skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've placed 74 using an IP solver

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The solver chokes on anything larger than a 6x6 grid, but I've had good luck adding one row at a time to a smaller solution.

http://pastebin.com/m4c4696af

edit: He mentions that he already found a size 74 set in one of the linked pdfs.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/17x17.pdf
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Why would this be necessary? Already, the incentive to do this is reduced because new comments pop up to the top based on some type of vote/time decay function (he accelerated this already right after he tried not showing the number of votes not so long ago if I recall).

Doing this would seem to add complexity to a system of voting that seems pretty elegant?
http://lwn.net/Articles/191059/

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/Wiki?FailFast
I second that!

The more I have to do with women and the more I have to do with CS, the more I think women don't _need_ to be in CS.

1. When I am doing my CS thing, I _want_ to be the cave man. It doesn't mean I have no interest in social activities or flowers in rooms without "Start Trek Names". Having flowers and sunlight in a coders room is like having bikinis and beachball at a ski holiday place. There is no need to mix things up.

2. Normally women have other ideals as beeing a "cave man". Actually the girls who like the geeky stuff are not really interesting for any boy I know. Interesting "normal" girls are interested in relatively normal and balanced things. What integrates in society without beeing weired in one direction or the other. That _is_ pretty fine for me. If I want to be with women, I would never bring them into the cave.

concluding: there is not really any problem with the actual situation...
[pdf] Causal inference in statistics: An Overview
This article misrepresent's Samuel Gosling's research. It says that Gosling's experiments show that people can make "surprisingly accurate" assessments of strangers by looking at their personal space. In fact Gosling's research shows that people can form a more accurate assessment from a first impression (even a still photo) than they can from looking at someone's personal space (such as a bedroom or cubicle), and in fact people get many things wrong by looking at someone's personal space. If you want to know exactly what you can and can't tell about someone's personality from looking at their personal space, get his book.
They don't seem to mention how to contain the black hole. What holds its position steady within the spaceship?

If we made a large enough one say 1/2 earth mass, we'd get free "artificial" gravity on the spaceship.
Ask HN: Experience with Softlayer.com cloud instances?
We're currently experiencing a 16 hour outage on a VPS at Softlayer.com due to a failed SAN. Just curious to know if anyone else has experience with their products.
I'm happy that the CRU hack has introduced all of this healthy skepticism back into the debate. Any time people are so sensationalist about anything, there should be a lot of concern.
Yeah, that half of humanity probably has the same opinions and insights that we do. Can't imagine their input being valuable. And you're spot on about software being black and white - either your word processor works correctly or it doesn't work at all.

EDIT: Just to clarify, you're an idiot and a troll. Your (Devil's advocate) opinion is shortsighted and foolhardy. If you are writing software that "works or it doesn't", you are writing something inane, needless, or redundant. Most of the effort of developing software at this point in time is gathering requirements and designing interfaces. Work which is cut and dry is usually created by unnecessary process or poor choice of tools.
This to me is great news...a first step towards a "standard" ruby. With the various implementations running around out there, having a documented specification to refer to (and the ruby equivalent of the Java TCK, which I believe rubyspec is attempting to become) will be immensely helpful and will help further the language.
Sure I am. When I said 10 years on CSS I wasn't kidding. Do you know how few web designers were using CSS in 1999? Also, I started using Rails in early 2005, almost a year before 1.0.

It's sort of insulting to minimize my points by suggesting that I just don't like new stuff.
OK these anti-climate articles are getting really lame. This is a fucking opinion piece from one of the most conservative papers in the US.

Why do so many hackers/HN types seem to be skeptics? I would have thought of all people, hackers/entrepreneurs would be forward-thinking and realistic about what is happening to our environment!
I'm stunned that this was not for seen by the professor. Wasn't it obvious that the best way to do this was to give some sample documents for development, but keep the text that the program would be judged on a secret?
They believed themselves capable of great things, so they rationalized that their current jobs must be satisfying already.

I believe exactly the opposite...

We believe we are capable of great things because we are so used to looking good by delivering great software in environments where there isn't any.

Then we see all the cool things others are doing right out in the open and wonder why we spend all day on fixing bugs on horrible enterprise software, sitting in meetings, and taking direction from idiots.

Being the one-eyed man in the land of the blind may make you look good, but it is hardly "satisfying".
"Geeks Bearing Gifts"

This was funny the first 7,000 times I heard it, but it's lost its lustre since. Can we call a time-out on this phrase?
Skepticism is a good thing in general. It happens to be a bit unfounded in this case, but you wouldn't know it the way things are being presented.
Scientific applications are usually written by scientists who are usually not professional programmers. Telling them to hire a professional programmer is like telling a struggling single mother to hire a nanny. It would obviously help, but the money's not there.
"You may be skeptical about the biking but it's a fact, I work with these people :)"

Is it a fact? Who are "these people"? Perhaps there's a URL you could provide that tells authoritatively the story of how certain swimmers in Beijing decided to not ride bicycles?

