skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sokal notes, "While my method was satirical, my motivation is utterly serious," and goes on to describe his anger and sadness. Indeed, he doesn't describe his effort as a hoax, but rather as an experiment. He expresses the intent of exposing intellectual laziness and ideologically-driven reasoning (specifically by the Left, with which he self-associates), so the motivation appears to be more than humor, and I'm confident he would agree with your assessment of "more scary than funny."
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I feel like this is a bit optimistic. There are people who waste time in a 5 day work week environment; and those same people will waste a proportionate amount of time in a 4 day work week as well because that's just the work pace theyre used to.
Apple Job Listings Hint at Plans for Revamped Online Store
I think this is actually really old, it's been around since the early LLVM versions.

Still, it's definitely the best way to get exposed to writing optimizations using LLVM. Writing optimization passes ends up being really self-contained too (just that one file/class, and it 'automatically' gets registered into the optimizer), so it might be just one of the better ways of learning LLVM overall.
This i found very enlightening to read. I wonder how many accounting apps actually store their data as he describes in this article, to aid their calculations
I'm starting to like javascriptmvc, they've come up with some good practices for organizing code, combining/compressing it, and testing it.

http://www.javascriptmvc.com/
There is a little difference between using it privately with testing for functions used and releasing to developers in public as a stable, fully tested framework. Apple making it private is pretty much the same as a developer bundling it in an app.
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You mean something just like:
http://www.YouTipIt.org ? (add a tip badge on your site and accept bitcoins)

Here's a site with a YouTipIt badge:
http://www.BitcoinMiner.com

YouTipIt's fee is 0.01 BTC per tip, subtracted from the tip amount.

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There's also a Hacker News / Reddit / Digg type of site, where you pay bitcoins to post, vote, and reply. But then you earn from anyone who subsequently votes or replies to your contributions. It's live now:
http://www.witcoin.com
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Let me try and explain my maths, previously the fee where £100/£50 (M/F) income of £150. So they will have to increase F fee, so it will be (£100/£100) income of £200. Due to competition someone will then lower their fee to be (£75/£75) back again to £150 income.

So in the long run, my statement stands, it will cost me less.
Agreed, the question is how to find such niches. Though often it's deep, expert knowledge that provides insight, I highly value the idea of the "beginner's mind". An fresh perspective on a new field (or re-obtaining freshness on a familiar one) seems to often suggest new opportunities.

From a lifestyle perspective, having a wide range of interests and making friends in different fields might help...
A fight between Geeks - how to resolve this?
Why "can't" they? .. Happy to be proven wrong:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298570
I disagree. I use Octopart regularly. If something's hard to find, at least Octopart tells me where it's NOT at. One query, and I know 1/2 a dozen of the usual suspects that I don't need to bother searching. That's a big win for me. Now that they have Digikey, that's also a big win.

I have no idea where you're finding parts at, that they don't have in their database, besides the sleezy feeling parts brokers that tell you they have everything, even if they don't, so you'll contact them and they can try to locate the part for you at $5.00 per IC for a $0.35 part. I have no interest in these people. If I have to resort to them, than I won't be able to find production quantities anyway.
As someone who both 1) checks the comments to see if I should click a link I think might be dodgy, and 2) thinks a lot of links look dodgy, including this one at first, let me give a hearty recommendation to this article. Well worth reading from start to finish.
"User-friendly" accounting software (such as QuickBooks) tends to obscure the fundamental simplicity of double-entry accounting.

If you want to actually understand your books, use something simple and powerful like John Wiegley's ledger:

https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger/
> isn't that a double standard?

Not at all.

There's a big difference between saying "this version of MacRuby is good enough for this particular application", vs. "this version of MacRuby is good enough for all applications".

Once it's added as a public framework to the OS then Apple is committed to maintaining the framework's security, stability, and backward compatibility in perpetuity, or at least for a very long time. OS and platform vendors never make those decisions lightly.

It is an encouraging sign that MacRuby is at a point where Apple is comfortable using it their some of their code.
They do, but camouflage themselves as private equity firms.
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I like Gitflow alot, how did you guys adapt it? Was anything major required to get it to scale up to 50+?
I would say a big disadvantage of doing it this way is you're serving up different CSS/JS files for each page.

You don't have to, though. You can put everything into a single global css file, and be done with it.

And I haven't implemented it, but I can immediately see easy ways to package it all up into single files that can be easily cached.

