skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. I think that one thing is eating your own dog food, another is trying to forbid employees using rival technology (hopelessly, as we can read in this article).

I think this pisses off employees and this is the last thing Microsoft can afford right now. The best for them is to use both the iPhone and some Microsoft phone to take note of the differences and help improve the latter.
Comscore: Over Half Of Social Gamers Will Accept Ad Offers
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Pretty eye opening stats, but I'm a bit skeptical:

"Comscore announced the results of a survey of social gamers sponsored by Offerpal"
How to get a job at Google, Apple, or Microsoft
One problem with this system in practice is that the federal government is already so expansive in terms of regulation and tax burden that there is not very much room left for states to experiment in.

California and Texas are very different states by some measures, but there are no states without Social Security, No Child Left Behind, the FDA, the War on Drugs or the Patriot Act, all things that I would prefer to do without.
So I work at Microsoft. Specifically on the Windows team. I honestly can't say I've ever had any issues using my iPhone or MacBook Pro there.

During my interview we joked about how I had not used Windows (or any Microsoft product) in a serious capacity for over a decade. I run Apple on the desktop and Linux on servers. They seemed to like this diversity coming in on the team.

I joined a few months before Win7 shipped, and have to say... from day one I was pretty impressed with Win7. It's actually a really nice OS, I just wish the hardware it usually came on was as nice (I've yet to find a PC laptop as well designed as my MBP). The new Windows 7 phones though... wow they are amazing. Actually makes me consider replacing my iPhone, which Android just couldn't do.
Japanese corporation that created devastation for the entire US auto industry

Toyota is, off the top of my head, the fourth biggest employer in the US auto industry.
More about pricing risk. Everyone can choose how much risk they're willing to take.
in either case he's not accounting for the time the JIT (if he were actually using it) would need to warm up.
As I understood the staunch's complaint, it was not primary about "it's wrong to charge for content". Obviously, it is not wrong in and of itself. What is probably not 100% kosher is that you first create a service for free, then thanks to this property of being free people would promote you and give other forms of help for free, and then you switch to a pay model. That's exactly "bait and switch," as it was mentioned above.

The equivalent in the real world would be, that I will start to build a house where people can sleep for free as a public service, that will attract volunteers to help me build that, and then after some time I remake it into a hotel...
I had the exact same experience joining Microsoft - I hadn't used Windows (or any Microsoft product) for 5 years.
I totally agree with supporting (2), it's actually something I'm interested in as a research topic. Like I mentioned, I think part of the difficulty is the non-generality of being able to summarize that sort of material. There are (orders of magnitude) more inconclusive results than telling ones.

Now the idea of being able to search a scientific question and somehow find a meta-analytical summary of all the inconclusive results ever reported would be flat magical. If the summaries were really useful it'd likely generate a large number of telling results almost automatically.

Of course, a resource like that is almost mythical sounding for today.
I like that Mixergy is inspiring more people to do this format. It really works and I could see it applied to a lot of niches.
My first day at Microsoft, I was worried about this. This worry dissipated once I saw my boss's boss pull one out in a meeting.
> "They didn't have monotheism back then, did they?"

I presume he meant Rome, in which case, no, polytheism was the way and Jesus was worshipped alongside Mars, Jupiter, Julius Cesar, Augustus Cesar, etc. Even people who explicitly believed in only one god casually acknowledged the other gods, it wasn't a big deal to go to a local temple in another province to say a prayer, get a blessing, or make an offering.

Modern monotheism started around 325 at the First Council of Nicea. Since then, the dogma of monotheistic religions has evolved to say that there's one God, we understand him, and anyone else making claims of deities is false. But it's a bit of revisionist history - the vast majority of people in the West were "casually polytheistic" prior to 325, even people belonging to faiths that are now strictly monotheistic.
Have you ever seen a working liberal democracy before US? :)
That kind of argument doesn't work for proving impossibility.

Life without violence from government (taxes) is certainly possible. In 19th century US government spendings were only 2% from GDP. Such amount can be collected with charity without force.
There's no comparison. Search wasn't a big business for anyone then. Microsoft has been in the smartphone business for a while and it's an extremely sore subject.

