skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interviewer apparently asked her how she felt being an African-American at the (predominantly white) college.

The interviewer could not fathom why the daughter (being neither African nor American) was upset by the question.

Since when are black Jamaicans any less African than black United States-ians?
Scientists Led By Makers of M&Ms Sequence the Chocolate Genome
> while relying on a very long extension cord for power

er...how's that? What did you connect to?
Their keyboards and mice are excellent. My Z-80 SoftCard II probably still works.
Would be nice to have the output of some simple bash-oneliner that does some simple cpu speed test. So everybody could compare the speed of their VMs on different providers.
Microsoft proves it's still got it (finally)
My blogpost about the release of IE9 and why I think it is a game changer for the browser market
If you have Windows set to automatically update then "critical" updates will be install without prompting the user. However, when it attempts to install IE it will always as for the user's permission. I feel that it's a bit different than a regular hotfix.
sully

–verb (used with object)

1. to soil, stain, or tarnish.

2. to mar the purity or luster of; defile: to sully a reputation.
Yeah I agree on that ... I wouldn't personally sign my IP over to anyone (at least without a tidy bonus and/or performance bonus).

That said their HTML5 platform's going to be a bit of a moving target for a while, it does make sense to have it the exception rather than the rule.
How to Make Your Parent Navigation Menu Items Clear
Video Content: The Rationale for Traditional TV, Broadband, or Both?
Ah! figured it out. He's Buddha. I knew I should have Googled that. When you wrote 'guy,' I read 'Greek,' and spent a while trying to ascertain which Greek believed exactly that. :)
Also, sometimes the sales tax might or might not be applied depending on the status of the purchaser. When I was a in college the campus stores would always have to ask us if were students, since only non-students paid state sales tax.
it isn't a search per.se. he is asking about. It is a data analysis, expert system like. He wants a computer, not a search engine. Network/Internet is a computer. Or Google search engine farm in this case would be a pretty good replacement/approximation for the Internet. In this case if Google let some user-specified business logic (ie. something more complex than "search_term1 AND search_term2") to run over its digested representation of the Internet.

Cash crops profits [ordered desc] = {P(C1), P(C2), P(C3)}.

Legal cash crops = {C2, C3}.

Successfully plantable by inexperienced farmer = {C1}.

...
without C1 the expert system refuses to continue further :)
>all the stickers saying: "designed for windows glass", "windows home semi-starter- premium edition (bathroom only not kitchen edition)"

It'll have a fridge hum detector to make sure you don't try and use it in the kitchen ...
I'm not sure it's an optimal outcome. It might help it some cases, but it definitely feeds the problem it's trying to solve. The less people like you, the less guilty they'll feel screwing you over. I don't pirate games, but pirating Activision titles would feel downright good.

It also often creates the paradox that pirates get a better experience. Once the pirates work around all your antifeatures, the pirated version is actually a better product than the one you're selling (which makes piracy even more tempting).
Firefox Panorama: Search proof-of-concept
Now it needs a decent js engine (js/html5 canvas is sort of slow right now) and more space for tabs (lemme put them into the titlebar or below the address bar forchrissake).
Yeah, they were as bad compared to Windows as Windows was compared to GEM on Atari and Amiga, or MacOS 10 years earlier.
So, Dick Cheney decides to give away all the billions he made (wars, corruption, oil cartels) and discovers the cure for cancer and super vaccines for all children of the world. Good.

It is ok to rape half of the world for the good of the rest.

That makes you an instant hero.
I think its a classic 80/20 rule. You'll learn 80% of what you need in the first 20% of your career, the rest is what makes you really really good.

The thing is, the 20% isnt the technical stuff, its everything else.
One solution to have both different and strong passwords for all your sites is to utilize Password Gorilla (http://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki). That way you get the benefits of strong and different passwords, without the mental effort of remembering all of those strong, different passwords.
Once someone gets it on their iPad, can you report back with supported AirPlay apps? Does anyone know if it can be supported with say the MLB app or AirVideo?
HA! Not 40, but am damn close to it. I remember those days. We had a billion different types of media. I still have CP/M disk I can't read. And nobody really knew how to run anything. Like the dinosaurs, it was a time of mainframes. Then everyone can do it, welcome to the PC world. And (oh my goodness) standardization. Oh wait, it's mainframe time again? Cloud what? You mean I can bring out my bell-bottoms again? for the nth time... I'm glad someone was a dick, because just image all the different ways we can do things today! Scary.
> [...] and all kinds of other wonderful proprietary systems: OSX, CPM, & Pick.

Youngster here: I'm guessing when you say OSX you mean something other than Mac OS X?
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It's basically like the cache in your cpu now except it's a bit smarter about storing what goes in the flash memory.

