skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I really meant more that it's not a sexy idea. I don't mind the internal design myself, although it could of course be better.

To be honest, I'd been refusing to take this project seriously until it had some outside validation. Actually, I still don't call it a start up or business as it's neither registered nor has a revenue.
I previously never had any desire to create a profile, I didn't see any reason to. But now I kind of want to create a private profile just to experience having my digital persona permanently deleted from record and to join the revolution. Orwell would be proud.
I'm not sure I agree with all of that, especially the second paragraph. In my experience, if your comments are English translations of code, you could probably be writing the code more clearly. Exceptions are when you're using a particularly hairy API, writing in Perl, building complex regular expressions, or need to document side effects that are not otherwise clear.

Additionally, commenting every bit of the code, especially as you go along, leaves one prone to forgetting the most important reason to comment: explaining the rationale for what you're doing. Explaining the design decisions in comments (and especially why you didn't do the alternative) is invaluable, and much more accessible to a maintainer (such as oneself a few months later) than an external design document.
For example: blow the whistle on the largest tax evasion scheme in history: go to jail. Participate in largest tax evasion scheme in history: no problem.
I recently made the move from Ubuntu to OSX, next time I buy a laptop I want to move back to Ubuntu, these things would help.

1. Make the install extremely smooth on mac hardware, including trackpad and hibernate support.

2. The recent UI touches are nice but still a long way to go, http://polishlinux.org/reviews/ipod_i_linux/ipod_in_nautilus... for example looks terrible, the osx finder is pretty bad but at least it looks nice.

3. This is out of your control, but when I move to linux it is akin to giving up designing, there is very little to no choice when it comes to 3rd party design apps.

I do still use Ubuntu via virtualbox regularly, you guys impressed me massively in the last few years and its amazing that ubuntu can even compete, let alone often outperform osx and windows in a lot of areas (even some ui issues, spaces on osx are terrible) So thanks for all the great work, hopefully I can get back to being a full time ubuntu user soon
That was based on a review of only 500 selected mortgages. At the same time, the Defense Department is pursuing JP Morgan for incorrect foreclosures on military personnel overseas. There have been lots of cases (anecdotal) of foreclosures on mortgages that have already been paid off or houses that weren't even mortgaged. It's been a massive, massive screwup.
So is the startup in this article Likealittle, CollegeOnly, or something totally new?
Adaptive Social Inclusion Networks
5 Days of find: The Basics of find
Kayak Will Compete Directly with Expedia by Launching New Hotel Booking Option
My experience isn't that nm-applet crashes when you switch users, but the icon is no longer available. What that means is that, if user A is the first to sign in, nm-applet runs in their taskbar. If you then switch to user B without logging out, user B cannot switch networks or other settings without doing the kill/restart from the command line because the applet is not visible. For something like network settings on a desktop OS, this is nearly unacceptable and a royal pain in the ass.
Comparative Thesis compares different Constructs
If students have mastered the writing of comparative essays, writing a comparative thesis will be an easy task. The only difference between these two is that the comparative thesis is more lengthy and complex. Therefore, most students might need help with this task.
Do We Really Want to Talk to Strangers Based on Our Location?
It's a natural feeling. I couldn't stand an early competitor of mine, a few years back.

That said, the competitor evolved one way, my company evolved another way, and all the time I spent thinking about my competitor was completely wasted. I would've been much better off just working on my product.

Later on, my company merged with another competitor. There's no way that advantageous deal could have come about if I'd felt the same way about them that I felt for that first, no-longer-competitor. I would have let my emotions blow the opportunity.

Happily, by then I'd learned that business is just business - it's not personal. Go out and win, but remember that your competition is made of people very much like yourself.
I don't mean to be an ass I just think your time spent working on this tool could be invaluable working on some sort of shared-state mode for Emacs or VIM. I wouldn't go from Emacs to an online editor, no matter how good it is, because I don't have complete control over the software and where the code is being edited. That is important to me and many other developers...
its to get you to not think about the data caps they are gonna put on u-verse and att dsl in a few months!
I'm aware of my degree's utility. In fact, my next idea may require a lot more math (graph theory, particularly, which is the case for most social stuff today). However, I like learning being for the sake of learning and don't mind pursuing a degree that I may not want to turn into a career - but if business doesn't work out, I can always go into academia or industry.

I'm not at UCR. I'll be moving to Berkeley next Fall.
(a) There are friends with various levels of permission. Certain fields on the profile can be set to be visible only to certain groups of contacts.

