skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand why Wikipedia has barriers. But what I was saying is that they're out of control.

Wikipedia does not manage to be respectable when ill-informed people debate whether to delete an article that Wikipedia itself started and reach a "consensus" to do so without there being a consensus.

What looks to you as a well-reasoned and thoroughly thought debate looks that way because you're probably not an expert in search marketing. It's like an amateur watching two programmers debate whether some other programmer is "notable" or not. If you're not a programmer, you probably have no idea. And the references that might seem reasonable perhaps aren't, if you're more educated.

The Wikipedia "community" hasn't agreed with my assessment. The Wikipedia "community" that made this decision was one person, who when someone else raised the fact that I posted new, fresh arguments, decided unilaterally that if I thought those should be considered, I should submit a review request.

The way it should work, he should have put that request in himself. At the very least, it sure should be a lot easier for anyone to put in such a request.

As I detailed, I found it actually impossible to do so, because you can't request that a page that's been deleted to be reviewed on the review deletion page -- that page is only for pages in the current process of being reviewed.

I call a confusing system that needs overhaul.
Q: What do you think? Is Linux Mint a Ubuntu killer? Or Is Ubuntu killing itself?
Actually: "wrongly".

"Hacker News" is not that vague so that this site would fall from number one and some random junk site would rise on #1.

What gives?
you're probably not searching US google - try google.com/ncr
Let me explain my use case. We have several listings (Unassigned, My Tickets, All Tickets etc). A list view initializes a TicketList collection and then does the usual rendering etc. Also, once we render a listing we cache the rendered view so moving between them is snappy. Every listing basically fetches from a collection url (for instance /tickets/unassigned, /tickets/my_tickets etc).

Let us say a ticket with id 10 is in two listings. If we do a .fetch() on one of the listings and the ticket with id 10 is updated (let's say the replies_count changed in the server), not only is the view corresponding to this listing updated, it is also updated for the other listings.

If every listing was based on the same TicketList collection object, your solution would work well. However since different listings use different TicketList objects (initialized with a different url), I came up with the identity map solution.
I'm assuming they mean, of the actual bits that have ever been downloaded, where does it come from?
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Thanks for the critique, I always appreciate informed opinion :)

- The rational is that the rounded (Quicksand) is for the logo and branding only. Using it for body titles as well weakens core branding in my eye.

League Gothic is doing the heavy lifting for most of the chart.

Helvetica is for a couple of incidental labels. I should really use League Gothic for the dimensions too, there's no good reason not to, so will bear that in mind for future revisions.

The power supply in Helvetica is more a standard labelling convention. It could easily be dropped from the design.

- As for the logo placement, this is not meant as a finished layout, more an example of elements for reuse in other contexts. Still, that was lazy of me :-)

- The light grey is for 'techie' bits of the design. The LED's should be black as they're indicators for all users, not just the hardcore. So yes. Well spotted, that's an inconsistency I'll fix it future.

Thanks again for taking the time.
Thanks to MGSE, GNOME 3 finally looks a bit more "power user friendly". At the very least, there is no more stupid assumption that one app is one window! But even with MGSE, Mint 12's desktop environment is much less configurable than Mint 11. If you happen to like the default look, that's fine; but if you don't, there's not much you can do about it. I guess it will change as the developers put in more config options, though. Mint has always been on the side of people who like to tweak.

MATE, on the other hand, was a bit disappointing in the RC. I haven't updated to the latest (pre-)release yet, but it felt rather unstable even with some of the interim updates. It's a pity because MATE is what many of the "heavy tweakers" will want to use for the time being. It's also not clear how long MATE will be maintained, if at all. Kudos to the team for trying to keep GNOME 2 alive, but I suspect it's going to be a long twilight in MATE land.

