skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even purified water is murderously destructive.

Indeed, water is more destructive to materials than many other liquids. And deionized water is the worst. It turns out that you have to explicitly make deionized water for a reason: Many of the things that touch water want to dissolve in it! And the fewer ions of, say, copper that are already in your water, the faster a rod of copper dissolves when you dip it into that water.

Think of water the way you think about the blood of the aliens in Aliens – only on a slightly slower timescale – and you'll realize why boat maintenance is better thought of as a lifestyle rather than as a series of repairs.
Please stop the FUD. My experience has been that Linux support for most laptops by Lenovo, Dell, HP etc is pretty good. There are couple specific technologies that dont work well with Linux - Nvidia Optimus, any graphics hardware from Imagination Technologies (hardware is good but their driver story is unbelievably convoluted). If you buy a thinkpad and hold it for five years your chances of it being able to competently run the latest and greatest version of linux are far greater than your chances of doing the same with a with osx or windows.
yeah complete rehash.
Learn to code? How about learn to sell
MS11-083 Honeypot
It may not be common, but I don't think it is an unreasonable thing to expect. Think of a country such as the Democratic Republic of Congo -- I'm not entirely certain, but I'd imagine it is common for someone to simply start typing "Congo" while still expecting the result to be available.

This example may not be ideal since this country selection has both "Congo" and "Congo, Democratic Republic of" in its data set, but the principle can probably be applied elsewhere.
Bud Light Platinum, absolutely absurd
Words can not describe this action by Budweiser, also an awesome video from a booze filled Sunday years ago.
0MQ looks very interesting, but most of the information available seems to be "how to use it". I can't find detailed specifications of its behavior, nor a detailed description of the implementation that I could use to figure that out myself. (Short of wading through the source code.) So it's hard to understand exactly how load balancing works, exactly what happens to in-flight messages on a server crash, exactly what guarantees are provided for message ordering (e.g. in a complex multi-participant scenario), at-least-once vs. at-most-once message delivery, etc.

Does anyone know of a good, detailed explanation of how 0MQ is implemented?
I got incorporated in the US. Not funded as in VC funding.
Python swallowed deer in Florida……
I'm Spanish and my GF is Portuguese. I can vouch for everything you said.

As an enterpreneur, I work really hard every day to meet my goals. 14 hours days are not unusual to me and working some 3-4 hours a day on weekends is the norm. When others know I work from home, they either assume that I just sit browsing Facebook all day and I'm really just collecting unemployment for the government or that I'm a lazy asshat whose parents pay for everything.

A year and a half ago, I was lucky enough to be featured by the most popular regional newspaper (~1M people live in this area) because of some work I did. A lot of the people who know me IRL congratulated me by it, but you should have seen some of the comments in the newspaper's website: they were incredibly vitriolic, calling me a lot of things like "lucky code butcher" or suggesting I was friends with someone in the newspaper because what I did was not newsworthy.

Combine that with the absurdly high unemployment rate, the incredibly high amount of people who prefer collecting 600€ of unemployment rather than working for 1000€ and the ridiculously high taxes we have to pay (an employee taking home ~1300€ a month would cost me around ~2700€) and you end up with the nightmare for startups we have here.
I agree with what others have said, it good to dress appropriately (typically a notch above what people at the firm typically wears). That said, I don't think you should focus too much on clothes.

Google, the better I-banks, etc. will have a recruiting process that's professional enough that they won't reject applicants because they were a bit too formally (or informally) dressed -- especially for a position that won't be customer-facing (I'm assuming you aren't applying to sales jobs).

I'd call up the firms you've interviewed for and ask what they liked and didn't like about you, ask them to be honest. Most interviewers will answer!
Italy does not suck at all at the startup game.
You English-only speaking people simply don't often hear about us because we speak Italian on Italian Startup Scene (http://www.facebook.com/groups/italianstartups/) so our plans to conquer the world with our startups remain hidden to you. ;)

Antonio, come to our (why not yours yet?) group and see what 3248 Italian startuppers are currently doing to improve the situation of Italy.

And after Berlusconi's exit from politics, Italy will be a better place for everyone.
Getting started with FW/1 in Clojure
For me, In Chrome on OSX the entire screen flashes blue during animation, and the page flickers constantly - anyone else get this?

Apart from that I liked the effects as a proof-of-concept.
ctime is change time, not creation time.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20460/how-do-i-do-a-... "Note that the ctime (ls -lc) is not the file creation time, it's the inode change time."

