skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK - I stand corrected, actually rereading what I wrote it came out a bit strong ("doesn't have anything to do with"), it does have more than a bit even, true.

Concerning the other point, it's also true but it's something else entirely. I never meant a mathematician will outdo someone with software engineering education, obviously he will at least have to read about good software engineering practices. I can also confirm your experience, from firsthand account even, as someone who began coding to do basic applied math. Thinking mathematically generally leads to (at best) efficient but unreadable, one-time-use-only code.
At my job, I used to stay late. I'd stay until 10 PM some nights and be super productive. Except I realized that I was dicking around until 5 PM and then being super productive for five hours after most (non-tech) people had gone home. I was staying up late, waking up late, being useless for most of the morning, taking long lunches, and not getting much done.

Now I get up every morning, I get to work around 8:30. I spend about an hour in the morning getting my work sorted out, getting my head together, figuring out my tasks for the day, and then being productive until 5 PM, then leaving. I've been more productive, I've been more accessible to coworkers with different schedules, I'm enjoying my job more, and more importantly, I'm enjoying life more. I'm not tired all day, I'm not useless when I get home, I'm not up late for no good reason.

Working a fixed, reasonable schedule (with occasional exceptions) has been such a huge boost to my productivity that even people I don't work directly with have commented to my manager on how much of a difference it's made.

The hardest part, as she mentions in her talk, is leaving even though my manager is still here, and still working on things, but when I realized that I stopped being very productive at about 4:30 anyway, I figured that was a good reason to tap out and go home.

Try it. It works.
I do think the 90% figure comes with a bit of hyperbole, but I also think there are more startups that “fail” than people realize. Most of these companies have such a low maintenance cost that the service continues even after the founders called it quits a long time ago. I personally know one of these companies.

By the way, the point of the article wasn't really about the 90% figure, but more about how people are seeing an article on TechCrunch as a means to an end, rather than a beginning.
I agree, DDG is very cool.

As I understood a while ago that Google tracks my search habits, I avoid using it. I went back to WebCrawler, Cuil, Altvista, Bing... None of these compare to DDG in terms of quality.

Great job. It is time to get an alternative to Google. Don't be evil is just a silly marketing gag.
I'm on the other end. Once I found that I did all the theoretical CS things easily and doing amazingly bad in all "applied" cs courses. I know it's time to switch out of CS and enter math.
I admit their licensing is stupid - why would I pay based on the number of developers I have working on my application?? It would make more sense to pay per-domain or per-site it's actually being deployed on.

That said, no, the price is too high for sure.
Although I never swear, I can understand when someone I respect swears. It means that they are dead serious about what they are saying. They don't swear lightly, nor frequently. When I hear them swear, I better be taking them seriously, because it means they're upset. I don't lose any respect for them over it, because again, they don't do it lightly, nor frequently. They only do it when they want to make a serious, serious point.
Would you rather use: QBasic + worlds best IDE or (favorite language) + Notepad
Best Buy feels Amazon squeeze, to close 50 big-box stores
I trade Forex as well, and after a couple of years of unsuccessful manual discretionary trading I've moved into automated trading. Unfortunately the tools available for building a trading robot are ridiculously primitive when compared to what I've access to in my day job, but I do hope someday of making enough money to live from my trading.
I love swearing. I also actually agree with the OP. It's getting a little old. Some of the presentations I'm seeing really feel a little patronizing linkbait. But you know what I really can't stand? The word professional, used in this context. What does that even mean? I find it such an obnoxious term when used to suggest that the privilege of working comes at the cost of subscribing to some universal etiquette.
Maybe not in Bath, but there are a lot of startups in Cambridge, and have been since the '80s.
When was Super Mario Bros. released? No one knows
this is my impression of SO too. If you want to gain reputation the most viable approach is to keep hitting F5 and answer simple questions before someone else and therefore it has become a race instead of a display of knowledge if it's reputation that you are hunting for.
I believe it wasn't as hectic about one and a half year ago when I joined.
"Russian Nuclear Energy Standards Should Go Global"
What is a parametric speaker? [Kickstarter project]
It's just a phase. Note that your answer doesn't need to be the first, or the only one (quick answers get more votes initially; good answers tend to get the most votes, eventually). For that matter, it's not even necessary to answer just the newest questions - I've received (and given) answers months after posting the question, and bubbled to the top amongst the older answers.
Ask HN: List of Engineering Blogs by Startups.
Anyone has a comprehensive list of engineering blogs by startups?
With Google Earth India can no longer hide its "Slumdogs"
The hackerati clearly doesn't like this because of facebook connect. Remember that the average consumer has a totally different relationship to the 'net & facebook (if they use it) than the HN set. I saw your app requires access to friends' photos: it appears that this is to put a photo with the date in a nice little reminders display. Tinfoil hats notwithstanding, I expect many people will love this interface.

