skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but this one is about an on-campus / campus-organized fair:

>Atalasoft exhibited at the UMass Campus Center Career Blast Fair (say that 3x fast) yesterday, and holy smokes, do you want jobs.

Those are frequently far less "nice", and being smelly won't work anywhere. And even smaller businesses still send HR-oriented people more frequently than people they're paying to produce the core of what they sell.
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Meet Watson, the computer that will beat humans at Jeopardy
The designer is a she, Rebekah Cox.
Increased leverage of the individual. The information age (post-industrial) doesn't need the same labor inputs to achieve the same wealth creation as before.

While this is great for individuals on the right side of the digital divide, we'll continue to see the impact this will have on societies for some time to come.
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Not just inspire, but push the envelope. The fallout of traveling to space not only unified the country but provided new technologies which simply had no need to be created until something as epic as landing on an orbiting satellite was attempted. These actions pay dividends unrelated to the mission at hand.
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Are the Egyptian people really stupid enough to be happy the former head of the notorious secret police is taking over as president?

Unless I've really missed something, this makes little sense.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but I believe that section 1 contains mistakes. In the implementations of evens_only, shouldn't both of the places where modulus is used be preceded by "not"?

This isn't meant to detract from the truth that "Beautiful [code] is better than ugly," I merely thought the implementation should be correct.
seems more like a niche kickstarter than groupon (to me at least)
Thanks for that response, and I think you're right.

live and learn right? :)
No mention of how this affects POP/IMAP access. I guess this really only helps if you only use web access on all your devices, otherwise the attacker simply accesses your account through POP or IMAP.
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I use chrome. BTW, I see this issue with my hosting provider (godaddy) and also my website hosted with him.

Will give it a try with another browser as well. thanks!
Watson's defeat of top Jeopardy! players, while an impressive feat of natural language processing, is not as impressive as a defeat of a grand master, for one reason.

The reason is that when multiple contestants know the correct response in Jeopardy!, it all comes down to reflexive timing. It's no surprise that a computer could buzz in faster than a human being, and there's no evidence that Watson knows more correct responses than the human competitors.
What's wrong with Erlang's syntax?
Authorize.net, though we don't really like it. The API is ugly and we can't update a recurring bill (so if someone changes their plan we have to ask for their payment info all over again). It's not enough of a priority to change it right now, because most of our clients pay us offline anyway, but eventually we'd like to move to something a little more modern.
It takes people a while to figure it out (it took me almost 10 years in my career) - bosses pay more money to people they respect. Having standards is a respectable thing.
Sure but they're going to ask me about it every time I log in until kingdom come. And there are a lot of users who will do it blindly unaware of the consequences that come with linking your online persona to a phone number.
> It can actually answer Jeopardy questions.

I think you mean, it can actually question Jeopardy answers.

Sigh... I always hated that about the show.
In prior experience (having now been on both sides of the table) it's not about what you (the job seeker) learn it's about what they (the employer) learn.

Not that they can hope to get much information, just enough to filter your resume in a good or bad pile. Some companies collect huge piles of resumes and simply can't call them all. Seeming intelligent and interested in the company may be the only reason they call you from that resume.
In theory this is true but I think there are intermediate fluctuations that don't follow a rational principle. I think Warren Buffet is right when he says the market is not efficient. Maybe over a long period of time and across many industries it is but not necessarily for a particular stock.
Quora has evolved in a lot of ways since this (a year ago?), but remains one of the cleanest and best realtime UI/UX I've seen.

The biggest flaw seems to be that if you're not already very familiar with how FB, other near-realtime UIs, etc. work, the Quora UI is somewhat difficult to understand. It's definitely built for "power users" at the cost of being obvious to some new users.

The key thing to understand is that for the casual user, contact with the site is probably via a direct google result or link to a specific question or answer. The "related questions" and search box are really the key elements for that user as far as navigation; everything else is on-page.

Users who "live in Quora" creating content are pretty happy with the quora UI as it is; I find it frustrating on other websites when things don't behave the same way.

They may need to work on a better process for going from casual visitor to actual user, but there are a lot of policy and content-quality issues to address as well. Having a slightly difficult to use UI might actually be somewhat intentional.
Setting up a Content Farm is easier than you think
YouTube / Al Jazeera has live video here: http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish

Pretty amazing stuff.
The thing is, Jeopardy! at a high level of competition boils down to reflexes. Obviously it's very impressive that Watson would even be able to generate correct responses a significant portion of the time, but you must realize that the two human contestants probably knew more correct responses that Watson. In the practice video, you saw Ken take off on the book titles category, probably because Watson couldn't handle the language of those clues.
"XP is fast and "stable", well documented, everything runs on it. I've yet to see a good reason to "upgrade" to something else that won't even fit on a CD."

