skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're pretty patient with anything up until the point of what is obviously verbal abuse. Frustration is obviously a reality of customer service, and we understand that. I think we've maybe only politely urged one person to try out other options in the eight months I've been with the company, and generally if someone reaches the point of being genuinely mean, they're not going to use the software anyway.

I see your point, however, and I won't pretend that there's not a little bit of cognitive dissonance there.
I believe that in the next few years, we will see many professors bringing their courses online, and this will hopefully result in significant improvement in the way the material is presented. Even dry material can be made substantially more palatable by a gifted lecturer.

I'm disappointed with the current production quality and style of Coursera lectures. Andrew and Daphne should realize that flipping the classroom is not enough. The whole point of flipping the classroom is that most learning happens _outside_ the lecture hall. In an online context, this means that the emphasis must be on creating engaging and useful exercises and a vibrant online community. It also means that lectures have to be _far better_ than those delivered in the classroom. Taking your old powerpoints and inking over them while running screen-capture software just doesn't cut it. Ask Vi Hart.

When Udacity completely separated itself from Stanford a few months back, I thought it was an insane move, and had all my bets on Coursera. Right now, Udacity is producing better content. When we come to a point that it is the quality of education that matters and not the branding, they might have significant advantage.
Thank you sir! This might come in handy sometimes.
Well, it's very funny, but it also points to an important architectural bottleneck for modern web applications. There's a veritable explosion of combinatorial front-end projects: 'projects' which merely exist because of the ad hoc way in which these individual technologies can be combined. They add nothing in and of themselves.

For a traditional programmer, this is equivalent to a (very public) proliferation of "convenience" interfaces or methods, yielding one "convenience" method for every possible combination of real method calls. With such a proliferation, these methods cause a great deal more inconvenience then they alleviate, and the situation becomes absurd. (For some reason, Twitter's Boilerplate release has spawned an incredible number of mis-guided "me too" fork-projects that basically roll in <insert technology here> into the Boilerplate project and release it as new.)

So, the serious message is that a) people need to stop with the combinatorial responsive html5 boilerplate bootstrap projects, and b) there's a real architectural problem that needs solving on the front-end of the web. Basically, we need a module system for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. (And it's shocking that such a thing doesn't exist, apart from ad hoc, essentially proprietary solutions like WordPress themes.)
Thanks, I was rather afraid to run that code.
Informatics is another name used in Eastern Europe. Kind of interesting because the emphasis is on manipulation of information in general.
Somewhere out there, there must be a scale of Apple hyperbole. I wonder where "insanely great" ranks compared to "unbelievably great", "amazing" and "magical".
Brain Teaser for Work
调理早泄的小诀窍
That works on Chrome but not Safari.
Very exciting initial results. The JVM simply is the most optimized runtime available right now. And Java is the dynamic language with best performance. Can't fail to notice Ruby is the slowest even on JVM. If you continue on this path and refine your APIs to be more user friendly, this would be the next big asynchronous server out there!
Ah, Wolfenstein... takes me back to some good gaming days in my youth. :)
Pentest Auditing and Standards Magazine May Issue Released
Two dead companies do not make a live one... SonicWall lost their edge 5 years ago, and now they compete with the likes of Pfsense and M0n0Wall.

As a former SonicWall customer, I MUCH prefer PfSense to their products, and the price is MUCH better... FREE. SonicWall, You lost me by holding back feature updates to nickel and dime me into upgrading to an ever-increasing support contract.

Dell, since you are flushing money down the hole these days, how about you send me some. I'm sure I can make a better return on it than you can.

Cheers! :)
You're making it sound like C++ with Basic syntax, which does not increase its appeal.
Yes in trivial cases you might put a class on the P element. But what about when you have dynamic updates to the DOM? If I have 15 P elements in a collection and not all have content (think of a discussion thread and comments) - how would I specify which P elements to style vs. those I don't want styled?

