skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That could easily be accommodated by implementing random_ng() to take an optional buffer that the PRNG would use to initialize its state. If a buffer is not passed, use a random or pseudorandom entropy source... whatever's available on the system. From ivy bridge on, intel cpus will have the RdRand instruction, or there's /dev/urandom.

That offers the best of both worlds. If you want repeatably, initialize random_ng() with a known buffer. If you want reasonable unpredictability, let the PRNG initialize itself using whatever it wants. (Not to confuse that PRNG with good entropy randomness that might be accessible from RdRand, or which is usually obtained by asking the user to move the mouse.)
As a curious beginner intrigued by the cheap price tag, what can I do with the extra PSD files, besides opening them and having a closer look at on Photoshop?
fuck competition. just out-execute.
hmm, thanks for the feedback. i'll see if i can improve the flow there.
Have you thought about releasing this as a KickStarter project? Might be good from a marketing standpoint?

The design of this page is sort of hard for me to get through - I know you intentionally made it informal, but maybe something to consider.. I'm a huge fan of the products you've designed, but not a fan of this layout for presenting the book. Specifically, it's way too much work to find the area to buy it, and there's no real call to action (or clarity) above the fold when the page first loads. The unicorn insults thing - feels like you stumbled into an inside joke, not an incredible ebook by an awesome designer. Just my $.02, I'm not sure if you were even looking for feedback on that but figured I'd share.

Looking forward to downloading it!
OK, maybe not intentionally vindictive (only the reporter really knows her motivations for publishing the personal information), but it still bothers me that there's an incentive for the reporter to punish a non-cooperative subject as a way to motivate future subjects to be more cooperative, even if the she wasn't aware of it.
Even better, our open plan office purportedly has active noise canceling systems similar to what are in noise canceling headphones built into the ceiling. This is to dampen noise from elsewhere in the office and keep distractions elsewhere from being too distracting.
"Imagine you could get an extra half-hour of productive conversations out of people for ten bucks each. That's paying people $20/hr! What a good deal for engineers in the Bay Area."

It is, and it isn't.

I might be an oddball, but I prefer to get away from the office for an hour a day. It's become conventional wisdom in the valley echo chamber that catered lunch is a "productivity win", but there's a lot to be said for the change in perspective that getting out of the office provides. When I go out for lunch, I feel more relaxed, more creative, and calmer about my work. And don't forget -- just because I'm sitting around a table eating with my co-workers does not mean that I'm talking about work (in fact, I suspect it's a net-neutral benefit, if you're only looking at worker productivity).

Last, but not least, there's a health component: carry-out for lunch, every day, is a good way to kill yourself. My cholesterol levels (and body weight) shot up dramatically when I was eating take-out on a daily basis. Google cafeterias serve healthy food; cheap restaurant food doesn't measure up. Once I went back to finding my own lunch, my cholesterol levels dropped back to normal.
That's pretty much it. You can see how I organize my Photoshop file, what kind of effects I use, and maybe copy some styles or textures for your own designs… I know most people won't have a use for the PSD, that's why there's a cheaper price point as well.
Ease of operation and construction. You're going to need water and rocket fuel regardless, having it do double duty is a lot cheaper and easier.
Great! Now can you stop video recording everybody that walks by your office on Castro st? What's up with that anyways?
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I just made Cloud9 IDE work on tablets
Excellent presentation of Sony LTX800 LTO-4 data storage cartridge
about headphones - i hate these somehow. I am ok to use these while riding bike, when I wait in line, or working in coffee shop, but nothing is more pleasuring and actually helping concentrate like closed office with speakers playing Infected Mushrooms.
email != identity
There are better alternatives to login these days such as OAuth and OpenId, or FB for that matter.
Nerveless, this script could be useful - well done!
Just bought the book and signed up for the beta :) very exciting
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He did, and quite eloquently. Yet, all of his reasons for caring are tied up essentially with failings of the middleman.

Based on his answer, if he could deal with a truly global middleman that could distribute throughout the world and paid him fairly for that privilege (rather than only caring about their own current region), he would probably cease to care.
[i]a) my gps AND network location is turned off 99.99% of the time.[/i]

My understanding was keeping GPS ON does not amount to any battery loss or power usage. GPS is only active for a few seconds when some app request location.
Square Snags PayPal VP Alyssa Cutright for International Expansion
To me, it's more like working in a busy computer lab. This works well for me since I was conditioned through university to be productive in a lab environment, to get things done efficiently and to not be distracted by other groups or people in a lab setting.

I think there should be both quiet isolation environments and communal lab-type environments in software companies. It's surprising to me how there is so much emphasis in hunkering down in one place and staying put.
Consumer Reports: New iPad Hits 116 Degrees During Gameplay, Hotter Than iPad 2
Please show me a study which demonstrates caffeine's neurotoxicity in humans if you're going to make a claim like that. I can only find ones exploring neurotoxicity in rats and at some pretty high doses.

