skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Windows 8 and love my Surface RT. But the OS does need some work. They need to make all the OS settings work in Metro mode. Right now I have to open IE on the desktop to change certain browser settings like my search engine. That is silly. I bet with Windows 8.1/Blue they will correct a lot the issues. Windows 8 RT is a much better UI and OS than iOS. They are on the right track.

I also got a Windows Phone 8 (Lumina 920) and I like it and the UI and OS is more modern than my old iPhone. But all the apps are rough. I mostly use Facebook, Twitter, Maps apps. That's it. They are all sort of buggy compared to their iOS counterparts. Again they are on the right track but the lack of users is leading to subpar apps by developers, which leads to fewer users.... And me missing my iPhone some days.

I don't think Windows 8 has failed as it shows so many great things for their direction. Perhaps it was more of a Vista release that just needs a follow up to perfect. Lets hope Windows 8.1 does it.
The nose in the tent is that they didn't say it's full of water, they said it's full of [something I've never heard of], and presented in a newsy-alarming way, in venue where people are accustomed to getting snippets of news while they're doing something else. "Traffic on the freeway, be careful." "It's cold today, dress warm." "Something you've never heard of in the water, take precautions."

Suspension and disavowal probably went too far. A corporate and DJ apology would have been enough.
This article just won a Godwin point: basically if only the rich whites are taken into account, the American school is better than the Canadian one ... sure, that's a nice way to evaluate an education system ...
A comment about the website: For me at least, the huge, busy, out of focus video that can't be paused (Firefox 19.0.2 on Windows 7) was a major distraction - it took me quite a while to figure out where to look to find out what Everpix actually was. Something that might make the video more useful is subtitles saying what's happening.

Edit: I was at landing_video_highlights.html
Use the Reader button in the address bar in safari when on the iphone or ipad to get readable text.
Why would a theme park do this? Does the government supply a terrorist-fingerprint database?

I would understand if a private company does ID and (maybe) fingerprint checking for visitors of their research facilities. I had this a few times, although most of the time they maybe write down your name and address and thats it. The only facility that took it really serious was the ESA tech-center in Noordwijk (not to be confused with the little theme park they have near by). They needed passport-numbers beforehand, those passport scanning keyboards they have at airports, the software on the pc also looked similar and guards openly carrying big guns (you seldom see that in Europe). But well, its a space research complex there is probably a ton of military secrets around.

But at the admission for a F'kin theme-park... Why?
Yes.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x68y4g_look-around-you-modu...
>Not false. Median is a type of average

?? I thought those were two distinct things. The median is the "middle" amount in a set of numbers, while the average or mean is the sum of all the numbers in the set, divided by how many numbers there are.
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I read through your perl posts and ended up at your summary article for perl features written in 2005. As a somewhat novice user I have run across a need and had to find most of this on my own. Thanks for such a great writeup and explanation.

http://curtisquarterly.blogspot.com/2005/05/perl-tutorial.ht...
Very slick and great filesize. I've been working on a wysiwyg document editor and am very tempted to use this. My only problem is with contenteditable in general, which is hard to convince to use <p>'s. I'm rolling my own paste function and optimistic about getting the functionality you have, but definitely not in 5k ;)

Also, do you have any idea of a resource for valid/invalid nesting rules for inline and block elements? I'm currently sanitizing to keep block elements at the top level.
I'm not trying to say Glipho is non-traditional at all. By traditional I mean writing blogs, not the latest I blog a picture or video craze, makes sense?

Where do you see all the content in blogger listed in a single place? Where you can search for any post written by any writer in any topic?
I learned Perl about 15 years ago and, while I love the language, am finding myself stuck in Perl from those days. Any resources I can go to to get myself up to speed with modern Perl practices?
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If you work at McDonalds, you probably fed a soldier or a weapons designer, or CIA field operative. You'd have to drop out of productive society entirely to escape this dynamic.
Or perhaps angel investing- funding the next wave of innovation.
Do you have an idea already or are you looking to be a technical co-founder? What I would say is that if you have the idea, share it to capture the imagination and attention of other potential co-founders.

