skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grrrrrrrrr,

demonstrating one of my major pet peeves; If you're going to tuck in your top, wear a belt.

I assume this one would be suitable stupidly expensive for Mr Jobs
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sugar-Cane-black-leather-CANE1141/dp...

(seriously what wanker pays £150 for a black leather belt? I've got one (I think I paid a fiver for) that after years of wear looks just like the one I linked. If anyone wants it it's your for £70)
isn't each point of cross-over/merging a more likely point of failure?

I could see there being less accidents of the left-turn variety being exchanged for more less-dramatic accidents.

Aren't we better of just using roundabouts? or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Turbo_roundabouts??
One week later ! a sign of weak leadership...it may be time to shop for a new CEO and let the founders enjoy life (step aside)
Ask HN: Have you ever used a software patent as a reference?
A patent should be a mean of sharing useful inventions with the world and getting paid in return.

I'm curious about how many here have actually read a software patent (or some text derived directly from it) that was genuinely helpful in solving a problem. Specific examples would be interesting to hear.
This post did a great job actually getting me excited about Tutorspree.
Semantics. For example, writing a program to read "2 + 2" and evaluate the result is going to be very different from Perl and Python in Java or C++.
I used to work for a university supercomputer center, which (surprise, surprise) ran weapon simulations. I agree with you, though some DARPA research to "kill people better" does good by reducing collateral damage.
This is Why You Should Not Tweet About Burnt Pancakes
They look to ebay for guidance on customer support. Everything is beginning to make sense now!
So how do you get around your excuses to do nothing? What have you found to be most effective and least effective? I have some pretty terrible procrastination
Amid all this collective celebration, I would like to point out one excerpt (that nobody seems to have mentioned here) that leaves me disgusted:

"The C.I.A. intensified its intelligence-collection efforts, and, according to a recent report in the Guardian, a physician working for the agency conducted an immunization drive in Abbottabad, in the hope of acquiring DNA samples from bin Laden’s children. (No one in the compound ultimately received any immunizations.)"

From a global health policy perspective, doctors and campaigners in third world countries already face huge uphill battles in education and decreasing fears about vaccinations. It probably isn't amiss to say that in helping fuel the FUD about vaccinations being a CIA plot, more people have been killed due to these fears than in acts of terrorism in the last decade.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fallout-from-the-...
Energy hasn't been increasing in cost ( not even gasoline in the US, really - although it's a messy dataset ). Raw materials and food are "marginally free" - it almost costs more to figure out how much more you need than to produce it, so long as there is no speculative run on the commodity.

The Internet (apparently) produces much more consumer surplus than it sinks in cost. I'd say it's deflationary because:

1) 1980s models of radio are completely infeasible.
2) 1980s models of television programming are pure-cost infeasible.
3) Cable TV is dependent on movie-replacement shows like "Breaking Bad" and sports.
4) There's a strong probability that theater-movies will follow the same curve as CD sales did with Napster, and soon.

The only things that are not essentially deflationary are housing, education, government and healthcare. Housing might be teetering on the brink of deflation. Education... who knows? And healthcare is likely to see something like deflation as status-oriented (read customer-perception quality stuff) gets squeezed out.

Government? Who knows?
30 Beautiful Examples of Sunrise Photography
not php... but thanks. ;)
The only way I have been able to watch Netflix in Linux was with a VM running Windows XP (max RAM and Graphic card power). In my first trial I tried it with 1GB of RAM and the sound was not working fine.

Of course, this is not a real Linux experience but... at least it worked.
"I just upvoted your old post. :-)"

Thank you!

"many who see the code would get confused"

I honestly don't think we should dispel confusion by dumbing things down to the point where all discrete math is squeezed out of the CS curriculum and all you have left is lame switch-cases and explicit enumeration so there is zero confusion but also zero insight into the problem. Some of the candidates we interview these days are a symptom of this very problem. Lemme give you 2 examples ( actual interviews questions we asked candidates ).

