skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. My main problem I find is actually finding what I need. Assume I want to read about the string split method. There are two places that I'd go to:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html
http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html

I know the difference, but that's very confusing and annoying. It might be easier to have all string methods in one page, but separate them in terms of built-in standard library vs. the module ones.

Then I came across: http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib/string-methods.html which is a cleaner version.

Another thing I found in string a few days ago: the difference between capitalize() and title() on std string is not clarified at all in the docs.
You might be interested in checking out Brackets (http://brackets.io/) which has some live development capabilities for CSS at least right now. I believe it only works with Chrome though, currently.
Google Drive Failures
This is a really promising avenue. I can see how bioinformatics techniques could be used to identify passages as if they were genes. So some of the hard problems are solved. But the kind of knowledge that bioinformatics produces is highly statistical and one of the biggest challenges will be reducing the results of, for instance, combinatorial pattern matching. It seems like they're taking the right approach in identifying which phrases are common, essentially building the Genbank of legalese.
Are single letter domain and tlds allowed?
I'm not quite sure if a mockup proves anything, unless you mean the part about them asking the community.
+1 kindle version
I was, sadly, hoping for Resident Evil 1/Tomb Raider 1 style controls where up is ALWAYS forward. It increases difficulty ten-fold.
Google to challenge Evernote with new note-taking app Keep
Celebrate Ubuntu (but keep an eye on what they're up to...)
Solar and wind energy are doing very well in Spain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Spain. There is a lot of FUD about the need of subsidizing, but it seems that the technology is already mature enough, and subsidies are not necessary any more: http://electricidadsostenible.blogspot.com.es/2012/12/espana... (link in Spanish, sorry).
You use it and you know. I gave them my Google credentials yesterday, I uploaded my OPML as well. The website is extremely slow (which is understood). The OPML is waiting in the queue somewhere. I dropped few RSS feeds to test. Site runs slow.

I logged in this morning, saw HN news from 10 hours ago sitting at the top. I have decided to move on.

I am simultaneously testing local RSS feed reader as well (quiet-rss). Notwithstanding the syncing problem between multiple computers, it at least gives me the very latest news.
This is a big deal: Wikipedia is allowing contributors to extend the functionality of Wikipedia with new code (written in a powerful language), with minimal or no supervision. It's hard to predict what kinds of improvements we will see over time. Every Wikipedia article is now, effectively, an interactive application.

As far as I know, something like this has not been tried by anyone else at this scale before.

Quoting from the original post: "Anyone can write a chunk of code to be included in an article that will be seen by millions of people, often without much review. We are taking our 'anyone can edit' maxim one big step forward."
What I like about Reader is the speed.

Newsblur feels slow and bloated and of all the RSS readers I have tried it was the best.

So now I just said fuck it and I'm working on my own reader using much of the work from http://rsslounge.aditu.de/
You are very aggressive while you clearly do not know what I am talking about and doing a complete straw men. In fact the very same page referenced in this post confirms what I said:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/scientific-evi...
What setting do you change?
Ask HN: Sublime Text 2 vs. Emacs/VIM?
Has any Emacs or VIM user switched to Sublime? Can Sublime eventually be as powerful as Emacs or VIM?
How about a browser plugin that lets you mark as interesting a certain comment or even part of a comment. Some threads are very long with one hundred replies or more and we'd appreciate a quick highlights. Like a sports game recap video.
I'm not sure if you're just trolling or whether you're actually responding to the same comment I wrote.

> I don't think that more women being involved with C/AM means that a larger proportion of women are irrational.

At no point did I say or even imply that. In fact, I explicitly countered that notion as it was presented by another commenter.

So my position is kind of the opposite of what you're alleging. Please take the time, go back and read what was actually written.

As an aside, does a maneuver still count as Strawman Argument if the position of the original post is exactly reversed, or is there another term for it in that case?
There is an arrow icon for sorting.
I wonder if google will create a desktop app similar to the one evernote puts out. I am a big fan of webapps, but the evernote desktop app really inegrates well for me and is exactly what i want for note taking: speedy, persistent, offline capable, etc...
‘New Unity Stack’for Ubuntu 13.04, Will Bring ‘Smarter’ Search to the Desktop
It doesn't follow the western model of logic, which is why uninformed people who cannot understand subtleties insist on displaying their boarishness.

For instance ayurveda says the stomach has digestive fire, it does not give you a list of chemicals which break down food. Rather it seeks to strengthen that digestive fire. If you want to peek in there with a catheter and say "Nope, there is no fire, ayurveda is bullshit" Well then, best of luck with your clinical trials trying to experiment on the newest medicines. There is value in that.

