skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that market has shrunk. Essentially, Blogger & Wordpress.com are providing the same benefit to users that GeoCities & Angelfire did. Blogger & WP are both top 20 sites.
That's just two jobs. I'm sure there other jobs where she could use her IQ that aren't as pointless as academia or stressful as finance where she could make use of her intelligence.
The bill gives the SEC an open ticket to make the form of inflation adjustment it deems reasonable. In other words, if the SEC uses the statutory grant of authority to take this in a direction of radically scaling back the numbers of investors who qualify as "accredited," there is nothing anybody can do about it. In effect, we are at the mercy of the regulators.

This takes an area that has been defined by certainty and by a liberal view of what it takes to be "accredited" - no small benefit for the rise of startups over the past 30 years - and, in my view, gratuitously places a big question mark over it. You can take a sanguine view of what this means. I choose not to. Only time will tell which of us has the right instincts about it.

For the benefit of the startups I represent, I sincerely hope that you are right and I am wrong.
I see your point, but I also think you can get into trouble deciding whether a degree is "pointless" entirely on its current market value. Computer science may have seemed like a pointless degree at one point during the 60's.
Looks like Google policy changes regarding China are the first scrambling steps up a slippery slope they're already on. If other countries start expecting Google to implement censoring based on their actions in China it may become a serious handicap for them.
This is reference to an article, which is a refernce to an article. Here's the original article - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7503635/The-top-...
Then every time there is a performance issue, however unrelated, it's because you couldn't follow orders.

This story is actually a minor example of politics in play. If you're an idiot when it comes to corporate politics try and stay that way. Ignorance is bliss in this regard.
Some context: Rondonia is known here in Brazil as the last exit in the road to the end of the world; a hole forgotten in the darkest corner of the Amazon jungle.
The only people that live there are cocaine traffickers (from Bolivia) and the last groups of native south americans that still live in tribes.

I wouldn't be surprised if this judge is just trying to collect some extortion.

If I were Google I wouldn't bother. As we say in Brazil: "from the mouth of a politician, the head of a judge and a baby's bottom you can only expect one thing".
Old story. Sorry if it's offtopic:

I was running a internal webapp with a 25M rows in a MySQL table. The query for search was something like (pseudosql ahead):

select * from table where match title_field against search_term order by id desc limit 20

It took around 10 to 12 seconds (it was a slow machine). When I removed the sorting statement in the SQL query (and so, the limit)

select * from table where match title_field against search_term

Then sorted the returned results with PHP and get the first 20. It took only 1 second.
There are all sorts of uses! For example, you could make a site called smilelinks that is automatically generated based off the webpages that make you smile. My guess is cuteoverload would dominate the list.
Agreed. CDnow, for example, was acquired by Amazon, so their traffic ranking is meaningless too. I still have a soft spot in my heart for CDnow :)
Being adaptable is really important, you are absolutely right. But there's a difference here too. Learning one language in programming is just a particular skill that itself might become obsolete. But the discipline will not, at least not soon.

On the other hand, learning to produce journalistic content does become kind of silly when the demand for the entire discipline is decreasing rapidly. It's still possible to adapt to new skills, but it's more difficult because the other skills are further away.
OK then:

http://www.pzizz.com/wp-content/uploads/audio/Default%20Ener...
Alas, this is still a themed UI framework that doesn't style ubiquitous basic form fields like checkboxes and radio buttons, although they do get points for adding button support this time and (if I understand the hints on the linked page properly) planning to add more in future.

Curiously, ExtJS seems to have similar limitations: you can style all kinds of things, but there doesn't seem to be any support for theming of the most basic UI controls.
> The point is that all of the skills you just listed will be obsolete eventually. To say they will not be obsolete is to bury one's head in the sand.

'Eventually' could be 50 years from now. You're making unqualified statements. You also mentioned in your original post that the time between skills being in demand and obsolete is getting smaller and smaller, but you're real-world 'examples' of this don't work.

Maybe it's just me but when you say something like 'smaller and smaller' you imply that soon it will be so small as to be non-existent and the speed at which is shrinking is increasing (i.e. exponentially decreasing interval). If that is what you're implying then I have a hard time seeing how a job market could work where the skills of last year are no longer in demand this year because companies have switch all of their projects over from Java -> Scala and next year they are going to change all their projects from Scala -> SomethingElse.

{edit} You said 'quicker and quicker', so my comments still hold but need to be read with the view of exponentially increasing speed (which implies a 'short and short' time interval between).
A lot of us have the freedom to be. A disproportionate number of us are owners/founders or otherwise self employed. I go to bed about 8 am :-)
But can you decide that the skills/knowledge she's gained as a house cleaner were worthless?

