skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Know any donors? I'd love to be involved in a project like this. I wonder if the Wikimedia foundation would be interested--that would do a lot to get over the network effect advantages JSTOR and Elsevier already have.

Additionally, I think that until academic publishing has a standard browser-based solution (MathML, MathJax + Pandoc + LaTeX) outside of PDF that the costs will be prohibitively expensive.
Whenever a high-profile company gets an article in a prominent publication touting a "new" feature/hardware/system that really is already in use in the industry for years, then you know that feature/hardware/system has arrived. What they announced is just a different spin on pre-existing technology.

Just like the way Cisco, et. al. are co-opting SDN...http://www.lightreading.com/blog/software-defined-networking...
I don't think it has anything to do with Keynesianism. Milton Friedman advocated a steady 1% rate of inflation.
Remember that both Chef and Puppet are written in Ruby. Ruby is in a lot of things by virtue of the fact that it's so prevalent in the DevOps world.
I think the purpose of this package is more about making existing source code easier to maintain (applying DRY principals to CSS) than about browser-oriented optimization (thus purpose of CSSO.)
We used to write things like

<a href=”#” onclick=”doSomething()”>

Then we realized it was bad to couple presentation and behavior, so we made our Javascript unobtrusive, keeping our templates clean. But now we’re back at it again, writing

<a href=”” ng-click=”doSomething()”>.

Have we learned nothing?

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This seems like a good point that I can't refute - anyone?
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The book "You can negotiate anything" is also a pretty good resource. Its an older book. Includes techniques I have not read elsewhere. Its actually more of a social engineering approach to negotiation, but it works like a charm.
I love how people are afraid to comment on a porn article.
Apart from the investment (well done guys!), the revenue figures here are staggering. That is an awesome achievement for what was completely niche when they started a few years back.

It used to be that people would refer to VWO when talking about A/B testing. In the last 18 months, every new article has talked about Optimizely. I guess this shows they are completely taking over the market.

Looks like awesome execution. This is fantastic guys!
You're being disingenuous. There are thousands of rape convictions a year regardless of whatever cherry-picked anti-women sentiment you think exists. Some of which are purely on hearsay and men go to prison with little to no physical evidence. Brian Banks is a good example.

Also, this app is to rate men. Its not an anti-rape app. Stop playing the rape card to defend every lousy idea.
It's pretty much like rocket jumping.
> That is what is called hot fusion - where you have to put in energy to keep the fusion going.

No -- in general, "hot fusion" means producing more power than is required to start the reaction. Otherwise the term "hot fusion" makes no sense, since a reaction with a power gain < 1 is endothermic.

I emphasize that the term "hot fusion" is used in a lot of different ways, by people who aren't using it in its strict physical meaning. But in physics, "hot fusion" should mean an exothermic fusion reaction.

> And yes I was referring to the Fusor linked below. That is hot fusion.

It's not a fusion generator, which by definition produces more power than it requires. And the NASA documents that describe the project under discussion specify a fusion generator, a device with a power gain > 1.

http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2012_phaseII...

"an in-depth analysis of the rocket design and spacecraft integration as well as mission architectures enabled by the FDR need to be performed. Fulfilling these three elements form the major tasks to be completed in the proposed Phase II study. A subscale, laboratory liner compression test facility will be assembled with sufficient liner kinetic energy (~ 0.5 MJ) to reach fusion breakeven conditions."

Note that last few words.
> Fuck Futura

aw hell no...
Not really; miners will switch to other pools.
Ask HN: Provocative yet Funny Advertising for Startup
So we're trying to come up with a catchy, short, provocative phrase to use for marketing our startup that would make a person curious enough to look us up (and get a laugh or two out the phrase).

Background: We're trying to make a "Pandora for food" that works across multiple countries and runs on smart phones. The app is called Eatable.

So we have a few ideas, but I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions for better ideas!
Some ideas (We would put it on shirts and stickers):

"Are you Eatable?"
"Is it Eatable?"
"See anything Eatable?"
I don't understand what you are trying to convey. It appears like a deliberate red herring to try to distract from what I actually said. I personally use haskell, but you do not need to do so to get a complete guarantee against SQL injection. Nobody said anything about silver bullets or protecting against every security problem. I very clearly said SQL injection is a solved problem, in reply to someone claiming every single web app has SQL injection vulnerabilities in it and that any security researcher can easily sit down and exploit them, and the only way to deal with SQL injection is to be lucky over and over.
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Is anyone on HN offering mentoring?
Well, the classic sketch http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/5/7/more-sexual-harass... is a bit exaggerated but it does have some truth in it.
I second this. The videos are really great and are delivered in a way (short, to the point) that really helped me connect the dots in the areas where the Angular documentation wasn't sufficient. Especially the directive api, John does a great job there explaining isolate scope which was confusing to me for a while. Once you get it down you begin to realize how powerful Angular is.
> Google offers support for exactly one product (adwords).

