skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate it. I hate it with passion. It is really disruptive to my type flow as I don't accidentally press caps. I actually press it when I need it.
By "assume causation" I meant "assume there is a causative link", which for cancer appears to be true to a degree. So if I specify and say "is it sound to assume a causative link [without specifying the cause and effect direction or that link] where a strong direct correlation is observed" (or similar wording) would you go for that?

There are many examples of course to prompt this clarification - fatness causes over-eating, bruises cause people to get hit, et cetera. There are also likely many examples where the direction of the causation is not clear - poverty and [minor] theft say.

Can you [or anyone] give an example where a causative relationship as a first hypothesis is ludicrous without questioning direction of the relationship?
Out of curiosity what criteria did you use to indicate a homology element was persistent?
For me, tmux has saner options and more mnemonic default keyboard shortcuts, that do not interfere with default bash shortcuts (Ctrl-A is goto-home-of-line in bash/emacs, but it is hijacked by screen by default as its escape sequence; tmux uses Ctrl-B for the same by default, which in the emacs bindings means go-back-a-character, and I do not use much, and is less likely to hit by accident).
There are rumors that the lack of infectious disease in modern society is also caused by exaggerated hygiene.
1) Any government is paternalistic about their citizens abroad, especially one's with money/connections/influence.

And I'm surprised that you think that US citizens getting killed through North Korean action in South Korea would not lead to an immediate response by the US government. You believe that the US government would say "Oh yeah, well, they just killed many of our citizens but lets wait to attack because..." Because what? Preserve what intelligence?

You are also misguided and misinformed about the relationship between the DPRK and China. While it is possible that North Korea will act without permission, they will not act without warning China beforehand.
Reddit is MUCH too geeky for my non-techie friends. Also it doesnt look civilized like HN. It looks like one big confusing mess of untrustworthy chaos. And it doesnt look intelligent. My friends are not interested in cat photos and celebrity gossip.
Personally on the electric front (I have no idea about acoustics) I'd recommend a mid-level guitar to start with as the lower-end guitars sound bad enough to be counterproductive, even for a beginner IMO.

You can get a really decent sound out of a £300+ guitar (~$450+ but perhaps pricing varies in the US vs. UK pricing) and it'll be good enough to take you to the point where a more expensive guitar will be worthwhile.
"But no thank you Microsoft. No thank you spreadshi^Heets. No thank you
Unix. No thank you C++. No thank you unmodifiable syntax. No thank you
von Neumann architectures. No thank you unrepentant snake oil industry
that has lured us into performing the same old menial tasks by mouse instead
of by lever and duped almost everyone involved into thinking of this as some
kind of progress."

Wow, did he ever go off the rails on that paragraph.

spreadsheets? Unix? C++? Unmodifiable syntax? The theory behind every single one of these concepts was to save time.

Faster calculations, an OS with a simple concept applied everywhere, a language implementing an interesting design pattern, a style designed to reduce bugs.

I don't think I follow this story.
This is what I have at the top of my ~/.emacs.d/init.el:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)
(when (not package-archive-contents)
(package-refresh-contents))
(defvar my-packages '(clojure-mode ...)) ; list of packages
(dolist (p my-packages)
(when (not (package-installed-p p))
(package-install p)))
Second the vote for Seagull. I'm pretty sure they're all made with solid tops, but are still affordable (last time I looked starting in the $300 range. I think you need a "good enough" guitar that will stay in tune properly and sound decent, but that doesn't need to be a $2000 guitar. There are a bunch of big brands that fit this, but I think the Seagulls are some of the ones that don't feel cheap while actually being affordable.

EDIT: for those not aware, a solid top is preferred to a plywood top for tonal quality. Most of the cheaper guitars use a plywood top. That said, a lot of plywood tops sound pretty good these days, but I tend to be a purist in these sorts of things so greatly prefer the solid tops. :)
Yes, that† and the possibility to directly connect to a serial port (like screen does). Would be a huge time-saver for the embedded folks.

