skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a very well designed course and Tim is a fantastic teacher. I scored a 100 but I wouldn't say the course was easy. For the most part, it was obvious. I found some of the questions slightly tricky and I would have got it wrong if I hadn't taken the time to read/think. Overall, I'm extremely happy with the time spent learning from Tim.

That said, if you are looking for really hard challenges, you should take Daphne Koller's Probabilistic Graphical Models.
Although updates to the last SDK version in a timely manner is a valid concern, but does one really rebuild his application with a new major iOS version after a week of the release?
Why would you want to submit hundreds (or thousands) of abstract submissions to a call for papers? It would certainly cause the conference organizers a lot of trouble but what other benefit is there? I don't see how the author could have gotten someone else's details (divulging potentially sensitive information) nor improve his chances of acceptance as a speaker by gaming the system -- the only two benefits I can see from "0wning" the system.

The author isn't "0wning" anything. He is just pointing the way to cause trouble.
I watched the CAM recording over the weekend(before this I had no desire at all to see the Avengers) and decided it was worth actually seeing in a theater. I think that's what a lot of people use CAM recordings for. To sample a movie before spending the money to see it in theaters.
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Deepika Padukone still feels for Siddharth Mallya?
As I said, on my linux boxen I have no problem with RAM. They're fast and responsive. I have machines with up to 32 GB at hand (and dual octocore CPUs) but really, for a dev workstation a dual core with 2 gigs and 2 24" screens is more than enough to me, I never waited for gvim to open or anything.

OTOH my Mac with 2 GB feels slower everyday. Frankly, I simply decided that my next laptop will be a linux PC instead of a Mac, now that there are credible PC alternatives like the Asus Zenbook Prime (a few years ago Mac laptops were so far ahead it wasn't even worth trying).
Maybe this will help you, now or later, : http://www.panalysis.com/resources/customer-acquisition-cost...
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In the last year I left BigCo for the kind of company you describe. It's been mostly a positive experience so far. I've gone to a lot less meetings and learned a ton about technologies I never would have touched at my BigCo job.

At small companies, you ship. Or you go out of business.

This is important to keep in mind mainly because many people have a hard time with that sort of stress. Small companies, even profitable ones, have small margins of error. The upside is that in a small company you should have a lot more contribution to the success or failure.
Better late than never, but you leaked more than just my system memory...you leaked your own market share.
Show HN: my week project, DrawSomethingNaughty
Currently yes. I've added a ticket https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/issues/20 to see how we'll fix that up.

Is there a reason you don't have a place to drag from?
My current employer is a midsize corp, and we are fairly 'sane'. We have hundreds of engineers and there are cubicles. We're not into rockstars, ninjas, or exploitable labor. Some groups do run in crisis-mode too much, but that isn't preferred. We are founder-run and take pride in high-quality work... our industry demands it, among other things. :-)

We're not a startup: we're not going to IPO or get acquired.

We are hiring, and have been growing for years.

Feel free to email me for a link to the careers page.
"If they do then clearly they feel they are getting something out of it, so why should they get it free unlike everybody else?"

The TV is a communications device.

Sure, they can listen to the radio, but some things you get through tv that you don't get on the radio.

This sounds like extreme pettiness by 'tv regulators' towards people with a severe handicap.
I would highly suggest to the author (or anyone else trying this) to install the Hacker's Keyboard [1]. It gives you a five row keyboard that makes living in a terminal so much easier.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketwork...
CIA guy jumps in front of driver. Driver feels miserable. Driver figures-out CIA guy was evil. CIA fucks with guy for years before and after. Driver now brags about killing stupid fucken CIA guy -- "Score one for the good guys!"

So, in 1996, agents/angels or whatever first made me unstable. It could be FBI. It could be shrink actors. Could be angels.

I generally go crazy regularly for several years. In 1999, I was following impulses. Pedestrians on median a little way before an intersection got me thinking about hitting people. Got to intersection, hit guy. It was one of the shrink actors or something. They follow me around and push my buttons.

I used to think shrinks were dumb.

Watch the end of this:
http://www.noob.us/humor/the-office-dwight-faces-nerd-tortur...

They're not dumb, they're evil. It's probably CIA.

Fuck-em. Kill them.

God says...
C:\Text\BIBLE.TXT

Lord GOD.

45:10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath
may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part
of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and
twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

45:13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an
ephah of an homer of wheat
To each their own. I enjoy a large assortment of films. The Avengers and Batman Begins - or 12 Monkeys and The Usual Suspects - or The Triplettes of Bellville and The Lives of Others - or 12 Angry Men and The Seventh Seal. Hardly fair to say that someone who would 'enjoy' 'cinema' would 'rather pluck their eyes out' than 'watch' a 'film' like this 'anywhere'.

