skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its also one of those movies where if the technology actually existed, it would be so valuable, it couldn't be made illegal or made limited. It would instantly be democratized. It would have uses in pretty much every human endeavor and be the ultimate gaming and recreational environment.

Essentially, it would be lucid dreaming and world building on demand. I think the idea that it would be held down by the world's governments is more than a little simplistic. Heck, the world's governments can't keep pot or data dumps from whistle blowers off the streets, let alone something like this.
No. He wants to have a discussion of gender issues to try and increase mutual understanding and global human happiness.

Unfortunately that's an almost impossible discussion to have, because some people always divert the community into a pointless meta-discussion about whether it's legitimate to have the first discussion or not.

I've almost never seen HN discuss gender. I've seen it discuss discussing gender for pages and pages and pages...
I don't think this post is shitting on PHP - Symfony, Laravel, Fuel, etc, all produce better content manipulation screens than Drupal does. Drupal's ecosystem has a lot of problems, the biggest of which being that they can no longer attract the kind of deveopers that are willing to fix the problems endemic to the ecosystem.
POV-Ray 3.7 released
I don't understand why people refuse to pay marginal (<$100/mo) amounts for SaaS services. Look at the miserable, billable time going towards solving a problem that's already been solved by many.
I truly never thought dressing in drag could be offensive.
I don't see this as inflammatory or offensive. However, I do have a separate problem.

It reads like a rebuttal, but has no parent comment. It makes me feel like you're speaking to a comment no one made. Derail complete.
It's not just Japan or asian websites. The further away you get from the silicon valley bubble, the more sites look like they are from the late 90's. It's not really even location specific, more how tuned in developers are to the bay area style. You can look at local news papers in the US for example, or even government sites. I think part of the reason is that there's a lot of design talent in the bay area, and the further removed one is from being involved, the less people care about things like flat design and having lots of space and less content, etc.
The manufacturer has some good information about the statistical likelihood of your drive failing within a certain time period and tunes the warranty accordingly. They do not know exactly when your specific drive will fail as this would require some form of time travel.
Why would I want you to help me be the expert when I'm the expert?
My domain has "just" been deleted from the Dreamhost registry
The problem with Peak: Activity ≠ productivity
http://www.automatedtrader.net/ not sure if it is 1 to 1, but it's pretty decent.
I think all this blog post really highlights is that you can get a PhD without understanding OOP or functional programming.
Where I see this being useful isn't as a solution to programmers being "lazy" about learning DBs, but to programmers being "lazy" about dealing with RDBMS schema while rapidly iterating on a new project. Something like this lets you discover the schema as you iterate on the program, which would seem to be a win for agility.
It's not only about bid-ask spreads; I find this a gross oversimplification of what HFTs bring the market.

Other things:

- Prices around the world across all exchanges are kept in line. If you need to hedge your Yen exposure and can only trade in Europe, you will get the closest possible price as someone in Asia or the US. This is true across all asset classes. This lack of massive arbitrage may get a lot of investors/hedgers/speculators significantly better prices.

- Derivatives on almost any asset are similarly tight as their underlying assets. No longer are you crossing wide/illiquid markets to hedge back month products or options. In a lot of markets, you can trade tight/liquid markets at almost any tenure; this is potentially a LARGE cost savings particularly compared to what some of the markets looked like a decade ago.

- Stat Arb + Relative value spreads are kept in line with their variance structures. Stocks move in line with their eigen components, options move smoothly with their volatility structures, futures at various tenures are priced in line with their synthetic interest rate exposure. Without being able to accurately price something, most participants are able to get a 'good' price on almost anything.

While a lot of the HFT is indeed zero sum between firms, the net economic effect of their activity is certainly not. The amount of $ that most firms make from the HFT business is really not that large; most of the big trading firms have made their fortunes from large speculative/fortunate events, not from being the best at constantly collecting a 1/10th of a tick of edge over and over.
That article seems far-stretched and circuitous, making things out of its own rather than really explaining what Nolan is trying to say(It's actually not that complicated. Just a hugely commercial movie which is attached too many connotations. For example they had to fight their way through, probably just mainly because the need of cinematic effects). Also it has the very danger of fashioning out massive escapism. "What matters isn't whether the top stopped spinning; what matters is that Cobb didn't bother to find out." What total nonsense. If we live our real life with such an attitude then it's one of the utmost dangers I can imagine. (For example you may play a game all day long and claim that is the "reality" you are fond of being in. While in fact doing so only totally destroys your life as well as lives of people you should be together with, as I have already experienced). We have to have the will and courage to face the real life, to face all the things it throws at us no matter good or bad. True joys only derive from the reality. Any attempts of escapism will in the end only enlarge the problems you're facing and bring more disasters.
> Proper statistical analysis would help you there.

