skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have demonstrated no such probability. You're just assuming your conclusion.

> That may be because the dots are connected by non-sequiturs.

That you don't understand something doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.

You seem to be going out of your way here to be an argumentative dick, so unless you've got some actual contribution to make, I think you've passed my tolerance for JGGIFT discussion.
Thank you for pointing to that. I had never heard of Sam Harris, but I'm glad I did. What a talented thinker and writer.
Unlikely. Most people are solidly in adulthood before their parents die; at that point, their economic destiny is generally fixed. A high inheritance tax won't harm the kids' middle-class status.
Yeah, this comment was massively insightful.
C++ was originally developed to make it easier for a mathematician to do complex numeric variables in C. It has been downhill ever since.
Does that mean men from a mainstream western community are unsuitable marriage material too?
Are your posts are Turing test? ;)
Two Days Long JavaScript Conference for Hackers in the Ancient City, Istanbul
Are Pixels Productivity? A study 24 years in the making
For the curious, this is the Matthew Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
Understanding TCP Session
Thank you, guys. Our designer did it (https://dribbble.com/shagov)
The youtube one is a joke, it's got a lot if inacurracies, and it's not just about borders, but more importantly populations. That is what the Middle East is ultimately learning.
Judging from the fact that they have a citation right after that phrase, I assume that their expectation is based on a previous study that showed exactly that.
May the Best-Connected Node Score! (Or, How I Came to Tolerate the World Cup)
How can I clean my mac
Despite your thesis that our behavior is not explainable, your comment is profoundly rational.
As someone who didn't get married until he was 37, I can tell you not to count yourself out. I thought I would never get married up until I was in my mid 30s. No one can predict the future.
Who could you vote for in the US to stop this?
> Can you provide the full url from which this pdf is referenced?

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102712693
Spot on.

I did a contract a few years ago for a startup 'gaming' company. They were extracting cash out of people for plays in their games I.e. you buy credit and throw that into nonrefundable plays. In the end if you built up enough virtual credits, you could trade them for expensive consumer electronics.

I was hired to fix their infrastructure.

Well it turns out most of their infrastructure was used to create fake players that these people were pitted against. The odds were fixed and the fake players win nearly every time. Occasionally they'd send someone a MacBook or something by pulling a number from a hat. They were fixed so short term wins were possible but it tailed off in the form 1-e^x.

So basically they were forcing people to toil with no return.

This crossed my ethical limit, so I reported this to ASA (Im in the UK too) and trading standards and immediately quit. The company scurried away with no one ever to be seen again. Turns out their op was running from Gibraltar and everyone was dodgy.

A couple of weeks later I got a narky letter threatening to sue me big time, so I wrote a 'fuck you assholes' reply and folded my limited company and started another one.

If any of the assholes, and you know who you are, are reading this, I'm still armed to deal with your shit.
meh, I am married to a woman that slept in ditches with me, but the second we got married and had kids, she became someone else. This advice is bullshit.
How do the find the portrait vs landscape orientation works for you? Any change in productivity between the two?

I had a team-mate who swore by having one monitor in portrait mode where he kept his word/specs/reading whilst he worked primarily on the landscape monitor. Seemed to work for him.
There are many good hostels in London (can't remember any really bad ones).
For instance I rather liked St Christopher's London Bridge.
I thought this would be about Half Dome or El Cap.
Turing's teachers
I remember a post on HN a few months ago with this exact concept.
I think that I would prefer 2 landscape (one on top of each other) then 2 portraits on either side. The problem is in getting the mounts to make it all work properly.

Also, HN seems to have dropped the "∝" symbol from the title!
I didn't like the new iOS7 icons and I categorically dismissed the Yosemite icons as well. In light of this article, I realize, these icons /make sense/. More than that, it forced me to actually look closely at them. And I also realized that I don't like the icons in Mavericks either, I was just used to it already.

The consistency and pattern behind the new icons is well thought out, and the use of subtle lighting effects (the blue and orange undertones) is great art direction and seems to pull things together in a great way.

What I don't like is the bright colors and the undertone of a "default" feeling -- like how many of the icons feel like generic dingbats. But this also seems consistent with Apple's use of Helvetica, which gives me the same feeling. Which is somewhere between totally not noticing it's there, and feeling like it's an evil faceless government/corporation.

Made me think.
Hey, since no one else is bringing up the "citation please" criticism of the post, I will. Sorry, but it's just a dumb thesis, asserted in utter confidence. The evidence to support it would be something along the lines of an inverse relationship between a measurable aspect of intelligence and a measurable aspect of startup or other life failure.

Intuitively, I highly doubt such a relationship exists.

Otherwise, the article is basically making the observation that being "successful" in business is generally hard.

