skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't emphasize this more. Do not hand out your resume like it's free. Value it. Don't give out more than what's needed. Create the "need to talk." Don't ever dump a resume into one of those corporate HR portals. It's a dead end. Make the HR guy work towards asking you for your resume. HR has to "earn" your resume -- 'cos it's tasty.
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Oh how I wish more people saw it this way...
Review of New Bio of Feynman by Krauss
If there is no risk of the second containment level being breached why do newer reactors have a third level containment (which is missing from these older reactors)? I'm just curious.
I am currently a full time Ubuntu user and have been for the past 6 months. All my previous attempts to switch from Windows to Ubuntu have lasted only a month or two (and I have been trying every year since 1998 or so), so I am extrememly happy with the progress that was made which has allowed me to continue using Ubuntu for the last 6 months without feeling the need to go back to Windows. But I have some gripes.

One of my biggest gripes if the way fonts are handled. This is a huge issue for the web. For some reason, some package I installed, added a bunch of god-awful bitmap fonts, the most noticeable one is some sort of 8x8 bitmapped Helvetica font, which led to every single page using "Helvetica" in the font stack being rendered with a tiny non-aliased font. This was not limited to Helvetica, but also applied to a large number of other fonts. As an example, here is what I am forced to use as I type in this very comment.

╰─$ fc-match Courier
courR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz: "Courier" "Regular"

I initially fixed it by overriding all my Firefox fonts to the Ubuntu font, but then I lose all the typography people are so careful to use nowadays.

I was eventually able to fix most of it by figuring out I could could override individual fonts in the /etc/fonts/local.conf file, but thats a really bad solution, and I cant tell you right now, the disgusting fonts have DEFINITELY been a reason I have moved back to Windows in the past.

Also, please get someone to fix the ridiculous resize handles, I work at relatively high resolutions, even so, those handles actually feel like they are less than a pixel thick!

The "Open With" dialog fills up with hundreds of duplicates I have to manually remove, especially when using wine.

Please fix everything in this list http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322064

Apart from these problems, and a few others I will probably remember once I click Add Comment, 10.10 is in my opinion, the best Linux distro by far.
Big-O...one of those things I never managed (or cared?) to pickup regardless of how many times it'd been drummed into me in school. Any article that explains it in an approachable way is fine by me.
Tragically unsurprising. And the tip of the iceberg, considering that private banks basically create money out of thin air, then loan it at an interest.

We could, I dunno, give back the control of the money to elected people?
How my childhood friend became an Internet laughingstock.
There's a terribly large number of parallels between video-game design (teams) from years ago and the way certain contemporary technical yet creative projects could run. I wish there were articles like this written by members of Sonic Team.
Screen syncing and screen sharing seems to be the theme of HN today...
Maybe this should serve as a reminder to all of us:
http://jacobian.org/writing/thank-you-rails/
How to Ruin a Great Design
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/us-japan-quake-idU...

"Nuclear fuel rods at one of the reactors may have become became fully exposed raising the risk they could melt down and cause a radioactive leak, Japanese news agency Jiji said."
At that size you can just transport your real portable speakers....
This book covers all these tenets in greater detail and in more interesting ways:

http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Language-Designers-Principles-U...

It would behoove anyone interested in this post to "cop that"
I'm a Tepco (Tokyo) customer. Looking at my most recent electric bill we're paying about 22 yen a kWh, or around 27 cents.

That'll probably go up with Fukushima out of commission.
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How is Mark an outlier relatively to the sentence you have quoted? He started from 0 and had nothing to show besides the flip flops on his feet and his skills.

The two arguable factors are luck and outside capital. Are you sure luck played such a great factor in his case ? and was his decision to take outside funding at that stage unnecessary?
I'm waiting for the explanation. It looks cool, but the description sounds like a Hollywood understanding of computers:

> the transmitter instantly sends the video signal to the video
> repeater and the video repeater overrides any video screen
> that it's being held next to

It almost sound like they are hacking from some computer with six monitors and an interactive 3d OS. I'll be waiting for the explanation of the prototype though. If it's real (which the video seems to imply), it's some seriously cool stuff.
NodeJS, github and the Cloud9ide (powered by ACE editor) is a pretty good ecosystem for this. You can run it on Joyent's no.de hosting or EC2 (or the many other NodeJS hosting services springing up).
I'm not sure if it's baby boomers or rather just the people who are part of the establishment. The establishment rallied pretty hard to get TARP pushed through despite massive public resistance. And now all we have gotten for it is low interests (again) and a junk bond bubble waiting to explode in our faces.
A sharing site called Circles? Lycos did it - in 2004
Some colleges have engineering- or even cs-specific career fairs. I know Virginia Tech does...it's called the CSRC fair, and it's held twice a year. I recruit there for my company, and we get everyone from sophomores looking for internships to PhDs looking for full-time research positions. Many of the grad students have industry experience as well if you're looking for candidates who aren't completely inexperienced.

