skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone else bothered by the shallowness of this article?

Maybe Predators are not technically biological predators, but the biological definition isn't the only use of the word (e.g. sexual predators). Using the word "Predator" instead of "Hunter" suggests that Predators derive something essential from their activities-- it's not a sport for them, it's a way of life.

This article also gives too much credit to simplistic evolutionary-biological explanations of modern cultures. Assuming that Predators were shaped by evolutionary pressures like ours, then concluding that they are "failing as a species" because they are "acting against Darwinian pressures", is intellectually lazy.

This whole thing reminds me of the kind of pseduo-intellectual justifications historically given for slavery. They are part of a "backward" culture in some ill-defined way.

Whew, maybe this is an over-serious reply to this article, but I prefer to practice critical thinking when I can, especially when it comes to portraying other cultures or species (fictional or non) as backward.
In which case? Google Maps? You're right that in most cases, it's major overkill, but I'd guess there are many applications where it makes a lot of sense. Big sites with many millions daily visitors could save a decent chunk of bandwidth.
No I meant a wetsuit. Wetsuits are completely waterproof aside from a select few entry points where water is allowed to seep through as you first get in the water.

The idea behind their operation is that you have a thin film of warm water around your body, isolated by a waterproof neophrene layer. So there's: The Sea -> neophrene -> Warm water that doesn't freely mix with the sea -> You.

That doesn't work (as deadmansshoes thought) if you're wearing normal clothes instead of a neophrene layer. In that case the water next to your body is constantly being replaced by new & cold water, faster than you can heat it up to provide you with insulation.

Both wetsuit and drysuits depend on there being a layer next to your body that you heat up. With wetsuits this is a layer of water that doesn't get swapped out, with drysuits it's a layer of air + rubber.
Well, yeah. There's no silver bullet. But it's much easier to start lopping off branches from the tree if there are no unmanaged side effects.

Programming languages of the future need to enforce thread safety and mutation semantics as well as they do type safety. Functional programming is a step in that direction.

Nobody's necessarily claiming that a concurrent Clojure/Erlang/Haskell app is faster than concurrent C++/Java one, but they're definitely safer and easier to write.
scary....

http://www.cvilleok.com/2010JulNews/MorganRobertsNationals2....
That's suggests a vary week meaning of his orignial phrase.

"Great languages allow for great tools to be built around them."

Is ambigous your version suggests he ment, "Great languages" don't prevent good tools from being created. But, that's a fairly week reading. It's more natural to read it as, language design limits the quality of tools you can build, so only great languages can support truly great tools.
This was the first thing I thought of. Addition types with pattern matching (which enable Maybes) both provide safe options for these data types. An example Haskell type that keeps the surface idea of nulls (via Maybe having an object) might be something like:

List a :: Cons a (Maybe (List a))
Tree a :: Branch (Maybe (Tree a)) (Maybe (Tree a))

The type system removes the concept of 'dereferencing nulls' while maintaining that if the pointer isn't null it still must be the (polymorphic) type a.

Of course, the simpler implementation unfolds the addition type inside Maybe and is more like:

List a :: Cons a (List a) | End
Tree a :: Branch (Tree a) (Tree a) | Leaf a
What is storyfun.com? It says "coming in June 2010".
How much is Facebook Connect limiting Quora's growth?
Why there’s a Media Temple logo on my site.
Hardly sounds like an unreasonable price increase to me

Easy for you to say when you're not the one literally betting the farm on a ridiculously tiny margin!
Yes yes yes!

As companies get big, you'd be surprised at how they e.g. simply make it difficult for their customers to buy stuff from them (Sun for any thing between what you could put on a credit card and "enterprise" sized sales) or burden their salespeople with so much red tape and friction they can't do their job (almost killed Xerox recently and fixing this was one of Mark Hurd's highest priorities when he got the reins of HP).

Make sure you keep doing a good job of this basic blocking and tackling and do everything else you can to make it easy for your would be customers to become real customers.
The decline in the percentage of Americans who work in agriculture is due to advances in farming technology, not due to low pay. Now one person with a giant combine that didn't exist 100 years ago can do the work of tens or hundreds of people.
I had a really similar experience after I quit my corporate job. As a lot of people here have noted before, it's a lot easier to get into the startup mentality if you've left the corporate world and contracting works for you.

Anyway, congratulations!
Maybe just my mass of plugins but FF3.6 isn't loading tenderapp, while chrome just fine. s'pose could be google's search redirect playing funny with requestpolicy, but am confused :~/

Apart from pricing, what's better than FogBugz, in terms of your decision? I can't find a straight features page, though straight to API faq so that's good.Seems to be Ruby, whilst Fog has XML and presumably, being .net a few other interfaces.

