skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An article?

I'm pretty sure most of the print media out there do exactly what you're doing - performing one or more interviews about particular topic. The good ones though take that material and turn it into an article that attempts to make a point using the information gained from the interviews as support.

There isn't anything wrong with what Mixergy is doing per se, it's just that there on the internet, I normally prefer the article format that can be skimmed first to determine my level of interest.

When something is written, you present the content and then ask for the readers time. With video, you demand the time and then present the content. Since my time - especially on the net - is precious, I'm rarely inclined to give it to you for free.
boring game
And here I was thinking that I could increase my productivity by deleting all the copies of Civ on my laptop.
It's not a bug, it's a feature :)

When I pinged our CTO his tounge in cheek response: "we are software engineers. we like to irritate people."

This is the kind of fun stuff we get to learn in beta - will see about getting that fixed!
In order to relate to your field like this, you need a lot of experience. Typical chicken vs egg :P
Ignition joins with Ron Conway, Dave McClure and others to back stealthy Inporia
This is what happens when biologists start playing with electronics.

To make this is more valid experiment, I would mount the telephones remotely, and use external antenna in the hive, fed via coax from the remote telephones.

Their control of a telephone in standby was not a good control. The standby telephone has it's power supply in a low current state to save battery power. This results in a couple of things.

There is significantly less heat generated by a standby telephone than an active telephone. Bees respond to temperature.

Modern electronics use switching power supplies. These switch currents through inductors at high frequency to step the battery voltage to the IC's operating voltage at high efficiency. You can often hear these switching supplies, as they cause the inductors to "sing", as the high frequency is demodulated down into the audible band by component imperfections. So, the bees may be responding to acoustic noise from the power supply.

We have no idea what else is going on in these phones. is there a backlight on the LCD? If it's electroluminscent, that also can sometimes be heard, as it has it's own, much higher voltage supply. If it's LED, that will be generating heat.

If the experiment is repeated, please use remote telephones with external antenna in the hive.
Wow, their PR guys did a number on you. Not only did they not encourage it, they threatened lawsuits!

"Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products," a company spokesperson told CNET. "With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant." [1]

It was only after several days, when it became clear that they couldn't do anything to stop people, that they decided they wouldn't bother about it.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1874118
Video: Jeremy Ashkenas on CoffeeScript
Should be called Process Slaves
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It's kind of sad too. There are lots of use cases where I want fast datastores, and you know what, if the database goes down, who cares?

For example, I do lots of experiment logging to a mongodb. If the power goes out, and the data is lost who cares? The data was no longer valid or useful -- but if I slow down my writes for 'safety' I will be causing problems by introducing delay in ways that could cause conflict.
What non-re modules should I look at for text processing in Python?
Bogosort terminates with probability 1. Is it really reasonable to say it doesn’t guarantee termination? People often do say that about randomised algorithms, which confuses me a little. Probability 1 is as guaranteed as anything probabilistic can reasonably hope to be, isn’t it?

[Edited to add: thanks for the replies. I think I expressed myself poorly here. It’s not that I don’t understand the difference between “with probability 1” and “always”. What I mean is that I don’t understand why people sometimes make a big deal out of it, and say “that algorithm is not even guaranteed to terminate” as though that somehow means the algorithm is untrustworthy or useless. The trouble with the game “roll a die until you get 100 sixes in a row” is that it has an astronomical expected running time – not that it might _never_ end, but that it will almost certainly take a very long time.]
The can't connect to iwhatever problem isn't a cables problem, it's an Apple problem. Apple needs to make a cloud version of iTunes that syncs directly with iOS for that to become viable.
Do MBPs dual boot into ubuntu well? I've mostly seen people using parallels and the ilk for linux booting, as the laptop was mostly unsupported according to them.
Sony: Hackers launched no new PlayStation attack 
The company published a statement about the site on Wednesday after a Bloomberg report said the site was down because of a hacker attack.
Sony uses its PlayStation website to update the public about a break-in to its servers which compromised the personal data of more 100 million users.
Angriest Most Useless Machine (video)
>If that linkage was born out by solid research data it would make a strong case for having the characters in science fiction creating solutions to problems posited to occur 20 - 30 years hence.

So that means we're about due for a time traveling delorian, right?
I'm out about $500K of my own money, but I haven't kept close track. It was the most enjoyable $500K I ever spent, all things considered.

Emotional/personal cost? None really, other than some slight stress imposed on my marriage at a couple of points, but nothing that would have ever come close to the "drugs and therapy" kind of personal costs, or lost friends kind of personal costs.
He's probably referring to 4(d) of the ToS.

"You automatically grant the Site and its affiliates, contractors, and partners, a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, modify, publicly display, reproduce and distribute the content in order for the Site to provide You the Service. If you object to any content on the Site, Your sole remedy is to cease using the Site."
I wonder how this looks/works on the iPad.
Should we guess how much longer he will be employed?
Zing! Fair point. But "video game" != "the web".

