skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of Lisp Macros and Washing Machines
another interesting facet to this development: http://tidbits.com/article/12174
Similarly, my father was a fix-anything type, but also knew how to manage and do public relations. He got much more money than my mother, with masters in education and psychology.
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Това, което ядете и пиете, съчетано с упражнения, може да се отрази благоприятно на тялото и състоянието ви. Независимо от това в каква форма сте, ще изглеждате по-добре, когато се погрижите за тялото си, както от отвътре, така и от вън и се научите да гледате на храните и напитките като гориво за вашето здраве и красота.
Maybe the ideal solution would involve specifying all times in two timezones (local and GMT), side-by-side? Practically, I'm now interested in adding something like a <time> HTML tag that would let users decide how they want to see it, and see it in their own localtime automatically. JQuery plugin anyone?
You mean 0.0025%.
there were variable-width fonts in typewriters but that was relatively late in the history of that instrument

Interesting, I did not know that.
The 3 Habits of Highly Effective Brands
And what (computing) use is an iPhone or WebOS without network? Calculator?
I lately lost a preposition
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
And angrily I cried, "Perdition!
Up from out of in under there."

Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor,
And yet I wondered, "What should he come
Up from out of in under for?"

-Morris Bishop in the New Yorker, 27th September, 1947
yeah, I hear people pronounce the "h" and use "an" but not do it consistently. Didn't realize its silent in England.
Q: Why was it necessary to invalidate the names that were selected?

U.S. law requires that Diversity Immigrant visas be made available through a strictly random process. A computer programming error resulted in a selection that was not truly random.

They maybe should be careful with their wording, since "not truly random" would basically disqualify any code based random generator.

Overview of PRNG, TRNG for reading if you're unfamiliar: http://www.random.org/randomness/
The point is that when your table has 4 rows in it, it doesn't matter if you do a full table scan. Wait until you deploy your app and that table now has 4,000,000 rows in it.. then you have a problem.

In MongoDB (and maybe others too) there exists an option to fail when doing a table scan so that you know immediately while developing that there exists a potential for things to go awry at some later point. You can fix that now by either re-thinking your data structure, re-thinking your query, or adding appropriate indexes.

MySQL's slow query log is good for reactive development instead of proactive development.

I think its an indispensable feature.
Yes you can; you only need internet for the initial setup.
This whole article is a great piece of bullshit. And I say that not in a disparaging way.

The story about kibble? Sure it's probably half-true but he clearly spun it in a different why to tie it into his argument here.

And then this is just a blatant example of bullshit/spinning:

I had to think for a minute. Then I said, "It isn't lying if you really believe it yourself."

Kind of appropriate to write a piece in defense of bullshitting which is composed entirely of bullshit. :)

Disclaimer: I have been known to bullshit myself.
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Taking Notes in Books
I think NaCl is the least likely product to survive in this equation. It feels like Google Gears in 2007.
Ask HN: Please shoot down my web app idea
While reading about Google's ajax crawling spec (#!), I was thinking it should be possible to automate generation of static snapshots to serve to search engines. It seems to me this would be useful to people doing client-side-JS-heavy sites, but who didn't build the escaped_fragment directly in their app.

I've set up a simple landing page describing it at http://pageamber.com/ to gather initial feedback (with a bit of buzzword bingo: SEO + AJAX seems like an instantly-recognizable benefit).

Would this be useful to people (enough to pay for it)? Should I invest time in building it?
But suing Apple's tenants and Apple itself surely does not yield the same reaction

Now we've sunk to the point where the local feudal lord only halfheartedly protects his own interests, so long as the rocks aren't landing directly on his keep? Same as it ever was.

(Also, look at the state of discoverability in the iTunes infrastructure. It's the same principle, or lack of it. And, certainly, Apple is far from the only company to be so short sighted.)

(Note, I am an avid user of Apple products and an iOS developer.)
That "knack" could also be an affinity for tinkering & working with your hands. My brother is a self-taught auto mechanic because he is really interested in cars. Give him a free weekend and he'll rebuild his engine for the heck of it.

When we enjoy something, we do it often. When we do something often, we get better at it.
You get my point thought regardless of the example, Oracle doesn't make phones, and Samsung doesn't make game consoles.

Here is a quote from Jobs: People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.

And can you give an example and cite how Apple tried and failed to enter B2B?
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uh, imagine if you are one of the winners :/
>The results were not valid because they did not represent a fair, random selection of entrants, as required by U.S. law.

