skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That won't do you much good. The asyrians didn't need nuclear weapons to destroy Babylon. And they could hardly have done a better job with them.
Yep. It's exactly the same in the Flash industry, prototypes get done and dropped in days, never to be touched again. Those last weeks of work are boring as but unfinished games are worth exactly $0.
No. The e^x properties of imaginary number are way easier than mucking about with much more complex equations involving sine and cosine.
Good points, but, how many interviewers would severely penalize someone for not even knowing what a binary tree was? I think explaining the tree and asking for an implementation could be a fair question, but only if the question assumes that the implementation is the important bit.
I certainly didn't think I was bashing Microsoft or dismissing paying for all software.

As for why people are writing these, I'm not sure - for me it was just a 'I'm writing stuff on other stacks now, here's the blog'.
Roxcell - Moving toward machine perfection
In the Python community, agreement with a proposed change (“this is a good idea”) is indicated by +1, disagreement (“this is a bad idea”) is indicated by -1, and mostly indifference leaning slightly for or against (as in “I (dis)approve but don’t really care”) is indicated by +0 or -0. My guess is that -0.small is intended to mean something like “I slightly disapprove but this is utterly insignificant”.

Edit: much more amusing is Antoine’s comment “[...] Otherwise +11j from me”
I'd parse it to be "opposed to it but only very slightly." Similar to -σ maybe.
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In the not too distant past the web was an online realm separate from the real world, a place where people could hide in anonymity. Today the separation between the online world and the real world has become blurred, in fact I would say for many of us there is no difference any longer, they are one, our online world has fully integrated with our daily lives.
I don't know about others, but the reason why I am firmly on Wikileaks' side can be clearly seen in that video. The media are a bunch of pliant, spineless, brain-dead, PR sound bite regurgitating pussies. Think about it, when was the last time you saw a media figure really dig into someone powerful and call them out on their bullshit? Everything the powerful do and say is so scripted and carefully managed that it loses any connection to reality.
With topics like these I think people project a lot of their own decision processes. I enjoyed writing it, and if people get some sort of reaction or thoughts out of it then I'm happy.
Traditionally only root could use ports lower than [1024]

As an aside, this is one of the more daft aspects of Unix. There's no reason whatsoever that http should need bits to run. The reasons cited for services such as ftp, smtp, imap, etc aren't very compelling, either. This restriction, ostensibly in the name of security, has in fact been a cause of a number of security problems.

In the silliness scale, it's up there with exposing numeric user IDs. (You can't do arithmetic with them for anything useful.)
Because nobody with the technology has fought a large tank force in a region where they didn't want to destroy the surrounding country.
Not really. Python only supports the second square root of -1 instead of the first at the moment. They are indistinguishable from each other until you introduce the other two. It's just convention that the first one is what's in common use when you don't need all three.
well, I guess that if wikileaks was indeed the agent of some foreign anti-american or anti-west rogue state, like many anti-wikileaks analysts, imply, they should have no problem hosting in that country, right? if they only host in the US and Europe, it means to me that they are clearly a manifestation of our own occidental political contradictions. do I make any sense?
Your problem isn't with the phrase then: it's the connotation. That problem would not be solved by not calling stuff as-it-is, mostly because the root cause is journalism -from their point of view, you're either next Facebook (and thus, story-worthy), or nobody.

Let me suggest a viable alternative, that would actually solve your problem: be more selective about the kind of infosources you're letting yourself influenced by, OR be more cognant about the fact, that you're letting yourself influenced by writings of underpaid philosophy-grads. More generally: ask the question "how do I know what I think I know" a bit more often. Or just take the red pill, and dig into techcrunch archives, say, 3 years back, and compare with reality. All of these can work wonders for your perception.
In Soviet Russia ... no wait, seriously ... in Soviet Russia, when they tried to control copy machines and fax machines, people used typewriters, pen and ink, and good old sneaker net to create and distribute their samizdat.
The problem was: given the following prototype implement the function

void move( char** colNames, int toColumn, int fromColumn );

The function should move the column name at index fromColumn to the position toColumn. (It does not swap the columns.)

