skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered what he meant by "extractive" financial services, too.

>In the context of natural resources, I take that word to imply that the resource is depleted (e.g. non-renewable).

Is incorrect. Lumbering and agriculture are extractive industries but not "non-renewable". All primary production of resources are "extractive" industries.
Steve Jobs fielded some customer service requests
Ice Cream Sandwich runs (surprisingly?) well on Nexus S
I think having them steal the work is the least of your worries, you have to first actually get them to produce a successful product across three platforms. This is something thats challenging to do in-house so good luck making that work when dealing with non-native English speakers working on a different-time zone
On Usenet, "Google groups" - which provides easy Usenet access to the clueless, and violates netiquette by default - is only one notch above "AOL". Search "eternal september" for more information.

(By the way, aioe.net provides a good free newsserver, as does eternal-september.org. Of course, you'll have to go elsewhere for binaries.)
I am actually Brazilian, but still, none of this is relevant. There are startups in Israel, they are getting funded and having exits where they can. You might have a problem that this isn't solving the problems you believe your country have, but this isn't what the discussion is about.
How does the ring range work with nodes going down and new nodes being introduced into the cluster.
As per slide 38, it appears to be a static range.
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All of these versions of TeX are just extensions of the original TeX. The core Knuth's code is still used in each one of them. The stability comes from the core, not just from the work of pdftex, xetex and luatex developers.
Fine. "6 hours maximum", says the author, for an app translated into English and Spanish that interfaces with a remote database and performs some user-initiated calculations, and also has a bunch of static pages. Before starting you must consult with at least a dozen people who know very little about Android and succinctly describe the capabilities of the smartphone and what sorts of applications are even possible. Finally you must provide documentation.

Ready? Go! Keep track of your hours...

I installed the app. It works fine. Responsive, fast, no problems. I have two minor quibbles with the design, but they are minor. Does what it says on the box. Not an exciting piece of software, but... Has even one person commenting on this thread installed it except me? No? Didn't think so. "It's a piece of crap" says a highly self-interested blogger, and Hacker News jumps on that like starving dogs on Alpo.
I really don't understand any of this comment but for what it's worth I don't think Ed was trying to trivialize anyone; I just think that his comment merited a clarification. Ed knows it's all love with me.
Interestingly enough, I think a technology like this has to be monitored by professional sports--maybe not now, but I could see this type of technology being the new frontier in "cheating". It seems like the logical next step in performance enhancement. Imagine a display that could read the velocity of a fastball, measure the drop of a sinker, read a quarterbacks heart rate, or judge which receiver is the most open. A lot of players in professional sports already deal with technologically advanced contacts, though these are quite rudimentary and merely change the tint (Yellow and Red) to allow for athletes to see specific details much more clearly.
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I can appreciate that that (and the similar stories in reply) would happen. I recently successfully developed a complicated application using Knockout, but it involved fully committing to the rather strict computation model that is implied. I also had to modify and extend the core of the library.

I'd say that Knockout can be suitable for large applications, but that you need to handle having an unusual computational model pervade your code. If you're interacting with existing code, it can be tricky to get inputs and outputs mapped correctly, but the knockback library mentioned in the article probably solves that for backbone users.

One rule of thumb that might be useful is that any (non-event-handler) function you give to Knockout must handle being called an arbitrary number of times at arbitrary times, with some inputs being potentially outdated. If it cannot, you're not using the computational model the library essentially requires.
How many IT people are hourly? More than you'd expect...
Introducing The Humble Introversion Bundle
Don't forget you need to be Section 508 compliant,abide by a long listing of other requirements and make sure you fill out all the documentation saying you did those things.
TeX's original goal of 'allowing anyone to create typeset documents'

Actually, according to this interview[1], speaking of the very first version of TeX, "I should mention that I had no idea that I was designing a typesetting system that anybody else in the world would ever use, besides me and my secretary. My idea was that I would teach Phyllis, who was my secretary for almost 20 years… So Phyllis and I were going to be the users of this TeX system. … I tried to design it just good enough to do my books and no other books."

Even with the released version, I don't think TeX was ever intended to be the last word on typesetting; it was simply his best attempt at a decent markup. He then froze the features so that previously typeset books could be corrected and reprinted using the same source. He left it up to future programs to innovate.

