skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've upvoted you because it's probably true...it probably is a vocal minority (Linux users are very vocal and a minority).

But, I also think it would increase the appeal of the platform for a lot of developers. Developers love Linux at a rate far beyond that of the population at large. I see maybe 20-40% Linux users at even non-OSS oriented gatherings of hackers. I do all of my hacking on Linux, and wouldn't have any interest in working on any other platform for development (even Mac OS X pales in comparison, for me, due to the oddity of its UNIX environment, and the inflexibility of its windowing system; also lack of middle-mouse button paste is a minor but frequent impediment to productivity for me). So, while I've had a few game ideas over the past few years, and would like to have a nice, fun, environment to work in for building them...I'd never take the plunge if it didn't work under Linux, because developing without Linux is like a day without sunshine.
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There was a thread on HN some time ago and I saved this link, which has some instructions on where to find the data and a description of the format.

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/readme.txt

I wanted to start a little project to process it but never got around to it.

Hope this helps.
From the comments:

"Sounds like bollocks to me. 1 phone out of the 1000s sold? Prob a refurb or some spotty oik in the shop using it before selling it, otherwise this would definitely have been spotted earlier."

That sounds about right to me.
Apparently the project directories contain a number of pre-compiled bytecode files that tend to get moved around a lot as you make changes in the editor. This makes it difficult to track assets like you would with a typical source control system.
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You also have to realize the availability of a webplayer and the complete IDE for linux are different things. What that vocal minority seemed to aim for was the ability to play the unity games and not to have the IDE for linux.
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This article suggests a test for obviousness (and therefore patent invalidation): If the patent's commercial use necessarily requires full disclosure of the contents of the patent, the patent is obvious.

Counterarguments?
Optimizing for fundamental vs strategic value
My previous idea of a flat tax (over here in Europe) referred only to a flat taxation of income. The "fairtax" proposal you link refers to a flat taxation of sales; also there are payroll and income taxes in the US. What I don't understand: What's the difference between a flat taxation on sales vs income and, also, what's the difference between a payroll tax vs income tax?
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I'm not following. What exactly are your complaints about this submission? I submitted it because I thought it was interesting and apparently so did ~20 others. I assume you did not since you complained, but you could have instead not paid attention to it.
It is coupled with RFID chips in your key. I actually find it very convenient on my Hyundai. I can walk up to the car door and open it, it unlocks automatically because the RFID key is in my pocket. I can sit down and start the car and take off without ever removing my keys from my pocket.

It's also very convenient for opening the trunk without a key as well. It has proximity sensors by the driver and passenger doors, as well as the trunk.
college? not exactly...I went to ITT (North Houston).

Hey, if they advertise on daytime cable, they have to be good, right?
The compiling process likely converts media appropriately.
Thoughts on the NoSQL Database “Tea Party” Post
The management today review of this is actually quite interesting http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/rss/article/985294

37signals brush it off as criticism that should just be ignored because their website includes the word "management", but a lot of what they say is pretty near the mark IMHO.

For example:

The authors' advice is so sweeping and deliberately
confrontational that it misses all the subtleties that
actually make businesses succeed. We are told: 'Meetings
are toxic.' In reality, good meetings are good and bad
meetings are not good, but don't try and make a name for
your software company by issuing such over-heated
generalisations.

The other thing they may not have realized is management today is a UK publication, and we're pretty averse to 'motivational' things over here. It's just not really our culture.
"non-truncated location descriptions"

Click on each, and you go to that flag on the map, with a text box containing the full text.

Not ideal, but I think that's a google thing.
I really would love to use client-side certificates everywhere. It's just too much of a pain in the ass to do so.

Off the top of my head:
- Generating client-side certificates is expensive or a pain in the ass.
- Every browser deals with client-side certificates differently. Some give scary warnings, etc.
- Firefox and IE can generate keys locally and send a CSR to you, but they do it differently. Safari can't even generate keys locally.

I really wish that the state of client-side certificates was better than it is. I look forward to the day when I can easily build services that use client-side certificates.
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I think you're overreacting. The course is free and seems to be online, so the potential audience is pretty large. I don't see why upvoting this would be such an audacious thing to do.
Just as a heads up, www.stickybits.com is blocked by default in the NETGEAR UTM25. It is classified as a "pornograph/sexually explicit" web site.

