skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This puzzle has a couple of problems: The problem description claims there are 100 rows, but the data only has 99 rows.
The example solution shows an "isosceles" triangle, but the data set represents a "right" triangle and the given example solution is impossible with a right triangle (because the left border is a constraint). In order to properly solve the
puzzle, one much make assumptions that may turn out to be untrue.

Resolving such ambiguities and unspecified detail is something we deal with every day; however,
it's less than helpful so early in the process. As others have mentioned, hiring is a two way street.
1000Memories is hiring engineers, designers and interns (YC S10)
1000Memories is hiring engineers, designers and interns (YC S10) (1000memories.com)
My personal pet peeve: blog.yoursite.com with no link to yoursite.com.

Extra bonus points for this one having a name so bad that typing it into a new window while reading the original landed me here instead: http://yotta.com/

As to the service itself, it will be wildly inaccurate for anybody running on Cloudfront or another CDN that allows using CNAMES so that img.yoursite.com is served from the CDN. I'm curious to hear their plans for dealing with that.
Indeed, R "the language" has been the main barrier to my adoption of R.
Reddit drinks Digg’s milkshake
Just make sure that you can't make other people walk for you. (Or do make sure that you can?)
Wait a minute... look at his quote: "* There are very few decent music venues. Among my many complaints about SF, this is one that appears to have gotten much worse since I left; read JWZ's blog on SF's "war on fun"."

You mentioned two groups that are fairly specific in genre/taste. The OP says "There are very few decent music venues..." How does what you mention invalidate what he said? "Two" is a "a few" in my book.
Found it - I managed to think of 8 different apps that the site offered and that was enough for DDG:

https://ninite.com/
Could it be the Lifehacker pack?

http://ninite.com/lifehacker
Jakob Nielsen: kids are becoming more web-savvy; how to design sites for kids
I think any titles period will hurt your startup. Who has the biggest dick? Who fucking cares? I can't stand titles... whoop-dee-doo you're an art director.
"it is not something that is ready for the prime time."

Thats why millions of users are using hundreds of large scale web apps right now built on Rails and/or Ruby (ie: Github, Slideshare, Hulu, Justin.tv, Basecamp, Alice.com ...the list goes on and on http://rails100.pbworks.com/Alexa+Rankings).

Right...

Might want to do some homework before making such a statement. True Ruby has memory issues. Running Ruby enterprise edition by passenger helped us a ton. Typically memory issues have to do with poorly written ruby more than anything...which rails makes it easy to do....like Product.all.each type stuff ... stupid example
So far the feedback has been great. You are right a lot of comments are 'superficial' but they are still very helpful. Editors only come at the end of a project and I was eager to share the book content with people interested.

My publisher is looking at the comments and they are helpful to reshape the book's target and content.

It's also very encouraging as an author to see people interested in helping, even if it's just to help you with your grammar.

- Matt
Cool, thanks for the detailed post. I live in socal, but my family is up there as well. I've been thinking about moving up there, and you hit a lot of points I've been considering.

(Hey, can you hit me up about the surf on my email? Was gonna contact you, but no email on your profile.)
>I do not care what the content of the program is, as long as it is objective.

Then WHY do you even own a TV?

The Daily Show is a mock-comedy news program. It's objective is to be funny. That you don't get the joke and complain about how "serious" people take it, well, that only underscores that they've hit their objective right on the nose.

You might want to shop around for a startup who can give you a sense of humor.
I like this one, "INTERRUPTION-DRIVEN MEMORY We remember only red traffic lights, never the green ones. The green ones keep us in the flow, the red ones interrupt and annoy us."
I would think that the desire for a dedicated spectrum for wireless microphones comes from how interference affects their performance. A crude example might be to compare a wireless microphone to a wireless computer network. Whereas a PC may need to re-broadcast a "message" several times in order for the receiving station to contain a complete copy, this happens at great speed and the repeated messages aren't terribly inconvenient for the user. Imagine if an individual experienced the same complications whilst speaking into a microphone, only to be garbled by interference and requiring re-broadcast. Now imagine the same effect during a concert, where your favorite guitarist's riffs are intermittently garbled into junk because the wireless signal from his guitar is competing for dominance in a crowded spectrum.

