skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except in the military, which is high density but pretty conservative.

Anyway, the usual causation question arises: do people become more liberal as they gain neighbors? Or do they choose to live somewhere with more neighbors because they are already liberal?
You know....I have wanted to build a Ruby tool like this, but just for iterators. I was going to call it 'eye-terator', because you can see within the iterator.

The idea being that you can step through the iteration (say an each, for, or any other iterator in Ruby) and see the state of all variables/objects at each step in the iteration - and then also allow it to handle nested loops, blocks, etc.

I was thinking a simple site like the Ruby Regex Tool[1] would work wonders.

I just haven't had the time to do something like that - I need to beef up my JS to execute that as elegantly as I would like. But I suspect that would be a very useful tool for Ruby devs.

#justsaying

[1] - http://rubular.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Psychoactive_effects

3rd paragaph
Sometimes I find new "ecig" smokers tend to puff on them (myself included initially) much longer then a regular cigarette. Such as, vaping all day or for hours (even if it is only once every 5-10 minutes over that time period).

Nicotine levels also vary and can be customized.
I enjoy reading that every generation thought that in 50 years there will be no more conservatives.

Every 20 something thinks with absolute certainty that their political views wont change with age. And that it's only a matter of time until the rest of the world catches up to their 'correct' views.
There's pretty much nothing I can do. One competitor even made an icon almost identical to mine. I contacted Apple, but all they did was forward my complaint to the competitor. The competitor first sent me a threatening email, but then they changed their icon.

I think the best way to guard against competitors is to improve your product. The first one and a half years I was always far ahead of my competition. Since about a year I haven't had time for any significant new features, so my competitors have catched up. Some competing apps now have more features, some are a lot cheaper... Unfortunately the next logical steps for improving my app are so much work that I don't know if they would pay off.
No, it's extremely negative.

"In the nanoseconds that followed, the capsule imploded and released a neutron yield of nearly 3x10^15, or approximately 8,000 joules of neutron energy..."

[...]

"These promising returns were the result of a laser experiment that delivered 1.7 megajoules (MJ or million joules) of ultraviolet light..."

More numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility#NIF...
It looks awesome. Being inspired by one of Bret Victor's videos, I built something similar for my (at that time) 7-8 year old in Lua: http://notebook.kulchenko.com/zerobrane/live-coding-in-lua-b.... Here is another screencast where you can see a game developer (Andy Bower) live-coding a simple app running on iPad in 25 minutes (http://notebook.kulchenko.com/zerobrane/gideros-live-coding-...).
That sounds like the reverse of the saying "A Conservative is a Liberal who's been mugged."
> Let me point out that your subsequent lines indicate you are talking about your addiction to tobacco, not to nicotine

Yeah, but only for the second phase of the quit. I went half-way through the exact same first phase in a previous quit, by using patches for 2 weeks first.
The same volume of celery has about 4 calories, IIRC.

Everything is relative, and I think the GP and I would agree that eggs are not unhealthy.
And doctors are glorified human body technicians.
They are a smaller code base, commands take less options, do less things. It's closer to the original UNIX userland.

A minority of people prefers this characteristics, history suggests that the majority just enjoys the added features: the GNU userland was widespread before Linux existed, people today install (parts of) the GNU userland on Mac OS X using fink/macports/homebrew.
yeah, exactly. I was helping my 6th grader last night on "Earth Science" (scoped at California) and we covered maps and their definition. One of the primary prerequisite for a map is having physical features like rivers, mountains etc.
Good Job! Execution is everything, and shipping a Product in 2 Weeks is AWESOME! It sounds like you are on the right path, executing fast and getting traction. Keep it up! Make sure to check back in with the customers and use their feedback (I think you know that already after reading your Blog)
not a bug, that's a feature.
I think you are flipping conservatives and liberals. Liberals tend to rely on authority and hierarchies (the state, and similar authority figures), whereas conservatives tend to rely on communities and relationships (church, family, secular community orgs). Or am I misinterpreting something here?
The first two are fine by me. Sadly a lot of the teens I meet (younger siblings) think that soaking themselves in Axe means they don't smell.

With a history like Listerine's I'm surprised I've never come across a chain email about it [1 (the margarine section)].

[1] http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp
I'm not convinced how well that ridge is going to work over the course of, say, an FPS or platformer game session. For a strategy game or lower-pressure situation it's quite likely just fine. But for action games... maybe?

But the lack of tension is going to be a bummer for action games regardless.
Where are the videos of him dancing? I can't believe nobody captured video.
Ok, so can you, or someone, explain "Swedish snus" to me? I'm curious, because whenever I have put any kind of American "dip" tobacco product in my mouth, my salivary glands go fucking nuclear and I end up drooling or spitting like a redneck.

