skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we could prove that da Vinci wasn't thinking about art when he painted the Mona Lisa, but instead just about creating something great in a medium he loved, then would we have to remove the painting from the art museum in which it resides?

My point in calling it art is that I think it's art. And that it's a kind of art that readers here are equipped to appreciate because they are steeped in the history and practice of the medium. My hope being that people will then draw the analogy between that and kinds of art they don't have the context for. E.g., cutting-edge contemporary art.
CodeNow: Summer Training Teaching Kids To Code
Don't mean to be rude, but frankly his presentational skills were so poor I couldn't uhhhhhhhhh maintain focus.
Yes, you certainly can. At my last place of employment, I built a custom BSD (packetfilter) based router using the nice multiport gigabit intel NICs. We had static IP configuration, which meant all I had to do was put the default_router and standard interface configuration into /etc/rc.conf and, as they say, voila, internets!
I like that idea. Can you give us an idea about the results so far? Would love to see the metrics, i.e. from shifting from a personalized approach to a bot based mechanism. But the main problem I see is that you might get flooded by responses from relatively unattractive candidates as the system seems to have no picture-attractiveness evaluation before initiating the contact.
Icon sets to use with font-face
am I the only one seeing this?
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Far more recently, everything looked like Gnome 2. It was nice because I could launch an application I'd never used before and know how various elements would behave.

* Certain shortcut keys would be consistent across applications

* Other shortcuts would be customizable by hovering over a menu item and pressing the shortcut keys.

* Listboxes could be filtered by typing and a little floating textbox would show what I'd typed.

* If I was in a dark room and was using a dark theme, I (probably) wouldn't suddenly have a bright white window blinding me.

* The file selector for opening/saving files would be standard.

* I'd be able to edit things on networked locations open in Nautilus.

And so on and so forth. There were all sorts of nice little touches that everything would have just because it was a Gnome 2 application. Going back to Windows XP, it always felt like everything was competing for my attention by being different in assorted inconsistant ways.
Maybe this is a consequence of the same problem in that women are not taught to be as assertive, but why wouldn't you just say "Hey, no thanks, I want to play the game for myself. If you expect me to write an accurate review of your game I need to actually play it."
Filing a lawsuit for a lawyer is a like us portscanning someone. It's not a big deal.
Hey! I'm an Associate Partner at Cultivation Capital, one of the venture funds mentioned in the article. I run an all-night programming Meetup called Code til Dawn (http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/), next one is on Friday night if you want to come hang out and talk shop.
Does this mean we can use Netflix on Xbox without paying for Gold?
Windows Phone has a workable solution for this. Icons are shown for menus, but if you don't know what the icon means you can tap the ... at the edge of the menu bar and it pops up with some text underneath.
I just personally made this decision and here is what I think:

Quitting school is a hard decision. And I am only leaving knowing that I have the safety net of being able to go back to school in the case that things work out.

Having that safety net makes me feel a lot more comfortable. And with that net, I was able to make the choice when I realized that other people who were not biased and had no reason to comfort me believed in my idea and my team; here, those people were an accelerator. Had I not been accepted into the accelerator, I probably would have left upon completion of an MVP, seeing that I had unbiased users.

To summarize, I personally left when I felt that I could confirm with an unbiased source that I wasn't bluffing myself, that the product I'm developing can succeed and has value.
> What would be the most effective way for my company to recruit at WUSTL

As a recent (Spring 2012) graduate of the WUSTL School of Engineering, I would highly recommend that you contact the Career Center[0] for opportunities to participate in career fairs and register as an employer on CareerLink[1], WUSTL's career website. The Career Center pushes CareerLink hard with students, so if you post jobs on there, there's a good chance you'll get some bites.

I attended a career fair just this spring, and it was packed with students - there were sometimes lines up to 10 people deep just to talk with industry representatives. Don't give up so quickly on direct-to-school recruiting.