L1 = the 32MB RAM

L2 = 4GB Flash

finally the 500GB HD
'twasn't me, I rarely downvote.
why so many comments starting with a "fanboyism" criticism are perfect examples of fanboyism???
Yeah. Google offer options and stock units, so are definitely a valuable component of the salary.
Has this been monetized online in some way, or are most leagues run using a spreadsheet with the money tucked under a mattress somewhere?

In SA we have sites like superbru, but thats mostly free. What I'm thinking about is a site that manages not only the scoring and management of the league, but also collecting the buy ins and doing the prize payouts. For a small admin fee of course.
Based on dlytle's description, he's likely talking about the Dresden Files series.
Ad-driven site (your aim is to turn eyeballs into revenue)

Ad arbitrage is getting tougher to do these days. If your goal is to turn $1000 into as many eyeballs as possible, you're looking at borderline-sketchy popunder traffic. Google CPV or popunder advertising and you'll see companies that sell 5000 visitors for $20. So $1000 buys you 250,000 visitors.

The problem is that these visitors are not targeted at all, so you can't get high payouts on the ads you put on your site (like PPC ads). Your best bet is to direct sell banner ads on your site, where the advertiser pays a CPM rate higher than what you pay for your traffic (in my example, that would be $4 per 1000 visitors).
I have the 2010 Mac Pro @ 3.33GHz. Going from the WD Caviar Black that it ships with to two SATA SSDs (60GB each, one for Boot and one for Apps) and one PCI SSD (120GB, for scratch work) has been unbelievable. This was a fast computer to begin with, but now I literally never find an application waiting on the disk. Xcode builds that take several minutes on my laptop (copying lots of resources into the bundle, for example) complete in seconds on the new machine. Highly recommended.
It's the same thinking that leads to antipiracy misfeatures. They don't want to give away any more for free than they have to, even if it winds up hurting the game itself.
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Red Hat tops list of hottest IT security certifications
Do you really watch a lot of baseball? The American roster there looks pretty crappy. They have Jeter (thank god) and a couple other big names but where's the power? Where's ARod? Pettite? Halladay? Teixera? Cliff Lee (god I hate him for how awesome he was in the 09 WS)? Sabathia? Buerhle?

I think the entire setup is bullshit though. You get a bunch of guys who don't really want to be there to play in an "all-star" team that, for some reason, is assumed to have any unit cohesion at all. You're better off just playing championship series in every country and then playing the winning teams, regardless of nationality. I think "The Yankees" is a better team than any "All-Star" bullshit they come up with.
If you think the unethical business decisions he made in the yesteryear outweigh the billions he has poured into philanthropic work in recent years, we have very different views of ethics.

The man has started a movement among billionaires to use their wealth toward charitable purposes, and somehow you can pass it off based on his wealthy upbringing and a "Carnegie complex"?

Injustices in technology are much less important than the injustices Gates is trying to fix now.
I think you don't know what you are talking about here.

It is like someone seeing an ad for entrepreneurs that says, "Willing to work. Willing to take risks. Strong computer skills a significant plus"." And then concluding that the bar to being a successful entrepreneur is very low so they should be dismissed as a group.

Becoming an SRE is much, much harder than just having the credentials you listed. Being an SRE generally does not give you full access to everything at Google. I never met this one, so I don't know what his role was or why he was given that level of access. But that access really isn't something that just gets handed out to people off the street.

The fact that you found that ad, and that Google screwed up this particular case, doesn't say that Google doesn't limit who gets access to sensitive data.
The Future of 3D Printing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJ8vId4HF8
Wow, very slick. Will keep this in mind next time I need to set up a quick website.

One issue -- the "forgot your password" didn't work when I used my username, had to use my email address.

Also, after I registered, my password was emailed to me in clear text which I generally don't like -- I get uncomfortable when I see my password (and who might be sitting next to me when I check my mail?). Although since the site doesn't use SSL I guess should be using a throwaway one anyway.
Your problem still has to have the property that loading and processing the dataset needs to be slower than sending it over the network and getting the result back, though...
Former MIS Head Indicted for Cybercrime - Keyloggers & Porn on CEO's Laptop
http://www.securityweek.com/former-mis-head-indicted-cybercrime
I don't follow. If you're effectively competing, why will not fighting it in other ways lead to disaster?
Ah, "earlier than (Win 7 and the latest kernel)", rather than "(earlier than Win 7) and the latest kernel". Thanks, looks like I'm covered, then.

EDIT: Apparently, Ubuntu is one version behind TRIM support.
Awesome, thanks for the help.

When I said "with a django slant" I meant that the same person blogging/talking about UX also has at least some Django experience, i.e. some other posts about Django design specifically.

I'm on those resources!

