skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's start, then, with the fact that when a page is deleted, not only does the information get removed from the active site, but the history is removed in a way that only an administrator can see it, making it impossible to even judge if the information was relevant. Personally, I consider that inexcusable for a website that claims to be an open system in which everyone plays a part, and I feel undermines the argument that deletionism is a valid premise.

You know what, though? For all of the breadth of your list of horrors that would suddenly be covered on Wikipedia: I'd love to see every single one of those on the site. I want to see them represented, in fact, so strongly that I am having a difficult time convincing myself that you aren't actually just being really sarcastic about this whole issue (and then I'm being too daft to realize "oh, he's being absurdist, listing things which we actually would want, to make a point").

The concern should only be whether or not the information, if found on the site, could possibly be accurate or trusted, and the realization to have there is that a better solution to that problem is to more effectively expose the edit state of the article (a la IBM's "History Flow" visualization), as the problem of accuracy and notability is already a serious problem in individual paragraphs of articles about topics whose conclusion is non-controversial even to deletionists.
Keep in mind that there are slides of the presentation on the page. Not quite too sure why the mods added "[video]" in the title.
Eight conversations at a time – handling live chats the smart way
Inferential database seeding in Clojure
Write seeding instructions using a programming language. Database schema and seeding instructions are orthogonal.
Sigh. TL;DR version - scaling pixels makes them blocky, scaling vectors doesn't, for some small range of scaling we can keep upscaled pixels not blocky.

Upscaling has a lot of research behind it. Creating a 'vectorized' version of an image (see their paper here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/47879/1/ID47879.pdf) certainly helps avoid dumb scaling issues. But when you blow it up 7x (like the example) it looks like a cartoon or a bad paint by numbers painting. The issue is that you lose information about the picture when you capture it, and without that information you have to 'make up' what you think would have been there had you been able to capture it. People get a lot of mileage out of the fact that for the most part real world imagery has a lot of linear transitions but there are limits to that as well.

I think the work is interesting but as they say in their paper: "What we have shown already is that there is a viable continuous image format and that it can be used for some conventional operations which are not handled easily in
sampled formats." which I agree with, but the pixel is not yet in danger of extinction :-)
Quite the pessimist!

So you're going w/ B) A subtle entreaty to focus the brunt of America's educational efforts on specific ethnic subgroups so that the entire nation can have better results.
The upside is that it's possible that whatever procedural improvements are made will probably improve all of the student body, so it's a win-win!

Unless, of course, you're also positing that these sub-groups can't be taught??
It's a distinction without much of a difference when most are deploying via Rubber, Vagrant, Chef/Puppet/cfengine, etc. to maintain a policy of programmer-deployers. Of course this isn't a rule, but it's prevalent.
"An entire generation of teachers and administrators is embracing the belief that technology will allow teachers and students to work together more effectively, to research more broadly, to share more generously, and to learn more passionately."

As a teacher and member of that generation, thankyou.

Are there any other awesome product like lucidchart available free of charge to K-12 schools?
Perhaps so, but the human body is an analog system, not a digital.

To wit: the rule of 9s for "surface area burns" is an estimate, but treatment will vary based on what surfaces are burned to what extent. One 25% burn patient will differ from another.

Another (over-simplified) example: GCS (Glasgow Coma Scale - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Coma_Scale): a score between 3-15 on three axes to measure neurological consciousness. Even in interpretation, the number is often referred to as a single score, when in reality, the three axes (eye response, verbal response, and motor response) can indicate vastly different neurological components and treatment/assessment options.

Where I'm getting at with these examples is that systemizing and optimizing checklists and treatment plans can lead to hugely complex branching that seemingly become unfeasible to realistically manage without (exaggerated for effect, but similar in practice) a doctor or RN going to a computer between each treatment step to see the process and branches.
If you're rendering a bunch of partials in a loop, you should try rendering it as a collection instead; it's significantly faster.
Nothing's wrong with Objective-C. But if you're interested in sharing some code to do cross-platform apps Xamarin makes it easier to do so with C#. You might write a layer to do API and data management/storage and general business logic and then share that code between Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, and Linux.

It would still be a lot of work because they don't try to abstract any of the UI or other things for you (and imo, they shouldn't). But if your app fits into this kind of design, and if you like C#, then it could be very valuable.
Kaggle crowdsources the data scientist problem
The fact that Wikipedia does better than Britannica on that subject isn't exactly relevant to your argument... especially so as it mostly goes to help NateLawson's counter-argument: NateLawson demonstrated how the existing article contains something that in your vision of reality should be deleted, and you seem to be responding "and yet it is still better for it!"... if you want to even pretend to be consistent here you need to demonstrate how and why that information should be deleted, as it is non-notable in the same way as everything else on your long list.
> Being the best among the worst is not exactly a good indicator.

