skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote about this recently [1], and here's my best shot:

Contrary to what some readers have said in e-mails to me, or inferred from what I’ve written, I’m actually not at all opposed to peer review or peer-reviewed publications. But the important thing these days isn’t a medium for publishing—pretty much anyone with an Internet connection can get that for free—but the imprimatur of peer-review, which says, “This guy [or gal] knows what he’s talking about.” A more intellectually honest way to go about peer-review would be to have every academic have a blog / website. When he or she has an article ready to go, he should post it, send a link to an editor, and ask the editor to kick it out to a peer-reviewer. Their comments, whether anonymous or not, should be appended to the article. If it’s accepted, it gets a link and perhaps the full-text copied and put in the “journal’s” main page. If it doesn’t, readers can judge its merits or lack thereof for themselves.

The sciences arguably already have this, because important papers appear on arXiv.org before they’re officially “published.” But papers in the sciences appear to be less status-based and more content-based than papers in the humanities.

I think this change will happen in the humanities, very slowly, over time; it won’t be fast because there’s no reason for it to be fast, and the profession’s gatekeepers are entrenched and have zero incentive to change. If anything, they have a strong incentive to maintain the system, because doing that raises their own status and increases their own power within the profession.

Given how cheaply one can find or buy a website / blog these days, I'm not sure where all this money is going.

[1]https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/the-stupidity-of-w...
> The fact that you base your impression of MongoDB based on ZERO evidence just conjecture that the slowness of their site is database related says a lot about you too. There are many other reasons it could equally be: app server, network etc.

Those other things are trivial to fix (e.g. add more app servers) so I too think that it's safe to assume it's probably the data store's fault.

> But it does 'just work' that's the whole point.

Did you read the article?
> So people that work together but live a couple neighborhoods apart will just drive separately?

If someone lives a couple neighborhoods out of my way than no. That can easily add 30-40 minutes to my travel. So sorry pal but just can't do it. If it's on my way than sure it's possible. but otherwise it just doesn't work. The streets inside the neibourhoods are just as crowded as the highways and avenues or worse. And the city is just too much spread out. The chances of someone that works with you to live close by are slim in a city with over 11M people.
I am pretty sure it works, my question is do you want it for your kids?
What does HN think about using this protocol to build a distributed publishing system? Like I'vegot this software that facilitates publishing a certain kind of post type, and each node of the software can subscribe to any number of other nodes. The problem is that each node will represent a tent server, not every person publishing on said node. I'm not sure if this woud be a misuse of this protocol, but its features are really well-suited to what I want to do.
> of course installing a decent browser is the counter argument

That's not a counter-argument at all. That's a solution for the user, not for the developer.
If you want to try it out in a less intimidating environment, check out your local Par 3 course.

They're usually pretty low-cost and only 9 holes. As someone who enjoys playing golf, but doesn't have it as a top priority to get better at, 18 holes of a real course can be exhausting and frustrating if I'm not playing well. 9 holes on a par 3 can be over in less than an hour.
Obviously Vancouver isn't expensive because it's densely built. It's cheaper than it would otherwise be because it's densely built. Vancouver is expensive because land is geographically limited and it's a very attractive destination (one of the top cities in the world for QoL).
It's also not a subject of government policy. They're voting (or not) on a party platform, which is literally nothing but a set of guidelines.

I'm not saying that the DNC fight wasn't "undemocratic" either -- just agreeing that holding this up as an example of "government corruption" is a huge stretch. They held a fake vote on a fake document; the most notable thing here is that they did it embarassingly in public.
awesome tool.
Is that entire article just trying to say that the ion-ring, which is in it's lowest energy state, rotates at a perfect rate (will never speed up or slow down) and hence you have the central peace of a very accurate time keeper?...
This sounds like a variation of the Metallica defense. Does EMI own Elsevier?
GPS bike tracker that aggressively tries to break into and intercept all communications coming from the immediate vicinity of the bike once it's been stolen, both for recovering my own bike and ruining the lives of bike thieves.
wow. Very sorry for your loss!
Since you're concerned with frametimes, let's also add in the asset production pipeline and effort. As it's been mentioned, cutting edge rasterizing consists of lengthy pipeline for every single effect imaginable(also sometimes to the graphics assets, mind you) while raytracing does all that almost by default(soft shadows and global illumination are problematic for example, path tracing fixes this but is some two orders of magnitude slower).