Someone may come along and correct any or all of this thought, but my basic understanding of spectrum and interference leads me to believe that it's the consequences that are operative here, not mass adoption.
Incorrect. OP is correct. The article is sensationalistic to a fault. Anyone upvoting yours and downvoting his does not understand either how ASP.NET works or didn't read the article or its comments. Sorry - not trying to be a jerk but it bugs me whenever incorrect information is upvoted, especially when it comes at the expense of downvoting the correct information.

The first thing you learn about error handling and security is to not send back error messages that have useful information that hackers could use for penetration; that is programming 101 stuff. Therefore, any decent ASP.NET app does not send back the error messages that the article talks about - the app devs hide those behind, "Oops! Sorry 404!" type stuff. It's super simple and done on almost all ASP.NET sites.

So yes, there is a vulnerability, but this is sort of like the SQL Server bug from 5+ years ago that depended on their being no password for the server admin account. Yes, certain people will be bitten, but by and large "professionals" will have covered for this already.

And no, "the generic error" is not all they need b/c the developer says "Oops 404!" as the generic error or "Oops Server Error 500". Nothing substantial and no information that would give away what happened or why.
Options are pretty much worthless till you can execute them. Even then theres only a one time cash-in-hand situation. Believe me I have a ton of options right now and its not helping ;)
How To Afford College
To be fair, the "millions" does seem quite hyperbolic, at least insofar as it assumes every ASP.NET app will be in grave and imminent danger. Plenty of ASP.NET devs don't use cookies at all beyond the default behavior, which is to track session id. Modifying that wont be terribly useful without another known session to hijack, I'd think.
You make a valid point, that the use of this fancy-schmancy technology is optional. The reason I am still worried, and the reason why I hold on tight to my old-fashioned principles, is that most gyms nowadays are very poor for serious training;

There is a ton of machines that are of no use to people that want to use the gym to actually make progress, to stay healthy and get strong/fast/lean/whatever-floats-your-boat. All these machines take up the space of the barbells, dumbbells and racks, and they steal the attention away from those things as well. The end result is that the average people in a gym in 2010 are in worse shape than the average people in a gym in 1970. I hope this trend is not allowed to continue.

PS: Let me tell you a fun, competitive game that require little modern technology (just some creativity and a barbell and a rack); bring your friends to spot you in the gym, and have a competition in the squat rack ("who does the most reps with 225lb in one set?").
I agree. I also do old-fashioned stuff at the gym.

But I can see how hooking up a X-Box Kinect (a camera with some fancy software) to automatically give you feedback on your technique for squats could be a nice thing.

Most people don't go low enough on the squat, so a neutral third party would be nice. Especially if you do not have a knowledgeable training buddy. (You can't trust most employees' knowledge in gyms about proper weight lifting technique.) Also I would like to have my heart rate graphed during the lifts.

And the chip in the fridge could just give you the nudge to do what you like to do anyway, but would be too lazy at the moment to do.
let me be clear that i was being a bit ironic with the sushi comment...i, too, left the playa thinking in new ways. that gifting isn't about bartering at all was one of my biggest takeways. i was astounded and impressed by the generosity and creativity of the place and its participants.
I don't think that they are trying to make that implication. One thing can be more than another thing even if that other thing is zero.
7 minutes and counting for me.

It looks like the site is having issues with load. My first click of the link gave me a giant wall of text, which looked like the result of badly crafted HTML + a dropped CSS request.

Other pages have serious Flash of Unstyled Content issues, as well the "render everything, then collapse everything with jQuery" issue that you never notice in dev, but everybody on the internet sees every page load.
Software security people simply don't read crypto papers.

