skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will Google buy WolframAlpha
Opinion Options:
1.Its just a matter of "when"
2.No never,What are you thinking psycho!

P.S:Karma is a bitch :P
Because when you assume something, it allows for the conversation to progress to a more interesting point. What you're describing is obvious and common, so there's no need to harp on it.
* I guess the investors could be looking to make a fairly quick profit if the do have an IPO.*

I'd guess that IPO or Acquisition potential are the primary reasons for the investment.

... on a side note are we related? ;-)
How about the concept of control? I would hypothesize that people prefer self-serve at banks, gas stations, and checkouts because they are in full control of the situation.

If they've been there multiple times before, they're familiar enough with the system that they can navigate it quicker than having someone else do it for them, and any inefficiencies they can only blame themselves.

Also, there is a certain effort that goes into human interaction, the smiling, greeting, small-talking, and being polite so you can (hopefully) get them to treat you better and do a better and faster job on your requests. Or you can just do it all yourself and save the trouble.
I think this is really making a mouse into an elephant for linkbait.

It's really a perfect reasonable solution - check company name to see if this is a JVM where we need to poke the default options. Company name changes, source and users need to be updated and users always had a workaround of specifying perm size anyway.

It's just a nothing story : dependency of an open source project changes, open source project required patch/workaround.
The problem is really with testing. I know of some vendors who have versions of their SW for Linux, but don't test them --nearly-- as well as they do for their Windows versions, because most of their customers are running Windows.

And that's even before worrying about interoperability with database servers (i.e. testing on outdated *nix ODBC drivers, etc.)
I don't know what conclusions you can really draw from this, but the underlying service (Microsoft Academic Search) is pretty interesting. I've been checking out publications from my school for the last hour.
Well fine, replace belkin with fingerworks. How many people have even heard of their trackpad?

Apple has the power to move something out of a niche market.
I don't personally know you, so it's difficult to say for sure, but it sounds like you probably just aren't terribly comfortable talking in front of people you don't know well.

The key is to basically stop caring what strangers think of you. You could try doing karaoke or amature night at like a standup club or poetry reading. Strike up conversations with complete strangers.

Another thing to keep in mind, if your personality doesn't mesh well with the interviewer, there is a good chance that you wouldn't have fit in well with the corporate culture.
My advice would be to find someone who is experienced in that field. I don't mean cold-call the leading expert.

I mean dial up a buddy in a related field. Talk with them about your idea. They can help you understand the things you might be overlooking or introduce you to someone closer to that topic.
What would you recommend? I'm not being snarky but actually considering an editor switch.
Can you detail how it benefits you? I somehow fail to get any benefit out of my LinkedIn account. How do you typically use it?
Not sure what data sources they are using here but there is probably certain organisations which a lot of their stuff is missed and some where everything is present. If it's similar to Google scholar a lot of the stuff my uni does doesn't end up on there.

Fully agree that papers published has no correlation with an organisations actual overall contribution to the field. Even citations really, because in some cases something broad will get cited a lot as it relates to a lot of papers without actually presenting something new or important.
If students weren't locked into schools enrollment levels and parent feedback would provide a lot of information.
Nissan unveils automatic brakes for cars
Which is why I make it a point to go to the gym in the morning or at lunch if I sleep in. Absurdly over packed after everyone gets off work.
I'm at -- hopefully -- the tail end of a long and deep burnout. I can summarize the experience as doing what other people wanted against / at the expense of my own wishes. Life always involves a certain amount of this, but in my case it came to dominate and to define my life.

Doing such things should be held to the level where they merely and as optimally as possible enable your own wishes. Not that this does NOT preclude altruism. I practice altruism and take great pleasure from it. But then, it can thusly be seen as one of my wishes -- when I approach it on my terms.

For a long time, work and neighbors wanted me to meet their needs. But they paid little or no attention to mine. Very one way, and very draining. Don't mistake profession of mutual interest by another party for actual interest on their part. (Actions speak louder than words.) If you continue to be rather underwhelmed at what they offer in return, it's a good sign that your interests do not align. You are at the edge of the tar pit of burnout; turn around, before you turn into one of those fossils that will one day be displayed in a museum. Very undignified. ;-)
Oops, I meant "no possibility to recover" by adjusting your interview technique.
Microsoft Licenses ARM Architecture
Yes. When I saw the headline I was expecting that Oracle did something gratuitous and stupid like renaming a standard package to start with com.oracle or whatnot. But for this, the Eclipse folks have nobody to blame but themselves.
textmate is ok enough :/ IMHO It 'works'.
I could go on for hours on this topic, but here are a few points off the top of my head (I work in Infosec for one of the largest districts in the country):

- Security. FERPA, student information, disclosure laws, etc. If you want districts to use this service, then you are going to have to get VERY serious about security and document it well. A lot of contracts will want indemnification for data breaches, some huge insurance amount, etc.