What confuses me is that OP wanted or hinted at a desire for a expanded feature set that Fog doesn't apparently have. Which are they that Tender gives? (I got the API point, that's good, but Fog being based on the CLR would give more ways to extend it if you took the site licensed version instead of the hosted version.

Also nitpicking, but Fog for the site install prices much more nicely than the on-demand version if you've >5 users.

I'm just utterly confused as to what was the OP's question was - it's so utterly vague - and led me to ramble off in different directions above. So what's the comparative benefit?

I'm a fan of Joel Spolsky's writing, and have evaluated Fog online, from POV of whether it would be useable by non programmer staff as comfortably as i'd like.

but i'm not yet a customer as you might guess from my above psts i've interest to do things which aren't standard for a code shop. Basically, i know the value i get is in much deeper planning and i'd have to write a lot of what's desired by my company, meanwhile Fog looks robust enough to use it as a way of pulling together a few things which aren;t totally out of its design intent. Outlook integration is a useful thing not so much for management but for syncing nicely with the cell phones we use, e.g.

I mean i'm not shilling for Fog, i just don't know what the criticism is except price. What is the OP disliking about the Fog APIs e.g.? If i put my cynical hat on, i'd just say this has been a "Ask /." kind of experience. I'm interested enough in the subject to engage, but have no way of really replying. Was the Q really "what's not Fogbugz out there are cheaper?" I genuinely don't know, nor can i (presently) find any links to older HN discussion which might be useful.

All this management software, whether for bug tracking or whether you make it front of house or anywhere in between is so useful to any helf - evolved business of any size, i seem to remember IBM paying a pretty penny to get ahold of Lotus who sussed the business pitch in the 90s.

I suppose that what i'd like is a discussion as to what's state of the art, what companies or systems are really pushing the limits and getting things good and affordable, not a mere comparison with FogCreek which is very well written up for a company of any size.

I'll post separately with my confusion points, so please understand i'm probably just missing the point here.

best to all.
I did that two weeks ago - congrats & good luck
This reminds me of an excellent story of a college student who got a verizon vtext account and chose the address null@vtext.com

As you might imagine, he ended up getting a lot of debugging messages sent to his phone. It definitely underscores the importance of having proper error checking and debugging facilities set up.

You can read the full story here http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Whos-Reading-Yo...
Jumping Ship from iPhone to Android: A Switcher's Guide
Who Will Google Buy Next for Structured Data?
Not necessarily ruthless, but money literate.

I'd rather reserve my kindness and good manners for actual people. Banks are, in a way, abstract machines made of policies, rules and procedures. You do not gently talk to your computer; you type the command as outlined in the fine manual.
Depends what you want really. For me, I use Notepad++ for everything. It's an awesome lightweight text editor with a teeny amount of sugar coating (syntax highlighting and code completion for PHP functions). They key point for it is that it's very fast and I like that.

Never really found a fast enough IDE and so can't advise you there. I can point you in the direction of Zend who do a PHP IDE that some people swear by.

Beyond that, there are good tools for anything you want really. SSH: PuTTY. SFTP: FileZilla.

And this new job: what are your would-be colleagues using? That would be a good start because they would help you out if need be.
I'm in a situation where I lost income after getting laid off, and as a result my mortgage and HOA dues are now close to 50% of my monthly pay after taxes. This makes things rather tight, since I have other bills to pay also.

Equity wise, I'm not underwater, but my place has lost enough value since buying it that I'm close.

The problem is the HOA. They're levying a $16,000 assessment for a repair (decks -- a lot of people have said that this figure seems too high to be reasonable).

Since they're not new decks, the value increase to the condo will be small. I'd have to stay in this place for a few years to break even... but in the process of financing that $16k, I would end up underwater, paying PMI, so my monthly payments would exceed 50% of my monthly income. (It's hard to start a new business with no spare income, too.)

Without the HOA special assessment and the HOA-driven extortion (they're going so far as to threaten to shut off utilities as well as foreclose, throwing extra junk fees and penalties my way in the process), I'd be able to refinance, lower my monthly payment, and be entirely out of debt.

To top this off, all of my options for financing are either credit cards (high interest) that I've been avoiding, or dependent on a high appraisal, which is very unlikely.

So, due to the HOA's assessment, I'm in a situation where my best financial option is to attempt a short sale and failing that foreclose. Though it would hurt my credit, it would also allow me to transition to somewhere with a MUCH lower cost of living (rents are low), and without any debts at all. Which is good for going to into business for myself, because I'd be able save enough money to live on for six months in... six months.

I don't know how things work when an HOA forecloses though. I will be talking to a lawyer to make sure that they can't come after me beyond my property if they foreclose, which they most likely will when they find out that I'm not going to pay the $16k or the $1600 in fees that they're throwing at me (some of which are unexplained, and some of which another person in condo management said might not even be legal).

