skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, it's also disheartening to see them holding a printout of one of the few articles available online, which I already know is pretty out-of-date and down-right wrong in places.
So there was a paternity test, right? I'm assuming there was and it just wasn't mentioned in the write up.

The author states with authority that he is the father, but doesn't mention the tests confirming it whereas every other finding is linked to the tests involved.

Please don't tell me, in an article praising science, that this was left to faith or trust or whatever.
It's entirely possible for you to cater to the most power-usery of all power users while still letting the largely-nontechnical do their jobs with your software. Look at Emacs.

It's entirely possible to use Emacs (by which I mean a graphical build of GNU Emacs or XEmacs launched under a window system of some kind) like Notepad: Use the File menu to open, save, and close files, use the big X decoration at the top right to close, and that's it. Ignore everything you don't understand (which people do anyway) and you're golden.

(GVim seems to be the same way now.)

So screwing power users is not the only option; you can move the complexity down into the interface a bit and leave it to the power users to find it out, because they'll be the only ones who will.
Ah, ok, your choice looks to be in line with your situation.

Regarding younger folks, most people work regular work hours in their 20s, but if you take a poll, I bet plenty of them would prefer other arrangements. In a city like New York, there's plenty to do between the hours of midnight and 4am any night of the week, regardless of one's view of such activities. To paraphrase one founder from a previous job, "it's fun going out Sunday nights. You get to meet the people who don't have a 9-to-5 job." If you think back to college, where people could more or less choose their daytime schedule, most students did not go to sleep before 1am. Being stuck signing up for the 9am class was a major disappointment for people. At the same time, though, lining up your schedule to have every Friday off (which was a rare possibility) was highly prized!

My generalization is that people in their 20s favor flexibility to accomodate nightlife (and fun in general), whereas family folk favor a set reliable schedule structured around their kid's schedule and maximizing time with the significant other.

Bottom line though, employers should sit down with their hires on the first day and ask them what's important to them in their personal life so it can be accommodated.
Delivering the message is of highest priority, coolness & fanciness is always secondary. Of course it's good if you are able to have both.
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I think thats it. There are tons of people who dont like waking up early, and it could be an underlying genetic predisposition. Generally speaking, forcing adults to do something they really dont want to do can create some nasty issues. If an employee isnt a morning person but is expected to show up early regularly, its only a matter of time until something gives. Everyday presents a challenge, and if there is no balance, something starts to accumulate (resentment, anger, jelousy).

At least in school you get a whole summer to recover.
Hmmm. It's very easy to build a mobile platform to compete with Android -- fork it. This is Google's problem in China and with the Kindle Fire. This is probably why Google's "success" in mobile hasn't been reflected by huge stock market gains.

The success of Android forks has also impacted iOS to some hard to measure extent (were it not for Android and Android forks, Apple would, I think, be even more successful in the mobile spaces it plays in).
Right on. It was 13 years and 26 games before Blizzard released WoW. Experience does count for something, as does having an established world of characters and lore to draw from.
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What seems to be needed is a retail channel that can explain what/why and why of Chrome book? Something like Samsungs Galaxy S3 Popups stores. Google's staff at the Chrome OS booths in Aiports did a great job of this but you couldn't purchase a Chromebook there.
How do you feel about the open core nature of Riak? I mean, I would jump to it for some of my uses in a second, but I find that the lack of multi-dc replication support in the open source edition is kind of a killer for my use case. I have the reliability need, but I don't really have the heavy usage to support such an endeavor (as it's something of a personal project).
More interesting if it gets integrated with GoogleTV, or (less likely) a TiVo.
Added to my wish list.

If you want to see some of Eva-Lotta's sketchnotes for other talks go check out her flickr stream. Lots of great stuff http://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/
Sure Facebook could serve contextual ads on other sites/service based on what they know about their users, except it would violate their privacy policy.

"We do not share any of your information with advertisers (unless, of course, you give us permission)."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it would be technically possible for a page to read and report back to the originating server what ad appeared on a page (integrated with js or iframe, etc.). This would violate that clause of the privacy policy.
This is answered here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4038777

Short version: Basically, the evidence is to the contrary. Parents are "more happy."
It takes 5 people to reopen it too. It's exactly balanced.
Chrome OS is a very different beast from desktop GNU/Linux distributions so I don't think that's a fair assumption.
This view is actually false. I should probably respond to a more visible comment but this will have to suffice.

The winners in the IPO, and this has been said before (not just by me), is facebook and zuckerberg. The losers are the underwriters and their clients who the underwriters placed the stock with (and now, the rest of the retail investment market).

