skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...the texts that form the groundwork for our scientific understanding of the world leave out a whole dimension of the thinking of the people who wrote them...

This is a feature, not a bug. Scientific understanding depends on quality of the science, not the reputation of the scientist. It also doesn't depend on faith, but on experiments and observations that can be reproduced.

We use this method because it's the most reliable way we know to arrive at answers that give us predictive power about how our world works, rather than just answers that "feel right". An answer that feels right may still be right, but that doesn't make it scientific.

Your assertion that my experience is a placebo effect is based on your faith in Qi being unreal.

You seem to be interpreting the placebo effect to mean "unreal", but our present scientific understanding is that the placebo effect is real.

To put it another way: Nobody is denying your subjective experience. It's the attribution of that experience to mysterious mechanisms that require faith for observation that is incompatible with scientific understanding, not the experience itself.

This is important when you're suggesting that science excludes some things from study -- what it actually excludes are things that can't be studied scientifically, such as vaguely defined hidden dimensions or energies. It's like trying to hammer nails into air: you have the hammer, the nails, and plenty of air, but no matter how hard you swing, there's nothing for the nail to be driven into.

They're not so subtle if you train yourself to be aware of them. But to train yourself to be aware of them you can't have faith in their nonexistence.

This faith requirement is incompatible with your desire for more study on the subject. Science allows for the answer of "we don't know why this happens", but not the answer of "we know because we believe", as the latter undermines the very meaning of what it means to "know".
I love how gaming journalism still completely ignores Nintendo. I mean, I have lost interest in Nintendo as a consumer, but when looking at the business, how can one ignore the company who made the system that's beating both Sony's and Microsoft's current systems?
Hitting it's peak in popular consciousness in the midst of the Black Friday and S&L recession didn't help either.

Is there any real connection here with CL? Did these events somehow precipitate or deepen the AI winter?
But it's not a PBS article. Cringley is a pundit and PBS is hosting his articles in an op-ed space called the "Pulpit."
Only if you stop using fully-justified text first.
Yeah. The basic thing I evaluate on most "news" sites is I dive in and set their font to 16 or 18px and 1.5em line height. I even leave their fonts in tact, most of the time. It's an instantaneous readability increase.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll prepare a few side-by-sides.
We just went through this like a week or two ago. Yeesh. Every browser I use has support for text resizing, default text sizes, or zoom levels. Android WebKit has double-tap and reflow.

I don't see why this is a problem demanding such rants.

Ironically the first thing I did when the page loaded was tap Ctrl+- Ctrl+-.
How can an employee perform a self-appraisal without being arrogant?
But Quora gets your email address and your friend list, and then when your friend joins they get your friend's email address, so they can email you both about each other.
Lexical scoping is a term to classify languages. The 'point' is to make it easier to understand how a language behaves.

If you want to have var with the same name as something in an outer scope, there are ways to do it, specifically an IIFE.

Here's an article for you: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2012/09/...
If they crash, can we assume causality there too?
Healthcare needs hackers
Microsoft secure Azure Storage goes down worldwide
The design of the device can play a role in how people perceive the console, primarily due to aesthetics and practical issues of os placing the system in a room. Console case design balances the line between artistic design (the Xbox 360s curvature, the Wii's shiny, compact casing) and how the system will be stacked (horizontal? vertical? Will discs be readable regardless of how the system is placed?)

Is this the biggest issue a console launch faces? No. But it's something a console owner would like the manufacturer to consider and could affect sales.
I'm thinking about Mojang right now.
Sourceforge used to be where code goes to die.

Nowadays it's not even that anymore, I wonder when they will finally shut it down.
Every Steve Jobs video
Possibly because Nintendo has already launched their new console to little fanfare and are burning cash.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/ingame/ouch-report-says-ni...
That would be a sinusoidal function. Smoothstep looks similar but is different.
There are Coffeescript forks that try to deal with issues like this. Here's one that takes a different approach on a bunch of 'em, including the scoping:

https://github.com/satyr/coco
Indeed, the claim that JavaScript developers can't read CoffeeScript seems odd to me. As a novice JS developer, I could read CoffeeScript the first time I saw it and it took me a day to be fluent.

For me there's a noticeable productivity and enjoyment boost from the more terse syntax and that makes it more than worth it for me.
Show HN: ParticleField.js, make gorgeous particle fields easily
Thanks for pointing it out, I didn't see that article.

After having read that article, I'll concede the fundamental argument is the same. I don't have a smartphone, however. The only place I will ever read something is on my desktop computer, and that's what I want. Media queries or "mobile-first design" can be used to solve the issue from both sides of that complaint.
Is Smart Making Us Dumb?
The browsers I use most -- Safari on iPhone and iPad -- do not allow this. The only way to increase font size is to zoom the entire page, which often results in lines that are too wide for the screen.