1. write a function that returns the sum of the first one thousand odd numbers.

Expected Answer:

function foo() {

return 1000*1000;

}

The candidate's answer :

function foo() {

sum = 0;

count = 0;

i=0;

while(true) {

i++;

if (i%2==1) {

count++;

sum += i;

}

if( count == 1000 ) {

return sum;

}

}

}

Now, the candidate is a LAMP expert and can do magic with linux sys-admin tools, but really, this is such an incredibly lame solution. Yes, its "correct" and very clear and nobody will get confused looking at his solution. But what's more clear is that this person has never had a single course in discrete math. Sum of n odd numbers is n^2 is taught on day 1, its so fundamental and basic and even if you forget the actual result, it takes just 5 minutes to derive it from first principles ( just write the sum forwards to backwards, then write it again backwards to forwards, then add the two expressions, hey voila there you go! ). When we show him the expected solution, he is genuinely surprised and says we've pulled a fast one on him. "Its a trick question! ". He says he's never been taught anything like this in the classroom. That's just sad.

2. Find all the integer triples that form right triangles whose smallest side is less than a million.

Candidate's answer :

for i from 1 to 1000000 {

for j from 1 to 1000000 {

for k from 1 to 2000000 {

if i*i + j*j == k*k then print i,j,k;

}

}

}

Again, this is the "correct" solution and its eminently readable, but it is supremely inefficient and super-lame. Its like the candidate has never given any thought to the actual problem, and is just throwing loops and conditionals at it. I will refrain from giving the expected solution here, but any student of discrete math can generate pythagorean triplets in a much more efficient manner than the lame solution given above.

A little dose of Knuth's Concrete Math goes a very long way.
FWIW I didn't downmod you.

Both high and low levels of education correlate with voting Democrat. And higher income generally correlates with voting Republican. The tricky part is that higher education also correlates with higher income.

I believe I saw the data disaggregated in a post on Gelman's blog. Will post in an edit if I can find it.

EDIT:

www.historycentral.com/elections/12008/exit/Income.html [sound]
http://mapscroll.blogspot.com/2009/03/income-and-2008-us-election.html
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/03/rich-and-poor-voters-in-2008.html

The second link is the same as the third link from Gelman's writeup (syndicated by Nate Silver), except the image links in the second link aren't broken.

The data shown indicates that Republicans tend to be on average wealthier than Democrats, until you get to the ultra high income levels. If you think about it, this does start to suggest that there are aggregation issues going on; in general the rich pay more in taxes than the poor, and the middle class and rich tend to vote Republican, so something counterintuitive is going on if "red states" are net tax recipients.

I can't seem to find the original post that did the analysis, but hopefully it seems more plausible now; if you really want to explore the issue you can get into the PUMS sample:

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/data_main
hmm you do something illegal according to your lease..Airbnb now going to give out $50,000 for doing some illegal?

Read the fine print folks..it does not match..
The HIG is alive and well. Weird textures are annoying but irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
The topic of discussion is ideas you can launch for under $5K.
iCal and Address Book are perfectly consistent. They use standard control which are clearly identifiable as such.

I think they are ugly but they are certainly not inconsistent.
Pittsburgh, PA (intern, full-time,remote): Timesys

We are looking for embedded Linux kernel developers, build system gurus, gnu tool hackers, userspace application developers, and support engineers.

In office environment very fun, team oriented with kegerator, video game breakroom, and hilarious water cooler discussions.

http://www.timesys.com/company/careers

tell em jaos sent you
The SWOT is a pretty simple analysis. I don't have an MBA, but see no problem in creating a simple SWOT for certain purposes and to help layout a problem/solution.

Much like a business plan (or even an executive summary) just going through the process is often good practice as it may bring things to light that you might not have considered or make you look at things differently.