I too have used CoFoundersLab.com with mild success. If you have not only an idea, but something you can show / share with people, I can't recommend AngelList highly enough for finding other startup folks - their recruiting tool is by far the best I've seen for early stage companies.

Finally, if you're a great developer and looking for an idea to work on, we'd be thrilled to talk with you at founders@goodapril.com - read more at http://angel.co/goodapril
It would be nice to be rewarded for the effort. They should reveal who wrote which proof after the user has answered all questions.
After 5 years, Freestyle, a Non-Photorealistic Renderer, is merged into Bender.
http://codemirror.net/ is a very pleasant way to set up code editing text areas.
I think the way to really sum all of this up is this:

"Halo brought PC FPS culture to consoles and into every living room"

Before Halo the same level of vitriolic competitiveness existed, it was just exclusive to the PC gamers playing FPSs. These gamers who were in desperate need of having someone to let out some agression and play "Alph-male" a role many of them didn't get to dabble with during their daily lives.
GoPy – Extend CPython by writing Go
Not necessary. The 5ghz band has a lot more channels available (21 in the US), and all of those are 20mhz wide with no overlap. You would have to live in an extremely dense apartment building to start to run into interference issues.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
while we are on topic of Perl...

Can anyone recommend good modern Perl book ?

I found really huge amount of Perl code in our Linux servers :)
Arithmetic mean, geometric mean, median, mode etc... those are all specific methods of finding the average.

The most common average in ordinary use is the arithmetic mean, but they are not the same thing and the word average is much more general.
"Pay them poorly."

I was with them until this. There's no reason to treat a valuable person as a throwaway, and poor pay does that.
He's so overrated it beggars belief.
Sounds like the kind of document that the distribution of would be tightly controlled. It was probably shown to select people, but not actually emailed to anyone. You get to see the slides, but you don't get a copy.
It's hard to know what to say to this.

No, you can't reasonably expect everyone out there to both 1. understand chemical formulas and 2. understand their long form names (which is a significantly different case, as people here seem to be forgetting).

In my opinion, you also can't blame a couple of DJ's for making what to many of us is just a dumb joke without first considering what many of us would also call an illogical, ill-informed, totally unfounded backlash. They put together a lot of material very quickly and part of their job is being, to a point, controversial.

That this could be construed, through misunderstanding, as something that could be called a felony and termination-worthy... while you can see it (if not agree with it) in hindsight, to suggest that they should have known better seems a bit out of step with reality.

This could and should have been dealt with by way of a mild reprimand and an on-air explanation and apology. That they were fired and that people are discussing litigation (if not pursuing it, which is not clear from the article) is a severe and dangerous overreaction of the sort that's becoming painfully common everywhere.
Since you're on their private property, probably not as much protection as you're inclined to believe you have on public grounds.

That being said, if it was ever discovered that Disney was sharing visitor information with outside groups you're guaranteed a huge public backlash, both in the media and in the park visitor count. Disney is the type of organization that avoids this kind of conflict, especially when a huge percentage of their clientele are children and their parents.
Ask HN: Finding summer jobs in tech as a high schooler?
I'm a high-school senior in New York City looking for a short (1-month) summer job, and I've got no idea where to look. I've found no shortage of listings for full-time jobs and internships for undergraduates, but barely anything that doesn't mention a high-school degree or multiple years of work experience. Besides cold-emailing local startups with unsolicited résumés and going to a tech meetup (which I'm planning on doing), is there any other place to find startups willing to hire kids with slim résumés and even slimmer salary demands?
By far not as regularly as in the United States. Just take the list from http://www.rp-online.de/panorama/die-schlimmsten-amoklaeufe-... - most of these are US based.

