skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, in previous natural cycles it did. Increased temperatures (due to orbital effect) lead to increased CO2, which increased temperatures further, releasing more CO2. A positive feedback mechanism.
The problem is that man-made atmospheric CO2 has upset that natural balance (CO2 is now significantly higher than it has been in the last 400,000 years - see second graph). Will that increase global temperatures? Scientists think so, and there is some evidence it is already happening. If so, the results are likely to be very serious indeed. Should we wait to find out?
You know, I REALLY like this. It flows very nicely and doesn't confuse at all. Great idea

Edit: Ugh it totally breaks on middle-click scrolling (in Firefox)
I use MTASC for AS2 development and haXe for AS3, both are open source and work perfectly. We've rolled out online maps in Flash for corporate clients without me ever touching the Flash IDE, never mind Flex.
What I meant was, Microsoft is always changing and renaming things. I would not be surprised if "Azure" will have a new name, new group, new PUM, new logo, and a new API next month. If its still here at all. That's one reason learning Microsoft tools gives me a headache. By comparison, the *NIX toolset is relatively stable.

Their constantly shifting brands etc. matches how they are constantly reorganizing their groups internally. Its an endless shuffle game and a lot is lost in the churn.

Nevertheless they pull in the $$$!
Who do companies want to hire?

They want to hire someone that is amazingly good at something.

Someone that is truly passionate.

Someone that really gets what they are doing.

Many of us are generalists, because we've been doing this gig so long. We've soaked up a myriad of technologies.

But it takes a lifetime of experience, something you don't have time for.

Learning about lots of algorithms may be fun (heck, it is to me!), but it may not be the best use of your time.

Right now, you need maximum leverage, especially in a waning economy.

If you pick a technology that you are having a blast with, you are going to push yourself and your skillset.

Does John Carmack do OS-hacking or web-app-hacking? Nope, he builds great game engines. (Well, that, and something about rockets.) And he's compensated accordingly.

It might seem silly to ditch the books in favor of building your own ray-casting engine (or whatever makes your bells jingle), but

1) you're going to find out if you are truly passionate about going in deep, and

2) you're going to have real-world experience and will be able to have a serious conversation with other engine designers. Quite important in job interviews.

You don't need 100,000 jobs. You only need 1. Decide now what you job you want and start your course in that direction.

Good luck -- exciting times for you friend!

BTW: Math isn't necessary for great hacking. In my line of work, I rarely need that skillset. And when I do, there are libraries.
Triple Helix: Designing a New Molecule of Life
But if I can fly on this keyboard (and the ones like it such as the MacBook Air) with no problems for years, why should I worry about the "ergonomic" keyboards?
direct link:

http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/forum/topic/sho...
While I agreed with the article that most of the questions are pointless or at the very least suboptimal, I disagree that they imply that you're not getting hired. I think I've gotten some variant of "what are your weak points" in every interview I've been on (and I've been hired on several occasions. ;)). And I've sometimes asked the "I see you worked at company X doing Y... tell me about that" type of question as a sort of warmup before asking more technical questions.

Finally, I don't think the "how many gas stations are there" type of questions are totally pointless (though I don't generally ask them.) They reveal something about how a candidate attempts to solve problems, and the one thing you don't want to see is the candidate simply say "I have no idea..." without at least trying. I think there is a danger if a company over relies on such questions, however.
Stack Overflow: Server Hosting - Rent vs. Buy?
Unless it's your health or spouse/kids, pretty much anything is worth the sacrifice when you're pursuing your own calling. Waking up each day with that enveloping purpose and drive is such an awesome feeling.

The flip side, which I think I am on the verge of experiencing, is that to sacrifice having the feeling of purpose and drive might end up costing you your health and/or family.

Never underestimate the toll that denying yourself can have on your health and relationships.
United Shareholders of America
Want to prove you aren't a tester? Come into my office and slap down a couple hundred pages of well-written and documented code -- and be able to have a well-rounded respectful conversation about the technology involved.

You can tick-talk all day long, but I want guys that have the guts to get serious and the guts to get it done. Theory doesn't pay the bills, shipping code does.

You shouldn't wait to find a company to start your education on churning out great code, you need to start now, today -- go find an open-source project and dive in.

Every hacker here will tell you the same thing: You can read about having sex all day long, but when the lights are out and you are in the sack with a pretty lady -- experience is what counts.
The pattern held throughout the 20th century during massive industrialization.