Typically an IPO is priced such that 'insiders' are getting a better deal than the retail investors will have when supply starts to open up. This IPO, that methodology was reversed. It was a huge stock->cash dump, and will benefit $FB near term because they have some 20+bn in cash now, but probably ruin them long term because of the reputation hit they took, and the prevailing view that their stock is worthless.

TL;DR; facebook screwed wallstreet more than it got screwed by wallstreet.
The cheapest option is $350 (a Cedar Trail board, the $450 one says "Intel Core" which probably means Sandy Bridge). What makes you think you can build an ARM board (with a core that doesn't even exist in the market yet!) for $175, much less sell it for that? The only device in the market that even comes close is the Kindle, and that's heavily subsidized by content revenue.
Hmm, well it's only a 3 hour train journey, perhaps there will be some advance fares available.
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> Sorry, not worth it at all.

Does your comment assume that the hypothetical subject (i.e., ``you'') has a stay-at-home spouse?
Several companies will retrofit just about any vehicle to any degree of armoring. Search "armored vehicles". Digging around, I'm seeing a low end of US$37,500 for a used VW Passat 4Motion armored to match the implied scenario (9mm, 12ga, etc.). Prices fast go well into 6 digits, depending on how serious the attackers are and how valuable the occupants/cargo are. Yes, standard options include much "James Bond" material.

And, considering other replies, yes thinking about how to protect oneself from such random events is worthwhile and a normal (if not universal) response to tragedy.
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Ask HN:Software Engineer/MS CS/U.S top 10 University/Relocating from India
Hi,

I am a Software Engineer who did MS CS from a top 10 ranked CS University.Due to visa issues/recession,I relocated to India about 1.5 years ago. I am looking for opportunities at startups in the bay area- Backend,web infrastucture-I would fit in well there.I code fluently in C,C++,PHP (in that order).If you might be interested in hiring based on remote interviewing,please post a comment/ email address -I will send across my resume/code samples for you to get a better idea of my abilities,and we could evaluate if it's a mutual fit
Looks like that link's since been updated to make it clear that this is a completely unrelated piece of software called Flame that just happened to use LUA too, with it being very unlikely that any code could be shared between the two. Basically, the name's just a coincidence.
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You are mistaking what he is saying. People say things like "France's gold", but France doesn't have gold. Only the individuals who also identify themselves as French, or are determined to be French by law, do.
I have no problem when someone says 0-4 year old kids should be the center of your world. However, having a parent that can actively demonstrate a healthy relationship becomes increasingly important as a child ages. I have heard this transition described in terms of Marriage, Child, Self, then Spouse. Or environment before impulse.

PS: Describing Marriage as a Nash Equilibrium is probably a better description for HN.
This. Admittedly, the aerodynamics of this thing should be better than most motorcycles.
I don't understand what crosses a company's mind when they make a booth where they explain a product but don't allow you to buy it. Nintendo took over a good part of the third (?) floor of the mall here in SF last Christmas where you could play the new 3DS and a bunch of their latest titles (all released). I asked to purchase one and they then proceeded to think out loud about the closest gamestop where I "might" find it -- because this booth was for demos only, not for actually buying anything.
Two comments, you assume they intend to be acquired, and why optimize for something that late stage when you are trying to remain an competitive edge? (The edge in this case is a skillful happy workforce)
We in the finance sector killed it years ago. We're now trying to kill java and move to python.
P/E ratio is a terrible, meaningless way to evaluate the price of a share. It sounds remotely technical, and hey, there are numbers there so I guess people talk about it like it's important. P/E ratio is the ratio between profits to price per share. If the company had shares trading at $100 and their profits were $10/share, their P/E ratio would be 10. The thing is, P/E ratio doesn't capture expenditures very well, or long term corporate plans. So if a company is spending a ton of money trying to expand their business, they will have a really high P/E ratio. That doesn't make it a bad thing, just a measure of how much they're spending. AMZN is spending a ton of money lately, so they are not as profitable as they could be (and hence, high P/E ratio), but it is presumably to secure their future success.
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What's really curious is that in a way it's up against Raspberry Pi, but literally an order of magnitude more expensive. Obviously it's more powerful, but . . .

They really need to get the cost of the Chrome devices way down from where they are.
For most of the 90s gas was underpriced compared to historical levels. This was due to a variety of reasons, some technological, some economic, some geopolitical. Over the last decade or so gas has gone up in price though the price is still quite volatile. Short-term estimates are that gas prices probably won't go much higher. Longer-term estimates are tricky, but increasing production of crude oil and natural gas from North America will probably cause prices to fall.

The "finite resource" aspect is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, oil is finite, and it is used up. But what matters is how long can current rates of use be maintained. If it's only a decade then prices will definitely skyrocket, if it's more like a century then prices might not outpace inflation.