I'll keep checking out Mint 12 from time to time, but for the time being I'll stick with Mint 10/11 and Xubuntu for day-to-day computing. Xfce 4.8 is conservative, lightweight, rock solid, and surprisingly configurable. It's not at all difficult to make it look almost exactly like Mint 10/11. I can see why Linus Torvalds publicly announced that he'd switch to Xfce: it's currently the best "old-style" desktop environment out there. I wonder why the Mint team didn't consider Xfce for an almost drop-in GNOME 2 replacement. Oh wait, they already have a Debian Edition with Xfce.
I wonder if it is a side effect of the recent algorithm change that promotes more 'timely' matches. The fact that 'news' is in the search term list might exacerbate this effect.
It depends on the (micro-USB) power supply. For the Model B (with ethernet) a 5V 1A output is recommended.

At 2500mA this should be enough to supply 500mA to each of the 2xUSB ports.

Many popular mobile phone chargers are micro-USB and support 5V 1A upwards.
Microsoft and Google do not recognize Siri .
Relieve headache Without Medicine
1. Give a massage to neck or back can relieve headache without medicine.
If you don’t know how to give a massage, just call professional massager.

2. Relax and don’t play with your mind and thinking harder for some time.

3. Put ice on back of your neck can relieve headache without medicine.

4. Taking a warm bath can relieve headache without medicine.
This one doesn't give me any output.
Because most home connections are asymmetrical, and even a small amount of upstream bandwidth usage can degrade the performance of everything else.
Treatment to Relieve Pain
Do you suffer a disease? And all this time you do not feel great since your unhealthy. It has been a lot of medications you took. There have been many paramedics you meet. You have a lot to do therapy or perhaps surgery. But you still feel unwell? Or you feel healthy when taking a drug to relieve pain you feel, and your addition to the drug.
Do not be desperate because there is still a way to treat your disease and you may not know or you know but you do not want to try it.
My mother in law is a public school teacher. Although she claims to really love her job she will take advantage of any opportunity she can to get out of working. (I don't really have any days that have special meaning to me and I've never figured out why that is actually.)
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I maintain a third-party node repo for Fedora:
http://nodejs.tchol.org/

I tried to get it into Fedora proper, but node currently bundles their own slightly modified libev and c-ares, which is against Fedora's packaging policies.
Wow, I thought this would be low... but..
To compile the information I posted for Wikipedia, to help it in the goal of determining notability, I probably spent about 1/2 hour in total. I had to pull up some old article and links, since me just saying why the person they were arguing about should be notable wasn't enough.

I then spend more time trying to figure out exactly where I should submit this information. The instructions were to submit to a talk page, but as I noted, the page no longer had a talk page, since it had been deleted. The review deletions page, as I also noted, has instructions that are unclear.

So I wasn't "really willing to engage seriously" to take a "little time" to understand what was going on and simply wanted to "bitch?"

No. If I wanted to just bitch, I'd have tweeted Wikipedia had its head up its ass about killing the page or maybe done a blog post about the removal and left it at that.

Instead, I did research to help them make an informed decision, using my knowledge of the space to ferret out information they'd been unaware of and clearly missed. I spend time trying to figure out how to submit it despite the insane system there.

Perhaps it would be better for you, since you appear to be connected with Wikipedia, to not dismiss things as people in huffs trying to promote friends pages and instead find a way for Wikipedia to better accept information that it should be using to make for a better resource.

What you have isn't a case study here about someone bitching for a friend. What you have is a case study about how Wikipedia does not make fully informed decisions due to the bureaucracy it believes protects the system.
How about Facebook? They've long been luring and manipulative. I'm thinking of things like showing you pictures of friends when you're trying to close your account, and saying you won't be able to talk to that person any longer.
There is a WSJ table that lists data for majors, but not universities.

http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/NILF1111/

There's a website listing more detailed data on UK grads.

http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/
Details from fiction, cataloged and connected to other books and the real world.

Fascinating idea. Signed up, looking forward to the invite.