> Scientists think so

The word "scientist" needs to be banned. There is no such thing as a special class of people called "scientists."
I must sheepishly admit that I have not fully read Knuth. I've skimmed parts of Vol. 1-3 and looked up specific things, but I have not gone through every proof with a fine-tooth comb. (Far from it.) The book is enormously deep, very valuable if you follow all the math, insightful. At the same time, it doesn't cover a whole lot of topics, and with good reason: it isn't complete yet. Volume 4 has been in production for decades now, and being released piecemeal. CLRS (Cormen et al.) has less depth, but more breadth. The book covers introductory graph algorithms in reasonable detail, for example.

As a side note, Knuth presents examples using a synthetic machine language. Don't get me wrong: this is actually extremely cool, but you end up jumping between thinking about registers and then thinking about very high-level math. This shouldn't throw you off very much, but it makes me think that it shouldn't be the first or only algorithms text. CLRS, on the other hand, uses pretty dense pseudocode, lots of mutable state, and bad variable names. The longer algorithms can be hard to follow. I know that a 3rd edition will come out in a couple of years, maybe it'll fix that. Not sure.

Speaking for myself, I'm not sure I could plough through either Knuth or CLRS, from first to last page. I read books like that by reading introductions and then skipping around. By the time you get that far, you'll know what interests you and where you need to pick up knowledge. Certainly once you have dynamic programming techniques under your belt, you'll know enough to guide your own explorations.
That's unfortunate, considering how unstable it is. There's one issue in particular that's extremely frustrating. Say you have multiple monitors, in my case I have 4, 2 of which are attached via a USB2DVI adapter. Every time I start Google Chrome all my screens will flicker and reset their settings, leaving me to have to redefine my monitors and their positions. It boggles my mind that Chrome needs to interface with the monitors at all, and oddly enough I've only experienced this issue with Chrome.
"What are your biggest flaws?"

My only flaw is that I don't have any flaws.
> as cheaply

In other words, talent costs money. Companies expect the good developers to come out of the woodwork for a 35-40k junior dev position and wonder why they come up with dregs.

But I agree. In the one year I spent at a university I ran into many CS majors. Most were in it for the money.

Now these students were only taught in Java as far as I could tell, yet they seemed to have no interest in the language. I'd ask questions about Java web technologies that I'd only heard of (being more of PHP guy) like Struts and what not, drawing blank stares. I'd ask all sorts of things that I'd heard about the language, hoping they'd relate some experiences in regards to what I'd heard, that the code was rigid, verbose, etc. I was especially interested in what they knew about OOP which at the time I was teaching myself. More blank stares.

Didn't take much more digging to discover that they were pursuing the degree for the money and nothing more. I thought that it was very sad that I, a History major at the time, had more passion for computer science than most CompSci majors I met.
Well for one, Twitpay has checks in place to limit the amount that any one account can send or receive in a given time period.
What does it say about your sexuality if you also had BeOS on there? I hope my wife doesn't read HN.
Dashboard Computers turn fuel-efficient driving into a game
Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Yang writes his email without proper capitalization? Does it make employees feel like he's down on their level? (Apparently, they aren't good with capitalization, either?) Curious minds...
That's a very good idea. One of us should put together a charity like this. People donate and get to vote on the prizes held.
Few months ago, someone I know (nontechnical) lost their password on a public blog server. Unfortunately, like most people, they used the same password on their Yahoo mail account. Inside of a day, they:

* Got locked out of their Yahoo mail account for a week

* Lost their GoDaddy account, got locked out of it, and had it redirected to a gay porn site

* Lost their bank account, had thousands in fraudulent charges racked up, and got locked out of the account

* Had all their Yahoo mailing lists scrubbed, and each mailing list member (including his kids soccer team, which he ran) spammed with gay porn stuff

* Had his tax dox and personal mail dumped in public.

It sounds like your Google experience sucked. But I can think of worse things that can happen than a beaurocratic SNAFU. Let's not just hope that people will get smart about their passwords.
Nothing does.

But does that mean the government should be worrying about making sure everyone has a good car, a good home, good food, etc.? Seems like broadband is pretty far down on the "basic needs" list.
Right out of college you should be looking for $30 to $50 for tech consulting.

I usually work at 2 rates depending on the project or engagement. I have a "developer" rate where I'm looking at an every day engagement for longer than a month. Essentially I'm guaranteed work for a considerable period of time so I charge less.

