skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
eh I don't think there is any full-length feature.
Are the pixels on the iPhone vertically oriented like pixels on desktop monitors usually are?
Professional Integrity for Sale? "Sure,"; Says Medscape
Ask HN: Best Systems Administrator groups for hire
I'm moving on from my current position and the company I'm leaving doesn't have enough money or need to hire a Systems Administrator full-time (I was doing it about 5 hours a week).

People have told me that they've had good experience with outsourced solutions - anybody have recommendations?

I would want a savvy crew comfortable with web2.0 environments on Amazon Cloud services (MongoDB, Postgres, Ubuntu, etc...). The toughest thing to find I think will be a group of just Sys Admins (no salesmen) who can work dynamically and flexibly with little direction.
> Well other "extreme" things like violence or gore could conceivably be expected under .xxx but not .porn

I see that as an argument in favour of .porn.
Agreed. My edge here is that my wife (receiving travel agent) gets a flow of tourists that need accommodation. It's not even necessary to rent the units long-term, packing the summer and a few winter weeks, for example, should pay the mortgage.
"You need to figure out the potential rental income of a property and convince the bankers that it's enough to service the mortgage debt. All the while putting as little of your own money in as possible."

This last part is not true. 100% leveraged properties are hard to make serious money on, and it makes for a fragile business (you only need one down cycle to bring down the, ehm, house). Average return on rental in the private is 4-5% in most parts of Europe. Right now you can get a mortgage lower than that (I actually took one out this morning for this exact purpose) but only for variable rate ones, which will reset almost surely to above 4% in a few years. It depends on the circumstances what the most profitable thing to do is, but it's almost never to finance 100% (which would be 100%+ because of closure costs...)
If it's true, we fucked up, sorry, we'll try not to do it again.
What makes it so clear that buying options is a "guaranteed way to lose money over time".

Derivatives are mathematically zero sum minus costs. That's why. For traders in aggregate, they are a certain loss. Tack on leverage via credit cards, well...

Is this deliberately intended to be disparaging

Sort of. The guy needs to realize that he's capable of really stupid mistakes before he opens that fresh new brokerage account. 700 dollars is obviously nothing, but should be a valuable lesson, and not an optimistic one.
Looks like they are in Landscape.
Looks great. Need to figure out whether the built-in GPS is good or how to connect an external one.
What you say is quite true and resonates with my personal experiences.

I myself do not possess an encyclopedic knowledge, nor will you see my fingers flying over the keyboard.

On the other hand, what I have noticed is that my understanding of the basics of coding, i.e. how to mix and match loops, arrays, conditionals, etc has vastly improved over time.

I frequently forget advanced or language specific topics - and I don't really care, since I can easily re-read about them online and refresh myself.

I have worked as an examiner for computer science university students and also as an interviewer for new hires for companies. What I have noticed is that the best candidates are similar - they have a rock solid grasp of the fundamentals of the language, and just twist and turn that knowledge to acquire the results they need.

You yourself have mentioned this - a good developer with an understanding of ORM can easily adapt to whichever framework he is required to use.

This mastery of the basics is what we are trying to assess with TechTestNow. You might notice that none of the questions require in-depth knowledge of the APIs (although that knowledge might help you solve some of them faster, there is always a solution that uses only basic constructs).

The main reason the tests are timed is because, all said and done, a good programmer does need to have a certain coding speed !

Also, in real life, a lot of time is spent not on figuring out how to solve a problem, but rather on figuring out what the problem is in the first place - what do we really need to do ? (and can it be done at all ?). Although the problems given in TechTestNow might seem contrived, they do have the advantage of being unambiguous, so that the programmer can just concentrate on writing a solution.
> limited window waving abilities

Only on the continent. On the isle you need your left hand for the stick shift anyway.
The world would be a better place if more young billionaires would have incurable diseases.