This just sounds like you still haven't used Windows 7. Well, if you don't try, you wouldn't know how good it is. Windows 7 is indeed fast and stable. Stability can mean different for different aspects, but Windows 7 gets updated constantly whereas XP is still open to a lot of vulnerabilities.
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The best feedback and advice I've gotten so far.

The monitoring product idea was created because of that exact issue. Nothing seemed to really solve the problem for us. I'll definitely refer back to this comment often.

You can follow me directly on twitter (same username) for any feedback or suggestions.
Both Paypal and WoW use standalone FOB, keycode unique to a point in time.

Of course, paypal's "I lost my authenticator, log me in anyways" button is kind of defeating the purpose...
Are there any plans to offer test VM images as with previous versions?
If FB really wanted to do something like this, I would think they would have a better chance by writing extensions to the existing browsers, rather than writing a whole new browser.

People do not switch browsers on a whim. But people install new extensions all the time.
A lot of the glitchiness was due to buggy third-party drivers. It was "fixed in 7" not as a result of any changes in 7, but as a result of third parties fixing their drivers. FWIW, I ran Vista for a year both and home and at work with very few problems. (if anything, 7 was less stable for me for a while due to some NVIDIA chipset drivers, this was eventually fixed with a driver update).

By the way, I'm definitely not saying that Microsoft didn't botch its Vista release, or that all the blame for the problems people had falls on third parties. Microsoft failed to communicate effectively with its partners, kept pulling the rug underneath them with breaking changes during the betas, etc. But saying it should have never existed, but 7 should, doesn't make much sense. If they'd held off for another two years or something and just released 7, 7 would probably have had just as much of a reputation for glitchiness as Vista did.
You did read the part about "good API", right? ;)
If you think something doesn't look correct, it might be a good idea to try again:

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2011/02/10/blaze-io-launche...

Souders himself recommends that if things don't work well for you right now, you should try again a few times. If things still don't work, it may be a good idea to come back in a few days.
I don't really care what my office looks like. The most important thing to me is the team I'm working with followed closely by the things I'm working on. The appearance of the office space is so far down the list of my priorities as to be negligible.

As long as I'm excited to go to work, the actual appearance of the office makes very little difference to me.
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The Content Farm
John Skeet, provided Stack Overflow reputation is creditable.
Well, the attitudes you cite aren't really in conflict; there's no contradiction in finding the service to be useful, and still having doubts about the valuation of the company.

That said, if you view twitter as an advertising medium, then read-mostly users who tweet rarely (or never) could still be a revenue source, so long as they're reading ads along with everything else. A teenage kid who checks for tweets from Justin Bieber five times a day is a pretty valuable ad target (for some ads), but it might be hard to find a trace of them in the data feeds.
How is this anything but pure semantics? I still don't know the conceptual difference between Searle's strong AI and weak AI, other a single word change in the definition.
My current favorite, Information Theory Inference and Learning Algorithms, available online for free. :)
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/
It's still small potatoes, though. This level of investing does not compare to the levels seen in 2000. That's what makes this post just another Chicken Little.
Last I read, the spiking commodities didn't have expanding inventories. i.e. It seems an actual lack of supply is behind those prices and not people stockpiling to guard against inflation.

Wages also remain stagnant, which would exert considerable drag on any other inflationary pressures.

> "With a zero percent fed funds rate, there's no where else for the money to go..."

Japan battled deflation, not inflation, despite a near-zero rate throughout their Lost Decade (which is now more like a Lost Generation). They also saw considerable wage stagnation.

Our crisis, half-responses and dialogue are almost note-for-note recreations of Japan's experience. But I guess that old yarn about "those who don't learn from history" is around for a reason.
I think this is incredibly exciting.

Apple has been able to create a seamless experience because it owns its entire PC chain, from designing the computer hardware through building the operating system through, in the iOS devices at least, approving individual software applications.

HP is the largest PC manufacturer in the world, and has significant market share in related markets like printers, cameras, and so on. I love that they're actually thinking about using this power to muscle in on what's hitherto been Apple's turf. They're creating a similarly seamless experience, but they're doing it at a better price, with far better distribution than Apple currently has, and with features that Apple hasn't managed to launch yet.

