skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually more specific than that.

Take the following Haml that defines a div with an id of "foo" along with a span with class "bar" and content "Hello World":

#foo
%span.bar Hello World

If I wanted to hide those elements, I'd write the following jQuery in a separate file:

$('#foo').hide();
$('span.bar').hide();

That's really powerful stuff. The Haml syntax for defining elements looks exactly like the CSS3-style selectors used by jQuery, so much so that I often cut and paste my Haml markup into my javascript files.
Some IM protocols allowed one to set up some info which is public and supposed to act as a bio. This content could be some form of HTML, which is more than anything twitter supports (i.e, it let you do the styling, much to the detriment of others).
Have you looked at the syllabus of a numerical analysis course recently? There is plenty to learn at that level, even for students who had an exceptionally good calculus course beforehand.
"The truth is, while intelligence isn't knowledge, it can be rapidly converted into it."

Don't you know that it just takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a master of anything: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/opinion/01brooks.html?_r=1 ?

David Brooks has been trotting this theme out for years now.
Ummm...Anyone who wrote, voted for, or is in favor of the millions of anti-discrimination laws that are in place in every country in the world.

As for the article it was a counter point to classic feminism which is the movement that was behind all the aforementioned laws.
That persons code doesn't do HAML justice.

I converted an ERB file to HAML. A quick glance shows it to be simpler... even though it's mostly the same code: http://pastie.org/private/n8ipfrkxlremo4jwtxiww

More detailed response is here: http://railsnotes.com/395-response-to-thoughts-on-haml/
Glad I asked. I had no idea there was such a close relationship.
There's something in your observation that echoes old mythologies and models of the world: men represent Spirit, women represent Matter. I always thought there was some kernel of truth to that metaphor, but couldn't quite put my finger on it. I think you did.
Yea, I know what you mean. I found a cool tool that lets me do all my prototyping in haml before having to do any real Rails coding: http://github.com/jlong/serve/
Very revealing. I stopped using NoScript a while ago since it would not properly whitelist some sites. At the time I was wondering why the plugin was updated so frequently with very similar change logs each time. This post explains why.

Interfering with other extensions' internal state is simply unacceptable. Firefox should consider sandboxing the browser extensions. Maybe they'll get to that after they implement Chrome style robust per tab sandboxing.
"If one were to look downward to the bottom of society instead, one finds mostly men there too. Who’s in prison, all over the world, as criminals or political prisoners?"

A somewhat disturbing equation. A political prisoner is precisely the (potentially extra-) societal actor that is relegated to the "bottom" by the state through punitive measures.

In any event, what's good about men is that we cut code; no 'Y', no 'hacker' ...
Wouldn't have pegged Jessica as a typical hacker or really an inspiration to get girls coding in that sense of the term, but any woman working in tech happy to share her story gets an automatic thumbs up regardless of terminology.
This also was utterly fascinating:
"The first big, basic difference has to do with what I consider to be the most underappreciated fact about gender. Consider this question: What percent of our ancestors were women?

It’s not a trick question, and it’s not 50%. True, about half the people who ever lived were women, but that’s not the question. We’re asking about all the people who ever lived who have a descendant living today. Or, put another way, yes, every baby has both a mother and a father, but some of those parents had multiple children.

Recent research using DNA analysis answered this question about two years ago. Today’s human population is descended from twice as many women as men."

I had no idea... they must have tested mitochondrial dna or something?
Response to "Thoughts on HAML"
The ave 3min/song estimate is probably a little low. Radio edits are around that length but the original tracks tend to be longer. (Seen another way; most CDs are longer than 30min but tend to have 10 tracks, since many of the contracts will effectively not pay royalty on tracks > 10)
I mean almost anyone would agree that you should pick the better candidate for a job. That point is obvious.

Some may argue that it should be ok to discriminate in the presence of insufficient information. While that may be rational in a probabilistic sense if you are lazy, it should be and is illegal.

Anti-discrimination laws force you to evaluate the candidates more carefully, and ultimately, to pick better candidates for the job.
While it's kinda cool - or scary - when someone finds an offhand comment you make about them within hours/minutes/days (delete as appropriate), I fail to see the newsworthiness of this concept.
I'm sorry, but what the hell does that have to do with my comment that a company can make you agree to licencing terms to use their product?
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Why you should use TypeForms.com
I was under the impression that DB/2 was actually quite good.
"If you want to maximize your chances of finding a wife, it's better to have a safe career as an employee with a stable income."

Even if that's true today, the argument that it wasn't true in the environment in which we evolved. We're adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/adaptation-exec.html. Our genes "tell" us to take risks because that's how they evolved, regardless of whether it's the best strategy today.
>"That means that if we want to achieve our ideal of equal salaries for men and women, we may need to legislate the principle of equal pay for less work. Personally, I support that principle. But I recognize it’s a hard sell."

