skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah of course decent amount of good quality libs is crucial for learning, because you can see how idiomatic code is written.

For me, Clojure has enough. YMMV.
Yup, looks like it: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
The Watergate is a hotel/office/apartment building. Why do all 'scandals' have to end with -gate?
Sure, while browsing the web, you explore and click most of the time, but there are plenty of instances when you need to type: a query into google or a url into the address bar, logging in to websites, commenting on a blog post, responding to an email. These things will have people reaching for their laptops in no time. Even if these are specifically for browsing the web from the couch, why not just use a laptop? They even have built in stands (the keyboard) so that your arms don't get tired holding them up.

Also, I'd imagine that typing on a touchscreen tablet PC is considerably more cumbersome than on an iPhone, since you'd only have one hand available.
amusingly, the computerworld summary doesn't include the paper's summary:

"Finally, we believe that the computer’s potential to improve efﬁciency is unrealized because the commercial marketplace does not favor optimal products. Coding and other reimbursement-driven documentation might take precedence over efﬁciency and the encouragement of clinical
parsimony. The largest computer success story has occurred
at Veterans Administration hospitals where global budgets
obviate the need for most billing and internal cost accounting, and minimize commercial pressures."

It seems like hospitals hyper-optimize single actions at the expense of efficiency of pipelined actions. sort of like... An addition takes a single clock, a multiplication takes a single clock, but a multiplication followed by an addition takes 100 clocks. Except tongue depressors and temperature taking instead of arithmetic; money instead of time.

I doubt you could build a more cost effective system to have a doctor walk in, take your temperature and leave.
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Because it's a cheap way to make your opponents look sleazy and create a whiff of scandal around a topic.
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We should hold scientists to a higher standard than any organization with more than 3 employees. Especially if they are spending Other People's Money.
There are other problems with the Digital Economy Bill that haven't made the papers yet.

For example, it's going to force mandatory registration and regulation of every entity that licenses intellectual property on behalf of two or more third parties:

http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/24455

This is apparently aimed at regulating Collections Agencies like BMI or ASCAP, but it's going to hit everything from literary agents, to publishers with rights sub-licensing arrangements, to film producers, software resellers, Open Source software projects (where two or more programmers participate but do not assign their copyrights to the project organizers), newspaper websites, and quite possibly blogs (if you think the implications through).

The mind, she boggles. If you look at it from the right angle, it looks like the foundations of a full-on cross-media censorship infrastructure. I hope I'm being paranoid here, but I fear the worst.
I think he was talking about the machines being the staff... I don't remember the last time I had a person make my espresso @ a starbucks!
A weird problem I'm getting: it focused in at the top of Brooklyn for me (where I am), and showed some restaurant deal (this: http://postabon.com/pc/deal?guid=138&lat=40.694&long...). However, it was at the top of the map. Instead of trying to click a small target, I pulled the map down so that it would be in the center. As soon as I let go of the map, the point disappeared and loaded a bunch of other pins a bit further north. It'd be great if you could make it so you didn't delete the pins that were on screen before a move and stayed on screen after the move.
Nasty format. Here, sans the ads and multi-page clicking:

http://www.itworld.com/print/86411
> In Taiwan, my medical records are linked to my national ID number and follow me wherever I seek care. Furthermore, doctors can regularly do pull up my chart from a laptop when I meet them in their office. It's also easy to make appointments online, and they go straight to the doctor in question, without any need to go through human administrators at the hospital. It's been a huge time saver for the patients, and the doctors achieve a turn-over that would be unheard of in N. America.

Apart from the "national ID" part, that's exactly how Kaiser works, and has for some time.

I don't know how widespread Kaiser is, but it's certainly common in California.
Well, I knew what I wanted my hobby project to be, and I also have a rough long term goal.

So, upon reflection, I realized that I was spending 95% of my time doing shit I hated doing, or at best was ambivalent about, and I decided that was no way to live my life.

I didn't have some grand scheme, I just said to myself: look Pete, you wake up and you think about how you want to spend your time, and it's basically the same every day, but then you ignore the impulse so you can "pay the bills." Just stop ignoring the impulse.

That's what I did.

So if you're feeling like "Fuck it, I want to [lay on a beach/travel the world/go on a spirit quest/write a novel/program a game/whatever]," then just do it. It might even be worth screwing your credit rating and losing your worldly possessions over--that's not a big deal, in the scheme of things. It doesn't have to be forever, it just has to be enough to break you out of your rut.

