skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone is confused about what you are trying to do. People such as, say, Linus Torvalds do this. This works for Linus Torvalds because he is Linus Torvalds. When it's some guy on the internet, it just comes across as hostile and unconstructive. Be better.
There's also risks inherent in a more complicated system.

You can engineer a more complicated system with the goal of avoiding downtime, but this added complexity may end up with unexpected corner-cases and cause a net decrease in uptime, at least in the short term.

It's often better to concentrate on improving mean time to repair (MTTR).
Yea, advertising isn't a long term business model... tell that to Google, and most other successful advertising firms.
Some bizarre OCR technology, or special typesetting code from the print edition getting misinterpreted?
Interesting thought. A couple users may be empathetic because the actual problem is somewhat visible but I'm not sure if that is an real benefit. It is of course a negative perception when they see that youtube is up and then perceive all the down sites as being less technically competent.
5. Reconnaissance

6. Stealth

7. Autonomy

8. Cost of pilot death (human loss)

9. Reduced training time
AirBnB boss Brian Chesky on trust and accommodation booking
We have one. http://DuckDuckGo.com
>If you're showing me the article because "yea but Charles played Space Invaders, so he's lazy!". Well, an employee who would have done exactly what Charles did without playing Space invaders would have been a better person to hire...and that is my point.

Well yeah. I think you're the one missing the semantics here.

Part of the point was that Charles was working for quite a bit longer than his supervisor thinks he did. Besides the space invaders (Which was poor form, and something I would never dream of doing on an hourly wage.) he was in fact planning out the program. (See the time spent scribbling notes.) It just didn't look like it because he wasn't creating a huge fanfare surrounding the process. Alan jumped right in with some hazy OOP sketches and sort of "hacked it out by committee." as he went along.

He's lazy because he thought about the problem instead of doing the "straightforward" OOP, headache inducing four module style design favored by Alan.
Yeah, it wasn't Orwell. It just hopped into Orwell's orbit because he has the greater mass. Quotes get acquired by market leaders over time.

Why do I say it wasn't Orwell? Because https://www.google.com/search?q=everything+else+is+public+re... produces no source, just a plethora of (extremely recent) attributions. Similarly with Google Book Search. If you go back to 2003 you can see variants of the quote being attributed to David Brinkley (http://books.google.com/books?ei=5WjvT-6JKsrgqAGi9cCFBA&...). Changing wording is a tell-tale sign of misattribution, by the way, because when quotes are severed from any canonical text they become free to evolve.

Probably the OP got the misquote from goodreads.com because that's the top result Google gives for it, and the OP links to the goodreads.com entry for Orwell (though not to the quote).

There are many more and much older citations for the Northcliffe quote you mention, though the original source is apparently lost in time, or at least lost to 5 minutes of googling.

I find it interesting that the quote hopped to Orwell instead of to Rupert Murdoch. Almost by definition, there are only a few possibilities for any hop. Murdoch is the natural inheritor of the social category (press baron) but Orwell is the more natural heir to the content. But by being attributed to Orwell, the quote acquires an ethical connotation it didn't have before. Now it's of a piece with "speaking truth to power" and "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" (http://mikeswritingworkshop.blogspot.com/2010/03/comfort-aff...), which I doubt Lord Northcliffe would have endorsed as his mission.

That's probably also why "advertising" flipped to "public relations" in the phrasing. Advertising is legitimate in a newspaper while public relations is sinister. So these things undergo semantic hops as well.

This would be a good one to email to the masked detective at http://quoteinvestigator.com/about/.
You're making your point with the wrong table. That table doesn't include effective tax rates (which won't sum to 100%). You want this table:

http://taxfoundation.org/article/summary-latest-federal-indi...

Even so, using AGI is misleading because the "A" means adjustments have already been removed. The more meaningful debate is actually around total (federal + state + local) effective tax rates measured against gross income.
It seems to depend on high load, so you could be lucky!
Running a multi-region Cassandra cluster is ill advised. Cassandra (and Dynamo databases in general) are quite chatty. I think Netflix has implemented some multi-region clusters. Other companies too I'm sure. But it will certainly give you heaps of new challenges (and heaping bandwidth bills.)
Never let a good crisis go to waste for your own exposures sake.

