skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point is that temperature of the medium is unrelated to the temperature of the food.
A raw steak is a steak that reaches UPTO temerature X (about 55C I think) during the cookieng.
So you can put it into a low temp cooking device for an hour on 55C or you can throw it onto a 200C owen and leave it there just enough time for it to heat upto 55C.

If you miss this 55C point and it heats upto 60C it wont be raw anymore.
After all: "The entire range of steak doneness, from rare to well-done, is only a matter of 14°C (25°F)" (http://www.cookingissues.com/primers/sous-vide/part-i-introd...)
zsh has a double-splat operator. You can just do [star][star]/[star].{cpp,h} and it will do a recursive match.
This is really awesome.

This really showcases what I think HTML5 will be great for: procedural/algorithmic content.

I think Flash will still be king until someone creates an authoring tool that can allow artists to easily animate something like this.

Someone go ahead and make that tool, I will buy it.
Get a Mac.
The point is, we can both construct hypothetical situations in which this law can protect the just and villainous alike.

Except for the fact that police, by themselves, can't just go search someone. They need a warrant signed off by a judge, which provides the necessary check against police carrying out a vendetta against someone.

The police were breaking the rules set upon them in accordance with the penal code

Again, this appears to be highly debatable. The law's purpose is to protect sources of stories, and interpretation of the law must be done in that context. EFF wants it interpreted to declare anyone/anything involved with journalism immune to law enforcement. The police, meanwhile, seem to be acting on the presumption that the law only forbids them pressuring for sources, not investigating crimes committed by people who, in addition to suspected criminals, also happen to be journalists.
Certainly the number would be objective, the subjective part would be establishing an industry standard against which to compare it. Without context, the number alone can't tell you all that much.

Honestly, the most surefire litmus test I've found is ex-employees who still speak positively about the employer.
From a Ruby perspective, but this may still be useful: Redis is very nice for data that fits in memory (disk persistence is for recovery, not for realtime access) and support for counters, sets, etc. is cool.

That said, I really like MongoDB for many reasons: interactive shell, great Ruby support (and Scala and Clojure, etc.), very easy to set up and use, and some replication support (not as good as Cassandra, but I will never need that kind of scalability).

I think that the Python support for MongoDB is very good.
Cellphone credit card scanners want to replace cash
See if these things formed part of your childhood:
- Atari / Donkey Kong / Pacman etc (the originals)
- Commodore 64
- Indiana Jones + Star Wars (at the cinemas, the original movies)

No? You're not generation X, sorry.
It would also be expected for the interviewer to explain that number.
My parents also taught me some jerk with a blog would put ads that have enormous popups on mouseover all over his page while ranting about how I'm too sensitive.
This guy is lying to his students by riding the wave of this lingering assumption that contemporary conventional schooling works to garner the results that remedy what he is complaining about.It doesn't,and it never will.
Conventional education is a crock of shit and so is this guy... and the "millennials".

Bypass it all be creating alternatives like this:

khanacademy.org

This kind-of-thing is the future regardless.

Problem solved.

He's one of the few that "survived" all that bullshit and is doing it how it should be done.
Upgrading to Rails 3
I do my unit test in asserts. Next.
Great Moments in Financial Regulation: Apple IPO deemed too risky
I heard about you guys on NPR, but didn't call in because I was driving. I have a few concerns.

1. Your basic value proposition rests on getting people to pay money to have the ability to respond to things said about them. That's going to leave a bad taste in people's mouths.

2. Many people (like me) have deliberately chosen to not join facebook. We can't even try to address issues we see.

3. Identity is much more complicated than you acknowledge. My name is Ben Tilly. I'm at Google. People by the same name can also be found in a US college, doing graphic design in New Zealand, and being a nurse in England. Just to name a few that come up off of the top of my head. How do you tell which Ben Tilly should be able to respond to a bad comment about someone named Ben Tilly at Rent.com?

4. Anonymity is not so easy to protect. Only a small fraction of people comment online. A given manager only manages a small number of people. If a negative comment appears, frequently it is surprisingly easy to make an educated guess. If the comment is at all detailed, an analysis of writing style will usually confirm that guess. Unless a large fraction of people in your environment are commenting, the level of anonymity is limited. (Particularly if the boss can get access to proxy logs saying who was visiting getunvarnished, when.)
I was born in 80, and consider myself on the cusp. I identify w/ X in some ways and Millenials in others. It was actually highly amusing in college, there was a noticable shift between the oldest of my peers and the youngest of my peers, which when I described it to some of the older ones said they didn't notice between a similar variance of their peers. Obviously such things are fuzzy, but that is the general feeling we noticed. Overall 'start time' is usuall referenced between 80 and 85 somewhere. Generational stuff used in this sense is wierder still because those born in 1960 have a completely different gen X experience than those born in 1980. I mean they were adults when I was born...
Dukes of Hazard. Seriously, I have used this as the generational dividing line since they were still calling gen X 'slackers' in a derogatory way.
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I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you. The ego needs to be bruised in order to deflate the head of the youngster so learning can begin.