Crypto researchers, at least until recently, don't break software.

Do you know of any statistics on how often attacks on web applications are cracks of the crypto involved as compared to many of the other weak links in the chain? Seems like hackers/crackers will find much easier ways to circumvent the system, even if the crypto has weaknesses as outlined the above article.
Principled or not, how is respectful, quiet dissent not completely appropriate.

Consider how comfortable a person is when speaking to a telemarketer compared to a police officer or border patrol officer.

That we must grovel before those in uniform is a clear sign that they have too much power.

Of course his behavior was irrational if he was someone trying to smuggle in contraband. But it was rational if he's someone who feels that his rights as a law abiding citizen have been compromised by the re-entry procedures and seeks to make a point.
You can also just track your progress in a journal. That's motivation enough for me. (And be sure to take a photograph of yourself every once in a while.)
I found power cleans to be at least as much fun as running.
Haha I see your logic.

Guy creates ytinstant.com, gets hired by google.

You create App Store Instant, and (hopefully) get hired by apple.
Am I the only one who gets a fleeting feeling of envy when reading about someone having Asperger's? Like I kinda want it too.
Life loves to subject us to the useless positional (numbers) measuring sticks that mean nothing in the long term.

It means a lot to me in the long term that I'm living in a nice big house with a nice big garden for my kids to play in, which is also close to a world class city and world class companies. That's going to be very expensive. Therefore money isn't a useless positional measurement stick that means nothing in the long term to me. It's an incredibly important number that if I attain will mean fulfilling a dream and bringing me and my family much happiness. No internal measurement stick is going to make me happy about being forced to bring up my kids in a trailer park in rural Texas.
Ask HN: Rate my startup- CrushTease
Three weeks ago I asked what I should do: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1625791

Thanks to you guys I found a partner and have a product today:

http://www.crushtease.com

In short, it's an "anonymous matching/crush matching" service, with the twist that when two people are confirmed interested in each other, instead of telling both of them, you alternate between who you tell. This provides the uncertainty that makes relationships fun and interesting in their early stages.

You can read about it more on: www.zachjiganti.com

Please check it out and let me know what's good, bad, and if you think people will use it.
On a commune I lived on in Kentucky we had a Backhoe and tractor with an assortment of tools and power tools; we had a solar array to meet our electricity needs.

It was well worth having the Backhoe and tractor - for three people, some jobs are much easier when you have a machine to help (such as digging a wide long trench).
Clickables:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1625791

http://www.crushtease.com

http://www.zachjiganti.com
Non profits and NGO get phenomenal deals in terms of licensing software from Microsoft, from my personal experience i dont know of any other company that offers anything similar.

The international reach needs to be improved though, as stated.
the incoming link really isn't that powerful due to the # of stories.

yes the front page is a PR8. But at the end of the day you are already on page 3...which is PR4. And page 4,5,6,7+ all have a page rank of 0.

So unless your story gets picked up by CNN and hundreds of other real news sites, and they link to your article as a source....that techcrunch story will stay at Page Rank 0.
You might want to check out http://xpenser.com/ . It does a great job with capturing and reporting on your expenses, but doesn't do the planning part (how long can I live off my current net worth).

It's free, and lets you capture expenses using iphone, android, email, sms, voice, im, twitter, etc. You can export to GnuCash, Quicken, QuickBooks, Excel, etc.
Museopen to set classical music "free"
This attack doesn't rely on reading information out of errors. You seem remarkably confident about your interpretation of a talk that hasn't been presented yet.

