skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without a doubt.

The most important thing I learned in college was accepting/understanding criticism - not algebra or philosophy or how many moons orbit jupiter (all cool/good to know too btw).

Most other skills can be learned on your own. But think about how hard it is to learn to accept and understand criticism. If you receive it from your spouse, it usually causes a fight; or from a close friend or family member - ditto, also not good.

But being hammered in a peer-review style class where it would be somewhat absurd to think 'hey I'm right, my professor with 25+ years experience, not to mention the 15 other smart peers in my class, are all wrong'.

Of course there were always one or two people that really did think they were right and the professor/classmates were all wrong. They wonder why life is always so hard, and why the entire world is against them, never considering that it might be them having the problem, not the rest of us...
Obviously you just put buckets under the plants to catch all of the light that falls through, and you have a machine that picks up the buckets and dumps them out over the top of the plants again. I think it'll help to paint the inside of the buckets white... or maybe black; not sure. Oh, and the bucket-dumping machine should be solar powered.

</sarcasm>
I agree that autodidacts generally have gaps.

However, I would point out that formally trained people also have gaps. Just different ones that everyone is used to. The gaps of autodidatics stand out because they are unusual.

Autodidacts in general also have some strengths that are rare with formally trained people. (I don't have anything particular in mind. Just they spend their time with some different focusses and are bound to pick up some things that people who all follow the same curriculum didn't.)

So, yes autodidacts have some gaps, but this shouldn't be seen as a criticism.
Cassandra Garbage Collection Tuning
Apple Finally Approves A Native Google Voice Application (Again)
The copyright holder doesn't get to decide what constitutes fair use. But neither does the person posting the content, or the site that's hosting it. The only entity that can determine whether a given use is "fair" is a court of law.

Regardless of the language used in the dispute form, this incident really has little to nothing to do with fair use, and everything to do with Youtube's hosting practices.
> Not especially surprising, nor damning of american-borns

I disagree. I wouldn't be sanguine about it. Previous major waves of technical innovation were lead by well established Americans. Something has changed.

A plausible hypothesis (not that I'm convinced) is that high immigration has driven down wages in technical professions. So native born Americans are less inclined to bother.

I think it's important to point out that two American eras of high growth and prosperity had essentially zero immigration. From 1921 to 1965 immigration was practically nothing. This was a period of extreme American innovation.
You completely failed to read the article.

Otherwise you'd know that they had a fault that propagated to the hot spare. It's also utterly daft to think that a financial enterprise as large as JPM/Chase wouldn't already be running a HA setup. In this case it appears to be Oracle RAC.

I'm astounded how often I have to remind people that replication and backups are very different things, and that you need both.

I'm also depressed how many utterly thoughtless comments are made here on hackernews lately.
It's not unknown for product managers to be a part of even very early stage startups, but they need to be able to wear many hats/work for equity.
I agree about that case.

However back to the wikipedia Fair Use article: "(...) the quantity or percentage of the original copyrighted work that has been imported into the new work. In general, the less that is used in relation to the whole, e.g., a few sentences of a text for a book review, the more likely that the sample will be considered fair use." and regarding the use of samples: "Samples now had to be licensed, as long as they rose "to a level of legally cognizable appropriation.""

His 90 seconds clip of the movie is the 100% of his video "creation" and is also a clearly "recognizable sample."

Finally "To justify the use as fair, one must demonstrate how it either advances knowledge or the progress of the arts through the addition of something new."

It's really hard for him to claim fair use, knowing how fair use is judged in court practice. There's huge difference in our idea of fair and what's considered "fair use" in the current law practice, which makes precedence.
jodrellblank - you are the voice inside my head.
Technically, yes. But since it's a way to do fraud, DHS makes this way hard. But still, if you are not getting paid, you can volunteer for this company.

Also, you are free to be paid as long as you are not resident of united states. This is where tourist visa is better.

Disclaimer: I am not a immigration lawyer and all of this is just my own opinion =))
Implementing Shazam with Java in a weekend
I didn't realize this for some reason, makes it a bit more obvious as to why you can actually embed C. /slaps forehead
15 years of best paper awards from top cs conferences
I think this is one of the biggest perks of YC: I have more friends because I did it, not fewer. I met some of my closest friends there (and even got introduced to my girlfriend through one of them).

Seems like a net gain to me ;-).
I will admit, i didn't know this, and that is great news. However upgrading Exchange is no trivial task, and it would seem fairly trivial to release an update for their 2007 OWA that fixes this.
Interestingly enough, I was thinking about this very domain name for a very similar application. I've written a logic simulator (of sorts) in C with a Qt frontend that supports multiple data types on wires, designed for home automation.
"It always follows the same pattern of arm waving and press releases, with a promised demonstration, and then the day of reckoning comes and...quiet."