(b) Upon noting (a), I filled out a private profile in anticipation that Google would be rolling out further mechanisms to share private profiles with certain contact groups.
As an "experienced startuper" I strongly agree. Then again, the more experience that is gained from failed startups will hopefully end up with more finish-ups in the end so the result should still be positive.
"Tampering with evidence is the knowing and intentional physical manipulation, altering or destruction or falsification of evidence relevant to a criminal case or investigation. It is important to note that tampering is not the accidental destruction or modification of evidence, it is only if the individual had reason to believe the material or item was part of an investigation."

Evidence tampering often carries much harsher penalties than the crime in question -- if a company is in trusteeship, wiping the disk (or doing the equivalent) can quite possibly be the dumbest possible thing you can do.
I've worked with a lot of legacy code over the years. I don't usually care whether code has comments or not. Comments are a very poor way of expressing semantics in code.

Usually, I'm looking for general readability and understandability. I'd much rather see short, well-named classes and methods, well-named variables and good unit tests before I see a single comment.

In the absence of clean, readable code, comments are probably a reasonable but nevertheless inferior resort. I also agree that, sometimes, they 'why' of code is often best expressed as comments.
Swombat is all too much of a gentleman to be snarky about it.

But I have to say that this kind of comments really rubs me the wrong way.

A persons way to success is unique not open-source.

If you want to learn something then learn from peoples mistakes. Learn from what they do wrong rather than what they do right. Don't focus on who they are but what they have to say.

See if it resonates with you, that's the clue.

Thinking that successful people somehow have better advice is simple missing the point.

Mark Suckerberg can't do a facebook again, Larry and Paige cant' do a Google again Their success is not due to some secret mystery powers but a mix of luck, hardwork, stamina, network, serendipity I could go on.

When you hear about peoples track records of being successful chances are that they have much more failure than success.
60 minutes eh? Wholesale cost of a penny per minute, they bought themselves some cheap publicity as every outlet that doesn't have real reporters will just repeat press releases.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but NLTK [natural language toolkit] is great. http://www.nltk.org/

Getting Started: http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/howto/index.html

FAQ: http://www.nltk.org/faq

The NLTK Book (free online): http://www.nltk.org/book

NLTK Book Chapter 7 Extraction Information from Text: http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch07.html
Th differences between vi and Emacs are not small
Times Square video billboards defaced using iPhone transmitter
Currently, resizing windows in Ubuntu 10.10 is a royal pain. Depending on the application, there can be a little triangular 'thing' on the bottom right on which I can clearly point my cursor to and click to drag. However, many applications like firefox, chrome and some other installed apps don't have this 'triangle'. It makes for several wasted seconds of trying to get my cursor on the less-than-10px border in order to resize the way I want. I'd be very happy if you looked at this issue. Thanks and I'm actually looking forward to Unity. Just for the difference. :)

Perhap
Detail on what's being alleged here: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/03/wikileaks-whistleblow...

In outline: banks were supposed to be funneling mortgage payments to holders of bonds backed by the mortgages. But they were (allegedly) siphoning off some of that money for themselves or their cronies --- nominally in the form of ludicrously overpriced premiums for insurance policies against default. This would be legally actionable if it held up, and there have been consent decrees in the past.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/opinion/14krugman.html
Jessica: Another Web Framework (.Net clone of Sinatra)
Looks pretty good. I like seeing WordPress used as more than just a blogging platform, since it is so much more.
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Two sides to every story.
I'd suggest that you help your fellow developers more by writing code that needs fewer comments to make it understandable.

However, I agree that what you say is certainly true of APIs.
Hacker with iPhone takes over Times Square screens
IT Security Metrics: The Enterprise FUD Killer
Kayak, likely still feeling some pressure from the ITA-Google deal and increasingly upcoming competition, has to come up with something new so it makes perfect sense. Besides, hotel bookings make much more money than just referrals.
Makes boring code look pretty (Bookmarklet which prettify code)
Balltribe: A social networking site for sports fans
Three reactors are affected, and two plants, Fukushima and Onagawa. I would say that an earth quake and tsunami is outside the well defined.
Code should be beautiful. It should be expressive. It should be concise and speak for itself. It should be both clear and obvious on the first glance. A variable should be called what it is, not x or y. Once you've written a piece of code, re-write it. Again and again, until it doesn't need comments and speaks for itself. Once you've re-factored your code enough times and you feel it can't get any better, then you can comment your code.

Many times developers write shitty code, put a stamp of "it works" on it and then comment it, as if comments make it OK. Bullshit. Perfect code doesn't need comments. We can't achieve perfection, but we can try.
No, it's called Ubuntu 10.10 - "Oneiric" is just a code name for developers.
The power for a particular grid generally has two components, that which is always on and that which fluctuates through the day. To give you an example, an aluminum smelter will always use a fixed (and very large) quantity of electricity, day or night, rain or shine. As it is impractical to store electricity anywhere near the scale required to power these types of buildings, you need a power plant that can provide cheaply a continuous supply of power. These are known as your base load power plants.

