skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the comments, but could someone more expert in seismic activity break this down for me?

How does this demonstrate Wolfram Alpha knew about the nuke itself (or could ascertain there might have been a nuke)?

It looks like it just indexed seismic activity. Is it because the measurements are peculiar?
This has been my experience, too. But I think it's wrong to jump to the conclusion that because going too far and having to learn too much is a bad use of time that you should just stick to one or two things. This is black-and-white thinking and I think in this case, your response should be in the context of the problems you face and the career you are building.

We do need to move along with technologies if we want to stay relevant. But you need to know what's a fashion and what's worth adding to your skillset. After leaving University I mainly knew Java but I learnt PHP and JavaScript because I wanted a web development job; later on I felt that none of the cool startups were using PHP and all of its warts had become very apparent to me so I picked up Python which seemed a lot more elegant. (However this was more a case of fashion that gave me access to higher-impact and higher-salary jobs. My actual needs to code in a general-purpose language with nice libraries isn't a worthy goal in itself.)

Currently I am working entirely in Node.JS and I don't consider myself to be drinking the Kool Aid because it made more sense to stick to one programming language and I needed long-running processes. I do have to be careful to not add too many libraries, however. There is so much activity in the JavaScript world currently.

I say you should focus on your career and wherever you see that leading you. To a certain extent programming languages and libraries will come and go (they will coalesce on principles so this is worth paying attention to), but architecture remains the same, social structures and positions remain the same, and sales remains the same. Apply yourself where you can see the maximum potential for personal growth and personal growth that doesn't slip (as it will when you have spent 20 years programming using the library X and everybody else switches to Y.)
i remember seeing this exact angle in a reddit AMA!!!
Luckily, other currencies are never manipulated by rumors, press media and public talk.
Agreed, but it's likely more useful for Markdown sources - when I was writing my thesis my supervisor and I kept the LaTeX source in a shared git repository, and added a couple macros for comments - it wasn't quite this slick, but combined with the git log it worked pretty well.
1000 miles on a single tank of diesel are possible with the right car (BMW/Audi/VW).
I'm sorry but this is just wrong on every level imaginable.

> If she is burdened by property taxes, it's because she's living in an extraordinarily valuable house.

Or because she's been on a fixed income for several years. Or because she has a lot of medical bills, as most older folks do. Or because any of a myriad of other reason that would cause someone with a piece of land to not be swimming in a pile of gold coins.

> Since property taxes are in the neighborhood of 1% of value, and real estate prices in NYC go up by several percent per year,

I can't speak to the real estate prices or property taxes so I'll take you at your word here.

> your sainted grandmother

I think we can all go without sarcastic ad hominems against our grandmothers. Jesus Christ.

> could borrow the money to pay the property taxes, against the property, and the increase in property value would more than pay the taxes.

For me, this is just the pièce de résistance of this entire convoluted argument. The idea that someone who is having trouble paying property taxes should get a loan and pay the property taxes plus interest is just laughable.

> Rich grandmothers are not actually a problem we need to solve.

You're assuming that because someone owns property in NYC that they're rich, which is clearly not the case, especially if they've been there for half a century.
Well Gelsinger and Meyer are both already well known for anyone who has followed anything slightly in CPU world.

I would be more interested to know insider story why Gelsinger left, or pushed out.
It blows my mind sometimes, looking at a web page made of mostly simple text and a few images, to view the source and see page after page after page of CSS and javascript just to make something that looks only slightly better than

http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/T...
>You make that FUD up yourself?

No. Matz built Ruby because he thought Perl and Python weren't object-oriented enough. This is decidedly an academic concern. Ridiculously, Matz decided to take Perl over Python as the inspiration for most of his syntax, and if you've looked at Ruby code and gotten Perl flashbacks as I have, there's a good reason for it: it's supposed to be like a super object-oriented Perl. If you love Perl then that's great for you, but there is no reason to presume that Ruby has any real-world applicability. It's basically just Matz's opinion on "how Perl ought to be".

It seems my timeline was a bit incorrect in that Matz apparently worked for a commercial entity when Ruby was conceived, but in a theoretical division ("head of research"). So perhaps the comment should be altered to "Ruby is an academic language designed for theoretical research applications". It has almost no practical redemptive features as compared to modern Python or Lua, MRI is slow and unusable for memory-intensive applications, the syntax is a jumble of esoteric symbols and inconveniences, and so on. There is really no reason, on either a linguistic or practical engineering basis, to prefer it over other scripting languages. People are, and have been since DHH successfully poured his coat of snake oil out, just jumping on the Rails bandwagon and buying that whole song and dance, which was originally produced to promote DHH's consulting firm.