It is not based on an inductive experimental approach so it does not fit with most western scientists. The idea is it is like an instruction manual, not reverse engineering. The human body was not evolved from some random processes for us to reverse engineer, rather there is an inherent design and ayurveda explains it. People may not agree with those depths of it, but that is the origin and philosophy.
One small thing that I haven't seen yet (in FF or Chrome) is a feature where I could get the IP address that was used to retrieve a given resource in the network tab. This would be hugely helpful when dealing with sites that are backed by more than one server. Also, ability to reset DNS cache (BTW, DNS cache seems to be shared between private and regular browsing modes).

<edit>The ability to lock onto a specific IP for a given domain would be pretty kick-ass too. Not a replacement for /etc/hosts, but just choosing one of the 2 IP's for example.com, etc.</edit>

Another nice feature would be to get the network tab to ignore resources loaded from external domains, only show external resources, or show both. Maybe even more fine grained with/without subdomains.
Asked how much time Oliver and Marc Samwer will actually be dedicating to the new fund – given their many other entrepreneurial activities – Siegel says if they would spend even only 20 percent of their time, it would be a lot given their wealth of expertise and connections.

Yes, IF they would spend 20% of their time. He doesn't say they will, of course, only that IF they do, then it would be a lot. This kind of weasel-wording reminds me of pro-forma projections that basically say, "IF we capture just 1% of the global market for business card printing, THEN..."
What was new in the compiler?
A Surreal Encounter With a Winged Elephant
People of Google Reader are typically not into Pinterest type feed readers.
Game Developer Quality-of-Life Survey
... because you will learn more by working in the wild, including why many real-world builders have a vague disdain of academia - especially in the genuinely difficult fields.

Maybe it differs away from architecture - but my experience of grads, even Oxbridge PhDs is that I will build circles around them with what I learned off my own back in my spare time... and mainly because I learned it off my own back - or in many cases reinvented solutions without any hints or assistance.

Sorry. I'd like courses to produce valuable, employable builders - my experience is that they do not.
Most startups don't stop and think about it. They end up looking for all parties not thinking about the cost benefit.
It's cheaper _and_ better with a developer who can design.
Google Drive is experiencing service disruption
Lazy Migrations in MongoDB with Scala Salat
Btw., along the lines, I just figured out that via Qt Platform Abstraction (former Qt Lighthouse project) (since Qt 4.8), you can have a real headless Qt WebKit now. (Earlier, it always was some headless X-server in between - much heavier.)

Some links:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9213215/how-to-use-qwebpa...

Esp. this PhantomJS commit is interesting:

https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commit/c78ae190a9
I think many good search engines already exist: CloudSearch, Elastic Search, Lucene, even Google Site Search. Often the difficulty with search is not the engine but rather deciding what to put in it - what documents? What fields are searchable? Which fields are facets? What to use as a list for synonyms? How to handle stemming?How to support multiple languages etc.

Those configurations can make a world of difference in the quality of a user's search results.
I agree with your first paragraph. However, I'm still hoping that Reeder will support NewsBlur (or maybe another service) so that I can continue to read my feeds offline. Internet is still not always available (and if available, sometimes only very slow or very expensive). That's why I still appreciate offline reading.
It costs more not to.
And specialise is such a bullshit thing to say.
A developer has a better approach to design than a designer that doesn't know the ecosystem as good as the guy coding.
this game really was beautiful. More over, it was one of the last bastions of game sci-fi I had.

The only thing left that I can find that plays with the beauty and scale of the galaxy is eve online.
Tired of broken Windows? Try Linux
>Anything is a poison in high doses.

I can see that is the limit of your intellectual presentation, good job. Nice to see your nuanced understanding of the health benefits of tylenol vs a bowl of hot cooked rice. I will remember that the next time I am munching on a bowl of tylenol.
if anything 3rd party asks for permanent access to my data, it's not getting installed. javascript APIs can be configured to ask you every time for permission, in fact that's the default.
>Probable or definite atherosclerosis was noted in 47 (34%) of 137 mummies and in all four geographical populations: 29 (38%) of 76 ancient Egyptians, 13 (25%) of 51 ancient Peruvians, two (40%) of five Ancestral Puebloans, and three (60%) of five Unangan hunter gatherers (p=NS).

I think the point is that atherosclerosis was just as prevalent in the hunter gatherer society as it was in the agricultural ones. Sample size is admittedly small though.
1. local memory consumption.
2. synchronization between multiple computers.

I am testing quiet-rss. I also tested RSSOwl. In fact I used to use Firefox's Brief a long while ago and I used it for extended period of time. None of these comes close to Google Reader for above mentioned issues. GR just works.
Ideally it would also include a proposed salary rate, as it serves as a great filter. Other than that, very nice and simple example. Most job postings really make it look harder than it is.

