skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that in the above example, one should really be using .val() instead of .attr('value'), and if so, then nothing will need to be changed.
> Gates is putting his money where his mouth is. He is an investor in his friend Nathan Myrhvold’s nuclear reactor startup Terrapower,

Conflict of interests. Move on, people.
I don't think the judge believed her story. Besides, doesn't a jury get to decide her guilt?
Am I missing something here? Their theory predicts Parachinar as the city of hiding where as he was captured in Abottabad.

Parachinar is at the border of Afghanistan - Pakistan, closer to Peshawar and Abottabad is closer to Kashmir & Islamabad.

Edit: w.r.t. the 270km radius, 270 km is a big distance for the region. It doesn't seem that big within the context of USA but for the region of Afghanistan/Pakistan, you're quite spread out within that distance and amongst a significant population with similar buildings in cities/towns of the region.
Data Structures, Algorithms, and Software Design
I notice when I look at the big name software companies in silicon valley they usually have one thing in common on job listings for software engineers and that is knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design.

I understand the software design knowledge requirement, but I'm trying to figure out how deep does a candidate need knowledge in data structures and algorithms.

Now, I have taught myself through a book( Data Structures and Algorithms in Java ) and learned about trees, list, stacks, queues, big O notation, recursion, etc..

I'm just kind of wondering if there is more out there that one should know.

I'm not trying to figure out this knowledge because I'm wanting to groom myself for one of these companies. It's more of a curiosity of not knowing what I don't know and trying to fill some missing links.
Strikes me as it shouldn't be a question of if she knew, but rather is several months of Internet access worth nearly $200k?

Taking dspillett's example, if what the victim claimed (and even believed) to be a priceless Stradivarius actually turned out to be a modern mass-produced instrument, it'd be deeply unfair to make the defendant pay as if it were.
General Assembly is one step ahead of you:

http://www.generalassemb.ly/
I've been putting off moving my Slicehost VPS to Rackspace Cloud. I'm glad I won't have to now.
If you want to be the next Facebook then do this:
Hey everyone, im new to HN, new to programming (yeh I did a Moskovitz and bought the beginners guides), and its great to be here. Here's my philosophy and perspective on how to make a product or service that can be viral if executed well.
The absolute essential key ingredient to making a service a success is to focus 100% on making a service people want or NEED to use. Following that, you have to make it in a WAY that people will want to use it (i.e. you provide a service people need, but if they struggle to use it or its too unwieldy and complex they will stop using it). NEVER focus on making money, getting rich, or ‘living the dream’. Your service is NOT the means to an end, it IS the end. Your ONLY goal has to be making something GREAT for people to use. If you do this you WILL make something great that people will use en masse (something I call virality, yeh there's a pun). Once that happens the money will come to you, people will want a piece of that action (because they’re opportunists looking for the next big thing to make money with), and you can negotiate on better terms in order to keep the service running. Facebook’s Zuckerberg had that vision right, from the beginning, and made something everyone wanted. That’s why they were successful. They were great programmers but so are many founders whose ideas never see the light of day.
Why the White House situation room photo is so powerful
I remember 10 years ago, and I'm sure as hell not going back.

Versioning of SPs was hard. Code control for SPs was hard. Automated testing of SPs was hard. Incremental deployment (e.g. rolling out the new code to half of the servers in the web farm) was hard. Parallel development against a shared dev/staging server was hard. Trivial schema updates were hard.

And even then, it was never guaranteed to be fast. If the underlying tables weren't indexed, or your stored procedures did stupid shit like use cursors or temporary tables, it was still slow.
Oh come on. This is a long bow to draw. Nice try, Facebook apologist, but the Internet does not have an easy to access interface for any US intelligence agent to find out what any person in the world is up to.
The analogy about penicillin is quite silly, because LSD didn't save this guy's life- it didn't do anything tangible- it was a mental experience disconnected from reality... whereas the death of his child was real. If the pill brought the kid back to life I wouldn't be criticizing it.
Good TED talk by Gates explaining his vision for nuclear. Basically, fill up old missile silos with nuclear waste, and burn it from the top down. The waste is disposed of, heat energy is produced that can be harnessed, and there are no significant by-products (iirc). Very interesting, I'd never heard of that before, worth watching.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
In addition to containing an interesting categorization of technical debt, this article explains the entire concept of such debt in a very clear manner. Much appreciated, as I know of some managers that could benefit from reading this.
"Software engineers of corporate America are wired in a way that promotes fear. It hurts creativity and growth." I'm horrified to say that I just can't get past that bit of hyperbole.
Quite the contrary... these people hacked information for some goal, which is EXACTLY the essence of HN.
This is my wakeup call to finally switch over to Linode.
I believe the point is that coal plants are understood to always pollute, whereas nuclear plants are promised to never pollute. Can you see where that distinction is important?
awesome question, does anyone know if there is a feature grid of all/some of the apps within this market? One thing I am interested in is accessibility with mobile devices and how quick the mobile devices that are there are updated.
I'm one of the co-founders of Cloudkick (YC W09) and now part of the Rackspace. I wanted to reassure everyone that this is a migration, not "killing" off your slices. The Rackspace Cloud is based on the Slicehost technology, but has the full support and momentum of Rackspace behind it.