Was it your perception from this report that the flaw here was developers leaking crypto secrets in the text of their errors? You were wrong.
Oh, and man… never ever let Vim write a backup file! They did that in the 70’s. Use modern ways for tracking your changes, for God’s sake.

set nobackup
set noswapfile

backup files are one thing, but turning off swap files is a terrible idea. vim can crash, you can accidentally close the window, your ssh session can die, etc. if you exit vim cleanly then the swap files will be transparent, so i don't see the point in disabling them.
es-cue-ell, of course
no, sorry. I just happen to find this while searching and thought it was great

(edit: I do have the 'SQL Antipatterns' book, though)
I've had bad problems in the Tenderloin but during the daytime I really enjoy upper / lower haight, find it to be very lovely. Beautiful houses and lots of nice shops and restaurants.
While I agree that it does seem to be the business model I think a hungry competitor would be willing to give it a go if they thought it would give them an edge. If they got traction the others might be compelled to follow. Most advances in technology or processes put the old guard out of business or at least severely cut down their market size if they don't adapt.
I didn't understand the kneejerky misdirected anger at Microsoft when this was first reported nor do I really get the congratulatory backslapping of the NYT now. Microsoft did not send their goons to some downtrodden NGO's office, they didn't confiscate anyone's computers, nor did they even accuse this particular organization of piracy. Their Russian offices may have been less than sympathetic to the NGO's frantic attempts to get their property back, but realistically, there probably wasn't a great deal they could do. The report itself suggested the NGO was running licensed software and this fact was simply ignored by the authorities who just happened to be using license enforcement as a pretext to harass an organization they didn't like. They might have well claimed Baikal Wave were running improperly licensed Ubuntu, for all the difference it would have made.

Russia is simply not a society governed by the rule of law. No well-intentioned Microsoft initiative or poignant NYT report is likely to change that.
http://www.granneman.com/images/windows_2000_screenshot.gif was quite representative of what I was using in 2000/2001. I'm a foaming-at-the-mouth OS X fan now, but I still find Windows 2000 more palatable as a day-to-day sort of UI compared to the first few releases of OS X.

At the time, Windows beat OS X in some areas that are no longer important.. like very easy to resize windows and more consistent minimize/maximize behavior, all of which are less important in a high resolution world.
Couldn't agree more. The day before I left I felt stupid for leaving with a start up no where near launch. Got in touch with my VC from the playa (camps with wifi rock!), his words were "Burn On!". Met some people who could be key on the playa, came back and all sorts of opportunities are springing up. Definitely agree with you on the leap of faith that resources will show up. Maybe it's just that we're more resourceful and willing to interact and take a chance on others?
Although the Committee to Protect Journalists originally reported this tactic being used against the free press in Bishkek back in April:

http://cpj.org/blog/2010/04/microsoft-piracy-and-independent...
Haystack and Media Irresponsibility
And dupe even here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683170

Seems that we need some more logic to automatically detect duplicates :-/
To me the problem with R isn't performance problems, which I've never run into myself, but rather the complicated and confusing semantics of its data types.

R's aggregate data types are: vector, matrix, array, dataframe, and list. The semantics of these types and the relationships between them are extremely confusing. I wish I had gathered examples of this so I could be more specific, but I have basically come to the conclusion that I will never get familiar enough with them to do any better than random guessing until it works right. And I've written somewhat in-depth analyses in R.
> Kudos to Apple for taking the risk

Apple has always taken the risk, it is one thing I love about them. You only need to look to their processor choices to see that: 68k -> PPC -> Intel. All transitions were just as painful as the OS9 -> OSX transition was. All in the name of pushing forward.

And I bought one of the first white iBooks (post toilet seat design) with the sole intention of using OSX (I'd used MacOS from 7 through 9, but departed briefly around that time). It was so slow it was literally completely unusable.

I do admit though, to this day there are things about OS Classic I really miss.
I thought django had that. ???

Grails does, and it's part of the reason I like it so much.
I really think real world app testing is the best way to test these things. Important things like app launch times, boot times, performance the above after the SSD has been aged. Average numbers matter way more than peak numbers as peak numbers may last a fraction of the times as other measured rates.
Wow, nice find. So they fix the price AND the supply. Our urban overlords have reached a Soviet level of confidence in their ability to manage an economy.
The article is almost content free (what does available frequency have to do with connecting a refrigerator) but the news is big. The FCC is about to allow unlicensed operation on a huge swath of desirable frequencies:

http://www.betanews.com/article/FCC-set-to-allow-white-space...

