skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just like utilize. Crotchety old folks will bitch and moan that it is not a real word and unnecessary in any event, but the world will ignore them and use the words it wants to use. English is a living language, and sometimes that means it suffers from unsightly warts.
I have the same experience as well. Whenever I'm most proficient with coding and have to leave for lunch with my coworkers, I find myself just sitting there not participating in the conversation at all. The reverse is also true, it often takes me substantial amount of time to get back to my most efficient coding mode after going out.

I think the reason is more than just b/c my mind is immersed with the problem. Even when we work in the same team and discuss the same technical problem I still find it difficult to engage in the conversation. As a bilingual speaker it's always awkward for me to switch between English and my native language, especially if I spend a long duration using one exclusively.

My guess is developers won't feel awkward if we can socialize in machine language. That also saves tons of time spending on switching in and out of the awkward mode.
No. In New York the only thing that would be illegal is if they responded to street hails below 96th street.
Should standards be copyirghted?
I've got a pretty similar memory. Can't remember events. To remedy this I try to keep a log of event(call it a diary if you will) so that I remember some important things I don't want to forget.
Agree with the Google-Translate. Entered the site from Germany and was confronted with borken German. I unerstand most of it but for a language site it's definitely not optimal. For sure I wouldn't risk to pay for it.

They should limit themselves to the English version until they can afford some native to translate it into other languages.
I've been going through this lately and it's great. It's a nice compromise between the wackiness of something like "Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby" and the dryness of most tutorials.
I find that actually looking at the article provides a far better indicator of quality, but to each his own.
Not always, although I know where you are coming from. Pretty soon you can find out whether they're someone you can "go over the trenches" with, no matter what size they might look.
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It's a mistake to present words without the article. Although you can click through to get that information it would be much more effective to simply state it with the word.

For example, I asked it for French and it gave me,

rule (noun) système

Now we don't know whether this is un système or une système without clicking through. Also the translation of rule is simply incorrect. It would be correct to suggest une règle or un règlement.

Also the article can actually change the meaning of a noun: e.g. un tour (a tour), une tour (a tower).
http://www.gizmag.com/go/6245/ is just a generator it's not a engine. And at 95 percent efficiency it's not even that great of a generator.

As to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5386004.stm you are going to have heat issues because at best you are going to be ~60% efficient which means you are generating a lot more heat than a battery. (Think of the worst laptop battery and then think about it generating 3x as much heat.)
It's a well written, if short, piece. I've never thought of recommendation systems as fun, but I feel like trying out some basic stuff with it now.

Anyone know a good way to get started - especially simple test data?
I figured out port and starboard with a little device from sailing school that has never left my head:

red->left->port
green->right->starboard.

note that on a sail boat, lines are traditionally colored depending on what side of the boat they are on.
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Yes, and I feel the more I get into programming and reading the worse my social memory gets. I used to not read much in my lower teens but was more social. I would remember everything in conversation, exactly what happened, the clothes the person was wearing, just about everything to the point that it would make people angry that I would remember things that they wish I didn't. Now that I spend a majority of my time in front of the computer that ability seems to be fading. I think the brain restructures itself to handle memory that is related to the expected daily experiences, which would explain why the loner has a hard time comprehending or acting "normally" in social situations in their youth.
^Will^Should would make this an interesting discussion. Otherwise this is pointless.
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That confuses insurance with ideas about social justice. Why should people pay in proportion to their income?
what if the comments are a waste of time too?
Ask HN: Are there any good Image APIs out there?
Looking for something where I can pass in some text or keywords, and get back images that are newsy. i.e. not a picture of your cat, but rather a picture of Barack Obama at a rally for example?

Been looking around the web, and the ones that do exist with the big vendors (like AP, Getty, Reuters) are expensive.

Thanks!
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there are no solutions listed anywhere in the web... means that there are no solutions to your problem anywhere.

That's just flat-out wrong. This reads like some sort of article with facts and knowledge, but it's just his opinion.

