skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one who still makes websites with very little JS in them? One jQuery thing here and there. Using Backbone would be overkill and to be honest I can't think of one hypothetical project where I would need it.
Not joking. If you have 2.5 billion dollars, you can spend it on what you want. Congress shifts money around all the time. They just want to spend it on rovers.

Now, to be clear, I think there are plenty of good arguments that spending a marginal 2.5 billion dollars to put a robot on Mars is actually the right call, in terms of its long term benefits for humanity. Wasn't taking a position on that either way. My point is just that you can measure the cost (and, by assumption, benefits if we're successful) in units of human lives, and that it's a big number. That's wiped out if the rover crashes, so a lot is riding on that code.

You might argue that the risk of failure is priced into the tradeoff society made. You might also argue that not all of the value of sending the rover is destroyed if the landing fails. Those both seem uncompelling, but I haven't thought too hard about it.

US spending on Iraq does, in fact, really tick me off. It's an enormously inefficient use of resources.
Except there's no specific reason to name it drupal-org.make except that the d.o packaging system requires that specific name.
Since Meyer took over, what's the internal vibe change from the engineering perspective?
I'm all for an open source Git front-end, but the design of Gitlab is just too close to GitHub. Even things like "Network" have been replicated exactly. Anyone else see this as a problem?
Children should't pay for their parents ignorance. Vaccines should be mandatory with very few exception where the child can't be vaccinated because of some real problem.
In fact I can't (don't wanna) use desktop without pointing nipple. I have two (home/work) of these

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/itemdetails/55Y9003/460/60AC6A0372...
(Not a referral link - just a video review by someone who bought it)
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2M4YOUB8J3F84/ref=cm_cr_dp_tit...

If you check out that review it shows that the product definitely needs to mature. I can't see the wacom one being used for professional purposes until they up the accuracy. I was going to buy one for my finance for her birthday (she has a cintiq but wanted something for the go) but decided it wasn't worth it.

On top of that inkling requires that device to help read from the paper which limits its usefulness some (for me at least).

Hopefully they improve on it because it's definitely an interesting approach to this problem.
There's a great talk about this from some guy at Digital Illusions. He found some definition of what a "game" is and compared that definition with Farmville, it failed on every single bullet. I can't remember the exact details but it contained things like it has to be challenging, a skilled player should easily beat a newbie, not requiring grinding. What's interesting is that the definitions are not designed with the sole purpose of bashing farmville, all of them really make sense and origin from even before computer era.

If somebody knows where to find the talk please post it, my google-fu is weak today. He also compares the iphone to a swiss army knife and the ipad to a "swiss-army-kitchen-utensil" (i.e too bad to be really useful and too big to fit in your pocket). The talk was just a few weeks after the first ipad release. It also contains alot of other talk about the future of gaming for the general masses, facebook games and gaming anything in life(like shopping), etc. If that's enough to trigger anyones memory.
Why early-stage VCs are greedy bastards
I love the way that math reveals ultimate truths. We consider math to be some abstract thing that we're applying to help explain reality. Instead, it often appears that the abstraction is somehow the True Reality(tm), and our reality is really just an imperfect view of Math(tm).

We view math about like we view electromagnetic waves with our eyes. We see effects of it and reflections and complex interactions of only small parts of the em spectrum.

It's interesting to wonder if we could develop a way to "see math" in its pure form.

(Sorry, Friday afternoon speculation... not currently taking any drugs.)
I'm perpetually mystified Yahoo isn't a bigger presence on my phone. The Yahoo! games division ignored the mobile market. The Yahoo portal app is a literally an embedded browser onto which yahoo overlays 4 buttons. Home, Post to Facebook, Share, and More.

Why does the most noticeable feature in a Yahoo app post links to a competitor's website? Is management paying attention? Do they have an actual mission?

Yahoo's mobile websites can be useless (e.g. sports.yahoo.com shows an alphabetical listing of teams in NCAA football conferences, but you cannot see their standings). Do the people handing the sports website actually watch sports? Does the project manager not realize I'll never use their sports site again?

Does yahoo not see phones as a priority? Why hasn't someone taken charge and attempted to bring Yahoo to the mobile market in a meaningful way? As an end user it seems the company is coasting. Is the new CEO going to be able to get something going or is the company too stuck in the mud to get some focus on development?

I know the post is not really the questions you were looking for but from the outside all I see is disorganization, lack of focus and fear of change. Why would someone want to go into that environment?
Frank Gehry is among the best living architects and his building in Bilbao is certainly noteworthy, however, the Guggenheim is in Manhattan, and Frank Lloyd Wright was the "Guggenheim Architect."
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Is it just egos, or is there also an impact on SERP rankings and referral traffic?

