skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It feels odd to me that people can be so sure that games have no influence yet images of thin women in magazines has such a strong influence.

There is clearly an invitation to mimic the presented behaviour in both cases, however whether or not people follow up on this is another issue - mainly shaped by social norms. Being thin is socially acceptable and encouraged(whether or not it is a good thing is irrelevant). Killing people - isn't.

Also the action presented has to be related to the context it is presented in. An ad shows thin people in everyday life - so kids try to imitate by starving themselves in everyday life.
Wargames present murder in context of a military conflict - well since we are NOT in the middle of a military conflict, there is no point imitating.
Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp... .

It's a forum post without any details - your question is raised, but has (so far) not been answered.
Sort of... I had the post open in two tabs, one tab with the original title, one with the title I posted here. A few seconds after posting I noticed a sentence I didn't like, tweaked it in the wrong window, hit save, saw the title change, switched it back. You must have hit in that few second time frame.
At one point if you tried to message Tom on MySpace it would take you in to a non-standard UX flow where it would try to nudge you in messaging their support people instead.
80 character line length increases readability, and four spaces means that this is consistent everywhere.

If you have a tab character and someone sets things to like, two spaces, their line is going to be a dynamic length and it's going to shit up the code. PEP-8 looks fantastic, works, and leads to consistency across all Python code. Unless you are using a shitty IDE/editor, adhering to it is totally easy and completely painless.
You realize we are talking about a 2560x1440 monitor right?

Depending on your DPI settings, one can consider turning off subpixel smoothing at this res. At 4k you should certainly consider it. Plus, I'm sure various implementations are better than others. Does the iPad have this problem?
If I understand correctly, you only pay that much to go to the inbox if you aren't a friend with the person. Friends message friends for free.

It's actually pretty clever, I think. It's too high for unsolicited spam, but it's a trivial amount for the very rare instance of wanting someone you're not a friend of to read it.
There was a start-up here in the UK working on this, can't remember the name. The model was a bit different as the money went to charity of the contactee's choosing. So they themselves didn't make money off of it, it was just a filter to weed out time wasters. The thinking was that this also made the busy important contactee more likely to take it seriously.

Not sure what happened with it though, this was several years ago
And the end of KHTML. Apple changed WebKit enough that the patches couldn't be merged upstream since kdelibs has to maintain ABI compatibility across minor releases, so it gradually became more unmaintained and less usable. The KDE project couldn't kill it off since other applications relied on it being there, but they couldn't find enough developers to actually keep it working either.
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Ask HN: Thriving side-project, thousands of users. Now what?
This 'Proposition HN' thing got me thinking...

I have a side-project with tens of thousands of users and I have no idea what to do with it.

It's an interesting situation. I launched the project almost 2 years ago, and I kind of just expected it to die. But amazingly enough, it's growing - organically, all by itself, with no advertisement, promotion, or effort of any kind of my part.

The project is www.boxify.me - a simple file-sharing utility for groups. Apparently people find it useful, because nearly 100,000 files have been uploaded, with hundreds more added daily. I've had people outright offer me money for a premium version (that doesn't exist). It has been featured on Lifehacker, GigaOM, AddictiveTips, etc - none of which I reached out to. That says something.

All of that and I basically haven't touched the codebase since launch (aside from slight styling and recently upgrading to Rails 3), nor have I attempted to monetize.

My dilemma is that this is not a project I'm particularly interested in at the moment. And with a full time startup job, I don't have much time to invest in it. The hosting bills are costing me a pretty penny, but I can't just kill the project with so many people using it. I've pondered selling, but there's huge potential and I'm not sure I want to pass it up. Maybe a co-founder or partnership is a good solution.

Any ideas?
I can't find the link now, I've been through every Show HN from the last 3 weeks and I can't find it. I distinctly remember it said something along the lines of, "due to transaction laws your coins can only be donated to charity" or something. Maybe that was how they make money; people forget about their "coins" and "charity". Hopefully someone else remembers it, all I can remember is:

Weird name. 3 founders. Video presentation at some sort of incubator (maybe techstars?) and they had a... brown website? I think it was brown.
http://oneleap.to/ - social enterprise spin on the idea, you pay to charity to get your message through.
This is just a small curated collection from myself and old friends — mainly rails devops. I'd be interested in hearing from other rails devs/ops what you use on the command line on a daily basis, what cool thing you know about that no one else does, etc! I'll be adding more as we go....
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"you can basically choose which level of abstraction do you want; the language will not limit your choices here."

