skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already pointed out that HN leaves a cookie behind in another comment, so here's a different tack: is there a site on the first page of http://www.alexa.com/topsites that actually leaves no cookies behind when you logout?

A major faux pas like leaving your uid in the clear in the cookie after logout certainly seems to bother us, but I don't think users (even savvy users) care about leaving some cookies behind. For the record, I've installed various opt-out browser extensions in the past (only to switch computers/browsers and forget to bring them along)--I don't think my views are pro-cookie or even moderate.
Exactly.

What you pitch them is on buying larger license for the whole enterprise, increasing the usage and integrating deeper into their systems.

Getting from a handful of users to thousands is easier to do when you have both initial end user champions and the support of IT.
- Empty TITLE tag.
- Favicon is a "P" icon?
- Put 5-10px padding on the textarea.
- 100% satisfaction guaranteed icon needs transparency.

The design is fine but very, very generic. Nothing relates to a laundry. Why not a clothes line with text documents cleaned, pegged and sparkling in the sun?

If you get some resistance in the HN feedback, IMO it is because the service seems slapped together. I like the automatic pricing calculator but I don't know that anything else but the domain name is going to be memorable. If the design shows a bit more personality, I think that would help.

It might've been funny if you had replied to each HN comment with a re-write of what they'd written to show the benefit of the service...
If it's a zero day vulnerability then the method to exploit it is already in the wild. Anyway, if this is anything like some of the previous vulnerabilities that chrome patched a few days before Adobe, it's just a case of Adobe's code going through a faster SQA process at google than it does at Adobe. Adobe obviously doesn't have a problem with the practice, so why should PC mag?
Having used an SGS2 (the Sprint variant) for the past few days, you're crazy. If anything, it's almost a little too fast.
Thanks, you are probably right: there are no shortcuts.
I suspect a "cargo cult" for hiring is not what rguzman meant. Rather, algorithm skills are one of the best signals you can extract from a short interview. I've always found them to be much better at predicting a candidate's ability to do the job than anything else I could ask in 45 minutes. That may mean I'm a poor interviewer, but until I can figure out better questions to ask, I'm happy to use this signal since in my experience it works well.
Vivienne Westwood Frames
Without taking sides, the irony is enormous.

Of course the point of "use or complain but not both" is clearly invalid. To organize against the ATT monopoly, folks had to use the telephone. You can resent your local airport monopoly, and still fly to Washington to complain.

But it's still funny. Take care in who you hire to do your dirty work. :-)
Congrats on launch. The instant price calculator is slick.

I notice it's on Rails. Shoot for an API and a Wordpress plugin. Both could be jets for this type of business.
This was an interesting experiment, and while travelling I've done things similar, especially where a connection is spotty or non-existant.

However when it was mentioned that viewing 'useless' sites on the web was replaced with watching TV I remembered something that Clay Shirky said in his latest book. Where before the Internet a lot of people wasted most of their day watching TV (soap operas), they now used the Internet. Collecting all of these hours 'saved' from millions of people contributed to great projects such as Wikipedia. So it makes me think if limiting access to the Internet for yourself is necessarily a good thing, especially since the replacement activity is something passive like watching TV.

So perhaps the answer is to limit mindless passive activities to minimal hours a day and otherwise try to remain productive and doing interactive things.
I was thinking more along the lines of a local store, but then you'd need a little script embedded into every page to handle the storage.

Essentially, instead of FB like widget -> request to facebook I would think FB like widget -> add to local datastore.

Then FB could do an optimised/aggragated query on the local database. The only thing would be that it would introduce large latency in the resulting data if its sent back only on FB login.
Swing takes a different approach. It is a pluggable widget toolkit rather than a set of lower level constructs used to build primitives.
Monitoring the Fed Monitoring You
> That's still a quicksort - it always has n^2 as its worst case I thought? If you pick the wrong pivot each time.

Pick median of three random elements as pivot; it's hard to pick wrong pivot every time unless your RNG always returns 7.
I've never written a web app that actually deletes data.

Sure, but that's just a business decision, right?
http://subtlepatterns.com/ is a great site for website backgrounds. I've been finding myself using them a lot recently.
Meh.

I'm working on a video game at the moment, and have read lots of advice like this. My old game engine experiments all used 'Entities' to describe objects in the game world, and these 'Entities' were created, deleted and invoked by an 'EntityManager' (kind of half factory & half controller). Every game tick, the EntityManager calls a 'tick' method on all the current game entities and facilitates communication between them. For the most part, all entities are created/destroyed at the same time (game-level loading/unloading).

Trying to avoid architecture mistakes, I've come up with all sorts of tortured designs to do away with the concept of any kind of 'manager'. It is probably my inexperience with various design patterns, but all these alternatives were overly complicated and difficult to use. I would end up with a mess of objects & functors all needing pointers to each other & stepping on each others toes.

