skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot more to this story you're not disclosing. The DEA doesn't just imprison someone overnight because "decided he was writing too many prescriptions".
Just goes to show you that nothing these days is original. Its just an original combination of old ideas.
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There were some optional theory questions (ungraded) which were more challenging and could be discussed in the forums.
The university as a gym for the mind
This assumes that the path to a self driving car is a smooth function that you can incrementally follow, rather than automatic parking and collision warnings just being easy problems compared to the messiness of general driving.

No company is indispensable in the evolution of a market, but I think it is possible that abandoning the incremental approach and starting with the full problem will turn out to be the one to get us all the way there, instead of a car that can correct oversteer and warn us in 90% of situations that we're about to make a mistake. Of course, like with many products, once one group shows the way, the only thing holding everyone else back is patents and data (especially geographic in this case).
Ada and Eiffel are still very much in the frame. I don't know Eiffel but Ada certainly used to have a very fine reputation for military applications among other things.
Smoked by Windows Phone challenge has come a long way, over 50,000 wins
yes - because you never want to start talking to them when you need it!
Yes and yes. We do a fair amount of post-processing on the pages to handle things like boilerplate text pruning. Hopefully, it should catch what you mentioned. That said, we have bulk modification tools in the works.
This works on collections, which are not infinite. If I read correctly, sequences (a higher level abstraction) fall back to their curent implementation.
To be fair, on modern systems, memory doesn't just "sit there being unused", especially if you keep the system running for a while. Memory not used by running processes will be filled with cached files from disk. Adding additional memory can result in significant improvements, depending on your workload and other hardware.

Whether it's worth the money is a personal decision, of course. It sounds like the GP doesn't use an IDE for development; I've routinely filled up 2GB even on relatively small projects just with Eclipse.
New York City’s Hidden Subway Station
I think being cranky is only part of it. You have to be cranky out of love.

In the end, you're building a business for other people. If you love your customers and love the subject of the business, then your crankiness is in service to them. A friend who's a successful restaurateur loved cooking and loved her customers, so she busted her ass to make things awesome for them. That love was returned by a devoted customer base and great word-of-mouth marketing. And once you have employees, you have to love them too.

You can see this scaled up in the the world's largest car company, Toyota. They obsessively optimize for customer value (as distinct from business value). Respect for people is one of the fundamentals of business. They channel their crankiness into hating waste and relentlessly looking for ways to eliminate it, which allows them to deliver more customer value.

I think pure crankiness on its own doesn't take you anywhere; it burns you out and cuts down good ideas before they get anywhere. For me, my best ideas come from crankiness in the service of love.
You do not have to poll. You can wait on the socket until you get data and only then poll.
Photo & Video Now The Fastest Growing Mobile App Category
I guess the old copy is showing up for everyone. It was updated last night but changes weren't saved. It'll be fixed later today.

It's not so much that people won't use it. If they won't use it or don't find use for it, you won't even get signups in the first place. I am only strictly speaking from experience but if you have a product that people don't want to try, they won't sign up for it. I've done this before- the question is- why are people signing up for it but only want to try it out in the app store?

Yuriniyazov makes a good point- maybe they're afraid of downloading it anywhere else besides the App store due to possible malware/security breaches. I'm definitely willing to take that as a strong possibility although it's just a little off from what we expected before with grooovy.
So maybe this is a conspiracy. Is Zuck related to Booth?
You can use X-SendFile (or X-AccelRedirect) to have your PHP code tell Apache or Nginx which image to serve, without having to send a 302 to the browser.
You should do a reddit AMA. I'm sure many people would like to hear your story.
To be fair, the mongo people just pulled in a driver that everyone has already been using for the past 2 years or so. christkv's driver has been in use in dozens of projects -- everything from connect to mongoose. It wouldn't make sense to drastically change the API and break all the npm packages out there.

According to the npm registry, there are just over 100 packages that all depend on christkv's library. I'm sure there are more because certain libraries like mongoosejs, simply include the library as part of their package instead of a dependency.

Source: http://search.npmjs.org/#/mongodb
upvoted. I hate it when people tell me to grow up.. sounds so egotistical
Modern engine control is a collection of lookup tables and feedback loops with some preprogrammed "limp" modes to fall back on if things go pear-shaped.

