skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would wholeheartedly make 10-20% of my bandwidth available if there was a safe and organized way
I always wonder why in python context the three enemy brother OS should be presented in Mac, Windows, Linux order. If based on usage it should be W M L, if based "close minded ness " it should be L W M, and no other criterion I can think of would result in M W L.
Most of US foreign military aid dollars goes either to various puppet regimes or back to US military contractors.
Accepting this aid is a net loss for Israel, because too many strings attached to it.

Most Israeli citizens can't even visit US because they denied visa, so I wouldn't cry because of one US citizen who denied entry to Israel.

US frequently denied entry to Israelis who were born in Iran or similar countries, including leader of largest party in Israel - Shaul Mofaz, at the time Chief of General Staff!
No I installed it, played it for about 3 hours and proceeded to uninstall it and install diablo 1.
Thank you for making this point. A lot of the other commenters here start by stating that meat is definitely bad for you and then go on to make some point about the article based on that initial premise. It would seem that meat may in fact be quite good for humans to eat and it's really disturbing how ingrained the idea that meat is bad has been drilled into our entire society.
Yep that pretty much sums it up. I guess I am, since I'm taking time from work to write this stuff.
I would rather put the time and energy into my own startup.
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I can't understand why learning vim/emacs is in any way useful for a programmer. Surly the best text editor is the easiest to use (ie one which makes use of a keyboard + mouse)? Vim is certainly powerful (and unnecessarily complicated), but when it comes to writing out code anything will do (Sublime in my case).
I think the issue with this lies primarily in young B2B companies/products, especially ones with a large frictional cost in switching over.
Where can I read about these recent changes to Skype?

I use Skype mostly for IM, but also the occasional voice/video call, what's a better, more secure alternative?
JQVMap.com has a more pleasing projection, and doesn't munge michigan. I believe it uses Winkel tripel instead of Miller cylindrical. http://www.radicalcartography.net/?projectionref
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Is "veg%an" different than "vegan"? I thought this was a typo until you used the same spelling twice. (I'm a vegetarian.)
You claim insects are like "machines" that "mercilessly slaughter". If insects have no sentient attributes like mercy, how can they slaughter others mercilessly?

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Also: what you hate, you fear.
I don't think so. And the thing jumps around and won't center on my screen properly.
I don't mean to say that it's an easy task to turn over all the content, but places like TPB have muscles to flex and as far as I can see, if they did it then others would follow. It wouldn't surprise me at all if uTorrent or other clients scrambled to push an update for it in that event...
I'm a dedicated and long-time Emacs user but he's right.

Not everybody that learns Python is looking to become a professional programmer, just leave them the fuck alone and let them learn to code in their own way.
What do you mean by "close minded ness"? Anyway, I think ease of use for many people would be ranked M W L (cue pointless discussion based on anecdotal evidence on all sides). But I think really, you're missing the larger point; this does not matter in the slightest. The order in which operating systems are talked about is _not_ significant.
I wonder if anyone on HN has gotten this warning yet.
Remember Alex Tew's "One Million People"? Why do you think it failed?
Anyone else remember this from a few years ago? I'm just curious as to what you all think about the idea. Essentially, do you think people are willing to pay X amount of dollars to be part of something like Alex Tew's "One Million People" idea? Or are ideas like that simply of no value to the customer?
Writes still take locks. The isolation level is called Read-uncommitted for a reason.
I think that the Cochrane reviews mentioned are these two

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD009217/advice-to-reduce-the-...

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD002128/dietary-advice-for-re...
Ask HN: Is there any Twitter bot who tweets the latest HN news?
Question in the tittle.

The twitter bots I've found only tweet the hottest.
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While it is possible to beat that command with backslashes until it works, I often just give up and make it a shell script, on the grounds that usually by the time I have something that complicated I want to "watch" I ought to be checking it into source control, or at least have it on disk for the next time I want it. For database stuff like that I've had nearly a 100% hit rate of either reusing such things, or at least consulting them later for the crafting of a related command.
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gvim handles mouse input just fine (though I had to actually open gvim to double check that - my mouse doesn't get touched very often...)

With a featureless text editor, you can copy and paste for sure, but making edits to the pasted text is much more tedious.
Here's a link to the idea from a while back:
http://realbusiness.co.uk/news/alex_tew_launches_one_million...
I'm a vegetarian and I like faux meat and veggie "burgers" for the convenience. But I don't want them to look or taste too real. :)
The SQL statement:

select * from diets where name like 'veg%an'

Will match both 'vegan' and 'vegetarian'. The '%' wildcard matches any string of zero or more characters.
(another Causes engineer here) HASH partitioning could make sense if our queries were primarily filtering on e.g. user_id, but that isn't the case here. Instead we are often querying against one or both of two columns: user_id and action_id. Partitioning by timestamp allows us to ignore partitions older than the user and/or action's creation dates.
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A large part of what IT departments currently do will, eventually, be replaced by cloud-based services that are easily managed. When you hire Google Apps, a lot of your server management disappears. When you put your servers on EC2, you no longer need to manage the boxes they run on.