That's not to say some people haven't taken the language and done cool stuff with it, but it's not relevant to the question of the language's individual worthiness.
That earthquake was smaller, from: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-09/gas-rich-groningen-...

> A quake measuring 2.7 on the Richter scale struck the area ...

To see it in Wolfram Alpha you need to add more parameters: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=earthquakes+in+Netherla...
jQuery Mobile, Backbone & Bootstrap for a mobile app? It makes me dizzy just thinking about the amount of code the mobile phone will have to download/execute.
More dense information than in this forum thread here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
I for one welcome our Korean overlords, although I'm not sure who will be providing food aid in paradise?
When I saw the article headline, my first thought was the five-year-old trait most likely to find in most leaders ... I want, I want, mine, mine, mine.

And to be fair leadership is not about rediscovering child-like curiosity - it is about applying objective thinking rigorously and without ego - try looking at Poor Charlies' Almanck
Absolutely. In this case, though, bad tools aren't the problem. The problem is that there are too many roughly equivalent tools, and many of them are very good, but there is a lot of arguing and navel gazing about which new one is the best to use.
Which brings me to the point that the steering wheel is much more important than brakes. Being able to go faster because of brakes is not very useful if you are heading into a wall.
I like how they hid it on Nuclear Test Road.
I'm personally fond of push notifications. Notifications provide quite a high spike when used timely and in a contextual manner.
Why link to some random forum post? This is a terrible submission.

There has been much speculation on the subject, you could have chosen from a lot of decent articles like this:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_...

or this:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/10/race-unmas...

I'd rather read posts from above-top-secret than the bitcoin forums.
Gulag view -- they should smuggle cameras in!
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The "probably not gonna break the bank meme" is how class warfare propagates; it offers nothing useful in terms of creating progressive and fair tax rates.

And your hotel idea is exactly what will happen if property tax rates go up. Think through what the effects of that would be...
Javascript is essential for any web developer no matter what server side technology they use. I would highly recommend learning Javascript first.
I filter the news so you don't have to.
Other currency markets are millions of times larger than bitcoin. The entire bitcoin market could be cornered and manipulated by a single modestly wealthy individual.
Yes but the point is who you know is up... to you.
I don't think I will speak up if I see a stripper for free... yeah!
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If people knew how to drive efficiently they'd use gears to do this and only use brakes to stop. Just sayin'
Well, you can still stop before hitting that wall. Steering might be of little use if you're going fast and approaching a dead end with walls on either side.
What is challenging for developers?
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The broad reach of the quote made me react negatively for a second but what the blog post is actually about is perfectly reasonable and in my opinion necessary criticism of this industry.

Sexism in the right context can be funny, as can many horrible things. As part of a slideshow for a workshop or as part of a conference speaking engagement is hardly ever the right context.
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Wow, the comments on that forum are certainly an interesting insight into the weird sort of paranoia/megalomania that leads people to become Bitcoin zealots -

"Satoshi definitely saw this as a strike against the malignant forces that national fiat currencies and the parasitic monetary/finance system has become.

Enslaving us all in unpayable debts and endless taxation for wars and bankster bonuses ... it is now a criminal system that will go down in history and those at top aren't doing squat to change it, except personal enrichment. (Oh but we are chasing bad guys playing poker online, trading goldbits and smoking weed on their couches ... whatta a load of BS)."
Oh?

Backbone is 18k minified (uncompressed)

Underscore is 13k minified (uncompressed)

Bootstrap's js is 20k minified (uncompressed)

jQuery minified is ~32k minified & compressed

and jQuery Mobile the heaviest of the lot is ~81kb minified & compressed.

So how dizzy does that make you?
yeah, I think lack of real anonymous functions is a small annoyance that can get quite "big" from the yucky feeling you get when defining functions just to pass them on. But... what do you mean by "poor handling of closures in nested functions"?

Edit: ok, I get what you mean now :) ...though I consider this "poor handling" a feature of Python - mutating outer scope variables is a side-effect and what it encourages is what I like to call "callback hell functions with data Javascript-style nightmare" :) (true, some people know to keep their sanity and write readable code even in this style, and if you enjoy it you're probably one of them few, but most don't...). By "functional style", I and some people refer to "functional as in mathematical functions", so only using side-effects when actually needed (yeah, some "extremist" languages like Haskell try to never do them, but...) and you get this by having immutable values and passing around anonymous functions (that don't modify their outer scope).