This is a great article but the premise of that argument doesn't make sense to me - even if he admits its a hard sell.

I'm all for equality but paying someone more for doing less work to bring fairness seems illogical. If someone is genetically less motivated to be a workaholic then how does taking money from the person who does work an extra 10hrs a week, so the the other person can be paid more, make the world a fairer place?

When I was 15 I accepted the fact that I'm wasn't born tall enough to play basketball professionally so I focused my efforts on something that I was capable of being great at.
I think the argument is that the point of first mover advantage is customer development more so than the network effect.
I've always felt Wolfram is also kind of anti-hacker (which is why things like SciPy and R have seen such large uptake amongst hackers), so they're not the best example from my perspective.

Oracle has never once struck me as being one of those, "It'd be really cool to work there" kind of places. Sun, on the other hand, frequently has. I'm also a bit more Open Source oriented than most people, and Sun has embraced Open Source in the past two years in ways few companies that weren't spawned of Open Source (like Red Hat) have ever done. Folks think Google is very friendly to Open Source, but they haven't even begun to have the kind of impact that Sun has had over the years. I may have gentler feelings towards Sun than some folks because of the contributions they've made to my own projects over the years (Sun was one of the very earliest contributors to Webmin, and has remained helpful ever since)...but since Sun has consistently been a friend to nearly every project I've ever had interaction with, and not just that one, I think it is built into their genes. Oracle has never done anything nice for any project I've ever been involved in, so it's like 10 projects to zero in favor of Sun. Being helpful (a deeply held hacker tradition) just doesn't seem to be in the character of Oracle, except when it is directly beneficial to them.
Jlong's serve
Thanks! And pull request sent (feel free to change the formatting, I just took a stab at it).

Tangentially, I signed up for github in that process (I know, I can already see my geek cred dwindling). I've downloaded projects from there many times, but I suppose since my repositories are on google code I never had a reason to create an account. It was incredibly simple and enjoyable to use. Very slick!
Time 100: Moot, by Rick Astley (Not Online Poll)
mibbit covers IRC, but you can clean up usenet now that google wont implement even the most rudimentary forms of spam blocking.
I tell my chinese friends I'm on QQ (their local AIM/Y!IM conglomerate) and I tell my brazilian friends I'm on Google's Urkut :-P
CMatrix
Another disappointing limitation that nobody has mentioned yet: this only works for elementary functions with integrals that are elementary functions. If you try to get this thing to integrate exp(x^2) dx, it will (correctly) say that there is no elementary integral. But the integral exists, and it's quite possible to find an infinite series solution, or to define the solution in terms of the erf function.

So, this is cool but not all it's cracked up to be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_function_(differenti...
I would not want to be competing with Wufoo. Those guys are fierce.

It seems like this company has a technology they find interesting and exciting (some sort of search engine), and are just sort of randomly throwing things at the wall to see what idea sticks. This is a perfectly valid way to iterate, if you can deliver working products rapidly and without losing momentum on your core strengths. But, this page is pretty weak; I'm doubtful you'll get many signups from the available ad copy. Actually, I can't make much sense of what any of your (I guess this is your company?) products do. It might be the right time to spend more time on ad copy and less on product development, since you have four products, and I can't really figure out what any of them are for or why I would want to use them. I could just be dumb, though. I find Apple products really hard to use, for a concrete example of my dumbnicity.
It could have been worse, fortunately. The attacker broke into a Twitter admin's Yahoo account, and used that information to gain access to the Twitter admin CP. Very little was compromised. You can see screenshots of the Control Panel here: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-twitter-looks-like-for-t...
That's what the saying means. "The plural of anecdote is (probably) not statistically significant data" is not very catchy. Imagine if you had to say "a rolling stone (most of the time) gathers no (or at least very little) moss."
Rick Astley is so much cooler than Chuck Norris, it's not even funny.
There was a lot of interesting ideas.

On the Titanic, the richest men had a lower survival rate (34%) than the poorest women (46%)

Somehow, I don't expect a lot of poor men to have survived.
Umm... Am I missing something? The blog post describes comparing XML parsing to JSON parsing, but that chart compares JSON parse time to XHR request time for that JSON file!

The real chart he should be referring to is here:
http://ejohn.org/apps/jsonvxml2/json-speeds.png
Click the links in the piece
I'm somewhat surprised by this. Do you have a source or news article?
How many people are you feeding?
The thing about electrical motors is that it can be fully driven with renewable resources. Sun, wind, hydroelectric, etc... if the compressors are driven off of electricity then the carbon footprint, in theory, could be 0. Whereas a motorbike that is petrol powered is guaranteed to have a finite amount of carbon emissions.
Yes, it's true that Apple forked the original iPod into two models, with the smaller of the two going on to sell in large numbers, but I'm pretty sure that wont be the case with the iPhone.
Having one wife a 2-3 kids is still not the "best" genetic outcome. Many men have 10+ children from several women over there lives.