The real problem with raytracing is that it's asymptotic computational complexity is far worse when you count scene objects. To compensate this you either lower the resolution or lower the lifetime of a ray(how many bounces it's allowed to make).
I assume current CFO Tim Morse is being pushed out. Why else would he leave just as Yahoo is turning around? He had only been at the company for three years.
Functions that return functions are the luckiest functions in the world
> Tent.is will become a showcase for what is possible with Tent.

And 10 other sentences telling me that tent.is is for tent users and I still don't know what tent is. The information I'm looking for is under the fold and seems to be on :

https://tent.io/

Otherwise it looks quite interesting, thanks ! (statusnet but for facebook-type content)
As a UX designer, I was fascinated by what was actually happening behind all the fast edits and hip soundtrack, so I stayed up far too late last night writing this 4,000 word deconstruction of the new demo: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4572608
Sooo... you say you could actually just use an iPad? ;)

Also, i guess you are really overestimating the role of CPU power usage in a modern PC. You wouldn't like double the time, just by swapping Intel with ARM, not nearly.
> And mouseover is, in my opinion, too late to indicate what's clickable and what isn't. It's a nice confirmation, but the user should already know before they even move their mouse. If you've got a user aimlessly moving their mouse over things trying to determine what's clickable, you've failed at design.

I agree with this so hard I think I hurt my back.
It's implicitly understood by everyone who cares about this topic that salting is intrinsic to KDFs. I.E. by the time you've read through, and understood http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/, you understand why "salting" your password gains you nothing, because rainbow tables are no longer particularly relevant to cracking passwords. And yes, while there is salting inherent to KDFs, that's not the major feature of them, but an assumed implementation detail.
While it is still high compared to zero in Texas, you get to deduct how much you paid in federal taxes from the state taxes, making that 9% sting a little less.

Funny that you say cost of living is higher than in Austin, I felt Oregon has remarkably low cost of living compared to every where else I have lived (I have never lived in Texas though).
You have been a "technology manager" at Bank of America in North Carolina since 1998. Do you try new technologies such as MongoDB professionally? What are your qualifications to make such a vague statement? More importantly, what is the lesson to be learned?
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Who are offering entry-level data scientist positions? (internships included)
In particular idiom does not mean something deliberately entered into the language to solve a particular problem—that's just regular semantics. Idioms are by nature emergent. For example I might be conscious of 3 idioms among all the languages I know (which is much more than 3), yet I write idiomatic code because I know the languages well. In fact, outside of Go circles no one talks of idioms, they talk of idiomatic code.

Who cares about compiler transformations? The issue is the semantic difference between return codes and exceptions. Nobody is asking for exceptions because they can't or don't know how to get to the correct scope to handle their errors, they're asking for them because they don't want to write all the boilerplate necessary to do so.

And yes, you can transform exceptions to chained returns. That would be a lot of work for terrible performance. You can't do the other transformation though. It would require being able to statically analyze the code path to determine where the errors are eventually handled, which is impossible in the general case.
At least with a serious RDBMS you'll have loads of awesome tools and solid experts around to help you solve your scaling problems.
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This is an important contrary viewpoint in a very aggressive style.

Not all workplaces are ideal and they will produce less than ideal results. This engenders problems...

(I actually think code reviews are a critical part of a quality culture, but there exist social reasons not to do them)
Owl post
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Owl_post
AHHHH!! How can you write an article about design when your buttons don't have HOVER STATES[1]? AGH, am I the only person in the world driven crazy by this? UI should respond, dammit!

1: http://www.layervault.com/
Killing pesky caching during Drupal migrations and upgrades part 1
This is exciting. Indeed, it has been "just a few years away" for a few decades now but at some point I'm sure it will show up.

I'm sure I'm not the only one on HN who has written a ray tracer, and once you have it's easy to extend it to something like Metropolis light transport or photon mapping. I remember when my code first worked (without error) how amazed I was that such a small amount of programming can achieve such realistic light simulations!

A website known as OMPF used to be about the only forum online for people interested in ray tracing and global illumination. For some reason, it seems as though it has gone down :(
Each website could have a salt. The issue is, if it's not a secure connection, it's vulnerable to hijacks.
Do you have a date for when Tent will be released under an open license?
Apple SVP Says iPhone 5 Scuffs Are Normal
OS X sells more.
What does Steve Wozniak do at Fusion-IO?
This is a very sad story.

I'm sure that most of the time pets are flown, everything is fine, but I don't trust the TSA and airline workers to my bags, much less a life that I care about.
I would assume that it is moving via mouse scroll...
Turn your 404s into lost children alerts
My usage would be very occasional, maybe once every two or three months, for an intense day or two. I'd have no problem forking over $50 to use it each time, but it would be very annoying to pay $10/month for months when I have no usage at all. See the paradox? I'd pay more, maybe $200/year, instead of $120, not to have to worry about getting billed forever for something I'm not using.