Does Swedish snus made in some way so that this doesn't happen? If so, I need to try it!
SlidePay (YC W12) is hiring engineers to radically change financial services
Contact: joel@slidepay.com

SlidePay is looking to bring on software engineers to help our company grow and continue to make useful, valuable products that people want to use. To be a good fit for our team, you should (these are non-negotiable):
- Be relentless about software quality and testing
- Know how to build a distributed system and do it right - RESTful HTTPS, SOAP, XML/JSON
- We don't expect you to exhaust yourself daily, but you absolutely must be efficient and effective

General requirements for the ideal candidate:
- BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- 2-5 years of previous experience
- Have your own transportation
- Live in the Bay area (no relocation)
- Are a US citizen

Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience building one or more successful mobile applications
- Full-stack experience
- Have built products that have a long list of positive customer reviews associated with them
- Have leveraged engineering savvy to build content that attracts new customers and grows the business
- Are product centric, understand customer use cases, and have strong design chops

Company Description
We're in Mountain View on Castro St and our focus is helping developers build next-generation commerce applications. We're a group of dedicated, talented engineers that know how to build high quality distributed systems and extensible platforms that solve complex problems the right way (and we have the track record to prove it). We want someone that is motivated, top notch, and wants their opportunity to shine at an awesome startup.
I don't know how successful this public effort can be, but I think it's the first time I see a company using a long-form sales letter to find investors. I'd love to read an update from the people behind the company once they're done with their fund-raising and see what the results of doing this were vs. traditional fundraising.
I'm working on a Bitcoin trading bot. I won't go into the details of how it works, but it's capable of making a few hundred per day, depending on how much money it's given to work with.
And China plans on building another canal through Central America: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1021216...
I think if you read all the comments you'll realize why you couldn't sell these. They aren't maps, they are riddled with errors, they are not even in a vector scalable format.
Honest question - do you not post the videos immediately afterwards because you think it will cannibalize attendance in the future?
That's because they carefully picked 1997 as the starting year. What does the trendline look like if you pick other starting years?

More generally, why do we assume that a linear trendline is the appropriate way to analyze this data? Has anyone actually done an analysis that doesn't start from that assumption?
As an urban republican, I find this intuitive, although there is significant variation from neighborhood to neighborhood even holding density constant. Even amongst republicans, you still see major policy opinion differences that are divided by urban vs exurban. I'm hoping the urban variant becomes more prominent :)

That aside, please please pretty please do not do statistical analyses with Excel.
WHO announces sugar intake must come down
Are you seriously claiming that Apple kept the RAM below 1GB so that "Now has >1GB' could be their headline feature for next year?
big data is the buzzword you're looking for.
So in essence they do tons of pre-processing on their data. I wonder how long the pre-processing takes compared to the amount of speed gains it produced for them.
under international law any claim not backed up by a strong enough force is void. At least it has been the case so far :)

>Somalian boarding for inspection and collection of fees (which other countries call piracy)

for it to not constitute piracy it should be performed using guided missile destroyer, not an inflatable rubber boat.
Drinking, Startups and Focus
Nicaragua, China bet $40 billion on a canal to rival Panama
In the mean time, Canada is spending $300 million just to acquire the ability to build ice breakers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/shipbuilding-contract-holds-...
It's not pure nicotine, but a mixture of propylene glycol or vegetable glycol, flavoring, and then nicotine.

Some of the off the shelf disposable / prepackaged e-cigs aren't powerful enough to have a strong vaporization of the solution. When you're refilling yourself, it becomes substantially cheaper (maybe a few dollars for a month of heavy usage?), and with the higher end kits you can program your voltage / amperage settings on curves for your preference as you in inhale.
It has a mouse replacement for RTS and FPS, can emulate all the buttons for games that need buttons, and has 2 big analogic sticks for games that need them.

Looks like a nice new thing, not as different as the kinetic or wiimote, but not more of the same either.
The Valve page mostly talked about mechanical and electrical design openness, but if the input mapping api is open too, I'm sure they'll be as many mapping options as there are game mods.
Wow, thanks for the response and the fix!

(I still would like to be able to zoom, but that's like asking for two ponies, and even getting one pony is far better than I could reasonably expect. Kudos!)
Exactly. They could even allow an option for only matching you with people with similar control configs for some games.
Breaking news: Man has a Klout score of 68
They're solving the last mile problem recursively. Very elegant.
You can do a couple pieces of day, with no problem, IME. Chew it up well and let it sit in your lip for optimal absorption.

That said, when nicotine is exposed to oral tissues, it may be promoting:

-oral cancer

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338106

-gingivitis

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20337880

-receding gums

Source: don't have a specific study handy, but this high-level review mentions it, and other issues:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2933534/

Keep in mind, these are all slight chances. If you do this regularly for years, it may be of concern. Every once in a while? No biggie.

