skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That doesn't address the fact that a stylist cooked it on a panini grill for an hour looking the perfect brown, leading to a thicker-width burger which indeed makes their advertisements a lie.

The patties are usually undercooked as well for the photo shoots, so the meat doesn't shrink as much.
Is everything going to be done "like a boss" or only tailing log files?
>Why can't anyone follow a simple line of reasoning without resorting to fallacies?

Indeed. The conclusion C was out of scope with the premises A and B. C is wrong, but that doesn't mean A and B cannot infer useful, more modest conclusions.

What I don't understand about every one of your responses is that you seem to think false equivalence applies in only one direction.

You seem to think it's fine for OP to infer broad conceptual conclusions from a small subset of the domain, but counter-examples to the broad claims cannot be applied, according to you, because, rather bizarrely you continue to insist that the counter-examples are too specific and and don't apply because the scope is general? That doesn't even make sense.

It's quite simple. OP claims "unit testing is not enough," "you need Static Typing" and uses broad language like "static type systems." I continually insist that such conclusions are out of the scope of the data given: The fact that type-related bugs were found in a handful of relatively small Python programs translated to an idiosyncratic environment like Haskell cannot possibly infer something so broad as what the OP is claiming.

Using Java/C++/Clojure/C#/etc. vs JavaScript/Lisp/Smalltalk/Ruby to give a counter-example is clearly within the scope of the argument. If OP had claimed something like "Python shows risk of static type errors, exposed by Haskell port" and claimed something like "more care and unit-testing is needed to guard against certain types of type-related bugs" I wouldn't have a problem. But that's not what OP claimed.
Anecdotally, I seem to remember reading that HST loved the movie Dumbo, so he probably was a pretty big Disney fanboy. Regardless, the L/R phonetic collision in CJK languages as portrayed in movies probably wasn't the main reason for building and dropping the bomb.

Probably more to do with the sheer grisly nature of the Solomon Islands and Papau New Guinea campaigns, and a desire not to repeat it.
Kin wasn't an official Windows Mobile/Phone platform, though.
So wait, did they shut it down or not?
ASCII art page last updated March 2001. This was someone's labor of love and creative outlet for a long time.

http://www.geocities.com/spunk1111/kids.htm
Acxiom Corp: The 'faceless organization that knows everything about you'
> In the rest of my program, those functions would be the only way to talk to the database. There's your guarantee.
Honest question. Take these pseudo sql calls:

//Bad Person
username = "lastname'; drop table user--"

//Good Programmer
query = "select * from users where name like %[username]%";
input = {"username":"frank"};
result = execute(query,input);

//Bad Programmer
query = "select * from users where name like '%"+username+"%'";
result = execute(query, {});

vs

//Bad Person
String username = "lastname'; drop table user--"

//Good Programmer
Query q = new Query("select * from users where name like %[username]%");
Input input = new Input(username);
q.addInput(input);
Result r = q.execute();

//Bad Programmer
Query q = new Query("select * from users where name like '%"+username+"%'");
Result r = q.execute();

Could you solve this better using a static system? Right now I see no difference between the good and bad
Markus Jakobsson and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo did an interesting experiment on this -- and their conclusion? Yes, these scammers really are usually from Nigeria.

http://www.securityweek.com/are-nigerian-scams-nigeria
Seriously don't buy one. I've literally just sold mine and went back to a basic phone as the battery life was crap, the mic doesn't work properly.
That's ignoring the long history of Windows Mobile from 2002 to 2010 though.
Nobody's talking about discrimination based on whether it sounds like you're a native speaker. The important factor was the specific language you're speaking, not the fluency in it. If you speak English poorly, well, millions of other people in this country do too, so who cares. But if you're speaking Farsi, then it's perfectly reasonable to suspect that you're an Iranian citizen.
I think it was intentional. The point of the article is not to hold your hand and guide you out of the forest, but to snap her fingers and make it dissolve.