If any Stickybits people read this, you may want to bug them (Netgear) about clearing your name.
I would have embedded the map in another page, and designed around it. The Google cruft doesn't seem resume worthy.
I came here to post just this. 2-way SSL is perfect for this scenario, and a hundred times more secure than any of the alternatives.
I have to say I'm not quite clear on difference between a graph db and object db.
Unless I'm misunderstanding things, Stickbits is that website. You just chose to use your own barcodes instead of QR codes for some reason.
Please do show me any statistic or other facts-based argumentation, except for rambling, where it is shown that over 90% of "successful people" achieved no success on their own, but had it bestowed upon them. Have you ever looked at inheritance numbers in any society?
@rranshous

Both of these events look great, so it's a shame they're scheduled at the same time. I'm sure this wasn't done on purpose, but now I have a tough decision to make...
Yes please! I would love to have Xen support included ...
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It also disproportionately shifts that cost onto single parent families and families where both parents work. Generally those tend to be poorer families.
I agree. I find the registration process really irritating.

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Well, polarizing an issue (everyone has an opinion on) sells. How much less publicity would 37signals get if it were just for their products?
Management today review of 37signal's "Rework"
Great thought provoking article. I'm not sure I agree, though. For example, couldn't it just as easily be argued that Last was focused on fundamental value, and because they got acquired, it looks like strategic value? Or was it that their only revenue stream (afaik) was the $5/mo premium and not their primary focus?

Again, if nothing else, thought provoking article.
Programming Language For Youngest Kids
I want to teach my son (4.5 years) "programming" (obviously, too early for general-purpose programming, but a limited-environment language can certainly be taught). I'm considering writing my own little language/"interpreter". Is there anything already out there that's worthwhile? The options I've seen is Scratch (8-year+) and Logo (seems boring to me for this age). Some others are listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_programming_language , I haven't checked all of them out though (e.g., Karel looks intriguing).
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I've seen claims somewhere (maybe at "Watts Up with That") that no unmodified climate station data exists, that it's all been modified or corrected to adjust for something.

Is this data raw?
It sounds like they are taking the case from single phone and trying to create a pandemic.. I didn't notice anywhere in the article where they cared to test more than one phone or do any random sampling. Way to blow things out of proportion.
Don't miss the video of Steve saying "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas . . . "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
The NOAA data is exactly what I was looking for.

Of course, it's only the U.S., and it's only for the past 80 years or so. But the dataset looks clean.
The Do-It-Yourself Economy
OK, I'm not a web developer: I do embedded systems and hardware interfacing, so go easy on me :-)

Assuming that the hospital network was secure, then why couldn't the system, when receiving a request from that single IP, request a cookie? If the cookie doesn't exist, then that user has never logged in and is then given an identifying, non expiring cookie and from then on is allowed access and is identified? Knowing the hospital's external IP would serve as authentication.

I know just enough about web apps to be dangerous, so someone please tell me what's wrong with this idea?
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we're pretty averse to 'motivational' things over here. It's just not really our culture.

Wow, I hate tea, so I haven't had much luck associating with my roots... until now!
If the energy is identical, why would there be any difference?

Remember that with the larger slower RPM one, the radius is higher so the linear velocity is high too, even if the RPMs are slow.
I subscribed, and got the message instantly.

The signup process is more convoluted than the current trend, but it was the norm a few years ago and I don't find it that annoying.
according to comments made on 37signals podcast about the book, it actually is a sort of repackaging (in a broad sense) of all the posts, comments etc. expressed by them during last 10 years.
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It is nice to think that all patents are supposed to bring something into public knowledge that would otherwise have remain hidden but I don't think that is their real purpose. It seems to me that the contract is that the state will protect your invention precisely because if they didn't, it would be easily copyable and therefore you would not have put effort into inventing it. Things that can be kept secret don't really need patent protection at all, you just keep them secret.

Whenever I try and reason about patents, I think of the development of the steam engine. Patents seem to have been developed for that time period and that kind of invention. Anyone can look at a steam engine and understand how all of the parts work. When someone came up with a clever way of solving a problem, making a better steam engine, anyone could have easily seen what they did and made their own version. Patents protected the inventor and allowed him to recoup his R&D expenses. So when you look at the evolution of the steam engine you see places where people licensed patents from previous inventors and places where they came up with different (often less efficient) solutions to previously solved problems because the previous solution was patented. I think that this is an example of the patent system working well. Steam engines evolved rapidly and inventors were able to continue inventing because they could make money off of their ideas.

