skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google should just get in contact with Hacker News - they are great at preventing their precious data from getting out. I've never seen a big data set go up on bit torrent and have all traces vanish so rapidly!
I have to say, for every provider I've looked at, the cost of disk space on virtual hosts seems insanely excessive.
I've been told by an engineer friend of mine that the radiation dose these scanners deliver was dwarfed by the in-flight cosmic irradiation.

He didn't give me numbers, though. It would be nice if a radiotherapist (or another expert) could chime in on this topic.

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edit: answering my own question: he's wrong.

from [1] :

>The estimated occupational effective dose for the aircraft crew (A 320) working 500 h per year was 1.64 mSv.

> Other experiments, or dose rate measurements with the neutron dosimeter, consisting of LR-115 track detector and boron foil BN-1 or 10B converter, were performed on five intercontinental flights.

> Comparison of the dose rates of the non-neutron component (low LET) and the neutron one (high LET) of the radiation field at the aircraft flight level showed that the neutron component carried about 50% of the total dose.

> The dose rate measurements on the flights from the Middle Europe to the South and Middle America, then to Korea and Japan, showed that the flights over or near the equator region carried less dose rate; this was in accordance with the known geomagnetic latitude effect.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...
http://www.torproject.org/ ?
I would continue to use whatever layout I was using before up until the point where my speed or convenience starts to suffer.

Once I find myself trying to type stuff that'd be easier with a native layout, I'd change. Not a moment before.

In my case, chances are I'd be still writing code mostly, for which my layout is perfectly adequate. The odd native-language text is no big deal, not worth switching to a different layout just because of that. Only when those become the majority.

Granted, when trying to use someone else's keyboard, it becomes a bit of a problem. But that's why you tell people to make it easy to switch between their layout, and yours (and in turn, you set up your computer to be able to switch to their layout aswell).

At work, I have three layouts: the plain old boring US qwerty, hungarian qwertz (for those collegues who prefer that), and programmer dvorak. Takes a single key combo to switch to any of them, and everyone's happy.
I got a job tutoring first year students (I'm a masters student), which has really forced me to understand the course material thoroughly. Answering the same questions over and over about report and essay structure, referencing, and the importance of reading the assignment outline has made me a lot more aware of these when working on my own projects too. Also, it's not officially part of my job (i.e. I don't get paid for it), but I always offer to review drafts and critique students' structuring, language use, and grammar, which really reinforces good habits when I have to write something myself.
IBM's new zEnterprise mainframe architecture
Kholsa Wins GroupMe Funding Round
Update: the firehose feed is working again.

http://scripting.com/stories/2010/11/09/myHackerNewsFirehose...
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I agree that the figures would be useful. His response in the comments was reasonable though:

"Prepared Statement is still expensive in MySQL. It avoids SQL parsing, but it still has to open/lock/unlock/close tables, make query execution plans, etc."
Here's a copy of the message the APA president sent to pilots: http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/11/apa-pres...
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That letter is from April. The FDA wrote a response last month: http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmitt...

The recommended limit for annual dose to the skin for the general public is 50,000 µSv. The dose to the skin from one screening would be approximately 0.56 µSv when the effective dose for that same screening would be 0.25 µSv. Therefore the dose to skin for the example screening is at least 89,000 times lower than the annual limit.

Most of the concerns in the letter are addressed. It's easy to spread FUD, but these devices are likely safe. Other organizations and governments have evaluated their safety independently.
Things you didn't know about multithreaded programming
Leave Guard/Reserve off your resume in the future, maybe? From what I understand, it's illegal to consider that during employment decisions anyways.
Ask HN: A Venture Capital Primer For Total Newbies?
I just thought of the complete newbie, probably straight out of school, yet buzzing with an idea and looking for an investor to fund his concept, turning it into something viable to put in the market.

Does a centralised glossary of terms exist explaining such terms as liquidation preference, term sheet, MVP and so on?

Also, and most importantly, should boards of education this sort of thing as part of their curriculum, briefing the young on the protocols of investment and marketing from school age? Me, I'd welcome that idea - it if teaches the kids of tomorrow about handling money, it could lead to a far more sophisticated youth population, savvy in how to handle themselves in self-employment.

Plus, it'd make the government's plans for employing the young redundant. Which appeals to me.
It used to be possible to require both password and pubkey authentication (which is a form of two-factor authentication). Unfortunately this was discontinued in newer versions of OpennSSH (I have no idea why).
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> Please, let's not ever tell the TSA about timers. Or altimeters.

I think this sums it all up.
"Planet News": Obama arrives in Indonesia
Facebook 'Liberating' you gmail contact data?