This is something that Wikipedia could have done. I suppose it does do this as a casual side effect, but SD is doing it explicitly.

My major question (as usual) is how are they going to make money. Maybe that will be clear when I get an account. I'm assuming it will be through affiliation or even direct sales.
Just bookmark it :)
I did a quick job search in monster.co.uk and got:

ruby -160 jobs.

python - 356 jobs.
Pherhaps there is a case for a minimal Linux (or even better OpenBSD) distro that contains only an up-to-date browser (automatically updated) with most plugins (flash,java etc) disabled. You could also set a firewall to block all but a whitelisted set of domains (to prevent CSRF etc). It could also be set to use a different DNS server to the main computer (or have DNS hardcoded into /etc/hosts).

This could then be run in a Virtual Machine transparently so that it appears to be just running as another application, could be called "Secure Browse" or something, that would be used specifically for things like banking websites etc. This wouldn't prevent things like keyloggers and some other attacks but would prevent allot of the more common stuff (malicious plugins, malicious proxies / software DNS redirecting etc).

Pherhaps this is unnecessary as many bank sites now require physical authentication via handheld keygens.

I do remember a UK banking site (that shall remain nameless) used to have online banking that didn't work unless you were running an IE with pretty much every plugin under the sun (activex included) installed.
Videographics Are The Future Of Infographics
Come to DC. It's all Python and no Ruby.
Thanks.

So if I wanted, theoretically, to modify the mechanics of the game, how would I do that with "assets"? For example, if I wanted to add "magic" or something (like mana from diablo 2), and perhaps change the way "score" is calculated, is that part of an asset as well?

Do engines provide a DSL for making games? I guess that's my question. It seems like media assets only allow you to reskin Doom instead of making a new kind of game.
Matt's first version README for Mercurial
Hacked NASDAQ Servers were running on unpatched Windows 2003
This is with Nicad batteries. DO NOT attempt to zap a lithium ion battery unless you have a blast shield etc.
There ought to be a database of companies that give offers with very short expirations. Not necessarily condemning the practice, but it would be good to know. Yelp, for example, routinely gives offers with a 5-day acceptance window.
I don't think Ubuntu is killing itself. Ubuntu is just targeting a different demographic from some of the "power users" who frequent HN. Grandma and Grandpa don't care whether or not it's possible to open three windows of the same app and switch between them with one keyboard shortcut. Give them a browser, IM, and a decent media player, and that's it. This demographic is also many times larger than the subset of power users who hate Unity.

One question that remains to be answered is: If Ubuntu continues to alienate power users, will this have a noticeable effect on the quality of the user community? One of the major benefits of Ubuntu is that it's very easy to find help online. If power users stop using the default edition of Ubuntu, high-quality help for the default edition might become harder to come by -- with detrimental effects on everyone else. I've already encountered a few cases where I wanted to troubleshoot an Ubuntu issue and found the answer in the Mint forum instead.
Help is broken in the bundled npm, so they're going to be shipping 0.6.4 soon:
http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/d...

You might want to stick with the separate npm for now if you find yourself using "npm help" a lot.
I like the idea. Yes, there's the need for both. I'm thinking about just making the text size variable according to the number of lines in the snippet - I think that makes more sense.
As far as I can tell, Python has a much broader base than Ruby, at least in the english-speaking world, but is generally quieter about it. As a few examples:

Thanks to SciPy, NumPy, Sage, and so on, Python is extremely popular in scientific computing and academia in general, drawing hundreds each year to Enthought's Scientific Python conference.

Apple's iCal Server is written in Python with the aid of the Twisted async library, the same library used by LucasFilm for communications in its render farm, or Justin.tv's caching engine.

Google has found great success with Python: YouTube, for instance, is written in Python.

Thousands of undergraduates have their introduction to computer science each year taught in Python, even at MIT.

And let's not forget the sizable Django, Pyramid, and Plone web development communities, all of which seem to have surprisingly little overlap.