Things like custom app development, account management and things like that will remain.
Yes, however, I'd strongly suggest optimizing for development time in the early stages of a project. This may influence how you evaluate the pro/con sheets for a given technology.

There is a significant body of existing code and tools which assume MySQL, so I often use it for that reason. It's also not always an either/or proposition; there's usually nothing stopping you from using X for user accounts and Y for inventory tracking.
The studies are not conclusive.

Populations with low sodium intake, and other factors, have no hypertension, and low rates of death and disease from heart disease.

The randomized studies have found lower death and disease from lower sodium. So far the probability that this is just chance is about 10%. So the standard p number is not reached.

The most likely outcome is that a bigger better studies will produce significance.
http://www.socause.com

A social action network and a compilation of our achievements. Open beta.
In the interview he's talking specifically about saying "Yes" or "No" to an acting job.

If he says "Yes" to everything he'd be in a lot of terrible films. This could be a detriment to his career.

I think it's a completely different situation when you're talking about whether or not you hang out with a friend. In that case, I'd agree with you.
Vegetarians don't need to eat less meat; meat eaters need to less meat. Fake meat tries to accommodate meat eaters taste preferences.
Not sure I want to get involved, but I'm curious - given that you separated "Israeli" from "Arab" (are there not Israelis who are also Arab? Why are you mixing citizenship with ethnicity?), using the same scale, what is the percentage of violence committed against Arabs by Israelis? Don't some of those fall into the category of "terror attack"? Isn't there a power imbalance which prevents Arabs from profiling and being able to restrict what Israelis can do? If Arabs were able to profile and exclude certain classes of people, wouldn't that help stop further "countless terror attacks" against them?

If I understand your view rightly, I think you are in favor of having the Israelis out of the West Bank, as that would reduce the overall amount of attacks. Is that correct?
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Total and utter bollocks.

Millions of Chinese students have or will have done engineering and science at the degree level, that combined with the Chinese business acumen will almost certainly ensure them both designing and building the things we require in the future.

The USA will however have plenty of patent lawyers to ensure they are all sued if they try to get too clever.
Sure, makes sense. If you're happy with your deployment randomly failing.
You deleted the important part from your quote:
directed social graph (no, not Facebook, keep guessing) from which some edges have been deleted

My guess is the data is either something public or a non-user facing dataset they collected internally (like what coworkers have you bought lunch for)
In emacs, its M-x help-with-tutorial.

But, realistically, there are low-barrier editors for learning programming; no sense in complicating the initial problem.
Thanks for posting this! That's what I was looking for I guess; people who actually have concrete points why they like this. I think Facebook is doing a great job at gathering talent and that's something I would like to learn about.

I like your work definitely. Guess a lot of engineers would; I'm curious to know how much significant work you'll be doing if you apply now (jump through the hoops), get in and want to work on HipHop (as recent graduate). What are your options within Facebook; how far can you grow?
Water damage by far is the most destructive thing in a house. There is no way that ignoring it is correct.

You can fight the ants all you want, but you'll still get mold, and rot, and eventually have to replace the beams (if the water has been there longer than a few weeks then replacing the beams is almost a given). The ants are the least of your problems.
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At my company, we experimented with Hive and found it to be too slow. Once you decide that every row of data will be materialized into a java hash table instance, there are real performance limitations that follow from that representation. We decided to use HDFS and Hadoop but built our own query language called Trecul; it uses LLVM to jit compile dataflow code into native code. Picking off a single field to filter on is a single machine instruction for us.

The code is open source (albeit with rough edges) at https://github.com/akamai-tech/trecul/
> work like animals.

This is good because?
Probably the same, once you add the raided EBS volumes on top of the EC2 instance
I have a friend who's life was completely ruined by a federal criminal case before charges were ever even filed.

I'm not sure you understand the implications of "charges dropped". Sometimes that can consume 5+ years of one's life, sometimes part or all of that imprisoned. It always costs a fortune, too.

If you aren't aware of what the US is planning for Assange, you're not paying attention. This is the same government that thinks that people at the New York Times should be indicted for espionage.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-01-05/entertainment...
PPS: IP
In this vein, there's a wonderful article by Edward Purcell called "Life at Low Reynolds Number":

http://brodylab.eng.uci.edu/~jpbrody/reynolds/lowpurcell.htm...