Perspective is often sudden.
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Windows Phone 7, or as I like to call it now, the Osborne I.
...your problem with Go is that it has a boolean type?
Very good point, the degree to which they cheat is important, and they took advantage of the video to emphasize that. Smart of them.
This only works for games. How do you do User Interface in C on Android?

For games, windows phone doesn't support opengl es. So you still need to rewrite some code.
I think the author is implicitly talking about academic philosophy papers.

Regarding point 8, the "bottom line" rule (http://lesswrong.com/lw/js/the_bottom_line/) is about process, not actual placement of the bottom line. It is about asking how the conclusion and evidence came about: is the conclusion derived from the evidence, or was the conclusion stated, and the evidence filled in afterwards to support it?

Sure, I will state my conclusions in the abstract of my (computer science, mostly systems) papers. But I arrived at those conclusions after designing and experimenting with the artifact I'm presenting in the paper. That my conclusion comes first in the paper is not what matters.

I assume the author does not mean to apply point 8 to engineering and scientific papers. But I want to point this out since he didn't say so.
cool app! My only suggestions would be to make the layout adaptive specifically for tablets and phones, and to speed it up, for me it was fairly slow with all the image loads. Great job though!
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Who claimed that the primary purpose of peer-reviewed academic papers was to serve as an all-inclusive, real-time, 'democratic' discussion forum?

Next up: "4chan flame comments are a terrible way to incrementally advance the state-of-the-art in a narrow academic field, presenting theorems, experimental data, and citations to closely-related work."
Why tornado instead of asyncore? Tornado seems like a heavy dependency for this type of project.
This has been pointed out already in several comments, but it can never be stressed too much -- because programmers can't negotiate!

Want to get a higher salary? Do yourself and a broader programming community a service.

Learn to negotiate!
Learn to negotiate!
Learn to negotiate!
Your Air can't run Portal 2? Which model is it? (I'm not doubting you, I'm genuinely surprised. Glad I opted to get the Retina MBP, I'd hate to lose my games.)
BancBox Debuts Its Payments Platform
Yes, C++ is the most power efficient programming language. I have been waiting for this feature.
If you are looking for 'microcontrollers <-> webservices with full restful api' then Cosm looks pretty good. Arduino, Nanode, mbed, devices running OpenWRT...

They just changed names from Pachube.

https://cosm.com/
Apps made for windows 8 will not run on wp7, even when not using the new hardware features
> That is precisely what it says

This is a very strong claim and it's false. The article doesn't say that anywhere. You interpret it that way.

I would hazard a guess that presenting your own interpretation as fact is what brought on those downvotes you complain about below.
At a job some years ago I got SMS messages from system monitoring almost continuously, around the clock. Most were spurious "this is an indicator that something might possibly go wrong" status messages, and I worked hard to smarten up the monitoring. Once I was only getting messages when something actually was going wrong, I worked hard to make the system more reliable so that I could get a good night's sleep. The more I continued down that path, the more time I had to make the system even more reliable and also add needed features.

This sort of approach is not limited to coding at all. It does require that you have some control over the issues that take up your time and energy. If your PM were to quit and you were to take up that position, I'd advise you to take an in-depth look at removing the problems that lead to frantic, urgent requests.
Pretty sure killing people on a sovereign nation's soil might fall afoul of that nation's laws...
US regains top spot for fastest supercomputer
I think that is the right answer - a dysfunctional organisation is the justification for PMs and BAs

if the film crew \ theory x idea is right then an org aisation that is becoming dysfunctional hires more PMs

I suspect that they are symptom initially and then cause.
Interesting to know, but that doesn't make it any less of a lie to show the larger patty.
Quack And Hack 2012
Very impressed with the signup process. I hooked up a Pivotal Tracker to AIM integration in about a minute. Nice job.
My own amusing anecdote:

I grew up in rural Jamaica, where there was no fast food, but I came to the capital city (Kingston) twice per month, where we would always eat at KFC. So I'd never had a burger before (KFC dominates every fast food chain in Jamaica).