Nicotine has only been found to be neurotoxic in adolescents or in extremely high doses. At the normal rate of consumption, it acts as an anti-oxidant and has a protective effect on the brain.

That study demonstrates an association and does not suggest one way or the other that drinking is in any way healthy. What if people who choose to drink in moderation just happen to be more likely to do everything else in moderation too? What if people who choose to abstain are more likely to fall into extremes and affect their life span that way? What if someone who moderates everything else and chooses not to drink is healthier than the moderate drinkers?

On the subject of low doses being completely safe, from a link someone else provided (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa53.htm):

>...some deficits are possible even in people who are not heavy drinkers.
And separate issue/ticket systems? Do you do it for the LOLZ?
Meanwhile, "booth babes" remain a common tech industry trade show practice http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/the-ces-2012-booth-babe....
Also Apigee, MongoHQ. Presumably the rest eventually, too.
Very similar to what I had in mind. Just no need to read or understand how it all works. Just embed some Javascript, and assume 1) that it works great and 2) it will improve over time (based on A/B tests on your site and other sites).
Maybe for you, but I prefer using my email address.

It's certainly plausible that Google or FB login is a more pleasant experience for customers, just be aware that a non-zero number of people will bounce from your site if that's all you offer.
From YC's perspective there are two ways in which they win when they invest in a company. On the one hand they make a return on their investment, classic straight-up utility maximizing economics. On the other hand they help a startup succeed, which is part of their overall purpose aside from raking in fat stacks of filthy lucre.

Even if a company succeeds without YC that doesn't mean that YC's potential involvement is a no-op. On the one hand that represents a missed opportunity for revenue. It also means a missed opportunity to perhaps accelerate the growth of that company beyond what it has managed to achieve on its own.
I would love to use KickStarter for something one day, but it should be something that I really couldn't achieve by myself. I wouldn't want to use KickStarter as just a way to collect pre-payments and test the market, I don't think that's what it's about.

Sorry you don't like the design, but I honestly can't really agree that it's "too much work" to find the "buy" buttons: you just have to scroll one screen. I have a hard time imagining there are people out there who desperately want to buy this eBook, but are thwarted by the 300 extra pixels… After all, not every site has to scream "buy!" "buy!" in people's face.

That being said, thanks for taking the time to write down your feedback, I appreciate it!
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Hey, this is Yoshi over at ZC. I handle the Rackspace account. I'm very sorry to say this is the first I've heard of your burrito incident, and I'm amazed that you don't sound more upset about it. Would you mind dropping me an email at hello@zerocater.com? I'd like to discuss how we can make it up to you. Thanks!
Seriously, you just linked Violet Blue's odious post tagging an application developer as a "booth babe" because of the fit of her shirt. +10 points for proving the overarching point.
> Nuclear workers are limited to about 2000 millirem per year... so the approximately 52,000 millirem per year the astronauts would receive on a Mars mission is a problem.

The limits for nuclear workers are extraordinarily conservative, so it may not be as much of a problem as you'd think. Given the safety track record of manned spaceflight, the radiation is probably the least of your worries.
Happy 25th Birthday, screen
I hate cubicles. Cubicles are soul-crushing abominations.
Magnetic field strength does not follow any specific dropoff law because it's a dipole.

The dropoff depends on how far apart the ends of the poles are. (i.e. from a distance the two poles blend together and average to zero), it also depends on the orientation - are the poles parallel or perpendicular?
They are doing something similar to the Dabbawalas but with restaurant food replacing home cooked food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala

You are right, I wouldnt call it disruptive either, but it is a very useful service.

(and I'd argue you are disruptive when others call you so, not when you do it yourself)
That applies to the word "Hacker" too.
It looks really awesome. Unfortunately that line "Order now! Quantities are limited!" means I won't make the purchase, where I would typically have made one to support what otherwise looks like a professional site and useful tool.

I've seen the tactic before. Create a sense of urgency through scarcity. Scarcity makes people buy.

Seriously? Limited quantities of a digital asset?

Having seen most marketing tricks (starting with the best one of all - "lather, rise and... repeat") I may be a little too sensitive to it.
20x'ed the RAM & CPU. Should be resolved
I'm sorry but what? There are plenty of drugs which are not neurotoxic and are still enjoyable.
"Almost never" is not good enough when you silently send someone's sensitive files to the wrong person.
CloudMine pulled its sponsorship too.
Why More Bloggers Don’t Write About Linux
OK, fair enough. Though I'm not quite sure what you mean by "thinking about tools". If you're referring to the language as a tool, I personally haven't found that I spend more time thinking about the language when using Haskell than I do when using C, Python, Java, etc. In fact, many of the abstractions it provides make it easier to just "say what I mean" and not worry so much about the gritty details of the language. If I get something wrong in terms of syntax or types, the compiler will catch it for me. At the opposite end of the spectrum, in C, problematic code often just means "Segmentation fault" gets printed to stderr and I'm left without meaningful feedback about where I screwed up.