Sounds like Nazis 'liberating' France in WW2.
I'm so glad someone understands.
The airglow in that photo is beautiful, I don't think I've ever seen that effect appear in such a way before.
My friends and I recently changed our server over from password to key-based, and a small unintended consequence came up: I could no longer SSH from my phone! I'm told that I can get my key on my phone somehow, but I've been too lazy to actually do it. Luckily I figured this out before it was important.

Then again, I'm not sure how important that actually is...
Ruby's syntax is also far more opaque at first glance than Python's is. Ruby in my experience isn't any more concise than Python, and often falls into the same trap as Perl of having "more than one way to do it"
W3C Accepted as an ISO/IEC PAS Submitter on a “Take it or Leave it” Basis
My ex-girlfriends sister-in-law was a consultant at one of the three main providers you've mentioned in your post. She wore glasses, and I once asked her why she didn't get the surgery done herself.

Her response: The long-term effects have not been studied thoroughly (i.e. large samples, etc.) and enough time hasn't passed yet for patterns to emerge in terms of any long-term complications that can withstand rigorous scientific analysis.

I said to myself: When she gets her eyesight corrected through laser eye surgery, I will to. She still hasn't.

I remember a few years ago the National Health Service's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence released some results showing that LASIK wasn't really effective for treating severe short- or long-sightedness. I can't find this study now, and things may have changed. This was at least 5+ years ago. Still, worth mentioning and possibly finding out more if you're seriously considering this.
Just as a general policy, I don't willingly step into superfluous machines intended to irradiate me.
Is it likely that anyone will want to solve all of these problems at the same time?
Google could also make an API requiring an API key to access it (for services/tools that depend on it). Refuse to give Facebook an API key, and allow apps that depend on the current method to transition. Within 30 days or so, shut down access to it via the predictable URL and make it some crazy URL when they request it.
It depends; sometimes, you'll see a huge pro-agile crowd, other times, not so much. This is accentuated if you s/agile/tdd/g;.

I'd wager this is largely due to how one is first exposed to agile methodologies. I'm young enough that I stumbled across agile as a way to solve problems, and so it sounds pretty good to me. However, my slightly older colleagues remember agile as the Newest Management Fad, with high priced consultants, seminars, certifications, and your boss paying lip service to change while still Not Getting It to match.

I like agile's philosophy, but I can certainly see lots of criticisms of Agile.
> But why oh why is the whole page built from tiny little Flash things? It looks ridiculous if Click2Flash (or similar) is installed. Unusable.

Custom fonts, HTML4-way.
For The Unemployed Search Engine Marketing Could Save Your Life
The unemployment rate is really nothing to joke about these days because the reality is that jobs are hard to come by. Employers have figured out how to keep their businesses moving forward with less staff so why would they hire back? Chances are many will not be bringing back any of the unemployed but there is good news, have you heard of the internet? It is this wonderful magical place where dreams can come true from just an idea. More small business licenses have been applied for just in the last 24 months than in the last 10 years in the United States indicating that we are seeing an entrepreneur boom.
If you aren't giving yourself room for expected and
-->unexpected<-- loads, you're doing it wrong.

You're using that word, I'm not sure it means what you think it means.

Over here in the real world, many applications (and notably web-applications) have one thing in common: They change all the time.

Your capacity plan from October might have been amazingly accurate for the software that was deployed and the load signature that was observed then.

Sadly now, in November, we have these two new features that hit the database quite hard. Plus, to add insult to injury, there's another old feature (that we had basically written off already) that is suddenly gaining immense popularity - and nobody can really tell how far that will go.

Sound familiar?
Researchers at McMaster Find Way to Convert Skin to Blood
Additionally, I noticed in the paper this morning that a load of people had Photoshopped the Queen's images into all sorts of odd images (in football attire, as a McBurger flipper, as a hitman, etc.)
living up to Mysoreans reputation for being polite. i see :)
There is an apparently dwindling minority of people who would consider this to be sarcasm and not irony. For these few, irony is never merely logical negation. It necessarily involves unintended and opposite consequences flowing from the protagonist's actions. A short internet search suggests I may be the last of this kind.
I like the idea of Zones on different continents.

Not only can this provide faster responses for each continent, but it also enables peak times in one time-zone to be supplemented by resources in off-peak time-zones. Though I guess the latter is true of any cloud infrastructure, even if centralized.
C and C++ were the same language last time I used them. So were Pascal, ObjectPascal, and Delphi, 3 separate languages in the top 50. And Clojure is Lisp, but Scheme isn't!
I'm continually amazed by the contributions Google makes to the open-source community. I wish I was born in ~1995 :(
When I try to do something like that the second display just demands attention and I end up less productive than using something like Spaces. Also, a second monitor makes my eyes tired faster, even when I'm not looking at it (just the brightness bugging me).
That's fine though. Society has already determined that 3000 people dying in a terrorist attack is much scarier than 500,000 people that die every year from heart disease. Otherwise we'd be spending money on encouraging a heart-healthy lifestyle rather than preventing someone from bringing a toothpaste-bomb onto a plane.

