skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Extreme" outlier may be going a bit far. I live in the Southwest (NM). I found myself at a formal, Conservative Jewish funeral a couple weeks ago and half of us were wearing jeans. I was slightly overdressed just in slacks and a nice button-up. One out of the last four job candidates that's interviewed here came in anything fancier than that. I've been to four or five weddings out here, and never seen a shortage of bluejeans; seems like only the people in the wedding are expected to dress up out here. The only people I see consistently dressing in suits are lawyers, but they can waltz into court wearing cowboy hats and bolo ties with their suits without arousing a weird look.

We all have different experiences I guess, but the further West you go, the less formal the attire, and California isn't really as "extreme" as you may think.
Since it sort of worked well last time (http://areyougoing2009.heroku.com/), I updated the are you going app for this year!

http://areyougoing.herokuapp.com/
A bit like an inline footnote?
You are invited - iPhone5 Launch
Transactions are often automatic and unattended. For instance, you put in a buy or sell order that may or may not be automatically fulfilled sometime in the next day.
This article is offensive to me. Frew is a talented craftsman and a recent immigrant who single-handedly makes more than the average household in the US, and is in the top 1% of the world in terms of income. He has his own business that is all his through hard work, and has aspirations of becoming a famous designer.

There is no need to insult Frew about his work clothes or his choosing not to make a suit for himself. Frew is rich, and should be applauded.

I don't pay attention to politics, but I used to roll my eyes when right-wingers would talk about "new york times liberal elitism", but in this case I agree with the rednecks.
Running BitTorrent software is illegal now?
I probably came across a little too harsh. I think Inkling is awesome, I'm just still grumpy at publishers.

In the case of Campbell the a la carte Inkling prices are such that a student can get 60% of the book at the point they reach the full price of the book. I know at many universities Campbell is the primary text used for first year biology students so going through 60-80% is not unheard of. At that consumption rate I would be better off buying the book used from Amazon, using it, and then reselling it at a loss of $20-$30. If a student doesn't want to deal with reselling his or her book they can even rent Campbell for ~$70. As it's a, first year, general biology book keeping it for reference doesn't make a huge amount of sense for non-pre-med biology students.

I really don't blame Inkling for this, I just think that Campbell would be a reasonable text at a quarter to half the current price (with individual chapters similarly reduced) which would compete nicely and directly with the rental text market.

All that said, per-chapter certainly benefits students who tend to not buy the texts, but would like access to particular chapters.

Additionally, buying an Inkling text with half a dozen other students and sharing becomes an enticing proposition (that probably terrifies publishers and probably violates the EULA and TOS).

Anyway, I'm excited about Inkling, and hope that authors and publishers fully embrace it and similar platforms. I'm not excited about future students still being gouged for a medium that is dirt cheap to reproduce.
Suits change according to fashion too. Most of us just don't notice and walk around happily oblivious to the hipsters/fashionistas judging us and sniggering between themselves.

When I bought my wedding suit, my fiancee dragged me to multiple shops and eventually had a lengthy discussion with a Saville Row tailor over whether to have one button or three buttons (two? I have no idea), as she believed one button suits would be coming back into fashion on the higher end, but most of the brands did not offer one button suits at the time. She was right. She had similar opinions about the cut...
Venkatesh Rao: Entrepreneurs are the New Labor (Part 3)
> ...an algorithm with no crossover will do usually pretty well, but will be prone to getting stuck in local optima. This is because it is possible to arrive at a solution where no incremental change can improve the fitness.

False. There is no theoretical or comprehensive empirical study I've ever seen to suggest this is the case. At best, in some scenarios (e.g., multiplex, ordered subset selection) crossover will help speed up the search because it is effectively assuming it's separable, meaning different parts of the problem can be optimized independently. So if you're trying to get all 1s in a bit string, you could imagine separating that into two parts: maximizing the first and second halves of the bit string, then combining the best individuals you would get an optimal answer to the original problem. This is why, for instance, that crossover rarely helps in evolving neural networks; their weights' non-separable nature makes it difficult to select a meaningful subset of the network.