So, like I said...yes you do have to roll your own to get it. Enjoy that.
On #2, €1800/mo rent including utilities sounds pretty absurd! Is that in a particularly desirable city center, or with some unusual arrangement (e.g. furnished short-term rentals?). The Italians I know here in Copenhagen have mentioned rent prices closer to €700-900 for a 1-bd back in Italy, when complaining about how expensive Copenhagen is in comparison (€1800 would even be high for Copenhagen, though; it's more like €1000-1300 here).
The Deleveraging Myth: Is debt really hurting the economy?
Story for you: I quit my corporate job and then had a co-founder bail on me 1 week later. So I had to ask my old boss to take me back. Luckily he agreed. I then quit 6 months later.
Is it just me or is tech particularly sleazy right now?
Both of those work fine here, and there are a half dozen other jQuery grids available if you want to try them out.
Have you used the product in question?
Ashton hands over management of @aplusk
You said it yourself - you want the controls to _fade_ into the background.

A fade is a very simple animation to communicate what's happening, but the details of duration and exponential vs linear transition can make a simple fade seem frantic, soothing, or even invisible. When you say "fade into the background", I assume you mean a linear animation that takes about 1 second. It's pretty awesome that the world has a very specific fade that serves as a "word" in our shared design language.

Interactions are filled with interstitials and microstates, but a fade isn't really appropriate for all of them. While we try to figure them out, some folks will make animations that remind us of geocities - but others are going to express actions with animations that seem so natural we can't help but describe the action as the animation. Just as you did.

And then our shared design language will have a new word.
In order to determine which employees would be asked to give stock back, Pincus and his executives tried to pinpoint workers whose contributions to Zynga--in the execs' eyes--didn't necessarily justify the potential cash windfall they could receive when the company went public

I'm going to take a wild stab here and guess that none of their own names were on the list they came up with.

Whenever crap like this happens, pull out an org chart. You'll pretty much be able to draw a straight line that divides who shits and who eats shit.
I suspect we have different definitions of 'unique' and/or 'application', because this sounds to me like someone saying the need for tyres is unique to cars that have wheels.
Identified: What kind of recruiting scam has Eric Schmidt invested in?
I've done the same. Been at home since 2001 and now I'm even using a mini white board to create a list of things to do before 2pm. Some of those things are on the master to-do list, others are just the things off the top of my head, but if I set a mid-day deadline, there's hope that all will get finished.
As a vimperator user and command line person this is awesome. But obviously as a tablet or mobile phone user this would be not good.

I think this could be easily fixed by having the drop down menu pop up when you click in the input field (before you have typed anything).
What I am suggesting is to allow the public and analysts to see the detailed positions of the institution and make accounting superfluous. We can view accounting as an extremely flawed model that lacks timely updates. By operating in the sunshine an array of activities permitted by information hoarding will no longer be sustainable.
First, my sympathies for your wife, I wish the best outcome for you both. Second, please do not take any of the following for medical advice, I intend to speak generally.

I mostly said moderately differentiated, because for a lot of pathologists, if you give us a three tiered system for grading some type of cancer (and there are systems for almost every type of cancer) that we'll put most things in the middle. I personally believe two tiered systems work better for most everything. Most studies have shown that breast cancer scoring (in the US, most use the Nottingham modification of the Bloom-Richardson system) is only moderately reproducible anyways [1][2]

I tend to only fully grade the tumor after it has been resected, because there is not much point in grading it on the biopsy (ie. it won't change management, most patients are still going to have surgery) since sampling error may influence the final grade if you are discrepant from the biopsy.

I always tell friends and family that if they have any medical procedures, and most especially those for cancer, to always get copies of the operation note and the final pathology interpretation. The operation note will be written by the surgeon and will detail everything she did during the operation, what was removed, what was placed, etc. The final pathology will be the best place to get detailed information about what the tumor, where it is, the pathologic stage, etc. Your discussions with all of the other doctors will all basically be dictated by this report. There may be multiple of them, one for each procedure. So get the biopsy pathology report, the pathology report from the mastectomy, etc. They should also report out the results of the ancillary testing to (ER/PR/Her2) since they are the ones who did them. Most of the cancer reports (in the US anyways) should be written in accordance with the protocols from our professional organization and can be found online [3]. You'll probably find them somewhat tedious, but there is a wealth of information in there [4]. You are entitled to those reports and you really owe it to yourself to get a copy. If your doctor/doctor's staff won't get you one, then you could contact the pathology group directly to obtain one, don't hesitate.

In general, the grade of the tumor is far, far less important than stage of the tumor at diagnosis (most importantly the status of the axillary lymph nodes) and also the ER/PR/Her2 status of the tumor.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15920556

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7856562

[3] http://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true&cntvwrPtlt...

[4][pdf] http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protoc...
Various alternative explanations like that have been explored, but it seems the effect is not due to wording:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/jj/conjunction_controversy_or_how_th...
Intel quest depends on undercutting MacBook Air
How is it Microsoft's fault that the world couldn't agree on line-termination or charset (especially charset, since there really was no reasonable option before unicode)?
It's a fine combination; as the settings hint, they were designed to be used together.
What a bunch of assholes. Seriously.
I'm not proposing anything. My point is that there are other options.