It's clear that if we can save 200 business travelers and vacationers from incineration, it's worth killing off a few senior citizens. Won't someone please think of the children?

(Hey, this isn't my policy. If someone asked me, "is it worth hurting someone to possibly save someone else", I would have said no. But nobody ever asks me about these things!)
Ah, but there's no guarantee that the students have Windows machines at home. I agree that replicating a development environment in one's own system is important -- which is why it's important to take into account households (like mine) where all the computers run OS X.

Windows is not as dominant as it once was.
This is a mirror image of the situation in Vietnam, not surprisingly. Loads of families who have saved too much money and are willing to send their ill-prepared children to no-name American universities (or community colleges). Lots of stories of students adjusting to student life abroad "too well", dropping out and spending their parents' tuition money on partying. In either case, ROI can easily be measured in decades.

OTOH, I see China's education system rapidly catching up, in sciences although maybe not in liberal arts.
I completely agree on all counts.

On top of that, VB.NET makes it almost trivial to transition to C#, which is a hugely important language right now.

VB.NET can also give you a hint of mix-ins (through interfaces and extension methods) and functional programming. Not saying you'll get there in the class, but it's out there. The .NET platform gives you a taste of almost every programming paradigm out there. It's very versatile.

If you want to go through LPTHW, nothing is stopping you. In fact, you don't even have to wait for the class to begin. Just start.
My problem is that the items I'm most interested in never really get the upvotes to pass the thresholds, so I'm looking to train a Bayesian filter to match my interests, and rank items based on that.

I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I don't know if they're using a particular feature, but Reddit is basically using Postgres as a KVS.

They said it was actually faster than other KVSes they tried. This was also a while ago.
I actually did a market analysis of the EC2 spot price (they give you a year of price history in JSON format). The spot price was under the reserved price for all but a few hours since it came out. The savings in general were around 30-50% (depending on instance size), with higher savings coming from using spot market pricing in the non-VA markets (CA, EU, Asia), where prices were higher to start with.

Why don't people just bid the reserve price on the spot market, and never lose the bid? You'll still pay less...
I use Opera mini extensively on my phone, probably more than the Phone/SMS aspects. I would certainly opt in for all kinds of intrusive behaviour (behavioral advertising, changing ads, adding appropriate ads sometimes) to allow Opera to continue offering that proxying service for free and allocating development resources when required.
ie. My Samsung B3310 doesn't let me rotate Opera Mini so using the keyboard is awkward but surely there are so many phones out there that it would take considerable resources for Opera to continue to respond to all the feedback.

I use AdThwart on my desktop Google Chrome though!
People tollerate them because they won they social space. The winners always get free passes on things that only matter to a few people. Most people dont think about getting their data out. Where would they put it?
In earlier versions of OS X (<= 10.3 (?)), ⌘Q when in the Finder quits it, just like any other application, which was a little disconcerting the first time you did it (by mistake).
When it reaches it's first anniversary... It'll be under the tree by Christmas Eve.
Thanks, I missed all these submissions.
Wonder if there will be statistics released on how many google users export data using this method. That would signal an interesting trend. Of course anything coming from Facebook HQ would have to taken with a pinch of salt.
That's a good point - you could argue it doesn't free you from the need of a good admin, and it actually makes it more difficult to hire someone who knows what they are doing; good cloud SA skills are much more rare than good traditional SA skills.

When you can just drive to the datacenter and toss in some more disks or drop your new F5 on there (or hack it together with CARP), but instead have to be familiar with exactly what the restrictions and use cases around the cloud providers offerings are; the field of candidates just got painfully smaller, and probably more expensive.
My first experience with Agile was a housemate describing this amazing new design system that meant he could get right into coding without any tedious planning and sort everything out later.

He created a startup for his pet project, eventually managed to get one customer for his product and then realised his idea was fundementally flawed and would never be commerically viable or even supportable.

That is still my impression of Agile - full speed ahead, buzzwords to maximum power and hope for the best.
Apple Patents Scrollable Menu Toolbars For OS X Lion and iOS
I actually just looked up the video where they talk about this yesterday.

Here it is: http://thinkvitamin.com/code/steve-huffman-on-lessons-learne...

It's called "Lessons Learned at Reddit", and mostly talks about building and deploying large-scale web applications (the technical, not business side of things.) Well worth watching (there's also a transcript.)
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"Most" of the concerns ...