I use ghostery & abp & avoid facebook connect apps myself, but I recognize that I'm not an average consumer. I think many people will really like your application. In any event, keep in mind that the sample group here is tiny and not representative before overhaul the interface based on our advice. ;)

I might suggest making it clear what you do more quickly: "Automatically send gifts to Facebook friends on their birthday" or something. "Remember friends' special occasions and give personal gifts" is a bit vague, imo. am I supposed to remember them? Do I send the gift? What does this service do?
Apple's War on Android
Selection bias. You'll only see news about the extremes. You'll never see news about the average person who loses money or makes less than the market.
There's a decent documentary about it as well. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2042455/
Glad to hear. Been using it more of late.
Interestingly I've had a somewhat different experience (In the U.S.). Historically, my university had discrete math required for only the C.S. majors and the math majors could take the course as en elective.. few if any ever did.

Then the dark times, the school made Discrete Math I a required class for math majors. The math majors rebelled strongly after more than half of them failed the course for 3 semesters straight. Eventually the school removed the requirement on math majors. It seemed in our situation that Math majors were, as a generalized body where exceptions of course exist, unable to accomplish the logic portions of the course. Most did fine with set theory and combinatorics but completely floundered in the rest of the course.
I don't know - if I had to guess what the query 'python list popleft' meant, it would be 'how to pop the leftmost element from a list', even though the answer does not contain the word 'popleft'.
Agreed - my guess is it's getting harder and harder to grab people's attention and swearing is an effective way to 'shock' some people into noticing your headline.
I absolutely have the same problem, and you do not really have to be an expert to encouter this.

Personally I do not find much appeal in taking part in this "race" you have mentioned - even if the opportunity cost is a big fat number of upvotes. On the other hand, I often don't feel like cooking up an elaborate answer in relatively obscure topic only to receive few upvotes. Both cases seem to demonstrate a downside of SO's reputation system, for it might rather easily become a purpose in itself, sucking up the pleasure of sharing knowledge with others.
http://engineering.twitter.com/
http://engineering.foursquare.com/
http://engineering.tumblr.com/

To name a few... know of one, please help add.. Thanks.
Misogyny isn’t caused by male horniness
Uh, that's the title of his own blog post. The ongoing discussion has not involved other people talking about Dustin Curtis much at all. (Which is a shame, I think, as he deserves the credit.)
What features/design choices do you prefer in YUI3's app framework? (which appears to be here, for the curious: http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/app/ )
Unroll.me Combines Your Favorite Email Subscriptions Into One
The changing face of Google Pages and desperate SEO
I LOVE your work. So happy to get simple, clean & shareable results again!

Any chance of integrated media galleries? I think Bing & Google are really effin this up.
> I've seen a few cases where a post title used profanity in a way that's arguably unnecessary

I think that's pretty much what he means, but you can't blame the author since it seems to work. People here are passionate, especially when it comes to articles related to the human side of software development. Profanity can tap into that emotion fairly well.
I suspect that this project will end up in the same place as Locomotive, for the same reasons. It's a very platform-specific way to manage a thing that should be largely platform-agnostic. Now, if someone were to leverage homebrew and write a recipe for one-stop installation of Rails with sensible choices for its dependencies, that would be cool.
Thanks for the heads up. Would you mind sharing some details explaining why?

I have no experience with either option so an in-depth comparison would be tremendously valuable to me.
Thanks for this! I was finally fed up with goCIAoglNSAe.cFBIom
Definitely agree that it was the multiplayer that made it a hit.

I had a friend who memorized the respawn pattern for some of the levels in goldeneye. He also memorized paths quick enough from spot to spot to be at the right spot every time you respawned.

He'd only have to kill you once. After that, you'd respawn and meet a bullet in the back of your head, respawn, bullet in the head, respawn, bullet in the head, until endgame.
After seeing study after study found that most people never right click it is hard to find one button stupid. I recall one KDE usability study I sat in on where some actions were only accessible via the right click menu. The user (who was a kde developer!) couldn't figure out how to complete all of the tasks because the actions were hidden and he happen to not right click on the "right spot" to see them. For the maintainer of the application it was an eye opening experience.
That is a great video, my observation is a bit different.

The process by which the car figures out what to do to achieve a goal requires a system for 'working backwards' from where it wants to be, and where it is. This is called 'inverse kinematics.' The more constraints you put on the path planner, the harder it is to do the plan, in fact my experience with my own robots is that the challenge goes up super-linearly at best and exponentially at worst.

In the situations in the video linked above the vehicle can often simply wait and the path options will change until there is one it can execute. But in a drive through there is a fixed route through tight constrictions where non-organic visibility is complex at best (lots of reflections / structures) and opaque at worst.

