skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is he was being facetious.

I'm going to assume this guy has been picking up the phone on this issue non-stop for the last week and is tired of hearing from opponents.

He was probably just entertaining himself.
That's very similar to the angle I'm taking with http://repwatch.us/

Still in development.
You'll still have some legwork to do, since every firm publishes them on their own sites, and you'd need their permission to republish them.

Here's an example: http://www.pillsburylaw.com/index.cfm?pageid=32&itemid=4...

Here's a site that aggregates this kind of content: http://www.jdsupra.com/
He chose his words carefully. He didn't say this was done by Google employees, but "a team of people" working on a Google project.

Google is usually straight-forward when they screw up. I'm curious to see what actually happened.
This is a pretty important point. I doubt more than 10,000 people in the U.S. read PIPA and SOPA in their entirety (only a handful of congressmen/women are included in the 10,000)

Our reactions to proposed legislation are almost entirely based on the interpretation of a few and signals we take from peer groups.

I'd like to see a great summary of every legislation with the following info in VERY CLEAR and concise language:

- factual account of what the proposed legislation does/enables

- who will love the bill

- who will hate the bill

- how much will this bill cost taxpayers per year when implemented

If we had those 4 points easily accessible for every piece of legislation, it would be a positive thing for our democracy.
The way current C# does accessors / properties is just about perfect, I wish more languages would adopt it.
They say money is the Mother's milk of politics. I think someone should organize a political action committee to defend the Internet. It's important to keep it apolitical and target only those trying to censor or impede the net. In Sen. Schumer's case the solution is to primary him.
ReadNowApp forced offline due to 'infringement' - Is this the SOPA future?
From the press release about Trevor Blackwell's graduation (linked in this article):

In addition to his work in randomness, Dr. Blackwell has also developed pioneering techniques for rapid mass deletion of potentially critical information. His original work on /usr directories at Harvard has successfully been applied to IP addresses, and also, with the assistance of his wife Laurie, to human hair (see illustration).

"It's not a Flowbie!" said Dr. Blackwell. "They're the very same kind of clippers that actual barbers use."

I salute your use of inside jokes as press releases. And I identify with it. In fact, it reminds me of a press release my company launched about a year ago, in which we promise "mondo shirtage": http://www.prlog.org/11203938-new-shirt-website-promises-mon...

It's just hard for us to take press releases seriously.
Police rescue man and daughter kidnapped by email scammers
10 great books to help you think, create, & communicate better in 2012
It's easier to "dive in" when it's a short term project that you are working on alone and it's in a problem domain that you are familiar with (in notch's case games programming).

I'm at the point know where I can build an E-Commerce site in an MVC framework and implement Client & Admin Logins , Stock management , product search and a shopping cart without having to engage my brain because the structure to me is fairly obvious.

On the other hand if I had to design a game I would have to think long and hard about how the different components would fit together and even then I would most likely get it wrong somewhere.
Google: We're "mortified" by actions of Google team with Mocality data
> the United States especially lags behind in teaching mathematics to its most advanced students.

When I was in 8th grade at the best private day school I could find that would bus me (just under an hour away, but I lived in the sticks and accepted that), I was one of the few kids in "advanced math and science." This was 1 year accelerated, nothing special: we just went to class with the 9th graders. I was taught "Math A" out of this bad boy: http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Review-Lawrence-S-Leff/dp/0764122...

In my first year of the 1.5-year-long Math A, I was never once introduced to the quadratic formula. We were taught to factor quadratic equations by guessing the roots. Not kidding. The Math A test guaranteed integer roots, so... we learned to factor quadratic equations by guessing roots. I actually wrote a TI-83+ program to solve quadratic equations by guessing the roots (somewhat intelligently).

I still look back on that in astonishment - that's all you had to know for algebra 1! Integer roots and guessing! I'm sure schools in new york state - and schools in my region - taught the quadratic formula... but by the book, they didn't have to.

Thankfully, I was fortunate enough to be able to go to high school in connecticut where I could get a decent education. So my story ended up just dandy. Not sure about the rest of NYS.
This isn't anything new and it's disturbing. I wrote an article about Caesars Entertainment (who own Playtika) and how they are coaching children on how to gamble. They own the #1 grossing app on the App Store. Apple is complicit in this because they rate the "simulated gambling" apps as suitable for children aged 12 and up.

http://www.appcolumn.com/games/slotomania-brings-the-casino-...
UK Biobank(VBPsafdar352)
Recruiting up to half a million participants aged between 45 and 69 years for a cohort study into role of nature and nurture in health and disease.. Try it now. www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/
Code bloat, at least _compiled_ code bloat, tends to be less on an issue with trivial accessors in C++ since they are generally inlined, but it does add a lot ()s. For non-trivial accessors, yeah, you can inline a lot of copies of that logic.

