skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you broke into a store, stole a raft of credit card numbers from carbons, and rigged the registers to feed you more of them in the future, common sense would inform us that you're a criminal. Similarly, if some jackass broke into a series of automobiles and drove them to a store's parking lot to inconvenience or cripple its operations, we'd have no trouble conceiving of the criminal charges that might result from that.

The only difference between those crime and the crime committed here was the ease with which the Internet allowed it to be committed.

No doubt, the person running the botnet collecting credit card numbers and launching DDoS attacks didn't feel like a criminal. He felt like a prankster. But how is that relevant? I say it isn't relevant. At all. The Internet has a knack for making reality feel unreal. But there is a reality, and it does not give a shit about your message board posts.
Yes... including how they're "just" nice and convenient as a compilation target for a language with exceptions and continuations.
Is it possible that you can put a fields for two names?
An unrelated observation, is the layout of this site completely ripped off of techcrunch?
But if you look at their measured power draw, it actually takes less power than the 480 (which has a TDP of 220W or something).
I'd gladly take a pay cut if that's what it takes to increase the thank you's and make the place more enjoyable--especially if I have to spend most of my day among the same strangers.
> Being able to detect, aim at and strike something flying at the speed of a rocket - with another rocket - in outer freaking space.

First and foremost, it is being able to convince your opponent that you can do that.
What good is Java if there's no longer a spec to help ensure cross-platform compatibility?

Also, there are major trademark, patent, and copyright issues that need to be settled before anybody can safely fork Java and stop adhering to the spec.
I just upgraded and they made more money off me than before. Here was my situation:

Campfire: $12
Backpack: $12
Basecamp: $24
Highrise: $24

I folded one of each into the $99 suite. I'm paying $99 now instead of $72, but I've been knocking against the Basecamp limits for awhile now.

The limits for all the accounts are higher than with my previous payments. And now I get one invoice instead of four.
Thanks for your time. Icons gonna be the next thing on my schedule.
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"Don't define height and width of images inline".

Not a good practice!

http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rendering.html#...
A PAP would suggest that the landlord has no incentive to maintain a property unless not doing so would result in a breech of their contract with the lessee. There are these types of landlords, but that's no way to establish a long running business.

In the case of a landlord, they are often representing their own brand, and their income is dependent on the success of that brand. In the narrow scope of a single contract, there is incentive to defect to the point of barely-tolerable, but a landlord is not acting on behalf of the renter.

Additionally, in a world with a greatly increased population of renters, there would likely arise a more organized market for landlords. I think you'd see something a lot like what we see with restaurants. The larger brands have a very specific reputation that they reliably follow, and the smaller chains and unique locals rely on word of mouth and overdelivering. Then it's a short jump to a sort of Yelp for landlords - in fact, a lot of places have this already.

Related: back in school, the student legal union kept track of all complaints filed and who the landlord was, then made the log available to anyone. The distribution was as expected: Campus Property Management, the largest and most commonly detested landlord, had the most complaints and the highest complaints/property managed. Bill, who managed the house I lived in senior year along with a few other places, had none, and he was awesome.
No. I think you're missing the point.

Continuations become a highly constrained kind of callback in continuation-passing style.

Callbacks by themselves don't make for a nice intermediate format for compilation, or a way to model exceptions or distributed computation.

They only gain these abilities when constrained as continuations in CPS.
It's rather interesting and jarring to me to see how many of the reply's in this thread are so aggressively defensive of the very idea that owning more stuff might not always be better than not owning more stuff.

I've been watching a marathon of back episodes of "Hoarders" (http://www.aetv.com/hoarders/index.jsp) on NetFlix streaming, and it's somewhat startling to me how much some of the replies here sound like the defensive responses of some of the hoarders in the show.
Yes, InnoDB was standalone. But it had it's own SQL parser and things like Stored Procedures as well ;) It was rudimentary, but I don't know if KVS is the best description.

How MySQL and InnoDB talk is very much a K<->V / row based relationship.
I agree with all of the above and will ad a few things that attracted me to use Lua as the scripting language for our game engine:

- Data can be easily constructed inline without a lot of extra syntax

- The interpreter is very fast

- Functions as first class objects

- Closures

- Meta-tables

All of these things make Lua very expressive and concise for designers, while giving a lot of control to make things work correctly to the programmers.

A few cons:
- the built in error handling is not great, we corrected it.

- variables are global by default, which can make typos become runtime errors, we corrected this as well
Adding another "sure, try to make it".
Thanks - I just finished at CS and was about to cite it as my example.
How do you spend $1K+/month on a car? I've known a few people who pay that much, but they were trying to insure a sports car below the age of 25.

