skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
14 years since my surgery. i still see great! my pupils dilate 1mm further than the surgery corrects, resulting in a star-burst effect with any light at night. a minor nuance for near perfect vision. i'd do it again without hesitation.
“Lack of understanding leads to uncertainty and folk-theories that hinder our ability to use technical systems, and clouds the critique of technological developments.”

The study linked to in the sentence points out that folk theories, while “not completely accurate accounts...can provide people with explanatory power, can guide behavior surrounding use of the technology, and can allow people to make predictions about how a technology will function under certain conditions.” [1]

These heuristics, though not perfectly accurate, can work for most of the user's use cases. Intervention is called for only when the practical implications of the folk theory are misleading.

[1] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/l/ledantec/files/poole-ledant...
The post is meant to be a joke, and isn't a bad one as such things go, but its fun to note that square brackets and Lisp go back quite a ways, and were a feature of M-expression syntax. [1]

It is also interesting to note the reasons why Mathematica's syntax, which shares some similarities to Lisp, uses square brackets instead of parenthesis, specifically to avoid ambiguity when using parenthesis to denote grouping terms. [2]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression
[2]: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/GettingUse...
I got really excited for a second, and then I realized it was April 1st.

Clojure is a language I absolutely love, but have abandoned for practical reasons. (Debugging Clojure is an absolute nightmare, and the tooling doesn't quite agree with me. The JVM is the biggest hurdle in making Clojure useful for me: it causes slow startups times, a bloated environment, and makes it hard to deploy in our production environment.)

So my immediate though when I read "a better Clojure" was: somebody wrote an LLVM front-end for Clojure and turned it into a fast language compiled to native code.
I'm growing really bored of people who don't know what they're talking about calling Bitcoin a scam.
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I agree except for your last comment where you do the very thing you complain others are doing with Jobs. You downplayed Woz's contributions by implying that he would have done nothing exceptional unless Jobs was there to hold his hand. Except that Woz is credited with developing the Apple I by himself but I suppose he would have just tossed the thing in the bin if not for Jobs.
Child pornography stored on a computer is data. The possession and exchange of child pornography is illegal.
No apology necessary, I'm at work, ill. Bronchitis. Totally understand.

I don't know what you mean by mothballware. Care to elaborate?

I don't think there's a risk of seeming like you're cutting people off. So long as you're up-front with people when they sign up then there's no problem with this. The value is in the ability to add and edit your bookmarks. Being able to access them later is trivial if you're looking at it from Tinmark's perspective and from a user's perspective this is the same as getting a try-before-you-buy premium account.
Wordpress faster than Drupal
Strange. I type [] with my right pinky finger. I find it a lot easier than () which requires the shift key.
Black-and-white cultural ideas like "socialism vs. capitalism" may be curious relics in a few centuries — think about the fact that even paper currency is a pretty new thing (740 B.C. China) and you get a taste for how things can change (or look at the rise of credit cards over the last 50 years).
No worries. Looks like your plan worked pretty well.
I do something similar. You will need a powered USB hub to attach the external HDD (built-in USB can't supply the full 500 mW that a USB port is supposed to supply). Checkout out Plugable's videos on youtube.

I have a Model B with a connected HDD that's been on 24x7 for a few months now. No problems so far. I don't expect a big difference between the Model A and B wrt stability.
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I would have said he was in sales from the beginning and he focused on tech, of which he had a background.
USD changes at a rate of 3% per year, according to the CPI.

Bitcoin is currently changing at a rate of 50% per month.

Volatility is a bad thing for currency. Bitcoin has too much of it right now.

And sorry, as long as BTC keeps changing by 50%+ per month, it will only be a proxy currency. If BTC is to become a true currency, it will need to settle down to ~3% / year volatility, like the other major currencies of the world.
About a dozen years ago I worked with a developer who built "smart house" applications. He was describing his home and how the house knew when he walked into a room and activated the lights. When he got into to bed, the lights in the room automatically went off. I asked him: "so, what do you do if you want to read in bed?" His reply was a quizzical look, and "?? The bed is for sleeping." He didn't understand how broken this mentality was.

