skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really resonated with me. When I was a kid, my mom had a rather dangerous addiction to Ambien. She would have full conversations with me sometimes that she wouldn't remember. She needed help getting up the stairs. She would sleep for 12+ hours and then couldn't engage with me because she felt like she hadn't slept at all. She wasn't getting high, she was taking a doctor prescribed medication for a very specific problem.

She recently detoxed and got a cannabis card instead, and I've connected with her more in the 2 years since than the 20 years prior.

Just thought I'd throw this out there from a (now grown) kid's perspective.
Performance and type safety which is true for any scripting language
wasn't the academic world one of the places where tools _were_ sold at a high price?
I am thinking matlab, mathematica, derive etc.
Ask HN: Where do we pick up?
This is a bit of an experiment to see what lives in the mind of my HN friends:

People do not live in sync, and I live slowly. Some live for mere seconds, too light for this world. Some are heavy--marking all they encounter--only passing away when the world has found the strength to cast them off.

Nietzsche wanted to be read slowly. A beautiful gambit, for who can walk thus without falling over? It is likely that those who can... do not, and Dionysus is not his final answer to this problem. Where do we pick up?
TypeKit (I don't know the name of the font). It looks fine on IE9. DRM'ed webfonts look like crap on all other browsers on Windows.
Most webfonts look OK on windows vista and up.
ISeeYou when reading on android or SmartStay in galaxy s3 prevent screen sutting off when they see a face in the front camera.
As a side note, I prefer galaxy nexus as a portable reading device.
Instead of implementing breakpoints with INT 3, which relies on the OS's debug event support, our debugger injected new basic blocks into the program to pause the target, perform I/O with it, and redirect it to other code paths.

You should have no trouble looking up what a "trampoline" is, but I'm abusing the term a bit.
The labels ("strong", "weak") are ironic.
Display NSColor and UIColor values right inside Xcode
Oh my gosh no. Elon hasn't changed the world anywhere NEAR as much as Steve.
An introduction to cross compilation with Go
Reed's Law is arguing that the number of cliques I can participate in on a social network is more important than the number of "friends". The number of cliques tends to grow exponentially in the number of users except:

(i) Social networks are extremely sparse.. the most well connected nodes have 5000 out of hundreds of millions of users. This greatly reduces then number of available cliques (although does still leave it exponential).

(ii) Many of the connections are quite weak.. my interest in a random clique of a social graph in which I'm a member is almost always zero.

(iii) Most cliques that provide value can be extended into other cliques by inviting members, so I may only be interested in maximal cliques, a further significant winnowing.

(iv) Cliques aren't even the greatest representation of this because most groups I participate in on a social network don't have all-to-all friending.

On the whole though I expect the effect of disinterest in most cliques, and improving the interested one's to optimality by extension reduces the cliques I'm actually interested to something far slower than exponential.
He doesn't smoke it.

"...I use a brownie-based form of the drug to avoid the lung irritation associated with other modes of dose administration."
I am not so much concerned with the state of the law as I am with what we, the technically inclined members of society, think of these people's right to privacy. We cannot allow ourselves to abuse our position and justify preying on those who are less skilled.

Claims from within our community that "Privacy is dead." concern me more than any warrantless wiretapping the FBI may be enjoying. It confuses the ability to secure your own privacy with the right to enjoy it. I expect law enforcement to live by the letter of the law, but I expect better of us. I expect ethical behaviour, not just merely legal behaviour. We innovate too quickly for the law to keep up with us.
Glad you like the idea!

I'll think about suggestions for the "intentions" field. However, I don't want to suggest something that will end up in most profiles. Priming is powerful.

I expected someone would bring up Facebook integration. :-)

As someone who doesn't use Facebook and who has some issues with it, I haven't even considered integrating it and I'm not sure how much the profile data would match. I don't intend HumanamuH to become an advertising column, so much for sure.

Can you suggest anything besides photos that would fit the current HumanamuH profile?
That seems excessive, perhaps just upgrade to a more progressive font-smoothing algorithm? ClearType is built for lo-res displays (it snaps pixels to a grid rather than smoothing), so as you'd expect it looks like utter crap on a nice monitor. I have heard good things about gditray:

http://www.cobyx.com/software/gdi/
The best thing you can do for comments like that (esp. when they're made by "green" accounts) is to just downvote and ignore. They'll be downvoted to grey, then deleted. The accounts will be hellbanned in time (comments autmotically deleted, posts only visible to poster). Replying only clutters the discussion.
And again: "Unfortunately, this UMG-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights."

Good to have a proxy around.
Thank you. :)

Stores like iTunes often carry instrumentals, at least for the singles. There's also acapellas4u.co.uk and Beatport for finding acapellas.
That's a pity. I cannot remember anyone else telling me that it was spam filtered. But that doesn't have to mean anything.

