skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet by burying that in the middle and near the end, bookended on both sides by what can be perceived as whining by an ex-employee, "OperationLeakS" has basically made it cakewalk for Bank of America's PR to deflect this.

I halfway hope that Wikileaks is using Anonymous as a smokescreen and has given them a little bit of info so that BoA can burn their PR on them, then the supposed hard drive that is referenced again here actually comes out later.
There is a major difference between sports and programming: In sports, everyone is a critic, and it is really obvious if people cannot skateboard, or cannot throw a basketball.

Compare with programming, where overt effect and actual competence are not always related. Criticizing programming and programmers is nontrivial, and hence people have to do it all the time to build up a shared understanding of good and bad practices.

Looking at visual arts, you'll probably find a similar asymmetry between drawing (where it's difficult to get to even a barely mediocre level) and layout/typography (where it's easy to do something that looks "good" to the layman yet is totally horrible). Needless to say, there are more pages bashing bad layout and bad typography than there are sites dedicated to bashing bad drawings.
Humorously enough, early television in the UK (from 1929-1935) had only 30 lines of resolution and so could be recorded at audio frequencies onto a "Phonovision" disk. You can see some examples at http://www.tvdawn.com/recordng.htm of the low quality of the results.

For a little while, the BBC did broadcasts of 30-line video using two AM radio frequencies (one for the video, one for the audio) that could be picked up by special recievers.
Partitioning my digital life into security domains.
This has already happen in Wisconsin..after that vote to ban unions..

I'm pretty sure the vote you describe never occurred.
Being an Outsider
He was raised in Westchester County and went to Philips Exeter, then Harvard.

Many others have as well, and have not done what he did. But that still doesn't qualify as "starting from zero" or "nothing to show."
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Krugman
On tour duty? Believe me, it's still a testament to the laptop's quality if it stood up to four years of touring.
Where Children Sleep: A Diverse World of Homes
The problem, honestly, is not the Valley. It's techcrunch. And authors who write stuff like this. Perhaps he saw the King's Speech, shed a tear and had a burning desire to return home to London where the tech activity amounts to just about nothing.

If the author feels that companies are over-hyped, then instead of just lavishing them with praise, he should ask critical questions of them. And not just this author, all of them. I remember watching an interview Sarah Lacy had conducted with the dude from ZocDocs and I thought to myself, "Is this for real?". She was giddy as a school girl, talking about how he played the role of Aladdin in a Disney Park when he was younger or some nonsense like that - when there are blaring holes in ZocDocs idea that she should have broached upon. At least Arrington, like him or not, had the balls to ask some tough questions and be somewhat critical.

And honestly - technology isn't just internet startups. How about that biotech company that's trying to find a cure for metastic lung cancer? No it's not going to create a bunch of billionaires overnight, but what its doing is probably far more meaningful than creating technology that allows you to check-in to your neighborhood bar to get free pretzels.

And I'm not from the Bay Area, I'm from the NYC area (believe me I'm the last one to hype the NYC tech scene), and I realize good tech companies can come from anywhere, but the Valley continues to have the special sauce that just makes things work - it's not just a matter of whats in the Valley, but also what is not (stodgy investment banks and old media) that actually helps it remain a highly creative environment - probably the most highly creative on earth right now. That's not changing any time soon.
I don't know about permanently deleted. I'm sure some trace of it will remain somewhere!
Actually, they are building on existing ones, they extend GNU SIP Witch:

http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/GNU_SIP_Witch
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I'm glad that HN is a place where people are normally really helpful to each other, but I see it even occasionally here.

On the other hand, let's not take it too far. It's nice for people to have a little bit of backbone. They don't need to endure jackasses unnecessarily, but there are times when criticism is rightly required and backbone is rightly needed to respond well.
3% Say Ivy League Schools Produce Better Workers
Sheesh. Listen, I'm a rubyist as much as anyone and have a number of commercial ruby/rails projects under my belt, but I've also done Java for more than a decade. This willingness by rubyists to piss on Java is quite silly. Java as a language can be frustrating at times, but it's really not that bad and the platform itself is solid. I manage a number of applications in Java which would be an absolute nightmare to write in ruby, simply because of their complexity and size. In large systems, Java excels.
crunchykeith said they were successful.
My policy: be nice to people. Don't be nice to ideas.

IMO, ideas need harsh critique, and it's not always easy or worth it to spend the extra time padding the conversation to soften your point - it can even be counterproductive.