And I claimed no such thing. But there is value in comparing countries to comparable countries. In the case of UAE, that's Saudi Arabia, not Sweden.

> 90% of exports is oil.

Yeah, no. Dubai is a major trading hub with a significant financial and services sector. Oil accounts for just under half of exports of all of the UAE[1] - and the oil isn't in Dubai, it's in Abu Dhabi, so the local number for Dubai is likely much lower. The economy of both the UAE broadly, and Dubai specifically, is still deeply dependant on oil, and there's no doubt that a collapse in oil prices would be totally devastating to the economy. But, as previously stated, they are rapidly diversifying (while they have the money to do so), but this is a process with a horizon of several decades.

1: http://www.indexmundi.com/trade/exports/?country=ae
When I do this, the ordered friends cannot be found in the source page. Could it be that Facebook took this out of their source page once people were doing it? If it makes any difference I am using a MAC
Interesting way to spark curiosity and learn new things! I wish there was a link to the Wikipedia article/section under each GIF.
The initial email comes with what it calls a mock example. I think that's what you're referring to.
Tivity crowdsources sports and activities for free
An absurd, over-the-top, "WTF?" video that you want to share with other people, and (importantly) with catchy music.
I at first thought this said "Students helping students launch students". That would be awesome. #catapults

Cool stuff though!
What an obvious mistake he made... that's okay, I fixed it for him.

https://github.com/Incognito/CoderDojo-Kata/commit/d6c4163ab...
Well, if by "the rules" you mean "having plot holes you could sink the Titanic in"[1] and "the cheesiest lines ever uttered"[2] then yeah, you have a point...

[1] - WW1 showed what happens when a bunch of people with pistols charge at a bunch of people with machine guns.

[2] - " So, you came back to die with your city." "No. I came back to stop you."
GOG.com is giving out DRM free Duke Nukem 3D for free
Try being in Cleveland.
In fairness, baremetal clouds have existed for a while. E.g. baremetalcloud.com, stormondemand.com and a few others.

That said your offering strikes a nice balance in terms of price/performance. What I'm missing is bigger profiles (64G Ram please?) and information what CPUs and hardware you are using (blades?). "Compute units" are a terrible metric, give me a model number so I can look it up on cpubenchmark.net.
Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/14q7j4/censorshi...
> To me, it's a small miracle that Wikipedia works as well as it does, and that Wikipedia has more or less replaced "real" encyclopedias. That they'll occasionally jump the gun on deleting articles that don't look legitimate seems like a very, very small price to pay for that.

A price is something you must give up in exchange for something else. I am not convinced that the wikilawyers are the price of Wikipedia any more than a crazy man punching people outside of McDonald's is the price of a hamburger. In reality, you could probably get rid of one and still have the other.

The value of Wikipedia to most people is in the massive amount of work that is put into improving the articles and the breadth of information it contains despite all the deletion — I know not a single normal person who looks at Wikipedia and says, "Thank God I cannot find anything non-notable on here. I was worried about that."
so as hypothetically interested as I've been in MonoTouch, etc, I've never really looked at it beyond the press releases.

Try downloading the evaluation version. It allows you to test with the simulator, and at least gives you a clue as to whether you might want to spend $399 on it. Of course, if there's no chance of that ever being the case it won't be a productive use of time.
"I read on Wikipedia that in Japan it had "luke-warm" reception"

Japan and South Korea doesn't have the best of relations, which may explain why it hasn't taken off there the way it has in many other parts of the world.
Great to know about 1.9 - just looked through the 1.9 changelog and saw it described as "Newlines allowed before ternary colon operator (:) and method call dot operator (.)", so it does seem like they are encouraging this specific formatting style.

I agree that the fully indented code is much easier to visually parse - whether that outweighs the refactoring cost is certainly going to vary depending on the team (in addition to personal preference, as you mention).
HackerX Android - 12/13 in SF
Kickstarter for fetish and adult industries
Managed languages are designed with a different set of goals than unmanaged languages. C#'s design goals were in general to reduce the number of bugs, help developers write better code, and maintain the code over the long term.

It has evolved over the years to also adopt new programming techniques that have proved to be useful (generics, iterators, functional constructs, delayed-execution frameworks, Async programming features and dynamic features).