If you could come up with some scheme that was usage-based rather than time-based, you might make more money in the long run. $5/screen? $50/project? I dunno.

Maybe $100/year, upfront, non-recurring. That wouldn't be terrible. It wouldn't feel like time-based usage because the timeframe is so long.

You might be able to learn something from the pricing experiences of the mockup tools like Balsamiq and Mockingbird.
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Start and Goal
You need to have a goal.
That would be assuming they haven't closed the tab in disgust by that point.
When we moved cross country to California, my wife and I were so scared of this happening to our pup that we opted to drive for 4 days rather than risk it.

Me, and a lot of people I know would be willing to pay at least as much as a ticket for a person costs to have our pets transported safely by air, preferably in the cabin instead of as luggage. It doesn't have to be with us, although I would love it if that was possible.

A company called petairways used to do this, but has recently gone bankrupt. I wonder if there is a viable way to make this work.
The MIT-licensed reference server is on github. Get to forkin'!

https://github.com/tent/tentd
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Hey "be my friend" etc etc - https://ragmondo.tent.is/ - to see how well this works..
Thanks! We started working on it at the end of July this year. However, we ported over a ton of work for a product we also have for jQuery Mobile called Codiqa (http://codiqa.com/). Without that it probably would have taken many months longer.
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Personal experience:

> It worked exceptionally well. Most errors were caught at this phase, or inmediately before, when we were reading our own code just before printing it.

> We had a friendly environment.

> We had a clear pre-established set of rules. We just discussed what category an error fell into.

> Yes! it was also a way to learn to think about code and avoid similar errors next time, but some errors ocurred again anyway.

> I miss code reviews!
That's not really being brave ; I mean, it's not dangerous. The NES is very serviceable.
I've never flown with a pet, but I can't imagine the heartache from arriving at your destination to find one of your pets has died.

It sounds like the owners did everything reasonable to prepare for the flight.

When it comes to finding United responsible, maybe travel crate companies should equip the crates with temperature sensors, so that an owner could see the conditions the pets underwent through a flight.

Owners of other pets on the flight could have seen how hot it got in the compartment, and realized what kind of peril their animals were in as well.
I wouldn't even say it's Pythonic. As a reader, I would prefer len+filter (or ifilter). That's the most semantically clear.
"Standups share knowledge. Wikis share knowledge. Comments share knowledge. Code should share knowledge"

That's all true but code reviews certainly share a lot of information and feedback specifically related to the context of the day by day development. Which certainly will increase your productivity by teaching you about mistakes and at the same time letting you evangelize someone else in your team/organization. You won't find the same amount of information for your project with as much frequency as you do on code reviews.
Dead comment from ajju:

When we moved cross country to California, my wife and I were so scared of this happening to our pup that we opted to drive for 4 days rather than risk it.
Me, and a lot of people I know would be willing to pay at least as much as a ticket for a person costs to have our pets transported safely by air, preferably in the cabin instead of as luggage. It doesn't have to be with us, although I would love it if that was possible.
A company called petairways used to do this, but has recently gone bankrupt. I wonder if there is a viable way to make this work.
Sweet! If Tent folks are reading this you might want to update the last sentence currently on tent.io, "Tent will be released under an open license in the immediate future."
I tested it with my S2 and it works, but I had to put the files in a local web server because for some reason, the malicious code didn't work from jsfiddle.net

So I did the following:

1- I tested the link provided by kristofferR (http://kristofferr.com/samsung.html).
2- Made 2 local copies
3- Edited one of the copies, replaceing the IMEI code with a normal phone number.
4- Placed both files in a local web server.
5- Accesed the files from my phone, and got the expected results with your App.

Thanks!
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That's not it — good marketing communicates what you want to say — adobe is terrible at this. When I first read their web page I had no clue what it was about, I then had to come across an article on a blog that clearly explained it in one simple headline.
no script required...apache has a setenvif module that can do a special action based on browser, refer, ....
Selectively altering belief formation in the human brain
The solar component is a stunt. Electricity is fungible. How about putting the solar plants where they work well (mountaintop? desert?) and the charging stations can just hook to the grid. Then they can get their electricity from any convenient source (local nuke plant for instance).

The argument about 'free solar' is almost an oxymoron. That electricity costs more per kwh than most any other source.
mint.com is fantastic
This lacks ambition.