As to the rest of your response, I don't mean to be rude but you're simply rambling. Obviously with a legacy system you work with what you've got, but the point is what you would choose if you had a brand new system and needed to make the call today. Choice of language depends on system requirements as we all know.

I really feel uncomfortable about all this posturing. I'm all for discussion, but if you honestly consider me a moron for saying what I have, you shouldn't have any interest in responding. Participating in a discussion merely to dismiss (and disparage) the other party is pointless and boring. Down-vote and move on.
At the risk of feeding the frenzy that is calling out each article title as link bait:

Linux Mint is the "top distro" _on Distrowatch_, which is much worse than sampling from, say, Google, which might have a more representative sample. Visitors of Distrowatch are significantly more likely to be not just tech-savvy but also interested enough to draw distinctions between different flavors of Linux. I see myself as being pretty "tech-savvy", yet I never cared enough to look into distros outside of Ubuntu 11.04.

Especially given the fact that a Facebook survey suggested 90%(!) of users are still using Ubuntu, seems like the article even discredits itself.
No. If he was looking at low-performing employees he would fire them.

He's looking at some high-performing employees in a terrible labor market, and calculating that their BATNA is not very good, so he's deciding to find a way to screw them.
> Reputation is everything.

Not if you, as founder, really are in it for the money and your first exit sets you up for life. Can anyone think of a company that might be relevant to this discussion where such a description might apply?

> Zynga employees cannot comment on anything anywhere because of the quiet period.

I can't believe no-one is going to sue over this, given the amounts of money presumably involved, and I doubt a judge is going to seal the records in such a case. I'm sure we'll find out the details soon enough.
How Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into Silicon Valley
Very. It's bad.

I kind of got out of startups for that reason. I just couldn't take working with sociopaths anymore. I have some stories. Serious f'ing stories. And no, I'm not just "player hating." A lot of it didn't even involve me. I just couldn't take working in proximity to such sleaze.

Tech's had this reputation as a place where fortunes can be made. That's going to attract a lot of ambitious and creative people, but it's also going to attract a lot of scum.

What amazes me about my personal experiences is how unsuccessful a lot of the sociopathic behavior was. It really brought home to me that these people have a mental illness. In the same way that someone with severe OCD will do things like wash their hands until the skin comes off, these people are neurotically compelled to dominate others even if doing so actually harms them. They must win their petty battles and dominate those seen as weaker, even if it means losing in the real world.

I literally watched the moment at which a pathological sociopath tanked a million-dollar opportunity because he had to try to put one over on his partner. Had to.
Right, my brain put a 'just' in front of bank teller in response A, then I started thinking about whether the facts in the paragraph would seem to have anything to do with whether she was a feminist, or had anything to do with banking. A re-parsing and I thought maybe it was about whether we associated feminists with protesters, since his previous paragraphs mentioned prejudices we have, etc.

I ended up not choosing an answer and reading on, as it seemed like a 'trick' type question, and indeed, I was thinking about what it had alluded to, not what the actual question was.
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Get people to work like hell having given them stock options... Then take it away from all but the top 20% or face termination?

the manager who came up with that idea is no doubt getting a huge bonus.
Scumbag Zynga?

Make money pressuring users to pay for virtual goods. Pressure employees to give stock for virtual jobs...
I wonder if any early Google employees begrudge Charlie (he's the "early Google chef", right?) his millions.

An army travels on its stomach. Google's chefs helped make Google the company it is today. Why is it so wrong that they be rewarded?
Looking at their products and how they treat their users I would have expected them to be sleazy in other ways too. I think it's just Zynga.
Some excellent points even for a non-maths guy like me. And I learned a new word: incunabulum.
Here you're allowed to hate the players, and their games...
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Thank you very much for this info. I would not have known to ask for the reports and greatly appreciate the time you took to respond.
Its called Mafia Wars for a reason..now we know the reason..capice
I don't think it's quite what you're talking about, but I have an Emacs function that runs the current region through Python and replaces it with the stdout from running it.

For your example, I write this:

vars = list('abcdefghijklm')
for v,i in zip(vars, range(len(vars))):
print("#define {} {}".format(v, i))

Select it and press Ctrl+Alt+p and have it replaced by:

#define a 0
#define b 1
#define c 2
#define d 3
#define e 4
#define f 5
#define g 6
#define h 7
#define i 8
#define j 9
#define k 10
#define l 11
#define m 12

https://gist.github.com/1355548
When your Arduino projects go a little too far (cartoon)
Yeah, honestly this whole situation feels like a "come to Jesus" moment for HN. This type of screwage by corporations happens all the time to people across the U.S., whether it is pay cuts for the peons, unpaid overtime, layoffs where you have to do twice the job for the same pay, whatever. And HN has always danced right over them: "Sucks to be you, suckers! If you were really smart, you'd have joined a startup!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!11!!"