Though I've seen quite a bit of useless activity from MBAs, I think your anger in this regard is misguided.

Ignore the MBAs and do you thing.
really? how is this not going to be matched by their competitors? Wimdu has tons of funding and it is scaring the hell out of Airbnb
Short answer: it doesn't.

Long answer: In http://www.stevesoutfit.com/js/tutorial.js jQuery is used to implement some sort of AJAX contact form, but I don't see the code in tutorial.js used anywhere.
Between this and your previous post[0] opening up Forrst to folks with active GitHub accounts, it looks like you're very actively and deliberately trying to pull more developers into the Forrst fold. Out of genuine curiosity, why?

PS: The "Log In" graphic never fails to make me smile.

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659193
Articles like this are hilarious, especially for those of us that helped design, build and manage Google's datacenters at one point or another.

First, the number of servers may be impressive, but anyone that's done large scale computing can quickly point out that it's one of the least important measures. Much more important are how they are connected, the performance and ease of use of the distributed software infrastructure, resource utilization per machine, etc.

Second, these numbers are almost always wrong.
Why not link to the original?
blog: http://www.koomey.com/post/8323374335
article: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/08/01/repor...
nyt: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/technology/data-centers-us...
I have a significant bias from reading "Overcoming Bias" by Robin Hanson. His "math" is to attribute to status-seeking anything where there's a ... demand curve that doesn't make sense. It's all relative. So "cheap social status" might be substituting working on open source instead of accruing your first billion. It's cheap-er, but still not cheap.
This all still doesn't explain how "Macs rule" is a valid and unbiased explanation of how MacBooks would come to account for over one-in-two laptops sold.

Why on Earth do you want someone to defend "Macs rule" as unbiased? Who is claiming it is unbiased?

I would say the same to you: why should I know who I am "name-calling?

Because then you'd realise why you are being downvoted. It's like you are downvoting Mr Burns for being biased in favour of nuclear power, or something. Yegge's style is humorous and pushy, not graphs and references. Lots of stuff he writes sounds a bit silly.
Adobe is in the business of making money from developer tools. Flash gave them an advantage as it was proprietary and had a large installed base, and there really was very little by the way of competition if you wanted a simple way to implement media in a webpage.

HTML5 and specifically canvas, video and to a lesser extent audio means that Flash is no longer the only solution.

However, is anybody else making tools for generating canvas animation and interaction tools? that is where Adobe makes it's money, so as long as they've got the best tool for the job, this won't be any financial change for them.
I'm glad to hear it! Good things are coming.
>Folk are focusing on the two changes that make this more like chrome (tabs in title bar, and apparent removal of search bar.)

Just FWIW, my FF (over KDE) is pretty much like this: http://i.imgur.com/RH2Ld.jpg.

I do actually keep the search box but I use it almost exclusively as a scratch pad for short notes (!) and do nearly all searching via keywords in the URL bar ("Awesome Bar").

Image also shows how not to use the <title> element in HTML.
I got exactly the same response from my LibDem MP - he felt it was more important to be out campaigning. Guy lost his seat, which made me happy.
last I heard, they are still shopping around for insurance companies and that was at lunch today.
So, this is a totally superficial comment, but here we go.

Brian, as part of all of this crisis stuff, I think it's time to have a new profile picture taken. One where you don't look so, how should I say... 20.

From rough calculation, I'm only a couple years older, but one thing that's stood out for me visually in all of this is that ... well, let's just say that it's one of those times where looking like the young silicon valley hotshot works against you.

Having a PR shot to pull out of the drawer that looks older, more serious and decidedly less hip would do well when people are worried.

(As for the actual content of the story: well done.)

Edit: Rational or otherwise, people read a lot from a face. Heck, it's obvious that Airbnb gets that since it's part of their trust system. Since trust is a big part of what makes Airbnb tick, I think it'd be worth the time to craft a profile shot that inspires such. This may even be an inflection point in Airbnb's history where it's transitioning from the couchsurfing-but-with-money branding to I'm-trusting-these-guys-to-keep-my-home-safe.