Now I just spent 43 min implementing this with a compiler and some trial and error.

During the interview I was expected to do it with pen and paper.

Now my IQ is above the 99th percentile but apparently there are people who can do this sort of thing in their head without errors and that's what some interviewers appear to be looking for. That's why this post hit home for me, though personally I probably wouldn't have had much trouble with linked lists.
Unemployment Climbs, No Relief In Sight On Terrible Jobs Report
Than they used to be when?

Compared to Napoleonic-era wars, probably. But if you go back to the ancients, you'll find you're sparing the women and children in the enemy cities only so you can sell them as slaves after you've defeated the men in battle.
...I don't understand this concept of 'angle'. We don't really have an effective way of shaping a nuclear explosion do we? I mean, my understanding is that the blast effect of a nuke is a result of the xrays/gamma rays slamming into the air, and that nukes produce a nearly burst of rays in all directions.

If you mean that the resulting shockwave will be closer to vertical when it reaches given distance from ground zero, then that's just a function of geometry/height, not of any 'angle' during the detonation.
Just by doing some coding. I have experience developing ruby on rails and iPhone applications. I was just looking for a way to get involved in the startup scene in SD
Beautiful building, had lunch with a friend there. IIRC it also housed DoubleClick before the merger, so "moving in" was a matter of Google taking over their floor(s).
It is similar to the difference between say svn and got: you should not remember the various revisions, but how to get there, because that will knowledge will be reusable in different branches.

As an example, I had a maths professor who derived the formula for solving a quadratic equation in class (in 30 seconds or so) because he did not remember it.
I want to go to there
Well, people can (and certainly will) debate about the purposes of the Iraq war until they're blue in the face, but I don't think anyone would argue that the USA invaded Iraq because Americans want to move there.

Perhaps I didn't state my point appropriately, but my argument was more directed at statements like the one by Kruschev that kwantam quoted.
Exactly the opposite of what I would want in a usable "humane interface."

I have spent a lot of time as a UX architect trying to reduce the chaotic mess of mouseover frenzy, and here comes a site that is all mouseover frenzy.

Gestures are even worse - they take what would have been an intuitive behavior -- clicking, typing a command, pressing a clearly labeled button -- and replace it with hand waving that you have to memorize in special patterns as if you were waving a magic wand.

It's a clever design, I'm glad he did it - I would just never want to navigate an entire site that acted like that.
And the elevation of those preferences to a dogmatic self-identification is a Really Big Problem. People and interactions over tools and process.
Yeah, it's at least 4 years old, I remember this from high school.
The imaginary component is the y coordinate. Thus your vector is one complex number, which you can manipulate in a single operation.
Unlikely. Most likely we will end up with something like Freenet. I can't decide if that is a good thing or not.
I'm use my LinkSys router loaded with a Linux firmware to do this at no additional costs.

I wrote up how I did it,

http://ronnie.me/articles/rdp_over_ssh_with_a_linksys_router
Free speech is not a blanket protection that allows you to say anything you want at anytime. Whether or not what Wikileaks is doing falls under the protection of the 1st Amendment is something I would love to see the Supreme Court decide, but it isn't as simple as crying foul on free speech b/c Amazon disabled their account.
Did you really search?!

One of the issues I mentioned is on the first page of bug reports: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6296&c...

Here's the contact shortcut one: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10663&...

For the gallery crashing since I don't know exactly what causes it I can't point to a specific bug report, but there are over 100 unsolved issues with the gallery application.

I don't have time to search for the other bug reports, but they're there.
Just curious, if you already have decent hosting couldn't you just implement this by installing openvpn on your existing virtual machine (or whatever)? Is there anything which specifically requires EC2?
The fact that the HN submission says "Gorgeous HTML5" is also evidence that this is aimed at Apple users.
OVH, one of WikiLeaks' French hosting providers, just had to deal with a similar "request" from the French government. Their response was, "it's not up to politicians or OVH to decide the site's closure".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-france...