I suspect that on average men who have one wife and no outside children average less than 2 children and because those children only get 1/2 their DNA it's not really success.
I'm unskilled but I am aware of it.

I can hear the seething controlled anger or my co-workers perception of me that I do nothing or am worthless. I can feel the tiny neutron star of resentment go off every time they have to talk to me.

I'm an expert on nothing but my only defense is to take work no one wants.

I'm trying to fix it.
I don't know if it's new or not, but having the icons write about each other is definitely very cool. Bill Gates on Jeff Bezos, Gordon Brown on Barack Obama, even Rick Astley on moot -- it's different and really interesting.
I guess when your product has its own Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualmin) it must be something pretty cool and let me say easier than apple products.
groups or cultures competing

When groups fail individuals within that group tend to fail. You might have 20 kids but if they are killed off by the invading army then you fail.

Over the last 100,000+ years I think women tend to maintain genetic information within a group, but it's the highly successful men in highly successful groups tend to spread it.
The referenced but not linked Cringely article: http://www.cringely.com/2009/04/sunset/
If you like IRC, you will like Chatterous.

It is like IRC where you can get msgs by SMS/IM/email/etc
It was a joke.

Men work longer hours, so if men work at the same rate then you pay them more. Saying there is a problem with people getting paid more for working more seems silly thus the joke.
The plugin is updated frequently also because doing so lands itself in the Most Popular Add-ons chart. Giorgio has a history of pushing the limit to see what he can get away before backtracking when someone calls him out on it.
I think what you're saying is that ambition is not rewarded in the dating/mating game, which is decidedly not the case (today or a long time ago). If you took birth control out of the equation, which men do you think would father the most babies today in the US, men with high ambition or men who chose a "safe career" and "stable income"?
Please place [video] in the title.
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He never tried to be the boss, but that doesn't mean he didn't put his foot down when he needed to. He pretty much killed ISO ISLisp, International Standard Lisp, a competing Lisp standardization effort that was a subset of Common Lisp just about the same size and flavor of Dylan. The ISLisp guys where mostly European lispers who were excluded from the Common Lisp ANSI standardization process, which was mostly an American venture backed by the DoD.

McCarthy didn't see technical merit to their claim for a separate standard, and he barred them from calling it "Standard Lisp". The wounds healed and the community reunited, but still, if the Europeans had a seat at the table we might have gotten a layered language, with a tiny kernel and several higher-level extensions, where vendors could advertise adherence to a Lisp "level" (e.g. "CL0" being a tiny Lispy VM with GC and LAP assembly, CL1 being primitive datatypes and special forms, and so on.)
Based on the previous comment, I would call that ethics. Not providing an opinion on something he doesn't know about, especially coming as somebody who could very well be an expert, it something to be lauded, not ridiculed.
Be wary of reductionism for reductionism's sake, young Padawan. Just because you can frame something in particular terms doesn't necessarily mean you should, especially when context (something all too unappreciated in casual discussion of genetics/memetics) is discarded in the process.
It's a pretty weak Wikipedia page, though, isn't it? Virtualmin as a page has come and gone several times, as the Wikipedians argue over whether it is notable in its own right...it redirected to Webmin last time I looked and for at least a couple of years, but it's good to see we're now a little more notable in someones estimation. I'll have to see about getting that updated with more information, hopefully without angering the Wikigods.
Could you specify which parts of GitHub you're referring to? We're always looking for way to improve the site.
I guess the joke is that the author would like to work less?
However, not providing the URL of a resource makes assumptions that the consumer knows how to manipulate the data you are providing into a usable URL. If you want your resources to be discoverable and easily consumed by programs which have no knowledge of your specific application, then it can be a good way of doing it.
I read the question as being: is it legally enforceable for a company to have in their TOS that you release your IP into the public domain if you do X on their platform?

Are you an IP attorney or in any way qualified to answer that question? Matt's post was about people on HN answering questions that they are in no way qualified to answer, just because they're intelligent in some other unrelated area. Your post seemed like a perfect example.
Watching the brain pick junk food over healthy food
No. There is another interesting issue there, but in this case, it is really smart people thinking that smarts trumps domain expertise (knowledge).
So well put it hurts. Bravo.
Twitter search reveals private updates
The Secret behind the Computational Engine in Wolfram Alpha
I like it.

I'm not sure what it is about lists that I like, but I must say I'm enjoying the fact that they seem to be the next step past tutorial lately. Lots of fine looking projects coming from it.
Usually you can find some humor in chuck norris jokes the first time you hear them I never liked the rickrolling phase of the internet.
Interesting design decision to make properties automatically create semaphores for atomic properties. Seems that most apps would not need the multithreading data protection that a mutex would provide.