As support, I offer my math problems from a course this semester. There was one that I could not solve. The answer, and the steps required, were in a book I did not purchase. I searched the web for similar problems, and there weren't any. Did it exist? Yes, just not on the web.
If you just want data sets drop me a line, though most of the ones we test with are probably prohibitively large for just playing around with (millions of links / ratings). O'Reilly's Programming Collective Intelligence gives some decent background information, but in my opinion doesn't really cover enough to build a real system. A couple papers I often suggest with a lot of practical content are:

Toward the Next Generation of Recommender
Systems: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art and
Possible Extensions

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1070751

That one's fairly readable for people outside of the field. The Google News paper, which has some insights on doing large scale recommendations on a fairly dense user to item matrix, is a little more jumping into the deep end, but is worth glancing at even just to follow the references it sites:

Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering

http://www2007.org/papers/paper570.pdf

(The paper itself doesn't mention being problematic on sparse rating sets, but I've implemented something very similar and found that to be the case.)
The blog post has very little substance.
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This has been submitted twice already.

178 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336085

17 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=535675
On the deck, the unconscious sailors are rolled on their sides, and as soon as they revive, an instructor shouts again and again: "Are you gonna quit? Are you gonna quit?" Sailors are given 30 seconds to answer or they're kicked out of the program.

A lot their "training" seem designed to weed out those who lack specific innate traits. From what I understand the goal is to cull most people as soon as possible and then train those who remain which suggests they focus on innate talents rather than testing people after they have been trained. Which IMO is a good idea, because you don't know what you are going to face in the real world.

PS: You see the same idea with a large high school's football camp. The first few days is all about weeding people out based on physical fitness.
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I don't like the whole introvert vs extrovert divide. I am extremely introverted in some situations and extremely extroverted in others. I think I tend more towards the introverted side, sure, but I do plenty of things which smack more of the attention-seeking extrovert. Also, while I'm often shy to approach new people to start up a conversation (particularly if it revolves around the dreaded and dreadful "small talk"), when approached by others I never retreat into my shell - in fact, I come out and have a great conversation with pretty much anybody.

Perhaps, as the article argues, having introverted tendencies is not a choice, but giving in to them at the wrong time probably is. We all, extro- or introverts, have the potential to do both.
One of the devs responded on Techcrunch and said that they just don't have the money right now to translate it. People are suggesting giving users an incentive for translating it for them.
I suggest that there's selection bias in stories like this.

It's well know in finance that average pay off grows with variance, both because of the "risk premium" and because your losses are capped at "going out of business".

If you've got a dollar and engage in a $1 bet with 50/50 chance, your average pay off is $0.

If you've got a dollar and engage in a $4 bet, your average payoff is $3, because in half the cases you win $4, and in half the cases you win $-1 and then go bankrupt.

In a period when all bets are higher variance, and using a retrospective study that implicitly discards all the firms that go bankrupt, then we certainly conclude "high risk bets rule!".
There's a distinction between completely useless, bogus words which duplicate the functionality of existing ones and new words which convey some new meaning (e.g. bromance).

It's surprising that in the world of programming, in which precision is essential, there are so many advocates for cruftiness in English.
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There is still a lot of kinetic energy loss due to piston inertia - it seems that the circular engine designs hold more promise.
All tax works like that. You make more, you pay more. You might think it's unfair that rich people pay more, but the system seems to work.

And wanting to ensure everyone receives the medical care they need regardless of income is a matter of social justice.
Agreed. The word I was going to use was "tenuous". The central point is very weak and poorly supported.
I find that when I'm in the middle of an intense coding session I become abrasive and distracted from others' perspective. If you interrupt me when I'm working on a problem, I will lose it! In several senses. I find that I can't work when there is music playing - generally when I start working I have music quite loud but as I get more immersed in the problem it becomes quieter and quieter until I mute it completely.

On the other hand I'm comfortable in social situations so long as I have some time for that mental intensity to dissipate. I just need a buffer to switch modes.
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Makes me think that HN must have gotten a lot of new users lately. Let's just be glad they are interested in haskell and not valleywag-type stories.

Welcome new haskell-loving users!
Also considered home-schooling and remember having many doubts as to whether in the end my kids would fare better or not. I feel we've been able to nurture their natural love of learning mostly by unschooling.

My fear of the school system was that it would effectively kill this love of learning, and in fact, we did give up on public school after 6 months of what really only seemed like crowd control. My son would sit quietly at school not really doing or learning that much, and then let out all his energy and frustrations at home.

Fortunately changing school to one that follows Montessori method has worked really well for him and my daughter. They get much more personalized attention, they satisfy their curiosities and make tangible progress in different areas. For our particular case I don't believe we could have done better with home schooling.

