skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? That's a seminal paper for a reason.

Firstly, it's pretty obvious to a skilled developer what aspects of that program's complexity are accidental vs. essential. Layers upon layers of indirection for no particular end is one example of accidental complexity. As is tuning assembler for a particular processor.

Understanding and constructing the appropriate usability and function of your software for your target audience on the other hand, is essentially hard - it's "product/market fit" for software.

What past silver bullets are you referring to? Brooks' point is that individual technical gains don't tackle the essential complexity at its core, whereas his "promising attacks" have mostly been validated: buy vs. build, requirements refinement & rapid prototyping, incremental development, and great designers. These advances have had way more impact than, say, the move from COBOL to Python.
Yes you must. Everyone should want to be like Elon Musk.
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OK, this is getting weird. Check out the front page:

http://www.dot.gov.in/

This is their "Department of Telecommunication"! But the site could have been slapped together by a 12 year old. It looks like an abandoned server - full of flashing "New!" images...

And down the bottom it says:

This site can be best viewed at 800x600 resolution in IE 4.0/ Netscape 3.1 or above
Copyright � 2002, Department of Telecommunications, India

Google has also blocked their custom search... looks like they are using Google without paying them so Google have cut off their access!

However, while this looks to be abandoned, the front page says that the last time it was updated was on 22nd May, 2012. Something seems very wrong with the Indian Government's IT department!

Edit: it's getting worse. Check out the contacts list:

http://www.dot.gov.in/rti/teldir.htm

They have government officials using hotmail acounts! But this isn't that old - they have Gmail accounts for officials. If that's not bad enough, the Legal Advisor for the Deputy Director General is using a Yahoo account and the actual Deputy Director General is doing the same!!!

Something is very, very wrong with the Indian Government's IT security.
The board of Apple has nothing to do with this.

Apple is a public company. So is Questcor Pharma. Apple is a very public company. They are overanalysed, over-reported, and over-bullshitted by the tech, financial and news press. Their share price organically trades down quite frequently as a result of this. Remember the "oh fuck it's not an iPhone 5 it's just an iPhone 4S" share price?

A big part of Apple's leadership focus at every level is managing expectations. Tim Cook has a major role to play in managing the expectations of people internally, of course, but also externally. And here he's done that by avoiding any hint of impropriety. No Gizmodo headlines. No peroxide CNBC gristleheads asking so-called experts "So, David, Tim Cook institutes dividends and then receives $75m himself? Are the shareholders gonna put up with that?!"

This is an excellent, excellent piece of management. And I bet it's worth nearly $75m in avoided short term down trading to Cook's stock package.
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> I got into this through the work of a former colleague of mine at Harvard, Howard Berg. Berg got his Ph.D. with [Nobel Prize winner] Norman Ramsey

Norman Ramsey is also the name of a much younger yet contemporaneous Harvard professor of Computer Science (and a very prolific Stackoverflow answerer). (He is now at Tufts) I wonder how his name affected his career.

http://www.google.com/search?q=norman+ramsey
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I wonder if the last space invader example can be extrapolated to generate any arbitrary pixel art.
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You also have to be in a culture/environment which appreciates and encourages learning from failure, rather than placing blame. See what we do at Etsy. http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems
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Is the policy still applicable if it doesn't seem to be updated?
I love the Space Invader style from this article. I'm making a 20 second animation for the game now... give it an hour and then post what I have.

Here is the current.. (ONLY WORKS ON WEBKIT) - Will add animation for other vendors once I have finished.

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Space Invader Animation CSS3 Only

http://jsfiddle.net/dd454/20/show
Or in similar veins, thinking "I wish I worked harder and earned more money so that I could afford that life saving <medical procedure> that would have gotten me out of this deathbed."
Very likely

If you know the right people and "give gifts" you'll have no trouble
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I agree. Why not stag hunt?
This series has been some of highest quality material I have seen in a long time regarding entrepreneurship. PG's writings are pretty good too.

Anyone have recommendations for other writings covering similar topic material and with a similar signal-to-noise ratio?
With food or drink you have to at least have some access to it. With an injector, you could hit someone on the street just by walking by/near them. I make my own food, but I walk by hundreds of people every day.
Is it even feasible to attempt to block ash? They can block the port, but users can set up sah on any port.

What level of monitoring would be necessary to detect a user's traffic was encrypted?
I've never seen a data visualization tool that is universally applicable, so a simple edict like "don't use scatterplots" is a bit too simple. This hexagonal plot looks cool for the problem under question but there are obvious cases where it would be unnecessarily complicated and less informative that a scatter plot. There's a reason why all of the various plot types were invented.
I bought licenses for Coda2, TextMate, and Sublime Text 2.

