skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to point out that it's also a false dichotomy that we have to switch back to "archaic" modes "when 9 out of 10 working persons were employed on a farm" or embrace GMO. We can still use modern machinery, we can still use our knowledge of alternative pesticides (such as introducing a natural predator of a certain pest), we can still use proper irrigation and crop rotation, we can still use proper greenhouses. Even without modern "industrial" methods, farming has come a long way in the past 150 years compared to it's multi-thousand year history.

edit: I'd also like to point out that cross-breeding seeds with desirable properties (as farmers have done for thousands of years) is also "genetic modification" in some sense, but at a slower and controlled pace, with a large timeframe to observe potential unwanted side effects.
(http://www.stsci.edu/hst/wfpc2/software/wfpc2-help-sun_angle...)

> Most HST observations are made when the target is roughly 90 degrees from the sun. However, scheduling constraints can force the observation into other sun angles.

> The brightest backgrounds result when sources in the ecliptic plane are observed close to the sun. If you are concerned about the worst-case sky background, you may wish to try setting "sun angle" to 50 degrees, which is the HST solar avoidance angle. Ecliptic longitudes less than 50 degrees are possible for sources far from the celestial equator, but for these sources the zodiaical light is already moderately low.

> The lowest backgrounds occur when sources are farthest from the sun, i.e., "sun angle" = 150 to 180 degrees.
I like this because it allows me to ssh into a machine and then run lynx to browse the web. Meta-browser, baby!
Genetically manipulating our food sources has precisely no effect on the outcome other than the patent encumber the food we eat.

There is no evidence whatsoever on this planet to the contrary. I've dug through EVERY damn academic paper in the last 15 years and found nothing independent, unbiased and not in the pockets of corporations with self-interest at heart. Take the Cornell paper - half the academic staff have part time positions with Monsanto...

To be honest, 99%+ of the crap I've read are like Microsoft writing white papers comparing SQL Server to MySQL.

Find me a paper that isn't sponsored by industry shills or academic shills funded by industry that says otherwise.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a topic of faith, not science.

Technology can and should aid us, but education is far more important.

As for 9 out of 10, I'd rather they were growing food than shoveling high fructose corn syrup into fat Americans in fast food chains...
Maybe every company is unhappy with built-in string searching operations... :-)

It's a rite of passage I think. Programming interviews remind me of rushing for fraternities in college. And once you get to the on-site, the hazing begins...

They probably ask questions similar to the ones that they were asked... so over time they select people more and more similar to themselves and their culture becomes homogenous and inbred.

What would happen if you just refused to answer the question and asked them for something more practical that would actually demonstrate your skill & experience level?
Awesome solution for something I never thought would be possible without a jailbreak!

However the icon for the slide button could be better and simpler to understand. Maybe by showing a standard slider.
Laptop: open lid and resume.
Server: RAID startup dwarfs OS startup.

Does super fast booting matter much these days? It's just about ceased to matter to me completely.
You are misinformed; the correlation shrinks a great deal (diminishing returns) and becomes dominated by other factors like personality (Extraversion and Conscientiousness especially), but it's still positive. Look at the Terman study's lifetime incomes.
Interviewing skills and engineering skills are completely different. You should be an engineer if you want to interview other engineers, but it's likely that a great engineer isn't a great interviewer unless they've been specifically trained and coached on how to interview.
True, this kind of thing still works though. Google updates are slowly trending towards hitting low quality stuff like spun articles though.
Ever seen an ant fried with a magnifying glass?

Well, replace the ant with a zillion dollars' worth of ultra-sensitive cryogenic CCDs and scale up the magnifying glass by a factor of a lot.
Oink shutdown
Not the most appropriate response to a husband. This isn't Reddit.
Being able to destroy a farmer for unknowingly growing Monsanto patented crops (via contamination of an otherwise non Monsanto field) seems really fucking lousy.
What about this?

If you make less than x$/year you keep it all. On income above that, you pay y percent (but not more than z $ total). After w years, the contract expires.
I like www.mind42.com - a decent web based mind-mapping tool that allows you to share the mindmap with other people. Also it's free, which is a plus. I like mind-maps for any kind of stream-of-consciousness note taking and idea documenting.
Herbalife - Cómo mantener un peso saludable
Is this similar to OSX's Hot File Adaptive Clustering, then?
I have only tried the one offered by YouTube, and not recently. I don't know if they have improved the algorithm in this respect, but for what I've seen in the past, the filter often creates a very eerie wobbly effect on the video, an effect that makes it look fake, like being underwater or drunk. It is slightly visible in the demo video if you observe the borders. This strange effect is totally absent on the link I posted, which I believe it's on a different level of quality. But I imagine it's computationally very expensive and can't be offered to millions of users for free.
Free your Paypal Account Search/Browse/Filter your transactions without waiting
They say Michael Dell has one of these passes. He should personally deliver laptops every now and then. Good PR
Criteo launches competition to find 100 new software engineers
Because it's possible to represent the characters >, < and & in the title of an item in an Atom feed.
Only if you consider operator capacity as scarce as seats in an airplane
A DSL is an additional functionality adding more components to the system and thus increases its complexity. A DSL incurs extra learning cost that new developers coming onboard need to spend more effort in learning.