But it's the internet, you can say whatever you want!
Sleep itself is insane. At least in dreams you're concious more or less, but losing conciousness every night? We'd increase the human lifespan by 50% if we could only eliminate this helpless dependency we have.

http://xkcd.com/203/
Sounds very similar to the mechanics of most 'penny auction' websites...
Amazing work! I'm not a designer but I can still appreciate the importance of details.

However there are things that I can't explain, all icons are colorful, except launchpad and system preference.

They seems to me totally out of the entire system style.

I read the "trick" about white ball and chrome/reflective one, however they still look "aliens" in my dock, like a shareware cheap app. Also this metallic icon is used for iCloud and again I don't get the connection on why Apple pickup "metallic" for something and why "color" for another.
You're basing your business case on Java having some vertical space wasted on braces instead of availability of programmers and ease of inter-op with existing libraries? No words.
The dissection is just perfect. Although the tilted rectangle still doesn't make so much sense within the grid. The grid with the tilted one looks to me an afterthought imposition.
Although the idea that third party apps could use more of the tilted grid seems good as it would created a visual difference that is easy to note.
I actually laughed hard at that. Tea nearly came out of my nose.

That appears to be how all journalists deal with science these days. It gets views after all. The BBC health news section is the worst with headlines like:

Eating broccoli 'makes you more intelligent'

(Note the subtle quoting that gets them out of actually making the claim but adapting it from the source significantly enough to be total bullshit).

Real paper is something like 'mice are less stupid after eating broccoli versus big macs for 6 months'.
Why do you think that people should have to do 'economically useful' things?

Surely it is one of the goals of technology and progress that we free people from the need to work. As such, any step towards this 'leisure economy' should be celebrated, rather than thinking up pointless labour for people to do.
ART is a good news for Android users, but it's really optimize the performance? I watched someone use Android L to run some popular social app(like WeChat), you can't open it normally. Some big bug sure be fixed.
I read a paper that studied why some marriages work. The author concluded that in those marriages, the couple worked to calm each other. I've used that in my relationships and it has worked well. I make an agreement with my partner upfront that we must make sure that one of us stays calm when the other is angry and the angry person can't harm/insult/embarrass/etc the calm person. The angry person should explain how they feel without resorting to name calling or abusing the other person. If both of us become angry then we must separate until one of us can be calm. With that algorithm, no one gets hurt in an argument and arguments don't escalate into destructive events.

My relationships are still limited by the fact that couples must "agree to disagree". This piles up and eventually there are too many disagreements to ignore.
Yeah it wasn't far off that.

If the human race grew out of this disrespect for itself and utmost respect for self-gain, things would be better for everyone.

It disgusts me.
Regarding the hg-git performance issues, I've been having them for a long time until I discovered somewhere a tip: every now and then run "git repack -a -d" on the git repo created by hg-git. It doesn't make it as fast as raw git but it makes a noticeable difference, from more than a minute to pull/push down to few seconds (that's with large repos with tens of thousands of commits).

Another issue I had been bitten by hg-git in the past is overwriting other people's commits when I push, as if it was running --force. Maybe that was a bug that had been fixed since but to be on the safe side I've been using an ugly workaround: have an intermediate local bare git repo where I pull from/push to and have it talk to the upstream git repo.
"Perceived productivity" is a worthless metric, making plots out of it is just ridiculous. How can you rate your productivity when you were 8 years old? You should know better as a data scientist.

That said, I have a 24" screen at home, but I use it mostly for gaming, while most of my programming is done on a 13" mbp.
FreebieJeebies — Apple hack ( it's complete one offer to active account)
How would you tell that a given artifact is an artifact and not part of the original recording
After the movie, read about the life of Ulrich Mühe, the main actor [1] - it's harrowing how closely his life resembled the movie.

>Mühe's response when asked how he prepared for his role in Das Leben der Anderen was, "I remembered."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_M%C3%BChe#Personal_life
IRC has always been wonderful in times of trouble. I'm really surprised that people have abandoned it over the last decade.

I had to hit IRC when Sept 11th went down because I was stuck in a facility with no television reception and even news sites were down due to load. The only things that were still shifting data were slashdot and a couple of IRC networks. We had a channel relaying news from TV and radio worldwide including from ham and shortwave.
The standard rate of VAT in the UK is 20%. Tampons are subject to a reduced rate of only 5%. Being based outside of the UK wouldn't save you much VAT.

Visit this page and scroll down to the 'Health' section: https://www.gov.uk/rates-of-vat-on-different-goods-and-servi...
Free room in Hotel California. In the morning the normal exit is closed but you can leave free of charge through the complementary layrinth. At some dead ends there are credit card terminals where you can pay to have a door open.
That is somewhat misleading, since the optimized versions use different algorithms. There is also an optimized Python version that runs 30 times faster.