Now that it's HN's ox being gored, there's a different feeling about it. Labor rights aren't just for farmhands and Walmart workers.
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It's sad to say, because I hate unions, but in this case Unions would solve this problem.

Evil likes this, creates a need to create a counter force.
Congratz! I've been using 0MQ for few years on distributed db, now it's hard not to architect distributed/threaded apps without 'message passing' design which 0mq is pushing for. Plus the mailing list is pretty helpful and friendly.
Clearing up the confusion around Growl 1.3.
US cyclist Landis guilty of using hacker to spy on lab
I don't "get" Google's interview process. I've gotten to the final interview twice. Both times I felt I had nearly flawless interviews. I've heard that Google's recruitment philosophy is that they would rather sacrifice many good candidates than take the chance of letting a bad one slip by. I call BS on this. Like most things in life, getting an offer from Google requires some amount of luck. Don't take it hard that you didn't get in.
Call me crazy, but I'm kind of glad I don't have enough drama to make it on this show...
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The market is not perfectly efficient; that's why people can make money in it.
You've reminded me the time when I decided to leave my job and become a freelance. My parents wouldn't stop telling me I was crazy for leaving a nice job for the uncertainty of being your own boss.

I'm not in PT right now, but GF lives in Porto and I get to spend quite a bit of time there. Drop me an email (it's in my profile) and we'll catch a beer some time.
It depends on many factors, "system requirements" is so vague as to be meaningless. Conciseness of expressing the algorithm is one, sure, so is the need to interoperate with other systems, both bespoke and off the shelf, so is the existing skillset of the organization and the talent pool it hires from.

It must be nice to only work on greenfield projects, but as I keep saying, it is not experience that transfers to large scale development efforts, which span decades and continents. If you spread this kind of misinformation, you create more problems than you solve, when the "business logic" is in a hundred places and no-one knows what bit of the system does what. Sure SQL isn't the perfect language, but it is the de facto lingua franca. And there is no "the app" for the business logic to live in. There are a hundred apps, each of which is a piece of "the app".

And if we're pointing fingers, it was you who asserted that a DBA who sees the big picture (funny how every developer thinks theirs is the only app in prod, when they are really in a cast of thousands) doesn't know how to do their job. Show a little humility and you will learn.
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Amazon ramps up Kindle Fire production to 5 million units in 2011
A bit facile. Nationalism and Tribalism have been around for a long time... I'd argue that it's part of human nature.
It's not tech. It's anything that can make money. People have stopped considering others and only do what they can to make money.

Not that there aren't still ethical people out there, it's just that the unethical ones make it so hard to see them.
Awesome work Sean! This is going to rock, especially for startups.
Not quite, since it's unvested shares they're taking back. The company has promised to give those shares to the employees when they hit certain tenure milestones, but the company still owns them in the meantime. If they fire the employee, the company keeps those shares.
That's part of the reason why they actually don't pay any of it. Tax evasion is widespread and in the open; the government periodically reacts with amnesties, which is the catholic thing to do, right? All is forgiven, let's try again! But what are you going to do, knowing there is going to be an amnesty sooner or later? You just don't pay, of course. So the State is not getting enough money, and they have to create a new tax to cover the shortfall, which will increase the official rate but that's ok, because almost nobody is paying it anyway, not even your main politician for 17 years, and he's fucking rich.

This makes the real tax rate between 5 and 20%, depending on the specific amnesty you're going to enjoy, how much you feel like paying, and how good is your accountant.
Important to note this applies only to unvested stock.

I'm not defending the move, but in reality the company could terminate the employees (at-will employment in California), which would terminate their further vesting anyways.

This is not the clawback scenario that Silver Lake executed with Skype.
Visualizing the words used in GOP Primary debates (HTML5)
UFC on FOX: MMA has finally gone mainstream
Looks like very good compared to Brazil, where we pay around 40% and still have to pay for private healthcare and education because the public services are terrible.
I'm on my Android handset, and this thing doesn't work at all for me.
"A company that abused its bargaining position like this should not expect to be able to hire good employees in the future."

It seems the company does not believe this to be the case. Possibly they are in a better position too know. Or they are beyond the phase where top talent is required to de-risk the business. Very calculating either way.
The man reference is a good place if you want an API centric view. http://api.zeromq.org/
The guide does show "how to use it", but chapter one does a good overview of the capabilities: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Chapter-One-Basic-Stuff