skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The offer was to the maker of this ALU, who is not Notch (the maker of Minecraft). These are two different people.
But if you form a cabal to make front page of HN - whether your clique be Twitter followers or a "group of friends" on this site - it's gaming the system.

Essentially, that is what the article advocated (oh, and write interesting content - duh).
MS making their browser work on other OS's makes about as much sense as MS making their file system explorer app work on other OS's.
Compliance Leads to Security Breaches
Great slides and great job extending Hotmail/PayPal viral growth formula.
what are you trying to achieve with the voting? and what is the incentive for volunteers to put hours into packaging work if they're being motivated by votes rather than their personal interests?
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A "cabal" typically refers to a group secretly united to promote their own interests. I'm not sure that tweeting a link to a blog post meets that criteria.
Here is also The Golden Grid http://code.google.com/p/the-golden-grid/ it's less than 1kb.
Yeah... it's subtle. I only noticed it because I was on my own site at the time and (after closing the ad) stopped to wonder why the hell my site was serving up adverts.
Especially with the answer about visualisation, the summary was spot on. Seriously, what the fuck, Microsoft? Your browser is so precious that you can't release it as a standalone product so the entire world can move on?
Thanks for sharing that. Justtook a quick look at it for now, but it really seems to be a great document (at least in my case, who end up studying alone).
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Corrected link: http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/carousel-pattern-pt1-html
For all his brilliance, Erdos was unable to answer the Monty Hall Problem correctly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem.

For those who don't know it, the problem requires no math except a very basic grasp of probability. Personally, I find it somewhat absurd that you can be considered a mathematical legend but still miss that problem. I think it even took Erdos some time (months) to accept the solution, but I don't have a citation for that.

He's not alone, either. Lots of mathematicians miss that problem, which makes me wonder about the fundamentals of a Math education.
Their entire attitude is worrying. I'm afraid that this is going to hinder the web again, it just looks like they want to release the bare minimum they can to get marketshare instead of actually make a good browser.

Opera, with its 5% market share (or so) has been reigning on the tests and innovation for ever, and Microsoft can't get enough employees together to work on a browser?

As far as I'm concerned, nobody should recommend IE for anything, as the risk of Microsoft pulling another IE6 is too high, and not worth the reward.
When I got to the part about "Warm Colors Pop, Cool Colors Recede", I was startled by the text. My eye had already been drawn to the figure, and for me, blue popped and red receded.
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Of course, but we have a much clearer idea of what sustains health than ancient civilizations.

I'm not so sure about that. I usually offer two of my favourite links that describe well how the human health deteriorated when agriculture became widely adopted.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/paleopathology...
http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/m...

I think that paleolithic diet is more natural - one can eat pretty much all fruits and vegetable but does not have to avoid animal products. The idea is to avoid 'neolithic' foods - those that came into human diet less than 10-20K years ago: processed foods, sugars, grains etc.
You won't, why should you? apart the fact that it probably costs them money to send them back, I for example am just happy that i don't have to pay from now on. Since I have only 2 private collaborators.
Hm, no. Internet explorer is used to view content of the publicly available documents. File explorer is nothing of the sort.

I would rather parallel IE to various document viewers (.doc viewer, for example) which Microsoft provides free of charge. And which, sadly, also aren't available for other platforms.
The easiest way of covering the basics of EU privacy law is to register in one of the countries of the EU. If you are registered in one you are covered by all. This is far simpler then going down the safe harbour route. The UK is quite simple to register with. http://www.ico.gov.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_Disclosure_Act_of_1995

"The term "lobbyist" means any individual who is employed or retained by a client for financial or other compensation for services that include more than one lobbying contact, other than an individual whose lobbying activities constitute less than 20 percent of the time engaged in the services provided by such individual to that client over a six month period."

87 guys signed one letter and sent it to a committee (not all 100 senators).

