skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because the article says similar work was already known back to 1965, just not 1941. It was already known Google didn't invent the concept.
If he manages to be his own boss (startup, small company, etc) then that is precisely right. However if he has a job(and he states he does) then his value as an employee is about him carrying out the projects his boss(es) see value in.

Of course, a good boss will try to explain why the tasks he is assigning are important so the employees will see value in it too. Sometimes that is not possible. For instance, perhaps the reason behind the task involves sensitive information that cannot be released (this comes up very often in the military, and occassionally in corporate jobs.) Perhaps there just isn't time for the explanation right then. Or perhaps the employee just disagrees with the explanation when given.

In those cases, a good employee will get the project done well whether or not the employee sees value in it because the boss/organization does see value in it. An employee that does not do that should and probably will be fired with cause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_310
Uh.. Google should hire some usability people I have no idea how to use this pos.
Just created a page (question/poll/topic) etc.

http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=4a31

hope this is what it was meant for, looks to be pretty useful
Show HN: Interview Engine
Inside job, anyone?
Reminds me of Samuel Bowles' Does education help? . “Being willing to sit in a boring classroom for 12 years, and then sign up for four more years and then sign up for three or more years after that—well, that’s a pretty good measure of your willingness to essentially do what you’re told."

Now, broken or not which is easier meeting the very low standards of most schools or fighting it tooth and nail? Sure fighting worked for you, but you still have to expended large amounts of energy defending your position. To me this is politics 101, pick your battles. Why attack one of the largest social institutions with a frontal assault?
True enough, I just feel like scm and ci are relatively orthogonal issues
wow! this is genius. would have definitely come in handy during my consulting days instead of fishing around for blank cab service receipts. brilliant marketing gimmick as well.
I actually agree with you, but we (you and I) have more formal background on this than most.

It's much more misleading if one draws the diagram - umbrellas centered on rationals, overlapping each other, it starts to look like they should all overlap everywhere. Clearly they don't, and you give an explicit example, but seeing how it fails can be difficult.

The more interesting thing is that we can put the "umbrellas" on the algebraic numbers, since they are also enumerable, and then it's harder to see exactly how it fails. However, start with one "umbrella" and look at the one centred on it's right edge, then the next, then the next, and you get a bounded, increasing sequence of algebraics. Again, we deduce the existence of the transcendentals.

But as you say, obviously it can't, but most people can't see the error in the argument.
Still no report yet on which 3 it was. They're probably talking to family members, first. Sad, none the less.
It's surprisingly unheard of. For example, it hadn't been posted on HN before.
The internet says yes and no, and I'd guess (without further information) the correct situation is closest to the "no bonus points for legacy, but you get a second look before rejection" policy one source claimed.
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. I think that by offering a service (even a free one) you create a reasonable expectation that you will, in fact, provide that service. You clearly retain the right to stop providing the service whenever you want, but you still have an obligation to treat your users with respect.

It's bad form to hold up a sign that says FREE CANDY and then punch people in the mouth when they ask for some.
At first i thought this was pretty awesome, but it doesn't change any dates and basically bundles everything into laser print cartridges. It should at least change the dates on the receipts. A- idea, C+ execution. Another 2 hours of coding would have made all the difference.
Criteria as a singular is in common usage, and common usage is good enough for me, a commoner.
> But it's still unclear to me how this differs from, say, a typical phpBB installation.

Fewer security holes?
Same here. Not everyone lives alone. Many people have spouses, girlfriends/boyfriends, roommates, and/or pets around after they leave. And this site doesn't give you their home address, it just says that user's house might be empty right now. Still gotta go look, I suppose.
I came here to say the same thing. I'm a 5th year at college and it astounds me how many CS/ECE/Engineering majors really don't understand that a vast majority of people don't know how anything works. It's a completely naive, misinformed, and narrow view of people in general.

Whenever I'm building software, I ask myself "Could my parents use this? Grandparents?" Most of the time, the answer is "probably not". But when it's "Yes", thats when I think I have a good implementation.
AFAIK, no Musk on board.
God I hate that book, it's a 150 page slashdot comment.
Entrepreneurship Education: Bootstrapping At B-Schools?
A very interesting discussion emerging here ... my thesis is that b-schools are setting up entrepreneurs for failure by over-emphasizing on venture capital and outside financing.
This is tragic. Very sorry to hear it.

As an intern, I worked for a company and found in the employee manual that there were explicit restrictions on the number of execs who could be on the same plane or even in the same car!