They do. Aging may not technically be a disease, but it's currently unavoidable and cripples your body and often your mind. If I had a few extra billion dollars lying around, that's what I'd focus on.
"The last 6 months have been terrible for them."

They've sold a million IPads a month, are on track to sell that many Iphone 4s, untold millions of Ipods, etc. and the press is gushing over them like they're the newest teen idol sensation. I want to have a terrible 6 months like that!
Clickable: http://cowerking.com
Dropbox New Sharing Model
In what way does the JVM "not work"?
Thanks for your input. Can you give me more details ? What were the problems you encountered ?
Maybe you can enlighten me about what I'm getting here? It's $20/day if I want to drop in and work? What are you offering me that a coffee shop or bar does not?

Or the $325/mo? But I don't even get to keep my stuff there?

Do I get access to a conference room or a receptionist or something like that?
I think "genius" has a lot less to do with "smartness" or intelligence than with obsession...
Having queued for 7 hours yesterday to get my iPhone 4, I can confirm that the display actually exceeded my expectations.

All natively rendered text in controls, etc., looks like it was printed in a magazine.

This display is going to be huge news once it hits the iPad and MacBook Pros.
Seriously, my best friend has had fantastic results from adderall. He feels like he can get things done 150% as well as he used to, and I agree from watching and listening to him. He's a self employed HVAC contractor, but I think some of the same factors might apply.
When I was playing with it, it seemed like a really handy way for a human to sift through a lot of data.
Possibly that's where the human-based spin is coming from.

If you want to try it, they have a training instance online at https://www.optradestop.com/
Maybe you could profit from the apparent weakness of the location? Target small-time entrepreneurs and try to connect them with the more tech- or finance-savvy crowd. People setting up web shops. Small-time contractors getting all the accountants and call services they need.
Umm... I forgot to mention that I'm still an illegal alien :). My wife received her residence just last year so the BMW (1.5 y.o when bought) was really a gift to her. Plus, I really wanted one after driving the 2004 Fiat Punto (no air conditioning!) for over 2 years.

I still have the Punto and hope to get a residence this year. It's an 80% mortgage when I do and 50% while I don't so I'd rather wait.
Can someone explain to me why this is important. From the outset it's clear that there will always be a chance of failure and the two generals can never be certain. Why does it matter that this proof exists. Or is there something that's non-obvious here.
Gmail Gets One-Click Microsoft Word Previews
MySpace's own layout is heinous. Tables in tables in tables in useless tables.... the site is completely insane.
Considering it's designed to work in landscape and portrait mode your question is relative.
I bet you're the life of the parties that you go to.
So this minimizer looks like premature optimization.
You are confusing your personal experience with statistics. You can trivially find sources. Every single person you know might (unfortunately) have Parkinson's while the US population incidence remains around 1%.
But aren't class and id names part of the (extended) user interface? Users are expected to be able to write their own CSS spreadsheets for your site.
So that means, that all you need is their UID, and for each subsequent page hit, for a particular test, the test choice to show them is deterministic. But, where does the even distribution of test choices come from? The hash or UID or the combo of the two?
Credit card company rejects customers with too-good credit scores
To illustrate this point around the same time you were trading those Apple options (2006?) and not making any money I made a straight stock purchase of Apple at $73.25... its up 263% since then.
Blog about your quest to turn 100k into 1 million. Lots of people will read it, the advertising potential would be strong, and - if you're successful - you could write a book about it.
I have a very understanding family and my wife works lightly while she babysits the younger daughter. I think I can still manage to accomplish something.
I believe HTML5's canvas is going to eat into a lot of Flash's less intensive applications simply because it won't be something you'll need to prompt the user to download if they don't have.

I think that graphs, menus, etc., are going to go HTML5+Canvas.