Seamless wire-free syncing, tethering, sharing and charging between elegant devices running an extremely user-friendly multitasking operating system? Awesome. Doing this with a development platform that innovative web developers can get up to speed with quickly? Even better.
"except" -> "accept" could be explained by autocorrect or speech recognition but "hightened" suggests the use of neither.
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The tepidness is a direct result of the approach they took: "Really early on I decided to focus only on the product design and would forgo any time spent on things like visual design and, to some extent, branding."
You may well be right. OTOH, improved information technology has over time resulted in p0olitical revolutions -- for example the invention of moveable type led to democracy in Europe.
Well, how do you know what it does? Have you seen the code? Do you know what exactly it does? Making claims such as these without knowing the facts is certainly not professional behaviour.
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I think things are better than you think. I use keyboard shortcuts extensively on gmail and asana and neither of them feel compromised at all in that department.
I haven't used Big Brother specifically. Big Brother appears to be filling an enterprise level need for "everything". I'm guessing the majority of their users only actually need 80% of its functionality (if that).

We're starting with that majority-of-users functionality and building from there. Ease of use will and simplicity are our primary goals. Internal monitoring by way of server-side agents is part of the plan.
The journey was more interesting than the destination.

Damn programmers always trying to optimize away the interesting bits ;)
Okta Brings Single Sign-on and Access Control to the Cloud
Tried it, and now regretting it. I log in with 6 devices, and the idea that I'll have to go through re-authenticating them each month isn't fun.

Each re-auth requires a fresh code from the app.

I access google apps via Safari because Apple's mail app has no real search function. Since the codes expire in 60 seconds, I'm on a timer for writing it down, launching safari, refreshing to get the "login failed" screen, entering in my username and password without errors and then entering in my code. Totally doable, but irritating. Imagine you're in a hurry, and checking your email as you walk down the street. You open your client and instead of your email you get an error. The error doesn't tell you what's wrong, it just says there's a problem with your login. Hopefully you remember that 30 days ago you reset your token, and that's the problem. Now you can pause everything else, and setup your email.

Don't have a pen to write down your code while you switch apps? How's your memory?

I totally get that good security involves expiration dates, but I want things that "just work", not that "usually work".

In principle it's a great idea, and if I could choose how often it expires I'd be a happy camper.

</rant>
Well-written interesting article, and good links too: e.g. to this site on orbiting data centres:

http://server-sky.com/
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> erlangs stability is derived from the semantics of the language and that should transfer to the jvm fine.

From what I understand Erlang depends heavily on green threads, which are no longer available on the JVM.
> Interestingly, the word metric is used 55 times in the article.

That is not an actionable metric
But there is no way to get a valid certificate for gmail.com, and people will notice!

Yeah, </sarcasm>. But it's still a big improvement.
or better yet i % 2 == 0
And if they continue on Palm's path, it will be vastly more open than Apple and even Android. You can get root access to the linux based OS on the pre by just downloading a program and punching in a code on the phone, both of which come straight from Palm, and it doesn't void your warranty.
Congrats. This is an awesome idea, simply because it takes people's laziness out of the equation. It's kinda like that popular financial 'pay yourself first'/'automate your finances' set it and forget it mantra but applied to charity.
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Morocco was great; was there touristing it up late last year. Helps to speak French, though. If you do go to Morocco, check out Essaouira on the coast for sure, and maybe try to spend a couple days in Marrakesh to check out the old market area. It is a completely corrupt totalitarian regime, along with former Egypt, though it does seem they keep the visible brutality to a minimum, and I had no problems there. A contagion of unrest spread from Egypt to Morocco would not be completely out of the question, however.

Turkey and Greece should be no problem, they're both quite stable this month... : P

Might I suggest southern Spain, near Grenada and Sevilla? It's a short boat ride from Morocco's northern coastal cities, and truly a wonderful area to visit, with some beautiful arab-influenced architecture surviving from when the Moors ran the place. They serve good tapas in Grenada, often free with your drink order!
Thanks for the feedback, and you're right, we're seeing two problems right now:
- Sometimes resources aren't cleared from the cache on Android
- Sometimes iPhone resources are reported as bigger than they are

We're actively working on both, hopefully we'll get them sorted out quickly.
We are at some point going to mention that Arianna styled herself as the paragon of defense against corporate greed, had her writers work for free (and exposure, that was the sell. So much exposure, you could get frostbite), and is pretty much cashing in on the work of others now, right?
Well, there's no story to really address there. Barr was dangerously ignorant and naive. He had a complete misconception of how these things were organized and how they worked while claiming to know all of the identities of "the leaders" by correlating Twitter posts with what someone in IRC was talking about.