Other engineering colleges likely have the same thing.

http://www.cs.vt.edu/partnering/employer
Nice writeup - what websocket implementation are you using?
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And that should be I wouldn't be using this. Notice it too late to change
I wouldn't work with a programmer who believed so strongly, against, commenting source code. In the long run, it probably saves more time than it "wastes". If someone develops proper habits writing sufficient comments, then writing them becomes less of a hassle, and more of a better business practice.

Let's not forget that writing comments and notes is not unique to computer programming. Most professions, law, medicine, must create notes, and comments to understand the work at hand. Those who don't, or refuse are looked at as lazy and unprofessional.

I don't want notes for every single line of code, but for sections of complicated code comments are a must for ease debugging, or future modifications.
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99% chance this is just a Photoshop. The blog is about "visuals", not hacking or computer security, and I doubt that being a graphics designer is the key to figuring out how to transmit video to a Times Square video screen.
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why would you assume that the stdlib random number generator is worse than the few lines of code from numerical recipes?
Gen IV designs wont even be available to build before 2030. Your comment seems to imply that reactors with graphite are being built right now.
Not sure I would describe the permanent loss of a critical power plant as "good news," but the aversion of a large radiation leakage is certainly less bad.
and att still requires caps :(
Great demonstration, bad explaination
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Several comments on the Youtube page say it's fake, chiefly because the iPhone jack cannot output video.

Is this true? If so, is it possible he wrote an app with special drivers to pull this off?
This is obviously a fake. I very much doubt that the audio out of the iPhone has enough power to transmit the radio signal, at least there would be analog noise/jitter. Also, I dont believe you could push that much data over the analog out. And at 0:55 you can see they use the built in video player of the iPhone. How would the signal even go to the audio output? But nicely done.
Stay away from versus threads that compare languages to use.

An application can be designed in such a way that it answers all your priorities you have listed, regardless of the language you use.

1. Speed
Design your application so that it harnesses the language's preferred method in processing either the data or the interface.

2. Each System Can Work
It will not only work if the application is designed improperly and addresses the wrong issues.

3. Be easy and quick to learn
There's no silver bullet in developing well-designed applications. It takes years. Read Joel On Software's article on good software (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html)

4. Sufficient for Visual Programming Library
I did not quite understand whether you mean here to have a tool (like Visual Studio) to assist in the development efforts or using the tool for visual development. As most interfaces today are used with a variety of front end tools (HTML, CSS, Flash, jQuery, YUI, GWT, etc.), this marks a separation on the codes needed to process what they take and present.

5. Sufficient Documentation
I reckon that for all languages you mentioned, it would take more than your whole lifetime to be able to digest the amount of documentation for each language. Know topic you need to look specifically to address your needs.

6. Business opportunity
A well-coded and well-developed application in itself sells for its services. Enough said.
There's an interesting split in the libertarian movement over these kinds of issues. The "paleolibertarians" associated with folks like Murray Rothbard, Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul, etc., see large businesses, especially in finance, as corruption-ridden entities deeply entangled with the state, rather than any sort of free-market entities, and so see dismantling them and holding them to account as properly part of a libertarian agenda. The "D.C. libertarians" or "business libertarians", associated with folks like Cato, the Koch brothers, Club for Growth, etc., are more likely to see the American business community as essentially on the correct (i.e. libertarian) side of things, and advocate for them to be unfettered more from government regulation as a way of improving things.
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This HAS to be fake, right?
The odds of it being real are not looking too good.

Apart of all the handwaving on how the override work, there's many others technical issues with it. For example, videos played from the camera roll wouldn't be outputted to the audio jack.
The link to the "Plain English Explanation of Big O" is the best part of this article.
I agree, in the video it's kind of surprising how no one notices it.
My laptop runs hot on Ubuntu, and I don't know how to fix it. I have an HP Envy 15, and just idling at the desktop leaves the thing at 50 deg C with the fans on medium. It's pretty frustrating. On Windows, I'm 10 degrees cooler with little fan activity.

Everything that I would expect to be broken appears OK; the CPU scaling works right and scales down my processors, dmesg claims recognition of ACPI and thermal zones, and in general power management seems to be working fine. But it's hot nevertheless. I upgraded my BIOS to the latest from HP. My ATI card works best with the radeon drivers from xorg-edgers, but I've tried both fglrx and the stable radeon driver with no improvement with regards to temperature.

