skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I've avoided licensing "must cite" resources several times because the terms were worded problematicaly (e.g. they encoded invalid assumptions, etc.). But I've never had a problem with "how to cite" - in fact, it makes integrating the resource that much easier.
Sounds like the bandsaw industry, from sharpening to operating, could use some disruption.

I'm only half kidding. There are tons of niche commercial/industrial processes that can use 21st century solutions. They're just hard to see unless you're in them, which is why non-technical people sometimes have brilliant ideas.
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Oil cool the computers. I don't have the link but a google search will show you a lot of interesting builds. You don't have to worry about dust or filters because te entire pc is submerged in oil.
Hey, sure, I made considerations on how my users feel before integrating this kind of ads. I'm speaking about different monetization strategies on conferences and while the bad impression of notification push ads was proven by many apps, I wanted to check whether the reactions to SellAring were as bad (or, in other words, whether the notification bar is considered as personal as the empty auditive space before a call being accepted). They were and that's what I'm able to tell the other developers now based on a foundation of knowledge.
In the land of corporate bullshit, is spending time with your family considered a "good reason"? If so ... essentially they're fabricating a bogus justification for his leaving as what seems like a payoff. We promise not to go after the cash and stock we'd promised you if you promise to leave quietly without a prolonged legal battle.
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Those were simpler times, weren't they? Back then you could practically feel the electrons coursing through the metal, and you were their master! You felt so powerful when you could orchestrate every action of those machines. These modern systems with their virtual memory and their context switching... they're taking away our rights!
> As a Columbia employee, he didn't have to pay for the classes he took.

This sounds like a pretty good deal.
Certainly what makes Facebook valuable is their huge network which is sustained, I think, through barriers to entry (network effect), and barriers to switching (owning your data).

I wonder what might happen, if it could happen that the EU or US FTC mandates api access into and out of Facebook, perhaps after a decision that 2015 Man will use social networking as a needed public infrastructure, to be provided on a common carrier like basis.

Can the sheer size of Facebook's network trigger monopoly break up? Or the sheer size combined with lack of API access?
According to this post on Reddit, it is real and ZTE is planning on fixing it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/tkc45/zte_backdoor/...
Retain users: More than 70% of our daily visitors are return users, but we do need to figure out some way to notify users when their chains are complete, etc. We'll probably ask for email for this. Do you have other ideas?

Yes you get to keep your hearts in Ghost mode. It's for people like me who are embarresed about how bad they draw. Fun fact: I made this game because I wanted to make a game and my art skills are so bad I hoped instead I could get players to create the art for the game.
How about a completely fanless computer? Or does the metallic dust also cause shorts etc.?

Either way it also sounds like an unhealthy environment for humans to work in.
Nobody ever suspects the butterfly.
Facebook does make it surprisingly easy to get a copy of all your data. There's a single big button on the site which will make a ZIP file containing all your data on Facebook, except for data stored in Apps (outside of FB's control), and comments you've made on other people's posts. It will even tell you your previous IP addresses and I think auth tokens.
28/75 but I managed to to fail at recognizing bash I use daily, shame on me :)
This is a stupid statement. Hundreds of millions of people aren't reading OED every day.
I'm pretty sure that would just worsen our budget problem unless we focus on lengthening the period of time when people can work so that we can raise the retirement age. If we have people retire at 65 and live until 120, they will only have spent 40-45 of those years working. That is unsustainable.
I know auto-accepting only the correct answer is a pretty unorthodox way to do it, but I initially took to making this to familiarize myself with the various syntaxes, and it's the approach I tend to opt for when teaching myself things by rote (notably the Japanese kana and one to ten in all sorts of spoken languages) and it seems to work pretty well. Something about pressing Enter or a "submit" button breaks the neural flow for me; I tend to recall things much more effectively when I become a "constant input stream", for lack of a better phrase. Apologies if it doesn't quite suit you.
Columbia has traditionally been quite liberal with their tuition benefits for employees. Also extending to spouses and children. There have been quite a few similar stories over the years of "blue collar" employees in environmental services, security and the like getting their degrees. I'm proud of this guys achievment. Good for him.

Graduation is always lively around Columbia. Im just a bit peeved that Obama is giving the commencement for Barnard on Monday and there will be no parking on Amsterdam Ave. from 110th to 125th. Oy.

