skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crap can be written in any language, no language is imune and no language is better in this regard.
tl;dr: VC plans to buy Amazon tablets for his family because he is inpressed by a third-party Photoshop job that prominently features Barnes and Noble.
You don't think it cheapens the world 'evil' to be using it like that?

I don't think control constitutes "profound immorality and wickedness" to be honest.
Interview with game develoer, Gregory Weir
California glass beach: people made this
I'm going to admit my ignorance here...I understood very little of what this article said and what it's relevance is. I don't follow Indian politics, so I do not know very much about how the government works, what the Lokpal bill is, or what it's meant to do. Or who "Anna" is.

Maybe somebody would be kind enough to post a tl;dr? I understand that there are problems with corruption in India but don't know any of the background details.
Totally Psyched for the Full Rip Nine
>On top of that, that it's useful to know that everyone on G+ has passed some minimum bar that they're who they say they are. A low minimum, but a minimum.

Yes, because that's clearly working well:

https://plus.google.com/111162891247384008048/posts
https://plus.google.com/118274397320135769169/posts
https://plus.google.com/104634693509905640224/posts
https://plus.google.com/106516586759796563790/posts
Still, the set of "everyone, everywhere with high-speed internet access" is larger than the set of "everyone, everywhere with money and access to a top-tier university."
There is a big opportunity here, because higher education seems to be facing a crisis. Due to big increases in the costs of university education, combined with the reasonable reticence of students to take on large amounts of debt which may take decades to repay, for the first time it seems possible that the next generation may be less well educated than their parents - unless something changes.
Can You Eat Delicious Foods and Still Lose Weight?
Ask anyone who has lived/worked in different time zones and the answer to this is "no". Humans are awake during the day, so it makes sense to have a system that identifies when daylight occurs in any given place. Otherwise, if the entire world has the same time (i.e. 4am now in all places worldwide), you lose that indicator of daylight. Hence, I would have to rember unique working-day (daylight) times for all places worldwide when I'm working and that shifts the information burden in the wrong direction.
A profile is too static to be a service, and yes the insistence is on the name in the profile.
thanks for the great advice guys... I knew the hackers would come through with thoughtful advice..
Why teach Programming Languages.
a sure sign that it's time to reach for a real scripting language

Awk is Turing-complete.
Except that in awk the middle-ground between "could be trivially done without awk" and "illegible" is extremely narrow.

When I 'grep awk /usr/bin/*' then I see only two types of usages.

Most commonly it's used in place of grep, sed or cut for no obvious reason. Gladly less common but all the more annoying is when someone tries to go all "fancy" with it...
Givmo | Launch It Now
You don't even need to pipe the command in; just put it as the second argument after the database file.

$ sqlite3 books.sqlite "select * from books"
Yeah, I saw that, but thought that fragment IDs were ignore.

Oh well.
They are deductible by another means (business expense). But you pay rent in after tax dollars. Imagine having a neighbor with and identical house--you both agree to swap and rent to each other. You would be worse off than sticking with your mortgage (if you rent to each other for $0, it works out the same as the homeowner deduction).
For desktops: Debian testing + pinning as needed to backports, sid, and experimental.

For servers: Debian stable + backports.

That last in particular is vastly preferable on servers to the usual "Oh, we've got to run Red Hat because it's industry standard, but we're going to have to rip out the guts and install a metric shit-ton of third-part / roll-your own / nonstandard packages, and then hope that the poor third-generation admin to inherit this cesspit can make heads or tails of it.
But those tend not to have a zero derivative at the vertices, no? Which would cause other animation problems, if you try to link two curves together.
Thanks, I liked this better than the originally posted article, mostly because it explains higher order beziers.
>Things could get harder the day governments start issuing cryptographic IDs (like, say, a smartcard which Google can query remotely).

Some already are. My citizen card (Portugal) already contains a public-private key pair that I can use to log in to online governmental services.
I'm not sure if there's a service available for third-parties to check someone's identity, though.
Please don't take what I'm going to say personally. The splash screen of the app looks amazing.

Here's my issue: watching baseball seems like an epic waste of time. And sports athletes with their huge contracts is profane at a time when whole families are homeless.

Sigh. Sorry for the negativity. Anyway, don't you think there should be a more creative and practical implementation? Why not merge pro baseball stats with programming concepts? Or instead of pro baseball players, use actual startup enterpreneurs and pit them against each other in some way.

These are just ideas off the top of my head. All I am saying is challenge yourself to create something brave and new with baseball.