I haven't opened TextMate in months. ST2 I use every day on every machine - including my Windows and Linux machines at work, and my Mac at home.

Also, the Vintage plugin gives me close-enough vim commands to navigate and edit, and can be toggled with a keystroke.

I'm in heaven.

Coda2, is nice for design and live preview on the iPad is crazy cool, but the keyboard shortcuts feel very ergonomicly awkward and it doesn't seem to have the incredibly useful 'list all commands in fuzzy search' thing that TextMate and ST2 do so well.

I use Coda2 when I'm messing with CSS, but for everything else, it's ST2.
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It's certainly very cool, but is it really that useful? Or I could just be missing the bigger picture. I actually hope that's the case so I can learn something new today. But it just seems to me like making a png/gif image is much easier and more practical. I do love to see technology pushed to its limits though!

I guess one of the cooler applications of this shape making method would be the ability to transform one shape into another very smoothly with a relatively small filesize (as opposed to an animated gif).
Depends on the situation

There is:

Stag Hunt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_hunt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer%27s_dilemma is also interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_bargaining_game
To be a fan, the major criterion is that you have to like the artist. Paying comes at a later stage.
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Nice!

A month ago I remember struggling to create those triangle pointy arrows for tool tips.

I was an idiot for not using Twitter Bootstrap in that project.. :-/
Under what circumstance do you believe a scatterplot is superior to a density plot?
Hexagons do have the benefit of being isotropic, however.
You're all thinking about this as if it were a law the First World, where this would be enforced impartially. Its just a revenue generation method for whatever bureaucracy gets to pretend to enforce it, aka another excuse to demand bribes. Same principle as countries with official tax rates over 100%.
The superiority of your hexbin follows from setting the density too high for the scatter plot. With points this dense, opacity of 5 or lower is necessary to see the uneven distribution along the x axis. With appropriate opacity, the two plots are pretty similar visually. What's more, the hexbin by definition has lower resolution, since you lump data into discrete bins.

This is an example of bad plotting practice, not a bad plotting method. That said, eyeballing a plot is a weak way to analyze data this dense. That's what statistics are for.
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I think google doesn't have info about page dates prior to 2001. I think the actual date must be 1999 as linked by the parent post.

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=www.google.com&hl=en...

PS: I'm the one who should apologize.
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I hope they will continue to coexist. Competition is great. I personally prefer Flask, mostly because I built my own little framework on top of Werkzeug before and know the code quite well. Also, I'm not a huge fan of the single-file approach, but this is just my personal preference.
Venture hacks and Fred Wilson's blog both have a lot of great content, although I have no idea what the signal:noise ratio is because I mostly read the posts that make the front page of HN.
2 Gbps chips have been already demonstrated years ago. Imec from Belgium just showed a 7 Gbps chip (http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4372113/IMEC-transce...). It looks like we will have 60GHz technology in our mobile phones soon but probably it will be short range as a replacement to Bluetooth considering the high attenuation and human-blockage characteristics of 60 GHz waves. It is interesting to think of possible applications that can make use of this large bandwidth in short range. We will probably see some digital kiosks in airports to buy and download movies in a few seconds.
How big do your projects get (by LoC) in a single file in Flask? Have you ever looked into blueprints[1]?

[1] http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/blueprints/
If your data can be displayed without points overlapping, a scatterplot can display all the information, while a density plot will always display only a summary of the data. The larger your grid size, the greater the loss of information.
Which feels a bit dated now. Expressing that you agree isn't only valuable to the writer of the comment, and since the number of upvotes-downvotes isn't shown anymore the only way to express that you agree is to write an "I agree"-comment.

Yes there are advantages and drawbacks of showing the upvotes-downvotes but one drawback is that you create a need for "I agree"-comments.
I am from India and I am pretty concerned about terrorism, but I am assuming that the people/businesses who will end up following such rules would most probably be the people who aren't planning any thing nefarious.

Meanwhile, the real bad guys are going to find a way around it - and will the govt of India pay me damages if my private key ended up on piratebay because someone stole it from their servers? Nope, don't think so.

Most Indian's have been brainwashed into accepting flaws/weaknesses in (big)governance, kind of like - "its a feature, not a bug"
Thanks Shane :)
The Man Without A Face (by Diana Hekman) was inspiring, and my daughter enjoyed it as well.
I don't go to jail if I don't build a bridge. I might go to jail if I'm not aware of the law...ignorance being no excuse, and all that.