I know these 87 guys are awesome, but that is not how Senators are influenced. Now, if they took the Senators to lunch or dinner, flew them to exotic locales to play golf, and gave the senator's relatives cushy jobs in various tech companies, well, I would be more optimistic about the outcome and I would consider these 87 people lobbyists.
Because:

* Mono-cultures are bad security-wise, it's harder to target multiple platforms with different vulnerabilities then one platform (which is one of the reasons IE had such a bad reputation for a long time)

* It prevent people from coding to specific browser bugs/quirks. When there are a lot of platforms it is easier to code to standards (if they are consistently implemented across browsers) then specific platforms. Theoretically at least..
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Yeah well... thanks to people like you bitbucket will struggle to gain bigger community. Why not start projects on bitbucket, and then if it will not work out, move to github?
I DID get help from other people and commited my patches to some projects on bitbucket(also did on git). It's not like you wont get help on bb - its just a tool in the end.
I personally think that while carousels are eye candy, they are just a fad. At my place of work, the designers have standardized on using them for many sites for a year or so now, and we have been sick of them for about that long. There was a study a few years ago that showed that people are fascinated with faces and like photos on sites. But when the site designer can't decide on a single photo to best convey the myriad of ideas they are trying to relate on the page, they rotate them with a way to navigate between them using the same "carousel" pattern.

Interaction on a page is good, but when you start making decisions about what they user should see next (e.g. like the the fading in and out of news headlines that used to be on news sites in the early 2000s), you may as well just show video or some fancy animation, because the user is getting distracted rather than seeing the static content they typically want to see. Slideshows that can be set to automate via "play slideshow" are just fine, though.
The linked examples of infographic resumes are really, really hard to read.

If I were hiring a designer, I would probably power through it to see if they had the experience needed, but the difficulty in reading the resume would be a mark against them.

You have to design for your audience. Because these are hard to read, an interviewer is going to be annoyed.

The only one I might exempt from this is the first one by 'Michael Anderson'. While harder to read than a normal resume, it seems to present the same information, with a little humor added. Some of the graphics don't seem to mean anything (why do the lines change height?) but once you ignore those, the rest is pretty clear.
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My last company (who did environmental modelling) would have paid for this. We and other people in our work network always needed something like this. I imagine university and government departments, mining companies, environmental consultancies would find this useful.

How did you do your initial market research? Unless this is the only tool you are thinking of selling, I wouldn't give up so easily as GIS is a huge market and the most popular software (ArcGIS and MapInfo) sucks in so many ways.

Have you spent any time on the ESRI forums? You might find some leads there, but more importantly will learn about people's pain points.
One thing i'm hoping for are better community building tools on bitbucket for projects to promote themselves. This is the only part missing to get a bigger community
Meaning you could share the iPad with other members of the house, and each member could have their own login with their own preferences, their own bookmarks, plugins, history, saved passwords, etc.
Roads and currency? I suppose we could get into a detailed conversation about how well decentralized, voluntary forms of organization could create and sustain these - I'd suggest that they could, and often do - but for the sake of argument, I'll concede the point. Roads are slabs of pavement in the ground; currency are tokens used as a means of exchange. These are pretty mundane things, hardly the wellspring of society, and I do hope you'd agree that roads, currency, and other similar goods are consequences of, and not prerequisites for, a well-functioning society.

The question of contract enforcement is more interesting. I would entirely agree that law is a necessary mechanism, without which the few 'bad apples' in society would spoil the rest. But I think it's important to note that if breaches of contract - that is, failure of people to maintain their voluntary arrangements in good faith - were the general case rather than outliers, no amount of law could prevent society from failing. The judicial process is a tool we can use as a fallback solution to protect those arrangements we freely create with others. But it should be clearly distinguished from the regulatory mentality which seeks to prescriptively define those relationships in advance, and compel adherence to a set of prepackaged social models without specific regard to the preferences and expectations of the individuals in each case. The regulatory model designs the overarching system around the outlier failure conditions rather than permitting the flexibility that optimizes the general case. Law is appropriately the brake pedal, not the gas.

I'd disagree with your perceptions of America as being particularly disconnected and paranoid - Americans are stereotypically confident and optimistic - although I think that individualism and cultural pluralism in America might often lead to more paranoia about social policies that seek universal solutions to complex problems. There may be a reason why the social democratic model seems to work most effectively in the cultures where 'Jante law' is most evident.
Any thoughts on the question I made before that (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1736446)?

And yeah, I thought of mentioning trampolines, didn't know that it already had a readymade one. Sometimes they add too much overhead, but often it's still a good trade-off.
Sounds like they painted a target around the Bible's arrow... Wasn't everyone arguing before that it was the "Reed Sea" they actually crossed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Sea
I really hate to start yet another Monty Hall Problem discussion, but it's worth noting that the Monty Hall Problem is often ambiguously phrased -- it's not specified whether the host has to open a door to show a goat or not. If Erdos got confused, it's probably because he heard an ambiguous version.
Yes, sorry, there is definitely a theorem that if you have an infinite sequence, uniformly distributed over an alphabet, then the probability of seeing any finite sequence is 1. I think that, given some assumptions, you can model the universe as an infinite numerical sequence, so you should see all finite events.