Robust? yes. Adaptive? yes. Complex? not really. Computer vision, road/object/hazard detection and avoidance and the like much much harder problems to solve.
Yeah, over 50,000 scams.
Please elaborate. I'm interested to hear if your experience is more than survivor bias.
Experimental appengine support for map-reduce
Rich will be talking about this library at the next Clojure NYC meetup. If anyone is in the neighborhood, feel free to drop by.

http://www.meetup.com/Clojure-NYC/events/56212552/
Blueseed, World's First Startup Ship, Gains Steam
i expanded on this idea in a recent blog post: the psychology of tackling hard problems

http://davidvaldman.com/post/20027940591/psychofhardproblems
Well, I was really just trying to point out that the fact there are companies whose "mission" he doesn't personally value doesn't mean that their founders have an "inflated sense of self-worth." It's the nature of startups that there are going to be a lot of long-shot and far-fetched ideas involved... if he happens to not disagree with the mission of a particular startup (or its valuation), he shouldn't then jump to the assumption that the founders are arrogant or self-important. He'd only be hurting himself to do that -- they could be perfectly nice people who happen to have stumbled onto a bit of a bubble in the market, and may be willing to help him out even if he's not going to directly get involved in their particular business.

It's just the nature of the Internet, and anything related to consumer entertainment, that there are going to be some really fluffy / inane things that become ridiculously popular / valuable. As long as the folks behind them realize they're not the new Shakespeare, there's no reason to assume they're any different from people working on more mundane or serious problems.
If you're serving sites for multiple different users (eg shared hosting) you can't safely use mod_php as all of the php would end up running under the same uid.

I bet there are still tens of thousands of otherwise secure php-cgi setups out there.
One design suggestion:

I watched the video, I'm intrigued, now I want to use Swiftype -- but there is no search form on your homepage.

Searching your own site would be easiest, but I realize there isn't much content yet, so not the best demo.

What about using the logos of sites using Swiftype to activate a search form that actually takes you to their search results? "Trusted by these companies, give Swiftype a test..."
You didn't try very hard...

http://www.mtpulaskiil.com/175th/175th-HistoryOfMtPulaski/Hi...

"A few years before, Mr. Lincoln had purchased the newspaper, The Springfield Gazette, which was a German-written newspaper that he had delivered to Mount Pulaski and other parts of central Illinois that had heavy German populations."

That said, I'm pretty sure this blog post is a piece of fiction. The "privacy controls" section is pretty telling IMHO.
I was going to laugh at this and say "Organization? Bookmarks? Are you mad?" Only it turns out I currently have both bookmarks and organization -- in addition to the brain dump posterous account that inspired my initial reaction.

I currently am on a tablet which means anything above three bookmarks per category gets to be a bit cumbersome. This encouraged me to create more categories than I otherwise would have. I am not a programmer, so I doubt my categories would help you any.

Best of luck.
Wrong is almost always contextual. If the cost of a false positive is that someone dies, and the cost of a false negative is that development is slower, guess which one is chosen?
On job interviews, don't discuss the negative experiences or the bad employer. At all.

I've been asked point-blank for critiques of past employers before. What is the best response?
Correct. ForkJoinPool defaults to Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() threads (but can be adjusted). The reducers library (https://github.com/clojure/clojure/commit/89e5dce0fdfec4bc09...) seems to initialize the pool with the default constructor.
Alt Alt Headline: Creator of this Hacker News article has misunderstood the difference between labels in your billing and product branding.
Some day there'll probably be a nextgen language that addresses at least some of these issues. One way to resolve some of them today however is code generation.

While not appropriate to all kinds of solution I've had some success with building solutions, especially "enterprise solutions", where you model the problem descriptively (in say xml) and then generate the appropriate code.

This way you can glue together "architecture" code with "meat code", (ie substantial methods) and have the agility to refactor and regenerate. The bulk of the code is often some kind of yak pattern shaving so you can save quite a lot of time.

You're basically designing your own DSL (Domain Specific Language) and then writing the "parser/compiler"
I'm not interested in feature lists, I'm saying that the core value prop of your product isn't clear to me from the landing page as I saw it.

Crashy betas: Thank the user for their interest and promise to email them when the product's GA. Consumers tend not to be very technically savvy.
I'm not surprised that employees are judged by hours worked, but I'm very surprised that an interviewer would have the awareness and honesty to say so in an interview. Was it at least rare?
I don't know, I think it's absurd to charge for an unencrypted, public Over The Air TV signal. Sure, it's an opt-in system, and it finances the BBC, etc.

I'm sure the concept of not paying is as strange as the concept of paying for those who aren't accustomed to it.

But the incremental cost of each receptor is insignificant, so IMHO there should be an incentive for blind people to have a television.

"TV is opt in" sure, so is the radio, so is internet. But realistically, very few people don't have it.

Today, with internet, the importance of the television is significantly diminished, but its communication power was important.
> but his support base also consists of the unions, which I disagree with

So it's OK for people to pool capital into companies and abuse workers, but it's not OK for workers to pool labor into unions to prevent it?
Its probably a hoax, its too close not to be, but when I saw the preview for the movie "Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter" I thought, now that is not a combination I would expect, and of course "Abraham Lincoln - Patent Troll" would be equally unexpected. However, if you were doing a work of fiction you would have the descendents of Abe, who had slowly, patiently, keep the application alive in the patent office for over 167 years by tweaking the wording, a modest change there, only to have it issue in 2012 just before Facebook goes public.