Not sure about 'Get away from job boards!', it's not like the cool kids don't frequent them.
> So 90's Microsoft fit your ethics?

No. Engaging in monopoly abuse and anti-competitive practices is unethical. And illegal.
yep, thats why we do a check for a min of 5 chars:

a@a.a

edit: the regex should pick this up by default anyway, given its looking for .+ and not .*, but my validation libs have the min and max length built in as well.
The Minuum keyboard project: mobile keyboards reimagined
Googling You
10 Smartest Countries in the World and Canada Takes Top Spot
That's awesome Stefan. Hats off to you and wish you great luck in your next assignment. Wish everything goes right.. With you.. and will be there for any help that i can do....at panbhatt at gmail
ironically, black swans, by their very nature, are in fact unpredictable (at least according to Nassim Tabeb) :)
I think the purpose of this validation is to help people who mistype their emailadress, not to check if it is their emailaddress.
Doing a PhD: Almost the Best Job in the World by Ariel Procaccia
There are alternatives that amount to basically the same thing and are also disruptive, but perhaps differently. For example, they could leave the Euro, print money to bailout, let inflation rise, let their new currency devaluate, etc.

It's also very risky and results in savers losing money. It's also less progressive than what they are proposing as it's strictly just a flat percentage of assets.
Without even knowing: the HN post I missed
March Madness Bracket Made With Neural Networks
Yes, if you rule out everything that killed people sooner, life expectancy was not too much less.
Amazon Wordpress Theme Make Me Money?
I loved how this game made me feel tiny. And to think that in the original designs they were aiming for even bigger megastructures to really drive that point home!
>sure natural=better is not a rule true 100% of the time

It isn't even a loose correlation. It is no better than random.

>One example is how it became clear in the last years in nutritional science that in general the more processed the food is the more harmful it is for us.

That has not become clear at all, that is something people like to repeat, but is simply a misinterpretation of the recommendation that people "eat mainly unprocessed foods" to maintain a healthy weight. The recommendation is not due to some magical pixie dust inherent in unprocessed food, it is because processed foods are often very high in calories.

>There is also the reverse problem, illustrated by the condescending attitude toward herbalism in this article, of people who idealize modernity, and for example believe only medicine in the form of pills can be effective, even though plants may contain exactly the same chemical compounds.

Except the article had no such attitude, and said nothing like what you are suggesting it says.

>In general I think it is ridiculous to ignore the thousands of years of experimentation and exploration of our ancestors just because it wasn't "science-based".

It isn't ignored. It is studied, and if it is found to actually be effective, it is used. If it is found not to be effective, it is not used. The quack/fraud "medicine" crowd really need to grow out of lying about this. Scientists do not ignore old herbal remedies, they study them.
Searcher.io : Simple and Powerful Patent Analysis
Am I the only one that thinks 90 minutes a day is horribly inadequate? Personally, I aim for something like 8 hours... Is this just because the book was written a hundred years ago and there wasn't that much to learn back then?
Right but on a large system it is possible to mistype it to a valid address that isn't yours.
How to get started in the open source community?
I want to start contributing to the open source community; projects that pique my interest on GitHub. It's such an intimidating thing to do, though, and I don't know where to start. I don't actually follow many projects other than some of the big ones like Bootstrap and Twitter Flight. Any suggestions on how to get started?
How Remote Manager Zack Grossbart Leads a Team of Telecommuters
Garrett has earned a solid reputation with me in how he has run Sifter. I've been a customer on-and-off, and he's always treated me fairly and promptly, even when I was "churn." I agree the price feels a little stiff, but I see his argument about the value. If confidence in the money-back guarantee is all you need to pull the trigger, I wouldn't hesitate.

Note: I don't know Garrett, we're not friends, just wanted to add another voice.
Interesting, are you just doing a search using the twitter api for hash tag #ruby using jquery or a ruby gem? I see I can login to your site with twitter, but that seems to be down at the moment. I guess I'd just like to know generally how this functions as I'm thinking of doing something like this for a personal project.
I was thinking we are talking about all plants in existence, this is a study of 1000 most commonly used herbs, still, I learned something new, so thanks. Still it doesn't prove your more bold claim that somehow all the potential benefits of using them are already available in a very safe to use pill.
Nice site! I signed up -- great idea!

The graphic design is quite good as it is, but a graphic facelift is not that expensive, so long as you stick to re-skinning the site -- CSS, images, etc. -- as opposed to major layout and content changes.

So, yes, go ahead with that. It's at least worth trying.
Originally, SSL required using a separate i.p. address for every host that wanted to use SSL. The reason was because the security certificate wasn't sent until after the secure connection was made. That precluded choosing the certificate on hostname. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/517336/apache-name-virtua...