So while I won't say that someone is stupid or dumb for suggesting the idea, I may say an idea was not well thought out if it really isn't. I expect my peers to do the same, because we're not going to see which ideas stick if we bicker over how we iterate on them.
More can always be done. Confining your reaction to the emotional is uninformative and exactly the sort of panic that our media creates and is creating about this event.

If you can't slip smoothly from being sad about the death and destruction to analyzing the disaster response dispassionately, that's your problem.
Clever trick that. They appear to have plugged the circuit board from a 'wall wart' type power supply into the headphone jack. Also, the 'antenna' is weird (why is it connected at both ends?).
I used to get this years ago on an O2 pay as you go with old school crappy mobile internet. Can't remember exactly what sites triggered it, but it was something pretty innocuous, perhaps gambling/lottery related.

The switch from PAYG to contract made it disappear but it would be foolishly tin-foily of me to assume that this is exactly what O2 wanted to happen.
For those looking to actually practice calculating Big O for functions, here are some useful problem sets, with answers:

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~sg/CSE241_SP08/hw.html

Problem set for Big O and recursion:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/courses/cs106b/... (see last page)

and answers:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/courses/cs106b/...

I also recommend the algorithms course from ArsDigita,

http://aduni.org/courses/algorithms/
Show HN: My Node.js two weekend project. Color palettes from Flickr images.
"Between a wish and its fulfillment there is, in magic, no gap"
No relational database sort of hidden under an object-relational mapper, a template language where the template is valid HTML are two reasons that pop out promptly. Also, Python would be more popular now, perhaps taking some space from things far uglier than Python or Ruby.

Just imagine the joy of using ZODB instead of EJB's layered on top of Oracle databases.
I consider you a success, now that I've seen some of the projects you've worked on. I did look for that information in the about section, but should've looked under "current projects".

Instead I asked you directly.

I apologize. I look forward to learning from you.
I recently started working at a startup and before that my perception of criticism was what I saw on tv and heard from people. Fortunately, my coworks and seniors give me some good feedback.

But I myself still can't have the patience to listen and learn, after reading this, I feel like there's an incentive for me to change my behavior :)
the ship personnel got the dose!

http://abcnews.go.com/International/uss-carrier-ronald-reaga...

"The maximum potential radiation dose received by any ship's force personnel aboard the ship when it passed through the area was less than the radiation exposure received from about one month of exposure to natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun," Davis said.

According to 7th Fleet Commander and Spokesman Jeff Davis, the ships were moved away from the downwind direction of the plant as a precautionary measure on Sunday.
Ubuntu is great at power management (or, more accurately, Linux in general), but if your laptop isn't supported for whatever reason Ubuntu is just screwed and there's nothing it can do.

5: The problem is actually that there are two copy and paste buffer in X Windows. There's the mouse selection buffer, which is copied on any highlight operation, and pasted via right mouse button, and the "conventional clipboard", populated by an explicit copy and pasted via explicit paste. This is further screwed up by the fact that few programmers have understood this and a large number of programs have tried to "fix" what they perceived as bugs in the clipboard in various horrific ways. See [1]. In particular, it seems like the programs that correctly deselect text when somebody else grabs primary has been going down lately. I've had a pretty good run with this actually working as designed on KDE lately, but recent Gnomes seem to be going back to mucking with it and I've been having trouble, and Chromium itself also seems dubious.

3 and 7 sounds like more poorly-supported hardware. Unfortunately, your Linux experience with proprietary hardware with no released documentation will always be bad. The situation is ever-improving but still not perfect. It is possible and maybe even likely your laptop will never work properly under Linux.

[1]: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
Meh. It isn't actually that important at the end of day.

There are the geeks that help out and the geeks that criticise.
The overwhelming cause for the Great Depression was tight monetary policy, and trying to let the market "sort it out" without providing any stimulus (e.g., QEs). When you have a highly illiquid economy with no spending or consumption, you get no growth; that factor prolonged the Depression. That conclusion is supported by economists across the aisle, from Paul Krugman to Milton Friedman, to everyone else in between -- including all living Nobel Laureates in Economics. That premise is the Fed's main justification for the recent QEs.
One of the offices I worked at a few years ago had this on several walls and I thought it was a great idea. They even had wood trim around it so that it looked like a huge whiteboard.
College Paper Cover Page - An Indispensable Portion of Your Project
Many students do not pay necessary attention to the cover page of their college papers. This is a drastic mistake which they should somehow try to avoid doing. The college paper cover page is as important as the rest of the paper and should be given the due attention.
I see you met Zope 2. There is still a lot of it under Plone.

