skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It is absolutely baffling how something as ephemeral as a technical solution tickles our religious reflexes."

Maybe not surprising when you consider how watching guys dressed up in matching uniforms engage in some kind of competition involving a ball can elicit the same response.
English could be considered a neutral language, one to fall back when you can't use the right one.

That does not forbid nVidia from hiring decent translators.

And, BTW, were the software open-source, you could correct the messages for them to make sense..
Tablet computers make a big splash at CES
In which case, it will be sold -- either by him or by his heirs -- and continues to exists.
Yes. I took a class in formula script-writing this last semester.
4.5m pageviews a month? 150k/day? That's not bad at all. What's the site? : D
correlates to but does not determine

The parent to your comment refers to "determine" in the statistical sense (just as in the submitted article), and so this point needs to be looked at further.
Okay, just a difference in semantics. In that regards our systems are similar. Our reports = your logs, our logs=your traces.
Some of the API changes can be found here:
http://api.jquery.com/category/version/1.4/

A full changelog, along with information about the performance improvements, will be forthcoming.
"I receive about 20 emails a day."

The solution would have been more impressive if the volume of email were an order of magnitude larger, but the submitted article does have some interesting tips.
This is not correct. The copyright owner can, by definition, do whatever they want with the next version, as long as they hold the copyright for the entire code base.

Nothing ever prevented MySQL AB (or Sun) from shutting down their public repos and releasing the next version of MySQL as proprietary software. Of course, this would almost certainly lead to an immediate fork, but it has always been possible.
Right.

Initially you're trying to optimize the path for X people. So to get X items which are distributed in a given way, you're trying to have each person take the shortest path possible.

However, based on orders, you want to optimize the distribution of items in the warehouse to further shorten the paths. Granted, that distribution could be biased wildly based on all sorts of factors (i.e. seasonal activity).

Fun problem to say the least. :)
I understand the point you're trying to make, but this just isn't true. If you work 20 hours per week and make $12 / hr, that's $12k per year. It's even more if you assume that you'll work more hours during summer and breaks. While that might not make a huge dent in a $50k / year private school, it would cover most or all of your tuition, books, and fees at a lot of good state schools. This also ignores the other benefits of working, such as health benefits, connections, experience, etc.
Behind the Warner Bros. and Netflix accord
I swear I had nothing to do with it and I feel for you.

It's a pity you're not in the same country or I'd hop over to help.
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
Looks like you're overreacting here. All John said that he didn't go out of his way to get more pageviews. I think it's different to writing for yourself.
Well done. How did you scale up smartflix? That seems like a very challenging problem. Did you need to spend a great deal of money to create a useful initial stock of DVDs ?
I agree the clock puts extra pressure that can make one unable to focus on the task, but it's important to know your time limit.

Consider making the clock like on http://www.sudokuslam.com/ - with an icon right next to it to show or hide it.
Of all the people here you are the last one on the list of 'worrying whether he's got a backup' :)

I may become a tarsnap customer at some point in the near future, I'll let you know. My backup needs are outgrowing what I can store on individual backup servers (30T and counting) so I'll need something that scales better.

I'm trying to work out what the update rate is so I'll be able to figure out what it will cost me. The fact that you seem to be in for the long haul really helps.

Do you have some kind of policy in place about what will happen if/when tarsnap gets acquired ? Do you have a survival clause in your contract?
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I think this is a pointless debate as it is simply impossible to disable the "view source" functionality due to the way HTTP/HTML work.

(Of course a browser can remove this functionality but that wouldn't stop other browsers from keeping it. Also, the DOM can be manipulated from javascript, sometimes this is taken to the extreme such as in GMail, but many modern browsers have DOM inspectors)
Empathy for athletes during competition is an evolved phenomenon that aids the assimilation of useful hunting and fighting skills for the audience.
I do understand that most art shows work this way.

I also know that most art shows I've been to don't display 20,000 postcards, nor are most patrons willing to spend $33 to buy a postcard.

However: using your "art world" connections might not be a bad idea. Why not speak to some (financially) successful artists/gallery owners that you know and ask them how they'd raise money in your situation?
Idea: a legal botnet CDN
Wow! I was reading the comments on the blog posting, and the signal-to-noise ratio was shockingly low. I would have thought Schneier readers to be a bit more clueful.