When I was maybe 12 or 13, we had a class trip to Kingston, and after the outing, we went to a McDonalds.

So I'm standing in the line, and looking at the ad suspended from the ceiling. I wondered "how in the world could someone eat something so big!" I decided to order it anyway. You only live once.

Imagine my disappointment when the tiny box came back with an even tinier burger. I felt cheated, almost to the point of anger.

Anecdotes aside, this is genius marketing by McDonald. No PR-speak, no cover-up, but rather: "Are the burgers in the ad different from the store? Sure!!! Come on in, let me show you everything. See, we do A, B, and C and that gives us D!" That deflates any possible anger and makes it look like they have nothing to hide.

She deserves a raise.
Zapier's experience is great. I integrated emails that come to our help@ address to message our company HipChat so that we can respond to user inquiries ASAP. The flow of making a zap is very well thought out and they've really thought hard about the UI/UX. It took me just a minute to get signed up and integrate with my service.
As an atheist, I dislike such "spiritual bents" being forced into the concept. In no way does Atheism entail a belief* in evolution. It is merely a lack of belief in any god(s).

Also, your argument implies that every atheist views sex-change operation as necessarily bad, since they're a fundamental modification to "the way you're bred". This is certainly not true.

I find your argument uncompelling.

*Not to be confused with faith.
What I got from the article

i. Childhood issues

ii. Possible serious psychological disorder

iii. Appreciation for my enjoyment of people
There is truth in what you say, but I don't think it's the end of the story. We don't have to assume that all research is conducted by full-time students/university research assistants. Just as folks can start software businesses on five hours a week after their day-job, it should be entirely possible to make progress in research as a part-time effort, such that: you already have a salary, you already have insurance, you aren't paying tuition, and you aren't paying overhead costs to a university. You may need to travel, you may need resources and equipment, but it should be plausible to get some financial help with that on Kickstarter-like levels.

What if you don't see any interesting results in your research? That's an inherent risk of research. People giving you money should be aware of that.

What if you don't produce anything tangible to give away? Depending on your goals, that's a real possibility. People giving you money should be aware of that.

What if people don't want to give you money? People giving you money should be aware of... well, okay, that doesn't make sense. If you managed to convince people to give you money, then we're okay on that point.

An example: what tangible benefit do people get out of donating to universities? A tax write-off? I guess, but is that really the reason why people donate? What about to the Salvation Army? Or to whatever non-profit org? People donate because they want to help and support the mission. I don't see why it couldn't be the same with scientific research.
"We cooked this using a completely different process to make a more appealing image to sell you."

Again a good explanation, but it doesn't make it any less of a lie to show a larger patty.
With respect to item #1 (huge time lag), it's worth mentioning that in some fields—I'm familiar with psychology, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering, but this likely applies to others as well—many if not most labs are in some form of contact during the course of the year, whether it takes the form of planned or serendipitous meetings at conferences, email conversations, second-hand talks through mutual collaborators and similarly-minded faculty, or other channels. In these fields, it's pretty unusual to be working in a total vacuum, where your only method of communication is through academic publications.
There probably should be an article like this every time a new version of android is released. :)
Looks like they are redirecting their blog to their root website (in beta?).
Besides anecdotal evidence, how could I check the status of the service?

EDIT: It seems I wasnt clear enough... How could I check by myself if the service is down, if I depend of it...
The Vulnerabilities Market and the Future of Security
Only the new apps that use features (e.g. native support) not available on older phones will not work on older phones. Is that not how iOS and android upgrade too?
Did you click on the link?
It still is getting an update with most new features with WP7.8.
A well-known food celebrity in Jamaica told me once that most ice-cream ads actually use mashed potatoes. I didn't know enough to ask her if that was a local or international practice.
Prior to my current role I worked in institutional multifamily brokerage. One of the assets I was selling was 50 years (mid rise) and it still wasn't worth bulldozing since it is less expensive to renovate and rent is highly coorelated to price/sf.