You can have a simple library or util module with the standard function API instead of building a DSL. They work just as well in many designs.

It is a tradeoff when deciding to use DSL or not.
Great stuff!

How difficult would it be to have the sliding gestures on the keyboard itself? Keeping my fingers at the same place would make things even faster...

Also, have you tried experimenting with acceleration curves for moving the cursor - i.e. moving the finger slow would yield a 1:1 cursor movement, while moving the finger faster would move the cursor something more like 8 times faster than the finger. With the right acceleration curve, the two-finger gesture could be dropped, and you could be even faster.

I'd love to use this in the editor of my choice. Could you make this open source?
Nothing but vitriol.

The company should not exist.
What's with the deletionism at Stack Overflow. Do they really feel that these "off topic" posts detract from the overall quality of the site?
You aren't. Indeed, when I read a headline like "Will RSS die?" for the first time, I expected to find an article about how Atom will replace RSS.
Linux still has lots of problems with suspend/hibernate/resume on laptops (Oneiric broke hiberanate on my laptop for example), so booting is still kind of important for that reason.

Resume from hibernate is another area where I'd like to see improvements. I hibernate instead of suspend because I never know if I'll make it back to an outlet in time.
Great article! For those of you who say how easy PHP is, it's because you don't remember the early days when you had to compile php to run on your box, only to watch it fail after an hour of compilation :) history aside, these are just tools. For many site, perhaps for majority of tasks, PHP might be the best tool for the job. Once you start doing more complex stuff that will require additional libraries and modules then you need to look into other languages.

I used servlets from very early days, just because I could never understand another man's perl code and I thought the architecture was better. However J2EE got so big and academic that took all the fun out of coding. I've recently started to do some stuff in python and the fun is back again. I love all the NLP libs that are available for python in addition to vast support and ease of coding. Not to mention, I like the python community more than ruby (rails really). It just seems like python guys come from a stronger CS background and are not some over-night rail guys who want to push their faith down your throat.
Thoreau just might have been ironic.
Oh ? Why is that ? SSD still need to address every memory block, don't they ? Or do they have a faster DMA-like mode where you can send the instruction "give me the next 96KB starting at address X ?
Most of the forums I've seen have a "report spam" feature that could be made more prominent, but human moderators are also valuable.

Along the same lines, I know there are independent product developers (iOS apps, Android apps, web apps, etc.) who are tired of doing email support themselves, but find it hard to find competent contractors to do thoughtful first-level support for them. This usually doesn't require advanced technical skills, mostly just being able to interpret vague descriptions, escalate important reports, and respond with polite standard English. I imagine building up a good reputation on a public Q&A site (the Apple discussion forums or something) could be a helpful first step for this, and then using connections to get an initial client or two who can vouch for you.
Tool for browser share over time for your website
Not the same because it only makes sense to programmers, not a very large percentage of Thoreau's readership (or today's general population).
Ya! forget the Mayan's 12/21/2012 predictions, that is kid's stuff compared to this. Very cool stuff, I am not sure I understood all of it, but it sounds cool.
I'm not sure if a SSD drive have any moving parts and therefor will not benefit from E4rat.
For the curious, the estimated $350,000 each paid for their pass + companion pass roughly works out to $913,500 in 2012 dollars, if they purchased in 1981. Most of the travelers mentioned probably purchased theirs later in the 80s, but before the price increase in the early 90s.
What about using the well-defined, standardized solution to exactly that problem? (i.e. HTTP Auth)
Drop shipping can be harder than it looks, you need a quiet diverse skill set. You need to be across marketing, seo etc. You need to have a site (or ebay or something) that works well and keeps current with your suppliers products and their stock levels. You need to accept payments and deal with fraud.

You need to field questions from your customers as the merchant, without generally being able to have access to the products you are selling. You need to deal with shipping companies and angry customers questioning the legitimacy of your products. (Because they are cheap and coming from another country and they were slightly different to the last one they brought.... they must be fake).

Affiliate marketing is a lot easier place to start, you send s customer, get a commission and don't have to deal with the rest of the process. In terms of products I think the greater opportunities are in drop shipping, as long as you can do everything mentioned. There are people though making a fortune on leads without having to worry about everything else.
Yes, and both the poster's thought and my response might have been tongue in cheek too.