The language absolutely limits you in terms of choosing your abstractions. You can only redefine the operators already in the language. Adding a feature like continuations or dependent types would require a rewrite of your compiler. There is no notion of a metaobject protocol. At best, you can get some of the power of these abstractions by using a brittle mess of templates and objects, and you'll be left with code that is almost unreadable as a result.

If you want to see a language that actually allows you to choose any abstraction, even those that were unknown when the language was developed, look at Lisp and its macro system.
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I wonder how much of this has to do with Twitter ending their partnership with LinkedIn last summer
Slow clap Very amusing. Bravo.
FDIC doesn't insure against robberies.
I bumped into #1.4 (patented research) not too long ago -- I wanted to try out Bi-Normal Separation for feature space reduction in a machine learning classifier, but BNS comes out of HP Labs and would need to be licensed. I think the wording on this point needs to be changed; why would it only apply to those in the US?
Aren't legit copies of video games especially difficult to find in Brazil? And when you do find them they are > $120 USD? That is just what I've heard, I wonder if it is due to this protectionism that you mention?
First of all, stay away from Bootstrap. Learn the basics first then get yourself familiar with Photoshop. You can learn the basics by reading books like "The non-designer's design book", "Design Basics" or something similar.

Then go pick out well designed websites and try to recreate it with Photoshop. You can use Dribbble for this. Try to pay attention to every pixel and recreate it exactly as you see it, or it'll most likely end up ugly. After a while you can try to add your own stuff onto it.

After doing this for some time, you'll have learned how to do simple stuff with Photoshop, you'll have learned what kind of layouts each type of website uses and you'll be able to use these layouts for your own projects. You'll learn how to effectively apply subtle effects and much more.

Basically, the fastest way to become good at design is to copy other people's design.

Also, remember that anything you design at first will probably look ugly, but you need to keep tweaking it until you find something that looks good.
Genuine question: is girl perceived as a derogatory term? If so, what should someone use? Woman feels very formal to me. What's the female equivalent of "guy" if not "girl"?
These guys were moving within a HTML5 video. Why are not they moving anymoar or is it just me recalling it wrong?
4K at 27" would still be considerably lower pixel density (~160 ppi) than my old Motorola Atrix phone (275 ppi), which had lower density than my current HTC Rezound (342 ppi). I found the difference between the Rezound and the Atrix to be striking, so I think 4K at 27" would not be overkill by any means at half the density of the Rezound, even taking into account that the display will be a little farther from your eyes.
Banks don't keep all of their assets in cash in the safe. In its very simplest form, a bank takes money from depositors and pays a small "savings" rate. It then lends this money to borrowers at a higher rate. Every dollar in the safe is a dollar that isn't out earning interest, so the bank wants to only keep enough on hand to cover what customers will need for withdrawals.

I met an ex bank robber once. He and his "gang" attempted to rob a branch that was near a factory. The factory employed a number of immigrants who were fond of cashing their entire paycheques on pay day, so it would bring in a lot of extra cash every pay day. They timed their robbery for when the payroll money was present.

Unfortunately for them, the scheme had been rumbled, so the payroll delivery was fake and the police were waiting in plain clothes for them. He was shot in the neck but survived and learned to play bridge in prison, and in the fullness of time was released, where I met him and heard his story.

Any ways... It seems quite possible to me that a bank could be robbed but remain solvent.
No, I was just responding to the parents reductionist attitudes.
Stack languages look really cool to me. I have no idea whether they're practical.

For language beauty, the ones with simple syntax (e.g. Lisps, Forth, q) win. However, for a large production system, I'd be more inclined to use something with static typing.

Static typing falls down in a different way with large systems-- compile speed-- but if the thing's not being changed on a regular basis, that's not a huge issue.
just out of curiosity, is anybody, uh, mortally afraid of running a bitcoin exchange?

I feel like once you have 100k+ in there you become a target for some very persuasive people...

http://xkcd.com/538/
After reading details of how it was done, I can only conclude that Microsoft is full of bullshit, specially that RT IS Windows 8, just with some different bit on the kernel, the thing is artifically limited just to force users to use their store.
Just like a hipster.
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I closed the tab at the "Line Length" header; yet another person who Doesn't Get It, and proudly refuses to. There's a reason besides technical limitations (which in reality, didn't exist) that columns are best set to be no longer than 80 characters. Just as a hint, would you like to dump all your code into a single function in one file? No? Didn't think so.