I think the down time of social media sites and a few hours without streaming videos is totally overrated.
We are not talking about the power outage for a hospital but being unable to share your photos and your daily opinion.

It's a quite healthy self check if those endorphin producers are offline on a random occasion.
What data connectors would you want in a BI/Dashboards SaaS service?
I am the founder and CEO of AgileSense (agilesense.com) a cloud based business intelligence dashboards solution. We support CSV files, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB connectors. We are working on Google Spreadsheets and SharePoint connectors. I wanted to find out what other data sources should we have out of the box support for and hence the question.
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Japan does that, too. They have a big book doctors follow for every procedure. Their system is regulated, price-fixed, and universal.
For all that time, Apple's iOS strategy has been reducing developers to sharecroppers and selling deliberately crippled appliances instead of human-worthy tools. The average consumer is fine with that; there isn't even a majority of hackers here somewhat troubled like you were. So why would this suddenly be objectionable to them?
IP is protecting its usage (real world applications, ideally, with assessed damages), rather than the implementation. The analogy is: bulb is patented, but the patent shouldn't cover the bulb factory as well. You can pay for the damage, or shut down the factory, but you cannot force to dis-integrate the factory.

You can use patent algorithms if you have proper license, but it shouldn't forbidden various implementations from ground up. (however, you can form the argument that the implementation is dedicated to violate the patent rights, thus, should be responsible as well).

As always, software patent is a bch. Without a court trial, no one knows the exact answer.
>However, monopoly protections conflict with the need for preservation by encouraging companies to sell as much of the new drug as possible.

That is completely nonsensical economic reasoning. A monopoly reduces availability. Less competition => higher prices => lower quantity demanded.
September 28, 2005 was the FCC-mandated deadline for all interconnected VOIP providers (those that connect with the POTS, like Vonage, Comcast Digital Voice, FiOS) to provide E911 service to all customers.
Franklin didn't share in the 1962 Nobel for the simple reason that she was dead.
> the US East-1 AZ

us-east-1 is a region, containing multiple AZ's.
It compiles with you iOS XCode project (drop the source code in and it will compile).
Quake 3 source code review by Fabien Sanglard
Based on what the OP says he wants to build, I'd say things like joins, the out of the box many-to-many functionality, etc. Basically, how do you link your models together in a sane way. No need for ORM replacement. Just good SQL fundamental knowledge.

http://sql.learncodethehardway.org/book/ would be a good start.
Wouldn't less ice at the poles (= more water at the equator = higher rotational inertia) mean a slower rotation? Maybe we can get that second back.
Its... worse. We can track time so easily and so well that we decided to screw it up.
In my experience, yes.

It's not that they don't look for things with practical results. It's just that there's no incentive to continue beyond the point where you demonstrate the contribution.
How To Get Motivated On Your Side Project
Some tips for getting motivated on your side project.
If you've ever used jQuery, you've used prototypes directly. For example, with $("a").click(), "click" is a function on the jQuery object's prototype; ie, $.prototype.click . Since you're likely to have multiple jQuery objects in a script, it makes sense performance wise for all those functions to be on the prototype instead of properties of a newly created object every time you instantiate that object.
Implementation specific. It looks like it is a bug in the Linux kernel with how it adjusts the time. It is possible that Windows, OS X, and other BSDs will be affected by a similar bug, but that would be coincidental as the bug is not due to ntpd but rather how the kernel handles a request that ntpd generates.

More specifically, there is a condition in which the kernel tries to insert a leap second and, in doing so, attempts to acquire the same lock twice causing the spinlock lockup and (effectively) halting the kernel.
Why all these static site generators? Just use Varnish, it is the static site generator for any and all frameworks.
Title: "New Data: Top 1% Pay Greater Dollar Amount in Income Taxes to Federal Government than Bottom 90%"

Where does that article discuss "proportionate portion of their income", which I take to mean "percentage of income"?
Plan To Fit A Rebound Relationship
It’s nearly impossible to move on with a plan when you can only see a wrench in it. That’s probably how you’re feeling now… that your plan to get your ex back got all turned around and blew up in your face when you saw him with another girl. All the work you’ve put into yourself, all the changes you’ve managed to accomplish in order to make him happier, has gone to waste because he decided to move on.
"It was in one of the history books I was reading in the 90's and they are in a storage garage about 400miles away."