That URL
I don't think nobody is saying that is migration is easy or risk free. Some of your complaints I think are more related to how has been done the transition in a particular facility than generally applicable.

About culture, it's true that most doctors just don't type (lot of them refuse to do it). That's why they use voice recognition software or handwrite. But the love to see lab results as soon as they are ready, or prescribing drugs trough a GUI instead of handwriting prescriptions(this saves lives).

Disasters, you are completely right. That's why its needed to develop policies for working "offline". It's not easy, but can be done.

Propietary data formats. That's why Hl7 and Dicom standards exist. They're a f*cking mess, but everyone sort of support them.
Bonus points for using the term 'blokeish'.
It is funny to see an app like this. I always knew morse code to be a listening language and never really saw it in writing before. The translation from the radio key to this touchscreen keyboard might be difficult, though I don't know morse code all that well.
most of the WSJ stuff on climate change is partisan garbage, but i would point out here that this author is actually someone with credentials.

Richard Siegmund Lindzen (born February 8, 1940, Webster, Massachusetts) is an American atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his work in the dynamics of the middle atmosphere, atmospheric tides and ozone photochemistry. He has published more than 200 books and scientific papers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen
Much of computer science may not be interesting to /you/, but that doesn't mean it's not interesting generally. I am sure there are lots of things you find interesting that wouldn't appeal to others.
I think my favourite anti ie6 is google landing page with the big download chrome image.

Just a shame so many ie6 people have IT overlords that mandate its use .. hopefully that will change as more convert to windows 7.
Because skepticism should be the natural state of being of any intelligent person.

Unwavering belief and fanaticism is inherently dangerous and stupid, yet unwavering belief and fanaticism is all global warming has had for the past decade. The fanaticism has clearly got to the point of doctoring evidence and attempting to sabotage critics. How long would it have been until we got to an asinine crusade against non-global warming believers . . . oh wait, that's already started amongst the GW scientists!
Considering the credentials of the author and the arguments presented, I don't understand how you say the skepticism is unfounded, or even a "bit" unfounded.
You might still think your comment will be highly visible for longer as a reply to a highly upvoted comment.
I used to be "forward-looking" and "realistic" about global warming. And by forward-looking and realistic, I just mean ignorant.

Here's how I knew that global warming was happening and caused by man: a friend told me the top scientists agreed it was true.

I will actually accept a lot of information based on scientific consensus. However, recently, I learned eminent scientists are lying to me (and their colleagues), so my whole basis for belief fell apart. Also, I started looking at some of the data and discussion, and there are plenty of reasons to doubt - sane, statistical reasons... not like 9-11 is an inside job type conjecture.

I am an Obama-loving, liberal, pro-recycling, bike-owner, but I am no longer convinced that climate change is human-created, and I'm not satisfied that carbon abatement is the one true path to salvation. I actually do tend to believe these things are likelier true than not, but I am no longer one of the faithful.

When top scientists start lying to us, "cleaning up" data, and warning of the apocryphal end of man, I start to wonder if these scientists aren't just the witch doctors of another era, with different vestments and potions. But then I think, nah... the WSJ is right. They aren't superstitious, they are just human, corrupt, and greedy.
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The skepticism is good, but my concern is that the issue has become so politicized, and people are so emotionally invested in the outcomes, that true objectivity is nearly impossible. Mix in natural variations and the fact that the timescales are not intuitively understood by most people, and I really doubt we'll be able to save ourselves from massive global catastrophe if that's the way this ends up going.

In my mind, the real problem is that we do not account for the value of natural resources and the environment in our economics. That, combined with a rabid consumerist mentality is rapidly leading us down a rode of polluted resource-exhaustion.
does this kind of service exists for landing pages for products? But landing pages are a little more what U are looking for, today. "Doing Ur personal homepage" was maybe '99?
Someone posted an article here on HN once which talked about how peoples general dispositions was transmittable to people up to two or three degrees of separation from yourself. So if you're in a bad mood then that attitude can spread to your friends of friends of friends. Anyone else remember reading that article? I'd like to bookmark it.
Yes, but their use of 1.8.7 as the baseline is an epic failure in my eyes. If we're moving to 1.9, use that. If you really must use a 1.8 series, don't use the weird-o transitional one that no one uses. That just doesn't make sense.