Cars that can parallel park themselves show that the problem can be solved for a given set of constraints (I actually think parallel parking is easier in this case) but the generalized solution is at least an order of magnitude above that.

Now please don't get me wrong, I have deep and wide respect for what these guys have accomplished. I want them to be successful. And solving the case of navigating into and through a drive up window (restaurant or bank for that matter) is a solid advancement in the area of self-driving transport. And making a video to show it off is a cool thing too.

Except they didn't show it.

And that is what bugged me. There is lots of video showing the car driving through traffic, and as magicalist shows video of it driving through crowded streets, and now we get a video about 'going through the drive-thru' and it doesn't show the car navigating itself through the drive-thru lane. We are left to imagine it.

Unfortunately for Google, this is a well known technique that film makers used for a shot that is either too expensive or impractical to shoot. They set up the theme, they show the characters starting toward and action, then a quick shot of them in the middle of that action, and then a shot of them exiting the action. They leave it to our fertile imaginations to 'fill in the rest.' And it is a great story telling technique.

But if you're talking about a real self driving car, and you say it can navigate these very difficult driving situations (and anyone who does robotics will immediately go "Whoa, that is a tough challenge.") then you use the film makers trick of not actually showing anything. Well its kinda like a research paper that doesn't include any supporting data. It looks like a publicity stunt and that Google is whoring out the research for some sort of 'feel good' brand buffing. I don't think that was where they intended to go with that spot.
TV news isn't bad. It's mainstream cable news that's bad.

A network news program isn't a terrible way to keep up with what's going on in the world. When the revolution happened in Egypt, the network coverage used the best HD television techniques to put you in the action -- the events and the places where the story, not the studio and the branding.

If you look at Fox or CNN, on the other hand, 35% of time*space is devoted to branding for the channel. Fox shows a crawler that says "ALERT" whenever the camera leaves the studio because this is a dangerous intrusion of the real into their matrix.

There's enough going on in the world to fill a quality one hour news program, but not enough for 24 hour news -- so they cover a lot of non-news and the production values are awful. It used to be they'd bring in an expert in a suit to get interviewed on camera, now they call some guy on the phone who's curled up in bed wearing bunny slippers.

There's also a fetish with being live that results in boring footage of white people talking. When North Korea's dictator died, CNN showed some white guy talking about it in the dark. Al Jazeera showed South Koreans launching balloons with propaganda telling people in the North to revolt... What's better television?

Al Jazeera largely ditches the studio and revolves around (mainly) short segments of documentary programming produced by local teams throughout the world -- a team like this with a few people and prosumer equipment can turn out at least one segment every 24 hours. They'll play segments more than once and mix in an occasional one hour documentary produced by a better equipped team.

It's much better TV, and one of the reasons they keep it off cable in the U.S. is that it would make Fox and CNN look terrible in comparison and force them to raise their game.
Don't try to defraud a mathematician (Benford's Law)
Wow, that looks like a fun paper. I'm going to read the rest of it later. But I must protest at your equating it to design patterns. I wish design patterns would go away. They're clumsy and mislead people. Good software intuition is something more refined and ineffable. It can't be written up or formalized any more than mathematical craft can, or poetic craft for that matter. By pretending it can, design patterns poisoned the culture. I'd bet money Cheng isn't talking about anything like that.
I do think it's relevant to use as it is the title of her talk, as someone else mentioned.

I have more of an issue with people who take an issue with swearing. How does a word become a "curse word". It's an arbitrary assignment by society. Regular use of a particular word in a situation with negative emotions that conditions a response when used in conversation again... are we no better than Pavlov's dog?

People who are offended by swearing... well... it's their own fucking problem. :P
I am confused, are they removing the servers or upgrading them for more efficient ones?
"But an ideology that, several times, nearly plunged the world into a nuclear war"

Citation needed.
Any nuclear conflict had two sides. One of those tended to be USA.

Also, USA is the only country to ever drop a nuclear bomb on a city.
Why? If I have no need for colouring, it's a whole lot cheaper.
Facebook scanned my Yahoo contacts without me ever connecting
-Facebook suggested "people you may know", a profile with the name and photo of someone I recognize from Yahoo chat. No friends in common, not in the same state.

-I haven't signed into that Yahoo account for 2 weeks. Haven't spoken with that person for ~4+ months.
-I've never let Facebook search my Yahoo contacts or vice versa.

-My usernames are different.

-My Yahoo account name & the name I gave in chat is different from my Facebook name.

-I've made searches for contacts on my Yahoo in the Facebook search eg `MyContactYahooName@yahoo.com`.-I don't have a phone number stored in Yahoo or Facebook but I've typed one into both in chats or messages.

-I don't have any photos on Yahoo that match my Facebook photos, but I have sent photos through Yahoo that match one of my Facebook photos.