Assuming, for discussion, that it still needed further editing rather than being ready to go.
"Furthermore, Business Insider recently reported claims from unnamed Zynga insiders about Amazon’s desire to hire Zynga employees."

Of course they want to hire employees already comfortable working for a sweatshop.
Ask HN: SF over NYC?
As a startup founder currently living in NYC, I'm considering a move to SF for the benefit of my company and for the tech community in general. Is SF still the startup mecca as it's always been portrayed? What are some of the pros and cons of both running and growing a startup, as well as living, in San Francisco? How does San Francisco compare to NYC as a city in general?
Dementia is a part of my condition (which seems to be idiopathic, presenting symptoms of both Parkinson's and Huntington's). The motor difficulties and aphasic episodes are the things that I can't explain away, even though the explanations for other things are often quite convoluted. There was a period of some weeks a couple of years ago now when I amassed what must have been the largest privately-held collection of tomato ketchup in Canada, apparently by going shopping for food I needed and, having no idea why I was in a grocery store (or, for that matter, which store I was in) deciding that I was probably nearly out of ketchup anyway, and that I could get out of the store without embarrassment if I bought a bottle. I lost nearly thirty pounds that month, and wound up in the hospital twice due to extreme dehydration. Apparently I was not particularly nice to the people who were trying to help me, since I didn't need their damned help anyway, and they were trying to poison me. Things are considerably better now with medication, but there are still times when I find myself completely lost in what should be familiar territory. And I'm no longer really attached to anybody; it's like that part of me is missing now, and I can't sustain anything like caring. I don't know how much of the depression and irritation is part of the pathology and how much is just frustration and fear (terror, really) that never really goes away. Sometimes I think that if there is ever a root cause found and a cure effected, it would take me many years before I would trust normal life again.
A very small percentage of people who have ever tried heroin are current users. Of course, it's much, much smaller for everyone who's tried to play Starcraft, but the point remains.
the internet is the greatest.
Physics often uses the sign of a frequency to indicate the direction of travel with regard to a reference frame.

E.g. 2 Hz is a wave oscillating two times per second and travelling to the right, -2 Hz is the same travelling to the left.

In some cases direction isn't really meaningful (standing waves, or the height or pressure of a medium as seen by a stationary observer). In others, the direction of propagation can be quite significant.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft has been doing the same thing at least since windows 95. I remember trying to run some old version of Nero, the CD-ROM burning tool, on a recent-ish version of Windows, and it popped up a message about known incompatibilities.
Back in the day, 2007 and 2008 there was live running federation between Twitter and Jaiku. I remember i was sitting in the room when Ralph and Blaine got it working, at 4am at a foo camp.

Unfortunately Jaiku was bought by google and they spent a long time with it offline only to come out as Google Buzz which didn't take off.

Many of the early twitter engineers like Blaine Cook and Alex Payne pushed hard for twitter to be more open and federated, but lost that argument and left or were pushed out. It's a business not a technology decision which makes twitter centralized.
Try plotting the incidence of autism and number of reality television shows on the same graph.
Firefox Aurora 16a2 is blazing fast on my computer to the point where I don't really care about the browser speed war anymore. Congratulations to the Firefox developers who completely transformed the browser from where it was in 2009.
I thought DARE has been debunked my so many sources that it didn't even exist anymore?
This is the world crying out for a fast e-ink small form-factor tablet that just saves everything as digital ink. (Then build-up from there.) Simply recording time (and optionally location) associated with each page would make the device awesome. Add the ability to interface with a web app for better processing, as Evernote does, and you'd take over the world.
One of the things I did on my Boostrap'd site, is to make the button corners sharp instead of rounded. That makes a big difference in making it look less Bootstrap'y. See fandalism.com
Holy shit, I never realized! That's a bit of a scandal!
Apparently, the quality of men's sperm declines as they get older resulting in various genetic abnormalities.

The Amish seem to have families quite young whilst the rest of us are slaving away trying to get a house in the suburbs before we have children.

I'd consider that to be a better correlation than vaccines.
I've been a Thinkpad fan for about a decade now. I bought a W500 to replace a stolen T60p a couple years ago. Aside from having a better GPU, it was not an upgrade.

* There's less metal in the frame, I assume to make it lighter. It also makes it less sturdy.

* The screen is 150px shorter, but only 80px wider. Net loss.

* The screen is much lower quality: TN vs IPS, lots of light leakage from the backlight, poor contrast.

* The keyboard is worse; it flexes more.

* The plastics aren't as durable.

* The audio ports are on the front. That means no sitting in a semi-reclined position with headphones plugged in. It's enough to make me wonder if the people who designed the thing have ever used a laptop away from a desk.

After about 18 months, I started having problems. First the keyboard died. Then the hinges started getting loose, and eventually broke entirely. The plastics cracked in several places. The internal screen stopped displaying video (not just the backlight - there's nothing). My girlfriend has a T400 and also had problems with plastics cracking.

