skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever since the term "unobtrusive javascript" came into play, it's been considered best practice to have all scripts loaded externally, then select the element and attach a listener to it.
Yes, rewarding faster matches would be good.
How do I find a local ISP that gives good service? I am on comcast, and I hate them, but don't know where else to go. I live in the Chicagoland suburbs. Any suggestions?
To be honest, college was pretty much useless from a social/networking perspective for me. Dev & other social meetups, working and so on have been significantly more useful.

I had a commuter college experience and I bet unless you have the social skills, fortitude and setup (such as living in dorms) to take advantage of the social benefits of college, you wont get many social benefits out of it.
Hey, thanks - I'll reach out to him! And I can add a "posted via" type link to each song to drive traffic back to contributors as well. Do you think bloggers would view stagetrip as cannibalizing traffic to their own blog?
That quote, while frequently attributed to Jefferson, was probably never written by him. The earliest attribution for a similar quote is from 1837, and in the current form it comes from Thoreau in 1849 -- Civil Disobedience.

http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/gove...
Drilling down to see leaves and then drilling back up to the root to see the next branch sounds tedious...unless I can do it the same exact way that it can be done now with a mouse and a normal menu (i.e. without clicking, just hovering).

However, "hover" isn't a touch thing, so I bet that Ubuntu will make that functionality a 2nd class citizen or just cut it out altogether in favor of more a more tedious "touch oriented" (read: clicky) drill-down behavior. Which will suck (IMO).
Why on earth does anyone pay any attention to esr? He wrote some Perl scripts 15 years ago and a bad essay 10 years ago and now for some reason he's lauded as a champion of open source rather than the self-aggrandizing blowhard that he is
Lithium cells really do have a dramatically lower self-discharge rate. The most obvious application is in smoke alarms, where the current drain is usually less than the self-discharge rate of an alkaline PP3 battery. This has major implications for landlords, where a $2 battery might cost $60 to change.

Smoke alarms aside, there are few applications where lithium primary cells would make sense for the ordinary consumer.
And specious authority at that, see my above comment.
On a related topic, can someone recommend a good book for learning perl these days? I never learned it and think it is a good skill.
"In fact, I wonder if a lot of the reaction against relational databases stems from a lack of understanding of the declarative style and the underlying relational algebra."

That, a thousand times.
Lithium batteries have a different use case. Their advantages are greater overall capacity, longer shelf life, lower weight, higher voltage (1.8), consistent discharge (low slope), better operation in low temperatures, less tendency to leak (IME).

Household electronics may not need these, but a spelunker powering his headlamp might.
Battery lifetime may also change depending on current draw of the task at hand. It's not trivial to measure the energy content; you need to consider the application.
Perhaps he found one of those ridiculous fake torrent sites that claims to have thousands of downloads for anything you pass it in a query string? He definitely wouldn't be the first.

example: http://usenetdownloads.net/usenet.nl/v4/files.php?q=SGFja2Vy...
After two iterations of this I can se it being pretty good for my parents as they will be able to say "bookmark" or "back" to the voice recognition in the browser and not have to worry about the UI much at all.
I'm used to be around programmers, and I appreciate their directness, but your comment comes off a bit grating.

It looks like your screen size is slightly less than 1024, and that your default sans-serif font is quite wide. Are you playing on a Netbook under linux? The layout is truly flexible and the game is programmed to adjust to the screen size, but there is only so much I can do before the layout breaks.

Re: time running out - it is a penalization for taking so long to do it.
>> fuzzy matching, and it can learn what you usually do so it can prioritise the things you use often.

>Every time that I saw something like this in any application/OS (Android is a prime example), it was such an epic fail that it is almost beyond words.

A counterexample: the fuzzy matching in the address bar for firefox and chrome is awesome. Typing "Hacker" brings up "news.ycombinator.com -- Hacker News".

It would be awesome if the HUD could operate like this, * especially* as an alternative (not replacement) for menus (which are probably more efficient for common commands).
An interview with William Gibson
To expand the MVCC list noted above, MySQL + TokuDB is always in MVCC as well (since version 5.0 last year). Also note that the Quora link describes Fractional Cascading. TokuDB uses Fractal Tree indexes. To learn more about Fractal Tree indexes as opposed to basic LSM, see here - http://www.tokutek.com/2011/09/write-optimization-myths-comp...
It's highly interconnected. For example, you can make hops like USCounty--USState--Senator--Vote on economic stimulus bill.

The data backend is indeed NoSQL, but we didn't choose a graph db because there are no really good graph solutions that are easily parallelized.
"Consider that a toy steam engine was built by Heron of Alexandria around 2000 years ago, and yet nobody got the idea of harnessing it to replace human labor. Perhaps this can be explained in part by not-quite advanced metallurgy,"

Exactly, it is explained by not quite advanced metallurgy and tools.