> Crossover is somewhat helpful against local optima because it allows the algorithm to try combinations of innovations from different solutions. Depending on the fitness landscape, this can be either helpful or useless. Regardless, a GA will, on any non-trivial problem, almost certainly get stuck on a local optimum, which is a very important point for users of GAs to realize.

Also false. I'll especially take note that this is not the case if you're using a less-than-naive EA. One great example is CMA-ES, which is particularly well suited for handling non-convex, deceptive optimization problems (and uses no crossover).

> But what is not the case is that mutation prevents crossover from hitting a local optimum. Crossover by itself basically just won't optimize at all

Again, not true. Consider multiplex. You start with a bunch of random bit strings. IF you have 1s in all indexes somewhere in the population, it's possible (though unlikely) that the algorithm will find the optimal answer. The issue that arises is when you select against the last 1 bit in a certain index in the population; it's now lost forever and thus the GA will at best reach a local optima (optima in the sense of it's the best it can now do with future populations).
Revenge of the right brain (2005)
Its also interesting to think about totally post-scarcity societies, as in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
That looks really nice. And thanks for the link to http://www.telescopictext.com/ another neat implementation of a similar concept.
> And he used his tech credentials and patent experience to convince the other jurors. Don't you see a problem with that?

I'd say there's a problem. Using his patent experience to convince the other jurors is pretty similar to a lawyer using his legal experience to convince other jurors. AFAIK, the latter is a very serious issue - no juror is supposed to substitute their legal opinions for the judge's.
Short but some details are there for 'why?'
"it relies entirely on Sass mixins and does not pollute your HTML with presentation classes and extra wrapping div's"

So they are just promoting an approach which is nonorthodox!
But that’s always how it was. They just decided to make the standards process officially fit what happens in the real world.
Anachronism maybe?
If you right click a VI in a LabVIEW project you can "Find Callers" and "Find SubVIs"

I'm using LV 2009, I'm not sure what version this was added.
For some people, there's a risk on the outside as well. Pacemakers.

Less so these days, but still.

My understanding is that there's a possibility of creating induced current in the pacemaker. Which is to say, the non-ionizing radiation has an effect at a distance, albeit in a manufactured artifact, not (in this case) organic tissue.
Awesome article.

Question about Gumroad - it looks like you are able to make purchases directly from your site http://nathanbarry.com/app-design-handbook/ and not have to be directed to https://gumroad.com/l/AppDesign. Is this the norm for Gumroad or did you have to add anything custom to the process?
I still don't particularly understand. So basically this really helps out number theory? Where does that lead to?
SPOILER: This being on kurzweilai.net means--some pages around--that the solution is the (gradual) merger of humans with machines and thus an enhancement of human physical and cognitive abilities. See the trailer on http://transcendentman.com/

The loss of jobs is part of the adaption phase, a dead time until the system reacts. People often assume that the world changes but humans stay the same, a case of improper ceteris paribus.

For a hypothesis of past human structural (genetic) change in a short time (in this case as a driver, not a reaction) see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Clark_%28economist%29#A...
I use vividchalk, which I was happy to see there on the list. It's amazing how many variations on color schemes there are.
I second foundation, did two big projects with bootstrap and it kept getting in the way of what I wanted to do.

I've now done two sites with Foundation and it's my new standard, way more designer friendly and always feels flexible.
I heard there's one called Bitcoin Savings & Trust.
Wow 6.1 is ancient... :-) LabVIEW 8.6 is a huge leap forward in usability, stability, and performance. If you can upgrade to 2011 that's even better.

