skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the article. I find myself doing math problems all the time just for fun, I am glad that I am not the only one. Of course, I have not solved anything that would ever win me a Nobel prize. But I had fun. One day my 9 year old son and I derived Pi with approximations and a calculator, and my kid likes calculating geometry now. Better than watching TV all day.
Statistical Habits to Add, or Subtract, in 2013
Unlike books, I think the market for these games is inelastic. A player is going to devote four hours per day to some game, chosen from the available games. You want that to be your most profitable game. Allowing them to play other less profitable games is not optimal.

If you somehow knew I was going to buy exactly one book, you'd do your best to make it a hardcover and pull the paperback off the shelf.
Good list there! We are working on some similar goals going into the new year; ios, spanish and mtb.

Best of luck to you in '13 and beyond!
Ask HN: What your new years resolution?
Im curious what everyone's is?
She combines a number of important skills that aren't often combined. She should do stuff she enjoys, but if she picks up some hard tech skills I think she'll find there is a market for putting all that together.

Some accounting would be a nice add, as it would help her talk with the business types.

If she goes that road I think you had better be able to cook.
Yeah, sintering could probably be done. But getting the right shape is only half the battle - you also have to get the right properties, which can mean getting the right kinds of dislocations and grain growth, which you normally only get by controlling the (high) temperature profile.
Here's a direct link to the legislation in question:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d102:s.00266:
That is unfortunate, but somehow that sort of user experience doesn't come as a surprise to me. I think it is the "blog as the main project page, and no version control link in sight" thing that gives off that feeling. The only other thing that gives off vibes that bad is a sourceforge page with no hint of a real project page.

Really frustrating when you see projects with potential botch basic developer usability so badly.
> as you only have to learn the cocoa framework

This is the hard part. The objective C part isn't.
democracy blows. no rights are guaranteed in it's nature. tyranny of the uninformed majority
Phoenix-Fly - Mountain Trails [video]
There is some hand-wavy mention towards the end of Intel going to "Hollywood" with a bunch of money. Whatever and whomever that means.
It's a use thing.

I'm following the majority of my family and friends on google plus (yes, wow, they all have accounts) and not following any of the I'm-using-this-as-a-blog accounts like hacker news, google developers, etc.

When I login, what do I see?

"Nov 15, 2012 - Shared from +1 - Public"

The previous one?

"Oct 12, 2012 - Google Mail - Public"

So I mean, it's not like no one is using it at all, but no one I care about updates from is using it.
God is just.

If you marry someone out of your league, you will forever be dominated.

If you get a job or school out of your league, you will regret it.

Both these show God's justice. I have a feeling something bad happens if you get a good deal on a car, but I don't know what.

On the otherhand, work is rewarded and if you put effort into purchases, it is rewarded.

God says...

25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished,
that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the
LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make
it perpetual desolations.

25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have
pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which
Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them
also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and
according to the works of their own hands.

----

Key thing from that passage was self service for kings.

Also, God punishes with desolation.
I don't see how you reach that conclusion.

Twitpic is part of the Twitter ecosystem and is such is certainly competitive with Google's social and photo sharing efforts (i.e. Google+ and Picasa)

Being a known distributor of malware (described by Google as: software which causes things like identity theft, financial loss, and permanent file deletion) is a crime.

So yes, they are a competitor, and yes they are being accused of a crime.
> C will be around for a long time after many of the current languages, domain specific or not, become just another wikipedia entry.

Off-topic, but this is a rather amusing benchmark for irrelevance. I suspect that deletionism would not permit it to be true, either.
Yes. http://www.openbsd.org/39.html Does that look like a "binary large object" to you?
What third party APIs do you use? And how accurate are they in transcribing long audios with a reasonable amount of noise?
Do keep in mind that you're replacing fat mass with muscle mass the more you continue to ride and tone your body. If it seems like you're slowing down in the weight loss, you might just be building muscle. 5'8" / 150 is pretty skinny, if I have anything to say about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Essentials

I just saw a list of the "ten essentials" posted at the entrance to a wilderness area in New Hampshire's White Mountains. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I was without many of them, though it was on a day hike with a partner on a very wide, flat, heavily-traveled trail. I remember a spring backpacking trip in the Smoky Mountains where one person in my group fell into a creek we were crossing near nightfall as it was beginning to snow. Fortunately we had extra dry clothes ready at hand to give that person to change into.
He invented a word in use since the 15th century? Wowza.
> Sure, but then they have it, and that's great. Being rewarded for your work is good. Problem is, they have to do nothing to maintain it. After an initial period of work, they have it forever. Whereas a worker who comes in afterward has no access, and even though they also put in a lot of work, they won't get any ownership.

