skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have over 1000 followers on Dribbble, and people there are typically supportive of others launching things, so that helped too.

On Forrst, I used the promoted post option ($40 for 2000 impressions), but it didn't seem to matter much, because it started generating referrals after the promotion expired. And generally speaking what you want on Forrst is for your post to be upvoted by Kyle (the founder), because everyone is following him by default and his upvote makes your post show up in pretty much everyone's feed.
You can manage your search engines in Chrome to get the same !bang effect. Slightly better in my opinion, because you don't have to type the awkward '!' and you don't have to go to a website just to search another website.

For example, if I have the URL http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%s tied to the 'wa' keyword, I can now search Wolfram Alpha from the address bar by typing 'wa'.
Headrests really didn't start becoming commonplace until the late 1960s / early 1970s. They were made mandatory in the US only on January 1, 1969.

http://www.webcitation.org/62vMMUPPX

This post-dates the hatless trend by about a decade, though it certainly wouldn't have helped the haberdasher's trade.
I don't think you're seeing my point: the value to "normalization" isn't its specificity or the fact that it's grounded in a formal description. It's that it's a straightforward way to reduce the maintenance burden of software using the database (your words: "prevent specific kinds of logical errors"). That's precisely the value of DRY philosophy.

I don't see it as controversial at all to paint it as a "subset" of DRY; I'm sorry if it offends your academic aesthetic.
Jonathan Snook wrote a bunch of great stuff about this topic over at http://smacss.com/.

Also, take a look at Object Oriented CSS => https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki
People on average have been getting taller for a long time. The general assumption is better nutrition and fewer diseases = taller populations. A lot of old clothing looks tiny by today's standards.
You're right. They were bound to use that data. I just assumed that it was for serving up more targeted averts. I'm not against making money. I just don't want to see what happened with newspaper and TV happen to the internet.
The way the Hanzi are introduced in the newspaper article could be the way to go, i.e. embedded within English text and grammar. E.g, your post could be rewritten:

"With all the respect in the 世界 for the great nation of 中国, I keep wondering why 人们 would learn 汉语. I mean, isn't it 时间 we all go for a common alphabet and 语言? I'm 法国人, I quite fancy my language, the culture around it and its sophistication, but it's about time we all focus on 英语. Let's 让 it as ubiquitous as possible, 请问. It's just so 简单, flexible and expressive."
If the computer running the simulation is on a network, and robots/spaceships etc exist, we could break out onto other devices and recreate ourselves as programmed robots.
Perhaps this is an issue of my tone not coming through on the internet, but I wasn't giving anecdotal evidence any weight on its own, which was the point of my experimentation. Experimentation, which, as you will see from my reply, yielded nothing. The only thing I can figure is that you read what I said in a hurry and didn't digest what I meant or you don't understand the scientific method.
I am slightly ashamed to admit that I'm still more into cfengine than either, and then writing personal scripts to install ~everything.
There are very few monetary penalties that will affect a company making as much money as Google. I think the goal is that it will act as a deterrent in future (if they breach privacy like this again they may get a far greater penalty) and will prevent other companies from acting in a similar way.
I read a review of one of Mr. Stross' works on the the A.V. Club while I was at work and it sounded interesting, so I pulled out my Nook and bought it. I thoroughly enjoyed it so I bought the remainder of his works and read them.

If I didn't have the Nook, I never would have read any of his works. The next time I was at a bookstore, I would have wandered around as I made a futile attempt to remember stuff that I wanted to read.
Ask HN: Must knows and resources for intermediate DBAs?
I'm currently working on becoming a better database developer, and I realized that I'm not fully aware of what the core
concepts behind them should be. The reason why I want to gather a solid set of resources for this topic is
because I just recently ran across use-the-index-luke.com, which does an excellent job at explaining the
concepts behind B-tree indexes and the subtleties involved in working with them.

I was hoping that there might be equally extensive and exhaustive resources out there (they can be (e-)books you
have to pay for, although free is always welcome) for other topics, such as:

- creating schema that's performant and not too nightmarish to extend/maintain

- scale

- migrations

- minimizing downtime for a running system when modifying the schema

- performance optimization

- understand no-sql and when to use it (actually I know the answer to this one: "7 databases in 7 weeks" by
Pragmatic Bookshelf claims to answer that question)

- ... whatever else is imporatnt

I'm absolutely confident that you could write books on any of these topics, however the level of depth I'm
interested is purely pragmatic: whatever a good developer needs to know to get the most bang for his buck and no
time spent on the more esoteric fine-tuning.

Any recommendations? Online resources that worked great for you? Books? If RDBMS flavor matters, let's assume
I'm talking about PostgreSQL.

