skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unknown.

However, the three classes are intended to match up with Database Systems: The Complete Book (which, in the interests of full disclosure, is written partly by my former advisor). If you want to learn the material from the second class, I would just read the book. I've actually read the book cover to cover, and I think it's one of the best textbooks for that purpose. There are tons of examples everywhere, it's pretty talkative, and there is very little pretension (insert Russell/Norvig complaint here). On the other hand, some portion of the Internet seems to take the opposite view (e.g., some people just view the talkativeness as repetition).
When the average annual income in China is around $4000 USD, it's no wonder that people would lie through their teeth to get at a contract. This is the answer to the "lowest price at any cost" game. Capitalism at work. No one wants the company that offers the best quality, only the company that is the cheapest.
You can be asked for anything, that doesn't mean you have it. As the article you linked states, Google's privacy policy notes deleted information may live on in backups. This is common sense, otherwise they would have to touch every backup on a delete, which besides being very risky (one bug away from disaster), would mean having to go through offline tape archives of everyone's mail. If that were the case it would be prohibitively expensive to allow anyone to delete.

The question is if they have the ability/requirement to go sifting through the old backups for requested data.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/gmail-back-soon-for-ev...
The Broad is an amazing place, and I'm very grateful for my time there. The folks there simply do remarkable work.

Nevertheless, I'm ambivalent about the size of the grants doled out to the senior faculty there. I've heard post-docs and junior faculty express concerns that it's a poor allocation of resources. For one $25m grant issued to a senior faculty member, you could fund 50 junior faculty for years. If diversification is the only free lunch in finance, why should science be any different?
Our admirably good-hearted Iranian despot was anticipated in his observation by Vilfredo Pareto, who in 1906 noticed that about 20% of Italians held 80% of Italy's wealth. Similar proportions have since been noticed in many societies around the world throughout the past century, among them the United States today. (In 2007, the wealthiest 20% of Americans owned 84.6% of the nation's total wealth, as opposed to just financial wealth, says a UC-Santa Cruz sociologist. [1])

The phenomenon of 20% of a population accounting for 80% of a quantity is quite widespread, and not only in economics. For example, in classifying life-forms with binomial nomenclature, about 80% of all species are in "largest" 20% of genera; about 80% of the world's oil reserves are in the largest 20% of oil fields; about 80% of the grains of sand on a beach are in the lowest two deciles by size; etc. This feature is so common that it's called the "80-20 rule." [2]

Though the mechanism behind this phenomenon remains in most cases a bit of a mystery, in statistical terms the 80-20 rule arises in populations described by a Pareto distribution. [3] The Pareto distribution belongs to the family of power-law distributions, whose functional forms have an in-built self-similarity; the 80-20 rule applies even to itself. So the wealthiest 4% (20% of 20%) of the population owns about 64% (80% of 80%) of America's wealth, and so on.

1. See esp. Table 1 at http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
My girlfriend wrote a paper this year about constructed languages and the people who create and use them, and typeset the title in elvish. Did you know that there are not one or two elvish typefaces for LaTeX, but in fact seven or eight?

Despite my abiding love of capitalism and enterprise, it brought me great joy to know that there are hackers out there still slaving away on the entirely esoteric and not 100% of us have yet caught the "everything should be about revenue" bug.
Predator/prey is also a metaphor. People aren't actually being eaten. They are voluntarily sharing data that is used to provide them with a service that they want. I'm so depressed that I have to spell everything out.
I'm not so happy with the result. The parchment is too three-dimensional, which clashes with the font. I'd recommend regular (or calligraphy) paper (maybe printed with a non-white background, if your printer is good enough), and then "aging" it. Tea or coffee is usually a good method, although simple crumpling might suffice.

Also, either for a medieval source or a 1920s document, block lettering seems a bit off.

But this really shows what's possible if you have programmatic control over your typesetting. I really should do some (La)TeX again…
In related news, Stanford's online Intro to Databases class is open for enrollment.

http://www.db-class.org/
Short URL to the patent at USPTO: http://1.usa.gov/plfTg3

I am not a specialist in protein folding, so take it with a grain of salt, but from the figures it does not look like method predicts actual configurations decoded from experiments. Patent itself acknowledges that (5.50): "the lack of computational prediction [...] can be attributed to problems arising form calculating molecular mechanics potentials (force-fields)".

Could anybody knowledgeable make an assessment how important this invention is?
Pretty sure it's called the Cavalier. Nice weight on that sucker.
As someone whose bought a ton of advertising on Google, and some on Facebook, there is a hell of a lot of value in the social graph.

With Google you bid contextually, that is, you are guessing that because the page is about (for example) "The Beatles" that the people there are interested in The Beatles. This is generally right. But, you have no idea about the demographics of the viewers. Just knowing if someone is under 18 or over 21 pretty much means whether or not they have any ability to purchase your product after clicking your ad. And these demographic/behavioral trends go much deeper.

