skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when a streaming-only customer searches for a title, and then finds that it is only available on DVD

So now, they'll find... it's not available at all. How does that any better for customer morale?
Along with the handwaving around what broadening a pool of applicants does to the mean, (and surely around here we would understand that -- consider more homepage viewers lowering conversion rates), there is no mention of the change in scoring systems for SAT II; maybe these are accounted for (well not the first), there's just no way to know.

It's unfortunate, because some really great data about how well students in the US are doing, adjusted for measures that would allow longitudinal comparison would be, you know, useful.

As it is, all we learned is that this guy hates teacher's unions, and liked "waiting for superman", but I could have guessed that from his Bio.
I would go as far as saying that it does not offer much more than what you can do with the http module. But if you take away built-in template engines, orm, active reccord and an CRUD generators (both for web forms and APIs), the same applies to 90% of the frameworks out there.
I work with pretty messy code bases and every other week find myself wondering if using a framework did really helped more than it introduced unnecessary code.
> "you'd be an idiot to employ people in the regulatory and tax nightmare the United States is in right now.... I'm probably an outlier"

A couple weeks back, CNN Money asked a bunch of small business owners what they'd ask Obama to do to make it easier to hire [0].

Several of those interviewed said cumbersome regulations and ever-changing rules were the main impediments to hiring. There were specific complaints about corporate tax rates and unaffordable health care. Both the 7th and 8th slides amount to "stop doing stuff! Stop rocking the boat!"

I'd say you're not an outlier.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/smallbusiness/1109/galle...
I think Interview Street (http://interviewstreet.com) handles this now. If you click on "jobs" in the banner at the top of HN there is a link out.
I really wish people took this possibility, which is the College Board's position, more seriously before turning to whatever their favored educational hobby-horse is.
Seems to introduce some signaling issues...

The stronger the company, the less likely they are to accept the note at a 3mm cap.
It should, of course, have read

do do -> k=[];j = -> k.push i; do j
I think glassdoor.com has a pretty nice salary comparison tool as well.
Any reason to use C# instead of F#, considering F# is more functional?

Wonder if it has something to do with COM...
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Enquiring minds would like to know the hardware / android-image you used for this project. Tablets, even large ones, are nothing new now... but I'd really like to know how to build my own.
Nice, I just registered. I know nobody, but that's supposedly the best way to maximize returns :)
That's something computers are really, really good at.

The cameras don't have to be too widely separated. A little time and space helps a lot. The main problem is that this reduces your areal coverage as you're dedicating multiple sensors to a single sensing target.
Would have been nice to link the original source instead of RWW http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/09/20/world/middleeast/...
I understand your concern, but if you read the table of contents, you'll see that this is a complete guide that starts from scratch. It certainly helps you find "a good juicy orange", and discusses what kind of content you should write and how to present it (before proceeding to promote, monetizing, etc, it).
- I was correcting grandparents comment, that said up to 1/3 of rake generated goes back to the affiliate that signed up the player, and that is called "rake back". This is not correct. Only 1-3% goes back to the affiliate. Rakeback refers to the money that goes back to the player, either via the affiliate or directly. I'm not sure what part you are correcting me on?

- The lowest tier VIP level at pokerstars (that you can achieve from a few hands of poker play) amounts to 8.8% rakeback and more with stellar rewards, freerolls etc. It would be very hard to be a real money player and not achieve bronze star.

- You say stars "didn't pay dime" like pokerstars no longer exists. I can assure you they are still alive and well, and they are actually larger than 1 year ago despite the events of Black Friday.
It seems unlikely that bing will be better over time, since google has more data and will continue amassing more click-through data with which to improve the results.
These are strictly quantitative numbers as we haven't done deep research into the overall sentiment of the announcement. But it does give you an idea of just how much reach Netflix has and how their announcements drive conversation.
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Agreed, I read that one as well. What struck me was the link the author drew to LISP macros.
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UAVs get a lot more mileage than manned surveillance craft. Cheaper, smaller, fly lower, greatly reduced crew risk, and ability to swap out crew mid-flight.

Particularly interesting now are smaller drones -- from the size of typical hobbyist RC planes to insect-size micro-drones useful for surveillance in highly localized areas or inside buildings.