Do you have any suggestions what I could improve to make these emails pass?
Surely these 10 Rules can be applied to startups when dealing with VCs. Or to startups when negotiating a new partnership/deal of any kind.
I my own case, I recently tried to approach a mid sized payment gateway company when I was spec'ing for a possible entrepreneurial stab in South America. As it turns out, the number 5 hit me hard.

5. Legal documents are created to protect the preparer (and its firm), not you or yours
Yep. Chrome on Windows 7 looks awful.
White House drafts cybersecurity executive order
You don't have to learn every single way to achieve a task though. Just sticking to simple blocks will solve 95% of the issues for you. If you want to get into more detail, Ruby will grow with you. I've sincerely yet to explicitly use lambdas or Procs and I've been coding Ruby through Rails for a few years now.
> In my opinion you are creating a false dichotomy between having learned and learning. Someone who has just started to walk/bike etc has still learned to walk/bike. They are by no means near entering Olympics for the next few years but they have made their own life very much simpler and more enjoyable. (Father of small children here.)

The fundamental difference here is that bikes are ridden in a way that's fundamentally unchanged for decades. Contrary to this "settled" field of knowledge, programming is constantly invalidating itself. Even if you achieve competency in a limited field (perhaps operating system design or web development), that field will almost certainly overturn itself within 5 years for any reasonably broad definition of field. Consider what modern linux looks like compared to the original version; a lot of new techniques have emerged to address requirements.

To enter that field, this new knowledge is not "optional." It's required. The goalposts for competency aren't just shifting; they've got a nuclear power supply and tank treads and they're out of control.

In this, it is not unlike being a doctor. Their knowledge base is similarly in constant flux (although not quite so violently as ours). A doctor who does not constantly improve and update their knowledge will be a substantially worse doctor than one who does. A perfect example of this is pre-scientific doctors like homeopaths, who basically do nothing with an almost frightening level of dedication and fervor.

> Comments like yours are discouraging at least one specific subset of people from doing the one thing that can possibly help them increase their skills

I did not direct this at some 16 year old kid or a non-programmer, nor did I put it in a venue where non-tech people read. Even if I did, citing final consequence is hardly a good argument. In any case, the industry does a pretty good job of discouraging people from joining as it is. When I was in college, there was a 60% dropout rate between lower and upper division classes.
I was stunned. I never expected that to happen. It was a great honor.

(It was also a little ironic, as there's a copyright dispute on the video coming from LMFAO's label.)
YallaMovie
That "this" business is absolutely ridiculous. The fact that Javascript remains the SOLE language to script browsers in 2012 really really pisses me off. It is not a very good language in terms of design (even though it's been proved to be quite efficient and capable in the past few years).
You are correct- that is exactly what it is. Thanks.
You are exactly right. Thank you.
Both, but much more the second.

disks and filesystems as a weird, separate appendage hanging off the side of a computer are conceptually a weak idea.

Once you've unified your address space - stable storage is in the same space as unstable storage, then your entire world changes. The trick then becomes, how do you represent objects (Hint: Others have already tread this ground, see AS/400).
Yeah, I'd thought about maybe doing a re-cut. But it's kind of late now. I couldn't replace the existing video, so it'd have to be separate, and nobody would find it. Oh well. Lesson learned for next time!
Interesting- the control characters get re-interpreted into screen commands. Thanks for that.
(meta question)
image credit here links to flickr, where the photo is shared under CC non-commercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/). Is a techcrunch post really considered non-commercial usage? (non-rhetoric question)
Absolutely satisfied with the response. Learned a lot from this, next time around the technicals should be much tighter (I hope).
Is there an easy way to detect when type is rendered with ClearText?
I'm bewildered by the hero worshipping of Elon myself. Heck, he may even be a complete fraud. It wouldn't surprise me if he is.
You're almost a year late. I joined the joindiaspora.com pod and uploaded some pictures but I didn't really stick around because none of my friends were there to talk to. Recently I tried running my own pod. My plan was just to host messages for some friends who were sick of Facebook. But I got stuck on SSL (I have no idea how to configure a server apparently) and haven't done much with it.

They have reasonably good code, it's fairly secure, and enough features to be useful. The one thing they don't have is users.
"informed" does not mean what you think it means, you speculate, and then point and slander a group of people.

If you were informed, you would have relevant information, not unsubstaniated accusations. What gives you the right to just publically accusse anybody based on nothing but your prejudices?
It's amazing just how real Elon Musk is -- he doesn't sugar coat answers and isn't furtive when describing Tesla's many weaknesses, unlike most other automaker CEOs.
I went through YouTube's copyright dispute process, and said it was a fair use derivative work. YouTube's response is apparently to ask the copyright owner if they feel it's fair use. Which, of course, they didn't.

