skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds me of the criticisms of Mythbusters. They do bad science a lot of the time, with shoddy understandings of underlying mechanisms. It's fair to criticise them as bad science for this. But on the other hand, they very much promote the idea of "think of something, suggest what might happen if you do it, then do it and see what you find (, and then publish it)". So while they may not do good science themselves, they do promote the fundamental ideals of science, and are open to having their suggestions found wrong.

Whereas the facebook page does nothing like this at all - it's just funny pictures with a theme. It doesn't encourage any way of thinking or promote figuring out the world.
Correct link: http://textfac.es/

Idea: Can I upvote/star /heart a face? With this you will get more data about which faces people like and sort them. Creating a full account for this site is too much, so perhaps you can store the upvotes in a cookie and add a minimal multiple upvote filter.
Considering she's working on a TV deal, I bet not many. Plus it doesn't matter who is larger, wrong is wrong.
Seems like people here are more inclined to use mailto links and I agree since sending from our mail app gives us a clearer path onto whats going on and certainty that the email at least went out, but being honest what's the ratio between people that really know how a contact form works and people that don't really care?

A good solution would be to create a new link on the form overlay that presents the users with the option of just using their mail app in case someone still doesn't want to use the form.

I think you have a great product it does take away the pain from administering a contact form, as simple as it might sound this is a cumbersome task for many people that don't have the technical skills to understand all the pieces that go into creating one, well done!

Question, how are you fighting spam?, from what I can tell you are obfuscating the email once your code bootstraps the <anchor tags>, what happens if spammer isn't using an environment that executes JS
"Add in the fact that you never know if you're being recorded,"

That's been the case since about 1930. Why anyone treats this differently is beyond me.
I'm not saying, I'm just saying:

Brown man reviews work of brown woman and white (Jewish?) man in favor of trying to help those outside your group-identity to foster openness and whatnot. Brown man proceeds to mention brown woman 27 times by name to her co-author's 6.

I'm not calling him a hypocrite - I don't think it was conscious either. If there is a point to be made here, though, perhaps that's it: the Morally Outraged About Extremely Subtle, Subconscious Effects of Involuntary Decisions have not fully investigated and do not fully comprehend the obligations they're laying at everyone's feet.
Just FYI, if you tip 10% in restaurants in a major American city you will probably be perceived as under tipping.

In my short career of patronizing eating establishments, the accepted baseline tip has moved from 15% to 18% and now I believe it's at 20%.

It's your prerogative to tip as you see fit, but as it is a social norm, it's useful to be aware of what the "norm" is.

Maybe I've lived in exceedingly generous cities, so I'd be happy to hear back if 20% is not the "norm" for tipping a waiter at dinner.
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By default, browsers open desktop mail clients when a mailto link is clicked.

That means, by default, mailto links are broken for anyone who uses web-based email (most people?)
(I guess DarkShikari's comment is nested too deeply for me to reply directly.)

In my (admittedly limited) experience [1], the compiler has actually done pretty decently at optimizing register allocation in intrinsic-heavy loops. I wrote out the assembly loop in [2] with manual allocation into all 16 XMMs and then noticed the compiler managed to optimize 1 of them out.

[1] https://github.com/simtk/IRMSD

[2] https://github.com/SimTk/IRMSD/blob/master/python/IRMSD/theo...
Fisker Broke Down on the Road to Electric Cars
What if it were a google glass with the eye projection, but without the camera? I mean, if you want to take a picture, just pull the phone out of your pocket.
The first live Glass demo wasn't a bunch of people at a cocktail party. It was skydivers, skateboarders, and bicyclists. Glass is going to be very popular as a sports accessory. I can see Google inking a deal with the NFL to equip every player with Glass for an "in the helmet" view of every tackle.
Except we're talking about an invalid program. The program is invalid as written. Therefore memory barriers are the antidote because they're necessary in this situation.

A tool doesn't have a purpose. It has capabilities, and understanding why something works (and why it can be relied upon) is all that matters.
Indeed, I could be wrong.

I think this service has a lot of potential and his site looks fantastic. He might go on to save a lot of people from headaches. Particularly, non-coders. He even has the free/paid issue worked out that so many others simply ignore until later.

I was just too lazy to say anything.
Sci0032: Risk Factors and Contingency Plans-Tackling Unforeseen Obstacles
I like the demo!

Why I think you may fail:

* Shopping is still an in person, social experience - I only ever buy clothes online when I cannot find what I want in store (mainly for reasons of sizing and color).