It is a combination of better algorithms and closer-to-the-metal language that gives the 5000x speedup described in the thread.

You can get arbitrary large speedups by just choosing a worse initial algorithm and then improve it.
MLP vs MVP vs MSP for Startups
Well Erlang is probably the only language that kept multi-core systems in mind and the implementation is pretty nice. It is kind of funny how we crash the entire application process when a thread crashes in it. Also worth to mention the GPGPUs with 1000+ cores on them. We should support those cards and systems better in the mother languages.
Show HN: Windows Tweaker, an open source tweaking tool for Windows
You are quite right, it is a ridiculous metric that doesn't stand up to any scientific rigour.

The article was just supposed to be a bit of fun about my personal experience with different monitor configurations. I thought that this might be interesting to the HN crowd since so many of us spend so much time in front of screens.
Aparently, so is the air part: http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-.... I was fascinated by its structure - a filament - and it's small size of code - only about 20K base pairs. Also, it's mutation rate is pretty high. That sucks.
The website doesn't seem to work reliably at the moment, here's the archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20131021002154/http://www.ibibli...
That was truly a moment in the spotlight for Slashdot. It's just sad that it has mostly died due to continued neglect.
I think this effect is underrated and explains a lot, for instance all the statistical correlations between good things and other good things, and, on the flip side, bad things and other bad things. For instance, why being a smoker correlates with an increased risk of having a back injury (I heard that). Or how not having a college degree increases your risk of early death from all causes. I don't know if the Matthew Effect itself has an adequate explanation, but it ties together a lot of results that otherwise seem to suggest bizarre causal relationships between unrelated things. They're all spurious correlations and the predictable consequence of the Matthew Effect.
Creating boundaries for clients
I am probably an outlier in my views on responsive design, but I'm not really sold on it either. Part of the reason is that, again, I think content is more tied to layout than people acknowledge. Also, I haven't really seen a compelling implementation of responsive design.

Most of the time, I see responsive sites hiding the site nav into a pull down menu and smashing, say, a three column layout into a single column. There are also responsive sites that outright selectively hide some content on some devices.

Hiding content implies that either the content isn't that important in the first place or that a diminished experience will be delivered to a particular device. Neither of these seems desirable.

Likewise, smashing a multi-column layout into a single column is also frequently a suboptimal user experience. In these scenarios, at least one column is usually more akin to nav, which means the user must now scroll past an entire column of nav to get to content or vice-versa. In effect, the layout change has altered the meaning of the content.

So, in general, to really deliver an optimal experience per device (if device specificity is even truly required in the first place), I believe it's worthwhile to consider different sites per device. Responsive design is a compromise that tempts devs into a "reuse" approach but, in truth, neither the required CSS nor the resulting output are optimal. So, the user experience suffers and the code isn't a lot of fun to write or maintain.

In other words, the more you want to thoughtfully vary the layout per device versus, say, just cramming everything into a single column, the more CSS you'll have to write. At some point, the volume and hackiness begs for a separate-site solution. To avoid this, responsive design just sacrifices the user experience instead.

The last part of this is that responsive design feels like a kludge aimed at solving a transient problem that is increasingly being solved by better hardware and interface design at the device/browser level. For instance, bigger and more readable displays on mobile devices, combined with pinching plus auto-zoom and auto-sizing by mobile browsers means that full desktop sites are generally very presentable on mobiles now.

In that regard, responsive design feels like WAP did years ago. Smartphones with full browsers, increased bandwidth, etc. killed the need for WAP in short order. IMO, responsive design will ultimately go the same route and has already to some extent. I, for one, already request the desktop site on all of my devices and much prefer the experience.
> Unfluff is a small, simple .js library

it's written in CoffeeScript

(The transpiled JS files lack comments and meaningful new lines of the original CoffeeScript source.)
It looks like they have removed most of the DNS records, but eu-central-1.amazonaws.com still gives an authorative answer.
Reminds me of an article I wrote a while back on the "meat algorithm" I had developed and used as part of LeadNuke to create more printable versions of pages. What had surprised me at the time was how simple it was to get just the main content of a page for like 95% of the pages I tried.

http://www.alfajango.com/blog/create-a-printable-format-for-...
Making git bisect more useful
I think Yosemite strikes an amazing balance between simplicity/flatness and complexity/depth.

I am hoping this is the consensus inside Apple where design should go for iOS as well, because I still can't stand the iOS 7/8 icons (and the lack of button shapes around buttons). iOS 7 looks ugly and rushed and it was rushed.

Maybe Yosemite represents what iOS could've looked like if they had more time (time to design, and time to reflect on the mess iOS 7 is).
Went to watch the July 4 fireworks in SF tonight, but it was cloudy, causing the fireworks to soften into a vague burst of color. I thought, "This looks just like CNN's coverage of the Gulf War. Except without all the fear and death. Damn, I'm lucky -- no war here!"
I'd say the assumption is that other African countries already are worried and taking action.

