skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. It is not a burden on the audience to ask good questions, it is one on the speaker to deliver a talk that elicits good questions.

Talks are short, you can't cover everything. If you've addressed the audience appropriately, they should understand what you told them, and you should have given them the tools to look deeper into your topic. The perfect way to look deeper after a talk is to ask an expert (you!) right now. If you've made the talk interesting, they'll of course be genuinely interested and want to know more. So a good talk = good questions.

I judge every talk I give by the questions that are asked afterward:

If there are no questions, I gave a bad talk.

If they're pity questions (something superficial or off topic---"how does this apply to <my favorite foobar nobody else uses>" are typical), I gave a bad talk.

If they're questions about something I actually did cover, then either the asker is a moron or a pendant, or I did a bad job on that section (something that's easy to detect by watching the reactions of the rest of the audience).

If they're questions about something I glossed over on purpose, or they're about open problems or otherwise really make me think, I walk out happy.

As an audience member, your only job is to attend talks you think you might be interested in, and to relax. Your natural reaction will be a reflection on the quality of the speaker, and if you find yourself asking good questions, congratulations, you just saw a great talk.

NB: This applies equally to promotional and academic talks.
I would be surprised to have an internet company as big as google screw up pipelining. How likely is that?
He was continuing the unhelpful and almost absurd generalization that the parent was making about the "internet being for X, Y, Z". Sure its true in the most general sense but it's not a useful point to make--that was his point.
The whole thing here is that profane has many different definitions and someone who is an actual Buddhist has reported that this is profane for him.

As I said above, Buddhism is only a philosophy in the western world.

Buddhists may not see much of a difference between a Buddha (or a monk) and a Jesus.

It's not an issue with Buddhism only, some muslim in France eat pork and drink alcohol and don't see why it should be an issue with their faith. They wouldn't be offended to see a cute pork on a website called resumepork.com still millions other muslims may be offended and would leave the page right away.
Cygwin. Don't use the Windows command line. Just don't.

And while you are at it, use PuTTY-based Minterm instead of the Windows console.
Net neutrality is about ISPs.
How does this differ from backbone.localstorage.js?

https://github.com/jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone-local...
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Want to know why there's such a disparity? Because some companies are good at hiring, and others suck and don't realize it.

Want to know how to separate the good advice from the bad? Look for good companies and learn what their practices are. Find out how their organization works. If they're a lean mean innovation machine that values quality work and ships amazing products at a maintainable scale, chances are better that their hiring practices are also good (so long as you evaluate them before hubris poisons the hiring process, which may or may not happen). After you collect enough data points you'll probably notice a number of similarities.

In the end, the proof is in the pudding. People can opine till they're blue in the face, but if they're not killing it in their chosen market, if people don't really like working there, if someone is about to eat their lunch, then they're doing things wrong, and it would be risky to take advice from them.
Facebook "linkbait" for security developers
You can try something similar on linux using transcode with these two lines:

transcode -J stabilize --mplayer_probe -i $infile
transcode -J transform --mplayer_probe -i $infile -y xvid4 -o $outfile

I found this blog post with more info: http://kevin.deldycke.com/tag/transcode/
Do they want the people? I'd bet they just want the parent portfolio. Elop's moves certainly indicate Nokia doesn't feel it needs any internal software development and that it would rely on its partnership with Microsoft for that.

It's more or less like the deal Palm did with Microsoft which resulted in the Windows Mobile-running Treos - the press releases read like Palm would direct its user interface resources into helping make Windows Mobile a better PDA platform and Microsoft would offer WinMo and its Windows-friendly features for free.
I am but an egg. But refactoring badly done projects that were started as PHP seems a plausibly common pattern. If Python or Ruby were simpler to start with, there would be more badly done Python / Ruby code, but at least it would refactor in Python / Ruby.

The core Py / Rb community probably wouldn't use simpler quick-and-dirty setups, they have the skills to the same things better and faster already. But making that pathway available would bring more novices to the language, hopefully growing them into Py / Rb. And it would bring more projects into the fold.
Related: the physics of coffee stain rings http://news.discovery.com/tech/coffee-stain-science-smartens...
I like this in principle. You are right that the "working part" of a tablet could be a bit lighter with this approach.

However, one of the great benefits of tablets is how easy they are to start working on: with my iPad, if it's in my briefcase and I have to add a calendar item, I can pick it up, start it, add a calendar item, and put it back in mere seconds.