You should also look into offering summer internships for current students. IIRC, WUSTL will match whatever you pay interns, making it less of a financial burden for you, while still making it worth the student's while. This is another way to grow your "reputation" on campus.

Finally, the students may find it easier to connect with an alum - get your WUSTL grads involved in the recruiting process.

0: http://careercenter.wustl.edu/

1: http://careercenter.wustl.edu/tools/careerlink/Pages/default...
Hi all, thanks for all the feedback!

We've pushed an update to the pricing page based on your suggestions: https://www.dotcloud.com/pricing.html
Which program should I learn RoR or PHP?
I've some basic SQL and relational database management knowledge. Which program would you recommend a marketing person to learn? RoR or PHP? Or do you even have another program in mind?
Gary Vaynerchuk Predicted Airtime and Then Invested In It
I'm not denying the emotion or the words. I'm just saying they're wrong about what they hate, because what they hate isn't what they're saying.

If I say I hate you and your lying ways, the hate is real whether or not you've lied. But if you've never lied, then I'm not actually hating anything real, just my false idea of a real thing. I literally don't know what I'm talking about.

And now I think we've demonstrated why people hate philosophers.
My observations as a talk giver and viewer:

1. Less is more.
2. Be able to do the talk without slides. Index cards win.
3. ALWAYS RECORD YOUR DEMOS.
4. Don't try to be funny. Just be original.
5. Don't mention sex or race or religion, unless it's your own, and even then... don't.
6. If it's a security conference, getting drunk on stage usually helps.
7. If it's a professional security conference, don't tell the press about the zero-day you're going to announce.
8. Keep an eye on the time.
9. Break up the talk with one or two small tangents.
10. Enjoy yourself. It's your talk!
YC-Backed Submittable Makes It Easy For Publishers To Manage Submissions
I like the name and the logo. But landing page is a little bit over crowded.
And for me "App" and "Audio" in the Filter just didn't fit
to the page. This 2 points are more confusing for me.
It remembers me a little bit on 99designs and istockphoto.
IOS 6 NDA Cheatsheet
Exactly, not sure why I got the down-vote above. You can't simply edit the app name and change it after the app has passed review.
Get al3x's laptop
I'm running this same setup - same router, same firmware.

I'm using the MultiSSID functionality (so I have my home wireless network, and a heavily throttled guest network), QoS (basically what Jeff wrote about), VPN (so I can be assured of a secure connection while on the road, and have effective LAN access via TAP), as well as all the standard stuff. It tickles me a bit that I'm getting a featureset for $80 that you'd have to pay several hundred for to get it out of the box.
Ah sweet, now I can pay to have someone else to show the people I care for how much I care for them.

There's really nothing that beats a crappy looking home made card with an actual message in it. It takes less time, money, and has more impact if you make your own cards. Instead of driving the store, clustering around everyone trying to find 'the perfect card', and paying money for an overpriced piece of paper, why not take an 8.5x11 sheet of paper, print/draw something on it, and write a nice message in it?

We outsource the things that should matter most, short of spending time with our loved ones. But when we can outsource that, I'm sure many people will.
That post was significantly more informative than the original -- thanks!
Product-Burndown-Charts and Sprint-Burndown-Charts in SCRUM Projects
I'd also suggest that you add some margin to your bullets - as it stands now the bullet is further left than the text, and then the text lines up with adjoining paragraphs. I think it would look better if the _bullets_ lined up with the other paragraphs instead.
Why all the laptops in an Apple Store are opened at precisely 70 degrees
".. if nationalism and religion were taken off the table, we'd revert to tribalism within that framework."

It's all tribalism really. Just on a larger scale. We never evolved beyond any of it.

I think dr42 was talking about moving to a radically different perception of the world. Not just bigger or smaller..
Starting with Ford for line workers in production, we know that long hours are not equal to quality. They know it in these law firms, software companies, basically nearly everywhere (people are not stupid).