Thanks again!
Not just with Apple's icon designers, but with icon designers targeting OS X as a whole:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccutchen/4293401589/

(At least with the designers of the icons for the applications I use most often.)
Thanks, but haven't read your resume first. After that i thougt that this is the answer. :)
YellowAPI: Is this Canada's Best Local Content Source?
A reprint of a rewrite of a TechCrunch write up post. To add to the uselessness it should have been a 10-click slideshow of logos.
I also love Fantasy Football. We play in a rookie keeper league where you can carry over rookie players that you draft into the next year. Looking into those rookies does take some time, partly because these are people you get to keep for the long haul, but it's before the football season, and we can easily do it while we're not at work. A lot of the "overanalyzers" don't win anyway.

It is a good way to get into a friendly competition with your friends and get into football. We do some office leagues and games every year because it's competitive and fun, and we don't find a huge hit to productivity. Most people do it on their own time at home.
To expand, you really can't determine if a touch UX works or not by looking at it on screen and interacting with a mouse.
Flash Vulnerability Affects Android
Oops, I meant OS2. Original corrected.
With only four years under my belt, I spend a lot of my time feeling like a woefully ignorant developer. I was hoping for a little more meat, but the discussion so far seems mostly common sense.

What should a self-taught programmer know that schooling or tragedy would have otherwise taught me?

For example, I know there are design patterns for data structures. I've modeled plenty of data and nothing has ever blown up on me, but I suspect I could have done it even better with a solid grasp of best practices for data structures. What should I know about these things?

edit: Also, I owe StackOverflow et al a huge chunk of my success but damn the you're not logged in slidey bar is obnoxious as hell.
If you agree, would you care to point out what is badly written about that quote?
The "law" in law of supply and demand is a very different thing than the law in the laws of physics... I agree with you about the chaotic thing, though.
Unity and iOS (solved)
EBS is bounded at 1TB / volume. Then you have to stripe.
They have auto-update. Usually disabled, because people somehow hate windows update, and corporate clients don't really want weird-application-breaking updates unless THEY decide they want it. So, whatever auto-update mechanism MS puts in place, people will break it.
I think you're extrapolating too much out of my comments. I'm saying that "SRE is an important job" doesn't answer the concern. I'm not surprised that Google has controls beyond "you're an SRE, you can do whatever you want" --- in fact, I'd be shocked if they didn't. But it sure sounds that way from the story that just broke yesterday.
The real unknown is whether or not IE's release cadence (currently at about a 1.5-2 year cycle) is sustainable when every other browser is on a much shorter cycle (in some cases 1/4 that). IE9 may be the bee's knees, but if Google puts out another set of half a dozen releases as substantive as those prior between IE9 and 10 how does IE keep up and stay relevant?
Even if they can minimize their size, it's one of those things that has persisted in its present state for too long. Why isn't there a standard for (at least consumer-level) printer communication? I think this is just another case of mobile device constraints necessitating overdue reform.
how often do you buy or sell something on craigslist and coins are involved?
>I'm curious how an interviewer would even know if the woman has kids.

Perhaps they actually read their CV? There would be some guesswork involved, for sure, but I think that an experienced recruiter could probably spot the signs at interview.

A few things of the top off my head that would help: Most people list marital status on a CV. Hobbies? If they have lots of them then they're not likely looking after kids. Do they travel a lot. Are they the right age? Does their appearance suggest they spend lots on themselves compared to their income? Is their phone smashed up. Are they up on current affairs? Is their any hesitation when you ask if they'll be able to do late shifts or stay late or travel on short notice ... etc., etc..
Thinking is more important than typing.
I don't have an account there, but a few things immediately spring to mind.

- Caching and cache invalidation are really hard - if you have to go there, make sure you can disable the cache at any time

- Using regular expressions for anything but processing lines of text means you're probably doing it wrong

- Few programmers can handle concurrency, provide APIs with lots of run-time checks

- Have coding guidelines and enforce them in code review

- Boring code is good code

- Lack of automated tests make every commit a crap-shoot

- Use consistent logging (with levels), if this is a major performance hit scrub the code out for the production build

- If there is no expert on the team, become the expert. If there is, learn from the expert and become one as well

- Always take responsibility for your code

- Sometimes ugly hacks are necessary. Deploy them, but make it a priority to factor them out at the start of the next cycle (don't leave this crap around for 'someone else later')

Oh man, I could go on like this for hours.
I cannot stand their keyboards. Gushy non-mechanical switches and awkward non-standard layouts. Pshh!
Personally I can't see why they don't stick an IE badge on webkit and be done with it.
I’ve found to keep people, you need to pay them enough to take the “money” question off the table, and the ensure they have something meaningful and rewarding to do.

I would conclude, then, if employees are seeking substantial[1] raises by whatever tactic, that they're not being paid enough to take the money question off the table.