I also think they should work with the RubySpec (http://rubyspec.org) folks to make sure the executable spec is in sync with the written one.

But the Ruby core unfortunately isn't known for really reaching out across the Pacific, mostly because of the language barrier. :-/
How to configure Snapvault using Network Appliance Data OnTap on a FAS3050 filer
Pricing in Pay-It-Forward and Gift Economies
> Women desire to project their masculine self onto a male figure that can most closely match the features of that masculinity.

Oh, they do?
Yes. I also started with C64 Basic. As far as I remember you could only have single-letter variables. Is this correct?

The language you feel most comfortable in does colour your thinking. (Or vice versa?) So just don't stop learning languages.
But on the other side the evidence selectivity and baseless opinion pieces fighting for mindshare are 100 times worse.

Of course it's healthy to be skeptical, but it really seems like most people writing about GW have an agenda. The politics of the issue are simply too charged for any objectivity to sneak in.
Lazy-sequences may also help to prepare you for a completely lazy language.
Their proposed blackholes are small - some of their calculations use 4 × 10^11 grams [440.924 tons ~ comparable to Empire State Building which weights about 300.000 tons].
Your About page has waaaay too much text on it. Pare it down to less than half that. It's hard, but you'll be forced to clarify. (Also, typo: "good dead" => "good deed".)

If I were you, I'd be thinking a lot about how to take advantage of game dynamics. If Foursquare can do that about going places, surely you can do it about finding great deals, which is inherently competitive to begin with. I'm not fond of shopping, but even I will boast about great deals when I find them. If you can get that right... wow.

How do you prevent people from posting fake deals? Is there a way for others to validate? Would it be useful for people to post not just new deals, but confirmation of deals they benefited from? That would have two advantages: 1. you'd get people participating both ways; 2. you'd get validating information about what the really good deals are. If I post something lots of people benefit from, that should earn me status.

You need to have a blog. Tell stories. True stories about deals users have found would be good. Also, a personal touch can be a big deal: consider taking the "Team" thing off the bottom of the About page and put it in its own place where you introduce yourselves. As a user, if I feel a personal connection to the people behind a site, I'm automatically more sympathetic.

The Community page doesn't draw me in. It looks like a database report right now. That page is a chance to get people to participate, so you want it to be warm and inviting. Also, it's hard to react positively to something one doesn't understand, so getting the key information across in the first 10 seconds is critical.

Don't bother putting up messages like "nothing in your location, redirecting to New York". It's obvious that you're redirecting me to NYC anyway, and a message box just irritates the pig. (Maybe put this information in some text on the actual page?) Also, when I load the page in FF I'm getting a status box overlay that says "Detecting your location" that takes a long time to go away and blocks my use of the site (plus is ugly). Drop that. You don't want any barrier to entry at that moment. People can bail on you in less than a second.

If I were you I would pay super-close attention to the psychology of how people are using the site. If you find a dynamic that works, this could be killer. It's not obvious that appealing to people's altruism ("good deed", "karma", etc.) is the right approach. Competitive shopping can be vicious! Think about that question, "What's your deadly sin?" It may not be so much greed (saving money) as vanity (winning status).

I'm afraid I don't like the name. First, it reminds me of Cinnabon. Second, American names with French roots are good for a fancy, specialty vibe (e.g. gourmet, luxury), or conveying effete sophistication, but that may not be what you want.

Summary: you guys could be on to something. Best of luck and keep us all posted about how it goes!
So this is not true ?

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-Nove...
Psystar told investors it would sell 14 million Mac clones in 2011
in reality they only sold 786!
I'm working on audio feedback, but mobile Safari makes it dificult.
Found the article I was thinking of: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1865960,00.html
I think it's important to look at both sides of the debate, especially when it appears one side or the other has been fudging data for years.

But it's also important to realize that even if Climate Change isn't man made pollution still is and we need to do our best to reduce it.

Global Warming has been the specter hanging over our heads for the last decade telling us to clean up our act but we need to start stressing the importance of pollution cleanup and recycling outside of the climate change debate as it is hugely important in its own right.
There's a difference between skepticism and paranoid conspiracy theories, though. And I've had more than enough of the latter.
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I see an alert box with "Unable to figure out your location! Defaulting to New York City" when I load the page. It would be a nicer experience if you displayed this message above the map (or somewhere on the page) instead of a using modal dialog.

The site navigation links at the top of the page have very small hit-boxes and provide no indication that they're click-able (other than the mouse cursor changing.) Its harder than it should be to click these items.