-National Instruments employee
As someone who's currently looking for a new hosting provider, I'm curious to know what made you go with Liquid Web. My experiences with them have been so-so and have been thinking of moving to SoftLayer for possibly more reliable, albeit more expensive, hardware.
I used MongoDB in a medium-sized production environment (Aol's Editions backend, which I built with my brother). The sharding, for our needs, was far from automatic. In fact, the only way to get MongoDB to shard records evenly across servers (this is with 1.8) was to for all intents and purposes implement our own sharding on top of it. In other words, the global write lock coupled with worthless auto-sharding (at least given our purposes: high write, temporary but mission-critical data) made MongoDB a PITA. That, along with the fact that we were more or less told that MongoDB would be able to handle what we were planning by the MongoDB consultants Aol hired completely soured my view of 10gen. The only reason we needed sharding in the first place was because we were getting large amounts of queued writes on a 32GB server with 16 cores (with < 300 w/s). Pathetic.

My point is that if you want to spread out your writes on a database that supports rich queries and honors the "C" in CAP, you're going to have to do some work. The distributed DBs are nice and shiny if you can forego some of the nicer querying features of relational DBs (or MongoDB), but not everyone's requirements fit into document-based records, and to assume they do is just NoSQL fanboism.

Note: I am using MongoDB for my latest venture because we are realistic about it's abilities and also because our development time with MongoDB is no joke about 1.5x-2x faster than with MySQL (or equivalent). So MongoDB has its place and it definitely a good system (especially after v2) but NoSQL isn't for everybody, especially if you can't get past the hype and look at decisions very technically and objectively.
That is standard with Gumroad using their modal feature. It was really easy to setup!
Every. Single. Time. There's one of these in every controversial article.
Seriously. groklaw is starting to sound whiny with their unending criticism of the guy. Argue the system not the verdict. I am for major reforms to the current patent system, but deep down am secretly pleased that the jury decided to stick it to Samsung for being, lets face it, arrogantly blatant copycats.

At the end of the day maybe the verdict was a form of reverse jury nullification. I'm OK with that.

The second Apple or anyone else levels that patent system against small players, I'll go run and grab my pitchfork and torch and join groklaw. We'll see if it gets that far. I predict the big boys will blow through a whole pile of time and money before this is all done, and only to further expose the inherent problems in the system.
Dropbox tech blog:  Some love for JavaScript applications
Yeah, that's the one. Interestingly enough, the back of my brain says the symbol on it has changed, and used to be the one found on http://blog.harjtaggar.com - which I now realize is supposed to be Superman with his cape flowing, but read before as 'some dude with a weird pointy head, I dunno, kinda looks like Jamaroquai's logo I guess'.

This seeming swap is surely, in part, the result of me not looking very closely at the logo. But it might also be a consequence of how de-emphasized the few touches of individuality are in the Svbtle scheme. I don't think "I'm at [author]'s site" when I hit one, I think "oh another Svtble site". It could probably even be fixed pretty easily by filling the whole sidebar with the color and having the white logo float in that, thus giving the brain an actual silhouette to parse out of the corner of my eye instead of 'uh it's a circle and there's something in it I dunno hey look at all this important text over here'.

YMMV, of course.
> (typed on an iPad that's not on the list)

list is only 1/12th of the original file,

But don't worry, more than 200 million iOS devices are out there. 12 million is only 6% of the key-space so, you're probably not in the original dump that's in the hands of "anonymous".
Shitty legacy maintenance
7 Cool Useful Command Prompt Tips You May Not Know
The Friendship Paradox: why your friends have more friends than you do
Do you mean the exchange or the customers? The customers have to deposit BTC before they can place any sell order, and the BTC has to be held in escrow by the exchange as long as that order stays on the books. As others have said though, the exchange shouldn't be keeping much money in a hot wallet; that's probably just lazy programming.
You can see the whole data here (and change the scales):