Sometimes I get called in for one of consulting gigs, maybe just a day to a week of training or consulting. I usually charge about 50%-100% more for these types of gigs, this is common - you incur a lot of overhead on a gig like this. I'm up front about this with potential clients as well, they know my rate goes down for a longer engagement.

By the way where are you? Do you have some unique skillset?
Exactly! You need to come into bprater's office when the lights are out and slap something down. Then, dive in and start churning. Wait, what were we talking about again? Oh, right, having sex.
Code Normal Forms
Ask HN: What's New in SEO?
Is there anything new to learn in SEO besides the basics that you find in top 10 type blog posts? Having read a few "tips" sites, and the google guidelines, is there anything left for me to know?
A self-indulgent throwback to when it was 'cool' to write like that on the internet.
Could someone smart post a thought-provoking question about IP law?
I like the first comment.

smallcaps said:

this email should have been sent in all caps instead.
What brings you to Fairfax?
Why People Don't Understand Unicode
PHP Developer
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We are currently looking for a PHP Developer to add to the Synacor Team. The ideal Developer will have experience with LINUX and PHP, JSP, ASP, or other language used for building web based applications. This position will start out as a new Developer working with one of the Sr. Developers on the team. The development work that this Developer will perform will involve Front End / GUI Development, enhancement and maintenance of existing software modules, custom programming for clients and various data manipulation tasks. If this sounds like the career you have been searching for, read on…

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•	Providing technical consultation and expertise to Product Managers and other Synacor staff members.
•	Writing technical and non-technical specifications and the documentation of procedures.
•	Reviewing Product requirement documents as well as participating in integration calls with our partners.
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•	Minimum three years experience in software or website development; proven experience developing large-scale database-driven applications
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Ask YC: what's the best way to accept micro-payment (99cents)?
Any idea regarding best payment method (paypal, google checkout etc.) that has lowest commission/charges for accepting 99cents for the stuff that u might sell online?
There's a Futurama episode that addresses "Humans dating Robots"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot
Black hole confirmed in Milky Way
I thought so too.

I did wonder if it's being labelled as 0day because a different patch was released yesterday (but surely that would only work if the patch was directly related to the latest exploit?)

Of course, I could just be over-analysing.
Someone once gave me this bit of advice that usually seems to work for me:

"Sometimes a little inaccuracy can save a whole lot of explanation."
While Detroit Slept
Very awesome.
Should Google Buy the New York Times?
cant think of anything but SEO is pretty unimportant compared to customer focused copy and the sites connectedness
Quotes from Warren Buffett
A couple of my favorites...

If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

The second one seems to apply particularly well to the current financial crisis.
Unfortunately, I don't think this translates into safety. While driving, drivers should concentrate on the road and overall flow of traffic; not the fuel efficiency of their cars.
How is this evil?
Unix : 'cal 1752' - look at september
Pretty cool! eh ?
Less typing?
found a few that i could use :)
What you have to understand is that EVERY email from Jerry is lowercase. I can see how some people think this is offensive, but honestly, they lack the context of every other email he's ever sent. I think Yahoos would be worried if he started using capitals.
I dunno, I know people who's problem-solving skills amount to "paste the error message into Google and try the first solution". I want people who can derive a solution from first principles because often that's what you need to do.
How many unique users per day do you have? The size of your service really determines the correct course.
So did I... I'm surprised Impromptu wasn't on the list:
http://trentrichardson.com/Impromptu/index.php

It's great for little message-pops and when you need quick user-input.
Another Digg-worthy article submitted by an actual Digg user. We're headed toward reddit-style pun threads:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=386128

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385147
> By the way where are you?

This is probably the most important question. Good luck getting $30 an hour in a small market, and you could certainly ask for more than $50 if you know what you are doing in New York City. So where are you?
Is it something people might buy a good amount of? You could look in to something like a credit on the site (IE the user can add credit in $5 increments). Or you could bill when they customers has gotten to $X (this is risky in some cases). Wouldn't it be easier to just get creative with the business model, rather than try to deal with the hassle of $0.99 coming over and over again with little remaining when you receive it?
You have a lot of followers / are following a lot of users, so you could look into using Magpie (be-a-magpie.com) to do some ads. I think you would need to post more often to twitter.com/trackthis to really start making money from it though. It also raises the issue of advertising to your users / spamming them by requiring them to follow trackthis. Just an idea.
Now there isn't ;-)
Three Fledgling Businesses, a Year Later
What I do to my relatives is difficult to explain.

