skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What no ICQ early adopter cred? In all seriousness, I'm surprised at some of the people that are ahead of me on my list. I have a friend that is in the 5 digit range for Twitter IDs.....
How can I start
I think some curation is in order. I have found that studying Dijkstra's mathematical documents have been great for developing methodical, analytical thinking. They have also been indispensable for developing a taste for elegance in notation and proofs.

All of this translates directly into developing a taste for elegant (programming) interfaces and well structured architectures.

In the past, I put together a curated list of pdfs for anyone who wants to start studying and practicing Dijkstra's mathematics. Here is what I recommend:

EWD1300 - The notational conventions of the mathematics :
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF

After that, I have this collection of EWDs and other documents that offer the best, graded, introductions to the idioms and concepts of Dijkstra's mathematics:

http://bit.ly/ewdcollection
2to3 isn't perfect but I've made it work for SQLAlchemy and Mako - the Mako port was very easy. SQLAlchemy was trickier, largely because we still support all the way back to Python 2.4 (we're moving to 2.5 for 0.8).

When I wrote Alembic just recently, I ran 2to3 on it and it literally needed two "file()" calls to be changed to "open()" and that's it.

The contradiction in Armin's post is that he starts off with "we don't like Python because its perfect, we like it because it always does a pretty good job, etc. etc.". Aside from Armin's very specific issues with codecs (I've never used codecs that way) and with the filesystem (OK, he's convinced me work is needed there), I don't quite see how 2to3 is any different than "not perfect, but does the job at the end of the day".

Also, we really shouldn't be fixating on 2to3 very much - it is already deprecated. We should be thinking/worrying very, very, much about 3to2. Since we really should be shooting to have our source in all Python 3 within a couple more years.
I'm not saying that the iPhone is anything other than an unqualified success, but the idea that Apple didn't really want that market share anyway seems a little off.

Apple seemed quite happy to have 70% share or whatever it was with iPods. They've also offered cheaper models whenever they needed to to try and address more of the market -- for example, the iPod Shuffle, or the free-with-contract iPhone 3GS. The Apple TV certainly wasn't priced only to appeal to the high-end market.

I think the article makes quite clear that it is primarily Nokia and RIM that have been devastated, but I don't think it's all inappropriate to look at the way Android has been successful at pulling share away from these companies as something that they have done better at (from a market share standpoint) than Apple.
Xbox 360-controlling “Xbox Companion” App Now Available For Windows Phone 7
It guessed wrong for me but if the 'ExampleCount' value is accurate, you are dealing with a paucity of data.

Will it look for more decision nodes to add or are you stuck with region and browserHeight?

If not, how certain are you that you have the right data to accurately model the problem?
Selling ads.
Private collage + faculty dependent tuition concession, jerks. :) Nice education, no debt. But we can't all be faculty dependents.

The computer-science parts were helpful but not super-helpful; Real Experience was more helpful. The art minor was fun. I learned to appreciate some other things like the mandatory English courses a while after I stopped taking them. I don't know how to make students like my past self better appreciate those things in advance so as to take advantage of them. I think it's a bit of a problem for most students.
They could do a few things about it. The building is designed with big 10' horizontal louvers covering the facades, which will diffuse a lot of light so it isn't as intense. They can also coat the glazing with special film to reduce the effect. Additionally, it helps that the floor plates are really deep.
"1. Your development machine needs a ruby environment"

C'mon. All this work and no PHP/Wordpress developer that will ever use this. What a shame.
To me it seems that "Merry Christmas" denotes the act of gift giving as opposed to just some holiday special. Therefore, I think that the "Merry Christmas" subject line makes the consumer feel like they're getting something.
Working on it: http://cemerick.com/2011/10/26/enabling-richer-interactions-...

In a heterogeneous mix of tools, getting the channel right is a big part of the challenge. Lots of the interactivity is going to be client-specific (i.e. what's possible / attractive in Eclipse is different from Emacs/vim/TextMate), but the channel underneath is a big enabler.