[1]: http://www.webofstories.com/play/17118
Buying a real netbook is way easier... and you have a better keyboard (-;
There is no method currently defined to forward logs to another machine, so the journal is definitely prone to a local attack wiping it out (you typically have to be root to wipe log files anyway). The only method mentioned to move logs off-system is scp or rsync or some other method of copying a file over the network, which, to me, is a non-starter. I keep logs both locally and forward them to a trusted host, just in case.

I'm neutral on the binary format of the log; I can see both sides of the argument.
To the OP - thanks for that post! It's a very humble post and I hope people won't take it as self-aggrandisement. It's hard to make choices because we all only have one life. Make the best of it and I hope you use the perspective you gained in your travels to make twitter a better place for us users.
You have to click-through to read the entire paragraph (sorry, wanted to abide by fair use). The sentiment is that if this kind of low-standards wasteful spending happened in one small department, then imagine what happens at the Dept of Defense.
it would be so nice if we can just apt-get install lemp-server^
House Investigating Threats Posed by Chinese-owned Telecoms
Why couldn't you travel and take your family with you?

Edit: I was homeschooled my whole life (grad 2005) and homeschooling via Khan Academy and other online education sites seems like it would be especially effective. Exposure to tons of cultures at a young age seems like it would be awesome.
that is why HN is so entertaining to read as I did not realize there were this many clueless idiots :)
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A large fraction of modern drug development is focused on specific biochemical pathways, often identified via the study of rare genetic disorders or genome-wide association studies. For example, patients with Familial hypercholesterolemia, a relatively rare genetic disorder, provided strong evidence for a causal role of cholesterol in ischaemic heart disease (a discovery for which Brown and Goldstein were awarded the Nobel prize). The enzyme inhibited by statins (HMG-CoA-reductase) is a key player in this pathway.
I can only speak from my own experience. Taking that into account from the points you identified that is not depression, rather a state of being knocked down and overwhelmed. Something that in my experience you can push through and learn from.

Depression is different. The best way I can explain it is if you've ever experienced the kind of euphoria associated with a deep connection with someone else. Not just lust but a deep connection or love - depression is the exact opposite of that and just as powerful.

Unlike being in love, you may not know if you're actually depressed or just experiencing what I have taken your points to be as a state of being knocked down.
More great work from Google legitimizing and advocating for strong HTTPS defaults. I'm looking forward to this being broadly adopted.

Securely Yours,

Lil' B
One of my apps in the appstore is a reminders type app called Next Thing. Its designed for a slightly different purpose-- its meant to be left open next to your computer and keep you focused on one task at a time. You can see it here: http://pocketronic.com/

With the keyboard up on the iPhone or iPod touch, there's not a lot of space for controls in the navigation bar. You often need a cancel button and a save button, and since the title traditionally goes in the middle, there are no more button spots on the bar.

To solve this, we put the button in the view. Our view is of an index card given the nature of our app, and on it is a date field. But its a bit subtle, you can see it here: (not sure if this URL is stable or not.)
http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/055/Purple/04/e5/da/mzl.afnj...

However, since customers might not figure out that the date field can be tapped on to bring up the date picker, we also put a calendar button in the middle of the Navigation Bar.

We did this by replacing the title with a custom view, in which we put the button. This is probably what Apple should do.

FWIW, the hardest and most successful part of this app, in my thinking, is the date picker. You can see a screenshot of it here:
http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/015/Purple/a3/6d/de/mzl.mkfr...

We haven't added iCloud to it yet because we expected reminders, being built into the OS would kill sales. But that hasn't happened, even with the advantage of being integrated into Siri. So, we'll be adding iCloud soon as I can get some spare time.
My first (shallow) read of the proposal is that it solves one relatively high-risk, low-probability case by throwing a great deal of complexity at standard operations on which a great deal of existing infrastructure exists: log analyzers, summarizers, rotation systems (broken as they may be), and just simple shell tools.