Eye-in-the-sky was really useful when we didn't have a good idea of where on Earth things were (the US made significant "corrections" to Soviet-era maps of central Asia in the 1950s and 60s). While they're useful to keep tabs on things, high-value surveillance tends to be more localized and focused.
This is analogous to the "let's drop IE6!" movements. If your client doesn't need backward compatibility, great for you. If they do, then good luck charging them for a new version that's worse (no longer works/compiles) in their environment.
It feels like the amount given to incubated startups is creeping up, both in YC and now in TechStars, as the programs have gotten more popular.

Do people no longer feel that "the amount a graduate student makes for three months" is enough to actually start a company? Or is this more reflective of the market value rising for the amount of equity typically taken by a top incubator? If it's the latter, wouldn't there be a new opportunity for an incubator to give grad student wages to willing companies for a much smaller equity stake?
Estimation is at the root of most software project failures
Don't forget Orkut(google owned) and Google Social Network (not 100% sure of the name) which is tightly integrated with blogger.

On a side, yet related, note: did anyone had a google email account in the late 90s? Long before gmail, google had an email service, it was by far the worst email service I've used, full of bugs, many long downtimes and countless other issues.
I would replace "excellent" with "extremely thorough."

I would recommend the posted link for a first introduction -- it's short, explains decorators as clearly but more approachably, and talks about their application to classes, something the SO answer misses.
I have a Verizon Thunderbolt, and the battery life absolutely sucks compared to the iPhone 4. AnandTech did a great comparison [1]. The other 3 phones on their LTE lineup are all huge too, with equally bad battery life (maybe with the exception of the new Droid Bionic, which some reviews say has OK battery life but still nowhere near the iPhone 4).

The other dimension besides battery life is size, and all their LTE phones are pretty big size-wise. My Thunderbolt is huge compared to my old Nexus One or my wife's iPhone 4. I don't know if the bigger screen is now what Android manufacturers feel the market wants, but the thing is fairly thick too, and I imagine that's due to having to pack in all the LTE guts.

I think the iPhone, even with 3G, can still hold its own given both the major size and battery life advantages it has.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4240/htc-thunderbolt-review-fi...
C++11 would be nice, but I think it will be a while before I can use it. I don't think any of the mobile platforms support it...

I am now using GCC 4.4 and haven't used MSVC in a while.
More nonsense on Android from former mouth of Brooklyn, Marco.org
The examples use string concatenation for the sake of simplicity. Strata doesn't attempt to tie you to any particular templating library because everyone has their own preferences and there are so many of them out there.

For an example of using ejs with Strata, take a look at the source to the Strata website: https://github.com/mjijackson/stratajs.org
Do they still run Windows NT4 on their dev systems, too? This is quite surprising.
The original title is misleading. The actual thrust of the article is "are you soliciting help in a way which encourages participation by people from HCCs?" That's certainly something to think about, but it's a very different question from whether open source itself excludes them.
I see this kind of statement all the time from people and its just not a fair test. If you want to do a real test of the spam rates you must use the accounts in the same way.

its a known fact that older accounts get more spam than newer ones. And who knows what services you have signed up before with your yahoo account that you didn't with your Gmail.
The very fact Streisand is a person and not a company suggests people can't always evaluate benefit/risk ratios very well, regardless of the size and nature of that ratio.
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The StartFund style money is entirely in play so investors can get in on "the next big thing". There's a pretty common belief that the next Google will go through a really good incubator on their way to world domination.
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To be fair, it's the funding council and not the Government that made this choice.
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I really appreciate this answer. What you're doing here is some good philosophical reasoning, setting up an epistemological foundation for the practice of science. Popper would have something to say about your use of inductive/Bayesian reasoning as a foundation -- I think you've mixed a little Popper in here with your use of 'falsification'. If you're interested in this stuff, you might look into the problems with induction as an epistemological foundation, and how Popper attempts to solve that problem in his Objective Knowledge.

Good stuff.