Buy a simple used car in good shape, with 30K-60K miles on it. This will cost $7-12,000, and last for at least 8 years with a bit of maintenance. Figure $60-150/month for gas, $100/month for car insurance, and you're still in the area of $350/month. Add a few hundred per year for tires and repairs. When the repair bill reaches $100/month, buy another used car.

Buying a new car, a fancy car, or a car with poor gas mileage will make these numbers much worse, of course.
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"How painful it must have been to have everyone criticizing them for all the flaws they had already fixed "

I can so see that. Any established hardware company is working 2-3 iterations ahead when they launch a product. It has always boggled me that Sony is working on a PS4 while I'm playing a brand-new PS3. Or that intel is working on a chip 2 generations more advanced than the one I just bought the first day it was released.

I mean, I understand -why-, but it still seems like the world is slightly crazy for it.
Even if you are a bank robber. I'm sure some people rob banks for the thrill/challenge. (It fits with every movie cliche anyway...)
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That's interesting. To me (being a fairly basic Turkish speaker but nowhere near fluent) the difference between Kader and Kismet is that Kader is stuff that's meant to happen in a strictly secular sense (e.g. a man goes to jail because he committed a murder, this I would view as kader although perhaps incorrectly) whereas kismet is more spectacular, indeed by the will of god for those that believe in such things, such as bumping into a long lost lover on the other side of the world by chance, rekindling a relationship and getting back together - that to me is definitely kismet. I've yet to see a decent romantic story that features kader :)

I think the pruning of Ottoman from modern Turkish is a double-edged sword. On the one hand it makes learning basic Turkish incredibly straightforward. It took me two weeks to get to a level of proficiency similar to that of a 7 or 8 year old with my mother in-law. It's almost deceptively easy, because when you start talking to Turks in the real world a lot of the Ottoman loan-terms never really disappeared.

Also I've noticed while I can talk to my mother and father in-law, I have real trouble understanding my anane, who almost speaks an entirely different language.

The other thing I've noticed (in Istanbul at least), is the anglicisation of Turkish. I remember when computers were 'knowledge desks' (Bilgisayarlar), not 'laptops' or 'pee-sees'. I've noticed this particularly with technology, but even just overhearing conversations in taksim cafes it seems that young Turks are more likely to use English words in general conversation.
I found a way to access last year's exams by doing some url magic in the course catalog so I could access the Blackboard page of previous years the course was offered. Same type of questions came up every year so I knew where to focus on. It's no longer working though since they upgraded Blackboard. Also, googling for the solutions manual has worked for me a few times.
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but why bother? storage is so cheap nowadays, and one-time padding is as secure as your physical security detail.
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>Prozvonit's equivalent in English is a "bat-call."

Nice. In which country?
From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony:

"-Synonyms
1, 2. Irony, sarcasm, satire indicate mockery of something or someone. The essential feature of irony is the indirect presentation of a contradiction between an action or expression and the context in which it occurs. In the figure of speech, emphasis is placed on the opposition between the literal and intended meaning of a statement; one thing is said and its opposite implied, as in the comment, 'Beautiful weather, isn't it?' made when it is raining or nasty."
This is actually the tactic that Microsoft used to own the Office market, I believe... they first released a "Microsoft Office" that included Word, Excel and so on, all in one, for less than two of those products sold separately.

That, of course, completely wiped out single-products that couldn't be sold in a suite, e.g. WordPerfect. Once the market was clear of competitors, they then proceeded to slowly but surely increase the price of the suite (and the price of the standalone products along with it).
It is impressive, pretty much everything is regular, you can pick up enough to get started in about an hour. I find Turkish almost like the python of spoken languages.
Companion metafilter thread (direct your snark here):

http://www.metafilter.com/97436/LA-Missle
FYI You should notice the map updates as soon as you start typing just like Google Instant Search.
"No benefit for HDD bound workloads"

This means no benefit over regular MySQL releases, not to say that MySQL doesn't have some nice features.

InnoDB can read/write in multiple threads - which is useful on RAID controllers which require concurrency to exploit all their throughput. Newer SSDs also like concurrent writes. Compare this to at least MongoDB which uses a single reader/writer thread.
Yes. Though it takes some effort to practice is enough to be fluid. Also the vocabulary demands some rote learning, of course.
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What the author is missing: tail recursion in constant space is an implicit requirement for practical use of CPS transformations. In fact this is probably the single biggest reason for wanting efficient tail calls in a language.

ECMA doesn't require efficient tail recursion. Caveat programmer.
Wait, cave-in to their bullying that I join their nonsense is a solution? Was that a joke?