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/PRS85006173

It only goes back to 1940, but it would be interesting to know what the labor share was before that. I'm guessing it was smaller, especially in the late 1800s.
I love hearing that as someone heavily considering moving to Austin.
lustomer.com
Personal Survival and Swimming Against the Cultural Currents
Apple, I get it.
What do you do for consulting and how did you transition into it?
What's wrong with just tl;dr?
It isn't Samsung's (or Apple's) job to convince the foreman of the law. It is the judge's job to tell the jury what the law is for the purposes of their deliberations. It is the jury's job to follow the judge's instructions with respect to the law and to reach factual (not legal) conclusions to determine their verdict. Even though the judge makes the jury instructions with input from the lawyers on both sides, the jury doesn't see that and, from their perspective, that's irrelevant.

We saw this very clearly in Oracle v Google. Judge Alsup told the jury that APIs were copyrightable and the jury found that Google infringed there. This is despite the fact that at least some jurors were uneasy about that conclusion (see, among other things, the deadlock over fair use). Judge Alsup later decided that APIs weren't copyrightable, so that portion of the jury's verdict turned out to be unimportant, but that's separate from the job the jury was asked to do. If the jury had found that Google didn't infringe because they decided APIs weren't copyrightable, that might have been the right bottom-line result, but they still wouldn't have been doing their job.
I'm starting a new project and I've been thinking about Foundation for a while, I'm going to take your recommendation and go with it. Any major differences between Foundation and Bootstrap that might catch someone coming from Bootstrap out, or is it plain sailing?
It is not the 2.4Ghz radiation that causes the trouble with pacemakers. Its the plain old magnetic field generated by the inductive inrush from the giant coils that convert the power to feed to the magnetron tube in the microwave. Any large inductive load poses the same risk.
really enjoyed this read.
If he raises the price 2% I'd go to the guy two blocks down.

He's not the only one, you know?

Now, if they started a cooperative...
First look: Windows Server 2012 brings the cloud down to earth
> Does anybody honestly do anything but stick their hand out

The patrons outside my poorly sound-isolated SF apartment prefer to whistle all through the night, unaware that I have a better chance of hearing them than the cabs do.
the way i see it, if you had no requirement for labour (that is, all work is done by machines), natural resources also become effectively unlimited. After all, materials are not depleted, they are just transformed into less useful configurations.

If no labour is ever required, it means there is basically no real reason why resources can't be automatically recycled.

Economic value is, therefore, completely based on the value generated when a human labours - whether that labour is to extract natural resources, or service another human.
I doubt that "owning large tracts of land for the sake of social status and financial security has diminished over the last few hundred years".

In medieval times, you either had land, or you were nothing.

There are many more options now. Some of us even (gasp) rent.
I doubt Google would be willing to do 30 minute release cycles. Like any large piece of code search needs to be tested before it is released, the tests alone probably take 30 minutes to run. Google probably could not update their code more frequently than once a day. Risking breaking the search webpage is too high of a cost. On the other end ad blockers don't have to worry about lossing millions of dollars a second if they introduce a bug so they can respond much quicker.
Glad to see you are having "good problems".

Didn't like parallel queries using pgpool2?
"The application deadline is noon PT on September 20, and we'll issue acceptances on September 30. "
Moreover, how is it going to go mainstream without mainstream exchanges? If these bitcoin thefts continue putting exchanges out of business, the thieves will wind up with a big pile of currency nobody is willing to convert back into dollars.
> There should be a word for this.

Roughly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
The concept of ownership is predicated on a party with the power of enforcement of law. If a few people ended up with everything I doubt the vast, vast majority with nothing would just say "well, sucks to be us". All the money in the world only protects you from armed mobs as long as there are people willing to accept money for said protection duties and enough deterrent from an authority to discourage the mob from simply overpowering the rich and their guards. Dystopian futures where a small number of people "have everything" seem highly unlikely if for no other reason than people can be beaten to death with stones.
Skeuomorphic
Why do you need to learn it in a week, especially at such a superficial level?