Or, take the list at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoklauf_an_einer_Schule#Deutsc... - six in the last 11 years, way more (and especially: much more violent!) in the US!
I have actually been programming since I was a kid (I got access to computers around 1962). I used to write huge blocks of comments, and even simpler programs had a high LOC count.

I work differently now. I mostly work in Clojure and I write very few comments but I like long and descriptive function and variable names. I think that a concise language like Clojure or Ruby, combined with very good semantic naming works much better for me. I can look at year old code, and fall right into it.
"I think it does matter and didn't like his answer"

I'm curious to know why you feel that way.
Check out Top 500 CEO pay, larry makes $0/year

https://my.infocaptor.com/dash/mt.php?pa=ceo_compensation_20...
And, to to get more meta, why didn't the OP ask the Disney staff what the fingerprint was for? It's not that hard of a question and you have to be 99.99% certain that the staff is trained to handle questions like this.

I'm sure he thought about this question the entire visit before rushing home to write an urgent blog post, which is sad because it probably ruined his trip a little.
> H2O is probably the most widely known chemical formula ... Ask those same 19 people what dihydrogen monoxide is ... the answer will be "I don't know but it sounds nasty" ... Yes it's true - half of the population is below average intelligence

I'd go further.

It's really easy to think the meaning of "dihydrogen monoxide" is obvious if you already know how to parse terms written in that language. But it's far from obvious.

To understand what "dihydrogen monoxide" means, you have to know that "di" means "two", and that "oxide" refers to oxygen. You also have to realise that "mon" in this context means "one" - note that it's not "mono", because if it was "mono" then it would be "mono-xide". Actually, it's harder than that, because you need to know how you should break down the words into their components - e.g. that "dihydrogen" should be broken down into "di"-"hydrogen" but not "dihy"-"drogen".

If you haven't learnt the language used to spell out chemical formula you don't have a way to understand the details. I'm sure there's plenty of smart, well educated people who don't have this specific knowledge yet know full well that water is two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.

This issue is more a matter of knowledge than intelligence.
I've been really happy with my laptop from System76 (https://www.system76.com/laptops/).

Although I got the Gazelle for more horse power, the Lemur seems like it would fit your needs:
https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/lemu4
It didn't throw an "undefined variable" error?
Signed up, pointed it to the directory where I keep all my photos, and it seems unable to find the ones from the past year even though all my photos are organized by year. I have about 2 TB of photos (going back to 2000), and I shoot RAW+JPG. Is it possibly confused by the RAWs?

In that same vein, I don't see anything that says what image formats the service supports. Should I expect it now (or eventually) to support my RAW files or Photoshop edited or Lightroom edited files?
Yep. When I got not result after carefully considering my first answer, I quit.
I'm sure most people did.

How many people actually called in? I'm betting a few dozen out of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of listeners.
Many of the top CS schools are located in "Gates" buildings
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You don't have to enter Disney World if you don't want to. It's a private commercial business.
Yup, you must be right, there are only rich white people in America. I was commenting that although the vast majority of European countries and also Canada tend to have single-digit percentages of visible minorities compared to 34% of the United States, they are often quick to accuse the U.S. of racism, or fail to understand the implications of a truly multicultural society. Germany has 6% of its population with ancestry outside of Europe, yet there is this "Integrationsfrage" that gets a more lip service than you can imagine. Basically, it is encouraging a lot of countries quite literally to look in a mirror before judging. The U.S. education system has failings, but its populace is fundamentally different what the above commenter was trying to compare it to.
Seconded, this webfont (Lato light?) is not Windows friendly for whatever reason. Regular Lato from Google Web Fonts works fine btw, I've used it a lot.

Edit: In fact all variations or Lato from GWF render fine on Windows so not sure if you've just got a duff version of the font or it's some other CSS property that is messing it up.
The bit I liked was:

I don’t think you should ever say anything that you’re going to have to apologize for later. If the heat gets hot, just let them get mad. How did somebody make you apologize? Did they literally hit you on your body? Let them be upset. It’s not the worst thing in the world.