Anyway, I apologize for misinterpreting your tone.
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Impressive, but not sufficient to explain the power of his personality - which is enormous. For example, Orbital, a public company that builds rocketships, was also started from scratch by one man with a vision (and without the resources of Musk, I might add). And yet you've likely never heard of them.

There are lots of experienced, credible people who cannot do what Musk does with his outrageous dreams (and they are outrageous - to Mars and back for the cost of a upper middle class home in the US - think about that). To dismiss his impact as the consequence of success is to miss the true source, I suspect.
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You may not be incorrect, but that's not what the commenter was saying. He was refuting the claim that 'Louis CK is probably the most popular working comedian today'.
I've heard of the Summer of Code but didn't look into it, I shall. I'm just now getting the basics of github down, adding whatever random code I have around etc.. Also, getting involved in an open source project has crossed my mind but I never did anything about it. Think I'll look for a relatively small program to get involved with, nothing like django or rails at least for now.
Most of what you said is true. And I, as a programmer and occassional amateur author, am quite against piracy.

Yet, the copyright holders biggest arguments for strict copyright enforcement also seem to go out the window if they make it impossible to legitimately purchase the content in a certain market. They cannot claim they have lost a sale if they have made it impossible for that sale to go through any reasonable, legitimate channel.
Conflicted, Should I sell my domain?
Thinking of selling my domain. Wondering if any experienced startup guys have any advice.
My browser keeps freezing at the PayPal step. Any other way I can give you my money? ;)
Use something like OAuth, OpenID, or FB where email would suffice, and you lose me as a customer.
Where's the code?

https://dev.localwiki.org/

LocalWiki is a Django-based mostly Python project.
How the Universe Works
Dnsexit is down
Well, it seems that the DNS names servers of dnsexit.com vanished from the surface of the earth.

Anyone else seeing this? Anyone knows what's going on ?
http://twitter.com/peterhoskins/status/182200376961925120

http://twitter.com/lgoncalv/status/182200257331990529

http://twitter.com/omnichad/status/182193225942056960

http://twitter.com/mattclementsuk/status/182187622339330048

http://twitter.com/simjp/status/182184217013264384
I'm reading this differently than you are;

> functional programming is a programming paradigm

NOT a programming language. What I think this means is that your usage of map is such that the computation is what matters, not mutating the state. I can do that just as well in Python, JavaScript, OCaml, Scala, Clojure and Haskell. In other languages too, yes, but not nearly as easily (due to lack of closures/complicated functional types/no first-class functions/...).

If you were to insist that functional programming is just math (no mutable state), then even Haskell and Mathematica are far from functional.
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Sorry if that didn't come across, but that was indented as a parody of obnoxious sites that create false scarcity. By definition, a web product like an eBook can't be limited in quantity. So I thought the humor would be clear.

But I hadn't considered that there are sites that use this tactic even to sell eBooks or subscriptions, so I should probably clarify this… Curious to know if other people got the joke or took it literally?
Fair enough on KickStarter - I've seen it used in both cases. I think with your resume the community over there would really enjoy it, but fair enough.

Re the design, all I meant by too much work is that I actually needed to look for where to buy. It's obviously a clean set up, there's just not much information that shows up above the fold that makes me want to scroll down (it was the comments in this section and the title of this post that even got me to your page). But yeah - obviously you've thought through it and it's your thing. Good luck with it!
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drop me a line at http://sachagreif.com/contact and I'll send you the eBook, you can pay me later once your browser feels better :)
I had same issues as mhd on FF 10.0.2 on Kubuntu.

Advanced example works without bugs for me; my test has following HTML output ("So this is <b>the</b> thing <i>then</i>?<br><br><h1><span class="wysiwyg-color-red">Does it always work?</span></h1><h2>If it does then, great!</h2>Or, y'know, not bad.<br><br><ul><li>Yes</li><li>No</li><li>Maybe</li><li>So!</li></ul><h1>Yay it worked!!</h1>").
Why Linux Can’t “Sell” on the Desktop
A user-friendly gdb configuration file
This looks like a perfect opportunity for the author to use GumRoad. I still haven't seen anyone using it, but I'd like to see it in action.
I think you would want to inspect the source code before you use a third-party library in a case like that
The design/development community can definitely benefit from guides like this. Love the idea.

However, if you wouldn't mind some helpful criticism:

1. I think the landing page could benefit from a product shot above the fold, especially to balance the tagline "An eBook about Unicorn Insults" so as not to confuse.