So why this still done like that? Because it easier to answer the question: "How many hours have you been working this week?" than "What value have you brought to the company this week?"

We substitute an easy question to a harder one and we feel we answered the hard one.

Edit: Fixed grammar/typos
Sex Advice with Nita. Not really for Americans (and only for grown ups)
The problem is this: What if I don't have an account, but somebody still happens to tag my face with my name, for whatever reason?

I know that this is mostly about facebook users, but seeing how much facebook spam I get trying to incite me to join in, I could totally see them go this route - Encourage people to tag friends who aren't on facebook and thus give those friends no other choice but to claim their identity.
The STL startup/tech scene is getting better every month. Join us!

http://startlouis.com

http://stljs.org
Ditto; I always saw her around and accidentally assumed the same. She was always doing a lot to help.
> While other departments are seeing incredible growth and development, the school of engineering is relatively quiet. It simply hasn't been a priority when huge grants for health and biomedical sciences are ripe for the picking.

It also doesn't help that the Department of Biomedical Engineering has been growing like crazy, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels - the Spring 2012 (undergraduate) graduating class sizes for each department in the School of Engineering were as follows:

Biomedical Engineering: 100
Computer Science & Engineering: 35
Electrical Engineering: 18
Systems Science & Engineering: 23
Chemical Engineering: 32
Civil Engineering: 3
Chemical Engineering: 56
Information Management: 3

Interest in biomedical (and, to a lesser degree, chemical) engineering simply outstrips interest in any other engineering discipline (and interest is still growing - the graduating class size of 2016 will probably be at least 150 for biomedical), and the School of Engineering doesn't want to fix something that isn't broken. There's nothing wrong with biomedical engineering, but if other departments, such as CS or EE, want to grow, they'll have to take the initiative on their own, because the School of Engineering as a whole is happy with the way things are trending right now.
I think your reasoning suggests that brick-and-mortar stores will never be fully obsolete.

As a manufacturer, I don't see how shutting down my online presence would benefit me. Simplified, there are three types of customers. The first shop in traditional stores, find what they like, and purchase it. The second browse and purchase online, without ever seeing the physical merchandise. The third browse traditional "showrooms," then proceed to buy from a cheaper online retailer.

With an online and traditional presence, manufacturers capture all three types of customers. If you limit yourself to traditional stores, you force the third type of customer to purchase in-store, because there is no cheaper online alternative. But those customers would buy online anyway, so you gain nothing. And you've completely lost the second type of customer, who only shops online. A simplified model, perhaps, but the principle stands.

I'm honestly not too worried. I like going to the mall. My mother practically lives at Target and Wal-Mart. Many of us like the physical act of shopping, enough to sustain physical retail outlets. Profits may shrink, but that's the free market. You've got to keep innovating to stay in business.
Alan Turing: why the tech world's hero should be a household name
Unfortunately HN wasn't helpful this time. That's why I'm trying other communication channels.

webapps.SX: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/28118/10671

r/webdev: http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/v8kvw/

We'll see how it will go. Well, maybe Juvia is really the only such solution so far. That would be quite sad.
I've seen SEVERAL times that "most programmers can't solve fizzbuzz." I did this after just a few months of learning python, on paper no less (Ok, i had one if/elif statement in the wrong spot. a quick run of the script in the command line showed me it didn't work how I thought it should and I fixed it).

