skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you run a search for '"slightly overweight" live longer', you'll turn up links to a number of different studies in a number of different jurisdictions that have shown this. For instance:

http://lifehacker.com/5303009/being-slightly-overweight-coul...
Maybe you don't remember the root-kitted Redhat boxes in Korea which were, for some years, responsible for a surprising volume of spam.

Linux distributions then started shipping with un-needed services turned off, and increased broadband meant home machines were attractive targets for botnet malware.

In the past anti-virus on Linux tended to be used by people with a Linux mail server and MS Windows clients.

But, to bring it back to this particular discussion: It'd be fairly easy to wrap malware around a Mac OS X software. The user would need to click and give it permission to install. But how many Mac users run as admin and would just click the warning anyway?
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How can the deletion be legal? Isn't the purchasing company required to honor all debts of the purchasee?
Ill second that - skip the startups and work for yourself instead if at all possible
i have a new favourite website now. thanks
They can, however it really isn't as smooth an experience for the user and Microsoft knows this well.

One only has to look at how it works for Xbox Live Arcade games for an idea on how seamless this is. Give the user enough so that just as they are hooked, the trail runs out. One click of a button is the entire upgrade process. No dumping out to a different application (Marketplace) in order to purchase the full game, just a one second click of a button.
Yep, visual A/B testing.

But seriously, does this mean there isn't even any point in trying to find a way to give people who use ad blocking something which would almost never be blocked, and yet could still be considered advertising if not blatantly so?

Are users of ad blocking just a complete and total void from an advertising perspective?

For example I know reddit sometimes has games in their ad banner, that's a way to encourage people to turn off add blocking.

And some TV advertisers are designing adds which still look good at Tivo fast forward speed.
I think his point wasn't that someone getting the short stick was illegal, but rather that shares were bought from me without my direct consent.
You have described my parents. I can't stand to be in the same building with them when they talk about anything politics related.
"Gratuitous" is a judgment: profanity loses its shock value if you lace everything you say/write with it. I don't know if the rest of her writing is like that (my recollection is that it isn't), but this piece was too heavy on it. A well placed "fuck" can add a lot, if used judiciously, but it's the kind of thing where you only sit up and take notice of it due to its absence elsewhere.
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This may not necessarily be about rejecting political correctness. In the United States (article mentions the recipients of the email were from the US), Christmas is celebrated by many for other than religious reasons and is its own cultural celebration, much in the same way how many people will watch the Superbowl despite having only a passing interest in football.
In the JIT world, going .java->.class is not AOT. You may call it that, but it's essentially just source->source conversion.

What AOT really is, is when you first run a java program with certain flags, and some compilation starts, a special AOT version, which is usually a low optimization level which is saved to disk with some relocation markers.

This helps with startup time in subsequent runs as the compiler can just load its baseline pre-compiled classes straight into memory instead of having to do a bunch of grunt work during startup. Once things get going, the compiler can much more quickly work its way up to the higher optimization levels on the sections of code that need it.

THAT is what AOT means from a jitted language perspective.
As someone who kind of regrets going to a "brand" school, I think you are in an industry where portfolio and internships matter more so than what school you went to.

If money isn't an issue, then try and get into a "brand" school. If it is, then no worries, go where you feel comfortable. Just remember, you absolutely have to outshine everyone around you. You will be competing with candidates from brand schools who are also outshining their peers.

So, get involved with as many clubs as you can that peek your interest. But don't just passively participate in them; become a leader or an active member. Start applying to as many internships as possible as early as possible. Don't be scared if you think your skills aren't on par yet. Try, try, try, and try some more. There are a million and one opportunities out there that are right for your particular skill level.

Finally, don't invest yourself in just Computer Science. I'm sure you have interests elsewhere, so go and explore those to your heart's content. Based on my experience, employers love diversity in their candidates. Stand out, not just in your technical abilities but also in your personality.

You only live once. Do anything and everything.

I struggled with this question myself, so if you want to talk about it, shoot me an email.
Very cowardly move IMO
Wow. So it just rewrites it to the latest version, with (according to what you just said) about 95% accuracy?

Does that make other people feel queasy, or just me? Like, that feels like a really bad idea to me. What happens if the result only mostly works?
> Most likely scenario in my mind: Most people stay on older versions of Windows for quite some time to come

Remember that Vista, a major flop, was the fastest selling version of Windows at one point. The enterprise skipped Vista but consumers did not because most consumers upgrade their OS when they upgrade their computers.

> those who do use Windows 8 prefer to stick with the Windows interface they've used for the past 16 years.