Immediately prior to launching myself into Linux, I briefly toyed with Windows NT 4.0 WS, and among the bigger disappointments of it was the system logging facility and its user interfaces. While *nix logging has its bugaboos, the ability to chain simple tools together to perform tasks (example: grep, cut, and uniq -c on a postfix logfile to give a per-hour summary of mail delivery status by various classifications) provides tremendous flexibility. As compared with the single GUI interface Microsoft provided. I'd hope that Poettering et al won't repeat this bone-headed mistake, but the simple observation that their sample log event lacks ... a date stamp??!!! ... doesn't inspire me.

If there's a useful element from this it's the list of horribles against current syslog weaknesses. Many of these could be addressed by amending syslog and/or providing a bolt-on solution. I don't see a need for a total replacement.

As to the observation that there are currently several (incompatible) logging systems on Linux systems, ob xkcd: http://xkcd.com/927/
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-als-drug-symptom-morta...

Not ideal, but it's something.
Groupon Shares Plunge, Trading Close to IPO
These guys are clearly elite:

<code>
- (float)getHeatIndex:(float)temp:(float)humidity {

NSLog(@"[getHeatIndex] temp: %f, humidity: %f", temp, humidity);

float hIndex =
-42.379 + 2.04901523 * temp
+ 10.14333127 * humidity
- 0.22475541 * temp * humidity
- 6.83783 * pow(10, -3) * temp * temp
- 5.481717 * pow(10, -2) * humidity * humidity
+ 1.22874 * pow(10, -3) * temp * temp * humidity
+ 8.5282 * pow(10, -4) * temp * humidity * humidity
- 1.99 * pow(10, -6) * temp * temp * humidity * humidity;

//hIndex = round(hIndex);
NSLog(@"-Heat Index: %f", hIndex);
return hIndex;

}
</code>
Using recursion combinators in JavaScript
Where is Microsoft’s growth going to come from?
That … seems stupid? And I don’t really think that can be true.

I don’t even have a credit card (like many Europeans I only have a bank card) and I’m also not enthusiastic about giving my payment information for just using something or even just looking around.
Investment vs. Speculation: Capital Gains Tax Rates
I was at the talk, and it was very good in person... I really wish we'd recorded it :(
Indeed, the minimum amounts (known in EU jargon as de minimis tresholds) are higher than I had assumed.

As the Wikipedia article states, these de minimis tresholds "provide an incentive for authorities to divide contracts into separate lots", which is thought to be the reason for the small amount of public contracts that go through the tendering process.

I think individual member governments are free to set stricter limits, though. At least in Finland, some public contracts as small as 15,000 € are required to be openly tendered. (Last year there was a well-published scandal when a high-level Helsinki city administrator ordered some 70k€ worth of office furniture without official tendering.)
Your definition of "government's duty" is not universally agreed upon, and it's intellectually dishonest to predicate an argument on the presumption that it is.
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Watch your newspeak, citizen.

You meant doubleplusungood, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
Install Windows 7 from USB
Maybe it is just the crowd I hang out with, but I know a lot of technically inclined people who didn't quite get the memo when people were told to a) work for a big megacorp b) close to where they went to college.

There are a variety of ways to do it. They really do work. Plenty of normal, sane, well-adjusted people take advantage of them. There are avenues forward from them to either standard middle class career paths at home or continued success abroad, for a variety of values of "success."
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money_huge.png
As for the hybrid, is it safe to use projects like these from a business and maintenance point of view? That also goes for backbone.js and knockout.js for that matter. What if none of these projects exist 2 years ahead in time, and your web app depends upon them?
Sorry, I misstated and misread your post.

Some people may be very interested in time smoothing. That is spending time now, with the expectation of spending less time in the future because of present time invested. I think PG has talked about this in regards to startups. Work really hard for a concentrated number of years to reap large financial rewards and have the option of never working again.

Regarding the time/money trade off, that is, as you mention, a personal preference. I'd assume the type of person looking for a big law/finance/consulting job is the type of person who places much more weight on having lots of money and being part of the money culture, than enjoying downtime.
The worst part about it is that they often don't realize it.
I love reading Carmack's writing. I find it is always intelligent a great combination of interesting anecdote and generalized advice, making it both interesting and educational to read.