It seems that using a security-less memory stick/usb drive/etc. with an open source cryptographic package might be one's best bet. What are some good options?
Try hitting Ctrl-C in a standard active Win32 dialog. It already puts something nice on the clipboard automatically :)

You might put the key information in the dialog's window title.
The point is that some technical terms like anti-aliasing usually make little sense even when translated well.
Regarding "an individual with a power to veto," C++ has a dictator for life, whatever trappings of "democracy" surround him. Bjarne Stroustrup has the social and intellectual capital to drive C++ in whatever direction he likes. Unfortunately, not all dictators are created equal.
There is distinct (and, in my view, great) value in learning to be independent and to take responsibility for oneself, which is something that my work experience in high school and college taught me, and these were hardly glamor jobs (restaurant work, delivery jobs, warehouse work, etc.) - falls under the "helps build character" category.
Guy Steele knows a bit about language design (having co-invented Scheme and Fortress, worked on early implementations of TeX and TECO/Emacs, and helped write the specifications for Java, Common Lisp, ECMAScript, Fortran, and C). In Coders at Work he says,

"There's this Huffman encoding problem. If you make something concise, something is going to have to be more verbose as a consequence. So in designing a language, one of the things you think about is, 'What are the things I want to make very easy to say and very easy to get right?' But with the understanding that, having used up characters or symbols for that purpose, you're going to have to make something else a little bit harder to say."

So it definitely depends on your domain. If you do some of the harder Project Euler problems and then look in the forums, you can see the same problem solved by a hundred different programmers with different approaches. The shortest solutions there are always in APL-family languages like J and K. But it's partly because those languages are so well-suited to the typical problems in Project Euler.

If you want to implement a concurrent server for binary network protocol like memcache, then you'll probably find Erlang a more concise language instead, because its syntax, its libraries, and the primitives of the Erlang VM are all better adapted to that domain.
I think this shows just how well Cameron understands how to make movies people want to see. He outright said that Titanic gave him his "F-you" money in the Wired interview, so I doubt he cares much anymore what the critics say. But I'm guessing his ego still enjoys making a movie that untold millions of people around the planet see and feel that it especially resonates with their particular cultural situation.

In this way, I believe Cameron exemplifies the YCombinator mantra of "Make something people want."
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"If you look at the bottom of the water reservoirs for New York City, you will find entire towns!"

This could be a great device for a horror movie plot.
I might prefer this:

S S I (S (S (C S) C) (C (S I I)))

But then I'd be tempted to abstract the I out and apply to (S C C).
In the discussion that followed the video answers entry on lesswrong, Wei Dai quoted Eliezer: "I have to remind myself that it's not what's the most fun to do, it's not even what you have talent to do, it's what you need to do that you ought to be doing."

Eliezer presumably means that time is in short supply, and that every month's advance toward AI has the potential to save a great many people. Plenty enough time to write a novel after we crack that nut, but there's no time now.
And they do, However, in different contexts. Latin has been the language of (European) science long after it stopped being dominant in other respects. English can turn out to remain dominant in technological fields, specifically software, for a long time, even as other languages may overtake it otherwise.
But we’re all working together on stuff that we want to work on and we’re working with people that we really want to work with.

For me, that pretty much says it all.

My two biggest complaints over the years have never been about money, markets, or changing the world. It's always been about what I'm working on and who I'm working with.

I've always thought that if we could just have those two things, we could figure out how to get pretty much anything else. Nice to hear I'm not the only one.
I'd go even farther to say everyone should just move the the US. Well maybe not everyone but definitely every HN reader.
Hmm. I guess I don't understand why it's reasonable for a contractor to ask for a code sample, but not a full-time candidate.

I definitely agree that asking for a code sample could make the candidate appear uncooperative, obnoxious, etc., particularly because it's unexpected. What if instead of asking for a code sample, the candidate more casually asked if one of the engineers could show him around the code base for 5-10 minutes? Would that make it more acceptable?
Probabilistic Causation
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"40. The speed of U.S Internet broadband lags far behind other industrial nations, including Japan, Finland, South Korea, France and Canada."

It took AT&T until 2009 to figure this one out? This explains SO MUCH.
Mentioned in another thread on the main page. A good article on how we determine what causes what from real-world observations.
He said "summer" job. 10 weeks * 40 hours/week * $12/hour = $4800

And that's if you can get a $12/hour job in the current economy. Working halftime certainly can make a little dent in your debt, but it also makes it hard to take a full load of hard classes.
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Palm's value proposition at the moment is two-fold: great hardware with great software. Arguably, Palm Web OS is better than Android. I think that the best path for Palm to take right now is to open source their Web OS. There is no downside because people are going to buy Palm devices if they want a good device and I think they have a good shot at taking down Android's marketshare.

The big play right now is a mobile OS land-grab -- Palm isn't even playing.
I've always had a soft spot for the Cri-Cri, billed as the smallest twin-engined 'plane in the world. It's usually powered by chainsaw engines, but someone fitted jet engines to it.