On Facebook you buy an ad based on the users demographics (age, gender, etc.) and what they explicitly said they were interested in. Most people don't list every single interest. Facebook, by pulling in all this external data now has a shitload more stuff advertisers can target ads on. Instead of targeting the tiny fraction of people who put "The Beatles" as their interests, now advertisers will be able to target users that are likely interested in The Beatles because they do things like, listen to The Beatles every week, or all their friends listened to The Beatles this month.

Its very likely that Facebook will be able to beat Google's CPMs with this deep targeting ability. Whether or not its planned, I expect that Facebook will attempt to syndicate their advertising and compete directly with Google

Users should be very concerned. Advertisers can figure out a lot about you based on you clicking an ad that they targeted to a narrow set of specifications. You might think the ad is about free ipods but its really only being displayed to users that did a certain set of criteria. This can and will be abused. To a limited extent it already is.

Back when Facebook first rolled out their ad network, there was an advertiser or two who figured out you could target females that were engaged, and by insulting their weight get them to buy their weight loss pills.

As you can imagine, Google needs a large Google + user base so they can build their own dat aset to sell ads based off of.

Ironically the next Facebook killer social network will likely have the main selling point of privacy. I'd sign up. Google + is not it.
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I feel like I have travelled back to 1995
I think you're mistaking beauty for common sense :P
I think the idea is that different categories of science might occur at different scales of funding.

50 junior faculty will likely do 50 safe-ish projects which will lead to tenure. 1 senior faculty with 25 million dollars might do something qualitatively different: ambitious, risky, long-term. Or might not, no guarantee. But I think it's a valid exploration of parameter space.

The goal is to make great science happen, not fund the maximum number of scientists.
Ask HN: Is it really deleted or just made invisible?
I'm sorry there have been a lot of posts about FB, but there's something that I clearly want to understand.

When I deactivate my account and wait 14 days for it to be deleted, after the 14 days is over, is my account (messages,posts etc..) literally deleted (deleted from the database. not even fb can access it) or do I just loose access to them as I can not log in anymore.

I get the feeling that FB just has this column in their DB where if deleted=1 that my account just becomes invisible while they can access it still.

Again sorry about this. I'm just trying to have a clear understanding.
Precisely. If you want to place blame, it goes squarely on the Bush Administration. (And yes, I'm sure I'll be down-voted for saying that, but it's still unquestionably, uncontroversially, non-debatably true.) If you want this fixed, it has to be fixed politically at a federal level.
I still remember when I installed my first CD-ROM version of Linux (SLS, I think), and found that there were "tengwar" packages in the source list…
Billionaire TopShop owner's daughter has been at board meetings since she was 10
It'd be interesting to know if that covers 100% of data releases to the state. Does Facebook release data to law enforcement in cases other than either: 1) pursuant to a warrant; or 2) compelled by a National Security Letter? I would guess yes, but I'd be interested in a solid statement either way.
My ideal Spotify UI
I continually forget that customer service is 80% dealing with crazy people.
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The linked code uses the lcg package for random numbers - see this other (poorly-named) question[1] for an example of how to use it

[1]:http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16768/how-to-convert-...
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Excellent point! I guess those of us with the 'bug' or 'parasite' - whatever you want to call it - just march to the beat of a different drummer. We value freedom over security, charting our own path over following the beaten one...
The library is in Js: http://code.google.com/p/box2dweb/

Which is a port of a famous physics engine in C:
http://box2d.org/

And there are 3d physics engines for Js as well: http://glge.org/demos/cardemo/ and http://www.glge.org/
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Just put the title in google "Has a Speeding Neutrino Really Overturned Einstein?" and say you're feeling lucky.
It's not about the suicide of a person, it's about the suicide of a project.

I like.
<half-trolling>Seems like that in this case the lesson should have been to use a statically typed language instead.</half-trolling>

(PS: dyed in the wool Python guy here)
RIP Ingres
I am aghast at the disastrous amount of disinformation about patents in this community. Patents are fundamentally and in the libertarian sense of the word, inalienable property rights, that have value, and that can be bought and sold.
It takes an impressive amount of hubris to define your lead quality of "TRANSPARENCY" as disclosing some of your conflicts of interest.
Once in a while I am blessed enough to come across a post like this. It made me think a lot about my life and who I wish to become. I've been working a "normal job" and just forgot that it is possible to do something like this.
I meant to say they may have made a mistake on just this one relativist effect... even though I am sure they did think of it.

