skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure someone will take the abandoned content, slap it on a server with some Adsense and call it a day.
Our semi-new employee Liza wrote this post. She came in to help us with admin work since we've grown to six in the past year. She's done so much for our company, she's awesome.

Max from Big Bang
I'd be interested in finding out why they chose to go with Windows-based web servers. Administering 12 production nodes would not be fun and doing so over remote desktop seems like a pain to me.

<offtopic>I recently discovered puppet and I am just way too excited about what I can do with it.</offtopic>
$242M? Meh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5_Flight_501
I think with the number of people Reddit currently employs, it's silly to expect them to have a good HR department.
Oh, believe me I have done. It got tiring being the instigator and I made a promise to myself to let the guys do the approaching for a while. (Someone did and now we're in a happy relationship).
Scientists warn against stifling effect of patenting in stem cell field
I hate many things about Photoshop, and also find it to be the best at many of the things that it does and therefore, unfortunately, is indispensable.

For example, if I want to save a gif or png file, Photoshop is going to give me a smaller file size for a given image quality than anything else.

Another example, it's the only pixel based program I've found that has acceptable masking features for even the simplest forms of icon design.
Hah! RHEL 6 is only just getting GRIO. XFS is still a world-class filesystem. If you didn't love IRIX you weren't using it for what it was for.
From what I recall, it was was Jeff Atwood knew best when he started it.

It is a good example of all those stories of not being able to change technology after you become popular. It seems that they are accepting Linux where it fits best at least.
Do you publish response rates? Things like this always scream selection bias to me. If it were, say 90/7/3, but it took 300 interactions to get 100 responses, that seems like a misrepresentation.

That being said - I really appreciate the idea, but it only really works if you trust the company already. I have plenty of reason to believe 37s (even applied to be a part of the team being tracked,) but if this were State Farm or Comcast or something like that, it would be a pretty laughable concept.
// is for an absolute URL with the same scheme as the referring page, not a relative URL.
Streisand effect[1] for the win.

Top comments on both this wired article and other linked ones has the code[2].

This judge is sorely out of touch with what's going on.

Also, "Sony is also asking Judge Illston to order Google to surrender the IP addresses [.pdf] and other identifying information of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video on Hotz’ private YouTube page. The game maker is also demanding that Twitter provide the identities of a host of hackers who first unveiled a limited version of the hack in December."
...take from that what you will.

Searching[3] for the strings in question[4] yields 11k+ results.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

[2]: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/playstation3-hacker...

[3]: http://www.google.com/search?&q=erk:+C0+CE+FE+84+C2+27+F...

[4]:

erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B

riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D

pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19

R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17

n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1

K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D

Da: C5 B2 BF A1 A4 13 DD 16 F2 6D 31 C0 F2 ED 47 20 DC FB 06 70
For the backend task, is the file encoding UTF-8 with Unix line feeds?
Why is there a Song-Beverly Credit Card act making it unlawful to ask for corroborating identification for credit cards in California? What is the societal benefit to this law?
rockstar was tounge-in-cheek.

And spec work is asking someone to do work and then paying them for that work if you like it.

This is not spec work. We already have the things we are asking for, so they are of no use to us. They are to demonstrate skill and determination.

It is not spec work.
Well, you've "been asked" to do it.. employment is always "at will" ;).

Assuming you are an exempt worker (non-hourly), they obviously don't have to pay you for overtime, but you do have to be off a "full week" for a furlough week to count. If you do any work during the furlough week you will have to be paid, as far as I know.

You might want to check your employment contract or employee handbook and see if there are clauses about what they expect from a "typical workweek" or anything like that. Otherwise I don't think it is necessarily illegal. You can always call your state or federal Department of Labor and ask, or take it up with your company's HR department. Though if I were you I would fervently seek other opportunities ;).
I agree with you, but practically, not all information can be kept.

There are teams of people right now deciding what is 'good' (i.e. what is kept) and what is shredded. They're called archivists, and, using their judgement in conjunction with government-created records retention schedules, they're culling both government and private records. This culled information is removed for a variety of reasons, space being one of the most prominent. By such means is the pool of available primary sources that will form the basis for future histories created by underpaid and underfunded but well-meaning bureaucrats.

Sounds like the same situation obtains not only in the dead-tree archives but also in the digital ones. Sigh. I wish people would prioritize our cultural legacy first instead of last when it comes to funding.
Three words... "substantial non-infringing use".

Very nice.
That is pretty bad!
I've been using it for about 14 years now (putting a number to that seems strange, odd that it's been that long). I've quite literally grown up along side the program. I saw it learn new tricks in its childhood (history panel in version 5, vector shapes in version 6). I saw it find it's first love (ImageReady in 5.5), it's breakup (ImageReady axed, partial features merged in with photoshop under the "animation" window), and it's current mistress (Macromedia merger). I saw it go to college and get smart (Smart layers in CS3), and watched as it changed its style (CS4 redesign).

