skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this sentence even make sense?

"unfortunately he is just too valuable to Apple and they told him in no uncertain terms that if he headed back to England he would not be able to sustain his position with them."

So ... he is so valuable that they would fire him rather than let him set up a study in London and fly in a few times a month to Cupertino. Right ...

I call shenanigans on The Times of London.
Hahaha. No....fuck.....you! :)

I agree with what you are saying, I don't think it contradicts what I intended to articulate. I was trying to get across that dropping a modular piece of code such as say a Database system(Like MySQL) into a project gives you a huge chunk of functionality which you can then build on top of. I can't think of the equivalent for Art, except for widget sets or something along those lines. Or a grid/layout template that doesn't require you to then go and have to update any existing art to mesh well with the new art.

Now to be fair: you can come up with the equivalent of the MySQL situation where say you start the project with say a widget set and just match it's style moving forward.

I could probably match all my concrete coding examples with a modular art project but I think there are two issues that in general going to come up:

1) A lot Graphic Designers are not to strong at building modular art as it requires a more rigid process. There are exceptions of course, but we are talking about in general why there aren't as many Graphic Designers contributing to Open Source projects. (Wordpress though is a good example of where there are tonnes of Themes provided by Designers).

2) Reusing a popular Design can make your project look more derivate than unique. Where as with code this is less the case. Though with popular Widget sets such as the design by Sofa for Cappuccino (http://ajaxian.com/archives/cappuccino-07-aristo-ui-theme-en...) is a good example of Great design that maybe benefits from this familiarity as it's easier to grasp what widgets do when you've used other Apps using them.
11. Profit!

What defines profit in this case? I realize that this post was likely tongue-in-cheek, but I think my question is still valid. I'm trying to explore the answer to that question myself: http://blog.fogus.me/2011/02/28/the-keepers-of-answers/

But I'm not sure if I've hit on it yet. Maybe I should try Quora. ;-)
Hey, don't forget the Benjamini-Hochberg replacement for Bonferroni. The situation is not 'that' bad.
whoever chose the pics has a fascination with prostitutes
I'm curious, what version of Windows? Chrome for me on XP and Windows 7 has the most beautiful webfonts out of all browsers.

The syntax from the kits at Font Squirrel are also what most other subscription/pay webfont use, so Font Squirrel fonts shouldn't necessarily be any different from Typekit fonts.

Most recent bulletproof syntax: http://www.fontspring.com/blog/further-hardening-of-the-bull...
The man behind the montage has written an interesting essay about it, providing background information on the project. The images seem to be real.

http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/12/img-mgmt-the-nine-eyes-...
A related realization I made on my morning walk: We often don't have any conscious awareness of the moment we decide or conclude something. If we are prompted in some way - for example, if we are asked to make a choice - then we have access to our decision after the fact. If we are listening intently, or even if we're just waiting for something to end, then it's like we're polling for the decision, and we're aware immediately. However, in a lot of other cases, the decision happens outside of our awareness and only later does something prompt us to access it.

This makes it very hard to avoid concluding something prematurely. This is why it's so easy to mistake an association with something you don't like for a well reasoned refutation. This may be a part of the reason why prejudices of all kinds are so prevalent.
> Why don't you believe in a free market for health insurance?

There are two main reasons. First of all, as someone mentioned it in another thread here a few days ago, healthcare does not follow the rules of supply and demand, since people would pay anything for survival. You're never going to say that "ah this treatment is a bit overpriced; I think I'll get more value for my money if I'll just die instead". It's ridiculous. Second, there are various domains where the short term interests of various parties do not coincide with the long terms interests of everyone, hence regulation is needed. This is not political theory, it's game theory, it is nothing to do with personal opinion. It's a fact.

> Let's say that I have a genetic condition that is certain to kill me rapidly at age 30

You probably don't want to die then at 25 after not receiving a treatment after having car accident.

> Why should I be forced to pony up for other people's healthcare, too?

It's called compassion and it is a cornerstone of our civilization.

> The more insidious thing about universal healthcare is that it really screws over most minorities.

I don't know about that. I am not a doctor so I don't know whether such conditions really exist, but my gut feeling is that almost all of the stuff people get treated for are universal across various minorities.

> What if those who decide health coverage decide that heterozygous genetic condition X is covered...

I think this must be a fundamental, antagonistic difference between our world views. As a European conservative, I truly believe that no life is unnecessary, no life is wasted.

> ultimately, going to be a transfer of wealth from the poor (via inflation) to those who have the right genetic predisposition to conditions

Most of the things people get treated for have nothing or almost nothing to do with genetic conditions. There is no gene for suffering a car accident. While having unlucky genes could decrease the chances of survival, ultimately everyone can get cancer.
To the best of my knowledge, the going rates (at Flippa etc.) for sites generating revenue solely via AdSense are anywhere from 10X to 15X monthly revenues.