The steam engine works thanks to the small tolerances industrial lathes gave us that let a cylinder to carry a piston without fluids getting out. Watt had to create himself special tools for the creation of his engine.

I have a link somewhere in my browser but zotero search is bullsh*t.
The node and coffeescript crowd is going to want ot have a meaningful dialog with you
I would love to switch ISPs, if only to get away from Comcast's ridiculous caps. But in my area, although there's a bundle of fiber running not 250 feet from my apartment, it's well over $1k for setup and the monthly fee, and the only DSL provider in the area (CenturyLink) only offers service a tenth as fast as Comcast's Xfinity service.

Rocks and hard places.
Maybe this will be their version of New Coke /jk
The problem isn't lectures. I am taking two mathematics courses this semester that are taught primarily by lecture - Linear Algebra and Discrete Math. Sitting through the Discrete Math lecture would give anyone the impression that lectures are a horrible way to teach - the professor is largely disengaged and just runs through his lecture notes, most of which are already in the textbooks. Homework is the traditional "go do these hundred problems from the textbook" affair.

The Linear Algebra lecture, on the other hand, is what lectures should be. Dr. Hong (who I am naming because he is awesome) is engaged with the class. He answers everyone's questions, and will call you out if you aren't paying attention. And more importantly, he always thoroughly explains the process and makes sure you understand it (and for all the matrix operations we have learned so far, he also makes sure you understand how to generalize it to larger matrices) before you walk out of the classroom.

Then, the homework is optional (though he does joke about killing you if you don't do it.) The goal of the homework in this case isn't to help you understand the material...that's what the lectures are for. He gives homework so students can become efficient at the process after they understand it.

So I don't think it's the lecture/homework model that's really broken here. A disinterested instructor will kill the course no matter whether you're lecturing in a classroom and doing problems at home, or lecturing on the Internet and doing problems during class. What's broken is that lecturers don't focus enough on the process and the concepts, instead running through multiple examples and hoping the students pick something up along the way.

(At least, for mathematics. I'm not sure how well this teaching style would translate to other disciplines such as history, composition, or even biology.)
I am on hold with their sales department right now. Comcast irritates me to no end!

I have been a Comcast customer for 5 years and had no viable options to go elsewhere.

I now have an 501c3 and they were going to give me a great price, but because I am exempt on a state level and still waiting approval on a federal level they want me to pay full price and retroactively as a 'billing adjustment' give me the difference back.

We would be talking a $1153 credit on my account which means Comcast still gets the money vs our 501c3 having that money in its pocket!
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> it's hard for me to think of a better scenario that doesn't infringe on the rights of people to assemble as a group and voice their opininon

exactly. i'm not even clear on what behavior people are referring to when they say they want to ban lobbying. the act of lobbying is getting in front of politicians and convincing them to vote a certain way; is that what opponents of lobbying want to ban? when people across the internet banded together and called their representatives to fight soap, that was us lobbying!

what would the text of a law banning lobbying even look like? all the reasonable pieces of legislation i can imagine are just campaign finance laws, which i'm mostly on board with, but unfortunately, it looks like we need a constitutional amendment to pass them.
Sure, but the holy grail is a system which guides the users towards becoming trained. It's not necessarily a dichotomy between easy-to-learn-but-not-efficient-in-the-long-run and emacs.
...and we are back to the command line paradigm

Perfect for the expert, no exploration for the newcomer
I think show listings and contextual blog posts work in, ahem, concert :)
I love it. Great job.
What the OP really meant, I think, was kill corporate contributions to candidates/officials/campaigns.

A company should certainly be allowed to hire someone whose soul job is to educate politicians.

Probably though, they should not be able to buy them fancy dinner, give them gifts, etc. Probably it is even fair to say that lobbying must be transparent. Either through some new system which interfaces citizens with their officials; or, through some direct transparency with regard to intentions of the lobbyist.

Money is the problem, not the lobbying.
Reducing the volume in the control panel doesn't add security. Microphone input volume is settable from user level without special permissions, so any software that was going to listen can control the volume.
Eh. Even if growth slows a lot because more and more new systems are Hadoop/etc, big companies are so tied to their legacy systems that they basically never get rid of what they have, so those companies will have significant recurring revenue from their current customers for the foreseeable future.

I also get the impression that Exadata is a pretty impressive feat of engineering and, if you need to do what it's optimized for and are prepared to pay a few million per rack, it's a very good option.
That's one reason I'm back to Debian for a year now.
Currently, it's great for socioeconomic data on countries, as well as for high-res socioeconomic data for the US (county resolution). There's data from the World Bank, Dept of Health, Dept of Labor, Dept of Justice, and several other public sources, with all entities reconciled.