†) or rather not builtin zmodem-support but generic "run this program with stdin/stdout connected directly to the device" like cu's ~+ escape.
A group email to the team asking, "What are you working on today? What are your obstacles?" with a reply-all is actually pretty helpful. Even better, character limits (like less than 300 char) and time limits (like reply by noon).
Contrary to some sibling comments in this tread, I'll recommend getting the type of guitar that you want to play to learn on as well. There are several kinds of guitar. The three most distinct types are classical guitar (nylon or gut strings), acoustic (steel strings) and electric guitars, which again can be divided into hollow and solid bodied types.

All these istruments are pretty different, both in physical appearance, sound and of couse also playing technique, required skills, reportoire and so on. Of course, if you are really good at one you can pick up another type more easily. However, the guitars sound and play so different that it's impossible to get good at electric guitar by only practicing classical guitar. All these types of guitars are really distinct instruments.

If you want to play electric rock, get a strat or tele of maybe even an LP. If you want to play electric jazz, get an electric hollowbody guitar. If you want to play folk-rock singer-songwriter or country types, get a steel stringed guitar. If you want to play classical guitar, get a classical guitar. I've seen countless of times people being handed cheap classical guitars when they want to play like Bob Dylan and Neil Young (etc) do. The result is almost always that the guitar goes in the closet after a few weeks and the interest dies down, which is pretty damn sad.

More expensive guitars will likely be much easier to play on and might sound better. However, I woudn't recommend spending great amounts of money on your first guitar. It is certainly possible to get great guitars for less than 1000$.
How LeBron James turned himself into a highly efficient scoring machine
What are we doing tonight, Brain?

The same thing we do every night, Pinky...

...Try and take over the world!
I'm sure Zach is a brilliant guy but it's not a very good slide deck.

He lists "nosql" as a technology that it's easier to use outside of the big-company matrix. There is no such thing as "nosql". There are various databases. There is the relational database which solves its problem excellently and whose limitations are well-known and sometimes very painful, especially when dealing with huge amounts (multi-node) of data. There are other data models with different trade-offs. There is no such thing as "nosql". It is not a technology or skill or anything else. There's Cassandra and MongoDB and Redis and various others, but there isn't a "NoSQL". I can't type "nosql start" at the command line and get anything useful to happen.

Sorry, I had to do that.

Also, Zach works at Github and I've heard that it's an amazing place. Great! I'm glad he works for the rare good company and hasn't lost his passion. I hope he never does. Still, I don't think he knows what VC-istan startups are like for most engineers. He works in a company that (from what I'm hearing) is successful enough that it can stay in Real Technology and keep the work interesting.

For most, VC-istan is not "a great industry, even without the millions". The millions are the goddamn fucking point. The millions determine who gets to be CEO and CTO and call the shots, and what shots are called. The millions determine which projects the company can afford and which are nice-to-haves and which are ignored. The millions are why people will sacrifice their 20s to implement the lame idea of some well-connected guy who went to boarding school with the VCs.

If you're Working For Money, which most people are, and you're not making some... you're doing things wrong. This is not a judgment; I think most of us will make a bad call at least once.

He's in Real Technology, and bless him, but that makes him biased. He works in a good company and so he gets interesting work, so he's happy even if he's not a millionaire. That's a different thing. If you work in social media startups and answer to non-technical managers and don't make "fuck-you money" within 10 years then, guess what, you lost.

If Only I Knew That Shit Before I Was Almost 30.
> And I'm surprised that you think that US citizens getting killed through North Korean action in South Korea would not lead to an immediate response by the US government.

It wouldn't be what we are thinking. Generally, just having the country invaded is enough for us to be involved, actually.

> You are also misguided and misinformed about the relationship between the DPRK and China. While it is possible that North Korea will act without permission, they will not act without warning China beforehand.