I wanted to do two things:
1) Write more
2) Create my "grand opus" video game

That's what I'm doing now, and I love it. I make perhaps 5 times less than I used to and I put up with it being cold in the house because I stopped programming full time and started freelance writing. Big deal -- I wake up refreshed and excited, and the writing I'm doing, I'm doing in such a way that it will support me passively in years to come. I have a realistic opportunity to never have to work again, and it's because I broke out the the rut of "I want to stop this job, but I need to pay the bills."

I could be wrong statistically speaking, but for me personally, the right answer is: Fuck the bills.
We can all thank the Mozilla Foundation, Apple and Google for that!
VistA has an open source release called OpenVistA that is pretty well-supported: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvista/
BDB has good recovery utilities, but just to be sure, try to keep a journal of all database updates to a flat text file, just in case, even if you push stuff to message queue (beanstalkd is my favorite and I will push my Lisp client for it when I have time to clean it up.)

Nothing like having a flat text file on a remote box, good for your sleep at night.
I work in IT for my country's National Health System. I made the switch only six months ago so my domain knowledge is still very limited. Anyway, I have already seen how automation may greatly improve doctors and nurses efficiency.

For example, RIS/PACS(Radiology Information System/Picture archiving and communication system) systems may (and do) save millions euros a year only in radiographic film. I've seen figures stimating the ROI and its only 3-4 years. That without mention the advantages of having radiological data instantly accesible from anywhere, which opens the door to telediagnostics and telemedicine.

That's a very clear example. In other cases it may be harder to calculate real savings(if any), but not the improved care level.
In other words, once again we are told that men are responsible for women's problems.
You bring up some good points. The next ECMAScript standard seems to be aiming for some programming-in-the-large goals (though the new features may not be enough to satisfy everyone).

A couple months ago I saw some discussion about CommonJS on es-discuss which signaled that there is actually some influence flowing from CommonJS towards the new ECMAScript standard, with Brendan Eich briefly mentioning some of CommonJS' features. The ES committee is watching and learning from what is going on in the wild, and there is some overlapping consensus now on how JS can improve with regards to programming-in-the-large. This is a very good thing.

I'm curious how well and how quickly all these new server-side JS systems (nodejs, commonJS, V8, etc) will react to the upcoming new ES5. It now seems likely that JS coders will get to try out ES5 a lot sooner on the server-side than on the client-side, given how long it will take (forever-ish) for ES5 to be adopted in browsers.
Yet another petri-dish I can not enjoy :-(

Seriously, this might be good news for people concerned about animal welfare or about the CO2 emissions of livestock.
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Ah, that is annoying.

Basically, I only have space for a lot of info about 9 deals - and I chose to display the 'best' 9. So when the viewport moves it checks if something better has appeared (or if one of the old best has disappeared). Deals out of the top 9 are noted by small 'dots' which you can click for more info. (Or you can paginate through results ...).

I think that those dots may not be large/noticeable enough though ... Thanks for the heads up.
This is exactly why I think the future is in Flash / Silverlight and not in html. It takes 10 years for the next version of html to arrive, and this is what it can do? Flash and Silverlight has a development cycle of 1 year. With a beta every few months...
The things you can do with these technologies, and the ease of development is unmatched by html. Also - in a way, these technologies have more cross platform potential than html - no different browser implementation, different APIs and different behaviors.

Just my 2 cents.
Exactly. In fact, I wasn't convinced that he actually considered it anything more than speculation, but brought the point up in a very academic, even devil's advocate, way.
How the hell did this well-understood sociological phenomena get called 'Roissy' theory? It doesn't just apply to women: it applies to everyone and has more to do with culture than gender.
What we do is a top level filter to map subdomains into a group of top level folders:

Filter: Group pages by hostname

Filter type: Custom Filter

Field A -> Extract A: Hostname (.)

Field B -> Extract B: Request URI (.)

Output To -> Constructor: Request URI (/subdomains/$A1$B1

Field A Required: Yes

Field B Required: Yes

Override Output Field: Yes

Case Sensitive: No

"/subdomains/" can be any arbitrary top level grouping that makes sense to you. We use an additional filter to strip /subdomains/domain.com and /subdomains/www.domain.com back off, so the primary site's URLs appear in the report normally.
Does the CRU even collect data? i thought they were some sort of aggregation organization. Maybe I'm wildly off base, but it thought a whole bunch of people working in independent fields with independent methodologies said, "huh. looks like it's getting a little warmer over time".

Isn't CRU's purpose to reconcile all that data? i'd be willing to stipulate they're a bunch if lying liars, but that doesn't mean all the raw data is faked, just that we don't understand the relationship between less ozone and tree ring thickness (or whatever metric scientist X chose to measure)
It was just a really weird thing to say, a way to stop my phone ringing at a distance. How would that actually work? Would you need to wear some sort of proximity sensor? Or leave your phone over there, but keep hold of a remote control? It doesn't make any sort of sense as a feature.