We're building a pipeline to make it so that ETL involves as little human time as possible, but it's in its early stages now.
Ubuntu 10.04LTS has gnome 2, it also had gnome-do which was awesome. Ubuntu 12.04 is going to have unity/blurify or whatever -- this is a gigantic change and what prompted me to switch back to windows 7 on my laptop. This is too much change too fast especially when Ubuntu is targeting people from windows that are accustomed to windows xp/7.

TL;DR Ubuntu is moving wayyyy too fast.
Side Note - the Lower Self-Discharge rate is important for applications in which you are putting the battery out there in Gas/Water meters to run for 20 years. That isn't a shelf life of 20 years, that's actually _working_ for 20 years. Admittedly, most of the time the device it's powering is in a deep hibernation state, and only waking up once a day and doing a (very brief) radio transmission, but the tolerances become very important - particularly if you are deploying several million of these into the field.
Start Googling around for ISPs in your area. Look for ISPs' sites and forums discussing ISPs in your area.

From there, you'll have to check on each of their sites to see if they service your address or not. Hopefully you'll find some that do. I've tried dozens in my general area, and none of them did.

Awhile ago I got so desperate I nearly resorted to T1, but it's hard to justify for my purposes... and generally my internet connection through Comcast is pretty reliable, but for about a month or two back then they couldn't/wouldn't figure out whatever was causing it to be nearly unusable.
Graphene may exhibit exotic superconductivity
Reminds me of how I would configure Windows XP to classic view immediately after installation for years...
Complications of Hacking the Planet
Similar for me, except I do the audio version - more expensive and harder to find, but I'm driving so no options.
252 Monocles...
In your last example you could do;
[array[m], array[i]] = [array[i], array[m]]

And forget about t entirely.
So...just looking really far down the road here, but it seems that a common theme among lots of films set in the future is that currency is a thing of the past. If you could print any physical item, especially if you could pirate the plans, then there would hardly be a need for a currency because everything would almost be free. The only way to make money would be to either produce the printers or create new products and sell the plans.
they are more discoverable, just start typing a word and go through the list of match

I don't think that's discoverable. That is searchable: they do make it easier to search for a command you require without having to know under which menu to find it.

But they seem to be less discoverable in the sense that you cannot just browse through the menus to discover features. Having said that, there are probably ways to provide the discoverability of current menus, e.g., just list all the main menu items under each other, then typing a main menu item will show its items...

Still, discovering new features is not something you do nearly as often as using features you are familiar with, so the trade off seems to be a good one.
Interesting! The language on the MBP specs says "Combined headphone/line in", whereas the MBA specs say "Headphone port". But you are correct: my headphones register as an audio input on the Macbook Air. I wonder if it's a very specific exception, or just an intentionially undisclosed feature (why?).
Wouldn't Google Latitude do this, already?
Great work. I've already been more fulfilled with this than I have with the multimillion dollar Color startup...

It'd be cool to see the actual deviation in numbers...I feel that some of my "perfect" matches were just shots in the dark.
I'm looking forward to the inevitable discussions about cross-origin requests, same-origin policy and all that jazz.

Having implemented SPDY/2, they could do a lot worse than just ratifying SPDY (v3 by now..) and perhaps clarify some of the CORS stuff.
Read the help file.
This is a great idea and as they note its really beneficial to the power user, BUT I can't see it replacing traditional menus for novice users (and potentially some intermediate users).

For novice users, discoverabiliy is extremely important. For any application new users want to learn what it does, and they aren't going to read the manual. Traditional menus allow users to browse available actions without having to know what they want to do. They don't know what they don't know, and well designed menus/UIs allow them to learn the application really quickly.

I also wonder about the older generation and their ability to pick up on this. I would be very curious how well less technically skilled 40+-year-olds pick up on the keyboard-based navigation over the traditional mouse-based navigation/interaction.
I'm fond of the "Modern Perl" book, but you should have programming background for that. You won't go wrong by buying brian d foy's books either.

(Best is probably to ask at PerlMonks.org what to read.)

Edit: My best advice for a newbie is to get the Cookbook after the first basics. The Perl one is really helpful.
OK, but the goal isn't to be Haskell here, or even ML. Those languages have all kinds of support for making immutable-everywhere a feasible goal (and the vast majority of developers still don't use them).

If you want the language to be actually liked by people who develop large systems, it must be designed with its users in mind. 'Nanny' languages tend not to be very popular.

In C++ "reinterpret_cast" is a good example of something that is long and ugly for a reason. But it's also be very rare, probably an order of magnitude or two more rare than mutable in Rust (just a guess).
'Sex, Lies and Aliens' - a documentary.

(http://www.drg.tv/ProgramDetails.aspx?ProgramDetail=10596)

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265734/)
I don't think the problem is lobbying.

The problem is that we, as electoral body, are interested in politics only and only if something outrages like SOPA happens.