There are no examples of what you are talking about that I can think of. There are cases where short mid-rises are bulldozed for ultra high density, but the math makes it very rare circumstances and none that I know of would be 10 or 20 year old buildings. We are talking 50 year+ buildings.
If he's reimplemented the OpenGL 1 API, then he must be retransmitting geometry every frame, because the API is not sufficiently expressive to allow for retained state of that nature. He describes glBegin and glEnd as accumulating an array to batch out, but that batch gets re-accumulated and transmitted every single time the glBegin/End block is executed, i.e. every single frame.
So basically anyone who is writing an app for WP8 will have to start with a market share of 0% and 0 units in the market.
It's a no-cost honesty play all around. Everyone knows the food in ads doesn't look like the food in the store. No one really cares. The few who do care weren't going to eat there anyway, so their opinions are wholly irrelevant.

The get the benefits of being honest with none of the cost. It's a total win.
"403 Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /article/adages/video-burger-ad/235508/ on this server.

Apache Server at adage.com Port 80"

Apparently goes for the whole site. :(
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People have often wildly conflicting views on what it means to be an introvert.

I subscribe to the definition that an introvert is someone who primarily derives validation and worth from himself, rather than external people or stimuli -- think staying late to solve a tough problem, rather than staying late to impress a boss.

I'm definitely an extrovert, despite being relatively quiet and thriving in private situations. That being said, I still love 'going out' in the broad sense; our minds thrive on novelty, and people are definitely part of that.
Does this mean you'd just toggle a BIOS setting to disable secure booting?
Of course, it's impossible to stop anonymous individuals from the Internet from fucking with someone once they're riled up, and I'm pretty sure everyone involved in this knows that. Indeed, The Oatmeal appears to be relying on this as a tactic.
Yep. And notice you got down voted for saying so. It happens to me every time. Programmers don't want to hear that in many industries (those that aren't pushing cutting edge tech) their skills are a commodity. It's just a fact, and globalization is making it worse.
Such binary arguments bother me - Things won't degenerate to complete and utter chaos unless you go and add strict rules for everything. Good developers tend to follow the style of code they're in, and over time converge on a consistent style within projects or at least modules.

If they don't respect existing style, you don't have a "lack of rules" problem. You have a lack of education problem. Do code reviews. Point out to Bob that he's making the code less by letting the style alternate.

But you're sort of touching on what I meant when you say you don't want "chaos". If you can point at a code file and say "this is chaotic and hard to read - we could improve that by converging on style X or Y.", then we could come to some agreement.

Personally, I'd rather deal with slight aberrations in style than having a flaming row and angering half my team.
So the interesting question is, why didn't Microsoft hop into the Web with both feet in the late 1990s back when it owned personal computing via Windows monopoly? Why did MSIE stall out at IE6 for so long?
Lets try to ruin lives over imaginary internet points!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayres_law
Ask HN: Does anyone know the requirements for Amazon Concierge Service?
I got an email from Amazon's Concierge service about a package that I was receiving. I then asked what the requirements were for Amazon concierge service and the sent me the following email response:

There's no exact requirements to receiving this service.

Amazon has always been customer conscious and strives to provide the customer with the best buying experience possible. The concierge team provides an extra level of service to our highly valued customers. Every day the team reviews orders placed and reaches out to customers like yourself.