I wish more people had this view, particularly in the political arena. Be who you are, courageously. Let people see your authentic self. Nobody trusts politicians because they are chameleons: they say something to one group, and then turn around and apologize for it to another group. It's so transparent.
Great tip, but I thought it was going to be how to identify and remove all the digital cruft in your environment. Tools and packages that were tried, abandoned and forgotten.

Anyone have tips like that?

My method: I occasionally do a scorched-earth OS reinstall, and install very few packages and tools on the new installation. When I hit the speedbump of reaching for something naturally, I install it and move on.

It's kind of like a policy of throwing boxes out if you haven't touched them since your last move.

Anyone do anything different? Something more ongoing and less drastic?
In Chrome on Android I'm getting this really weird "fading" effect in the top right: http://i.imgur.com/RkWOHw4.png
In coloquial terms, the average is synonymous with the mean, and the median is treated as distinct. Moreover, if he truly meant that half of the population was below the median, why would he use an ambiguous term like the "average?" At worst, it's incorrect, and at best, it's an ambiguity that is not necessarily correct.
I get this too. It happens to a lot of @fontfaces when viewed in chrome and I've never seen a solution on how to fix it, although I've heard it been called a 'solved' problem. I'd love to figure this out.
European countries score much better on LOTS of performance indicators, several of which have been on HN the last weeks:

Medical coverage (both insurances, and the quality of the medical service itself), school education levels in standardized tests, financial stability (both the country itself as well as the individual states), average wealth, poor-rich spread, amount and quality of science research... so yes, we Europeans DO get something done. In contrast to the USA, where everything actually important is either blocked off by extremist tea baggers or cut down by the sequester (which is a side effect of the mentioned teabaggers).
Been really wanting to try this, but still waiting either for v2, or some form of hybrid tablet-ish thing.
If GitHub showed you how many clones were made you may get surprised... there's a lot of silent people out there.
But does it work?

A couple minutes of basic usage (FF20, Linux) have me in pain:

- CTRL-B (and presumably other shortcuts) doesn't always take effect immediately. Sometimes there is delay, sometimes it seems necessary to let go of CTRL for the event to get flushed, sometimes nothing ever happens at all. Multiple hits without letting go of CTRL also behave erratically.

- Focus stays on formatting buttons and requires manual click to get back to text widget. Several times I wondered where my text was, only to realize focus was on wrong widget.

- By far the worst thing: the way formatting codes are handled leaves me crying for WordPerfect's Reveal Codes. Make some text bold, unbold the text after it, type something right after the bolded text, it isn't bold, hit enter for new line and type something, now it became bold again. Argh!

I like the idea of this, but presently there are some rough edges.
This is quite scary:

"The cops questioned him for a bit [...] and arrested him. It turns out he had a very realistic airsoft gun on him, which would have made running away with the camera a helluva lot scarier. When he was fingerprinted at the station it turns out this guy also had a warrant out for his arrest, and that he was using an alias all this time."

A guy running around with a realistic looking gun, a warrant out for his arrest, and this person just visited your party yesterday night. Brrr...
This is quite scary:

*"The cops questioned him for a bit [...] and arrested him. It turns out he had a very realistic airsoft gun on him, which would have made running away with the camera a helluva lot scarier. When he was fingerprinted at the station it turns out this guy also had a warrant out for his arrest, and that he was using an alias all this time."

A guy running around with a realistic looking gun, a warrant out for his arrest, and this person just visited your party yesterday night. Brrr...
It's amusing to me that this person's idea of a "safety net" is something that enables him to continue what he knows and acknowledges is irresponsible behavior. Don't want to put in the time to learn to handle yourself in a traditional environment? Don't feel like figuring out how to actually manage your finances like an adult? Come to Silicon Valley!