I tend to view HTML5 applications as closer to a traditional desktop application than a web site.

Local storage has some advantages over server-based storage (latency, privacy, etc), while the major disadvantage of local storage is the lack of persistence across multiple devices.

I like the idea of HTML5 app developers being able to use LocalStorage and then seamlessly piggyback on Chrome's existing JSON sync framework. That's a lot less work than managing state on the server, and lets game developers focus more on their core competencies, effectively outsourcing the "webiness" of their app to Google.

By no means do I think this kind of "Chrome App" will replace web apps, but I do believe that in certain genres like video games there are advantages.
Great book, nice app, price is the suck but it could pay off for folks that crank out concepts often.
IPad 2 as fast as Cray 2 supercomputer from 1985
To be fair, at least based on what this article says, it's not so much about leaking information on Wikileaks as it is about leaking information Wikileaks is going to release but hasn't yet. Maybe it covers the former as well but it just wasn't mentioned?
If you count working days, maybe he does! Take http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weekdays+in+three+month..., assume two official holidays for every three months, and Bob's your uncle.
p2p uses more bandwidth in a multi-user scenario. Don't think that's an invalid point.
7 things you need to know about how people read online
That's not a valid comparison. The iPad with 3G does not include the cost of the data connection. This includes a 100MB/month connection with the cost of the subscription.
Thanks for that explanation. I really wish I could parse through this code, I'd love to understand how to do 2d games inside webgl and the performance differences between the normal canvas drawing functions and the webgl ones.
Any good explanation for why it maxes out my CPU, even when it's just displaying the end-of-level score screen? This game works fine on a smartphone, but somehow makes use of everything my MacBook Pro can throw at it?
It's amazing that there aren't conflict of interest laws or regulations to prevent this sort of thing.
The logo didn't work in Opera 11.10 :/ I had to fire up IE 9 to take a peek
It's not necessary to link this twice in the comments, thanks. Also there's already a thread dedicated to the actual study: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2537839
While searching for a recent HN-featured story on the strength of passwords with spaces, I ran across a relevant comment from about a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1419231
Note that iPad 2 cost comes with 3G but does not include COST of 3G service. iPad 2 will be way more expensive if you include this cost.
Sorry.

I think it’s only the jargon that’s confusing you. As long as you can remember (or look up) the definition of matrix multiplication, then it genuinely is easy to verify.

[ fib(n-1) fib(n) ] x [0 1]
[ fib(n) fib(n+1) ] [1 1]

= [ fib(n) fib(n-1)+fib(n) ]
[ fib(n+1) fib(n)+fib(n+1) ]

= [ fib(n) fib(n+1) ]
[ fib(n+1) fib(n+2) ]
Great idea! On your compare page it looks like there is no need to sign up for your own merchant account which is a big win. So I assume you are using your own? Was curious how you managed to set this up, since I know operating as an "aggregator" of funds is considered higher risk and is harder to get. Do you mind mentioning which provider allowed you to set this up (BrainTree, etc) and how difficult it was to qualify?

Thanks!
It might not cover 80% of rails, but rails isn't 100% of programming. Also, the feature lacking in Scala that would help the most with both of your examples (rails and ORM) is meta-programming, which is somewhat orthogonal to the issue of static typing. And you're right that a well designed meta-programming solution wouldn't be a clone of the Rails framework - I think it would be superior in some important ways.

Why do you say that optional static typing introduced into dynamic languages is a divergence? Coupled with looser typing from the static languages, that looks like convergence to me. And what part of OOP do you see as incompatible with typing?
It reads like he was saying cigarettes are not as difficult to quit as crack, cocaine or meth. There are obviously a lot of factors involved, but if you've seen someone get caught up with meth, there's simply no comparison.
Is that true? I was under the impression that that's changing. But I could see that, it would take a lot of paid apps to compare to the margins on hardware sales.
Ray Cromwell and Philip Rogers are doing a talk on this very topic:

http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions/kick-ass-game-...

Philip Rogers has a Chrome credit on the new Angry Birds game. The talk should be up on YouTube within a few days.
I never understood why Bogosort made the check so efficient; it seems so silly. Fortunately, somebody solved this problem and made bogobogosort: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/bogobogosort.html
Well, according to his bio[1]:

"He had been employed continuously by Altria Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries (including Philip Morris International Inc.) in various capacities since 1978."

They aren't exactly looking for boy scouts to add shareholder value.

[1]http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officerProfile?symbol=...
Apple Releases iOS 4.2.2 For Apple Tv 2G [Download] [update]
It makes you wonder how the article reached 31 points..
No joke. Every time I see a story like this I think, "is this type of stuff legal in other developed countries?"
As draconian as it seems, there was great wisdom in the decision by the Screen Actors Guild that no two members can go by the same name professionally---you can't even use your own legal name if someone else has already taken it. The policy totally prevents snafus like this.