I live in Beijing and pay attention. I don't think you are really informed very well; if the DPRK bothered to warn China, it would just give them some extra time to get some troops from Liaoning across the Yalu to stop their plans cold. Their first thought wouldn't be: let's save our tourists!
It's done in a number of small ways. I passed through military checkpoints every time I left a town, and every time I arrived at one. In one, we had a police escort to the hotel (although, to be honest, I suspect the policeman just really wanted to turn on his siren and ride in front clearing the pedestrians off the road - exciting day for him). If you don't have a mandated reason to visit another town (or even leave your own town), you aren't doing it. There will be no underground network of revolutionaries without the ability to find each other or communicate.

Food; food was allocated (in the towns, at least - I don't know about villages) by your official food distribution centre, which often seemed to be the ground floor of the building you were living on. You got a few days in advance at a time. If you ever decided to try something (be it make a run for the border or have a revolution), you'd have three days' worth of food to make it work. Speaking of running for the (north) border, you'd better be able to make it on foot within a few days. You'll have to stay clear of the roads (what roads there are) so it'll be yomping over fields.

The media is the state media. There are a number of smuggled radios etc on the country. It's very hard to get figures on this; they seem to be clustered towards the north border where they drift in from China, and in the cities. The government control of the airwaves is not absolute, but they do engage in jamming and so forth.

It is as people say. The country is to a large extent a prison camp. Some of it is an "open" prison, some of it is working three generations of a family to death, sentencing children alongside their grandparents because they upset someone with power (or had something the powerful person wanted - many Japanese of Korean origin who foolishly moved there found themselves stripped of all the wealth they brought with them and reduced to poverty or simply dispatched to a labour camp) or maybe just said the wrong thing (turning each other in does not seem to be uncommon).

A DPRK spring in the style of the Arab spring is not, in my opinion, on the cards.
Do we really want smarter rodents?

(Then again, think if we could secretly outsource loads of PHP SQL-CRUD projects to them..)
Just wanted to say a big thank you for this site .. its a really wonderful resource, and has solved a question I've had in my mind for a year or two, with regards to how to handle my personal documentation needs: either a) continue to use an ancient license of MS Word, and OpenOffice/whatever to evade future investments, or b) automate my docs someway, somehow, while still producing aesthetically appealing literature.

So, I've been a big fan of your site, and it has gotten me back into LaTeX after a long hiatus of disinterest, and I'm now producing everything with a plain old text editor - and wow, it really rocks!

Thanks!
Show HN: vim-expand-region - Incremental visual selection in Vim
Maybe someone who knows Scala or Clojure internals can answer this question..
“What are the merits [of the hockey puck mouse]?”

Steve Jobs explained to me that it was ergonomically superior to mice on which you rest your entire hand. The ‘Apple USB mouse’ was meant to be used without putting your hand down at all. That way, you wouldn't put pressure on your wrist and you wouldn't hold your mouse in the same position for too long.

At the time, the iMac had been out for 5 months (the first Mac that came with the Apple USB mouse). So SJ had received plenty of responses about it already, and no doubt he knew what the press had written about it. To me, he said “They'll get used to it, this is a better mouse.” As we talked, I started to believe it, and by the end of our conversation, I was convinced that yes, this is revolutionary and necessary. (I was 18 years old at the time, I had recently moved to the US, and MacWorld Expo was the biggest event I had ever been.) A year later, Apple replaced the model with the more conventional ‘Apple Pro mouse’.
Not entirely down. WordPress.com is down in some areas.
http://status.automattic.com/9931/135469/WordPress.com
Why use vim+makefiles to build a big C/C++ project when you can just use VisualStudioC++ to do it?

LaTeX is a great way to make quality documents, really appealing, with very little investment beyond an afternoon or two of study - and, with sites like this, even less of an investment in LaTeX is required before something useful can be produced.