BTW, relativity is relevant in the OPERA experiment. Theoretical physicist Luboš Motl explains why: http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/09/potential-mistakes-in-oper...
Well, this post certainly contained the substance:bluster ratio I've come to expect from classic TechCrunch.
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Can anyone comment on how doable it is for an ordinary Joe to get involved in something like this?
i'm porting my apps to heroku, no more app engine.
I can't help read the privacy policy and see:

"In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred"

So basically, I authorize a large number of my social applications (facebook, twitter, google,tumblr, youtube, mobile phone) and iftt gets a single unified linked feed of ALL my data, along with behavioural data too (ie. I like to receive emails and texts at 11pm), which it reserves the right to sell. And for a website that doesn't have an obvious charging mechanism, what else can I assume except that their revenue stream will be selling my data?

Data mining trojan in my opinion..... it's a shame it's actually such an attractive tool.
I dunno what your ID cards look like, but ours have intricate patterns all over them. Additionally there's a punctured-hole pattern that vaguely corresponds to the photograph, so that's unique for every ID.

I can't really imagine how you'd want to reconstruct that, and even if you could I'd hardly call it trivial.
If you poke around a bit more:

* The display is ad-free, but there are ads added at print time. (There are numerous competitors out there which will do this without the ads.)

* There's a $6/mo subscription for sites who want to do a "clean print" button with branding and no ads.
Nah, I'm just your standard run of the mill atheist.

Common misconception though! There are more of me than you might think however, so you might want to learn about me.
http://golang.org/pkg/http/spdy/ ?
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Unless it is a US law. You better believe that those apply globally. They can and will shut you down and/or throw you in prison.
Flagged.

Reason:

WHO CARES?

This post detracts from this site. It contributes nothing.
I think that it is probably one of the major reasons, though certainly not the only one. In my experience, one of the most common customer service complaints/requests is "Oh no, I did this irreversible thing you warned me not to, fix it." I imagine facebook also gets its fair share of complaints like "Oh no, my ex-boyfriend deleted my account, fix it." This stuff is really common, and I can understand why a company would rather be able to say "Oh yeah, sure" than "Sorry, for privacy reasons your online life for the past two years has been lost irretrievably."
To echo one of the comments on the linked post --- it is because of bugs like this that I am a firm advocate of languages with strong static checks.

A few claims:
* no matter how good a programmer you are, you will make stupid mistakes (such as typos, as in the case of this article) every now and then.
* it is statistically inevitable that you will make many such errors in a large code base.
* bugs are easier and cheaper to fix the earlier you catch them; the best time to catch a bug is before the code is paged out of a programmer's brain.
* it doesn't take too many experiences of discovering a typo bug in your "production" code base before you realize there must be a better way.

My personal approach is the following:
* restrict the use of untyped scripting languages to pieces of code that can fit in one screen or so; that is, just small enough that you can keep all of the moving pieces in your head at once.
* as much as possible, use languages and tools that provide strong static checks for larger projects. This includes language type systems (e.g., Scala, OCaml, Haskell, etc.) and tools that help you check your code (Prefix/Prefast, Coverity, Findbugs, etc.)
* testing is good, but static checks are far better.

Unfortunately these opinions don't match common practice in the web programming world.
>I know a lot of you don’t understand why I can’t disclose all conflicts of interest. The answer is that if I did, not that many people would want to talk to me in the direct, honest way that I prefer. As a reader you must remain aware of the inherent bias in everything you read, and form your own opinions accordingly.

So at first he admits that he cannot disclose all conflicts of interest, then states that, as readers, his audience must remain aware of his inherent bias. How are we to remain aware of the nature of these biases if all conflicts are not disclosed? And, in turn, how are we to trust anything that he writes when it is known that he has a) biases and conflicts and that b) he will not disclose all of the?

I understand that everyone has biases and conflicts of interest, that they are impossible to avoid and that it is highly impractical to disclose each and every one. But it seems intriguing, to me, to caution us to "be aware" while also telling us that he will not give us the information require for full awareness.
"What Exactly Am I Doing Here At {Hacker News}?". I know that building a business requires getting the word out. And that understanding the media channel is an important part of that. But when the media channel personnel themselves become the story, things are getting waaay too meta.
Meh, if Parker pens work for you, then great. I tried a lot of pens before finding the Hi-Tec-C. Surprisingly, I purchased it somewhere local but, when I went back to buy more, they said it was a one-time order kind of deal. I didn't really seek them out -- I saw it laying there and gave it a rip and bought a few of the plastic ones.

I know what you mean about gel pens though. Takes a couple circles to get em going. I'm more of a pencil kind of guy anyways.