A few minutes ago, live on stage at a security conference in Buenos Aires (#ekoparty) they popped local SYSTEM privileges remotely on both DotNetNuke and SharePoint installed in a typical production configuration.

In case you think they stacked the deck, those applications were chosen only a couple of days ago after Juliano asked on Twitter for suggestions for the presentation.
I must admit that I have no interest in the internals of how banks run themselves - I suspect that bankers can "innovate" their way round any potential regulatory restrictions anyway.

However, what I do care about is the moral hazard aspect - if a bank implodes and requires a bail using taxpayers money I sure as hell want individuals who gained from this situation to be held personally responsible. I would require directors of all banks over a "too big to fail" threshold to guarantee that their personal assets are on the line if there is a state bail out.

I think that might concentrate minds a bit so that they work out what is in their own self interest.
Found it on reddit compsci but thought it'd be more appropriate here.

The ranking on the bottom is interesting:

Microsoft Research	20.2

Carnegie Mellon University	19.77

University of Washington	14.67

Stanford University	12.43

IBM Research	9.7

Cornell University	9.62

University of California Berkeley	8.28

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	8.0

University of Alberta	7.14

University of British Columbia	7.0

Yahoo! Research	6.82

AT&T Laboratories	6.58

University of Toronto	6.33

Massachusetts Institute of Technology	5.53

University of Massachusetts Amherst	4.92
Why should video be any different from images? I wouldn't consider putting my sites images on imgur, why should I put videos on Youtube?
I think the idea here is that plants need a narrow set of frequencies and throw the rest away. If solar cells could capture the frequencies plants don't use, convert them to energy, then convert the energy to frequencies plants like, you've increased the efficency of your light-collection area.

You'll also have a garden full of black plants, which is both creepy and cool.
Great remake. It is missing the following however:

The second level where the shield is a solid block and the holes you punch in it cycle through the block. This level and the first one alternate throughout the game.

The disc should start off slow and get faster at chasing you as you progress through the levels.

When you get through enough levels, the force field goes away, allowing the disc to chase you everywhere.

The swirl that the Qotile turns into should get faster and more accurate and the interval before the swirl comes at you should get shorter as you progress through the levels.

I'm not trying to nitpick though, I really like this remake. I grew up playing these games.
having worked at an enterprise software company and working with several big clients (including banks), I find it surprising (and shocking to some extent) that JPMC didnt have a more efficient disaster recovery process in place.

I am not saying they didnt have one, just that disaster recovery scenarios should factor into such outages. Hypothetical fire drills etc. are needed at such critical businesses like banks.

My guess is that a bunch of people @ jpmc will most likely be losing their jobs over this.
This is very exciting. Following on GitHub & anxiously waiting for the demo video to finish converting.

However, doesn't this go slightly against Jolley's idea[1] that the tools should be free and available to everyone (including Linux and Windows users)? I understand this is not the de-facto tool for SproutCore development, but do you think that making an Interface Builder clone with SproutCore itself is a viable option? It would have a lovely meta-feel to it, like the Rubinius Ruby interpreter being written mostly in Ruby.

Neways, kudos for releasing the project. I'm going to try it later when I get home.

[1] http://blog.sproutcore.com/post/756343010/the-next-revolutio...
I think the fact that this got 38 upvotes proves that you overestimate HN's hivemindedness.
Not for rational reasons. In the US, HIV is mostly confined to tiny slices of the population (gays, blacks, IV drug users).

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm#inciden...
"The two login fields are unlabeled"

Fixed :)
You want one?

[Edit: Took me half an hour. In my defense, it is Saturday morning and I was chatting with a friend at the time.

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/ruby-buzzword-bingo

]
nope, just wanted to point out the same, and there's second comment about it too
Facebook expects fees from credits transactions to be a significant revenue source.
- Be more open to learning from, working with and using OSS software that was not written inside Redmond campus. I'm sure most of these projects would love to treat Windows as a first-class target platform. It's just not possible that Microsoft will be able to write best-in-class of every type of software. And I don't buy the argument that it opens you to a legal minefield. Apple is arguably a bigger company than you are now, by all the metrics that count, and manages to do this just fine. I have written software under the MIT license that is part of every shipping OS X installation now. It rocks.

- Licensing. Goddamn, fix it. DreamSpark/BizSpark is not the answer, it's a stalling tactic. I wouldn't use Microsoft technology for my own startup if it came to that, as I know licensing will kill me if I'm successful, and will also kill me if I'm not, once the timer runs out.

