skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have built a tiny web application for myself and think it can be interesting for someone else too. It's located here: http://www.infinilla.com. The app is for getting 3 random picks from Dribbble using its API. You can click Refresh link on the bottom of the page and get 3 randomly chosen images that you can use for inspiration as I do. If you want to get more info about the image you see, just click on it and you will get to the page of that image on Dribbble. I suppose this app can be interesting for somebody looking for inspiration. I am working on adding some new functionality so I will be glad to hear from you!
I don't know. I think that we're at a point where knowing the absolute time is more important to knowing the relative time (relative to daylight).

If I'm in New York following the nuclear crisis in Japan, it's probably more important for me to know that the next news conference is two hours from now than that it's in "the morning" there. If I'm planning a meeting I certainly want to know the absolute time it's occurring, and only care about the relative time depending on how courteous I am.

I'm not saying we should stop caring about working hours and daylight hours in various places. I'm just saying that those vary wildly and are dynamic, and we should reflect that in our concept of "time".
Agreed. Mentioned primarily so interested people know to pay attention to changes in Googles behavior as a result.
Location does matter, every startup needs the proper shoutout and exposure to make it successful.
Having like minded people around who guide you throughout helps alot.
I hate to be negative, especially given how coveted CR-48s are/were, but after about a week of getting mine I just had to put Ubuntu on it. Yeah, I spend 70% of my time in the browser, but I just can't give up that other 30% (dev stuff). It's not really worth having a laptop for me without a decent text editor/full ssh capabilities.

It might serve the masses well, but my point is if you're the type of person who would make your own you're probably better off not doing so.
Tourism just started to become a major source of income for Japan (and is obviously not the only part of the Japanese Economy that has been effected). So besides health concerns it is a problem moneywise.
Yes,

Having like minded people around who guide you throughout helps a lot.

That's what a team is.
You should only double-space if you use a typewriter.

If you use a computer to write your text, and especially if it's going online, one space is all you should need to use.
Good thoughts on integrating the sample page onto the landing page, I'll see how I can do that.

The advantage of the Mac app is that it makes the process of snapping and creation of the screenshot document very very smooth, saving a lot of time. Your question makes me think that I probably need to emphasize this a little more.

Thanks for taking the time to look at it dmpatierno, deeply appreciated! =)
So, since Facebook has lost much face are they now just book?
...but the pentalobular screws in question are not standard 6-pointed Torx screws.
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Isn't that sort of the definition of a dividend?
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Two words: Code Complete.

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Computer fonts nowadays should be able to change ." and ". so the . is under the " and ditto ," and ", so the , is under the "
Yeah, even when you change motherboards your Win 7 stops working
Something's got to offset the tax cuts.
I'd have thought the answer is quangos.

But then I still don't understand why we, taxpayers, pay money to companies that pay out profits. Loans, fine, but why are we paying money that just leaks out in to shareholders bank accounts instead of being spent on transport and its infrastructure.
HN, macrumors etc. but of the more interesting sort:

http://www.loper-os.org/

http://fangsandarrows.com/

http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/

http://jadering.blogspot.com/

http://www.quietearth.us/

http://www.pulpmovies.com/

http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com/ and backbrain

http://lighthouseinteger.blogspot.com/
Most of what is written on this topic is essentially opinion and not fact.

In that spirit, this is an article worth reading and thinking about: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
There are two main reasons to choose NoSQL.

The first, aimed at every developer/application out there, is that some NoSQL solutions (document stores being the most obvious to me) have less friction with OO languages. In other words, they are simply more productive to work with. Embedded types, arrays as first class objects, and schemaless design all help you write simpler infrastructure code that takes less time to write, test and maintain.

The second reason is that some NoSQL solutions provide specialized features/capabilities. For example, what you can do with an [Ordered] Set in Redis simple isn't possible with relational databases of moderate (say 100K rows) size. You either have to lower your requirements (not real time), or increase your hardware. There are various examples...Solr does better indexing, Hadoop does better data processing....MongoDB does good logging and geospatial stuff.

The right way to look at it, imo, is to see RDBMS as specialized systems. Most people should almost always opt for a more productive general purpose solution upfront (say MongoDB), and then only turn on a specialized supplementary system (say Hadoop, or PostgreSQL) when they have those specialized needs.