I thought it was a silly clause and asked about it and the execs said, "Yes, the probability is small, but multiplied by the damage that would occur gives a very big risk of damage." That made a lot of sense. It doesn't cost much to avoid the risk, just take different flights.
I would argue that this problem has already been solved with contracts between companies. If you wanted Microsoft to be liable for bugs in their software, you'd probably gobs more money on their applications, which Microsoft would turn around and pay to insurance companies to limit their liability.
How much karma do I need before I can down vote someone? This seemed like a good place to ask.
Years ago I ran a small computer class at a retirement community. Every week there would be four or five "students" who showed up (usually the same ones every time). They were all very bright and funny, and I enjoyed every minute of it, even when it was frustrating.

What I found, though, is that most of them weren't really interested in learning how to use their computers — at least, not to the point that they'd feel comfortable navigating to interesting new websites.

Instead, they'd usually tell me exactly what they wanted to do, be it access their webmail account or play Bejeweled, and asked me to write out a checklist detailing how to do it (click the Start button, click the blue IE button, etc.). This actually worked pretty well most of the time. But if something didn't go according to plan they were too scared of messing things up to trust their intuition (especially when I wasn't around).

I really wish the iPad was around in those days, it would have been perfect for them.
Retrogame hackers patch bug in 1980 arcade classic 'Phoenix'
So, it's at least a 30 year old plane.

I'm not connected at all with the private aviation industry... What is the useful (safe?) lifespan of an aircraft like this?
Well, "self-install" only updates the lein jar. 1.1.0 added an "upgrade" task that also updates the lein script.

To upgrade to it, you need to download the new script and "self-install": http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/stable/bin/lein

Once you've installed 1.1.0, future upgrades can be done via "lein upgrade".

[edit: clarity]
it's trivial to prove that (1+sqrt(5))/2 isn't covered, for example

It could be, depending on how the rationals are enumerated. I think the flaw is that while it's true that every real is arbitrarily close to an infinite number of rationals, the size of the segment centered of each of those rationals keeps falling, so "most" reals never get reached.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/ should detect and warn about SSL MITMs.
I always looked at -b this way: git checkout <branch> updates my working copy to some branch. -b just means "Implicitly create the branch if it doesn't exist yet."
200, in my experience. Interestingly, you cannot downvote top-level comments on stories that you submit, however you can downvote the children comments.
I like how their auction uses youtube to market their _online video marketing platform_.
I don't know if I'm younger or older than you, but: chances are that you are the average person and don't know it.

http://www.damninteresting.com/unskilled-and-unaware-of-it
Wow, a little harsh for a funny little app, don't you think?
It's interesting how some people do this, yet don't give a second thought to driving together all the time.
The article makes a false assumption. He starts by saying that AGW has the ball, but then carries that on through the rest of his reasoning as a proxy for "global temperatures will be 6 degrees higher in 2100 hundred has the ball", although he doesn't come out and say it.

Few educated people disbelieve in the evidence for some AGW. There are a few things that many of us don't believe.

We don't believe that there is any reasonable evidence that the magnitude and impact of AGW will be dire. When the IPCC reports come out, there is tons of evidence for weak AGW. But that tons of evidence applies to weak AGW. Each of those studies is evidence for modest claims. It doesn't matter if you accumulate 10 times as many studies supporting those modest claims, it will not be evidence for the incredibly less likely hypotheses that they are made to do work for by the press and politically-motivated scientists.

In fact, there's plenty of reason to believe increased temperatures will be a net benefit to humanity. Humanists, but not reactionaries, should be open to this. There is no reason to believe we're currently at our "ideal temperature", and there's no reason to freeze our current ecosystems in time as if they're sanctified objects of a disorganized but fervent religion. Regardless, the claim that rising temperatures will leave us worse off isn't remotely proven.

The author waves his hands by the "cost-effective things we can do to mitigate global warming" as if such a thing exists in the current public debate. Almost every proposal normally under discussion in the public venue have overwhelming costs.[1]

This is a costs/benefits judgment, and you can't make that judgement without knowing the benefits. On an episode of Mad Men, Don Draper is standing in the living room with his wife and the interior decorator. His wife asks him what he thinks about the new furniture and its arrangement. He says, "Well, it's kind of hard to judge without knowing the price." People seem to forget that.

Concerning the benefits, there is no plausible, let alone tested, theory of risk prediction for climate temperatures in 2100. At all. So we're not talking about science here anymore. When you say, well, we can't calculate the risks, but the worst case is the extinction of mankind, you're getting dangerously close to the St. Petersburg paradox. Spreading FUD is a principal mechanism by which con men of all stripes manipulate.

[1] Although I'm all for as many nuclear reactors as we can build. By the steady resistance to this cheap and plentiful source of new energy, it's clear that a certain segment of the alarmist AGW movement is only willing to solve our energy problems by putting a cap on human productivity.

