skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just gave up on the idea of using a regular slider to toggle between 'Any' & 'All', because I didn't want the selected text to be hidden. This solution would be perfect!
I agree, i believe we should not forget death to help us fight the ordinary vain reality.
Thanks for sharing this.
Call it evidence-based
I find similar confusion when confronted by Play/Pause buttons on video controls, before the video has loaded and started playing.

"OK, it's displaying a pause icon - is that telling me it's paused, or that I should click it to pause?"
I always took it as read that it's a charity because of the tax arrangements (i.e. if they didn't benefit from setting it up that way, they wouldn't be a charity at all).
Still room for confusion.
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Powerstream ( http://www.powerstream.com/thin-primary-lithium.htm ) makes a number of paper-thin primary and rechargable cells. I haven't personally worked with them, but the specs look incredible.
His message is clear. What should we do? Just wait for Skynet to turn on?
> In large part because two of my three university courses had automatic marking system which detracted points if comments exceeded a certain percentage of text mass

That sounds like a horrible system. Why'd they ever do that? The grading systems I have seen do the inverse, requiring certain amount of comments. That of course leads students writing gibberish just to fulfill the comment quota, but even that is better than penalizing for commenting.
Sure, read the last few paragraphs of this Journal article. The reporter is up front about her source: "Mr. Weinberg brought the discrepancy to the Journal's attention.""

""In September, Gabriel Weinberg, founder and chief executive of tiny Duck Duck Go Inc., which markets itself as a privacy-protecting search engine, stumbled across the "you recently searched for" phenomenon in a study he conducted of Google's personalization efforts. Mr. Weinberg, whose site is based in Paoli, Pa., asked 131 of its users to search Google for several keywords at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Sept. 2: "Obama," "abortion" and "gun control." His testers received a wide variety of different results that appeared to be personalized by location and other factors.

Mr. Weinberg also noticed that some testers received results labeled "you recently searched for Obama," and discovered that he couldn't replicate the same label when searching for Romney. Mr. Weinberg brought the discrepancy to the Journal's attention.""

There's no shame in running an interesting story that's brought to your attention by someone with vested interests.

For example, notorious fraudster Barry Minkow dug up a list of all the executives in publicly traded corporations who lied about their college degrees and gave that information to the WSJ after short-selling the companies, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122652836844922165.html.

Win-win -- the Journal got an important news tip, and he made some money on the bounce.

Unfortunately for Minkow, he couldn't resist going after just bad companies and ended up in prison for defrauding a home-building company, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190346110457646....
The problem with using Lua is that you lose debugging/profiling support and incur performance overhead. The loss of the debugging support afforded to Objective-C code might be enough to eliminate any time saved. I do believe that Corona offers debugging support, but Corona has it's own problems: it's a cross-platform engine that necessarily incurs overhead and restricts flexibility.

Furthermore, one of the benefits of Lua that the article cites, automatic memory allocation, is obviated by using automatic reference counting in Objective-C (which also makes Obj-C more concise).
This user (@mikko) has one of his tweets 'withheld' and the content of the tweet is changed to the withheld notice, but his followers can't work out whether the note is from Twitter or @mikko himself.

I appreciate text has its uses as a lowest common denominator means of communication, but it also has its drawbacks...
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My current project on which I've been working for the past 2 years is built on top of Python/Django and adjacent tools.

The thing I experienced is this - once you outgrow the primary use-cases for a monolithic framework, all of that nice packaging and conventions and modules that play well with each other - start getting in your way, soon to be replaced by custom implementations of whatever you need and all that time you saved initially will be extra time you have to spend to strip out those functionalities, in addition to the time take for building those same things from scratch.

I also worked with Rails btw - for instance you can find like a gazillion plugins for authentication and yet none of them did what I wanted on one project I had, so I had to implement my own authentication logic, after spending hours trying to tweak such a plugin first. That same project needed storage of files on S3, including pictures. Again, there are like a gazillion plugins for that, but none of them did what I wanted. So again, I had to implement it by myself. After trying endlessly to tweak Paperclip or others.

For this project I'm working on the admin interface was initially bootstrapped on top of Django's Admin. Which eventually became a liability and had to be replaced completely. The Django's ORM is also becoming a liability - because it couldn't handle queries for complex scenarios that were unrelated to "objects", so right now the project also makes use of SQLAlchemy - and I'll probably have to pull Django's ORM completely from the project, because the project is also doing sharding right now and I want to expand that to most tables and I can't work with a connection object that's a singleton, not to mention that the "objects" exposed will end up being completely different than the schema used in the DB table, so the object-mapping that Django's ORM does will stay in my way.