Ok, its more like a National Treasure plot but still.
I believe the existing pmap and preduce functions work in parallel over lazy streams by chunking work and parcelling it out. Depending on your use case, this is not necessarily ideal.
I've worked for large companies that do it both ways. When I knew what group I was going to, it often ended up changing within the first year of my arrival anyway through restructuring, re-prioritization, etc. So I've decided it's generally irrelevant - nice to have, but not actually that important. It's more important to be ok with the larger company culture.
I've heard that these guys (YC S11) are doing something very similar in the UK. https://gocardless.com/
Sorry but this type of libraries are only going to enforce in me the idea that stylus is the best option out there.

Want mixins? then use that `mymixin( arg, arg2 );`. Want simply overloaded/overridden standard properties to extend support for non-standard-compliant environments? use `box-shadow: 0px 2px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.4);` with the nib extension, or build it by yourself.
I live in Stavanger, the Norwegian "oil capital". There are lots of tech companies here who make a living from serving the oil industry. I would recommend that you start out working for one of the bigger consultancy firms (Bouvet, Evry) - you get in touch with lots of people and you'll have some time to come up with the next big idea or team up with someone who beat you too it.
It's a neat story, but I am suspicious too. The photo in the Springfield Gazette is a mirror image of this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abelincoln1846.jpeg . Wikipedia claims this photo is from 1846, but the newspaper is from 1845. Also, I would be surprised if a photo could be printed with that level of detail in 1845.

I wonder if this more of a tribute to P.T. Barnum (the first subject mentioned in the article) than Abraham Lincoln.
You may giggle at Googles attempts to catch up with Facebook, but looking at this video.. boy, they are way ahead. Google isn't so much a search company, its an innovation company. They are already building the next trillion dollar industry while Facebook is optimizing sharing cat pictures.
Thank you! I had seen the Design Patterns in Ruby book when I looked around on Amazon, but wasn't sure if it would be a good choice. Ordered now, though.
Instacast 2.0 And The Entitlement-Minded Morons
While C or C++ can be used when coupled together with static analysers, I think I would go with Ada.
If it's not to late, I would move the embed script to a subdomain so you can host the script from where ever you like (cdn or other host).
Taking the lead from Valve, EA Games on Ubuntu.
That's pretty much my experience, with one additional issue that really keeps me coming back to Firefox: Chrome doesn't handle sleep and wake-up well.

Ironically, one of the applications that suffers most from this is Google Apps. I'll have calendar, gmail and half a dozen spreadsheets and documents open, move to another room, re-open the Macbook and Chrome dies on all the tabs. Firefox has no problem with this.
Chronicles of Grumman's 1960s Lunar Excursion Module development
I believe the null hypothesis should be that you assume there are vulnerabilities in those systems. Your assertion that it's extremely unlikely that local privilege escalations exist is demonstrably false. In fact a quick query of the CVE database shows a large number of /known/ vulnerabilities ( http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?cves=true&#... ). Regarding the statement that if you can't trust localhost then your defences have failed... well, duh. The point is to limit the damage by having multiple layers of defence. If a script kiddie manages to use UltraPWN2000 to get an unprivileged shell on your box, you don't want them to be able to easily just drop all tables if they're not smart enough to use a local privilege escalation (assuming they can compile locally anyway). You won't be able to prevent all damage from a skilled attacker but you should attempt to mitigate it and give yourself time to respond to it. You don't trust your locked front door to protect your valuables, you put them in a safe.
London Olympics security monitoring overview
I agree that simultaneous releases are best for sales, but that ignores reality. Lets assume 400 movies are screened per year in NY/LA, 200 widely in the US, and 125 in foreign theaters. It is simply not possible for all 400 movies to have a simultaneous global release. Theater owners must take a "wait and see" approach for many films.

I also don't agree with your 6 month figure, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Release dates are widely published. Comedies tend to have the slowest rollout because it takes time to prove that the humor translates well. Even with comedies, I can't find anything where the wide US release is 6 months before foreign releases.
One of the fundamental principles of OO is go for interface inheritance(design) as opposed to class inheritance(implementation).

That wasn't a "fundamental principle of OO" until halfway through the 2000s.
This comes up on HN once or twice a year, and I always vote it up. It's brilliant and loaded with great quotes. Like a great novel, you can reread it and enjoy it every time.

I haven't seen anything come out of Alan's VPRI group for a while. Does anyone have an update?
Then you use a different reuse strategy, like composition. The language is not ideal in this regard, certainly.
Both of those are great suggestions. We'll likely make those changes soon. Thanks for the thoughts!
Kind of my point. OP's dependency arguments boil down to a matter of comfort. Discomfort with depending RubyMotion seems at odds with discomfort with depending on maintaining good favor with Apple.

