skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I've heard that fertility surgeons joke about is that by providing ICSI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracytoplasmic_sperm_injectio...) they are "breeding more work for their sons."

Basically, people/genes that would have died out are being helped to continue in the gene pool.
As a Brit my impression is that the "correct" term is "Developer". "Programmer" is used self-deprecatingly, like a violinist calling themselves a fiddler; it has overtones of button-pusher, code monkey rather than someone who makes things.
Bang on, it's the horrible person who comes into the house of somebody physically vulnerable and steals pain medication from them (true story); those are the people that are the adversary.

Pain medication, from somebody with nerve fire… I just don't understand that mentality!
Does this provide any advantages over Jasmine for JavaScript BDD called by Karma (formerly Testacular) as the Test Runner?

http://pivotal.github.io/jasmine/

http://karma-runner.github.io/0.8/index.html
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It could be caused by this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_density_dependence
You may be interested to peruse some of the dialog of the "Tanenbaum-Torvalds" debate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deba...). Basically, Andrew Tanenbaum, creator and advocate of the MINIX operating system (from which Linus drew some inspiration) got into a debate with Linus in 1987, claiming that the monolithic kernel design was inferior to the microkernel, and that Linux was obsolete from launch. Linus's responses throughout the debate strike me as some of his more respectful and thoughtful rhetoric. (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html)
I'm sure this has already been discussed, and I know this falls under "easier said than done", but you guys should really try to get this on toy aisle shelves. Perhaps in the form of a book? Maybe have a prominent "Try me!" feature on the cover instructing the user to install the free app and point it at the cover to get people pulled in.
> A fan? That will do nothing.

Have you tried it though? Seems like you're dismissing it out of hand.

edit: and having read the rest of the comments it seems like fans are widely used in India in Vietnam to combat mosquitoes.
Ok, I did not pay attention to the timespan, thought it is much more recent study. This however, doesn't alter anything, people today are no more willing to self-reveal fatal/terminal/disabling ilnesses, or even to accept having one - than 100 years ago
Yes, of course, if an experiment gets the wrong result, you declare the experiment faulty and try again. You should never let your ideas become polluted by empirical evidence.
While ycombinator does not have a policy of posting affiliate/referral links (that I know of), usually forums explicitly forbid this practice.

On the forums that do allow it, typical etiquette is to notify the reader of a posted referral link, and also give them the choice of a non-affiliate link - and then let them decide.
It is transparent, and so is "white coke".
Quake 1 did this, iirc. From what I remember, game studios around that time played around with different bindings, but generally stuck with keyboard only bindings by default, because mouse+keyboard was still considered an "advanced user" technique. For the most part, game makers adapted to how the users were playing (WASD) rather than setting a standard and expecting users to follow.
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The pop-feminism practised in places like SRS, Jezebel, Tumblr, etc. is the social-justice equivalent of giving the appendicitis patient pain meds. "Smashing the patriarchy" will still leave the underlying disease of which it's a symptom (essentialism and roles assigned on the basis of gender) untreated.

Now I'm confused. I'm an SRSer, and "the patriachy" is gender roles. "smashing the patriachy" means ending gender roles & essentialism.

* the popular conception of "patriarchy" is deeply flawed in other ways (it lacks the explanatory power to say anything more glib than a 101-style "of course it hurts you too, sweetie" to men who are also being harmed by the deeper disease of essentialism, to take one example).*

Here's a thread on SRS talking about how the patriachy hurts men: http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSDiscussion/comments/1a0bef/xpost_...

Believe me, us social justice/feminist/SRS people do have serious conversations about lots of things, including men.
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> Since more people die in international wars, the majority of people who die in wars die in international ones.

It's all a matter of frequency. How many international wars have you had recently? What about regional conflicts, like Ethiopian troops fighting Islamists in Somalia? Fact is, you get a lot more small-scale conflict on average than large-scale conflicts.