Ironically, it was LMFAO's label that had the problem, and yet LMFAO posted the song to their Facebook and Twitter profiles. C'est la vie.
Very cool mashup. Can you give more than technical details of how you made it? Logic Pro and then what? Or is there a site you recommend to explain how to make mashups? I always assumed it was something mere mortals can't do.
I would say that Python has a feeling of inconsistency at times compared to other scripting languages. I don't mean this as a criticism. I like and use Python a lot for work and personal projects. Here's an example of what I mean by inconsistent:

len(a_string)

a_string.lower()

a_string.upper()

So here, there's a global, generic function len() that returns the length of the string while in the other examples, the string has methods such as .lower() .upper() etc. Why not have a_string.length()? I understand that generic functions are more efficient and even proper in OO. It just causes the feeling of inconsistency when you use the language a lot or when you are teaching a child how to program and have to explain the difference and why some things are methods while others are not.

Also, some python idioms (such as slicing) are not intuitive for many use cases. Here's an example of the traditional way in which to reverse a string in Python by slicing:

a_string[::-1]

In Ruby, you type a_string.reverse() and that is much more intuitive to a child when compared to the slicing in Python.

Having said all of that, I love Python and use it daily and encourage others to do so as well.
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I agree. Anyone know if there's anywhere I can order one? A quick google search turns up a much lamer version[1].

[1]: http://www.cafepress.ca/+occupy_mars_34_sleeve_tshirt_dark,6...
Qt 5 Beta: A Developer's Tour
Maybe not in terms of absolute impact on the world, but they're both comparable in sheer audacity as entrepreneurs.
Not to nitpick but managing supply-chain risk is a lot more complicated than insurance.

In most cases insurance is going to be more expensive than simply eating the cost of breakages, it's really something you have to protect against rare-and-expensive events.

If you are high volume/low cost or low volume/high cost this can be a very different situation than medium volume/medium cost in terms of impact.
The famous TotalA soundtrack is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxAdOQtAFEs
He creates culture of perfectionism. A car doesn't have to perfect to drive from point A to B. But it has to perfect if they want to build valuable brand.
eh, yeah, but you need to set expectations. I mean, people that will lose thousands of dollars every minute you are down have... rather different hosting expectations from people that are making a thousand dollars a month.

I mean, which would you rather have, assuming they were paying you the same money (and using the same capital resources, e.g. both of them use a full low-power dedicated server that costs $1,200 up front in parts and $20/month in power. Both use about as much bandwidth.)

Customer A. who is hosting email, web and ftp for his family, and maybe has a dev setup so she can test out the new webapp she's developing.

or

Customer B. who is running a website with $10,000 per day worth of sales.

Assuming they both have my phone number and can wake me up at 4am and yell at me, I can tell you that I am going to want a lot more money to give customer B the same service as customer A, because first, customer A isn't going to call me at 4am very often, and if I do flub something up, I can give customer A a free month, an apology and an explanation of what happened, and she is going to think I'm okay.

Customer B? man, customer B is going to wake me up every time there is even a little networking blip. And if I screw it up? they are going to have reason to be really angry, and possibly sue me for a bunch of money. a free month is unlikely to mollify them.

(also note, insurance might cover the payout if I get sued, but they certainly won't cover the time and aggravation, even in the best case.)

So yeah, I can see how hosting customer B would be exciting, but I'd want a whole hell of a lot more money to deal with those increased expectations.

If we want to go to the car wash example, when I was driving my maxima with unrepaired body damage? my neighbour caved in the rear passenger door with her land rover. "Don't worry about it," I said, "You did not significantly lower the utility or value of my car." - I mean, the whole thing was probably worth about as much as the bumper on her land rover.

If she had done the same to the new M3 in the next space over? you can bet her insurance would be making it just perfect, for a price that could have bought my jalopy several times over.

That's the thing. Nobody reads the legal bullshit until the knives are fully out and the lawyers are at the table. When you think about it, it doesn't make sense to spend the effort until then. I mean, you're talking about thousands of dollars of effort to understand a contract, and that doesn't make any sense on a contract that is worth two hundred bucks. Setting expectations is an important part of avoiding the situation where the lawyers need to come out and understand the contracts.

(Of course, this is why most contracts are as one sided as legally possible; there is no advantage to giving quarter, as the counterparty won't really read it until the relationship has soured and they are actively hostile.)
Will Hoverbikes Be More Important Than Tacocopters?
Here's what I think everyone can agree with: we don't want conversations on HN that amount to pissing contests between fans of different celebrity figures. There is little insight to be had here.
Is The Amazon Kindle Fire HD A Nexus 7 Killer?
A for-profit blog is definitely commercial usage.
Same here. I've never seen a simple general law, rule, or even guideline
to accurately predict the stagnation and decline of complex systems, or
more accurately, growth-decay cycles. It's a bit like knowing the sun
regularly rises somewhere over there (jcr points vaguely towards the
"East-ish" direction) but having no idea why it does, and hence,
having no way to accurately predict where it will rise. Trying to figure
it out can be both fascinating and frustrating.