Good luck to you!
Thank goodness - there aren't many things that get my blood boiling, but this idea that police can arrest people for filming them really angers me. I saw a news clip about a woman filming the police from inside her own home and they arrested her. That seems abusive. People should be respectful, but I welcome this news that the courts are finally affirming their right to film public officials in public places.
It's possible to put yourself through some real pain by in appropriate use of awk.

(Case in point: University coursework - processing html. Not pretty)

Pretty easy to knock together a quick line of code for dealing with files where there are obviously columns though.
Coupled with the purchase of EDS and the hiring of a CEO from SAP...I think it's safe to say that they're now an enterprise IT services and software firm.
What mobile CPU is higher end than the mobility core i7?
I also worked for Agilent.

I think most people don't understand that for most of its life, HP wasn't a consumer products business. It focused on test and measurement equipment for engineers and scientists. The computer and printer sections of the company were created to fulfill the needs of that niche. When personal computers took off and the computer and printer divisions grew, the management thought than in the lusty days of the dotcom boom it would be best to split into two companies. Their rationale at the time was that it was too hard to manage a consumer products business and a industrial products business at the same time. Though, the tech stock market fever at that time was probably the probably the real reason.

HP's history after that is well known. Carly Fiorina has been vilified for destroying Bill and Dave's company, but at least she wasn't responsible for the split. Since the split, years of mismanagement have led it to where it is today.

Agilent, meanwhile at least pays some lip service to the "HP Way." A lot of the old-timers reminisce about the "glory days" of HP that will never come back. But, at least some fragment of Bill and Dave's legacy still carries on.
You can cancel your service, sure. But if you need a landline, then you're forced to go to another provider who does the same exact pricing trick. So there really is no choice at all.
Yeah but that isn't new it's how everyone is operating, facebook, linkedin, whomever. And users get to use the service freely in return.
They're just gifs, but wikipedia has some interesting animations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezier_curve#Constructing_B.C3....
Ask HN: Any good resources on implementing "Progressive Signup" in Rails?
Currently fleshing out a project that could really benefit from progressive signup techniques. I've seen a few posts about how this approach can be helpful[1], but I haven't seen anything about how to actually implement it.

Any references or suggestions?

[1] http://www.quietwrite.com/writing/7011/progressive-signup-a-better-user-signup-process
No, that's the best interpretation of the policy, but it's not what they're doing: apparently they're only charging $2/month if you don't call enough for AT&T's taste.
Barron Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton) got this right a long time ago: all power tends to corrupt, absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely.

There's a modern corrolary: data corrupts, absolute data corrupts absolutely.

Google are well and truly headed down this path, it seems.
I don't understand how anonymity would work with a social network.
What difference does that make? How is that not strictly better than charging $2/mo no matter what? And thus if raising rates by $2/mo isn't "criminal", how could this be?
I can't say for Harvard or Bard, but at Yale, this course is a seminar. You can watch the videos whenever you want, but you also have physical class on Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:20, where you'll discuss the readings and the professors (Peter Salovey and Adam Glick) will try to make you think in an interdisciplinary way.

Although the online aspect and all that is great, I think this is novel for another reason. Charlie Munger, vice chair of Berkshire Hathaway, has often talked about building a latticework of mental models i.e. take the big ideas from various disciplines, and use those models to solve problems. This course is basically a physical version of what he's espoused his whole life.

I'm definitely going to try to get into this course - sounds awesome!
Type Fascism
I don't see anyone claiming for a law forcing G+ to accept pseudonymous. They have all the right to decide. And we have all the right to criticize them for that decision.
It's pointing out that it's not necessarily the socially marginalized , deviant, oppressed, or victimized who've an interest in anonymity or pseudonymity.

As with 0x44, I've a name that's to the best of my knowledge unique in all the world. That's helpful when I wish to be known. When not, not so much.

And I've accumulated a (thankfully short) list of people I don't much care to advertise my goings-on to.

Having a distinctive pseudonym for certain roles is useful. Having a non-distinctive pseudonym (or several) for others, likewise. Sometimes, on the Internet, you really do want to be a dog.
Yes, a quadratic Bezier is only piecewise differentiable. If you need it to be completely smooth you can use a higher order Bezier (i.e. a higher order polynomial).

But the reality is that if the curve looks pretty smooth, the animation will be pretty smooth. By computing the change in derivative at the singular point you can figure out how big the jump is, and then try to minimize it.
>These racists probably wouldn't post their racist coward attacks if they couldn't post them anonymously.

You don't get out much, do you?
> Fundamentally, Facebook is an identity directory. ...

> Facebook's communication features, the 'social networking', in itself isn't anything special.