How does one get so bad at using random numbers? Surely selecting random entries from a list isn't hard. `entries[rand*entries.count]`
Except this death penalty we can fix by creating new protocols.
Does anyone think that students can be both social and productive?
Why do we have to choose between the two?
Before we get into a big discussion between expert/guru (I do find these names silly, I especially hate the title Guru). How do you define social media expert.
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I think it's important to remain grounded in reality. Social bullshit is important, essential even for some jobs. But for other jobs? it really has little to do with actually getting the job done.

If you recognize people who are good at their jobs but who are passive in other ways and you treat those people well while others disparage them for being passive, If you can handle the social bullshit for those people and let them do their jobs, those people will feel real loyalty towards you, and not just because they feel good about you; if you can separate the 'do your job' from the 'social bullshit' those who can do the job but can't or won't deal with the social bullshit really will be much more valuable than they would have been on a team where that social bullshit was expected of everyone.

If you value aggressive people over passive people in the general case, you are leaving a lot of value on the table.
And quantum computation must be reversible too, except for the final measurement process.
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Important bit that's in the video but not on the page:

>"...[a programming error had caused] more than 90% of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period ..."

The registration period was 30 days, and had "many" entries each day. That's... shockingly bad.
There is no such thing as 'too many pixels'.

Case in point: http://skysurvey.org/
Do you mean to say that they're just going to eschew in-app purchases? The Apple developer agreement, unless I'm mistaken, requires you use their API for in-app purchases or not have in-app purchases at all.
Around here they're trying to increase the college graduation rate at all costs, education and merit be damned. It's a symptom of the same "everyone must be degreed" mentality.
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Thanks this list if useful
The issue is that the executive branch is being granted broad judicial powers, much like with the Patriot act.
Maybe something like the following?

randWinnerID = (int) Math.random();
If "rand" is generated by a computer and not from a stochastic process, it's not technically random.
That's the problem with randomness, you can never be sure.
I just switched from geokit to geocoder in the app I'm building. I found geocoder to be significantly better for my purposes.
Title is inaccurate...

The officials said they were not yet sure precisely where in the compound the pornography was discovered or who had been viewing it. Specifically, the officials said they did not know if bin Laden himself had acquired or viewed the materials.
Speaking of 12MP and low light performance, no mirror and a quiet shutter, I've got a Fuji X100 in the mail, finally after two months.

http://www.finepix-x100.com
Nope, Washington State. I'm already volunteering in the classroom, working on getting the library sorted out, figuring out where we can help with enrichment classes next year (where enrichment == not reading/riting/rithmatic), and getting the chairs recovered because the cushions are worn out.

And they (the state legislature) is trying to cut all funding for our school secretary and remove any janitorial services. Because, apparently, they don't realize that the secretaries actually run the damn place.

I'm not sure where you are, but my experience is that most of the teachers are pretty good and care for the kids. We've got one that we wish we could ease out the door, but we've got a few that are just great. That is, if we get to keep them, because their hours will be cut and the district reshuffled.
Clickable link: http://pageamber.com/
> "Four wheels ought to be enough for anybody"

Most truckers now agree that 18 wheels is the best. That's after number-of-wheels race from 70s where we tried upto 22 wheels.
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Every language has ways of "legally" abusing it. Individual examples of which do not invalidate the language as a whole.

See also http://www.ioccc.org/ .
Facebook Allegedly Hired PR Firm to Smear Google
> My solution was to convert null (multi) bulk types into false, and the other way around, false returned from Ruby is turned as a null bulk reply.

should read:

> My solution was to convert null (multi) bulk types into false, and the other way around, false returned from Lua is turned as a null bulk reply.
Flagged for sensationalized title that doesn't reflect the content of the article.
Have they used the same software in prior years also, or is this because of a new software?
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I'll point out another reason why you might not want more megapixels - size and data management. If you're shooting your photos RAW and you take a lot of them, you'll easily have a photo library whose size is in the hundreds of GBs, if not in the TBs range. Hard drives are cheap, but in all likelihood your photos are precious to you - meaning you have to back the library up on a regular basis.

A glut of meaningless megapixels makes it harder to preserve the meaningful data buried within.
Good: I got rejected, I get a second shot.

Bad: How can the State Department be so incompetent as to fuck this up? Also, why does it take months to generate this? I could do it with 15min and a simple script. Granted, any code generator is never truly random (Newtonian laws of physics pretty much forbid randomness,) but for all intents and purposes they're more than capable of handling a simple lottery.
Inspiration came reading the comments here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/05/12/10163...
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I would imagine that the currently displayed image is rather lax in focus, and that you can't get a great focus unless you can sweep over a range, too far to too short.
I bet they're looking steganography in the images.
"The general purpose computer is a dead end."