How about a class action lawsuit for unsolicited spam and data scrapping?

Much longer to wait for results but much more satisfying.
They made their choices in their employment and in their implementation of policy, and they deserve what they get. They are quite directly "part of the problem".
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> if a large enough proportion of the population consistent opts out of the backscatter, the system will collapse on itself.

>There is no way TSA can clear a flight full of people using patdowns fast enough

When you get to the airport and there is a 3-hour backlog for patdowns but no line for the ionizing radiation backscatter, are you going to miss your flight?

And what happens with people who go through the scanner, but get flagged for a patdown anyway...
They'll need to flip to 22nm from 40nm technology to buy some more time. They also have the option of creating a larger number of slower running shaders.
It's the little vignettes of history like this that remind me how many grand-experiments there are out there using us all as the unwitting test subjects

See also: our food.
Well, it doesn't update THAT often, so it's not like it's constantly moving :) But that's also the reason why I didn't make realtime conversations... It's too hard to make it not annoying.
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I bet they calculated the amount they'd lose if every customer who can go cheaper by choosing the suite did so. That number must have been small enough to take this step.
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From the description of toska in the article, Sehnsucht may be right. (I speak German and almost no Russian.)
I've found the complete opposite. that most of my non-technical friends care about facebook privacy a lot, many of them delete their accounts as soon as they feel like people are knowing too much about them. As a technical-user, I don't care much about the privacy issues, mostly because I just gave up and realize that privacy really doesn't exist on Facebook.

But I really do think Facebook users care.
They only vanished once (the entire bid and therefore the entire cluster), and I think it was actually due to a glitch; the price never actually went over our bid. That's the only time we ever lost our spot instances. I think we actually bid over even the normal (non-reserved pricing), because I've (almost) never seen prices cross the reserve price, and even if we had to pay full price for a day, that's fine -- it's still tremendous savings in the long run.
You added your friends email addresses in your Gmail address book. On Facebook, your friends put in their own email addresses into their profile and set the privacy settings around it. It is a subtle but important difference.
I'm on a Nexus One with ConnectBot, and I know it supports it, I've just been too lazy to look it up.
This line from the linked Chris Dixon post sums it up pretty well:

"Remember that an equity grant is typically for the next 4 years of work (hence 4 years of vesting)."
Recognition is a function of management. If a manager is truly engaged in the day-to-day activities of a team, that manager can (and will) naturally recognize work properly.

The problem however is that for whatever reason, management isn't as effective as it should be. A function of time, burn out, or simple inadequacies, if people are leaving a job because they aren't recognized, chances are good that they would also say their manager wasn't very good at his or her job.
I moved to Asia for 5 months and found the same thing.

I brought a big suitcase full of items, but probably only used a backpack full. I purchased local clothes (for cheap) that were better suited to the climate and everything else was easily replaceable.

I also agree investing heavily into a few key items is important. My Macbook was irreplaceable. I wish I spent more on a better camera, it was a good one but I used it enough to justify getting a great one.

Now that I am back I realize I have a lot of stuff that is completely unnecessary. It is surprisingly difficult to get rid of, but I am donating it in chunks.
The defendant is also getting more time than the cop in Oakland who shot a restrained, unarmed man.

Maybe this punishment fits this crime and its the other that doesn't, but marcusbooster's indictment of the system as a whole having some skewed incentives still has some merit, i think.
Basecamp has one major limitation for me and that is only people within your company can track time against projects. I work with a lot of independent contracts and I wanted to put them in separate companies, but still have them track their time in Basecamp. I have talked with support and this is a "feature" which they are sticking with, very frustrating.
Yeah. The problem with housing is that people are told "the house is an investment". Houses are lousy places to grow capital. Their primary method of generating a meaningful return on your investment is the imputed rent. But you have to consume the imputed rent immediately.

Some spending on housing is inevitable, and some is just consumption. Investing in a house to secure the former is responsible; the latter is luxury and irresponsible if you can't afford it.

Also, people underprice issues like maintenance and risks as a matter of routine.
My browser windows have been approx 1/2 of my screen width for as long as I can remember, at least on desktop machines.

(terminals and emacs through, more like 1/3)
Who is the target market?

I really think this could be useful for not the average user but traveling service professionals. By looking at this data they can figure out where they are most of the time and maybe even create alternate routes or stations based on the hot spots.

Frankly, the average home user is more concerned with the amount of time they spend on the tasks rather than location. I believe RescueTime does something similar to what I am describing for the end user.
Or how about the humble "Brot"? No German would recognize what you get sold as "bread" in Britain as proper "Brot".
There are plenty of jobs that violate rule #1 above. Spammers, those who take advantage of the economically disadvantaged, et cetera.