Besides, I don't understand this argument of corporations being opposed to governments. Private interests in strategic areas have worked hand-in-hand with governments to further their agenda (British Petroleum, United Fruit, Shell) or are the armed hand of the government (Blackwater).
I can't find the link but wasn't there an article, either by Ycombinator or about Ycombinator, that directly contradicted this article. The gist of it was that a VC firm isn't really looking for already-profitable companies that can assure a nickle-and-dime cut of steadily-increasing revenue. The idea is to invest in 10 companies with a high-risk margin, and the one company that (statistically) takes off will earn such incredible revenue, magnitudes greater than any reliable and stable business could hope to earn, and that will pay for the investment lost on the other 9 which, being high risk, will not make a return. The underlying philosophy was that if it seems like a stable, reasonable business idea, then anybody and everybody could have, and would have, thought of it already, and the potential for fantastic growth is just simply not there. They'd rather pay for someone's quirky, crazy startup on the 1/10 or 1/20 chance that it will take off, as the return from that will be so great that it can pay for itself, pay for the other failed high-risk investments, and then keep on paying.
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What camera was that photo taken with? The quality is really good. (For the early nineties) Is it a scan of a film camera?
I Google-translated the article, and it seems to talk about the many Coke bottles in Cuba post-revolution being re-cycled to contain a local drink, the name of which I wasn't quite able to pick out of the translation, but which wasn't "Coke".
Using this to bring up something related, which I have always wondered: How do you orient your hands when performing ⌘+Z/X/C when using a Mac keyboard? Which finger presses the ⌘?

Having used Windows as a child and Linux for many years since, I'm sure a large part is "you get used to whatever you use". However, any time I borrow a friend's Apple laptop to demonstrate something, I always waste a few cycles thinking about just how I should really be dealing with the keyboard, and never really settle on an answer.

At its core, I love the idea of the ⌘ key: Something for shortcuts in GUI applications so that Ctrl can remain for sending Unix Signals. But it's position, combined with the lack of discrete Home, End, PgUp, or PgDn, is a majority of what keeps me from buying a Macintosh laptop. Also the whole function key deal. The keyboard is such an important source of my productivity.
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For sure, there are times when certain things simply have to get done. I didn't talk about that side of things simply because it would have diluted the message, and I figured that it was a given.

However, contrary to what the GP says, 100% time (at least, my personal experience) bears little to no resemblance to the 80/20 split found in many workplaces. I don't know what the split actually shakes out to in my case, but short of allowing random HNers to surveil me (as tantalizing a notion as that may be :-P), everyone will just have to take me at my word that what I'm talking about isn't some sugar-coated notion of "it feels like I'm not working because I love my work so much".
On the contrary, I always liked that my iPhone corrects "well" to "we'll", since I use the latter far more than the former.
YMMV, but I know a few companies, many in mobile-but-not-games, who have X00,000 or Y million MAUs/downloads/etc and are afraid of cursing that by monetizing. A couple are in your neck of the woods.

No points for predicting my advice to those of them who have asked for it.
Yeah, he doesn't really present any logic for that, either. As if he's starting from the discrete arrow keys and making an assumption that this is an optimal placement. I remember struggling with up/down on arrow keys as a child, thinking it should be more like a cross, with a space between down and up, or with the left/right keys centered on the gap between up and down.

Edit: Echoing asdfs's comment elsewhere in the thread, I think that jkl; would be an alternative with actual, arguable benefits.
'White coke' was transparent coke. 'Black' coke is transparent too (hold it up to the light).

You've never seen vodka in person?
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OAuth is vulnerable
Socialism/capitalism primarily deals with the question of how to distribute scarce resources - which, by definition, is irrelevant in a post-scarcity society.
I haven't really though about the speed of moving of the Voyager probes before, but I noticed it's km's/s which I didn't expect (not really into astronomy and physics). But I also noticed the page does the distance calculation offline, so I decided to just measure the distance on a second interval and derive the speed. I think their algorithm isn't accurate, since I am getting a reading of about 33 km/s and it seems that the actual speed is around 17 km/s. Here is my script:

var lastDistance = parseInt($("#voy1_km").text().replace(/(\sKM)|(,)/g, ""));
var interval = setInterval(function() {
var newDistance = parseInt($("#voy1_km").text().replace(/(\sKM)|(,)/g, ""));
var diff = (newDistance - lastDistance);
console.log("Speed: " + (diff * 3600) + " km/h");
console.log("Speed: " + (diff) + " km/s");
lastDistance = newDistance;
}, 1000);
> One could argue that your diet and lifestyle could've caused that, and it's hard to counter.

I think he chose a benign example, but I'm sure everybody is aware of birth defects.
Here, we're capitalists - we believe in startups, and are not philosophically opposed to making money.

If someone is spamming this site with referral links, they should be dealt with harshly and kicked out. Otherwise, if you don't like a book recommendation you can downvote. I don't post books I don't think are interesting, and only where appropriate - a few cents are not worth it to me to appear coming across as a shill. But I do enjoy receiving a bit of money to reinvest in more books.
Most likely a scan of a film. You can see small white particles on the photo at full size.
This is closer to rspec and the best practices for bdd.

I find Jasmine closer to mini test

I mostly use jasmine but they are both excellent frameworks.
The dust and other spots imply a scan of a developed photo (not the negative, as the dust would be dark there, not bright).