If you have any questions, concerns, or would like to discuss this with anyone at Rackspace - please do not hesitate to reach out directly to me: alex.polvi@rackspace.com
It's not clear to me if he likes the web passed browser plugin method. He seems to be talking specifically about small utility applications that perform the service. Though presumably these connect to a server for syncing.

Would there be any additional security hazard from using last pass and it's plugins verses using a password manager that's not integrated into the browser?
There is an excellent Podcast available where Steve Gibson (security expert) talks about LastPass and it's internals - audio and transcript are here: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-256.htm
As somebody who has smoked pounds...this tripe gets tired quickly. Any effort towards legalization must focus not on broad social acceptance (by representing ganja as some holy, enlightening agent) but rather on analysis of the terrible damage prohibition does to society. Writing of this sort is very snooty towards casual smokers who honestly just want to get high, which should be as acceptable as any other use.
I wonder what would happen if we spent the same $/KWh on making coal safe, as we do on nuclear?
I'm hearing from Rackspace that the merged offering will preserve the easy provision/upgrade features. No promises on the pricing, however.
For both individuals and society, all drugs present a dilemma: are they worth the risks to health, wealth and sanity? For me, the pay-off is the scientific inspiration, the wealth of new ideas and the spur to inner exploration.

The most prolific mathematician of all time, Paul Erdős, justified his amphetamine usage in similar terms [1]:

"After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month. Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: 'Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper.' After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
e^(i*pi)+1=0
Realistically, you should never be writing your own CRUD, whether you use an ORM or not.

CRUD stored procedures can be generated directly from the database schema, wrapped in C# objects using the same code generator, and compiled into your project whenever you make a schema change. That gives you all the advantages of an ORM, without any magic runtime SQL generation.
Ah - Wild pig population explosion may spread disease. I had a different image in my head after reading the headline.
Having done many of the ones listed in the article, I would like to throw in my two cents:

Drugs, like LSD or DMT, are not at all like seeing things from a helicopter. Sure, they are from a "new perspective", but unfortunately it's all in your head. My closest analogy is to dreaming--it seems to make perfect sense when you're dreaming, but when you wake up, you realize that all your thoughts were nonsense. I've had high ideas before. The feeling of revelation is unparalleled... even if it's all in my head. Once I sober up, though, I suddenly realize that they're a load of crap.

Rather being a helicopter to check out what's up there, drugs more so resemble staring out the window and pretending to visualize things past the horizon. You don't come to your senses until you realize it's all in your head.

I've quit them all now and honestly I only miss acid from time to time. But the fact that it's just eight hours of false epiphanies makes sure that I don't care to ever trip again.
The difference is that losing a child gives you real information about your surroundings. Taking LSD doesn't allow you to take in any different input- it simply changes the way your brain interprets that same information. I can see why people would enjoy this, but not how they could take it seriously. Taking drugs breaks the way your brain is supposed to function; I mean that quite literally.

I mean, if I introduced bugs into my simulation code and got results that I liked, I'd be like, "I need to fix those bugs" not "boy are these great results! Look, I can stop the HIV epidemic!" Because I'd be wrong.
Misty aqua
A recent edition I read a couple months ago mentioned it in a sidebar, as a personal anecdote. But it was mainly about her realization that the scientific methods of her colleagues were rather less sound than they at first appeared.

edit: in light of this:
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/journalism/NS2000.html
I'd have to agree that the coverage of the matter in the book was rather insufficient.
It wasn't. It's just that it consisted of wood and coal smoke and horseshit rather than CO2, weird organic chemicals, and so forth.
> I think it's more of a case of "they've forced themselves to HAVE to scale SQL databases by tying themselves to .Net and MS SQL Server".

Is that why Reddit is having a whole ton of scaling problems while SO seems to be able to scale quite well? NoSQL is not a magic cure-all.
Congrats on the success of all this! Breaking even in 3 months takes some doing.