It then occurred to me that my 'manager' was in fact mapped to the real-world concept of 'a manager', being someone/something that is given orders from upper-management (game-level data, user-input, etc.) 'hires' & then assigns tasks to 'workers', hands the results to upper management, then 'fires' the workers when they are not needed ;). The metaphor works.

So I'm back to the 'manager' pattern and things are moving ahead quite nicely, even if some OO purists might frown. Should I call my 'EntityManager' 'EntityBoss'? Gets rid of the 'er' at least...
I find this ASTRONOMICALLY interesting! I wonder what will happen to us...

In the past, JOBS were a way to redistribute money and keep the money cycle flowing. The rich who owned companies are rich because the average consumer pays for their products and services. The rich then hire workers and pass money down to them, as well as spend money on other products made by other workers. But as unemployment reaches 20% then 30% then 40% over the next 50-100 years. We'll have to readjust the way we redistribute money in order to keep the money cycle going. Otherwise the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer, to a point, then the whole system will collapse because who will have the money to buy your products. If the middle and lower class don't have any money to spend on the products that the company using robots makes... Product creators will effective kill off their own wealth machine.

Decades ago 80%+ of everything we bought was made in our own country, now that number has dwindled down to, 20% was it? It was some terrible small number. Outsourcing to China was good in the short term (cheaper more affordable products) and terribly destructive in the long term (disrupting the money cycle and destroying jobs). Now everyone in the US is pissed off about unemployment, we're passing all sorts of job bills and stimuliouses, while we're all ignoring the giant elephant in the room. We pissed our jobs away in the name of cheaper products (consumers are just as guilty as shareholders).

Look at what outsourcing to China has done. Rich get richer, poor got poorer, then the economy tanked because consumers don't have money to spend on the products the rich make. Now imagine what automation is going to do... Driverless buses and subways (already in testing / already in use) that don't go on strike, robots that fix robots (almost there) and never ask for a raise. Robot pharmacists that don't make mistakes (already in testing). Robotic construction workers that don't join unions. The people who own these businesses that employ robots over humans will make tremendous profits and save lives and do a better, faster job too. But they will HAVE to redistribute their money using a new method. Socialism? Who knows.

I'm not afraid of this future where robots take over. In fact I'm looking forward to it. I'm just afraid of our refusal to adjust to it.
This is a great example of the inherent conflict of interest when your users are not your customers, in fact they're your product.

http://johnstanderfer.com/2011/09/26/facebooks-most-importan...
The purpose of the social plugins is to provide social context - telling you which of your friends has liked something, or that you are the first.

To do this, it needs to know who you are if you are a Facebook user that has not logged out. To do that, it needs to check the cookie that the Facebook web site sets when you are logged in.

Unfortunately, the web as it stands doesn't allow this interaction without divulging some information (time/date, browser, IP address, &c.) when the only interesting thing is who you are if you happen to be logged in.

This is the same problem that web analytics, certain comment systems, other social buttons, and other embedded functionality systems face.

About the best that can be done is explain what happens with that data when it is received - and that is explained at https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=186325668085084
Turn off "Quick Compare" to make comparisons take longer if you want a different ratio. By default, it takes about 1/15 as long to compare as swap (I thought the visualization looked better this way).
Gamercize, Hacking and staying fit
It is absolutely not reasonable to assume you can buy "chicken breast" for $1.40/lb. The coupon sale price for frozen Dominicks (Safeway) chicken breasts in Chicago is $4/lb. A fresh pack of chicken breast --- again, the grocery store crap --- will easily set you back $7 (which is approximately what Empire runs /lb at Trader Joe's as well).

I don't have a strong opinion about whether junk food is "truly" cheaper than "healthy" food (I cook every night and think it's generally a good idea for every family to get into that habit). I think it's a kind of a moot point, because what many poor families really lack is a history of having time in their schedules to cook. Cooking is a skill built through repetition and serving home cooked meals is a habit that is hard to establish.

What does bug me though is that every time this topic comes up, some nerd hits Google and finds either (a) some ludicrously unrepresentative price sample ("you pay $6/lb for chicken? i can get new york strip for $5.50!") or (b) some combination of beans and millet that will feed them just fine for a month on $3.

It is not enough, to win this argument, for the math to come out slightly in favor of home cooking. Home cooking needs to win on all three axes:

(i) price: home cooking has to be invariably comparable in price to McDonalds to win,

(ii) convenience: it's got to be straightforward to cook and to serve, bearing in mind that one of the hallmarks of low-income working families is shift work, and

(iii) palatability: this doesn't mean "it has to taste as good as junk food" (although realistically that is a factor); it means that you have to find one dish that you can serve four people and have them all come away satisfied.