Since this a bald-faced lie, my unpleasantness is clearly warranted. You are clearly deriving arguments from a predetermined conclusion likely reached ages ago. At this point you apparently are trying to make inferences about demand without even trying to understand the existing supply, and the contortions you're going through to justify your existing beliefs are astonishing.
Would anyone like to translate this? I'm reasonably familiar with bitcoin mechanics, but I couldn't understand what had occurred based on this post.
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Seriously? They seem to post the same stories a day or two later than everybody else.

When I remember how awesome it used to be, and then see the javascript-laden discussion pages I'm quietly sad.

I used to check it daily, commenting frequently, but I can't think of the last time I've visited the site.
BT only bother upgrading areas to fibre where they've got competition from Virgin Media

I live in a small town in a very rural part of the country and there's no hope of cable ever reaching us.. but we got Infinity 2 FTTC last year FWIW. I think the council threw grant money at BT though ;-)
It only solves itself if the users are non anonymous. Otherwise, how do you know if a creeper posts to the site after your date?
Well, the coercive component is the unified reputation that you gain in this site, just like the reputation that you gain in SO. Obviously, the higher reputation you have, the more recognizable you are and more people read about what you do.
Neither are recent, but the following are both good:

"Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries" by Don Libes

"C Companion" by Allen Holub

Don Libes' book actually uses Obfuscated C code entries as interesting instructional examples and Holub's book is a nice intermediate book between K&R and "Expert C Programming".

I never see Holub mentioned much by other C programmers but I think his books are awesome. He actually also has a really good compiler book called "Compiler Design in C" that showed how to build a C compiler from the ground up - with a lot of practical details I never really see in other books in that area. He even had a cool curses implementation to go along with it where you could watch the parsing occur visually, and wrote a curses-like library in assembly so you could run it all on DOS too. He used to write the C Chest columns for Dr Dobbs back in the day and the book "C Chest and Other C Treasures" contains a collection of those articles and other code that C programmers would find interesting. But that book is harder to find these days.
What would you say about New York's concentration of talent, besides around NYC?
The problem with Select2 is that users are now _required_ to have js on to just use a silly dropdown. Chosen actually degrades gracefully.
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'An intelligent species would use its fossil fuel reserves wisely to construct renewable energy or develop sustainable ways of using nuclear power. The Keynesian orgy of "growth" has biased us toward spending these reserves foolishly.'

This is assuming a species is a single actor, and of course it is not. A species would, but an individual, a member of that species would not rationally make that choice. Why ? Very simple, Nash equilibrium.

Suppose everyone was trusted to act in the common interest. One bad apple can spread and destroy the system. This is the system you're advocating (note that "one bad apple" can mean a lot of things, from a criminal, to other species).

Given that we live on a planet and we're trying to spread our own life as far as it will possibly go, not as a species, but as individuals, and so we use up any available resource as fast as we possibly can, to maximize our own personal advantage relative to others, and just deal with the consequences later. Note that damaging others, from your own species, is as good (but harder) as increasing your own resources. Destroying 50% of the wealth of everybody else is as good as doubling what you own, but of course not really an option with 7 billion people on the planet.

As my biology teacher once remarked : if you believe that evolution theory is the truth, the fact that this leads to busts cannot be anything but good, as it improves your genes, you yourself, and your children (assuming, of course, you are lucky enough to have children, because in a serious bust cycle that is quite rare indeed). For everyone else, the boom bust cycle is simply the truth.

Really boom and bust cycles occur everywhere in nature. On such study we did was on local rabbit populations, and how they related to cat populations, and man, they boom, and man, they bust. There are regular busts in resources available to rabbits that are so severe that rabbits effectively go extinct in regions as large as 50 square kilometers, and this is not a strange or rare occurance (nor is it often the result of human interference, sometimes, sure, but 99.999%+ it is not). Certainly happens once per decade, often more.

It could be that boom and bust cycles do not really have anything to do with the financial system. We all were born into a long boom cycle, and that's cool, but at some point it will end. By Nash equilibrium logic, attempting to save resources is merely stupid.
Well, in theory you can make just as good a case for the government providing internet access as the government providing roads. In practice I see two major problems, though. First, norms against the government denying the use of the roads to people are very strong, but there aren't really the same norms against the government refusing to provide the internet to people considered bad. The upgrade cycle for roads is also much, much slower than for internet connections.
Id like to suppliment the idea of picking up heavy things with instead, picking up yourself. By this I simply mean body-weight exercises. Push ups, pull ups (buy a pullup bar for a door arch), running, biking, trampolining.