However, the assumptions here seem tricky. Uniform distribution of probability seems unlikely, and if the universe is anything like the game of life, there are garden of Eden states with no predecessor state, which an evolving system cannot reach, even in infinite time.

Cardinality is indeed tricky. I had thought that all finite sequences would be greater than aleph-null, but apparently it isn't.
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while your comment is probably not appropriately worded for this community here, I have to agree: The pigs jumping around in the machine gave the video a new surreal dimension.

Consider all the work that went into this creation.

Finally - after everything is finished and everything works, the author takes his time to show us around. He's showing all the little details. All the ingenuity in the various components.

And then, in the middle of the tour, you see pigs jumping around.

I don't know. Maybe I have a simple mind, but I was highly amused - especially knowing what a piece of art the creator of the video was showing us.
Yes.

Screenshot: http://f.cl.ly/items/c7779c1655181c328845/4ac9757b00d99e9143...

From:
http://hexxeh.net/?p=328117590

If you look at the Chromium OS http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/ blog http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/wiki/doku.php?id=faq#what_are_the... then in the FAQ you'll note:

"What are the default username/passwords for this build?

Default username is facepunch, default password is facepunch."

It's multi-user.

You can share the iPad with others in your household and instead of being a social device in the shared nature, you can opt to return it to being a user device that many people can have their own account on.

The essence of this is that unlike the Kindle or iPad, you could access whatever you want, download whatever you want, safe in the knowledge that the next user of the device wouldn't see it.
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Actually, I think the general term for this is a "pipe". (I've seen it called "generate and test [programming]" in Prolog books, but that's specific to a filtering pipe.)
staging would fit well within the work flow outlined above: you just branch out a staging branch, and export that. If the client needs any fixes, you fix it on the stating branch, and merge it back to master.

That way, further development on master won't disturb staging.

Once the client is happy, tag staging and export it to production.
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People trying to explain miracles say a lot of weird things. I mean, it's a story about a supernatural event. You don't have to believe it, but don't try to explain it. The story isn't made to be explained.
sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

Drop caches was originally added for benchmarking purposes, but I've found running it every N minutes seems to help system responsiveness. (I've been unable to quantify it, unfortunately.)
...Really? You find that absurd that he just made a simple goof to a fun problem like that? Believe me, Mathematicians are spending their time focused on much more important and difficult problems than the Monty Hall problem, so don't wonder too much.

And even by your own admission it involves no mathematical ability so why couldn't a Mathematician not get it, right?
Not meaning to toot my own horn, but just to give a testimonial for blogging: At the client I'm working for right now initial contact was at C-level. (At a software company which you've heard of.) That isn't the first time that happened, either -- if people are really interested in what you have to say, recruiters, resumes, and the HR department are not merely bypassed, they're never even thought of.
I got the initial idea from a customer I was doing some geocoding work for. The initial market research was figuring out if people were searching for such conversions (keyword tool), checking out current competition, reading forums and posts about how converting was a painful activity. I decided to just go for it and get an mvp up and running (I have had paralysis through analysis before).

This is the only GIS tool that I have as of now. I have spent time on the ESRI forums (since the shape file conversion is what most people search for). I probably should not give up on GIS as a market though. Thanks for that.
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Liked your post, but a note that 'installing from source' doesn't correlate to lack of packaging. All OSS apps are installed from source, any anyone who knows autotools can package most things they're building in a few seconds on most Linux distros.

I compile stuff from source all the time, I just run rpmbuild -bb foo.spec instead of typing configure, make install manually.
Knowing of the Erdős number is the requirement for understanding http://xkcd.com/599/
The good: he spent a lot of time learning about logic circuits

The bad: he spent a lot of time making a simulation of a logic circuit that has no practical application I can imagine

It's probably a net plus overall, since learning and modeling what one knows is a great way to reinforce it, but one is left with the impression that this is a person who can spend a lot of time on things.

I hate to be a prude, and everybody loves a hobby, but we keep seeing these stories of guys who spend hundreds or thousands of hours on these very unusual and detailed configurations of virtual goods -- the maximized Sim City guy comes to mind. Something about our praising this behavior bugs me. I guess it's not clear to me the difference between unnaturally focusing in on small things - -like in Aspergers -- and just having a hobby. Aside from this guy, who seems wonderfully well-balanced, I wonder if we're not praising people who might actually need help.