Edit 2: So as a bit of redux, I'm genuinely surprised that this was the most upvoted comment, since it's a minor issue relative to the good that's going down (and specifically, insurance is something that I was personally rooting for since that's what'd kept me from listing a room there prior to this whole shebang.). As for the photo, I think it's actually kind of an interestingly shot, but I don't think it's the one you want plastered all over the interwebs in a crisis scenario.
I'm not sure we agree on the definition of "ethics".

Ethics, the way I understand the term, isn't a set of rules enforced by law. It's true that some laws are informed by our shared moral values, but in general law and ethics are independent. There is no legal punishment for acting like an asshole, but in human society you more often than not pay a price for it. There is no such onus on corporations and in fact the "business ethics" we govern our corporations by can easily be put at odds with what you and I would consider ethical behavior (see Ford Pinto [1]). As you point out, companies are responsible to their shareholders, but their stakeholders are a different (perhaps partially overlapping) set of people to which the corporation doesn't have to answer. It is in that sense that I said companies aren't intrinsically moral.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Allegations_and_laws...
From one view I understand at least some of the reasons they are doing this.

1) Money. D3 is free to play so monetizing non-subscription aspects makes sense.

2) People will buy in game items for real money so bringing that out of the dark underground makes sense.

However it still seems contrary to the gameplay, and would make finding some very rare item less special (unless you were going to sell it that is.)

On the bright side, hardcore mode will not have this, so I think overall it is acceptable.
So she's using pirates as an excuse to only release an app for iOS. And with that aim in mind, she had her developers write applications that would "transfer to other systems". That doesn't make sense. At all.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality has some good CS-related moments.
The article quotes 9.802 * 10^602059 possible images. And that storing these would require massive storage.

Excuse me? The number of atoms in the observable universe is estimated to be 10^80. This idea is obviously complete nonsense, quantum computing or not. Next thing they'll be telling us that they'll find SHA256 collisions by simply trying 2^256 messages...
Original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834334

Please post comments there.
It's also interesting to see how much less serious this is to musicians and producers who weren't in the business before the mp3. This is the only world he knows, so he knows how to work it.
and they really have gotten a heck of a lot better at reducing collateral damage - compare ww2 carpet bombing to the Iraq "Shock and Awe" campaign - the civilian population were pretty much fine.

So I agree with you that "killing people better" does "save lives" in a sense (although no war would be the preferable option of course).
Damn you Xcode
It will be obvious over the coming months whether they follow through with protecting their customers. More than a few people will be looking to get credit for exposing subsequent failures.

For myself, my expectations are not positive. While definitely an improvement over past communications I'm not buying the "mom" and "grandfather" routine. Specifically:

Earlier this week, I wrote a blog post trying to explain the situation, but it didn’t reflect my true feelings. Then what was the driving influence for the post?

In the last few days we have had a crash course in crisis management. The original incident occurred over a month ago. Apparently that wasn't a crisis. If not, then what was it?
Right. I've sub-let an apartment and I was definitely concerned before I did it. If I'm super uncomfortable renting to someone through AirBnB, I'm just not their target market and I suppose a 50K guarantee would probably cover a lot of mishaps.

Also, I'm not sure what the terms are of my homeowners insurance but I would make sure that something would be covered in a situation like this before I rented my place.
> phpBB has a pretty bad security record

Not exactly true. phpBB2 has a bad security record. phpBB3 has been clean since day 1, IIRC.
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"suppose a prospective client or employer saw your face on an advertisement for some banned substance"

But this is not what Google does, or am I missing something? AFAIK, what they actually do is more akin to shopping basket analysis supermarket chains do. So my question remains: How exactly does it harm you? Has Google ever linked you in a publicly identifiable way to some product? Moreover, if you feel bothered by the way they handle things, why don't you just stop using them?
"Airbnb will clearly get an insurance company to run this program white-label" <-- its not known if they can get an insurance policy for such a disparate group of people at a price that allows them to run with a profit
I was going to ask whether there was a problem with your 'u' key, but you used it in "you". I'm confused.
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"Prediction #10: In five years’ time, most programmers will still be average."