Patch will get you around all of these, specific issues at least. There's still that whole 'carcinogenic, overall' thing.
Most of those calories are not from fat or protein, but from sugars, which was the GP's point.
Subject to debate, and everyone's gonna want to think that their "side" is the most enlightened... (end disclaimer)

I think a lot of liberals see conservatives as authoritarian in that they support the police/military parts of government. Even your tea party libertarians tend to see the police/military as 'our people', culturally speaking and as a necessary part of the state philosophically speaking. Liberals tend to distrust police/military a lot more.

So while your libertarian is a lot less friendly to 'The State' and 'Big G Government', typically they're thinking about zoning boards, the FDA, FCC and welfare when they're against those things -- not particularly hierarchical organizations compared to military/police.

Basically, you're thinking economics, we're thinking marching orders.

(as a liberal, I find it ridiculous when I hear conservatives talk about the tyranny of big govt while pushing for an increase in defense spending and more militarization of police)
A direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S8JFoT6BEM
This is probably a stupid question, but I know that Ambrose has written and presented on a type checker written in core.logic. Is this related to that in any way?
lukifer is expressed a common view. I think "liberal" and "conservative" aren't quite the best terms to use here, with Republican and Democrat being better (party/cultural affiliations vs. more purely political preferences).

Some of this is explored by cognitive scientist/linguist George Lakoff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics)

I'm not buying the whole thing, but recent studies about one's affiliation correlating with various ways of viewing the world bear out some of Lakoff's thoughts.
>It's an "or", not "and necessarily".

Yeah, but what I am saying is that you put the same people on both sides. Virtually everyone in haskell land is a C fan, it was a recent topic of discussion actually.

>Ocaml is more pragmatic than Haskell, in my opinion

There's a reason the haskell community is far larger than the ocaml community, and that the tools and libraries for haskell are way ahead of those for ocaml. From a purely pragmatic perspective, haskell is a far more useful language than ocaml. I say this as someone who switched from ocaml to haskell for entirely practical reasons.

>Eagerness is more practical than laziness

No it isn't. In 95% of cases it isn't relevant. In the other 5%, you want to use the right one. For practical purposes, it does not matter if a language is lazy by default or strict by default, as long as it is easy to do the other one. Ocaml makes it easy to do lazy, haskell makes it easy to do strict.

>refs more practical than e.g. state monads

Refs are not comparable to state monads. They are comparable to IORefs, or MVars, or TVars. Which are more useful than ocamls refs. A state monad is an extra thing ocaml simply lacks altogether.

>so correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that OCaml is in most senses an impure superset of Haskell

Not at all. Ocaml and haskell share a similar subset, but both have large area the other doesn't. There is very rarely a simple translation from haskell to ocaml, as ocaml is missing so many things that are commonly used in haskell code. There is more often a simple translation from ocaml to haskell, as idiomatic ocaml rarely uses objects. First class modules is generally the issue with translating in that direction.

>http://jxyzabc.blogspot.com/2009/03/haskell-vs-ocaml-or-ravi.... echoes my impression.

Yes, and it repeats the same weird memes about haskell that don't actually make any sense to someone who has used haskell for a non-trivial project. Like "needing monads for state".
How many islands (or what % of total land mass) does a nation need to be considered an archipelagic state?
But that's disputable given that Canada claims that some of the Northwest Passage is internal waters.
This is just a re-telling of a well known fact. Rural areas tend to be red and urban areas tend to be blue. Only this is retold with the connotation that republicans are somehow antisocial.

I'd just like to point out that proximity is not equivalent to interaction. In my experience social interaction was higher in rural settings. In a small town you will know all your neighbors, and probably half the people at your local stores. In a city it's the opposite, strangers abound.
If you're a person in America, you're probably a woman.
It's been obvious to me for a long time that the firewall and NAT are the primary causes of Internet centralization. I think they're a far greater factor than the CAP theorem or protocol / programming model difficulties. For whatever reason, I seem unable to get other people to see what I see here. Most people seem to just not get it.

I mean seriously... if nodes cannot easily contact each other horizontally then of course everything evolves toward a super-centralized model with large central groups of nodes acting as intermediaries. What part of that is hard to understand?!?

Thanks for the props. A new alpha release of ZeroTier is coming soon, and then it's going into beta with downloadable installers and other nice things. ZT1 is not going to decentralize the 'net, but it does create a lab where people can play with such things. (And it's an interesting VPN alternative for decentralized orgs too.)
Any market?

It would have to be a market where I can get a handle on the state of technology and its economics relatively quickly. I couldn't do it for biotech, or cleantech, or surgical instruments, for example. I'd also need to be able understand the users and their culture extremely well. I probably couldn't design a great breakfast cereal, or sneakers for teenagers in Japan.