As far as reductionism is concerned, my problem with it, in a nutshell, is that at its core it is dogmatic and built on core metaphysical assumptions that a reasonable person doesn't have to accept. I suggest to you that your confidence in materialism/reductionism is inherited and only seems likely and intuitive to you because most moderns are steeped in materialist metaphors and abstract confidence in reductionism and the hope for prediction and control it provides. But that hope is really based on the triumphs of Newton, not the last hundred years, as your citation of Copenhagen and String, etc., demonstrates. At the very least it must be acknowledged that physics has not progressed as it was hoped 150 years ago, and our expectations for what we eventually can and can't know are being truncated or qualified into increasingly abstract and near-poetic models. Does the boson exists? Branes, strings? Will we ever get a GUT? Those are live questions and at the very least should cause the triumphal materialist a measure of humility.

Any number of philosophers in the last 100+ years have pointed out that reductionism is not the only possible model and has never been the only possible scientific model. In the modern era, from Leibniz on we've had basic philosophical systems and metaphors that would fit very nicely into modern physics, but would require a basic inversion of our idea that at the core reality is dead matter, rather than something like rudimentary/primitive mind. Spinoza, Husserl, Whitehead, Bergson are just the biggest names that advocated some version of this.

For some reason it's very difficult for us moderns to give up the basic dogma that reality must be dead matter, or mute energy or some paradoxical balance of the two (paradox?! in science?! that's mysticism!)
Maybe adding a simple "^" at the begining of the regex should be enough :)

/^https?:\/\/([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(\/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?/

Otherwise, could be used for XSS. Like this url (http://naurls.me/39696e):

javascript:<script>alert('HELLO world');</script>http://naurl.me/
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I'm not saying this was blatant censorship; but the overwhelming consensus in this thread of 'this is obviously a case of dozens of people hitting `mark as spam`' or some other coincidence is really surprising.

Twitter blocked #occupywallst from trending; people switched to #takewallstreet and it was trending again.

I don't see any really good reason to think of yahoo or internet in the USA as some bastion of freedom; especially when it can be 'blocked' by such murky means as a spam filter (plausible deniability allows people to act out just a bit more).

Our government has shown again and again that it is willing to tap all our means of communication (to the point of potential constitutional infringement) and mega corps have been generally willing participants.

To dismiss some phrase or website being manually dropped into a spam filter as an outrageous conspiracy theory makes me wonder if I am insane; because it's my perception these mega corps, banks, and government agencies will go to whatever extreme they can get away with; rather than up to some arbitrary point of what is 'right or wrong'; and this certainly seems like something they can get away with.
Like I suspected, this entire thread has been turned by zealots into a Microsoft-bashing exercise.

I genuinely dispair for people who spend their entire time platform bashing and don't add something constructive to the discussion or tar and feather a side religiously. It paints a very bad picture of the "startup culture" amongst more established organisations.
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RIM's PlayBook manufacturer cutting production lines as sales slump
One of the stated potential uses for the $100k is "help a team make a critical hire". I think this may be a result in part of rising market rates for quality developers.. It used to be a lot easier to get someone to come work on your startup for 1% equity + $30k salary than it is now.
That's like saying that WSGI/Rack don't do anything more for Python/Ruby than their respective HTTP libraries. When you understand the rationale behind those libraries you'll understand Strata.
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I've been using neo4j for a while now for a new project and i'm very impressed so far - especially if you have typical graph problems to solve (social networks?). I especially like the fact that it's ACID compliant and has an embedded lucene search to solve non-traversal type queries. Good for them that they raised some cash to further develop their product.

Their beta module on Heroku is another win win for me :)
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I'd like to see some pictures of the device itself from different angles, a touch screen monitor is not a big deal in this day and age.
RIM may have an unsold stockpile of nearly 800,000 PlayBook tablets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/21/rim-job-cuts-playbook-backlog
IMO LTE isn't that big of a deal. Fast is ok, but getting hosed by the carriers for the privilege of using it is not so ok.

If I were Apple, I would be focusing on diversifying the carrier portfolios to gain leverage over the vendors for a good data plan. If Sprint is willing to provide an acceptable LTE plan, give them exclusivity, and to hell with VZ and AT&T.
I love how you are breaking this down and appreciate sharing the information.
At this point I'd actually compare it more closely with Werkzeug (http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/).
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"I am quite happy editing them with vi or emacs"

Sure, so am I (well except for Sendmail configs). We were talking about programmatically editing here.

"And, when I wanted to parse my own config files, I always had libraries to do it ready."