If you get on the news and say, "Hello Criminal Group. We have a bunch of information on your leaders that will get them arrested, we are meeting with the FBI next week", it is only reasonable to expect some attempted retaliation. I think that no one is surprised that the targeted group compromised HBGary's servers -- there are, after all, much worse things that could happen -- except maybe the HBGary people themselves, who, as we see here, were already in way over their heads.

No one addresses the behavior of Anonymous because it is completely and totally the expected reaction. The shocking thing about the story is Barr's personality and behavior, not the idea that someone will retaliate if you threaten to decapitate their organization.
...assuming he makes it out.
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does anybody know how she got that domain??
It really is amazing how much making sure the little things are right can help. I think it helps develop a slightly more emotional connection for the user as they find themselves subconsciously enjoying various elements that the designer/developer took the time to polish.

To that effect, http://littlebigdetails.com/, is a great list of 'little things' that can be great for inspiration / a list of innovations. Quora is on this list for a few elements.
Reminds me of the film eXistenZ.
Except they specifically list anti-phishing as one of the use-cases:

"if you reuse the same password on multiple sites and one of those sites gets hacked, or your password is conned out of you directly through a phishing scam, it can be used to access some of your most closely-held information."

You're right that it helps in cases where all the attacker has is your username and password. However, the blog post overstates the merits of this feature a little bit. ;)
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Basically, the German emperor did not decide to abdicate himself, but somebody else created the expectation, that he then followed.

From "Wilhelm II, German Emperor" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Kaiser#Abdic...):

"After the outbreak of the German Revolution, Wilhelm could not make up his mind whether or not to abdicate. Up to that point, he was confident that even if he were obliged to vacate the German throne, he would still retain the Prussian kingship. The unreality of this belief was revealed when, for the sake of preserving some form of government in the face of anarchy, Wilhelm's abdication both as German Emperor and King of Prussia was abruptly announced by the Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, on 9 November 1918. (Prince Max himself was forced to resign later the same day, when it became clear that only Friedrich Ebert, leader of the SPD could effectively exert control.)"
Indeed. If you watch Dean Kamen's TED Talk, he says that's part of why he created it. It's not to justify sending soldiers to lose their limbs, it's to help those that already have. He showed a lot of respect and ...sadness, I guess for the soldiers who had lost their limbs, and genuinely seemed to want to help.
How did your brother retaliate?
Also notice the different gender makeup:

* only men are in the 37signals pics

* only women are in the Zappos pics
Not necessarily. You can copy private keys to different machines just as easily as you can copy anything else. Since it's important not to lose private keys, it's plausible that lazy and/or ignorant persons would copy them to central servers for easy retrieval. It's much more hassle to burn to a CD and put them in a safe deposit box at the bank, after all.
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Normally I would agree- ALL my iOS apps are done in Interface Builder. But if you add more than 50 PNGs to an Android/Eclipse project, the iteration cycle is well over a minute long compared to a 5 second recompile. That's not counting the slowness of the Android emulator (hardware was faster for debugging for me)
We (Unitid / androidpatterns.com) like that idea. Maybe you (this group) can help us implement it.

Looking forward to your suggestions!
There are military checkpoints like every few kilometers on the sinai peninsula. Quite disruptive to have to get questioned 30+ times in a 7 hour journey from Sharm El' Sheik to Cairo
I ran into this a few days ago. I ended up reinstalling node with a prefix of ~/local, and then when I built npm it automatically used the same prefix.
Hmm, but none of the tepidness is a result of the visual design. craigslist continues to look like shit but it works well. Quora doesn't.

It's just bad product design, poor user experience, whatever you want to call it. These issues are structural, not visual or aesthetic. Slapping on a new paint job whenever they get around to it isn't going to fix the problem.

It's a classic engineer's special, and that quote is a rationalization for this truth.
I presume you're not suggesting that working and getting paid are absent from research positions.

If so, then who doesn't consider that a "job", and why should we care that they have this bizarre viewpoint?
SDCH can save bandwidth, but I think the hashbangs are trying to avoid any page load at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Dictionary_Compression_O...