At least somebody has a grasp of the separation of powers.
Thanks Mark. I needed that today.
"The German economy has hugely benefited from a cheap euro" - this is complete crap. It is the first time I hear that the euro is cheap. If the euro is so cheap why it did not benefit to other countries? If the euro is so cheap why is France lobbying to devaluate it? If Germany benefited from cheap euro, how comes that Germany was always supporting the policy of the ECB to maintain a strong and stable euro.

Alone this quote makes this article to lose credibility. For me this article is pure propaganda.
Seems I can't at this point (doesn't accept my change). Will keep this in mind for next time.
According to the wikipedia entry:

"Although neutron bombs are commonly believed to "leave the infrastructure intact", current designs have explosive yields in the kiloton range,[13] the detonation of which would cause heavy destruction through blast and heat effects."

I agree the intention of the weapon is to leave infrastructure intact... I just don't think that was ever really achieved.
I use Screenflick for OS X - http://www.araelium.com/screenflick/
Am I correct in thinking that New York City planning regulations would make it damn near impossible to tear down that dumpy-looking building and build a shiny new one?

No, that would be common sense talking.

The politicians would love for them to blow a couple of billion on construction crews in a down economy. They'd do some very personal favors for Serge and Larry to have that happen.
But Chrome is not a beautiful app.

That's an important distinction to make. Beautiful is not the same thing as UI. Many many people see something pretty and think that it therefore has great UI.

However UI is more than the colours (though that's important), it's things like discoverability, predicatability, etc.
Node.js vs Erlang: SyncPad's Experience
4 Guys in NYC've Made the Entire Web Your Music Library. You're Welcome
I would hope that if our notion of free speech protects pornography, it protects important political speech like this.
It's incredible that your fallacious statement has 19 upvotes, while m0th's correction of your fallacies only has 2.

http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/
The main NJ data centers for exchanges include Secaucus (Equinix NY4), Weehawken (Savvis), Clifton (Telx), and now Mahwah. All of the major stock exchanges and some of the options exchanges are in one of these data centers.

If I've left any out, please feel free to add as a comment.
Well, Jon Stewart for one, when he isn't being just a stand-up, does tend to call out major journalistic and political figures for their inadequacies in this regard.
And this is where harder-core feminism can devolve into "everything men do is wrong". Notice that a woman is a woman and you're patronizing/harassing/"othering". Treat her as one of the guys and you're being deliberately exclusive and maintaining a boys club.
Sweden renews Assange arrest warrant
Which part, the eyeball inequality?
great post for a friday, actually great post for any day. I hope to meet a Cory, or even become one in the future :)
For me it's the exception, rather than the rule...
I find it incredibly ironic that I had to click the flash to get the site to load.
If you want to kill everyone in a city without damaging the buildings you use nerve gas.

The point of the neutron bomb - which actually would do quite a lot of damage to a city (it's still a Hiroshima size nuke) - is to kill tanks.
Tanks are inherently rather bang poof,so to destroy an army of 10,000s Russian tanks spread across France and Germany you have to drop rather a lot of large thermonuclear weapons - which makes rather a mess - because anybody in a tank a couple of miles from the blast of a small nuke isn't going to care.

The problem with reducing your allies' country to a radioactive sheet of glass is that it's rather hard to sell politically, which means they are likely to either surrender or nuke you in retaliation or - in the case of France - both.

The idea of the neutron bomb was that you could use a relatively small nuke and kill tank crews 10miles away while making considerably less mess, thus persuading the Russians you might do it, thus suggesting to them that a quick Blitzkreig attack wouldn't go succeed.
RC planes (drones): soon the staple of any serious paparazzi.
Nobody is going to react well to hot pink jeans, regardless of their genital category.
"fact that the US won (!) but still doesn't have the spoils says more..."