One; it's best for those whom are already unfit, and two, it's very accessible. Weights are usually for intermediate/advanced bodybuilding and beyond. Though, if you're comfortable with weights, regardless, then you're comfortable with them.

If your back is your issue, as per this article, then ill concede that doing rows and deadlifts kind of requires weights. Though, I suppose you could at least do planks.
Is anyone else as annoyed at the moralizing tone of this article?

"With paper money, governments and central banks are in a position to punish holding money. Because it can be created without limit, discipline vanishes. Individuals, families, businesses, and government can ramp up spending without limit and avoid the consequences of their behavior."

Punishing the "sinners" for not keeping their currency and spending it in order to support the economy as a whole seems to be a primary goal of those that want commodity currency.

"You can try this experiment at home. Let’s say you have a problem teenager who lives like everyone else, throwing around cash and seeing no point whatsoever in saving money. Send that kid a Bitcoin and see what happens, even without hectoring instructions."

Yes, give them a Bitcoin and they'll be saved, praise our lord and savior Bitcoin! Unless that teenager wants a skateboard today, not two skateboards in 2 months. Maybe they want to buy a meal b/c they are hungry?

Finally don't reference the Gilded Age as a model of good monetary policy, two major depressions and a thin veneer of success for a wealthy minority shouldn't be the zenith of monetary policy.
I did that, actually. They diagnosed me with "mild sleep apnea" but I got the feeling that was sort of the default diagnosis. Maybe I was wrong... hmmm.
Hey thanks a lot. That's really helpful.

It's not so much that I think my liberal arts degree is a disadvantage. I think it was a very valuable educational experience, and I studied research psychology which a lot of UX literature cites, so I think in some ways it is a great degree for the industry. But sometimes people question whether it's a good background for a developer.
Ask HN: What's the best time to post to HN
Does anyone know what's the best time to post to Hacker News to achieve the most visibility?

I live in the UK so I'm guessing the best time for me to post is around 5pm. That way people in the UK may read my post plus I know there is a large user base in the U.S especially on the West Coast. For them it would be 9am and they will be just starting their working day.
It appears that the notes survive a rebase but they don't point to anything in your history. They continue to point to a commit before the rebase.
The first one requires a global method. The angular one is a method that is tightly scoped and easy to test.
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Nothing is certain but death, parsing errors and taxes
"Just don't dismiss the importance of fitness in your life."

That's exactly what you'll be told at physical therapy. not only that they'll tell you exactly what kind of exercise you need to do, and for back pain it doesn't necessarily involve treadmills or weights.
It might worth it to AT&T to actually build a 1 gigabit network to dissuade Google from encroaching on their territory in other cities. As the only gigabit player in a location, Google can charge users much higher rates than if they're one of two providers in the market. If AT&T sends the message that they're going to be in a two-player market in any location where AT&T is the incumbent broadband provider, Google might go after other markets, first.

Of course, that assumes that Google is rolling out fiber to the most profitable cities first, which might not be a valid assumption.
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This complacent overconfidence tells me that Lulu probably has major security holes that the staff refuse to look for.
Men's rights advocacy is, as a movement, pretty much the same thing as the whole "war on Christmas" crap that comes up on right wing TV every year.

It has no legitimacy because it's not legitimate.

Instead it is largely the same old prejudices, finding renewed strength under a thin mask of collective victimhood, desperately clung to.
Its because of the way they phrased the title. It made you look for a quick answer, which they didn't give up front, and the article seemed texty. So...
No, they turned into useful idiots.
It sounds like Gandi might be your best bet - they offer five free e-mail addresses, a free SSL cert, and other benefits if you register a domain with them.

When all is said and done, a lot of the registrars around are reselling from the same company, and it doesn't make a huge difference who you go with. After the GoDaddy fiasco, there was a lot of talk about alternatives: http://kevnull.com/2011/11/domain-name-registration-alternat...
As a man who is, by all accounts, alive today, I still feel like I've gotten a pretty swell deal.

Just because I haven't been an active participant in discrimination doesn't mean I haven't been the recipient of unearned privilege.

I agree that two wrongs don't make a right. But I also believe that fixing the endemic sexism that's still with us is inevitably a messy process. And I believe people who have been victims of that have some very reasonable issues to work out along the way. I think everybody should try to be understanding. But as somebody who ended up getting a better deal than average, I think it's especially incumbent on me to be gracious, kind, and patient.
> Last I heard they had a 1/3 scale device with promising results, and needed $20 million for a full-scale test.

Research takes time, the potential payoff is huge, but in the final analysis, the fusion reaction has to produce more power than it requires. It has to achieve what's called "break-even".