But I feel that Flash is still going to keep it's hold on Browser based games for a long time, since hardware acceleration is going to be a must for games that need more power then JavaScript can provide.
1995 was 15 years ago. I advanced a bit since then.
These questions are good, but there's something important to remember before drawing any real conclusions about common lisp: The spec is older than some few readers here at this site. Most useful programs deviate significantly from the spec in order to deliver features that modern systems consider essential but were not of tremendous import back when the spec was solidified.

So yeah, Common Lisp (the spec) has a lot of weird warts, compromises, and holes. That's why modern lisps like Clojure, Nu, Racket and the like are so exciting: they're taking a set of very good ideas and moving them into our modern 2010 network-driven-high-throughput-SIMD-demanding cloud-computing-era. The syntax and the semantics of syntax manipulation coupled with procedure-oriented programming are a powerful cocktail that was only briefly given the popularity it deserves in our software engineering culture.
You may invest in http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=MUTF:FNMIX
Ask HN: Anyone here selling Android apps and isn't from a supported country?
Hi

Anyone here who publishes paid apps and isn't from a supported country? How do you do it?

I heard that a few developers have considered setting up a UK or US business solely for this purpose. While some others are selling thru a middlemen who publish the app and take 19% commission (+ 30% google's commission). But the second approach results in losing half your money instead of just 30%.
How The Game Industry Is Evolving From Gaming 1.0 to Gaming 2.0
Ha. I guess I should have said it has been a terrible month for their consumers (since that is what I actually meant; terrible 6 months as in they've been terrible).
Thanks! I think it stands to have more success than the Erlang book I never finished :D.
Link to the actual page http://hntrends.timepurge.com/. It is pretty cool.
> Imagine what would have happened if they used someone's DNA in their study without their knowledge. When you're talking about publishing links between diseases and people's DNA, you better be damn sure you have permission to use their genetic data.

Apart from privacy and "ownership of one's genetic material", why?

Saying "Joe Smith's DNA contains a vital clue to solving parkinson's" doesn't affect Joe's ability to monetize.

Saying the same about "unspecifed_37" doesn't affect anyone's privacy.
Which country?

Here in the UK, I've had excellent service from HSBC. So good that when they sent me the feedback form, I actually filled it out to say so.
It might be so that any settings changes are in effect when you switch to the next panel, which can't happen without reloading the .swf.
It's improving. Java 7 is much friendlier to dynamic languages and, with it, many of the kludges will be a thing of the past.

It would need to be really inelegant to warrant a comparison with the x86...
A friend of mine uses a Ziploc freezer bag. She can still operate it through the plastic, apparently. Haven't tried it myself.

EDIT: I just tried wearing a Ziploc sandwich bad as a mitt and operating my iPad. There's apparently no degrading of the touch screen! I'll have to pick up some large Ziploc bags the next time I'm at the store.
Depends on a site, but taking MU and going point by point:

- first - wait timers: Megaupload has a timer which takes ~1min. to count down - that's quicker for me than dealing with scribd's registration.

- second - ads: I haven't noticed, I use adblock and never seen an ad on Megaupload. Not sure what's the current status of Scribd, but disabling scripts brought out a lot of spam words years ago (maybe they don't use it anymore), so annoyance is pretty much the same (or isn't there, depending on your view)

- third - unicode: We're talking about pdf-s. They have their own tags, for example for the title which makes the name pretty much irrelevant. Unless you're downloading a book with "Author - Title.pdf" name, you're most likely going to run into "some_serial_number", "ModelNumberDescription_code" for manuals, "thesis.pdf" or some other internal convention. Actually zipping the file allows you to see the original one.

- fourth - limits: Megaupload has none that I know of and I get >200kB/s most of the times.

So it might be very subjective, but even considering all the crap download pages give us, I'd take a Megaupload-ed .pdf over Scribd any time.