None of those are easy to accomplish. Erin & I work hard to achieve any two. All three?
While that is technically true, the context of this comment should make it clear that I'm referring to cold dark matter, otherwise my comment about finding them wouldn't make sense.
Facebook to launch its own political action committee
Google can disappear tomorrow and Bing, Blekko and DDG can take over. Webmasters will get more traffic since all have way less ads than Google, and that's about it.
You know what happened after the fall of the Roman empire, do you?
What if you delete your account entirely? Do they delete your data then?
An FPGA is not a magic, nondeterministic device, but nothing more or less than a lot of ordinary logic gates in one convenient package, implemented with bundles of small LUTs and flip-flops. If you don't use your FPGA to implement a memory controller or other device with variable latency, you don't get a device with variable latency.

Timing instruments can be challenging to design, but as a rule, they are fairly trivial to test (waves hands dismissively). I wouldn't look for the problem at the gate or RTL level in the timing gear... but the interface between the insanely complex detector hardware and the timing gear is harder to dismiss with hand waving. If there's a bug, it will be in some part of the system that can't be easily characterized for its so-called "residual noise" performance.
Oh. That seems a bit needlessly complex to me.

And I love PeepOpen, which adds this feature to Textmate and several other editors.
This has happened a lot in history, but I'm no historian.

The way I understand it, the automation (or technological improvement) of an industry lowers prices, and therefore helps another industry. Consumers to pay less for products, so extra funds directly (purchases) or indirectly (savings, investment) flow into new industries.

In the short term, workers displaced by automation are unemployed, but in the long term, they have growing employment opportunities elsewhere (or even in the same industry, later).

What's more, I feel like once automation takes hold in an industry, efficiency gains must accelerate relative to human laborers-- helping everyone. Sure, greater education and methodological improvements help humans to produce more for cheaper, but Moore's Law is a hell of an ally.

IANAE(conomist), but I couldn't explain why the world didn't disintegrate after the Industrial Revolution(s) any other way.
I love eInk, but after reading the entire "A Song of Ice and Fire" series (all 5000+ pages) on my iPod Touch using the Kindle app, I think the right form factor and good software make a big difference.
It is pretty common to use DRAM with an FPGA to manipulate large amounts of data

True, but your essay confuses acquisition with storage. As a rule, by the time the data is stuffed into a DRAM somewhere, it's already been timestamped. If you're right, and it hasn't been, then, yep, that's (a) problem.
It's often a performance, scalability, and safety decision as well. The optimal way for a web app to truly delete data is during an asynchronous garbage collection process. It's a lot easier to just mark the object as deleted.
I chose the word "FPGA" to match the terminology of the paper which uses the word as a synonym for the Data Acquisition System.

If so, that's a problem with the paper in itself. (I haven't read it.)
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To be fair, you're not the target market for this device.
RIM: Go Long and Stop Listening to Sell-Side Analysts
What Is The Actual Definition Of A Recession?
I'll never understand why everyone loves TextMate so much. I mean, its a nice text editor but there are much better ones out there. Maybe I'm inexperienced or maybe I work far differently than TextMate users but Espresso is where it's at for me. Actually now there's Chocolat (http://chocolatapp.com). The alpha is shedding bugs quickly and it's shaping up to potentially be my favorite text editor of all time.
Building a perfect PC for Battlefield 3, with price points and parts lists
Campus writing centers provide tutoring and feedback. They don't just fix it for you.
"I contend that I am capable of learning new material quickly enough that, if I were suddenly called upon at my job to write code which handles all of the slings and arrows of algorithmic complexity, I would be able to do so with very little friction. To phrase it differently: I (probably) don't know enough to write gorgeous, algorithmically sophisticated code on the first pass, but I know enough to know when it's time for me to hit the books, and where to start.
Obviously, it would take me longer than someone with prior experience in writing such code! If the overarching question is "does algorithmic fluency constitute a dealbreaker when hiring at certain positions", then I suppose the answer depends on how much longer it would take. I can only speculate on the difference in a flagrantly biased manner, as I would egotistically prefer to believe that I ought to be hired in more cases than not. :-)"

You are SERIOUSLY underestimating the amount of time required to learn that stuff. In essence, the full 4 years of a CS course deals with data structures, algorithm and math. Good luck finding a project where the stakeholders are willing to wait that much. Also, unless you are a very unique snowflake, you will not have the required discipline.

On the other hand, learning a new language is accomplished in a matter of days. Learning how to code well requires experience and willingness to learn from one's mistakes.