With Google, that should be no surprise.

[1] There's an assumption of rational behavior here, admittedly.
I already consider food to have costs in two currencies: one in dollars and one in calories. There is no conversion between them; I must meet both budgets.
They've already released their work for free while they were alive.
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If the data you get is old then I'd suggest caching it much longer to increase the chance of a hit, it probably will not change anyway.

That would lessen the load on the HN servers considerably, especially if your service becomes more popular.
First and foremost,I admire the frankness with which you have written this article.

But I certainly did feel you were criticizing yourself a tad too much, and perhaps over-simplifying some of your real issues.

Here's a blog article of Evan Williams written in 2005, which rings very true, even today.

http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp

I sincerely wish you the very best going forward.

Rise from the ashes,go for the riches! :-)
Now you are begging the question. How is a woman's perspective different from a man's perspective on Fourier analysis, scaling a database or technical analysis of stocks?
From our point of view, the real value of micro instances is architectural. For tasks where the load is small but important (queue servers, memcache instances, monitoring), where before we might have had one small instance and a potential point of failure, we can now afford to have two micros, simultaneously providing redundancy and halving the price (micro = 1/4 small).

This is especially important in AWS, as the dirty secret of small instances is that they occasionally vanish without warning -- in our case this has happened 4 times in 18 months.
From your comments its clear that you're zealously anti-capitalist and, as a result, anti-Microsoft, so you're simply not applying logic.

Bill Gates did his legal duty. When you run a corporation you have a fiduciary responsibility to it. He would be doing something immoral if he didn't do what was best for Microsoft. The theory behind free market capitalism is that enough companies doing the same will average out to the best results.

So the question is what do most people with the gifts Bill Gates was born into do? The answer is that they get a job in finance doing nothing of benefit to society and getting paid quite handsomely for it.

Bill on the other hand founded a company that has, at current time, almost 90,000 employees. He helped bring computers to the masses.

It's not petty jealousy that drives your comments, it's anti-capitalist sentiment. You also have a highly debatable view of what the universe would look like if not for Microsoft (I for one suspect you wouldn't be on this site) but that too is a side effect of zealousness rather than the result of careful reasoning.
I would add that red implies danger. Using the metaphor of an icon as a button, no one wants to push the red button. It might launch the nukes.
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there is no :| "meh" icon.
which is what i feel most of the time.
As mentioned elsewhere, it's because sales tax varies from state to state and from county to county. So if you're going to advertise something for a given price, you either have to exclude sales tax or accept that you'll be making significantly less profit selling it in California than in Oregon.

It's a crazy system, but state and local governments are dependent on sales tax revenue so it's impossible to dislodge.

The system in the UK isn't exactly sane either though, as I recall from the fact that everything at Pret is advertised with an "eat in" and "take away" price since the two scenarios are taxed differently. If you say you'll take it away but then change your mind and eat it in, you're presumably in serious (theoretical) trouble.

And then you've got the Australian system which is at least invisible to the consumer but is still annoying and inconsistent to the merchant. It was going to be a consistent 10% applied to everything, but the minor left-wing parties insisted at the last minute that it needed to exclude some but not all forms of food. Meanwhile feminists have been agitating for years to get tampons excluded as well... not because any analogous male or unisex product (toilet paper?) is excluded but because they have apparently run out of any serious problems to complain about.
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Not if they're aiming for "The best/fastest/most awesome browsing experience is IE9 on Windows! Buy Windows now!"
(live beta coming soon)
Great article. You clearly understand the importance of building an offline community to fuel the online one. face to face intimacy can never be replaced (it was why Yelp started so strong).

I think Patron specifically faces a problem with promoting product use (bottle registrations, pictures of use ..etc). A liqour company must be militantly careful about promoting over consumption. By awarding the people who register the most bottles its not a large logical leap to accuse them of promoting irresponsible drinking.

What they do know, by just giving the brand an exclusive identity and promoting participation on the site and events is about as far as they can go.

My suggestions would be for them to start promoting what goes well with Patron and creating connections to things (food, activities places) that can be promoted without treading in the dangerous area that is irresponsible drinking.

Great Work to you and Patron!
Voted up, not because I thought the SO page was interesting or very useful, but it did have a link to this page, http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html , What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, that is well worth reading.
You're blurring the difference between file sharing and proper, for-profit piracy. The music industry does this too, but it's an important distinction in this discussion.
Microsoft was a strong proponent of COTS only after the DOS deal with IBM. Before that they did lots of embedded languages for computer manufacturers. IIRC, I have used only Microsoft versions of BASIC in my early career.

They always had a strong stance against piracy, something that's understandable even when you consider they had limited exposure to it in those early days because of their OEM deals with computer makers.