Yes, if you know the probability distribution. If you don't know the distribution, you can not calculate your confidence, and thus can not do a proper statistical analysis.

And, guess what, nobody knows the probability distribution of hard drive failures. That's exactly what they are trying to find out.
1. libxmljs can take you pretty far with NodeJS.

2. Whatever we're saying here includes only NodeJS vs PHP.
I think so too. Regardless of the idea that Cobb let go of his wife and reunited with his children or not, that ring symbolizes the intent to the viewer with much more directness.

Using the ring as an indicator allows someone to nit pick that he may be wearing the ring in that scene and that something happened between the airport and the car ride home.

Using the fact that he didn't care to verify solidifies the real result... he's given up fighting.
I'd be curious to hear more about your history in international shipping, particularly to countries in Africa.

Many countries on the continent appear to have rather robust capacity for their economies.

http://ports.com/browse/africa/map-view/
Any decent compile-time optimizer will transform your first snippet into the second one (or better). Some languages preclude that optimization at compile time, but I presume that a JIT would also have little problem performing that optimization.

That is, one could argue that a good language is one that lets developers ignore trivial changes like this without hurting performance.
http://www.wilmott.com/

Welcome to the site.
Not everyone would agree that was racist.
>> Do you actually believe suicide can be caused by someone playing dress up?

That's not what I wrote at all.^ I even provided a link for you.

I didn't state my opinion, as it's not very interesting (I really don't care about how RB dresses).

What I tried to do was to try to answer the people that asked why anyone would be offended by this ("This bet was attacked by feminists (rightly? or too sensitive?)"). I'm not offended, personally, so I tried to take a look at it from a birds-eye view to get the discussion going.

So far it's quite disappointing. I'm not sure if people are actively trying to misunderstand me or if I'm just not expressing myself very well. (Is there a name for this?) The general consensus seems to be that I'm a humorless, anti-intellectual, silly PC police that should just get over myself^^. Which I actually find quite funny. :D

Lastly, I wonder why this make people so emotional. I wanted to avoid labeling anyone as "sexist" or things like that. I don't think RB had these intentions, and he's probably a great guy...

^ This is misrepresenting what I wrote to the point where it just sounds absurd. A kind of straw man fallacy, I think. I am actually surprised to see this kind of argumentation techniques used at HN.

^^ Ad hominem, anyone? Sure, I might be any/all of these things... but it doesn't prove your point.
Is there a way to set the Explore emails to go to a different address than the primary? I set my primary as my work address, because most of my repos are work-related, but I'd like this email to go to my gmail.
No, it doesn't mean that.

Most work environments weren't designed for email, but things changed.

And no, it doesn't need to be Google services to make a Chromebook useful. You don't even need a Google account to make a Chromebook very good at a lot of things.
Wow, I never knew these. Thank you!
Desktop Dungeon is awesome. Also, do not forget the game that (I think) inspired some of FTL: Spelunky.
A few reasons... 1) When you're the expert, you're usually busy with more work than you can handle. We help you document and publicize your knowledge to get your more visibility,business leads & opps. 2) It takes a lot of work to stay ahead of the curve, so we help you do that so you can better use your time. 3) It really helps you to bring in future opportunities (jobs, customers, income) as content draws SEO and eyeballs.
I watched this movie about 13 times in the theaters---and finally someone figured it out! Way to go!
Maybe I just have no friends, but I don't get enough notifications to seek out a tool that will silence them :)
Oh, pish posh. You could've just as easily said, "The viable alternative is to make password resets secure" and said the same thing. It's doublespeak. It's basically an easy way to say, "There are a lot of different things you can do but I don't feel like taking the time to list each of the options right now."
What does 'Continue without timer' mean?

Is this turning the timer (and therefore Hush) off or is this hushing notifications indefinitely?
C Pulls Away From Java Among Top Programming Languages
That's what pretty much everyone I talked with thought… I don't think I'll ever understand why so many people think Inception is some kind of convoluted, brainy and really complicated movie when it's a cool action film with nice ideas but rather straight forward.
Indeed, many languages would benefit simply from having modifiers that reverse the typical use of "const". Make everything immutable / side-effect-free by default, and add a "mother may I" keyword that allows mutation / side-effects without giving a compile error.