The ability to style based on content of the selector is powerful in this case.
Ask HN: Are personal sites/portfolios important and how should you build one?
I'm an incoming senior in college studying CS and Finance and one of my colleagues in the Valley mentioned that having a personal site with a portfolio makes candidates look exponentially more impressive when applying for jobs (e.g. organized code samples with explanations and context).

How important is it to have your own website or portfolio? Does having a blog component add significant value or is a collection of static pages sufficient?

Also, when creating a site is it acceptable to use a CMS like WordPress or do employers prefer if individuals build their sites from the ground up or use different web frameworks?
i would question the education. certainly here in chile there's a widepsread feeling that chile's education system is exemplary in how poor it is.

also, while it's amusing to read the comments here as someone living in santiago, i have to say that i am big fan of bbaa food + culture. it's a pretty awesome place. even if you don't want to work there, i'd encourage anyone to have a vacation in buenos aires.
Yep, that's what I was referring to when I said "opposite of straightforward".

I've been reading a lot of these kinds of articles from the IE team lately ("Our browser is better now, why does everyone still hate us?"). And I have to admit, IE9 is a huge leap forward in terms of standards compliance and general non-wonkiness.

But until they really focus on making the development and testing processes better, I'm still going to groan about having to support it.
Nice work Rob, I can see this being very useful. Some feedback:

The title of each code snippet should be a link, which takes you to the same page as the "comments" link. I imagine people will want to bookmark or email their favourite links, this might make it easier.

Social buttons (twitter etc) on each "code snippet" page will help spread the word

Although it has been downvoted I agree with the commenter who advised you to avoid use of "codes". "Code snippets" perhaps? Codes, in my experience, is usually seen in the context of a poorly-worded forum question. It obviously won't kill the site, but IMHO it just looks like a spelling mistake and doesn't fit in with the professional look of the site.

Best of luck with this, it looks great!
But they are only going to cut checks for journals that the departments are asking for. The more demand for a particular journal, the harder it is for the library to not cut that check.
Anyone else disappointed to find "MIL" didn't work? Also I'm very surprised in myself that I remember where so many of the secret doors are. Ahhh nostalgia.
Note that Apple is abandoning garbage collection for Objective-C.

Additionally, GC is not strictly necessary to solve buffer overruns and dangling pointers. Region-based memory management is an alternative for many use cases.
The increasing importance of building a stand alone business
Thanks for your answer. I'm a beginner guitar player interested in learning more about jazz theory.

The old rules of bop and blues said that you need to hit specific notes at the right times to sound good. There were right and wrong notes.

Do you mean here, root or chord-tone targeting? As a D chord comes-in, lead in with a 3rd or 5th chord tone and then the root note.

In a modal solo, the aim is to create a melody, not demonstrate capability by hitting the "right" notes as fast as possible.

Does the melody have to be constrained to tones in the mode; and how is call and response implemented here? In blues, one way it's implemented as the call being a solo fragment from the minor pentatonic scale whereas the response will be in the major pentatonic counterpart. When you are constrained to one mode of one quality, how do you construct a response that sounds somehow different?
Don't forget to check out the issues on GitHub: https://github.com/impressivewebs/HTML9-Responsive-Boilerstr...
Am I missing something? I want my two minutes back.

> What we did when a patent troll asked for our help?

I gave the patent troll a demo of our system, complete
with genuine recommendations about how he could best
track his entire process from start to end. ... While
we did set up customization for him, ...
Some of the icons on our site have been the same since we launched 4 years ago.

Hmm. Icons aren't like underwear in needing to be changed regularly.

Further, I'm not immediately able to interpret many of the visuals. E.g. With some hovering effort, I see that right arrow away from a book supposed to stand for "Log Out" and, oh, it's an open door, not an open book. Not sure if these were meant to be shared (license?) but those so interested should be sure to checkout Font Awesome too.