It sounds like you are talking about the labor theory of value in Marxian economics. I'm no expert, so I'm probably oversimplifying, but I think the labor theory of value would consider exploitation to begin the instant a property owner accrued more value from rent payments than the labor it took to build the hous being rented.
Anti-copying legislation won't work - I grant you that - but this is hardly the extent of all legislative possibility.

What the media industries need is a box office. A point where people pay up front, then get the show delivered. And if everything is available everywhere all the time, then there needs to be a tax on life that covers the costs of what they do.

Essentially , it's about creating a giant pool of money and a giant pool of media. People can stream, copy, play, or have, whatever they like for free. Corporations, on the other hand, must pay. If you're a store, and advertiser, a movie theater, a school, a business, a church - any entity that exists by virtue of a corporate charter must risk loosing that charter if they don't stream everything they touch through an auditable system that is used to distribute the pool of money according to the levels of interest that different things within it attract.

Corporate entities, unlike humans, don't (or shouldn't) have 1st or 4th Amendment rights. We should be able to treat them the same way we treat robots: artificial things designed specifically to serve. And corporate entities also operate in the tangible world, and are in a position to collect money to fill the pool through the course of their activities. Essentially, this is a special tax. If a company wants the benefits of operating in a thriving culture (of which there are many) they can do their part to support it by serving as de-facto box offices.

This is a rough idea, I know, and one that raises more questions than it answers. And it's not post-copyright in the sense that copyright would still function at the corporate level. What it shows is a way to think about paying for work in a Constitutionally permissible fashion while avoiding the nightmare scenario of total surveillance at the individual level.
There's no real danger difference. If you implicitly do:

var self = this;

When you need to use `this`, you just end up proxying the problem behind a variable. If you don't understand what `this` is, it's not going to magically start correcting your misunderstanding.

The only possible value it might have is when nesting functions if you refer to `self` instead of `this` correctly, but this is the only case when I actually use this pattern, and when I first create a nested function that needs to use the parent's scope. Another option is to just `.bind(this)`.

In any case, I would disagree that one should try to avoid `this`. Instead, one should educate themselves to understand what things in the language they're using mean. And this subject is a great weeder question in Web Engineer position interviews. If a person can't implement `bind`, can't explain `call`/`apply`, what strict mode does, and what the `this` keyword means in most contexts, they probably aren't strong enough in JS. This is one of the most fundamental concepts in JS, it shouldn't be a source of confusion.
After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:21-23

Sounds like a major Bible workout to me!
They are similar.

My trepidation with LXC would be from a documentation POV... Jails are very much known quantities, while LXC is newer, not known for great docs, and thus is probably easier to screw up.

See this HN thread for more discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4015172
would you rather live under ruthlessly intelligent fascism?

I think democracy is pretty great actually. I think we just screwed up requiring arguing from some sort of moral-free first principles.
The Higgs Boson story will be very interesting to follow. What new physics can it generate and will string theory be able to adapt to it? Then we have Shinichi Mochizuki's claimed proof of the ABC conjecture that mathematicians will try to verify.
There's also http://www.simon-listens.org/ . If you speak German there might be some info there that we couldn't read (some is in English, but I think the developers are mostly in Germany).
Linux mint 12 at home for personal projects/open source.
You're confused: those are shunts for refilling the venom sacs.
Indeed. If you're a courier and somebody gave you drugs to deliver, that could land you a death sentence in countries like Saudi Arabia or Thailand.
Sam's Teach Yourself HTML in 24 hours
Side Note: Wired.com articles are very annoying. Few seconds after the post is rendered, a video ad pops up which you have to close to go back to your article. I find such kind of invasive ad targeting extremely annoying.
Politely, I'd advise the opposite.

Learn Leiningen- not only because it makes Clojure simple and pleasurable to use, but because it'd be a fantastic tool no matter what language it was part of.

Project skeletons (new new), command line scripting (via lein exec), deployment, the wonderful 'lein ring server', custom plugins... and for those who just want to get their feet wet, 'lein repl' brings the ocean to you.
> I don't agree. I think that interopt should be at a higher level, like services. Putting the ability to integrate code not written for your paradigm is problematic. Pragmatic, but still problematic.

I think if you look at just about any common example of idiomatic Clojure code you'll find Java interop sprinkled all over the place. People aren't going to reimplement all those libraries in Clojure, Scala, or whatever other JVM lang you're targeting. Seamless interop is a prerequisite. I think most Clojurians feel it yields far more benefit than any problems it might introduce.
The Official List of Two-Letter Scrabble Words
saying democracy doesn't obviously doesn't mean I'd desire something worse. What gave you that idea?