Would love to hear what you have in mind specifically, if only to see if there's a vector I'm not considering that I should be.
I prefer having ads during a film, so that I can get a break and go make tea or whatever. Watching films on the BBC, which has no ads, used to irritate me a bit, as there are no breaks. But I guess you can hit pause on Hulu, unlike on regular television.
Same here, in Raleigh, NC. Haven't had a car in years. Its been the best decision I've ever made for my own peace of mind.

If you're willing to walk a bit and take some buses, you don't need a car. And you find really cool places while walking that else you'd never know existed.
Personally owning, several androids in the family as phones and tablets, I am thankful to Google for pushing open source to a proud leader. All manufacturers may freely use it and may offer newer phones. I wish I will be able to play more with Android the way I do with my Linux, as soon as Nexus like devices become commonplace. Thanks Google.
Positivity.. Bloody Hell
> Is college really a scam? Most likely, no.

Might want to re-title your article then.
I think if you looked at the resumes of the developers involved, it would be obvious that Kevin is making shit up.
Hahaha, zinged.

edit: The elusive three digit earlynerd.info userid.
Well, no, it would be the same. That's my point; the conventional treatment of 404 on the web is a 200 that says "Sorry." So what's the point of it?
The ECB purchases member countries' debt. They move bad or weak assets off the balance sheets of the weak member banks into the balance sheets of the ECB. The stated purpose of the European Financial Stability Facility is to pool sovereign debt. The owners and shareholders of the european central bank are the central banks of member countries.

I didn't say anything about northern European countries being superior. It's a completely factual statement to say some countries are more solvent than others. It's not a value judgement.
What exactly is your problem with Ghostery?

I've used it for some time, quite happy to have it block the numerous tracker things that otherwise spy on me and/or add bulk to my downloads.

I've never noticed anything in their privacy policies that gave me concern, and I'm normally quite picky about such things.
The difference is that from time to time you see an interesting ad and click on it, if you don't have an ad blocker.
Yeah, I had the same reaction.

I'm sure the Magazine publishers would love a system where they can use their own payment processor to harvest a ton of details from you and that requires you to phone a call-center that mysteriously drops your call 3/4s of the time in order to cancel, but it's a big step backward for me as a consumer.
There are many models considered common knowledge in economics that possess strong explanatory and predictive power.

Though in recent times people tend to pick and choose which models they base their thinking on, depending upon their chosen political agenda.

Brief example:
There has been a lot of political hand waving about possible inflation or even hyperinflation. If you look at a version of the Phillips Curve, unemployment and inflation have an inverse relationship. High unemployment = low inflation or worse. And inflation has remained low, while deflation has actually been more of a threat, and is actually a problem in many countries.
As both a Scala and Clojure user, I believe this is primarily a Scala-specific issue. The one caveat to that is that, if you're using Clojure and AOT-compile your code, you can run into some issues if you are trying to use AOT-compiled code from different versions (or using a different version of Clojure than the one used to AOT-compile the code).

Now, there have been some source-level incompatibilities, especially going from Clojure 1.2 to 1.3, and this seems to have been a bit of a headache within some parts of the Clojure community.
Huh ? I think you just made a link to the xkcd.com main page... Which have nothing to do with Jimmy Wales. You where trying to link to which comic ?
I don't think that's the whole story. This could also be a PR spin.
Google said later very often they feared an Apple monopoly on the smartphone market and Android is there to prevent it. Also Schmidt hates Microsoft to the bone and is happy about everything that hurts them.

What makes Google appear unfocused is their long time thinking, they don't care if something integrates in another product only 5 years later.
I bet the Google Car and Google Maps integration will be perfect and they also create 3D models of their environment what fits in Google Earth.