I do love GitHub. New icons? Meh.
Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes (with examples from YC companies)
Something not really mentioned in the article is that Portal is very funny.

The voice of Glados is constantly messing with you: asking you to bring your daughter to work with you for testing over the acid pits, lying to you about obvious things, etc.

This personality and sense of humor helps drive things forward and keeps you entertained while you're fiddling with what are essentially logic puzzles.

I've never really seen a website or app pull off humor to the level that Portal achieves.

The closest thing I can think of would be something like the "You Suck at Photoshop" tutorials on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_X5uR7VC4M
See http://coralcdn.org/ - they provided a caching mechanism that I've been using for what seems like a decade or so - you add .nyud.net to the domain part of the URL and you get their cached copy. Hence, this provides a short term mirror of the OP's link:

http://www.ma.tum.de.nyud.net/Mathematik/BibliothekElsevier
Wow, sounds like a very interesting search engine. I'll have to take a closer look at it. Thanks for the tips.
I was hoping this was going to be about a new elementary particle.
I too am looking for this in Java. Especially if the transpiler was easily extendable to add your own language features. The key would be to make sure it transpiles both ways so that it could be adopted in a corporate, Java-only environment.
I think his point is that he'll kick someone who makes trouble for his business. Someone who is a jerk in their life outside that particular business relationship get a pass, provided they don't break the law. That seems like a very rational policy.
I might pay $5 for an app that would be sort of my wikipedia on etiquette, but I don't know how you could monetize this as a service - much of the information is available for free online, so it would have to have a strong value-add.
Willow Garage spins off Open Source Robotics Foundation
I think that you're all wrong. The PayDirt crew was just using lack of support for IE as a manufactured controversy designed to get publicity for their startup.

They succeeded on all counts, just used one of the chapters in the ol' PR playbook. Now all they have to do in a few weeks is remove the signup block (since their code was built to be IE ready) and say hey now due to overwhelming demand we now support IE. Which will get them another blast of publicity ;<).
Font icons. I really don't see the appeal. They seem guaranteed to get this comment, no matter how good at icons you are.
Check out the binarytrees benchmark for an example of the placement new syntax:

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/master/src/test/bench/s...
Open Data Structures - an OpenContent textbook
thanks for the link. I'll try it out.
If anyone would like to team up, I'd definitely be interested. Heavy Evernote user here.
If you're running a software business then it's probably not a great idea to actively assist people who are trying to damage the software business with trolling behavior. It would be self-defeating.

It's a slightly different situation when dealing with other people whose views or activities you might not entirely concur with. In most cases their activities won't be directly harming your industry.
Once you get Scala, I'll be heading your way. :-)
We get compared to other messaging services quite a bit, the big difference is that real-time messaging will not be our only service.

We are already working on other services that will cover the most common needs of developing apps (data store, cdn). The new Identity service combined with real-time messaging and our upcoming services will allow developers to very quickly develop really powerful applications. I don't think that is something businesses exclusively in the real-time messaging space (like firebase) are working towards.
I have Firefox configured to force the same font face across all sites (I love the consistency this gives me, and also some some sites are extremely abusive in their font selection) so this doesn't work for me. The "icons" show up as unknown Unicode characters. Not cool.

This seems like the wrong approach - shouldn't characters have semantic meaning? It also doesn't seem accessible. Screen readers wouldn't know what to do with these invented characters. <img> tags at least have the alt attribute.
Email pg at ycombinator and ask.
You want me to hand over my entire backend infrastruture to your company and be entirely limited by your capabilites and rewrite my app specifically for your system? Seriously? Are there people actually interested this? Who's the target audience? (I hope you don't say backend developers)
Switch back to the old gMail
Yes, the beginning of the end for Microsoft because IE is the only product they develope.
Is it properly internationalised?

In the workplace some places expect you to take your jacket off and roll up your sleeves. You're not working hard enough if you don't. Other countries expect you to have sleeves unrolled and tie nice and straight, otherwise you're a sloppy worker.

