skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, there was an amsterdam experiment in Baltimore? A cop inventing a serial killer? No? It belongs in a literature class, not a sociology class. It's like learning physics by watching Star Trek.

Yes, The Wire was a great TV show. I enjoyed watching it. But let's not pretend it is a documentary.
So, does Bing finally allow restricting your search results to specific period? The lack of this crucial feature was why I wouldn't even bother using it, and it still doesn't seem to be available (I just had a quick look out of curiosity).
Interesting, we agree on all this just about word-for-word. Scary really.

I've tried to figure out why this is with me, the closest I've come to it is that I think that humans are pretty good the way they are, no need to poison them or modify them.

I wear no jewelery of any kind, not even a watch and never will, same with you ?
Nokia to Developers: Consumers are Hungry for Java Apps and are Willing to Pay
To be fair, it is slightly dumb to give some site your real name, university e-mail, your address, etc.

I remember back when I signed up with a fake username, to be requested to sign up with my real name and uni e-mail, etc. No wonder I haven't really used Facebook much at all.

But, whatever he said in the IMs is just "normal" that is, just something we all might have said. So, I do not think that the lesson here is as jacquesm suggests, but rather that we might be entering an age and time when the gods of politics, commerce, science, and whatever other field are shown to be just normal people more vividly.
your work is impressive.
can you show the keyword in various language in the countries wrappers? that makes it more instinctive, i guess.
and would like to see arrows in each country wrapper allowing me to navi to more pictures.
just my two cents
Well it depends.

For example if an application uses Bigtable, then the key + column names often gives a lot of information about what data is stored there, which if somebody had access to some basic application data they might be able to get at somebodies specific data.

However as you might expect there are many safeguards in place, including ensuring every action is fully and securely authenticated so even low level SREs cannot read application data without a paper trail. This story is pretty surprising to me, and if true this guy is an idiot.
Yeah, it's all about pacing yourself; having balance.

Don't expect to get to the end goal without moderation. You'll end up going too hard and for too long. Burn out happens and momentum dies comes along with it.

Though, if you're Kai Greene you're powered by rage all the time. http://rosstraining.com/blog/2010/08/05/kai-greene-the-rage-...
I'm surprised all of Googles interviewing tricks didn't catch this.
Surely if you work for a large global telco you understand that bureaucracy and empire building cost a lot.

In many markets payback time for mobile infrastructure is a few years.

If no-one bid high prices for licenses, then they would be cheap. It is surely the expectation that consumers will over pay that creates the problem.
Yep, fixed. The site has gotten way more traffic than we expected it to.

*And by fixed, I mean I'm watching over the database with a baseball bat until my programming partner gets home lol.
This is not completely accurate. Korean culture had basically no Western contact before the 1870s. There are Korean and Chinese accounts (ie Chinese envoy's accounts of Korean life) dating back to the 1100s describing Korean concepts of beauty.

Large eyes were considered beautiful and makeup manuals for women showed them how to accentuate their eyebrows and make eyes larger and rounder.

I am not crazy about the original article but have th agree - here - with the point he made. Do not assume that because they are making their eyes larger and rounder it is because they want to look Western. It is because larger rounder eyes have been considered attractive for a long time in the culture.

As did paler skin I believe - but again not because of a Western Caucasian model. The foreign influence for these ideas would have been China, probably Confucian ideas.

The Japanese were not as isolated from the West as the Koreans were but I would not be surprised if there were older indigenous models for beauty as well.

http://www.asianartnewspaper.com/article/the-cosmetic-cultur...
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Step 1) copy & paste a JQuery snippet that you don't understand

Step 2) call yourself a ninja
Carnegie Mellon’s Incredible Robot Snake Climbs a Real Tree
good time to add it.
Xerox-Incubated TrailMeme Launches, Reducing Real-Time Anxiety
It won't be long or we'll see VRML back in vogue.
If you get through to them, it looks like a couple DNS servers in their chain have been serving us NXDOMAINs. Point them to sb[12].mooo.com, hosted on afraid.org, and ask them to let Googlebot in. :)
Yes, but without a general knowledge of HTML/CSS you won't know what is possible and what isn't possible in your design.

So yes, you may design some amazing layout in photoshop with crazy features and what not, but it simply may not be doable from a coding perspective.
Yes there is. It's called Google Chrome. I presently have 164 tabs open in it across 6 windows. It works just fine.

I am regularly amused by the stream of inane blog posts from "UX Professionals" declaring bankruptcy because oh god they have 22 tabs open — and then they go on to propose some ridiculous unbuilt UI that's even less capable, but makes them feel designery.