The beauty of this site is that it presents very tangible aesthetics to a design process that is not usually associated with such results, beyond the cognescenti. LaTeX can easily make appealing, beautiful documents, in the time it takes MS Word to boot its buttonstrips ..
A thought on the price of a guitar... People often cringe at the thought of spending several thousand dollars on a guitar (or I guess other instruments too), but for myself and probably most of this crowd, I spend that much every 3-5 years replacing computers as they age and become outdated. A nice guitar will last you a lifetime if you take care of it. You can even pass it onto your kids. I tell myself it's a wise investment!
Ask HN: How to charge hostgator hosting to a client?
Hi all,

I have a question for you.
I made a website for client and I'm hosting it on hostgator.I have account which costs me about 10$ a month.
Now that I sold website to my client, how can I charge them that 10$ for hosting?I have my credit card number typed on hostgator.I can't tell them give your credit card so I can type it in my hostgator control panel and then hostgator will take 10$ from your credit card every month.

This is my first sale and I don't know how to solve this hosting question.
Sorry for sounding like a newbie :)
There is something I don't get in this move. What's the purpose of Kim Yung-un? Is he mad enough to believe he can underdog the rest of the world with his dilapidated army? Does he believe that China will support him vs South Korea allies even if he launches an attack? Is it just a means to make the media of the rest of the world focus on him? Why? Does he want to be in position to negotiate an opening and say to his people: look and they are afraid of us and ready to talk? I rather believe in the latter option. Otherwise the only solution is to send him a sniper with a syringe of antipsychotics to pacify him.
>Compressed or uncompressed doesn't matter

it most definitely does. With DVI/HDMI each frame sent is just that, a frame. at X the screen should be Y. If a frame is damaged/lost you have only lost the information from that one frame (or just part of the frame).

However with compressed data each frame is now intertwined with neighboring ones. if you lose a frame or its damaged, you have now have lost X frames until the dependent frames are past.

I'm not sure if you've ever had the experience of a damaged HDMI cable, but you can see the exact pixels that are affected, and they change frame to frame as you twist the cable making it worse or better.

Compressed video is like Netflix or a damaged AVI where when the corrupted data is hit the entire stream goes wonky for a short while until it suddenly snaps back into clarity when a keyframe is hit.

Uncompressed is as near real time as you can get, the video is directly passed through. Compressed you have a buffer, decoder, etc and there is more delay/processing.
There would be no wait actually. If DPRK warned the PRC that they were really going to attack, the PRC would just invade DPRK immediately, they might warn their tourists but this is only a secondary thought.
Hmmm.... I want to voice a modified version of it.

The real trouble is not the forest of doublespeak and taboos surrounding sex. Sex is, so to speak, the easy part. Once you find a compatible partner with whom you can communicate solidly about your relationship (see below), your meatware substrates come pre-programmed for the sex act itself ;-).

The problem is the forest of doublespeak and taboos surrounding basic human fragility. There's almost a bizarre, hypocritical handshake protocol here: to meet someone and make friends with them, you generally need to appear well-put-together, sane, and just generally competent at life -- all without seeming smug or overconfident or douchey, either. This mostly involves scrubbing off the parts of your self-projection to others that don't fit what other people think of as "competent at life".

Problem is, deepening and maintaining a relationship, romantic or otherwise, consists precisely of letting your guard down and showing your baggage. Your positive baggage too, not just the negative.

Among more reticent social groups or cultures, people rarely manage it at all. They're never willing to let their guard down or exchange baggage, so they go through life with a series of shallow "friendships" and "relationships" that keep seeming Just Fine until they abruptly end because there wasn't a strong enough bond to take even a feather's new weight.

Then you hit some arbitrary "getting older" age, look back, and realize you spent your youth fucking around, have few friends, and no marriage. Whoops, time for the Biological and Parental Expectations Clocks and the sudden run to the altar! In another couple years, time for a divorce!