If you just want to learn the basics, it's pretty simple. You just need a compiler, a text editor, and some semi-decent reference.

Compiler:
If you're on Windows, you'll probably want Visual Studio Express. Otherwise, you just need gcc.

Text editor:
There are plenty of open source ones. Google for one available on your platform.

What to study:
It's a fairly easy language to read if you're familiar with other curly languages like Java or PHP, especially if you're ignoring most of the standard library and OOP. See if your library has C++ Primer (Lippman) or any O'Reilly C++ books, or pick up one from this list (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-b...). Then just work through the first few chapters, solving each question/example. Otherwise, Googling "C++ tutorial" will help, but you might not get a complete answer.
The only downside is the javascript libraries are a bit underdeveloped and lack the large OSS-community scrutiny that Twitters benefits from.

But the basic stuff is pretty similar, so it's easy to switch.
Sell me on how this is better than http://semantic.gs/

Semantic.gs has been absolutely great for me. I can do any kind of responsive design I could imagine.

And it works with Sass, Less, and Stylus.

Looking at Neat's mixin examples, I can already tell you their actual mixin names arent semantic... even if their generated CSS/HTML is.

Semantic GS is 100% semantic, even the mixins.
I agree with your assessment. It this realization that encouraged me to start learning about alternative economies; binary economics is one alternative I've explored. In the end, we live in an era of increasing scarcity (especially with regards to food, water, and land) and automation will continue to erode the job prospects of humans moving forward. In the meantime, medicine is working towards increasing one's longevity. Personally, I hope we find a peaceful resolution to this mess, but it does seem to be a recipe for disaster.

People bemoan Kurzweil's vision of the future, but we may be forced to virtualize ourselves to survive peacefully. Otherwise, I want to be in the country with the strongest military.
I wonder if the author was aware of Patient R before he wrote the article. Patient R is a man who had extensive brain damage to three areas of his brain considered critical for awareness, but who was still demonstrably self-aware. Patient R challenges the assumption that certain brain regions are necessary for awareness or even consciousness, and some see this as supporting the theory that awareness, consciousness, and other higher level mental processes are distributed throughout the brain instead of localized in specific regions.

If consciousness is a distributed phenomenon, how developed does the brain need to be before consciousness arises? Why does consciousness persist in the wake of traumatic brain injury, especially in exceptional cases of hydrocephalus?

We'd like to make it easy and say, "this region controls this, this region controls that, and tada, consciousness," but nature is just not that easy. If it was, the string theorists would have falsifiable predictions that would have been proven or disproven by now.
The list of what they are NOT into does imply somewhat that they're doing real engineering. Unfortunately, these days, that is rare, so that makes them interesting.
+100 for charity, -100 for open marketplaces.
You should work on your reading comprehension since I did nor said no such thing. Losing "a bit of respect" is not equivalent to summing someone up by a single opinion, it's not even close.
The difference is that at that time people weren't hitting up against natural resource limits. Productivity decreases the need for labor, and society reacts by producing more overall which keeps people busy. But that only works when there are no other constraints on growing overall production.
It is still open marketplace.
But for some key difference: aiplane mode, and schools not having Bluetooth/wifi trackers running.
not that i'm disagreeing that semantic html is a good thing, but shouldn't one consider the costs of using a system such as this? specifically, doing css modifications in the browser becomes more difficult since we can't just plop in a mixin the same way we could in the sass file. i can't really say how much more difficult it would be to debug css in the browser when using this system either.. though i don't see a reason why it should be easier than a traditional grid system to debug, i could think of some reasons that it might be more difficult.

i'm not trying to knock on this framework. i think thoughtbot is great, i love paperclip. i am a bit hesitant about the practical value of this though..
Ask HN: what are the best looking web application user interfaces?
What are sexiest, most stylish AND functional web application user interfaces you know? I'm NOT talking here about garden variety websites. Talking about web applications that are functional, that require significant user interaction.