I will never live anywhere with an HOA again.
While true, you're not holding the display a foot from your face like you would a cellphone.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't you then have to make a separate HTTP request for each non-contiguous block of modified lines that you request? Also, wouldn't the client have to know in advance which lines were changed in the new version? Maybe I'm misinformed about how Content-Range works.

Also, in regards to getting a patch every time, Josh Harrison (one of the creators) responds in a comment on the blog post:

You are correct in noticing that the patched version is
not cached. However, the v1->v2 patch itself IS cached,
meaning that the next time the user visits, if there has
not been a new release, then both v1 and the v1->v2 patch
are retrieved from cache. Also, we are working on
incorporating local storage, which would allow the
updated version to be persisted each time it is patched.
I really don't think there's an "established social norm" that you're expected to suffer a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars when you don't legally have to. In a normal housing market, people pay their mortgages not because it's the moral thing to do, but because if they don't they'll lose the house and have their credit trashed. Only recently have banks made large numbers of loans where those deterrents are insufficient. It seems perfectly reasonable that since both the banks and the homebuyers made foolish decisions, they should share the pain.
About page -> What is the time frame of the Death Calculators?

http://www.energyfiend.com/2006/08/what-time-frame-for-the-d...
"My site recently got a virus."

No it didn't. Wordpress was hacked.
How much encouragement is enough? What's so special about science and engineering? Why aren't young boys encouraged more to get into Nursing and Early Childhood Development? Why have all of my realtors been women?

What a waste of time. Wear what you dig. Get a job that interests you (not society or your parents).
There is a difference between stealing money to fuel your greed and stealing a loaf of bread because you're starving. Or speeding for the thrill vs. speeding to get your pregnant wife to the hospital. His assertion is that illegal immigration often follows a similar pattern.
Spent the day chipping away at log analysis, but using it as an excuse to get my hands dirty with freebase and mongodb. Now it's evening. I'm sitting alone in the office, becoming more alert as the temperature drops, thinking about the open data movement. Drafting something that might become a blog-post or an article, but mainly just as a framework to get my head around it all, and figure out where I fit in.
"Students cheat because we have academic systems that reward those who cheat without getting caught."

It goes far beyond 'our' academic systems. We have a WORLD that rewards those who 'cheat' without getting caught... It is called 'leverage'.
There's no language of higher order than machine code that allows you to specify computer behavior unambiguously (even that's doubtful).

In fact, any entity abstract enough to be called "an idea" is going to be ambiguously specified. The question is what sort of ambiguity is most useful - ambiguity about about which object shows itself on the screen is great in an object-orient window manager. Ambiguity about which memory location to read when dereferencing an uninitialized pointer is less useful.
I've got a 2560x1600 monitor, and honestly, the 4k video looked worse to me than 1080p. Blocky all over the place. If they can't raise the bitrate on the 4k videos, there's really no point to it.
Do you feel that bankruptcy is an unethical process? Perhaps we should bring back debtors prison? After all, miscreants like me put ourselves in this position. Should we not pay for our mistakes through indentured servitude if need be? Perhaps we ought to pass our debts on to our children.
I Was Followed by BP Security and Then Detained by Police
I would have changed my name. It's funny to be a producer trying to reach many and have a flaw benefit you, it's not being a consumer and stuck with a lot of noise.
Writing a book on human rationality.
Sure, but i'd rather know how that's codified into business rules and policies. I try to do that for my own company. People change, staff moves, even if infrequently, you get a new CEO . . . qualifying this as a personal trait isn't much substance in my book. It's not concrete, even if it's an honorable intention. Sorry, but i don't see how you hinge a business plan on merely an intention to play nice. Google codified their original intent roughly as not doing crappy flashy adverts, so that's a tangible. But some processes are never immediately visible to customers, and how you you apply attitude as a criteria to that? If you run a shop which prides itself on exceptional behaviour (distinct from a market around you where you see values are a real reason hindering growth) is it not reassuring to try at leat to find some measurables? One might manage a lot of this in interview for new hires, or you might insist on a certain policy regards customer support, such as never giving a stonewall answer per a policy but giving your reps the power to look into a problem. What i'm suggestig is you can do wonders with company culture if you nurture it like a first born, but are there not times when this can be checked against behaviour more thoroughly? I'm thinking about the number of times my cellular reps promise me, voice and in writing, they'll fix a billing glitch, and not once have they come through. That's possibly measurable, as an example. As in "why does customer x contact us so much?"
So if I'm understanding this correctly, its a move to populate the site with high rez videos, so in a few years (or more) when monitor resolutions catch up, the site will be full of high rez content to watch?
Python has a GIL, and lots of complainers
And humans, or human-coded robots for that matter who are ignorant of nofollow will still post all kinds of blogspam, thinking it's effective.
It will be gained when they're working under the same restrictions as those who they trade with.
I applaud your efforts, but those tutorials are old and crusty. Please get a good book or two.