Also, in general, the more the age of the site and the longer the traffic/revenue history, the more comfortable the buyers are; even willing to pay higher monthly revenue multiples on long track records.

Furthermore, all this (what I mentioned above) is usually for content sites. Since your friend has a utility app, it could fetch more value.

I'm assuming all traffic is 100% organic. At valuations like this, I guess the potential buyers will perform a lot of due diligence on traffic sources, quality (and quantity) of backlinks, proof of traffic history (i.e. logs) and revenue history (AdSense account screenshots etc.). Be prepared with all this and then name a price.

All the best, HTH. :-)

Edit: Fixed minor typos
>I do not allow myself to sleep until the next day's work is laid out. . . . I always wake up and start programming immediately.

Are you most alert or most sharp in the evening?

(My question goes to the hypothesis that planning should be done when alertness or mental effectiveness is high.)
3DS hacked to run R4 cart full of DS games
half of them already happened. I should start working on the other half
Well, not "so wrong".
For example pic 10. Today we call it skype with webcamera. And it doesn't even need a footpedal. :)
10 Iconic Fonts and Why You Should Never Use Them
Nothing is particularly wrong with Impact or Comic Sans as fonts per se, but there is a huge deal wrong with using them in every situation. The 10 fonts below are overused and patently annoying, and we give 10 good reasons to stop using all of them.
Sorry, but are you saying "almost nobody needs IPv6, so why care"?

That's why we still can't have nice things.
Excellent suggestions. I'll definitely be adding more content, and I appreciate the advice regarding the niche itself.
I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.
I'll look into buying it and redirecting with a bit more info about ecigs, themselves. Thanks!
to me it seemed that ugliness and tragedy prevail
what I don't like on european (interpolating from czech, but it's probably quite similar everywhere in europe) health and welfare insurance is that you generally can't opt-out from that. Complete opt-out is probably bad idea, but I would like to pay insurance only when I actually have income, not be obliged by law to pay what equates to half of my other expenses every month. It seems fair to me to roll these "insurances" into income tax, as it is essentially nothing different from income tax (although logic of caps is different on income tax and this "insurances").

I'm perfectly willing to pay significantly more than is obligatory, but only when my income for given period allows that.
Mercurial has an identically named feature: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#bundle

Quite useful at times.
Wow, I got blasted on this comment. So, there was a reason why I didn't start spouting our exact LOT/LOC ratio: I have no idea what it is. No one at our office does. That's not the important part. My point is that, on average, one test per 100 LOC is almost definitely not covering much of the logic. I mean... if you have one happy-path test and one expected failing test per block of code, you have one testing context per 200 lines. Two hundred lines!
this could offend the depicted neighbourhoods or people. or nations...
It’s a Great Idea, But How Does it Make Money?
Why do I have this long gc pause
To a large extent I agree with you, but there is one thing I pause about:

You get the same level of learning,
you get the same realizations, the
only thing you skip is your wasted time.

Here we diverge. As Confuciussaid:

Tell me, and I will forget.
Show me, and I may remember.
Involve me, and I will understand.

Sometimes, and for some things, that time spent working out bits of a solution - even if you fail and ultimately ask for help - is not wasted. Sometimes it's priming you to be in a better position to understand the solution you're given.

It's not binary.
To Root or Not to Root?
It amazes me that people would put coworkers second. Those people can be very annoying because I feel like their only purpose is to leech knowledge rather than do any real work. OP's list is the lazy programmer's list. Taking breaks to think about the problem is good, my order of operations is something like:

1. Google
2. RTFM
3. Think
4. StackOverflow
5. Coworkers/IRC

Even going to IRC can be dangerous, was told to read the f-ing kernel source when trying to ask questions about the darwin kernel API documentation once.
We're looking for:

+ perl backend developers http://jobs.perl.org/job/13680
+ javascript front end developers http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/wanted-javascript-developer

The job ad says you're required to be eligible to work in Canada but that's just a nice to have for us. If you're qualified you can work from anywhere you want.
Being neck deep in clinical data ETL right now, I would love to hear some details on how one does real-time ETL and reporting while leaving data in place. Most of the clinical systems I've worked with have some pretty ugly data structures under the hood that are just barely relational.
For a simple example: they might take a question that is a yes/no question and store the answers on two rows in the database: one for yes (with a value of 1 or 0) and one for no (also with a value of 1 or 0).