I too had my ego bruised and spirits crushed by hard-marking, discipline demanding examiners. In each case, they're the only the ones I remember. All the wishy-washy as-long-as-you-tried ones are as forgotten as they were useless to my learning.

Half the battle in teaching young people is making them realise the scope of the things they don't know, so they can appreciate how far they have to travel. Call me old-school, but I don't see how you can do this without brusing a few egos and crushing a few spirits. It's precisely the ego that says 'this is good enough, I'll submit that'.
Now this is funny in at least two ways. First is this cute but silly idea that the study of PR is so difficult and rigorous that it makes people cry.

The second way this is funny, is just imagining young PR flacks crying because their papers were graded badly. That just warms up my heart. I mean the thought that a human being would be so depraved (or is forced by the economy into such a depraved condition) as to dream about being a PR person when they grow up is rather depressing. But thinking of them suffering along the way is a bit of a bright spot.

Unfortunately, the whole thing was written by a PR professor so I just don't believe it. He is probably just exaggerating in order to establish some cred for himself as a tough no-nonsense professor and also to create the idea that PR is a rigorous field of study.
Probably some happy medium. Helicopter parents don't really give kids a chance to just learn to be themselves...
You're ignoring the fact that almost all Americans ARE "PR majors" -- lots of other names for shitty degrees, of course -- but the hard sciences are dominated by indians and asians.

Communications, sports medicine, all these majors attract a disproportionate amount of slackers BECAUSE they are easy. The only reason the hard sciences are not AS BAD is because the subject matter makes it much harder to dumb down.
Processing.JS also looks like a great contender.

http://processingjs.org/

I'm still looking for a tool that allows people to create animations using canvas, as easily as Flash does for non-coders.
Why We Prefer Founding CEOs
Human-readable source code here: http://code.google.com/p/chrome-canopy/source/browse/#svn/tr...
Just the kind of thing I've been looking for since the end of the Netflix Prize and the cancellation of its sequel. Seems that the site is relatively new, hopefully it'll get some traction.

Out of curiosity, is the submitter one of the founders involved with the site?
One of our subsidaries registered it before 2001, when there were no restrictions.
Note also that the Dodd bill would let state regulators into the game of angel financing. That could be the end of the Boston area startup scene if the Massachusetts state government unit that regulates this sort of thing is still as conservative as it was in the '80s (this is not the only horror story I've heard about this regulator).
Unless we stop consuming a finite resource we will eventually run out, by definition. Your argument simply demonstrates how rising prices will lead to extracting 'harder to get' resources. When something is harder to get that means it's scarce, which is the opposite of abundant. In other words, it means we are running out.
I'd love to know where/how you found suitable quality design freelancers for $10/hr in the Philippines?
Nice work

* The new search button is much better.

* I would switch the news articles to change on click, not mouseover. The distance between map marker and news link is too far; too many other markers can accidentally be moused over. This is most obvious when mousing over a marker that is surrounded by other markers (typically like Swiss results). Plus, when you click, you expect something to happen, not so much when you mouseover.

* You should make the fonts a consistent size between the input fields, select fields, and their labels.

* The Facebook like button is a little lost in the top right. I would consider putting it just below the bottom left corner on the map.

* The thumbs look better. I would still pad them 3-5px more on the right. Then make the title text flush with the top of the images.

* Your bottom banner ad jumps around depending on the length of article results. Presumably, you'll want to change that.

* But all of these things kind of play 2nd fiddle to having more markers appear on the map and making the article results seem more closely tied to the map results. The example of searching "Obama" and only seeing one marker on the US is the kind of thing to fix.

* BTW, good job on making the page load fast.
'Eye-Phone': Surgeons' tool
HP is now run by business men, not engineers. If Carla didn't prove this to you, then you are probably never going to get it. The fact is, they don't care about Compaq, DEC, Palm, or even HP. They just want to pull in enough money over the next few years, until they retire. They could be selling Paper cups for all they care about the product, as long as they still get their bonuses.
In fact, this the key reason that you need to have automated tests. I don't know anyone that commits a new feature without trying it -- be it (conveniently) at a REPL or via some other UI. But the manual "trying it out" method, REPL or otherwise, has always suffered from the fact that it cannot be easily repeated, so old features eventually get broken, and nobody notices. This is why I automate my tests, because their value over time exceeds the extra cost to write them vs. trying it out.