The "Category Filter" and "Hide Result List" links are even more confusing since they display a text input cursor instead of a link cursor. This problem is also present on the result title links.
most of the WSJ stuff on climate change is partisan garbage, but i would point out here that this author is actually someone with credentials.

As the leaked emails have demonstrated, merely having credentials does not prevent your work from being partisan garbage.
>You wouldn't. Moving the goalpost is a fallacy,

My problem here is that I'm not sure which metaphorical goalposts you are referring to. By the way, constantly talking in terms of "fallacies" (especially these informal ones, as opposed to actual fallacies of propositional or predicate logic) just makes you sound like a petulant 15 year old. (Ad hominem -- I'll do that one for you.) Don't refer me to a Wikipedia page on the informal fallacy of the month; address what I'm saying instead. Otherwise, you may be guilty of the fallacy of Missing the Goddamn Point Because You're Looking For Fallacies Instead of Reading What the Other Guy has Written.

Getting back to the issue at hand, I can only suggest that you (a) reread the thread and (b) calm down. I am not accusing any scientists of failing to do basic statistics, and neither was anyone else. I am merely expressing my awesome ignorance of all things related to climate science, and suggesting that perhaps some of the other posters here are about as ignorant of these issues as I am, but lacking a suitable degree of caution in their statements.

Good luck with leaving HN. Sadly, I very much doubt that you will find any discussion sites worthy of your superior intellect.
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Gangs in New York talk Twitter: Use tweets to trash-talk rivals, plan fights
Nobody is totally impartial, but one can at least attempt to be. Journalists are not supposed to be invested in the market they cover.
Yes, very good point and a detail I missed. That's extremely unfortunate...the first spec of the language will lag far behind the version everyone should be using, and based on a transitional version that was controversial at best.
There are several very well-credentialed members of the 9/11 Truth movement. Sure, their theories still fly in the face of overwhelming evidence and the great majority of experts in terrorism, building demolition, etc., but there they are.

I see a pretty strong parallel between 9/11 truthers and global warming deniers.
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If loneliness is contagious, can we cure it by placing lonely people in quarantine?
CSS is closer to C than x86 (and C is more universal) Are you going to say nobody writes in that, too?

Edit: I meant universal in that everyone reads/writes it -- not that it's the lowest level. Yes, nobody writes x86 so it's not similarly universal. C is pretty universal. Even if you code in Java, C#, or PHP you've still got a lot of C heritage there.
Murdoch: Future of Journalism Is Promising
Professor advises underwater homeowners to walk away from mortgages
"Shmeat is inescapable future of humanity!"

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/22197...

(Skip to 1:00 for relevant segment)
Is it secure to run this code?
The gross domestic product up. Stock prices are up. Surviving financial institutions are returning to healthy profitability, as is Corporate America

Increasing asset prices mean nothing when the purchase power of the dollar falls at an equal or greater rate. The dollar is collapsing in value relative to other currencies and the dow is collapsing when compared with gold:

Other currencies: http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...
Gold:http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...
How a Decades-Old Drug Is Still a Patented Blockbuster
quote: "She interviewed at Motorola, a cell phone company, and Adobe, a graphic design company." - The person who wrote this article didn't even bother researching the companies. Motorola does a heck of a lot more than just cell phones. And saying Adobe is a graphic design company is like saying GE is a refrigerator company.
that is a really nice idea... signing up and lets see how it works..
Yeah, but doubly so for messages broadcast across town in plaintext.
The idea would be that any other hardware manufacturer could also build them not just Fusion Garage.

If they both have ownership rights, as Mike says in the article, then they can both decide how to use them. Fusion Garage has decided to use them to produce the Tablet on their own and TechCrunch has decided to opensource it and allow any manufacturer to produce them.
Or being just the right kind of lazy so that time decides it for you.
Not necessarily. For the longest time, my school used IE6 on all of their computers. Last month, they finally upgraded! But surprisingly, they didn't upgrade to IE8, no, they upgraded to IE7.
This line seems problematic:

use strict;

Most of the web is messy. Beautiful Soup and its ilk would seem like a better choice for parsing.
'Hobbits' are a new human species.
i agree, which is why i only said he had credentials :)

i know nothing more about him than what wikipedia says, and having credentials does not make one ethical by default. i'm taking everything from either side of this issue with at least a grain of salt thanks to the politicization of the science.
Abandon the 'bon' word ASAP. Nobody really likes cutesy made-up words. I know that in French it means coupon, but use common language.

It's like the recommendation to not use custom UI. Same reason, nobody likes to learn something just to be able to use your site. It raises the cost of entry for new users, and hardly provides any benefit, not even for you (Brand ? Stop kidding).