skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If someone knows something about you, he gains power over you.

I couldn't agree more. When I graduated from high school, coming from a small town, I wanted to get a college degree. Unfortunately, I had a low self-esteem and many friends and relatives that would belittle me or my goal. I don't know if they were jealous or I was such an underachiever in high school that it was hard for them to believe I could reach my goal. This really undermined my confidence and my ability to study, leading me to drop out more than once. Finally, I stopped hanging around that town, did not tell anyone about my plans except a few people, and cut off the relationships that put me down the most. Then I went back to college and it was a breeze. I'm not totally cynical, but I believe there are a lot of people out there that will use personal information to hurt you, and it's best to minimize what you tell others until you know who you can trust.
I don't think deep learning is the starting point, for algebra; I think those who get it relatively quickly typically start from pattern recognition in applying the rules, and then the understanding grows beneath that. If that's the case, this kind of thing is fantastic. I could certainly be wrong, but either of us should start pointing at studies next...
If ICANN is unable to determine the clear winner on merits alone, the gTLD goes up for auction. What are the chances that an association of independant app developers would be able to outbid Amazon or Google anyway. Their only shot would be if ICANN decided they deserved it more and gave it to them without auction. That is a $200K gamble.
There's many ways to turn a profit.
Uh oh. After a few decades of Unix I _still_ have a poor understanding, sniff. I have in years past used sed and awk and perl -e and other such to rename as well other things. However, the regular expressions to ensure you're not including things you don't want involves a bit of effort. I'm in the Unix choir, but I still like the shiny new IDEs which save me time (especially with Java as noted elsewhere).
I keep thinking "You will be assimilated"

You're using the future tense. Sorry, but it's already happened.

and it's simultaneously a scary idea and strangely desirable.

Again, lots of precedent, and it's historical precedent.
To Americans who argue "not in my country":

* In the 1930s being Japanese in the USA was perfectly legal. After 1942 it was not.

* Prior to 1947, Americans had freedom of association. Starting in 1947, numerous people were denied employment, and some were jailed ("Hollywood Ten") because of their association. This was a campaign of both government and corporate intimidation.

* Over the past decade or so, numerous people have been denied a certain amount of freedom of movement without any sort of due process because their names generated a match on the TSC's No Fly List.

Those are three very easy examples taken just from the USA. You could generate a much longer list with a bit more effort and expanding to other countries.
There are some things IDEs do better, but these Unix tools give you more choice.

It should be pretty simple to add a hook to vim to rebuild the tags whenever you save a buffer, for example. That should take the load off your mind. The issue with IDEs I find is that this stuff is automatic and no way to turn it off, and then I find at the worst time that Visual Studio is crawling to a halt as it runs a load of complex parsing in the background on my 500k lines of C++, just when all I wanted to do was write some code.

Think of it as separation of concerns - you wouldn't write a program where all the code was in one tightly bound monolithic system. Why do so for your tools?
What is the actual chemical reaction going on here?
Let's all take a moment to be honest with each other. Accidents happen.
I disagree. It's medicre crap wrapped in a pretty wrapper.

The thing with modern TV's is that they don't need RAM upgrades, don't have any user-fillable storage built in and have external power supplies.
The "nothing to hide" argument seems to work just like the "God moves in mysterious ways" argument. It's sort of an end-of-the-road conversation-stopper. It's hard to reply to it, therefore the party who said it gets to feel like they're right.
You're outraged because you'd like to purchase a scarce resource (in this case a domain name) at less than its market value. With that sort of mindset you're gonna have a tough time.
Not to mention that some countries have radically different gun laws from the USA, and some people who support privacy don't want to be seen like those crazies over there who think everyone needs more guns.
Frighteningly well understood. The level of detail in which the electron transport chain is known is astonishing.
Same here! I'm about 6 months in and working alone, but inexperienced on the biz end. It turns out that my simple project is way more work than I realized up front. Definitely more than the last ruby on rails web app I built, and that was moderately complex. Luckily with experience in code, art, animation, and music, I can avoid major costs up front.

But the black art of game design is a little new to me (other than from playing and observing other games), and really it is the trickiest part, it's the glue that binds everything together. This could end up a lifelong obsession, and one could easily spend a lifetime tinkering to master it.

I have a similar tactic for combatting the crazy amount of work: more vegetables and long walks. I think it works...
445,313 raw and geospatial Open Datasets to play with
445,313 raw and geospatial Open Datasets to play with! I am going to go medieval with R on this datasets!
Quorn is actually a mushroom.
PeerJ a life-time author subscription model for academic publishing
If I had $185,000 sitting around I would apply for .tld.
So many possibilities...

meta.tld
or
address@domain.tld for starters
Congratulations. You represent .01% of Apple's target market. Why should they cater to your needs? You seem to be getting angry that someone is making a product which is not compelling for you.
Most parked pages make very little from search engine traffic. Very few were listed anyways. A couple domain parking solutions were trying to get around this but adding content hurts conversion rates on ads. The better names still get type in traffic and straight ads convert better on that.