The question now is how appropriate are patents in software, a field that is very very different from the mechanical nuts and bolts field that they were created for. I don't know the answer to that question, but it is shitty for small players to be in constant fear of the big guys.
MooTools (http://mootools.net) contains all the capabilities of jQuery and Prototype.js, together with a very impressive class system which allows for better modularity in your code. It has a very supportive community and is being constantly developed. You might also want to read Aaron Newton's long post comparing jQuery to MooTools: http://jqueryvsmootools.com/

That being said, you'll find much more people fluent in jQuery or Prototype.js than in MooTools.
Is that really science? I could follow the same steps to balance my checkbook in order to determine spending periods.

If they'd created a small model of the Earth and applied what they know in order to determine the truth of their hypothesis, than yes, I would say they're doing science. Has the bar really dropped this low?
"37signals brush it off as criticism that should just be ignored because their website includes the word "management""

Where did I brush it off and suggest it should be ignored? It's valid criticism coming from this fellow's perspective. Everyone brings their own perspective and attitude to their critique. I would encourage everyone to read all reviews from all perspectives. And then read the book and make up your own mind.
Tail Call Improvements in .NET Framework 4
I believe that the system you described would allow all users on the hospital system to log in since the system can't check who exactly is requesting the cookie. Plus, once the cookie is distributed it is only associated with the current login attempt so the system cannot know exactly which user it is.
I'm not a colour expert but as I understand it ICC profiles allow you to configure the colours your monitor renders to match their intended colour. I know that I need to use one of these profiles in order to get my VA panel monitor (which tends to use over-vibrant colours) to render "normal" colours. I'm not entirely sure why Windows cannot override application rendering etc. but I do know that applications that do their own rendering need reference to this profile.

Prior to Firefox 3.5 this was all supported without issue. As of 3.5 Firefox revoked support for ICC v4 (offering only ICC v2 support). As a result all colours look darker and I can rarely see gradients etc. now which is problematic as I prefer to use FF + Firebug for web development.
I think people get the need for a password, it's just that for the average office job, you have something like at least half a dozen different passwords, with different complexity requirements and different reset schedules. At work I have different passwords for:

Windows login

Expense report system

Timesheet system

Employee information system (where I can view my pay stub, w2, etc)

401(k) provider

Insurance provider

Various ftp or other file sharing services for shuttling data back and forth with clients.

And that's in addition to the all the normal passwords I have for personal stuff. What's worse is most of that is used infrequently so the login process never has a chance to sink into muscle memory. The login process is pretty much forgot/reset password every time I use it.
Probably because they ship many more goods than people, and goods don't care if they drown, so long as their owners' insurance claims are paid.
a publication called Management Today
(which brags about being home to “one of the most senior
readerships of any business title”) disapproves?
That sounds about right.

Didn't sound like you took it that seriously :)
I'm not trying to start a fight though, and I'd agree - everyone should read a few reviews, and if they like this sort of book, buy it.
It's important to realize that this "Rework" book is about the stuff that worked for 37signals and might work for you if you have a similar business. The review points out that this is not always the case from a management perspective and it's not always applicable to other business'.
Visualizing Maps Using Incanter
Yeah, pretty much. :D
Can you elaborate on Kolmogorov complexity and its relevance to someone who has not encountered the term before? (I have wikied it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity but sleep deprivation may be hindering my ability to spot the link)
Nowhere as well. Had I wanted to go I surely would've been held back by finances, but I didn't shy away from College because of that - I just hated school.

Actually, I dropped out my Junior year of High School with 3 months to go. I spent the time plus the summer working for my mom and decided to re-enroll Senior year. Even after going back on my accord, I still barely earned the 10 credits I needed my final year to graduate. I teeter back and forth on whether I regret it or not to this day.
I thought the meetings example was a weak one for the author to criticize. When I read "meetings are toxic," I interpret that as, "most meetings are a bad idea," which is basically what 37signals argues: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch07_Meetings_Are_Toxic.php

On the other hand, "Good meetings are good and bad meetings are not good" doesn't tell me anything.
I'm no climatologist. I don't know a lot about how temperature is measured. But your question is based on several assumptions that I think need analysing.

1) What temperatures are we talking about? Surface air? Water?
2) Who's collected it? There's probably dozens of organizations that collect it. I doubt there's one single repository for it all.
3) How was it collected? Are the data comparable? Especially historically. You can't simply ask the weatherman what the temperature was in Antarctica in 1874.
4) Even if you had universally comparable data for the past 150 years, you still have trouble. Temps in urban areas for example skew results because of heat trapping. Those factors need to be accounted for.