+ After writing this, I got back to scribd and tried to download something - it's MUCH better than it was before. I only had to scroll through 2 pages and find a small link at the bottom and it opened a new window. Right now, for me it's only as bad as MU.
Sign up for someone like MailChimp or AWeber or Constant Contact and tie into their API. Emailing at volume can be a bitch, so follow in marketer's footsteps and go with a 3rd party. You can be up and running in a day with analytics.
Palantir is known around the valley - at least, I've heard of it from other Googlers (some of which have spouses/friends that work there). It's mostly known for treating their employees very, very well. Like, Google-level well. They also happen to be working on really cool technical problems, which makes them a big draw for talented engineers in the valley.
Depends on the kind of relationship you're talking about, but generally speaking, someone has to map the data from the original databases into Palantir entities/properties/links. But—and this is kind of a big deal—the Palantir product does not have a fixed set of entities/properties/links/etc. So if you're more interested in tracking, say, computer systems, networks, and packet traffic than terrorists and bank transactions, it's fairly straightforward to define a new ontology that only contains the things you care about.

https://devzone.palantirtech.com/display/pgdz/Integrating+St... has a pretty useful overview of how you can take raw data from an existing source (granted, this source is XML data, but it could just as easily come directly from a regular database) and map it into a Palantir stack.
Google now distributes Chrome with built-in Flash player
It's likely he was referring to the red/green protocol rather than a hypothetical full-length movie.
I don't have a craving to sit in front of my computer and create code. I have a craving to learn things, get to the bottom of things, solve tough challenges.

I also like selling. I spent a year as a commission-only sales person, selling trading software over the internet. I think I did reasonably well and I enjoyed it tremendously.

I did notice that I missed the technical challenge, though.
I think that you're misunderstanding his point. He doesn't mean to compare the scales of the problem; he's pointing out that if many people think that there's a problem with your product, you need to take that seriously rather than be dismissive about it. That's regardless of what the problem is, or how serious it is. No-one's trying to compare the magnitudes of the alegged Toyota problem with the alleged Apple problem, I think.
I'm not sure why you say this. When Amazon says that you get 1.7GB of RAM, that's what you get. It's not an abstraction. The price of DRAM seems to be falling a lot faster than Amazon's prices.
Not only that, but one of the best ways to achieve enlightenment.
Regardless of the arguments for or against, this is what I thought was sad:

That claim of independence gave ICANN board member Rita
Rodin Johnston pause for thought. "I still question
whether, in fact, there is a real sponsored community
here," she said in the board-meeting debate before the
vote.

However, she went on to vote in favor of the new domain,
saying that despite her personal reservations about the
proposal, she felt obliged to by ICANN's decision-making
process. "It really doesn't matter what I think. What's
important is that ICANN has a process that it set up and
the process came back and said that sponsorship criterion
was met, and that this board has the courage to follow
that criterion," she said.

"It really doesn't matter what I think"?? If you are on the board of any organization, I would argue that it very much matters what you think, otherwise, what is the point?
If I remember correctly, Ayn Rand detested Skeuomorph's very strongly. Howard Roark (of the Foundainhead) criticizes them on the grounds that they hold back creativity.

I can't say I disagree, though I do kind of like the little handle on maple syrup jars.
I hate it when someone on the Internet starts being practical.
Yeah, man. When they rolled into Pittsburgh, it was really crazy.

I had half of a nervous breakdown.

The G20 coming to Pittsburgh did more to radicalize my politics than years of listening to punk music and wearing black clothing.

EDIT: I actually posted a description of what it was like on Reddit, check it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/b21ws/what_should...
And some photos taken by a friend of mine: http://seancolombo.com/g20/captioned/
> If you are doing things to avoid a problem and you get the problem, then you were not doing "all the right things" - your understanding was wrong.

Nope. "All the right things" isn't a guarantee and since you can't do anything about your dna, some folks are going to have risks no matter what they do.