And a growing number of websites take deliberate steps to prevent any zooming on the page. I can't understand why any designer thinks this is helpful.

At least iOS Safari has "reader" mode now, which does what I wish most websites would do: throw away all of the CSS, and render the page as a plain list of H1's and P's.
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Yeah I was hoping this blog post would be "the next source forge will be us closing down."
12pt Times New Roman is the standard for publishing, so that's become the go-to size for a lot of websites. It was plenty big on 800x600 displays, but I agree that it's generally too small for today's resolutions.

However, the solution isn't to pick a new, slightly larger point size and just set everything to that, it's to use media queries to set an appropriate size for whatever medium the content is being displayed in, and to use sizes relative to the user's default rather than specifying exact point sizes.

You can also use absolute sizes (in and cm in CSS) so that the browser will display the font at the given size without regard to the display resolution or DPI.

Edit: Also, I highly recommend Readability, but obviously it'd be preferable if people just did the right thing to begin with.
How Tickle Me Elmo inspired a startup
Your comment reminded me of an article that mentioned that Halo 4 would be 'backed' by Azure [1]. I wonder if that's down as well.

[1] http://mashable.com/2012/10/31/halo-4-windows-azure/
It is way better than the other ones for a variety of reasons. A big one for me being the ability to directly share the URL of an example.

I'm sure they can do better: next please provide us the ability to use a tiny URL directly from within the domain (i.e. do not force me to lamely go to bit.ly or other non-sense).
If You Think Microsoft Is Dying, You Need A Reality Check
Humans are getting stupider according to Stanford geneticist
That's a valid point surely but it's not a simpler explanation. The simple explanation is that you will have your ability to accept credit cards pulled if they find out you are charging more for CC purchases, although you are allowed to have a "cash discount" just as was stated. It's in every agreement. I'm a bit shocked that people are arguing about this actually, but I guess accepting credit cards and setting up card present accounts isn't exactly a universal experience.

I'm not sure how/if this was recently changed in the US, my knowledge is 5+ years out of date now and I'm not in the US either.
At this point it just says
"Effective immediately, the Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency has ceased operations. Please disregard any notices you received from us, and please do not send us any payments."

Too much publicity?
3D Real-time Unigine Crypt demo (WebGL)
I have used Appharbor in my class to host a Web Pages project (Basically the prof made the whole class host it). My experience is , that while the customer support is good. The Service I used ( the free one) was a bit slow. My site took quite sometime to get loaded ( around 5-10 secs where my page weight was around 300-400 KB ) , the same page took less than a second on my local service. But all in all I really liked AppHarbor :)
Similar scam happening over in Australia at the moment too:

http://www.afp.gov.au/media-centre/news/afp/2012/october/afp...

http://malwaretips.com/blogs/australian-federal-police-virus...

It's a virus that locks the computer, takes a photo of the user and demands they pay $xxx to a department of the Australian Federal Police for "detected copyright infringement" while listing some of the music files on the computer to lend credence to the claim.
Strange Attractor WebGL Demo
...or at least pony up the cash to use a web font?
Algol 68 Genie - Algol 68 Compiler, Interpreter and Revised Report
With noscript, I get bad layout but working pagination. Maybe that'll work on mobile safari?
It's great to see this on HN where there are literally fonts as low as 7pt being used...

Everyone keeps saying that it's fine as long as zoom functions correctly. Well it's also fine to use a font size widely accepted as readable. 7pt? Really? Why? Because zoom works?

I know a lot of people who read HN that use style bot to increase the font size. To act like this isn't an issue seems really weird to me. Ctrl+- is there for people who really need the help seeing. It's actually being used to make up for bad designers.
The Post-American World and Startups
Sure, no one needs to write strcmp using primitives anymore, but the task of doing so exercises the same mental processes that are involved in orchestrating the various components when handling a web request.

I don't know what strcmp is in the way that you're using it. Does that make me a bad web developer?

Something orthogonal to this came up recently on Reddit, and it was observed that in the real world (anecdotally), 95% of professional programmers don't know what the Lyskov Substitution Principle is.
Yes unfortunately there is a set of meta tags you can use to set things like default and max zoom level for the page. If they're both at 1.0, you can't zoom at all. I'm not sure who thought that was a good idea to standardize, but if I meet them they will not be receiving a beer.
Why do people act surprised again and again? It's Apple's playground, you play by their rules. Rules can change over time. It's been this way since app store launched. Just live with it. Or develop for android or something.
Show HN: Hoverzoom for audio
Oh ok, so the issue is that the person who joins last has information published about them that they may not want published. I can kinda see that but it's not something that would bother me personally. An app like Grindr yeah, but not Quora.
Strong point you're making here. Pantone-calibrated monitors only make sense when you'll be doing actual printing.