Science is complicated for the very simple reason that the natural world is complicated. There's no such thing as "pure" data.

I trust science industry (for the most part) over time. The over time part is key. There are generational checks and balance in science. Young turks looking to make a name are attacking the holes in theories all the time. If something is faulty, we'll find out...from other scientists.

I don't need to trust individual scientists, just the process of science. Which I do.
The WTF is the fact that a single employee would cost a company several tens of thousands of dollars plus several weeks of development time all because that employee didn't want to remember a password.
No Capital Cities on Google Maps: A Deliberate Design Decision?
Looking at pictures of the first two dishes made me realize how important lighting is for food photos to look appetizing.
He did this, however, at the expense of convoluted selectors, pseudo-elements, and pattern matching. Personally, I don't find his implementation to be very clean. I guess it's better to have the mess in your closet than wide out in the open, though.
I don't get this idea of sueing just for the sake of it, most of the times they just fall on there faces. Not a good tool to cut down competition. Its like pricking someone with a pin, you certainly annoy them but never actually accomplish anything.
Patent pending

Seriously? A somewhat interesting use of bar codes, but not worthy of a patent.
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It's interesting in light of the recent discussions about advertising.

Since this is pretty similar.

"Meetings are toxic" is a sweeping generalization, which is obviously false. But it gets a high clickthrough/buy book/etc so it's what they use.

>> On the other hand, "Good meetings are good and bad meetings are not good" doesn't tell me anything.

What is there to tell though? Make sure meetings are productive, and if they're not, have less of them or make them more productive :/ hardly rocket science is it?
It's unfair to blame the consultants when it was entirely the client's project manager's fault. It's the PM's responsibility to figure out how many of her company's employees will use it and whether or not it's worth the cost. There's not a whole lot the consultants could have done, even if they had had the foresight to ask "By the way, is this only going to be for one user?" or "Are you really sure you want to do this?"
The thing to keep in mind about this is that the limit applies to end users, not developers, since the requests will be coming directly from the users' browsers.

It all depends how you develop your map, of course, but this is a powerful incentive not to proxy the requests through your own server. And if you need to cache them or whatever, have the user's computer make the geocode request on your behalf, and then send it to the server for storage.
Let's remember to add a heating element so that we don't have the same unfortunate thing that happened to traffic lights happening to these (still should be cheaper in the long run).
1. I didn't write that and I hadn't noticed it, but I agree the tone is off on that line. I'll talk to Matt about it and get it updated.

2. I don't agree with his review, but that doesn't mean I think it should be ignored. It should be studied and considered just like any review. Please read his review, please read this review (http://bit.ly/auQL0Q), and please write your own review.

UPDATE: The entry on SvN has been updated to read "Not everyone loves REWORK though. One critic called it "not just bad but dangerous."
Well, in point of fact, they didn't need to change it for everyone, just one client.
I would've liked a bit more detail about the course (times, dates, how classmates will collaborate) but it's hard to argue with free.

Edit: Signup took two minutes. Upon logging in I'm presented with a simple course management software dashboard that alludes to scheduling, student forums, grade tracking, course methodology, and uploaded resources.

There's also an associated GitHub repo: http://github.com/ghoseb/clojure101/
The author of the review touches on pretty much everything that I think is wrong with the "37s philosophy". There are some spots in the review where it feels like the author got a little carried away. But a bigger problem is that if you are going to be critical about somebody else's work for not providing enough evidence, then you should make sure you do your homework. "Yet a quick search on 37signals reveals that it took money from Bezos Expeditions, the VC company that invests on behalf of the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, in 2006." - doesn't cut it.

Then again given the content of this book (and the style of writing) I doubt it warrants a rigorous review. Don't get me wrong; I think 37s makes great software and I love their design, the rest of it however...
Which I think is fine. Certainly more digestible to someone who has not been exposed to 37signals and doesn't want to read thousands of blog posts. There's a value-add to editing and distilling.
However the stack space is ‘recycled’ such that if you have a tail recursive algorithm, the first tail call that isn’t ‘easy’ will erect the TailCallHelper stack frame, and subsequent non-easy tail calls may need to grow that frame to accommodate all the arguments. Hopefully once the algorithm has gone through a full cycle of recursion the TailCallHelper stack frame has grown to the maximum sized needed by all the non-easy calls involved in the recursion, and then never grows, and thus prevents a stack overflow.

- does this mean that it's possible to use TailCallHelper but still not be able to guarantee no stack overflow?
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