Thanks again for choosing Amazon.com as your trusted place to shop.
Twitter requires no ID to create an account. The account could have been Carreon in so much as Twitter knows. Even Facebook, which requires your "real name", has no idea if you are who you say you are.
It's the same reason your Victoria's Secret's ... well, I'll just stop there.
Awesome! I wasn't aware that had become optional.
Fractured, commodity market, lots of competition, lots of dead ends (failed devices, companies)

Vs

Unified, Premium market, no hordes of java devs jumping bandwagon, less porting, less chance of backing loser.
I think the fact that bad programmers can have such a negative impact has a lot to do with it.
Legacy devices means devices from 3-4 years ago for Apple. If I buy a Windows phone today, it won't run the next major version of the OS. I'm just glad I didn't buy a Lumia 900 when my upgrade became available like I planned to.
He's got the whole analogy inverted. If roads were rapidly changing, we'd need dramatically different cars to handle the new roads.
Premailer has an API (in beta) http://premailer.dialect.ca/api
Urgh. So many answers that the real bun is shrinking due to the steam - that would make the real patty look thicker than the ad patty, when compared to the bun (the only real comparison possible), so that's clearly not the answer.

I would point to the scene where they're rolling the patty on the skillet to flatten the edges. That, combined with possibly less squishing by the press and less cooking overall would give you thicker edges in particular, making the patty look bigger in the ad. We only see the edge and overall width, after all, not the whole patty.
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Fixed link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

(Your link really doesn't lead anywhere useful. Try it.)
From BA/PM perspective here are some possible reasons (with no disrespect to programmers):

1 BA/PM generally spend most of their time dealing with politics, governance and bureaucracy.

2 BA/PM spend a lot of time trying to elicit requirements and deal with scope creep.

3 BA/PM act as a conduit between parties and stakeholders who rarely agree. They attempt to gain compromise and keep the show on the road.

4 BA/PM take some risk and responsibility for things going wrong. And need to fix these things.

5 BA/PM act a managers, managing people, strategy, finances.

There are more but you get the context. There are lots of intangibles (or BS) needed to manage a project. You need someone to deal with it.

In certain industries BA/PM with a mixture of business, technology and BA/PM skills can demand more pay.

I was a doubter before but seeing the daily issues that come out on a challenging project, these BA/PM are probably underpaid.
Implicit in your description of the different paths you and your friends have taken is an important fact: everyone's path to success is different. So is their definition of success.

Dropouts have made it. Dropouts have failed. People who stayed in school have made it. People who have stayed in school have failed.

Ultimately having conviction about what is right for you and not wavering with the startup flavor of the day sounds like it will serve you well. It may lead to a different path of success if these other opportunities involving you dropping out pan out well for those companies that you could have been a part of. But it in no way does it preclude future success or suggest that you won't have your own homerun later.
I hope they don't do a follow up video for the beef! I'd hate to know what's in it.
Given that this is my first published webapp (and I've only been coding for two months total), I'd love any feedback people have.

Thanks!
Absolutely they would. Plenty of Android devices are left in limbo waiting for the upgrade, or aren't given at all.
Here: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/?shape=smp Go to tmobile website and find the phones that are rated as the best by users and choose the top ones instead of taking the recommendation from a stranger on the internet
This is the author. Where did I say anything about "all-inclusive", "real-time" or "democratic"? The closest thing I actually said is that discussions shouldn't take years, but I then pointed out an example of a good discussion midway between "real-time" and "years" (in that case, a few weeks).
Same here. I was planning to buy a 710 just to keep up with WP. Seems pointless now.
Apart from WP8 apps won't run on it, which most will evolve into and it won't do native C/C++. Instant market fragmentation.
> "Discrimination. Racially profiled. He didn't have any business asking me what country I was from," Sabet said.

Sounds like she's trying to make it about racism to me. The only other interpretation I can come up with is that she's complaining about people of Iranian race speaking Iranian language being "racially profiled" to be Iranians, which is pretty absurd as complaints go.
Same. I've actually found that sitting on a Swedish exercise ball is better than a standing desk for me. It forces some active use of muscles and posture, but I don't get tired from it and have to take sit breaks like I do with a standing desk.

Fwiw, 5'11" 200lbs, avid cyclist, don't drive.