2. I want to click the big orange "button" at the top so bad. It looks like a button. Other buttons on the page have this same exact style. But, I can't click it!

3. The rotated "move" icon in place of the "close" button on the lightbox is rather confusing. I still see it as a move icon. Maybe it's just me, though.

4. I had no idea clicking on the unicorn at the bottom would load new quotes. Perhaps an indicator that this is the action would be helpful.

I'm sure you've done great work and have worked with many big-name startups, but, sorry, the landing page presents like amateur hour. Not to insult, just my first impression.
True, but for the common case where the distance from the magnet is substantially greater than the distance between the poles, inverse cube is plenty good enough as an approximation.
Aside, the displaying of lightbox images is not something that should be added to browser history.
Could you give some examples of the value added by middlemen? And the headaches?
I really like the idea. My only nitpick is that these days most projects seem to be ending up as jQuery plugins even when they don't really use much of its functionality. I think a standalone version would save a bit of effort for some of us bound to other frameworks (or not using any framework).
If the US government ran the scientific community, that community would not have its strong consensus on climate change, because half of congress, and every other president, is committed to at least equivocating on whether that consensus exists.

You fail to realize how the USG operates. Elected officials are not the ones in charge:

http://foseti.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/on-government-employm...

Congress and the President could not turn off the climate science machine or even redirect it, even if they wanted to. Sure, their signatures are scribbled underneath its annual funding. That doesn't mean they have actual power over it.

I'm afraid the link you posted does not cast Chris de Freitas in a positive light. If I knew of sloppy science that had been passed through peer review, I'd expect the person responsible to be excoriated, much more so if that work contradicted my own. This would not make me wrong, or the editor in question some kind of victim.

It sure doesn't! That's because the emails are written by his enemies - who are in the process of purging him. Here's some context, if you're comfortable reading "deniers:"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/27/the-tribalistic-corrup...

If the "scientific community" was a bazaar, de Freitas' enemies would not have the power to purge him. It's a cathedral, though, so they do (and did).

The trouble with the idea that climate science has fallen victim to a grand counterfactual groupthink (if you don't like the 'c' word) is that the numbers, the physics, and the reasoned opinions of the vast majority of apolitical observers support the climate consensus.

You have considerable confidence in your ability, I see, to identify an "apolitical" observer. (Everyone wants to be apolitical these days - it's as if they didn't believe in democracy, or something.) The normal meaning of "apolitical" is "bureaucratic" - see above.

You also may not be talking to the same physicists as me. What I've heard is that there's a lot of concern about being bureaucratically identified with this scam. But no point in coming out against it, except to ruin your career.

It's true that the physics of the greenhouse effect per se are valid - though I'd lay even odds that no one's informed you that CO2 forcing is O(log n). There is a considerable distance between this and believing that climate models have any predictive power, which IMHO is prima facie absurd.

Here's a brief discussion of why:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/02/why-cagw-theory-is-not...

The author is a denier, I'll admit (or he wouldn't be posting on a denier blog), but he's also a physics professor at Duke.

As for Soviet science: did the Soviet Union promulgate any kind of false science that you're aware of?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko
If you're going to do personality tests to hire people, do it right.[1] And unless you're hiring me to keep state secrets, carry weapons, or join a moon colony, it's probably not necessary to do that.

I'm certainly not going to fill out some amateur-hour multiple-choice quiz so that some HR flack or hiring manager with no training or experience in psychological screening can get an insight into my "value system". If you want to know my value system, talk to me like a human being.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Multiphasic_Personali...
I bought a license for an app recently and didn't get my license key because I entered gmail.con or something. I was really pissed at them for about a day until I pestered them and they sorted it out. After it was over I was still kind of annoyed with them, really for no good reason, even though I was the one who goofed up.
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The second dotcom bubble is bursting.
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Attention NYC brogrammer dipshits: next time, please tarnish the name of your own city!
Seems like the backend's gone down because this is the page I got redirected to after finishing up on Paypal: http://i.imgur.com/zolMq.png

Edit: Went back to Paypal by hitting my back button and redirected again and the receipt shows up now. I couldn't tell that that page wasn't the download link but I would get one in the mail because of the contrast of the text and the e-mail that was sent went directly into my spam folder.

SpamAssassin results:

X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Score: 5
X-Spam-Level: *****
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5 tagged_above=-999 required=4
tests=[HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG=1.661,
MIME_HEADER_CTYPE_ONLY=1.039, MIME_HTML_ONLY=2.299]

and it looks like the message came directly from a web server piped through postfix rather than anything with anti-spam protection
If everyone responded like Heroku did (immediately, firmly, and without apologies) when they saw such sexist behavior it would improve our industry. Please do so whenever you get the chance, and props to the Heroku team!
Really awesome. Thanks!