* While there is definitely a market for online clothes, I do not believe it intersects much with the group of people who are willing to pay $700 for a pair of shoes (it is as much the experience of the store and the purchase as it is about the shoe) - I have paid $100-200 on a dress online, and it took me a long time to come to a decision (considerations of dealing with the hassle of sending it back, getting a new size etc. in the event it didn't fit.) Anything over that price range I would visit a store, the customer service element is valuable to me, I know I am going to leave the store with exactly what I want (and probably some extras...)

* For me outfits are nearly always a mesh of old and new, unless it's a dress then generally tights and some accessories are all that is needed. I don't think I have ever bought a complete outfit, just bits and pieces that may go together and with my other clothes.

* As others have said, a one-click buy everything would make this more attractive, having to buy each from a separate store and pay separate s/h would kill this idea for me completely.

* Another of my pain points of shopping online is delivery times. Having lived in the UK, where I can get next day delivery from certain stores (even shopping as late as 9PM) it was a culture shock when I moved to Canada to be faced with week long delivery times even if I get express delivery! My understanding is it is very similar in the states. When I buy clothes I generally want them ASAP!

All the best with the idea though!
Precisely my point: this reality will be forced to bubble to the surface in public awareness when the recording device is literally in your eye-line while talking to someone wearing Glass.
Alcatraz was a high-security prison associated with some high profile escape attempts, though no successful escapes have been confirmed. I suspect the creators of this package manager were trying to link the tech terms ‘walled garden’ and ‘jailbreak’ to real life penitentiaries. If so, I think ‘Shawshank’ would have been a better name, because it’s a fictitious prison and the story has a happy ending.
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That is far and away the most pedantic form of the efficient market hypothesis I've ever heard. No one in academia or the industry actually believes that everyone always has access to the exact same information at the exact same time.

A hedge fund manager who has decided to unload a huge position but has not acted on it yet would cause your definition of the hypothesis to no longer hold. This was never the intent and if it were it could only exist in some perverted Platonic cave of a market.

In the real world, this showed a very efficient market. 2 pieces of public information were consumed nearly as fast as they could be produced and the correct prices in the market were reflected. This is what the real application of an efficient market would look like.

As far as what does stability have to do with it, your central premise was that the modern equities market was not stable and was not to the benefit of an "average investor". None of this was proven by today's event and was in fact largely disproven. Stability was not jeopardized and the average investor was not impacted by what could have been a malicious attempt to game the system or could have been a juvenile prank, either way it largely didn't matter.
The peer to peer internet didn't survive. NAT ruined it, and now nobody has an expectation of connecting directly to another machine thats not set up for the sole purpose of hosting services.

Based on what people say in the IPv6 threads, I don't think people realize what we've lost.
Why would anybody self-proclaim to be associated with any group that could even be remotely linked to illegal activity or political dissension? Especially a group colloquially known as a script kiddie haven.

Every time I hear about people getting caught up in stuff like this, I'm reminded of the book "True Names" by Vernor Vinge. As long as nobody knows your real (government) name, you have a degree of safety in cyberspace. But once your identity is known, you become a much bigger target.
Yes, but which kool aid should you not drink more of?

The big launch kool aid? Or the anti-big launch backlash kool aid?
Check out deviantArt's infinite scroll implementation. If you go to their home page, and scroll to the bottom, there's a big green "Show More" button. No infinite scrolling happens until you explicitly want it to and you are able to get to the stuff in the footer. Once you start scrolling, it's very fast and there's not much of a delay as it loads more things. It also updates the URL as you scroll so when you click on something and hit the back button you are where you left off. It's quite slick.
If we had less posturing and more failure, less blog posts and more action, our lives would be better. It isn't known that Google couldn't be the company 10 years from now iterating on the failed concept...
Occasionally it's actually good (re: techie feedback on non technie product).

We designed Fork the Cookbook[0] to be highly accessible by the common food blogging mom. We went out to them, and they hated the idea of forking recipes (very strange thing: our target market has this concept that "what's mine is mine. nobody is allowed to steal it. forking a recipe is stealing")

On the other hand, we have had good responses from the techie people. That makes for a bloody confusing audience pivot.

I guess in our case it's more of discovering the product market fit

[0] http://forkthecookbook.com
The noble cause was the lulz. It was a 1990s style infiltration and defacing spree that didn't take itself super serial like all those moralist Anon hackers who don't realize that back in 2003 Anon was an inside joke.

They were crowd sourcing silly pranks like raining dongs in second life and writing hilarious over the top propaganda about these caveats, which was supposed to be ridiculous in it's menacing, in order to troll the media. Media never got the joke, was trolled along until unfunny fundies picked up the torch and hijacked the movement into petty politics devoid of even the smallest lulz. That's when Lulzsec decided to start up, to bring some 1990s style comedic anarchy but it ended horribly with almost all of them in jail except for SnitchBu.