Vector v1(v2.getX(), v2.getY(), v2.getZ()); vs
Vector v1(v2.x, v2.y, v2.z);
http://hustletips.tumblr.com - Not a book, but sound advice and a quick read.
The default behavior of unity is to hide itself if you are using that space. You also have a number of options:

Hide Launcher:
* Never
* Autohide
* Dodge Windows
* Dodge Active Window

(the last is the default)
Parse offers one-click migration for SimpleGeo Storage customers.
They really need to split out the "censor counterfeit products" from the "censor the Internet" part. Everyone is fine with the first, nobody is fine with the second. Let's meet in the middle.
They are also a public company that generates profits for shareholders.
http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/302823358

This is the start of the 48 hour video showing him building a 2d game for the lundum dare compo.
Info is on the site: http://www.socalcodecamp.com/sessions.aspx
I agree with you completely that it's entirely unproven whether or not the TSA has been effective for catching terrorists. I also agree that it's a wasteful system that should be seriously reformed into something that is actually effective.

It's precisely because it's unproven that we cannot say that the TSA has never caught a terrorist. That's all I was saying. The TSA may or may not have caught a potential terrorist at some point, it's pretty much impossible to say. You can't have it both ways. Either the TSA's effectiveness is unknown (meaning they may or may not have caught terrorists), or it's known to be 100% useless (meaning 0 terrorists were caught).

In regards to occurrences of terrorists prior to 9/11, you're correct that there weren't many (any?) incidences of using a plane for a terrorist attack, but hijackings were certainly not uncommon prior to 9/11. In fact, come to think of it, incidences of hijackings are almost certainly down since 9/11. I don't think this can be entirely attributed to increased security, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it as a contributing factor.
Well, that deserves a +1.

Kind of amazing, I thought it would turn out it was an unconnected company.
To clarify here, I was fixing invalid HTML in todos, not disabling it entirely. There were some HTML tags people used that I wasn't aware of.

Let's be honest, we're all human here and make mistakes, I took responsibility for it and learned a lot in the process.
This is pretty cool.

That said, a Bootstrap generator that generates LESS, which in turn generates CSS? Seems overengineered. Almost all of these variables are in variables.less anyway. I'd hope that anyone setting up Bootstrap has the skills to edit this one file.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/lib/variabl...
I don't think there is an specific list that fits all entrepreneurs, but this is the list that has helped me a lot on getting things up and running:

* The Lean Startup

* Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup.

* Startup@Cloud: 33 tips for running your company using cloud-based software.
Perhaps you would know the answer to that question if you bothered to read the first two sentences on the site.

> "The Nide IDE is available both as a command-line tool and as a standalone Mac app. Please note that currently Windows is unsupported. (We're working on that)"
White House Seeks Input on Fed Mobile Strategy
Asks public what should the Federal Mobility Strategy include?
Hacker Newsletter - Issue #79
Make sure to sign up for the FREE Geek Dinner after event's first day. You have to register on the event front desk early on Saturday. I guess there's only 100 tickets available for the Geek Dinner.
Gosu supports a property syntax that lets you use = to assign things to get/set method pairs. In fact, when you load existing Java code, it replaces getFoo() and setFoo(foo) methods with a property.

This makes the code neater and enforces the abstraction--the user of the property does not need to know whether you've implemented it as a simple variable or a complicated method.

A bunch of other language let you do this as well.
From NFL to Tech StartUp - More similar than you think.
Yep. Technically speaking, I got three null results: not enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis (that A was about equal to B).

Specifically, I tested

1) Paypal + Google Checkout (my previous arrangement) vs. credit card (Stripe) signups alone

2) PP + GC + CC vs. CC

3) PP + GC + CC with in-application upgrade messages pushing insta-gratification CC-based upgrades vs. plain PP + GC + CC with in-application upgrade messages dumping them to the purchasing page like I have done for the last 3 years

n.b. These are my results but they may not be your results. It is entirely possible my credit card form design (which I flagrantly stole from Twitter Bootstrap) is just bad, depressing CC signups, or the UX disimprovement crushed the favored-payment-method improvement, or something else entirely. Test test test.
I think he wants to improve his design skills , not necessarily "be like everyone else"

Just because minecraft is a success does not mean there are not going to be parts of it's codebase that could be improved in such a way that it would improve their ability to iterate and add more features quickly in future.
Doesn't infinite scroll take away from potential advertising?
Totally drug-resistant TB emerges in India
Three issues with the current academic journal system
Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in India
What's possibly even more impressive is that they are the first technology company to join the Fair Labor Association, opening them up to independent outside audits.[1]

Except from the supplier report:

"Apple recently became the first technology company accepted by the Fair Labor Association (FLA), and we look forward to working with them. While we have worked with third-party auditors for several years, Apple will also open its supply chain to the FLA’s independent auditing team, who will measure our suppliers’ performance against the FLA’s Workplace Code of Conduct and the results will appear on their website. It’s a level of transparency and independent oversight that is unmatched in our industry."[2]

[1]: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/apple-joins-fair-lab...
[2] http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_... (page 3)
There should never be "and for other purposes" slapped onto the title of a bill. Disgraceful.
Are you measuring, for this specific AB test, the number of conversions? Revenue? Profit? (Admittedly they should all trend in the same direction with the exception of profit, which might depend on how well each company's imposed costs work for your situation.)
TSA Makes $400K Off Loose Change
PEP 380 ("yield from") is now Final
Well it depends. You could probably never stop learning the tools or the new languages; they're continually re-invented. However you can certainly become bored with it; learning new tools and languages becomes a skill in its self. At which you think i've learned a new tool, so what?
This measuring tool makes life as a Web designer way easier
Cool inside look at NFL and tech.
Are you A/B testing Paypal vs. Stripe, or Paypal & Stripe vs. Paypal alone?

EDIT: Just noticed your post breaking down what you've looked at. Thanks again for all your transparency.
Jimmy Wales Gives Thumbs Up to Wikipedia SOPA Blackout
Why is that anymore dangerous than knowing how rm, rmdir, and chmod work on the commandline?

Python's os module is not exempt from permissions - it's obviously "dangerous" if you run the interpeter as root then start doing silly things like passing GET parameters to os.remove() directly... But that, IMHO, is no longer dangerous - that's just stupidity.

Really, there's nothing remotely dangerous about Python - in terms of using import os (excluding the above example which I consider idiocy), it's no more dangerous than elevating to root!?

[EDIT] I would argue that not knowing how something works is more dangerous, but that typically falls under the banner of ignorance.
I take this to mean that they were Google contractors, or other representative third party.

In any case, I feel like an apology is insufficient here - it sounds like what these guys have done has significantly harmed the reputation of Mocality, perhaps in an irreversible way. I'm not usually one to leap on the "payday from big company" bandwagon, but IMO Google needs to do more to make this right than simply apologizing and firing.
Nice story, but how do we know it's real? There's no data and all the names have been changed.
Free Indie Games not featured on TIGS or Indiegames: Atlantis [Cyberdash]
Need to take it a few steps further.

Happiness isn't about passion. Or interest. Or possessing something. Or accomplishing stuff.

Happiness is by definition a subjective state of mind. It can be easily manipulated.

Consider for instance someone riding on a bus on a normal day who gets a phone call telling her that she has won a $70 million dollar lottery. This individual proceeds to become ecstatically happy, even though nothing has been gained or lost in that moment. 5 minutes later she finds out that this is just a crank call, now her level of happiness will be lower than it was before she got the fake news. Even though nothing has changed objectively.

In the real world people generally accept that a rockstar, with many things going for him socioeconomically, can be depressed to the point of committing suicide. But don't seem to take seriously the notion that there are people who are incredibly happy but don't really have a lot going for them in socio-economic terms.

On the balance, the meme that there is some sort of objective circumstance that can lead to satisfaction and happiness is required for civilization to progress.

The article itself is poorly written, but links to a very good Ted talk on the issue...
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.h...
My first thought was the TRS-80 Model 100, another popular "Slabtop": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
I actually attended one of these types of schools in New Jersey. They are part of the vocational district, but are far from it.

There was an entrance exam and requirements, when I attended there were four schools: Marine Academy of Science and Technology (marine-biology with a heavy NJROTC component), High Technology High School (engineering), Academy of Allied Health and Science (where I attended and focused on medical careers) and the just opened in 2000 Communications High School (video, media, design, journalism). Since graduating in 2004 they've opened a fifth, Biotechnology High School.

Though I do not have a career in medicine, I don't know anyone who attended these schools who would have traded it for anything. The academic program was one of the most rigorous in the state, and I felt truly prepared for college. The schools are consistently ranked near the very top of the US News rankings nationwide and publicly financed.

The value is in the exposure, I still have a great interest in health and use that experience frequently, I'm even an EMT which I did as a senior elective there. In fact, there's even a YC founder who went to one of our schools.

TL;DR: It's not so much specialization as it is a rigorous 4 year college prep program with exposure to a field you have interest in.
How I opposed SOPA and ProtectIP, your turn
>"We’re still investigating exactly how this happened, and as soon as we have all the facts, we’ll be taking the appropriate action with the people involved."

Dear Google,

Last I checked, you have been in the business of finding other people's digital information on the web, aggregating it, and offering it up as your product for more than a decade. For the past several years, your business model has increasingly relied upon encouraging web users to add more content to the web - Google+ upon which this post appears being but the latest example.

