skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't saying they categorically prevent it -- I was saying they make it much less likely.

Let's go back to my safeway example. If I don't grow up in an environment where it's assumed I'm going to be college-track, I probably work at safeway. Working hard isn't all I need at that point -- my ceiling is "shift supervisor".

I'm a big fan of the outlier theory or the "2% theory" as I used to call it, 2% of people tend to make their own destiny, you put them anywhere and they'll become ambitious and try to do things. Most people don't, including most people who aren't in poverty. How many friends do you have who went to law school because, "I dunno, I'm not gonna work at Safeway the rest of my life?"
Intel's paper on data-parallel programming
how are you going to make money?
Cisco To Continue Gobbling
Cisco will likely acquire a lot of companies in 2010.
A Road Map For India
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This is an old program of the philosophers. Can you, even in principle, find the language at the back of reality? Can you eliminate all ambiguities when you refer to ordinary objects? Are we all talking about more or less the same things? How could we talk about exactly the same things?

The picture gets a little muddled when you think of the choices and distinctions each language makes. Some of them will contradict each other.

Suppose Language 1 has 150 words for snow, but only one for love, while Language 2 has 150 words for love, but only two for snow. Would the uber language preserve the distinctions for each word? Maybe you're losing something by learning all this detail.

You can do the same thing with the intensional meanings of words (connotations). I think one of the original Sapir-Whorf examples traces the meaning of a word for corn in Language A to words in Language B that mean "enemy food". Would the uber language remove connotations? It would probably lose the word from Language B.

But this gets into an even deeper point, which is that when you use a language, words aren't isolated. They frame a certain outlook on the world that hangs together. There were probably a bunch of words in Language B that talk about foreign or "enemy" things. Can you really say those words and mean them without taking on their perspective?

There are many more examples. We have this kind of thing in English too. We have "kill" and "murder". We have the Anglo-Saxon words and the Norman words.

And finally and most importantly, what perspective on the world does the super-language take? Objective? Involved but fair? Polemical? Propagandizing?
>production grade precise compacting garbage collector

Yeah, this is a big letdown. I'm surprised Novell can't devote the resources to finishing a halfway decent collector.
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Still Off-topic for the thread, tho.
How quickly we (all) forget ( http://www.google.com/search?q=apple+removes+firewire ). I misspoke, firewire 400 _was_ removed from a number of devices, as part of the regular upgrade path/hardware refresh, because "USB 2.0 won the connectivity fight in the lower end of the market". Despite me not being specific enough, and that Apple _currently_ ships a number of devices with firewire support, the fact remains that Apple does make hardware decisions based on their perception of user-experience, what they want to support, and which direction they want the market to go in -- I'm not sure how anyone can disagree with that, as I'm sure everyone makes decisions on what they want to support (other than maybe IE6), sometimes leaving users and customers in the lurch who are used to, or have a vested interest, in doing things the old, or a certain, way.
I can't say I'd want this on a car; I like the direct feedback of a hydraulic brake system with no more than moderate power assist. I'm also undecided on ABS for myself, but I want most people to have it. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I like being in control of the car, not the other way around.
Yep, in 1996 I hired on with an oil co in Scotland. One of my first tasks was to migrate everything from gawdawful Performa 6100s to Windows 95 boxes and laptops.

Being in IT, I was lumbered with one of said Performa's. It was awful. Unstable, slow. It was sad, since 4 years before in 92, I'd had a dream box Mac IIcx on my desk. Pre-Internet of course.

Thank goodness for NeXT and NeXTStep. OS X has done nothing but get better and better with every release.
The Human Shuffle: ChatRoulette
A32-S5 90-N8V1B3000
Interesting read.
We've had a reddit clone in 100 lines of lisp, 91 lines of clojure, and 4 lines of C.

All we need now is for someone to do it in 1 line of Perl.
You are quite delusional if you don't thnk this happens in the business world as well. It is an artifact of any large and centralized budgeting process. If your group goes over budget you are penalized, and if you are under budget you are not rewarded and are sometimes even penalized (for not delivering an accurate budget projection and tying up capital that could have been better used elsewhere, like those over-budget idiots two floors below... :) Using all of your allocated funds is the most rational decision to make in these situations, so you spend it on whatever you can.
I still assert that there's a difference between internal prototyping and public release. Microsoft is JUST NOW releasing Dryad. It doesn't matter if they were talking about it for 50 years, what matters is the implementation and availability.

I understand that it's more than just Hadoop.NET. Perhaps I broad brushed, but fundamentally, these are tweaks from what exists. I am not saying that it is purposeless, but I am saying is that I expect more from Microsoft. In order to justify the cost of purchasing Microsoft products, it must create an order of magnitude increase in value, which I'm not seeing.