Interestingly, you used the term 'Film' to describe The Avengers, which some people would jump down YOUR throat for - since this was an almost All-Digital release.
Now, first and foremost, I am not that proud about the idea behind this game. I know it doesn’t solve any problem, doesn’t make anyone’s life easier or make the world a better place, and obviously there is a questionable educational value in it. Said that, I have been recently laid off from a company (in NYC) that is going under, and wanted to brush up a bit on my programming skills, as for couple years now I’ve been mostly managing IT projects and truly missed designing and developing software big time.

DrawSomethingNaughty was designed with PHP, HTML5 Canvas, JavaScript and JQuery, plus MySql. It took one full week of time. Canvas were something I wanted to learn the most, and obviously learnt a lot new experience designing for web on mobile devices: Android and IOS (I don’t believe this "app" would be approved in the store; that’s why I took extra care of trying to make a touch device experience in the browser as flawless as possible). Programming-wise IOS was more pleasant than Android, and there is still a glitch in drawing on the latter. I failed miserably on CSS layering. I just don’t get it, wasted one day and at some point decided to cheat and go back to tables. Another fail (although bit controlled) was with MVP - that urge to keep adding features before getting first user. I did however keep noting all future improvements and add-ons on the side (my mind really went wild and I hope to see some of those popping up from Zynga anytime now, as there is a huge monetization potential no way related to annoying users with ads), has this game gain some reasonable traction.

Now, obvious question is how much of a rip off of DrawSomething this is and whether Zynga will be urged to go after me. I spent some time on this one, weighted for and against, and decided to continue project consequently. For obvious reasons (hello Zynga lawyers!), I am gonna leave the list I came up with out of this post, and won’t comment on it. I also did some trademark research, and couldn’t find anything on "Draw Something", even though this is not the name of my project.

DrawSomethingNaughty was tested against Samsung Galaxy i977, iOS Phone/Pad/Pod and it came up pretty playable. But if you see something wrong on your device, please post it here, or send a screenshot with name of your device to screenshot@drawsomethingnaughty.com

Anything else, please ask.

Thanks for reading.

ps: I have been reading HN and commenting a bit for a while now, but again because of the idea behind this is not that cool ("oh, I designed that app for people to draw dicks and learn cursewords"), I decided to post it under a new account. Hope you will forgive me.
This isn't that much of a problem in practice. As long as the surface is partially diffuse, some of the reflected light will make it back to the sensor; light that gets scattered elsewhere is inconsequential. All you have to worry about is completely specular surfaces like mirrors, because just like a camera, the LIDAR won't be able to distinguish the reflections from real objects.
Meaningless semantic quibble. Yes, "literally" everything. Or everything worth talking about anyway. Do you have a counter example of a complete system seeing active development in the modern world without any use of C at all? I certainly can't think of one.
Oh I see, I thought you were talking about something that would be caught by the interpreter if you put

use strict;

and

use warnings;

in there. Thank you for taking the time to put in an example, I understand you better now.
Thanks! I'm trying it right now.
Derek Sivers Renounces his US Citizenship
Sure, you can DOS the submission process for an academic conference. You can also attend and press the fire alarm during the conference, that will also annoy the organizers. Or unplug the microphone. Or kill the power to the conference room. So what?

It says more about who you are than anything else.
13 surprises from Kubuntu 12.04
> It is my impression that traditional companies are not able to produce complex software.

What gave you that impression?

What do you define as a non-traditional company?
People ask "why others are using MySQL instead proper database like PostgreSQL?"

Some of the people try and get burned because features that MySQL did without anyone noticing now take so much time that one wonders if he triggered some strange bug that caused db to do full table scan where one is unnecessary. Then he goes to the internet and look for clues and he sees response "oh, it's how it supposed to work, nobody is working on because it does not seem like a problem" over and over.

I think that feature might have an impact.

Humble question from person who never tried to build a database engine:

Do you know why db can't just keep track of number of entries in a full or partial primary key indexes and use them to give count fast ?
> Requiring users to have a number, punctuation, mixed case, 10 digits, etc. may make the password itself more secure, but it's all for naught since the user just wrote it down on a Post It note because it's an unmemorable heap of bits.