Just remember, half the population is below average intelligence.
You can use the current URL bar for search. Either by settings or by using search keywords.

For example to search on Google "g search keywords", on Wikipedia "w epr paradox", Dictionary "d prometheus". Opera and Chrome have this too IIRC.

To search history "^ page keywords", bookmarks "* page keywords", tags "# tag words" (there are others, I blogged about them http://alicious.com/fast-bookmark-and-history-search-in-fire... or see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search).
I work at an indie game shop and I have pushed us to use it (almost) everywhere we need to define a file format. Originally we were using JSON for everything, which is great for the quick and dirty approach -- but as our code base (primarily C++) has grown I absolutely love the guarantees I get with protobufs:

- Strongly typed, no boilerplate error checking if someone set my "foo" field on my object to an integer instead of a string

- Easy to version and upgrade, just create new fields, deprecate the old ones, and move on with life.

- Protobuf IDLs are the documentation and implementation of my file format -- no docs to write about what fields belong in what object and no issues with out of sync documentation/code.

- Reflection support, don't use this a lot, but when I need it it's awesome.

- Variety of storage options. For instance the level editor I wrote recently uses the human-readable text format when it saves out levels. But when I am ready to ship, I can trivially convert these level files to binary and immediately improve the performance of my app.

- Tons of language bindings. Our engine code base is C++, but any build scripts I write are done in Python and if my script needs to touch protobuf files I don't have to rewrite my file parsing routines -- it just works.

I looked into using Apache Thrift as well, but their text-based format is not human readable so it was a non-starter for us.
"Write once, read never" comes to mind.

So many single/double char operators which need to be memorised with Perl, before you can start comprehending the programs.

Not to mention Perl hackers used to pride themselves on super succinct code - in certain circles it use to be popular to include one liners to do complex stuff in email signatures.

(Not complaining though, Perl was the first language I used, and probably the simplest for text file processing in CGI's back in the day.)
Arbitrary code execution is different than requiring physical access to the device. The JailbreakMe site could have run malicious code and it could have spread itself and run without the user knowing.
I'm guessing there's an intent (or at least, desire) to eventually make official ports to Android, etc. That could involve HTML5, shared C libraries, open multimedia formats, etc. I don't think it's related to her comments about pirates.
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Unfortunately, this doesn't mean its actually "open". It means they're open to accepting your applications and it looks like they'll be adding people in quicker than before during the beta.
One of the benefits that having Arrington as an investor gets you.
IMO the problem isn't that he looks 20, but rather that he looks pretty douchey in that photo. Looking young isn't so bad in this context, but looking like you just stepped off of the set of one of those MTV 'reality' shows is.

I'm fairly certain this is going to get me down-voted through the floor, but please at least view the picture in question prior to down-voting me for saying this.
Ask HN: Find three positive integers a, b, and c
which can satisfy the equation a^3 + b^3 = c^3.
One of my friends, will give you 550 euros.
Solution a=0, b=0 and c=0 is not valid.
$200k is good money for your normal $100-$150/hour programmer/consultant.

The trick is additional sources that aren't as closely linked to your hours.

Some possibilities include flat-fee security audits/seo consultations, fee-per-person training, retainers for support etc etc.
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It's been known for hundreds of years that this is not possible. Euler gave a proof in 1770:

http://fermatslasttheorem.blogspot.com/2005/05/fermats-last-...

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem
I'm a fairly well-known member of the Perl community, and I thought it looked okay. I'm not angry and I'm not Sam Hughes' enemy.