To show you that the storage of large quantities of is impractical by example, think of the last time you visited a data center, and remember the rows upon rows of of UPS batteries required to run one datacenter for a few minutes. It stands to reason that enough batteries to power the datacenter for an extended period of time (ie. days), would be utterly impractical. This is why datacenters have generators, ie. the batteries can't power the datanceter indefinitely and when the batteries run out, it needs to produce the power to power the datacenter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load_power_plant
Where are the accounts from the people who maned the phones and signed the letters that made all this possible? I doubt any BOA executive picked up the phone and told a customer to default on their mortgage. That would have been someone like me or you just doing their job, doing what they're told.

Where are their accounts of what the were told to do?

I'm worried that these people don't care about the people they helped screw over. I hope thats not the case, but I'm worried that it is.
Implantes de titanio
Awesome. looks great. The time line control.. did you create it from scratch or did you use a plugin?
Trim the fat, like firefox did to mozilla, just the essentials. No openoffice, gimp, etc. Personally I just use it for coding and surfing. I know it is good for avg joe to have office and graphics tools, but then give us two versions, 'basic' and 'full' editions.
It's like being a guard in a death camp, just a job that someone has to do. Or so you think.
3rd explosion, Fukushima Nuclear plant(Japanese)
Sorry do not have the English translation yet.
What I hate about all of this is that, to the baby boomer generation, any point of view that wants to hold banks and Wall St. accountable for what they have done is "communism" or "socialism" or "fascism" or some other nonsense. It's like anything that goes against any business is automatically discredited.

It is absolutely plainly obvious that banksters basically hate you and the government is right along with them. Look at the UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, who is in prison right now while every single one of the 19,000 tax cheats who diverted billions in taxes are free (save for one guy on a two-year probation). He was wealthy right along with his clients... but he went against the grain. It's interesting to note that Eric Holder was a lawyer and represented UBS at one point, and won't touch the case.

But you just can't make this point in some circles.
An advantage of treaps is that is that there is a natural way to add aggregates. That is, you can put data in a node that summarises the underlying tree. These are very useful in many applications and can be maintained in the same O(log n) bound that you get for insertion and deletion. I think it might be possible to get the same effect in skiplists, but it wouldn't be nearly as natural.

On the other hand, skiplists are just sorted lists that can be maintained in O(log n) time, which is a conceptually very nice thing. The GSequence data structure in glib is such a sorted list, but implemented internally with a treap, so it's possible to get that type of API with treaps too.
System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Options... for swapping ctrl and capslock and other things

System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts for shortcuts that hook in to application functionality
South Florida - Riding the cloud to success
Ironically, a lot of the gold and silver bugs don't actually hold it.
> He says that once the reactor is flooded with water they won't have to do any more pressure releases. Again, I don't see how that follows.

He's just not stating the (true) premise that the seawater will be able to absorb the heat; he's implying it and relying on it. That doesn't make the article illogical, it makes it mildly enthymematic.
I'm not sure what part of Ubuntu does this (compiz? gnome defaults?) but if you hold Alt and middle click near the edge of a window (within 50px maybe) you can resize in a very nice, clean way. It's much better than trying to hit the 1px edge.
Tokyo Data Centers Fuel Up For Blackouts
Ooops.. just fixed it, thanks for letting know
How To Upload and Link to PDFs in WordPress
I wish I could get to this point where I work, but his article presupposes a couple things:

* You have tests.

* People write code to be readable.

Where I work, neither is the case. I try to write tests[1] for my stuff, and I try to write clearly. But I have to comment what I'm doing since the libraries and APIs I'm calling are so baroque and almost deliberately obfuscated, that I have to comment what's going on if for no other reason than self defense.

[1] As a point of reference, in my current project we have something like 6 - 8 developers. Of the unit tests that exist, I've written 85% of them, and I'm embarrassed at how few I've written.
Every time this subject comes up, a pack of vociferous compulsory commenters come out and start shouting about how desperately unprofessional it is not to write comments.

I imagine, also, that a fair collection of idiots also start using it as an excuse not to bother commenting their illegible code, but they seem to keep quiet about it.

The author points out that "Sometimes you just need to leave a note", but that doesn't stop people coming out and declaring it "the most retarded article ever". These are people who can't tell the difference between "Never write comments" and "Write clean code to avoid the need for comments".

Even as I write this, I imagine some of them bursting a blood vessel because "You can't always avoid comments".

I agree, you can't. If (for example) you are authoring some workaround for a counterintuitive 3rd party API, then yes, good commentary is important.

