skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my use case it's fine. If the software was going to be commercial, this module would be the first to need beefing. I've toyed with re-running delayed jobs, but this setup has worked for me (Micro EC2 instance).
Sorry, I was describing the visual images I get when solving problems like this, the article is pure text.
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Doesn't it make more sense to post the security fix release? http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/6/12/ann-rails-3-2-6-has-...
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This is correct and I agree with all your statements except for the last: China's copying is not _illegal_. China is not subject to US law. US Patents prevent copying _in the US_, but this restriction doesn't apply within China. You could argue that the uninhibited copying in China is depriving Americans of rightful patent license revenue, but that's still a matter of morality and not legality.
Not that I'm aware of, but modifying the code to support SVN would be pretty easy to do. All it really needs from the VCS is the current list of branch names. If you modified the GitApi class (https://github.com/entagen/jenkins-build-per-branch/blob/mas...) to talk to SVN instead of git, everything else should work fine.

This project was presented at a user meeting tonight and one of the attendees there was planning on adding Mercurial support.
Fate of the World (http://fateoftheworld.net/) is an interesting indie strategy game. You play as a world organization and your goal in the main scenario is to prevent global warming. The problem is, as interesting as the theme is, the base game had serious issues with balance and simply understanding cause and effect, so it was difficult and not always fun (kind of like trying to solve global warming in real life! :)) I still suggest that everyone looking for an interesting take on 4x strategy games check it out.

In general board games tend to have much more varied themes and goals than video games, and often have limited direct conflict between players or none at all.

Paradox Games (www.paradoxplaza.com) are supposed to be historically accurate, if your main concern is realism. In practice they don't always achieve this goal but they do a better job at it than Civ.
>> You never use floating point operations in digital signal processing if you can get away with integers, because integer operations are so much cheaper and because the result is always more precise.

On Nvidia GPUs (the GPU in the machine), integer ops are second class citizens. The GPU architecture is optimized for floating point operations, and they do it extremely well. Using integers instead of floating point is not very advantageous. AMD GPUs are a different story however.
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This is a cause we, as a group (i.e. majority of the hacker news readership) really support --- weakening the clusterfuck of a patent system we have today. So maybe you are uncomfortable watching these dark arts deployed, and maybe you have a point, but I, for one, welcome our Karl Rovian allies.

At this point, it may be all that's left that can move the political process forward.
>> the ą sounds very similar to a

Nope, ą is more similar to 'o' than 'a', and this is seen very often in how kids write words like 'mówią' as 'mówio'

From wikipedia:

Originally ą was a nasal a but in modern times the pronunciation of this vowel has shifted to a nasal o sound. It is most commonly pronounced as /ɔw̃/, /ɔn/, /ɔm/.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%84

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> This is my second internship at Microsoft. I worked on Office last year and now I'm working on Windows Live

real talk: have you ever worked on an 'embrace, extend, extinguish'[1] feature or are rank-and-file engineers shielded from that? the only microsofties I know worked at MSR and from what I understand that is a much different environment than actual microsoft. kind of curious what it's actually like in there[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

[2] I tend toward the side of linux zealot so I'm trying to soften my tone here
Well, you'd have to go by the top n most popular songs for a given year, because otherwise you'll see an explosion over time since there were simply more albums recorded in 1980 than 1950, or in 2010 than in 1980. 2010 had a lot of shitty simplistic pop songs, but it probably had more prog-metal releases as well. Actually, if you go by all releases, pop music might have a diminishing impact, since it lacks a thriving independent scene.