I think this is an aspect that the original article fails to take into account. Eliding tests can feel very liberating, and it allows you to plow ahead adding new features faster. Particularly in small, or at least new, projects. But over time reality catches up, and the lack of tests becomes a burden. You start avoiding adding new features, and particularly improving existing code, out of fear of breaking something. And so you end up more constrained than if you had added the right balance of tests along the way.

Writing software that is maintainable, with staying power of years or decades, requires the sacrifice of some up-front productivity.
The fragmentation is good. The phone market is much healthier than the PC market. A handful of profitable platforms means heavy competition and innovation: a big win for consumers (and developers). I hope HP does well in the phone market, as I wish the peddlers of Android phones and Apple success as well. Plenty of money to spread around in that market.
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It's the customers. Users and software buyers who are interested in design, usability and looks are more likely to use Macs. So Windows developers are less harshly punished in the marketplace for ugly or clunky software.

And there's positive feedback. One reason people buy Macintoshes is because they like the software better.
Baidu 1Q jumps 165 percent, topping forecasts
Well, there isn't an actual 'Jason Nation' either, so I can forgive a little tongue-in-cheek pomposity by its leader :)
I'm curious if you did any google search term research? How many people are searching for things like "ad banner templates" etc. Once you find those you can more directly provide a solution for what people want.

For example if there are lot of "ad banner builder" , "free banner themes", "how to run ads" etc, it more directly hints at what your customers needs are.

You could also try throwing a couple of your templates on http://graphicriver.net and see if anyone is interested.

My main advice is to figure out what type of people want your service. On one hand it seems like you are targeting people that don't know or don't want to deal with banner ads but they feel like they should. I think thats problematic because the people that are prepared to get started with a banner ad campaign arguably know the basics of photoshop. Or if they don't they are going to need something a little more robust than what you currently offer. Then there's the case where a person is 100% happy with a basic banner theme, I'd argue such a person would also need a little more help in actually gaining a return on his campaign. In other words the people interested in an easy, simple, quick and dirty banner design, are not necessarily going to be the people thinking scientifically enough to gain any long term benefits from banner advertising.

This is all just theory though. Hope this helps.
I'd say it really depends on what you're storing and how you're using it.

Redis is great for situations where you need a very large volume of reads and writes, and have a fairly simple data model. See http://simonwillison.net/static/2010/redis-tutorial/ for more information and some use cases.

MongoDB allows for data to be structured and queried in more complex ways, and touts itself as more of an alternative to an RDBMS than Redis does. If you're looking to use it with Django, check out MongoEngine at http://github.com/hmarr/mongoengine
If only I had known 10 years ago what I would claim ignorance of today...
I would not say it is easy to get into. When I first tried creating an app using the SDK when it first came out, there was no good debugging, lots of things going wrong for me with no way to see what the problem was. Uncomparable to Xcode environment.
I'm curious about the "fanout" name which immediately made me think of a message broker like RabbitMQ on the backend somewhere. I guess "fanout" here means 1 client to fanout.js to N >> 1 other clients.

There are a number of similar projects popping up like this one as of late for Node.js. NodeRed, fanout, dealer, etc.

That's great. Node.js makes previously "complex" things a little easier to setup and play with.
A fantastic and very important essay.

"[...] innovation is the core competency for technology companies."

And this shows up in their financial results.

And with very rare exceptions (two are mentioned) professional CEOs don't have what it takes to do that (three reasons are detailed) and (many) founder CEOs can learn what they're missing.
Replace Axim with Jornada.
Is Palm's hardware roughly comparable with average Android and Apple phones? (thus making it the software that's slow and power-hungry, not the hardware?) I've just heard so many people complain that the "everything is web" aspect of it makes it slow, but I don't know whether that's just a scapegoat or if it's really true.
hmm It's worth give a try on heroku... I looked at http://elusivehippo.com/... the price seems outrageous min $63 per month... is this the standard price??
On The HP/Palm Drama: Web Apps Are The Future And ChromeOS And Groupon
I agree with you on liking OSX. On the other hand, I'd rather see them put out a great 10.7 when they have been working on it properly, than just putting something half-finished out there despite their current focus on getting the iPhone platform up to speed.

I am hoping for more attention on OSX as well, but I'm not really worried. The ADA are usually targeted on specific (and new) technologies, and the latest technologies like OpenCL and GCD are more useful from a behind-the-scenes-perspective.