Or, in other words, you have a mental model of the purposes of the war which predicts certain actions, and then, when that model is falsified by virtue of your predictions failing, it's not that your model is wrong, it's that the leaders who were successful up to that point (despite, quite likely, your model not permitting that either) suddenly becoming stupid.

You've gone unfalsifiable.

(I'm calling this out because it's a pretty popular position. I'm not claiming the stated ends are necessarily exactly the true ends, either, but, actions speak louder than words. Putative motivations need to explain what actually happened, not what could have happened in a parallel universe.)
Can't wait to try this out on my touch-screen phone or tablet PC...

...oh, wait.
AlwaysVPN is what I use.
"It may not be PC to say this, but it's important to distinguish unpleasant, but fundamentally innocuos flirting from awkward people, from bona fide sexual harassment like groping or inappropriate touching."

Sexual harassment includes the comments like the "how much for a sexual favor?" example. That constitutes bona fide harassment.

Here's my example from the last 2 years. I'm blanking on the conference now, but there was a live IRC session running on the overhead, and each time a question was asked by a woman, IRC would be filled with lude and aggressively sexual remarks. It was totally uncomfortable! I think this situation qualifies as bona fide sexual harassment.

Touching or groping someone in a sexual manner is assault (at least it can be in the US.) It's so far beyond mere harassment that it's not the point of the article...

EDIT: for clarity...
Nope, it's more that we just have several open positions that haven't been filled. Sometimes a single posting goes up for multiple positions, so it will stay up until all the positions have been filled.

(And while it's true that we prefer existing community members, it's not been a hard requirement for any of the open positions I've been involved with. You should certainly at least be familiar with Ubuntu and FOSS and support its goals, though.)
What's a good solution for iPhone/iPad over wireless?
Wikileaks lost DNS and Host this morning
you can still get to it there though: http://213.251.145.96/
There are also legitimate concerns over the protection of state secrets.

WikiLeaks and other whistleblowers form an important part of modern society, but we should also be wary of single-spigot fountains of information that come via unverifiable channels. After all, the leaking of false information to promote an agenda is a time-honored tradition of statecraft.
I read that article. It seems quite biased against the 'sex is beautiful' idea.
This is a great post from Mark, who is consistently bringing great stuff on the blog- his stuff is a must read for anyone interested in the space.

Inspiring stuff- thanks, Mark!
When I read the original article, I thought "Why can't every consumer have this who has home broadband?"

I'm sure comcast would not like it, and the dynamic ip issue.
Explosive weapons aren't the only sources of neutrons. I imagine animals have been exposed in labs, and probably humans have been accidentally exposed too.
that link is dead for me
iPad has VPN built in, not sure about iPhone.
Actually, it seems like you do understand what he was talking about. You just haven't seen references to Nuclear Shaped Charges before.

Back in the day, lots of smart guys were working on ways to make nuclear explosions do interesting things. One of these things was to shape the explosion into something useful. Check out how they were doing it for project Orion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi...

So yeah, that's what he meant.
You realise that your actions, as described, can be construed as rather creepy and that maybe you should have apologised?
Thanks for the explanation! There are a few things I don't understand fully, could you please talk a bit more?

“since ssh -D is not a true VPN tunnel, your machine is exposed to the hostile network (if you don't have a firewall).”

I believe on OS X the SOCKS proxy is applied globally, unlike Windows where you have to do per-application settings. So aside from DNS queries, I guess other TCP connections should go through SOCKS? That should cover the major problem of FireSheep.

Also, since on Windows/OS X/iOS there is no default OpenVPN clients, I use PPTP/L2TP/IPSec-based VPN instead because they are available by default. Is there any advantage of OpenVPN over them?
I guess you just have to be careful of bandwidth overage. Don't use it with Netflix too much.
Not exactly. Complex numbers greatly simplify math in that they allow us to represent phase and amplitude, for instance, using only a single term. Usually this appears as e raised to some power of i (or j) that is multiplied by an angle. x and y coordinates can't really accomplish the same thing. If I had an (x, y) pair, y would tell me something about amplitude, but I wouldn't really know anything about phase without comparing x to something else.

