skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that this is an artifact of the amount of teaching material that is available using them, rather than their suitability as a current part. You still used TTL 7400N NAND gates in EE classes but would be hard pressed to find one in use (notably the TTL version).

There are better opamps out there, and even some nice uni-polar rail to rail ones which would make for a better classroom experience but the concept of an opamp hasn't changed enough to make what you learn about opamps with a 741 invalid.

The 555 on the other hand, well it could be replaced by an 8 bit internally clocked micro (ATTiny, PIC 12F*) but I've heard that in quantity they cost less than 5 cents so in that regard they are competitive.
No, the metric here is Interface builder vs. the eclipse plugin for Android UI design. It's a lot harder to create an of equal or superior polish for Android.
He thinks (or claims) that we have network neutrality right now, and doesn't want that to change. He thinks (or claims) that since we got to this point without any rules or laws in place, we shouldn't eff that up putting any in place. (Just to be clear, I do not agree with his perspective, just explaining what I think it is.)
And I'd support your bet as the rational move.

I currently have zero web income, but a few half baked projects. I'd bet against me from scratch too, but I'm hoping I can turn partial projects into profit quickly.

I'm going to be very transparent about what I have and my plans on the blog. If after we have the same information, you want to make a small bet against me, I'd consider taking the other side (I'd want odds). It's doubling down, but I want to put my money where my mouth is.
Ideas, Execution, and Talking to Customers
Got it. Hope you have some good things in your future!
Well, it is a meta-analysis, but I'm still doing mock-experiments to see if the analsysis I want will be possible, so I don't want to say too much yet. I'm not being secretive, I just need to understand more myself before asking for help or data.

I would certainly provide some information about what I'm doing.

And thanks for responding. Belatedly I've realise that I submitted this when the item will only get 30 to 40 minutes on the "New" page, so I probably won't get many responses. Every reply is worth a lot.
Stating your goals makes it less likely for you to achieve them, because you get the praise and ego boost at the wrong time. There's probably a better link than this weird blog, but it has the info : http://www.burnthefatblog.com/archives/2010/12/all_talk_and_...
People who oppose net neutrality don't trust the FCC to be a benevolent regulator of the internet. For example, this blog post has links to a number of longer form pieces that make the case against it:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-fcc-should-not-regulate-t...

And here's a post refuting the "money" argument:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/siding-with-the-geeks-on-netw...
That's an interesting point about it never making the price go up. If there were a non-trivial chance that it caused the price to go up, do you think the haggling would be less common?

Since haggling vaguely offends my sense of how the world should work—even though I know that has no bearing on how it does work—it kinds gives me the warm fuzzies to imagine some random procurement person's expression as the price goes up every time s?he asks for a discount.
US Airline Fatalities in 2010: 0

US Motor Vehicle Deaths: ~32,000*

What are people more afraid of? Planes. Why? There's a few theories, but one is people are afraid of dying due to somebody else's mistake, the same with surgery: powerless. Even in a car accident, there's a bit of victim-blaming: the insurance company always says a person could have been more wary.

A cloud failure is much, much more rare, but more scary because we're not accountable. When it happens, we're "more helpless."

*Estimated from a drop from 2009. Can't find the actual number.
Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
I have tossed him an upvote to counter your accidental downvote.
Put one in an otherwise functional power strip and you'd have no problem getting it into place.
Traffic was unexpected, I was expecting the site to travel within a small group of friends and colleagues who were in on the joke. I uploaded the site to a mediatemple (dv) server, on which Apache's MaxClients is set to a paltry 20. Whilst the server appears to be fine, Apache is unable to satisfy the requests, and I am unwilling to up the MaxClients because normally (mt) automatically disable the server.

It appears that most of the requests were being made to the ~8 images on the homepage, so I've moved these to an S3 bucket and the site is now responsive again. Hardly HIGH TECHNOLOGY, but any port works in a storm (and AWS is typically my 'any port').

I've also repointed nameservers to run via a https://www.cloudflare.com/ free account which should provide a reverse caching proxy for the homepage at the least, but will take some time to kick in.

The lesson to learn — one that I would expect most would not need to learn — is that launching a website (even in jest) in a 5 minute break in-between real work with real deadlines is not advisable.

And to second the parent post, I don't feel comfortable with this being posted to HN at all, and certainly not with it ranking #1/#2. I fear someone may have timed it perfectly to start Eternal February.
To be fair at 0.02% affected (latest revised number) it's not even a 'micro-failure' it's a rounding error, not sure how it made the news.

It might give some opponents some ammo, but the chances of this type of thing happening on you're local machine is actually higher, and in this case all the data should be restored.
Revealing the Man Behind MayorEmanuel
As a matter of fact, the PR (as shown on the Google tool bar) ceased to be (anywhere near to) an accurate measure of the real pagerank (the actual algorithmic score, as calculated by Larry and Sergie's formula) of a website's link popularity many years ago.

