skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not CC-BY? I see attribution is something that protects the rights of consumers (by preserving the provenance chain) as much as it protects the rights of producers.

Personally I find myself going the other way. I see many free data products in the semantic web space that are only marginally succeeding, and a lot of it is that, without the profit motive, the people involved don't have a motivation to do the fit-and-finish work that's necessary for people to pick the product up and actually use it. I'd rather be working with a few people who really want the product and prove that they want it by paying for it, rather than dealing with a huge number of uncommitted people.
The app has a link that lets you opt out of being identified by Face.com, the way I understand it.

It looked like it required either a Twitter or Facebook account to log in, although the page was a little confusing.
See also: Ode to Power Laws

http://messymatters.com/powerlaws
It forces us to choose. Choose what means the most to us.

Why don't we just choose what's the most meaningful thing to us, right now?

Moreover, I think living for a really long time allows us to be more ambitious.
I only have one comment to reply to that with:

null, Null, None, Nil

At least I know which null I'm referring to in Java!
A RESTful Introduction
David Mitchell: I want to talk to you about the NHS. And its IT system
Failure implies responsibility. Which is the entire point of the article. We've shifted death from something that just happens, to something that we're responsible for. We've come to believe that we are somehow above death, and that every death is due to a human failure. Which is nonsense.

Similarly taking your position, we could say that computer science's inability to factor numbers in polynomial time is a failure. Clearly the fact that solving the problem may actually be impossible should play a role in assigning the label 'failure'.
Did Pinterest just solve a really important UX problem? (Really)
If you want to learn Python, MIT OCW Intro to Programming is probably the best resource there is: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Steal laptops for science, pass a test
Fwiw, this is the now-dropped claim, which is claim #14 from a patent with the ultra-generic title, "Controlling access to a resource":

A computer-readable medium bearing instructions for providing security, the instructions including instructions for performing the steps of: detecting when a request for an action is made by a principal; determining whether said action is authorized based on an association between permissions and a plurality of routines in a calling hierarchy associated with said principal; wherein each routine of said plurality of routines is associated with a class; and wherein said association between permissions and said plurality of routines is based on a second association between classes and protection domains.

In other words, each user is associated with a class, which contains routines, and each class is associated with a protection domain.
TIL that visible light is in the 400-800THz range. Things make way more sense now, I never realized it was that crazy high, relatively. Now I'm on a quest to build a RF pixel camera - thanks for the idea!
On Dave Ramsey and the Total Money Makeover
That "63 years" comes out of nowhere and does not means anything.

Those 800m users combined have more than 2 millions years "per day". They spend way more time brushing their teeths.

For just a second spent, "liking" something on Facebook seems a pretty efficient use of time.
Missing my favorite framework, Noir: https://github.com/ibdknox/noir
This is a cool approach.

One tip - I'd make your signup box a lot flashier (the subscribe form and button are pretty subdued), along with adding a clear call to action. It's difficult to understand right off the bat that this is an email list you should join to learn more about how cool startups approach hiring.

"Tired of “nerf battles” and “rockstar developers” in job listings?" is much less clear than saying "Join our email list to learn how awesome startups approach their hiring." and then a byline below that listing some of the startups you've interviewed.

Just my point of view - could be wrong. Hope it helps!
> Fear is wrong.

Oh yeah?. I suppose you wouldn't be afraid of jumping off a cliff, then? Most of the time, fear is very, very useful. Don't underestimate it.

Now, fear of death specifically might be wrong. But fear of whatever causes death sure is not.
No it doesn't. The death of young children, or victims of accidents or violent crimes for instance, doesn't force them to chose anything. The notion that you have limited time, might make you want to prioritize. You can hardly speak for anyone else, or what makes them choose anything.
Community Needs Survey (OSE)
This should be insanely useful for someone new to Computer Science. I wish I had this during my undergrad career. Good job!!
That's probably true I'm just going by memory and what we have.

IGT seems to own all, it's like you can't touch a thing without IGT being involved. I've even heard stories of potential new IGT employees being asked if they have any invention ideas, if they do IGT will but them.
Show HN: devsigh.com - post all your stories of developer sigh
I hope everyone do see the implication of creating a soul, then kill it 25 years later? Possibly repeatedly? That sounds almost as bad as a horcrux.
Safety Nets for Startups
I don't get it.