Hopefully, programmers would learn to avoid writing code that requires the "stomps-all-over-shit" keyword except when they really did need it. (assuming tail call elimination for simple loops)
Ha! Yes they were WD drives we replaced.
Great link.. This is really interesting. Reminds me of one of the original Matrix Essays about it's symbolism, religious imagery, chance, subtle references to philosophy, etc. There are too many Matrix essays now for me to find it again... sadly.
Not to mention that the authors only critique of MongoDB was global write locking from version 2.2. The rest of his article was empty text speaking NOSQL databases his friends think are cool and statements equating too "MongoDB is bad. Why? Cause it is."

All if this ends at his signature that mentions his scaling SQL book. Not like he has an axe to grind or anything.
I see the tech/sci-fi part of Inception to be like the "unobtainium" in Avatar. It's merely a plot device to make the story work around it.

It could have been something else, like something similar to Tron or The Matrix, or maybe a magical background, but it needed the "multiplayer, multilevel thoughts" one way or another for the story.
How ridiculously fast our computer chips have gotten, in one chart
I could be wrong, but I believe it's indefinitely until you click the toggle again
Ask HN: Netflix for audiobooks?
I own only a few movies since there are only a handful I'm even interested in seeing again. I usually watch movies and TV shows (once!) on various streaming services, including iTunes, Netflix, and Hulu.

Where are similarly priced streaming services for audio books? Here are the closest ones I've found after a brief search, which use the old 'mail me a disc' model, along with their comparatively astronomical prices:

http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/rentals ($18/month)

http://www.booksfree.com/available_plans.shtml ($24/month)

Audible.com and Audiobooks.com are selling books for $15/month (or at least that's how Audible markets their 'credit' system). I'm definitely going to check out what's available at the local library!
Actually, they're working on both. Flexbox[1] and grid layout for better layout, CSS animation for animation and effects.

Flexbox is usable in the latest versions of most browsers today[2]. Here's an example of declarative centering: http://jsfiddle.net/ac4ug/

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Flexi...
[2]: http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox
which is ironic as it's Mono...
I wonder how does this compare to Corona.
Because people find out too late that their data actually is relational and they go through great pain to migrate it to an rdbms.

With postgres's hstore and new json querying capabilities I see less and less cases where I would use mongo.

All it ever seems it would have bought you is the ability not to define your schema up front and not have to do migrations later if you want to add attributes.

But alot of projects benefit from the early datastore schema design because it helps you work out the logic in your application.

But now you can add random things to your schema easily in postgres with hstore or json.

Serious question:

What is Mongo good for up against that?
You are always using your health insurance. Saying that you aren't using your health insurance when you are not currently filling out a form to pay for a doctor's visit or hospital stay is like saying that you're not using your car when your foot isn't currently on the gas.
> You can't have monads in Scheme due to the lack of a type system.

You can have monads in almost any language. The lack of static typing means you don't have static type safety with them, but monads aren't any different than anything else in that regard.

> What you can have are instances of monads, but the point of using the concept of a monad is to abstract over it, and to have functions that work with any possible instance.

How does not having static typing prevent you from abstracting over monads? You can still write functions that work with any possible instance of a monad in languages without static typing.
And C-d for removing a char, opt/alt-backspace to remove a word backwards, and I think opt/alt-d to remove a word forwards?
The Story of a Young Developer and Entrepreneur
Warren Buffett transfered from Wharton to U Nebraska — awesome summary
He also started a pinball business when he was 14 and he was investing well before that!
I read the same assertion in a couple car buying guides. It was given as advice going into negotiation: let the salesman and his(her) manager know that you know how the rating system works and you're happy to give perfect scores for a good buying experience.
Yes - it just turns it off forever until you turn it back on. The timer is optional, just an added benefit!
You probably just control yours in a good way!
One might argue that Javascript is considerably less sub-par than PHP, though; speaking purely from my own experience, I've found that writing Javascript involves a significantly lower probability of the language attempting, at random intervals, to shatter my kneecaps with a crowbar.
- Yes. 3-4 years ago. Do you mind doing a poll?
When you consider a funding of $11.2 M [1], then you'll not be surprised at how things can go so incredibly fast.

Please next time do your investigation homework before comparing two totally different software ecosystems.