I really meant this comparatively. Understanding markets is an order of magnitude harder than understanding products (at least to me), and is probably more important.
Hi, Federico (one of the co-founders) here. We thought a lot about talking in terms of Uber (or Heroku in the add-ons part) and we are aware of this fear of name dropping.

The reality is that we think Uber is a whole lot more than a simple "Connect X driver to Y passenger". They've created a mesh of human transport infrastructure that can take you from point A to point B in the most efficient way. Trust me, the technology behind this is not trivial and their system is almost like a living being, constantly changing itself to meet demand. We're doing the same with trucks and commercial cargo. We don't have the "I need a ride now" problem (although we do have schedules to follow) so it makes it a bit easier for us.

On the tech side this means that we have to predict supply/demand for the products we move. We also have to take the 2000+ trucks we have and treat them like a big pool of resources so we can get volume pricing, make good use of deadhead miles (done with location/route info.) and optimize underperforming routes (by getting more customers A -> B/B -> A.
Lead like the Godmother of Silicon Alley
The thing that got me interested in Urbit when it was first announced back in 2010 was reading Van Jacobson's "Networking Named Content" paper [1] and related work from PARC, referenced in this blog post [2]. As someone who has spent 15 years now working on web development, browser development, and web standards, I feel the Internet really needs some form of "named data" networking as its next big step. I don't know if Urbit is the way it's going to happen, but it'll happen somehow. Maybe we'll evolve browsers and HTTP into a named data network instead. (On the one hand, it would be orders of magnitude easier than building an entire new model of computing from scratch... on the other hand, you don't get to throw out the whole ball of mud if you just keep building on top of it.)

Anyway, I encourage everyone to read the Van Jacobson paper or watch the tech talk. It points out some assumptions that are so baked into our network architectures that I had never really thought about them. And it gives some context for these slides' claim that "the internet has failed," by pointing to a working alternate system that's a better fit for some common cases. The link from the Urbit blog to the Van Jacobson talk is broken since Google Video was shut down, but you can now find it on YouTube [3].

[1] http://www.parc.com/publication/2318/networking-named-conten...

[2] http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM
From my understanding of the video, the queries are generated by the analysts via a frontend-generated or hand-written SQL query. The SQL query is parsed by PostgreSQL which forwards it via FDW[1] to Multicorn[2]. Their custom data storage and processing backend implements the API expected by Multicorn (e.g., you implement the multicorn.ForeignDataWrapper interface); this is where they transform from the parsed, serialized SQL into their custom DSL (the metaprogramming bit) which compiles to LLVM.

--

[1] http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers

[2] http://multicorn.org/
The major difference between a mouse and a controller stick is the type of input.

Mouse is a pointing input - for a movement of 1 unit, your view changes by 1 unit. If you stop moving the mouse, your view stops moving.

Controller stick is a velocity input - for a movement of 1 unit, your view starts moving at a speed of 1 unit. If you bring the stick back to center, your view stops moving.

It could be that the Steam controller trackpad is precise enough to be a pointing input sensor, which could enable precise aiming. But it's too early to tell before the first reviews are out.
Why we prefer oranges to apples
Ask HN: Where to bounce off ideas?
Coming up with ideas is a problem in itself, but I find it very hard to verify whether an idea is worth pursuing, worth money, or even just an endevour to learn something on the way. I don't have many friends who have enough insight in the matter to really discuss something like that and the usual reaction is either "I don't even know what you're talking about" or "Sounds good, wouldn't pay for it though".

It seems the general mentality is "if you build it they will come". Whether that is a good idea or not doesn't really matter in the end because I personally don't believe in it.

I'm rather protective of my work and putting software in the open adds another level of required polish in the mix.

Honestly, I don't even know if that ever happens, but HN, reddit or similar feels too "open" to discuss such things and I'd fear someone would steal my idea (if it was good enough). I've personally came across a few "Look what we've build" posts which ended up in me thinking "Good idea, not so great implementation. Maybe I should copy and improve...".

How do you guys do it? Verify it? Do people go undercover and find the right forums? Ask questions like "you guys seem to have trouble with that tool, how about a better one?", "would you guys use an app for that"?
So, to be clear, you're saying this is not a map: http://cdn.myzipcodemap.com/statemaps/CA.PDF; this is not a map: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/standard-tube-map.pdf ...
It's not as trivial as you might think.

We tried that relative-to-an-absolute scheme on our iPhone FPS and it was very confusing. The best scheme was a relative-to-a-relative center where the origin would "follow" the thumb, but then we had a full screen to do that.

The problem with a relative-to-an-absolute scheme (even one with the little raised circle) is you have no idea where the thumb is until you touch the control but then it's too late.

Not saying it can't be done, it's just a little bit tricky.