In essence: neat, but marginal.
It's not really the mutability I don't like about Java anymore. I don't have enough experience with immutability, except for doing some Project Euler problems in Erlang. There I kind of hit a wall trying to compute primes efficiently (the seave was not possible with immutable lists).
21% of people living with HIV in the U.S are unaware of their status

I had no clue the number was that big, then after a moment of thought I wondered how they came up with this number... if they don't know how does the researcher?
Or, looking at it the other way, why assume that Apple is so important? Couldn't Jobs have made the NeXT iPod?
There have been some attempts to study language drift over time and geography. The proponent that springs to mind is Joseph Greenberg. His work is an attempt to work backwards to the common core of language, the starting place.

If you knew approximately how fast language changed, and you saw two related languages, you would know when they drifted apart. There are also linguistic isolates like Basque where you can't really play this trick.
Conversation with Metafilter Founder Matt Haughey
I have a bunch of friends working there and they all love it.
Josephene Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman
Josephene Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman, was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868. Rather than having a parasitic twin, Myrtle's extra legs resulted from an even rarer form of conjoined twinning known as dipygus, which gave her two complete bodies from the waist down. She had two small pelves side-by-side, and each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs. She could move the smaller legs but was unable to use them for walking. At the age of 19, she married a doctor named Clinton Bicknell and had four daughters and a son. It has been said that three of her children were born from one set of organs, two from the other. Myrtle died on May 6, 1928.
I would agree with you on this. However, the opinion on this seems to be somewhat varied: in Coders at Work, Ken Thompson says I love yacc. I just love yacc. It just does exactly what you want done. Its complement, lex, is horrible. It does nothing you want done. On the other hand, Dave Conroy says YACC makes the hard part harder and the easy part easier.

Personally, I like lexers, but would rather move the language definition to one where recursive descent parsing works.
As an addendum: In some languages (who will remain unnamed) lexical analysis is actually a pain due to funny whitespace rules or syntax-dependent tokenizing. For instance, something like:

* whitespace around operators is optional, except that sometimes a symbol adjacent to a variable means something completely different

* "foo" is a keyword in type signatures, but a normal identifier otherwise

* indentation is meaningful, and must generate INDENT or DEDENT tokens depending on the indentation of some arbitrary number of prior lines

* indentation is meaningful based on whether the first non-whitespace token on a line is aligned in the same column as a specific token in the prior line, based on parsed syntax, oh god what were these people smoking

...and so on. It's easy to get into situations where merely lexing requires keeping some sort of context, requires interleaving with parsing such that parse errors may cause the lexer to backtrack and reinterpret things, or possibly even worse.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible to construct an especially pathological bit of perl that couldn't be lexically analyzed without running the program.
I understand that this is satire, but I'd like to see the same one-upmanship going on with tokens instead of lines.
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Not sure if you found someone to help you. If not then I will suggest Rodenbaugh Law - http://www.rodenbaugh.com/ - Mike Rodenbaugh has extensive transactional and dispute resolution experience with respect to intellectual property, e-commerce and internet marketing. He has specialized in trademark and domain name matters since 1995, including more than 7 years at Yahoo! Inc. mike@rodenbaugh.com
Open-source flash player does not mean free and open-source Flash CS4.
UltraDNS is awesome! (But I'm biased since I did the Admin UI.)
> What's relevant is not primarily the content of the works but how they came about, i.e. whether or not one of them is a derived work of the other.

No. What's relevant is the content of the works, not how they came about. If you've been locked in a soundproof, opaque box since birth with nothing but a typewriter, and you manage to type out part of the screenplay of Star Wars without ever having seen it, you've still violated copyright. There are many, many cases where no actual copying was ever proved and yet copyright violation was found.
I wonder if the benefits of this product outweigh the cons of the costs of all the MS Windows 2008 licenses you need to get to run Dryad.
Android Email Information Leak
Oh? The fact that you chose not to do [X] doesn't make your ability to do [X] any less noteworthy?

There's a knife in a knife rack in my kitchen. By your logic I should be jailed for stabbing someone, since I clearly have the ability to do it.

For the sake of argument, let's accept your premise - that in America, the government is subverted by well-funded lobbyists and cash contributions to politicians. Instead of getting angry at the top 1% of taxpayers, some of whom have nothing to do with this subversion, why don't you focus your anger a little more, and restrict it to the people who actually back the lobbyists and contribute the cash?

I'm a little uncomfortable being on the receiving end of such anger, just because my startup did alright. I'm sure there's plenty of others in that top 1% of taxpayers who similarly have nothing to do with what you're actually angry at.
I remember this time period fairly distinctly as I almost purchased a BeBox. I decide to wait since it was probably all just going to end up in some future Apple product anyways, so the BeBoxes were already obsolete.