If Ruby on Rails had that much money from the beginning now you would be running the fastest, most beautifully coded/structured super-scalable real-time app in the world :)

[1] http://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/07/25/meteors-new-112-millio...
I don't understand how you can think this is the be-all-and-end-all of economic thought. You are literally regurgitating a line ("Letting the market allocate resources has a lot of inefficiencies, but it works better than any alternative that has been tried.") you were probably taught in middle school without the slightest hint of irony.

I'm not saying it's untrue because it's taught early, but I am saying that it seems you haven't done much due diligence beyond that.
>Who the hell cares how safe you FEEL?

Right-wing populist anti-immigrant political parties.
Another Estonian startup making headlines.
MakerBot Academy - A mission to put a MakerBot in every school in the USA
Good article, I've always been on the lookout for the "silver bullet" when trying to manage a development team, but there's really no concise way to get good metrics and evaluate the team's burn rate and productivity efficiently.
Climbing wall treadmill
Video demonstrating how the LG G Flex self healing back cover works
Marketing is real and economically useful.

Think about it like this: In economics it's useful to assume perfect information so the market prices and clears and generally works. In the real world perfect information is extremely false, there's a cost to getting new information, a maximum processing speed for humans to digest new information, and a maximum amount of information humans can store (at or below max processing speed * hours lived).

Marketing (the advertising side) is the mechanism by which information is disseminated to consumers.

Marketing (the product-design side) is the mechanism by which information is gathered by producers.

Marketing is the mechanism by which the market attempts to overcome the lack of perfect information.

Marketing (ceteris paribus) reduces transaction costs, and thereby adds real value to the world.
Very nice app. I would recommend it to anyone who gets tons of notifications.

I want to suggest a design like Degrees app[1] if you want to do a redesign.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/degrees/id430173763?mt=12
Gothenburg University JMK surveys all all journalists in Sweden, and last time:

41 procent Miljöpartiet (green party, left-wing)
15 procent Vänsterpartiet (communist, extreme left)

Public Service Radio Sveriges Radio: 54 procent Miljöpartiet (green party, left-wing)
Public Service TV Sveriges Television: 52 procent Miljöpartiet (green party, left-wing)

http://www.journalisten.se/nyheter/svenska-journalister-fore...
The UI of Google spreadsheet works much better than Excel (not to mention OpenOffice). No such nonsense as, for example, you can only paste something you copied once.

The reason Google Spreadsheet hasn't taken off is lack of investment on Google's part, which is needed because from what I understand from some Google's devs comments, it is a right mess under the bonnet.

We can only guess why Google haven't invested in it, maybe they don't believe people are willing to share their private or corporate data with Google's, or they think the potential for disaster is too high.

But I believe the potential is there
Does ANYONE know what hard drives Google, Facebook, and Dropbox use at their datacenters? This 2006 article says Google buys Seagate: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2006/11/16/seagate-ceo-google-we....
Laziness is an implementation detail that permits equational reasoning and a declarative programming model; the only reasons it's even useful to be aware of haskell's evaluation strategy are 1) to know that it isn't strict (if you're already a programmer), and 2) to solve and anticipate space leaks in production code (if you're using it for Real Work).

Anyway, you seem pretty [sure](http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm) of your opinion so it's probably not worth further discussion.
I use Tomorrow Night.

https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme
Obligatory XKCD. This was all new to me.
http://xkcd.com/1053/
Agree with all but #1.
I love audio books and would certainly use a Netflix for audiobooks, but I have found that the best deal in town is Audible's credit system.

I buy the Platinum plan at the beginning of each year and run out around October / November, then re-buy.

Strongly recommend it.
No, what it means is that instead of documenting pattern templates that you have to fill in with the bits that pertain to your use case, you can provide library functions (or, in some languages, library macros) that take well defined arguments and do what the pattern is intended for, rather than providing boilerplate fill-in-the-blanks code Mad Libs.

Instead of books of design patterns, you have code libraries with APIs, and you don't have to rewrite the code following the pattern for each new project.

The less expressive the language is, the more need there is for template-style design patterns. The more expressive the language is, the more patterns can be implemented in reusable code.
I'm cringing right now, because it seems like the authors weren't aware that this feature is already part of OS X.

http://cl.ly/image/1u0S0H330v1D
Java Cookbooks
Psh, like our design isn't flawl.... no you've got a really good point. Thanks man!
Seagate CEO: Google, Web service giants upgrade storage almost yearly (2006)