skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it work everywhere? Last I checked, it doesn’t work in browser address bars, for example.
Your argument about 50 cents to make for yourself at home doesn't make sense since if home-coffee and sbux-coffee were interchangeable you wouldn't have made the previous x purchases.
Done! Good catch!!!!
What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1
ymmv = your mileage may vary

first time i've seen that one.
And on what scale was it reduced by 2/3s? What units are those?

"Well, the current discomfort level is only 23 microchafes."
Switching to an open source OS? OSX is a mix between open and closed source software where quite a bit of its open source code is not updated frequently. Google can't patch Preview, Quicktime, Safari or any other closed source program develop by Apple. Also, Apple is not famous for quickly patching OSX[1]. Quoting Charlie Miller[2,3]: "Mac OS X is like living in a farmhouse in the country with no locks, and Windows is living in a house with bars on the windows in the bad part of town."[4]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/apple-fixes-old-java-for-...
[2] http://www.dailytech.com/Charlie+Miller+to+Unveil+20+Zeroday...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Miller_(security_resear...
[4] http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0412/technology-apple-hack...
The real risk is that they accidentally "update" my files out of existence or revert them to some point way in the past in a way that can't be undone. The change might push to all my devices before I realized it. I periodically tar my dropbox and put it on a backup disk.
Doesn't support reflowing (and thus changing text size), so you can't really read your ebooks on your phone. Even the 6" Kindle's support for PDFs is barely usable.
Yet "Slow news day" and "Speed it up" are so very on point.
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There's no straightforward way to reflow PDFs. Ebooks should be formatted in a way which allows them to be displayed on everything from a screen of a few inches up to a few feet.
I recently implemented a somewhat clever Dropbox hack for a client's project.

Basically, their customers had to upload hundreds of photos to a website and found it to be a pain. We created an unofficial dropbox API and were able to automatically create a shared folder (and invite the customer to it). Then, when the customer added files to that folder, we automatically synced them with the web app, bypassing the web uploader.

Would also make a great Facebook Pics/Dropbox app.
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Today, cellphone-as-loyalty-card. Someday soon: cellphone-as-official-government-ID. Your IMEI may be as important as your DL# or SS#.
In mobile computing, I don't see them making any push into the apple desktop/laptop/osx market. So I guess you make a valid point if they were giving their employees iphones over andriod ones which I doubt.

I doubt they are looking at chrome OS to be a replacement for a full osx like operating system at any time in the near future.
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Wasn't Google in China hacked by an internal employee that really worked for the government?
Java often completely ignores the design guideline of making the easy things easy and the hard things possible, preferring just to make the hard things possible.

That's it exactly. My "favorite" example is file I/O. Yes, it's great that I can chain a bunch of InputStream instances together to read encrypted gzipped serialized objects over the network, but it shouldn't be more than one line for the far more common case of reading a file's contents into a string or a byte array.
Agreed.

From the first paragraph of the article:
"Never mind that the flu fulfilled every scientific condition for a pandemic, that thousands died, or that declaring a pandemic didn't provide huge scope for profiteering. A group of obscure European politicians concocted this conspiracy theory, and it is now doing the rounds even in educated circles."

"that the flu fulfilled every scientific condition for a pandemic"

>> WHO officials have always stressed that global spread, not severity of disease, defines a pandemic. [My comment: so we're not worried about risk or danger, just spread. Not to mention that this defenition was recently changed.]

"that thousands died"

>> Tens thousands of people die from the common flu (amongst other things) every year.

"that declaring a pandemic didn't provide huge scope for profiteering"

>> Really??? Canada alone (population ~ 30 million) spent several billion (I don't have the exact number) on vaccine specifically for H1N1...do the math globally.

I wonder if, according to the article's author, profiteering is actually possible, under any circumstances? How many billions have to be spent before it is considered profiteering?

"Thousands died..."

>> WOW!!!!....THOUSANDS.....killed, by flu!!! Unprecedented! (if you ignore every single year for the last how many thousand years????)

I mean, how disingenuous can you get?
After setting up Twitter which uses OAuth 1.0, try Facebook's OAuth 2.0 - it's amazingly easy in comparison since it doesn't use secrets, simply relying on HTTPS's SSL encryption instead.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/

Soooo much easier.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/159565/mac_os_...

It says there were 48+ security fixes. Doesn't matter what the reality is. People just want to believe Apple is more secure.
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I don't think it is the same to test something on a platform as developing it on that platform. Developers will instinctively look to take advantage of the strengths of their main platform and work around the weaknesses. With nobody in an entire team using a platform it will probably become an afterthought, left to a separate quality assurance team who are only in a position to correct obvious errors rather than produce excellence.
The 2-free-hours of wifi per day that come with a Starbucks Card are a pretty interesting win-win incentive from my perspective.
Metacognition
Perhaps you mean a quarter century?
The Coming Data Explosion
But its not just the size of the market... Windows machines are more likely to come into contact with another windows machine than macs are to come in contact with other macs. Thus a mac virus will spread much more slowly...

