skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the NC (or at least the models I saw back in the day) was basically an X Windows station with a Java engine bolted on.
I was in the audience at that NYTM demo Aditya mentions as a highlight. He was funny and memorable, drawing laughs and applause out of the audience; a great presenter. I had fun watching.

But NYTM is emphatically about having fun with technology, not showing off great startup ideas. Business questions literally get booed, so they aren't asked. I'm glad Aditya attended other events, met other people, and came away with an understanding of the sense of the "noise". There IS real momentum around the NY tech startup scene... and plenty of "just talk" to go along with it.
What can you do with what you know?
You would be surprised at how many software developers have hobbies that involve working with their hands. I spend much of my free time doing wood working and am sure it's something that I would introduce my children to at a young age (as my father did with me).
That's cool, but not nuts about JSON. They should include at least one space-efficient format, like messagepack (which is 100% compatible with JSON after encoding / decoding). Of course, this opens the floodgates...

Also, is zlib available?
Untrue. I have a cr48, and after you've done the initial setup it is possible to boot and log into your Google account before the wifi kicks in.
This article should have been published on April 1.
You'd think people would avoid saying that 'X should be enough for anybody' after the whole Gates thing. (Yeah, I've heard it's a misquote, etc... Doesn't matter, it's famous and should serve as a warning anyhow.)
This is an interesting turn for Redis.

In my mind, this is the lightweight, NoSQL analog to stored procedures.
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That's very gentlemanly of you. Tell me what you think of my favorite toy project: http://textchannels.com/
Wonderful piece of writing. This guy should write sci-fi full time.
I'm no user of Facebook, and when I see this material, I highly doubt I will ever try it. Why is Facebook unleashing this kind of stuff on its members? It shows the traits of malicious JavaScript that shady sites use to exploit security vulnerabilities in browsers. Why aren't Facebook members not allowed to know what they're made to run? Does Facebook have something nasty to hide?
I think his point was that since the government creates laws, and companies could deal with other companies that broke those laws, the government could destroy any corporation it wanted, at any time.

Not that it can't do so now, but it's a lot harder to blind the public about it, and it would take quite a bit longer. With this law, it would be an overnight thing.
IMHO books are one place where you can reflect yourself, extend your imagination and look beyond the obvious. You learn a lot about life, and things that make you what you are.
But books aren't something where you can understand what goes around you. Also books are not the best preachers, though there are exceptions to this one. Book can be a mirror but not a light.
Now comes the case of understanding the present. When things are so damn fast, when you can do what not by just a click of button, i doubt book can even catch up with it.
You might have often heard undergrads saying that the books are heavily outdated, as technology is much advanced now a days. This is in fact true. If you want to learn whats happening now in present, and want to be informed, or want to read something interesting, i would suggest that you read blogs, go through the forums, reddit, see some suggested pages that you like on stumbleupon.
Its just that what you read totally and completely depends on what you want to read.
Good. I never quite understood why I was putting punctuation inside quotation marks all these years, besides the fact that my teachers told me that it is the right way.

Let me see how this feels when I use "logical punctuation".

Yes, that feels good.
I really hope Apple does the right thing and throws this complaint out.
Agreed. Unfortunately I think it's becoming more difficult for beginners to get up and running with Rails. Perhaps that's how a community evolves... or perhaps I'm no longer the target audience ;)
Uncanny valley for fact vs fiction. Nearly had me! :p
I know exactly what you mean. I'm a convert myself, and while it's mostly natural now, I still fall back into passive mode on occasion.
As much as I agree with the ideology behind your statement, history has shown us that inferior products sometimes do win just because of better marketing.
This law is terrible, yes, but the issue is with this law, not with the fact that the government "dictates what is considered illegal".
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Agreed. I find that reading books on my kindle somehow helps satisfy the desire to be doing something geeky/technical (even if the book is anything but). Able to kill 2 birds with one stone... :)
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I don't understand how someone can count that as a downside, realistically.

That's like saying your browser doesn't do much if you're not connected to the net, or your fireplace doesn't work without wood. Of course it doesn't, why would it? Google's not misleading anyone about what a Chromebook can and can't do, you know going in that they're pretty much just web browsers.

And, to be fair, the things even come with 100MB of cell-network access each month for free (on the not-just-wifi versions anyway).
I looked it up, and "Howl" was eventually allowed through on the grounds that the courts decided it was of "redeeming social importance". In other words, since Ginsberg is actually good, they were willing to let it pass. From the extract of the comic in question printed here, I'm willing to assume that this comic isn't particularly good (it looks like something a teenager would draw in the back of his maths book) so it'll be interesting to see how this will play out.