There are many reasons to move to such a tech hub, and many of them have at least some basis in real, positive factors. This post doesn't showcase any of them. All it displays is the author's haughty attitude and an inability to address his own shortcomings.
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Non-expert developers need accurate floating-point libraries the most
Writing Perl never feels like work to me.

I 100% agree. It feels like having a fun conversation with an old friend. The kind of old friend you can not see for months, then pick up your last conversation again without any problem.

I think this really has to do with the language design being guided by linguistics principals than academic language design ideas.

With very little work, it's possible to write decently maintainable Perl as well.
I answered three of those where I didn't have to think too hard to follow the reasoning. It would be nice to have the answers eventually after the experiment is over.

One of my theories so far is those computer-generated proofs don't use triple equalities (e.g. "a = b = c") even though it makes a better explanation in certain limited situations.
One has to admire Disney's use of technology in this area, mostly because they seem to have a very balanced approach to this kind of work.

One one side, you're trying to streamline the customer experience (like this facial recognition feature mentioned above) and on the other you're trying to maximize the amount of cash extracted from each and every visitor for every minute they're on the grounds (such as letting your room key serve as a charge card while at park stores).

I'm sure Disney has a master plan that involves this kind of transparent biometrics everywhere, someday. It's just being used in bits and pieces until it gets efficient enough to use everywhere.

People have raised the privacy concerns before, such as the recent fight between CEO Iger and US Rep Ed Markey. Iger's response was basically: "We're not that stupid to jeopardize kids, and you don't have to visit us if you choose not to".

http://www.insidethemagic.net/2013/01/disney-ceo-bob-iger-st...
Thinkpad T430,
+1600x900HD screen upgrade
+All function keys are compatible with all major distros of linux
+Best keyboard on a 14-13 inch I have used
+Upgradeable battery lasts 8-9 hours(in text editors/browsing the web)

Avoid System76 if you need battery life, which was the main reason I chose the T430 over the Gazelle
What are the downsides of BrowserID/Persona compared to OpenID/OAuth/Facebook?
Same here. Which one did you pick? I chose (a) because it began so nicely by stating the goal clearly, something that humans often omit.
A project as a dependency of another project(Maven)
He missed "accessment" in his proofread.
Unable to sign up on my phone
How important is great idea?
Great Scientists Don't Need Math
Yeah, that's just really good advice to anyone. I'm looking for something creative that would put me over the top. I'll keep thinking.
The ultrabook spec is loose enough to be meaningless, but even so I find it hard to believe that a 3cm+ thick brick would qualify. Also, a 1366x768 screen is probably not what the OP meant by HD...
knowing well that every decision is taken very collectively. There are some many in this article that doesn't fit Google's work culture.

So you have a company wide vote on major decisions? That's very interesting. How did you vote on buying Motorola or replacing Yelp and other local results with Google Local? What about Google+ being added to everything?
Was able to complicate the styling by getting bold that I couldn't unbold anymore.
After being loyal to ASUS for many years, I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad x230 in January. I like it, but there are some things to nitpick: https://plus.google.com/106336989542410513415/posts/PR4efB7D...

I wrote about the decision process that led me to choose that model: https://plus.google.com/106336989542410513415/posts/avV5eL1P...

And earlier, I wrote about why I gave up on getting an ASUS machine. (TLDR: Windows 8 refused to dual-boot. I felt ripped-off but too weary to fight it into working.) https://plus.google.com/106336989542410513415/posts/jfDVKGyx...
I would love to see some benchmarks here!
Great idea!
well the op seems to like the Kawaii elements but some of the more intense Kawaii stuff can verge on creepy.
While it is interesting to see generalised stream fusion, the conclusions are that Haskell is still half the speed of C++.

Also, looking at the results most of the performance comes from which library you are using, and how well it is optimised. No compiler is good enough to do what the good libraries do.