For example, you can get unlucky wrt a mutation or a cosmic ray.
Except that there is no problem. I have an iPhone 4 as does my wife and I can cover the WHOLE metal band with my hands and not drop any bars.
It's mass hysteria and whining. Get over it.
Thanks! I completely forgot and was driving myself slightly annoyed trying to remember where I'd heard of this company before.

http://blog.palantirtech.com/2007/09/11/palantir-screenshots...
Entrepreneur vs. Small Business Owner
Roel, I was thinking of a regular 20% downpayment, maybe a little more. That's about 30% with closure costs in Spain.
Buying isn't always a better idea than renting. The OP lives in Spain, but the nytimes has a US based rent/buy calculator that is very good:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...

It basically comes down to how long you'll be in the house, and how much you think it will appreciate over that time. There are plenty of scenarios where renting comes out ahead.
In portrait orientation they have the same orientation as pixels on desktop monitors, i.e. the subpixels of individual pixels are next to each other, not on top of each other. (I looked at my third generation iPod touch. Well, I took a macro photo with my trusty Ricoh GR Digital II [1]. The only tool I have with which I can make subpixels – barely – visible. Hm, water drops might work, too, but that seems a bit risky.)

[1] http://www.dpreview.com/news/0710/07103001ricohgrd2.asp
The Mathematics of Pathological Tennis
At that point they would just turn on the optimizations as an "insurance".
http://fabjs.org
Yes, good and fair questions. Indeed, Common Lisp isn't flawless or beautiful in every respect, and Steele would surely admit that himself. The Lisp concept is pretty beautiful, and CL, for better or worse, has been more ubituitous than most other dialects of Lisp.

When I hear people (including myself) wax eloquent about the beauty of Lisp, even Common Lisp in particular, I don't take that to mean that every detail of the design is beautiful, but rather, the whole of Lisp / Common Lisp is a beautiful programming system. I can look out my office window here and see a beautiful tree, though I know upon closer inspection I could find some flaws and imperfections in the tree. Perhaps a branch has broken off, or maybe an animal has gnawed away at some bark. That doesn't do away with its overarching beauty.
Those who suffer from ADHD are notoriously known as "idea people": highly creative, but poor in execution. Like schizophrenia, it's been suggested that their inability to consistently filter out distractions is the cause, though it seems that different areas are affected.
1) take $50K to a casino
2) buy a color on the roulette wheel
3) set up a bet that has some fun characteristics ... maybe a 10% chance of paying 1m and a 30% chance of losing entirely (with some variety in the middle).

Let the wheel spin and enjoy the adrenaline. Worst case you go back to your lucrative consulting gig. Consider that you already paid the amount you lost in taxes and you don't even miss it.
Protecting Cyberspace at a Cost (Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act)
I assumed the government already had that product...
Using "cyberspace" in itself is a cause for worry
They should give a copy to the NCIS show...
Linode provides 512 all the way to 20G instances, fwiw.
Windows also only guarantees that your process will sleep at least as long as you specify. Not that it will sleep exactly as long.
It's an important impossibility result like the Halting Problem. You can be led down the wrong path for hours designing protocols which attempt to solve an unsolvable problem but do so in a seemingly-almost-correct way -- until the complexity is so great that you can't understand where it goes wrong. If you didn't have these results, you might be tempted to believe your solution at that point was correct. With this result you can be sure it's wrong, recognize the pattern of unsolvability, and give up much sooner.
It depends where. There're several companies that thrive on hiring creative people and then giving them nearly free reign - Google, finance, think tanks. They tend to be fairly hard to get into, because there are a limited number of positions open for creative knowledge workers and a lot of people who think they're creative.

Also, in many cases you have to "pay your dues" before you can do high-level creative work. This is not because management is cruel, but because "thinking outside the box" requires knowing where the box is. If you take a bunch of random people with no experience in a field and ask them to dream up wild-eyed solutions to outstanding problems, many of them will come up with the same wrong answer. If those people then learn a little about other ideas that people have had and why they didn't work, then they can come up with novel, original contributions that actually work.