skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + X worked for me on a Macbook Pro/Snow Leopard/Chrome
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NYSEG Vs. Us Vs. NYSEG, Part 2 of 2
Yes. I've even heard people justify their haphazard, random formatting by parroting the old "the compiler doesn't care about formatting" line they heard from the instructor at the technical college on the first day of their language course.

If the compiler was the only other entity with which you're collaborating on a project, fine. But in the real world other humans have to read your garbage.
The only solution that I have seen working to solve the "Peter Principle" problem, is re-org.

Once in a while, parts of the org chart, get re-organized. People moved vertically and horizontally. Carefully moving the "newly incompetent" to a horizontal position that suits their competence level (ie remove the responsibilities that they handle badly and increase those they handle well).
great point - totally forgot about vm's

still don't think that is what the article was referring to since it was 'windows opcodes'
The show is about to start.
Thanks. Anything quicker than parseFloat?
It can't all be reprocessed (which itself is somewhat hazardous not least because of the transport required) so you'll still have a sizable chunk of stuff that needs to be contained for tens of thousands of years.
but if you're writing FP in a legacy environment
with lots of nasty complex data structures you have
a big headache. This would not be true in the same
data environment with a well-constructed OO tier.

With fp languages the tendency is to think in data and abstract via functions. If your functional tier is well-constructed then all is good right? [insert discussion here about what makes a well-constructed functional tier] ;-)
Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Leads $6.5M Round For Jumio
Nice to see Microsoft responding so fast.

I guess this shows how HN and other sites can create enough publicity to make issues heard.
That nuclear fallout map is bogus
Happiness Engineering
Every monetary trading system creates an audit trail. If the ruling is given to give access to an email account, the place of hosting is irrelevant. Unless you were to delete your mail server, which would probably only incriminate you further.
They were scrammed. Immediately. What they're dealing with is called residual heat removal. Even though the reactor was turned off within seconds (same as three mile island), the fuel is extremely hot and takes about a week to cool it to a normal level.

Control rods are automatically scrammed by gravity when the power is cut. They are held by electro magnets on most designs. However, I admit that I'm not too familiar with GE's BWR.
Why go through the effort? When I end up on an NY Times page, I just close it because I know they're going to make me log in. This just gives me more incentive to not click on NY Times links.
Great startpage I'm trying it out. You should make the whole line clickable rather than just the text. Also I couldn't find any import option - for a service whose main selling point is having many links visible at once it would be an advantage to not have to enter them all manually. Actually this would be a great view of my delicious (or similar) bookmarks grouped by tags.
I still think the old logo looks just like the "Morph Ball" from the Metroid games.

http://www.google.com/images?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS397US397&q=...
How can a technical article be too technical, or long? Long-winded perhaps, but if that's what needs doing, it's what needs doing. Anyway, definitely good learning material.
I'd wager you're correct to an extent, at least, but I'm not sure if it's still wise to spend the research on that rather than renewables – even allowing for the fact that there're scientists and facilities that can/want only help with the nuclear side, there's funding to be considered.
Also "dictionary".
And in my experience when enough people are saying that 'you can't do that' there is an opportunity waiting for you that is proportional in pay-off to the number of people asserting that it can't be done.

Great thought.

Most of my most memorable successes were when others said that something couldn't be done. First you think, "Why not?" Then you think, "What would it take?" Then you figure that you'll never find out for sure unless you try. The reward is compounded by the initial skeptism.

Just a few silly examples (any of these sound familiar?):

Manager: Shop Floor Control is impossible.
Me: Why?
Manager: Because the base data is so inaccurate.
Me: So?
Manager: It would take years to fix all the data.
Me: What if we turned in on anyway?
Manager: The output would be worthless.
Me: Wouldn't it show where the base data was inaccurate?
Manager: Yes.
Me: Then you could fix the biggest culprits?
Manager: I suppose.
Me: So turning it on would expedite data fixing?
Manager: Yes.
Me: So it's not really impossible?
Manager: Well...

Manager: Bug free software is impossible.
Me: What would it take to make is possible?
Manager: Nothing. Can't be done.
Me: What if we added systems testing to unit testing?
Me: And then built rigorous test plans covering almost everything?
Me: And then enforced User Acceptance Testing?
Me: And allowed nothing into production without passing?
Me: Would it be better?
Manager: Yes, but we can't afford to do all of that.
Me: So, bug-free software isn't impossible, just expensive?
Manager: No, it's impossible. Get back to work.
Me: Sigh.