BlackBerries have a magnetic sensor to detect when they're in a case and can change their notifications accordingly, but that's not the same thing.
You have a single payer system in Taiwan.

The other day, in the US, I had a physical therapist run a routine check of my daughter. I had to sign 4 times and there was a total of 28 pages of documents. (Georgetown Hospital). And I had to interact with three people before I could see the therapist.
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How does it contradict the research? By 'no matter what we do', it doesn't mean she's swapping out the geeky material for the magazines (which makes women more comfortable, apparently), it means she's doing everything without changing the requirement that the room needs to be filled with nerdy/geeky material. The second part of the sentence reinforces the fact that even if it's made clear that it will be an all-female room/team, they still feel uncomfortable.
Is anyone else reminded of Better Off Ted?
Apache has pluggable concurrency modules (MPM's) and you can switch to a multiple-threads per process MPM if you choose. When the limit is hit, it will fork a new process. Each new thread stack is not more than an MB or two, so based on your calculations, you can do much better.
For me, it crashes Firefox 3.5.4 on Snow Leopard.

All messed up in Chrome, but it runs: Star Wars logo doesn't shrink to the distance, but just stays on screen and then disappears. Episode text is all scrunched up.

Safari 4.0.4, on 10.6, worked just fine.

Obviously we are going to need an Acid test for Canvas.
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The app looks good, and you've made a lot of great design decisions. However, it took me a little too long to figure out what the idea was. Three suggestions:

'shop. save. share' doesn't tell me enough right off the bat. Maybe users who aren't logged in should get a 15-word blurb ("Postabon allows you to find and share deals. Check out the (link)introduction video.(/link)")

I didn't notice the introduction video side-tab until my third glance back at your site- most new users are going to totally miss that.

The 'about' page had more words than my eyes were comfortable with. Cut the word count in order to space the text out more. And some hyphens show up as em-dashes in firefox, not sure what the deal is there.
This doesn't use Canvas, only CSS. And there is only 1 line of JavaScript code, to delay the playing of the music.
Does that make this pork kosher?
I would go crazy if it were any other way.

www.yoursite.com.sites.servee.com is our temporary URL scheme. If I had to sort through that to figure out my conversion funnel for www.servee.com It would be miserable.

That being said, i think that yes, moving your users for your app to yourapp.com/user is better than user.yourapp.com for most cases. Freshbooks, basecamp, and other non-connected apps work better the other way.
I actually found all of the pop-up divs a bit annoying. It is a nice feature to have the pages display the pop-ups that darken the remainder of the page for features where you do not feel like you should leave the page, but honestly, I would prefer some of the other pages to load. I am not sure if you know what I mean from my description so I will try saying it again. When browsing web sites, sometimes content is dynamic and it does not need to load the entire page. However, to have a pop-up div for what seemed like everything I clicked is a bit of a bother. It does not seem to flow as well I would have liked in that regard.

Also, I had no idea what the site was about at first. I had to actually search the site a bit to even figure out what was happening.

In regards to the idea, I think it is a decent idea, but this seems like a feature that may be best featured within another web application. After this is perfected, I can see the potential for a company purchasing it if only for integration within their own products; however, it does not seem like it has much potential value until you add a bit more to it. It needs to be tweaked slightly. I would continue focusing on the core concept just a tad longer before moving on to additional features.
JavaScript is a beautiful language with much more to it than just the DOM API. You seem to suggest that this is JavaScript's only strength. In fact it could be argued that the DOM API is the single greatest problem with JavaScript in the browser[1].

It's true that different languages have different problem domains for which they are well suited. I would say that projects such as Node.js[2] prove that JavaScript has applications outside of the browser.

[1] http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2009/02/20/the_dom_stigma/

[2] http://nodejs.org/
Especially since the other solution that got docked for breaking the rules actually performed the calculation that was requested.
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Message to pointy-haired executive:
Google robots.txt

Ironically, not only does the foxnews.com/robots.txt not block search engines, it has sitemaps for helping them.
I think a major problem is that much of computer science is not interesting. And indeed, almost all jobs that you get after graduation are not interesting either.

It's too much like a "pen science" -- focusing too much on implementation and not enough on application. Imagine a science where students learn to write as quickly as possible with a pen and to fill the page with as much writing as possible. Who would want to get a "pen degree"?

The fact that many men want to major in CS reflects poorly on men.

The CS curriculum needs to be redesigned to be more applications-oriented and the major needs to be renamed to reflect that change.
Not to mention the emissions from the back end of the hog which have been a huge problem for the environment - air and water - in places like North Carolina. Then there's the widespread use of low levels of antibiotics in hog barns which creates the perfect breeding ground for superbugs.
The lab of the United States Congress has had them beaten to this discovery for years now.