$> cd ~/Movies/Avengers
... people who changed into this directory were also interested in
Marvel Avengers Assemble [DVD] £10.00

$> ls ~
Desktop Downloads Movies Music Pictures
... related items
Intelliplug - Desktop Version £12.95
Tent.is is a Tent server. You can read about the Tent protocol here: http://tent.io.

You can connect any Tent app to Tent.is, and it also includes a basic status app (status posts are 140 characters or less) to get people started.
Awesome idea and very noble. I wonder however if any users will have objections to this.
When "free" isn't: Developer accuses tool vendor of extorting customer
Interesting concept.

The actual 404 pages look like:
http://notfound-static.fwebservices.be/404/index.html
You were targeting the Java devices (probably BB5, BB6?) Unlike those devices, the BB10 devices (like the Playbook) are based upon the QNX OS and so the overall development experience is significantly better. But don't just take my word for it, click any of the BB10 links that talk about the development experience for a more in depth discussion.
The most common password in a giant list of passwords is going to suck sort of by definition.
As mentioned, the software (tentd, admin, and status) are all MIT licensed and on github, as will be any libraries we create.

That (confusing) sentence refers to the specification itself for which we still need a permanent governance model and foundation to oversee its' development.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention, we'll try to clarify the language soon!
It would definitely make the engine implementation more simple and elegant, but why exactly would that be worth it? Why would that be worth all the downsides?

I think a good analogy, say that I'm implementing a database. In my database, every single time it handles a query, it always does O(n) search across every record to find matches. The implementation would be so simple and elegant!
Talk at Groupon Palo Alto: Design Without Photoshop (Joel Lewenstein, Quora)
If you're using a POP service that doesn't provide a webmail interface in 2012, something is wrong.
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Total non-sequitur but this thread has 20 points and 5 comments in 36 minutes, posted by a 5k+ karma user... and it's buried at the bottom of the second page? How'd that happen?

I've seen posts with 3 or 4 up votes in an hour make it to the front page.
They definitely have cargo container data recorders that monitor this stuff. I wonder if there is one for planes.
+ Pro Publica's coverage on this:
http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-life-and-de...

+ Yes Lab "anti-iPhone" game taken down fr the Apple store moves to Android:
http://phonestory.org
I rented a hotel suite for $2400/month last year on Robson Street, just five blocks (or so) off of Granville. It had a separate bedroom and living room and a small kitchen - great view of the North Shore mountains. There were about 20 different restaurants within 3 blocks of the hotel.

Downtown Vancouver Housing might not be cheap, but I don't think, given the quality of life, and ease of commute, that it would be considered "expensive."

Another clever (and deliberate) thing that Vancouver does to control traffic, is they control the cost of parking. That makes it easy to come into the city for short trips, but expensive to commute.
I think the difference is that "flat design" is not added to a good information architecture. It's just what you get when you resist trends to add textures and widgets that don't belong.

I think your own example illustrates it: a film without special effects is just a film.
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If the person moves to Android, google gets both.
I know it certainly slows me down to be full, but I'm often very distracted when hungry.
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Are you sure the word you're looking for isn't "collegial"?

With respect to the term, I think "collegiate" is actually very appropriate, because the best group work I've ever done was in school. Everyone was okay if someone disagreed with their work, or didn't like it, and everyone was also okay with disagreeing with someone else.
(Disclosure: I wrote the post)

These are all great questions. Thinking long-term, the answer should be yes to all of those questions. We should save time (and therefore money) and be a vehicle for increased revenue. And, we intend to do a lot more writing about how folks are using/could use/should use our product. At the same time, in the long run, we’re all dead. So, in the present, we’re looking to work with Series-A type companies who are in the midst of early product development. We want to work alongside them to understand their analytics needs and tweak our roadmap accordingly.

Those customer sketches/white papers are extremely important to us. We’re still learning (and probably always will be). It’s my hope that we will be in a position to blog about customer experiences soon. Dominos are certainly lining up for that.
Taking you back?

My house mate and I are currently moving through our Killer Instinct phase on SNES, and I just lent my NES to my 18 year old sister and her boyfriend who borrow it regularly.

I'm taking this article very seriously, as I am from the family of people who blew in the cartridges (and the console) up until I read this :)
Google can only secure them (assuming you trust them, of course) from the moment it hits their servers. Until then, it's a postcard hopping from machine to machine.
Perhaps kidnappers.
French Government Outlines Plans for Free Software Adoption
WebGL cloud animation
Seems ridiculous for any website without a very localized userbase.
Well... I'm really sorry about the loss, but I can't really see where it's United's fault that the dog died.. Travelling IS stress, always, but there is absolutely no proof that United is to blame. (Except for the very very bad reaction at the airport)