I noticed some places where I think I could clean up and improve the writing. Do you mind if I take a stab at it?
actually one time du -s was surprising - i'd committed a 700 mb iso without realizing it since no unusual delays occured.

the 'append only' nature of git makes it unsuitable for this application imo. a sliding expiration/history window size depending on avilable resources is ideal
Oh duh, I put 15 cents in. How do I downvote myself?
The icon for point #9 is particularly clever.
We have training available in person (https://github.com/training) and online (https://github.com/training/online) during which we can do all of those things.
Self-serving you mean. However, anyone would invest in something and promote it if they believe in it.
Linode are awesome. I've been with them for almost 8 months now, in that time I've had to submit 1 ticket which was to ask for a feature to be enabled for me. I have 5 linodes with them.
Considering how much they've open-sourced, I don't think Google is the kind of big company he's talking about.

Do you think that the people who run Github are hoping one day they'll be hired as executives at Oracle?
This headline is incredibly misleading. The underlying/original blog post is all about tuning the queries behind a single page when the developer noticed some latency while looking at logs.
I have never seen that second assertion.
I know the team behind this app. I'm not sold on it, myself, but I think if anyone can do it these guys can. They created MyBlogLog before it was bought, languished, and killed by Yahoo. The platforms they've built are amazing, and the sheer amount of data is insane. Glad to see them getting some press.
Do you feel the same way about "natural" sources of vasopressin, i.e. sex?

Like it or not, if you're in a relationship you are taking drugs.
It probably cost them a little, but not a huge amount.

It actually is a smart deal for BB too. Who is BB's big competitor right now? It's not MS. It's Google. Why give Google revenue when Bing is, by most measures, just as good?

So MS comes to BB and says, "You really need to be fighting this front against Google. They're eating up your mobile sales. Bing is a great way to fight against them. Your customers will have an experience that's just as good, although admittedly some will be unhappy with the brand.

And sure WP7 might be competition in the future. But frankly, its a longshot, and you have your lunch being eaten today.

And lastly, do you want Google to screw you over in services in the future if it came to that? With both MS and Google battling it out, you'll always find one provider that will give you a fair deal."
Nice try, domain squatter.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=safari&q=ab...

Some 400 km off. I don't know if I can call that a good result. What was anyone supposed to do with this info? Invade Pakistan and run around searching in a 1000km radius? I don't think so.

This reminds me of the "how many piano tuners are there in x" sort of questions. The result can be surprisingly accurate but there are so many underlying assumptions that if any one of them were wrong (which you have no way of knowing in advance) then your result is off by a large amount.
Just signed up for a year of linode... goodbye slicehost, you were great!
I don't want to live in a world where relatively harmless people receive draconian punishments for minor offenses but bankers steal billions without a sour glance.

But if I must choose, I'd choose the former over the latter even though it makes it more difficult for me to make a living.
Serious question: Why is having stored procedures generated at design time better than having dynamic SQL generated at run time? It's not like there has been a meaningful performance benefit for the last several years.
It's a bit of an abuse of HN though. Oh well, hope it gets some good answers soon either on quora or here.
If we will blow up our planet by huge bomb, it might be even safer (in deaths by TWh, one of the few honest ways of comparing the risks).
Who has ever promised that nuclear plants will never pollute? That's a ludicrous statement to make, and it's almost as ludicrous to state that someone respectable has ever promised so.
Actually Schneier wrote one: http://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html
(now OSS)

I use one (actually three) but it's not a good solution for everybody (what is?). Mostly the pros/cons are obvious but two less obvious risks:
* Beware the clipboard
* Don't forget the vault passphrase...
My reasoning was similar.

Yes, UBL's death is significant to just about everyone. But it's not really intellectually gratifying or interesting, nor was much of the commentary surrounding it in the previous thread. There was lots of unfocused complaining about fallout from 9/11 including the TSA, DHS, wars, and political changes, but very little of it was new or enlightening. Definitely worthy of a flag.

Here, I find it tremendously interesting to see a (distant) eyewitness account of a significant historical event, given in real time over social media and not filtered by any other entities after the fact. Much more of the commentary here is intellectually gratifying as well. This was worthy of an upvote.
New Age?

Unitarian Universalist?

Not trying to be rude, these are merely the most obvious cases that mold themselves to the believer's opinion. Also, observe the syncretism of Buddhism in different regions.
It's not just you. An email that starts with "I would like to start a dialogue about our plans for..." makes me think "uh-oh" immediately. Slicehost has only changed for the worse since their merge, from my experience with them :/

I recommended them to several friends and colleagues, but from what I've seen of Rackspaces offering I wouldn't be able to do that with them.

RIP Slicehost :(
Thanks for that. Though it looks like it only works with Thunderbolt-equipped models: http://www.macworld.com/article/159616/2011/05/imacs_thunder...
Honestly, I didn't use one. I thought I was going to need a book or two to get started, but all I did was sign up for EC2, launch a Micro Instance with the Amazon Linux 32bit Image (eligible for the free tier), downloaded the keys, and ssh'd in. The only hitch I ran into was you have to log in as ec2-user, not root, with the keypair. After that, it was smooth sailing. Micro instances uses EBS for boot and local storage, so I think they persist after termination. Anyone is free to chime in and correct me, but I think the larger instances have 'local storage' that is purged on reboot in addition to EBS.