- Interoperability. For anything more than a single school you better integrate with Active Directory, Novell, or at least offer some type of LDAP integration with an authentication store. The web-based, we store your login credentials model, doesn't scale well for multiple schools.

- Interoperability v2. Student Information Systems (SI) are FAR more complex than just the gradebook software. Usually the gradebook software must integrate with scheduling software, reporting software, some type of long-term storage/report card/transcript software, special ed software, analytics/reporting software, horrible 1980s state reporting software, etc. At the very least you're going to need a way to send/receive data back and forth. Securely.

- Parents. Online access to Little Johnny's grades, assignments, etc is a must these days. Helicopter parents want to know every damn assignment little Johnny had today, what grades he got, why in the hell he didn't get 100% like he should have. That data better be available via web site, email, and text messages. Oh and how do you tie a student to a particular parent? What about divorces? The complexity around this is huge.

- School districts. You might find it difficult to get single schools to use their own gradebook software (charter/private schools are easier). A lot of districts mandate that schools use one, centralized gradebook system for obvious reasons (see Interoperability). If you don't have every enterprisey feature the district demands, you won't get the business. Gaining traction in larger school districts is tough. The bureaucracy is every bit as crushing as the Federal government.

With all of that being said, this is a market that is RIPE for exploitation. SI systems SUCK, usability is atrocious, and the vendors bend school districts over to shake $$$ out. A lot of the current systems are inefficient as well (think 30+ web servers just for the front end).

One area you might want to market heavily - the cost savings from outsourcing the technology. Districts spend a fortune running their own servers, datacenters, tech staff, etc. for SI systems. As budgets get worse, showing a cost savings by outsourcing will look more attractive. But you're going to be fighting a VERY ingrained resistance to giving up control of data to a 3rd party.

* Views expressed are my own and not representative of my employer, and other such caveats
Keeping a Positive Tone in Support Emails
> If banks in the US are anything like the banks in Canada you can use the ATM for free but pay substantial service fees if you go to the teller.

Really? This has never been the case for me (Texas, Bank of America). I go up to the counter, deposit cash, take some out, talk about some weird charges, etc., etc and it's all free as far as I can tell.
Ask HN: Any stats on how many users browse your sites with javascript disabled?
Are there still valid reasons for browsing sites with javascript disabled?
>are anything like the banks in Canada

Which Canadian bank charges for using the teller, aside from the exact fees you would get at the ATM? I have never seen this.
As some one who actively works in this area. the problem with queries is that most of the algorithms that work require deep learning and not simple sql like syntax. I would love the data in simple csv format hosted on a cloud such as Amazon EC2 [for safety] rather than some beautiful interface by a latte sipping ruby hippy.
SandGorgon's law:
As an online discussion about PROGRAMMING grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving outsourcing or Indians approaches 1, if Godwin's law has not already been satisfied
Be aware this node.js tutorial is working with the v0.14 of the express web framework but the 1.0 is in beta 2 right now with a lot of api changes.
How about Splunk (splunk.com)? I believe they do have a free version.
I don't grok podcasts: 3+ reasons why I avoid them
BP can't guarantee its safety system will stop future spills
Curious whether these guys will have Blackboard waving its (many bogus) patents at them...
If you are already setting the JVM argument for MaxPermSize then I think this issue wouldn't affect you. For example, put "-XX:MaxPermSize=256m" in eclipse.ini
HTTP Field Notes
Treetop for Ruby looks pretty cool too: http://treetop.rubyforge.org/
ultimately tie teachers' hands and force them to teach from only state-approved curricula

But that is the point! If the union makes it impossible to fire a bad teacher, you must try to limit the damage that teacher can do, hence the set curriculum. If the union makes it impossible to single out bad teachers for this kind of prescription, then you must do it to ALL teachers.

Get the union out of the picture and the situation becomes self-correcting.
Handbags at dawn.

Is Mark Pilgrim a big shot in the 'addiction' community or something? I am probably stumbling ignorantly into something by asking that question.
I love how the common user suggestion to "just make it a setting" is immediately downvoted. Hacker News FTW.
4 Great Tips to Fight Stress at the Office
IBM's rendition of the World Factbook
Teachers are certainly underworked relative to other professionals, even for the 9-10 months that school is in session.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf

They are also overpaid, particularly if you account for the value of all their fringe benefits, including summer vacation, tenure, defined benefit pensions, early retirement and gold-plated medical care (all of which are very expensive). In fact, they are usually paid right on the money if you look at salary alone - a 45 year old teacher with 20 years experience in NYC gets $83-95k/year (equivalent to $99-114k/year if they worked all year). That's not bad even for NYC.

http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/DHR/TeacherPrincipalSchoolPro...