The whole point of having an ad server is to make sure the right ad is served to the right person. You can serve desktop ads to desktop browsers and mobile ads to mobile in DFP. Or, you can book a mobile version into a mobile placement and a desktop one into a desktop placement.

Either way, this is something that can easily be handled on the server with existing tech. I don't see much practical use of his example.
The improvement at the upper end isn't even that much in absolute terms. I guess it's hard to imagine accurately, but I think that when I'm 85, I'm going to be a lot more worried about the quality of my next few years, rather than whether there are going to be 4 or 6 of them. Four high-quality years would be far preferable to six questionable ones. (Of course, six high-quality ones would be even better, but if I had to choose, I'd choose quality.)
Why not CC-BY? I see attribution is something that protects the rights of consumers (by preserving the provenance chain) as much as it protects the rights of producers.

I want my work to spread as widely as possible. Sometime when your work get remixed so much that it doesn't make sense that somebody should preserve attribution.

Personally I find myself going the other way. I see many free data products in the semantic web space that are only marginally succeeding, and a lot of it is that, without the profit motive, the people involved don't have a motivation to do the fit-and-finish work that's necessary for people to pick the product up and actually use it. I'd rather be working with a few people who really want the product and prove that they want it by paying for it, rather than dealing with a huge number of uncommitted people.

You still want more dedicated customers. The way to get a lot of those people is to be well known. Whether or not you are able to filter them is another matter.

This article isn't arguing against high price. To me, getting paid for dead tree copies of your book is the very definition of charging a leg and an arm because they COULD read it for free on the internet.
Guess what The PirateBay is down
I wish more people read things like this.

"I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, “Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me.”"

I have a parent who's a medical professional and their response was exactly the same. On a related note I wonder if support for euthanasia is higher among those who work in medicine.
Would be curious to see the other end of the coin: given a complex web app with dozens of controllers and hundreds of templates, what's the amount of developer time required to build it with each of these frameworks.

Rather harder to automate that, though. :)
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MongoDB is one of the lowest-paid, not highest.
I didn't say Nazi. I said fascist. If I mean the "United States is converting toward a right-wing authoritarian regime", then fascism is the correct word for this. Arguing the semantics of this word, or saying I shouldn't use that word because of its associations, really does not make my opinion less valid, and doesn't make any argument to the contrary.
Awesome, thanks for the feedback! I'm running a few A/B tests right now with headlines and such - you got the boring "default" variation. I agree that it is very poor.

I'll work on making it clearer, flashier and less ambiguous. :)
You don't need to look too far for examples. Even on this very site, there are quite a few people who want to make a huge difference with their lives in one way or another before they're 30 or 40. Because they know they probably won't have another shot at it later on. What would that number be if they had an infinite number? Many wouldn't probably ever get around to try.
The 3A seems to be shipping in servers, but I don't think that you can buy them on the open market.
"substituting a tired "U.S.->Nazi" cliché in place of whatever message you intended."

He didn't make that claim. He made a specific claim. Rather than debate that claim, you're attacking the word he used. Have you got a better word? As far as I know, the term "Fascist" is the most clinically correct term for that type of system. If someone were to use the less correct, but more emotionally charged term "Nazi", then your line of attack would have some merit.

Ironically, you've made rational discussion impossible because you're using your emotional reaction as an argument against the use of the most accurate term.

I believe this is a tactic. You don't want to admit that this is happening, so you wish to deny anyone the possibility of pointing it out, by insisting that the most appropriate term is "irrational".

The irony, of course, is that this attitude on a mass scale is what allowed the Nazis in germany to obtain so much power. Germans are not genetically fascist, they're just like everyone else. However, like everyone else, they had a very hard time believing that their government could be doing evil, and so they lived in denial. Even after the war, many germans found it difficult to accept that the holocaust had happened.

The idea that fascism, which has happened historically on more than one occasion, is impossible, is perpetuated for ideological reasons. A cynical person might say that those perpetuating the ideology do so because they know their ideology is at its root fascist. (In that case, you would be the victim, not the person I'm accusing.)

If you've got a better term for a society where the economy is privately owned but under absolute control of the government, and the necessary authoritarianism that goes with it, please feel free to propose it.