My explanations of my work, though, vary with the comprehension I expect from the listener. For my uncle, an engineer with more patents than I've had drunken inspirations, I go in-depth into whatever has me most excited at the moment. For my cousin, the horse trader and Counterstrike fan, I give a general description of CND, bowdlerizing it of anything glamorous so I don't get asked to teach him how to hack.

The more difficult query comes when I don't know the questor quite as well. Unless the truth matters, and it usually doesn't, I'll take a peripheral aspect of my work and practice my story-telling abilities.
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates
"The papers cited in the press releases are not online for free."

Not Even Wrong. Go here, and have your fill:

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/index.htm

Furthermore, from the site:

"Hard copies of the Summaries for Policymakers, Technical Summaries, Synthesis Reports and Technical Papers in English and in other UN languages, and CD-ROMs of the full reports, can be obtained FREE OF CHARGE from the IPCC Secretariat."

As for your second point -- that the reports are hard to understand -- then with all due respect, I would suggest that if you can't understand the reports, you aren't qualified to have a dissenting opinion on the matter.
I'm a woman: I find it downright creepy.
Concentrate on getting quality backlinks.
It's likely that there is a better way. There already exist deterministic bitmap rasterizers which might yield decent results, and almost instantly. A greedy algorithm that tries to place the "most necessary" polygon first would almost certainly find a reasonable solution in a very short amount of time. Even a hybrid approach -- where the algorithm randomly picks a solution parameter and does a line search for the best value -- would converge faster than random hill-climbing alone.
I've seen just one performance measurement system that works really. It must be done in a shop that does Test First development and maintains a comprehensive unit test suite. The shop must also use "story points" or something similar. To measure a programmer's performance:

1) Review a random sample of their unit tests
2) Count the number of passing unit tests that they write
3) Count the number of story points they complete

It's harder to game this system. If you write lots of trivial, worthless tests, then (1) suffers and you don't complete more of (3). Also, story points originate with the user, so it's harder to game those.
If I were interviewing a candidate, I wouldn't ask pointless questions about "simple facts." I would ask about design methods and give small design problems.

I'm a hardware engineer. As shocking as this may be to some, much of what I need to know cannot be easily found on the internet. I have to crack open a book to find good high level information. With the rising popularity of open college classes, this will probably change, but we aren't there yet.

For programming, the internet can be a very good resource. When I was a full-time programmer, google served as a very good reference. I would open a browser before I took a look at my bookshelf.
Better Place wants to use the cell phone model of buying minutes to buying miles on their electric vehicle network:

http://www.betterplace.com/our-bold-plan/business-model/
That's what this article was talking about, and the article the author wrote a few years ago (linked in this article) give even more reasons.
Good read. I wrote something similar in my article "The Cult of the Product": http://20bits.com/articles/the-cult-of-the-product/

Marketing, distribution, and all that non-product stuff is just as important, if not more important, than the product itself.

If business were about horses and lakes, there are three steps in acquiring customers:
1) Having a good lake
2) Leading the horse to it
3) Convincing the horse to drink

(1) is product, (2) is distribution, and (3) is marketing. You need all three.

Once you've got that down you need to start worry about whether the horse will come back, if he'll bring his friends, etc.

But it's not just about the lake, er, the product.
Those tacos look yummy.
I am also confident that SQLAlchemy is the best ORM out there (though I'd like to try LINQ). The documentation has been improving rapidly, you should give the .5 branch a try.

I agree that it needs to be improved, but that's largely because the product is so powerful and complex, writing sufficient documentation is a herculean effort in and of itself.
If you believe that population will continue to grow exponentially, reducing resource use per person linearly doesn't help.

I note that population growth varies significantly with technology. Folks with TVs have fewer kids than those without. Folks with computers have even fewer.
The write-up, IMHO was a little bit off. Presently, they appear to be more of a band recommendation engine/site/notifier (monetized with ticket sales) than an actual ticket comparison site. While they're certainly an indirect competitor, I think they're more of a direct competitor with Songkick.

I wonder where they got their name from...
As a hardware consultant during college, I was able to charge $20 - $30 per hour. Naturally more is better. If you have experience, it is easy to justify $100.