I don't think search results were ever the driving source of traffic. A lot of places experimented, none really blew it away, so I can't imagine panda had much impact on the bottom line of any major players.
Understanding the process of building has zero to do with knowing how to type make, or knowing the exact command line parameters GCC needs. Confusing a few cli commands with the process of building is just as bad as believing in the big magic button.
This is how Apple users think, and this article is a prime example of the hyperbole and posturing that is Apple.
Robotic Motion Control Enables Breathtaking High-Speed Video
nslookup

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	ac
Address: 193.223.78.210

then again my upstream provider defaults to opendns.com so http://ac in the browser does not work.
Unix is an aesthetic. It's squishy. Emacs is a text editor. Editing text is very much a Unix Thing. Emacs does a lot of other crap too, most of it (email, terminal emulation, IRC...) intended to replace or augment some other core Unix Thing. Is putting all those Unix Things into a single box (that isn't unix) a Unix Thing? Probably not, but most of us forgive emacs that transgression. Don't use the crap that doesn't fit your world view, and it remains a unix tool.

Emacs predates the Lisp machines, btw. The original was written (as TECO macros) on ITS. The Lisp machines came out of the same culture and thus had their own emacsen. But GNU Emacs that we are all using today was written on Unix from day one.
I wonder what all of the pro-union people here on HN have to say about this. Unions are, in essence, a special monopoly in certain industries that entitles people to a certain wage.

In some industries (like the auto industry), a job that normally should pay a little above minimum wage is inflated to many more times this.

"Being creative is not a license to get rich off your ideas."

When copyrights and patents are finally gone, I hope I have money. Why? I will have the resources to cherry pick up-and-coming inventors that don't have the same resources as I do.
Have you ever tasted cerebrospinal fluid? The glucose is definitely there for a reason.
How To Be an Indie Game Developer:

- Make a game, release it

How To Stop Being an Indie Game Developer:

- Procrastinate, ever

- Let the marketing "take care of itself"

- Have poor version control, then "take a break"

- Finish only one game, ever

- Let someone else handle your finances and shield you from the sense of urgency you should feel as you approach the end of your runway without taking off

- Fail to realize that games are mostly a hit-based market, and plan accordingly

- Sell your one non-hit game for 99¢

- Never update your one game

Anyway, an anecdote is just useless data with a sample size of one, but I'm pretty sure I read this story plenty of times before I went and lived it myself.

Still, in my case it's kind of nice that Blizzard left my name in the Diablo 3 credits. I can pretend I spent the past year being a part of something productive!
Great point. When people alter one or two key works, it can shift the whole debate. We need to be aware of that.
Switching languages every 3 months does not sound like a way for most mortals to get a lot of concrete things done, although perhaps you will have a payoff of knowledge after several years, assuming you do not already know several languages.

Most mortals will end up with some half-baked newbie projects and a huge long list of languages they have used, apply for jobs and find that any given job is really only interested in one or max two blub languages

Indeed, academia rewards this kind of technique focus, in large part because academia is not much about truth and more about making a name with sexy stuff, connections, writing big grants, etc.
MySQL vulnerability allows attackers to bypass password verification
duplicate of:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105671

and again, discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105325
Which is exactly what .info, .biz and other new TLDs did to make cash as well. Each TLD that launched was assured something like 200-300k registrations from brands/speculators. Now, ICANN can jump on the money-printing bandwagon.
So there wasn't widespread persecution of Jews and horrible crimes against them as a people before there was a government database? As horrible as the events were, and they were truly despicable, the logic is flawed. The conclusion is eradicate government census work and we'll eradicate racial persecution.
I can confirm that this works for a programmer. I didn't even know that I function like this, before reading the article.
I will go even further, and state that it works for everything.

And it's very often better to be a "master" of several trades, than a "grand-master" of one. Of course, if you are the grand-master of a trade, things are completely different, as we all know.

I was once a medical student. But before that, I wasn't attending a high school specializing in natural sciences, but an "English Language School" (I'm from Bulgaria, Eastern Europe). So knowing English made me a better medical student. One day, I discovered the general purpose computer, and I became obsessed with that. Being good at computers, made me even more outstanding amongst my colleagues.
I learned Linux, server administration, network administration and I was a god.

