skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
diagonal lines alternate between odd and even numbers, therefore all the primes lie along diagonal lines

Huh? If you draw the Ulam spiral on a checkerboard, all odd numbers end up on squares of one color and all even numbers of squares of the other color, but that is neither necessary nor sufficient to get those diagonal streaks in the picture.
Important to note - Google revoked their _own_ earnings as well. They treated all the money as tainted and returned it to advertisers. After having (carefully) read the (entire) story, I would have done the same thing. This wasn't really a grey-line issue - the guy told his readers to click on ads. That's pretty much a Top-3 way to get kicked out of adsense.
The problem with OKCupid rejection is that rejection is not real.

You can easily spam out messages to all the hot girls and "rejection" is really a non-reply. Meaning that "rejection" is invisible.

In real life rejection means a "walk of shame" away from the girl, probably while your friends are watching, probably while they're laughing at you. OkCupid incorporates none of that.
Actually getting rejected by women and getting blown out of "sets" on purpose is a well known PUA practice to handle fear of rejection. I remember reading about it 4 years ago or so.
Frankly, so was I. I'll get back to you on that.
You can have both, to an extent.

http://html5boilerplate.com/
because integer and float math are very different.

because for some, 1/3 should not be a float but a ratio. if precision matters, you need ratios not floats. however if you just want speed, you want floats.
I believe I'm reading his remarks pretty much at face value. According to him he bought his boat (aka the "Slug") for 2K pounds, and regularly patched pieces of it back together. He shared all of this with his audience as well as letting them know making the films was costly.

Regardless of the technical reasons for it, I believe the huddling around a tray of candles with ice sliding by is striking visual imagery. Heck, even I feel moved by that, and I'd feel ten times more connected to this guy if I were a regular sailor.
You've wandered far off the reservation on this one. I reckon describing his actions as "fradulent" and "dishonest" is slanderous.
"The problem is these problems aren’t easy to fix."

Can't the Telcos just scan all SMS messages and filter out the ones that contain the malicious sequence of characters?
There is another reason to choose Linode over Slicehost, Linode has consistently improved their offerings over the years through ram increases, hard drive size, etc while slicehost is now at half the ram and other shortcomings for the same price as a Linode.

I really like linode and have been a customer for a few years now so I might be a bit biased.
His experiences with pair programming parallel my own. I had to quit an otherwise fun job, that paid really well, because I simply could not stand being that close to other people for that much of the day.
Allen has already got his money from Microsoft :-)
He should be using his money to launch a lobbying effort to eliminate software patents.
To people who had read the essay and were familiar with the post-Feynman epithet "cargo cult X" it will have been plain that jemfinch knew what it meant and that the original author was clueless about how to apply it.
On The Recent Reports of a Nokia/Microsoft Hook Up
I'm a designer…

StockTwits has a lot of small issues with its logotype which contributes to its 'average' label. The type is not kerned correctly, uses an awkward typeface (look at, for example, the w), and has that odd messages icon on top of the i.

SimpleGeo, on the other hand, has a beautifully kerned typeface, contains a more recognizable logo (note the compass; this is something that can eventually become instantly recognizable), and is overall simpler- by that, I mean that it can be used in a large variety of mediums (note the color in StockTwits' logo).

Overall, the main difference is in the type itself- tall, awkward, and lanky type versus medium, large, and overall more visually clear type.
I think the point would be to use the threat of an injunction to get Google to settle for lots of money out-of-court.
"Happy Christmas" is accepted in the UK, just not in the US.
Well, you can destroy something blandly, or you can destroy it in an intricate, even intelligent fashion. Just as you can create something blandly — to just barely serve its purpose.

See, destruction is also creation. She creates viruses. These things then go on to destroy other stuff.

Destruction is not at all a boring art. It's as legitimate an art as creation.

Somewhere around 10th grade I finally gave in to my urge to put a lot of energy behind a simple question: why do parasites exist? Why are there lice, ticks, bacteria and viruses?

Turns out they do, just because they do. They're legitimate 'creations,' living beings. And in non-parasitic beings, they inspire toughness and survival strategies — if it can't adapt to the parasite (in one way or another) it'll die out.

Really, I don't get why people are biased against 'evil' black hats. If they target you and your app failed, you better get some security going. It's better some 'artist' who just feels the need to destroy intricate systems in an ingenuous fashion makes me aware of my security holes than someone with a malicious intent.

From the interview, I can't see anything sociopathic or even malevolent in her (granted, I haven't read the whole thing.)
Incorrect. All this lets you do is sign your peripheral (dongle) allowing it to tell the PS3 to enter service mode.

The master keys for signing PS3 executables has not been leaked.
Could we do something about this? Yes. Will "we", and by "we" I mean the government run by rich folks? Never.