This is why homogeneity is dangerous. The more diversity an ecosystem has, the less vulnerable it is to viri, whether we're talking about crops or computer networks.
he should drop out of school and use it as an excuse to get on every tv station and written about in every paper in the country.

who wants a degree from such a dumb school anyway. walk away. some of the best companies of our time have been built by drop-outs.
using words like 'erudite' is a perfectly cromulent way of displaying your intelligence.
I looked at the hacker space in my area (Grand Rapids, MI) and was actually angry at how pointless every single one of their projects appeared to be[1].

[1]: http://www.viget.org/Viget:Projects
No. Hopefully when the new FB privacy controls roll out you will be able to. You maybe able to unset your timezone and gender in your profile to "hide" them.
I feel like people spend irrational amounts of energy on possible future rewards. I don't want to offend anyone by naming specific examples, but some people definitely undervalue their time.

I think a more interesting question is: how will people value the exposure of their shopping habits to their social graph? If people are not revolted by it, there is going to be big money in enticing people to advertise to their friends in exchange for discounts or VIP benefits.
There may be an interesting effect, but I previously read an article questioning whether the study did enough to rule out placebo effects:

"Taken on its own merits, this is a nice piece of biochemistry. But what does it really tell us about acupuncture? Does it actually validate this ancient method as a way of relieving pain? After reading the paper, you might walk away with that idea that we’re one step closer to understanding how a treatment with real medical benefits really works [...]

"But these results have to be considered in the light of those that came before it. As mentioned above, new scientific discoveries stand on the shoulders of giants and in the case of acupuncture – one of the most well-researched of all “alternative therapies” – those shoulders are particularly large.

"Many trials have demonstrated that acupuncture does have some pain-relieving effects – that is not in doubt. And as Steven Novella notes, unlike things like homeopathy or reiki, with acupuncture “something physical is actually happening… so it is therefore not impossible that a physiological response is happening”. But the big questions are whether this effect is genuine of nothing more than a placebo."

From:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/05/3...
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It's time to tell mum (about the Australian Internet Filter)
I understand the very first engineer at mint actually shared Aaron Patzer's apartment. Maybe you can join a little too early too :-) Seriously, I think it all worked out ok.
Oh, I think I can beat $100. Try $1,600: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/9836/

Of course, that's because it has a shit-ton of stupid LEDs. (don't it make you want one, though?)

This thread has proved useful, I may have to nab one of the keyboards mentioned... good keyboards are worth a lot IMO, given how much they'd get used.
Kludgey is right; and it won't always be accurate: numbers might happen to agree on a too-small sample; or diverge on a large-enough sample.

But I think it's a very simple, concrete and credible demonstration to users. And if they observe such an expt over time, over a few trials, they'll quickly develop an intuition for when the sample size is large enough. And this is more valuable than an abstract calculation. (Of course, ideal to have both.)

Unfortunately, the empirical approach doesn't take into account the effect of how near the probability is to 50% vs the extremes 0% or 100%; nor of the variance of the population. However, in practice, these are probably similar enough over all ads and populations for the effect to be negligible - especially if you give yourself a margin of safety.
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The best part is Han Solo's reaction.

Steve is saying "And what it does is extraordinary. You can browse the web with it. It is the best browsing experience you've ever had."

Cut to Solo rolling his eyes and looking away in disgust. I was doing the exact same thing mentally during that segment.

"browsing experience?" I remember when 'experiences' were notable, like getting the laid the first time, overcoming your fear of heights while rockclimbing, or boot camp.

Now the Reality Distortionists and the marketing industry want us to forget that not everything in our overly packaged and routine lives is an 'experience'.

In this at least I'd rather be bitterly aware than blissfully ignorant.
It's a quick read. You can gloss over 75% of the book as it's extremely redundant.
Conventional explosives require oxygen to burn, this things a mile under water, it ain't going to happen. Nukes don't require oxygen.
This guy seems like kind of a crank, and from what I've read he's wrong as often as he's right. For example, in the first article you linked to he his saying that the idea that acupuncture creates anti-inflammatory proteins is extremely improbable, which is exactly what the parent article proves. And his rant about not believing in the placebo effect is an equally ridiculous strawman, since there are studies that show that if you replace a person's medicine with a placebo they will keep having the same physiological response as they did to the medicine. (See also the converse, Plastic Rose Syndrome.) And, similarly, there are other studies that show that people gain less weight eating liquified food (which tastes bad) as opposed to the same caloric content of non liquified food, and still more studies that show that how much weight people lose from exercise depends more on how long they think they're exercising than how long they're actually exercising.