So that's what irritates me the most. Oh, and it takes forever to wake up from sleep and hibernate -- longer than it takes to cold boot.
To be aware of - sometimes the shell will glob the wildcard you're trying to pass to find.

For example, if you're in a directory that contains a file named "foo.bar", and you try to search for files ending in .bar, then doing a:

find . -name *.bar

may return just "./foo.bar" as the shell expanded *.bar to foo.bar, and passed that to find.

To fix, wrap arguments you pass to find in quotes if they contain wildcard characters.

(edit: fixed formatting as HN uses asteriks to italicize)
If this is the UBS guy, the hole in your statement is he did both and went to jail for the latter. He was whistleblowing on his competitors while actively trying to hide the assets of his clients.
I'm looking forward to trying out Unity and seeing how that handles, so it's hard to make any constructive comments based on the current UI knowing what's coming in 11.04. That said...

As a laptop user, it has always felt like suspend and resume could be a bit quicker. You've spent a lot of effort getting boot time down - how about spending some optimisation effort on resume.

While I think about suspend/resume, it really bugs me that I have to authenticate to the screensaver before I can suspend my laptop. I'd like a configuration option to allow Fn-F4 to suspend even if the system has the screen lock running.

I understand that much of the tool chain is in place to just 'do the right thing' when installing on an SSD (partition alignment, trim support in kernel). To make users aware, though, the installer should really call out that it is optimising the installation for SSD so the user knows it has been identified correctly. It would be useful if the installer could also recognise SSDs during upgrades and give some advice on what's not configured optimally too.

When I plug a USB memory stick in a short time after I removed it, reopen the nautilus windows that I had open last time. This would help in the situation where you're moving things back and forward between two machines.
I think the iPhone jack has been abused as a general-purpose communication port before. I'm sure it can output some signal that something can interpret as/translate into a video signal...

That doesn't mean this isn't fake, of course. And I'm not convinced that the jack would have decent bandwidth...
Toadi

At present, all timelines are public, but allowing people to have private timelines is in the road map. If it is something that you are particularly keen on, we can move that feature forward.

Thanks for the feedback

Alex
Sounds fake to me, this is not possible with the iPhone through default software and even with a jailbreak there is no way you could ever cram the video through the headphone jack, you would have to play it back through a very specialized app, that would need to compress it down to an unrecognizable mess and you still would have to figure out a way to push it to the screens. Not possible IMHO.
you dont need to dismantle them actively. take away the protections they enjoy and watch the market eat them.
Not joking at all. The reason sustainables are not super popular is that they have high initial investment costs, and represent decentralized power. Unless you have a united force supporting them like the spanish government (Spain is one of the most sustainable countries) or the recent 10 billion dollar investment for offshore wind by South Korea, you are not really going to win the economic battle necessary to get us going sustainable. Sustainables are a form of decentralized power, so there are a lot of reasons why centralized power does not want it to exist.
I never thought of 37 as over the hill. Sheesh.. I've got a 10-month old baby. I'll just accept it as having a rare perspective for someone of my advanced years.
Yes, it's possible. See project HiJack:

http://eecs.umich.edu/~prabal/projects/hijack/
The iPhone jack can output an analog signal. What if you convert a digital video to an analog signal that can go out through the jack? The transmitter would just amplifies that signal.
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I think they're trying to describe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession
> I would say that an earth quake and tsunami is outside the well defined.

But at the same time they are not completely independent events. Quite the opposite. It is likely that an earthquake will be followed by a tsunami.

If they engineered it so that 2 events: quake and flood are independent, then they made a mistake. Possibly there is nothing they could do but I doubt that.

This is somewhat similar to the birds and airplane engines. It is assumed that once in a while a bird will hit an engine and possibly take it out. No big deal, there are 1,2 or 3 more engines. But the problem is that birds fly in flocks. So chances are that the plane will fly into a flock of birds and all engines will go out. Which is what happened a year or two ago. Now there is probably not much they could do but hopefully at least they didn't assume that invidual engine failure due to bird hits would be completely independent failure events.
actually we need non-centralized currency. centralized currency regardless of who is in control is bad, just like with any other good.

what we need is at the very least state currencies that float against each other.
why is this on front page?
You can set the "nobootwait" option on that device in /etc/fstab to indicate that it shouldn't ask you on boot when it's not there.
Woah...

1) our instruments can detect that much time change, no problem. NIST standards measure time of day accurate to the nanosecond, an error of thousands of those is noticeable.

2) Cumulative effects of this add up to close to a millisecond per year. That is certainly noticeable to various applications.