(I am a Columbia employee.)
But "undefined" is such a beautiful terminus; what lies beyond the horizon is entirely up to your imagination. : )

Also, I opted for Tab completion instead of arrow keys; it's much faster and far less finicky to implement robustly.
I knew it was from Rosetta -- coincidentally, only a few days ago I submitted my own entry there http://rosettacode.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_Beer#Fexl .
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Aren't bills formatted similarly? Couldn't you then just OCR them?
I'm thinking more of API access so that external apps can be created to link Facebook to other networks, so that tweets and google plus and tumblr posts and all that stuff can just flow from one network to the next like telephone calls can do now.

I just clicked on "Start my archive", Facebook will email me when they are done zipping it up.
Capital will ("should") flow to where it can be the most useful at producing wealth.

This is just the market saying "I'd rather see what Facebook can do with X billion than Ford."

Which on the face of it seems fair - Google had a similarly crazy PE when they floated. They grew into it pretty quickly though.
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Yikes!

Reminds me of my last programming job.

I was working on a commercial printing company. It did a lot of products for the banking industry. The print machines were pretty old, and made by Xerox. So old, in fact, that most of the wiring/sensors were one-off replacements done by the technician in charge.

It was (still is) a mess. A computer running Windows 98 (this on 2011) talked to a Linux box. The Linux box then sent the job to the board on the machine.
It was all done in Java, except the low level stuff that ran C.

The machines broke constantly, and they required some Oracle certified dev to come down and "fix it" (which cost thousands of dollars).

One day, I asked my boss "Why don't they just buy new machines? It costs more to keep these running than to buy a new ones."

His answer opened up my eyes to the corporate/bureocratric culture of mediocrity:

"This works."

And to to top it all off, the production manager wanted me to write him a "little" program for the Windows 98 machine. The program would be used to keep track of prodcution for the whole department.

Unbelievable.
I plan on adding Disqus threads to all documentation pages. Should come soon :)
Auditors would stick to the the accounting standards and conventions to give a monetary value to users and other intangible stuff. Whereas the market (in theory) can value the whole company's ability to use these intangibles to generate money in the future. That's why there's often a significant difference between the "assets - liabilities" on the balance sheet, and the market cap. Now, whether such a big discrepancy is justified... that's another thing.
So, they have good information for advertising. And that's going to valuable, no doubt...

...but that's it. They aren't building a physical product, they're going to sell other people's products. Or, sell information so that other people can sell other people's products.

I find it absurd that the market for web based adverting, between Google and Facebook and others, can be this valuable in the long run. These are advertisers, for crying out loud. People can talk about how many users Facebook has, but there are more automobiles worldwide than there are Facebook users.

What is worth more; a car purchaser, or a Facebook user?
It's going to be extremely difficult to refactor.
The main problem is they can't be bothered to figure out how newsgroups work, or pay a little money for the privilege of using a less network-intensive protocol with better performance. BitTorrent is just a drain on the network, and makes things like gaming impractical no matter how much you throttle it (though it certainly helps a lot). And people often leave it running for long periods out of civic duty.

IP throttling isn't specific enough. I don't need to throttle an HTTP download that's going to be done in a few minutes. I just want BT to die on my network, at least when I want the resources free for other use.

/rant
Fanless would have been better, but the case will still have some kind of vents for air cooling, and the dust tends to have a static charge -- so eventually it'll still kill the system.

It's not a great environment for people, no. I'd be wearing a dust mask for sure if I worked there. But, a lot of shop guys aren't like that, especially the older ones. They just do their job and don't mind the dust.
1) Buy a more modern computer with Windows 7, etc.

2) Set up a virtual machine with Windows 3.1 on it to run the bandsaw controller.

3) Now you can get any modern browser, still have the bandsaw software running, and not have to deal with multiple computers.
Bugs are not mistakes. They are flaws. Two different things.

If you were fixing cars, then you could call a mistake if you put the wrong oil in the engine. That you would need to cover.

But if you changed the oil, and the oil turned out to be "bad" ( for a lack of a better term ), then the oil had bugs in it. It was flawed.
You don't need to defend free transmission of information. Freedom is the default state. It's the people who want to restrict freedom who have to make their case. And in my opinion their arguments, under the current context, are not strong enough.

Arguments against the copying of private information are.
A todo-list that tells you what to do next
For years I've been annoyed by trying all kinds of todo-lists and project-management tools. Then 6wunderkinder launched their stuff, promising a lot. It wasnt better than anything else, just more beautiful and better advertised.