A fusion reaction with a power gain < 1 is endothermic -- its temperature is less than that of its power source. A fusion generator by definition produces more power than it requires for initiation -- it has a power gain > 1, and it is exothermic.

> Incidentally, Helion is not the only alternative fusion project in the works. Others include Sandia's MagLIF, Lockheed's recently-announced project, Tri-Alpha, General Fusion, Focus Fusion, and IEC/polywell.

This is a good example of long-shot science, applied research. None of these ideas show very much promise, but the potential payoff is so big that (IMHO) the research money is well-spent.
> It's time we address the real problem.

The real problem is that some companies manage to exploit a monopoly granted to them by the government in ways that are not pleasing to the public. The government is the entity which created the problem. Granted, while solving another but it will still be the government agents who break down your door and arrest you if you build an unauthorized competitor or even just try to release that "legacy" (vide Aaron Swartz), not Elsevier's.

It's hard for me to understand how you can blame a company that puts up a paywall more than people using violence (or at least credible threats of it) who enforce the rules stopping others from competing.
What's absurd about it? It doesn't cost dramatically more to wire up a mile of fiber in a dense urban area (and in fact can be cheaper if you can re-use existing utility conduits), but can hit far more customers. So why shouldn't you expect fiber providers to only hit the densely populated areas?

And you can have government intervention, but much of the US's woes are the result of that intervention. US municipalities created all these monopolies in exchange for the guarantee that they would serve everyone and not just the most profitable people, and unsurprisingly those monopolies don't have much incentive to keep up with the latest in technology. But that's precisely the bargain all those municipalities made! There is no free lunch here.
So this is unlikely to be the work of some punk kid in a village two hundred miles from Pyongyang. I suppose there is the one in a million chance that the DPRK government might have arranged some kind of group that does have internet access and a mandate to cause problems for the country they're at war with.
One of the many problems with academic publishing is that it's holding on to an antiquated idea behind publishing and not progressing with the way communications are moving now.
In a sense, publications are moving at 1970s speed and this hurts science. Hence the technical need to bring it to current times.

Is it a "technical issue"? No, but neither is booking your flight via phone, that worked just fine.
Could it be made much better, more accessible, cheaper, and overall better via technology. Yes.
Good thing this will never spread far beyond the US. Utterly illegal in most Western countries. It's not even a grey area, laws were written to prevent almost exactly this kind of thing.

Surprised they even tried to launch in the UK and had it running without getting sued or prosecuted.
The higher cost of living is not a reason to definitely not be in the Valley (though it can be a factor). You can learn to live frugally if being an entrepreneur is that important to you. And the Valley is the best place for technical talent (among other things important to startups).

Sure, although there is a (very big) open question about "how much" being in the valley shifts the probability distribution towards "success". It would also be interesting to understand more about exactly which types of startups benefit most from being in the valley, versus being somewhere else.

Actually, the bigger issue might not be any of this... it might be "assuming I don't want to live in CA, what are my chances of success in $WHEREVER and how do I optimize them?"
And it should affect house prices. It's inefficient to have people living in the middle of goddamn nowhere, and it makes no sense for the government to constantly subsidize doing so.
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There were a lot of websites like this (anonymous gossip) when I was in college that would come up, get really popular and then someone would get a lot of flack, be emotionally traumatized, and the universities would petition for a take down. All it will take is one suicide to tear this app down.
9 times out of 10 people choose to learn Ruby for only one purpose - Ruby On Rails. This tutorial will not be too good for 9 out of 10 people.
hmm.. I just might pick this up.
Honestly, there's not a huge amount of difference between

<a href="#" id="show-help-link">Show Help</a>
<script src="text/javascript">
$("#show-help-link").click(function() { showHelp(); } );
</script>

And

<a href="#" ng-click="showHelp()">Show Help</a>

I mean, HTML has behavior in it. A link in itself is "behavior": when you click this tag, go to the page defined in the src attribute. So, as the author says, it's not really a bad thing that templates have behavior in them. In Ember.js, for example, you have an {{action}} handler that is essentially the same as ng-click - "run a function on the controller when this is clicked."
I really like the Freestyle feature, but the Beat control and Shuffle options aren’t working for me in the latest Firefox 20.0 on OS X 10.6.8.
Parsing errors +10. Thanks for the chuckle.
No point in submitting twice, so here's the announcement on the main blog: https://blog.dropbox.com/2013/04/say-hello-to-dropbox-for-bu...
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Probably earned them a 17+ rating.
HPC tends to solve this with Infiniband, which is optimized for very low latency.

I'd assume that Intel's long term trajectory is to have CPU/cache/memory/flash all on one system-on-a-chip "module" that is the smallest replaceable subunit. Larger dedicated storage is delivered over the network interconnect in a tiered architecture.
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