Incidentally, the Beatles' influence is overstated--they usually popularized the innovations of others rather than innovating themselves. They were influential by virtue of their popularity, but they weren't as original. Pierro Scaruffi overstates his point perhaps, but has written the quintessential polemic against the myth of the Beatles: http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html
It depends upon the hardware you have. But if you have a decent machine say EC2 small instances or something like http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_vserver/vq19 it should not be an issue. We use similar setup for promptcloud and that machine has numerous other things running too, there is no noticeable load.
+1. I left for Microsoft from a failed startup, and found a home in Azure. Microsoft is a huge company, with lots of great products to work on. I have met some of the smartest people her.e Generalizing Microsoft is like generalizing a country like the United States - are you talking about rural Michigan or Brooklyn? There is definitely monoculture (meetings! lots of email!), but it's not as pervasive as some might think. Aaron we should meet up (baslam)!
My favorite is the S-Voice demonstration - very much like Apple's recent Siri enhancements.
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I'm saying a CI server is unnecessary for these branches that aren't ready to integrate with master. These are short-lived branches with 1 or 2 contributors, right? Just run the build/tests locally. There's no advantage to this overhead with branches that won't last longer than a day.
All the opinion pieces predicting its demise were written by authors who, to me, obviously did not grab the concept and strength of Bitcoin's design... They were all easily debunkable.
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> but if I say, restrict the results to "departs before 11am", it will filter out something that leaves at 11:05am.

What is wrong with that :)? Set the threshold to 12PM if the 11:05 flight is OK with you.

Hipmunk confuses me because I have to do the back and forth dance between the two legs to find the price/time optimum point. I can zero in on a solution much faster with Kayak's depart/arrive filters.
It's all good. I'm not taking it personally.
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"The report stated that Zynga’s social gaming daily active users declined by 8.2 percent to 54.2 million in May. According to Cowen analyst Doug Creutz, that's because casual gamers are moving away from the Facebook platform to play games on their smartphones and tablets."

Facebook and its desktop ecosystem are still adjusting to, and migrating to, the mobile platform.
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The takeaway ...

"The report stated that Zynga’s social gaming daily active users declined by 8.2 percent to 54.2 million in May. According to Cowen analyst Doug Creutz, that's because casual gamers are moving away from the Facebook platform to play games on their smartphones and tablets."
Microsoft is a great company if you want to spend 5-10 years and build a career at a large corporation. You'll most likely have a very narrowly defined role, but will be paid slightly better in cash. If you want to have bigger impact, and can afford to take lower pay, start a startup or join one.*

A lot of interns Microsoft hires are international students, who, limited by visa rules, cannot afford to take bigger risks.

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I actually thought the timing could have been good. When it was announced, MySpace was clearly in death-spiral mode but still a lot of bands were using it as their primary online presence. I thought Ping had at least a shot at being the place they moved to.

Obviously it didn't work out that way. My hunch is that Apple's feelings on the project were "lets throw this out there and see if it sticks". It clearly didn't, and now they'll move on. When you're making $1500 in profit a second you can experiment a little.
Will take a look. Thanks.
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And if you own a drug patent, you can continually extend the patent via a process called "evergreening". Pharmaceutical companies make minimal changes and get patent extensions. These changes can include the color or flavor of medicine. It's illegal in many other nations, but here in the US... And we wonder why we pay so much for medicine.

Patents as they work today seem to curtail progress at every turn.
For .museum, keep in mind the proposal was written in a world before good search engines, where directories still made sense. (Note that the .museum TLD is highly hierarchical, and every non-"leaf" domain is an index of its contents.) In today's search-driven world, it is, of course, entirely unnecessary.

I'd argue that a lot of the more recent TLDs (like .asia, .coop, and .tel) are far more ridiculous.
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Yes, but I expect that you have the iPads interfaced to your corporate email and to your web based systems. Those are enough for the execs and attorneys I know.

And I assume you know about virtual desktop app solutions too. You may be using those currently for remote Windows users unless you have chosen a VPN solution to extend your enterprise network directly to remote users.
As a returning Microsoft intern I will definitely endorse this article. I love this place, I was in Windows last summer and I'm in Windows Phone this summer and it's a very exciting time to be here.
We just don't listen to them anymore as they haven't stood the test of time. This was abundantly evident last weekend when I went through a stack of about 100 45s from the 60s and early 70s [...] I'd never heard of 90% of the bands

There was a Cambrian explosion of music in that period, and virtually no one ever heard of 90%, probably 99%, of the bands. Countless groups sprang up all over the place and pressed records for their local markets. People have devoted careers to tracking down the recordings of that period; one of them, Greg Shaw (whom I knew for a while) had over a million records. He put out a series of influential compilation albums of his favorites that spawned an entire genre (garage rock). Decades later, this stuff is still being unearthed and released. There are entire series of albums devoted to the 1960s proto-punk of Oregon, or Denmark, or Uruguay. It's just amazing how much there is (enough that I'm skeptical of claims that more was recorded in the 80s), and much of it -- tastes vary, of course -- remains amazingly alive and good. A lot of people would disagree that it hasn't stood the test of time; every generation produces new acts in this lineage (e.g. Black Keys), and the underground history of the music continues to be handed down through the fanbase. Its popularity ebbs and flows in a 10-year cycle or so. Right now it's on an upswing.