Chrome does start to bog down eventually, and I can respond to that by killing off worker processes, which leaves the swath of tabs it was responsible for dead, but still in place with their URL and I can just hit refresh. With Firefox the whole browser will repeatedly lock up for seconds at a time at a much lower usage threshold and eventually crash completely, taking 5 minutes out of my day. Before I switched to Chrome, I would have Firefox would crash at least 10 times per week. That and their regular releases baking AwesomeBullshit into Firefox instead of releasing extensions was more than enough to compel me to ditch it.
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I'm kind of disappointed at the "neutral marketplace" philosophy. I'd prefer a "curated marketplace" where the Herokuans could be opinionated about what works best (in general, and with Heroku). Metrics are great but I actually value the opinion of the people who built and run Heroku more. (Of course their opinion could be a metric, but it didn't sound like it in the announcement.)
Nokia will keep dying a slow and painful death that no one cares about if they don't stop using their "market share" argument soon.

It's not about existing share of underpowered phones with poor UIs and apps. No one cares about that, and you're not making any profit off it, so obviously, it doesn't matter.

What matters is innovation on both hardware and software fronts, which Nokia has failed to execute on for at least 5 years.

The sooner Nokia wakes up and pulls its head from the ground, the sooner they'll have a chance to slowly inch back into relevance. But at this stage, there's no way it's going to happen.

Nokia are essentially screwed.
I think it's largely because the page is white. How do you color someone beige/brown in a black-and-white medium? Specifically black and white, not grayscale.

A question to you: What is it that makes them drawn specifically white, other than eyes? Is it only the fact that they're on a white background, or is there more there that I am missing.
The post features four anime characters. Two of the characters are clearly blonde... and I'm pretty sure this isn't my whiteness just projecting blondeness. Very few Japanese people are blonde. Is it racist for me to notice this?
It's not strictly necessary to know HTML/CSS, but I can't see how you could be a web designer and not want to learn. Back in the day when all I could do was Photoshop and InDesign, I'd constantly think, "I wish I could code this up myself."
Giving away free GoGaRuCo ticket
GoGaRuCo 2010 is a Ruby conference in San Francisco. It's also very popular and sold out. Want a ticket? We have one to give away.
A web designer that doesn't know HTML/CSS is fine.

A web developer that knows HTML/CSS and can use a designer's mockup is fine.

The manager of those two parties that doesn't have experience in both can be troublesome.
No worries. I don't personally know anyone who works for Google, so I guess I'm safe.

However, I do know people who work at a local ISP, and I'm sure as hell not passing my email through those servers.
Windows still uses backspace for going up a directory in file navigation right?
Are GV calls all recorded? Is it there somewhere in the TOS? Even if its there, the consent of the other party is required to record calls. Otherwise its a offense. Right?
These are dumb expressions ("Code Ninja", "Rockstar") but the intent is fine.

My recommendation is to build a bunch of interesting things that are at a higher level than one-off, design-free algorithm puzzles (well, those sorts of things aren't exactly 'design free' but they typically don't make you think about lots of tradeoffs - you find a plausible way to do something and do it).

I suspect that for most people this means finding an employer who solves interesting problems and getting an job there that actually involves participation in the 'good parts', so that you actually do it. My record of self-motivating after my degrees were done is pretty much zero - best to make this your day job.
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Can someone explain what this means? I've used EC2 some but I can't figure out what this allows that wasn't possible before.
I think you mean the Scala Lift framework, right?
A writer can complete a comment like this without punctuation and its not too hard to read but I agree with you that it needs some commas
It looks like this is, roughly, a very scaled down version of Centos 5 with EC2 tweaks, and all the EC2 tools pre-installed. Great if you want something super lean and ready to customize.

They claim that most Centos packages should work out-of-the-box.
Hot keys are a feature (I believe) started by Google with Gmail and Reader, that should be available in any modern web app.

They're - relatively - easy to apply with jQuery and there is no excuse. :)
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It’s basically a custom Linux distro maintained by Amazon that’s based on CentOS 5. One of the biggest problems with EC2 until recently is that the official AMIs provided by Amazon are ridiculously out of date. For example, the standard Fedora AMI is Fedora 8—the latest version of Fedora is Fedora 13.
Basically true that baseball is US, Caribbean, Korean and Japan. But some interesting players from Mexico, Canada, Australia and Europe belie some spread. Frankly I would not think it could spread...

I like the World Baseball Classic and I would attribute in part the lack of American success because the MLB players are in the beginning of their playing year when the tournament takes place. In his glory years Lance Armstrong did not win too many spring races because he was looking to peak in July.

I think the American players in the WBC are just getting into "spring training" mode.

The Asian teams come to play. The last two WBCs there have been really good games Korean vs Japan. MLB players like Ichiro and Hee Seop Choi crashing into walls and sliding head first. In March.