There was quite a bit of press concerning Gassée's and Apple's desire to tie the knot, but history turned out all different in the end. And I remember thinking that it was a huge failure for the world all caused by Gassée's desire for more money.
I'd like to see a Justin Timberlake version of this now.
Facebook Flips The Switch On Its Improved Photo Uploader
To be honest, if Windows NT had lived up to its promise it would have been the greatest OS of all time.
It would certainly make sense to do compression while it's stored server-side in RAM if they're RAM capacity limited.
Neither Luddite nor Biltonite
One has to appreciate the audacity and ability to reflect on their mistakes. Good luck to them on their future ventures.
Well, I think/hope that he was sort of making fun of the "in n lines of code" part by putting all his code, besides the imports, on 1 line. But yeah, I agree.
Okay but a bunch of these comments are very narrow minded and look like typical windows users comments. If people think that the mac os is for simple minded people because it is easy to use and doing things the long way or more in depth way is for smrter people... Then throw away your calculators and break out your abacus. Stop hating
A Googler Has his Tiananmen Square Moment
One possible method: Blood from donors is checked for HIV. If the person ends up having HIV, ask the person if he/she was aware. Then account for the people who normally wouldn't give blood.
Then there are embedded systems that control missile batteries or commercial aircraft, and to save money on processors, everything is implemented in the lowest-level language possible.

Avionics and weapons systems are, I hope, still written in Ada.
Expletive 'it'. As in, 'It was a woman who died.'
99% is probably being charitable to Apple.

The iPad's limitations will only be known once people get their hands on them, but I think you can extrapolate from experience with the iPod Touch and Apple TV. All of Apple's devices are limited to MPEG4 in the mp4 container or h264 in mov, with strict limitations on resolution and bit rate. They don't support divx/xvid, avi, or mkv. Very, very few files are encoded under those restrictions unless they were created specifically for an Apple TV or iPod.
So... Easy solution: ditch Fast and get a Google Search appliance.

I am sure Google will have sweet deals for the Fast customers who no longer want to manage their own internal search engines and would rather not run them on Windows.
Why on earth..
Several times I've simply posted requests for advice here.
As a random aside, Dr. Haskell Curry has the interesting distinctions of:

1) Having his first name borrowed for something, putting him in the company of Ada Byron and few others

2) Having his last name not merely borrowed, but frequently written lowercase, putting him in the company of Boole, Abel, and (again) few others.

A fair tribute, I suppose, while so much else seems to focus on Church and Turing.
Me too, but wouldn't it be nice if you knew where you could turn for a specific issue? And then wouldn't it be nice to develop a mentor relationship with someone?
Apple at the time was heading fast for the way of Commodore. Tied to past greatness and completely unable to move their technology into the present.

The OS was being left behind, the systems had all the stylish elegance of a car battery, and all efforts were focused on turning Apple, a great place for artists and designers, into IBM. In short, Apple was failing fast.

Jobs came in, and after wrestling with quickly increasing, unsellable inventory of crap computers (the increasing inventory numbers headlines lots of news during this time period "35 days unsold inventory!" "60 days unsold inventory!"), gave us the original iMac which quite literally restarted Apple's heart.

This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IMac_Bondi_Blue.jpg

Replaced This: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Power_Mac...

This: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/PowerBook...

Replaced This: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Powerbook...
"If we grow share, we will grow our way into profitability"

We lose money on each unit, but make it up through volume.
Apple Bans the Word 'Android' From App Store
Indeed, what a completely pointless use of Flash. All it does is make the site harder to use.
Dunno, that's the real title of the article up at the top of the page.
Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
It's from a French HIV awareness campaign. There is a female equivalent which is slightly less horrifying:

http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/french_aids_awareness_s...
The sweet spot is probably larger startups, with an already-established, multiple-person product management team. Small startups with limited product staff are unlikely to take a risk on someone with no experience. Public companies, on the other hand, are often too bureaucratic to hire someone without 'credentials'.

Your friend will likely have to settle for a junior role at first - I'd search for 'associate product manager' or 'assistant product manager' roles. But a product manager with a technical background is a truly a blessing, and he should be able to get promoted within the company or move to a more responsible role at another company after a year or so of experience.
I didn't know HN guidelines required one to hunt through the HTML source of a page to get the title.
If The Economist gets an exclusive that Time doesn't, then The Economist's readers have information that Time readers don't.

Did I really need to explain that? This reminds me of the thread a few days ago when I had to explain that it was not necessarily meaningless to talk about something that would have happened.

This is why I need to get rid of points on comments. 11 points on a comment makes it into something that demands an answer. Without points it would just have to stand on its own merits.