It's odd knowing the intricacies of the beast that photoshop has become. I couldn't imagine learning it all from scratch right now, but having come from such an early version (4.0 was my first version) I saw many of the current features get added in, and learned as it went along. Then again I suppose I can understand it. I switched to vim as my primary editor around four years ago. I feel like vim is my current photoshop - enormously complex, but elegant once you understand it.
Wouldn't it seem much ruder to ask? Or not if you're Jack Dorsey?
Google has competent web developers who practice progressive enhancement. Their search form and results have stable (even sensible) URLs and are perfectly usable without trusting their js.
Doesn't Spolsky's company live in the MS world, as well? (More significant that Atwood's familiarity, I'd guess.)
Well, this answers my question:
http://blog.serverfault.com/post/stack-exchanges-architectur...

About 1/10th Reddit's traffic, but also, I would think, a much lighter usage pattern (i.e. a lot more writes on Reddit, more quickly changing pages, etc.)
Groupon pulls all SuperBowl ads in response to controversy
Hi there,

I’m also doing a PhD in computer science, in my case in Munich, Germany. Maybe I can give you a good starting hint…

The thing is that if you don’t really need to use full Latex power, I would recommend you to use a very graspable editor called Lyx (http://www.lyx.org). The editor uses Latex core but encapsulated it under an easy user interface. It’s somehow like if you could use Microsoft Word and at the same time generate documents with Latex style. The best of all is that you can copy text directly from Word into it and generate a document. Is what I used to do at the beginning! You don’t need to worry about the encapsulation stuff.

If you are looking for a more powerful editor, I recommend you to use TexnicCenter (http://www.texniccenter.org/).

There are other programs that you should know about such as Jabref (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/) for references using BibTex.

So if I were you I would do these:
1.Install MikTek (http://miktex.org/about): Latex motor.
2.Install Lyx.
3.Check if Lyx is what you need and fullfill your needs. With half an hour, you should be an expert ;-) The most important of all is the text field on the left top corner.
4.If it’s not, install TecnikCenter.

My own personal recommendation is that you don’t waste too much time with it. I mean, as my first boss at BMW used to say, it should be a part of the solution not of the problem. Latex gives vast possibilities, but probably you won’t need to use them all, so don’t waste time on them! Start writing and generating your documents. If something comes up and you don’t know how to deal with it, then google it up. I recommend you this rather than turning to the same book or to the same source. I tried both, and the google approach is much faster.

Good luck!
I don’t personally support the "I rather see academic books for free on the web" attitude, nonetheless my site is an iteration of this idea (math only). Take a look: http://inperc.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Courses
Makes me want to write a nano-statistical buzzword generative model.
> I don't understand 9-5 either, why start so late? I do 7:30 to 4, and get out in time to...

Woah there Mr. Personal Responsibility Man[1]! Clearly the reasonable solution is to capaciously adjust our definition of what time it is twice a year so that we can have "more daylight".

[1] Or woman, of course. Curse our lack of fully developed gender neutral language. (Ohh, sure, Person, but what about the Mr. bit? Bah.)
I've been faced with a similar design choice on my current project and it's not as simple as "adding a layer" or progressively developing.

If you plan to implement what is more traditionally a native app rather than a typical website then your javascript use gets heavy enough that #! fragments become necessary.

Especially on app engine as you have no ability to write to a non-db file.
Yeah, hate it when the websites do that. It's even more fun when you're on a desktop and they 'detect' you're on mobile anyway!
Unless you know something everyone else doesn't (which would make this illegal), it's never a good idea to short a high valuation stock. Sure it may be overpriced, but you have to be one hell of an oracle to predict WHEN that correction will come.

If you insist on doing this, do it soon after the house of cards start to fall, but not before.

But kudos to this guy for adjusting his firmly held thesis. When money's on the line, it seems people are willing to reject their prior wrong beliefs much more easily.
..If such a thing exists.
Middle-Siiiiide!!!
I feel videos are more hopeful for the people seeking help on these topics.
Creating a custom Struts2 validator
Being terrified of change is an evolutionary dead end. At a talk Leonard Nimoy gave at USC on his poetry he remarked that his garden had taught him that one could learn to value the change in in a thing over the current state of that thing. I found that to be a fairly profound statement and worth remembering.

The claim that youth would be at an eternal disadvantage in an ageless world not supported by observations in the current world. If having more time conferred universal advantage then youth today could not compete with those older than them. This is clearly not the case and demonstrated by young entreprenuers every day.

To the extent that the cellular processes active in creative, contemplative, and evaluative thinking are exposed, if it becomes common to unify those processes in the functioning of everyone's consciousness then it is possible it would give rise to a modest time advantage for those who had been thinking longer about the same things.