It makes me glad I have a (nearly) unique name; although I'm likely to see a variant of this problem as I'm moving to a town (in Virginia) named Farmville---est'd 1798. sigh
Among major features touted are auto-sharding and replica sets. I don't know if the implication is that it's only for web apps/websites that won't need those
https://www.dwolla.com/

I know the guys who put Dwolla together. It shows a lot of promise, and is a huge boon to merchants because of the extremely low transaction fees (flat $0.25 per transaction vs Paypal's 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction).

However, as pg said, it is hard to encourage adoption when buyers only use it if merchants support it and vice versa.
The author of this book, Kato Lomb, was one of the most accomplished polyglots in modern history.

Despite not having any notable success with foreign languages until after completing her PHD in chemistry, she became a simultaneous interpreter of Hungarian. Russian, English, French, and German. She also did technical and literary translations in Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Bulgarian, Danish, Latin, Romanian, Czech, and Ukrainian. Her approach only represents a single data point, but it's well worth reading for anyone interested in SLA.
I know they were hesitant at the very beginning but quickly changed their minds...guess I was wrong.
We performed our own crash testing for a Riak and about a million other databases, Riak and MySQL with InnoDB were the only cases scoring more than 5 out of 10.

I think the problem with NoSQL is that they are targeting the wrong people - the lazy people. One of the DBs we reviewed (can't remember which) did not have single datacentre durability, lost like 80% data while crash during updating table contents and was boasting some geo-coordinate built-in datatype on their website. Its the priorities plague. Is built-in geo more important than data?

Why do NoSQL databases have to be all distributed beyond sharding? I think because thats what people wrongly perceive out of them. Google, LinkedIn all use NoSQL which is distributed, so if a NoSQL DB doesn't do it, its a shame. Thats the root of misjudgment I believe. Every DB, NoSQL or not, needs to have a place. One size fits all is what will kill NoSQL, whether enforced by engineering or marketing. Thats why I think marketing "lie".

CouchDB, Riak and Redis are only few exceptions I know of which seemed to have a vision and stuck to it.
No chance you could integrate with this API?
From the article: "Gundersen also said a patient told her last week that of all the addictions he's beaten — crack, cocaine, meth — cigarettes have been the most difficult."
While part of me isn't surprised, if both Comcast and she gets away with this without repercussions, I'm going to be seriously disgusted...

edit: Actually a question comes to mind. What can we as the voting/etc public do to make our will felt in this scenario? With the parties involved I don't know of a way and that really, really irks me.
I can't see any doodle on Google homepage, don't know why it's not available to my country. Here's a higher resolution video of the doodle by the artist Ryan Woodward himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsbI1GE4DGA

It appears that animating dance figures is his speciality, check also this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBk3ynRbtsw
Good catch, I was convinced for a second. -sigh-
Yes yes yes. The compile part of the argument is a bit subjective (sure wish c++ compilers were faster) but learning memory management. Especially with classes in c++ which tends to bitch-slap your mind so hard the first time around that you'll never forget the implications of an improper memory strategy.
> I'll also add Chinese's rather powerful "de" statement. It can be possessively and descriptively, but you'll often see whole sentences jammed up before a "de" in order to describe a single noun (or wildly recursive uses of "de")

You can achieve the same effect in spoken English by speaking the jammed up portion quicker, and it's sometimes written with hyphens: "a (whole-sentence-jammed-up-before-a-de)-before-it noun."
I can't access the article but looking at the homepage, I'm surprised it's not just a giant spritesheet that changes the x/y offset on certain intervals.

Nevermind, it is a giant spritesheet, but it's optimised to allow for static elements to not have to be redrawn.
http://www.google.com/logos/2011/graham11-hp-sprite.png
MongoDB is partition tolerant and consistent.

You can never have multi-master with MongoDB, which is required for "always writable." However, it can be readable. Our CEO did a series of posts on distributed consistency, see http://blog.mongodb.org/post/475279604/on-distributed-consis....
Charanjit Singh on how he invented acid house... by mistake
This is in no way our intent, I've got a note out to the attorney to see how / why this language exists and how we can clarify.

Appreciate the note - this is the feedback we want to iron out for beta :)
Startups which are trying to disrupt the Hollywood film making industry
Are you outside the US? I am and I believe thats the reason I see a big contact sales form instead of USD prices.
troll harder
> Since you won't get a compiler error if you miss some of the subtle differences in a translation and you'd need to be familiar with both languages in question, it's harder to pick up such differences.