It's also important to consider the severity that an Ebola outbreak develops based on its transport options. Usually, an Ebola outbreak devastates a village or a few villages. This current outbreak has spread over multiple countries.

What do you think will happen, when the first Ebola patient appears in Frankfurt, Heathrow or Dubai?
Good article and reminder of how it is. To learn from our failures and hardships is where we grow the most.

IQ is only few percent of the total intelligence. But most people seem to see it as 99% so often.

It also comes down to so many other factors such as the environment we are brought up in, which affects our intelligence. Intelligence is not some blueprint we have from birth I learned. But very much our mental outlook on life as we progress.
Those who feel intelligent due to high IQ makes me wonder how intelligent they truly are.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-funda...
I donated last week. The big problem is, those with largest money, have more unfair access to donating. Comcast just got to #2 in lobbying money. 3m per fiscal quarter buys monopoly. Seems easier for me to contribute against it. #americaninternetspeeds

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/23/google-att-verizon-and-comc...
I miss how massive IRC used to be. I've been on the same network since 1996. We're now at around 350 users down from the 6-8k we used to have back then. I've tried other networks and they all seem dead all the time.
I wonder if there will be a service that hits the sweet spot of cool community instant messaging over a large group of people in the next generation of technology, I think so.
You can, of course, configure the coffeescript compiler to output a more readable compilation output.
I really want to know why he chose golang instead of X or Y (Elixir, Erlang, Scala, ClojureScript).

Have he said anything about that in other blog? Or anyone of you have sent him email about that?

I use node.js (0.3 to now) quite a long time. I also feel the smell of node.js, forever, express and socket.io. Recently, I am considering switch to Elixir. But I am afraid now.

From day one in node.js to now, we know that node.js is not prefect and not fastest. But it is so popular and some many great guys, like TJ, contributed many packages into the eco-system.

Go is not prefect too. But once it get more popular and more packages. Better vm like Erlang or X or Y may be just ignored by devs.
I do hope that third party applications start experimenting with their icons on Yosemite. I mean not necessarily make their icons identically flat and tilted, but those subtle color reflections are looking very nice.
I used to agree with that interpretation until I saw the DS9 episode where Garet comments on the story - and points out that the mistake was to keep telling the same lie and a lie that is easy to very is a lie.
The point the article makes is well understood and valid: even if you have the potential, if you don't work hard to use it, you won't develop the skills and discipline for success. All right.

But we don't need to cast failures and flaws as the result of "high intelligence". Just a few days ago we had an article about the "curse of smart people". It feels like a bunch of people patting themselves on the back and telling themselves "oh, we're so intelligent, this is why we failed".

If intelligent people are so prone to failure, what is the purpose of measuring intelligence? Being stupid is bad, being average is bad, now being smart is also bad! Congratulations.

Part of the problem is the ease at which we proclaim ourselves "very intelligent". Being good at school is not a sure sign of high intelligence - school is an artificial environment that values short-term memorizing of facts, over critical analysis and independent decision-making. You won't go far in life with that, but maybe you'll do well in quiz TV shows. Solving "missing piece" puzzles also isn't a sign of high intelligence. All those are just a small part of it.

Can't we agree "intelligent" is the skill of setting good goals, achieving them, and making good decisions in light of limited facts, limited time, and some stress, because that's what life is, and move on to strive (and possibly measure) for that.
Sorry, don't think this will happen :( Maybe a nice virtual box setup running OSX with Plug installed! (haha, jkjkjk, hypem.com is great and has so many features)
I guess I'm a little late to the party, but can someone comment on the issues TJ mentions? Specifically, I've never seen problems with callbacks being double-executed. Under what conditions would it occur?
This is true, but precisely because it is true, at the top of every game everybody is reasonably hard working. And among these hard-working people other factors start to decide again, and a very important factor is talent.

So if you compare yourself to the guy who watches TV all day, of course hard work is the main thing. But if you compare yourself to fellow enterpreneurs, Phd studentst, hackers with great github repositories, or guys who work long hours at their workplace to advance, who maybe does not watch TV at all, talent matters.
Honestly this is great news! As the article says, many German companies insist on their data being hosted in a data center in Germany when buying SaaS (for whatever reason). So far, there haven't been any viable options when it comes to "full-stack" IaaS service providers here (except Profitbricks maybe, which doesn't even come close to AWS in terms of functionality or pricing though), so I'm really excited to see Amazon entering this market.

Of course the problem remains that Amazon is a US company and thereby required to cooperate with US authorities and hand them over customer data if requested, so some businesses might still not want to host their data there. Still, I'm excited that they're finally coming to Germany
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