In the real world this person is probably going to get a writing job eventually and when she does her perspective on life is going to be her most valuable asset. As this article shows that perspective was changed, likely for the better, from the fact that she was forced to clean houses for a while.

You can't plan out people's lives and make everything fair and even-keel. There are going to be bumps in the road like recessions and there's no way you can tell what impact that will have on people and that's exactly why you shouldn't try.

I'm all for society making sure people don't starve to death or go homeless but beyond that you have to let nature run it's course
I gave duck duck go a chance for a while. While it was acceptable for most searches, on some searches, it just couldn't compare to Google. For example, try these queries on both:

usb /dev/sda missing

javascript determine font size
Google Stops Censoring Chinese Search Services
> With Sinatra, you either need to come up with and fully grok your own structure (always a good thing, IMHO) or a myriad of plugins and middlewares.

This is a good assessment. If it's a big project with a lot of CRUD on a large variety of models in a complex database, by the time you'd added all the stuff to Sinatra that would be useful, you'd have recreated Rails.

You could still very much use Sinatra for a large project, but it would be best for a large project that is not a standard CRUD- and form-heavy web app. For example, if you wanted to build, say, an online video encoding service.
I deserve to eat my foot then. However, my comment is still largely true. Today our site was down with the same exact error, and it was down a few days ago. Every other day with little communication about what they are really doing to fix it.
I'm trying not to recycle the blog posts, but in some ways it's impossible. This specific post will not make it in, but all of the topics will be covered where applicable. Thanks for buying the MEAP; I hope you like it so far.
I get my backside kicked by kids 1/4 my age now for free.
Cute example but the fewer vs less argument is for when those words affect the same word.

In "less intelligent members," less is an adverb affecting the verb of the sentence, whereas in "fewer intelligent members," fewer is affecting the number of "members." The word switch is changing the entire meaning of the sentence, but the fewer vs less argument is over using the right word for a single, specific meaning.
I was playing on the server at the time... should be fine now.
Was the column you were ordering by indexed?
I will lie in bed, awake, forever thinking and rethinking whatever happens to be on my mind at the time.

That was me until I got some earphones and went to bed listening to podcasts every time. Having another voice chattering away (which I can ignore) stops my inner voice (which I can't ignore) chattering away. Works a treat.
> original assumption that an educated middle-class girl would never have to do the same work as a Spanish-speaking working-class woman.

Maybe you read a different article, but she was doing the same job as a Spanish-speaking working-class woman. The assumption is that it was just a stepping-stone to bigger and better things, while the 'Spanish-speaking working-class woman' works the job to make ends meet. She may have had some assumptions that as a middle-class girl she wouldn't end up working a waitress job to make ends meet, but there is a large portion of the population that gets sold the promise of "go to school, get educated, get a better job." This isn't just about 4-year degrees from a major university. It's the same with trade-schools, community colleges, 2-year degree programs, online universities, etc. The idea that a 'better job' will necessarily just follow from 'getting an education' is sold all over the place.
You have probably done something wrong if you got figures like that or had a very specific edge case.
Next time when I want to publish a paper, I will take the work of someone else, claim that it's unreadable and difficult to understand, "clarify" parts that were unreadable, and put my name on it. I just cannot believe that things like that are common practice for some researchers.
That was a great read, thanks.
No, I think not. The populist governments are just trying to control it.
You are missing the point of his post. It's not just picking up on a news story.
In this tutorial we take a look at the Acrobat class in FlashPunk.
It's the North Dakota of Brazil, without Fargo, the movie.
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I'd try tornado then. It has class based handlers, runs great on appengine, a very nice templating language, XSRF protection, secure cookies, and more.

http://www.tornadoweb.org/
This is a great idea.

I'm curious as to the internals, though. What's the cost of a new user? Of a new girl? What's the turnover rate like for both guys and girls? What's to prevent users from going off-site for interaction?
You're lucky that you can do that! I've never been able to sleep with a voice speaking nearby. I don't think I've ever fallen asleep while watching a movie, ever, for example. Even after a big night out, exhausted, wanting to sleep, I had to go and switch off the TV to be able to fall asleep.
1) Sometimes MySQL is bad at things that databases should be good at it.

2) Moving stuff from your database server to your webserver is actually changing the hardware environment it runs on. Especially relevant if your database server isn't keeping up or is RAM constrained or whatever else is different.
If one takes the narrow view, yes.
In the actual software you can (thankfully) disable the voice.
> This is why people come here.