I'm all for sound science, but this guy seems like he's really just a shill for whatever the trendy assumptions-of-the-day behind western medicine happen to be.
NYC using in-cab computers to crack down on taxi drivers
I think this case basically proves it's pointless. Advocates are exposed as colluding, doctoring data, and using connections to remove legitimate people who disagree from the conversation.

Global warming will be passed as absolute truth.

It seems similar to the ages when priests would silence people rather than address their scientific assertions. If the global warming deniers are wrong, it would seem to me to encourage their writings, and if the global warming advocates are confidently correct, it would seem, from a traditional scientific method perspective, they would welcome any and all discussion of their topic. Yet, they try to use government agencies to limit freedom of speech of their adversaries, and to hide the discussions they have amongst them selves? This is science?

I don't proclaim to know what is right or wrong when it comes to global warming, but I have a sense of when someone is telling the truth or not. When someone uses the government to stop someone from talking, for reasons of "expediency", I get suspicious. And they don't even seem to care about that. Believe what we tell you, our cause is so important we can skip the traditional scientific process, all evidence to the contrary is conspiracy theories, end of discussion. Or, you'll be talking to our (taxpayer funded) lawyer.
Count is a poor measure. Both Apple and Microsoft lump together fixes for remote code execution vulnerabilities (terrifying), privilege escalations (not a big deal for personal machines) and denial-of-service vulnerabilities (not important except for public servers) as "security fixes".
translating "James Bond 007" is more funny
Thought experiment: If he doesn't think he needs the degree, why is he there?
Determination vs. fear
Rochester NY, a city with a strong industrial history, is yet another anecdotal counterexample. The very finest houses are in fact directly east from the city center (the Kodak mansion, for example), and in general the nicest neighborhoods are to the east and southeast. To the north and east of the city are the poorer, generally more dangerous areas. Of course as you start to get far enough from the city center to the north and west you'll see the wealthier neighborhoods again.
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This is fairly standard 'death of the author' literary theory, except, Gibson has a nice way with words. I guess I'd call it style. A really nice book about modernism meeting post-modernism in literary theory (written for nerds) is Richard S. Powers' book Galatea 2.0. You might like it.
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RHIPE - R and Hadoop Integrated Processing Environment
Whats the membership fee?

And any timings for the venue? I didn't find such details on the site. Is it so that I'll have to have an idea and "apply" for it like the site says?
Apple rumored to begin paying Foxconn employees direct wages
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some people also click text ads.

and watch maury povich.
" a much more implausible idea: a coordinated group of scientists are systematically suppressing dissent to further their ideology."

This "implausible" (are you fucking kidding?) idea is certainly not without precedent.

But so what? If these scientists have a theory, present it, and deal with critical review. If you are correct, the science will prevail, correct?

The pink elephant in the room is, funding for your scientific theory. If they were truly independent legitimate scientists, they would welcome critical analysis of their theories, that's what real science is all about. But modern science is not so much about "science", it is about funding.

Doing "science" is an enjoyable pursuit, and if you can find someone to fund it for you for say 10 or 20 years, it can be a nice ride.
They are standard. There's also `first` and `second`, but they do something different:

Prelude> :m + Control.Arrow
Prelude Control.Arrow> :t first
first :: (Arrow a) => a b c -> a (b, d) (c, d)
Prelude Control.Arrow> first (2 +) (1, 4)
(3,4)

In this case the Arrow instance is just (->), the function type constructor, so you could read that strange type signature as `first :: (b -> c) -> ((b, d) -> (c, d))`. But I've said too much.
> Protocols in Clojure are similar to Java Interfaces, though not quite. Basically a protocol is a contract, a set of functionalities without any implementation

how is this different from Go's implementation of an 'interface' type http://golang.org/doc/go_for_cpp_programmers.html#Interfaces
Can't hurt to try this approach, as it takes approximately 10 seconds to set it up. Will give it a shot, and report back if the results are interesting...
Wouldn't it suck if you were some kid with a lot of ambition, and some huge ideas, who tried to bite off more than he or she could handle, all while the world watched and encouraged you? Wouldn't it suck if you felt a real obligation to see through to some half-baked idea you came up with in your early 20s?

I have sympathy for the Diaspora guys, I think if it went unnoticed and unfunded it could be a great learning project for some young coders, even if it didn't achieve practical success. Instead, it'll likely be (already is) a public embarrassment.