The more I read the news, the more I appreciate watching The Twighlight Zone :-)
I believe around 15% of our customers respond with a rating. From what I understand that's pretty high as far as these sorts of things go. I think that would be considered a reasonable sample.

We don't ask randomly, we ask everyone, so everyone is free to offer up a rating.

CORRECTION: Just reviewed the stats again and it looks like the response rate is in the mid 30s.
I almost said the same thing, then I thought, I guess it depends on your attitude when you ask. Could be a playful thing. So I cancelled my comment. If he came off as rude, they never would have paid him, and this wouldn't be a story.
§1: OK, thanks.

§2: Your argument actually doesn't feel like such a stretch. QM is just the final nail in the coffin, that made me actually comfortable with cut & paste transportation.

§3: We could actually get the same effect as the mad scientist, actually. Freeze my body, upload, lock me in a virtual cell for a few subjective hours, download by rearranging my neurons (or even my whole body) according to my virtual trip, reboot. There, you get the same final state: same atoms, and same memories compared to what they would be if you locked me in a physical cell instead.
Note well. This is for clinical research.

This says nothing about C.S., Math, Physics, etc...

It's harder to publish a big result in Physics, for example, and have it stand for long without being questioned. Just ask Jan Hendrik Schön.
Mazal Tov to the people of Egypt!

Why would you congratulate the people of Egypt in Hebrew?
Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been that I'm willing to grapple with those issues for as many centuries as it takes.

-- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Internet: 13,483,282 Newspaper: 0
Ask HN: Music Hack Day NYC Ideas
Tomorrow is Music Hack Day NYC and I'm looking for ideas for things to build.

Any ideas for the intersection of music and technology that you'd like to see?

The following companies with APIs will be around:

Last.fm

SoundCloud

Twilio (me)

The Echo Nest

exfm

VEVO

Bandzoogle

MusiXmatch

Dubset

Rovi

Fanbridge

Indaba

Boxee
I only use it for throwing up quick site designs using SiteGrinder. www.medialab.com - see what it can do for you.I found it in one of those Advanced Photoshop magazine ads.
I need to learn
I guess I know how square is spending all that money they raised...
I doubt that most people expect the site owner to find their IP address (let alone what an IP address even is and what we can do with it) or what page they came from. When I bring up analytics with normal people, they tend to be a bit shocked.
Segway 2.0? German Bicycle on Steroids Comes to the US
If only I actually needed rollover minutes. I have 7,200 rollover minutes I'll never use.

I wish they'd give out free MB/GB of data. That I could use. (Though right now I'm still on the grandfathered "unlimited" plan, so I guess that's useless too.)

Heck, just drop my voice plan and let me buy data only. I'll cope.
Extrinsic motivation, like stars or money, can be effective but it can also have undesired consequences. For example, when the stars go away, the kid might end up not doing that activity at all or disliking it even more because s/he does not perceive it as a valuable thing on its own. Research shows that extrinsic motivation tends to undermine people's sense of self-determination (see Deci & Ryan).
Uh, "readily conceded?" The judge took several weeks to finally realize that she made an "ill-thought-thought out demand" to "retrieve the codes".
I was right there with you until you mentioned southpaws. I really have little tolerance for that sort of degenerate character. ;)

I think that a persistant dedication to improvement is the elusive common trait among "successful" people and projects.

I agree with you that "code talks," but want to caution people who would be demure that tooting your own horn when you have victories can get you more pull with management when you have proposals of your own -- i've known too many programmers far better than I be ignored by mgmt because they were the "quiet type." Yes, the is a mgmt failure and I have endeavored to proactively "pull out" the opinions of such people on the teams where I have influence, but a light doesn't do as much good when it is under a bushel.
> So is C++ on the desktop dead?

WebKit, chrome, firefox are C++ and probably so are tons of other apps/libs.
Well maybe if Symbian wasn't a total piece of shit they wouldn't be shutting it down. Seriously, I owned an N97 for a while and that was the flagship product of Nokia for sometime, the OS is complete shit. Hardware was awesome but the OS was almost as bad as the old Windows Mobile OS.
I'm getting 28,900 results for the erk string:
http://www.google.com/search?q=C0+CE+FE+84+C2+27+F7+5B+D0+7A...
>there's even legislation most places to support such efforts.

I've seen previews of suggestions for legislation but no actual legislation for this sort of scenario, can you point me to some.

Making money from something isn't a requirement for copyright infringement, nor even is it the test for commercial use of copyright works.

I've never heard of a "fair use" case on historical (preservation) grounds can you point to one? As for educational use in Europe one generally doesn't have the relatively liberal educational use allowances that one does in the USA, and from hazy memory I think that the USA legislation does tie down quite well what is educational use. Certainly unlicensed redistribution except on the most de minimis basis wouldn't get a pass as fair use for education.