A pure democracy is a joke. A Republic was a fine idea, but the US has done a really poor job of understanding the notion of a sovereign citizen (as opposed to whatever king .. er president is in power)
When downloading a hosted font or after converting your own .tff your given a zip with all the font formats along a stylesheet that contains the @font-face declaration. After copying the css to your main css file your ready to use the font.

fyi, that should be "you're given" and "you're ready"
presumably learn from her mistakes?
This is pretty clever, and made me smile.

I'm not wild about the idea of weeding through bot generated pull requests. But, I like the idea of making tools like this available through GitHub.

It would be cool if GitHub provided a static analysis tools to find bugs, leaks, and security issues in uploaded code. Clang is updated pretty frequently and it would be cool to see new results against all repos when it is updated. Generating pull requests would make it easy to fix issues discovered too.
I was wondering about that, but is it really wrong?
From what I found in the "BSD General Commands Manual":

Any arguments specified on the command line are given to utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the arguments read from the standard input of xargs. The utility is repeatedly executed until standard input is exhausted.

and

-P maxprocs
Parallel mode: run at most maxprocs invocations of utility at once.

The way I interpret that is that you could run xargs in parallel mode, but by default the "utility is repeatedly executed" in the same process.
I think you underestimate how much is going on in an app like Gmail, and also the extent to which people have figured out how to do things like "real-time assistance as you navigate the information, context-sensitive UI, [and] task-specific controls" in the browser. Those problems are mostly solved. Some things, like rich text editing, still suck.

I'm not sure how often one hears about start-ups doing something is a very useful metric, really.

Startups aren't what drives tech innovation in markets? That seems at odds with history. Millions of programmers may be doing as you say, but that's mostly legacy. Are they creating fundamentally new things? What is the most recent desktop app that you could call innovative, apart from pushing the envelope on graphics?

I'd say the mobile "app store" model and the Linux "distribution" model have both been very successful at getting native software deployed onto users' systems, too.

I guess Apple have integrated desktop deployment into their App Store (rather to my annoyance actually) and MS are about to do the same, or try to. Perhaps the habits people have acquired around downloading and installing mobile apps will end by triggering a renaissance in desktop applications. But I won't believe that I until I see major new applications being built this way.
English is not Latin. Please, just accept this.

The Spanish word diezmar, shockingly enough, also means to destroy (or cut by a tenth), even though it looks like it's got a ten in there, too.
House bills that propose dumb or futile things and subsequently go nowhere are really common -- that two year term means that you need to show voters and donors that you mean business.

Tilting at some windmill that matters to the folks at home is like a public affirmation that declares a Congressman worthy of endorsement. (ie. police unions probably care about FBI endorsed bills)
Everyone knew that the 2% cut in the Social Security tax was a temporary measure designed to boost the economy. The fact that it's expiring as planned is not a surprise, and hardly newsworthy.
Yep. "And then allow me to treat it as text", semantically.
These three lines did not flag any errors:

These things are always mired with troubled.

These things are always mired with trouble.

These things are always mired with troubles.
> I think the real story here is that US senator is not a good qualification for understanding crypto or technology as a whole.

I think the issue the tendency of the government to constantly chip away at privacy. Terrorism, communism, illegal porn and drugs are all used as reasons.

Trying to find the reason Biden did what he did is not effective. We may never know the reason. We can look at actions -- what bills were supported, by whom and how far they have gotten in the pipeline. Biden's name or track record might not be relevant. This could have also been someone else.

For example the top half of the whole discussion is between chernevik and tptachek whether Biden is in general pro or against encryption. It doesn't really matter what Biden personally believes. But it matters how many and how far and how often such bills make it. Some are passed (like the warrant-less wiretapping), some die quickly.

Also there are countries that make use of encryption illegal. In this country, other laws have passed that chipped away at privacy, so it is understandable why a lot of people feel a little jittery about this topic -- because they can see this kind of bills passing with not too much opposition.
I don't think most people even knew that there was a 2% cut in the Social Security tax, much less the fact that it was temporary. I mean, let's face it: very few people follow politics with any kind of intellectual vigor. Sound-bites are easier to digest than actual details like this, which is why their coverage in the news has value.
It's not property theft, it's akin to labor and resource theft; content creation does not come for free.
Samsung And DoCoMo Reportedly Team Up To Offer Tizen Smartphones
When will Apple end this? Rather than litigating nonsense "rounded corner" type patents, they can just build a better product.