I could argue all day about technology and production but the best argument is the simplest one, more often than not the claim that "this time it's different" is seldom justified. What argument do you have that "this time it's different" in regard to cost and volume of oil production vs, say, the 1970s?

People like you have been arguing that we're going to run out of oil since the 1950s. They haven't been right yet.
You pick on people here, where they won't see/answer? And _they_ are bozos?

Get real.
It must have been fun to draw this stuff while learning at the same time. Clever idea.
Breeder sex? Who talks like this?
I understand that. My first point was that expecting every tool to work perfectly, or even well, for every person and every use case is not really reasonable.

My second point was that setting up my tools (e.g. sitting down for a weekend...) only takes a constant amount of time but provides a linear benefit based on how much work I do. This makes it a net gain in most cases. This is also more of a response to his "I'm not 15 anymore" comment rather than his expectations.
Thanks for all the replies. I wasn't actually trying to put mongodb (or nosql in general) down, there sure is a use for these technologies.
The amount of money just seems staggering (money in the IT world nowadays seems to be off the charts, re. facebook et. al.), and it probably will be hard to put it all to productive use. But it will of course also help to improve the product so no worries :)

And indeed, I do have a relational database with a column that stores json! The horrors :)

You could help me get familiar with mongodb, any good real world tutorials for it? I have played with it just a little.
Do you still have to use a google account to use chromeos?
I'm glad to see them iterating, and in exactly the way they should -- The original Chromebooks were a neat concept, but too underpowered.
Stack Exchange in general - yes, definitely, couldn't agree more, please keep it that way!

But Programmers? Programmers is and always was an exception. Seriously, almost none of the questions are answerable with specific answers. It is a pit of vague non-answerable questions that don't degrade into flamewars only because they are boring. What kind of fabric is best for covering programmers' chairs?
I've no idea why everyone only exploits Adobe's software though. For instance, pretty much all the open source PDF readers are based on a single PDF library called Poppler with a history of security vulnerabilities - exploit that and you should be able exploit all of them in one fell swoop.
> It's shit like this that makes me hate the FDA.

So, what? You'd prefer no enforcement of basic drug safety testing?

There are reasons why we have the controls we do in medical trials, other than just to provide busy work to career bureaucrats and generally make trouble for sick people. There is a process for getting patients access to investigational drugs, but you still typically need to do some paperwork in order to provide the drug to the patient.

Given this is a new use of an existing, approved drug, this should go fairly quickly.
Well - since you've still not managed to kill COBOL I'd bet on there still being a lot of Perl in ten years time :-)
I don't think leaving the few doznes of fun questions hurts. Now some of the most linked funny "threads" are gone, and we hope someone has a backup.

Apart from that, I agree - it's Q&A, not /r/funny, not a discussion forum. Though I haven't seen that many questions that aim to ignite such discussions.
Vim. It's fast, very powerful, installed on every server I ssh to, very powerful, great syntax highligting for many languages, easy on my wrists, great plugins.
I don't really see this being comparable to a moped. A moped is like a teeny tiny motorcycle - it's an exposed 1 or (at best) two seater with barely any cargo capacity, no protection from the elements, and no crash protection. This should appeal to someone who wouldn't be comfortable on an exposed two wheeler in traffic.

And considering that 80% of trips taken in cars today have a single occupant, the "seating for 5" argument probably doesn't matter to plenty of people. Obviously, it always will for people with kids and dogs to transport, but there are enough people without those encumbrances to make up a very healthy market.
If more people move into bioinformatics, I hope that the funding continues to keep up. The worst would be an abundance of willing bioinformaticians coupled with a dearth of funding (startup/grants/etc).
If I am able to watch videos that are stored on my Google Drive on a Chromebox connected to a television I would be very interested in this.
Lets see, what about factorial in constant memory? Exponentiation (a to the power of b, where they are positive integers) in logarithmic time (not using built-in exponentiation functions/syntax)? Anonymously add a constant to a number and return it (in a way that can be passed to a function like 'map' or some such)?

def Factorial(x):
output = 1
for i in xrange(x):
output *= (i + 1)
return output

def Factorial2(x):
return reduce(operator.mul, xrange(1, x + 1), 1)

I provided two versions, both with constant memory, to show how it'd look with explicit iteration and without it.