(Your second sentence is simply false. The newsworthiness of a story isn't constant; it's higher the first time the story is published. E.g. that Steve Jobs had a liver transplant has near zero newsworthiness now, but it was big news when the story first broke. And if someone gives you an exclusive on a story, then you're assured that it will be breaking news when you publish it, with the attendant increment in newsworthiness.)
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A man was paid $6b for winning a bet against homeowners and the entire financial industry. It is relevant to point that out, because it directly contradicts the idea that a person's wealth is proportional to what they've contributed. And it's not like similar situations are hard to find (though his is a much more dramatic example than most).

What's intellectually dishonest is pretending that money is the only way to measure value.
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>* "foo" is a keyword in type signatures, but a normal identifier otherwise

Isn't this decision something that should be punted out of the tokenizer and into the parser?
International Criminal Court complaint filed by an American against Bush regime
I did a case study on this in a design class. The design talent at apple didn't change much, but the quality of finished designs coming out did. This had more to do with slashing all the changes between what a designer wants and what the finished product is. When you don't let every middle manager have their say and force a change, then end result is better. And Jobs with his dominating personality was able to make this happen
Is it really true that higher taxes will lead to the rich being criminals and politically connected? My impression is that Sweden, for example, isn't considered more corrupt than the United States, despite having much higher taxes.
It also includes support for computations on quantum superpositions of multiple values! Truly, it is ahead of its time.
So the language's compiler does analysis of the algorithm for common crypto flaws? (like buffer-overruns and timeable iterations ...)?
If it crashes you:

$ lynx --dump http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/

If you are reading this from a browser using Adobe's Flash Player
plug-in (i.e., if you see a blue rectangle below), it will probably
crash within the next few seconds. :-(
[EMBED]

"Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don't ship Flash with
any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem
historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today,"
Lynch wrote. "Addressing crash issues is a top priority in the
engineering team, and currently there are open reports we are
researching in Flash Player 10."
[1]Adobe Defends Flash, Calls Apple Uncooperative

This page exploits a bug that I reported to Adobe in September 2008,
and has affected every release of Flash on every platform since then.
Despite numerous email exchanges with the Flash product manager about
the bug, the bug report being hidden from the public for "security"
reasons, and Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch's claims otherwise, it continues to
be an issue.
* [2]Original Bugtraq posting
* [3]CVE-2008-4546
* [4]Link to Adobe JIRA bug report (not accessible to the public
anymore)
_________________________________________________________________

Email: Matthew Dempsky <[5]matthew@dempsky.org>; Twitter: [6]@mdempsky

References

1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358815,00.asp
2. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/496929/100/0/threaded
3. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4546
4. http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-677
5. mailto:matthew@dempsky.org
6. http://twitter.com/mdempsky
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Yea after my suggestion :-)
In the vast majority of places, product managers aren't responsible for revenue. I don't think this counts against you at all - it wouldn't if I was the hiring manager.
I think he means why is it required that the person is a recent gradute. Your cited reason would be no less valuable for a non-recent graduate or a has-never graduated.
You can punt as much into the parsing stage as you like, of course. It's not like there's even any requirement that the two stages be separated.

All of the stuff I mentioned gives you the choice of either more work during parsing (which is usually hard enough already), or building a crazy Rube Goldberg-esque tokenizer--neither of which is appealing.
Removing all the linefeeds is cheating. Show me one written with only 4 semicolons.
I hate this stupids discussions and I have seen many pythonist criticizing ruby..why?...because think ruby is a rival?...I use java and ruby..one reason for never choose python is his fanboy community w close mind and always criticizing the other languages..like java..c# ruby...yes..your language is better and is perfect but not everybody prefer it...if you learned a language only for speak bad of it is better no learn it, when you has a few days using ruby is than understand all thing back it...star type code without parentesis and see it look better and is most readeable (I remember you I come from java), I use a bit python and his syntaxis is good but i don't like all...never I feel good using it (I feel more limited) but I don't writte a article criticizing python, ruby is the language for peoples without limits and free mind, RUBY IS THE MOST ELEGANT LANGUAGE I HAVE KNOW, and is very readeable (no exceeds python but is very readeable) for all other reasons I think python could win the discussion
forget this discussions and allow ourselves know new ways to learn and write, this discussion are like the religions discussion, nobody win and only works for create bad ideas for the others...peace and sorry for my bad english, I'm germany
Ancient tribe becomes extinct as last member dies
Currently deciding whether to buy an iPhone or an android phone. This has made the decision easy - android all the way.
Much praise to the Google Chrome team for handling this sort of thing gracefully.
Gtkdial: dial from every gtk app
Ah, OK. E-mail me at <ss1602782@gmail.com>.
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Why Steve Jobs can't stand Adobe
About frikken time (imho)