If groping someone's genitals doesn't cross a line, what does?
Well, I guess that's one way of doing it. :(

I wrote the code in question, though. It wasn't supposed to be an _advertised_ option, but when I wrote it it was supposed to be a usable one.
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I love the design of the comments section. Is this a common wordpress theme on handrolled?
Done. Took 4 minutes, or, 0.3% of the amount of time Compass has saved me just in my most recent project.
That would be truly outrageous.
I can handle suffering, but completely freezing?
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I blogged my opinions here: http://expatentrepreneur.tv/2010/11/09/one-ui-doesnt-fit-all/

basically, I hate the new UI and have rolled back to the current (non-beta) version.

Curious as to what the rest of y'all think about it, and about making huge UI changes in general?
Does anyone here try it?
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The trouble with this analysis is that the 1.0 iPod wasn't "rudimentary", it was simple. Likewise the original iPhone, which was so rudimentary that a year later, the only competitive devices looked just like it.

If you're going to ship a great product and then improve on it at a terrifying pace, then yes, your original version is going to look dated pretty quickly. But using Apple as his exemplar gives weirdly short shrift to the incidental detail of first shipping a great product, regardless of how it looks in hindsight.
Wonder who didn't adjust a calendar for a leap year in some government code. Surely today could be Nov. 10, right? It's not like someone's hacked together version of a date/time system hasn't made it's way across my desk, I don't know, fifty million times...

"Why don't use you a DateTime object for that?"
"They have those?"
...
Key management is hard. Keys need to be encrypted at all times and only duplicated when authorized. Generally people use dedicated secure storage hardware for this purpose. The more "key" you have lying around the harder it is to keep all of it secure.
If you really go above and beyond, then public recognition can make sense. I just hate it when companies try to make a big deal out of things I think are (or should be) just a normal part of the job.
Hi, I understand your point. The problem with the feedback is that if we tell you for which inputs we're testing your solution, you could develop an optimized version of the solution for those special case, or worse you could precompute the solutions and just write a solution as a long if-then-else sequence.
The purpose of the challenge is instead twofold: being able to understand the problem specs and being able two produce a generic solution that must work in an environment that you don't control (because that, at the very end, is what happens to the programs you write... They're going to be executed with inputs that aren't under your control and that you couldn't know in advance).
While it's impressive to see how well the new GeForce does against AMD's latest 5870 and 6870 cards, word is AMD has another top end GPU set to release this quarter. Should get interesting!
I'm sorry for that, we're going to add support for 2.7 very soon!
for me the key has been to develop a surgical/tactical approach to knowledge acquisition. whereas in school it's important to read the textbooks cover to cover, after having established a solid foundation in the fundamentals of computing and language my approach now is to read only exactly what it is i need to read to solve the problem at hand.
Thanks for pointing to this very thorough response which addresses the concerns of the letter. I don't think the authors of the letter are spreading FUD, however: they're asking for more information about the means by which the dose is being calculated and pointing out potential health consequences of the lower-energy beam in skin absorption:

<em>if the key data (flux-integrated photons per unit values) were available, it would be straightforward to accurately model the dose being deposited in the skin and adjacent tissues using available computer codes.</em>

This looks like science to me, not FUD.
They must have heard you. LessFramework 3 just came out today. It does support IE 6-8, although only at the 768px layout.
Other reasons to ship early:

- Users love to see products continuously improving. They'll often think more highly of you for adding requested features if you already had them in development.

- You can use releases to generate buzz.

- It's easier to track the effect individual features have on your metrics.

- Scaling :)
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Same. I've heard someone in the military describe it as trying to hit a bullet with another bullet.
You probably meant http://hfboston.com ?
Whoops, yeah. My bad.
You obviously didn't play enough Missile Command as a kid.
Sure, I'd be game sometime
Thanks for that clarification. I was going by my rusty German and Google translate :)

Gemütlichkeit sounds like a great word. So German and grand. An interesting word on the list from the page of the article is Dépaysement ... meaning "The feeling that comes from not being in one’s home country" which if you squint closely is un-country-ness in English which indeed sounds odd. But we do we the word _discplacement_ which could be overloaded with this typically gallic connotation.
I just want to say that The Changelog is doing great work right now. The guys are curious and seem to be working hard. Good stuff.
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I wonder how many people it turns off to find that a place is a Windows shop. I was kind of excited when I looked at the post, until I read "We work with C#, ASP.NET MVC and Microsoft SQL Server." Don't get me wrong I think C# is a better language that Java, but I would have problems developing on Windows.