Now I have another T60p, but with a T61p motherboard in it so I can have 8gb of RAM. It's the best laptop I've ever used.
Is someone looking at the Y Combinator applications now?
YCombinator applications are always open under the name of late applications. What intrigues me , if i apply now , will someone read/evaluate it today or along with the next batch?
"Stop-gap" has a slight implication that it's temporary. A kludge may be forever.

Though, in this case, the stop-gap is at least indefinite from Apple's perspective, since they have no plans to restore binary compatibility for badly-written or otherwise broken drivers and applications, and it's up to the third-party vendor whether to issue a free patch.
I totally agree, this is another case of software thinking it's smarter than me. This is really a problem on blogs, where you'll have 5 comments in a row that say "posted 1 hour ago" and you have no idea the order you're supposed to read them. Common sense nullified by "smart" apps yet again...
you're making way too much assumption as to what logout does behind the scenes. "without changing result" != "without changing state"

sending notifications, updating counters, etc. all could be result of logging out.
California should start a special charter school for the unvaccinated children.
I don't think this is the right way to think about it. The ending "state" might be the same, but the output of the first logout operation would be "change of state: logged in -> logged out". In the second case, however, it would be "no change in state". It does different things under different circumstances.
Agreed. The title should be changed to "How self-indulgence and living in the moment without planning for the future left me an unsatisfying life and, surprise! No future."
I actually joined on the same day as Marissa so I can't really comment on how the vibe was beforehand. That said, I do approve of the job that she's doing.
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DARE only made me do more drugs.
Okay,thanks for the input. Will keep mixpanel in mind!
Heatsink/fan assemblies are under $10 on ebay, and these laptops are straightforward to disassemble. The official hardware maintenance manual will tell you step by step. It should take less than an hour to replace.
Yes, but my toaster is not going to have bread sitting in it getting stale waiting for my alarm clock to go off in the morning.
I run thathigh.com.

This is an old post, and I'm sure HN will take down the site, since my app engine quota levels are way lower than they used to be. Just to fill you in, I've gone to other projects and haven't had time to keep thathigh up to date.

I had some pretty notable twitter followers, including lindsay lohan, snoop dog, bill maher, doug benson, sarah silverman, and a few others. Still hanging in there at 12k followers, and I absolutely must give a shout out to CrowdBooster (I used them a lot to get so many followers).

At the peak, the site was paying my rent in SF. It doesn't really make any money anymore since I've neglected it.
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In addition, skinning desktop software is generally seen as bad practice and apps that do it stick out like a sore thumb.
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I didn't know what a beautiful code was, until I looked at this project.
That's probably the article I was thinking about. Thanks for digging that up.
I totally understand. Totally. This is a dangerous path taken, but it could happen for everyday things. Having the inner pressure to do things when things dont need to be done only to avoid feeling stale.

I was better than anyone I knew in my job and I kept studying edge cases of my profession that I would never need. Soon my job became too easy. I would spend time studying professioms related to mine only in case I come up with something useful. Make no mistake this was not workaholism since it had nothing to do with my day to day work except in very rare circumstances. I also know that this is personally unproductive since I work as a manager and I can tell mismanagement of resources I mile away. I am very strict unfortunately only on everybody else but me. I read issue queues and follow forums for open source projects for thing I will never use. Same thing goes for stackoverflow for a series of languages. I have studied history books, correlating things on various books and sources and historical archives. Attempting to put everything in an elasticsearch cluster for better fulltext search. To what end, I don't know. My spouse has gotten used to this but my friends seem to have changed during the years. I have no long term goals and many things I learned I won't use. Since my addictions are not fun related they just look like hobbies. The problem is they add up to many hours a day.

I would not call it rage to succeed, I would call it inability to stand still mentally.
Who other than you considers ebooks "printed"?
which language did you make it out of? very nice!
I think you are right that Gitlab would be a more compelling alternative with some major unique features. You give great suggestions for better access controls.

Access control in Gitlab is currently done with the following roles: Guest / Reporter / Developer / Master. See http://imgur.com/yFkVb

Would that be a start? Which of your examples do you need most?
Living in an islamic regime as a woman may be sometimes difficult: always wearing headscarf, having not many rights in business and marriage, etc...
But now the regime seems to begin to "kill the minds". Until now, almost every bad islamic regulation could have been reverted under a different government. But reverting the lack of education is impossible.
They are now in the mode of killing the mind and freedom of 50% of their population.
Stop this crazy religious shit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_...
... for high enough values of 'almost negligible'
In one of the linked pages - http://quantifiedself.com/2012/07/nick-winter-a-lazy-mans-ap... he mentions quantifed mind, but I can't find any site with that name.