It's not like I thought of it as a serious question, I just added it for the benefit of anyone confused by the contradiction.
Contract programming? Try advertising on Kijiji/Craigstlist. There's always people out there who will pay you to make a website. Takes away the risk of not making anything from the site.
Jason, you have a good point... I think that if you want to be HAPPY at a job you should try as much as possible to be yourself when you are interviewing with potential future co-workers. But that said, there are also nuances of the interviewing process that you can learn and then if you want you can choose to use them during an interview. The point isn't to try and get an offer from every company you interview with, since you can only work at once company anyhow. But it's an interesting challenge for hackers to try and hack the system and figure out a way for every company to want to hire them. But it's hard to do that without data.

I think that a lot of the frustration is coming from hackers who were rejected and find that they are left without any additional data to understand what that did or did not do that led to the rejection. Through recruiters you can sometimes hear a hint of why the rejection came, but if you work directly with a company they usually don't say anything except for "we liked you but ______"
What about something like Flask-HTMLBuilder?

http://majorz.github.com/flask-htmlbuilder/
I imagine there are many technical reasons why this is a bad idea. A few from the top of my head:

• Very few sites could allow their database to be distributed.

• Pages could be altered by nodes in the network for nefarious reasons.

• Anything with a session would probably be very hard work.

Shame really, as it'd make it harder of ISPs to shape traffic.
Wrong. UTF-16 is an encoding, Unicode is the abstract representation. You can encode Unicode
strings into UTF-16, but that doesn't make UTF-16 Unicode. Python's Unicode strings are actually
really just Unicode, that's why you can't write them to a file or anything - you need to encode
them first (which defaults to UTF-8).
I believe it's because the optics and instrumentation would be damaged by light and heat. If I recall correctly observing the earth is also outside of its design parameters.
To sell a successful corporate wiki, you need hundreds of plug-ins to handle all those special cases that each company inevitably has. That would be your biggest stumbling block, because creating those takes time, and that's where Confluence trumps all others.

Where it falls short? Basically everywhere else. There is no taste.

If you want our business, create a wiki that puts the content front and center, and remove everything else by default. Then let us add our 3 extension wishes, while still staying minimalist. It's not that difficult.

Unfortunately, it seems that either the chief software architect at Confluence is not up to the task, or that the company values quick crappy changes in favor of good design.

Good luck with your endeavor!
Original Saturn V booster capped in Alabama drive-by
heh cool story...
I remember watching a documentary on Mark Cuban where he says that this unlimited flight pass was the first thing he purchased when he sold Broadcast.com. I'm sure he began flying via personal jet shortly after.
What gives you the idea that statically typed languages are undesirable to "hardcore" users? If anything, I've seen the opposite--the really advanced programmers (especially those who specialize in programming languages) seem to prefer statically typed languages.

Of course, there is some serious selection bias here for me, largely because programming language design has been one of my primary interest lately, and as I said earlier, the field seems generally biased towards static typing.
The classic trade in computer science is trading memory for execution speed
I might look into this - I have my maps synced via Dropbox but as MindNode is a native Mac app I can't get access when I am on a Windows box.

Cheers!
I have seen on Cosplay branch of 4chan many people trying to buy things on Taobao, they had hard time messing with the messy Chinese interface, she could target them.
It looks like Air Canada still has an unlimited pass but it's quite expensive. There are several but for example there's a pass called "transcontinental" that costs 3,322 per month for 3 months. It includes most western Canadian and American cities. You have to do at least 5-6 roundtrips per month to make it worthwhile.
To hopefully convince a few to recant and acknowledge at least one flaw. I don't mind realistic zealots, only the willfully blind ones.
Wow ! very interesting graph!
Yeah, I was advised to bear in mind that it was very much coloured by Russell's take on things.

In some ways, I treat it like a wikipedia article -- a mostly-good overview, which can be used as a guide to look up more rigorous accounts of any particular topics that interest you, but is kinda biased. But it's better written than wikipedia, and I'm more interested in Russell's bias than a random netizen's ;)
I can second this data point.

I love DDG, and tried it out as my default search engine for about a month, but just got tired of how slow it was compared to Google and switched back to Google as my default (on DDG I found myself adding "!google" about 30% of the time anyway). If DDG was faster, I'd probably still be using it.
Why does noone on HN have a sense of humor?
i was half-joking, but you honestly thin that today's general population isn't familiar with simple multiplication?
I second Big Omaha. Third year going.
I try to avoid using sleep/resume when I'm away from home, because it partially defeats the purpose having full-disk encryption on my laptop. A thief who steals it when it's powered off has no access to my files. On the other hand, a thief who steals it when it's asleep might be able to get around the login once it wakes up.

So yes, it sucks to wait 30-40 seconds for a reboot.
I don't happen to be a programmer. I have skills at doing things the world says cannot be done. There appears to be no money in either doing the impossible nor in trying to share information on how to do so.