Edit: Meant to write 6 degrees higher, not 106, in the first sentence.
> Intelligence might allow you to score well on tests while not finishing your homework, but it's hard work and dedication that truly makes someone successful at what they do.

I disagree. Hard work cannot compensate for lack of intelligence, just as intelligence cannot compensate for lack of hard work. (More fully: you can substitute the one for the other a little bit, but not a lot).

For example, a stupid person couldn't understand quantum theory no matter how hard they tried. Nor could a clever person if they put zero effort into it.

Fo a startup to succeed, its founders need a combination of intelligence, hard work, and luck. And I expect the same is true of most difficult and competitive human endeavours.
I've known adults who take stimulants for ADHD. None of them are 'high performers', in fact, most of them are disabled or otherwise unable to hold a job.

I'm sure that counterexamples exist, but I've only seem them turn a person who is completely hosed to a person who is completed hosed and has high blood pressure.
Something tells me tbgvi is an R Kelly Fan.
Tragic, however, there is no confirmation that they were executives either.
I think the grandparent post's application of quotation marks around "BS" subtly speaks volumes, i.e. perception of the bullshit value of a job is potentially invalid. Marco's essay reads as if he's got a pretty unilateral opinion about the worth of things. A person is allowed to deem something BS, but they've got to be open to potential compromise.

Apparently someone once thought over-designing the O-rings on the shuttle was BS work.
Weird Google Search Page
This may be useful:

http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/Query.asp
He's not arguing the web isn't important.

He's saying that for a TON of people, they don't need to use it personally, and see no reason to put in the (sometimes) massive amount of effort to learn how to use the web. Their lives go on just fine without their direct involvement.

Also, it is useless to cry "How terrible that so many people don't understand! What a failure!" -- The only failure here is the failure to make software just as intuitive as older technology. For someone who never uses the web, Google is the only option because of it's incredible simplicity. It takes a non-web savvy person quite a while to parse something like Facebook or Amazon.

I'm amazed at the narrow view that so many people (seem to) have.
The same thing happened to Atlanta's arts community. Most of the benefactors from the area were in Paris for an event of some sort. They flew back on the same plane and it crashed, and with it went Atlanta's funding for arts. The community died the instant the benefactors did. It's really a horrible story :(
To be fair, this thing was developed by a single guy for internal use. Someone then ported it to Google App Engine just to prove he could.

EDIT: Although I see it has evolved significantly along the way to its prestigious top-level URL.
Average Social Gamer Is a 43-Year-Old Woman
Introducing SitBy.us: mobile app for checking in at SXSW panels
FWIW, though it came later, I think Smith and Wollensky's Steak For Stock program is cleverer. Enter the ticker of the stock you just got in lieu of a cash bonus and based on the previous closing price it will tell you what you can get.

Try it: http://www.steakforstock.com/

eg - GS (Goldman) - 1 Sirloin, 1 Porterhouse, Shrimp Cocktail
C (City) - 1/2 Order Creamed Spinach

Read about it: http://adage.com/adages/post?article_id=141902
cute - same idea but replaces knowledge over time with knowledge over network paths. requires a lot more infrastructure, but removes the "first visit" vulnerability.
You need set theory. With only high school math it will be difficult. With 1 year university math you're ok.
I'd say universities are to blame. My alma mater's main selling point is its co-op program. Instead of 4 years of straight classes, you have 5 years total split up as follows:

- freshman year as normal

- the next 3 years are spent with 6 month classes/6 months co-op with some local company

- senior year as normal

My alma mater is not alone in this kind of marketing though. How many commercials do you see (especially during noon and in the late evening) about going back to school so you can make more money/land a better job?
Irrespective of the down-votes, I do see another user expressing something similar. "I'm suspicious it is somehow related to the oil overlords. Big money, big risks."
Universities are there to get you a job. In fact, it's part of their marketing strategy. In technical curricula, nearly every decision they make is based around predictions of future job growth.

It is a very real problem right now, because technical jobs are changing so fast. The universities don't know what to teach kids. Corporations aren't hiring people to write Fortran or C++. They hire them to write .NET and Java, so students are going to universities who are teaching them those languages instead of the universities who concentrate on the primary purposes you state.

It's very hard to sell students on the principles you describe. They'll get that at ANY university, so what distinguishes programs among different universities, essentially comes down to ROI for the tuition.
I'm not black, black haired or female, but I was oddly fascinated. Nicely done site.

GROU.PS, the platform it's build on, is interesting too.

http://grou.ps/groudotps/wiki/22611
Judge Protects Secret Muffin Recipe by Barring Employee Hire
So... they're trying to legislate a big boost to the security industry? Who's heading this up? From SANS' website: "SANS is the best and most trusted source for computer security training." Ah, now it makes sense.