I can also imagine the plan being a convergence of the two platforms so that they'll put back some of the new thinking in the iPhone OS into OSX. It wouldn't have made sense to base that work on iPhone OS 3.0 when 4.0 put in as much new stuff as it does. Although, admittedly, a lot of that stuff is already available on the desktop.
I'm not sure it's necessarily genetic. I bet simply being exposed to entrepreneurial adults can make a decent impact, especially since you're more aware of careers outside the traditional 9-5 job.
And it only uses 61% of both my 3.0GHz cores.
I believe the owner when he says they went for Groggle after discovering Grogger was taken (not sure how universal a term grog is, but strewth, I know what you mean mate).

But this description of the company from the article probably explains why Google are taking an interest (italics mine): "allowing consumers to search for the cheapest price".

Groggle sounds like Grog + Google, and the product sounds like Grog + Google. I hope this gets settled, because the name is far less important to me than the service - looking forward to its launch!
I don't know if I am the only one but I find this idea incredibly depressing. For some reason, the thought of measuring myself, and meticulously keeping track of everything I do really really depressing. I do not know if it is because it reminds me of the shortness of life or because it seems to limit my freedom.

Of course as a lawyer I do have to track the time I work for clients, and that (and the associated issues that come with it) is probably one of the things I really dislike about this profession.
> a way for developers to make money

I'm not terribly familiar with webOS/palm ecosystem, hence the question:
what's the usual channel for selling a webOS app?
all this cloud talk etc, does that mean you can chuck up a web site/app targeted at webOS and start charging for it?
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Google wants Groggle to cease trading and hand over its domain
These letters go out all the time, however the Groggle guys have used it to their advantage well by pitching it as a "David vs Goliath" battle to get some mainstream press.
Huh? Just a link to a YouTube-clip? Maybe it's just the HTML5 beta talking, but it looks like it usually does. Maybe a link to a page where someone talks about the changes would have been more informative?

Unless the small horse video is worthy of attention in itself, of course.
Rudd retreats: no Australia Internet filter before next election
Well, of all the jobs I could like, I narrowed it down to two. And of those two, only one of them made the offer. So even though I liked the position at first, I wasn't so sure after I was done with the interviews.

I think I'll give the team another shot and try to talk to a senior person about what I would be doing and what my role and responsibilities will be.
Too much fragmentation sucks. It means none of them will gain critical mass and at least half of them will spend several painful years slowly failing. I don't see how any of these guys (Symbian, WebOS, etc.) hope to overcome Android & WinPhone, at least in the smart phone market. All they can do is harm them by distracting and confusing the market for a few years, equating to consolidation for Apple. I know I am certainly not going to write apps for 5 platforms. I will pick 2 and go with that.
The best thing an employee can do is ask themselves "Will I be happy right now if I take this job?" Working for a company because they've promised you stock, or career advancement, or a mission in life is a surefire way to guarantee disappointment when the promises fail to pan out. Even the best-meaning managers tend to be grossly optimistic when pitching their companies to a new hire. If the job is satisfying from day one, nothing that fails to happen down the road will be a cause for bitterness and regret.
There's a little room for flexibility here. Engadget published the finder's photos of it on 4-17 - apparently he sent photos to several media outlets in hope that one would reward him for it. Although it would have been more appropriate to forward any such communication to the police, if Gizmodo had got it, taken some pics or video that did not go any farther that what was already published, and then sent or brought it over to Apple HQ - the same county Jason Chen lives in - they could legitimately argue the $5000 was for the story of how the guy got it, the legal doctrine of prior restraint gave them the right to publish, and they had carried out their duty to reunite Apple with their property. And I think they'd have been legally and ethically OK.

It's the dissection, its publication, and the withholding of the device from its owners - even after they called to request its return - that has gotten them into real trouble.
Curious as to whether they have an affiliate deal with gotirony.com ?

Reminds me of the old sales saying: "It's all about integrity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made."
I find this criticism silly. The judges didn't know about something, so they asked. The issue, surely, is the decision and not the questions that get asked along the way.
Don't Make the Demo Look Done (2006)
I think part of that is because Apple is growing as a content distributor, as long as OS X remains awesome (and gets no app store) I see no problem with that.
I suppose I should have been more clear. There's a difference between drowning a paper in red ink and words like "trainwreck" and actually showing error. More bluntly, yelling at a student for being stupid and showing a student where they made their errors are entirely different, and I would argue that the second is much more effective.

To my point above, the vindictive teachers were not necessarily the most insightful, and they were not the ones who deflated my ego. The comments that hurt were the terse ones that showed both that they clearly understood what I was trying to say, and that I was wrong. Pointing out a logical inconsistency in my argument in a polite way is a much less abrasive and much more effective way of teaching.

Perhaps I should say that a students ego often gets in the way of producing increasingly better work, but being a dick to them isn't always the answer.
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