The thing is, Python's been around for a long time -- longer than Java -- and it's been useful for a similarly long time, especially in the same domains that Perl traditionally excelled at. Thus, its growth was bottom-up: Many sysadmins were eventually expected to simply know Python just as they were expected to know Shell and Perl, and thus being functionally proficient in Python wasn't really a defining characteristic.

In this way, Python's expansion has been more of a slow burn as it creeps into more and more corners of software development. Rails, by contrast, came coupled with a wonderful promoter in DHH, and brought scores of front-end talent and PHP refugees into the fold from day one. That audience seems to simply be more innately talented at vocalizing the cool things they're doing, and making sure they mention that they did it all "...with Ruby!"

So while I'd wager that the Python community is larger than the Ruby community, it certainly seems less concentrated, and less vocal about it.

To wit, did you know that Dropbox is primarily written in Python? And that the same goes for Eve Online?
I think that idealistically we agree, and it also seems like we agree on a practical level. We may be in a semantic death spiral, but I'm leaving my long reply here as well since I already wrote it.

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Ok I see what you mean about thinking that the GPL is restrictive is selfish. I don't think it's necessarily bad to be selfish sometimes. Everyone has to earn a living and wanting to do so is inherently selfish. It's difficult to earn a living off selling and supporting open source software. Sure RedHat does it, and Cygnus does it. There are far more failures though. It seems that the best way to create open source software for a living is to work for a big company that sponsors a project such as Linux, LLVM, or something like that. The rest of us sell proprietary software and services and until you have a lot of momentum I don't think it's wise to open source everything. Releasing your project under the GPL or AGPL from day one is scary for most people. Selfish? Absolutely. Necessarily bad? Not in my opinion.

> Yeah, you are restricted--You are not allowed to compile up the source to your legitimately purchased Photoshop. I fully understand that you don't care (and I don't either [well, until there's a stupid bug]), but to say that you're not restricted is to, I think, misunderstand the situation.

It depends on your point of view. There's the point of view that RMS has: we have all been duped by big corporations. We're captives, and just because we like our prison and can't see the fences doesn't mean we are not restricted. This is the "captive" definition of restrict.

Another definition of restrict is to limit someone's movement or actions, as in "restrict someone to", or "restrict something to". Is one really limited if they don't care about those limits? I think this is where it's easy to get bogged down in semantics and philosophy.

Nation states limit and restrict us in many ways. Is that necessarily bad? Technically we are restricted, but is it useful to try and convince everyone that we've all been duped and anarchy is the true way to bee free? What if you just live in a country that is "free enough" and allows you to do what you want to do, without feeling restricted? If I'm thinking idealistically then yes a state of anarchy where everyone behaves in a cooperative and cordial manner sounds like bliss. But unfortunately that just doesn't work in real life.
I upgraded my parents browser but only after I upgraded them to Windows 7. Bye bye XP and all of your issues you have given us over the years.
perhaps somebody should release a modern browser that is visually identical to IE6.
Works fine, except that scrolling doesn't work on an iPad.
Ditto and also got this for:

Perl - 363 jobs.

PHP - 769 jobs.

C++ - 814 jobs.

Java - 1,000+ jobs

C# - 1,000+ jobs
You have presented something of exquisitely poised balance, both intriguing and repelling.
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Given the users who visit here, we could prop it up to #1 overnight.