I long ago gave up on the thought that one could leave the data in place and work on it (vs traditional data warehousing approaches). If these guys have solved that problem, that's a product all on its own.
Arab Revolutions and Oil Prices
I love being able to answer peoples' questions, and I hate asking them. I guess it comes down to I like helping, but I don't like feeling like I am being a burden. My process is like this.

1) 15 minute gamble on self solving intuition

2) Exhaust any possible solution I can think of even if I have to "be the computer".

3) Google

4) Documentation

5) Ask a co-worker

Sometimes I'll skip from step 1 to 5 if it is dealing with something that I rarely use. Typically this means I don't expect to remember the problem or solution later because of how rarely I visit this part of the application.

This is probably not the best way to do it, but I just remember things more often when I solve the problem myself. After 3-6 months with a new technology, I am frequently able to solve problems in step one.
Oh I see... then, I just wonder how they could eat up for life-time subscriptions for so long. After some Google searches, I've found that those plans are one off, and seems to cost $799 to sign up (http://hostingfu.com/article/joyent-lifetime-accelerator). If the terms was not changed, it now cost $25 a month on JoyentCloud to have the same thing with the SLA I mentioned. So it takes 31 years to compensate the cost of the $799 lifetime subscription to pay off. But the fact is that now they have "10 TB Monthly Bandwidth" (or unlimited depending on which web page you are looking at), I am just blindly guessing that lifetime users would get that too, right?
No, on the contrary. What I'm saying is that IPv6 doesn't have enough traction, there's a finite number of developers and there are features that will be used by more people that should take more priority.

To put it another way, a native IPv6 client isn't necessarily as innovative as some of the other pending features. Not having DHCPv6 native isn't the end of the world and is a minor annoyance for a few. Putting a team on implementing DHCPv6 for a small subset of users takes people away from things like bugfixes. DHCPv6 is not trivial.

If Apple found a feature that relied upon IPv6 then I imagine a DHCPv6 client would be a priority. As it is, in the meantime you'll have to settle for things like http://klub.com.pl/dhcpv6/ - which at least works on leopard but you'll have to compile it yourself and it's not complete.

For some info on what is already possible with IPv6 on OSX take a look here: http://ipv6int.net/systems/mac_os_x-ipv6.html
Here's a wikipedia page with an example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checking_whether_a_coin_is_fair

The problem is as follows. I give you a sequence of coin flips, for example TTTHHTTT, and your task is to determine whether this coin is fair. Obviously you can't answer this question with certainty.

The frequentist approach seems rather ridiculous to me. They pretend to be able to answer this question without knowing anything about coins. Instead of making the assumptions up front, they hide the assumptions in the method of determining whether the coin is fair. For example one would think that to decide whether a coin I give you is fair, you'd need some idea about what kind of coins I will give you. If we were talking about reality, you would be able to say "no it's not fair" without even looking at the data sequence, because in reality there are no fair coins. If we are in a different universe where fair coins do exist, you'd need some idea how many are fair. So obviously whether a coin is fair depends on which universe you live in, but the frequentist method is not parameterized by the universe. The assumptions are implicitly made inside the method.

The bayesian approach asks you first to state your prior ideas about coins. Then you give the bayesian your data, and he will compute for you the probability that this coin is fair. This cleanly separates the correct mathematical derivation from the subjective assumptions, instead of hiding these assumptions inside the method.

Moreover, the bayesian approach is automatic, in principle. Once you make your assumptions clear, the rest is just mechanical derivation. The frequentist approach requires divine inspiration, and is very easy to get wrong. For example you're not allowed to look at the data before formulating your hypothesis. Of course nobody does this right in practice. I've often seen people cherry pick a frequentist statistical test that proves their hypothesis. Given any data and any hypothesis, I can devise a correct frequentist statistical test that proves the hypothesis with arbitrarily large confidence.
If the programmer can't acceptable understand the issue at step N, he will move to step N+1.

If Quora or SO doesn't yield enough understanding for a given problem, that's hardly an issue. Go to N+1.

(At any rate: I'm not familiar with Quora, but SO answers often have good explanations and links to official documentation and well-written instruction material.)
Paleofuture has – as always – at least some context: http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/9/10/french-prints-show...

I wonder to what extent these prints are just jokes. Will someone in a thousand years look back at Futurama and think it was a serious prediction of the future?
Simple linear regression with PHP [2003]
Essential JavaScript design patterns
you see a google car approaching and start to think quickly, what to do? how to express yourself? and i think even a total nerdy 'high achiever' may come up with just showing his ass! :)))
I've never had a job without at least one programmer I could bounce ideas off of. Sounds awful.
You seem to be conflating quite a few axes of variation. What you're describing as "frequentist" is descriptive statistics using parametric models, which is only one possible way of using a frequentist interpretation of probability.