It's fully aerobatic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomban_Cri-cri

http://www.cricri.zoomshare.com/

http://www.flixxy.com/worlds-smallest-twin-engine-airplane-c...

http://www.google.co.uk/#q=%2B%22Cri-Cri%22
The page works fine on my work PC (XP, FF3.5) but doesn't work under Safari or FF on my Mac. The "Encoded" box fills up with a / followed by tons of rubbish.
The same holds true for free software: It may die although some people still care. All it needs is the lack of developers. Hiring someone to maintain software is usually bloody expensive and organizing a fund raiser has high transaction costs.

Your examples make no sense: Windows still exists and most games are played one or twice. Sure, old versions are not available, anymore, but who want to run them, anyway? The same holds true for old versions of free software: They may be still available somewhere but who wants to run them, anyway?

While you're talking about dieing software, what about creating software? Can you "guarantee" that a particular free software will be created if a large number of people want it? I think not.

Proprietary software, on the other hand, comes close to a guarantee if there's a chance of it being in demand.

This is why sociaty needs both -- and why Mister Stallman is wrong to say, only "free" software should exist.
Readability is subjective.
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Jan. 8, 1942: Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
> Either given enough people poking at it intelligently, or a enough computers brute forcing it nearly anything can be cracked.

That's technically true, but the time frame it takes to find an algorithmic weakness or complete a brute-force is the important factor here. It comes down to a question of how long your data needs to remain confidential.

As is usually the case, no cryptographic primitives were subverted to 'break' the USB stick. A somewhat silly implementation flaw is to blame.
The language called MUMPS only uses single letter key words as I recall - but that way lies insanity.
I wouldn't say the most important stuff is. Definitely the latest stuff is available in English first. For software it can be a few months. For books it can be a difference in years, and that's if you can find the translated version at all.
Remnants of the Biosphere
He's being rather disingenuous here. Sure, Pogue is on the side of the consumer and so it makes sense to point out thing like the fact that there are many more apps available for the iPhone...but it's also tautological, like saying 'new feature X in latest operating system Y is neat, but there aren't many apps that take advantage of it'.

It's true as far as it goes, but it's also a kind of FUD. I remember back int he early 90s when I was visiting businesses trying to sell them on the idea of using email and there was always a barrier of the form 'but who else is there to send mail to if this is so new'. Pogue has been a tech journalist for a long time, this kind of naivete fits him poorly.

(The irony is, of course, that once upon a time, Apple was perceived as the counterculture underdog. But 200 million iPods later, some people obviously see the former “think different” company as the “you’re all a bunch of consumer sheep” company.)

True enough, but Pogue might want to look back his own 2001 review of the iPod (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/technology/state-of-the-ar...) where he grumbles about price, its tendency to attract fingermarks, and its lack of a belt clip, as well as referring to an 'invasion of the ipod people'.

Well, what are you going to do...as with many other columnists, Pogue's writings are partly about what a cool guy he is for daring to speak truth to fanboys. Teh drama, it burns!
I don't know about your weight/diet, but if I wake up hungry, it's because I really skimped on dinner. Maybe your meal isn't big enough?

When I used to wake up early, the general reason was because of medication I was taking - ironically to sleep (Ambien in this case). What medicines do you take? Do you

It's also possible, as other posters have noted, that you might have any number of conditions. Sleep apnea was a factor in my problems, but can only be diagnosed/treated by a doctor.

And finally - though it doesn't sound like your case - it's possible you might be trying to get more sleep than you need. Now 3-4 hours is almost certainly not enough, but if you sleep 8+ hours some days - and you always shoot for 8 - that might be more than you need. Try reducing your "goal" sleep time, until your "sleep efficiency" increases (this is a classic treatment for insomnia)
I want one too ;-)
A friend of mine worked his way through school 10 years ago making 7.25$ per hour as a cook, and supported his wife at the same time. He graduated in 4 years but it took a 40 hour work week while in school and 60 - 80 hour work week in the summer to pay for a state school. However, he graduated without debt.

PS: His senior year he got a 13$ per hour internship at the coast guard, but he kept the cooking job until he graduated because the internship was not full time.
The author claims it was developed on Snow Leopard

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/an4qa/tadpole_c...
"I suppose I could go through every email, Seth Godin-style, and fire off a zinger one-liner the day it arrives. But though I might answer a lot of email, I wouldn't be doing the emailers any favors."

I remember reading not too long ago a heart felt email from a developer to Steve jobs that was several paragraphs long. Jobs' full reply:

"Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal."