It's easier to consolidate the files programmatically after they've been logically separated, than to logically separate out of a monolithic location.
What is with people and continually violating the NDA? Especially when they aren't anonymous?

I've seen so many messages from people on Twitter that I follow about what Lion contains, and what it does not. There is a pretty strict NDA in place covering the prerelease software, and there's exactly one forum (well, two, if you count Radar) where you can voice your concerns.

It's a sad state of affairs when people do not care about the contracts that they sign. It'll lead to further secrecy in the future, and it's just disgusting how lax some people are being re: the new OS.
OH MY GOD! I finally understand why Sales is a liability on all the balance sheets I translate! !!!
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Another happy uWSGI user here.

I've been running nginx on the front line, then using apache/mod_wsgi as an app server... and this was just dumb. Now, nginx goes straight to uWSGI, and being able to separate my web process from my app process is such a joy.
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Having recently taken an accounting class, this is amazing.

The course I took was chock full of "because that's the way it is" explanations of terms and practices, which without fail left me feeling confused and unsatisfied. I think most people here are like me and really need deep explanations of the lower level concepts in order to be able to apply higher level concepts. Accounting coursework is absolutely horrible at this.
apparently in late 2012, when nokia windows phones are released, microsoft mobile market share will approach zero.
I'm not underestimating the benefits of those advantages at all. But those are opportunities bought with money. I know plenty of my peers from Ivy League schools who had the personality/skills to take advantage of everything their private schools and Ivy League upbringing had to offer - studying abroad, discussing with the best professors, etc. But I also know plenty from this same group of peers who have had access to these opportunities but are still softspoken and shy, or nervous when speaking with people, or have insecurity issues, or are elitist snobs who turn people off, so on and so forth. Sure, maybe they took Calculus in high school and have a PHD in whatever metaphysics but does that mean they are better adjusted to take advantage of all the opportunities that money has bought them? In fact, if you have 2 kids, one rich and one average, the rich one being socially ill-adjusted (because his parents were hyper-ambitious) and the average kid being happy-go-lucky, smart, and resourceful (because his parents nurtured his childhood with love and taught him the skills of problem solving and confidence), assuming they had the same opportunities, which do you think would do better in an interview? Obviously I'd like the say the latter, but that then brings up the point of whether society values the better resume and lesser merit or vice versamore.
After reading this article, I reread the relevant portion of Jim Collins' "Good to Great". His point (proven by many, many examples) is that being first out of the gate is rarely a sustainable advantage. The key is being the best - learning from not only your mistakes, but the mistakes of those before you.

I found a summarized version of this chapter on his website...

http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/best-beats...
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I'll walk you through my actions on your site. Normally usertesting.com charges for this :p

1) I go to questia.com

2) Having never been here, I quickly gather that it is a resource for information.

3) I decide I would like to read about law, so I click on the "Law" link.

Sidebar) Screw that pop up I just got.

4) I get to the law page, and I get to more navigation. There is SEO-ified content on the page which I'm sure your SEO company told you is great for deep linking and telling Google where stuff is. But it sucks. It is of no value to the user, and hopefully Google downranks that kind of crap... to be blunt.

5) I tab back from Hacker News and get that damn pop up AGAIN!

6) I tab back from Hacker News and get it AGAIN!?!.. Oh, I see, its whenever my mouse goes over the banner ad (doesn't have to hover, just mouseover). Annoying.

7) I click Civil Law.

8) I get to more navigation. I click Alimony.

9) I scroll down to the bottom of the page to scout out where the content is.

10) I see the definition of alimony now. It looked like an ad before because of the intrusive "Newsletter" graphic. I click read more. That's how I'd like to see the page when I first get there... with content.

11) So, that isn't a lot of information. I click to read a sample book.

12) The design isn't very appealing.

13) I want to get back to the search results? How. I don't see a link, so I hit the back button a few times. But that would be a PITA if I had just read through 20 pages.

It is very obvious that the site is designed for people to click on ads. And I don't mean that in the way that a lot of sites generate ad revenue. Your site puts ads first, and user experience and usability a very distant second. The model isn't sustainable. Despite any good information your site has, I would have left at about Step 5 and never gone back.

Cheers, hope that helps.
By going into the facebook privacy settings for that application, you're allowed to remove some of the individual permissions they ask for. Example: Access to data at all times can be removed individually.
If you don't have the time to rewrite your app manually, there is another way: it's possible to recompile an iOS app to run natively on Android using the NDK. This is tricky to set up, but I can do it for you: http://www.apportable.com
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I'm really waiting for some great parody videos based on their demo video. It wasn't like shooting video and uploading it was "hard" before. Its interesting to see alot of these "DUH" concepts re-emerge with buzz lately.
This is awesome.