Source: I have fairly close ties to most of my friends and I've been with my fiancee for going on five years now.
With I would add the proviso that a good guitar can help you avoid bad habits. Possibilities present themselves with good playable instruments that may not occur to you otherwise.

That doesn't necessarily mean paying a lot of money. I have a guitar that I paid about $5000 for, but a favourite Spanish guitar cost $20 in a second hand shop, and is just as useable.
scala doesn't optimize general tail calls, either (only direct tail recursion of final methods). If you want to optimize tail calls on the JVM, you must use trampolining, which adds some overhead to every call. So most languages choose fast calls without tail call elimination over slower calls with tail call elimination (i.e., speed over correctness).
> Get a guitar, whatever you can

I'm not qualified to judge this, but I've heard people say the opposite: to get a good guitar, as a poor quality instrument is a big factor that tends to put people off.

> Ignore all the advice about what books and what model of guitar to buy... Get a guitar... then play as much as possible

What does that mean? randomly mash fret positions and twang strings? Surely you have to learn from something, and you don't say what.
Serious question, because everyone seems to be talking about how NK doesn't have means to deliver a nuclear device over to SK. If they can hit Seoul with conventional weapons, why couldn't they retrofit some of that tech to carry a nuclear bomb?
Not that I'd necessarily agree with it, but I think you're missing his overall point there: he's arguing that those things are time savers, but only for tasks within the domain they were designed to tackle, whereas macros allow more general and more automated solutions, saving time across all domains.
Since F# was derived from OCaml, I think readers may also be interested in taking a look at the OCaml-Java project:
http://ocamljava.x9c.fr/

(It's essentially what it says in the tin...)
Or scala, which is an acceptable ML if you ignore the OO parts :-).
How To Quickly Get New Blog Post/content Crawled & Indexed By Search Engines
Linux power management pales in comparison to Windows. As much as a love Linux it pains me to see my notebooks battery life drop from 5 hours to 1.5, and thats with significant tweaking.
I am a student in US from India and I still don't understand how this whole stuff works. I have university insurance and was still billed 1500 dollars for once I had to go to hospital urgently.

One of my friends went back to India for a dental surgery instead of doing it in US (Even with the flight fare, it came out far cheaper). And I have been to the best hospitals of India. I can stake my name for the fact that service in the US-based hospitals is same in quality with the best in India. Except they are less likely to make you bankrupt.

I don't know the reasons behind this. But I am pretty sure the average Middle class American is getting royally effed by this system.
The best "agile" project I've been on had standups around lunch. The team was geographically scattered so this meant early afternoon for some. Worked fine.

In my experience keeping standups under 15min is the easiest part of the process.

Turning the standup into paperwork seems insane to me.
I think the original writer means 30min of wasted time for six people, not 30min ranting per person.
It's not an especially unique form http://www.gnsegroup.com/images/logo/TelemedLogo02_News.jpg. Do you think Engadget did it first?
Did you base it on any data?
This is why I moved our standup to Skype. Even if people are away from their computer, you can join a group chat via Skype mobile from the car (handsfree of course). I agree with some of the other points, but if you start to get a good rhythm on how the meeting is run, overages can be minimized. I couldn't imagine not doing this meeting at least as virtual meeting. The last thing I need is to be archiving E-Mails as PDFs.
How to value our social participation?
Why can't you add their credit card to the account? Can you also change the account details so that they own the account?

Barring that, simply charge them $10+n/month, where n represents the value they receive from you handling all aspects of their hosting account. You can charge their credit card on a recurring basis using e.g. Paypal, Stripe (best), another credit card gateway, or simply have them pay you up front for a year. A few hundred dollars as a lump sum is a trivial amount for a reasonable business to pay to have you manage all aspects of hosting their website for a year.
How I Fired myself: about loss, mistakes and getting your shit together
That's not really new, though, is it? The bigger "vulnerability" is shoulder-surfing, which is pretty damn effective against this.