BTW my son was for several months an astronomy freak and would have given the same answer as your daughter. I hope you had a talk with the teacher, and explained to your daughter that she's in the right.
"the infrastructure already set up to refuel and maintain petrol engines is vast and not ready to go away yet."

And that's precisely why ethanol engines are such a nice idea. I have been driving ethanol-running cars since my youth and can tell you they work just fine and have a pretty low carbon footprint, specially when compared to fossil-fuel based ones.

I sincerely doubt they got their math straight.
After a long day at work, I find I need certain cues to tell my brain to cut it out and think about other things for a while. Sometimes it's a tasty beverage (be it beer, coffee, or otherwise), a long walk, or turning up a favourite album really loud.

I think this is the same for any individual whose job requires that you live in your head for a long time. I'm fairly certain artists who are deeply involved in their work experience this "surfacing", as I've come to call it.
We should be careful and not equate what they have the option of doing to what they are actually doing. They in particular have been sticklers in marking to market no matter what, regardless of if they are a bank holding company or not (In the conference call this is reiterated many times).

It would not have been a far greater loss under the old rules, that much is clear from reading the balance sheet and disclosure of the relatively small size of legacy assets (the assets that would be impacted by different marking methods). Income was driven in pure trade faciliation, good old fashioned buy low and sell high in the capacity of a financial intermediary.
No, sometimes they can rationally know it's not in their long-term best interest, but they do it anyway because withdrawal is so bad. I know smokers who smoke despite knowing it's not in their best interest.

Just because someone wants something, doesn't mean they actually think it's good to want it.
people who are more social are more happy and lead more fulfilling lives

Wow, that's a bigoted extrovert perspective. Really, I'm just fine being alone with myself and my thoughts. Sure, company is nice from time to time but no amount of training will change the fact that introverts find other people draining.

I took a class on public speaking once, and the instructor mentioned that I was the most personable speaker she'd ever known. I still need plenty of alone time to recharge after dealing with people for any extended length of time.

Don't underestimate the calmness, power, and meditative qualities of introversion and self-acceptance.
It's surprising in the world of programming, in which precision is essential, there are so many advocates for cruftiness in English.

In programming, precision is essential. In human communication, it is often inconsequential. We sped our time railing against our arbitrary and fickle natures, demanding precisely worded specification, imposing workflow and permissions straightjackets on programs, when in reality all that matters is that people feel happy when they use what we build.

If someone feels happy saying the words "performant" and "utilize" to me, that is enough.
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People rarely make fully rational decisions. Addicts succumb, they don't decide to start using again.
"[1] But maybe not for long. Add a human editor tweaking the headlines and the teasers and I believe you might have something."

I believe it is called "The Drudge Report." :)
I wonder why China still pursues this territorial aggression policy though it occupies a vast portion of Asia.
I think the only people who don't value experience are those without it.

Skill is almost always a result of experience. Yes, there are those who "just get it" and can code circles around others but without the experience, they are having to reinvent something (perhaps albeit elegantly) that people with experience already know.

Case: Write me a bubble sort. You probably learned this in college and having gained that experience, it's probably easy now. A 16 year old gifted coder first has to consider the process while you are already writing it.
In any given Psychological classification you can attribute yourself to different sides of the classification. This is because everyone is different.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Differences for more explanation.

In the same case, you have to take this for both it's merits and demerits.
Yes, taxes work that way. And it's OK that we have such a system to re-distribute income.

But why should we confuse insurance with solidarity? We can use taxes/hand-outs to level people's income somewhat, and leave insurance to the market. Most sectors of insurance seem to work quite fine that way.
Old but very good article. For once I'm glad to see something I've seen before.
This Squidoo lens is probably the most comprehensive list of Twitter apps on the web:

http://www.squidoo.com/twitterapps
I had similar results (zero sales) from a recent ad test run with StumbleUpon. Converting sales is hard, especially when your audience is in random browsing mode (ie: not shopping mode).
I agree that it's important to note that, since it makes one take the article with a grain of salt.

Of course it is unacceptable for China (and anyone else) to "push its weight around" when it comes to dealing with (so-called) "weaker" countries, but this affirmation sounds fairly hypocritical when coming from someone that lives in a country that never had a problem in pushing its own agenda as well.
What is Microsoft doing to add Java support to Azure?
Does Twitter really fit into business and IT?
What do you mean, that server's live?
different font sizes (let alone serif fonts) are not more readable on computers

theres no alignment, it dynamically resizes - your eyes dont know where to snap to.

grey on white text, ugh why?

they aren't quite columns and they aren't quite not columns.
Actually, I find limiting to ~80-100 chars makes code more readable.