How are the spammers identified?

What are the meanings of the column headers "FrC FoC TwC" ?
It's an odd acquisition for Google - the UK comparison website market is highly competitive with the larger competitors spending a fortune on television advertising. BeatThatQuote are relative minnows, even if they are highly likely to be profitable minnows. Probably they're more notable for the white label sites they run for the likes of MSN and Yahoo...

SEO Book has their own theory about how BeatThatQuote might be achieving their much trumpeted growth statistics without assault the average UK consumer's ears with meerkat mascots or opera singers in every single commercial break
http://www.seobook.com/beatthatquote-buythoselinks
That has to be one of the worst wikipedia articles in a long time. They talk about notability, but they should talk about basing a whole article on rumors reported by journalists. Notable source reporting rumor is still rumor.
off the top of my head, none. :-)

This is very easy to model in a relational db and enterprise software that does this has many more features than described here.
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Here are two Bitcoin sites that run on App Engine (though the Bitcoin wallet is on an EC2 instance):

https://www.clearcoin.com/

http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/

- http://python.witcoin.com/p/152/Python-and-Bitcoin
Bitcask is an in memory datastore because it keeps a copy of the entire dataset in memo

Not quite. The keys are in memory along with disk position to retrieve the associated value with one seek.
Well, I called that one. Where do I sign up to be a technologist. Or do I need to be wrong for that job?
I wish I could vote this up twice.

Ledger is awesome and strips away all the crap that gets in the way of actually seeing the data.

There are also haskell and python implementations out there if that's more up your hacking alley.
This is great advice. Very useful for my next talk.
I have to say skip straight to #4. Finding a tech founder will be the best thing you can do to get started. But you better decide what role each nontech has beforehand. I doubt the tech founder will be happy with 20% equity with the other 4 just coasting on the idea for the same amount.
All true. I was thinking of the submitted link still. Manually sanitizing instead of having something doing that for you is a bad idea because you will forget.
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There are some further complications that make it impossible to use that exact representation without change; for instance a single transaction may involve more than two nodes; you could buy furniture and computers in one transaction and something in the system needs to represent this was one purchase, even if it is further broken apart after that. But with suitable modifications it seems like this ought to work. Whether or not it is actually done this way, I don't know... and to be honest, I doubt it, filed under "I don't need all that theory crap, I've got problems to solve!". Programmers are often quite happy to write much more complicated and redundant programs if it means not having to learn about graph theory. Not that they think of it that way. And I find it unlikely anybody started a real accounting project with "First, let's learn all about accounting and strip it down to the minimal conceptual core", rather than "Our accountants say this is how it works, so let's start putting together the matching class hierarchy", which will not produce a clean graph structure where one did not previously exist.

(And yes, theory can't be perfectly followed either, all systems will generally need some amount of dirty things, but the correct balance IMHO is definitely not 100% "pragmatic".)
bad link - it doesn't work.
Speaking of use at conferences, I have wished for something like this while standing in line (with hundreds of other people) waiting for a cab at Las Vegas airport. Too frequently they have under-loaded cabs going to the same hotels only minutes apart.

In Vegas it scales up further though. You have lots of people hopping from hotel to hotel to see shows etc. So if I want to get from the MGM to Bellagio to see O (particularly at predictable intervals before shows start), it's a good bet a bunch of other people will too.
What advantages does MacRuby offer over MRI/YARV or Rubinius?
I was actually thinking about adding this as an epilogue. I'll summarize my thoughts real quick:

- Biggest difference is making interfaces, both in terms of tools and higher level philosophy. Having Linear/Relative/Table/etc Layouts is a really foreign concept to iOS developers, who are used to just using two sets of pixel dimensions (320x480 or 768x1024). Once you get some practice with them it's not a big deal, but its definitely one of those things that originally made me stop learning Android dev on my first try. At the same time, it's necessary to have all these different ways of laying out data to cope with the device fragmentation. There are tools built into Eclipse and elsewhere (DroidDraw) that give you a graphic representation of what you're doing, but they're not as tightly integrated into the development process as Interface Builder is to iOS.