The current Samsung (and HTC and LG) models are just better than the current iPhone (this, of course, is just in my opinion).
Apple seems to have missed the boat with these types of devices (larger screen, but not quite a tablet) and now is blaming it on stolen IP.

I also prefer the openness of Android (no iTunes walled garden, less IP control, etc... Again just my opinion). There others like me and no amount of litigation will get me to buy an iPhone. All I see is that Apple is going to the devices I like more expensive.
This isn't exactly bootstrapping a compiler. The concept there is that in the end you do not need the foreign compiler. In this case, you still need the native implementation to run the php implementation, giving it much less practicle purpose than bootsrapping compiled languages.
From a theoratical perspective, this is equivelent to bootstrapping, as it is not an intrinsic property of PHP that it does not get compiled.
Everybody knew that the Bush top-bracket rate cuts were temporary, too. And yet the entire argument revolves around extending them. Nobody is arguing that we should extend the lower rates on payroll. That is remarkable.
Ah, that's bit better. Found the version countrol: http://sourceforge.net/projects/speech2text/
1970s Cylindrical Space Colonies Gallery
There's no shame in testing the waters. Tell recruiters you want $X and you aren't flexible. There's a chance they will deal both sides of the table to get a deal done and when that happens you are leaving money on the table.

This assumes you're interested in actually polling the market. If you're desperate then your bargaining position is weak.
I would love to see a good, quality, open source alternative to Nuance. They are pretty much a monopoly (patent and market wise) in this area. It also has to be open source, Nuance is known for either suing into oblivion (for patent infringement) or buying the competition.
Probably; I do look pretty skinny but the body-image issue is a pretty real thing; I need to convince and realize that I am skinny. I also have some extra skin and stuff that I want to get rid of. I mean, I am not trying to lose weight at this point, more like I am looking for a reason to not eat too much crap.
It's pretty uncontroversial that Facebook has never been the "one true social graph". The obvious example is LinkedIn, which your article curiously doesn't mention; most people already have separate social graphs for their professional and privates lives.
You as a researcher do not want your name to appear in such a journal. Especially not lots of times.
When people are using the phrase "binary blob" they are not actually picturing an amoeba-like evil alien, they are just talking about a big bunch of bytes. Many times without a negative connotation at all.

I understand better the origin of the confusion, though.
As a non-Stanford person, I will say that Ioannidis is a reasonably big deal, and in my mind Robert Tibshirani is quite a big deal as well. The WHI was a watershed study, therefore Stefanick is relevant.

It strikes me that this author happened upon a bunch of interesting Stanford people doing relatively related work. Sure, the author was trying to write an article about Stanford, but it's not like these people are inappropriate to mention in the same breath.
Tell them via email you need the VIN

VINs can be decoded to exact colors/features for most makes/models.
Thanks for mentioning inbound -- hadn't seen that one before and looks good for SEO/marketing/etc.

Are there other similar HN-type sites that are business-oriented?
Sorry for the confusion, that wasn't my point. The issue isn't that there would be a ton of research to wade through, the issue is that scientists whose research didn't pan now have a track record of failure. I can easily imagine a academic position hiring conversation going like "This guy has a higher failure to success ratio than average, and his successful projects aren't above average."

EDIT:
But perhaps I'm being too cynical (must be the New Year). Such a journal has been constructed.

http://www.jnrbm.com/

With luck, it will be wildly (un)successful :).
I've had the similar experience, of working on personal projects quite close to undergrad coursework yet having a huge difference in my motivation between them. What helped me was the modules that really fit with levelling up my knowledge (for instance a report on System/360 microprogramming).

It's always seemed to me that this kind of person should be a good candidate for postgraduate degrees: driven in their own exploration, effort on interesting things, etc. I've never managed to really find out the reality though.
When you want to compete in the marketplace you don't get to re-do your competitors time-frame when they rolled out. You get to play by the rules of today.

So whether it took Facebook an hour, a decade or 2.5 years to roll out their API, right now they've got one and right now google is trying to compete with Facebook through their g+ offering.
Brahmi:: A Wonder herb for Hackers
Developing or hacking complex software today require enhanced cognitive abilities with tremendous concentration, memory capacity and the ability to work under stress. Brahmi could be a highly useful herb for the Hackers

Not Many might know about Brahmi, which I know from my child hood since It is available in most parts of India.

Here is some info. on Brahmi for the benefit of all.

http://www.psychiatrywithoutdrugs.co.uk/bacopin.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacopa_monnieri
http://www.yogamag.net/archives/2007/haug07/brah.shtml

http://www.himalayahealthcare.com/products/brahmi.htm