In the end, if I need to sum up the things that are still from Django in this project, there are surprisingly few things left.

So if you think about it, for small projects frameworks like Django/Rails are too heavy and for large projects they kind of get in the way and it's better off to start from scratch, importing components as needed, because that way you'll build abstractions that are suited for your domain and that will last longer.
>a lot of black politics

FTFY
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This is really challenging. I think my theory is completely new, and I'm not sure if it could work, so for about 4 years I've been working on this alone. If I can prove its correctness by creating my first workable demo, I will start my startup and I will need many people's help. I'd be very happy if guys like you can join me! Cuz my math is poor. LOL.

My major is software engineering. My background is not about neuropsychology but I have very much interested in it. I did it mainly in a psychological way and on a neuropsychologic base.

Sorry to reply you so late. I've been busy these few days and didn't get time for HN.
Please, do not consider this article as normative.

Anyone trying to learn JS should have a look to more recent articles.

Examples:

- http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden - Good insight

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript - Good place to start learning, and for experienced developers a good place to contribute to

- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=javascript+inheritance+performance - Search for performance issues

PS: recently I found an article (probably here on HN) describing how v8 treats prototypes, and how to not break the performance boost given by v8 assumptions. Can someone remember which one was?
You don't need to say "this." Your comment reads fine without it.
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One thing I've noticed is that I cannot seem to stop notifications from a user whose posts I know longer want to see. Just tired of the endless electioneering.

Hopefully, this problem will be fixed in a few days :-)
The lua ecosystem is extremely simple to embed in a native application, which, as someone who has had to do it, is something that feels underappreciated. Python and javascript were harder to set up for embedding on the same computer, and all but impossible to cross-compile for iOS. The simplicity of using lua as a scripting language in larger applications makes it a great target for compilation.

MoonScript also gets rid of a lot of the more verbose parts of lua, and replaces them with CoffeeScript-like versions. For example: shorter anonymous function syntax, syntactically significant whitespace, default local variables.
Amazon is definitely changing the game. It's forcing the likes of Tim Ferriss to reach out aggressively non-traditional online outlets to promote the book, leading up to the release date on the 20th. Like he says, if this little experiment works, it can be disruptive - that is, publishers and booksellers alike will have to rethink their current distribution channels.

Thing can only lead to one thing from a macro perspective - a "land grab" of online distribution channels in the upcoming years.
Not a bad solution, but I'd still prefer a red or green state (In my experience, color trumps shape).

Of course that doesn't work for more than two options, but I have a hard time finding a decent use case for that anyway.
Unfortunately those who have worked out the physics for Bussard ramjets in detail find that they don't really work as an energy source or a propulsion mechanism while cruising. Indeed - more useful as a brake.

See http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=22115 for some pointers.
In Pushing Ice if I recall correctly. Fantastic novel, also discusses the threat of the EM spectrum being blue-shifted to harmful wavelengths.
Totally agree. I find it so difficult to tell my parents to switch an iPad slider to ON or OFF, so I simply tell them to make the capsule blue or gray.
Sounds like scrum would fit you
What you say is not correct, at least in regard to Germany. This lets me wonder about the validity of your other statements. In Germany, cyber crime is thoroughly investigated and punished, with no exception when your victims are overseas.

On top of that, the excerpt of Germany's most basic collection of laws you have linked ([4]) just states that there will be no extradiction to US. This only means that people will be punished for their crimes within Germany and not in the U.S. - but not that they won't be punished at all.
they already said that about speeds over 100km/h in the 1900 :)
The NASA orbital debris programme has a few pictures of impacts on returned space craft. Obviously these craft are travelling very much slower than 0.9 c.

(http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protect/impacts.html)

(http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/photogallery....)

And some of the debris is quite large - (http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/gallarypage/s...) (Is that tape inches?? So that lump is about 1.5 to 2 inches?)

There are existing projects researching near earth impacts from high speed objects (http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/ares/hvit/problem.cfm) so maybe there's some trickle through to research between very fast craft and small objects.
I've seen this task once in one IQ test:
"Continue the row of numbers - 2, 4, 8, 16, 19, ..."

The answer was - 21... "You know, first we multiply by 2 and then we start to add 3" :) . Perfect "creative thinking" test.

The IQ tests, even if they are valid are still inherently broken, just forget about them and carry on.
I've always thought of intelligence as the ability to learn, which you could say is the maximum speed you can gain knowledge and understanding. A person may be able to learn in some areas very well, but not so well in others. Also, someone who has devoted much time to gaining knowledge and understanding may be much less intelligent as someone who could learn quickly but never puts their mind to it.