There is no realistic chance that the people who are interested in finding my passwords will be able to read a Post It note inside my house, so if having to use a more secure password causes me to resort to a Post It note it would not be for naught.
Great post that I agree with, except I don't know what a "VC Darling" is. Do you have any examples? How do I know if a startup is a "VC Darling"?
How Eric Ries Coined "The Pivot" And What Your Business Can Learn From It
I'm not quite sure I understand. Speaking of the generic case, the (quite broad, I admit) statement that modular and composable functionality should enable both the unified-libraries-approach (or frameworks) and pick-and-choose-approach should (when applied) solve the OPs problem of not wanting to use what he/she doesn't need, shouldn't it?

I support the idea of a framework essentially being a light-weight layer on top of libraries, but if the framework just uses a single monolithic library then little (but something!) is gained. If it uses one or more libraries that are all properly composed of smaller modules, etc, etc, then a lot of flexibility is gained.

I'm not very familiar with Rails - especially its internals - so it's hard to comment on this particular case. However, making job queueing modular seems to have found the approval of most people in the commit comment thread you linked.

But I agree that the distinction is never clear cut, and everything needs a discussion on a case-by-case basis...
Agreed. I definitely watched star wars in its entirety including the entire cantina scene at least by the age of six. The dark parts were disturbing but I don't think they were a problem.

There's an important early lesson these helicopter parents are losing by not exposing kids to a little PG movie violence, that my parents explained to me well - its fantasy movie violence for entertainment and not real. God forbid one of these kids goes over to a friends house who has less supervision and they pop in a DVD of Hostel or something. With all the violence and gore in modern movies its probably a pretty good idea to prepare them for all the crap they're going to get exposed to later in life
Memory card swallowed after hang-gliding accident
It does, yeah (although doesn't include the price of 3D glasses). This was at an out of London cinema, thankfully. In the center of town you can easily pay $20+ pp.

Are you paying that right across Sweden? If so, how awful :-(
> the notion that "America no longer makes things" is absolutely, empirically, unassailably false.

It depends whether you count robots and computers as part of America, doesn't it?
As someone else also mentioned, you're not comparing BigCo with a startup, but a shitty job with a good job.

Take it this way: what doesn't destroy you makes you stronger. Just take a break and find another job/project.
At least we know they didn't get acquired by another company, and they didn't quit, so the ending must be good, right?
Actually I built these machines with parts I had lying around. As I only had 1 GB RAM sticks (and 2 RAM slots), well 2 GB I have. But as I said, I have quite fat systems and for what I need (text editor, xterms, firefox, a little LibreOffice and GIMP from time to time) it doesn't make any meaningful difference.

A few months back I had a 2004 vintage machine with 1GB of RAM and the main annoyance was that firefox was quite long to start up in the morning, and that's about it. Ah, and spamassassin was a tad slow, too, meaning that my emails needed a few minutes more to fetch in the background, no big deal. I switched because the graphic card failed and I hadn't any AGP card anymore :)
I can't drag the button on my Firefox 7 toolbar. Oops.
Then you would see complaints from retailers on DVD sales declining.
Twitter Hashbang URLs Will Soon Be A Thing Of The Past
No, not just trying to avoid a lawsuit, it's actually true. Largely because of garbage collection.
I must be an idiot. It took me a few Google searches and finally stumbling on it by accident to figure out how to subscribe to the RSS feed for Serious Engineering's dynamic Blogger blog, since the "Subscribe to this page..." option isn't available. In case you too struggle, there's a pop-out menu on the right.

And now back to ramming crayons up my nose.
I actually wrote that posting and I'm wondering about the formal verification of Erlang now. My understanding is that you could formally reason about Erlang systems if you adhered to coding standards that allowed this, and formal proofs had been used for at least some of the code base on the AXD301.

I'll quite happily edit that out of the answer if I'm wrong. Can somebody elucidate this here - Am I barking up the wrong tree about verifying Erlang systems?
Is this web service illegal?
This web service asks me to login with my iTunes account, and after loging in, they detected all of my past purchased iPhone applications. I also received an email from Apple few days later, to change my iTunes account password for safety.

Are they using illegal or near illegal method to detect its users purchase history? Or Are they using official API provided by Apple to do so?
> Pornography is a (digital) substance

What a silly thing to say.

> induces comparable if not identical neurological changes as traditional addictive substances such as nicotine

Show me the peer reviewed studies. Nicotine is a drug which alters brain chemistry, pornography merely facilitates naturally occurring brain chemistry phenomenons. It absolutely defies reason that these could be identical.

> but the fact remains that every single porn site distributes to minors

Already refuted bullshit.
American Healthcare Fraud and Scalable Investigative Reporting
How are you fetching them now?
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I suppose it depends on how dangerous you think porn is.