Throw away your cynical world view for a second and just go to your Facebook feed and see how people are interacting there, having fun, supporting each other, spreading a little bit of love in form of "likes" (even if it's a bit silly) and come back and say it ain't anything special and it's just a solution to an identity directory problem. It's much more.

Facebook is the closest thing to a chat at a bar with your friends that internet has to offer. Certainly, there are better bars already out there, but FB is a bar that your friends are willing to come to. It's still early days of internet and our virtual existence, so FB ain't that colourful and deep as an evening at a local pub can be, but painting it just as a identity directory is a fundamental misunderstanding of social internet.
College students signed up, found nothing of interest and didn't bother to visit again. I'm fairly certain that G+ has failed, but I can't say I didn't expect it: Circles, its main selling point, is a gimmick that no normal user would bother to use after day 1, the UI is rather unexciting, etc. As far as I'm concerned, there's really no incentive to switch from Facebook for most people.
I was born in Paris, France. Lived in Syria for 5 years then I got back to Paris and now I live in Arequipa, Peru. How about you dear?
SPSS comes from the school of "you don't need to know what you're doing in order to analyse data". R requires that you understand what it is what you want to do in order to make it work.

I quite like the middle ground of JMP (kind of SAS lite), and its a damned sight cheaper than SPSS too.
Speaking for my own use-case, it's a mix of founder's statements (http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...), investments by less-than-pristine Russian businessmen, my own various intersections with data mining, personal information aggregators, and legal processes, history of wide-spread domestic spying (watch "The Lives of Others" about the East German Stasi for a chilling view, understanding that this has and does happen in many lands).

The conceivable downsides of open participation in Facebook far outweigh the positives.

Add in social fatigue in the mass market as well, I suspect the trend has peaked.
> /r/philosophy

Which is why there is /r/academicphilosophy.
Wallet already out
You are correct about the re-parametrization. A closed expression for arc-length is news to me however. Do you have a citation?
I acknowledged that fact in my comment, if you need anonymity, use a private blog or wikileaks or tor or the tons of other solutions there are out there.
That does pose some interesting questions.

Simply drawing social graphs by itself is hugely informative.

That said, a federated system in which I could present numerous identities of varying levels of persistence and/or repudiability could be of some interest.
Was there an original posting (you call this a 'repost')?

I enjoyed it a lot, actually. Not that I've had much dealings with counterfeit hardware but I can imagine that anybody that is into hardware hacking on a slightly larger scale has to worry about this.
True, I didn't know for a fact that Rachel Baker was a sockpuppet but she sure looked and sounded like one. If she had linked her consulting website profile to her freshly minted Blogger profile, I probably wouldn't have jumped to that conclusion.

Was I uncivil? Some might argue polluting blog comments with marketing pabulum is uncivil. I just thought it was kind of interesting, indicative perhaps of where Groupon invests some of its resources.
which part is debatable ?
The website's examples are much more eye catching: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/voronoi.html
For me, the valuable subreddits are the Touhou, Vocaloid, Haskell, and philosophy of science subreddits.
There's a lot you can do with presentation software: PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Apps.

There are a lot of other tools available, but it's nice being able to quickly wireframe and storyboard during a meeting and respond with "... you mean like this?"
So, from what I understand, this is great but more of a proof of concept since fuse performance kills it. As far as putting it in production, there are a few unresolved questions which I haven't seen picked apart:

- Can dedup be integrated into the VFS layer, like unionfs is shooting for, or does it have be integrated with the underlying filesystem.

- Is online dedup possible, and does the answer change when running SSD.

- What's the best granularity (block-level? inode-level? block extent-level?) and how badly can it randomize the i/o. I imagine one would have to do a lot of real-world benchmarking to find this out.

- Are there possible privacy issues (i.e. finding through i/o patterns whether someone else has a given block or file stored) and how to deal with them
Actually the btrfs email thread contained the answer (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg0...):

"I was just toying around with a simple userspace app to see exactly how much I would save if I did dedup on my normal system, and with 107 gigabytes in use, I'd save 300
megabytes."

It's a relatively small amount. Then again - you're storing 300MB of exactly the same blocks of data... Unless they're manual backup files, this looks like a big waste to me.
Building Startups in a developing/developed Country: Taiwan (Part 1)
agree being that Groupon originated in Chicago, she could just be a supporter / sockpuppet.
This advice is worth it's weight in gold! Gracias amigo!
Correct. The language R is just plain weird (insane ideas about scoping/binding that seem to be completely unlike anything you've seen in any reasonably designed language in the last 20 years) and not very efficient to boot, unless you hit one of the bits that's just C under the hood.