EDIT: Ooops, a little googling further reveals http://www.quantified-mind.com

After a little link-chasing I did get to a guide / tools page that may be useful: http://quantifiedself.com/guide/
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What would you tell the parents of a child who died due to the vaccines you mandate? Yes, kids die, and have other complications.
My grandmother is having trouble sucking eggs. Any tips?
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I've read some comments on this machine at http://forum.thinkpads.com. The complaint I see a lot of there is that the screen is terrible. It's bright, and has what passes for a high resolution these days, but the color reproduction, contrast ratios and light leakage have all produced complaints.

Disclaimer: this is a forum where people hack together T61/T60 hybrids so they can have 8gb of RAM and a UXGA IPS panel, so they make have higher standards for their screens than most people.
No, it's not the question. Vaccines don't cause autism. This has been established beyond doubt. Further speculation about a link between the two is nothing other than dangerous.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2010/02/the-lancet-retracts-p...

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7076

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajmg.a.31846/full

http://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/immunization/vaccine_saf...
Yes. Just check this model, for example: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/app/models/...

I'm pretty sure it should have it's attributes protected.

Also, prepare to have to work with pretty confusing code. I don't want to belittle the work of the Gitlab authors and contributors, but the whole codebase is ignoring many Ruby, Rails, Webdevelopment and general programming best practices.

A short list of problems, at least in my eyes, and in no specific order:
* Obtrusive JavaScript inside the erb templates, inline style definitions
* Non-semantic css class names.
* Highly confusing controller code (filters are used to set all kinds of instance variables, which makes it very hard to easily understand where the variable is coming from and what it's value is).
* "Roles": Code that has been extracted into seperate modules, but for no real reason. E.g. the SshKey module is only included into the Key class, and is highly coupled with it.
* Totally brittle test suite.
Keeping his engineers happy and hopefully more productive would be a step in the right direction of that goal.
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Not to mention, the Amish are a fairly isolated genetic pool. The Amish could simply have a lower prevalence of autism the same way those of Northern European ancestry have a higher prevalence of red hair.
I don't know how it is today, but OneNote on tablet pc was doing pretty fantastic search of handwritten notes in ~2004 (back when I last used it). When I worked at MSFT, I took basically all of my notes in it.
> smooth acid-free paper that can take a wide variety of inks without smearing, discoloring, or bleeding through -- well constructed and durable

You mean just like a standard 1€ spiral bound notebook with 80g paper?
I wonder if that's relative to a fixed position or to the previous point. Like, if you draw a large square, the final corner may not meet, but the lines won't have discontinuities or bumps in them.
While I think Y! has some good products on mobile, I do understand your frustration. I (this is me personally, not as a Y! employee) am also looking forward to the company allocating more resources towards mobile.
Pics? I'm curious what your surroundings look like.
This might be something that you're thinking people should work towards... Aura (http://addyosmani.github.com/aura/ ) "an event driven architecture built on top of backbone"
I think you're missing my point, which is that the performance range of people with "all four limbs and normal (or above) coordination and muscle capabilities" is at least as great as the performance range of people with diverse injuries.

So although it may seem orderly to you in the abstract, it's pointless and arbitrary to organize the paralympics based on type of injury if you're simultaneously allowing a much greater range of abilities to compete in the olympics.

If you really care that much about controlling for physical ability, you need to sort people based on some kind of meaningful sport-specific measure which more reliably segregates people's capabilities regardless of age, gender, injury, etc. But injury type (and for that matter gender and age) are extraordinarily poor proxies which in practice often prevent people from competing against their physical peers.
Don't push the idea of a wave in space too much, that's not how stuff works in quantum mechanics. See Feynman Lectures of Physics, Vol 3, Section 3-3 for a text at the introductory level.
I'm on paleo atm, but I don't have an iPhone, so I can't test this out. I don't understand what this app is supposed to do - is the word "paleo" completely arbirary in this case?

I can't see any way in which exchanging the word "paleo" for "vegan" or "gluten free" wouldn't make it the same product. Is this just a generic food journal, or is there anything that specifically makes it "paleo"?

It does look nicely presented (except for that awful iOS date picker thing).
Gutted this isn't on Android. Why are so many people still launching apps/competitions/products for iOS only? I could understand it a few years back, but doing it today just cuts your market in half.
Additionally, vaccines are not 100% effective- think of them as conferring greatly improved resistance, rather than total immunity. Herd immunity helps add that last few %.
I think the issue is with discrete (line-at-a-time) vs. smooth (pixel-at-a-time) scrolling. Two-finger scrolling typically sends the latter type of event, which is not yet widely supported in Windows and Linux software (although I have it working on my thinkpad X121e with the latest gtk3).
I'm guessing he has a program generating the test using random numbers.