I can definitely see someone (but not me) paying a small amount for that kind of information - the cultural notes you need when visiting some other nation.
How often are you actually typing </html>, <head>, and <body> that it actually makes you less efficient? This reminds me of all the ASI discussions that have been going on lately.
Did they make that drawing just for the blog post?

I don't know things work at GitHub, but our ideas are scrawled on random papers, whiteboards, and windows. We also never seem to have a perfectly posed pencil anywhere in sight.

Either way, I still love GitHub!
it is not about only universities who may pay for subscription somehow; independent scientists must be able to have full access to scientific publications for free, long term. otherwise, paywalls and closed software will make a global human science impossible going forward to 21st century.
Download idm terbaru 2012
Download IDM Terbaru 2012 Serta Serial Number - ingin Download IDM Terbaru 2012? Internet Download Manager atau lebih dikenal
Olympic Games tickets
What requirements would you have for a better C? The only major requirement that I can think of is that it's compiled directly to assembly without requiring an intermediate runtime or VM. This helps avoid the fundamental "chicken and egg" problem that a lot of higher level languages have. This means that GC needs to be an optional component. It does not specifically exclude it, however.
Meet The Next 500 Startups Accelerator Class
True, I didn't consider that.
> Node is a joy to use because of the NPM, and all the available libraries. I'd hate to lose that.

Maven's not bad at all (from a consumption perspective--from a dev perspective, it's a bit of a pain in the ass), and it looks like pretty much any Java library that doesn't do anything too insane should work just fine. (Disclaimer: never used vert.x myself, but I did a quick scan of the code.)
Anecdotes are not data.

In that ranking, they basically measure reputation, citations of papers in other papers and # of PhDs students. It depends how you measure quality.

Finally, I don't think being the best government in Argentine history is a very high bar to reach...

Yes, that's correct.

In a nutshell, when Argentina was rich there were very rich and very few landowners, who also controlled the goverment, and a lot of poor people that worked for them. It was feudal "capitalism". There wasn't much of a "middle class" or "rising middle class". Of course, a democracy can't work in those conditions. There were fraudulent elections, coups and, of course, the response of the mass of the poor was either following the few intelectuals of the elite that proclaimed comunism as the solution, or to cling to father figures in goverment(Perón). The people were slaves, treated as slaves, and then reacted as slaves.
tl;dr (actually it's not 'too long' but the quoted part below is the only instance in the article where the author speaks of international expansion)

"The new money, he said, would help Etsy expand, particularly in other countries. His plan is to hire community managers and open offices in countries where Etsy thinks it can gain a viable footprint. He has his eye on Australia and Canada, among other markets."
I have to upvote this unfortunately. I visited the Github site this morning for the first time in a while, and encountered the new icons. The new book, notifications, and door icons were not immediately obvious to me and I had to hover over to see what they were. I guessed what the wrench represented, but due to the uncertainty caused by the other icons, I had to double check what it was for as well. I actually didn't even realize that the icon with a "+" on it was a book.
> It's not like it's arbitrarily taking companies by force.

They took over the majority of the shares by force. Buying something is when you voluntarily agree on a transaction. When the government cuts off the communication to the head quarters as the nationalization is announced and then go with armed guards to escort the Spanish bosses out of the building. That is what's called "an offer you can't refuse".
The FNF has made more progress, but still fairly bogged down in organizational busywork. http://www.freenetworkmovement.org/commons/index.php?title=F...
FWIW, the icons you have problems with have always been in use on Github.
So you force a behavior through your browser but when it doesn't work you blame the site? Ok...
Official Nvidia PTX Backend in LLVM trunk
App Engine releases full-text search
Not at all. The very phrasing "carry themselves properly" makes me bristle. From what I've seen of etiquette teaching services, the rules taught have about as much relevance good behavior as as "Elements of Style" has to how English is actually used. Modifying from Pullum's criticism of the latter, it's "uninformed bossiness ... and the result is a nation of educated people who know they feel vaguely anxious and insecure."
What every programmer should understand about Memory Allocation.
Memory allocators form interesting case studies in the engineering of infrastructure software.
It's a shame that your ToS is worded in such a way that his line of reasoning causes you to turn away legitimate businesses that create actual value (like drug dealers) to instead help racketeers.