Unless this Australian is 'Virus' the guy who hung around #pure-elite on their watched IRC server then he isn't lulzsec. You'd have to be a fool to use that name anyways it's a good way to get law enforcement attention
Having a linkable infinite scroll is only solving one of the issues in infinite scroll.

Have you ever tried to click the links in Facebook below your news feed?

Why is it that everyone who implements automatic infinite scroll shoves it into a context where there's stuff beneath it on the page, making that content completely inaccessible?
Full disclosure: I work for Counsyl. (In fact, if you watch the video at the bottom of the article, I'm the second speaker.)

The cool thing (well, one of many) about Counsyl is that there are a lot more things going on than pure biology and bioinformatics. Making genomics truly accessible is a software challenge that goes way beyond bioinformatics. There's obviously statistics, machine learning, and robotics running the lab; however, even more problems are pure engineering tasks. For example:

- How do you design the UI/UX around presenting data on 100 genes which can cause severe illness, but which most doctors (let alone patients) have never heard of?

- How do you efficiently accept orders from clinics across the nation, using a mix of web, paper, and EMR (electronic medical records) systems? (For bonus credit: deal with EMRs shipping fresh today on Windows 3.1. For double bonus credit: figure out how to bypass that ancient cruft and bring clinics into the 21st century.)

- How do you bill insurance companies when it can be opaque to even find out which insurance company pays for a given patient's procedures?

- How can you share data with the scientific community in as open a way as possible, without compromising patient privacy?

There's a huge amount of work to be done, so if you're interested in helping out, give us a look: https://www.counsyl.com/jobs/.

(It looks like this article is getting multiply posted, so please accept my apologies for hitting this one too.)
Ask HN: Why do people still use MySQL over MariaDB?
As far as I've come to understand it, MariaDB is a fork of MySQL from the original author, is better maintained, and faster. To take it even further, it practically works as a drop-in replacement of MySQL. Why do developers continue to start new projects using MySQL, and why aren't they busy migrating existing projects to Maria?

Is there a drawback to Maria that I'm not aware of?
Aye, that was my favorite too.
Hey guys - congrats on the product launch! I'm really confused though. How is this better than an email form?
> What we _really_ need, that we _don't_ have a way to do right now -- is signal the browser to _prompt_ the user as to whether it should be saved or displayed in-browser

Like "right-click and save-as"? I personally don't mind the small choice I get to make when downloading a file.
> I did not check to see if the iPhone in his pocket was recording, nor did I really focus on his button up shirt to see if there was a tiny camera recording me.

You know why? Because the phone was in his pocket, and if a camera was on his shirt, it was very well-hidden.

The fact that Glass lives on someone's face, the thing our brains are hard-wired to focus on, punctures a hole in manufactured normalcy and brings the issue right to the surface. Especially given that the whole point is to use it: all it will take is someone drifting off in conversation while staring into their mini-screen, or blurting out "Oh, that's so funny, I just put it on YouTube", and it'll leave a sour taste with everybody else.

I can't predict whether or not Glass will succeed. I can confidently predict, however, that there will be a strong social backlash.
Ditto. The NFL will in particular would be a prime candidate since sports fans are already dying to be in the athlete's shoes (though not have athlete's feet).

The one hiccup in this would be safety. In the off chance a ball or another player's hand (they're not supposed to grab the shield or helmet, but it happens) crushes the device or worse, drives it into the player's eyes. They would need some sort of built-in thing if that's the case and I'm sure that the NFL will have rules against putting cameras on the back of the helmet so the player can keep an eye there.
I agree that contact forms are annoying, but mailto links assume the user has an email account. I know it's rare, but think about some of the people using the computers at the public library [1]. Or think about the time you may jump on someone else's computer. I know, Gmail, bla, bla, bla, but mailto links are dependent on a mail account; contact forms are not.

([1] Not specifically relevant, but this post comes to mind for some reason: http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210 )
> Meh, you look in the mirror, really examine yourself, and the thing you come back with to make yourself feel better is your skin color? That... is kinda sad.

And you're right. In a vacuum that would be quite sad and stupid.

But when someone is telling you that white people are the reason for all the wrongs in this world (and they need to make things right), or that you should be ashamed of your white-privilege, I provide another perspective.

Personally, myself, I don't have a source of pride in being white, I identify myself mostly as an individual caught up in this crazy thing we call existence.

But most importantly, I neither have a source of guilt in being white. And that was kind of what I was trying to convey.... That neither should he.
The only issue glass has is google's inability to launch a status product. Lets see if they get it right this time.
The implication that people care about GNU Hurd amuses me. I have nothing against it, but at this point, it's fairly clear that Hurd lost the kernel battle.