It really comes down to this: why work at a company whose products you're not excited about? This is part of Google and Apple's success. You were an intern then, so you're fine, but more senior, high-level employees better be using your company products--otherwise, they're doing a shitty job and need to be fired.
How do you know they didn't believe you? They could have been pretending.
Why would you do this? I only tolerate it on twitter because of the character limitations. Outside of such a restriction, URL shorteners just get in the way and I find their use quite obnoxious.
I would assume that you would need this exact skill set if you wanted to be a software engineer for Cubase, ProTools, etc or if you wanted to write plugins for them.
That's a good question to pose to apple employees. I wonder if they can comment at all. :p But to their credit, as I discuss above, their loyalty is a big part of Apple's success.
It's like forbidding one game developer playing the games of another, or even discussing them. Stupid.

I work at game studio, and all designers are researching and playing other games actively (be it owned by the parent company, or others).

I mean.... How else??
When a superior theory comes to take it's place, it will still be historically significant and an amazing feat of intellectual prowess which correlates extremely well with material reality.

Texts on the other hand that are held up as "holy" are merely lies that people have killed and died over. If anything the only disturbing thing about the comparison is that the sacred books of religion are utterly unworthy of comparison to relativity.
The "blessing", to my knowledge, concerned compliance with accounting rules and therefore depends on the accounting standards Lehman used, which are internationally accepted ones.
Is that so? How about iTunes, QuickTime, WebObjects, BootCamp technologies? Apple surely knows that Windows is, and still is the most used OS. (And, I'm typing this from my MBP).
I feel I must ask:

How many here didn't know about this?

(You'll note I successfully refrained from mentioning the proverbial rock, and others' location relative to it.)
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The nice thing about this method is that you don't have to muck about in the kernel with a kernel module or anything like that. Also, you don't have to replace any binaries on the system, so everything _looks_ fine to an md5 comparison. Also, if you've setup something like tripwire to only watch specific configuration files and services, it might not catch the newly created /etc/ld.so.preload file.

Some programs (such as login), are already statically compiled to prevent this exact thing from happening.
I really wish their Klingon interface used Klingon runes, instead of letters.

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Of course, in the 19th century the continental US wasn't densely settled and shooting the natives was considered reasonable under many circumstances. Get real, any country in the world that found itself with vast tracts of fertile land more or less free for the taking would have a fabulous GDP - budget ratio too.
Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change (losers include Darwin, secularists..)
"why work at a company whose products you're not excited about?"

Microsoft has a lot of products. It would be unnatural for every employee who worked there to be excited about every single one of those products. I can understand the cognitive dissonance issues of working in a division that produced products that you weren't excited about, but as for the entirety of Microsoft I think that's an unrealistic idea.

The only way to be excited equally about all of Microsoft's products (in preference to all of their competitors) is to have drunken the kool-aid so deeply that you've lost the ability to judge anything fairly. This is a far more dangerous scenario than a company that produces some products that are second run in comparison to some of their rivals. The former is a recipe for a company full of zealots who drive the company into the ground due to their lack of fair judgement, the former is to be expected of any company that has a huge and widely varied product offering spanning multiple industries.
selection bias would only be a concern if you were trying make inference on all netflix customers (not just the ones that opt-in).
Thomas Jefferson is also one of the losers. He has been "removed a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century" and the article says "Jefferson is not well liked among conservatives on the board because he coined the term separation between church and state.) "

That wasn't surprising, but one new thing I learned is that some conservatives believe that "capitalism" has negative connotations

"They also replaced the word capitalism throughout their texts with the free-enterprise system.

“Let’s face it, capitalism does have a negative connotation, said one conservative member, Terri Leo. You know, ‘capitalist pig!’ "
But 99.9% of JS code doesn't do that, so it should be optimized for that case.

LuaJIT keeps enough info around to go back to the interpreter at the moment anything goes different than previously traced -- I see no reason JS couldn't do the same.
They are not clearly highlighting the problem, which is why you think your skepticism is warranted. You have to look at it like this: we are talking about an investment that was initially worth $2.7 million and that now yields monthly payments of 36$140. That investment has obviously lost a lot of value: real* value, because it will never yield larger monthly payments than it does now and will probably lose more value.
LuaTeX + ConTeXt (also called MKIV), see the page on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV. With this combo, you can use the typesetting power of TeX and the programming power of LuaTeX combined.
Ask HN:  Feasible to access google maps DB
This is what I want to do. Google has a database with businesses information tied to a gps location. Is there a way to access this data (while not being employed by google)??

Thanks HN.
The reason being that if you're a government official and you hire the senator's son over a more qualified candidate (to gain his favor) it's not as big of a deal if he screws up because it's not your money he is losing (it's the tax payers)

You must hate most corporations then - all-powerful executive, weak and passive boards of directors, and shareholders with little influence who have to take the haircut for executive screwups.