(Purcell won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance. He also discovered the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen and authored an iconic textbook on electricity & magnetism.)
How could Google sidestep compliance with US laws? They are incorporated in the US, are they not?
State sponsored attacks are often more serious than non-state attacks. Most malware attempts to exploit victims for the financial gain of the authors--which is bad, but something individuals recover from. If someone is targeted for surveillance by a totalitarian state, it's possible that their life is in danger.

Gmail already warns users when Google suspect their accounts are compromised. All this is doing is changing a small subset of those warnings into a less-easily-ignorable warning for those users that may be targeted by state actors.
I contend that they are two separate problems. It's worth knowing the a reasonable editor anyway, and then that makes the programming easier (particularly with syntax highlighting and such).
I'm not playing fast and loose with facts. I'm talking about free speech.

If you think that "dissent in the USA == downvotes", then you've never pissed off anyone powerful before.
"MOOCs will cannibalize mass institutions"
By no means did I mean to imply anyone was living high on the hog or that NASA is rolling in money. I just don't think the solution to that problem is more money.

My personal hope is that partnership with private space companies will allow NASA to be more NASA than they can be today. If they are able to refocus into a stronger research role and not be singly responsible for a complete space infrastructure I think it should free up a bunch of funds, and while nothing can change the fact that it is by its very nature a creature of Congress, a lot of the more obvious pork opportunities will be eliminated. And should NASA be forced to abandon a project, having at least the choice of having it picked up by industry is a good thing.

This is far more likely to solve the core problems than more money, and once the problems are solved, if the whole system starts clicking along better and making better progress, then I'd be relatively happy as a tax payer to give them more money.
Don't know the author, have only moderate Ruby experience, and I loved the book.
There's value in working at a company whose primary business is what you do. I expect that programmers are treated better at $AVERAGE_SOFTWARE_COMPANY than at $AVERAGE_NOT_SOFTWARE_COMPANY.
Hm, blank ones? data URIs are how we store the drawings on the site, which are HTML5 canvas elements
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nephrologist = branch of internal medicine and pediatrics dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney.[1]

[1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrology
Hmm, well the one I'm viewing is http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/nasatv_android_flash.h... on an ICS phone with flash installed.
Ugh. I wouldn't have thought that. And to think ten years ago people were worried about cookies... The bar for privacy on the internet has gotten pretty low.

A friend of mine publicly read "How to improve your sex drive". She's in a relationship....
We're using HDFS with a periodic merger process that occasionally merges small files into larger files. Given the block size, HDFS really does want larger files, but it can tolerate a decent number of small files. The bigger problem with this approach is providing a consistent view of the dataset so that already running programs don't have the world totally change out from under them.
Check out Go (golang) - I feel it's going to be one of the strongest contenders for statically-typed web languages over the next few years.
The tasty parts of chicken have a lot of flavor, you can pretty much boil and eat drumsticks (in skin) with no seasoning whatsoever. It is white meat that is tasteless and needs a lot of postprocessing. (or mayo, mayo makes everything taste good...)
But it's not when all you are doing is clicking, using arrow keys and backspace, which is what people starting out do. I like vim and all, but you want to learn python now, vim later. Don't mix the two, all it does is add complexity before you need too.
How to avoid forking?
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You're missing the point - if a new programmer has to learn vim or emacs first, chances are they just won't learn to program. What's next? Grow a neckbeard?

It's all about reducing the number of hoops that they have to jump through to get results. Once you get up to speed, sure, learn a decent editor. But in the meantime, use gedit - it's reasonably good (eg. has auto indent and syntax highlighting), free and available for pretty much everything.

Or sign up for something like pythonanywhere.com.
Yes yes yes. Normal people want to install an app and just have it work. Which is exactly what Tim is describing the technical requirements of in terms of web apps.
If you don't think it's the fault of YC then don't write things that suggest YC "demands" that each (aka all) of their companies raise at $10m. This is a hyperbolic talk that's not grounded at all in reality and unfairly hurts YC's reputation.

Additionally, unless can read the minds of all these investors, you have no right in using the word "blindly" either. Are you saying that a huge number of otherwise really smart people are somehow being "tricked" into investing in YC companies just because of the brand?

Are you willing to give a call to all your investor friends who have YC companies in their portfolio and tell them they have just "blindly" overpaid for that company.
People are talking about how this test is biased against poor kids and how kids with no context won't understand. Does anyone here know of a middle school without microscopes? I went to a poor grade school and we had microscopes (granted they were old)
Any chance you have a NA account?
That makes sense. I think it's the white meat that's imitated.
> Running through vimtutor is not hard

But it is time you're doing something other than producing tangible output. That can cost you a student. Vimtutor can be done after you've learned to code a little.
Vim is good once you get the hang of it, for the same reason that Ctrl-P is so good in Sublime.
> you have to have something to focus on.