However, if you write short, well-named, DRY, SRP-obeying units, with well named parameters and variables, and well-named, clear tests, then many of the comments that you find in poorly written code simply aren't needed any more, because they are there in the code itself.
On point #2, if you're feeling adventurous, you could try xmonad. Its support for programmatically moving windows to different workspaces is pretty nice. Every app in full screen on its own workspace automatically on login. It's great.
This isn't logic, this is science. Have you done experiments with large amounts of radioactive material that verify your hypothesis?
The Government Will Classify Mobile Apps On A Complaint By Complaint Basis
The only zealot as bad as the patterns zealot is the anti-(patterns zealot). Which is of course, different from the (anti-patterns) zealot.
Best practices for impossible deadlines
If we're talking the UBS case that others have alluded to here:

He went to jail because he didn't tell the whole story and tried to cover up his part. Whistleblowing rules require full disclosure of your information to prevent them just being used to take out rivals; by covering up his part in the illegal activity, he forefeited part of his protection and so is in prison. This is normal and perfectly fine.
Minus v2.0 is launching at SXSW
Wow, thanks; I have never heard of such a contractual clause.
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1 and 3) Most of those problems look like they step from your laptop not having very good software drivers for Linux. What brand is it? Some laptop manufacturers like Lenovo put effort into making sure their products can be used under Linux, but other brands don't. Also, even if a laptop is new enough the drivers for it might not have made it into the distribution you're using yet. In the end, you expect Windows to Just Work on your laptop because Windows is installed by the laptop manufacturer. If you buy a laptop with Linux preinstalled you won't have any of these issues.

2) As for Photoshop, you can run it under Linux but it does take a bit of effort.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&...
Are these all public timelines or can use it to create private timelines too.

Like for milestones on a project?
At that point he wouldn't be a reporter anymore.

While the views of people who are in the proverbial trenches (or have been in the past) are interesting they are not a substitute for journalistic coverage.

Whether or not you would be your choice to act rather than observe isn't important. It is important that the industry is covered by journalists.
So earthquakes and tsunamis can alter physics making the impossible possible? If it's impossible for the rods to get hot enough to melt steel, then how does an earthquake followed by a tsunami change that? Somehow I think that you're latching on to the wrong part of the argument there.
The following two statements do not jive

1) "Tembo Trunks don’t use batteries"

2) "Tembo Trunks amplify the music from your iPod’s earbuds to 80dB of clarity-enhanced Stereo Sound (3x the sound)"

Powerless sound amplification!

Additionally, "clarity-enhanced"? Fur realz? Lets hook N of these bad boys up in series and get N times the clarity!
Great reminder on building and maintaining relationships. The only part I disagree with is 'not bothering with spell check.' Even your best and most familiar customers would like to see intelligent, competent emails from the vendor they spend the most money on (no matter how close you are to them).
O2 installs 18+ filter on the mobile web
Apple sold nearly 1 mln iPad 2s in debut weekend: analysts
This is great. For the past two holiday seasons, Discover has sent me a seasons greetings card in a non-business envelope with an actual stamp and my name and address handwritten.

Both times, the card included a $5 gift card to Starbucks and a "thank you" for being a Discover customer. Both times, I opened the card expecting to find a message from a friend or relative based on the appearance of the envelope.

That's much different and more personal than an automated birthday message or an automatic discount on an item during the month of your birthday. It might sound cheesy, but these kinds of things really do stay in your memory and help to create a human connection, even with big companies.
How VoIP providers may be cheating you?
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Haskell shines at making frequent fundamental changes.

my experience of haskell is completely the opposite of this. haskell is terrible when you want to make big changes---it's often quicker to just rewrite completely from scratch. fixing all the little inconsistencies is a real pain. want to add an extra parameter to a type class? want to remove an attribute from a data type? sure, if you picked the right abstraction from the start, this is a non-issue, but that's not how it is with a hard problem.

the type system gets in your way; this is why i now use python (colleagues have noted the same problems when using c++; we prototype in python, scale up in c for the slow bits). often 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, even then i don't care too much. if things don't quite work, i'd like a quick way to find an inconsistency (often i write a consistency checker function for each class that i use when debugging, that checks types and structures).

i find haskell fundmentally useless for tackling hard (research) problems for this reason alone.
Impressive, goes to show that if you can muster any kind of health use for something, funding will be easy to get.

I don't exactly get telemedecine, most of the examples I've seen are HD video teleconferencing setups or controlling robots from afar, both thing that seem to require mostly low latency.

Anyway, they tested a 100G link between chicago and new orleans at Supercomputing last year, NASA and NOAA filled it up very easily ;p
Flattr endorses bullies who believe the tsunami was divine redemption
Whitey Board makes stick on white boards as well:
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