--not a pen snob :)
My exact thought. I'd even pay more for one knowing it was made in the US. This just doesn't seem like the type of job requiring off-shore manufacturing.
It's not like the telecomm corps in the US haven't been caught handing over info to cops/FBI without warrants or NSL letters (or handing over more than required when presented with a warrant or NSL).
I am talking about the presence of the gravitational field, not its difference between the 2 sites. Anyway, I calculated gravitational time dilation on Earth out of curiosity. It has an effect of only about 1e-9.
How much of Techcrunch was being in the right place at the right time and how much was Mike Arrington? I've always wondered, and now we get to find out.
Keep in mind that in this case "funding" also equals pre-orders for the actual pens at half the price they intend to eventually sell them for.
This situation instantly reminded me of this recent Wired piece: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_madeinamerica/all/1 (Made in America: Small Businesses Buck the Offshoring Trend)
There's a built-in tutorial mode (takes about 45-60min) that you should go through to get started, and then you should just start editing all of your files using what you pick up in the tutorial. You'll make mistakes, discover new features, and start to understand it. You won't need to reach outside of it for new things for awhile - there's at least a few months of learning to just be had from exploring emacs.
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Crowd sourcing secret services?
I find these kind of statements pointless. Given any thing that is not distributed equally, it is mathematically necessary that the top N% of the people who have that thing have more than N% of that thing.

For instance, the fattest 10% of the population have more than 10% of the total weight of the population. The top 10% promiscuous women have more than 10% of the total sex. The top 10% of authors by number of books published have more than 10% of the books published. And so on and so on.
I'd venture that a major reason has less to do with customer UI and law enforcement and more to do with data mining.
The finance snippet could have the same layout as ads, this way it is more obvious it is not in the ranks, and real ads clicks might even increase.
The provisions were all due to sunset by now, but Obama signed the renewal.
Is this just your opinion or do you have some examples to back it up? I don't see why a US judge would care at all if a US company breaks laws of another country.
Blowing his horn and chasing Cape Horn dreams, Harry [Mitchell] sails out of Charleston on September 17 1994. 'For the rest of your life don't waste any time. Make the best of what you may before you turn into clay,' he told students before he left Sydney for the Southern Ocean.

(Harry Mitchell, age 70, was lost at sea in the Southern Ocean in the 1994 BOC solo around the world yacht race).

-- Paul Gelder, The Loneliest Race

I began to understand the struggle and the despair in the simply written ships' journals, in the monochrome prose that could suddenly bloom with feeling:

March 29, 1913: Terrible heavy NW gale. Lost mizzen upper topsail and main lower top gallant sail. Got two men hurt. All hands on deck all night.

30th. 6 AM: quick shift from NW to SW with hurricane force, with terrible heavy cross sea. Ship under two lower topsails and under water. Lost outer jib. Washed off the boom.

31st: wind SW. Very heavy gale.

April 1st: terrible heavy WNW gale, ship under two lower topsails and drifting to the eastward, and my heart is broken under these heavy gales all the time.

So reads the log of the Edward Sewell, 263 days out from Philadelphia to Honolulu, battering to westward in the grip of The Horn for 67 days.

-- David and Dan Hayes, My Old Man and The Sea
I think the guys who made ifttt are HNers. If so how'd you all do it. How'd you get this NYTimes article?
The particular example I had in mind had an 18-month time line -- not exactly long term.

I agree with your point about goals. Throw fifty-projects worth of money at George Church and you'll get one hundred and five ambitious, high risk/reward projects.

(Hey fellow alum! Class of '08 here.)
And it seems this includes Android, i.e. they don't have a separate entry for it. This means there are roughly as many iPad Wikipedia visits as desktop Linux ones…
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I wouldn't say it's the best in the world. But if you're into very fine line pens, the Pilot Hi-Tech C, Uniball Signo DX, and Pentel Slicci (I much prefer the Slicci to the Hi-Tech C and Signo DX) are a lot better than the usual ballpoint and gel pens you'll find on the shelf at Staples and Office Depot. (The Slicci is supposed to be distributed in the US now, but I've never seen one on the shelf.)

Due to the fine line and precise tip, they're more like technical drafting pens (think Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph) than ordinary ballpoints.
To his credit, he sort of clarified that by implying it's "high traffic - for the sort of website that sits on 1 of 20 VM on a single physical server". If you do the naive multiply-everything-out-assuming-it-all-scales-linearly, 3% cpu on 1/20th of the physical server suggests an upper limit somewhere in the region of 165 million requests per day - that'd certainly count as a high-traffic site...
I have never, in 20 years of programming, ever made this mistake

Good for you!

But fortunately you put the braces in anyway, because the person who touches the code after you might be more prone to the mistake.

I almost never misspell things. I might therefore be tempted to believe that spell checkers are a pointless and annoying waste of time. But not everyone has the same brain as I, and experience has taught me that there are lots of people who can't spell well, many of whom are actually really good writers. I'd assume that the optional-braces problem is a cliche for a similar reason.
I don't have much experience with mobile, so i am not qualified to answer this
If this is true, it will represent a major development in the 3D world TV battle between Sony and Toshiba. I would like that to be true.