The point is, if systems that anticipate your needs do not have adequate interface for working around them - and by adequate, I mean easily discoverable and intuitive, then they will be rejected by the majority of consumers. And with good reason. Technology should serve us, not require us to adapt to them.
How many people are using ruby motion to create ios apps?
Send a friend a laugh for April Fools Day
"Still stabilizing" means "has not yet stabilized". As in, it's trying to find a stability point.
Oh, there are a number of users that have been nay-saying for months, or longer. I hope they did manage to get a short in. That sounds vindictive, but even in this thread are people that clearly don't understand BTC firing off calling it a "scam". Poor people, should've bought two weeks ago.
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Unfortunately not, I have been watching GPU mining returns vs the BTC price for a while, all the time the hash rate of the network is always increasing a little quicker than the income from mining.

The ASIC's will continue to dominate. Per watt of electricity they are far more efficient and we will see thousands of ASIC coming into existence this year. GPU mining Litecoin and converting over the USD or Bitcoin is actually more profitable.
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I don't think any one knows. I think that those who think they know will sooner or later be told they are wrong by some one else who thinks they know.

All I know is that I tend to do what ever works best for a given situation.... I think.
Looks like it contains decent, if not slightly outdated, tutorials for beginners.
Looking at your linked posting more closely I do not believe it is applicable to this situation for two reasons. Again I'm not an expert on postgresql but:

1) It appears to me that the technique discussed in your linked post is about ganging unrelated transactions together into a single flush to disk. I do not see that to be the case in the OP. Since all of the writes are going to the same table they are related.

2) Looking at the second graph in the linked post pgbench transactions/sec insert.sql. The number of clients is high. I got the impression from the OP that there was only a single client. Indeed if there were more than a few clients the benchmark would have been subject to the deficiencies of the client libraries used.
I guess I indeed missed this recent confiscate event. Can you point me to where I can read about it?
Last major financial disaster I've heard about is Cyprus. Where people deposited money in the banks, the banks gambled with the money and lost it. Which is "slightly" different than confiscation. The involvement of "governments" and "entities" only helped the depositors to lose less of their money.
I wanted to say this must be an April Fool's thing, but looking at the past price points
http://appshopper.com/games/the-fleas-2
Is this an April Fools joke? After scrolling for pages I still hadn't read anything substantive, and I was only 1/6th of the way down.
Sure he needed to get hired. Otherwise he wouldn't have sought any job to begin with. Strawman, my foot!
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The point of these articles:

- leverage bias to get easy upvotes on social news sites

- reinforce SEO, imagine being the #2 or #3 google result for 'microsoft' and 'windows 8'

- stay relevant on sites like Google News etc by churning out 'new' 'news'

Saddest part is this crap is probably the best $ per word for the tech news industry after plagiarism.
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Nodejs debugging
I think the hubbub will die down. It takes about ten minutes to make a Windows 8 machine usable - putting the things you want on the start screen and setting the program defaults so nothing runs with the slow pastel apps.

Sure, doing so is rejecting many of the new 'features' of the OS. But once set up it is no less usable than Windows 7.
Good News: the Earth is warming much less quickly than we thought it would
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Something tells me that you find yourself failing to meet expectations a lot.
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Human, overclocked.
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Huh? Just... don't tip 1 BTC? For example, the bitcointip bot on reddit will take USD values, use the current mtgox price and then tip the equivalent amount in BTC. Of course the person receiving the tip is affected by volatility compared to USD. For now, it's certainly in their favor, and again, it's no different than other currency except BTC's high current volatility.
Frank Luntz didn't rebrand "global warming" as "climate change", the climate science community did. The phrase gives a more accurate impression of what is happening: while global mean surface temperature is rising, climate change may cause cooling in other areas.

If people were to accept the phrase "climate change", perhaps it would help end comments like "scientists say the earth is getting hotter... why have our winters been extra cold?"
Yes. And our older selves are more likely to "contain" our younger selves because we know how bad we once were.
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Probably ASP.Net MVC -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410169
Slight tangent but if you love short stories then you'll probably like the famous "6 worded story" by Ernest Hemingway. Unbelievable that he could write such an emotional story in 6 words. If you haven't read it - it's here:

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Yes, they do converge. I have a lot of data from using images to increase conversion. Such as using simple pie graphs to demonstrate price/value over competitors, or Venn diagrams to help people choose which option is best fr them.
Your point (trolling really) doesn't make any sense (and really the Omakase thing never made sense to begin with).

The core value proposition for Rails has always been it incorporates enough of all of the things you need to get a web app up and running quickly, easily, and with sufficient power that your app can continue to grow into the future.

That's what DHH's original blog post screen cast was about certainly. wycats and carllerche's contributions to Rails after the Rails/Merb merge have focused both on better code discipline and ease/simplicity of use for everyone, from beginners to advanced devs.