But thanks anyway.
Unfortunately it only defaults to utf-8 in Python 3
If you read the Google paper, you'll notice that they actually refer to this and other work by Liu et al. The overall technique is the same, estimate the original camera path, calculate an optimal camera path, retarget the input frames to a crop window that fits the optimal path.

The primary difference seems to be estimation and calculation technique. Liu's work does a structure-from-motion reconstruction, ie: rebuild a 3d model of the original scene. Google's work uses something called pyramidal Lucas-Kanade to do 'feature tracking' instead. This is sort of localized reconstruction, it seems to only care about the viewport differences from frame to frame. They then feed it through some linear programming voodoo to get the best path.

I don't understand either well enough to say why one is better than the other, although I'd guess it's because Lucas-Kanade is temporally and physically localized, it's easier to farm out to a parallel cluster than an SfM technique.

There also seems to be a difference on the rear end of the technique, having feature detection allows them to add 'saliency' constraints, ie: retarget based on the inclusion of certain features, like a person's face. Again, the math is beyond my understanding, but it seems like this isn't part of Liu's work.
Buying shit on Cragslist (or Gumtree in the UK) and selling on eBay and vice versa. My better half manages 500-800GBP a month with this quite happily. Persuaded some muppet to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP and got 580GBP on ebay for it :)

Unfortunately it got converted to clothes and shoes pretty quickly :(
Y'know, it's funny. I also hate "This" as a usage for, well, anything. Reading this comment made me go look to see what moron posted "Exactly this" only to find out it was me. :-(

Lol, that's gotta suck :-) I'm sure this sort of stuff has happened to me before...

If you don't want to follow the "this" herd, don't :-)
SSDs exhibit the same sort of cache locality RAM does. When a region is accessed, a larger chunk is fetched and cached just in case it's needed later.
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Cultural habits are probably the dominant factor. The extension of longevity these last years is mainly due to people stopping smoking.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110207112539.ht...

Don't smoke, drink coffee moderately, have low cholesterol, and be wealthy.
I don't know fully the details, but I worked on the Hubble servicing missions (I did the engineering on the boxes that transported up new cameras, gyros etc). I did not work on the actual cameras, except to package them up.

I suspect that the answer is that the cameras are designed to look into some of the deepest darkest regions of space, and are freakishly sensitive. So much so that keeping the cameras at frigid temperatures is a requirement in order to make sense of the signal they collect. Pointing it at the sun, I would assume, would be at best unusable, and at worst damaging.

For some perspective - look up the NICMOS camera:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Infrared_Camera_and_Multi-...

There was a thermal short in the cooler that threatened it's life span, so they cooked up an external cooling system in order to keep the camera at some absurdly cold temperature like 60 Kelvin. (I could be wrong about the temp - but it's COLD).
> Nothing about that plan precludes a fixed fee option in situations where a future percentage doesn't make sense.

That doesn't really answer his questions though.

Professionally, I work as a software developer and a farmer. If I had taken the percentage of future income option while receiving my CS degree thinking that's all I'd ever do, would the school be entitled to the profits from my farm too?

I didn't even consider farming until I was 26, so it's definitely in the realm of possibility.
0. You can't get in on it anyway.
One has to question the competence of the executives who would sell a contract that obligates the company to nearly unlimited liability forever for a fixed one-time payment. Particularly in such a low margin industry as an airline.
I like that site overall, but some of the practices are spammy and unnecessary. I make a few thousand dollars a year from a video game site I created years ago as a hobby. As an experiment to see if I could do it again, I created another site and also made money. So with enough time, it's possible to scale.

There is no guarantee of success by being an infopreneur, and it can take a long time before you start seeing real money from it. I have a friend who made $10,000 in her first year with two sites, and I think her success is far above average. She now makes $50,000 with three sites.

It's harder nowadays than ever before though, because there's more competition and there's only one #1 spot on Google. And there's no guarantee of money. Some people could spend hundreds of hours and only make a few dollars.

For a wife who may not know anything about technology and wants to get started as an infopreneur, SiteBuildIt.com is a good service. They look terribly outdated but their information is solid. I checked them out for a month and saw their information is all the same stuff I learned from experience.

Writing useful content on a web site is what matters for a real business. Not spammy link practices.
I think bittorrents work well for big chunks of static data. Web pages are made out of lots of tiny bits of data that change for a lot of users.

Most sites these days use some sort of CDN which gets the data to you probably more efficiently than a P2P network.
>i was half-joking, but you honestly thin that today's general population isn't familiar with simple multiplication?

Fuck, if I have to be a pedant, I'd better go all the way: well, they might be, but

1) they don't use * as the multiplication symbol, but ~ "x".

2) they don't multiply words and numbers... Repeating a string this way is something programmers do.