An analogy for this view of intelligence and knowledge is like a car's acceleration and speed. Some cars may be able to go very fast but they may take a while to accelerate.

As others have mentioned in this thread, what obviously matters more is how you apply intelligence, knowledge and understanding.
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He really should have used plain integers and calculated in cents.
His "solution" is just a tab/nav bar with different styling:

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#navbar

Given that a click is simpler and quicker than a drag, I think this suggestion is a worse user experience than a tab bar.
Why would he want to be purchased by twitter? I assume he still has equity there, so it wouldn't make too much sense to keep all the eggs in one basket. Increasing his equity share at twitter would be somewhat meaningless, since I'm sure he could always go back to twitter and continue working.
Thanks for saying that. I must be getting old and grumpy because that's an idiom that gets under my skin for no good reason as opposed to my prior hatred for the "fail" idiom which I am legitimately annoyed by due to its very nature as pessimistic armchair denigration.
I write code with syntax highlighting turned off. Syntax highlighting has always given me the shits - it's noisy and distracting and I don't need it anyway.

The only time I :syntax on is if I get a parse error and can't find the culprit quickly, and it's probably a problem with string being constructed incorrectly (I mostly work with PHP so something like 'and that's that';). In that case having the syntax highlighter to tell me where the string interpolation goes awry is very useful, but I turn it off again once the problem is fixed :)
No, it is not.

Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers includes Scientific Research Publishing on the list, saying "Do not do business with the above publishers, including submitting article manuscripts, serving on editorial boards, buying advertising, etc. There are numerous traditional, legitimate journals that will publish your quality work for free, including many legitimate, open-access publishers."
yup. The discussion sparked in the comments and here on HN 1 year ago was quite interesting
When you read a book you do not need to be consciously aware of the syntax (unless it is either patently bad or extraordinarily original). When you are programming, most of the time you are dealing with syntax more than meaning...

In the end, what the logicians of the XXth century taught us is that logic (read maths/cs/...) is just syntax (from the formal point of view, mind you).
Metro style Check Box for Java (JMetro)
We have about 100 AWS how-to guides - simple work flow scripts that support new AWS user getting started as well as advanced ones - check them out http://www.newvem.com/learning-center/how-to-guides/

We also have a community of cloud experts that contributed on a weekly basis best practices, case studies and bunch of AWS goodies. http://www.newvem.com/amazon-cloud-knowledge-center/
This is an interesting juxtaposition to the assertion that Japan tech companies have lost ground in the market due to a perfectionism that leads to a 5% better product at 50% the cost (can't remember where I read that, but I think it was here).
Hmm, those are PSD resources, how do I use it?
I would like to see the entire concept of HR disrupted. Start by not calling people (and think of them as!) "resources".
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Yep, there's nothing preventing it, although I don't know enough about systems like Corona, Codea, or Moai to know whether you'd miss out on any IDE functionality. I'm currently using moonscript to power my side project on iOS. It's great!
Woah... 0.45mm!
Great icon and label graphics:

http://thenounproject.com
Though I don't know of an article, this video from a while ago describes (at a high level) the "hidden classes" that represent prototypes. It was part of the original launch of Chrome about 4 years ago. Some of the related videos have more info, but basically V8 represents prototypes as classes that act as a cache for the properties, so the lookup of properties within the prototype becomes much faster than a lookup for an ordinary property of an object.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWhMKalEicY

EDIT - Your comment inspired me to do some additional Googling -- here's another (text-based) description that's a little clearer: https://developers.google.com/v8/design#prop_access
There speaks somebody who has never spent their evenings wading through terribly project submissions with > 70% comments.

The 'why' would be that there's an entire class of newbie developer who write opaque code, and use the comments as an excuse not to write code clearly.

I see too many developer with the general attitude 'This code is opaque - it needs a comment', where I vastly prefer 'This code needs a comment, how can I make it less opaque.'.
>Besides India (who will certainly be the next big thing after the US ..

Curious, Can you expand on this?
They are slightly similar in design, but solving two completely different problems with different core functionality.

And who said anything about dragging? I read the whole post and was under the impression that the selection was made via click...
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How about hackforums, or as everybody calls it, skidforums.
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Some conversation going on about it here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/12lr1v/freelance...
That is the definition of fixed point.

(Although, if you do it for anything else than currency, you probably would do it in base 2 instead of 10. And yes, I know every base is base 10.)
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If "agreed" were used instead, it'd perform the same function without being called out by people who don't like internet linguistic trends. Clearly indicating one's position in an argument is valuable, and "this" accomplishes that.
Sounds like the same take the rest of the world used to have - and still does in a few places.