Focus on the words.

I read most multi-paragraph articles using Readability to strip out extraneous formatting.
I find it interesting that nobody's seems to recognize the primary problem with relying on cloud services - putting the entire business in the hands of your ISP. You can get redundant pipes, but then you're looking at the beginning of way more overhead than the cloud DB sales team wants you to know about.

At my office if the WAN pipe goes down, I know production will still be happening and almost all internal processes will be unaffected. These cloud services will probably soon replace IT for small businesses that in reality don't actually rely on software, but for major businesses where severe downtime = doom the only option is locally hosted services.

Frankly I think this along with the rest the "end of IT" bandwagon are spreading uninformed FUD... The industry will of course adapt to new technology, but IT is unique in its inability to ever be completely displaced by technology.
Clouds ruined it for me. Feeling pretty down. Video doesn't do this justice :(
One thing that turns me off of seriously pursuing a career at Facebook is PHP.

I haven't learned PHP yet (and I'm only in college), but I've heard bad things about its design, and it seems to be overshadowed by Ruby and Python in my programming news sources.

Is PHP a dying language? Even if it is, it makes sense for Facebook to continue using it instead of throwing out all their code.

But it seems like it might be a waste to spend time at Facebook using PHP if the rest of the tech and start-up world has moved on.
Binocs projecting on white cardboard is working great for me. I can also clearly see sunspots. A steady hand works if you don't have a tripod.

Warning! Never look at the sun through binoculars directly! Project the image onto white paper or cardboard.
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Here's a couple observations:

I've tried the app with a couple test users, I don't see the publish_actions permission come up. I'll assume you are correct though, but you might want to make sure that this is the case. For answering I'll assume that you are correct. Asking for only publish_actions is the way to go, I have metrics on it, but I can prove it mathematically / logically, so I don't have to use stats for it....

- publish_stream always gets asked on the extended permissions page

- publish_actions will get asked on the first page, except if you ask for publish_stream too, in which case both show up in extended permissions

- when you make a story post, you don't get to decide under which permission to do it, Facebook just check to make sure that you've the proper permissions.

- if a user has given publish_stream, then the stories are visible to the posting user in their newsfeed.

- if a user has publish_actions, then that story is NOT visible to the posting user in their newsfeed, but their friends can see it, and they can see it on their timeline.

- if you have both perms for a user, then when you make a post on behalf of that user, Facebook will make it in the style of a publish_action story, so the posting user won't see it. So to a practical effect, it is not really useful to have publish_stream if you already have publish_actions.

So, given the above observations about Facebook and applying it to your case, because you are asking for both perms then they both are on the extended permissions page. Because you have both perms, when you post a story it is going out in the publish_actions style.

If you look at the funnel, it is:

Current: sign in with FB > regular perms > extended perms > signed in.

Proposed: sign in with FB > regular perms > signed in.

The proposed solution is better because:

- it removes a step in the funnel. You probably have double digit drop off from one step to the next, so that helps dramatically with virality.

- publish_actions moves from extended to regular permissions, so you get that earlier

- you don't lose anything by not having publish_stream, because if you have publish_actions then your story posts are done like publish_actions and not publish_stream, so it is a perm that you aren't really using or need.

The con of the proposal is that publish actions requires a token, and the token expires after 60 days if the user doesn't come back. Internally I've found that stale users like that aren't that useful as a viral channel anyway. So it isn't really much of a con.
It's not about learning "in their own way," it's just about baby steps. Programmers tend to get enthusiastic and start giving enthusiastic advice, like "use Emacs!"

I learned Javascript in shitty Aptana Studio and (thanks to Zed) Python in gedit. Now I use Vim for everything.
I should have had a backup in any case, but I didn't actually know I was "using such a risky feature", to be clear. It was quite a while before I understood why my tracks in iTunes had been replaced by the Unknowns, and "iTunes moved rather than copied all my files" was not my first assumption.
If someone wants to learn Python, teach them Python. Don't teach them 'nix, gnu, bash, vimacs, git, and oh yeah Python. The big draw of programming is that you can take a computer and make it do something. Shorten the path to doing something as much as possible; anything that lengthens it is premature optimization.

They'll learn the value of those tools easily soon enough. Before someone has actually written code, all of those things are barriers, not tools, and the only reason to use them is cargo-cult-ism. Once they've written a few lines, they'll start to appreciate the value on their own.