Having it attached to a keyboard and having to mess with the wire would slow this process down a bit, I would think. Also, I can't pick up the whole package and run to a meeting quite as easily.
This is a good point. Every year in various parts of Appalachia there are health festivals were doctors come and volunteer their time to give free medical care of various kinds, from eye exams to cancer screenings. This is intended for the poor and uninsured, but around 1/3 of the people who attend have health insurance that would pay for the exams. They still don't have real access to healthcare, though, because it would take over 3 hours each way to get to the appointment.

Even in the semi-rural area where I live, if I needed heart surgery, the local cardiologists won't do the surgery. They would send me up the road to DC, two hours away, like they did with my father-in-law. And I live in a county with a high median income.
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An inside joke referring to http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-05-03-1
The UK is not a capitalist country in the proper sense of the term, it's a mixed economy.

I believe keeping what you earn is a right. You believe free medical care is a right. Not mutually compatible. Glad I don't live in the same country as you.
I think the reason RSS didn't pickup among the average crowed is because of Google Reader and browser's native RSS handling.

If only the website owners had implemented easy and known feature for users to "receive" the content, i.e, get RSS via email, get it via SMS, chat, etc, etc....all instead of getting it in your browser or in Google Reader or in some other geeky program....than RSS as a push technology, might have seen a better perspective.

Although there were services available which would translate the RSS for average users, but they weren't close to the original website.
pretty neat.
I see, thanks. I now feel silly for moving off the unlimited plan when I was told I had to to get a plan with tethering.
The results of this seem underwhelming

It should be subtitled: how to turn an afternoon's work into a paper in one of the lesser Physical Review journals plus fifteen minutes of internet fame (at current exchange rates equivalent to 300 nanoseconds of actual fame).
I've been using Ubuntu for years with both Chrome and Firefox and I've never seen issues like Firefox getting higher connection resets. I'm happy to ask people at Google to dig into this report, but I have to say this sounds completely off base to me. Google wants Google.com to work well with with Firefox.
Zynga has had dozens of hit games. They obviously know about that user adoption follows and must have taken it into consideration.
Oh, I somehow missed that half of the intervals were only 20 years.

But it's not a parametric plot either, because the number of pirates goes up and then down.

I guess it could plausibly be a normal graph with the X axis being some silly function of time; or a parametric plot with the X axis being a stupid function of pirates. But really I think aw3c2 was right: the graph makes zero sense.
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I was scanning to see if anyone had already said it. Agree with all of the do-betters. #4, whether the charge is one-time or recurring is the most important to me and takes just a tiny edit.
Feel free to do the experiment, but attempting to walk without rhythm would, I imagine, lead to sudden jolts that would spill your coffee. Maybe if you were a carefully trained fremen and/or Christopher Walken.
I have a 4S and have no idea what you're talking about.
Austria was part of Germany only between 1938 and 1945. 7 out of ~1000 years of existence.
Google Penguin Creates Mass Unemployment in India
Interesting how? The article itself says PLIST can't handle several real-life JSON situations including Twitter. The focus of the article seemed to be performance. That's premature until a site determines that JSON parsing or creation is a bottleneck, and I seriously doubt it is; many times data will be coming from a database and require an order of magnitude more time to retrieve than than to encode.
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USB micro?
> I am concerned that I will learn something and create app's which within a year will be out of date

Don't worry about that. Start with Python 2 and if you ever have to move to Python 3, it will be fairly easy.

The same thing happened in the PHP world during the switch from 3 to 4 and then 4 to 5. The move from Python 2 to 3 will probably be smoother.
ActiveRecord::Base#delete_all allows you to delete directly in the database. For example:

Person.delete_all("created_at < '2012-01-01'")

will generate the sql command

"delete from persons where created_at < '2012-01-01'"

You can use normal AR conditions of course. For example:

Person.delete_all(["created_at < ?", Time.now.beginning_of_year])

That will not run any callbacks of course since the data is never being pulled back into your code and AR objects are not instantiated. If you need callbacks to run (for example to delete or update related objects) then look at the much slower ActiveRecord::Base#destroy_all.
CodeIgniter is dead, apparently.
The only chance for beating Lamar Smith ended on March 2, the primary for that district. Anyone who doesn't know that doesn't have a chance of changing things.

SOPA had plenty of parents. I wonder why Smith was chosen?
I've looked up the original text and it uses the same units except for the weight which is expressed in "tonneaux" instead of metric tons: "[...] dont le poids serait de trois quintillions de tonneaux." So they basically swapped the units without bothering to calculate the correct value.

Now how much a tonneau weights is left as an exercise to the reader...
As much I agree with the reddit mob sometime, I do not want the country to be ruled by a reddit mob, never mind any other mob.
Also called 'regression to the mean'
I have a iPhone 4s and I don't know what your talking about. Can you be more specific?
By far the easiest way to get started with Python web development is Web2py which comes as a self-contained install where you can get started in 5 minutes. So you automatically get "request" information, big deal.
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That is of course assuming that the person who wrote the original code actually understood how to use an MVC framework.