But as the rich destroy the social fabric of the USA, they will get their due. The USA is as small to India and China as Britain is to the USA. Britain ruled the world just 70 years ago. It lost its wealth in a massive transfer to the USA industrial machine in WWII. The USA is managing to transfer its wealth quite happily without a war. The difference is, the rich Brits fit in quite well in the USA. Good luck with that in China, rich americans!

What can we do? Protectionism. The rich can show you all sorts of reasons why this doesn't work. Just add "for the rich" on the end of everything they say and its true: "protectionism doesn't work for the rich". I'm not sure we can manage IT protectionism (unfortunately, since this is what I do), but we can manage protectionism for manufactured goods. That's basically our only hope.

If we can get a manufacturing industry going again, we can have a genuine middle class, not funded by debt. That, in turn, can fund education and innovation.

Or we can do what Britain did: "We don't need manufacturing because we have our science, services and financial services". But manufacturing funded our R&D. "Well we don't need science, because we have services and financial services". But our services can be run from India. "Well we dont need a service industry because we have the city of london." So know if you live outside of the spending radii if the 20yr olds earning $5m then you're fucked. Hooker or coke-dealer is the most promising profession for a young brit.
I think the difference between AWS and the PS3 is that in the PS3's case, every single PS3 has to be able to validate the authentication code, whereas in AWS's case, only AWS needs to validate the code, so the secret material is only shared between a particular customer and AWS, but not with everyone else. It's not the same use case.

I agree, though, that they have been a little sloppy with the terminology. Some of their APIs refer to "Signature"s, when they should say "Authentication Code"s. I think, though, that this may have led to even more customer confusion than the current situation, as most people aren't aware of the difference between HMACs and signatures.
It sounds like his biggest beef is the lack of refactoring that supposed to happen after the tests pass.

Red, Green, Refactor.
His point is that people who read the abstract to a patent and declare that it's not novel are making the people who actually read the patent and come to the same conclusion look bad.

The abstract is not the patent. It's not meant to be the patent. It's not a legally binding part of the patent. So talking about it in a way that refers to its novelty is just as useful as talking about the novelty of the typeface they used or the brand of paper they used.
Why should anyone want to join your startup rather than creating their own?
Wow...I had no idea about DotCloud. Thanks for posting this!

Erlang support? Awesome. I have been hoping Heroku would have Erlang for quite some time!
Any excellent idea and great site. Love how can use it from a mobile. Hope it does well.
I once worked with a Teamster who didn't give a damn who you were (or how important for that matter). He just spoke his mind. Working on films, he would regularly have lunch with producers, actors, studio heads, you name it. He'd plop down at a table wherever & just eat his lunch & chat with whoever was there. Result? He could walk up to the "untouchables" on most shows & ask about their kids, chat about a vacation, even occasionally talk about politics. He even helped defuse a disgruntled actor one day by simply asking, "hey, what the hell's the matter?" and letting him vent (much to the dismay of the cowering producers).

On a personal note, I befriended a power broker several years ago while discussing art. We had a lot to talk about. Now years later we still talk & email fairly regularly & grab lunch when in the same town.

Stop thinking of people as who they are or what they represent, just treat them like normal folks & you'll be surprised who you might befriend.
This is exactly what you do when you're a greedy scumbag.
"A (protectionist) wall may keep the outsiders out; but it also keeps the insiders in...."

As opposed to our policy, which is to give hundreds of billions of dollars to China every year. That's working out so well! Or are you one of these people that doesnt believe that empires fall, or that an empire can fall simply because it runs out of money?
It's simple to protect the dongle keys better: sign the dongle ID. In this way, only the public key exists on the PS3, and the system is secure (if implemented properly). As it stands, their system is equivalent to having both the public and private key sitting on the PS3. No matter how well you protect this key, the system is still broken in theory.
How Stanford Fumbled (and Forgot) Design
The best set of resources needed to become a logo designer
1. Rasmussen tends to the wingnutty.
2. The question relies on the ignorance of those polled.

They ask, Do you want the Internet regulated like TV and Radio?

But is that even on the table? No, it isn't.

So why is Rasmussen asking this?

This is a question intended to bolster wingnut opposition to net neutrality, which the wingnuts are portraying as something entirely different from what it actually is.

It definitely isn't anything like the regulation of broadcast TV and Radio. There will be no need to bleep or censor profanities. There will be no limit on the number of websites a single company can own in a market. There will be no regulation limiting the "strength of signal", whatever that would mean.

The wingnuts are implying that "net neutrality" is the rebirth of the Fairness Doctrine, heavy-handed political censorhip of websites to create 'balance', rather than simply making carriers give equal access to all sites and services. (The rebirth of the "Fairness Doctrine" for radio and TV is another paranoiac chimera of the wingnuts that they've used to scare voters into opposing the Democrats over the last few years. Nevermind that there's no support for it.)