But are there any DATA that corroborate this largely anecdotal statement? I figure, it has to be much less prevalent than these statements. (Or if it isn't, I better get my ass in gear and really learn to program so I can make the big bucks).
[Pocket] A Content Cubbyhole for Avid Web Surfers
You never want to "cram" your slides, but things like numbers and graphs are a good way to reinforce a key point and they go away remembering a percentage or big figure. I may not remember the contents of all your slides, but i'll remember the one that said 80% of software development is maintenance, or something to that effect.
Not eating lunch with your team every day? You're missing out.
Just open sourced my 10k LOC PHP & MySQL invoicing app
BubbleColor
C#? (http://xamarin.com/monotouch)
The other incentive, of course, is that most of them earn revenue by the hour.
Two wrongs don't make a right. The fact that "a".hash == "\0a" hash is an issue with the hash function. nothing else. Seeding the hash function so it is unique for each process does not solve the issue.
I like it a lot, but cannot figure out how to write the concluding remark to an agenda point. Does the meeting need to be over for this?
That also brings down the sandbox, which is nice to have when you run apps from developers you wouldn't necessarily trust. Too bad there's no way to side-load unsigned (or signed by a custom CA) apps while still maintaining the sandbox restrictions.
"Why not fork MySQL Cluster to add the SQL-to-C++ code generation (and lock-free storage engine)?"

:)
It is a little more complicated than that.
In the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, they have a tree ring from what might be the oldest tree ever found. Next to that gigantic slice of wood on the wall is...a giant plaque. The plaque describes in detail how measuring the life of a tree from tree rings works, as well as the history behind that particular tree and when it was cut down.

In fact, as I recall, there was such a plaque next to almost every exhibit in the entire museum.
In the US, we do a screening for risk factors for reactions, and review information needed to give informed consent.
Rails Startup Benchmarks: Retina MBP vs. Core 2 Duo MBP
I wish people who have written HTML for years would play around with this if for no other reason then to learn what all the new semantics of HTML5 are.
Well surely any two files in any file system shared a common base directory don't they? Either the root directory, or one further down the tree.
Not only naive users, it makes it pretty hard to get a feeling for what's acceptable even for seasoned developers with good intentions. (Volume button for camera, anyone?)
I'm the main developer of VimOrganizer. I'm sure other people have had this reaction, but it mostly results from not fully understanding what Org-mode is and how it works. Org-mode is many things to many people, with a feature set that's deep and wide, and even many Org-mode users don't know everything it does, barely scratch the surface.

Regarding the issue of running an Emacs server alongside VimOrganizer: Would you rather a tiny Vim project try to duplicate all of Orgmode's functionality when (1) only a small percentage of Org-mode directly involves editing text, (2) many of the major Org-mode features are basically batch operations that export and/or evaluate an entire file at a time, and (3) Emacs is lightweight and functions well as a server for Org-mode batch operations, and (4) Vim's stated philosophy is to co-exist and interoperate with other apps in the Unix toolchain?

It's a matter of not reinventing the wheel. Org-mode is a pretty large project, probably approaching 100k lines of code. It's been around many years, heavily developed the entire time and it still presents a quickly moving target, new features and bugfixes added almost daily. What sense does it make to try to duplicate tens of thousands of lines of non-editing related code in a fledgling Vim project? Why not make use of Emacs/Orgmode as a server, a function it does well, and leverage the entire Orgmode project?

Although most heavy VimOrganizer uses would want to keep an Emacs server running, they don't ever need to edit a file in Emacs. At most they need to do some minor configuration in the .emacs config file, but that can be done by editing the .emacs file in Vim.
php is a language and ror is a framework.

I myself have in mind python(language). Check out http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ (text book) or http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs101/CourseRev/apr20... (video tutorials) or both.
Then learn django(framework).
I'm not running Ubuntu inside a VM, I'm running Ubuntu currently as dual boot. Just keeping a ~10GB OS X partition for eventually firmware updates. I want to do the same with the new MBA (if I buy one).
"Painting windows on a windowless building" SinglePlatform Founder
What exactly is wrong with that? In Rails, you have app/controllers and app/views. UI code and server code sharing the same base directory.
I'm familiar with both, but it's a little difficult to make a recommendation with so little context. Why do you want to learn one of these languages? Is there a specific reason / project or do you just want to "learn to code"?
I am not getting that message.
As I understand it, even if you don't change the actual binary, changing the meta info still requires another review.
"Hacking" Strikes Fear in the Heart of Texas Bureau of Prisons
The most honest answer is that we've got a ton of Linux servers with well understood and managed configurations, and then these brahmin storage servers that fall outside of that discipline because they have very different update cycles and toolchains. It would be more convenient for us if we could extend our internal update cycle and maintenance to the storage system as well.