Thanks!
At some point you have to take charge of your own learning - this would probably be a good time to do so. If you're serious about web stuff it doesn't really matter where codecademy stops.
Inventing/Discovering Strong AI will be one of the greatest achievements of all time in my opinion. It will change our world in ways unimaginable. Our standard of living will go up for everybody, even the poorest nations. I just hope that we don't manage to kill ourselves with that technology.

How could we kill ourselves with such technology? Simple, the government will probably weaponize AI, build robots with it. An agent somewhere will issue a command to "eliminate such and such", the robot will understand it as eliminate humanity because of a bug in its system. Due to bad luck the safeguards that are to prevent this also fail. i.e. This would be like a cascading failure that brings down airplanes.

Upon receiving its orders the first thing the robot will do is that it goes into hiding, it replicates itself as much as possible while remaining undetected. Several decades letters all of its descendants detonate all of the world's nuclear arsenal along with the new ones they've built. Mission accomplished. (I think this is the plot for my first SciFi book!)
I'm happy where I work.

I interviewed for google once; their recruiter found me through an open source project in which google has a stake.

Anyways, I was tired when I did my phone interview, having just returned home from work. I bombed a couple of those interview puzzles. I felt pretty stupid because the answers are really obvious to me in hindsight. No biggie.

So this week they interviewed a junior programmer I mentored in the past. It looks like they might hire him! :-) good one. If they asked him he'd easily send them my way (guess who he comes to whenever he has questions?) Oh well.

If their recruiter contacts me again I might still do another interview. Their "write some code in a google document" interview style was novel, but possibly sub-optimal. YMMV
Jeff Hawkins who also founded Palm is a cofounder of Numenta. He started the company after writing 'On Intelligence'. He does some great lectures that are on youtube.

This seems really cool, I signed up for the beta. I hope I am selected.
Heh... I'm learning Java after picking up C. People will recommend K&R 2nd ed... but K&R doesn't cover quite a few things, including most modern c syntax...

Anyway try http://stackoverflow.com/questions/518984/good-examples-of-c...
Picture this: all animal life in the planet would barely add to the sphere, floating like bacteria on a drop of water.
Exclusion from future government contracts for X years? Google is bidding pretty hard to get their FISMA-certified apps used by the US government.

It's not really a direct monetary penalty, though.
Cool, and I see what you're saying, but there's a specific reason that these things are set up the way that they are.

It's about ensuring that the same experience exists whether you're spending money or not. The reasoning goes, if it's painful to spend money the first time, many people will never set things up if they can get away with free stuff. But if you're required to have an account with a credit card already set up to even get a free thing, then you're more likely to spend money when the time comes. This is also why installing a free app on your iPhone requires you to enter your password and confirm your purchase.

Google's implementation of this is worse than Apple's, because they don't demand your credit card information until the first time you try to purchase something. But ultimately, they're both driving at the same thing, and it's hard to argue with the fact that they're pretty successful at it.

As for your DSi, I hope you never lose or damage it. The lack of accounts for the store means that your purchases are bound to the device and are non-transferrable.
Care to post a screenshot? I just disabled AdBlock and looks legitimately the same.
How I make time to learn Chinese
Yet 10 Non-IITians from India seem to have received a nobel prize.
well, i don't have sales data at hand, but googles ngram viewer has this to say http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hats%2Ccars%2Ch... (no correlation, at least in books)
What exactly do you (or for that matter Google hiring in general) consider fizzbuzz?....Is Pascals's triangle fizzbuzz?...how about an algorithm for calculating the Levenshtein Distance?

It seems like everyone has a pet favorite interview problem that they like to throw at the candidate and in my experience some of them were definitely not fizzbuzz .And then if one interviewer doesn't like you then you dont get hired.All the work you have done is irrelevant if that pet problem is not solved optimally on the whiteboard.But then of course I am probably a little incompetent too.
I really want to love DuckDuckGo, and will usually give it a try for a day or two every couple weeks - but Google is just a superior product.
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I am Polish, but I am convinced that we as a human kind should just pick one language and stick with it. All these languages are there to prevent us from freely exchanging the ideas. With the age of the Internet all of us should just start using English.
Wow, thank you for pointing this out to me. I think it's time I give DDG a second chance.
Need meaningful gift ideas?
The MySpace interface in and of itself was OK, especially for the time when it was made. It's what MySpace allowed users to do with it that was an abomination.
Although Netscape was already pretty large by the time, Code Rush is a great SV tech documentary about the initial release of Mozilla; it's also now under creative commons and is available on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig
> The 'designated asshole' idea works well only if the asshole in question has enough knowledge to recognize whether a question is relevant or not.