If you do have the Google toolbar installed on your browser (probably not,) you may have noticed sites showing PR 0 (i.e. a white bar) ranking above sites with PR2, 3, 4 or even higher.
The goal of a business is to return value to the people who own it. This is really no different than what the goal of government should be. Government needs to return value or it should be tossed to the street. If a government sees foreign oil companies as its "shareholders" then then the local populous needs to get rid of the government.

All this being said, I still want to know the qualifications of a person who should run for office that isn't seen as hubris by this author. It is a serious sign of problems and out of touch politics when we have a professional political class divorced from participation in commerce. If a government leadership has no or little understanding of commerce than how the heck can they make rules that economically work? It is like asking a non-techincal manager about coding standards.
Advanced Data Structures (MIT OCW)
Credentialism and elite performance
"Semantically incorrect"

A "table" is an abstract concept with certain properties. If a layout shares those properties, it might as well be a table.
If it quacks like a duck..
I would be extremely careful with any service that claims to be on the "cloud". Backup your Email (no, not Gmail but Email) using Thunderbird or Outlook or any other old-fashioned email program. There's no better solution!. Use and keep thumb drive in your key-chain (everyone still carry keys even though we carry modern cellphones and what not). There's no better way to be sure than to keep and carry your important data to yourself.

It is a huge human fail when we treat Google and Facebook as Internet/Social life. They are not! Mind your own email, pictures, data, contacts, URL yourself.
Article aside I'm pissed at the poor UI of INC. Why make me click through three pages to read the story but put ALL of the comments on the first page. You crappy UI tainted what was otherwise a good article.
He's considering the basic freedoms of service providers to restrict access as they see fit - not the right of the consumers.
It would seem that the person violating the ToU is the user of the app, not the application writer. Using Apple to enforce this seems to be quite a stretch.

If you want to say creating a deep link is a copyright violation, then any browser which allows bookmarking is in violation?
It's a very big deal for new projects, if it means Django will run out of the box. GAE is a pretty awesome platform for small projects, a clear migration path in/out will make it much more attractive for bigger projects.
I can't put a number on the amount of people I know who don't regularly back up their files themselves. One in particular lost gigs of precious photos during a laptop hard drive failure.

A company whose mandate is to provide continuity of service is going to be more reliable than 'oops I forgot to copy my files to this cheap crappy consumer drive I bought'.

Still, this incident should serve to remind that the so-called 'cloud' isn't invincible and we should try to cover our bases through multiple backups.
I'm looking forward to testing out porting one of my Django apps to GAE, particularly since the Heroku clones for Django are not yet ready for public consumption.
It's on bitbucket too: http://bitbucket.org/judson/aata

Nobody's commenting on the fact that this book is open source, GFDL.
I don't understand rocket surgery. I hate rocket surgery. Rocket surgery is still a bitch.

That being said, I don't actually research, develop my craft, understand how to design, implement or maintain a solution or even work in rocket surgery. It was something someone asked me to do at the last moment and I thought I could pull rocket surgery out of my ass by reading up on some extra* articles.

* Implies that I regularly read rocket surgery journals.
Contrast Google's 0.08% fail rate here vs. the real world 3% hard drive fail rate - by that measure Google's cloud is 37x more reliable than your local storage.

Feels like cloud-bashing is becoming a regular sport - for techies we know that redundant back-ups are important, for average consumer the cloud drastically INCREASES reliability and the chance that items you store are going to be available when you need them.

ref for 5 year hd fail rate http://lwn.net/Articles/237924/
It requires a little bit of indirection. You'll find that you could easily solve the equation if you only knew one more quantity. So call the unknown "X" and keep going. You'll be able to form an equation that constrains X to a single value.

FWIW, the answer I get has three non-zero decimal digits.
Flobee. Enough said.

http://www.flowbee.com
shoot i should have also made it clear that i am not talking about literally stealing. Obviously we would not do that.
Just because a business is losing money, doesn't mean it has zero value.

Paul Collier, author of the "Bottom Billion", said poor countries get screwed for their resources because they don't put them up to bid. He even said the British government valued certain frequencies at 2 billion, but they later sold for 20 billion during bidding, so it's better for all governments to auction assets instead of pricing them or giving them away.
See randomness. http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html

I'm amazed at how often this article is relevant in life.
Stephen Colbert hilariously sums up HBGary-Anonymous situation
Thanks, I upvoted you to restore the karma balance.
Not if you're trying to act quickly. I'm not saying it's how I would react but he's clearly trying to take immediate action and a long, drawn out process isn't conducive to that.