There was a mathematician or scientist who said, "To measure something
is to know it," but unfortunately, I can't remember his name. Anyhow, I
agree our inability to accurately measure and model (or even notice) a
lot of the factors involved in complex systems results in our inability
to describe or predict them.

BTW, I kind of look at "measuring value" and "modeling ways to screw up
the network" to be mostly the same thing. In one case you're
identifying, measuring, and modeling the beneficial (value-increasing)
factors, and in other, you're identifying, measuring, and modeling the
harmful (value-decreasing) factors. --I have a funny feeling that I've
missed some thing obvious, so did I misunderstand your statement?
"Try something that scares the hell out of you. It just might turn into something wonderful."

Wise words, indeed.
The issue in IT doesn't arise around the Coke formula on Dropbox, unless Coke could somehow sue Dropbox for damages. The issue arises around large quantities of sensitive information. What if those Red Box video rental machines could be stolen to get the credit card data inside (they can't, the data aren't in there).

The issue hits hard in medical record IT. Losing control of 500 or more folks' medical records gets your name in lights here, and you're required to try to notify everybody who might be affected.
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachno...

What kind of insurance could possibly cover a startup against the reputation cost of this? Not insurance that any startup could afford. Plus, the liabilities for misuse of the leaked data (identity theft, employment blacklisting of sick people, you name it) are unlimited.

So, a business that holds medical records for people is inherently a Ferrari car wash, unless the entrepreneurs can somehow persuade their hospital customers to bear the reputation risk. That's very hard.
There are some neat tricks you can do with the 2 stereo signals. Linear combinatios of L/R channels is the easiest, but doesn't work well with modern mixes where bass/snare/voice is centered and other instruments are rarely ever hard-panned (you can get really cool results on some older albums like Rubber Soul - there's a lot of hard panning going on there)

There are of cuorse more advanced techniques for isolation of centered tracks and vocals in particular see http://virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=102 and http://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/1499/how-to-extract-v...
I just looked it up. The taxes are way higher than I'm paying now, or I'd pay in dubai(zero). The prices can be high in dubai (Currently less than a major US city), but they're one time costs.

There's almost a need to start a wiki on this subject.
I had fun once diagnosing a bad bit in a drive's cache memory. Writes would go out, and sometimes come back with a bit set. All the disk-resident CRCs in the world won't help if your data is mangled before it makes it to the media.

File systems with end-to-end checking are good. (These can turn into accidental memory tests for your host, too, and with a large enough population you'll see interesting failures).
Claims from within our community that "Privacy is dead." concern me more than any warrantless wiretapping the FBI may be enjoying.

-- This is an important point, because the notion of "reasonable" will ultimately be a relative point. so, in this case "a sinking tide sinks all ships" (to bastardize an old phrase). This is arguably a 21stC disease.

But, If you have school debts to pay, those facy granite countertops, or a promotion on the line, etc people will revert to: "I'm smarter than XYZ, I deserve PQR, all these other people are [naive, dumb, suckers]...etc. So I'll do [whatever morally grey area thing] will be [instrumentally useful].

So, at the end of the day, root cause is (1) greed; and (2) entitlement. You could also throw in (3) moral haze. But in my experience, (3) often is a byproduct of (1) and (2) coming into conflict. There is also likely a component which is just "lack of imagination" in the pre-9/11 sense. You just won't believe tha people will do certain types of things, until its too late. Confronting the problems is too disruptive, etc.
between this and the article about brain parasites in california, HN is scaring the crap out of me
Have to design for the lowest common denominator. Just because you and I can install gditray or whatnot doesn't mean that most people will.

Edit: The link even says that it doesn't work with Chrome, so it's still a non-starter.
"Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation"

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/gan...

"5 Must-See ‘Gangnam Style’ Response Videos"

http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/08/22/5-must-see-gangnam-sty...

"KnowYourMeme: Gangnam Style"

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gangnam-style
I think by "open" we are not talking about hours here, but the fact that a non-MIT student can walk in off the street, wander the halls, use the libraries, and study in a classroom.
On the other hand, all the people who are getting unnecessary screenings and medical treatments are also not working, resulting in lost productivity. And the medical professionals wasting time on screenings/treating people with non-symptomatic parasites could be helping people with emergent problems.

Quantitative cost/benefit analysis or GTFO.
Both of the above are excellent. Harold McGee's 'On Food and Cooking' is the foundational classic of the genre.