Choose SQL for the right reasons.
>> If it seems hard or even impossible to defend the American way on the merits, that's probably because it emerged from aesthetic, not logical, considerations. According to Rosemary Feal, executive director of the MLA, it was instituted in the early days of the Republic in order "to improve the appearance of the text. A comma or period that follows a closing quotation mark appears to hang off by itself and creates a gap in the line (since the space over the mark combines with the following word space)." I don't doubt Feal, but the appearance argument doesn't carry much heft today; more to the point is that we are simply accustomed to the style.

This is the real story here I think: people invented the rule to suit their preferences, but over time we've forgotten the rule's origin and now treat it like a holy truth. (Or worse yet a matter of "grammar"! Run, run - you've made a grammatical mistake!) You are likely to discover this over and over again if you study the background of many rules that (some) writing teachers insist on and that people like Lynn Truss use as an excuse to foam at the mouth.

Here are some of my least-favorite myths, in no particular order:

+ You should never end a sentence with a preposition. (Sheer bullshit: English uses countless phrasal verbs ('throw away') and in many other cases avoiding the final preposition produces stuffy nonsense.)

+ You should never split an infinitive. (A completely made-up rule, based on mistakenly trying to apply Latin rules to a Germanic language.)

+ The word 'hopefully' can only mean 'in a hopeful spirit' and therefore you shouldn't say, "Hopefully, we'll arive before lunch tomorrow." (Sheer bullshit again: 'hopefully' there functions as an adverb modifying the entire clause 'we'll arrive before lunch tomorrow'. The sentence as a whole clearly and obviously means "It is to be hoped that..." or less formally "We hope that..." This use of 'hopefully' is no different than 'fortunately', 'sadly', 'happily' or 'luckily' in countless sentences.)

+ Don't start sentences with 'but' or 'and' or 'however'. (Just goofy.)

+ Never use the passive voice. (Overdoing it at the least: Yes, a lot of beauraucratic and other bad writing uses the passive in excess, but the passive is not per se evil or always wrong.)
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I am someone doing post-doctoral research, looking for an academic position and working in a university environment. I've seen students come in to the university at undergraduate level, students come into the post-graduate program and leave with PhDs. I've also worked in high schools, helping educate kids about physics, and taken students from high schools into the university for 'work-experience' placements.

It strikes me that Nature's second idea is what is actually happening right now; people are getting PhDs and leaving to do anything else (mostly banking and medical physics in my field). It's part of an overall trend: our undergraduate syllabus needs to cover a lot of the stuff I was taught in high school 15 years ago. Our post-graduates come into our research group with an expectation of spoon-feeding. Our PhD students have the kind of 'awakening' experiences that were maybe associated with a good undergraduate program back in the 60s and 70s. As more people come into education, the experience (but not necessarily the knowledge) is watered down and so a post-graduate degree is necessary to turn out the kind of well-rounded, hard-working, self-starting individual that might have been found exiting an undergraduate program 40 years ago.

Thus a post-doctoral research position becomes essential if one wants to find an academic position - very, very few people get a permanent position without doing at least one post-doc.

This may be a good trade-off for the greater numbers with a better education, but it seems that society's expectations are still to catch up.
The Chromebook only has a 16Gb drive, so it'll be something similar to the little SSDs found in a number of netbooks two years ago. These suffer from very poor write performance (and not great bulk read performance) but are perfectly adequate for the sort of IO load a Chromebook will impart.

Maybe they are using better models (things will have moved on in the last two years) but they'll probably still be cheaper than a spinning-disk drive. Comparing a 160Gb spinning-disk to a high-spec 128Gb SSD would show a considerably price difference against the SSD, but these are smaller, slower, units. Two years ago the 8Gb SSD Acer netbook I bought was cheaper than the platter based drives (1200Gb IIRC), I expect the same to be the case here.
One is china, I think. Which is the other one?
What can be done to someone that has no effect on them at all? Is there actually something being done then? I'm not understanding the situation. If you're asking if acts can be moral or immoral even if they have no consequences, then the answer is yes, they can.

Objective morality doesn't have to be derived from god or a spiritual being, or feeling; there can be objective morality that we deduce, or interpret or find, depending on how you look at it, through reason. From a limited set of axiom (which I referred to in another post in this thread), we can derive objective morality. The problem with morality is epistemological, not about its nature. We just don't know yet how to deduce what is moral in some circumstances. Maybe we will some day, we'll see; but that morality is subjective seems to be a commonly held belief but one that usually doesn't stand up long when one examines the consequences. When enough people think that it is morally OK to execute all those with hair growing out of their ears, is it? No it's not, and it never is. It's not because it violates the right to life of those people (leaving aside issues of death penalty etc).