Why is it that most of the institutions of capitalism have such hierarchical structures? Seen any anarchist corporations on the stock ticker lately? No? Maybe that's because when laissez-faire capitalists start talking about freedom, they're talking about what they want for themselves, not everyone else. As Adam Smith observed, men of the same profession seldom come together save with the intent to defraud the public.
maybe I'm missing something, but XeTeX is part of MacTeX, as MacTeX includes TeXLive. (MacTeX 2009, SL)

$ which xetex
/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/universal-darwin/xetex
$ xetex
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009)
**
There's nothing wrong with OneNote as such but I have to check my notes online quite often(from other systems) which is kinda hard with OneNote. As a matter of fact OneNote is an awesome app for windows but until they come up with synchronization and a web version like in Evernote, I'd rather not use it.
Off the top of your head? What would it be if you looked it up?
I suggest having a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuaTeX
It is still in beta, but once the power of LuaTeX is unleashed, it will be the only used TeX engine (in two or three years). This is because it combines the quality of TeX's typesetting algorithms (+ unicode/opentype/...) with the ability to program in Lua, a very decent programming language. In "Lua mode", you have access to all TeX's internal parameters and algorithms, so you can even do the line breaking and pdf writing from inside lua. That means you don't have to use TeX's input language any more, a language that keeps many people away from using TeX. Now that you have everything on the Lua side, there is no reason why not to read XML, RTF, Wiki-Markup and other file formats and use the TeX algorithms to typeset these files.

TeX internally works with nodes. Every character you type, every space you use (like the space between paragraphs), every color command will be changed to a nodelist. The boxes and linebreaking algorithm operate on these nodes. In LuaTeX (in lua) you can create nodes manually and feed this list into the linebreaking algorithm and you get back a box of a perfectly nice typeset paragraph. Then you can even operate on these nodes again (or just before linebreaking) and ship out this paragraph into the pdf file. Nobody cares where you get the input from. There are several libraries included with LuaTeX and available for inclusion, such as LPEG (for really nice and sophisticated parsing), luasocket (internet access), luazip, etc. Even luaexpat (xml) and luasql (Database access) are available, so that makes LuaTeX perfectly suited for database publishing (which is what I am doing)

No other TeX engine can do that at the moment!

For the german speaking hackers, I am running the site

http://www.luatex.de

where I write technical stuff about LuaTeX (and some announcements), but beware: all in german.

[Edit: here is the site with google translation to english:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...

]
Interestingly, you could pretend the 'Bioinformatics' was not in the title and it would still be an interesting article. Though perhaps somewhat redundant for most folks here.
I've stumbled onto Mixergy from onstartups.com and it is the most useful site for entrepreneurs I've ever seen. Thanks for putting it together! It's like the book Founders at Work except with video. Amazing.
Missed that, thanks for the heads up! Now my only issue would be that the text-indent: -9999em method has been known to get you flagged for spam for obvious reasons.

But I'm being facetious. I like to play devil's advocate.
:o)
Interesting I have no problem with it on my 30" monitor. But then again I don't use the menus very often.
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I'm new to these parts, but I'm lovin' things so far!
He tries to say that

You are putting words into his mouth to support your interpretation of those images. I interpreted those images as simply another demonstration of the lack of imagination the movie displays. Whether riding a big flying animal is derived from Greek mythology or from Harry Potter is irrelevant.

Before flinging the first criticism that comes to your mind at him, be critical of your own criticism. Supposing 'the guy know nothing of Greek Mythology' is a vast and unnecessary underestimation of his intelligence and credentials. If you'd bother to look him up, you'd see that he is probably quite aware of the mythological origins of these images.
Another security 101: assume your users insist on using the same password for everything
Ah, man. Sorry - I guess because it scans properly for me then I assumed it does for others.

I've thrown together a script to highlight your/you're on my HN comments(plus some other bits and pieces that get me) so hopefully I can improve things :)

(I really cannot recognise this and a few other types of mistakes; it's so damn annoying)
They should write the bill in a programming language instead of English. Then it won't be so tough to interpret it. :)
I meant combined, earthquakes and smallpox have killed more than humans have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil Evil is defined as something that is immoral, causes pain or harm, is offensive, or threatening.

The group of people I hang out with skew toward the definition I accept, but really it's just a definition. My real objection is that stoics (and many others) rationalize the current state of things as good. The alternative is to recognize that there are still a lot of big problems humanity needs to solve.

I consider the eradication of smallpox the second greatest accomplishment of humanity so far. The first is the green revolution, headed by Norman Borlaug. His new strains of crops saved about a billion lives in the 20th century.