Edit (by way of response to the rest of this thread, not to your comment): it's foolish to identify complexity with good music. Punk/new wave was a reaction against complicated, highly produced music which used an awful lot of chords. The entire career of bands like the Stooges and the Ramones was a self-conscious mining of the opposite aesthetic. Consider the famous 2-note guitar solo in the Buzzcocks' "Boredom": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYiQ8Qsozk&t=1m19s. The rest of the band was rolling on the studio floor laughing while the guitarist played it because nobody believed it was possible to do a guitar solo like that, let alone for that long. It's as far from complicated as you can get but still a great creation. Or think of John Cale's one-note piano drone that runs through the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gsWt7ey6bo#t=23. Cale came from La Monte Young and the Fluxus movement -- highly self-aware avant garde early 60s stuff that he put into a deliberately primitive incarnation. Not saying everyone should like it, but it's as influential and artistic as anything of the last 40 years.

The only rule is that you can't predict what form great art will take. The minute somebody thinks they've figured it out (number of chords? please), the muses jump and bless the opposite.
Travis automatically does this,

http://about.travis-ci.org/docs/user/build-configuration/

Basically, it builds whichever branch you push, as long as that branch has a config. I think this is better because your config is in SCM instead of off in jenkins-land (even though it is highly travis-specific).
You know, this is one step towards creating the "next" facebook. Well done, keep it up.
No, planning on starting a company in Asia so that you don't have to accept spurious discrimination complaints that cost you 1-2 years of headcount as a fact of nature.

Something about how "men like women and women like men
and that's just the way it is" just does something to my
internal moral compass.

We shouldn't care if the Christian Coalition's "moral compass" is disturbed by the idea of men with men. And shouldn't care whether your "moral compass" is disturbed by the thought of men with women.
No, it's not. Older hardware models have missed the more taxing features of every new release of iOS.
There are lots of advantages for us.
What if the full build and test suite takes longer to run than you want to occupy your computer?

Unit tests are quick, but the full set of unit/integration/functional tests? Plus ensuring that artifacts like .war files can be successfully created, and that it runs fine on the target system rather than just on your dev laptop (which for most devs is not the same platform as they deploy to).

What if you want to show off your work-in-progress by having a job auto-deploy it to a test server so that your customers or QA can play with it before you're ready to merge to master? Sometimes a day is too long to wait to show something off. Commit and publish as a branch and you can keep working while someone else looks at it.

We have another dev code review every pull request to master to ensure code quality as well as spreading knowledge of what's happening across the team. The overhead is surprisingly low. Branches literally take about 15 seconds to make, and pull requests are no more than a minute or two unless you really go into testing instructions.
I have heard and read quite a bit about node.js. That's something I will definitely need to look into more. thanks!
Can you elaborate on why you feel your link suggest that he would not care about a person being potentially denied use of software useful to them?
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Here's a good mental test for the author:

When you're done with an article for the "Frontal Cortex" section, read it aloud to yourself and smack yourself in the head with a frozen herring for every time you use the word "we", "us" or "our" in your article. If you have a headache when you're done, burn the draft and rethink the whole thing, b/c your article obviously suffers from a "smug we" bias.
This one is different from the vulnerability reported in that thread though.
I haven't looked at your code but I encountered a similar problem on a site I was building, the scrolling was fast in every browser except firefox. Turned out that firefox doesn't dispatch scroll events as quickly as the others, but I found a function which fixed the problem:

http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/faster-scrolling-parallax-websi...