It gets even worse when you realize teachers tend to be low human capital individuals, at least compared to other college grads. Most likely they would be below average if they pursued other professions: http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/GRE/pdf/gre_0809_interpreting...
I'm a fan of Pivotal Tracker, though I don't know if it will do quite all you want.

However, there are Web callbacks and a nice Web API, so integrating services (such as a source repo) should be pretty doable.
From the post, I'm assuming it will be similar in syntax to Ioke. You can see its syntax at http://ioke.org/
I bet for: no, never. In fact, since its appearance, I have heard just a little about it. I know just a few people who use it, and I just tried it once or twice... And it didn't give me the answer I wanted.

Looks like it is only useful for plotting hearts: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=first+heart+curve
Good example of why we need to use feature detection.
This may be one component of the success of Google advertising platform versus other online advertising options. If you want to make a significant spend on advertising with a large publisher (or set of publishers) you pretty much have to pick up the phone.

I know when I'm evaluating a service or software package, I'm much more inclined to go w/ an option that publishes pricing up front and allows me to "self-serve" my purchase, versus emailing or calling a sales-person to essentially negotiate the price.
I draw my code in the sand outside, and then have a scribe enter it into a terminal at some later point. This 'works'.

But really, having a good IDE isn't a bad thing, is it? Does it make me less of a tough guy if I use one?
This is utterly false if we reward teachers based on deltas rather than absolute values...

That's a big if. From what I've seen, this is practically never done - absolute values are the norm.
It is right that we should be suspicious of people who want to be paid without being evaluated. What other industries operate like this? Even "creative" industries, where everything is subjective, have cold hard metrics in place.
If ever there was a time when Hacker News needed image macros, this is it. “Cool story, bro.”
It's true, spend some time in the South (US) or Britain, and return to the midwest, they will comment on how you picked up an accent while you were there.
the size is given because one can understand how many machines it would take to hold the data in the memory, how much bandwidth is required to move data around and latency.

Its hard to understand if you are just a programmer, a computer science graduate can easily identify with size in bytes since they represent accurate amount rather than vague billion entries.

In later case you need to specify two variables size of entry and number of entries.

the larger entries become the easier is to sort them, if they get smaller then you can have an O(n) sorting ability.

The 100 byte records is fixed in literature and well understood by practitioners, what you are experiencing is your naivete.
Hey Time Inc. Quit Groveling. You Don’t Need Steve Jobs.
I'd learn to think while you walk. Think through problems. Work out solutions. I find that driving/cycling/walking is really really valuable thinking time. I don't think trying to type at the same time would make it quite as useful.

I think one of the reasons driving/cycling/walking is so productive thinking time is precisely that you are constrained. You can't just waste time, you can't launch into stupid half thought out plans.

Edit: I forgot to mention, the same can be done with babies. When you have a baby, and have to feed it, rock it, clean up after it, change it etc. You're forced to just think about problems. It's excellent thinking time. Babies do come in useful after all!
Oddly, I finished the article with an improved opinion of Oracle. They were willing to change the property back because of a bug in Eclipse... That's quite a bit more give than I would have expected from Oracle.

Of course, it might have been wise PR as the problem only showed up after updating the JDK. It would have been easy for developers to blame the wrong party.
Here's an idea, use this valuable time to reflect on life, come up with ideas, work through programming problems, and take a break. Maybe carry a voice recorder (or mobile phone with a voice recording app) to record things as they come to mind.

You are way overthinking this. Don't bother with dorky wearable computing gear.
yes its an engineering exercise.
The hypothesis this article makes is that customers don't necessarily want a relationship with companies. I think that that's an overly simplistic view of the picture.

First, all of the examples given involve routine tasks large institutions. I don't generally get good service from airlines and banks aren't great either. I'd love to have an airline or a bank that treated me like a person (and I think a lot of other people would too), but the fact is that most of them really don't. Why would I want to talk to a low-level customer service rep who's following a script and can't help me? That doesn't "build a relationship". Most companies aren't interested in relationships, they're interested in their bottom line. And usually, it's quite obvious.

You have to actually try if you want to build relationships with your customers.

Second, the reasons many people prefer self-service kiosks are not actually all that mystical. Saving time is a huge one, but I think there's another reason that's maybe just as important: people do not like other people seeing them make mistakes. In any transaction, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. When I'm at a bank I might fumble with my wallet, drop something, forget to fill out exactly the right form in exactly the right way, forget to sign the check I'm depositing, etc. People make small mistakes all of the time and they don't like other people to know about them. If they're interacting with a machine, they can hide those. If they don't know exactly what they're doing, they can figure it out themself.

People like to look like they know what they're doing. When they don't, they don't like people to see that.