Coincidence? I don't think so, these 3 incredible smart guys have all day to think about that.
It seems like you are not well versed in ai. There was a debate about whether "hand engineering" vs "dumb simple algo's" would get results. Dumb algo's won. Your mentioning of MTI and STAP, and how difficult radar design is etc. etc., makes me think you aero guys are still in hand-engineering land.

I will offer another example. Why did the aerospace dudes not be able to autonomously fly a helicopter. in 2004, andrew ng decided to tackle this. He completely ignored any previous work, just using a dumb algo (reinforcement learning) and laptop managed to get amazing autonomous performance out it. Why was it him (ai researcher), and not people from the field of flying.
And the GIL, in a world of multi-core processors with each capable of several threads... a single process is meh.
I assume the issue here is that "Merry Christmas YourName" is more likely to be perceived as a personal note whereas "Happy Holidays YourName" (or the more verbose version) sounds like a corporate greeting -- and one the reader therefore filters past.

Can someone explain to me how "open" rates are tracked? In all my mail clients I prevent remote images from loading automatically. I assume many people do the same. Is this tracking of open rates skewed as a result? Or maybe it just doesn't matter as long as you're just using it for comparison purposes?
Agree so much. Android is a perfect toy Google has developed to disrupt the established players and stopped a 1984-like future in mobile. Neither Blackberry BES nor Apple's single-device behind a walled garden were for me; and Thanks to Android I have choice.
I for one would be willing to pay a modest fee for news that was consistently accurate and relevant (ie, made sure to catch important developments that are typically ignored by other new sources). Any suggestions?
Apple’s Secret Plan to Steal Your Doctor’s Heart
I use ClickToFlash, which gets rid of the annoying, CPU-hogging ads while supporting most websites.
Using jQuery and GitHub to Create a Bookmarklet
you cant pimp the startup that way
That latter part is indeed the story I'd heard. I hope you've found something awesome now.
Adblock never gets turned off and hasn't since I discovered it. When I'm shopping, I'm shopping - the rest of the time, I'm actually doing something and since it's my computer I feel that I can edit the heck out of whatever it is which is served up to me - they're giving it away, I'm letting something censor out the garbage, of which ads are a huge part.

I also use NoScript, FlashBlock, RefControl, RequestPolicy plugins for precisely the same reason: I'm not visiting a page to read some garbage hosted somewhere else (i.e., the pretty pictures and styling you've hosted elsewhere, for some reason), nor for you to do fun things with scripts, nor to see anything move (and, incidentally, spy on me).

The web has become increasingly about hawking wares and doing so based upon observing behavior. I don't like the idea, even if it _could_ tell me about something which I would like to buy: if I _need_ something, I'll hunt for it. If I don't actually _need_ something, though, I don't want to have the equivalent of a dirty-old-man offering me candy from the back of his van if only I'd step inside for awhile. And I certainly don't want that dirty-old-man following me around, observing me, to find out what my favorite kinds of candy are, so that he can entice me into being a statistic.
How does this compare to SendGrid, Mailgun, and Amazon SNS? Any notable features that make it an improvement or would convince me to switch?
I think it's gone downhill because of a declining pool of good myths left to test (how many are basically just "someone on out forums dared us to do this" with a thin veneer of "myth").
Slime is a Lisp REPL. It's the one I was thinking of. Yes, people have dabbled around the edges adding images and other things that Emacs can do. But that isn't the same thing as a REPL designed with data visualization in mind. Lisp is not the state of the art here.
What made flex wrong from a historical perspective wasn't the programming model. The main issue was always that you were working on a platform that could get desupported by an organization outside of your control, whether it was adobe or one of the browser makers. It's microsoft that's killing flex (and silverlight) by making metro IE10 a plugin-free zone in Windows 8. ExtJS isn't in the same boat because it's all javascript, so it will keep working in future browsers.