Hahahahahaha.
Been doing it for years, never looked back. Quotes should delimit the quote, your period is outside that quote. The closest I get is where a comma would work in a quote, and the writing interjects the speaker. e.g., "Grab that," foo barred, "and get over here", because "Grab that", foo barred, ", and get over here" is fugly.
Amazon: How Can a Tablet Supplement an E-Reader?
Actually there is, fundamentally. When you start having more pixels than your system can resolve (because of motion blur, lens defects, etc...), then you have too many pixels.

I think you have too many pixels if you can't get low noise performance at ISO 800 equivalent.
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If true, that is hysterical.

Turns out, the taliban (et al.) is just as hypocritical as the republicans. Nothing new under the sun, eh?
But there is such a thing as 'too many pixels per mm'.
"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."

There at least two comics talked about in the article, and the other one (Black Eye) looks way more polished.

Besides, there's a difference between the technical skill of the artist and whether the thing itself has artistic merit.

-edit-
Apparently Young Lions has recieved some recognition and favorable response from critics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Larmee
A beautiful model of reversible computing is the billiard ball model, summarized here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard-ball_computer

The punchline is that (idealized, friction free) billiard balls + billiard ball "mirrors" (for the balls to bounce off) are enough to do universal computation! To reverse the computation, just reverse all the billiard balls.
Crucial, actually. They should provide enough transparency to assure that "not random" != "favored persons not selected".
Mike, this is very nice of you to offer. How is the tech-job market in So Fl? Any tips etc?
See also the SIMILE Widgets (http://simile-widgets.org/) project which is spun out from research at MIT. I've been using the Timeline control and found it very easy to use.
Ever seen a crash test of a car build before the 70s?

There are more reasons to not want one of them than simply the lack of conveniences ;)
"Where's the library at?"

"You should never end a sentence with a preposition."

"Where's the library at, jerk?"
> "There are a lot of legitimate uses for IAP"

I agree that good apps and good uses exists, that's just the minority in what I've personally seen. The only app I have personally used that had reasonable IAP was Camera+.

And to be fair, I hand-waved 90% not considering subscriptions. [1] If we roll those in, I agree there's a much lower rate of 'smurfberry' use.

> "Apple has taken steps to mitigate the issue"

Sorry if I've missed that. But last I checked they had just changed the top-revenue rankings to include IAP, and smurfberry-bearing titles shot to the top. To change that algorithm the way they did looks more like celebrating that nonsense. [2]

[1] I've been thinking of subscriptions as their own beast for a while and just didn't think of them. But I do agree, they're IAP.

[2] Surely Apple tested the proposed ranking change and rolled it out knowing full well what titles would dominate under that scheme.
See an awful lot of new college graduates hanging out the social media expert shingle. They don't understand business or the concept of ROI. I've only met one that that got it and has since built a sizeable business because she gets verifiable results.

I've referred two business friends to Gary's latest book because it has easily understood recipes of how a business such a restaurant can make social media work for them. They're actual case studies, no theory and the majority of the examples aren't even Vayner Media clients.

A good consultant needs to be a great marketer first and social media expert second.
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A "social media expert" is just another way of saying "I am on unemployment and trying to ride figure shit out before someone catches on."
Good question, I never thought about it this way. Why does IP get such special protections? Why not blacklist companies that cheat on their taxes, or violate EPA regs?
I hope not - while megapixels alone aren't sufficient to produce a great photo, they are a necessary component. I don't mind if the industry pauses for a while to increase the image quality through other means, but eventually the pixel count will become the bottleneck again if it's not increased.
I was drawn to security for a while mostly because javascript like that must be so much fun to write and encrypt. Although it's almost as much fun to decrypt. Until I get some more free time I guess I'll settle for reading about it.

Also, I love the first comment on this article: "Didn’t you just violate DMCA?"
I still don't understand why people seem to think that modern cars are so difficult to work on compared to old junk. The onboard diagnostics is standardized and pretty good on most cars; that makes obvious many of your computer problems, timing problems and fuel/air problems.

I mean, most of my experience is working on fuel-injected stuff... but have you ever tried to rebuild a carb? it's damn difficult to get right, and there's no computer telling you when it's correct; you have to essentially guess.
List of some very useful free online SMS providers.
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Of course Vaynerchuk would say that - he's got his own "Social Media Expert" consulting business. http://vaynermedia.com/

"Social media experts are mostly clowns! Except me. You can trust me."
You have the "brown note" on sound files? Nice!
Aw, I love experts. They keep us in the right path with marketing campaigns, stock predictions, doomsday visions. They are just something, aren't they?
I used something like B at my last job, in which our office was in Virginia and I worked from the Alaskan Bush, but the system we used was a bit cobbled-together.