On a serious note, I can see great potential for this, but the question is raised: Does the damage caused by creating the input outweigh the benefits of the output?

What is necessary to create it, and is it worth it monetarily? Does it truly decrease suffering or is there some aspect we are missing?
I find it odd that you are appealing to your anecdotal experience, when they had studies where the actually subjected actual women to these environments and observed their reactions. Also, they quote some of the hardcore geek women or which you speak, so I do not understand where you find yourself disagreeing with the research or the article.
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Sorry, I was being sarcastic.

But it is one thing to suggest that a scientist's work might be influenced by who's financing the work. It's quite another to suggest, as this article did, that scientists would delibratly concoct a hoax just to secure more funding.

And if it really were the case that scientists are fabricating scares for a few million pounds, why are thry not also fabricating reasuuring theories to secure funding from those with an interest in maintaining the status quo?
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Not a big deal, but it also fails on IE 7.
It's a poorly worded sentence. I felt it contradicted the research on first-read as well. Since they specifically placed objects rated with high masculinity in the room, the "even if we make it all female" sounds as if doing the opposite doesn't help.
I'm always fascinated by the thinking behind these ERP behemoths. Like, does anyone at Oracle or SAP ever take a vacation, or get promoted? How? Do they use their own software to do it?
According to http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/17x17chart.pdf c would be either 17 or 18.
Exactly. I love all this blustering and ranting when all they have to do is install a text file in their home directory. That's it. It would literally take 5 minutes; maybe less. There is no cost of adoption to opting out of the search game. If there was any backbone behind all this rhetoric, they'd have already done it. But there isn't, they want to whine until Bing gives them a truckload of money for exclusivity or they get a government bailout.

Dear news conglomerates,

Please, install the robots.txt file to block search, which all reputable engines respect, and start suing the bloggers and aggregators. Please do this today, so you disappear from the net completely and the information void you leave behind can be filled by lean quality content producers who bitch less.

Love,

Wade
I disagree. I was all prepared to wince at this article when I read the title. However, the researchers go out of their way to say that some middle ground should be found that welcomes women without rejecting current geek culture. They made a point of quoting geek women who embraced computer science in least in part because of its geekiness.

Ah, having typed this far, now I notice the obvioustroll username. Trolled, indeed. :)
In Opera and Firefox nothing happens, and it's quirky in Chrome. IE is hopeless.

Safari-centric web design does no one good.
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Sorry, but the "other people's money" thing irks me. You've experienced all the benefits of living in a society that chooses to fund things collectively with taxes, and paying taxes is part of being an active participant in that society.
Well, this one specific instance is the subject of our conversation and what some folks are calling the "smoking gun" of a conspiracy. So naturally I thought that's what they're talking about.

I am not so concerned with addressing how to recover the lost data, all I was concerned with addressing was that this statistical "trick" was nothing of consequence and not irreversible. People here (including you) have made much ado about changing the data, and I wanted to address that the "changed data" is not so changed at all. You can see what they're doing and the emails explain why.

Finally, you asked why I believe that climate science deserves lower levels of care and transparency? I assume fom here on out we're not talking about the lost raw data (which was, from all claims, an accidental oversight) and instead focus on the withheld line of evidence.

I didn't say that. For one, it certainly requires more care because–unlike econometrics–Climate Science is actual science. And I don't think care hasn't been exercised here. I think what you want is transparency on a level above and beyond what science normally requires. While ditching the raw data is regrettable and a mistake (probably on the order of NASA losing the original moon landing data), it shouldn't really change anything.

Now, if the CRU was the lone voice trying ardently to make a case that AGW was happening and they lost the raw data to the sole line of evidence, that'd be problematic for the case of AGW. But CRU and other institutions have multiple lines of data that have been clearly published and explained that are in accord with the lost batch of raw data. So my opinion, which I try to base off the majority view of science, is unswayed.

If the CRU folks had "hidden the decline" from public discourse and corrected for it in their data, that'd also be an ethics problem. But they didn't hide the existence of the observed temp decline, it's mentioned in published papers (as has been mentioned in the hn commentary to this story).

P.S. I don't think the CRU folks have been particularly careless or particularly opaque compared to, say, physicists or astronomers or biologists. And I am not convinced that econometrics is a science. I think it's a blanket term for mathematical modeling, which is part of science. Perhaps there are charlatans confusing the issue, but I've seen some pretty absurd things written under the name of econometrics.
Except for those using IE7 because it was the default in Vista. IE6 is definitely the bigger problem, however.
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