The WBC is great fun and I recommend it. I cannot sit through an MLB game any more...
It doesn't allow anything that wasn't possible before. It's just a virtual machine image. Kinda like how anyone could roll their own Windows virtual machine images in Virtual PC by booting up and installing Windows, but Microsoft provides pre-built images with Windows so you don't have to.
SRE at Google is a position of high trust and engineering seniority. There will always be a need for a certain (very few) people to have access to sensitive user data -- that's why this breach is so embarrassing for Google. The most we can hope for, at this class of employee, is better auditing of their access logs. The engineering exec quoted in the article promises they will perform more detailed audits.
"""Bonus points if you can draw pictures of the winning configurations along the way. While drawing pictures, any files sharing dimensions should be considered identical/interchangeable."""

Note in the sample output they have 4 "distinct" configurations for the minimum size (really they're all the same, just rotated). If the two small boxes weren't identical/interchangeable, there would be 8 configurations (4 pairs of two, and each pair would be indistinguishable from eachother without labeling the small boxes A and B).
Last 30 days:

Google: 90.7%
Yahoo: 4.8%
Bing: 3.0%

Same 30 days, one year ago:

Google: 91.96%
Yahoo: 5.18%
Bing: 1.8%
For some people, doing something productive isn't an act of self-control--it's just what you prefer doing. I can't sit and enjoy a movie when I'm excited about a project I'm working on; I'll just sit there thinking about how much I want to get back to work.
That's not a writer. And watch out making such a statement to a writer.
I believe this to be a very serious issue. Having worked with both designers who not only understand HTML/CSS but actually build their OWN designs and designers who don't have a clue about how websites are build I can tell the difference is huge. I believe the problem is not just whether designs can or cannot be build, I believe it's more about if designs can be build within an estimated timeframe and budget. Designers who don't understand how websites are build seem to come up with monstrosities of designs that never can be build within budgets and timeframes. Sure, the designs look good. As a poster or a flyer but we're building websites here... Designers who do not understand how websites are build seem to design every single website as a massive bitmap. I've had to build 5 megabyte home pages simply because a designer didn't understand the medium. The client wasn't very happy when they where slapped with a massive bill at the end of each month because of the amount of bandwidth the site was using. Don't get me started on gradients and the fact that a browser can have different sizes or the fact that a design needs to be "pixel perfect" (which seems to be impossible to understand for some designers).

Being a "web designer" and not knowing HTML/CSS is just plain stupid. How can you work in this industry? Go work in print where you belong with the rest of the fossils.
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You don't have to worry about them over-glorifying Google either. The general attitude on this site is that you're either working on your own startup (by far the best option), working for an early-stage startup (ok, but still second best, since its not your own thing), or you're basically wasting your time (working for "the man").

I find it offensive, actually, but so it goes.
Of course. But when you use Emacs regularly, you start typing CTRL-X-S constantly, even when you're not in Emacs.
Do more boat designing, building and sailing.
Anyone care to summarize why this is important news?
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What language(s), tech, framework is used for the software (web-apps? desktop? etc) at BoA?
this isn't that surprising. this stuff happens all the time at any company that has that many employees. a person i know who is a software developer at facebook told me that everyone there looks at people's private stuff and reads people's private messages when they want to and you just have to be discrete about it so that no one (i.e. users) notices.
If you're good at typing then you can try transcribing. We offer freelance transcription jobs.

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The best of our transcribers/reviewers make upwards of $100 per month.
Who said it was a documentary?
I would actually take this argument even further and add an understanding of good UX with a sprinkle of business knowledge. Without the UX, a designer has no basis on what works for each particular type of user, and without a basic understanding of business, the designer will lack the understanding of what and why they're actually designing the thing they're designing.
If you're just sending SMS, why not use one of the abundant tier 1 providers (http://www.usshortcodes.com/csc_aggregators.html) and pay bulk rates? I think we get something around 1c per outgoing, and 1/3c per incoming.
US has the best players at every position in basketball, hands down. Not quite the same in baseball but you could produce a dominant American team. But might not have the best team always. I think there has been a decline in US baseball and basketball as team sports.

I am not sure I could empirically prove it though. I find it hard to sit through an actual game in any major US sport, though I find myself still following the NYC teams I grew up with (Mets, Giants, Knicks).
If there are four buildings, red, green, gray and gray, and you pick one at random you are more likely to end up in a gray building.

I guess that's where my confusion lies. I see that the chances of picking a grey building the above is 1/2, but I assert that the set of possibilities for the children is "two girls", "different genders" and "two boys". But yours is a good explanation, I see that that "different genders" state has a double chance of occurring compared to the other two states.

The Wikipedia article I cited above is interesting in that in one explanation, it bases the different results on interpretation of the givens. I see the problem stated as about a specific man's state, not the chances that a randomly chosen man/family with two children has two boys. In my case, this was a misdirection in trying to understand this.
An important distinction that's missing in this discussion is that you can be either an SA-SRE or a SWE-SRE. You can figure out which is which from how the SRE job postings on google.com are phrased.