Manager: A web app is impossible.
Me: Why?
Manager: Because it depends upon data entered by regular people.
Me: So?
Manager: People are idiots. They enter wrong data all the time.
Me: What if we trained them?
Manager: Impossible. They don't work for us.
Me: What if we made the software smarter?
Manager: What do you mean?
Me: Data validation.
Me: Data reasonableness based upon rules or history.
Me: Crowdsourcing data validation.
Manager: The data would still be bad.
Me: What would it take to make the data good?
Manager: Nothing. Impossible.
Me: Sigh.
>- The thoughts of a 22-year old with no life experience.

Life experience my dear son is relative, and with your attitude and outlook, you're going to have some great experiences to share with future generations.

Good luck, friend.
Cherenkov radiation leads to some pretty pictures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
Apple and Android get drafted, soldier-centric Army apps coming soon
I wouldn't really agree that it doesn't work out in practice. For the systems that I work on, the concept of privacy is extremely useful, perhaps we're doing things 'the wrong way' to believe that but I don't think that's all that likely.

What would you suggest as a better alternative, outside of a purely functional approach? Just as an example, suppose that Java's LinkedList class didn't have a cached size and that instead it went and iterated its elements to calculate its size each time someone asked for it. I might write a wrapper around LinkedList with two private variables, the LinkedList and an int to cache its size in. Then I would update the int each time an operation was performed on my member list. If I can't make those two members private, how can I ensure that no one accidentally updates the list without updating the size, or vice-versa. It mightn't be an unreasonable mistake for someone to think calling mylist.size = 0 would empty the list. What is the 'safe' way of constructing this concept?
My compose mail has been a button for a long time. And I just looked and I also have refresh button. Not really sure what this article is trying to do... Do they want to know of people like buttons vs links? I like the compose button since it stands out and you don't have to hunt for it.

I hadn't really ever noticed the Refresh. Gmail has been so good at it that I guess I never thought to look for it. Plus... Hitting the Inbox link does a refresh anyway.
Maybe I should have pointed out that I work in derivatives...
Glenn Gould talks about the Art of Bach's fugue
You're absolutely right, but it's hard to enforce. I'm not saying it's right, but this kind of thing happens all the time in old media jobs and elsewhere. For example, if I brought you in as an intern and showed you how to write a story that's technically training, but your story may very well displace another reporter's story, too. Young workers live with it because they want to build portfolios and work experience.
You need to synchronize your operations and shake out the trust issue.

Set up a mandatory morning and afternoon call at the same time every day. 15 minutes.

Spend the first two minutes of each call recapping your current milestones. If it takes more than 2 minutes you're talking about the wrong stuff. See below.

"Yesterday we expected to get to X." Then reiterate what the team members told you in the last meeting.

Person 1: What are you working on? Need anything? Next step?
Person 2: What are you working on? Need anything? Next step?
Person 3: What are you working on? Need anything? Next step?

Anything taking more than 2 minutes take offline, or stay on the bridge line after the others are gone. If you do this for a few weeks you'll quickly spot who is flaking, working for another company or project on the side, or who really just needed more direction from you.

When people experience trust issues, there's a good reason: either they are insecure, or someone is untrustworthy. I've managed large corporate customers remotely for years, performed complex projects remote. Once you get the process under way you can move to a single morning call.

Do not skip it. Do not reschedule it. Do not miss it. Get in the habit and your team will fall in line. The rest of the issues will sort themselves out.
This would be interesting especially for those of you that read Godel Escher Bach by Hofstadter
Raytheon has been doing this for a while: http://investor.raytheon.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84193&p=iro...

IIRC one app actually plots your allies on a gps map.
Researchers dust off X-ray machine from 1896, compare it to modern equipment
I've witnessed more than one person set out to do something that requires them to have solved the halting problem (without realizing or knowing of it). Basic comp-sci education isn't all the value that some ascribe to it, but it's surely non-zero.
Here's my stab (probably about as accurate as any of the misleading answers on quora):

0: realizing that search was important on its own (it wasn't a loss leader or a gimmick to get people to visit your portal where the real content and money making happened)

1: using cutting edge research to improve search result quality based on human factors (page rank)

2: using cutting edge computer science to create highly efficient search systems through sharding and aggressive parallelization.

3: facilitating aggressive parallelization through highly automated data center operations relying on large quantities of consumer grade hardware.

4: continuing concentration on human factors (UI simplicity, search result speed, unobtrusive advertisements, etc.)

All of these together made google a juggernaut, with some of them google would have been successful but maybe not dominant, with all of them nobody could touch google so long as they managed to monetize well. Better search results faster at lower cost per query and with much higher click-through rates for ads. That's a world beating formula right there.
There's plenty of room for 'respecting dangerous invisible shit that can kill you' between those two extremes of being a scaredy-cat and acting macho.
I was perhaps being a bit brash in that post. I thought the intentionally satirical and bloviating nature of it would come through. Last night I wrote a 3,500-word essay on the massive upcoming conflict, in the United States, between the intelligent and the powerful. (I'm not going to spam HN with links to my blog, but it's my most recent post.) I guess I am still amped up on adrenaline from last night.