- Related to that point, I feel like it's just a lot easier to do complex and custom interfaces on iOS. I haven't delved too deep into this on Android, but all of the really awesome Quartz features for manipulating and animating views just don't exist (although I heard 3.0 is trying to change that).

- Dealing with touches is something much more deeply ingrained in iOS than in Android; from what I've heard, it's actually non-existant in pre-2.0 APIs. I believe there's just not concept of a UIResponder-esque chain of handling events, which sucks because those form the backbone of really cool interfaces that iOS apps are known for.

- All that being said, it was actually pretty enjoyable once I got the hang of it. Things like ArrayAdapters are really useful and my code was more modular because of them. Now, if Apple got around to bringing all the Bindings and NSObjectController magic to iOS...

tl;dr the Android SDK (pre 3.0) seems better suited for business-as-usual apps than the gorgeous interfaces you find on the App Store.
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I agree, the concern over 'idea-theft' shouldn't be a real issue. If it is, I find it unlikely that the person with the idea will end up executing it anyway.
You're right it's hopeless and unfair. We are all losers that should stop trying immediately. We should spend our time wishing for impossible utopian communism that will somehow arbitrarily add fairness. Then we can complain that we aren't as tall as other people, or as strong.

Or we could act like winners. Turn the tables and determine where life is unfair in your favor and play that game, or at least push the game closer to that direction. Rich kids are pushed into certain roles/behaviors as well. There are risks that they fear that you do not.
This is how I judge whether someone is an experienced entrepreneur or not. New entrepreneurs keep ideas to themselves. Experienced ones are much more open about them. I used to keep my ideas to myself, but learned that it does more harm than good. If you can trust people, they won't trust you.
I might be missing something here, having never used MongoDB, but what does this have to do with it? How else can this attack vector be used?
A good discussion about Bitcoin from about a month ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2200705
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After the lawsuit I think investing in RIM or their platform isn't a good idea.

That RIM was more willing to "kick" this company to the curb and serve them a lawsuit, rather than perhaps acquiring an innovative team and hot messaging platform, is indication that this company simply doesn't "get it". RIM is absolutely dead meat if getting sued is your reward for building apps for Playbook or Blackberry.
The charts are showing growth over time, as in delta change on any given day from the previous day.

Imagine you had a normal chart where each point is the absolute number of followers, but you take the derivative of that function (or use the deltas between days instead).
I wrote a blog post about the passing of a schoolmate with sino-nasal undifferentiated carcinoma (very rare), who had cultured his own cell line and his advisor then rescued those cells from the Katrina floodwaters. Every six months or so I would get another comment from someone looking for someone else with the disease. Unfortunately, I deleted the blog. I hadn't even thought about that until now.
We also follow feature development workflow with git:

http://reinh.com/blog/2009/03/02/a-git-workflow-for-agile-te...
The data is only being displayed for the past 30 days. Keep in mind, just because it's flat doesn't mean it's 0. It could be constant at a higher number of growth. My apologies for not showing that effectively.
The web is full of these kinds of issues -- you need to escape, filter, etc, etc, every piece of user data. You either do it yourself or use some kind of abstraction layer (template engine, ORM, etc) to do it for you.
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Bernie Madoff earned his money by stealing it. The same could be said for many people that aren't sitting in jail and who aren't generally/politically believed to have done anything that should cause them to be sitting in jail.

I did not equate Jobs to Madoff (or AIG or arms dealers), I simply stated that being in possession of fifty million dollars does not provide any indication of moral value of the possessor.
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Does anyone know of a way to sync Facebook events with your Outlook calender?
In the absence of Apple's cooperation, a standard build of the MacRuby framework could be distributed independently, à la Growl (http://growl.info/). In this way developers could not only drastically reduce the size of their downloads, but also stay as up-to-date as possible. It would certainly seem that the license would permit it:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/

Yes, the App Store rules would prohibit apps with external dependencies such as that one, and at least for self-contained apps distributed through the app store, Apple themselves would be paying for the bandwidth resulting from their own poor decision, so an argument could be made for both ways.
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Why would you show two almost but not quiet identical slideshows of the app?
Agreed. It always surprises me how a subject that is very regimented in its rules and regulations can easily skip over defining all of those foundational principles (my small forays into learning accounting consists of learning through deciphering examples rather than being able to see something as clear as this page). It may be that the subject is liable to the problem of "everyday" words that carry deeper, technical meanings in the context of the subject - as in, everyone already knows what sales and accounts receivable are, right? Great, now let's move on....