And I thought the same thing (about it being Hurd).
I'm waiting to see how glass is received by law enforcement. On the one hand it would provide them with full capability to record all evidence and interactions an officer would have, in addition to potentially retrieving an individual's criminal record on the spot. On the other hand it would shed light on the unofficial pressuring and intimidation tactics used in day-to-day interactions with the poor.
The first time I opened Gmail in Chrome, it asked me if Gmail should handle mailto links. I said yes, so now mailto links work great for me. It's still kinda messy, but at least Chrome and Gmail made it easy for me rather than having me dive into obscure settings. Not sure how Chrome handles other webmail clients, though.
Yeah, the article is poorly written. I want to share this news, but I'm going to find a different article about it.
Good to hear this perspective. Thats exactly what I am pursuing for WannaGet.com , and its encouraging to know that I am following a route that more experienced folks agree with :-)
Most dev estimates are inevitably expressed in ideal hours. Even assuming no potholes, you need to multiply that by a load factor to get an approximation of real hours. Industry standard load factor is between 2-5x, typically around 3x when a team is up to speed. Therefore management need to multiply all estimates by 5 at the start of a project, ramping down to 3, and pray whilst adding some contractual contingency for the potholes.

The corollary of this is that a management KPI can be to reduce load factor down to around 2 - which becomes a concrete measure of their effectiveness at removing impediments. (And yes this means that increasing productivity is a management task and not a developer issue.)
I'd really love to get some feedback from you about a service that I am working on (http://www.authic.com). It's similar to Gigya & Janrain, but less about social, more focusing on bringing paid subscription web apps to market faster.

edit: My email is in my profile if you are interested in discussing it off HN. Beta code: authic_beta_testers
Thanks so much! We ended up going with Unirest, which we think is a great fit for the project. I just wanted to say I appreciate your help.
>Why would anybody self-proclaim to be associated with any group that could even be remotely linked to illegal activity or political dissension?

Same reason some criminals brag about their exploits on Facebook... only to be caught the same day.

Pride, status and notoriety.
No, because FB puts the same links and content under the right-hand side. Can you enumerate the issues that need to be addressed? I have ready of research on the lack-luster implementations (eg. Twitter) that many assume is the status quo.
There was only a small core group of people inside Lulzsec. They were all arrested except Virus. He's not stupid enough to get caught either in fact he called Sabu being a CI the day he came back online after being busted and started offering people money to break into federal honeypots. This is why Virus is still free and not sitting in the pen
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Acquisition prices in the news are usually vague, and could be cash + earnout over the golden handcuff period.
If you can buy the whole outfit at one store. Also, be able to click on items to see them closer up. a tooltip that has size and availablity. a little left and right arrow that allowed it to scroll automatically. Also, people need to be able to tag or pin or share on facebook pintrest. Maybe even let friends comment on the outfit you arranged. Also, be able to scramble the combinations.
Maybe don't drink any kool aid at all and focus on delivering value to customers.
Ya. I've had a glance at the inbox of a few VC's I know.
It's not pretty.
Not to correlate inbox size with "busy-ness" ... but it's a proxy.
From what I can tell it just takes sometime for awareness and adoption to occur. This is especially the case for people coming from the long trusted MySQL. Basically it's not so much that there is something wrong with Maria, just attachment to the firmiliar.

Just my 2¢
Try auto foo = some_big_type();

If you're not talking about initialization, but instead talking about construction, just do some_big_type foo; (no parens needed).
> I don't know why everyone doesn't use mailto links

Maybe they don't assume that every visitor has an email account or _their_ email account on the computer they are using?
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The thing is that I can see this as a must have feature in an automobile, but the idea of walking into a party with the glasses could kill the party (or imagine if someone wears them into the bathroom?).
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I actually like this - I don't configure my desktop client and purely use gmail - additionally, I often browse in incognito mode, logged out of any email client. I have been deterred from emailing site issues to the contact email when I had to jump through additional hoops. It's not part of my work flow, and thus I don't want to deal with setting things up for it.

I think the one suggestion of adding an actual mailto: on the form would be beneficial and allows those who want that as well easy access to the email address as well.
Why not make the contact form look a bit more like an email and put the recipient address at the top as a mailto link. That way people who like forms click and get a form, those of us who like mailto can then click on the email address.
Just because you disagree with their actions it doesn't mean that they were just random script-kiddies. I am not a hacker but it certainly seemed like they had at least a modicum of true skill.

For some reason it seems that most people can't differentiate between the skill and morality of an action.
Huntsville is small, affordable and has a lot of technology companies associated with defense and aerospace. I don't know about the nightlife.

"Rocket City Rednecks" is not an inaccurate characture.