One could tangentally conclude from reading this post that a well designed architecture would easily support a second parallel implementation, whereas a heavily-coupled, poorly designed architecture would make the parallel implementation hard to pull off. Neat.
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The ranges are assigned by a per-node token. With 4 nodes like the cluster shown in the slides, you'd space the tokens apart appropriately for 25% of the range on each node.

When you add a node, you need to decide if you want to rebalance the cluster by moving every node's token a bit so that every node's range consumes 20% of the keyspace, or if you just want to quickly alleviate load by splitting a single node's traffic in half by assigning the new node's token half way into an existing node's range.

Decommissioning a node works the same way, but in reverse.

More detailed info: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/operations/cluster_manageme...
Kdenlive Part 2: Advanced Video Editing Technique
The brain can adapt to "seeing" images through the tongue [1] so I don't think this would be a problem. The brain is always adapting to new inputs.

[1] http://discovermagazine.com/2003/jun/feattongue
You might say "progressive" or "reform" politics instead of "liberal".
I hadn't seen that article before. It was a great read. Thanks for sharing.
If it is, it becomes an SEO game, which defeats the purpose of such a ranking system. I'd rather hire someone who is passionate about something, designs well, and writes good code. Their page ranking doesn't help me with that.

All I really see here is a "who's who" of the popular kids.
I've been on a govt project for the last four years and can't begin to tell you how much money is wasted on IT projects during the entire year. Hearing in the News that the administration is trying to save money by cutting on office supplies makes me laugh! The "Supercommittee" could have at least put a dent in the savings by literally just reviewing the IT projects that the Govt contracts out and the process they follow to manage those contracts.

In the agency I work in, there are 9 IT systems that go to production twice in a year. For the entire year the total development time provided (when environments are open for programmers to develop) is about 2 months. Yet the govt is paying the developers and complete IT teams for the entire year.

It really is ridiculous. Big boys like BAH, SAIC, CSC, CACI etc. etc. are milking the system and taking advantage of incompetent and gullible govt employees.
Ask HN: Why must government websites/apps be terrible?
This is based off the $200,000-for-a-crappy-app discussion, and in particular, comments like these:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266609

In which it is said that the amount of regulation and documentation required by gov't contracts is what inflates the price.

Yet, there are a few government sites that are actually very good. The recent Federal Register redesign is not only more attractive, but much more usable (look at the easy-browsing interface and the statistical updates)
http://www.federalregister.gov/

How is it that the Federal Register was able to procure such a useful site (if you think it's bad, Google "federal register" to find the old site)? It cannot be that the government is doomed to overpay for shit work just because of all the bureaucratic regulations.

(unless the contract for the federalregister.gov is in the billions. Then my point is moot)
This is actually one of the more important pieces of foundational work in the last year in longevity science; it validates a great deal of other work and theory on the role of senescent cells, and provides a working method of eliminating senescent cells, which had been lacking until now. See commentary:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/11/a-demonstration-o...

And heavy in depth commentary:

http://sens.org/node/2449
I'm not really surprised. I've always been astounded that Grooveshark (which is an awesome service, I use it everyday) was able to do what they do.

I figured that the labels were simply building enough evidence to simply destroy the service outright which will clearly send a message to anyone else who wants to do something similar.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I'm sorry but I take issue with your tone. I've been on around 4 antidepressants since reaching adulthood and I've dome (I'm still somewhat still doing) CBT. I'm fine now without further treatment but while I was being treated I must say that the pills work. Some more than others. Some people need them forever and some don't. The point of taking them is to get you motivated and just functional enough to start working out the cause. In my case they gave me just enough energy to get slightly involved in a few things. Those things then snowballed to the point where I didn't need the pills and had other outlets. I still am prone to be depressed far easier and more often than most but the treatment got me to a point where I have the tools lift myself out of it each time despite the fact that depression really is totally crippling and makes you believe there is no solution.

I still go to CBT though not often just because I really enjoy it and I get a lot out of it. Even the therapist agrees I'd be fine without it but it makes me happy so I go once or twice a month.

Depression is an illness just like addiction or diabetes. I mention addiction because that's another one people like to write off as a moral failing or something that just isn't a real illness.

I could be misunderstanding your point but my experience tells me you're wrong on this.