Edit: I lied, I kept reading. Oh, why did I do that. Tabs instead of spaces because it looks better on his iOS devices? This article is bad, and the author should feel bad.
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Well that's not really a surprise.

Perhaps the "Rails generation" will gain some engineering, product selection and QA skills now.

There's a big reason banks operate the way they do with the kit they do.
Been developing this interface for a while. Would love any feedback and input into what could make it better.

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I currently work in method development for proteomics, and I think about this all the time. Of course methods must be reproducible, or the paper largely useless. But lately I've come to disagree that source code should be required.

If the research relies on a piece of "in-house" code, which isn't described, then that's a problem. But the OP is about research where the algorithm is the advance in the field. In a way, the algorithm is the result and not the method (even though the algorithm will probably be applied to a sample problem and the results thereof validated).

Now, if I develop a new method at the bench, you are expected to do the method at your own bench if you want to apply it to your research. This often starts as a pilot experiment just trying out the method, which can take weeks to months, before you integrate it fully into your methods. I don't have to provide a kit which consistently implements the method along with the paper. Certainly once the method gains some traction, an outside company may begin selling kits. Until then, it absolutely should be "the reader's job to ... reimplement the research" - that's an essential part of the process.

Similarly, an algorithmic method can be reproducible even if code isn't provided. Just like with bleeding edge wet-lab methods, if you want to use bleeding edge algorithms you will need to be able to code. You will need to be able to read a description of the algorithm and implement it accurately. The publicly funded result is the algorithm as an idea, and providing that the review process works, you're getting that idea. Later on, if the algorithm gains any traction, someone will implement it in a usable, robust package and more labs will be able to use it.

Finally, it takes significant time and experience to produce (and maintain) code that others can use and expect to work most of the time. That's a waste of time/money for a research lab, and an inefficient use of public funds. If you can't code yourself, leave code production to those who do it well and don't whine that you can't just plug-in whatever hot new method just came out without any effort or proper understanding.
Schematic Ipsum, a simple service that generates fake JSON data
I actually meant all the lower layers including kernel and drivers etc. Which do exist, and have not been released.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

"Darwin is now only available as source code,[4] except for the ARM variant, which has not been released in any form separately from iOS."
The FDIC doesn't cover bank robberies. https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/information/fdiciorn...
Funny, that sounds like the current use of the word hipster.
it seems that you yourself read articles that are in the email. so i think writing just a few lines that describes every link is a good idea. Dave Pell is doing a good job about this in NextDraft.

also points and number of comments are important things to be included in email, but they may clutter it. personally i prefer them to be there.

and the classics part is really good ;)
People still keep big hot wallets?? Wow.
They are generally legal for non-profits, but it's complicated and depends on the state.

General information: http://www.nals.org/?p=1340

New York State: http://www.charitiesnys.com/pdfs/raffles.pdf
> monad, that structure is actually uninteresting here because it is too powerful

I am worried these days that people are avoiding talking about monads not because they are not useful, but because places like HN were saturated with talk about monads a few years back. I remember seeing several blog posts explaining monads as some kind of revelation: like they were overloaded semicolons, or monads were burritos, etc. So let's not try to let the popularity of monads interfere with our respect for their powerful and simple structure.

It's kind of like saying that sets are uninteresting in mathematics because they are too general. The Haskell community still does talk a lot about monads, and they are interesting and useful. Monads are what let us describe things like the difference between IO, ST, and STM. Monads give us generalizations of list comprehensions and give us ways to simulate nondeterministic execution.

In short, monads are still king; but the Haskell community is much more aware of the diversity of useful algebraic structures than it was.
I'm not sure about the details, either. "Please review my book" is a lot more nebulous than "please post a review to amazon using your account, and email me the link to this address." 10% is probably an upper bound on how many people review their purchases on Amazon.
I recently refereed a paper in computational geosciences and recommended substantial revision because the authors did not make their source code available for evaluation. The paper was ultimately rejected.
I was in the market for a new Mac in December. Our old machine was a 24" iMac 1920x1200 which was great. My default choice was a new 27" iMac, but trying one out in the store I found the resolution was so high that the menus, buttons and icons were too small and fiddly. They'r gorgeous displays, but the usability isn't there, especially since this machine would be used by other members of my family, some with significantly degraded eyesight.