... are "likely" safe.

It's a tiny line between FUD and alertness. I prefer people bring this stuff up every now and then to remind all of us to never stop questioning things.
uhhhh... i can't believe so much blogspam is getting in here
Western-style emoticon, happy mouth :-D

Japanese-style emoticon, happy eyes ^_^
It's school. Use what they tell you to use. When you get into the real world at a company, you will get told to do tons of stupid crap you wont want to do. And you can learn to do it, or find a different job. If you want to be able to do whatever you want, become good enough at something to be your own boss (or be good enough to have a great job at a great company). And for you to do that, learning how to program from your teacher is not going to help. Learn python on your own and learn VB.net from your teacher. If you don't have the motivation to do that, you'll be stuck in bad jobs doing shit you don't want to do anyway, and clearly school has yet to teach you that vital lesson.

Oh to be a teenager again.
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Some relatively lucid observations there. (Disclaimer: I'm an expert. I was into Agile before it got named that.)

There's one point that I starkly disagree with:

> “Hero developers” make most of the big differences made in software development.

Wait, did I say I disagree? Hero developers make a big difference all right - for the worse. Nothing breeds bad management like the one guy who pulls through when the team can't. Managers come to rely on them, and therefore on sheer blind luck, when the name of the game is to engineer success, by putting together a solid team.
Alanis Morisette's "Isn't it Ironic?" was an ironic tragedy for us all.
...in Java. Or at least, the JVM.

Does anyone know the limits of the JVM for multithreading? e.g. Max number of cores
This looks like a Swiss Army-knife of "Social Media" functions which, by the way, happens to have a web browser attached. As computing is slowly moving to the pocket, I see discrete cooperative components as more of a solution than an uber desktop umbrella with tiny embedded dedicated functions. But take my opinion with a grain of salt since I actively limit my "Social Media" foot print.
This has already been done to death on HN.
1) "Doing your job" is never an excuse for doing what is wrong.
2) These pat-downs are wrong.

If you agree with the first 2 points, it seems to me that making the wrong-doer personally accountable is a reasonable response. Yes, their boss several thousand miles away also needs to be held to account, but so do the people physically executing the searches.
It does not matter if they are safe (which they aren't), it matters that they be removed.

A little fud now and then is a good thing.
You make a valid point, and I probably should have centered more around CS majors seeking software development positions. I have not investigated this, but I have to assume that a large percentage of CS majors end up working in software development at some point or other; thus it seems a slight modification to the CS major could prove fruitful.

This also touches on the ever-sensitive recruiter/hiring manager issues. So many recruiters seeking a software developer have a mandatory checkbox that indicates Computer Science degree; which (as you point out), just is not an appropriate fit; but why not?

Also, Dijkstra was a bright guy, but I don't think the distinction between Computer Science and computers is at stake here. There are plenty of skilled software engineers who couldn't replace RAM if their project depended on it. However, I don't think the jump from the theory and foundation of computer science to software development techniques is a large one. Wikipedia (citing numerous sources) calls Computer Science - the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. I think your CS distinction is the first clause - and I think it's important. Nonetheless, my point falls into the second clause, and learning the "practical techniques for their implementation" seems more economical for most individuals.
This would need some sort of "global load balancing" prob using DNS. Zones in Brightbox are similar to Availability Zones on EC2, isolated but interconnected datacentre facilities within the same city.
Many netbook screens come in 1024x600, so I wouldn't plan for everyone to have 1280 columns just yet. TFA talks about mobile versions degrading gracefully, but not about desktop browsers on small screens.
Maybe, but unless they remove radiation, they give out too much for what they are worth.

Cancer machines are bad for you, say no to cancer machines.
No, but if they want to solve even just a few it's still a good deal it would seem.
The same can be done with a project but writing two papers. I was taking courses in graphics and parallel programming at the same time. I took my graphics project and modified portions of it to run in parallel. Then I submitted one paper on the graphics and another paper on the transformation of serial->parallel and the performance gains.

But always get permission first. If professors find out that you're reducing your workload like this they aren't always pleased. However, if you're talk to them (and they're reasonable) then they'll almost certainly accept it.
properly 2^32-1.
It's still a discount on most of the individual packages.
The SendGrid deal alone is worth the $47...
Student who hacked Bill O'Reilly gets 30 months
Hitler: "It does not matter if the jews are good citizens (which they aren't), it matters that they be blamed for all our problems.

A little fud now and then is a good thing."
I've actually found myself moving in the opposite direction of integrating the social media stuffs. Now I visit the sites if I want to check up on things or post something. Requires more effort but that keeps me from wasting too much time with it.