If Mocality is correct in its claim that Google did not approach them about using their data, then it is hard to see how what has happened could be a surprise. Such naivety about the way the web works is simply not credible.

The persons responsible for this are not in Africa or India. They are the people responsible for oversight; they in the executive offices at the Googleplex - and I suspect that most of the regret is that this time you were caught in the honeypot.
Sorry, link goes directly to the release notes and screen shots, I didn't even realize there was more to the site, just assumed I started at the top of the page.
> Oh, and for good measure--everytime you force yourself to use an accessor, you are providing the opportunity for somebody down the line to add debug and validation code.

So add it then. Don't pre-generalize everything just in case.
Free Food Perks at Work: Why Catering is Key
In healthy corporate cultures, a well-fed staff is a well-fueled and happy machine of productivity. For this reason, more and more companies are bringing free food perks to the table for their employees. Gone are the days of workers jaunting down the street for a fast-food fix for lunch or dinner. With a growing number of people in the workforce spending at least 45 to 50 hours a week at the office, the time they spend eating in their work environment is an opportune occasion for coming together as a community to share ideas and build relationships. In addition to the social and professional benefits of rewarding employees with food, providing meals is a low-cost and high-return perk for companies.
CES 2012: New TV tech excites, tablets are toast
Full details: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/
This post seems to be missing the point. There is a general misunderstanding that being happy and excited about what you are doing has to do with the activity itself. It has a lot more to do with meeting internal needs.

I've had a pretty wide variety jobs in my life: meditation teacher, chef, poker player, software engineer. I experienced passion and happiness in all of them.

Initially, this seemed to be by chance, but eventually I spent some time trying to identify what made me happy. I discovered my driving needs: the things that inspire me and bring me the most happiness.

Driving needs are unique: everyone needs different things to be satisfied and fulfilled. For some it is acknowledgement and respect, for others it is the thrill of challenge and overcoming obstacles, and for still others it is security and stability.

It is extremely valuable to understand what your individual needs are. If you are clear about them, you can find ways to fulfill those needs in many different professions. You are free to find the optimal "work" to fulfill those needs.

Someone who is fulfilled by challenges is not likely to be fulfilled working a 9-5 job, just like someone who needs security is not going to be fulfilled working at a startup. It isn't the 9-5 job or the startup that is making the person happy, it is the fact that their needs are getting met.

A clear understanding of your driving needs gives you the opportunity to meet them in whatever situation you find yourself in. Additionally, it gives you the flexibility to change your profession if circumstances dictate without sacrificing your happiness.
Maybe they will, when they know the facts from all concerned. Seems a bit premature to do anything of substance just yet.
Funny, I thought the exact opposite about the sequence numbers; 16-bit sequence number is cutting it awfully fine for a "unique" ID in the space of a millisecond. Slow-as-molasses Perl can count to 2^16 in 3ms on my machine. Cutting bits out of the node id by hashing MAC, interface name, and a few other things and giving that to the sequence would have made more sense to me. (And you do that hash once at init time.)

In information theory terms, the node ids are carrying log2(number of nodes) bits of information, whereas the node ids are carrying something more like log2(maximum seq id). The latter is almost certainly larger than the former, and at 16 computer-bits allocated for the sequence number overflow would be a real concern of mine, if not on this year's hardware than in a few more years.
Who do you think would envy the other more? Tom Brady or Mark Zuckerberg
But as long as the economic system as a whole does not work as you describe it, isn't it unproductive to strip artists of their rights in the current system before we implement a new one?

--

And there are many people with free time already (me included). The whole free market argument goes both ways. Right now we allow both copyrighted and "free" content on the market.
Why can't copyleft content just win out in the market of consumption if the existence copyright doesn't have a conceptual advantage?
The main problem is that the Google representative incorrectly presented the offer as a partnership with Mocality. This is clearly fraud as the Google representative is using the business owners trust in Mocality to sell a competitors product, using a non-existing Google-Mocality partnership as a selling point.
Must be nice to have Vint Cerf on hand to consult on your networking issues!
Edit: (search box was broken: http://i.imgur.com/Z5chu.png) Ah, it was a zoom issue with firefox. I like the redesign. Perhaps long-term you can make zoomed/unzoomed pages degrade more gracefully, or at least keep the search bar on top :)
Trevor graduated at about the same time the acquisition closed, so in the course of 4 days he went from impecunious grad student to millionaire PhD.

In 1998, I had made an effort to do the whole "once a day, learn a random new word from the dictionary". I did that for exactly one day. The one word I learned was "impecunious." Up until now, I've never, ever, seen or heard that word used.

So in 1998, independent, near simultaneous events (Viaweb being acquired, and me learning a single word) were set in motion that would culminate 14 years later in me reading for the first time an actual legitimate use of that word, resulting in a very self-satisfied grin. Consider my day made.

It means "poor" btw.