Systems like this could actually help with the "death panel" problem, which was mostly due to people listening to propaganda instead of just reading the law for themselves. At the other end of the spectrum are bills like SOPA, a case where the citizens objecting were better informed than the legislators.

Ultimately, citizens are tasked to judge the legislators, so they're involved with the process anyway. The only question is how well they'll do the job.
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Yeah. Here is the archive history for linked guidelines in the rediff article - http://wayback.archive.org/web/20060815000000*/http://www.do... Dates back to 2000 at least. So must be from 1999
Everything old is new again, at an industrial park near me a company back in the late 1970s early 1980s developed a similar device.

It used air pressure or some way of forcing medicine through the skin without needles it's called the Preci-Jet.
One of his complaints is about truncation and therefore overlapping points. It's very common when you have multiple points occupying the same space to add a 3rd dimension of color ala the hexplot or size of point... or just add "jitter", which is easy in R or SAS.

Though, as http://www.statisticalanalysisconsulting.com/scatterplots-de... points out, past 10,000 points, jitter isn't enough and alternative plots are probably best.
I'm not following. You're saying that Bitcoin's discovery is equivalent to the discovery of a new field of mathematics?
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The GPL is trying to keep code free in an environment where it's unfree by
default. You are conflating what free software is doing right now with what it
is trying to eventually accomplish - being a step towards a post-scarcity
society. Yes, you could modify code and never share back etc without copyright,
but it would at the same time be pointless to do so. Nobody, including
yourself, would gain anything from it.
I just dive right in with "So, how about those crazy Republicans!" If they're a Republican, they'll be offended and go away. If they're not, they'll talk my ear off.

The key is to offend people early so as not to waste time getting to know someone you'll hate.

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My wife is taking the plunge with cpp and I was surprised that the learncthehardway guys do not have cpp. Should she get started with that or can someone point me in a new direction? Free, excellent, and online are our constraints.
The prisoner's dilemma is very useful as a beginner/layman introduction to the game theory mindset. It has a similar role arithmetic has in preparing you to calculus/differential eqs.
You may be thinking of DMSO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide

It's a gel that easily penetrates the skin and can serve as a drug delivery system. The KGB was said to use it to administer poison to assassination victims. Its history has been plagued by controversy, which has slowed down research on its many potential medical uses.
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Ok, redid it with 5% opacity. You are correct, at that level, the density distribution in x is qualitatively visible.

http://i.imgur.com/geKbT.png

I disagree that the hexbin has lower resolution. The color dimension allows the human eye to easily differentiate regions having similar densities (e.g., 70 vs 50). The difference between deep red and orange is a lot bigger than the difference between dark blue and slightly less dark blue.

The hexbin has lower spatial resolution, it's true, but I'd argue that the spatial resolution you get in a scatterplot is illusory. It doesn't reflect the underlying probability distribution, only the particular sample.
Just FYI, the colormap you picked is terrible. There's many experiments to back this claim:

http://gvi.seas.harvard.edu/paper/evaluation-artery-visualiz...

http://www.jwave.vt.edu/~rkriz/Projects/create_color_table/c...

Colormap design is arguably as hard as visualization design. My favorite go-to place for them is http://colorbrewer2.org, but if you need to know only one thing about them, it's that varying hue continuously does not work nearly as well as you might think it does.

In addition, the fundamental reason scatterplots are bad, even with opacity, is essentially that opacity gives rise to an exponential relationship between overplotting and transparency.

There exists an alternative solution, which is to use additive blending and an adaptive linear colorscale, from zero to maximum-overdraw. Unfortunately, at present there exists no data visualization toolkits which support this.
Literacy means access to the sum total of the world's knowledge.

Funny you should use the word 'overblown' after saying something like this. Literacy, at best, gives access to the world's words, not the world's knowledge, and actually only the fraction of the words that are in the language in which one is literate. I'm not just speaking of natural languages, either. A considerable amount of the world's knowledge is expressed in the languages of mathematics and music, for which literacy in English is weak preparation. Another enormous chunk of the world's knowledge is experiential, for which any language is a weak substitute for apprenticeship (at best) or mere doing (at least).

The world's knowledge lies behind and endless chain of conceptual hurdles, and the ease with which one can jump over these hurdles while running on the legs of literacy is determined by everything else that one studies.
> But try transferring dollars electronically, or even just from one of your own accounts to another in a different bank.