IANA(IP)L and am a little out of touch wrt the latest legislative efforts.

---

OT rant:

Just recently it's interesting but all my posts in which I've tried to appraise people of copyright legislation or at least the potential threat of such have been modded down substantially. I have pretty strong views contrary to the current established laws myself, FWIW, but I feel that even if you're an anarchic dissident it's important to know the laws one is fighting against. Clearly others here disagree that reminders about demands of IP legislation are worthwhile for this type of forum.
Groupon Says Super Bowl Ads "Execution Was Off"
That seems similar to the situation in Tunisia, and I'd say it's a common pattern that replicates itself whenever a country is under a dictatorship for decades.

This is a really incredible success of the Egyptian people, but it's just the first step of De-Mubarak-ification.
GPS signal strength at Earth's surface is -130dBmW, so that'd be attowatts... A GPS satellite capable of 0dBmW would be truly scary; it'd have about a petawatt of electrical supply.

See, e.g., http://gpsinformation.net/main/gpspower.htm
If you don't sync and code against the latest, how do you know things still interact properly?

This is the old optimistic vs. pessimistic locking debate. I remember that at my first job, we used SourceSafe, and it would lock the files when you check them out so that nobody else could edit it. When we switched to CVS, I asked "But what happens if people make incompatible changes to different regions of a file and conflict detection doesn't catch it?" The answer was "Then the next person who checks out the code gets a compile error and we deal with it. It just doesn't happen that often in practice."

I've found that the problem you've had just doesn't happen that often. In the two years and hundreds of changes I've made at Google, I can think of a handful (< 5) of times that a CL has broken the build or caused a bug because of a bad sync and yet not caused any conflicts. And even then, the continuous build catches it and it either gets rolled back and tested properly before resubmit, or somebody patches it and we move on.

I've found that any feature branch that lives longer than a week becomes essentially impossible to integrate - in the time necessary to bring it up to head, head has changed enough that you then need to integrate it again, and so on. This obviously depends on team size though - if you've got 10 developers working on a piece of code, it's going to have a lower change rate than if you have 500 developers working on it. Of course, if you have 10 developers working on the code, the chances are miniscule that one will submit something that conflicts with your change in the window after you sync & test, and you can just yell out across the room "Hey, anybody submitting anything that conflicts with my change?"
Er,its liking comparing Flash with Amazon EC2, I'm sure you're thinking that Azure is something else
If you do not sync and test your changes against the latest, I'd argue that you're being careless - how do you know things still interact properly?

This would suggest that the developer who checked in changes to A, which is used by B, did not also make the changes to B so that it works with the changes to A. That seems to be the actual careless action to me.
I fall into this category. Please contact me via the email address in my profile.
All I have is wild speculation, but I'll attempt an answer.

I believe there was quite a bit of concern about providing any identification along with a in-person CC purchase. The idea was that by providing identifying information, plus a credit card number, you were making it extremely easy for someone to lift your identity. The clerk could pick up the phone immediately after you left the store and order whatever he wanted using your card.

So the theory was: ID check in person -> bad. ID check by internet or phone -> good.
According to their SEC filing, the source of the error was that they were using both percentages and decimals in the software, and someone thought that a decimal was a percentage. It's surprising how little your risk model does for you when you multiply it by 0.01.
I touched it for the first time in 92.

I don't remember the version number but I know it was B&W only. I was in a graphic design school ("Lycée Professionnel" for fellow frenchies) and our teachers were aware of the global change of direction of our future job so they obtained a dozen of small Macs rigged with old versions of Illustrator (88), Photoshop (wikipedia says it must have been 1.0), and the awesome TypeStyler.

I use it daily since my first job in 96, that's 14 years. Wow, time flies.
RIP: Symbian
Does my company have IP rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?
It's a little disturbing the order was ever made, though, because the fact that information can't be retrieved isn't some unique computer complication, it's just generally true. There aren't any media in which you can uncommunicate. (A couple of computer media try to hack it in but they can't recover copies either.) If I were being tried by a judge who did that, I would realize that I've basically already lost, pretty much no matter what happens next.

(Which in this case is probably a null issue. This is an open-and-shut DMCA violation. I disagree with the DMCA but that doesn't change the fact that it's an open-and-shut DMCA violation.)
Not have to work for anyone again. Complete freedom.
I have been watching several dozen videos from Kahn. I am surprised on how much efficient the videos are. You actually hear and see how the problems are resolved. If you are reading you have to jump between the text and the equations.
Note they also had a time range option. I imagine they start out finding the specific event line ("you broke reddit" at 4:07 am!") and then slowly widen the time range around it to see if anything interesting happened in the minutes leading up to it.
Hungary '56. Let's not get into a contest here.