-Their recent activity:
`
NAME changed profile picture.
NAME is now friends with FOOBAR and 6 other people.`

Cookie sharing?
Treachery?
What could I have missed that would let this happen?
I read it this morning and was pretty excited to see where this may lead into. Very cool stuff!
The author, with this article, is not "doing" OSS. He's "doing" persuasive writing. That he not contribute to the project is a given, since he doesn't agree with it. Having and expressing an opinion about whether or not others should contribute is well within his purview. If you're not swayed -- remain unswayed. Others may be.
"but you can't blame the author since it seems to work" -> "Profanity can tap into that emotion fairly well."

So a formula for getting knee-jerk clicks and votes is to "bait" the user by using language that elicits an emotional response. :)
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Regarding duplicates: they should be closed as duplicates of a canonical question, but the incentives all work against that so it rarely happens.

There's a ten-month-old widely-supported proposal on meta meant to address this, but it hasn't received any comment from the Stack Exchange Inc. folks. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/90620/134300
> one of the major University cities. So they would be Bath, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge and perhaps Birmingham / Warwick.

Don't discount Manchester (University of Manchester + incubators, University of Salford, Manchester Met), Leeds (University of Leeds, Leeds Met), Sheffield (University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam), and Liverpool (University of Liverpool, Liverpool Hope). Rail and road links between those cities and between those cities and London are of good quality, and should be improved in the future, not forgetting the fact that they're equidistant between London and Scottish cities!
Let me summarize: diversify, hedge, minimize expenses. All good advise but this isn't so much about making money as avoiding losses.

You've done a good job at highlighting that investing isn't as simple as picking stocks and buying them. That's a fool's errand. Instead, it's understanding the risks you're undertaking (and mitigating them), eliminating emotion from your decisions (but understanding how emotion affects the market), knowing when to exit a trade, and most importantly, having a plan and sticking to it.
I am using firmware to reference the entire mobile operating system, from the kernel and radio interface libraries all the way to the crapware applications installed by mobile carriers.

On Android devices, the best analog to the BIOS would be the bootloader. Since most Android bootloaders are locked to prevent unsigned kernels from running, they are updated during OS updates. See http://www.extremetech.com/computing/120771-what-is-a-bootlo... .
I wonder why this got published in PLoS ONE rather than a more traditional and higher impact journal.
Paper for iPad shows us what the Microsoft Courier could have been [video]
I would argue that that depends on your architecture.
If you gather more data than you data storage can handle and it starts slowing you down your core product then you should stop. But if you that is not a factor then you could collect as much as possible and later decide whether it was or is worth collecting UNLESS it starts raising privacy concerns if you have a user driven project.
I think there's a simple reason... Have you seen how upset RMS gets when you call a distribution a "Linux Distribution" instead of a "GNU/Linux Distribution"? :P

* Sent from my laptop, running a Linux Distribution
Well that's one way to spin slowly losing all of your customers as a good thing I suppose.
Haven't looked deeply into the issues Tim Bray raises, but I think when he talks about architectural soundness he's referring to security model, not scalability...
9500 servers cost only $5M per year? Sounds like putting a positive spin on evicting outdated, idle boxes. Did I tell you I ate my veggies last night?
Sounds like this is going to be $99 by the time it is de-bugged (on manufacturing side) and certified.

I am angry and frustrated because I want one ;-)
I wonder how many times Dustin Curtis calls himself a superhero for every time this guy does.
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London is certainly a level above every other city in the UK, but as a graduate of Bristol University it's definitely one of the few places in the UK I'd consider living outside London, and seems like it has a lot going for it for the startup crowd. A lot of creative businesses, good culture, youthful, energetic, but still big enough to be interesting and close enough to London for when it's needed.

The University of Bristol is very keen on entrepreneurship too, especially the Engineering + CompSci departments - they're responsible for getting me interested in the whole thing in the first place!
"based on current global trends"

Interesting bit of science fiction, but current trends never continue like that.
It was all about trolling your friends with remote trigger mines and proximity mines.

Getting access to the tank on the single player level in the arctic air base was precious too.
What is the actual physical award? Is it some kind of flag or quilt? Hard to make it out in the picture.
Also on the series Earth Final Conflict called the "Global Link" or sometimes simply "Global"

Posts two and three in this thread: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/221720-Your-Dream...)

show it partly and fully opened
What I can say is that Daniel Bernstein (http://cr.yp.to/) doesn't have practically bugs in their qmail code. You can read his own paper on http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf
Exactly, I was agreeing with you.
Biggest thing since the discovery of Stop 'n Swop in Rare land!
Thanks for sharing. It works like a charm and now I can re-play Sabrewulf without crappy keyboard controls

I just have one (small) problem: no sound in the emulation. Just me? No biggie though, the sound was just beeps and peeps anyway. I wonder if they later made use of this for Jetpak in DK64?