I find both dependencies are well worth it.
Oh I totally get the arguments against TV licensing, but that's a different topic to whether, assuming it exists, blind people should have to pay for it.

On the overall topic, I'm very much in favour of it, but go find a speech Stephen Fry gave about it (search "Briefings - Stephen Fry", sorry I'm not at my PC) as he makes every argument I'd make, but better. Why did you compare it to the internet which, while there is no license fee, is definitely not a free-to-use service.
I'm sure some of the earliest writings were not unlike today's Facebook walls...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing
Come over to the UK and work for us! You're doing what we like to do, except it's all fun and exciting 'n' shit ;-)
It seems surprising that Star Wars was so many peoples first introduction to anything violent or "evil". I remember watching things like Ninja Turtles, He Man and even Loony Tunes cartoons which all contained violence and villains long before SW.
asking a person to act civil is a far easier task than making the internet on the whole be aware of concerned with contrast, especially when done in a complaint - on a completely separate site - in a frankly childish tone.
I'm sorry - I just don't understand (a) why this is a blog post, and then (b) why it was submitted here. This reads like a comment on someone else's blog, or a "note to self", or a Facebook status update. And yet, here we are - it has 33 upvotes as I write this. I wish there was some way we could say, "only count votes from accounts older than 1 year" in the "points" so we could see just how much influence the newbies have in story votes.
It's funny how often people complain "too easy" but I've never heard someone complain "didn't learn enough", in regards to the coursera courses.

I think it's an indicator of how deeply broken our education system is that when assessing the value of a class people worry about how smart it made them feel (this is after all what it really means to pass a 'difficult' class), rather than how much they learned and could do with the materials after the class.

Sebastian Thrun even made a comment somewhere that he realized for years he'd be making his standford classes hard, not for the sake of learning but for living up to the reputation of being hard.

A class that feels 'easy' but which has a high amount of 'new stuff learned' should be the pinnacle of what a class can achieve. Difficulty should be a negative property of learning, sometimes necessary, but never desirable in and of itself.
It seems like everything I read about Closure gives me a reason to use it, but a slightly stronger reason not to.

I'm happy to see a language putting this approach to collections into its core libraries and even combining it with ideas about parallel processing of data structures.

On the other hand, the whole thing is written as if Rich Hickey had an awesome idea, wrote some awesome code, and is now sharing his awesomeness with us. It's kind of a lost opportunity to give credit to the people who gave him the ideas (and maybe the people who helped him write the code, if there were any) and it's kind of a turn-off.

One good, prior write-up about reducing as a collections interface is:

http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/LL3-collections-enumerators.txt
As an American who has lived and banked in the Netherlands in the past, I couldn't agree more.

I loved the free transfers and how easy it was to send someone money. The efficiency of Dutch banking left me in awe. I remember specifically a banker telling me while I was opening an account: "Oh, and we don't use checks here. We like it that way"

"Random readers" are pretty awesome as well. I kept mine after I moved away.

America needs to catch up.
Even if this is not a hoax, the premise that Zuck invented facebooks is wrong, as anyone who has watched the movie well knows.
When I'm interviewing, I avoid discussing negative experiences precisely because this bias against it exists, but I find the bias to be somewhat irrational and wish I could be more honest.

I'm not saying I want to dwell on the negative, but if someone in an interview asks me "Why did you leave Company X?", honestly answering that I left because "Company X is badly managed" would be a lot easier on me than making up some bullshit reason, which is what I'm forced to do because everyone is so afraid to speak or hear anything negative.
Also a lot of financial institutions depend on slow transactions to make money.

The longer the funds sit in their accounts the more interest they make. So if they delay a ACH transaction for two days while it's "processing" (because really it takes two days to flip some bits in a computer) the bank earns two days more interest on those funds.
I guess you're not aware of it, but my acquaintance is not the only one. Many doctors across the USA have been attacked this way.

Here's an article going back to 2003:
http://www.opioids.com/offshorepharmacy/deapaindoc.html

Here's one on 2004:
http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/wod-pca/

Doctor's opinion from 2008:
http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/91/46424/prescri...

A briefing to congress from 2004, contains many useful references:
http://www.aapsonline.org/painman/paindocs2/libbystatement.p...

Doctors shirking their duty due to fear of persecution via prosecution:
http://www.doctorgorrell.com/a-bad-time-to-be-a-chronic-pain...

Article about how the fear is causing doctors to resist adequate remedies:
http://www.healthsearchonline.com/doctors-prescribing-pain-m...

The white house is calling it an "epidemic":
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/
When Harvard and Stanford teach networking, they look to Heidi Roizen.