Edit: Turning away illegal businesses and helping unethical businesses is probably rational, even if it is not good. I don't think we can expect a higher standard from people who set out to make a business.
Promise you'll write part 2! Thank you so much for sharing - can totally relate. All the best, Tom.
Down for me, can someone paste the contents?
I WANT SIMPLE SO BAD.

Sorry, I don't mean to add noise to the conversation, but I haven't anticipated a product like this for quite awhile. I've also been really impressed with how responsive they are with sometimes demanding requests for account ETAs, etc. Bodes well for their future customer service.
I remember having to resist the urge to map/reduce everything in interview questions :P. Somehow, I don't think interviewers want to hear how you'd use a cannon to solve a tiny problem.
I apologize for the off-topic comment but I am hoping a few of the folks on here who are familiar with Hadoop can help me with a small career decision.

I'm fortunate enough to be up for two systems positions with companies in my area, and one of them is part of a group maintaining a Hadoop cluster. I've never maintained Hadoop infrastructure before so I'm wondering if it's worth the "career capital" investment. There don't appear to be too many openings that I know of for Hadoop Sys admins, and while I don't expect to lose any skills working on it, I wonder if this platform is realistically expected to grow, and maybe become something I could maybe build a valuable niche set of skills for...

Any help would be appreciated...
It would be helpful if you could be more specific about what you consider a "letter." Does that include bills, marketing pieces and alike or is it just one-to-one written communications?
My accounting teacher is the head of accounting for Etsy (baruch college NYC). They are really doing some awesome stuff.
Investment in a single startup is very risky, but if you were supplying the capital for a venture capital firm, I would imagine the investment would be much more consistent. I haven't done any real research, but I strongly suspect that a lot of VC firms are making good returns across their portfolios.
Clarification: this is the official backend Nvidia pledged to open source a few months ago. Exciting times.
Yea, when I was a wee programmer, I made a "class" for socket.h which was just a wrapper that mapped things to a class, so when you wanted to create a socket connection, you just created an instance of that class, and start using it. It was pretty dumb, but I thought it was cool at the time. I should have overridden the << and >> operators but I was just happy that my "send" and "receive" worked. That was when I was 21, about twelve years ago. Now you see these kids doing something similar, but they have a website on which to place their experiments. I don't hate on them because I was there once myself, but I don't pay them much attention either.
The zig-zag flow is one of the most obnoxious things i've ever seen in a website. It is one of the worst ways of displaying information ever.

Lets take this to the extream. Lets say you had a serverlog with 1 million entries and you had to parse it by hand for what ever reason.
would you rather see

[Jun 10, 12:32] /index.html 200 54ms nick

[Jun 10, 12:32] /index.html 200 54ms nick

[Jun 10, 12:32] /index.html 200 54ms nick

[Jun 10, 12:32] /index.html 200 54ms nick

[Jun 10, 12:32] /index.html 200 54ms nick

or this

[Jun 10, 12:32] /index.html 200 54ms nick

[Jun 10, 12:32] /index.html 200 54ms nick

[Jun 10, 12:32] /index.html 200 54ms nick

[Jun 10, 12:32] /index.html 200 54ms nick

[Jun 10, 12:32] /index.html 200 54ms nick

Just because I'm browsing my friends activity doesn't mean that I want to waste time trying to follow their god awful timeline with the jumps and the zig zags and the figureing out what came before what.
Twitter Hits Back at Court, Prosecutors Over ‘Occupy’ Order
Oracle v. Google: Digging Deeper