A webdesigner using Pantone shades for a website is just being a delusional fool.
Try mixing some Sriracha in Mayonaise and slather it on a sandwich or have it with fries. Great combo IMO
Disagree. A company's stock price directly correlates to what the market values the future earnings of the company at.

Company doesn't have a future? Down to zero with you.
Since they will be shipping just before the Christmas sales period, at the earliest... They have a whole 6 months or more to reveal further details and keep interest high.

This Sony "meeting" was a vast improvement over the PS Vita launch which was all about specs, and not games, and that's not what sells game consoles and why the Vita is all but dead as game dev platform.

Putting Jonathon Blow on stage, who is a big critic of Microsoft's support of indie gamers was also great promotion of Sony as the gaming world heads to GDC.

For non-apple standards, this was a great event.
Looks like there are a couple packages that would solve this problem, but neither appear to be production ready or up-to-date.

https://github.com/madari/go-socket.io

https://github.com/igm/sockjs-go/
That's sort-of similar (though even weirder than) French[1], where, where you sometimes count in twenties instead of tens. So instead of sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-one, it's (the equivalent of) sixty-nine, sixty-ten, sixty-eleven. And eighty is really four-twenties, so ninety-five is four-twenties-and-fifteen, etc.

Of course, English used to be like this too — thus "three score years and ten". And many languages still retain non-decimalised words for eleven and twelve (and sometimes powers of them, like a gross or mass.)

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[1] Well, French French. Swiss French and Belgian French are much more sensible.
Right, but you listed Google and RIM's stock price as though comparing the two prices by themselves is significant. It isn't. RIM could have substantially more shares outstanding than Google.

Comparing their market caps? A little better. Comparing how their prices have changed over time? Probably a lot better. Comparing the two prices by themselves? Useless.
There's not doubt it is readable (I'm quite a fan of the language too) - the problem is with writing it as a novice. This post highlights some of the issues with magic and whitespace:

http://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-us...
If your business is so undisciplined and random that it's "valuable" (and even more "incredibly valuable") to have improptu "hallway" discussions, then you're doing it wrong.

Disagree strongly. Creativity often comes from people synthesizing ideas that wouldn't ordinarily meet, and especially not in a way that can be planned by management.

In the typical corporate environment where employees are just expected to implement ideas handed down by management, there's no value in these unplanned discussions. However, if you're looking for creativity and organic development, then there's value in those sort of random encounters. That doesn't mean remote can't work. It does give it a different feel. But I strongly disagree that there's zero value to unplanned discussion.
I think a half-done chunk of example code to be finished is a great technique.
That's pretty interesting on cooling. So, maybe gas station size after all. I suppose I can live with that :)

I wouldn't think that comparing to the efficiency of other technologies is really that informative. The nearest thing I can think of to extracting energy from the beam is a linear alternator, which, if the comment here is correct:
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=254589

...can have anywhere from 80% to 95% efficiency. I haven't found anything on the efficiency of photoelectric capture of x-rays, but from what I've seen Lerner seems to think that's the least of his worries. Perhaps he'll feel differently if he gets that far!
I will agree that the Wii U is selling rather abysmally, and that is perhaps a good reason to ignore Nintendo entirely. But, really, even when they had the Wii sold out for years, Nintendo was still basically ignored by the press. It was always a fight between Microsoft and Sony ever since the Xbox.

I am quite curious to see how well any of the new consoles do. People have been predicting the end of consoles since the NES, I am beginning to wonder if they're finally right.

Also, that article is pretty old. Before even the Vita came out (and subsequently bombed).
Yeah, I keep both Sriracha and Tapatío in stock myself, but consider them to have pretty different uses.
I've never read anything I thought was credible from washingtonsblog, and this is no exception. The number is based largely on speculation, and if you follow the chain of blogs and investor articles the whole thing just stinks of the sort of hype you see when an investment site is trying to scare you.
Whole page fades to white for me with JS turned off. I'd suggest fixing that.
> This sort of attitude is precisely why the big boys don't stay the big boys in tech.

Are you saying telecommuters are the key to staying big in tech? To encourage innovation big companies want happy engineers in close proximity, talking spontaneously in varied, positive environments. Hence the free food. And the massages. And all the other perks.
That being said, I've been in Stockholm and Tallinn with temperatures between -15 and -30C in Feb. Coming from the west coast, that was an interesting endeavor.

Measured temp is one thing, wind chill is another.
http://www.cucumbertown.com/magazine, I think we have it pretty clear about what goes to where.
Of course, that link author suggests adopting a Python-like design instead, and Python is even more broken (Python has the most insanely awful scoping rules I've ever seen).

Really the problem is implicit declarations of any sort; they're great for one-liners, but they really suck when you're writing real software.

[But if you've gotta have 'em, please, at least don't copy Python...]
>There are even further systematic abuses that should see thousands jailed, such as deceptive marketing and intentional misrepresentation of clients.