Neither Rails nor Django appeared on the radar before Zope 3 and Zope 3 is much a nicer platform than 2 (they applied a lot of lessons learned when making it). Grok is even more interesting, as it brings the convention over configuration to Zope 3 (Zope Corp does a lot of government contracts where, I assume, XML configuration files were mandated by clueless PHBs)

Also, had Zope been more successful at that time, it would have captured a lot of space that's now owned by Sharepoint and EJB messes.
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Just finished this over the last few weekends, wanted to get this in front of a few users.

A few things:

- There are no users as of me posting this.

- Add "Hacker News" to your interests once you've signed up. It'll allow us to see each other.

- You will only see other users with similar interests.

- Only common interests will be revealed.

Let me know any feedback/suggestions/bugs/idea sucks, etc.
N-back training: improving your working memory
This is who's behind this: http://www.imcb.org.uk/ and here are the details of the filtering policy: http://www.imcb.org.uk/pdfs/ClassificationFramework.pdf
I saw the first submission, but I wanted to use a different headline, so I appended a question mark to the URL and submitted a new link. It's always a good sign when people submit your stuff before you do, but in this case I had a clear idea of what I wanted the headline to be. If I recall correctly, essentially the same thing happened on Tau Day itself, with the same result.
This is fake.

In the Netherlands there was also a fake hacker like this, it turned out to be a viral ad for an IT degree at university.
I understand that differences of opinion can exist on the function of the government and it's interference in private commerce but seriously:

"First, the proposed settlement only calls for loan modifications that would produce a greater “net present value” than foreclosure — that is, for offering deals that are in the interest of both homeowners and investors. The outrageous truth is that in many cases banks are blocking such mutually beneficial deals, so that they can continue to extract fees."

Can we not all agree that practices like that are predatory and an abuse of power? I really want to hear an argument about how an institution that holds as much sway over someones life as a mortgage holder would be justified in taking actions like this. The Republican party is traditionally ani-government intervention but they are elected by people, a non-trivial number of whom have to be getting screwed as badly by this as people who vote Democrat. I can't really see any grey area here unless the article is grossly misrepresenting the facts of the situation.
With regards to your point 2: how do you propose we adjust for the effects if we can't determine how much to adjust for? It is either scientific navel gazing, or we can adjust for the effect using the results of this to properly adjust.
The most common use is adding an extension environment to .NET apps, which is very, very easy with the DLR.

Big frameworks don't fully work, primarily because IronPython uses Unicode strings everywhere (like Python 3). We are working to improve compatibility as much as possible though, and moving to 3.0 will really help.
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Nice this started out as a fun implementation and now does transparent SSL and flash policy responses. Uses port forwarding to server on different ports.
This is a story of a person, not a place. Music was better when I was fourteen too.
How can he hate on the idea of a .edu social network for flirting

He's not hating on it. That's facebook.
Found via pella's post at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319027
I think you're misunderstanding Poole's stance on this. Zuckerberg seems to be pushing for a huge reduction in anonymity - maybe to the point of removing it altogether. That is definately because it would benefit him directly.

Poole, though, is just saying that it would be a mistake to assume there's no value to anonymity. He's clearly not saying that everything should be anonymous, since, as pointed out in the article, he's also creating a new site that utilizes FB profiles.
There is reinventing the wheel and reinventing the wheel.

It's cute when a person, learning as she goes, comes up with something that's been already invented. Only goes to show she understands the field. [1]

It's unbelievably irritating when something that was widely implemented 10 or 20 or 30 years ago (and then even improved significantly) is now asserted as the next big thing. C'mon, be serious -_-' [2]

[1] a nice guy thinks of swap (in userspace) just to hold strings of arbitrary length, calls it ``backed by file storage'': http://9fans.net/archive/2011/02/94

[2] no example I can think of ATM; but perhaps the above one could fit?
Its a huge plus. We are in the process right now of hiring and that is one of the first things we ask about. Do you have any open source code we can view? This tells us several things about the person

1) They are interested in coding. This was done on their own time, away from work. This means they actually like to code.

2) A lot of work is done to learn a new language/technology. This often shows desire to learn and the ability to at least hack together something that is new to them. This is important because we will be asking them to come up to speed quickly in our code base.

3) You can look at the code and get a feel for how they code. We are a small team and each developer will have the ability to have a big impact (for good or bad). Getting an idea of how they think, how they solve problems is a huge plus.

I don't think you need to have a lot of code available. Pick your favorite project, or 'best' project and make it available. I see very little downside.
> and they were so similar that people thought there was only room for one such language in the New World Order.