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/dear-steve-...

From the time stamps, he replied within 3 hours, and probably within a few minutes of when he actually read it.

Maybe he could have taken more time to research and reply, ask a subordinate to research further, etc. But I doubt he could have given a much better response or made his position more clear than those 10 words.

I guess my point is, the "zinger one-liner" might be the most appropriate course of action more often than you think.
This is coding increases the size of the message by quite a bit. Encoding the word "hello" takes 37 bytes.
Or "Just Do It"?
I've dealt with deploying Java apps in-container, as .war files, and it has invariably been painful. Deployment to a new server requires installing the container first. Then configuring it, an excruciating process of editing many XML files. Configuration management for production, staging, QA, and development environments almost immediately becomes a whole separate set of fragile programs and scripts.

I have found it much easier to treat the main app as just a piece of software that happens to interact with the rest of the world using HTTP. Deployment becomes trivial; it really just needs a startup script and a directory of .jar files (dependency libraries) and another .jar or directory of .class files for your actual application. Installing on a new server doesn't require much more than a pre-installed JVM.

Out of curiosity, what value does deploying in a container add for you?
Sorry, no.

Adding a feature in MS Office is extremely easy without the source code thanks to the powerful macros and plugins. There are companies making a living of this.

It's much much easier to extend MS office than OOO.
Echoing my sibling: yes, absolutely. Think of it like a design pattern for writing. I think you can push the analogy pretty far actually: they are codified formulae designed to "implement" concepts in a story in a familiar and largely effective way, in the general case. They can be tinkered with around the edges, and implementation details can change, but at the core a factory is a factory.

Not every formula can be applied to every "story problem", and they can often be mixed and matched to achieve the desired outcome.
Yes you are right, it probably depends on the domain. But still, I have a feeling that there are some languages which are more concise than others generally because of reasons which are very generic: For example imperative languages with local variables contain a lot of unnecessary information, because we always have to reference the local variables we use, while in stack based languages the arguments don't have to be referenced, because they are implicit. In fact, in an extremely concise language there should be only a very few ways to express a program at a certain size. In not so concise languages you can write the same program in lot of ways ('permutations') (having the same size).
Safari here. Writing in this text area "its awesome" resulted in the green image.
Use the open source and cross-platform TrueCrypt.

Don't trust that some company's Taiwanese sub-sub-vendor has any competency at software development.
This is probably my own biggest trigger for procrastination. I avoid writing an email or calling somebody due to fear, or uneasiness. Then over time, I avoid it further due to fear of lateness. Luckily recognizing this is half the way to solving it. The other half is the temporary spike in willpower to overcome the fear.
Standard GPL license discussions in three, two, one...

Nothing to see. Move along.
EDIT after rereading what I was commenting on: Full timers are frequently expected to do infinite tasks in highly finite time, so your point holds ^_^.

I don't like the "show him around" idea since it's subject to cherry picking, but it could be an acceptable alternative if they're obsessed with secrecy (which 95+% of the time is bogus and a bad sign you should take into account).

You can mitigate the issues brought up by making looking at the code base just one of all the things you ask about, like process. Hmmm, didn't Joel S. or someone else write up a short essay on the 5 or so things you really want to check before accepting a job? They ranged from using SCM to doing after project analysis.

I might add that one of the things I always ask is what are the finances like. If they're at death's door I might work for them (have before :-), but I want to know ahead of time.
You are braver than I. I originally had a french PC. I gave it a solid go but having to translate errors to english, then try to translate it the specific english, then trying to translate it back to french just slowed me down immensely. It was faster to install Windows [English] and keep the french copy in a container.
Likewise in the study hand size correlates, but does not determine, sensitivity to touch.

The point of the study is that given both hand size and sex, sex does not matter. That is a significant result.
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Yes. German was also very important in science at the end of the 19-th century.
Ruby seems similar to Python in this regard. (Though Python seems a bit more concerned about special stuff in strings.)
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America as Texas vs. California, U-Haul Version
The quality of schools varies greatly from county to county, city to city. North Carolina has (apparently) excellent public schools... if you are in one of the major cities.

I looked at his original article and I'm thinking there's some kind of cost of living he's not accounting for. California has higher per capita income and spends more because it's extremely expensive to buy things there, pay teacher salaries, etc., compared to Texas. Effectively, California might be spending less. Maybe he's adjusting for that behind the scenes, but it's not obvious, it sounds like he is using raw figures.
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After about two weeks of usage: It seems to work very well, at least in the sense that my movements are registered correctly. I would estimate that it causes a noticeable difference waking up about 1/3 of the time.