Naturally, this GOP disinformation serves the interests of the big telecom firms, not consumers or voters.

(Incidentally, if that poll had asked respondents if they supported internet censorship blocking access to obscene materials, wikileaks, atheist sites, and evolution science, Republicans would probably have been heavily in favor of government regulation of the Internet.)
iBooks isn't even a blip last I heard. After all you can just read kindle and nook books on your iPad. Selection is crap too so most people I've ever asked don't even look these days it seems like.
14. I had a ZX81 with 1k of memory.
Programmed in "assembler" in Hex with a handwritten sheet of the opcodes.

As an aside, it is amazing how we are able to adapt to new technology. I find it quite normal these days to program in Java and Lisp using a 1000x the memory of my first machine to print "hello world".
Chomsky's “The Responsibility of Intellectuals”
What a fucking nightmare.

Whether what he did was or was not Official Pair Programming (tm) is beside the point. Obviously, some people will thrive having to interact with a partner all day, every day, while others will wither. Requiring all your developers to work in this style is just nuts. It's like requiring all your developers to wear size 31 jeans.
You can send a USB or eSATA external drive to Amazon (up to 8TB) and they'll import the data into S3 for you. http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
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Apples and oranges. Yes, there is a "hot girl effect", but it really only applies to hot girls. People who are at the top of their fields may be friendly, but they are, by virtue of being at the top of their field, generally very busy people. Sure, they're approachable, but you can't really expect to have more than a small slice of their time unless the ideas you are bringing to the table are of significant interest to them. The CEO or top scientist is inherently busy or they wouldn't be in their position. A hot girl, by contrast, is no more or less likely than anyone else to have a full calendar. Hot girls don't automatically lose their hotness by living a relaxed, unstructured lifestyle.
So long, ReportingOn
I realize that this is an especially old article (1967), but I found it pertinent when I read:

> With respect to the responsibility of intellectuals, there are still other, equally disturbing questions. Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
> As part of the deal, and as a way of involving the sailors, I tell them about the revenue for the project which all comes from the website. The more the website earns the more sailing I can do, the more films they see.

> Oh yes, I was also running little blocks of adverts provided by Adsense and, yes, I told my subscribers that I got some money if they visited the websites of those advertisers – all of whom were interested in selling stuff to sailors.

So basically, I am paying for his boat project. People are clicking the ads in order to see his project continue, not because they are interested in the product. Sure, the correlation between users clicking the ads and users interested in the product is going to be a lot closer to 1 than -1. However, that does not justify what is going on... at the end of the day users are clicking the ads so he gets more money, not because they are _absolutely_ interested in the product.

I really don't know what else to say about this. Google makes it pretty clear that you cannot do this. Just because he didn't read the T&Cs and just because he is doing videos isn't going to give him a free pass.

I think google handled the situation poorly. They should pay him some amount, like the expected CTR for the ads that were displayed on his site. As far as Google never doing business with him, I think thats fine and correct... think of the big picture here.
The Influence of Programming Paradigms on Programming Style
Weren't their earlier responses pretty much that?

There's also a duel of personalities going on and neither side is being terrible graceful. I wish neither side would find need to talk badly of the other, but welcome to modern media? :/
"Space Jam" movie website, untouched since 1996
This seems to be 404, can you put it back up? Thanks.
Accel's Rich Wong: 2011 is going to be the year where Android really breaks out
??? Dupe post. Maybe delete this one
Yes, quite right. We'll benefit in the same way that countries like Equador or Nigeria benefit from the USA's innovation, wealth and power.

Which is to say, if that if we have something that a Chinese superpower wants, they'll take it by force, or by installing a puppet government, and if we don't, then good luck buying those medicines: they are 10000yn, with $10 to the yn.

The "economists" who take your statements as fact do so because they are paid to do so. The ones who advocate protectionism are dismissed as communists or marxists.

The trade theory you talk about assumes a balance of payments, required by something like the gold standard, which simply doesn't exists now. This is economic war and the USA is losing. I did some International Relations at Cambridge University. You should try thinking instead of just "accepting as fact".
Correction: ServerFault discussion here...
http://serverfault.com/questions/72767/why-is-internet-acces...
The 3-Part Landing Page Formula That Always Works
I honestly don't know all the story to comment about the accuracy but one thing I can say though:

After reading Greenwald's original post and his response to Wired's response, he comes off a calm. measured and rational. Wired, on the other hand, comes off defensive and argumentative. Seems like they are more interested in taking shots at Greenwald instead of addressing the issues he raised.
I think the problem there is the word "just".
> What you are really saying is that expressibility is bad?