The hold-up was the rules for how a device would know exactly which frequencies were unused in the area.

WiFi is crammed into a tiny sliver of undesirable frequencies -- 2.4000–2.4835 GHz -- only available because no one was using it because of all the interference from microwave ovens.

But this is the entire range from 54Mhz to 698Mhz. A transmitter using this range instead of 2.4Ghz will transmit father using same power but have a lower data throughput.

This is great! We have seen tons of innovation with the current tiny silver WiFi frequencies -- access to a much wider range of frequencies will allow greater power/date rate/cost trade offs.
I need to go back and study it some more, because from the abstract at the bottom, titled "Knowledge Levels by News Source", The Daily Show/Colbert Report looks like it's tied or bested in almost every category by folks who read newspaper websites. In fact, if you call the margin of error around 4%, there's really not much difference in the top several items. And I can't believe something like this would be accurate down to 1 or 2 percentage points or less.
Congrats :-)
The Up Arrow usually scrolls the page up. I could suppress it with preventDefault(), but this wouldn't work in Opera. I'm therefore hesitant to enable it.

Maybe it's better to enable it, so that Opera users would complain and it would finally get fixed (by Opera team).

You could use "keypress" event instead of "keydown" (for which for some reason preventDefault in Opera works), but this just brings other problems.

(BTW it was me who left comment about events in your blog post. For my HTML5 games, I chose to use arrows and preventDefault, as in majority of browsers it improves user experience (even in Opera problems come only when page is larger than window). Just don't forget to cancel events only for keycodes that you actually consume).
It's a tough balancing act. I participated a lot more in the WoW holiday events because of the achievements. I noticed that a lot of people did not like competing with the new horde of achievement go-getters making holiday events more frantic and overcrowded.

I eventually quit WoW because I could not keep it as a reasonable, casual attention sink. It would always end up as the dominant time and attention sink in my life.
yum. I wonder if they would like an order of oxygen on the side.
http://baikalwave.blogspot.com/2010/07/police-finally-return...

The whole incident started and (mostly, but not entirely) concluded months before the NYT published anything about it, in this fast-paced, linked up, tweeted world we live in.
Ask HN: In seed funding for startups, is $20,000 a lot?
I was wondering how far $20,000 will get a startup. I know it varies by situation. As "Y Combinator" About page says:

Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you're getting started.

Some companies may need no more than seed funding. Others will go through several rounds. There is no right answer; how much funding you need depends on the kind of company you start."

We make small investments (rarely more than $20,000) in return for small stakes in the companies we fund (usually 2-10%).*

Assuming a startup takes $20,00 from one source only, where would the money go, what kind of expenses, how long does it typically last?

(To clarify: I realize a 100 companies would use that 100 different ways)
The MIT Sloan Sports Conference http://www.sloansportsconference.com/ is a mix of fan/stats/business people discussing numerical analysis of sports.

Bill Simmons (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/simmons/index ) has interviewed his friend Daryl Morey of the Houston Rockets about this.

One interesting point is that there is no "salary cap" for sports statisticians, so rich teams are not restricted about what they spend on numerical analysis. Morey hinted that several (most?) NBA teams spend in the 7-figures on it.
You don't find a lot of SQLI and XSS in global retail banking applications (well, you do, but only in the pentest on the staging environment). A padding oracle that lets you corrupt clientside state, though: pretty devastating.
Amazon CTO: Quite a few business running on EC2 are larger than Amazon.com
amazon, for example, already sells similar information:

http://aws.amazon.com/alexatopsites/#pricing
I got a score of 0 from your site, but YSlow on my browser gave me a 74. Hmmm is the analyzer slow right now?