There are a number of the usual installation and adoption issues with FreeBSD and Illumos / OpenIndiana. I love the FreeBSD community, and using dtrace again is a joy. I just don't like having to use them for things I already have solved in Linux or can quickly find documented on either Ubuntu or Arch's wikis.

It's nice after the OS wars to be able to say "well, it's easier for us to use linux because it has a broad user base." :)
It is not a subsidy - it is part of the Constitution... you cannot put a tax on items that are coming from another state.

As well, it wouldn't matter, because the price differences on most items would still be a lot more than the sales tax. No one would go online if the only difference was 6% or 8% sales tax. We are talking 20-30% differences in some cases.
The response is irrelevant. The point is that the PR reps made her feel like an outsider in her industry.
Recovery on the system restart is going at the "sequential scan" speed of hard disk.
As someone who has had his ability to work saved due to anecdotal evidence, I could not disagree more with the OP. Well, sure, if someone has anecdotal evidence that the theory of gravity is wrong, or that 1 + 1 = 4, by all means downvote them, but not all scientific evidence is on such solid ground.

E.g., I've been prescribed medication and ended up with a side effect not listed on the drug literature. The doctor told me that the side-effect must be psychosomatic. Later scientific evidence revealed that about 50% of patients given the drug experienced the same side effect, but that it had been previously underreported. Who's to say that researchers would have even bothered to research the side effects more thoroughly if they hadn't paid attention to the fact that the anecdotal evidence contradicted the scientific evidence.

Or remember when the scientific evidence seemed to indicate that a high carbohydrate, low fat diet was the healthiest choice? Should I have ignored my anecdotal evidence that that diet made me feel like crap?

Science sometimes gets itself into harmful orthodoxies. See Thomas Kuhn for more info on this if you are unfamiliar. One example of this is Behaviorism in Psychology. In this field, it was scientific orthodoxy for many decades that Behaviorism was scientific and Cognitive Psychology was not because Behaviorism was based on only quantifiable, measurable data. It took Chomsky to point out the idiocy of this orthodoxy, thereby breaking the orthodoxy, allowing science to progress.

Re the anecdotal evidence that saved my career, I've read here that there is no scientific evidence that ergonomic keyboards can help prevent or ameleroate RSI. I am 100% sure, however, that the Kinesis Contour keyboard saved my ability to type. All I have to do to know this for sure is listen to my body. Furthermore, I personally know about a dozen programmers who feel similiarly. I'm sure that someone will pipe in that this is almost certainly the placebo effect. If that's the case, then Kinesis makes the world's very best placebo, as placebo-like things have done precious little for me in any other area. In any case, even if it were the placebo effect, what does it hurt anyone to ignore the putative scientific evidence and try out a Kinesis keyboard for themselves to see if it provides them with relief?

The idea that posts should be downvoted for recommending such ergonomic keyboards is insane.
The quality of this leaves a lot to be desired* and you would be better off with using a 1.4 project from somewhere like https://github.com/xenith/django-base-template.

*Hardcoded ubuntu user and hardcoded py26 and py26 paths in different files:
https://github.com/prototypemagic/django-projectbuilder/blob...
https://github.com/prototypemagic/django-projectbuilder/blob...
Rafting New Zealand serve up a white-water knuckle ride on Tongariro River
Please see javadoc for String.hashCode:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.ht...

It's true that relying on hashCode to remain stable across arbitrary objects is brittle, but this is not the case for String.
A kickstarter project to teach kids and parents about sustainability - iPad app
Fujitsu Develops iPhone-Connected Ring to Monitor Health Information
this is neat! But it seems like they're doing huge calculations for that.

p is a prime number because it needs to be a cyclic group! It all makes sense :D