But your attempt to banish the word created to describe such societies simply because you don't like the implications makes rational conversation impossible.

For instance, rather than discuss the trends we see in the USA, we're dealing with your insistence that we shouldn't use the correct word!
> Mistakes and oversights happen.

Which is exactly why we should be concerned about the removal of longstanding checks and balances designed to catch such mistakes before they do damage.

Judges aren't perfect either, but requiring the government to have to convince a judge of its case before shutting down someone's business is still a very important piece of due process.
Hi everyone. I built this over the course of the last week as an exercise in learning Django.

I noticed my friends and I tended to share lots of stories about our work-related development woe on IRC and thought it would be good to create a place to share the stories!

Let me know if you've got any feedback.
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This brings to mind the following article, in which doctors place greater emphasis on quality of life when making decisions themselves: Physicians Recommend Different Treatments for Patients Than They Choose for Themselves, Study Finds, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110411163904.ht...
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

There are plenty of activities that may seem to an outsider to be a waste of time. Daydreaming, for example.

(Just don't tell that to Albert Einstein who used to daydream about travelling on a wave of light.)

Even supposing that social networking is some sort of vice, it's easy to think of much more harmful alternatives.
This article is a puff piece. Don't waste your time.

There are no hard numbers mentioned here, but your unimpressive facebook and twitter counts could hardly drive any meaningful amount of revenue (facebook: 74 fans, twitter: 105 followers). With those numbers, I wouldn't be surprised if your 1000% increase was an increase from 1 app purchase to 11 purchases.
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How hard is it to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
A chronological survey of the opening chords of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony
I wonder if the paid Microsoft shill[1] Florian Mueller will comment on this? Likely not.

[1] https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/ACM7DmpF...
These wages are shockingly low. Who's actually working as a programmer doing NLP and only charging $30/hour?
It would be nice to see a hello-world example with 1, 10, 100 sample routes.

It's pretty easy to get a naive routing implementation perform really well with a handful of routes. The tables can easily turn in the context of a larger application however.
I've always contemplated doing this, but as I understand it, public domain isn't recognized internationally, and therefore anything you release to the public domain can later be copyrighted by someone else in those non-recognizing regions. Can anyone who is more well-informed weigh in on this?
i wouldn't call it a waste of time. they're using some of the most efficient current forms of personal trait signaling. check out the book "Spent: sex, evolution and the secrets of consumerism".
I found this reference interesting:

"Snelling, Michel. General Context-Free Parsing in Time $n^2$,
in International Computing Symposium 1973, pages 19-24, Amsterdam, 1974. North-Holland.
It is extremely unlikely that the claim in the title holds, but no refutation has been published to date; in fact, the paper does not seem to be referenced anywhere. The algorithm is described in reasonable detail, but not completely. Filling in the last details allows some examples in the paper to be reproduced, but not all at the same time, it seems. Attempts at implementations can be found in this zip file. Further clarification would be most welcome."
Hackathons are nonsense
Eroica is one of the symphonies that works well with programming. It's interesting to listen to the differences over time
Atlanta Hawks vs Portland Trail Blazers live
New Windows 8 logo animation with transparency
I updated my very stale project wiki page with current project status, including the fact that we do now support the Loongson processors.

We've been testing this on the Lemote Yeeloong notebook, which has a Loongson 2F cpu. So far we have not done any specific optimizations for the Loongson, just making it work, by avoiding some of the mips32-specific opcodes that are not supported.
Whatever it is, obviously you want to initiate force against innocent people[1], so, by definition, you'll never have the moral high ground.

Wow, downvoted for ridiculous application of fake-logic in a poorly masked form of ad-hominem. Also, I'm rolling my eyes so hard, I think my head might explode.
This is the second time (to my knowledge, may have been going on for a while) that an Xcode beta has been made available to only one of the two (Mac and iOS) developer programs. The Xcode 4.3 beta was only available to iOS developers -- despite containing bug fixes and improvements useful to developers on both platforms. Now the Xcode 4.4 beta is only available to Mac developers.