Then I accidently came around these guys who fixed todo-lists when we didnt even know, what was missing really. Awesome and made my life better.
It's a contraction. Yes, I've read the wikipedia definition of portmanteau, and I still think bit isn't a portmanteau.

Obligatory http://xkcd.com/739/
Yes, it's a good clue that we can live much longer than we do. The author of Genesis would not have written that if it was completely unknown.

We also know from Roman records that we have only just reached their lifespans, and still they were healthy for a longer percentage of their lives than we are (infant mortality aside.) It's not unreasonable to think that even the Roman lifespan was a decline from that of earlier civilizations like the Hebrews.
If you're forced to pay a minimum 20% "tip", it's not a tip.
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I can't really be surprised by this, you would expect the chinese goverment to want a backdoor in the electronics they sell.
Whats with the over thinking?

Have an idea?

Market it now. Forget about the MVP. Focus on finding people who will pay for your idea. Dedicate a short time to this. No one is buying? Forget and iterate.

Don't waste too much time validating the idea from your point of view. Let people and their money tell you that.

You can't be afraid of selling. A startup is a business, however you may put it. And businesses survive on sales.
Is the free-tuition-for-employees thing unusual? I had a couple of kids that graduated high school with me get into several different schools because their parents worked there (no professors. mostly janitors, cafeteria workers, etc.) I was under the impression that it was similar to the GI bill for american soliders - an employee could use it, or give it to a family member.
Hell yes,
Although seriously, I wonder what the end difference in bugs and software related (hardware) crashes would be? And also the cost of development and speed with which updates could be released. (No i'm not really advocating it, but it would be fun).
As long as we are forcing people to pay a surprise tip at the end of the trip and celebrating how much cash we are raking in, why not make the tip amounts 5000%, 10000% and 100000%, with jail time for those who don't pay the minimum tip? Fits in with the rest of the horrific police state that the thugs in control of New York government have implemented there. Saves the cost of a trip to North Korea, with all of the authoritarianism!
If they hired someone to figure it out, they could splash out for a cheap tablet.

I agree with the first superuser post. Isolate the win 3.1 machine as much as possible, and use another machine for networking. It's too much of a risk, loosing a hand because you clicked a link and the machine froze is simply ridiculous.

Even putting the machine in a VM would be too much work. You'd have to port the custom drivers.
What is the magazine about?

To me, right now it just looks like a pretty blog.

Plus, what if I was online and wanted to read it? I cant take your webpage offline.

Think about it.

Decide on your niche, and then run with it. Push the envelope.
Vaguely disturbing that this is new to anyone on HN. Queue discussion of nibbles and bytes.

The paper is well worth reading if you haven't already done so.

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

(http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...)

Especially page 5, which is a very easy to understand description of EDIT markov chains. But you can use that letter frequency thing to do a really nice easy description of compression.
Interesting that this document is stored on Bjarne Stroustrup's (creator of C++) web site at AT&T Labs. I wonder whether he had any part in writing it?
You need to go read up on what a tip is if you think it is "forced", or indeed a "surprise". And the buttons for quick tip-giving are nothing to do with the government, either.
That's a really great clip!

This is the best part of having a dog for me, especially one like mine who is perfectly happy strolling along smelling the flowers. It's always an excuse to go out, mostly at night when it's quiet, and mull over ideas.
Depends. There are places where you can find friends quicker if you call somebody else a moron. Few groups will hate you for talking trash about their enemies.
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=yahoo.com%2C+facebook.co... yahoo is big, traffic wise better than ever and ....... just mainstream. and even if we like it or not, IT wise, business wise the mainstream still matters.
For the UK, it makes me wonder how close you could get with the data here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/
the metallic dust does cause short circuits.

the office our pc was in was in an office built above the work floor and had very good ventelation but fine dust still made it up and on to every surface. once enough dust settled inside the pc it died.

it cannot be good for the humans there but still not the unhealtiest place i saw. that was a cabbies cubby were 20-30 taxi drivers sat waiting for jobs to come in and they seemed to all be chain smokers. the office was a converted shipping container with benches inside. a pc used for booking calls was brought in dead. when i opened it up there was a tarry goo on the motherboard and the fan was seized solid. after replacing the fan and sponging up as much of the goo as i could i went to clean the case. my boss asked if it was necessary so i took a sheet of a4 paper placed it on the metal case cover and smoothed it down. then i grabbed 2 corners of the paper and lifted the metal lid clear of the desk. the stickiness was pure tar. goodness knows how long the new fan lasted.