I don't know. I probably didn't say that as well as I could.
The problem is that there is a latency hit required for a thread running on node 0 to access memory on node 1. Furthermore, this uses Hypertransport on AMD or QPI on Intel, which has limited bandwidth so if you get too many off-node memory accesses, performance begins to suffer.

The real solution to this issue is for MySQL to become NUMA aware and place threads and the cached data blocks those threads are accessing more intelligently on nodes that have enough space. Other more robust databases like Oracle already do this, having been running on NUMA architectures for decades now.
Good post.

The manager doesn't always have to fit that description totally to be a bad manager. As the post suggests, if people are saying "You should check with ____ before doing that," that probably indicates some micromanagement tendencies, which are just as demoralizing and counterproductive, even if the manager is otherwise well-loved as a person by some/all members of the team.

Also, if a team member tells you: "If you want to make that change, just do it, because if you check with ____, it'll take a while or might never happen," that is a sign of an overly-political manager.

Finally, I'd like to add the "smiley"/"fake" manager attitude. It's one thing to have a fun manager, but at some point you expect that your manager is trying to get work done. If they seem always happy and poking fun at things, it can be really annoying and make you second guess why they are trying to make everything seem so fun (probably because it sucks).
"nothing stops you from generalizing this to say a frame from a video"

This is 100% true. A coworker of mine implemented an elevation-bitmap-to-3d-model conversion tool in 160 lines of Awk. It ran faster than our "good" Matlab tool by a factor of 10.

Awk (or Perl) doubles the usefulness of Unix. Most of the common commands in Unix are query commands. When you need to start manipulating queried data, Awk is where the rubber meets the road. Piping data through the shell stops being read-only, and becomes interactive.
from what i remember, "the unix programming environment" by pike et al is also pretty good, and contains a basic introduction to most of the unix utilities.
Cool. Why isn't it 1.0?
Do you have any references for Microsoft's invention of HTML tables, CSS* , SSL2 and 'i18n DNS'?

* Sure, IE may have had CSS support before Netscape but that hardly makes it their innovation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Css#History

hasLayout? (I know what it is, but, seriously?)

CSS applied to chrome: do you mean styling scrollbars?

XMLHttpRequest is a great thing, as is contentEditable. And IE5 was a really good browser for its time. The criticisms at that point were not generally technical but to do with motivation. IE gained market share in the upper 90% range and that, not criticism, is why the following decade of web development was marked by technological stagnation.
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Even if you don't want to pursue the idea any further, I would not let the app die, unless it costs you a significant amount of money to run the site. Why not keep it as showcase for WebStartupper?

Two comments on the page itself: $10 seems steep, how did you find that price point? Your layout does not use the available screen space and requires unnecessary scrolling. It also looks broken on the contact page.
It's been a while since I've touched awk, but I've certainly got a lot of use from it when ripping data out of logfiles and using it elsewhere on the command-line.

I can recommend this text file of awk one-liners:

http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt

And for completeness, here's one for sed:

http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt
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His definition never really mentions that scripting languages usually script (give a convenient interface to) code written in a more efficient but lower-level language. Good presentation, though.

Oddly, for a paper on scripting languages, it never mentions Lua. (It's not clear when the presentation was written.)
Not really on the same scale. If you're a hedge fund, the most you can make in a year is some small percentage of your total assets under management, so you need to persuade people to give you billions (at least hundreds of millions) before you can start raking in the kind of dough that pays salaries.
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Are you saying that IE invented tables, embed, css etc? That is not true. Embed were invented by Netscape. Tables were a IETF proposal that were implemented by Netscape first. Css were a W3C proposal, although IE were the first mainstream browser to implement it.

hasLayout is a workaround for a bug in IE's rendering engine.

I thought IE were the last browser to support i18n domain names.

You may be correct about the rest though, and contentEditable and XMLHttpRequest are great features we can thank IE for.
Forget the word "pivot". It's too vague to be helpful.

Rather, I would look for another instance of the same class.

You believe that your instance (converting GIS files from Format A to Format B) has no market. That may or may not be true. But I firmly believe that the Class "converting <x> from <y> to <z>" does have many instances with huge potential. There are tons of people and businesses using something that they would prefer was something else. Maybe an older version, format, or implementation. It could be anything. It's up to you to find them and identify what they need.

You already have one instance of "morphing", but it's not quite what you want. Find the right one.
There I agree, without the academic qualifications, people will hardly listen to you talking about formal Hilbert spaces, Jaccard index, etc.