I decided to switch careers (computers are so much fun), and I became a programmer. Lacking the education, I started at the lowest possible position - a Junior Visual Basic programmer in a company, close to the end of the world :).
And guess what, I was WAY better than my colleagues. I had almost no experience, but I was already a scientist. You won't believe me, but there are so many programmers out there who are not scientists. And I knew Linux, I knew networking. I was learning Python in my spare time, and I started discovering problems, so easy to solve with Python. I was already a god at that company, from day one. Not to mention that I was already learning "web". HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web servers, reverse proxies, "http accelerators", databases etc.

I was very fast to land a python web programming job after a few months of "experience". And guess what? I was already learning "NoSQL" databases in my spare time. I knew how to solve problems with CouchDB. We started implementing stuff in CouchDB. I also became obsessed with XMPP, and started using it to solve more problems. That's how I found Erlang (ejabberd).

I learned Erlang, and I was now able to solve even more interesting problems. The new job offer followed...

Now I write Erlang services (and I utilize XMPP), and I find new problems to solve with my new tools - Redis, Riak, riak_core. And I am exploring more tools. I wonder what will be the next big thing. Haskell? Ocaml? Lisp? C? (yes, I have yet to utilize the power of C). But I am certain it will follow. I can't help being myself.

During all this time (roughly 5-6 years since I program), I never really became a "grand-master", but knowing all these tools is really a new experience of its own.

The single tool that I left behind is Visual Basic (never really liked it anyway). All the others are of great use to me till now. Even Medicine. It was the best one to teach me how to deal with complex systems.
why clutter the UI with completely useless options? If someone accidentally set it, they might not even be able to see to undo it.
Seriously doubt it, but if that happens most of us will go back to Linux.
Is it just me or is this nowhere near the worst? I've seen much worse over the years, at least.
I take it from reading this and other posts that cutting my programming teeth by learning to code in gedit and the command line, sans dev tools, is a good approach then?
I look a look at the sass-vs-less link, and I really don't see the draw of either. I don't want a turing-complete language in my css. Simple variable expansion will suffice--basically just syntactic sugar. I don't want yet another game of "find the definition" buried under a hierarchy of indirection. Perhaps its a lack of imagination on my part, but I can't think of a good use of this power for the purposes of styling a document.
If it's just all symbols then computers should be better at it than us. The reason we can prove deep theorems by choosing the right path through an impossibly large combinatorial space is because we perceive structure and meaning, and we use that to guide us. We gaim an intuition for something that's "going on underneath" and so don't just perform random searches.

Explaining simple proofs to students often leaves them feeling that they've followed the steps, but don't undertand. There is more than just symbols.
This runs counter to typical tips you see when writing your resume. Maybe if you're a designer you want a hosted resume. The reasons given aren't convincing anyway.

Having a resume on a single, unified URL is just as easy to forget to update as having a resume in another format (a possible exception being resumes generated from your github profile). Arguing against pdfs because they're outmoded is just nitpicking. Editing pdf files doesn't have to be a painful experience if you maintain a .doc(x) file that you export as a pdf. And really, how does a DIY HTML resume show potential employers you love what you do more than a DIY pdf resume that is also well-formatted?

This is a strange article for A List Apart. It seems that Andrew Hoffman was grasping at straws trying to think of something to write before his deadline came up.
An algorithmically designed car mirror
I do not agree with you. See my comment (sibling to yours).
I would love to hear the story about .coop. Have you written about it anywhere or would you be willing to chat privately about it? my details are in my profile.
What I'm wondering about is how that Retina screen handles in Boot Camp Windows. I haven't seen any reviews that discuss that, and that's going to make or break things for me.
Actually, I'm not sure it is. Not for an energy related reason anyway. I'd wager the main reason the the glucose is present is due to osmolarity when the CSF is being created from the blood. Also realize that the CSF has a high turnover rate, something like 3-4 times per day, so that glucose is being replenished readily. I doubt this chip uses much glucose in comparison (plus, they've probably thought of this).
Wouldn't they put the vacuum tube inside of a slightly larger tube?
Not sure if possible, but they should have a rule where a single person can only own X domains. Justifying that you use the domain for content is tricky and can be easily bypassed. At least they should be trying, similar to the IPv4 shortage, but they don't seem to even acknowledge the problem.
I'd put $20 on there being a hack within a week to let you "go native". We'll see.
That's why information privacy is so important: those ad networks shouldn't be required to expose your browsing history to anyone (especially the government).
Sweet breads vs tiramisu? Is there a competition between fried thymus and pancreas and a cake made out of cookies and marscapone cheese?

BTW my great grandmother would recognize the blood pudding, sweet breads and tripe. She was Irish. I'm pretty sure there's a lot of great gran's who'd recognize the others.
You might have difficulty focusing (or a preference not to) but with a day job and so many other interests, you would get a lot of benefit from focusing your programming efforts, because the left over time is so limited.