and as for what it did to the humans...
I don't know if you really have a consistent argument here. If the infringed content is so trivial, if it provides zero cultural value at all, why is there a social benefit to legally protecting it? If there is a cultural value, at what point does preventing a group of people from benefiting from the culture become antisocial? Do you think that the current limits are exactly right (and thus, you would oppose an extension to copyright term)?
The tipping point
As far as I know array-based heaps are most efficient with practical workloads (because it doesn't have the overhead & non-locality due to pointers for a tree structure). I don't think it's necessary to offer multiple implementations, just as there is only a single well tuned hash table in Python. What matters is that the functionality of an abstract data type is offered.
I don't understand what you're saying. You say that an apology is an expression of regret, but then you say that Dell's apology isn't an expression of regret. Are you just saying that the Dell statement should have been more explicit?
True. INSTALL_PACKAGES is a permission with protectionLevel=signatureOrSystem. All other applications can do is take the user to an install-Activity hosted by the OS.
For my intention for installing SellAring, please see my answer above.
Loving the thoughtfulness here, and I have a few more resources I need to read now.

Re: Quick and Correct badges -

It is important in many cases to be able to recall math facts quickly. Automatic recall has also been correlated with understanding of more difficult concepts (for example: [1]). I am by no means saying that we've gotten the reward system perfectly right, but we were thoughtful when creating it.

[1] http://www.ldonline.org/spearswerling/Developing_Automatic_R...
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I agree, I am just saying it's abundantly clear that it's option 2. Look at the guy's website if nothing else.
It sounds like TalkTalk is actually one of the last ISPs to do this, not the first:

In October, major internet suppliers including BT and Virgin said they have decided to change procedures to that when new customers sign up they will not be able to progress with accessing content until they decide whether to activate parental control over content. Previously the decision about whether to control adult content was made at any point after the sign up, when adult content may have already been accessed.
Investors don't invest because of curiosity. They want to earn money.
All of this sounds like you're one of these people who see parens and run away screaming "LISP!". Yes, the default Racket syntax uses S-expressions, but concluding that it's in some way lumped with Emacs Lisp is extremely wrong. And yes, Racket has syntax that can be tweaked using macros -- but it's a far stretch to go from this to that being the thing that drives all Racket coding. After all, OCaml now has CamlP4 as something that is an integral part of the language -- does that mean that meta-programming is now the thing that drives OCaml coding???

Another point: yes, Racket programmers know and use tail-calls, but that has nothing to do with "the looping constructs provided in the library" since those are implemented in terms of the same facility. The existence of these loops is therefore not making the language any less functional than the fact that you can implement a while loop in Haskell. The bottom line is that Racket is as functional a language as the interpretation of the term was before Haskell kidnapped it and turned it into some religious point.

(BTW, if you want to bash lisps, do yourself a favor and drop the all-caps "LISP" -- it immediately demonstrates the kind of limited knowledge you have on it.)
Oh, absolutely. However what the software industry enables more of is often stuff that I think is good.

For instance I have 2 contracts right now. One will help people find a college program that they want, and the other will help people find a job that they want. These are causes whose value proposition is pretty clear to me. I don't need to justify my work on the basis of, "I'm getting rid of people who do what I do." Rather I can say, "I'm helping good things happen for people."

Thus I don't see a problem in the fact that my successes create more demand for people like me.
I am personally a lot more likely to log on to Facebook than to EVER buy a Ford -- just saying.
Yeah, thanks - I do try to do the right thing. But that doesn't mean I'm a pushover. You can be alpha and still be a nice guy, it's just how you deal with those who -aren't- nice that matters.
Ok maybe i am missing something, but it seems to me you may want some mutability in a package manager. For example, updates that are simply bug fixes and security fixes but are backward compatible should be substituted for older versions.

Suppose you have a networking library, which is used by several applications. All of a sudden you find a security hole in the networking library. And then you fix it. But the fix does not affect any of the published APIs or functionality and is thus completely backwards compatible for all legal uses.

When you fix the library you release a new version of it. Shouldn't that new version be automatically used for all applications that use the library? If you have an immutable packaging system, all applications will still use the old version of the library and they would have to have their packages explicitly modified to use the new version.

Now this may work for super high value and super secure systems, where someone has the time to individually test the new version of the library with each application that uses it and then individually update each application.

But for the usual desktop system this sounds like a recipe for having a bunch of out-dated hole ridden software, where multiple badly maintained applications still carry known security holes from many years ago; or, in other words, this sounds very much like Windows.