It seems to me that most peoples default assumption upon encountering one is to use the Model as a simple abstraction to the DB and stick all of the logic in the controllers (with many controller methods calling methods in other controllers).
I especially liked this quote:

"Instead of showing off possession, sites like Pinterest allows you to show off taste."
If you look at classical music, in Mozart's time and before, everything had to be heavily patronised by aristocrats, and furthermore audiences demanded to hear something new every time they went to the concert hall, or they'd feel ripped off.

In Beethoven's time and onwards, when the music became more commercialised through selling sheet music and making more of an enterprise from concerts, we saw an explosion of creativity and also virtuoso talent, and audiences started to appreciate the music more as a permanent artefact, valuing the composition as well as the interpretation. Seems like commercialisation supported by copyright made for a more optimal appreciation/demand for music.
New E-Mail Client ‘Geary’ Launches on Linux
The economic (consumer choice) problem that Priceonomics is aimed at solving is the "when to buy a product" problem. Plenty of products already exist to aid consumers with the "where to buy" and "what/which to buy" problems. This paper at Microsoft Research goes through the theory:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1483...
So I would have to ask the question, "Why don't startups provide group health insurance?" If you want good employees, pay for them.

In most states, if you have 2 employees you are eligible for a group plan. In a few states even a single founder is eligible.

You aren't just computing with large companies either. At my last job I worked for a small business. Less than 25 employees. We had group health insurance. Talk to an insurance agent. It is not as hard as it seems and if you go with a high deductible plan, it is not as expensive as it seems either.
I'd love to see this expanded into protocol buffers and custom serialization methods.

There's a whole chapter in "High Performance Javascript" that goes over the different encoding methods, which finds that a purpose built encoding/delimiting scheme was often faster than either JSON or XML.

On-the-wire formats have different goals than on-disk formats. If you want to future proof the readability of your data, keeping it in a structured method (like a database, or XML with well defined schemas) is probably of greater importance than "it decodes fast".
> That shows a very inefficient use of USA's wealth and a very poor healthcare policy.

Actually it doesn't.

Suppose we compare the lifespans of Japanese-Americans to Japanese in Japan. Your theory predicts that Japanese-Americans will have a shorter-lifespan. Reality says otherwise.

The populations are different. The US is incredibly diverse, and much of that diversity is correlated with geography. Japan, not so much.
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I am lucky that I found Flask a while ago, because I was sick of PHP. Flask, jinja2, and uWSGI have since been my best friends.

It took a little while to figure out how to setup a proper web server around those, but the guides are not that complex. Install nginx, darmonize uWSGI with upstart, and configure it. It's funny, in some ways it's easier to use than PHP, because when I am working with the website on my local machine, I can run uWSGI in http mode, no configuration necessary.

The only barrier I see going from PHP to Python or Ruby is managed hosting.
Nobody Seems to Understand What Jeff Bezos is Doing. Does He?
I assume you meant 'one way to make it', not 'only way to make it'
totally separate people who had never worked on the jvm for legal reasons
See also, for example, the financial City of London, where the "uniform" was a pinstripe suit with a bowler hat, umbrella and buttonhole.

This uniform only started to die during the 70s, and was pretty much killed by 80s excess. (Although Lock & Co still sell around 5000 bowler hats each year mostly to city workers.)
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I like the idea of having a big map for a better overview. But as I am used to working with a 24" screen the content windows is much too small for me...
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Not everyone has linkedIn and I'm not exactly going to sign up there just to test this out...
Wrong. Nokia still does some of the best maps and guidance software on the market. You don't do that with "people who couldn't find better positions elsewhere".
The point seems to be that global styles don’t generally make sense for text because you’re frequently going to refine them to the point where few or no properties are common. That’s a reasonable assertion, and I agree that avoiding global styles for text generally makes stylesheets easier to manage, but like the author, I have no hard evidence to back this up.
Fexl now uses setrlimit to impose safe limits on child processes.
I'm not making an inverted ad hominem argument, suggesting that they're right simply because they're the Supreme Court. I'm saying, the argument in Brown v. Board was persuasive.
> Actually, I could understand that you could say that US is an union of two countries because of this episode, but a union of 50, no way.

How many, and which, states have you lived in?

Heck - if you live in CA, how much time have you spent outside LA/SF Bay area? The central valley (where I grew up) is very different, as are the sierra folk.

And no, ski trips or summers at Tahoe don't count.
I am curious because I usually use stock Ruby for Chef deployment, just want to know if you have any specific reason(s).
McCarthy's Lisp:zygote::Python-or-Ruby:adult human.