The other thing is this: while standards of obscenity have dropped considerably over the decades (to the point where Howl's objectionable phrase "fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists" seems almost quaint) there has to be a hard limit somewhere, and we've pretty much reached it. We're at the point where all pornography is acceptable except child pornography, and this case is going to be about arguing where the boundaries of "child pornography" are. Now, I'd say that a line drawing of two chracters who appear to be children (but are stated in the text not to be) having graphic sex is nothing like actual child pornography (which is harmful to actual children) but on the other hand I have a hard time summoning up the motivation to really defend it.
Passive voice is for lab reports, research papers, similar scientific/engineering documentation, although I also see a lot of "we" used in papers, especially CS papers.
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The bias in (the non-opinion portions of) major papers like the NYT and WSJ is in what they choose to cover, their depth of coverage, their subtle manipulation of headlines to set the tone of their information, and so on. There is no such thing as selecting what news to report without inherently imbuing it with your bias as to what news is worth knowing.
It’s great that Facebook is strengthening security by using two-factor authentication. People share so much personal information on Facebook that relying on a single layer of password protection is simply not enough. However, sending a code by SMS text message is not very secure because they are sent in clear text. If the user were to lose their phone or have it stolen, anybody could read that text message and fraudulently authenticate.

More websites need to use two-factor authentication like Facebook is doing, but a more secure and easier-to-use approach is to send an image-based authentication challenge to the user’s phone, like Confident Technologies provides: http://bit.ly/dMNzB5. A grid of pictures is displayed on the user’s smartphone and to authenticate, the user must correctly identify the pictures that fit their pre-chosen, secret categories. Even if someone else had possession of your phone, they wouldn’t be able to authenticate because they wouldn’t know your secret picture categories.
And 100% of those, reading this, will assume they're in the 5%.
How do you know what values p(e) and p(c) are?
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I found most of the official resources to be good, the issue I often run into is that if you google for anything you will end up on a blog post from 2007 about Rails 2 that doesn't really apply anymore.
My brother-in-law met him and said he was one of the coolest, most down-to-earth people he's ever had the privilege of speaking to.
You don't have to be raised on a farm to learn this. I was born and raised in a very large city and learned a lot of this stuff by having to work around the house to earn my allowance (mowing the lawn, painting the house, changing the oil in lawnmower & cars, helping build a new deck, etc etc). I also learned basic construction skills, metal working and welding in gasp my undergraduate art classes. This came in very handy when I had to build the walls, kitchen and bathroom in my Brooklyn loft many years later.
Many things that have already been mentioned, plus the free newsletter from STRATFOR. I'm thinking of subscribing.

It offers a very cynical view of geopolitics, quite different of what you see in the mainstream media. I find it thought provoking.

For example, their analysis of the Syrian crisis:
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110504-making-sense-syrian-...
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What are some interesting and out of the norm things that you do?
It could have been a funny map but every time someone tries to relate Linux with communism or other totalitarianism $deity kills a $pet.

Once and for all: Linux is about Freedom!
Touches on a symptom. The issue is surprisingly complex.

My sister has done workman's compensation insurance and remarked that all the welders were out of work. (or a large number of them). I mentioned that there was a welder shortage in California and she suggested I mention that on some of the forums where they hang out. What I discovered was that there was a number of vocal proponents who argued they wouldn't work in California for the shit rate that was being offered. Instead they would rather be out of work than devalue their time.

So its a fair point, if enough skilled people stay out of the workforce then the economic demand will cause prices to rise to meet the market price. In California its interesting that the tax payers take on that burden and the shortfall threatens the teachers who then jump on to TV ads with their persistent message of non-support.

The question of illegal immigrants came up too but if you look you will find that a skilled welder / carpenter / mason has opportunity in Mexico that they don't need to emigrate for, so its not the issue one might suspect.

You get substitution effects, people substituting unskilled or lightly skilled labor instead. This results in problems later but some of those people will go on to become more skilled which will increase the pool.

A couple of people have mentioned the 'status' question, but from an economic standpoint the pricing of wages should be based on the ability of the population to supply qualified labor not on how 'important' they perceive the job to be. Its not always done that way but it does take personal bias out of the valuation question.

Mike's comment that we need more people in the trades is also tempered by manufacturers who would rather 'fix by replacement' than 'fix by repair' their items. They see someone with a broken washing machine as a motivated buyer, not someone with a problem they can fix. It would be helpful if congress mandated that the information to fix things was made available for free. (think service manuals) While it would burden the manufacturer to write such manuals it would enable repairs and a 'green' industry of keeping equipment running rather than in the dump.