And I'm amazed that people are amazed by photo quality from two decades ago. The resolution of standard 35-mm film was fairly hard to achieve in consumer digital cameras until recently (or maybe it still is, but I guess DSLRs have gone consumer enough by now).
here's what i think. in both ijkl and hjkl, you have one finger doing 2 keys. In vi, it's pointing finger doing hj, moving side ways. In ijkl, it's middle finger doing up down. So i think ijkl is slightly better. I remember seeing similar analysis on coleman forum.
Ubuntu, or Linux?
I, and all OS X users I know, use the thumb to press command. I rarely need to use home/end, since control-A and control-E work in all text fields. PgUp and PgDn are fn+up/fn+down, but I never use those.
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Microsoft Reorg: The Missing Answer
Unfortunately adding another USB connection would make a difference, there is the cognitive load of just being tethered to my computer there are sometimes situations where I need to get out of my wheelchair quickly; so minimising connections is the order of the day.

That being said this solution could be implemented wirelessly maybe? I mean have the arduino sitting somewhere connected to the laptop wirelessly, and then have a switch connected to the arduino wirelessly as well?

The only sticking points I could see are that obviously I can't assemble these things myself, and travelling to a Hackerspace would be impossible unfortunately.

Also, I'm in the UK.
What's infuriating is that over here in Europe, the focus on making money early on with a startup is considered the biggest drawback of the VC and investment community.

"VCs are so risk adverse here, they expect you to get some revenue in the FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS! Man, why can't we be more like the Valley?"

I've long said this is a feature, not a bug. It's refreshing to see this article. Maybe some over here will take note.
The problems with privacy on the internet are so large and entrenched it's hard to know where to start. Strong end-to-end encryption is good. Challenging government policy is good. A diversity of services is good. Donating to the EFF is good. There is more than one battle, and people who are fighting the same war should be wary of undermining people who have chosen different battles.
Did it taste the same?
unfortunately no video of the actual talk.
Any laws like this should always have a sunset clause, otherwise they are open to abuse. For instance in the UK local councils have used terrorist powers to see if people are trying to game the school catchment system to get into a better school [1]. And also used to spy on Fisherman [2].

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7343445.stm
[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/14/law.humanrights
We know a long list of genes that are obviously broken versus a non-broken version that serves billions of people well.

Why not replace all faulty genes with known good ones? In homozygote cases, you can replace one of two copies with good version.
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We are dedicated to new versions of the app! Of course with each update, you will see new alphabets, courses, as well as other interesting features!

We really appreciate your feedback and your reviews!

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Driverless cars to be tested on UK roads by end of 2013
>I rarely need to use home/end, since control-A and control-E work in all text fields.

Interesting. If I can remember that and keep it in mind, I'll be far less jumpy and clunky next time I'm typing on a Mac. Thanks!

On the note of PgUp and PgDn, I suppose I mostly use them for tab navigation: Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn works as a "Next Tab" and "Previous Tab" in pretty much every tabbed Linux application I've used. I recall it being almost universal in Windows as well. Is there an OS X equivalent shortcut for Next/Prev Tab?
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> Revenue should be the most important metric for people who want to make money. That's inarguable.

Revenue is a good start but at some point you need to consider profit. And yes, I have been in a room where someone proposed making up the per-unit loss through greater volume (on physical goods).
I do wish that it had been 'JKL;' instead of 'HJKL'. Pulling my fingers from their resting position has always bothered me.
I know people of the same lifestyle who have good vision and/or perfect teeth. Sometimes clearly inherited.

I don't want to "understand nature", I don't want to change my lifestyle, I just want it to be fixed, next generation getting the good parts.
If the USA was really interested in saving the most lives possible, it would use War on Terror funds to do cancer research instead. Instead, it likes having the excuse to issue legislation such as the Patriot Act.
I actually use "well" far more often, although I could see certain demographics (i.e. couples) using "we'll."
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I like the async test handling better than Jasmine. It's the first thing I look for in testing frameworks nowadays.

I'm working on a simple lightweight framework at the moment that's designed to run on browsers in target environments such as VMs or cloud browsers, and a lot of my code deals with async issues.

Moving to a promise-based system is definitely something I'm considering investigating.