Which a candidate with a good CS background may already have.
The McDonalds map has more than one interpretation. Population density is much greater, and city-to-city distance much smaller, in the eastern half of the US. In other words, the great black areas in Nevada are not due to healthful zealots, but empty space where nobody lives.
Hotlink an image? That's now how the Like button works. It's more like linking to an IFRAME with its own javascript. Slight diff.
quite nice.. pls have a look at mine:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016040
(the announcement here on hn)
But it's not technical speculation - he pretty much says he knows nothing about these devices, then assumes they're not too dissimilar from a home PC. More just idle gossip.
How to Find Anyone's Email
How to double the UK strategic road infrastructure in ten years
as dark as this sounds, we still need a society where not everybody has a college degrees, otherwise the worth of the current degree will be diluted and there just isn't enough jobs for everybody to do work that requires a college degree
He would have a great answer for The YC application question of "how did you hack the system?"
I don't think the poster was allowing for GC, either.
That depends entirely on how you think about "turtles all the way down!" Primitives have to be built from something, our CPUs don't speak HTML natively.

We'll use jQuery as an example. People use jQuery bits to build widget sets for their own web UIs. Widget set libraries built on top of lower level libraries (primitives) that are themselves built on HTML/CS/JS. Companies like Microsoft are taking this to a whole new level with their Metro efforts.

These kinds of things are where browsers fall down and go boom. As other people have said here, the world is trying to turn documents (unmarked up content) into applications. It was a good first crack at the idea of marking up documents with application code, but ultimately its warts are starting to show.
Why distribute apps and deal with network latency when you can use Hipersockets to run at memory speeds. Even if it's been a couple of decades you should know that there are certain workloads that the mainframe excels at. Check out the z196 sometime. :)

I'm a Unix/Linux Sysadmin with 10 years experience and recently took the plunge as a mainframe software system programmer. It's taking some getting used to but I really like the platform. I had no idea how much tech that is old hat on a mainframe is thought to be so new in the distributed world.
Whatever you've read, Facebook likely has a non-trivial push strategy, just like everyone else. Nobody at their HQ is committing directly to the live site.
How to protect your self from crime..??
read topics about karate such as news,style,training,techniques,and how to protect your self
"I contend that I am capable of learning new material quickly enough that, if I were suddenly called upon at my job to write code which handles all of the slings and arrows of algorithmic complexity, I would be able to do so with very little friction."

How do you know whether or not this is true? Until you know it, how do you go about estimating how long it will take to you to learn it? How do you even assess when you've learned "enough" algorithmic complexity for the task at hand? Can you give any reasons someone looking to hire you should believe that you can learn the ins and outs of algorithmic complexity with "very little friction"?
its hard to say, but generally the public postings like that are a cover up to cover tracks.

you might imagine that no one ever puts such offer on public (or private with everyone having access to it) kind of boards.

its a very usual thing to do, at least, back in the day <strikeout>we</strikeout> they were doing that every time we weren't 200% sure of our tracks or for highly advertised targets (yeah you risk less hacking a whole ISP than you do hacking a nooby site such as mysql.com)
That's a micro/premature optimization at facebook's scale.
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Woodworking knowledge actually goes pretty deep. If you don't have a feel for each piece, it's easy to break blades, cause fires, or have bits go flying. It's achievable, but I agree with your putting it after radiology.
Hardly. Hotlinking an image can send an FB cookie too, and that's all you need.
It is the copyright of the images themselves, not the documents. The irony of it is, since they own the original pieces, they can prevent you from taking photos.
Please don't take this personally, but the whole "you're the product" meme, while it has a shred of truth in it, has been so re-hashed on the net that it's no longer pithy or informative. Just google for "you're the product" and you'll see what I mean.
Equality for all? And everyone fails...
> Gnostic and other "non-canonical" writings are also of interest. www.earlychristianwritings.com/

Is there any tl;dr versions of the above? I have curiousity about noncanonical writings, but don't have the time or inclination to go out and become a scholar of such things in order to sift wheat from chaff.
They do.. it's called disable third party cookies.
A filmmakers perspective on distributing films via the iPad
Where is full screen? Or at least expanded screen.

You know what really pisses me off about SlideShare.net and other slideshow sharing sites? There are no narrations! So half the time I don't know what the hell a slideshow is trying to say because some slides only have pictures or inside jokes or vague talking points. I really wish I could see AND hear a presentation at the same time. A presentation is about a person's idea, their voice, their viewpoint and the slides are just a visualization of that idea/voice/viewpoint. You'd be a ahead of the curve if you found a way to do that.
I just saw this in the article: "MOG ... will also require new users to log in with Facebook, said David Hyman, the company’s chief executive."

Does that mean no one will be able to sign up for MOG (another music service) without providing a Facebook account either? Am I interpreting that correctly? I looked for a sign-up button on MOG but didn't immediately see any way to sign up without a Facebook account.
Read Gary Taubes - he makes a convincing case for reducing carbs (sugar, bread, potatoes, rice) drastically to combat high blood pressure.
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Where is it? I gave up on finding it after about 30 seconds.

EDIT: Tried again, and realized the output is also the input.