Many people come here for find that the brochures were misleading. I remember reading the a lot of the Indians came here on H1B visas bringing over their wives only to find out that the middle class in America, is not like the middle class in India (i.e. we don't have a caste-system that allows middle-class families to have servants). The article/comment I remember reading seemed to imply that it was the women being brought over as the spouses of the visa-holders that were disappointed that they had to do things for themselves even though they were middle-class (and who then pushed for the both of them to move back to India).
Weebly (YC 07) is having a US$10k theme design contest
The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (2009)
My dad still uses DOS Quicken. At heart it's the same as the current program, just without all the bells and whistles. Plus it was a very mature DOS program: think his is version 11.
There won't be an index with both the full text search and the id in, so MySQL will have to create a temporary table with the results and sort that and do the limit. If you have a TEXT or a BLOB column or it's too big, MySQL will do that on disk rather than in memory, so it's slow.

I'd suggest using "EXPLAIN EXTENDED" before your "SELECT" to see what it's doing and to consider specifying the columns, though in general I'd do what you did.
Sinatra has that "secret weapon" feeling about it. While everyone else is bogged down trying to steer their massive lumbering frameworks around, you're whizzing past in a sporty two-seater that goes exactly where you want.

To me, it feels exactly like web programming should -- and it does so in a way that makes a lot of sense; it builds on the whole Ruby thing of "how do I do this? I wonder if _this_ will work? Ho! It did!"

If you haven't looked at it yet, it is _well_ worth your time.
My strategy is to stay awake until I start to doze off. At that point, I go straight to bed and usually fall asleep within a few minutes.

If I go to bed sooner than that, my mind races and I can't fall asleep.
I teach meditation, and in my opinion, what you're doing is definitely a form of meditation. You have an intentional practice of relaxation that doesn't involve falling asleep. That's meditation.

Specifically, paragraphs like this can be found in hundreds of books on meditation:

The best way I can describe the feeling of napping is that you lie down or sit somewhere, and first focus on relaxing. Relax your muscle groups one by one, from your neck all the way down to your toes. Take a good minute or two to do this properly. Then finally you relax your thoughts. Let them drift off. It’s important to gently nudge those thoughts towards more relaxing topics – you won’t nap very well if you’re rehearsing a conversation with the boss – but at the same time, they need to largely drift on their own. Keep your eyes closed, your body relaxed, and let your thoughts meander from subject to subject without much order.
I was expecting a sales pitch at the bottom. It's a great anecdote and I'll try it out, but there's no evidence aside from his story that this works.
The thing is that "the boss" in that story is putting himself in group 3. As such he probably sees anybody in group 2+ as useless and mediocre as people in group 2.
Again? From October '08:

"Years-old rumors that Apple will roll out a line of Internet-connected displays have resurfaced in reports that suggest the company will bundle its Apple TV product within a new line of HDTVs."

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/13/apple_hdtv_rum...
I don't believe North Dakota is even in the same league when it comes to cluelessness. Rondonia's courts win hands down, apparently.
It is a very bad thing for a society to be such that getting an advanced degree is not an economic advantage. In fact, as the story illustrates, right now it is sometimes an economic disadvantage due to the opportunity costs of getting an advanced degree. This has bad long term consequences. This is what I too to be the undertow of the story.
Well, don't you find it a little unethical for Universities to be pushing programs based on their perceived value even though they have little actual value for their participants? In general, the last couple of generations have been sold the idea that getting a university degree is the only way to 'get ahead in life' so that you don't end up 'flipping burgers' for a living by the previous generations, all while the previous generations complained that the newer generations don't "understand the value of hard work."

Sure people need to take responsibility for their own actions, but if someone is trained from birth to believe something, casting that belief aside isn't the same as dropping a piece of trash in the trash can. And those that trained that person to hold that belief share a bit of responsibility. Blaming 'society' as a whole is meaningless, though.
If Google decides to fight this decision (as it should), it will be struck down. While there are exceptions to freedom of speech (mostly about promoting crimes, discrimination and anonymity) the law is not nearly that bad as to make bad taste illegal.

And, if it did, there would be a whole lot of criminals far worse than the ones responsible for this ;-)

As a curious note, no Brazilian news agency seems to have picked this one up at this time.
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Awesome and thank you for the relevant links!
Looks like they got Autocompletion right.

I've written my own re-usable widget but I'll probably switch to this next time I need an autocomplete box.
"Is it really entitlement to think that you should be able to get a better job with an advanced degree than with barely a high school education?"

If you have obtained a degree that leaves you unable to produce value that can be captured to some degree and paid to you as a salary, then, yes.

I don't know what your personal degree was in. It could well be in such a thing, in which you may need to consider moving to where jobs are. I'm mostly just responding to your first question. Unfortunately, being told all your life that it wasn't entitlement but your due doesn't make it true. Generate value, or expect to have problems standing out in a sea of people who basically can't.
I've really been appreciating these articles. I'm in the process of negotiating my options with my current company and I'm fairly new to all of these various ins and outs. With my prior startup most of the employees got fairly hosed I think when it company was finally acquired and I'd rather that not to be the case with this one. Still, I know I made the huge mistake already of not having these on paper upfront (I've been there 10 months now). Next time I know better.
That would be 12 days per month, about a third of all dates would result in a blocking prompt. Eek.
OTOH, that makes the parts of this post about the Google campus even sillier.
This reminds me of a story about how Manu Ginobili's family, who refused to move to the US, has to live with police protection to keep from being kidnapped.