3) Cries of "scientific navel gazing" almost always come from those who feel slighted because they don't get it. This anger of course is misplaced, not getting it is a strict result of not bothering to learn enough -- it has nothing to do with anyone but the accuser.
Errie Google Street View of Japanese Town Now Destroyed Forever by Tsunami
Ah, thanks all. So it is possible, but most likely a hoax for other reasons mentioned in this thread.
This is just an observation about such distress calls, but I am trying to learn economics, and something shocks me every time I read up about it.

Absolutely no major book, be it pop or a college text touches on the role of power in the relationship. It might be easier to project and create models by assuming human beings to be rational beings, but that still doesn't mean you need to ignore the calculus of power.

What we have over here is something most economists simply don't study. Systematic use of power. These banks strut like mafia bosses, because they're exactly like mafia bosses.

Their strength and survival depends on having power to push the consumer into beneficial deals. Their survival also depends on pulling the carpet from underneath when the consumer fails to jump through enough hoops.

Yes, it's all related to capital in the markets etc., but it's all driven by power.

I don't know why we want to ignore this, but as a society these power relationships lurk everywhere. It doesn't mean that they are immoral or anything like that. They're just a fact of human nature. Every contract signed or transaction made is made with the assumption that someone with power will ensure that it will go off without a hitch.

What is a contract except for the threat of violence sublimated into abstruse jargon? Think about the robber barons and their ideological descendants wall street bankers. The only difference is that now they're holding a gun made out of paper (or a database).

In this case, of course the law makers and everyone else are on their side, but like everything else it's all a matter of time. As things change power will get redistributed from Morgan to Milken.

What I'm trying to say is that I think that economics doesn't make sense without this variable. These people call the shots, because they have power. Not capital assets. Those are just symbols of power they have accumulated by various means.

Yes, this can't explain everything, but it's just a very different way to look at it and things just make sense after this.
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Pretty much the whole site was created from scratch using Javascript, CSS, HTML and a smattering of HTML5 for the front end.

Most of this was written in-house by but we did use the odd bit of open source JS, for the color picker. Plus, we used jQuery for some of the animations and for its great dom selector engine.
I think that the following can be derived from the plan to delete private profiles:

- The upcoming Google social product will be launched in August 2011 or later.

- Public profiles are a key element of the new social product.

Google could ask users with private profiles to make them public, but people will scream about privacy. It's easier to remove the profiles from a PR perspective.
- Make it possible to use it without touching/seeing/knowing of existence of terminal at all. That means, for example, that it would be possible to install all the essential programs and tools (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Flash, audio/video codecks, Java,...), run and configure most popular servers/deamons (Apache, RDBMSes, etc.) using GUI only. Make the GUI a main way of operating the system, not a fancy wrapper over a console.
- Make it _less_ customizable, strip off gazillions of options and make default ones good enough.
I meant 11.04a3, not 10.04a3.
I can't disagree more. Comments can help maintainability a lot.

It was always explained to me in this way: code describes what is done, comments describe why it is done. Code cannot explain the second, and comments should not explain the first.
>when i'm fleshing out ideas or trying a new approach, i don't need everything to be consistent---just the bit i'm working on

I would advise you to use ghci - a REPL for Haskell.

That way you work on some little subproblem and when you succeed you can spread your changes over complete program.

I prefer to do just that, relying on compiler in small and large.
"six monitors and an interactive 3d OS" - LoL! Password Swordfish, anyone?

I know some of the apple products -can- send video through the headphone jack, so that's not why I don't believe. I also know there are a lot of interesting public-space electronics hacking kits coming out of small arduino shops like Adafruit. Still though, I'm a bit skeptical. Really looking forward to seeing if this is legit.
I don't know about the headphone jack as a quasi video output. You could, in theory, sample the video and create an audio stream that was an encoded version of the video (though I suspect resolution, frame rate and color accuracy would all suffer to the point that it was noticeable on the large screens).

The bit that makes it suspect to me is that the iPad already has a VGA output, and even then standard iPhone/iPod Touch has had a composite video output available via the dock connector forever. Since this hack is more about hardware than software, why would you create your own video encoding stack to use the headphone jack instead of just taking the video that already comes out the dock connector?

In order for this to work, the piece that goes next to the screens would have to output a signal that was stronger than the signal actually being fed to the screens to cause the internal circuitry to lock onto the new signal. Seems unlikely to happen in a device that appears to be powered by watch batteries.

I think that something like this is theoretically possible, but requires much different/larger hardware than what is shown in the videos. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though.
I assumed the change was that Empathy was developed specifically by the Gnome group, and included as part of the official Gnome releases. Previously to that, Pidgin was considered by Gnome to be the preferred client, and Canonical was just following Gnome in switching to Empathy.