With this, I get:

>>> Factorial(200)
788657867364790503552363213932185062295135977687173263294742533244359449963403342920304284011984623904177212138919638830257642790242637105061926624952829931113462857270763317237396988943922445621451664240254033291864131227428294853277524242407573903240321257405579568660226031904170324062351700858796178922222789623703897374720000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000L

Exponentiation:

def Power(a, b):
if not b:
return 1
if b % 2:
return Power(a, b - 1) * a
x = Power(a, b/2)
return x * x

Add a constant:

lambda x: x + 7

Or, if you want to name it globally:

def TweakValue(x):
return x + 7

How do they look in Perl?
Is Chrome OS a stepping stone from Android as a 'stretched-out' OS, or more in the way of Android trying transitioning bigger screen formats, such as:
http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and...
I know they're obvious differences, but I'm focusing in the similarities...does anyone see my point? Would love to know other's opinions.
I meant half the price compared to the latest Chromebook from Samsung which is $450. They need at least a few models in the $200-$250 range, even if they have to make them "lower-end". But I think Cortex A15 will be a great match for that, unless they totally messed up the cross-platform optimization, and ChromeOS will be slower on ARM than on a similar-performance x86 chip. Plus, you'll get at least double the battery life - which is kind of necessary for a Web-only/mobility device.
Thank for the recc buddy. While I add stuff, feel free to check out my blog: smitpatel.posterous.com, twitter.com/smit1293 and my linkedin.com/in/smitkpatel. Dropping out or not is based on what happens over the summer. So far I've learnt a lot more outside school haha.
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Do you really think the medical industry gives a good god damn what you say?
iOS is arguably a big enough market share (especially in terms of apps sales) to influence developer thoughts about how mobile apps should work.

I would imagine most major app developments aim to target at least both iOS and android.
Therefor if you want to implement a feature that is allowed on android devices but not on iOS devices you won't be able to do that in a cross platform manor and are therefor likely to bin the idea altogether.
The author's follow up to this article a couple weeks later is pretty excellent. By some fluke of timing, the Thiel article was published shortly before a fantastic profile on Occupy Wall St.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2011/11/the-po...
Compiling to a virtual machine is only one step up from byte-compiling, which hardly counts. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
doesn't that call for a new stack exchange site instead like programmer-therapy.stackexchange.com
Alternatively:

- Open letter template

- Dismiss
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What is the difference between LGPL and GPL with the classpath exception?
I don't think you really now what Programmers is about ;) "What kind of fabric is best for covering programmers' chairs?" would be closed in seconds...
A marketized law and order system would not solve any of the current problems with corruption. Perhaps you have heard the term "hired gun" or "mercenary". As always, the flow of money would still allow corruption, and those with money and no scruples would influence the law to protect themselves.

For the mots part, that article was tldr, but I skipped down to find his discussion of this free market law, it's...mediation! The only enforcing mechanism for mediation I know is the backing of law. Also, I, as a matter of principle, will attempt at all costs not to pre-sign anything that required binding arbitration requiring me to give up my right to seek redress in court. It is my understanding the entity that goes through these 'pay for courts' the most form relationships with the mediators/arbitrators and have a much higher chance of winning cases.

Also, the forced mediation is a remedy suggested by the courts themselves, so I don't really think that's the market version. Many companies already attempt to require binding arbitration, which is what empirically appears to be the preferred form of 'marketized law'. So far in the real world, it appears to be heavily weighted against the rights of individuals seeking redress against wealthy corporations. Also, it is always backed up by the force of law, not just good will.

That said, there are times when I might enter into binding arbitration, but not unless I have decided it's better for me than the courts, I don't care to have the companies I do business with deciding that for me.
Maybe they're trying to focus on a single architecture...so NOW they're worried about avoiding fragmentation, jeez.
Patience and Startups: Avoiding the "spinning pivot of death"
The most common cause of "dead on arrival" is submitting a domain that is on the black list. I have no knowledge of the domain in question, so I can't comment on whether that's likely.

My only suggestions are:

* Get your content hosted on another domain, or

* email PG and ask why it's DOA.

If you do the latter I suggest you first take time to hunt out advice on getting replies to emails to busy people.

I have no particular inside knowledge, so this is the best I can offer. Good luck.
I was being sarcastic. Front page, scored +5: "Is hiring a “chief intern” a good idea?". Answerable with specific answers? Not really.

Edit: Another one, +28 votes, front page: "Is there a viable alternative to the agile philosophy?". I'm not making this up.
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I think both Chromebooks and Chromeboxes make sense for libraries, too. They don't need people to install who knows what on their PC's (although there are some tools to prevent that), and this should be a lot safer.
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The Raspberry Pi is pretty neat but good luck using it as a general purpose HTML5-display box. Way too slow for that.

I agree that the cost of Chrome devices needs to be lower, but they need to be priced closer to midrange Android tablets (~250-300$) than Raspberry Pis.
And people are stilling buying trucks that get 15mpg over Priuses that get 50mpg.

My current car gets 22-25mpg (older Subaru Forester) and it's hardly bigger than a Prius. I could cut my gas bill in half with that switch and lose almost no functionality and certainly no loss of safety.

And the way I look at it, I'd rather just not drive than drive something horribly unsafe.