Really? How do you, in bash, write a script to change, or if necessary add, an 'IndexAllowed' directive to a certain specific VirtualHost? Mind you, Apache config files can Include other files (and many distros ship with default config files that use this).

"Are you trying to build a GUI tool to edit Apache configuration files?"

I'm not building anything, I was just using this as an example of things you'd want to script, for example in the context of a web hosting provider who wants to automate the creation of new customer setups. (Yes I realize that there are many way to attack this specific problem, but most of them are very specific to Apache and would have to be re-engineered for each problem)
LWN notice and discussion of "Garrett: UEFI secure booting" at http://lwn.net/Articles/459569/
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II launches October 2nd for $199.99
I have wanted to hone my writing skill, but I rarely have anything to write about. It just doesn't come to the fore-front of my thoughts for me to sit down and write a 200 or 1000 word blog post. I'm very technical and also a generalist, so I feel like I should have something to write, but the words (or, maybe muse?) escape me.

Does your book talk about how to get over this roadblock?
That's going to be awkward on the toilet.
It's ReSharper from JetBrains. It's a widely used plugin for Visual Studio providing a handful of refactoring and productivity tools.
It sounds to me like the author is indicating that people with the "high-context" don't just jump in. If they make their own changes to the code, presumably they'd not attempt to get them merged (due to distrust of others or distrust of self?). They need a soft and gradual introduction into the development community and the group of people that work on the project regularly before they feel comfortable enough to submit patches and interact in otherwise meaningful ways.

That's what I took from the article. It's an interesting problem.
agree - i google almost every professional i come in contact with and hate when i can't find the right person
Any advice on deciding when to spin content off into its own separate blog (e.g., programmingzen.com) rather than putting that content on your personal blog?

EDIT: bought a copy; looks like this is addressed in the first chapter. Thanks!
I would also add innovation to your equation as a prime-mover in Wii sales. The Wii Remote was like nothing before it; playing a four-player game of Wii Tennis was radically innovative (and an absolute blast!)
i look up all technical candidates on Github... only problem is some people have multiple online identities making it hard to find them on LinkedIn & Github & at their blog etc...
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Oh.. i had no idea, I just assumed a model similar to stackexchange. I would be surprised if that has not been proposed/discussed yet.
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Oh come on, seriously? I'm not saying it's the best thing ever, but it works well enough for the majority of small businesses. There is nobody who is really inconvenienced by having to use AD (it's not like most people would even notice). At least it provides a default and standard authentication system, unlike the hacks I've seen where people use rsync to distribute /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to all machines (and don't get me started on that piece of junk OpenLDAP, I have yet to meet the first person who could build a complete and working centralized auth environment with it.)
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I my opinion you choose cloud if you have a high variance of user activity. Need 30 servers at day and 1 at night? Then Cloud is correct for you. Always need 4 servers? Then dedicated servers are probably best. Need servers with great ping and are in Europe and not England? Then use dedicated servers in the country where you are at or most of your customers are. But the best is a mixed setup if you can do that. Rent the number of servers you always need (3 for example) and for spikes start up the cloud with one or two more servers if you really need them for an hour.
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The Wufoo guys just created a kick-ass product, they are really talented javascript and css engineers. Now it's common for a site to be streamlined with drag and drop interfaces, dynamic lists and the like, but a few years ago, those kinds of sites were hard to come by. Plus they are just cool guys, I actually found a bug in the site once, sent them a reference to the bug in their contact form and one of the team members sent me back a personal note about fixing it. Those are the kinds of finishing touches to a product that I think made Wufoo excel, albeit in a kind of weird tech space.
I think you read the opposite of what I was trying to say.

I have dealt with storage 'at scale' enough to require a full team of storage people.

Some guy clicking buttons on the Amazon website is usually not a very effective way of dealing with storage 'at scale'.
> [...] It's perfectly possible to ignore something for decades and still fall in love with it later.

> [...] I can believe you are no Windows fanboy without you presenting credentials.

You're right. Sometimes I believe it is better to point out where I am coming from (especially when replying to the "anti-something" kind of posts) to avoid to be seen as a fanboy. I always try to be as unbiased as possible. Maybe I'm just being overly considerate.