped software. It can be updated a hundred times a day. Meta tags can be changed. It's ok to roll out a site that isn't 100% where you want it to be. I, for one, welcome the new Digg and look forward to them improving their meta tags.
Edit - here is the one you need...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323597
Why doesn't my old license transfer? /sarcasm

http://www.modrails.com/enterprise.html

Should probably remove this page since they share the same name and all.
lol. ui rip much? classy
I think we have different notions of what "network install" means. Yes, you can download packages from the web during the install (perhaps booting from a minimal install, as most net work installs do).

I was really more interested in netboot installs, where the machine downloads a boot image (via TFTP generally) and does the install from there.

In fact, no hard drive is needed in the machine if you want to just boot an image from a network share.

Apple uses a technology like this to reimage boot drives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBoot

This is how it works in Ubuntu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto
I don't buy the proposition that apple tv hasn't done well because televisions that aren't made by apple aren't good enough.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2012)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
The Future of Twitter’s Platform Is All in the Cards
I agree with 10Mbps right now being the baseline if you want to replace broadcast TV with the internet:
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-bandwidth-requirement-to-st...
I met plenty of women programmers who are good at their jobs who have made this kind of argument. Many have left computing.

What is different about the women you have met, and I have met, I'm not sure. But I can tell you many such women exist.
It has the ability to display presenter notes on a second screen - albeit it needs a little setting up. https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#speaker-notes (edit: Seen you had noticed this already. Point still stands, this feature does exist.)

Screen resolutions, I haven't tried but does it not? He talks about it working on mobile safari, so I presume it's OK on an iPad screen at least.

Printing... the logical (to me) way of doing this is to design in PowerPoint then convert to this system. That makes the creation easier, and allows you to print it out or convert to PDF.
Throne of JS: Eight JavaScript MV* Libraries Compared
Apple doesn't design the CPUs, they license the IP (from ARM and Imagination Technologies primarily) and put it on a SoC chip. The A5/A5X were distinguished by the very large SGX cores, but that's not really an engineering triumph -- it's just a bigger chip. Other manufacturers were first with things like dual channel memory, PoP assembly, integrating the A8 and A9 (and SGX, for that matter) cores, etc...

SoC design at that level really that innovative. You take some IP, throw it onto a floor plan and contract with a fab. Apple having their own designs is more about optimizing their production chain than it is about driving innovation.
Book'd launching the clever online booking engine
Google Fiber Sends A Very Quick Message To CEOs Of America
Did you do any startup/product web sites that are not in your portfolio on your web site?
Raikia, I really appreciate your feedback and warnings. You are probably right in some points, however I can't agree that no one needs it. I know a lot of people who are interested in such apps (women too). There are people who look at this app from another point of view - when I'm alone, I can go out and meet someone random (in a bar, club etc.). I can use such app as well.