I really don't see the logic in withholding from paying members of either platform.
The open web needs a new marketing strategy and a big fat marketing budget
> Having a fast JS engine for MIPS could help these systems become more viable

Yeah, the lack of a modern, reasonable-speed JS engine for PowerPC is what eventually forced me to ditch my old PowerBook laptop, about a year or two earlier than I would've otherwise felt the need to do so (the next bottleneck would've been its inability to take more than 1.25 GB of RAM, but the web growing unusably slow happened first). It makes a huge difference in the viability of a platform, if you plan to use the modern internet on it, to have a current-gen JS engine, rather than an old-style fallback interpreter.
Designers aren't ruining the web because they want it to look good, they're ruining the web because they aren't clear on how to do it.

As the author points out, it's not an issue of bandwidth so much as an issue of visual clutter and processor power—although watching a page try to make calls to a dozen separate web services before it will finish loading and let me interact with it smoothly is certainly frustrating. That's not necessarily the designer's fault, though, everyone shares the blame there.

No, the problem is that graphic designers generally approach web pages as if they were designing for print or television.

After many years working in large agencies in New York, I can count on one hand the number of "creatives" who knew any more about the technologies that make up the web than a little basic HTML 1.0, at best.

I started my career as a print designer in the 1990s. Designing for books and magazines, you had to understand your medium. Any print designer worth their salt regularly went on press checks, knew the difference between a sheet-fed litho and a web-fed offset press, how linescreens related to dpi measurements, how trapping worked, drum vs. flatbed scanning, all that.

Compare that to graphic designers for the web, who in my experience have little to no understanding of how a browser renders code, or how different services communicate.

The best graphic designers aren't trying to be programmers, but they know the medium they're working in, and they don't try to force it to be something it's not.

Beauty, usability, and performance aren't mutually exclusive concepts on the web. It's just that most clients only care about the first one (until the site has already launched), and most designers don't have enough knowledge of the second two.
technical note. bandwidth is NOT infinite. comcast certainly doesn't give me infiniteMB/s hell i don't get the 100MB/s i pay for.
This might already be covered, but unless you're running a threaded server or have developed some other sort of centralized locking, it's not hard to get race conditions in the cache generation.

For Basecamp it probably doesn't matter that much. For complex actions that serve mostly public requests that hit mostly "all at the same time" (think of a Media Embargo lifting on a new product announcement) it can cause real problems.

Ideally you want the first request to block the rest, so that the cache is only generated once, the other requests just spinning until the first is done, the cache is ready, and the lock released. That way all those other requests just consume sockets instead of unnecessary CPU/IO/DB time.
The article is short, you should just read it.
That is why the Unlicense is designed to be treated as a license as a fall-back strategy (inspired by the Creative Commons Zero public-domain dedication). More particulars at:

http://ar.to/2010/01/dissecting-the-unlicense
Okay, I add a note :)
"High-wage skills on oDesk (or why you might want to learn Clojure if you're not a lawyer) "

Totally a link bait title. Clojure hasn't been around that long and therefore hasn't been in demand that long.

Heading off in any one particular direction based upon the way things appear to be now vs. what they will be long term wouldn't be what I would do. Do you think "clojure" is like "plastics". I don't think it is.

Also, as has happened with many career/skill (nursing at some point, law now) once the word gets out that something is in demand (because of supply and demand in balance) that changes as people are drawn by the chance to make money.

And clojure is a skill it's not a profession. That skill can quickly be replace by the next new thing.
"In a bid to win new custom, AMD offered HP a million free chips – but it was only able to accept 160,000 because of its agreement with Intel."

Couldn't they reduce the price of their chips instead of giving them for free (and in very large quantities) to large corporations? I would be happy to buy a Bulldozer for half the prize, but at current prices i will choose an i7 hands down (hell, the fx-8150 is beaten to death even by the i5-2500k) .
Brushing my teeth has a direct, proportional return on my time investment. My mouth stays healthy (reducing dentist expenses) and my wife doesn't turn green when I speak near her.

Clicking "Like" has an unbalanced return on my time investment, short as it is. I get virtually nothing in return, but marketers and advertisers have another data point that they can use. My friends couldn't give a crap what I click Like on.
Public domain is ambiguous in some countries:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/219742/open-source-why-no...

There are ways to work around this such as what SQLite does (public domain + explicit license to anyone who asks):
http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

and CC0:
http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/