In my Wells Fargo account, I can transfer to another bank's account in three clicks and about two minutes. All I had to do was set it up and prove that I own the other end. Deposits usually clear that day.
It depends on what you mean by popular.

For a quick burst of traffic, the ever popular list posts do quite well (e.g "7 reasons you should never do X", usually tied in with a current trend). They do well on social media sites, but they attract a certain type of visitor that is looking for a diversion so they don't stick around for very long.

Current event and news posts also die off quite quickly.

Long term traffic usually comes from more helpful articles, such as "how to" or "why does" style articles. Not so great with social media, but can get decent search traffic for a long time if you pick something a lot of people have trouble with.

Looking at my stats, I have articles from 2007 that still attract decent activity, and they're nearly all "how to" style tutorials. Other posts that do well have downloads (such as cheat sheets). Least popular are my "welcome to my new blog" post and a couple of "what's going on at the moment" style posts.

As a general rule, when I write a tutorial I try to pick something that will still be useful in 5 - 10 year (depending on the subject - tech has a much shorter lifespan). These tend to be much more useful and generate more comments and search traffic than less focused posts.

Hope that helps.
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Great for CO2 emissions, not so great for climate change. Several recent studies have found that methane emissions from natural gas extraction and operations make natural gas as bad for the climate as coal, at least over the next few decades. Methane drops out of the atmosphere much faster than CO2, but is also a much stronger greenhouse gas.
Bottle supports Python 3 (as does CherryPy, Pyramid, and Tornado), while Flask currently doesn't. Depending on project requirements, this may or may not be important.
Lots... imagine plotting y = f(x) for several different data series on the same axes. A density plot for all the different data series would be really crowded, whereas a scatter plot could (not necessarily would) better show the differences between the series
Werkzeug must support Python 3 before Flask can, and Armin has discussed Python 3 support here on HN before (and there's now a FAQ about it).
Not really. I mean, there's nothing centralized about dollar bills. As long as people publicly list their prices in bitcoins, everything will work out fine.

People will always need bitcoin exchanges to convert between bitcoin and other currencies, but those don't need to be storing other people bitcoins.
I can only presume that Bitcoin, to what extent it's spent on real transactions, is disproportionately favored by the type of person who would not put their money in a bank account.
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No. It's not aimless. HN is a place to share links and discuss things that hackers would find interesting. It's a carefully run community, and we try to keep in cordial and respectful, all while being entirely relevant.
>You're all thinking about this as if it were a law the First World, where this would be enforced impartially.

And I think you're overestimating the "impartiality" of the law in the First World.
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This lawsuit would make sense if one might say I will google that and go to another search engine.

But it fails since there really isn't any other search engines worth going to.
(Going off-tangent here...sorry, hacker news makes me think like this). Chris, what do you think about setting up a stats-plotting-as-a-service kind of thing? People would give you data in some acceptable format and you chart it up and send it back? I am thinking of this more as a consumer service. At work, every once in a while, I get data back from testing and then I am scrambling to use gnuplot to chart data because using charts allows me to quickly visualize patterns and communicate the result of the data to others. But, I am not an expert at this and am continually refreshing my rusty knowledge and have always thought it would be great to send data out to someone who is comfortable doing this and get it back charted from them.

Note that I am thinking small (every once in a while; small amounts of data). Something like a subscription service for a small monthly fee. Or the ability to do one time payment for one-off jobs. Things I would look for in such a service are (1) willingness to clean data a little bit (most times I get excel spreadsheets, but I always need to do some tweaking to how the data is presented) (2) support to do a NDA -- this is mostly so the company I am with doesn't get annoyed that I am sending sensitive data to a random outside service.

My needs might be small, but to me it seems like this might be a valuable service for organizations that continually handle large amounts of data.

Just a thought...
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I would start with "learn c the hard way" and when she is confortable, go for c++. c++ has some idiosyncrasies as a high level language that are better understood from a c point of view.

As a casual c programmer, I've found this "c to c++" tutorial very useful:

http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/cppcen.html

It now appears to be offline, so here is the cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
really? wow. what a surprise! I was so certain about that piece of paper giving you the correct brain cells
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I know Autopy is cross platform, and I'm pretty sure PyMouse is too. Not sure about Dogtail.
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Anonymous hack has stopped facebook access also.
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Having used it to build a bad link shortner, I suggest people give this a shot. It's a ton of fun to just edit a file in your dropbox with no setup and it's reflected online before you can refresh the page. it's definitely just a hack, for now but don't be surprised if this becomes something useful in te future

Link to what I built http://shorty.drapache.com/shorty/