I was hoping that one of the things that would come out of the Auto-melt-down would have been a vehicle that was bare bones, dead simple to repair, and inexpensive. There is demand for such a vehicle but no one is looking to meet it yet.

So "we need more skilled tradesman" as a call to arms has a number of things that it carries with it. I didn't see that the complexity or at least the interconnectivity of it all has been well represented to Congress.
I'm kind of impressed the actual HTML isn't sloppier than it is.
Not really. I'm prepared to go out on several limbs here.

"Four wheels ought to be enough for anybody"

"Twelve beers ought to be enough for anybody"

"Two intestines ought to be enough for anybody"

The point being that beyond a certain point more pixels (unlike more memory) just makes life worse. There's only so many photons to go around.
I don't think said person of discussion understand what parallelism is. :\
It doesn't have to be "extortion", as the article puts it. It can simply be that the patent owners are building a court precendent. They don't need to care about settlement/penalty money (although there's no harm in recouping some expenses), it would be useful even even just to build a case by winning enough small battles, and later go after the big boys.
our underfunded schools

Sigh. At what level of funding will you finally consider it adequate?
Today we are all social media experts.
They might be massaging the trains - given a choice between making five trains 28 minutes late or making one train 35 minutes late there is an incentive to choose the former.
I understand the government always dictates what is considered legal/illegal, maybe I used the wrong wording. But My issue is that if they have the power to regulate the internet and what the internet displays, they have the ability to censor what every they like. If kept unmonitored this could threaten freedom of speech and press.
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The use of active voice in scientific papers is an increasing trend. In the old days it was thought more scientifically appropriate to merely state that things were done without personalizing it, but gradually folks came to realise that scientific papers are hard enough to read already and that page after page of passive voice just makes it harder.

I tend to use a blend.
We're in the middle of running an iPad giveaway and it's hitting all the targets we set.

Prior to the iPad, we've tested various types of giveaways to incent various actions and found that the best responses came from either big prizes or small, guaranteed prizes. YMMV.
Rubyists Should Focus On ChromeOS
Japan's Latest Proposal To Contain Fukushima's Radioactive Fallout - A Tent
Wouldn't it be possible to deny any scripts that looked like that? I know that it must obviously be legal Javascript, but if it's formatted like one blob of text, deny. This might be a too naive approach to work, I'm mostly raising the question out of curiosity, is it possible to spot obfuscation programmatically.
Why would you deny allocation requests larger than immediately available physical memory when they could be serviced perfectly well by paging?

On modern systems malloc and friends manage address space, not physical memory. Failure should only be reported if that resource is exhausted.
I particularly liked this comment from @proscriptus: "You’re treating the Daily Mail as a reputable source? That’s like quoting Fox News on the Liberal War on Marriage. Celphones and beehives are seldom in proximity, and the inverse square law means there would be essentially undetectable emissions from the phones even a few meters away. This is junk reporting."

I don't know if it is junk or isn't, but I wouldn't call it 'Official' myself based on this.

Edit: There's also a link to the research this is based on - http://www.kokopelli.asso.fr/documentation/favre.pdf . Self-published and not claiming that cell phones are killing bees, so a good point to begin further studies but, again, hardly 'Offical proof'.
I live in Seattle. In the area where I live it would take over 30 years of rent to pay for the cost of a condo, and that condo would be bigger and newer (and therefore more costly) than the tiny studio I live in.

Everyone has options, I just happen to like living close to where I work (and therfore not need a car). If that means that I can't paint the walls without asking my landlord I'm ok with that.
Being indicative means having predictive power, not being representative. It is often the case that student trends are indicative of larger trends; for instance the number of college graduates looking for employment.

As for laptops, looking at data is better than pointless statements:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=laptop

Laptop sales correlate with google search trends. The later has a bimodal distribution, with one peak in August and one in December. The former represents back to school sales, and due to its size, it is clear that student purchases of laptops are a significant factor in the market.
It's 99.5%, not 95%. Fortunately I'm in that .5%.
Put this on a blog, man -- this is way better career advice than 95% of what's out there!
Understood. The point I was trying to make, maybe not clearly enough, was that Apple, wants/requires developers to use their in-app API if they want to sell anything. Since they are forcing developer to potentially violate a patent, they should indemnify developers. It is also in their interest to do so.
"This is a taste of Apple's own medicine"

This analogy seems pretty thin since Android's ecosystem is equally at risk here. This isn't going to scare these devs to another platform, it's going to scare them into not using the API.
The problem is that I am not one of them, but if I say anything critical of nuclear power, or the fukushima disaster, I'm immediately put in that bucket and the fangs come out. The rabid pro nuclear people sound completely unhinged. I think we should use more nuclear power, over coal, but I'm there enemy because I dared to say that something bad might happen at fukushima. I become one of "them" even though I'm not.
The things that get you jobs are extraordinary things that show you are smart and get stuff done:

- you organized hacker meetup

- you launched a sideproject/startup

- you wrote an ebook on a new programming language

- you traveled around the world for a year

- etc.