One pet peeve I have with all of these test frameworks though is the "kitchen sink" approach: there is always a substantial list of features. This led to me to roll my own.
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What I find mind boggling is the fact that Voyagers are not even at a full light day distance yet. Things in Astronomy are often expressed in distances of light years. Unimaginable vast distances away from us.
I'd personally be surprised if a court even agreed to hear this.
I tend to just thumb it (the left side one, I only tend to use the right one for the command-delete trash shortcut), same as I do with alt- shortcuts on Windows layout keyboards. I find the mental shift from using command on OS X to Ctrl on Windows pretty easy to do, but then I spend a lot of time on both platforms.

One of the things I find quite difficult to mentally adapt to when switching is the behaviour of the Enter key, since in Windows it is open, and in OS X it is rename (which I find much more useful, since you can command-down arrow to open which is used for folder navigation with command-up for opening the parent folder).

There are a bunch of little-advertised command key shortcuts for Home, PgUp, etc too, so you figure out a way to make it work pretty quickly (some work inconsistently though, I tend to mainly use the word/line based stuff rather than page/document). See http://ss64.com/osx/syntax-keyboard.html .
Those "benign examples" are life-long liability in money, happiness and increased risk. Thank you very much.
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Command-shift and square brackets seems to be pretty common (well, it works in Terminal and Chrome, so there's about 80% of my usage there).
Congratulations on self-publishing your work. I know how much work it is (published a book this year, working on a second) and I know what it's like when you get criticism. Keep up the good work and a big lesson we learned was this:

Take the negative criticism on your book and reverse it. Every time we got dinged on a problem with the text in our book we worked on that chapter until we felt like no one could ever complain.
Sub-title:
Technology firms want to pay the minimum they think they can get away with for people with "digital skills" and then complain when no-one wants to work for them.
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I think we can see the next mobile hardware killer app.

I mean the number of cool "what if you did this" reminds me of early days of GPS and indeed GPS in phones
But do we know enough to tell software how to raise a child?
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It does look interesting indeed.

I also like the design and layout of the site.

BUT: Does the "Download" button behave weird for anyone else as well? It's quite slow, not really responsive, and at the same time pushes the content below the button downwards/upwards depending on state (might be part of being slow).
[Safari on OS X]

edit: I'm referring to the download button here: http://abe33.github.io/spectacular/#Browser
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I think we have a mental image of crappy VHS-esque images and whatnot (from that time)... but if people actually went back and scanned film images with good modern scanners, you'd have some awesome quality stuff.

I'd say resolution/sharpness in consumer digital cams has surpassed film, but digital (personal opinion) lacks the tones, depth, highlight-details, and overall 'magic' look of film :)
I see what you mean about the 1 finger 2 keys bit, but I find I tend to either be moving up and down lines or left and right in a line. With HJKL I'm then using two separate fingers for navigation horizontally and vertically. If I used IJKL I'd be using a single finger when moving vertically and two fingers horizontally.

I'm curious as to what people who spend more time in vim than I do think about that. Personally it seems more comfortable to be using different fingers rather than shifting when going up/down.
I'm not a vi user, but wouldn't you shift your hand one key to the left when navigating?
This is very interesting, particularly since I'm working currently on a problem of turning shop addresses in Europe into Long/Lat. Anyone know if there are more technical bits and pieces somewhere?
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Yep. Historians are gonna find low-res digial camera pics extremely puzzling, as the quality of photography in their archives goes up and up and up from the invention of photography - then completely plummets when people start using digital comaeras - then plummets to even worse than black and white photography from a hundred years ago, when it comes to shitty phone or web cams that happen to capture something interesting, then slowly climbs up again.
>One of the things I find quite difficult to mentally adapt to when switching is the behaviour of the Enter key, since in Windows it is open, and in OS X it is rename (which I find much more useful, since you can command-down arrow to open which is used for folder navigation with command-up for opening the parent folder).

For future reference, you can rename in Windows/Linux using F2. Works in Windows Explorer, and in most Linux file browsers that I have tried, though who could ever claim to have used them all? ;)

As for [Modifier]+Down to enter a folder, that makes a lot of sense and I like it. The last time I used a Windows machine (Win7 I think), I noticed that they had finally adopted Alt+Arrow navigation in Explorer. Alt+Up goes to the parent folder, same as Linux (and OS X it seems!), and Alt+Left/Right goes backward/forward in folder history. I'll probably try and add Alt+Down to one of my Linux file managers sometime, because it makes much more sense than having to switch to Enter for going into something, and Alt+Up to go back out.
>And I'm amazed that people are amazed by photo quality from two decades ago.

If I was unaware of the quality of film, my first instinct wouldn't have been to ask if the photo was a scan of one.
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> Experienced anarchists tend to have meetings because they get good at them and enjoy them.

I don't think programmers generally "enjoy" meetings, no matter how experienced we are.
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