I can't find the exact story I read from before, though.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1839968
Calendar About Nothing
I don't think you can have the fulltext index in the same index as the id since fulltext indexes don't mix with anything.
Actually, it is a university's fault to some extent. For instance there are way too many Ph.D. in math and physics for the available work. University's have a moral obligation to inform their students about this. There are serious problems with the current graduate school system. Most people coming into it have no idea what they are getting themselves into.
Just to make this clear:

I have no affiliation whatsoever with Pzizz. I mentioned it a lot because it was a central element of how I learned to nap.

I have exchanged a couple of emails with the guys from Wakemate, and may perhaps get a review unit at some point, but I won't derive any financial benefit from it (I've paid for that unit!).
For me its an audiobook. The moment I zone out and miss a sentence, I know it's time for bed.
You probably needed to run analyze table.

What it probably did was sort by id (in memory), and then run the search (i.e. check each row if it matched, and stopping after 20 rows), not realizing that it should do the search first, and only then sort.

EXPLAIN .... is your friend here.

Without the order by, the only possible index was the search, so it used that.

And digg probably had a similar error, since it makes no sense for php to be any faster in sorting than mysql.
So if I write an article about how to torture a dog for fun making most to engage in the conversation to voice their disagreement,does this article become a worthy one?is this article suited for this audience?do people gain any insights ?
Musings on RPC mechanisms and DSLs
In honor of Sinatra 1.0 and because I just today first read about Seinfeld's "Don't break the chain" advice.
Interesting.

You may be right... but if I derive all the typical benefits of napping (increased alertness, ability to go for extended periods of a few weeks with a lot less sleep, etc), is it not fair to call it napping? After all, if it quacks like a duck...

Also, it does happen, though probably no more than 1 out of 5 times, that I actually drift into a dream state while napping, which I would consider equivalent to being asleep.
But I think that's his point - the power of the internet has come from it's openness and freedom. Try to control it and trying to kill it are very much the same thing, even if a government isn't conscious of that.
If the query cache, key buffer, sort buffer, and various engine configs are too small for the dataset then MySQL will take a less optimal approach. MySQL is an RDBMS for persistent data, not a spreadsheet...

"right tool for the job", etc.
Not having insurance is not the same as not getting checkups. It means paying for them out of pocket, but for a healthy young person that shouldn't be too expensive. Before the health care bill passed, there were already places like Hello Health popping up that catered to the uninsured. There will be more of them if people decide insurance isn't worth buying.

It also doesn't mean not getting treatment, because if you have something like a brain cyst, the ER can't turn you away.

I also don't see why your friend's family would be financially hosed, assuming he's over 18.
What a dumb response. The person that wrote in wasn't looking for a free replacement or a free repair---just an answer to the question of whether the laptop was fixable. The snark was unnecessary, as was the assumption that the user was just looking for a free ride. But perhaps Jobs just didn't read the original request carefully; Bob Lefsetz's ranty response doesn't have that excuse. He's using the user's question to rant about something completely unrelated. Lame.
So :D => :) ?
I know the Notifo guy, Chad, was working by himself. Dude's amazing. :)
Don't we strive as a society for "highly literate" to describe most (if not all) of the population? Also 'qualified' doesn't mean much unless it's qualified with a job-type or skill set. "Qualified" people could be construction workers which would fall under 'menial work.'
The Mandlebrot Monk
They forget the extra two tips for when TechCrunch is concerned:

Tip #7: Apply your lips to their buttocks
Tip #8: Give them free stuff.
I'm neither a doctor nor an athlete, but these things cannot be good for your body.
This quote rubs me the wrong way a little...

"The relational database tool chain is not evolving. It has failed for large scale, real-time environments."

I've been a big user of Postgres for going on five years now and it has made giant leaps in both features and performance. You can't blindly say relational tools are done evolving. I know the other players have made a lot of progress lately too (Oracle, MySQL, etc).
How many people in the 1960's came out of Computer Science programs only to end up 'flipping burgers' and wondering where they went wrong? You can pursue a field because you love it, but you need to realistically take a look at your job prospects when you make the decision to go for it.
If you're interested in such ultra-endurance events, but you aren't sure if your body can handle such pounding, try out randonneuring--essentially, ultra-long distance (200+km) cycling. You can achieve the same sorts of mental and physical suffering without jarring your joints so much.