I assume you mean they will spend most of their time in Desktop. That's fine, but that's still a potential sale. The Metro start screen can't be avoided; the old start menu doesn't exist any more. So the "Windows Store" logo will be staring at users every time they go to launch an app (whether Metro or desktop). You can do the numbers and gather that there are going to be a lot of people at least exploring the Store at some point.
Step 1: Get respected member of MS community.
Step 2: Use said community connection to move people from codeplex to github.
Step 3: Profit.
Not really. Apple disallows time bombs so you can only give people apps with reduced functionality. This works ok for games where you pay for level pack or app models that use "pay to remove advertising" schemes, but works badly for others.
To be clear, this was mostly my fault. My heroku-rails gem had a terrible flaw.

It's now fixed on version 0.4.0 of heroku-rails gem
https://github.com/railsjedi/heroku-rails/issues/7
Sure. You could use plus+addressing to identify the individual post or you could register an address that was specific for that post. Email Yak lets you call Register Address (http://docs.emailyak.com/register-address.html) to create as many email addresses as you want.

All plans have unlimited emil addresses included.
I'm sure you mean both before and during his MS career. His post MS career is about 12 hours old :-)

But I'm sure he'll do well with it.
Do you really care if people actually see they ad - or do you really only care that the provider thinks people see the ad? In other words, would it be okay if the ad blocker was set up to download the ad but simply not show it? Where are your ethics now?
I am relating patio11's expertise in web advertising to ad blocking browsers. As in, would he be interested in how the web looks to someone using ad blocking.
Are you serious??

Since "man motd" does not tell you how /etc/motd actually works, the solution to getting a working /etc/motd is to use another OS?

This all could have been avoided with "man motd" saying something useful.
If JS gets to improve in the future, so does Python. Again, apply the same standards in both cases, which is my real point. Ranting about "accounting only the positives of one alternative and only the negatives of the other" is a bit of a hobby of mine. You can make anything look good or bad that way, but that appearance has no relationship to truth. You can't make good decisions that way, but people do it surprisingly often.

Also, encoding was one example. I could rant for hours about the ways in which Python is more suitable than JS(-of-today) for medium-or-greater sized projects.
How panic doomed an airliner
Can this still be said when we're considering the economy of a whole country, or the whole world?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/v2/prices_or_bindings/

Found from http://lesswrong.com/lw/6w/degrees_of_radical_honesty/
WTF is a Startup?
Someone asked me this, so I told em.
yeah - put the social into socialcam!
I was thinking more along the lines of "we would be intimidated by it, so we should expect the aliens to react the same way, so don't launch it unless you want a war."
How about taking some time off from Lift development to implement the ideas that you and other worked on?
Probably venture capitalists trying to sway the poll to sell the startup dream
Fox News != all tv news. Reproduce that study using, say, BBC News or Al Jazeera English (or even better BBC news and Al Jazeera English) and we'll talk.

Not saying those channels are perfect, but not all TV is created equal.
Do you think having an outside method of examining the source code is advantage enough when the AI can rewrite its source code.
Web framework in Vala (compiles to C, supports Lua and Scheme)
It's a language undergoing rapid development. The developers are planning sometime in early 2012, to release a "Version 1" of go, to which no backwards incompatible changes will be made.

http://blog.golang.org/2011/10/preview-of-go-version-1.html
PBS may do ok on the coasts where they have offices, but they (and NPR) are pretty horrible with reporting in the plains states. Their story on Wiliston ND was so full of errors and stock footage[1] it was amazing. NPR blew the figures on the SD Child Welfare study. They have an agenda that gets them market share and control costs the same way every other ``News'' organization does.

[1] look reporters, ND does not have wandering buffalo herds everywhere, you can stop using the same stock footage anytime.
When I went looking for a git win32 binaries a while ago the attitude was basically "lolz get a mac/linux box". Which is why I use hg instead of git.

It's great to see an open source community, that isn't engulfed in the sanfrancisco linux/mac mono culture bubble, reaching out to Win developers for the benfit of everyone.
I stopped using MooTools almost 7 years ago. My rationale was this: if I can't trust what the this variable is in an event, because of the framework, the framework isn't worth using.

Mootools completely confused me with the constant alteration of what this was referring to depending on event or context. But in jQuery usage of this was (and still is) very straightforward, so I switched.

It's no question of extending objects or of prototypes, but it's just about as confusing, if not worse, when an object/prototype is extended without the programmer's knowledge.
Personally I find C# to be very nice to work with. It has a lot of static and dynamic goodness, and the .NET libraries provide a lot of stuff to create high quality code.