People often argue to me 'but if there are no people, there is no morality, so morality has to be subjective' (actually someone said that to me last week right after saying how her Christianity was such an important part of her identity - I think she didn't quite get the memo on the nature of morality in her church, but I digress). My point is that morality always exists; it's like the fundamentals of mathematics or the laws of nature. Would Pythagoras's theorem hold even if there would never have existed humans who formulated it? Of course it would.
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I wonder what would happen if you did (undo (discrete-log y g))

or tried to undo some other trap-door function. In cryptography, a trap door function has linear complexity in one direction, but in the other direction it is either exponential or NP, unless you know some additional information in which case it drops back down to linear.
Main advantage I see to AWS is the ability to scale up and down easily but it might take a little while before we have such need.

A friend has been talking to my lead dev quite a bit about Chef. I'll spin it to him again.
Deciding whether to use "a" or "an" should be made based on the first sound of the next word as spoken, not on the first letter as written.
no knocking Linode, I know it's good. But it's hard to see re-deployment as anything else that lost cycles at the point we're at. I hope we won't need 30 hours to be up and running on AWS though.
Sure, but there's also 'an historical novel' - less likely, unless you are a character in said novel.

I would say that the real rule is not about the letters (vowel or consonant), but the sounds. So, you receive 'an MBA' because it's pronounced 'an em-bee-eigh'.
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You're not totally wrong, but this is a 'first-level' analysis that is devoid of any real depth or understanding. I generally expect more of The Economist. The point is to try to explain the world in a way that makes sense despite the uncertainy, giving specific examples that explain the reason for high valuations and why those valuations are unjustified.
My point is that the article sidesteps a fundamental question about copyright of government works.

If you believe that the correct way to maximise value is to use the data commercially to maximise revenue then you won't see a problem with the current situation.

If you believe that the correct way to maximise value is to provide the data for free to end users then you'll think it's wrong.

The article implies the latter is true without argument, and implies it's the norm in the UK.
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For example one may even the playing field by simply adding a clock to the market so that all trades must happen on clock "ticks". This would prevent the advantage of HFT.

No it wouldn't. At 12:00:00:001, all the HFT's will race to place an order and be the first in the queue. At 12:00:01:000, the fastest HFTs will be the ones to trade.

Additionally, if news occurs at 12:00:00:998, the HFTs will all race to cancel their orders as fast as possible.
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I wrote to my local MP about this issue and only got a pre-canned response back. As this only affects the public indirectly there's simply no pressure to change the status quo; priority will always be given to delays and capacity.
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You mean the carrousel on the home page ? I'll take a look. That page hasn't really been touched since we started developing and needs a complete makeover. Thanks for the heads up !

We currently our own LinkedIn login to create account as we use their API to match candidates and jobs. Next step is to add Facebook and Twitter as alternative login.

We were thinking to go with django social-auth to cover al bases. http://uswaretech.com/blog/2009/08/django-socialauth-login-v...

Had you compared it to allauth ? I'll take a look, hadn't seen that one.

thxs !
The "new kind" of Ph.D. would NOT be a Ph.D. in the accepted sense of the word. A Ph.D. is supposed to prepare you for a research and/or academic career. The author should have the guts to say that fewer Ph.D. are needed and some OTHER, NEW type of degree should be introduced so that people currently going into Ph.D. programs would have another option to continue their education. Calling this new (yet unnamed) degree a "Ph.D." is just as confusing as calling formal homosexual relationships "marriage".
It's also getting quite common so see just:

/flame

I can only imagine that's coming from the html-style metadata they are showing in these exactly, but made a lot easier to type for non-hackers. I rather like it myself, even.
Consider also that there is one hour per year which does not exist and one hour per year which happens twice (at-least within the context of local time if you live in an area with daylight savings)

There is also Namibia which used to lose hours in daylight savings time and Bangladesh which had dst in 2009 then dropped it, this makes historical time calculations tricky.
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all depends when I can truly divide my time between the marketing hat and dev hat. I think any prediction would be wrong.
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true. We already have some environment on WebFaction so we'll probably keep it for such case.
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ROT13 is easily reversible. It looks like he used 2ROT13. http://www.mobikom.at/2rot13.pdf
I think he's meaning more than just a team. If the community around you is like-minded and supportive, it's even better than just having a team... And it gives you somewhere to hire or expand that team from.
When the trains are consistently late, the train company must refund a portion of the money that rail ticket holders pay.