You could say that both Python and Ruby are instances of Lisp's fragmentation, rather than unfragmented alternatives. (I am not a Lisp programmer, BTW.)
Cool project on your side of things. I'm spending a bit of time myself trying to put together a compositional tool chain for machine learning tasks myself. Are there any major design choices you've thought out for your own project youd care to expound upon?
Is there still room to build something like this? I think blogs/etc.. would only benefit and make it spread real easy?
Backbone.localStorage seems to replace the ajaxsync with syncing to localStorage. This library looks like it is trying to keep track of objects in local storage without removing the ajaxsync functionality.
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Just updated the text to clarify that it is a one-time payment. Sorry for taking so long to make such a minor change.
The idea is to make a small change in pace, or stutter a step, every few steps. The big sloshing motions that end up spilling your coffee happen when you've taken many steps that re-inforce the sloshing motion, and a mis-timed step here and there counter that loop.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, and I'm assuming you are in the US, but aren't devs in high demand there? Why are you limited to Google or Microsoft? If you want to work in Dev, aren't there other offers from people who want devs?
Right, and its a message I don't believe in. Its not much use to ask existing customers without a strong marketing message - half the battle is the marketing.

So you only learn 'I'm not much good at marketing'. Or 'I need to work harder on marketing'. Nothing really about the product.
Another poster said this only happens if you are logged in but need a session refresh.
You don't need to have a LinkedIn account to try this out. LinkedIn import is just an additional feature that you might want to use in case you don't feel like copy-pasting your resume information.
Except this is the map of population density:

http://www.instantpatientnewsletter.com/images/USA-2000-popu...

which looks very much unlike the map of life expectancy.

The truly low-population areas of the US (the non-coastal western half, the tip of Maine, and the whole of Alaska (where medical care is truly remote) seem to have fairly long lifespans. The South, where lifespans are short, is mostly fairly densely populated.

A map which correlates much better with the lifespan map would be this one http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2lW15AgGThE/S_7yokwe3zI/AAAAAAAAAB... showing the percentage of black people in each county. It's still not a perfect match, though, and it's clearly not just about race because the average lifespan for a black man in the US is 75 and for a white man 79; a much smaller disparity than the county-by-county disparity we're looking at there.

If the men in your county are dropping dead at an average age of 66, it's not just about health care, it's gotta be some combination of:

1. Widespread substance abuse or alcoholism, and

2. Serious widespread obesity.

Come to think of it, we can probably find a map for the latter too; here it is:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/11/24/business/econ...

I love southern food and all, but it should come as no surprise that if you eat fried chicken, biscuits and gravy every day for breakfast you're gonna wind up dead.
Redis monitoring with simple nodejs web app
Small nodejs app to be deployed on Heroku and watch RedisToGo usage of another heroku application.
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The article contrasts XML in its aspect as a "plain-text format" with JSON. What does plain-text mean that would exclude JSON?
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Explorer silently strips the trailing dot and is tricked into doing the right thing.
There doesn't appear to be a way to add any formatting, even end-lines, in the description of a position. When you've worked somewhere for 5 years, a wall of text isn't the best way to present that experience.
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Are you saying that it's genetic or that it's cultural (e.g. food, exercise and lifestyle choices)?

I think in America you also have to account for socio-economic status more than in other first world countries. Also where do Japanese-Americans tend to live? I find it hard to imagine that immigration is as high in the poorest regions.
I just got back from a trip to Buenos Aires. It's an amazing city, but this article says absolutely nothing about the growth or stability in that country. From my understanding (and I didn't dive to deeply into it on my visit), the current leadership is making moves which are very threatening to long-term prosperity and stability. As the article mentions, they are nationalizing industries and restricting imports which is going to set-up walls between them and other countries. Combing that with aggressive posturing regarding the Faukland/Malvinas Islands does little to give much confidence in the opportunities in Argentina.

Just my 2 cents from the little I gained while there.
I'm a fan of fast native code, but I worry that this promotes sneaky code in the background once it gets widely adopted.

With javascript we basically have open-source web apps. I often skim through js source to learn new tricks - and obfuscation doesn't really stop me (apart from google's java-translated js) . With compiled NaCl I probably wouldn't be able to find out a lot.

I'm not talking about "stealing user data" when I say sneaky code. No, with compiled native code a whole new game is started: computational-intensive code. It wouldn't be that difficult to include code that gets a job to work on for a few minutes: breaking captchas, brute-forcing passwords, anything that shift computational effort from a server to a client.
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Possible to make the scripts readable?

I would never run the scripts as directed but would be very interested in retrieving the script, reviewing it and then running it myself.