Might be irrelevant but I thought I'd drop this in, in case it was useful.
I can't speak for the grandparent, but I've encountered zero of the famous mindset here. There is a definite competitive nature, but customer needs, not business rivals, are what are pushed to even the lowest devs. I'm working on something that is pretty much an internal tool, but the level of emphasis of being able to use it for modeling the needs of real customers is quite high.
Reminds me of that great quote I heard about Rhodes Scholars:

A Rhodes Scholar: someone with a great future behind him.

The same type of lax logic can be observed in the world's infatuation with the dramatic rise of Japan in the 80s, dubbed the "Japanese Miracle". This logic can be seen, repeatedly, throughout human history, with more recent examples being Communism in the 60s, the "Asian Tigers" of the 90s, and the "New Economy" babble of pretty much every single human period. Indeed, I'm seeing the same kind of statements about China and India as the "New World Powers".

Here's the reasoning (if you want to call it that):

Look at that growth rate! If this keeps up - sooner or later they'll be stronger than America!

Sigh

Start low enough (19 year olds anyone?), and any growth will look enormous (startups; this applies to you too). If they kept at the growth rate you claim we'd end up with India and China being greater in size and scope than the entire universe.

Look everyone! This kid got into MIT at 14 years old! Extrapolate that out a few years - he'll clearly be too awesome for us mere mortals to even comprehend!

I mean really, that's honestly how people think. They never check back on said prodigy 10 years later, who has become, just as one would expect, a moderately accomplished human being (reversion to the mean). Indeed many just plain flame out and disappear from sight (a sad fact).

Woo extrapolation! It works right? Come on, I mean it's not like these systems are complex at all!

Statistics guy just shakes his head in complete disgust
Previously discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3764332
But how come you accept the claim they're "stupid"? Are you saying that SAT is not a good measure of intelligence but Kahneman's tests are?
Ah, cool. Thanks! I'll keep that in mind, and send you an email sometime. I'd like to work on some small projects, take a few more classes, learn some new things for a while before applying again. No point applying repeatedly without having added anything, heh. Thanks for the reference, though; I'll be sure to annoy you sometime this year with an email.
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Just curious, have you worked at Microsoft before? (Serious question; I'm not trying to discount your opinion either way)
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I find that the ITA iOS app from http://itasoftware.com/ (Google owned) consistently brings me the best prices and then I book direct through the airlines website.

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You should realize that even though MSFT was not the nicest company in the industry in the past, Embrace, extend and extinguish happened almost two decades ago and stuff like that does not really happen anymore (at least I cannot think of anything, but correct me if I'm wrong).
It's all good that we want to have quick response to customer complaint, but I would like to take a different angle on it. Good customer service is to have exceptional delivery to what the most important thing the customers want from you.
Piezo-electric effect in ceramics (as well as rocks) is well known. Cause and effect aren't clear in this piece I felt.
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If we are going to have a sense of humor about it:

The earthquake in question was one of the least damaging big quakes ever. My sons slept through it. It was some ungodly middle-of-the-night hour. I was really freaked out and jumped up from deep sleep to try to figure out what was going on, realized it was a quake and turned on the bedroom TV. We kept having aftershocks and I was trying to watch the News. My husband kept trying to sleep. I finally said "I don't know how you can sleep through this." He replied "I can't sleep because someone has the TV on."
I'm not sure why you need Iron Worker unless Send Grid is a problem? Most email platforms should be able to send well into the millions of emails per hour.
The patent grant puts the burden of proof on the alleged infringer, on the theory that a granted patent has been pre-vetted for all the right criteria. But when I look at patent litigation, it seems (and perhaps this is a selection bias problem) that in most cases, about 90% of the patent claims get immediately thrown out. Doesn't it seem that the presumption that the patent grant is a strong enough process to force the burden of proof onto the infringer is just a social mistake? If the burden of proof shifted to the patent holder, it would totally change patent litigation, while maintaining all the abilities we applaud about the patent system -- the ability of a patent holder to sue an infringer who stole their idea, and get compensated.
You can pay for the expenses but you still need a sponsor. It's kind of weird. You have to pass an interview with the sponsor and then they review your case and give you the files you need to get for the visa at the US embassy.
I suggest it's because it's not commonly used today for its actual definition.

People don't normally refer to themselves or people they love as "lame." Not so for "gay" or "retarded."

A modern equivalent of "lame" might be "handicapped," even though it is not as specific.
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