SWE-SREs have to pass SWE interviews. I work down the hall from Tim. Nobody keeps track of who came in through which side (SA or SWE), but some of the SREs I work with wrote large parts of the services they support.
There's a big difference between saying that it's hard to get protocols/tools right on the first (or fifth) try, and stating that people should not develop 'circumvention' tools at all. (And I've seen you express that latter viewpoint more than once with respect to various experimental protocols)
some humor to validate your point :) http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/
I'm sure it depends, in my experience, the best way to learn is from a more experienced programmer. I would make the newer programmer drive so he doesn't end up twiddling his thumbs.

So I'd say, no, the newer programmer will not hold back the more experienced, more likely the newer programmer will just learn a lot.

(This assumes the newbie has previous experience with IDE/typing, is not actually 'worse' in the 'stupid' sense, but just less experienced).
As someone who formally worked in an engineering profession that required state licensing and now working doing the same job Mr. Barksdale did (not for Google, though), I can't see any sort of licensing helping with this sort of problem.

And I think at this point Mr. Barksdale ass is pretty much screwed -- it's unlikely he'll ever get a job doing this sort of work again.

It's a tricky problem. I know to do my job I need root access to everything. I guess at Google scale you could compartmentalize so the same person doesn't have free access across services.

But at some point you just gotta trust your people.

OTOH, perhaps I just don't understand -- what this fellow did is so over the top it's difficult for me to understand why he would do such a thing. It's wrong on so many levels -- it's just not something I can comprehend.
I actually thought the kid who was selling snacks out of his backpack and using statistics to win at dice was the most notable entrepreneur.
From the User Guide: http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonLinuxAMIUserGuid...

Can I run Amazon Linux on my own servers outside of EC2?
No. The Amazon Linux AMI is only available for use inside of Amazon EC2.

Uh, what? I really can't download it and run it on Eucalyptus? Is source not available either?

Is this actually legit under the GPL given that in use the software is never conveyed beyond Amazon's property?
And how many systems does a google sysadmin administer? :)

(Answer: a lot.)
It did help. The reason was that GS was able to run the models and pricing on the CDOs (collateralized debt obligations) they held, unlike other firms. CDOs are made up of a collection of asset backed securities, and even running a cashflow model, prepayment model and interest rate model on each of those individually can take up to 10 seconds (Sorry for the financial terms). On top of that, there's thing called OAS (option adjusted spread) which is a type of Monte Carlo simulations and quite intensive. A lot of places were not able to properly price their CDOs due to the intensive nature of the calculations but Goldman could.

To be honest, Buffett's interest in Goldman and his friendship with Obama could have had some play in the government's interaction with them.

The real issue here, is that all the models and ratings on these securities did not correlate the failure of similar bonds with similar underlying collateral. When running the models, they had something like 10% cross correlation between different bonds with extremely similar collateral according to someone who used to work at Fitch. In reality it should have been something like 50 to 75%.
In basketball, also, the level of play has come much closer to the U.S. level. The U.S. did not win the FIBA tournament since 1994. They lost in 2006 with LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and Carmelo Anthony. It's also important to note that several of the best non-U.S. pros sat out this tournament, also. Notably, Pau Gasol, the second best player on the champion Lakers and probably the best big man in the world right now.

The U.S. had to rethink the way they ran their national program after getting embarrassed, getting more continuity with players committing to multiple years. Wade, James, and Anthony came back after losing in 2006 to put on a dominating performance during the 2008 Olympics. I was extremely impressed with how this current team was put together, because I thought they would have trouble handling the much taller teams they would face. Instead, the U.S. smaller but quicker and more athletic players created trouble for the taller teams they faced by stealing the ball and getting out for dunks and layups. Also, Kevin Durant is a beast.

In short, I actually believe that the quality of U.S. basketball got better as a response to the improvement in the international game and the realization that it was not a glorified exhibition. That's quite the sea change from what the original Dream Team faced in 1992.

Back to baseball, here are the 2009 rosters.

http://web.worldbaseballclassic.com/rosters/index.jsp?team=u...

Just clicking around, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic are loaded with many of the most famous MLB names. The U.S. is, too, but most of the biggest U.S. baseball names I'm familiar with are on there, and they lost any way. Japan has several major leaguers and of course they have the second best professional league in the world (I don't think there's much dispute about that).

So I think with basketball we have re-asserted ourselves as the dominant world power, but only with a renewed dedication and commitment to get back to that place. I still stand behind my argument that the quality of baseball player development is now better in some other countries than the U.S. This is very much like the English Premier League, considered the best league in the world, and with many English stars, but not enough to make England a dominant football power.

And yes, maybe I think about this stuff just a little too much. :)