In my experience, people really like good customer service and being treated well. The thing is that you really can't half-ass it, and you shouldn't try to force people to interact with you when they have no reason to. It's important to recognize that direct interaction often inconveniences people, even if the reason for that inconvenience isn't completely obvious.

If you want to build relationships with your customers, remember why they're there. They're not there to interact with you, they're there to get the service or product you're selling them. If interacting with you isn't helping them in some way, it doesn't matter how friendly you are: it's still a negative experience. Building relationships has to be mostly a byproduct of doing a good job, not the end goal in itself.
If I were in the position of writing some Java again, I'd probably use IntelliJ. I used it once before and it was an absolute treat.
I like IntelliJ IDEA a lot. I don't do much Java development, but it works really well for the times that I feel like I need an IDE for something.

It supports many languages out of the box and is usually one of the earlier IDEs to get plugins for new languages.

On the downside... you'll want to buy more RAM.
Resque with Redis To Go
Valid reasons? You mean other than to defend against the constant barrage of high profile XSS vulnerabilities reported to exist on large numbers of major websites?
Jeff Bezos: Gifts and Choices
I'd say most good industries don't have cold hard metrics in place, and the companies with more metrics within industries are generally the worse ones. There are engineering firms that have heavily metrics-based evaluations of engineers (e.g. bug-fix counts being directly tied to bonuses), but I don't think I've seen them being called out as good examples. The better companies usually have engineering managers who are actually in touch with what their team's doing, and can give accurate subjective judgments of who on their team is contributing what and what the relative value of their team members is. It's the companies/managers who don't have any idea what's going on in their teams who fall back on metrics to try to answer those questions.
I've seen this type of markup produced by in-browser WYSIWYG editors that don't inspect the existing DOM/markup for redundancy when applying various styling commands.

In some dramatic cases, you would see alternating re-wrappings of (strong,bold,strong,bold,strong,bold) tags as users who were using different browsers (which produced slightly different markup for various style commands) would re-bold each others' sections of text from day to day.
Moot of 4chan is hiring for his new start-up
Against Eighties Music
I'd love to give Netbeans a real shot, but I can't deal with the fact that it is completely unable to match the font settings of the rest of my GNOME desktop.

Eclipse (and any other SWT toolkit app) = matches my native fonts. Netbeans (and, presumably, other Swing apps) = horrible eye-bleed.
It may not be my place, but I can't encourage this. You are literally wanting to turn yourself into a gargoyle from Snow Crash. Put in some headphones and listen to a good book or podcast when you're out walking. Save the rest of us the guilt of accidentally running over the walking programmer.
Yeah, but there's vendors who do half assed Windows versions too - Oracle comes to mind. Ultimately the VB/.net shops like BMC do shitty Unix versions, the big iron companies do shitty Windows versions.
"This is definitely not the standard HN high-tech start-up "

But it does look like a good example of finding an under-served niche and doing a better job.

BTW, on FF35.9 the text in the boxes on the right gets a bit chopped at the bottom. Otherwise the site looks quite good.
I happen to have personally worked for priestdo at Vassar, and I can say that he gets a lot done with his wearable; sometimes it's hard to tell if he's using it at a given time. ;)

I don't think he uses it while walking--he tends to stand around in the hallway while using it. I also never found out how easy it is to see the screen in sunlight...
Good question. I think WA is pretty awesome for what it does - like tell me how many calories my breakfast was - http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+eggs+5+pancakes+4+bac...

I like how DDG is using it and could see Google doing the same, but I wonder if they would just make their own version of it.
swype ?

it works pretty well even if you are moving about, since it doesnt depend on accuracy of position.
What's wrong with 1975 programming
Thanks for the kind words; the font selection has been a mess of compatibility, so I appreciate your response very much.
This is the sort of query I'm talking about:
http://www.google.com/search?q=airline+tickets
Windows Phone Seven
Given that I know several people who spent less than $1K on their wedding (and indirectly one who spent by all estimates over $200K) imagine that that $20K number has pretty huge variance. The really interesting number I'd want to know is how many weddings cost more than, say, $15K.
I would recommend listening to audiobooks or talks with your phone or music player. But if you really wanted to, you could try and chest mount a smaller laptop like the military does sometimes.

http://www.soldf.com/images/s_ra180soldat.jpg
Russia bans YouTube for housing extremism
Your link doesn't say what you claim it does. In fact, it goes on about how much extra work teachers do at home and on sundays.

You're proving my point: everyone wants something for nothing, and nobody stands up for teachers.
Clojure 1.2.0 lets you create data structures with mutable fields in pure Clojure if you really need the perf and you know what you are doing.
Not sure what the market is for this, but seems like a pretty fun idea especially if you give it a good design/layout style.

How much would it cost?
Sensational link-bait title.

A better title would be "Working at a startup is hard"
I suppose. I never do any developing with javascript so I don't really have any first hand experience for people not using it.