If I could give the Diaspora guys one bit of advice, I'd say this, don't take this too seriously; treat it like a fun summer project. The last thing you want to be is the next freenet (no offense Freenet guys, awesome concept, but it never really caught on).
It takes some overhead to implement the most essential C++ stuff in a C project. After that, the expressibility of these two languages effectively converge. That is, the will be differing factors but those factors won't be an order-of-magnitude different.

Hence, it would make sense to start with C++ in the first place, if only possible, because you will immediately save some months of C coding. However, on any large project the overhead becomes negligible. For example, gcc already has the C codebase written for decades.

The new allowed development language ought to offer not only more power but a lot more power.
> Hacker News is not a startup, it wasn't funded with $200,000, and its goal is not to create a web application (Diaspora's is.)

I'm confused. So does anything that is not a start-up, and/or web application get a free pass on standards compliance? I was under the impression that the standards were meant to apply to all web pages.
Predicting the Present: quotes from Wired magazine 1993-'97
I am also working on a web app involving books, and currently using Amazon to get my books data. It seems to have anything you'll need, even the book's dimension and weight.
I was interested to find out that he's not a singularity type (he's at pains to say this in a way that only singularity types will notice, though).

Many sci-fi authors today do subscribe to the idea of the singularity, and feel that it is impossible to do the sort of 'life in 50 years' Sci-Fi prognosticating that Gibson did in Neuromancer.

My favorite of the prognosticators is Vernor Vinge; I loved Rainbow's End for its balls-out attempt to paint a picture of (and make sense of) a near-ish future. Even that doesn't get 50 years out, though.

Taking a totally different spin (and one he takes in his essay): Neuromancer is a product of its time just like, say Echo and the Bunnymen, David Bowie, or the Cure. Seen in this light, you can complain about the lack of new quality music today, or just get with the program and learn to appreciate Lady Gaga.

Put that way, this first decade of the millenium is one which holds huge promise, huge unknown dangers, and a pervasive sense of lack-of-shock by we-the-people living in it. We should expect our Sci Fi literature to be variously engaging in this or responding to it.

This is what I've liked so much about his last two novels; the real (or realistic, or at least possible in today's society) brought out and examined as the bizarre. I'm really looking forward to the close of this trilogy in the fall.
Agreed. I've heard (yet have no evidence) that Lovd was a particularly bad example of Rails code. I haven't reviewed it personally though, so ymmv.
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It seems reasonable to assume that they'd standardize on a distribution, and centrally manage patching client machines. I cannot imagine that they would expect every employee to concern themselves with such things.
I am trying to compile a list, and the stronger the verification process, the better. A Notary is a fantastic example.
I know we're trying to look at them with a critical lens, but this is really pulling at straws here.

This web application does not either: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook....
Additionally, aren't there tools available that can convert your CSS to an optimized form? If so you can always write it for readability, but "compile" it for release to a more performant arrangement.
I wasn't aware of the AAA protocol. Thank you for the reference!
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How uncouth!
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For me, music helps to affect my mood. I use music+work to help me get into 'the zone' in a way that doesn't happen when just trying to work in complete silence (or the noise of a typical office).
Simple question: How come Loopt did not receive the media attention that Foursquare has been receiving in the past year with regards to location based mobile services...considering they are very similar?
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I know a bunch of you have blogs. Would this be useful?
I don't know about needing approval directly from the CIO, but last I talked to a friend of mine that works as a sys admin at Google, he did mention that they were requiring users to have to be able to make a business case for getting a Windows machine, otherwise they were deploying all Linux and Mac systems. This has been maybe 4 or 5 months ago now, not sure what, if anything, has changed since then.
The core difference between Unix and Windows, that has persisted since the beginning, is that by default on any Unix you get a user account which is different from the root account. On Windows, this hasn't even been possible until a few years ago (Vista? 7?), and AFAIK you still have to specifically configure Windows to give you a user account that really, really has no administrator rights. My parents wouldn't know how to do that.

On Linux, if someone hacks my browser all I could ever lose is the stuff on my home directory. Should that happen, I can just log in as root, kill all processes of my user account, rm -rf the home directory and restore the most recent backup, and relogin with my account. Without rebooting.

There are local vulnerabilities that might give you root privileges on Linux, too. But that's already a secondary attack and one of its own. Given the diversity of various Linux builds, it takes a lot more to crack into a machine and if successful, even that one is only one kind of a machine. With Windows, the homogeneity sweeps large installation bases at once.
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This is so great.

I have no interest in sharing my location with my friends (4Square) but I carry a number of cards to get discounts (the stamp on top of a square everytime I visit kind) for my local neighborhood places including:
http://barrosluco.com/
http://premiumbarbershop.com/

What can I do to get them onboard?