Try to make your resume look fun, and you'll attract fun employers.
Have they tried putting the cell phones on vibrate?
There are some other very important advantage of text that I feel you omitted. First, the ability to simultaneously carry on discussion on multiple topics all at once is a huge factor. In a normal, face to face conversation following an interesting but unrelated line of thought can sidetrack the entire conversation, often beyond the point of recovery. When you move to a textual medium you can easily carry on two or even three topics provided that both sides can keep track of the various conversation contexts all at once. Best of all, you can follow up on these branches in conversation even while the other person is typing.

That brings me to the second huge benefit. When talking, you will very rarely speak at the same time as another person. Not only is it rude in basically all cultures I am familiar with, it also makes it hard to follow what either person is saying. With text there are no such limitations. When you consider that an average person can read up to 300 WPM, while someone that has practiced speed reading can easily break 600, it is not too infeasible that both sides of a conversation may be typing the vast majority of the time. For those well practiced in text-based communication this can greatly increase the average amount of information transfered per unit time, easily negating the difference in typing vs speaking speeds, and possibly even improving upon it.

I do agree on your notes about body language and emotions. I have lost count of the number of times I have seem people interpret sarcastic textual statements to be completely serious. On the other hand I find that people get better at recognizing even that when spending enough time reading chat/comments online.
I worked at a startup creating a device that would be useful for a lot of industries, but before the high-tech companies in silicon valley bought in, before the consulting companies in NYC were convinced, farmers tried it out and used it.

It surprised me that you could convince farmers to try absolute bleeding edge technology, but they would. And they would at a faster rate than cell phone companies, consulting companies, manufacturing firms, etc.
Would love any feedback you might have on http://parkgrades.com/ (particularly the home page)...
Actually kinda cool. I mean, not if you're looking for anything specific. But it does have am artistic tint to it.
The steam engine took hundreds of attempts and at least 2000 years.
If you read the article at the Daily Mail there's a lot more info.
Ah, but can you rephrase it using the rule to make it better?

"For what did you bring up that book from out of which I did not want to be read?"

Not a huge improvement.
This library just pushed JavaScript to the top of the "to learn for real" list for me. It looks like a great tool.
So do the remaining shares own more of the company?
Well, I certainly agree that it's typically harder to write a long document in the passive voice. Describing what I did accurately and clearly is a big enough challenge without also having to contort everything into the passive voice.
I get the impression that Ballmer does not have great vision. I dont have evidence to support it. That said, I dont buy many of the arguments made in this article.
He is comparing Skype to Facetime. I dont think buying an app for 8 billion dollars make sense. I am sure there is more to skype deal than just the GUI app. The deal may have brought rights for usage of certain IP networks or something along those lines.

I am not sure how MSFT is planning to leverage this deal with plans of pushing into the mobile market. I am sure there is something in the works there.

Stock Price comparison:
There were many Billion dollar companies that are doing fine without a staggering growth seen in Apple or Google, that does not mean that CEO's are doing a bad job.
This post has kind of a linkbait title, given that the actual content is pretty insightful. The 99.5% comment is really referring to the social media experts missing the bigger point.

tl;dr social media isn't just a tactic to dabble in, because it opens the floodgates for end user communication. It's potentially a revolutionary way to establish context with users, but you have to be ready to engage fully or it can do more harm than good.
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Making a pencil by yourself is hard. Expecting everyone to make their own pencils is silly.

You don't get more and better food by becoming a better farmer, you get some other guy to be better at farming, and some other guy to be better at making farming equipment, and some other to be better at making software that runs the equipment, and some other guy to be better at making the satellite that gives weather data to the software, and so on and so forth.

Yes, we need people in skilled trades. It might even be a good idea to start retraining idle workers in skilled trades. But specialization isn't just for ants. There is no need to feel bad about the fact that you don't know how to fix your toilet, or computer, or car if you're an otherwise productive adult that happen to know some specialized set of remunerative skills that the plumber/technician/mechanic does not.
Youtube is so down
Got all sorts of HTTP error codes 502, 500 ... who is it Anonymous? Blogger and Dailymotion were also experiencing problems it seems
Wow this is serious good collection , adding my reading list