Seriously, though, this would be massive overkill. It should be regulated in life-threatening or economy-threatening industries (and I believe it is), but if applied to everything, this would kill a lot of innovation in the cradle.
Pictures of downed power lines from plane crash in Palo Alto
This is shaping up to be a really sad story...
..That's the point.

They're trying to INTEGRSTE search and address bar. They've succeeded. And it's far, far more usable than having them separate (for most people, people like my parents, my grandparents, etc).
if you take care of a plane well, especially a small one not being used heavily, it'll last.

for reference, most of the big commercial airlines have an average fleet age in the range of 15-20 years.
This is the problem with "don't be evil". Evil all depends on your point of view.

Google probably views the iPhone as evil given its closed nature, and thus Android is their attempt to save humanity from Steve's evil clutches. Thus anything they do to facilitate that, including closing off their own products, is morally justified.
It was confirmed that Elon Musk was not on board.

Source: http://twitter.com/kensweet/status/9247008924 (guy is a reporter for FOX Business)
:// isn't for anything (the "//" anyway): http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-webs-inventor-r...
Sorry, here you go: http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Mr-Albert-America-Einsteins/dp...
My take-away

> Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice-president for search and user experience, says 60-80% of Google’s products may eventually fail. Unfortunately, the few that survive are neither all that inspiring nor market leaders. What Google lacks is not infrastructure, engineers, money, time or even great ideas. It’s the ability to delight users. What Google is missing, in other words, is strategic design.
It's common. GA aircraft have quite rigorous maintenance schedules, with inspection and overhaul every 50 or 100 hours, which (mostly) keeps even old planes airworthy. Almost all airfields will have plenty of 30 or 40 year old planes.
We Will Be Here - The Map Of The Future
This reminds me of the minor hub-bub around PhotoSynth/VirtualEarth not being a new technology (e.g. academic researchers have previously researched it in the past, way before computers had any hope of executing the complex matrix transformations.)
Outlook Goes Social
And a lot of those commercials are for trade schools teaching welding, health care instrument management (mri, phlebotomy, nuclear)... Not traditional universities, so the unis, which are much more expensive than those schools, are really hurting right now. People are going to the University of Phoenix online to learn vb.net instead of Harvard to learn "computer science".
Generally, binary math becomes easier to understand if you play with a decimal analogue.

Let's say that our integer domain is 0 to 9999 (decimal) but you have enough space to handle up to 9 digits. To integer-divide something by 3, you can multiply by 33334 and shift-right 5 digits (i.e. drop the last 5):

7939 * 33334 = 264638626;
2646 (right answer) after dropping 5 digits.

Note that 33334/100000 is close enough to 1/3 that, given our finite domain (as with [0..9999], or [0..2^31-1]), the error is too small to matter.

For some divisors, we're better off. For example, if n = 25 and we're in base 10, you can multiply by 4 and drop 2 digits, as 4/100 = 1/25.

Same principle applies to binary.
I am a big fan of mercurial for single-developer projects because at that level it is extremely easy to setup, learn, and use. With Tortoise HG I was using the basics effectively long before I got around to reading the manual.
They did. The guy who wrote moderator originally works on data center power management, so they recently hired somebody else to clean it up for public consumption.
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True, I imagine a plane crash is very much an all or nothing venture (major and few survivors vs. minor with just injuries). Perhaps not so much with driving.

Right now just speculating, but I'd be curious to if anyone's created a breakdown of traffic fatalities by # of passengers in each vehicle and # passenger fatalities. I've seen that sort of thing before, but almost always in the context of teen/new drivers.

Couldn't find anything quickly, will look after work.
The $5,000 number is only hypothetical. No reason why I can't do both.
That is a really nice service. Most people dread getting quotes, it would remove a lot of the friction required to aquire a customer.

I imagine they received a few complaints though.
Airline fleets get a lot more usage than GA planes, but they are also maintained at a much higher rigor than GA planes. With GA planes I would be less concerned with the airframe and more interested in the tach-hours on the engine since the last overhaul.
i'm not sure if i'd call it a "big" announcement, but it is definitely useful for someone in my shoes.

i agree that the new design is not good, although i didn't really like the older one either. a lateral move, in my mind.
As someone who has worked on several large code bases with Perforce, Source Depot (Microsoft's Perforce fork) and TFS (Microsoft's Perforce rewrite/productization), I honestly think that the ability to handle really large code bases is actually more of a curse than anything else. See my old post about version control scaling up vs scaling out here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=659251