Which one is the most viable way out of 'languishing'?
Being gay, while never totally legal, was not strictly enforced in 1920s/30s Germany. Several German gay films from that era exist ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoras_Box_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4dchen_in_Uniform_(1931_f... ). Not long afterwards, those people were sent to the gas chambers.
We can have a better handle on what happens inside a given cell than the complex web of cause and effect that happens between populations of different kinds of cells and their environment.

What goes on inside your gut is still more of a mystery than what goes on inside your cells.
"you hate me. And I think that's ok."

(Thanks for stepping in here and supporting the noble fight.)

The opportunity to make money in domains actually comes from the fact that not everyone thinks the same way about this. I don't think domain owners worry about this while enjoying the fruits of their business anymore than attorneys care that the much of the world thinks lawyers "suck". Or that the head of a large corporation cares that people think he is overpaid while he is living large and being waited on hand and foot and flying in private jets around the world.

If you are running a popularity contest and care what people think you will have a much harder time making money in life.
I wouldn't go that far.

The best way to learn something is through whatever method encourages you to learn.

For some that is starting from zero, others want to start at the highest level and work backwards, others start in the middle and jump around. Whatever can keep you interested.
Enyo makes leaps and bounds with each beta release. It's actually scary to think of how relevant of a JS framework Enyo will be once it is out of Beta. If you've never used Enyo you should really check it out.
If you have a legitimate interest in the name and the current owner has no defensible interest/use of the name, you can file an UDRP and generally get the name.

If somehow I was able to register "big_company.com", I'd be pretty much destined to lose it to a company with that name, unless _I_ also had that personal name or had made some use of the domain historically in a context predicated use of the name.

tldr - you cant really squat something unless it is generic
Could this be scaled up and used for weight loss?
The Evolution of the Computer Science Degree
I would love to see redis diskstore back. I haven't found a disk based LRU cache that persists to disk that is as easy as the diskstore was.
On many of the questions I gave relatively conservative answers because more aggressive Redis use is in the planning stages.

I love Redis because it has helped me replace intra-process concurrency with inter-process concurrency, which I feel is a superior model for the problems I'm trying to solve. Thank you so very much!
At that point you should just be using LESS/SASS/etc, though, for the other niceties they provide for working with colors and such.
I'd argue that the tools (if they're 'good' in itself) reflect the principles with which they have been designed. And no, I don't think that these principles are eternal. We should look at the context under which these principles have been formulated or evolved, compare it to today's context, pick out the principles that still apply and throw the rest out. As an example, building small programs to do well defined, easily testable tasks and chain them together, is certainly still a good design principle. Strings as the universal interface, however, is not in my opinion, since it just doesn't reflect how most of today's UIs are built on objects - thus we have today's disconnect between the terminal and the GUI.
Turns App Art Into Business Cards (App2Card review on PCWorld)
Writer's Block or Will-Power Block
This demonstrates the areas where you can make money online. It's not surprising that .app is the most in demand either, it's clear where the future money is in the Internet economy.
According to his biography, he would give an award every year to the employee who stood up to him the best.
Seems the anti-glare/glare issue has been turned into some kind of compromise. I don't think I'll be able to get this.
Seems to me that a post like this should be written in black text. Instead, it's written in ... gray text.
The public/private aspect is important because the question changed from "Is 12,000 cameras …" to "Is 500 cameras …"
VCARS.co.uk 25-Point plan to inspecting a used car
Slightly off topic, but even with access to the RFC you weren't likely to get that one right. Validating any email address correctly with a regex is nearly impossible (a canonical example of the horror: http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html and even that one has a limitation or 2). I think the only correct answer to that question is to suggest an alternative to a regular expression. It could be that was the answer they were looking for.
Here's my plan for the future:

- I gave up non-Mac machines as I had no interest in replacing components and fiddling with hardware, so it being non-replaceable is fine for me. Sell it on eBay as spares/repairs, someone will be able to fix it.
- Continue using the most 'general computing' laptops Apple make, which for me is the MBA. It handles all the general dev work I need to do.
- Have a couple of cheap VPS' that have more computing capacity than I need on a general basis handy. Offsite the work there.

I'm happy buying one because the way of the future is going to be almost the way of the past in my eyes. Sweet workstations that can handle the bulk of my daily digital needs, and big heavy stuff I can connect to happily that I don't need to do anything beyond pressing the shiny 'upgrade' button when I need to.
This is the right answer. Domains are too cheap, particularly in bulk.

As frustrated as some of us have gotten, on occasion, with domain squatters, it really isn't right to blame people for taking advantage of a system someone else set up.