However, software patents and closed sourceness put me off and drove me to dart and Java. Too bad Microsoft is becoming a patent troll. You may have the coolest stuff, but if you start to sue me/my clients (indirectly) it's over soon.
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Hoping Flattr catches on. It works flawlessly. It's how I want to support great content.
That makes sense. Still incredible that it had so much energy that it was still going after making it through a door and a wall.

Keep in mind these are American houses, flimsy paper cardboard and this bits of wood things.
Same here, zero time spent on this. Scala is a joy to program in. It's good to see these kinds of postings with complaints and suggestions. They'll move the language and the ecosystem forward.
Plan to Widen Availability of Morning-After Pill Is Rejected
> All this in turn MIGHT give Microsoft a chance at becoming relevant again in the developer space (and please don't say "a lot of people use Microsoft" because I'm one of those people and I know a lot of those people and they're all looking at their future with worried eyes)

If you read the blog post of this very submission, it cites C# as #4 and climbing on the TIOBE language index. I know and work with a bunch of .NET developers, also, and I can't name one that's looking at the future with worried eyes.

In what way are they irrelevant in the developer space?

In my particular case, I tend to shy away from Microsoft development because the stack isn't really free, top to bottom and it seemed like MS was following trends instead of leading them (MVC was an obvious response and I see a lot of Railisms in it).
Why would he be trolling? Sounds like the general truth to me. I'd accuse him of trolling if he said the opposite
There's not really another good way to signify ND, though. It's very hard to set up an interesting photograph or stock footage scene in an area that is totally flat, with no natural or man-made landmarks.
American Public Media, which makes a lot of NPR content, is based in St. Paul.
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10 tips for writing fast Mathematica code
Are the ones, towards the end of this list, Google employees?
So You Want to be a VC?
Dude, that's not really your flaw. Open Source pretty much means "use at your own risk" and the fact that Heroku just lets your wipe everything clean; that's pretty bad design.

p.s. Mind you, I don't pay Heroku enough to respond to my "omfg everything just died requests", but while MongoHQ responded in less than 1 hour, Heroku sent me an email in the morning, and w/out any steps to resolution :(
He missed the obvious: "Gitterati" (double "t" as an homage to its inspiration; feel free to reduce to "Giterati" ;-).
I'm willing to bet this is because "Merry Christmas" sounds more personal. Your friend would say that to you, and it just feels more sincere. "Happy Holidays" sounds like PC jargon and robotic, customer ass kissing. If we just leave out for a moment the fact that not all people celebrate Christmas this makes sense.

I honestly think that Christmas is more of a cultural thing here in the US than a purely religious celebration. We have a majority of people who celebrate Christmas as part of their religion but even of those people a majority of them are focused more on the cultural sensation that is Christmas rather than the religious aspects even though they're Christian. The lights, the colors, Santa, presents, and the general mood of the holiday is what really makes Christmas in America, not the actual birth of Christ. That's why even people who aren't Christian or religious at all can get into it. They're surrounded by it and it's just a part of life here.

In countries where the "Christmas Spirit" isn't as prevalent in the culture with populations that are split between Christian and non-Christians more evenly I think Happy Holidays would sound more sincere and not exclusionary. Over here if you say "Happy Holidays" its like saying "I would say Merry Christmas but I'm going to be extra PC and say Happy Holidays just in case you're a Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, or other unspecified form of pagan, heathen, or otherwise non-Christian, non Christ believing individual". A little exaggerated, yes, but Happy Holidays really does sound like this to many and that's part of the reason that the conservative party over here makes a big deal over "the war on Christmas" every year with the "Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays" debate being very close to the center of it each time.

I know I said a lot, and my theory is based on personal experience and anecdotal evidence but I really think it makes a lot of sense. Try it on and see if you like it. Maybe I'm wrong.
> I think the article covers the issue pretty well, collage to many was as inevitable as buying a house, it was so ingrained into cultural norms that the though of not going never even crossed his mind.

Is that "ingrain" stronger than "He was just following orders"? I ask because few people accept the latter excuse.

> Cultural wisdom and norms like "put your money in real estate, it never goes down",

That sounds like a lame excuse, as real estate is one of the classic cycles.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I'm surprised that this hasn't been brought up by a previous commenter. In America, culturally, Christmas is a celebration to receive gifts. I don't see it this way, but on the surface, I think that many do. This is neither good nor bad, but I do believe that's why the phrase "Merry Christmas $NAME" had a higher conversion rate.
There's an easter egg there, too - try Control Shift drag.
s/caricature/character/ ?
Intelli-J -> Auto-format on check-in, and I auto-format as I go. I have software to write, and I refuse to waste my time on your wild notions of column spacing you haven't codified into a tool or language.