I hear this said a lot, but where does this idea come from? Their object models are different, their syntax is different, their goals are different.

Admittedly, I haven't written much Python (my experience is mostly reading it), but that's primarily because I preferred Ruby and have never seen what Python brings to the table.
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That is absolutely untrue. Taxpayers do not pay for any FDIC insurance.
Great advice. Funny enough, just today I had idea to start writing a book. I wrote one page introduction and than got bored. Will have to train my writing muscle bit more.
i'd heavily used haskell for 5 years. i was taught by some of the people who developed the original haskell specification, and the people who worked on haskell prime. i aced their haskell course (~95%. first in the year, iirc).

i've used haskell in work i was paid for, i've used haskell for real-time low-level video processing, as well as high level machine learning. i've contributed to a few open source haskell projects. the entire code for one of my research projects was written in haskell, coming to 2.5k lines of code.

you'll often find people who advocate haskell have the attitude that you "just don't get it" or "don't have enough experience" (an attitude you might find purveys some of the responses to my comment... i certainly do). i do like haskell, it's beautiful in many ways, but for large, hard problems where it's tricky to know how to develop code, i found it inappropriate. where you know what you want to write (i.e., have a specification that is solid or are willing to spend a while properly engineering things), haskell is great.
Thank you. If the fission reaction has indeed stopped, I wonder if whatever heat is still being generated (especially if the fuel rods are exposed and enough heat exists to melt the cladding) would still pose some danger to the pressure vessel?
It's cool but obviously fake. Why the hell would a video signal be coming out of the headset port?
My sarcasm detector is beeping, but very faintly. If you are being serious, wouldn't it kindof defeat the purpose to be condescending towards people spouting that stuff?
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We have white backerboard in our office, and it doesn't properly dry erase at all. Instead of just kind of smudges over the entire area of the board eventually just making it a HUGE mess.

At that point we have to clean it off with commercial cleaning spray and paper towels. It works, but is definitely not ideal.
That's true. And yes, devise doesn't do that by default. Basically, you'll want to have Devise (or better yet, all of Rails) set to only use secure cookies.

Unfortunately, most Rails apps run without SSL, so that's not going to be the default any year soon. At this point, you really do have to pay money for a good SSL certificate, or self-sign and then people have to click through an ominous-looking dialog to use your site.
Simple matter, complex antimatter, and added strangeness
The Big Clean event - clean local Government Data
http://lesswrong.com/lw/3h/why_our_kind_cant_cooperate/
I see. I also did not know that BTC was divisible into very small amounts.
Did they begin every sentence with "Silence!" as well?
I guess this is true if you sit in front of the computer with no clue on how to tackle the problem at hand and have no intention of producing an actual robust program as the immediate output. If you are simply messing around with no direction, then I would agree.

Let's give some examples of hard problems first: designing a version control system, writing a complex revenue simulation model, designing an algebra for arbitrary data model customization, etc.

When dealing with such "hard" problems, I personally usually do a fair amount of thinking before typing a line of code. Once I have a hypothesis as to how the solution might look with at least a starting point for the implementation, I start fleshing it out in Haskell. This prototyping actually goes quite fast with data types and transformations leading the way and making what needs to be done fairly clear. In a short amount of time, you end up with a pretty robust (thanks to various reasons mentioned by the author and several others in this thread) initial prototype. I have a feeling this experience is fairly common in the Haskell community.

If your idea was completely rubbish, then yes, you may have to scrap it all together. Otherwise, the type system becomes your guide in making incremental adjustments to your data types and transformations. I would argue that any major change would require the same, if not more, amount of time/work in Python/Ruby/Perl if you take the correctness of your code seriously.

Also, keep in mind that Haskell has really advanced type inference, which means you don't have to write any types at all if you don't want to. You are required to write them only if you are using higher order types, but then you really ought to know what you are doing.
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bah e^(0.5τi)+1=0
I think you mean plumbing in the sense of connecting already existed components. I'll grant that. But would you consider someone who can only do that a fantastic developer?

And, yes, I know we're discussing almost pure semantics.
A good read about working hard with constant learning. This 3rd road of 'Keep Moving' reminds me of the Seinfeld Calendar (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033433).

Every day, you want to be able to have something to show for it. While it won't pay off immediately, constantly learning new things and having the experience to show for it will make you stronger, marketable, and ideally self-sustainable.
Definitely disparate, and it seems to be the case with the web frameworks as well. Going to check out Jebu's implementation. Have been using Misultin, which has been great thus far.
For [2], I'd normally suggest the thin client... except that it's got enough momentum that it may actually be the next big thing.