I'm okay with that as long as all the homeowners who lied about their financial situation go to jail as well. How many thousands of otherwise ordinary people made false statements on loan applications?
Does anyone else experience that Businessweek has a 'laggy' site? In chrome - every once in a while my page fails to completely load and scrolling is frozen.
Insights from day 2 of Geeks on a Plane
How to Eliminate DRM Protection from iTunes
This sometimes brings inconveniences and quite a few people would like to get rid of DRM from iTunes music and video in order to share their own videos easily. And when you've gotten a lot of DRM protected iTunes music and video, you need to be someone who are looking for ways to move away iTunes DRM.
Introducing iLightBox
>The crux of the matter is that only the power of a strong federal government can take on the even more powerful too big too fail banks.

Sadly, this is not true. In fact, the stronger the government gets the more advantageous it is for banks (and other businesses) to put effort into capturing the regulatory apparatus.

In terms of regulation of banks or other large companies we are no better off than we were before the federal government became the intrusive monster it is today. And as proof I offer the patent system, which incumbents have been using quite effectively to stifle new competition.
>you mean, you're for enforced servitude.

No, I'm for democracy with the full original meaning of the word (as in ancient Athens), which includes a full list of obligations from each and every citizen to his city-state and all of his fellow citizens.

The word for individual that didn't want to contribute to their state, in ancient Athens, was "idiot" (literally: private), and it meant both the "private citizen" (a citizen involved only in his private affairs) and the imbecile.

That's where we got the word "idiot" from, and I find it very appropriate.

>I get it - slavery is back in style, because that's what it is when you take from one person to give to another, no matter what the relative positions of the two persons are.

No, it very much matters what the relative positions of the two persons are. It makes all the difference in the world.

For example, the rich slave owners in the South should not just have their slaves freed. They should also have had to share their estate between their slaves (the very persons that were the unpaid source of his wealth until then). That way we wouldn't have to wait until 1950 to end segregation, nor we would have the problem of piss poor black families going forward (and the crime that goes with that), or Jim Crow laws.
huh, initially I thought "It is not THAT big of a problem" but after reading his article (easily) then trying to read an article in some of his example offenders sites...I can see his point.

Consider my eyes opened... (and not squinting.)
I am Australian and totally agree the NBN is a great idea. After all, it will allow higher tech companies to operate in regional Australia, which can only do good things for people's health (move out of the city!) and presently suffering economies.

New Zealand also has an NBN-like initiative based upon dual fiber/wireless; they have just upgraded their rollout map here: http://koordinates.com/maps/BroadbandMap/sets/
Server hack prompts call for cPanel customers to take “immediate action”
California Democrats Lose Veto-Proof Edge in State Senate
I would discuss how I feel about coffeescript and interstitial white space sensitivity and the ilk, but I'll point to a blog post which expresses most of my views neatly: http://blog.izs.me/post/10213512387/javascript-is-not-web-as...
Yeah, Tabasco and Frank's both taste like grass. They're disgusting =-(

Sriracha and Sambal Oelek are the good ones!
You got our data without telling us that we won't get to see the results (which are shown at the end in almost all the polls posted here), you need to do this.
The "loss of confidence" part, I don't see why that shouldn't be taken into account. If a candidate can't recover from failing, they're not likely going to do the same when they fail in their job. It also may indicate that the candidate is not teachable if they can't understand or have a hard time with your hint. Hints are a good way to progress an interview.
>If this is true (and I don't know that it is) then it sounds to me that the free market is not working in this area in the USA.

There is no "free market". That's a 19th century superstition. For example, if something as basic as the price you pay for oil is determined by the wars your country fights then there's no free market. If your government prints inflated money at will. No free market. If the banking sector gets a 1 trillion dollar bailout. No free market. If a company or a lobby can buy several senators. No free market. If there is copyright and intellectual property rights. No free market. If your country can force others via military and diplomatic might to enforce favorable trade agreements. No free market. Heck, even if recreational drugs are illegal: no free market.

And even if it was, it wouldn't be working in this area. When you're dying you don't negotiate prices.
It looks like Apple and the NYPD have been collaborating here:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4018190/nypd-apple-squad-f...

The problem with a phone is that you can put it in airplane mode and then factory reset it. Also, it's pocketable, so it's easy to hide, even if someone found the general location of the phone.
And it looks like someone did it!

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/23977878/?co...
Google TV feels fairly relevant to me. Have you shopped for a TV lately?

It's certainly not the best thing ever by any stretch, but it is out there and seems to be getting bigger.
Horror on people's faces? They just call the police: http://www.thelocal.se/35592/20110817/
How do you handle DNS (is it hosted on Azure/AWS or elsewhere)?
With LedgerSMB we have, in the past, provided direct links to downloads on Sourceforge. I do in fact use wget to download packages. It's quite possible to do that.