This would require another discussion, but college admissions aren't very meritocratic. There are a bunch of crypto-racist so-called "character" criteria (note: the "right" extracurriculars are only available at rich schools) that were shoved into the process in the 1920 to '60s and have been let to stay there. I'm going to mostly ignore that line of discussion because it's going to be 20 or 30 years before I have kids of that age, and until that point, I don't really care in the least about college admissions. College admissions are less corrupt than politics or the news media, but not by much; the corruption is far less damaging, though, because it's never been that hard for a smart person to get accepted into a good school. (Prestigious schools can be very hard to get into, but we have 200 or so good schools, including most of those state flagships the Republicans want to kill, in the U.S. We have excellent colleges and universities in this country and that's a huge asset.)

Do I think a forceful, tectonic reallocation of resources to smart people would give us a better world? Yes, absolutely. I won't go so far as "resources can never be misallocated" in a meritocracy, because that level of perfection is impossible, but I think we'd have a far better world with smarter, more creative, more visionary, and more compassionate people in charge, instead of the spineless, morally debased, and anti-intellectual corporate strongmen who currently hold most of the cards.
Pretty sure people have been predicting that ever since they heard this was coming.
Google's Android faces a serious Linux copyright issue
Japan Times: Mobile Internet Is Lifeline For People In Post-Quake Confusion
BYD Motors sneaks on to American market, could make US debut official
It's quite impressive, especially since he managed to do it in 3 hours. Hats off!

Regarding the name: I'm guessing it's an altered version of the word piccolo, which stands for small in Italian. Nice one ;)
And of course Bach and Gould fans.

Could there be any better music than Bach to listen to while programming? I think not :)
Digital Africa
Steve Blank: New rules for the new Internet bubble
I think Instapaper's bookmarklet scrapes the page if it's behind a pay wall, very clever.

Edit: To clarify, by scraping I mean if you are logged in and can see the article the bookmarkelet will grab the contents of the page.
What if someone said it isn't impossible, but there are big challenges, and based on your skill set, you're likely to fail. It is those kinds of non-glorified situations where perseverance is crucial, but it can also lead to spectacular failure.
I don’t know whether they will succeed but I think it‘s great that they are trying.
Personally, someone saying to me "You can't do that" is a great motivator. "You cannot get A+ in that class, it's impossible." == me studying way harder (and finally achieving that A). In fact, ironically, I always tend to do better when people think something is really hard.. maybe because I'd take it more seriously.
Good old Useless Today, doing what it does best...being useless.
So what are those traits? After all, I'd hate to offend you the next time I visit Austin.
Rejection is for losers
I'll probably pay. The NY Times is my main news source, and I think it's worth $15 a month. I want newspapers to survive. If that means they need to have online subscribers, then so be it. Good things cost money. I'm worried that the alternative will be news sources that optimize for pageviews alone.

Where I live, getting the NY Times paper delivered to me every day would cost me $5.85 a week (https://www.nytimesathome.com/checkout.php?step=1). So this is actually cheaper than a physical subscription.
Make HQ of the company to be at a power plant.
1896 to March 27, 2011: "All the News That's Fit to Print"

After March 27, 2011: "All the News thats Fit to Find Somewhere Else for Free"
HTML5 Mass Broadcasting Desktop Notifications
"The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice"

By Robin Williams (not that Robin Williams)

Quick, easy read geared towards non-designers (it's in the title!) that explains the basics of C.R.A.P. (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity), 4 things that will change the way you look at things and stop centering everything :D

edit: formatting
Things about Blogging
The Atlantic produces some really great articles, but what really drew me to post this was that HN generally focuses on 1st world innovation, but I'd love to hear people's thoughts on anything they're doing in the 3rd world. Up-and-coming nations like China and India are hot topics, especially in technology, but Africa is perhaps the slowest to adopt, which coincidentally makes it ideal for easy innovation through the help of technology. Does anyone here do tech work with Africa? Does anyone see a market out there?
The Fukushima reactors WERE scrammed. The problem is that this ends only the Uranium fission chain reaction, but still leaves you with a lot of fission products that are themselves unstable with various half-lives. These keep producing a gradually diminishing amount of heat for weeks and months. Which is why you have the waste pools.

And no, you CAN'T scram those because it's not a chain reaction going on but simply radioactive decay - there is no known force in the universe which can stop an unstable atom core from decaying.
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
True. I would love an idiot-explanation of that, so that I can understand it too.
'who's probably' isn't a very strong statement of enthusiasm.