...and this is another part of the paradox: this "feature" of Python should encourage what I call functional style, but why oh why it doesn't? ...maybe Rich Hickey is on to something with Clojure and it's actually more about the data-structures than the language syntax or semantics?
Sounds like you may have some experience that could assist me. I have six 3.6GB CSV files that I can't even get into R (reading them in just never happens, the program freezes), much less manipulate the data. I've not done any mad-reduce type functions before - is there a tool I can use to leverage that and get the data into R?
For those who think it doesn't matter, and that there is no sexism and that women aren't be discriminated against due to the pure fact of their gender, be aware that there have been double blinded scientific studies that show that if you change the name of a CV/resume to a female name when applying for science jobs, they don't get as much/as good offers.

If this was question about whether a new drug worked or not, the issue would be settled. Ergo, gender bias against women exists.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109
> - Why do I need a class for streaming JSON - Python's got a perfectly good `yield` for returning tokens in such situations.

I use msgpack in Python (twisted, tornado) precisely because it can consume byte buffers which are not token-aligned.
What do you propose? I for one cheer for anyone who is out there supporting Mobile Web. Try the app btw, it works quite well on my Incredible S.
Xbox 720 may be "always watching" with mandatory Kinect
Patent 20120278904,

That patent application goes by the name Content Distribution Regulation by Viewing User. This application is for a "content presentation system and method" (the Xbox with Kinect, in this case) allowing content providers (Microsoft or whatever video company is participating) to "regulate the presentation of content on a per-user-view basis." With this system Microsoft describes how "the users consuming the content on a display device are monitored so that if the number of user-views licensed is exceeded, remedial action may be taken."
Perhaps we've driven beyond the metaphor.
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I think the issue is less with bored teenagers and more with turnkey r00tkits. Remember when these Rails issues first blew up and someone posts a very insightful article saying that anyone, anyone running a public Web-facing Rails installation would be exploited?

This is possible because it can be computer-automated.

If you're in a situation where a teenager has to get bored and specifically tinker with your niche software then you may already be a large step ahead.

I mean, right? If we take it as true (as many are claiming here) that all web frameworks have security vulnerabilities and Rails is just being picked on because of its popularity, then you essentially need to make the decision between having 24/7 ability to quickly upgrade all of your running Rails installations, or using something not as popular.
In Python, the distinction is less strong than it is in some other languages. Since a class can implement __call__, allowing instances to be directly called like a function, even if an API specifies a function, you can pass a class instance in with a suitable __call__. So using functions doesn't have to tie to to it being a function forever and ever in the future (or breaking reverse compatibility, the way it does in most other languages. This isn't a perfect answer to the objections, but the objection is at its most weak in Python.
Maybe brits are just more lazy than people from other countries and just click on ads to find what they want.

Or maybe british advertisers are crazy and pay insane prices for adwords.

Or maybe a mix of both. Who knows, but frankly, the brits are getting raped by Google through the hemorrhaging of $1bn per quarter taken out of the domestic economy. It is obscene for a company, any company, to reap the benefits of a developed economy and not pay any taxation to support the education, welfare and security of the economy they profit from.
Has the art of using the engine to slow down become so unknown that it is no longer considered a way to slow down a vehicle?
Agreed. Pretty powerful when used well. Some apps clearly misuse them, though.
People laugh when they hear a "sexist" joke because it's funny.

Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?
Bitcoin is as anonymous as cash if you use a mixing service.

No it's not. There's plenty of information that will still leak out, whether it's what service(s) the outgoing money is then sent to, the time of day following transactions take place, and a million other tiny little pieces.

And this is ignoring any issues with the mixing service.
I don't think its too much to ask for everyone to be more conscious of how we talk publicly. You could spend an extra five minutes replacing that sexist joke with something else less likely to offend half the world's population.

The "It was meant to be a joke." line is weak sauce. Man up and admit that you were acting juvenile, and just apologize for your behavior. And try to do better next time.
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A possibly related concept which your comment reminded me of is "the half-life of facts": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4967344
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: That is NOT funny.

In seriousness though, she sort of does have a point. Women at these types of thing are pretty outnumbered, and making them uncomfortable with stuff like this isn't very... gentlemanly.
I'd like to see a gearbox that can get you from 120 mph to 0 in less than 3 seconds.
Before this devolves into a how-uptight-is-this-person-really? discussion, I was impressed with the OP author's levelheaded, friendly response to someone who reportedly made, IMO, a pretty egregious slide:

https://twitter.com/johannakoll/status/300645432013516800
I am very, very sorry, but you cant use a phrase like "using a strip club as an example to illustrate the tool", and not expect old skool dinosaurs like me not to fall about laughing.
Not at this time. The syntax can get unreadable fairly quickly.