If the data was open, this process would become automated and cost the train companies lots of money.
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I work at a relatively small development agency. Every so often we have somebody that parts ways; We have to tie up all loose ends in regards to account access, SSH public keys, etc. Is there any intuitive web interfaces or CLI apps for maintaining user access control (primarily SSH, but suggestions welcome) to a number of different machines?

I myself have used groups internally, but it still entails me remoting into the box to revoke access. It'd be nice if there was some unified way to revoke access across multiple machines.

Thanks!
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Health >>> Economy. And would the tourists really show up in droves when the coastline was demolished for hundreds of miles and tens of thousands of people were killed, if only the powerplant hadn't melted down? I suspect tourism is out either way.
I believe, hot spot optimization is what the new crankshaft infrastructure was about, or are you thinking of something else?
HFTs tend to earn the spread - this is what it means to sell liquidity. If the bid/ask is $10.00/$10.05, the HFT might make $0.05 on that trade (assuming the market doesn't move before he can execute the other side).

If you don't wish to pay the spread (the HFT's "rent"), use post only orders. Your are guaranteed not to pay the HFT rent, but you run the risk that your order may never be filled.

http://www.nasdaqomxtrader.com/content/ProductsServices/Trad...
Some more digging netted me some positive results for using Puppet:

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When the trains are consistently late, the train company must refund a portion of the money that rail ticket holders pay. If the data was open, this process would become automated and cost the train companies lots of money.

... and it would therefore work, as presumably intended, as a meaningful incentive.

Whatever licences the Government gives rail-related bodies ought to make free public data access a requirement.
"An historic event" is wrong:

An is the form of the indefinite article that is used before a spoken vowel sound: it doesn’t matter how the written word in question is actually spelled. So, we say ‘an honour’, ‘an hour’, or ‘an heir’, for example, because the initial letter ‘h’ in all three words is not actually pronounced. By contrast we say ‘a hair’ or ‘a horse’ because, in these cases, the ‘h’ is pronounced.(http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/aoranhistoric/a-histo...)
The Chicago Manual of Style can go jump in a ditch. American style is terrible and should be abandoned immediately.
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There are many secure ways to use XMPP. What is so great about ddg doing it?
The Economist is great, although I mostly "read" the audio edition in my car on my horrible commute.
To avoid the inevitable errors that turn into security problems, you need to either use a network-based authentication mechanism or limit ingress into the network to a single point to reduce the number of things that you need to touch.
I've only ever seen that with variations on "history". This is probably wrong, but when I first came across it at a young age I thought it was because British English often doesn't pronounce the leading 'H' making the word start with a vowel sound. <shrug>
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I'm British and, when I was at school, we were taught that punctuation should go inside the quotation mark. This was one of those horribly prescriptive rules, the breaking of which was considered very wrong indeed. I'm surprised that this article calls this "American Style", given my experiences.

I started ignoring the convention pretty when I started using computers because, as the article says, it's hard to defend it on merits and it just looks plain odd, especially in a fixed-width font.
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I can't answer that question. However, I did leave the following comment on their announcement page:

Will you be following the same principals in regard to privacy as the DDG search engine follows? Personally, I would love to see the following:

1.) No connection logging. Ie, don't log when people log in and from which IPs

2.) No chat logs

3.) High profile information and instructions on how people can use OTR (Off the Record) for end to end chat encryption

4.) A Tor hidden service gateway to the XMPP server

Regarding 1 and 2, the least that is required IMO is a privacy policy detailing which information is stored and for how long.
From the article: "That is because increased government research funding from the US National Institutes of Health and Japan's science and education ministry has driven expansion of doctoral and postdoctoral education without giving enough thought to how the labour market will accommodate those who emerge."

I think this is SPOT ON. I'm surprised this doesn't come up more often. You can add Canada to the list. Universities are given $$$ (and this is in CDN funds so you know it is worth something) for the number of PhD students that graduate their program. While this policy certainly increases the number of PhDs, it doesn't do anything to help them get jobs afterwards.

I felt this led to a odd situation in recent years. Smart kids in their Masters program realized that it wasn't the best use of their time to get a PhD. They got out. The people who are left either really wanted the PhD (for its own sake or to teach or were simply exceptional scientists), people who were using it to further immigration goals, and the not-so-smart kids.
Given that it against the law to not give money to the health insurance industry, it should not be surprising that it is also against the law to not give money to the pharmaceutical industry.