On a 24" screen I like to have 2-3 files open side by side.

Having to scroll down is no big deal, scrolling sideways is pretty awkward. It also makes diffs harder to read if lines are too long.

I certainly wouldn't argue for a hard limit of 80, but I find it's generally a good idea to break up lines if they're getting too long.
Apart from the clunky interface (wait, was this intended to be used only with Facebook?) ... That was the first thing I noticed, too. You can click the 'more information' button and get a bit, eh, more info.

Not a bad idea but the execution is a little lacking. Not too far off.
Wow, if the screen shots are any indication, that looks like a much more polished implementation of this idea. I think if someone ripped off the interface ideas and implemented as a web app, they would get a lot of users quickly. (I don't know if a free web app is a better business model than $30 for a Mac application, however.)
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I am not sure I agree with the "developing makes you awkward" idea. I don't know if there is any scientific basis to the introversion/extroversion axis, but I've had great success in building up an extrovert persona that I am completely comfortable in, though all the tests I've taken puts me strongly in the "introvert" end of the spectrum.

The Myers-Briggs test for example gives me an INXJ profile (with a very strong "I" score). About a decade ago, I figured out that "becoming" more of an extrovert could really balance my life out, and now it is something I can swoitch on and off as well to the point where (a) I am equally comfortable in either mode and (b) people who have seen my "extrovert" side can't believe I am perfectly happy sitting alone in a corner and coding for a few days or weeks if that is what the situation warrants, or alternatively party for a 12 hours staright. I don't know if this is relevant, but I am extremely comfortable with public speaking and quite enjoy theatre(performance) and music(performance).

I wonder if this whole "personality" thing isn't very fluid (and thus hackable). Just one anecdotal data point against the "development makes you awkward" idea.
We had a team bonding day in which we were split up randomly into small groups. Random or not, the group I was put on was all introverts. We were given a problem [a clever problem-solving exercise] and the observer (who was an extrovert) noted that (to him) 'it was like they were all just staring at the puzzle for 5 minutes. They were just sitting there thinking. No one in the group said much of anything until they arrived at a silent consensus.' Contrast that to other groups where members debated the relative merits of their solutions. We won the game.

In another company exercise, done after a Myers-Briggs session, they split the I's and E's into groups. And then they said (hypothetically) 'You have the day off. What do you guys want to do with the day? You have $100 each'. The I's were like - I'm gonna read a book, run errands etc. And the E's were like - 'Who's going to Vegas? Party at our house.' The E's were planning parties while the I's were planning alone time.

It really doesn't matter if you're an I or an E. Or switch between I/E. As long as you can accept yourself. The rule of thumb I use for I/E orientation is does that person get energized around other people...
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Well, I don't think it should even be called insurance! Health care is pretty close to a basic human right, IMO, and the government should provide it to everyone who needs it. So that should be funded via general tax, like any other essential service.

I wouldn't be opposed to a parallel system for people who opted out of or augmented the Govt services, that could be assessed like regular insurance, but the important thing is to have the universal basic care.
This execution isn't addressing the readers needs, but it would be interesting to see several different attempts at a redesign. It would be a fun challenge for interaction designers.
A lot their "training" seem designed to weed out those who lack specific innate traits

I don't think it's entirely about innate traits. There's a lot of training that occurs before going to some these schools. For example, in the Army you're not eligible to 'try out' for Special Forces until you're an E4 grade (not sure about officers), which may take 1.5 - 3 years to achieve, assuming you enlisted as an E1. Even then a lot of guys spend 2-4 months in special training programs before going and some don't pass until their second or third attempt.
1. False

2. False.

3. That's not a good thing.

4. That's not a good thing, have better aspirations.

5. ?

6. This is inherently not better or worse then the alternative.

7. Get a life, have friends outside of work.

8. You seriously aspire just to be "normal"?

9. False.

10. That's not a good thing.
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It also feels like patterns, little building blocks to build bigger things. Thats whats compelling me to buy it, its not just technique or recipes, its knowledge you can use to expand on.
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