Saying that, doesn't HN block search bots from going deep? I remember reading that somewhere.
This is every company. I've never heard of any company giving more than 3-5 days. If you work for a big corp, you know how unbelievably insecure management is, any delay at all would make them look very bad politically. When a hiring manager's whole career is based on appearances, which it usually is, a week is an eternity.
No, that would be an ineligible receiver downfield. They have to stay behind the line of scrimmage until after the pass is completed. For a straight run they can just block forward.
It's been awhile since I've read LPTHW, but as I recall from the intro, and from the LXTHW site, ""Less Talk, More Code" summarizes the philosophy." Given the lack of emphasis on doing here (outside the last book) I don't think this post really captures that philosophy

(That's not a commentary on the quality of this post though, or the recommendations)
Schematical Framework - Helping you build Facebook Applications
Schematical is an opensource Framework for building Facebook Applications. It comes fully equipped with a contest that you can set up on your Facebook Page and customize just like a Wordpress install. Please let me know if you would like to contribute. Other app types such as virtual gifts, polls, and quizzes are available upon request.

http://schematical.com/
Interestingly, in many franchise operations, you are paying not just for access to brand and supplier relationships, but for that mighty operations manual. In effect, you are paying for the right to use their vetted process for your own business. Some of the contracts reserve the right to sue if you leave the franchise, set up your own business with very different brands and suppliers, maybe even a different vertical... but still can be shown to be using their process.
Slightly related, and I might be a bit late to this party, but is Google defaulting to https for anyone else?
Confidence Game - The future of news
Agreed. I hope I'm not alone in believing that the success of facebook---and myspace before it---heavily depended on leveraging this advice. They're definitely not bad examples to follow.
I'm not sure whether you are defending or criticizing this state of affairs. I wouldn't understand the former and expect action in case of the latter. Why does this state of affairs persist?
Campus recruiters count on student’s high ethical standards.

This goes far beyond campus recruiters. Most companies, at least here in the UK apply the same mentality to job offers.

The key factor is absolute honesty & transparency. As Joel alludes to in the article, be open and tell them you are considering all of your options before making a decision. If pushed, turn the tables and ask them if they would offer a job to the first person they interviewed even if they were a good fit for the role? How do they know the next person they meet won't be a better fit. Pressure tactics are common place and this is an excellent example of one of the first times you will be faced with it and it will benefit you down the line when you start working for them and they press you for project deadlines and so on.
Bill Hicks covered marketing pretty well :)

But real quickly: yeah, that dude playing video games is playing video games. If he were to then start developing video games, I'm just saying that creativity would be easier for him in that realm than if he decided to do something he didn't enjoy.

And the thing you're doing might not be what you enjoy. The process it uses might be enjoyable. Marketing for you might have had a lot of freedom and individual control to it (I'm just using examples). So maybe you wouldn't be passionate about marketing per se, but the process of it and the lifestyle it brought might've been awesome. I mean, I bet there are very few people who really love insurance. But if running an insurance company your own way provides freedom and a good service, that can be enjoyable.

And I agree that enjoyment is not necessary; it predisposes you to creativity, though. You don't have to have genetic flaws to develop a disease, but certain genetic hiccups can predispose you to that disease....
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I totally agree with you for most job offers. This article, though, is directed toward college students looking for summer jobs and internships. For a position that starts 7 months from now I would expect a longer window to be acceptable.
SEO Friday: A Potpourri of Infographics, eh
When I click play it says "Error!"

running debian linux with ff 3.5
I don't see any code for indexing, which should answer the performance question.

Which I don't mean to be derogative, he mentions "A flat-file relational database engine implementation" in every file, and it looks like it may be neat code to learn from when you're interested in Go.
Of course not. We know that Obama and Nancy Pelosi know how to spend our money better than we do.
This is the quickest way to determine someones level of tech savvyness, it is inversely relational to the number of toolbars they have installed in their browser (developer toolbars excluded of course).

It seems now that almost every piece of Windows software I install wants to install some sort of browser toolbar unless you opt out.

Pherhaps this is one of the reasons Macs are simpler and quicker , there is just less of a culture of bundling crap with every piece of software.
It's a little tongue in cheek, it's a little bit of truth.

Reading an introductory book is still way harder than just diving in trying to force a square peg into a round hole. It's also hard if said book contains exercises (which 2 of those books do), after all we can always find other things we'd want to do with our time.

I feel like I offended you in some way. I apologize.