But the idea is that you start with a safe environment that is relatively fast, close to C, but where the goal is not maximum speed, but increased productivity, fewer bugs.

Then you try to optimize things to get closer to the performance of a native C compiler. For some things, you can get there, for some others you can not do it.

So it leads to a different style of programming, you spend less time thinking about book-keeping, about making sure that you did not free the same buffer twice, ownership rules and so on, and you can focus more on the problem at hand. In day-to-day life, you spend less time tracking down production bugs.

It is not a silver bullet, and wont fix every problem, and you still need to do careful bookkeeping of other things (like, did you load too many images?) but at least you can ignore the grueling minutiae and focus on what matters most.

It is a little bit like the difference between using raw OpenGL and loading your vertices manually every time or using a toolkit that loads meshes and textures for you.
Faster, simpler search in Chrome
Eating my own dog food saved a major headache
Leaked video shows RIM’s new BlackBerry 10 handset in action
Why I’m Quitting My Job and Leaving San Francisco
The binning process where higher end CPUs are marketed as lower end parts has been going on forever.

Only the first generation Celerons (which everyone hated) had no L2 cache. The second generation had 128KB of full-speed on-chip cache, which is actually why it overclocked well. The Pentium II and early Pentium III had 512KB of half-speed off-chip cache which struggled to keep up with the CPU when overclocking.
but that's the point - different doctors do things differently, and there's not enough research to say which is best. Ethics committees add a weird result where it's hard to test which is best (http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/when-ethics-committees-kil...)

So, does a check list prefer one method over another? Or do you have one massive check list with sub-sections for each method? Or do you have a separate list for each method?
Interactive Rendering Course (Udacity cs291)
This is pretty cool. I think it's a really good idea for a student to try and start at least one business before graduation. Whether or not it works out, it teaches them a lot about how many aspects are involved in a business besides whatever role they choose to focus on or are studying in school.
MixBall, an iOS Music Game
How is the cache being invalidated in this example when a model changes?
I'd love to hear about anyone else who used their own product to save their ass :)
There may be such a thing as a "nice DSL" but the absurd proliferation of poorly-thought-out DSLs that results from ruby's syntax is really not a positive thing.

Ha ha, my cute gem makes it look like you're making static declarations in a domain-specific language, but what you're really creating is a bunch of code that executes at unpredictable times and in an order that's impossible to untangle! Good luck! On the upside, you can create a trivial example of [something] in four lines of code!
Russian HN'ers,

I realize this is not the Yandex zeit but this entry puzzles me:

что такое холокост

The question: is this a meme? or why the sudden interest now? There were a bunch of videos associated with that query, none of which I could understand very well. Are they people just giving stupid answers?

The other results paint an interesting picture of ru-net:

Russians want to know meaning of "bro" and "mainstream", want to draw roses and are very interested in hacking email aka soap (soap is мыло, which sounds a bit like mail).
I'm not sorry for posting this link, but I'm not responsible for any loss in productivity that ensues: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page
You can also use Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com/) to set up similar custom searches that you can access without being in the browser.
cdnjs is a great public service, I've been using it for various projects for awhile and it seems consistently fast everywhere.
The snapshot is fake:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911542
Bats and pigs! It's like Contagion!

(I'm never going outside again lol)
I know about the MediaWiki API and use it to find the articles associated with an image.

However, I wasn't able to figure out how to use the MediaWiki API to get a list of all animated GIFs with >=2 frames. Did I miss something?
Tangentially related, but reading this was very reminiscent of the movie Contagion: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/.
As I understand it, in the US the FTC enforces privacy policy violations. If you don't promise your customer anything, then you're more or less off the hook (as far as I know). But if you do have a privacy policy, and you violate it, then you're misleading consumers.

IANAL, YMMV, etc.
Have a look at tests.js, another shell testing framework that works on Windows, OS X and Linux.

https://github.com/sheremetyev/tests.js
No Windows support :(
$2.5B is roughly on par with the combined 2012 salaries of all NFL teams( $90MM - $118MM per team, at the cap ).

Which is as it should be, since football is far more important to humanity than something as silly as cheap, safe, and clean energy.
Agreed. I can get behind the concept of MVP, but 'lean always' just doesn't have the evidence. Was Henry Ford 'lean'? IBM's big mainframe business... 'lean'? Were windmills 'lean'?

Nearly all big inventions are the opposite of lean - some people went and built something that nobody had thought of using before and those inventions took off. If you had just put up a survey asking people if they want a 'noisy, horseless carriage' you would have gotten a resounding no.

A lack of clicks on a random signup page with just a blurb doesn't imply the product will fail in the market. It could imply that users don't understand the value or a number of other things.