It is not enough just to show up and vote who whatever had nicer TV comercial. Know your representative, talk to him/her, call offices, etc. Be involved.
My mistake, it's actually "Insert Knob A Into Slot B", and it's here: http://dpaste.com/692782/
I wonder if they had a private Github repository or something containing their source for Megabox that wasn't seized. How cool would that be if they open-sourced it?
No mention of NiMh cells? Really?

NiMh cells used to be unsuitable for a lot of applications because of high self-discharge - a conventional NiMh cell will empty itself in a matter of weeks. This problem has now been solved by Sanyo and others, with a new generation of cells with vastly lower self-discharge. The latest generation will keep 90% of their charge after a year.

You can buy excellent NiMh cells for less than $2, often less than $1 if you buy in bulk. Good chargers can be found for $15. Compared to even dollar-store cells, it doesn't take long for that investment to pay off.
I really dislike this model. While it makes it extremely easy for companies to covertly use a prejudice filter on applicants, it makes it really hard for a person to have a social life on the web that's entirely different from their work ethos.
Mobile shift: You’ve probably underestimated just how big this is
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A large part of it is unrealistic expectations.

I just went through another useless gig interview,was in fact upfront about that I ask for 50% advance on project dev costs and get miss-directed when I ask directly if they understand that its not a suggestion.
It's a concise statement of a contrasting opinion, with a citation you can follow to find more elaboration of similar thoughts.

It would not have been more clear to phrase it as the following:

"""
> It's about small government vs. large government when it should be about good government, regardless of size

But the problem is that large government, by the very fact of its scope and size, involves itself too much in the lives and business of its citizens. The proper role of government is to mediate in the conflicts that arise between the rights and desires of its citizens, striving to best protect those rights and the liberty of each individual while constraining that liberty and the pursuit of individual and collective well being as little as possible. Thus, smaller government is better government.

The problems arising from expansive government powers and the desirability of strictly limiting government power are explored extensively in various writings of the founders of the American Republic.
"""

(and note the "attr." is "attributed to")
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1. Financial and career

- Payoff, in full, my remaining student loan balance.

- Launch my online business before the end of February.

2. Social and cultural

- Donate 10% of every dime that enters my bank account to charitable causes of my choice.

- Refresh social circle to include only supportive, like-minded individuals with goals similar to my own.

3. Spiritual and ethical

- Listen to Brainwave Entrainment audio and meditation tapes for 30 minutes EVERYDAY, preferrably before going to bed.

- Listen to online sermons as a baby step to getting back in tune with my religion.

4. Home and family

- Position myself to purchase or build a 4b/3ba single family home by the end of the year, for atleast 5% less than the going market rate.

5. Mental and education

- Read self-help and personal development material for atleast 30 minutes each day.

-- Subscribe to and read atleast 100 publications related to the startup, software development, and marketing categories.

-- Read 1 book each week on any of the following topics: starting a business, software architecture, online marketing, personal branding.

- Attend 1 personal development seminar.

6. Physical and health

- Cook my own meals by the end of Q1 2011.

- Drop bodyfat percentage from 14.4 to 11.

- Gain 15lbs of lean body mass.

Not even done yet..

Reach for the stars.
I'm really curious if the name brand batteries "good" ones vs the name brand "premium" ones actually have any difference.

You know, the "for digital electronics" batteries that are $1-2 more at the store. Just marketing?
Transport is subsidized by government, especially through energy subsidy.
I found the UI difficult and frustrating. Even after I gave it a second try, once it got to "complimentary", it went back to being frustrating and annoying. I left it after that point.
Also on Debian sid, I'm using this for some 5 months

Just an overgrow gnome-go, with lots of settings screen missing

There are even projects appearing to close the gap. What i strongly believe it's a waste of everybody time
Palo Alto-based payments company forgot to include contact info
just saying
Not to mention that I don't hae a twitter account, linked in profile of note, or really any meaningful web presence. I'm kind of busy actually making things.
No, but you could patent the bolt pattern if it was a novel way of achieving the connection, as Apple do with their Magsafe connectors.
You should try Comcast's business class service. No bandwidth caps, immediate customer service, and not too much more expensive (especially if you can negotiate a deal through your employer).
Yahoo will let you create the account, but then you'll have to go through a whole set of other steps to create a COPPA-compliant email account, including having a parent provide a credit card.

That's different from how they would handle it if they had an existing account on Yahoo Mail and found out that the owner was less than 13 - I suspect they would have to turn it off as well, because they won't let you create a non-COPPA account once you've admitted you're under 13.
Does an open connection with no data flowing really use more battery? I would imagine a 30-second polling interval is still frequent enough to keep the antenna in high-power mode, so it wouldn't make much of a difference. Have you found that not to be the case?
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