Any government bidding program is going to take several years to complete. It's going to involve a committee to evaluate the bids. That committee will have to be formed meaning there will be politics involved in deciding who is on the committee. Once that's all done you'll have to put out the request for bids and wait for those bids to come in. Then comes the evaluation by the committee and so on.

Again I wouldn't disagree if you said he's acting rashly but it's consistent with his public stance to push these things quickly.
How does this not violate the conservation of momentum (and/or energy)? It seems like the outgoing photon must have some increased momentum (proportional to h/lambda), which also means it will have increased energy (~ h * c/lambda), which it must have gotten from the tractored particle. The induced multipoles ought to be a higher energy than the ground state, though, so where did the extra energy come from?
Derek Sivers said the same in a post called 'keep your goals to yourself' at I read here before.

There's certainly some truth to it.

I failed in secrecy before though, so Im giving transparency a shot.

I am also hoping that it will help me connect with people who can help me make it happen.

Edit:
The post was called zip it - http://sivers.org/
There's a TED Talk - http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you...
It's a little disingenuous to call public utilities a money losing proposition. They're infrastructure. Communities invest in infrastructure to see dividends in prosperity, not cash.
the best way to move energy development forward is to force real pricing of energy, ie. by pricing in rights to emit carbon dioxide or any other pollutants. That would level the playing field and make profitable development of other sources of energy (and generate political will for it as a result :). It would even be much more cheaper to put Virginia coal-miners on 10x welfare and move forward than the whole economy and technological progress being kept hostages of making the miners happy electorate.

related :
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266841
I've been WAITING FOREVER for someone to make this! =D
IPhone 5 Component Surfaces in China, Points to Larger Screen
Priors aren't essential in some models when you're looking for an unbiased estimator and you have a complete, sufficient statistic. Please don't ask me to tell you when that will happen.

Utility functions are necessary if you want to make a decision based off your knowledge. If your goal is simply to state "given model M, parameter A most likely takes this value based on experimental data" then you don't need a utility function.

I think hessenwolf's point is that priors and utility functions are both largely unconstrained functions over the state space of parameters that need to be specified based on the experimenter/reviewer/reader's beliefs and values (respectively). Formulating them and making everybody happy is still an open research topic.
Unless the original high speed rail plan has been scrapped, it is far more sophisticated than "just" a link from the east coast to the west coast:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/16/a-vision-for-high-sp...
Three-time Pwn2Own winner knocks hacking contest rules
Strange post. All he talks about is himself. I would think that the second time around would include at least a passing reference about his customers/users and how what he is building will benefit them. I wonder if he's learned anything at all.
The response I wanted to click is, "Yes, if you reported it anonymously." What I did choose is "Yes, almost certainly."
This will now be my "code coming soon" cat =]
That's awesome as our dev team here has a folder full of FPO kitties as we call them. Nice to see Front End folks think alike!
That's seldom an argument that I've never seen featured prominently on blogs that oppose network neutrality legislation, but on this little slice of reddit inside HN I suppose painting the worst possible picture of people you disagree with is all that matters. Most people who oppose regulation of the internet use utilitarian arguments, claiming that the quality and neutrality of the internet will be biased by government regulation.

Believe it or not, there is not a cabal of people getting together on wednesday nights to sacrifice children to corporate logos. Rather, there are many people who in good-faith believe that heavy-handed regulation is bad for the consumer.

Myself, I haven't made up my mind on the issue yet, but hivemind behavior just rubs me the wrong way.
That is a great topic of conversation and potential source of something new coming out. I am an interaction designer myself and wondered about this issue more than once.

Designers are always seeking for some projects to do even with no money return. There are several platforms that work based on this sharing skills principles, but often money based. Usually seen as a contest platform where the client requests and users (designers) responds buy uploading their work. Examples of this are Crowdspring www.crowdspring.com and in a smaller scale DesignRider www.designrider.com. Why not build a sharing platform like these for open-sources projects?

For a best results return, the briefing (instructions, guidelines, rules, project intention description, for instance) should be clear and precise. For instance, by specifying the format in which you want your design work will already scan designers skills and give you more to the point results. Of course, conversation is always welcome, a mailing list /forum in such platform to discuss and share knowledge between developers and designers cannot hurt either.

"Designers are scared of developers. Developers speak a foreign language, they are like aliens." Simon Hørup Eskildsen. I don't think is there such a big barrier between designers and programmers or developers. It is time to drop that assumption. A web based platform that gets both working on several open sources projects is a solution to consider and that might bring more responses that you can think of.
In my experience, RKWard frequently crashes when loaded with modest datasets (1700 data points or so for me). I wonder if RStudio has the same memory problems. If not, I'd be willing to give it a shot.
True. And they should certainly try to get some money for their assets (and they haven't said they won't). But the point still remains. If you're actively losing money on an investment and selling it for zero is your only option it's still better to sell it for zero than to hold on to it.
Please do let us know how you're doing.
I thought the exact same thing, since it never occurred to me that anyone would actually ask a question on SO and wait for an answer from it.