With regards to earthquakes: Just because we can't solve a problem doesn't mean it's not a problem. I'm not offering a solution, just pointing out that earthquakes kill people. I don't want people to die, so that makes earthquakes bad in my book. It also makes disease, aging, and lots of other things bad. Is does not imply ought.
Except, in this case, trying out approaches and alternatives means treating humans as the subjects of the experiment. Some may get degraded experience, others may complain unnecessarily.

Furthermore, the problem in this particular instance there is a lack of agreement on the objective metrics by which to measure and optimize. ($Cost, %Insured, Access, Availability of Advanced Treatments, Eligibility for Procedures, Choice of Providers, etc.)
Depressing stuff.
Aww jeez this sucks. Version of the same concept, work in progress:
http://nathanhackett.com/front.html

Serves me right for not launching earlier. Anyway kudos, very impressive. He's taken a similar approach to me, generalising the common letter shapes into sets of css rules. Mine's designed to allow for image or gradient textures on the letters, and degrades gracefully on older browsers (loses its curves!). His is way prettier though.
I've mentioned it before, but Pandoc is a nice workaround; it can convert Markdown (and a few other input languages) into LaTeX. It comes with a shortcut for taking Markdown and generating a PDF out of it via LaTeX.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Google to strip unique client ID from future Google Chrome installs
Apple’s iPad Will Read Books Out Loud, Support Free E-Books
I have no reason to doubt Woz, but what's the point of yet another claim with no evidence to back it up?

Woz claims it's repeatable. So why not buy a cheap camcorder, get a friend to be the passenger/cameraman, go record an instance of it actually happening and put it on YouTube? It would be on every news channel in the country the next day and Toyota would be forced to respond directly.

In fact, if I had the kind of money Woz did and thought there was a real danger here, I'd just buy a camera that installed in the headliner and recorded everything that was happening while the car was on at all times, so that I could easily catch the bug when it occurred.
> There is lots of great stuff that doesn't get taught. It's absurd to call that "banned"

There is implication in the story (and I realise there is no further evidence than what is presented there) that it's not a case of it simply not being taught - but that they are actively put on a list of "material not allowed". that is the distinction.

You need to read what was written:

Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we're not allowed to read

I would be in so much trouble if I got caught

But is what I'm doing wrong because parents and teachers don't know about it and might not like it, or is it a good thing because I am starting appreciation of the classics and truly good novels

I find it sad that, if true, a kid is having to provide this material - and is worried that lending books to people is somehow wrong!

> No one is stopping those kids from getting those books.

That's a little naive. If a kid requested or suggested the book for the school library and it was refused on the grounds it had been banned; how is that a good thing? If the story is true (and again I realise it can't be fully verified) then it appears the service was popular.. indicating that the non-provision of that material was actually stopping kids from getting the books as part of their normal routine.

The implicit suggestion by a school that actively bans a book is that there is something wrong with it. I can't see how you can legitimately say that about, say, His Dark Materials....
In effect the course would be teaching programming with an audio theme. I thought it would be a clever way for people interested in audio to learn coding/programming which is obviously a lot more encompassing than just writing plug-ins for Pro Tools (and can be used for other things other than audio). The entire cell phone industry utilizes these skills for example.
Anything involving cell phones is the first example that comes to mind.
No best practices: The fallacy of methodologies
It's not the setting that needs to be scientific for a work to be SF, though, but rather the conflict. The conflict in the Robot books isn't about "positronic brains," it's about robotic interactions with humanity. The science being employed is sociology.

To put it another way—the initial state of the universe when the book starts can be anything you like, with any rules you like. SF is just a strict dedication setting up those rules and following them wherever they may lead. ("Hard" sci-fi additionally requires that those rules be a superset of the rules of our own universe.)
Instead of arguing over the one true solution on the basis of hunches and intuition

We don't. Imperfect as much of proposed legislation is, it's also thoroughly researched, argued over, picked apart, dissected, analyzed and so on. Often with a partisan tilt. The system for coming up with legislation is quite adversarial. But it's not based on 'hunches and intuition'.

we should implement more than one approach

A little principle of 'equality before the law' might really get in the way here.

The process of writing and designing software is a relatively new discipline and one in which significant, high-impact insights are being made and will continue to be made. Given these bright flashes of success, the temptation to apply software methodology to entirely unrelated fields ranging from law to personal relationships is very high. It's best resisted, since it's usually stupid. At a minimum, before applying it, ask yourself 'how is this not like software' rather than starting with 'how is this like software'.
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