Apache HTTPD supports SNI since version 2.2.12.
LurnQ: All That is Fit To Learn Under One Roof
Obscurity is a fine wrench in your toolbox of security.

You shouldn't depend on it, but being a bit out of the way means you have less people rattling your doorknob.
Cool, you found one example where the compounds in plant potentiate each other in a useful way. I gave you an example of where this is absolutely not true, and there are likely many more on both sides.

This absolutely does not support the statement "the main advantage of plants over modern medicine in its typical form is that they contain complex compounds of chemical substances which show a synergy in a certain direction ".

In fact it doesn't support that there is an advantage at all, and it shows that by scientifically studying the plant we can figure out the substances responsible for the effect (if it's reproducible), purify them and make use of them in preparations that can be applied more effectively than a poultice.

I'm not sure how you think this is a straw man either.
> Just because current conventional medicine isn't entirely evidence-based does not excuse the claims of CAM from the requirement for evidence.

Who says CAM practitioners do not want to be subjected to RCT? Bring on the money and the time to do it!! Fact is very little money nor time has been spent on RCT for CAM. My wife who practices Ayurveda, is dying for there to be more studies.

Plus, your statement is fallacious since you are claiming it is OKAY for conventional docs to conduct "unscientific" practices and procedures, which is at least 50% of what they do, but it is NOT OKAY for CAM practitioners to do the same.
I find the responses here really strange, has anyone here actually used the devtools in pratice? The firefox devtools seem to me just a awful waste of time from the beginning, they are years behind the competition and the development progress is so slow that I've given up on them. I'm using firefox as my main browser but for web development (dom/css inspection, javascript debugging) there is currently nothing that beats the chrome devtools.
Why we need a Web that forgives and forgets
"Microsoft...will very deliberately trash the PS4."
I was hoping for a first-person 3d tetris

but the way it's made here, I think what it's missing is that gravity should be replaced by maneuvering to whatever side of the square is "up"

like aiming a spaceship

that would be challenging to play!
My apologies, I remember in the original post you asked us to hold off on providing feedback unless the issues were present in recent Firefox versions. On the plus side, this motivated me to switch to Firefox Aurora just now and I must say, I'm extremely impressed!
I thought PhantomJS 1.5 got rid of the X dependency ...
> Its hard to say if you're asking for steganography (which isn't really "math") or an actual math proof or you just want a wikipedia pointer to the kerberos protocol which is easily breakable but if you add enough constraints it might eventually fit your requirements.

None of those; I know the current state of the art in cryptography/authentication, and that it doesn't quite cover what I'm asking for. I'm basically just waiting for you to say that the specific kind of designed proof I asked for is impossible even in theory, so I can go and be sad that my vision for a distributed equivalent to SecondLife[1] will never happen.

My own notion would be that the Goodlandian agent would simply request that his contact come and look at the machine itself, outward-in, and verify to him that he's running on a real, trusted piece of hardware with no layers of emulation, at which point the contact gives him an initial seed for a private key he will use to communicate with from then on. The agent stores that verification on his TPM as a shifting nonce (think garage-door openers), so that whenever the TPM is shut down, it immediately becomes invalid as far as the contact is concerned--and must be revalidated by the contact again coming and looking at the physical machine. All we have to guarantee after that is that any method of introspecting the TPM on a piece of currently-trusted-hardware fries the keys. Which is, I think, a property TPMs already generally have?

Besides being plain-ol' impractical [though not wholly so; it'd be fine for, say, inspecting and then safe-booting military hardware before each field-deployment], I'm sure there's also some theoretical problem even here that renders it all moot. I'm not a security expert. :)

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[1] More details on that: picture a virtual world (technically, a MOO) to which any untrusted party can write and hot-deploy code to run inside an "AI agent"--a self-contained virtual-world object that gets a budget of CPU cycles to do whatever it likes, but runs within its own security sandbox. Also picture that people who are in the same "room" as each AI agent are running an instance of that agent on their own computers, and their combined simulation of the agent is the only "life" the agent gets; there is no "server-side canonical version" of the agent's calculations, because there are no servers (think Etherpad-style collaboration, or Bitcoin-style block-chain consensus.)

Now, problematically, AI agents could sometimes be things like API clients for out-of-virtual-world banks. Now how should they go about repudiating their own requests?
WTF??

Seriously, just because "Anything is poison in high doses", it doesn't follow that a "high dose" is the same for everything.

Christ almighty you're dumb.
science and logic. Third-wave feminism is partly to blame; the notion that

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can just, like, the word "woman" land on an HN thread without it becoming an embarrassment?