My ideal would have been a 27" display at the same DPI and aspect ratio as our old iMac, the same panel just cut a bit bigger, but those don't seem to exist. In the end I went for a mac Mini with a Dell 24" at the same 1920x1200 as our old monitor.
How would the bank know whose money got stolen? It's basically a bad question. If the bank fails because of the robbery, then you lose all your money in 1903 (or at least most of it). Otherwise, things just keep on trucking as normal.

Edit: See the response from raganwald
I do not understand why there seem to be so much agreement on 80 characters line length. I often use 132 character. I have a rule that invite to avoid abbreviations in identifiers and I have often 4 spaces. If I limit to 80 character, all the line breaks decrease significantly readability.
Just spent christmas snowmobiling and I much prefer a map on my phone with a GPS pinpoint of where I am. I'm not used to a snowy landscape so I couldn't reference were I am on a paper map, but my phone made that easy.
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Looks like this is one of those stories that belongs in an "always-true" newspaper, along with "tensions in the middle east escalating" and "congressman apologizes for affair".
The winner is a foregone conclusion, it's the person who submits the solution in Piet: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

It'll be a worthy victory, though.
I can only tell you what worked for me. Get a copy of The Non-Designer's Design Book (http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia...) to learn the basics. Then practice, practice, practice. Design something, then try to figure out what you don't like about it. Use the concepts from the book to describe how it falls short. Throw it away and try again with something else. Eventually it'll just start coming naturally, much like programming did once upon a time.
It's not excusable really, but I'm not too surprised.

It was only a day or so from when a patch was available to when a public exploit was everywhere. Maybe they were on vacation, maybe the site was built by contractors who have since moved on, maybe they don't read hackernews or other programming news sources. I expect to see similar stories in the coming weeks.
>What is certain is that a great majority of people decided not to uphold their end of the bargain.

Phrased that way, the statement is absolutely incorrect. What is very likely is that a great majority won't uphold their end of the bargain. What is also very likely is that few if any of those made a decision not to uphold their end of the bargain.

Anybody who had that intention from the outset would have simply torrented the book. Anybody who didn't have that intention from the outset is unlikely to switch intentions. This is known as "consistency bias".

But what does happen is that people make commitments and then forget about them if the stakes are low. That is almost certainly what has happened in virtually every case of noncompliance in Schneier's experiment. I have a lot of respect for Schneier and his security and cryptography work. But his science fu is revealed in this article to be rather weak, as is his understanding of human psychology.
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I don't think you know what pedantic means.
Tracking children has never been easier. Nice for parents, not for privacy
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Very nice, but the ranking algorithm could probably do with some work. I typed in "Netcraft", the name of the company I work for, and the top result was about a company I've never heard of that make fishing nets: http://www.sotosearch.com/search?query=netcraft&ordering...
I just signed for it, so I guess that asking how you can improve it actually improves it (in a user growth way).
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In this interview you are going to hear how Jeremy Yamaguchi used some brilliant online marketing tactics to literally crush his competition.
Man, what an incredible story. Thanks Don Melton!
A deposit is an IOU from the bank to you; If the bank fails as a result of the robbery, you are SOL. However, if the bank remains solvent, it absorbs the loss.

In most cases, even a large robbery wouldn't ruin a bank: They could borrow against or sell their mortgages to another bank for cash to pay depositors.

This is different than a safety deposit box: The fine print is that you are responsible for its contents and if the bank is robbed, they will not replace the contents or reimburse you.

So, if you put your life savings into gold and put the gold in a safety deposit box, you lose. If you put your life savings in a deposit account, you will be reimbursed unless the bank fails outright.

(Prior to the creation of the FDIC in the US or deposit insurance in Canada).
That's a good intuition so long as the people trying to sell you a product aren't themselves aware of it. The problem comes when companies sell slightly different products at a greater price to try to influence you into thinking the cheaper option is great value.
Check out this excellent TED talk by Dan Ariely for a couple of examples of this phenomenon in action, as well as a few other, similar, effects: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_o...
Many other maps apps do the same thing, if perhaps less noticeably.
Though I believe they've got another form of insurance for this.
a good book advice plus a nice smile on my face... thanks!
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford
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Probably. I don't think I've ever seen an OS map extract without one.
Have you made any direct effort to integrate with home media solutions like XBMC or Plex?

Edit: I would also very much like to see something like this in ifttt.com
If it's that easy to steal, you're probably doing it wrong. The front-end server should never have direct access to the bitcoin RPC server, since the front-end is likely to be vulnerable. Instead, it should contact a robust back end server, which then talks to the RPC.