I honestly don't care what format is used, so long as a format is used and it's automatic. Whitespace-important languages are nice I guess, but I still feel bad dicking with whitespace. It's faster just to throw down all the required bits, or let the IDE do it for you, and then auto-format or let the commit auto-format later.

"Coding Standards" should apply to the topics discussed in Clean Code - smaller classes, methods, proper design, etc. Meetings based around discussing whitespace convention are worse than setting cash on fire.
Is there more to the story that you know (considering you used to work at Digg?). You're claiming that leadership at Digg didn't attempt to retrain these programmers new projects, which is a pretty substantial claim. Also, I don't see why Rose's educational background is relevant to his leadership ability, and that statement seems like a superfluous ad-hominem. I'm not necessarily defending Digg leadership in this case, but I certainly question an emotionally heated top post in an HN thread.
At first I thought I would never let a transhuman AI out of the box, but after reading that and thinking about it... wow!

Also, that sounds like a great sci-fi story.
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Yahoo Wins $610M Judgment Against Fake Email Spammers
"The result, while upsetting, was a freak accident. It could not realistically have been predicted. It is not necessarily anyone's fault, even if human error played a role."

This statement is just as ignorant as any accusing MB of sloppiness. We know almost nothing right now. To say it a freak accident that couldn't have been predicted is premature.

There needs to be an investigation then a conclusion.
Max is right. As an employee, Startups do beat the shit out of you and if the startup shuts down after a year, you gotta begin all over again from where you started a year back.
Sound, plus it's annoying as hell? I can see why.
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Six Android issues that Google doesn't want to address
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It's easy to say they want to buy you out but it could just be a ploy to delay your launch until they can get their product out the door. Unless they're willing to put cash in your hand today, don't stop for anything. Talk to them for sure, but don't change your strategy or release plan for anything.
Nice article! But can anyone find TN2239 (the companion article for iOS)?
Expanding internationally is a wonderful thing, Twilio will go far if they bring their wonderful API to many countries.

I just hope they take some of that investment and bring basic voice recognition to their product, and perhaps some more TTS voices (some Loquendo voices would be grand!).
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Just change the documentation at the same time as you change a feature. That's all the author expected. Not doing that makes you a bad developer.
Facebok Quietly Offering Conversion Tracking
This is the future of infographics
Wow, strawman much? My uneditted words are above, please read them again. I don't see anything "blanket" about saying someone (not "the crew") screwed up badly. Nor do I remember making demands about "absolute safety" beyond saying that the stunt shouldn't have happened where it did (something that even you don't seem to disagree with).

Honestly, you're the one with the half baked, off-the-cuff remark that needs defending. How do you square "shit happens" with "measure will be taken to avoid future incidents of this sort". The latter sounds a lot like you are backpedaling to me.
What is your actual security model?

Here is a simple solution: have a single machine running a web app ("paste your code here") and one or more sandboxes (physical machines running off CD-ROM/NFS/anything nonwritable). On submission, the web server sends the code to one of the sandboxes, which compiles and executes it and returns any output (SSH seems convenient for this). Any other network access to/from the sandboxes is blocked. If one of the sandboxes stops accepting connections or otherwise misbehaves, reboot it.

This doesn't isolate the untrusted programs from each other. Sufficiently nasty code may be able to persist across reboots by nestling in firmware, but that does not pose an additional security problem. This setup is trivial to DoS, but it's simple and doesn't rely on, say, the Linux kernel being secure from local attacks - you just need a properly-configured firewall, e.g. on the web host ("drop all packets to/from sandboxes except locally-initiated SSH connections").
Being as he also neither invented the fauxhawk, nor has he written any mediocre parisian disco-house, I'm guessing it was some sort of joke.
Similar situation, though I must say that the CTO felt guilty and gave me an ipod. Then felt even more guilty and arranged for the company to give me $5000 and let me keep the ipod. This was, I must add, when ipods were expensive novelties.
The timing of this post is funny, as I just got finished reworking our fork of django-cache-machine. As the post points out, the limitation of Cache Machine as it is currently built is that only objects which are already within a queryset can invalidate that queryset. This is fine for selects on primary keys, but beyond that the invalidation logic is incomplete.

My changes ( https://github.com/theatlantic/django-cache-machine/ ) inspect the ORDER BY clauses (if there's a limit or offset) and WHERE constraints in the query and saves the list of "model-invaliding columns" (i.e., columns which, when changed, should broadly invalidate queries on the model) in a key in the cache. It also associates these queries with a model-flush list. Then, in a pre_save signal, it checks whether any of those columns have changed and marks the instance to invalidate the associated model flush list when it gets passed into the post_save signal. We have these changes up on a few of our sites and, if all goes well, we're looking to move the invalidation at the column level to make the cache-hit ratio even higher.
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