My only advice would be to fire one up, and try it out. Either its gotten a lot easier, or I've gotten a lot smarter. The former is far more likely. :)
White iPhone 4 not thicker than black iPhone 4 after all
>> "...Had they not bothered introducing LINQ in the first place, they'd have had their 100x performance boost from the get go..."

Except that when StackOverflow started it was a small startup with just three developers and a small user base. They probably made the decision early on to tradeoff any premature performance optimization with the ability to quickly iterate and ship the product by using Linq-2-Sql instead of hand-writing every single CRUD operation.

Now that their business (i.e. web traffic) has grown exponentially and have a larger group of developers they can now go back and optimize and performance tune the code including doing complete re-writes as necessary.

This is an important takeaway for anyone building a startup.
Yet another reason you have to be crazy to buy a phone with carrier firmware.
"6. You must commit your own changes - you can’t delegate it"

My company does this, and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this. The motivation for delegating changes is that different groups in our company have different check-in priveleges. This results in half of my changes being committed by me and half the changes being committed by someone else. This does, of course, present some coordination problems though.
Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for.

Also laughing hard at the irony of the title.
I deleted the parent because I mistakenly thought they were using Affy SNP chips. I don't remember why I thought that, but you're correct in that they are using Illumina SNP arrays. This doesn't explicitly change what I was trying to say, but I hit the delete link a bit hastily.

My understanding is that the labs that run the tests are under CLIA, but diagnostic tests themselves are under FDA.

I think you are misunderstanding my point... my point is that there should be a big distinction between having access to your genomic data and having someone tell you what it means. Illumina's disclaimer is very clear (http://www.everygenome.com/about_us/our_lab.ilmn): They do not give you a diagnosis, medical advice, or a treatment recommendation. They give you a genome that you can take to your doctor and then discuss the results. In general, genotype data isn't something that you can easily interpret on your own (with few exceptions), and that interaction should be regulated.
You said there's no distinction between the genes and the man. I'm just saying that's incorrect, otherwise there'd be no distinction between identical twins. Their recipe is the same, but the outcome is difference. Hence, there IS a distinction between the man, and the combination of genes that the man has.

I don't disagree that obviously you should have access to all your DNA information, (I doubt anyone on HN disagrees). But it's an argument you're making to the FDA (that you should be allowed unfettered access), because they're considering otherwise.
John Resig joins the Khan Academy
Common sense would say that she was lying about being given the card, especially as she wasn't able to find the person who supposedly gave it to her.
They aren't really tying themselves to LINQ, though. It seems like they're using LINQ to get the dev speed improvement when they can, and dropping down to writing their own SQL in the subset of cases where they know that LINQ isn't fast enough.
I've been using Rackspace Cloud Servers for about a year now, and like everyone else is saying the control panel is a bit weak, but you do get "push a button, get a server" tools on there. I'm far from a super sysadmin but I've been able to create/remove servers, resize them and generally administer them competently without any trouble using the Rackspace control panel.

That said, my needs are fairly simple. The most complex thing I've had to do is provision additional IPv4 addresses on one of the servers (for SSL hosting), and a support person did that for me in under 10 minutes via their web-based chat support.

Unless you have a site that will actually use the gobs of bandwidth that Slicehost or Linode includes (and I don't), then Rackspace Cloud will end up being cheaper.. My single-IP servers cost me between $11 and $15 per month on average, based on bandwidth used.
Direct link to Nodeler if you want to skip the blog intro:
http://nodeler.com/
Wow, someone with a one-hour-old account is telling me what to post to HN.

You can disagree that Macs offer an overall package worth their price, but you're not everybody.

And you can disagree that Macs don't offer anything over a grey box for their price, but you're not everybody.

Do you see that this is not a very good argument technique?
Pandora Hits 10 Billion Thumbs
Anatomy of a Fake Quotation
...that's Apple apps. This news does not pertain to any other apps from other sources or for other platforms.
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http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19378
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For light use, I'm definitely glad I switched from slicehost to prgmr.com.
The Improvisational Brain
He deleted his comment, but said that he was going to buy an iMac and a new MacBook Air as a result of the iMac having two Thunderbolt ports.
No touchpad below the spacebar in the middle like the macbook though. :/
Interesting article and discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2509538
I here a lot of talk about linode, but they are hardly the only competitor. I'm a very happy customer of ARP Networks http://www.arpnetworks.com/vps . They support FreeBSD and OpenBSD in addition to Linux and have competitive pricing. I run 4 low traffic sites (2 rails, 1 sinatra, 1 django) on a $10 VPS without issue (using nginx, thin and tornado).