Nonparametric statistics is probably the biggest active area of frequentist-statistics research, in which case fitting parameters of models isn't exactly what you're doing (though there is some sort of model-building process, and some arguing about what constitutes a parameter).

In addition, predictive statistics is a quite large area of frequentist statistics, and it does precisely what you call "Bayesian" steps #4 and #5, except within a frequentist framework: you fit a predictive model, which may include uncertainty estimates in its predictions, and then feed that model's output through something decision-theoretic, like a risk function.

Bayesian decision theory and frequentist decision theory do look different, but it's not as if frequentists don't have a decision theory (and a real one, not just "use the model if it has a low enough p-value")...
It also reminds me of programming in Starbucks, where you have no (or weak) network connection. Because of the network connection, you can concentrate on programming (or design, or thinking) rather than time-consuming and attracting information from the net.
Custom fonts seems to have problems here and there on Chrome/Chromium. No matter how hard you try you would get mediocre fonts on Windows box.

May be chromium devs need a way to unitize ClearType when custom fonts are being used.
How To Turn A Laser Into A Tractor Beam
when you _might_ get an answer in 30 seconds otherwise

Not arguing that this can't be an efficient workflow... but I think you pointed why it can fail and fail often. What if you don't find what you are looking for on Google and end up down other roads or dead ends that don't provide the real answer? In those cases 30 seconds can turn into 30 minutes pretty quick.
C500k in Action at Urban Airship: netty, NIO, scala
the artist clearly isn't a union member, replacing all the jobs with robots
NPM >0.3.0 changed to requiring sudo while installing. The reason being that it simplifies things logistically as well it allows NPM to install modules as nobody, since you have to be sudo to do that.
This is like a photographic implementation of a thousand rooms with a thousand monkeys and a thousand typewriters. Some real masterpieces.
Add text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.05); (Or any other text-shadow value)

This makes a huge difference in Windows Chrome as it apparently causes the font to take a different rendering path.

Don't use text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; It ends up doing either nothing or making things look worse on some mobile webkit browsers.
It is 2011 and I still don't have a flying car. What a shame!
I'm hitting 29 in a few months and am more or less in the same boat. Keep fighting the good fight.
I find that what's out there on google tends to catch edge cases that my cursory bit of thought leaves out - especially when I take the union of several results.
Valid question. The result in this case was getting a patch that was already committed into the development branch, just not yet released.

I actually did debug it (i.e. I found the cause of the bug, just didn't know whether fixing it in the most obvious place wouldn't break anything elsewhere - it occurs it might) but my fix would probably be suboptimal and I'd probably waste the developers' time with a superfluous bug report (and maybe the suboptimal patch too).
well-written instruction material

Indeed they sometimes do. Most other times they contain the answers or worse yet, the wrong answers.
Nerd of the Week: Ray Kurzweil [2000]
Possible, yes... but to get the results you want, no.
Dedicated gaming devices may be losing out to phones
The vast majority of CS programs and lecturers aren't that good

How many of them have you studied at?
Cooking In The Future (1990s)
If true, is this the end of handheld gaming ?
AT&T To Start Selling Amazon Kindles In US Stores, Beginning March 6
I really try not to bother coworkers unless I'm totally stuck. They're all busy working on their own projects, and taking them out of the zone to help me doesn't seem fair, especially if they don't know the answer either because then I interrupted them for nothing.
I've seen their advertisements, they look awesome. If I wasn't already covered by my parents plan I would go for it.
Police are allowed to take into consideration factors like "race, color or national origin" when deciding whether to ask for your papers.
2-bit full adder using just thirty six 555 timers
Keep in mind though that using the text-shadow hack may cause the text to reflow and jump around when you select it.
Kreci, is your Android market income 100% from ads? I wonder how Polish developers are coping or getting around the restriction of not being able to sell their apps. Your write-ups are always welcome, keep it up. Mile to widzieć, pozdrowienia z za oceanu.
> Some individuals cannot buy health insurance at all if they have preexisting conditions.

That's true only if they let their insurance lapse. As long as they don't do that, they can stay with their current, switch, etc, all without waiting periods or a significant premium relative to "well people". (It's been that way for years.)

That's why I wouldn't let insurance lapse if I had a pre-existing condition, so why do folks with pre-existing conditions let their insurance lapse? Or, are we assuming that they do without cause or that they don't know the rules?

Or, are "we" ranting about the system without knowing rules that don't apply to us?
Here's the one that had been mentioned in jbk's post: http://www.videolan.org/

VideoLAN makes VLC. VLC is one of the best video players in existence, it's also fairly ugly.