With C I purposefully would not make it niche so that my son could explore a wide-array of resource. The novel aspect would be automatically rating/filtering public domain content to exclude non-kid-friendly material.
I was about to ask how are they generating their random numbers now.
Marketing is very much a part of the whole product and is included in my comment. Only engineers think the product is just the bits (either 1's and 0's or plastic :).
If that's what's happening in your area, you need to understand that yours is a one-in-a-million area. Where I live, and everywhere that I'm aware of, has monotonically increasing annual school budgets.

Or are you one of the people that counts a reduction of the proposed increase as a "cut", so even though you're getting more than last year, it's lower than what you asked for, so you consider it a cut?
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I'm fairly sure other, accepted government tasks have used PRNGs. So there would be precedence for doing so.

If not, I'd roll a 10,000 sided die, and type it in by hand. (edit: or cow pie bingo. That has a long tradition of unbiased results.)
Why Chromebooks are a bad idea
"People"? Like the typical net surfer in a semi-rural Pakistani internet cafe? Or people like you? There is a minor difference of "what you make in a day, they make in a year: with varying consequences like starkly differing internet usage habits, levels of education, general interests, privacy precautions etc. You're obviously having a hard time wrapping your head around the context here.

The person sitting next to you in these cafes can barely read, the PCs are what was mainstream here in 1999. They are connected with 56k modems. I am not sure why you're struggling with getting out of your shoes.

Watch this champ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEGHdQO7WA
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
I think is worth to mention http://railswizard.org/ if beginners are in focus.
What I find ironic is that, in every story about this that I've looked at so far, the draft documents -- if provided at all -- are provided in some kind of hosted file viewer. The first instance I saw used Scribd; this uses something else.

I feel this is a legitimate circumstance for the use of "WTF". Is a simple PDF or other format of linked document beyond us, now?
"I believe we need a national PR Campaign for Skilled Labor."

We had this in Canada a few years back. Or it might have been Ontario only, but in any case, there were lots of TV ads and financial incentives for getting the appropriate education in skilled labour.
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At least I can use an iPhone or a WebOS as a notepad.
I wasn't quite saying that, but this notion of "skilled trades are working for peanuts" isn't 100% true. Granted, if that guy only has 2 callouts per week, he's in trouble, but I suspect he had a few more than that.

Yes, I'm paying for his experience, etc. I know that. What's also a little odd to me is that this doesn't work for developers as well, but I think it's mostly because you typically call out a developer for development - before there's an emergency of some sort (broken toilet, in my case). People often want to haggle with me on my pricing but they wouldn't dream of trying to get the plumber to work at half-rate.

That said, I needed a root canal recently. First place I went to (after my tooth cracked) quoted $2200. I went someplace else who did it for $1400. So, even amongst skilled professionals, there's variance.
it's a quote from the article?
Google Voice Cofounder Craig Walker on Pass Off Your Ideas Isn't Nuts
There are cases where a full table scan is faster than an index scan, and there are cases where the index scan is faster. There are even cases where the only option is a full table scan!

I still don't see what a setting that gives errors when a
particular access method has been chosen would be good for.

You don't care about the plan, you care about how fast the query runs.

You'll always have to do reactive development when trying to get good performance. There is only so much simulating and testing you can do and real data volume and distribution changes all the time.
Why do you need a lot of money? To get your message out there, right? Well, this guy has been getting his message out for a while and has good name recognition, so he doesn't need as much money as someone on the fringe.

I'd give him money over your typical "say anything to get elected" (d-bag) candidate.
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Good point as far as DNS access goes but new protocols won't get the sites advertising money or search engine views.
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Are you asking because you are looking for answers? Either way, yes.
Apart from the fact that the necessary web APIs have only recently started to materialize, it's taken this long because it's taken this long for developers to "get it".

Programming multi-user software that spans the network, i.e. is partition-tolerant, is different to the last few decades of single-user, single-node software we've been writing. It's a new paradigm. We've known about the fallacies of distributed computing for some time. But as developers we're taking our time coming to understand them.

For example, there are very few web apps today that can manage the synchronization/consistency/migration/offline access/memory/authorization/versioning/database implications of say 4GB of text data per user on multiple devices, whilst facilitating sharing between hundreds of user accounts.

It's Distributed Systems 101. Up until now, these ideas have been tried out in privately managed data-centers. Now they must be rolled out to the web and the code must run in different browsers on devices of varying capability. The frameworks for doing that do not yet exist. They're being built.