Is there a time where this is not the case?
Sounds like you need Skitch, which does this and a lot more. It's one of my five must-have apps.

http://www.skitch.com/
>-Before your product is listed on an affiliate network, you need to put down a significant investment- mid to high $XX,XXX as a prepayment to the network

There is an entire pecking order of affiliate networks. You might convince the smallest ones to take you on without any prepayment. Next step up require around a $5000 prepayment, but might waive that if you can show proof of sizable traffic or revenue. Mid to high $XX,XXX is only to play with the big boys (and even there, my impression was that it's possible to get that waived if you already have enough sales from other sources - but I might be wrong on this).

I agree with your other two points.
I'm not speaking of the jokes. I'm speaking of the difference in the way they used their renewed fame. Norris used it for evil, Astley for lulz. Astley is much cooler than Norris.

References:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjYv2YW6azE

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=525...

Chuck Norris is a tool.
More on the "VC Math Problem"
It seems to reveal some, but not others.

A friend of mine at work picked up on Twitter within the past week, and his profile is private. His first tweet shows up, but no others, though I can see a few his friends have retweeted his messages.

I do not have a twitter account, so I was not signed in.
i realize it sounds like i'm setting you up, but just google the phrase "goat rental."
Ha I completely missed that if that's true. Makes sense.
Ooh, that's probably another one of those Ruby problems where Rails isn't scaling correctly....
Interesting theory, but wrong. In fact, the right answer is well known, and does not involve memes at all.

The reason why it's equally good for the genes to produce a male or a female, and why there's an equal number of males and females in almost all animal species, is that the expected number of offspring for a male and a female is equal. It has to be that way, because everybody has exactly one father and one mother.

While it might be true that 8/10 of females and 4/10 of males of a given species reproduce, the males reproduce more when they do. A smaller probability of a higher number will give you the same expected value.

I think this argument (among many others) is nicely explained in the Selfish Gene by Dawkins.
Not sure the compressing/obfuscating of scripts makes the application model similar to a Java/Swing or a Flash/Flex model. The granularity for a Web app is infinitely greater than an Swing/Flex app. Having the UI Structure (HTML), Style (CSS), Logic (JS) interpreted at runtime allows the server to take generate dynamically many part of the applications. This is the big difference, not that the scripts are compressed/minimized.

Now, I agree, some applications overuse AJAX, and often, single page is an overkill with lot of drawbacks and complications.

But the big sites, such as YouTube, Facebook, seems to be using these technologies the right ways.
So the ringworld engineers were originally from New York?
"The Day the Universe Changed" is equally brilliant - a guided tour through the history of science and western civilization.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001RCL5SQ?ie=UTF8&tag=...
fraud has become a seriously large issue on many affiliate networks over the last few months. something a client of mine has seen: people are signing up as affiliates and using stolen credit cards to sign up and get paid hopefully before anyone notice and the chargeback rate goes through the roof. they were hit so hard by this that their chargeback rate went up 400% in less than 3 weeks in january. be very careful to protect yourself from fraud if you are running on an affiliate network. it used to be that they just had issues with having some sleazy people joining, now, there are issues with straight out criminal behaviour.
No kidding. I read that second link and the man thinks that jokes about him are literal statements.
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In fact, I think twitter does not really reveal those private tweets.

When you create a twitter account, your account is public by default. All the tweets that you have posted before you set your account to be private will be searchable.

This is just my $0.02.
Actually, I think if one looks across most old mythologies and religions, particularly many pre-dating Jeudeo-Christian, one would find quite the opposite.
Hm, I'm having trouble parsing that.

It's not just the religions of the Book which use that metaphor. The whole Buddhism, the whole Hinduism (to the extent that such a thing does exist) - they all say: man = spirit, woman = matter.
No worries. I completely missed the joke, too, until Retric said it was there.
CJ is a high-end network. There are much cheaper options, like clickbank, which is often used for webapps. Depends on your market to an extent.

One of the potentially false appeals of an affiliate network is easy access to affiliates. You still need to get their attention somehow, prove your sales conversions, and demonstrate that you actually have a good product worth promoting.

I have been very successful in selling my web app by simply setting up a self-hosted affiliate solution (we wrote our own, but idevaffiliate is good) and going to conferences to befriend the people who already have access to my market, well in advance, and then organizing a launch with them getting good commissions.

The "if you put it on cj, they will come" marketing model isn't going to get you near the same kind of loyalty and promotions that you will get from connecting with real live people and getting them excited about what you've done.

John.
Yeah, that's what it seems like could be happening. But I don't think thats acceptable at all. Twitter offers the ability to mark yourself as private, but doesn't actually protect everything. The same goes for deleting -- you are given every indication its gone, but it stays in search (where people go to "find" thing, probably the place you want it gone from the most).