Ahh... tenure... how we miss ya.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure_(academic)
So (assuming that he worked this out himself or was involved in it rather than it being something someone at Apple came up with to keep him out of trouble), this isn't so much him saying "I don't care about your rules" as it was him saying "screw your rules, if I don't like them I'll find a way around them".

Kind of figures in that it's Jobs saying "I'm smarter than you" more than him saying "I don't give a..." (which given his focus on the way things were perceived is pretty unlikely).

Dumb law though. If I had to get a new license plate for my car I could have it printed at on the car in under an hour from leaving my seat right now (and no, I'm not sat in a garage, I'm in the office). Why anyone thinks it might might be reasonable to allow six months (with all the attendant issues that come with having the car unmarked for that period) is beyond me.
The guy who wrote this uses a mac, his examples are relevant to mac software, is he even entitled to write about the subject or did he just try to fill his weekly rant quota?

If you have a mac, don't write about netbooks being shitty. It's your opinion, true, but you should keep that opinion to yourself.

I do lots on my netbook.
Here's something: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2012/05/03/republicans...

You're correct, it's not flattering.
I found this to be a good tutorial for setting up a nodejs server on EC2
http://cuppster.com/2011/05/12/diy-node-js-server-on-amazon-...
Friend of mine also told me this story (about him just getting a new car every 6mo) from when he was working at Apple. Funny!
Interesting use of punctuation here...
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Fresh fruit stocked and a Blendtec/Vitamix for smoothies.

Herbal teas and teapots you can take to your desk.

Foam roller for the ailing back. Seriously.

Espresso machine.

I know this isn't layout but having these in your kitchen would be nice. I've thought a lot about this in the past because one day I hope to be in your position. Congrats on the new offices.
I find surprising that you seem to have put a lot effort into writing a comprehensive README.md and submitted to Hacker News and yet, there is no "easy to find" demo or screenshot. I suggest you immediately set up a demo on the gh-pages branch and link to it at the top of your README. Anyways, take this as friendly and in any case, thanks for publishing this.
I reckon it is a timing app
Install the browser plugin 'FB Purity' (http://www.fbpurity.com/) which can 'force' FB to always display the 'most recent' posts. It also can do a lot of other useful things like filter out the app notices, game notices etc.

I've been using it for the past 6 months and it's really removed a lot of the things that aggravated me when I used FB.
South Korea's situation is pretty unique/extreme in that way, though. At least I'm unaware of any other places that suffer a similar lock-in spiral. Except corporations, maybe.
I know a few founders that have had to let people go after aggressively hiring. They've ended up fine but when they first raised their seed round they went out and hired a load of people. I do also know a few that are incredibly slow at hiring and it's lead to slow product development and an odd balance in the team (They have more designers than developers). I think sometimes if you hire too slowly it's hard to add more people when you start to need them. Because you have such a tight knit team that can't really change how they work to allow a few other people into the mix.

Somewhere in between seems best, only hire folks that really understand and fit in your vision and hire people that are going to be key for where you are slightly ahead of now over the people you needed a month ago. The team I spoke about needed designers then but now that the team has more designers than developers there's an odd balance that has lead to a beautiful but not very functional product. Their homepage changes more than their product.
I made the same observation and actually got an "underpowered" laptop. The only time I ever notice it's less powerful than my desktop at work is on the rare occasions I reboot into Windows (for some reason, its scheduler is much worse than Linux's).
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To further your excellent point:

IQ, "intellectual superiority" and improving-life-for-the-better or "happiness" are generally three separate things; or at least much more separate than we like to see them as clearly correlating if not causations.

And the people you meet at Mensa spread surprisingly many/all levels of society...
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Sweet! This is quite nice. Good job. The best part about the solution is the consistency for different type of options like simple on/off options to ones which require long descriptions.
Once it's got a retina-class HiPDI screen, then we'll talk.
It has been on my mind to write an Ask HN about syntax highlighting since I have seen a shift in people the last 15 years from preferring no syntax highlighting to preferring the Angry Fruit Salad[1] kind of highlighting.

Personally, I like limited syntax highlighting: I only highlight strings, comments and sometimes keywords (in Common Lisp). It lets me quickly separate the code in useful chunks and also highlights a common source of errors that I make (made): forgetting to close strings.

Here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/rx053
(My Vim color scheme isn't quite there yet: the colors are too bright.)

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/angry-fruit-salad.html
I'm imagining a voting paper made out of cardboard, where you slid a piece into place before stuffing into a ballot box.

In the digitl world? A well thought out and presented slider might actually encourage engagement with a feature, overrelying on abstract radio buttons.