However, a MVP failing pretty much does imply failure, so I'd personally say throw out 'lean' and stick with MVP for anything 'pushing boundaries'.
>Methodological Naturalism assumes that what humans can observe is the only way to gain more knowledge about the observable AND unobservable world. It is helpful for addressing immediate concerns of the observable world. However, let's not pretend that its usefulness somehow makes it true. Predicting the FUTURE is difficult, so let's hedge our bets in case things start getting weird

The Thomist Philosopher Edward Feser often uses the metaphor of a metal dectector when discussing Methodological Naturalism. It runs roughly like... (paraphrased and typed quickly on IE6 [yes kill me])

"Science acts on the assumption of methodological naturalism and that's okay. It's like a metal detector that only detects metal but dectects it with great accuracy. What is wrong is that many times the method is made into a metaphysic which is philosophically hard to maintain and which simply does not follow from the facts.

That a metal dectector has never detected wood is obvious because the metal detector isn't for detecting word. The Baconian project ignored teleological forces because, per Bacon, such teleology is hard to analyze within a scientific framework. Science has therefore focused on Material and Efficent causation. However, just because a method effectly locates material and efficent causes doesn't mean that other causes don't exist just as a metal dectector not detecting wood does not mean that wood does not exist. Therefore the argument for reductive materialism from the successful, that is treating methodological naturalism as the whole and complete story, is fundementally in error and incomplete."
You need to qualify your first statement: "the OP would be crazy to go with Linode [because I disagree with how they handled a particular security-related incident]."

You should be as transparent as you expect other entities to be.
I used to be the person that didn't see any value in new year's eve celebrations, or birthdays and any recurrent celebration. To me they were just a day like any other from a grander scheme. I'm just a tiny fraction different from yesterday. It's just a turn around the sun from an arbitrary point in space. So why bother?

But recently I realized the value they have. Humans need cycles and renovations. They need to get to a point where they can look back to what happened and what didn't in their lives and plan for the next cycle to make better. They need celebrations to allow them to relieve important moments and to realize that time is passing.

We celebrate not because the day itself has any special meaning, but because every one of us can get a special meaning out of it.

I was already coming to the realization, but the turning point was when a friend of mine told me her experiences working in countries close to the equator, where seasons and cycles don't exists. There, the culture is to live by the day, because winter never comes and they don't need to prepare for hard seasons. If they are hungry, fruits are always available, food is always provided by nature.

For this reason they don't plan ahead at work, they don't save money and they waste a lot of resources thinking that there will always be something provided to them. This was her hardest problem in working in those cultures.

So, these cycles shape cultures and are a big part of what pushed mankind forward. Now I look at them with different eyes.
So, how do you write Hello, World?
This might be the straw that actually makes me delete my Facebook account, and it's not because I think Facebook is trying to be malicious or doing anything wrong.

I use FB maybe several times a week, as a time killer. Sometimes I may share things (status, pictures), but I'm certainly not "on top of it".

My "year in review" is certainly NOT the sum of everything I posted to facebook. When I go on a road trip with friends, the pictures do not always make their way there. Not every person I date becomes a relationship status.

I used to argue to fb detractors and holders out that it's not intended as a socializing replacement, but just as an enhancer. But this just seems to reinforce the fact that, for many people...what they've publicly shared online defines them.

I guess it just kind of saddens me that, for many people, this WILL be a summary of their 2012. I think I'm having trouble really articulating what bugs me about it, but it just feels like validation that Facebook is gamifying people's lives into being about making Facebook some sort of mirror of their real life, which is not a future I'm on board with.
And he will be like this:

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/392076_1015120611...
SolarCity puts off planned IPO abruptly
Rally Keeper: Kinect Based Ping Pong Tracker
Google tweaks image search and SafeSearch to show less explicit content
Spanish speaking whites in Spain aren't "Hispanic" in the American sense (ethnically indian or mestizo from Central and South American regions that were colonized by Spain).
Walmart is doing a fine job of gutting communities and labor rights without mobile locations.

I saw a mobile xmess tree farm at my local coffee shop on Sunday.
Political Genes
It depends on the nature of the work. I could make a beautiful illustration, then scale it from here to the moon and, at least to me in my hypothetical situation, it would still look good.

Like all things, it depends. Some people crave detail, some crave resolution, some crave anything beyond the monotony of everyday life - regardless of said work's mediocrity.

Vector art can be good. Pixel art can be good. Neither are going away any time soon. I think that's the only rational conclusion to any of this.