When doing niche development, small mailing lists provide an invaluable asset for these sorts of questions. Oddly, seems strange to ask on such a generalist site as SO.
thats a wonderful set of guidelines for a startup. "Dont be secretive" resonated with me. Keep source on a public github repo and keep notes in a public wiki (doesn't have to be public-editable). An idea that can succeed for you is something, from a very real point of view, that only you can do. Your set of skills and resources is a competitive advantage if they can be leveraged enough. So share the idea, let it develop in other people's minds. Watch and talk to groups doing similar projects.

Another maxim is "Implementation is more important than idea". Diapers.com is my inspiration for this. One might say, "Another retail outlet on the web? Boring, laughable, amazon.com is already there", but they implemented so well on a boring, obvious idea, that they rocketed into their particular niche and were acquired by Amazon.
I've always thought it had to do with control - in a car, you "have control" over your vehicle, whereas in a plane, you don't. Which is essentially the theory you're referencing.
> To be fair at 0.02% affected (latest revised number) it's not even
> a 'micro-failure' it's a rounding error

Would this fact placate you if you had just lost access to all of your email?
My interpretation is that the wax cylinder is being used as a calling card to announce a visitor. If so, it's a miss for at least two reasons: 1. Why would you choose to listen to a calling card rather than read it and 2. social customs changed, eliminating the custom of leaving calling cards.
If it's everyone's fault, then it often doesn't feel like anyone's fault. Diffusion of responsibility is a dangerous thing, and insidious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility

If a product turns out bad, it is the fault of each person who could have prevented that, but didn't. This is splitting hairs, but I think this is a psychologically important hair to split. Conversely, if you do your part properly, that's something to be personally proud of no matter what the outcome.
All of these stories point to one solution- re-decentralize the Internet. Depending on either corporations or the government for a functioning Internet is a recipe for disaster.
You're using an anonymous account, what do you really have to lose by making bombastic predictions?

Nobody's going to say anything in 3 months because they'll have forgotten completely about this post.
Even the most complex layouts are conceptually much simpler than any non-trivial business logic. You can test this by trying to explain both aspects of a project you're working on to a non-technical friend and see which he or she is better able to grasp.

It's important to distinguish whether a task is made complex because it actually is conceptually complex or because bad syntax and language rules make it complex. In the case of CSS, it tends to be the latter.

Adobe Flex makes application layout dead simple. All you need are horizontal and vertical flows, consistent alignment, and border constraints. CSS would become about 5x more intuitive and productive for web app development if it just added these basic features and allowed us to escape its cryptic realm of floats, blocks, and display:inlines.
But privatizing it isn't going to take the infrastructure away from the public. So the question is one of cash flow not the overall value of the asset.

No one's saying it was a bad decision to build the infrastructure. The the state only has so much money and this is taking more of it every month.
My reading of the article uncovered the following from John Boehner's speech:

"As far as I'm concerned, there is no compromise or middle ground when it comes to protecting our most basic freedoms."

I reckon this is the genesis of the headline.
Here's javascript, the other languages are left as an exercise.

function Kitten(width, height, color) {
var img, g, w, h;

w = parseInt(width, 10);
h = parseInt(height, 10);
g = color ? "" : "g/";
img = document.createElement('img');
img.src = "http://placekitten.com/" + g + w + "/" + h;
img.width = w;
img.height = h;

return img;
};
oh and here is the link to the article i references. pretty poorly written and topical, but i like the title and some aspects + discussion of ego. http://on.mash.to/hl2ddT
No substance to this article, and seems to be based purely on his needs and wants in his profession. I have a 13" mac pro I use it for my profession. It's perfect. I just upgraded ram and SSD. I am set with this unit for 2 or 3 more years.

The 13" is:

• faster then the current Macbook Air and Rivals the current Macbook Pro, with an optional SSD upgrade.

• the size and weight of... well... a book. The 15" is not. It weights more and is bigger and I don't want either on my back. If I want a bigger screen I will get a monitor for my desk but it kills the portability building it in to the machine.

• inexpensive! This model is much needed be cause the #1 complaint of Apple products is, say it with me... "They are tooo expensive."

• While still being functional, is Apples answer to all other companies high-end laptop competition. Second most complaint of Apple products, 'It doesn't have a "*"'. 13" has it. Air doesn't.

• Lit keyboard. It's worth it. No Air lit keyboard? No purchase from me.
I hate to say the obvious, but why would I want a larger screen? It's a phone. If I want to watch video, I'll get an iPad.