Background: Used to be a Linux/Unix dev, moved to .NET in 2004, but I still get offered jobs doing iPhone or Rails based web development on a regular basis due to my OSS profile. It's getting harder to turn them down, as I'm not convinced Microsoft's roadmap is not a dead end any more.
Commodore 64 Emulator for iOS Now Has BASIC
Oracle Outage at JPMorgan and Formal Proof of DB Validity
I fully agree that based on that case we can't establish the unique amount of percentage of the material. But also note how little of material can be considered infringement: The article I linked contains much more criteria than Jeff presented and has even more dramatic quote: in music "samples now had to be licensed, as long as they rose "to a level of legally cognizable appropriation."" I can imagine that for usage of the video material the court can be as much restrictive as for music.
Perhaps improved lighting would make it more effective and efficient today, but I'm reminded of the Sprung Greenhouse in St. John's, Newfoundland. Now, before anybody gets on the "government involvement is bad" bandwagon, try to keep in mind that Newfoundland has next to no agriculture at all, apart from a few root vegetables (it's a rock that alternates between barren land and impenetrable forest) and has always had to import most of its non-fish foodstuffs. Even given the importation expense, the greenhouse production was incredibly expensive compared to the existing supply chain. Putting production into a building doesn't change external light levels or prevent snow from accumulating on top of the greenhouse (or solar panels, reflector arrays, etc.). Even the wind levels were high enough that safe operation of windmills would have been difficult (sustained wind speeds regularly reach levels where normal turbines would be parked and feathered). Not saying that it can't work, just that it won't be cheap (so it's likely that transportation and ordinary production costs will have to rise quite a bit), it won't be easy in a lot of locations, and it's not a panacea.
What I did was just have separate run, step, and reset buttons next to the design canvas. Is that what you did before? What made it feel unnatural or unclean?
First the revision of the language restrictions, then the publication of the App Store guidelines, and now this. I suspect Apple had a run-in with the FCC that gave them considerable cause for concern.
It seems that most of the papers are hidden behind ACM's paywall. Of the ones that were part of my limited, random sample at least.
GeoServer + PostGIS is the typical setup, in my experience it's "light" enough.
You can pass through whatever you want but you should pay all the expenses through your LLC, otherwise you "pierce" the liability veil.

TIP: presuming you are in the US and you are married to someone who has a full-time job, you can save a large chunk of money if you sell 99% of your company to your spouse, have them be a passive partner, and distribute 99% profits to them. (Ask your accountant for details).
Not the official app.
See I view "maintenance" as the key to a business. Nothing stands still.
Everything is changing all the time. Except for those parts that you
nailed once and for all, and that the rest of the world agrees you
nailed, which is none of it.

Maintenance is king. Maintenance is the most interesting part of
business. Maintenance is the only way that you'll stay in business.

So, you can call maintenance boring, and I love you for it. Because
while you're standing still with your "perfect" initial system, I am
eating you lunch, drinking your wine, taking your customers, and
spending your cash.
WMS tiles are designated by such an URL. Implementing a WMS subset sufficient for something like this is close to trivial.
I can give you a ride

Yury

yury@yury.name
You asked for it, HN: Hipmunk adds Multi-City Searching and more
Awesome!
would have been even better if there were SIGCOMM,SIGMETRICS were included.
Certain people can’t be vaccinated (e.g. babies), they have to rely on herd immunity.
I did read the article that was referenced. I did not read the article that that article referenced. My point was about the comment on "over engineering". This problem was not cause by over engineering.
It has been very interesting over the course of the afternoon to watch the score the parent post (about "fascists on HN") by me has been getting.

I have seen it rated as high as 4 and as low as -1 (as of this moment it gets a 0, which is a downvote from 1 person).

Would seem to indicate that there is a lot of disagreement over the POV I posted.
>it depends on whether you're 1) a Facebook-hating neckbeard-sporting privacy nut - excuse me, libertarian

What exactly is so abnormal about being concerned with Facebook's privacy problems? Particularly, what issues are normal to be concerned about and what issues make one a "neckbeard-sporting privacy nut"?
Excellent remark. The demos are things that typically work just fine with tiled (e.g. WMS) raster images rather than vector data. It would be more interesting to see the vector aspect come to life.
just google the papers, or look up in google scholar :-)

In most cases, the authors would have uploaded it on their webpage.
This is especially interesting in light of the recent stories about Google offering huge raises and incentives to keep key employees from jumping to Facebook. Good thing that Google and Facebook don't have a no-poaching agreement.

But not so good that all these other companies had no poaching agreements.
There are now two ways to design SproutCore applications: Greenhouse and now SCXIB. Greenhouse is exactly what you described--an entirely SproutCore-based interface builder[1]. We created SCXIB to give developers more choice.

[1] http://blog.sproutcore.com/post/535950751/introducing-greenh...
Because your comments about local food are clearly written without a basic understanding of the breakdown of energy use.
Freight shipping uses about 1 gallon of gas/ton/500 miles. Over 80% of the costs are in the final few miles - trucking from the shipping depot to the markets.