However, the vast, vast repository of every statistical analysis under the sun - not just 'core R' but every thing that any statistician has hacked up - is unparalleled.

My 'coping with R' strategy is to do all the heavy lifting data manipulation in C/C++/Python, then do one-shot things in R. I just pass csv files around but there are tighter integrations of R and python if you want to look into that.
Court says law banning recording of police is unconstitutional
Well I haven't seen them sacrificing children to Baphomet or anything, but I do believe they are ethical and morally in the wrong camp and have been for a few years now.

They take money from one industry and use it to crush/undermine competitors in other industries. Hence making a situation where no one can compete with them. IMO abusing market position i.e. they use advertising money to drive technology business out of business

They have also perpetuated a belief that you shouldn't pay for anything on the internet. You know that would be fine if we lived in some Marxist utopia, but we don't. Things are expensive to make and produce and Google is making it harder and harder on a daily basis to get returns off products.

They did what was needed, improved the world, but those days are gone.
Corruption directly results in inefficient systems.

Consider a road from A to B. Ideally you would want a strait line, but if someone owns land that would benefit from being near a road then you just bend the path a little and suddenly his land is worth more. As long as the person drawing that line has more to gain from bribes than an efficient road you are going to build a lot of odd looking roads. Taken to the extreme and you get roads that are less useful and more costly to build and maintain because they are longer.
Here's yesterday's discussion of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2930417

That was to this story: http://www.universalhub.com/2011/court-says-state-law-bannin...
Something like the 'NoSQL' project might be just what you're looking for: http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/nosql/Home%20P...

This 'NoSQL' has absolutely no similarity to the 'NoSQL' databases of the last few years (and predates them all by many years). Instead it's a tool to manage databases of plain text files in the Unix environment. Seamlessly ties together several parts of Unix toolchain, with Awk as the centerpiece. Has surprising features, like searches with joins between tables (i.e., files).

I'll also second that the Aho Kernighan Awk book is a beautiful piece of work.
So is brainfuck, and whitespace. This isn't really a useful thing to point out.

For any sort of script thats going to be run many times and may need to be improved or extended, readability is a huge plus.
I started doing this yesterday (RoR), it took me the whole day just setting up on a Windows box - like all of 12 hours yesterday!

Thanks for the detailed explanation, super helpful. I will dive right in.

Why: I sold the idea, too well maybe, and now must deliver.

"Building in HTML / CSS / JavaScript (using jQuery) will be the quickest way to a front-end, building it with PhoneGap will be the quickest way to Mobile, and doing the backend in a rapid framework with lots of learning resources like Rails or ColdFusion." <-- I am getting in here! Wish me luck! :-)
What made Steve Jobs a giant among the world's greatest communicators?
As the author of this "crap", I am taking the opportunity to detail this position.

If you are interested in such issues, you are probably aware that Oracle has made the openjdk-7 the base target development of the JVM. Proprietary versions (sun-java7 is you will) are based on the free version.
This is the opposite of the current version (6).

If we do not encourage users to switch to the Openjdk, bugs won't be fixed in the 6 or 7 for a while.
Very interesting site
Please give me bug reports which shows that openjdk is not ready for production. I will be interested to report them upstream.
That's been the aim of virtually every large Technology presence for the past decade or more.

Microsoft spent a decade chasing the dream of taking a "vig" on every electronic transaction. At one time, Visa's CEO listed among its three largest competitive threats MasterCard, AmEx, and Microsoft (I guess it doesn't pay to Discover...).

Amazon and eBay are doing well on the same basis. Apple has its iTunes store. Google sits on the nexus with search, advertising, and a huge social / demographics database. Being able to siphon a few cents off of every online transaction, plus advertising, would be a tremendous market.

And having saturated the search and advertising markets, it's not as if Google has much growth through its traditional core functions.
Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent
"Before you start studying jQuery, you should have a basic knowledge of:

HTML
CSS
JavaScript"

????
> I think Groupon is a guaranteed and low effort marketing platform for businesses.

Well, one would hope they weren't an _actual_ Groupon rep. This is _not_ the sort of thing that a company trying to IPO should be saying.
Kind of amusing take on perception of technology
Are you aware of Reddit's AskScience?
We use d3 extensively here at TwoSides and love it.

Here's some examples:
http://www.twosides.co/issues/185-should-euthanasia-or-physi...
http://www.twosides.co/jono (the venn diagram/bar graph wouldn't be transparent if you had an account)
Aww, thought this was for Diablo 3...