The other kind of "wrong", that it isn't web-like, mostly comes down to the fact that flex and extjs are designed to let you build desktop-like UI's in the browser. If you don't like desktop UI's inside a browser window, you won't like those tools.
As you grow, don't get too confident in your skills to the point of becoming condescending with non-coders. Always stay friendly, humble and open to learn new things. Stay relevant.
It is a high rate, but as of the 9th time they had a 100% cannon safety record. And as I said, I doubt they'll do it again in this location. Its definitely an unfortunate outcome.

I'm just pointing out that its easy to point fingers and say that something was stupid idea after the fact, even with all the experts in the world working on something. Before it went wrong, I'm sure they were certain they were being as safe as they could be.
> Every user having their searches funneled through your search engine. Tight integration with your e-mail service, your video sharing service and your VOIP service. Much, much more.

iOS currently has all of that except the VOIP, FWIW.
I remember reading a quote that facebook IDs don't even come in any particular order now. So how does this determine if I'm an early adopter of fb?
AWS Rebooting 100s or 1000s of EC2 Instances for Security Update
Thanks for sharing Zhang's piece. That's the kind of simplistic (yet crucial) thinking that we almost always tend to overlook.
It would be the same for the browser user agent, but a lot of other user agents might have trouble. Anyway, why are you advocating a change that you recognize will have no effect?
I never crammed for a test. Aside from courses that I liked (like History and English) I never took anything outside of CS. I dropped out after ~ 3 years to write software for a living.

This worked okay in 1982. I don't know if it would work now. I /do/ know that when I interview someone I never really look at their degree or coursework except as a starting point to figure out if they're a good hire.

There are two other people within fifty feet of me who have a similar educational story. We work at a very large company and you've probably used our products.

As far as I'm concerned, college is what you make of it. If you're going there purely for a degree and you don't learn anything useful, that's going to be a problem. If you go and learn something and can demonstrate that, you're good. I don't care if you went to Podunk or MIT, I don't care if you have the piece of paper or not; if you have the chops, you've won.
Interesting. We had some idea it wasn't totally linear but thought that the numbers (particularly for those that joined after college) had some validity. Do you have any thoughts on how to come up with a better algorithm given Facebook's ID system?
Followup:
I see now that 'city' is in and 'region' is out.

Did you do that or did it figure it out on it's own.

Is there anyway to see the full decision tree without re-voting? I've accidentily refreshed a couple of times so my extra votes are skewing the tree but I'm interested in seeing how the tree evolves.
What are some egregious servers?

Can I have a peek at your /etc/hosts

I have flashblock, adblock with the antisocial filter. Still I see the damn twitter buttons. Is there a way to remove them and g+?

How do I prevent google from tracking me?
I think this blind faith in Google to be a bit weird.

I still find unbelievable they can make that much money just with ads – I do believe they do, it just befuddles me – on a phone it's even harder to display them and in fact you don't see as many in the mobile web, are we really sure that Android is profitable? Maybe it's not yet and they're still trying to find the business model for it. Maybe it will never directly be, it will just serve as measure to not be excluded from the mobile world and keep competitors (not derogatory) from eating into Google.
No. I just don't go back to websites with annoying ads. I have yet to come across a website with utterly compelling content and also utterly intolerable ads.
I agree. I have watched almost all of his documentaries. In retrospect, everything looks like a con. He narrates history as if it was a big plan by the people in power but he forgets how utterly chaotic the world is. And yes, it is opium and I enjoyed watching his work.
As long as you're not AOT-compiling Clojure (i.e. producing class files, which is generally entirely unnecessary in Clojure except perhaps as the last step just prior to application delivery / deployment), you'll generally be very happy.