It works well with version control, and with our Sublime Text plugin you can Accept or Reject edits via keyboard shortcuts before moving to the next round of edititng.
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> It seems to me that the writer has little experience of not using classes, so wants to solve every problem he has with a class.

That's a bold statement.

Where is the trend to forcefully avoid classes here coming from? Classes are a perfectly valid tool in Python to solve problems. Someone sent me a mail this morning proposing a dictionary with callback functions in addition to a function as if that would solve anything.
Microcopy generally takes the form of a speaking voice which addresses the User directly, so a phrase like "Are you sure you want to delete this Customer?" makes more sense than "Am I sure I want to delete this Customer?". And so forth.
If I happen to think that it is funny, who has the right to say that my opinions or the feelings that the "sexist jokes" bring to my brain are wrong? Obviously one should also try to minimize the amount of content that may possibly cause harm to any number of people in the target audience, but the problem has a very abstract nature going all the way down to how and where to say what to whom and who gets to decide whats right and what's wrong.

I often laugh at sexist jokes concerning both men and women. I don't take those jokes personally but I also agree that one has the right to disagree and express their opinions towards the content of different media. (if-by-whiskey?..)
> but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right?

Why?
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Is there an equivalent to Ryan Gosling Programmer but with a girl? (see: http://programmerryangosling.tumblr.com/)

My coworkers find it really funny, but they are slightly uncomfortable with the fact that it is a man on the picture.

Thanks
He left out Basic. Bill Gates is still using that one according to his Reddit AMA yesterday.
You can use http://jsbeautifier.org/ to read the script.
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It's not nearly as effective as braking.
Unless you drive an older car. My 14 year old Saturn's oil was rough when I changed it at 3200. I can probably take it to 5000 now that it has synthetic blend in it, but I'm not going to take a chance with a 154,000 mile old engine.
Marco Arment gave a great talk at Webstock about how he uses PHP and MySQL because they're battle-tested and he knows them inside-out. I think many of us could use a dose of Marco's pragmatism. It's worked out really well for him.
"Does Backbone help you solve your problems?"

This really bears repeating over and over again, and I think it's a corollary of "start by writing the dumbest thing that can possibly work."

If you start with dumb, simple things, the problems become more obvious. Dumb simple things tend to shake out the parts that are tedious to build, or non-conformant, or confusing to read, or hard to maintain. It may be that Backbone (or any of the dozens of other gizmos) alleviate the problems, but you really have to understand the problem first.

I really think a lot of people are seduced by the marketing of various tools and frameworks into thinking they have (or will have) problems that they don't actually have. Then they end up with over-engineered solutions that are all the things they hoped to avoid.

Don't meant to criticize backbone, or any other framework (or language, or platform). A fancy, hip tool can be just thing. The question is: do you know what "the thing" is really for, and does it fit your situation?
Misleading title

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000f5t0#...
I thought Aaron was supposed to have been confronting law-abiding adversaries like JSTOR and other academic journal holders.

I wasn't aware that his activism had anything to do with the Federal justice system per se.

Either way, they don't have the option of simply shooting you on a whim (except insofar as anyone could theoretically decide to do that) or locking you away for years either (a jury is also required for this).
You're right, it can definitely get crowded.

Diff is a great tool, and it's where we started on this whole thing. Unfortunately it's a little too complicated for most users, and there's no way to comment on individual edits unless you use source control and commit on every spelling change.
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A nicely put together guide, serving as a blueprint and a todo list at the same time. Great work!
It doesn't stop as there is to much to be gained from it...
I fail to see how that is sexist. They aren't implying that their support team is women. It's a play on words. Perhaps they should have a jock strap there instead?
Well, that's sort of the issue. Not everyone's sense of humor is the same but people with different senses of humor are going to work together in the same office. In order to reduce conflict, joking about potentially sensitive things is generally discouraged in the workplace.
Maybe a good rule for presenters would be to imagine what happens if they replace the photo of girls in bikinis with a photo of guys in bikinis. If that makes the presentation awkward, then bikinis are not the answer.
People laugh when they hear a "racist" joke because it's funny.

Maybe race related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about race somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?
Stop making the world a slightly shittier place.
All those examples sounded perfectly harmless, I wonder what sort of humor would be acceptable to the author?

It's difficult to make a joke which no-one finds offensive, if you follow these complaints to their logical conclusion conferences would be very dry and dull.