Your best bet is for one of you to travel to the other and hack for a few weeks and sleep on the couch or floor if necessary.
Mozilla CEO: Firefox Faced Advertiser Backlash Over "Do Not Track" Feature
I suggest that one should read the thread completely in that discussion, as I have done just now, rather than arrive at the quick conclusion that this guy is clearly wrong. As far as I understand, the points given are wrong per se, but just that pg and Buchheit just think that other factors were more important.

I think that (unless you're a historian or somesuch) asking what is the most important 1-2 factors in the success of a person and or company is not very profitable, one should have the larger picture so you can emulate it.

From the answers, my important takeaways to emulate are:

1) Single out what you think is innovative/right/awesome, pursue it relentlessly and let no one hinder you (tech pundits, VCs, board, etc)

2) Be knowledgeable with history of other companies (e.g. why they failed-succeeded) and current dynamics (e.g. the Microsoft-Netscape competition mentioned)

3) Create company culture from day one (one problem with the highest answer is that it never mentions this well-known factor) and don't let it get diluted (OK< maybe after 20K employees)

4) Don't sell out when you see a pile of cash (or do quickly, if your belief in (1) is now gone, before others notice too)
I think you would have a better argument if the sites graphic design didn't appear to copy http://about.me
I expect they'll still require a basic free account to read your free 20 articles per month, and they they'll track it based on your account.
I'm struggling to see the jokey and macho competition described as anything more than camaraderie, certainly not an extreme or uncommon attitude. I don't think it means they are ignoring the radiation, just enjoying (rather than dwelling) on the risk associated with their chosen career.

The story conflates these two different incidents, but really they are unrelated. And if the takeaway you have is that they were blase about the risks, well, that isn't at all how I read it. Indeed, it was clear that it was taken seriously.

Steve just didn't have the same attitude and so quit, that is all :)
In the case of the SSE instruction set, it is call reciprocal square root. I guess, when people say inverse, they often actually mean multiplicative inverse.
I talked to Marco awhile back about how it works and if I remember correctly, this is not in fact the case.

Instapaper honors access. If you have access to that Article it will save it, if not then you won't get it.
Hey,

Isobar front end engineer here...

What you're looking at is a document that serves as OUR internal standard. We just made it public because we think people might find it useful. We understand what we do internally may not work for everyone, but that's part of the fun of sharing documents like this. We learn too.
Why? What separates design clone vs functionality clone, making one legitimate and the other distasteful?
That's the problem with most arguments and information in these topics. It seems to me that both sides can come up with information that would require almost a full-time job to reasonably verify. In the end it usually boils down to finding some arguments that fit your subjective point of view…
I feel like I read more than 20 articles a month just from various links, but not enough to make it worth $15/mo. If they had some option to increase the number of views for the rest of the month for $5 or less, I'd at least consider it.
Most media outlets optimize for page views. Though in print and on TV it's known by a different term than 'page views.'
1. Go to your local library.

2. Learn how to use their proxy for patrons working from home.

3. Browse NYT site like normal.
I might make premium paid features when I get some time. For now, they are just fun (and useful for me personally) side projects.
Obviously my comment was misunderstood. Given everything the author of the post wrote about, "No" should be his "Yes". "No" is something you'll hear in life many, many times and it doesn't even phase people who are truly motivated.

So "No" in this case is brief language for meaning; "Go build a great product, kick the teeth out of the competition/market and don't fall into a rut."
And I'm worried that the situation will get even worse.
I worked with this when I was first introduced to Python, about 5 years ago. Was doing an internship at the lab it was developed at. Good times. Nice to see they are still going strong.
Firefox has the option via the GUI, in the privacy tab, select custom settings for history and tick the first checkbox.
Actually, from experience, your curl request will work fine but then you'll hit the login page after a few goes (8?)
Tcl seems a bit in a slump nowadays, but I don't think it would need much to get out of it. With a nice interface builder or some "automagic" layout classes the GUIs could be up to par again, although that's probably not even the most important aspect right now. Probably the biggest part missing are packages. TEA isn't that bad, but compared to Eggs/Gems/CPAN it's a bit lackluster. Although this is a bit of a catch-22, I guess.

Hmm, was thinking about what language to use for my next project. Wanted to go with Python, but I think I'll give my old Tcl muscles a good workout again. Had much fun using it in an industrial context, let's see how much hurdles I have to jump for a current web project...
This has happened to me. I'm a geek, so I knew that hitting the back button would get rid of it, but come on. Anyone else in the world would have missed the call while starting at their phone and listening to it ring.
Novel and Surprising Creative, Not Resolution
I think you'll find that most people really don't care what you're doing. You're just a mild curiosity to others, and your greatest motivators and your greatest stoppers are going to be you yourself.

So don't frame things in terms of how much other people don't want you to do them - more likely than not, they really don't care. Just do what you want to do and don't do what you don't want to do. That's what every other person is doing.