On top of that the Rails security team has been totally on top of these disclosures and releasing patches that address them. Prominent members of the Rails community have been extraordinarily vocal in advocating that EVERYONE needs to upgrade their apps.

So, please, tell me again how Rails leaves things to others.

P.S. if you really want á la carte, use Sinatra, or Padrino.

P.P.S. Ah, if you look at the actual meaning of omakase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omakase ), it basically means, devs entrust the defaults to the Rails team, which is basically how things actually work w/ Rails.
JavaScript is.
I'm not really sure why you say it's so hard.

You install the bitcoin wallet.

You sell something for bitcoins, and you give them your private key address in your wallet.

You receive bitcoins.

You buy something with bitcoins else where, and you just hit send and specify an address.

Simple as an account # + routing number.

Now funding your wallet with fiat currency is a little harder, but Coinbase has mostly taken care of that. It's as hard as paying a credit card off - link your current bank account, press buy or sell.
Good luck. I hope it goes better for you than the people planning to do it 3 weeks ago. Or 3 months ago. Or a year ago.
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I have heard, but can't find an official reference to it now, that Rails 2.3 will stop receiving security updates once Rails 4 is released. (I suspect that patches will still become available for serious issues even once official support is dropped.)
Many thanks for your thoughts, aartur, and I appreciate your feedback.

It is a closet accessory and a lot asked about a free-standing solution instead. I suppose a free-standing solution would be better for your situation (although it would be publicly visible)?

Good feedback re: trusting a site that specializes in it due to external authority. I can understand why.

What would it take you, for someone like me running our own crowd funding, to gain some trust?

Thanks for your time.
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"There is an old adage A picture is worth a thousand words for exactly that reason. It helps people scroll less and get the message without having to read too much text."

I may be combining your first and second sentences together in a way that you did not intend, but I think the adage is older than scrolling ...
Thanks, my fault, Ghostery completely hid that from me.
if:

in_ruby=i=o=

gets();taken_care_of_by_a=

function_like = puts(i)

(from http://web.colby.edu/jasperry/2011/11/10/a-ruby-haiku/)

and:

Haskell is concise

Functional well-typed and neat

It is like Haiku

(from http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haiku)

and:

Journo is coffee's

literate publishing app

terse prose, wordy code

(inspired by http://ashkenas.com/literate-coffeescript/)

...then why is terse programming less expressive
and terse literature more expressive?
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If you have to ask HN this question, the following adage probably applies to you: "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
I wasn't able to wade through it all either, but I thought it was clear the point was that O'Reilly bends thought and attitudes in Silicon Valley through PR and marketing of memes and buzzwords.

To the OP, this has had negative consequences, and he goes through them point by point.
There is no such thing as an insurmountable security configuration. No matter what you use or how you use it, there will always be new methods to compromise your data. Hackers are creative and enjoy a challenge and will continually attack systems until the end. Whether it be Rails or another framework, you will have to upgrade and address security issues forever. Developers need be realistic and understand that any system can be compromised if one tries hard enough. I don't necessarily think that you should go from rails 2 to 3 or 3 to 4 just to address security features. Better off staying in the branch you started the project in and applying the applicable patches for said security concerns. With that said, RAILS RULES!!
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> ...means that it requires everything, including ammunition, to come from the company who makes the rifle.

This is baffling... what on earth makes the ammunition proprietary? Does the chamber or priming system deviate from the SAAMI/CIP specifications for those cartridges?
Some people here seem to think that this is temporary, that sometime in the future Bitcoin will stabilize into a glorious future global currency -- never mind the new class of cryptobarons it will have created from its inner circle, through shameless hoarding.

My question is, what then will happen when Bitcoin stabilizes, that is, when the time to new coin mined approaches practically infinity? Let's assume the global economy grows at 4% per year. Do Bitcoin's proponents believe a constant 4% deflation rate will be somehow compatible with capitalism? Why lend, why build new companies, when simply storing it is more than enough? Take shocks such as bubbles and demand-side crises. Could a economy based on Bitcoin survive them, and not crash inevitably into a deflationary spiral? I claim it won't.

The party line usually argues for the evils of inflation. What they don't understand, I think, is that capitalism, in its revolutionary (in the sense of production) facet, needs inflation, feeds from it. Inflation might screw lenders, and favor debtors, sure. But deflation is just the inverse: a gift for the leecherous rentier class, and a massive "fuck you" to entrepreneurs.