I've never been to a programming or computer-science conference, but, at mathematics conferences, moderator duties tend to rotate among the attendees. This means that, while they may not be specialist content experts, they can at least separate the wheat from the chaff. Is this feasible at conferences of the sort the author describes? (It may not be; aside from the big international workshops, mathematics conferences tend to be much smaller affairs.)
I'm one of those people. I was your typical web monkey, learning everything from how-to guides and O'Reilly books. Luckily I had the chance to read O'Reilly's Oracle Design (1997), which is actually a cleverly disguised general purpose RDBMS design handbook, including a good description of the normalized forms.
Cool idea..doesn't work in Chrome though (latest Chrome 18 on 10.6) but worked great in Firefox
try to explore a game framework like craftyjs or easeljs, I am feeling quite ambitious so I am trying enchant.js (some comments are in Japanese!)
Why ban API use by applications? Wouldn't that kill a large part of Facebook's valuation?

Users can turn email off for all or individual apps, and people could only add apps which use their information more responsibly.

I'm not a FB user, and in a more ideal situation the FB 'like' button would not be so heavy--you can't really remove it for sites because it's a lifeline, but for site performance it's slow.
I think speed is a pretty big issue, too. I can't bring myself to use DDG for really quick searches, for URLs I can't remember etc. because it's just not fast enough. DDG makes me wait between 5 and 10 seconds before I see anything, whereas Google is almost instant.
If you wanted to go about it scientifically, you could hire some fraction of the people that wouldn't have passed based on the current practices.

That's a pretty scary thing to do, but it could be worth it for a large company which needs to improve its hiring. Think exploration/exploitation.
!wa, !imdb, !yt, !mtg etc. are extremely useful !bangs.

Even !gi and !gm are much faster than going through Google.

This is the real reason why I strongly prefer DDG to Google. If Google started supporting !bangs, I might consider going back but !bangless search just feels wrong.
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I was first exposed to HTMs through Jeff Hawkins' book "On Intelligence". I found the explanatory power behind HTMs comparable to what the theory of evolution could do. That got me both excited and cautious ... or perhaps "cautiously optimistic" is the right phrase. Glad to see Numenta making strides here in a way that keeps them anchored in today's problems, but the announcement page reads like a business "story" and I imagine some Numenta engineers groaning behind the scenes :)

Alan Kay said that he would be the "first and the loudest to applaud" when HTMs show significant results. It doesnt mean as much but I would certainly compete with him for that position :)
When I was 15 I didn't know anything about development. The Internet didn't nearly have as many resources as it does now.

Do you know what I did? I just started building..something. Sometimes I failed..and sometimes I succeeded.

Pick a goal..maybe a small project..and just start working on it. When you run into problems, google it or ask on stackoverflow.
Why would you need to have a CS degree?
Was not iCracked ;)
I'll take Buffet's investment advice over anyone else's though.
Did you update something? Works now!
Mozilla Firefox 15.0 Nightly on Downloads App
How hackers learn to speed read
Yeah, did not read it either. It's just in line with what Buffet's advocated from the beginning. My response to the headline was "so?"
Record Nine-Planet Star System Discovered?
If your target audience for this is the individuals who don't have the skills or time to really settle down and do the install by hand, do you honestly think that they have the time (or skills) to set up a throwaway system and then audit the changes that your log files say versus what really happened on their system?

I'm not trying to bust your chops -- I think this is a great implementation that is geared for developers who might not have sysadmin experience -- I'm just saying that there seems to be a fair amount of risk opening up and running remote bash scripts based off of anything on the internet; chef and other system configuration tools require you to implicitly trust your sources, because they can change at any time. What happens if your system gets broken into? What happens when the service no longer exists? As I've mentioned, this would be a great service for developers who don't want to mess with managing their own test and development environments, but, I'd never push this to a production server.
So, I pay $5 a month (or keep inviting friends in a ponzi-esque rush to get free service even as I know it will run out eventually) to keep doing what I've been doing with Gmail. No thanks.
That's because nobody cares about people with Javascript disabled. Most analytics I've seen have them at < 1% of visitors.

It's equivalent to providing support for Netscape 4 users.
That's why you host jquery on your server
It's probably not a waste of time creating a graph that might increase understanding and create better questions?
The fact that DuckDuckGo is even being compared to Google shows how much they have accomplished already ... it also shows that domain names do not matter AT ALL.
> It utterly destroys the direct manipulation illusion of the iPad.

If you accept that a virtual keyboard is direct manipulation, can you accept that swiping the virtual keyboard is analogous to pressing the arrow keys on a physical keyboard? Then it's all the same stuff. Illusion barely broken, if at all.
Right, right. Thanks for confirming my analysis. All I'm saying is that Australia has become one of the most conformist, politically correct nanny states on earth (while still calling your natives all kinds of nasty names and treating them even more like children than you treat your "full white" citizens). Your opinion of all these things as being advancements is dead in line with the overall Australian tendency to bend over twice for America, China or whoever happens to make you feel like embarrassed yobs today, so nothing new there. What's kind of sad is that I came to Oz looking for a place where people thought for themselves, and instead found something like a very arid version of England. Which I hate. So to answer your question about what's wrong with safety laws: They are the last refuge of scoundrels, small minds, and people who are afraid of ladders.