Check out phasors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasor_(sine_waves). Complex numbers make phasor math simple and elegant.
I use the router to solve the dynamic IP issue. It updates to http://www.dyndns.com when my IP address changes.
Although you have to suspect that at least some of Google's users are in New York (I hear they have computers there now) so at some point putting the data where the users are using it does make sense.

Power is expensive in big cities but so is infinite bandwidth and the speed of light is still annoyingly finite.
That's a great idea. You can target it to job seekers ("Improve your CV") and employeers ("Find better employees"/"Know who they are before you hire them").
Nuclear transmutation: Turning Lead into Gold
Yeah. Hiring strippers to hang out at a dev conference is off-the-scale creepy. I am a 23yr old male and I would run a mile if I saw that. Partly because I have moral disagreements but mostly because I can forsee no way in which the interactions happening in such an environment, a big room full of drunk hackers and strippers, could be anything better than awkward and embarrassing to the point of delirium. Worst case, well that doesn't need to be said.

On no planet is it anywhere near appropriate. Jobs may as well crack a load of miscarriage/rape gags during his next keynote, thats on the same level IMO.
Thus, no doubt, spoiling it for everybody as it suddenly becomes illegal to fly a remote-controlled plane without a licence.
Useful alternative control structures
You don't think that has anything to do with armament imbalance? Put all the guns or all the swords or all the nuclear bombs in the hands of one set of people and sure you'll have peace from the de-armed populace... but you'd better do what the guy with the gun says to do.
Do you think Amazon has root access to anything you virtualize on their cloud?
Plenty of companies won't host or promote pornography either.
Lieberman is not part of the administration. I haven't seen Obama trying to censor this, although he obviously would have prevented it if he could have. By definition he doesn't want classified information leaked.
That would be about time.
The DNS/ICANN system is by far the weakest point of the internet.
First, I don't see why you have to pay to own a domain. Second, what's the point of having tld associated to countries?
Obviously everything behind DNS/ICANN is just there to leave government the chance to track people and shut down services. Time to get rid of this.
This was an absolutely dreadful and arresting experience for me. What was going on in my head:

Okay, so I'm looking at this thing, and moving the mouse moves this mouse on the page... WOAH.

What? The page changed? I wasn't even done reading the last page. I don't even know what page I used to be on. The back button does not seem to work.

Things were moving underneath the text I was trying to read while confusion was being generated far faster than any enlightening design. Page changes were also very upsetting, I don't want to be nauseated as I try to explore a website.

And I certainly want a way to go back to where I was if I accidentally move the mouse. A click is a commit to do something. Apparently on these pages I can commit to doing something by merely moving the mouse, and there's no way to go back if I do something I didn't mean to commit to! Whats worse, I had to move the mouse to see things more clearly, because the page as-presented was not as clear as it might have been.
Cartoons from the 90 s 80 s,Childhood
It has been reported that the animation cells depicting Manhattan's Pan Am Building were scrapped after being complete.
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I would assume these gentleman hackers are smart enough to realize that you don't use the same compensation structure for a maybe-profit company with no business model as for a for-profit startup. I hope Arrington is just speculating (incorrectly) in this case and these "gentlemen" aren't drastically underpaying their employees.
Quite obviously dropped - my screen looked almost identical when I dropped it on the corner. The cracks radiated out in that same pattern. I love the end where he says "it's an incredible phone" or something to that effect. Trying to get a new one perhaps?
just add a hat ^ or squiggle ~ over it, or maybe a point, or something else. I always wondered when the Hebrew alphabet would come up.
There's nothing specific to EC2. You could do the same thing with any hosted machine you have root access to.