Getting food locally delivered is far less energy efficient than having it shipped in bulk by freight to supermarkets.
Google Chrome Comic Book
This is right on the money. People will be blown away by what google maps will look like after enough browsers have WebGL capabilities and the maps team switches to that technology instead of the crude javascript tiling that they rely on right now.
Here are the ones for SIGCOMM:
http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/best-paper-award
It looks like there's only 3 years of them so it would be easy to add.

SIGMETRICS seems to have only a few years of awards as well. But there is no central list of them.
Ah, ok, I'm not sure why I didn't realize it would be more repository-style, haha.

In that case, how would it differ from Rubygem? Seems like many languages already have package managers, but I'm not sure what the requirements are for getting your code included, so maybe there's an opportunity there?
The tarsnap client does the encryption. The server never sees plaintext. I think it's reasonable to consider the tarsnap protocol as adequate separation, since an error on the server wouldn't be able to leak customer data (except for stats about size and access patterns, perhaps, but that could happen regardless of how the data is chunked together).
It says right in the article that was referenced:

Before long, JPMorgan Chase DBAs realized that the Oracle database was corrupted in about 4 files, and the corruption was mirrored on the hot backup.
Just as I would not trust the court to decide that vaccines don't cause autism, I don't trust the court to decide that vaccines do. The science decides, and pretty much has decided.

I'm not closed to the idea that vaccines could conceivably have some subtle detrimental effect, in fact I have some other non-mainstream beliefs about health issues, but the evidence just isn't there. When you're reduced to citing the fact that people are trying to discourage you from believing X as one of the primary reasons you believe X you are firmly in conspiracy nut territory.
This. People should be dense, farms should be sparse.

Taking city land to grow crops is NOT carbon-efficient. The far more carbon-efficient method would be to use city land for more housing, and use suburbia for farms.

Think of it this way: people commute both ways every day, but food commutes only once.

I'm not even going to get into the idea that it's more carbon-efficient to grow bananas in South America and ship them to New York than it would be to heat and light a greenhouse in New York...
I think you mean FTC?
Invites are not implemented. They have already changed websockets many times since the release. If you have an install you're probably busy merging changes and reconfiguring your web server, flushing the database and debugging it and all people capable of maintaining such an unstable environment realize that it's for testing only, I have yet to meet anyone who's using it to store personal/production data. Stop freaking people out, only devs are playing with it, and if some people are not, this is open source, there's nothing we can do about it.

And may I add, I think it is really great that many public seeds are being deployed, this is the only and best way to test a social federated network, pre-alpha or not.
Diaspora Considering Abandoning AGPL?
Jeff has it wrong. This isn't about fair use, this is about YouTube's content policies. And if YouTube doesn't want any copyrighted content being hosted on their site (fair use or not), they have the right to remove it. I don't understand why it's so hard to realize that YouTube is letting you host video on their site for free. If you want fair use to apply, host it on your own server and spend your own money on the bandwidth costs.
Do hardworking employees make their lazy colleagues more productive?
No, it is because the moderation policies on this site are absurd and comments saying "it sucks" get modded up while a reasonable comment gets modded down.

Bottom line the world is running out of hydrocarbons. Things that look "energy efficient" to you today won't look so efficient in 50 or so years. Peak oil already happened in the United States, Hubert's peak is reasonably well accepted, and the idea that shipping food thousands of miles is a long term sustainable strategy for feeding humanity or that the entire world can live like the people in Silicon Valley and New York City is laughable.

That is my last comment on HN - mods, please prove my point by voting it down.
Isn't it what SOAP + WSDL were supposed to solve?
Maintenance is just development without innovation; even new projects are boring when they lack innovation. Turning something that already exists into something that is 10 times better can be just a rewarding as building something from scratch.
Click through to the David Brooks NYTimes article. The real story here is that there is a mismatch between supply and demand.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/opinion/10brooks.html?_r=1...

One of the perversities of this recession is that as the unemployment rate has risen, the job vacancy rate has risen, too. Manufacturing firms can’t find skilled machinists. Narayana Kocherlakota of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank calculates that if we had a normal match between the skills workers possess and the skills employers require, then the unemployment rate would be 6.5 percent, not 9.6 percent.

The Economist article expands upon this thesis for the high-tech industry. Just as there aren't enough skilled machinists, there also are not enough skilled founders in the domestic market.
Ugh, so now there is a Programmer StackExchange separate from StackOverflow? Were the off-topic, 'water cooler' posts really that bad?
"With HTML5 and AJAX..." Show me a good web app and I might agree. Your point, for now, is theoretical.