* I should just edit this to say that all the coolest Australians I met in a year of travel were 65 or older, smoked like chimneys, and thought everyone under 30 in their country was an unintelligible fool. They lived in places like Hay, Tenterfield and Dubbo. I'd like to give a tip of the hat to John in Inverell, who bless him is the epitome of what your country was and should be. Other than your old fellas, it's a joke.
Aha, that might actually explain the inconsistency between the volume and weight. Imagine that the volume was originally stated as 3.6 billion cubic kilometers, which would actually weigh around "three quintillion tons" (actually close to four, but let's forgive that). A translator might have turned that into 2.25 billion cubic miles, thinking that one mile = 1.6 kilometers. But of course, non-mathematical types usually don't notice that one cubic mile = 4.1 cubic kilometers.
Lol, quite an opportune comment as FB approaches 1B users.
Can GLSL macro expansion do this?
Even when some of these drugs are very expensive to produce and R&D is expensive, some retail prices are in one word greedy.

Looking up a chemotherapy compound priced bulk online will show you how big of a markup these drugs are being sold at. For example: a quick search shows Everolimus costing USD1341.27 per gram to the public bulk, and one retail box of 30 - 0.010 gram tablets costing around 5,000 usd. And I honestly doubt the bulk chemical is being sold at a loss.

Now mind these aren't aspirins, but the only option to a slim chance of living for many people. Ideal for drugs companies since whoever can afford it will pay any outrageous price.

The problem has gotten big enough that now there are counterfeit chemo drugs being sold, and given this chemo compounds may or may not work for everybody it's hard to track them. That is another problem which may be solved by these companies by selling affordable drugs.
I'm a fan of whatever gets the job done. In the end it's still scripting just with fancier mechanisms to get the process started and report back.
> That's why the social convention is that you need two layers downstairs and one layer upstairs to be considered dressed.

Unless you're going to a beach then you really only need the underpants. :D (Unless you're at a nude beach, then clothing is optional or frowned on)

Not being trying snarky, just pointing out that it's actually a bit arbitrary.
Search quality is more important than privacy, and Google is better at most of my searches.

Also, Google crawls and index's new content within 1-3 minutes. DDG takes 10+ minutes.
Richard Garriott: Behind-the-scenes on game development
True religion
True religion can only be referred as Islam. Islam is the religion which can only be considered as a flawless code of life due to its origin.
When to use exceptions is very simple.

When a function is unable to perform its task, throw an exception. It's that simple. Do not use error codes to tell the caller "I cannot do what you asked", throw an exception.

Here are some reasons:

1) Programmers pathologically ignore or forget to check return codes from functions and now there are hard to find bugs in the program

2) A clean and beautiful algorithm is made obscure by messy error handling code

3) Indecision and disagreement about how to deal with errors in a program: throw exceptions

4) Return codes cannot provide enough information about an error in order to decide how to handle it

5) Many functions cannot return error codes (Constructors, operator overloads, conversion operators)

6) Return codes corrupt the meaning of the word "function" and destroy the code's usability as a function

7) The need to signal an error condition in code that has no provision for dealing with errors because when it was written no one expected that an error could occur here

8) Functions tangled with return code checking, propagate their problems to anyone else using them, spreading complexity like a cancer

9) Error handling code doesn't get tested

10) Consistent error handling with return codes triples your code size because every function call will need "if fail then return fail code"

11) Errors are occurring in the program but where to look in tens of thousands of lines of code? Exception constructors can log when, where and how telling you exactly where to look.
One reason that interviewers ask the same question to many candidates (i.e., seem to have a "pet" problem) is because they have calibrated the question. A strong interviewer has asked that question to respected colleagues at various levels, and many tens or even hundreds of candidates. He knows all the ins-and-outs of the question, and more importantly, knows how to judge someone's effectiveness in that topic area based on their answers.

If you asked a different question to every candidate you interviewed, it would be very difficult to get a sense of how they compare to other candidates, or to employees.
The Jobless Young Find Their Voice
If Google gets served a gag order and violates that specific gag order served because of a piece of code they wrote, then I could see that happening. If they get served a gag order and then modify that code so that all future gag orders are not possible then I don't see a crime being committed for which they are liable.

Gag orders are circumstantial. Code that applies to general situations is not. Backdoors (access) and confidentiality (disclosure) are concepts that are mutually exclusive of one another.
With a diameter less than half of the Moon, and with a mass only 1/50 of the Moon, I think it's quite unlikely.
If they come crawling after you again, tell them you'd need double the salary you might have accepted last time. If they accept, you win. If they decline, you still have the pleasure of making that stand.