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-MySQL-JavaScript-Step-Step/dp...

http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Web-Development-4th/dp/06723...

Don't buy both, too much overlap. Just pick the one you like. The latter is long, but worth it. I've got more recommendations if you're interested.
Khat usage is ubiquitous in certain parts of Africa (e.g., Yemen and Somalia). It's not really in the same class as harder drugs though.

I've seen some reports that people grind up and smoke anti-retroviral medication for HIV (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7768059.stm), but I'm not sure how common that actually is.
IMHO this article only purpose is to help people with Visual Impairments. Who couldn't see the slides but have text to speech software.
Sure, I agree with all that. What I meant by my statement was that I could not understand how a significant proportion of an otherwise entrepreneurial and libertarian leaning audience could be arguing that default is a moral lapse.
True. However, it's been pretty well documented that it was Media Temple's fault, not a random WP vulnerability. http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog/category/system-inciden...
Somebody sent him an email re: their photobucket account...

http://pastebin.com/z9xgRQg9

That's a solid response.
Show your caring?
If the compile can't statically prove that a pointer can't be null, any attempt to convert it to *@notnull inserts a runtime assertion that it isn't null, according to the website.
I'm sure somebody out there is shooting his home videos with RED.
Totally depends on the context. I see no reason to have a priori preference for either. This way of doing it somehow felt counter to what feels like the trend for a lot of sites.

When I'm messing with my own site, I prefer to do key value pairs, so I can easily see what I'm messing with.

I do like having some things with a rails/route type url mapping. Tends to allow for much more simplified code.
oh, interesting. I wanted to use redis for log-parsing, but was scared by the prospect of keeping everything in ram. Ended up using mongodb instead, but I'd be interested to hear how you get on with redis.
Smallgen, are you a member of heatsync labs or something? I was over there a couple of days ago and we randomly stumbled across this when trying to find out how much Africola somebody could drink without dying.

Although...I did post it to my website too...

Do I actually have people using my site!?!?

/kidding, probably just coincidence.
Yeah, people should put some land-mines in front of that safe-deposit box.
Pistol Slut, my Javascript 2D platformer: pistolslut.com
Did anyone else read the words "NSA Hooking Up" and expect the article to be about something entirely different?
You signed a contract. That's what makes it unethical to walk away.

Is it unethical to cancel a phone contract and pay the ETF?

Your part of the problem, not the solution.

He's helping home prices return to reasonable and affordable levels; I'd call that part of the solution.
There seem to be laughs all around. "Lolz" from @undefined at the emails he's getting, some amusement I detected in this blog post, and pained laughs from hackers at the incompetence of twitter and that they continue to be extremely popular in spite of it.
A lot of people scream loudly and organize an authoritative body to 'validate' or determine the 'quality' of services, or content, in many industries... They are normally called an 'agency' or a 'cooperative' where members apply, become accredited and then get the right to use a trademark, or other protected mark, in their advertisements. This method only works when there is a restricted outlet for those services ( such as a newspaper who only puts in stories they want or a directory of 'accredited' service providers supplied by the org that does the 'accreditation' ) or when it is such a specialized service that it is in the ENTIRE groups best interest to protect their skills ( nuclear welding comes to mind ).
The reason this will never work on a large scale on the internet is because there are over 180 counties where billions of new digital content items are created every day ( See Google Blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.h... and this was in 2008... ) and it is not in EVERYONES best interest to have a singular body ‘validating’ the ‘quality’ of every piece of content.
The human resources alone to accomplish this task are not economically feasible and the ‘quality’ of any one individual’s writing is just like art, in the eye of the beholder.
It might "officially" be 4K, but it's so heavily compressed that there are visible 8x8 blocks in the images, so it might as well be 8 times smaller - i.e. it has an effective resolution of 512x384

Take a look: http://imgur.com/YFsGb.png (I didn't change the image at all, except to crop it. I used mplayer to play it directly to png, and I made it a png so it's not jpeg artifacts.)

For comparison here is the 1080 version: http://imgur.com/wkClm.png

Interestingly the png of the 1080 is twice as large as the 4k version! Even though the 4k "officially" has twice the resolution in both directions (i.e. 4 times as many pixels).
Huh.

I've always thought of the Predator series as being based off The Most Dangerous Game: i.e., these guys had become such ruthless and efficient killers that going after their normal prey just wasn't fun anymore, and they had to get their kicks by hunting sapients like us.