The 1.2 -> 1.3 transition has had a couple of bumps, but nothing compared to the pain I recall from my time across Scala versions years ago. FWIW, I have code I wrote years ago against pre-1.0 Clojure that still sits in jars in my Maven repository that is loaded and run in 1.4 alphas today. Backwards compatibility is mostly quite good.
The next major version of Ghostery will come with an expanded "bug"/page element browser that will break down Ghostery's database by category. The goal is to offer the most granular and usable selective blocker, and this will be a big step in that direction.
I don't understand why you attribute it to luck. Don't we have plenty of evidence of how much smart google top management can be?
Most schools charge the same regardless of major. At my university (private) full time was 15 credits (3 credits per class). As an engineering major, I shouldered a 21 credit per semester course load for all 4 years. Payed the exact same. So yes much cheaper for an engineering major. Add in the factor of real world skills and it's a downright bargain.
> Is Google doing to the OS industry to what they did to the news paper and media industry where IP is considered 'obsolete'.

Google didn't do much to the newspaper and media industry.

They mostly screwed themselves, with some help from competitors like Craigslist in their profit centers like classifieds.
Perhaps it just means that religious people are more likely to click on spam.
thank you for the link, so why I am getting down-voted for this?
Using modern imaging compute to "fix" 8-bit hardware
Define a cohort...Measure engagement...Improve app...Repeat
> a high potential for death or injury to /an uninvolved party/,

The fact that an accident occurred is not sufficient evidence that there was a high probability of an accident occurring. I'd even go so far as to state that the Mythbusters' safety record over the history of their show, combined with the inherent danger of some of the experiments they've conducted, is sufficient evidence to say exactly the opposite.

On top of this, even given the incident with the cannonball, there was not a "high probability" of a person being hurt. The population density per cubic meter of your average suburb just isn't that high. You could likely fire a hundred cannonballs randomly into a suburb without injuring a single person.
There's a comment string below discussing that very point. While not completely linear, there's definitely a somewhat linear path for the IDs, although it's distorted by who was in college when Facebook was college-only. Feel free to join in below with ideas of how to better parse the Facebook IDs.
the proposed vehicle circulation routes appear at odds with the renders. having a road running immediately around the outside of the building will certainly ruin the "embedded in nature" aesthetic they've got going on there.
It might be interesting to compare with mailgun too, one that I recently heard about.
So, the myth is "not discussing explosives recipes on TV reduces bad uses of explosives". Debunking that one in a safe & legal manner would be some Mythbusters I'd enjoy watching more than "exploding pants".
This is kind of crazy. I had written pypolymorph independently a few months ago that does this same thing: https://github.com/amoffat/pypolymorph
Am I the only one seeing this?

http://f.cl.ly/items/3M3D0X1Q3i3i0k2U3B3y/AppleCampusSpinner...
Drug reverses aging-associated changes in brain cells
Just a few years ago, the old Nokia was consistently bringing in >1 billion USD in profit per quarter.

If your theory is correct and Android has simply replaced Nokia, it's making a good amount of money for someone. (Unless $1B == 0 in your world.)
12 independent App Store game devs join together in December for charity
I found it really interesting that someone piped up in the blog comments disagreeing with the measure for overweight: "Since so-called overweight – BMI 25-30 – is the longest-lived cohort, parents aren’t the only ones with screwed up perceptions, IMO."

Denial's everywhere, I guess.

Assuming that the claim is true that people with a BMI of 25-30 live longer than any other BMI range, how is believing that claim denial? Or in other words, what do you think that poster is denying?

So even sizes in stores work to make people feel they're ok. 1X isn't "extra large" It's "woman sized". WTF?

There are communities where that's considered a good thing. I recall an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun where one character was looking for a dress, and was dismayed to find that the standard sizes were designed to make women fill overweight and inadequate (it turned out that the store had been taken over by impossibly-thin supermodel aliens, IIRC).

If the trade-off is between being happy and size X, but dying early, or unhappy and size X, and dying early, which is better? How do you convince people to be happy about where they are by being happy about where they're going?
Where are you people getting this "Android makes no money for Google" perception from? Android makes money for Google in exactly the same way all of their other products/services make money: Advertising.
One thing I think that differs between these is most only do 1/2 of email -- sending. Mailgun and a few others do two way emails.
I actually wanted to include ICQ! I had an early ID there, although can't find it anymore. Stopped signing in, was just full of SPAM...