You might get a scowl, or some other non-verbal feedback, during speech.
Where is the evidence that this document is valid? It may be, but it could just as easily be forged.
Non-professional content creation apps are already available in the Chrome web store. Aviary has a suite of audio-visual tools it offers, including vector image editing (I don't work for them or anything).
Try Firefox. In Fx5 (and Fx4 probably too) it's really smooth. Feels many times faster than Opera and Chrome.
How would such laws be created with such a personnel system in place? If they existed, who would enforce them?

I'd love to be proved ignorant on this and see some unrelated-to (and therefore incorruptible-by) enforcement agency slap the fuck out of Ms. Corrupt Lobbyist, but I'm doubtful.
In my mind, that's even worse.

Wikileaks' own secrets are at least (in some sense) the property of Wikileaks, whereas I really can't see any way in which "information which Wikileaks was planning to release sometime later" counts as Wikileaks' property.

Does anyone remember when Wikileaks was actually a wiki?
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"all newsworthy information relating to the workings of WikiLeaks.”
To some commenters: the C in CAP and the C in ACID are not the same thing. If that is not clear to you, it is unlikely the database you develop will include correct implementations of core concepts. Knowledge is power.

Peace and love to the human family.

- Lil' B
Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS
The videos are hopefully going to carry some weight, but I find your consolation in the available data somewhat optimistic; at best, I think they'll just cushion the backlash.
The Parallel Haskell Digest: Spring Edition
You can configure your email client to alert you to emails marked as urgent, but in my experience that includes every and only email from HR.
FWIW: pixlr is pretty fantastic.
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Actually, he is not moving goal-posts, he is just asking for the second half of his originally stated question to be answered. I know it is silly, and probably sounds like nitpicking to you, but please, don't make false claims, particularly when they are just veiled ad-hominem.
I like email, but I dislike all email applications I've tried so far.

But yes, multiple accounts. I have a sign-up-for-stuff account, a personal account, and a professional account. It has made worlds of difference - hard barriers for purposes are much more effective than filters that sometimes overlap, and usually miss brand new correspondences.
Further, Facebook explicitly revokes tokens when you change your password.

Do you have a reference for that? Seriously, I'm working on Oauth stuff and I would like as much information as possible.
wait until you fill your mysql + innodb with real data, have a crash and have to perform a check to get it back online. stick with riak.
I wouldn't want to be on this boat...
(The asymptotic complexity is surely the same, in any case.)

The closed form complexity is not the same (not sure how it could be). Here's the code written in standard most language psuedocode:

fib(n) {
double c = 1.6180339887;
return round((power(c, n) - power(1-c, n))/sqrt(5));
}

Note: I assume your point wasn't that computing the golden ratio exactly is... well ummm... time consuming.
Corruption may exist in all forms of government but in the USA we have it perfected (and legalized).

Did you know that lobbyists now meet across from the whitehouse to keep their visits unrecorded?

This is almost as bad as the supreme court justices taking special interest money through their spouse.
Inventor in a shed
None of this is guaranteed by default. By default, writes are flushed every 60 seconds. By default, there's no journaling. How can one claim full consistency if the the former two points are true?

Don't get me wrong, I love mongo. I'm building a web app backed by it. But the marketing talk is grating, which whT this post nails.
All of those $2.56 rewards to bug finders burn through a lot of checkbooks.
There is a distinction between "surely" and "almost surely":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely

Bogosort almost surely terminates.
They would establish something like time-limited non-compete agreements: when you accept a position, you'll know that, when you leave it, you'll have to spend 2-3 years without working in a related field. Hell, they could even be 2 paid years.
Ask HN: What's The Best Secure VPN Client for Browsing Open Wi-Fi?
Preferably something free but a low cost option is fine. For browsing unsecured wireless networks in public places. Anything that will protect my traffic.

It's hard to tell just searching online what is legit info and what is marketing junk.
This would more accurately be described as a "cheat", rather than a "hack".
The story behind BBC's Apprentice phone apps from their makers
Here's the problem with trying to establish real identities over the Internet-its very hard. Quora has had this problem, and so has Facebook.

I can't believe websites still think its a good idea to associate a name with an account rather than just a handle.
I'm trying to innovate in the same field that Bubbleshare was in. I only learned about them recently via reading old techcrunch posts. What killed them? Did they go through a prolonged period of difficulty?
However, for most kids in that category, piracy is a very viable alternative. And such access to tools which would otherwise cost hundreds of dollars can, and does, foster huge amounts of creativity in kids.
Under "Using The Access Token"

If the user changes their password, the access token expires
or the user deauthorizes your app in the App Dashboard, the
Graph API will issue an HTTP 400 and return the error in the
body of the response:

from http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
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See, I don't get that. Perhaps his tactics were rather quiet, but he's just an employee who sees a possible acquisition as a dangerously expensive mismatch. All this shows is that he did his homework and worked hard to make sure it wouldn't happen. What's evil about that?