If parents couldn't keep their kids from gaining access to poisons, disease agents or machine guns, few people would argue against regulating them. Of course, those things are already regulated. I don't think porn is actually very harmful to children as long as they're taught that it's not any more a realistic depiction of what adult sexual relationships are like than CoD is of what war is like. If someone's primary source of information about sex is porn, that's not so good.
Why delay it at all? Frankly they shouldn't care how we want to watch a film, just that we want to and are willing to pay for it.

I like films but have small kids so I can't get to the cinema as often as I'd like. By not letting me give them money to watch their film (and I won't pirate it, I'll just do something else) they're throwing money away. Get me while the publicity and hype are out there, when I can discuss it with friends and colleagues. By the time it's out on DVD the moment could well have passed and my money has gone.

The cinema done right is a great experience and personally I don't think it's going anywhere. It doesn't matter how big my TV gets, I'll never have that social experience, the fact of getting out of the house where the phone won't ring and the door won't go, where I won't be tempted to pick up the iPad or whatever.

Watching at home, if done right, is a complementary market as much as it is a competitive one. And if it is competitive one then hey, what do they care if they're charging for it?

It's not going to be $5, probably more like $20 (think a couple of people, a couple of tickets equivalent, perhaps figure in the fact they can't upsell you popcorn and subtract some lower costs), but so long as the price seems fair next to the multiplex cost I'm fine with it.
Out of the Box with CEO Aaron Levie
iOS is case sensitive (and it bit me), way to go Apple... http://www.enavigo.com/2012/02/12/xcode-ios-simulator-is-cas...
Episode one of our new "A Django Podcast"
It's telling that you choose to focus on moral issues, such as what you interpret as dependence, rather than the hard-numbers "this is what consumes the most tax dollars for the least benefit" of defense spending.

Of course, "least benefit" is a value judgement, but the system, as you describe it, is actually concerned with maintaining the military and the financial industries much more than any idea of the country having its legs knocked out from under it by poor people. This is a fact, and is supportable by actual numbers, unlike your kicking of people while they're down.
What stack are you using for the web page capture?
It's a perfect crisp capture. I've tried before and never got such good programatic results.
Hey, author here.

Indeed the domain is modelled incorrectly, the problem being that this realisation that this is the case has come late on in the development process. Perhaps in my simplified example that's something you could pick up on before work commenced, but in reality there are many little (and sometimes big) things which you either miss no matter how hard you try, or change later on.

The problem with your suggestions as to fixing the hierarchy is that, yes this is something you ought to do and it resolves the problem, but it takes time and is in essence yak shaving, or at least feels that way - are you really working towards making your software better, or are you just pandering to the abstraction you've created?

In any case, this is one of the 2 options I suggest to resolve the situation, and definitely the correct one (I cover the idea of separating out ISIN and non-ISIN instruments as e.g. physical/derivative), however it takes time and the problem is it is so often the case that time pressures result in you hacking around the problem, making the hierarchy not only incorrect, but actively misleading.

I didn't mean to suggest dynamic languages were a silver bullet here, nor did I mean to put particular emphasis on them.

No matter what you will have to refactor, but the question is whether a rigid hierarchy makes that more or less difficult, and whether that rigidity tempts you into hacks which make this structure misleading.

I think the problem with putting any particular example in the article is that it will inevitably be inadequate for its purpose. The problem really bites when you've experienced a large code base have some small incongruity that doesn't quite fit the model, but I don't think I could clearly and simply express that in code.
I just went through a similar thing two years ago (burnt out from a startup that became a big company). I ended up taking off about 6 months and then pin-balled through a couple companies before finding something that makes me feel like Im on the road to being back on my feet. From that experience here is my 2 cents.

### If you are already burnt out, I would absolutely avoid the following...

- A startup that is doing something that is not all that exciting to you (no matter how cool the company is or how great their potential is)

- A big co. in the same industry as your past company (while not always, competing companies in the same segment tend to usually have similar operating procedures)

- Any company under financial pressure... that could be an over-promising startup with not enough funding/revenue or a big co. that is starting to tilt in the wrong direction.

### What I would suggest:

- If possible, any company that is doing something you find exciting. I'd probably lean more towards a larger organization in that the risk of getting doubly burnt out in a startup is probably higher. If it isn't somehow interesting or exciting, don't take it or quit after a week of trying it out. Also look at non-SV type companies. There are lots of interesting opportunities for technical folks in energy, education, etc. that after years of working on the typical startup stuff I've realized is way more interesting to me.
Google Gets Driverless License
Matt,

I'm developing an education app and would love for it to be in Rails. Know where to find a good Rails coder comfortable with RubyMotion and iOS?
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Similar. Not having advance screenings is an even bigger red flag.