Almost the opposite, actually. I quite like Haskell and Scala, which can be extremely expressive (no dynamically modifiable parsers though ;) ) - but at the same time the area where you can make a mistake is minimal compared to Perl programs. Things where Perl will leave you a warning (which might get lost in other output), simply won't compile in others (for example ==/eq "problem"). On the other hand you don't need the type annotations for majority of code, so it doesn't induce the verbosity you'd get in Java or others.

It all goes back to the preference in the end ;)
Even if MS did infringe on something, why would you sue the company you founded?
Ah, well you didn't mention you were training for something sport specific :) The study I can't seem to find referenced most effective fat loss with the 1:3 ratio. When I trained BJJ/MMA a lot we did everything for round time which makes total sense from a sport stand point.

The rational with 3 is simple. Some of the recent writings from people like Alywn Cosgrove and Lou Shuler (2 guys who I think know what they are talking about) have talked about how useless the standard treadmill warmup is for people. Instead they advocate people focus on dynamic stretching and a focused warmup prior to weight lifting. So if I'm benching that day my warmup might consist of shoulder mobility stretching/pre-hab and progressively heavier bench weight until I'm ready to do my work sets. Running on the treadmill would have done nothing to prepare my chest and in particular my shoulders for what was about to happen.

If you love running on the treadmill before working out then go for it, but make sure to also warmup whatever you're working on that day from a weight standpoint. Also, since most people are time constrained that 10 minutes on the treadmill before doing anything else could be better used.

When it comes to doing full HIIT, I simply don't have the energy to do it properly and then lift or vice versa. For example, when I dead lifted this week I did 365x5, 405x5, 455x2, 510x1 after my active warm up. I followed that with SLDLs, pull throughs and then some plyo work (high jumps, long jumps, etc...). There is no way I could do any sort of HIIT with the proper intensity after that considering I had a hard time walking :)

On days when there is less lower body work I can sometimes squeeze HIIT in at the end of the workout depending on how spent I am. Generally I'll just mix in 1/6 mile sprints in between various upper body sets.

My main cardio comes from doing various other activities like hiking, snowboarding, basketball, etc...
Porting Castlevania to the Atari 2600
Jonathan Steed about the new startup bubble
No, but its getting very close to the gray area/fine line. If you are encouraging the user to click your link for some reason other than him being interested in the product - then it is click fraud.

Example of click fraud: I get paid when users click my ads. The more money this website makes the less time I have to spend working hourly at Starbucks. Less time at Starbucks means more time working on my website, writing content, and making videos.

Btw, he says he was doing this in his blog post.
I figure my morning routine (when the goal is to get as up-to-speed as I need to be about the world in the most efficient way possible) is the best indicator. When I wake up every morning, I consult the following:

1. My BlackBerry, for several emails that come every morning with tailored news about what's going on in my field.

2. Google News

3. A number of Canada-specific news aggregators

4. The Toronto Star (I don't live in Toronto any more, but I still have some fondness for the paper)

5. HN

6. Twitter

So by that count, I'd say the answer is No. I consider HN to be my go-to source for interesting technology-related stories, but not necessarily for current news.
So Good Friday is no longer a holiday? Hmm, I'll notify the Church that the Christ's death is now irrelevant.
Google also has a programming language called Sawzall, named for a brand name of electric reciprocating saw.
The best advice I ever got was.

Eat until you are not hungry anymore rather than until you are full.
I'm really astonished at these responses.

In this crash, "compartmentalization" seems to work. In other words, if you drive a tank and hit things head on, maybe you don't need to wear a seat belt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTGMEgibFHU

Now here are some videos where, for some reason, harmful objects didn't line up exactly in front of the bus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aenzUIixM8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0-vi5nOK08
Not yet leaked, but apparently derived due to Sony's poor random number generator. See the presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6CA4fqAdsc (part 1...money shot is in part 3)
He strikes it rich with Microsoft, survives cancer and to repay the world he... turns to patent trolling.
Id often wondered about a true 'weblog' type system but imagined it as text links, which you could choose to comment on as you went, a commented, public, websites visited history. Would make dull reading!

What you suggest sounds more akin to the Livescribe pen. Maybe what they do would be more useful than straight video
Why do you say that the market is proven?
Now that brings back memories, since I was working on Space Jam the Video Game in 1996.

Love that the backgrounds are 300x500 pixels. Huge!
While this is of course sensational all I hear and read supports this.

(California department of corrections outspending department of education, etc, etc).

I think the problem in most of the western world is more general. We cultured societies of "individualists" the flipside of egoists. Most people just do not care what happens one or two generations down the road, they want their services, their money NOW.
The open-source video aggregator Miro actually has a Firefox extension that automatically appends Miro's affiliate code if there wasn't already one on the link you followed to Amazon. This is done pretty obviously so I assume that Amazon is aware of it and allows it.

I don't see anything even slightly fraudulent about saying, "Amazon pays us commission on sales made with our affiliate code attached, please buy expensive things there", and I don't see how that's bad for anyone.