As much as I hate ereaders, there's an excellent example of why ebooks are a good thing.
Hex: Reimplementing TeX in Haskell
Novell kb: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7001865

SLE9 (kernel 2.6.5-7.325): NOT AFFECTED
SLE10-SP1 (kernel 2.6.16.54-0.2.12): NOT AFFECTED
SLE10-SP2 (kernel 2.6.16.60-0.42.54.1): NOT AFFECTED
SLE10-SP3 (kernel 2.6.16.60-0.83.2): NOT AFFECTED
SLE10-SP4 (kernel 2.6.16.60-0.97.1): NOT AFFECTED
SLE11-GA (kernel 2.6.27.54-0.2.1): VERY UNLIKELY
SLE11-SP1 (kernel 2.6.32.59-0.3.1): VERY UNLIKELY
SLE11-SP2 (kernel 3.0.31-0.9.1): VERY UNLIKELY

Update (06/26/2012): after thorough code review -> SLE9 and SLE10 not affected at all.
"knowing that if I had a serious illness our cash flow would dry up"

I will never in my life understand how Americans (myself included) can think this is, in any way possible, okay.

Or, how, if we just moved it more toward private companies having more control over our healthcare than they already do, that it'll get better. It's asinine.
6.3.2.3.8 - "A pointer to a function of one type may be converted to a pointer to a function of another type and back again; the result shall compare equal to the original pointer."

6.5.9.6 confirms that two function pointers that compare equal point to the same function.

From my careful study of the code, I have a nagging sensation that this might not quite be the end of the story as far as portability goes...
How does that follow? OS X runs an odd hybrid kernel (XNU) which is Mach and parts of BSD, but... this is a Linux kernel bug. There's an effectively zero chance of this impacting anything but Linux.
Dodging SAMs could involve a lot of Gs.
Prototypes are not a "truly broken system originally used mostly by web designers". The original idea came from a rather elegant language called Self[1], not designed for web work at all. It really is a good idea fundamentally, and, even if the JavaScript implementation is not great, it's still very useful.

[1]: http://ranger.uta.edu/~nystrom/courses/cse3302-fa10/selfPowe...

Also, people coming from C do not have any preconceptions about OO--C does not provide any OO facilities at all! They would have to change their way of thinking when transiting to any OO or functional language.

C++'s model is also not particularly strong. There is a famous quote from Alan Kay (the initial inventor of OO): "I invented the term Object-Oriented and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." I personally have not used C++ much, but there seems to be a consensus that it's too complicated (especially in regards to multiple inheritance) and too error-prone. So I think it's more than reasonable to have people coming from C++ change their way of thinking!

Whenever you switch to a sufficiently different language, you have to change your way of thinking. This is not only natural but also healthy.

Finally, implying that people using JavaScript aren't real programmers is extremely condescending.
Certs help you get the interview, they don't mean you can do the job and that's the real crux of them.

Most (not all) are pointless multiple guess waste of time and passable by anybody compitent after they have drunk a bottle of vodka, been up for 5 days straight etc etc.

Some are actualy using real good practical exams and those have some crdability though they are few and washed by the tarnshish of certs being crap since the MCSE multiple guess muppet days. I've been a situation were the MCSE guru was unable to resolve a windows problem and me as the UNIX guru solved in a minute using common sence and understanding computers. That to me highlighted why alot of certs are bad.

Now sadly certs help you get past the HR people who have no clue about IT and over the past 10-20 years grown into a egotistical power-house that controls things they have no clue upon. 20 years ago I had a job interview, I was in my late teens and was a etchnical position. HR interviewed me first and there attitude was so sucking even saying I dont see why somebody your age should be paid this amount. i then had te technical interview with the person who was the manager for the job and his contractor and blew them both away with my skills that they offered me more than I was asking for. I turned them down just becasue the HR department pissed me off that much. So Brown and Root engineering, you missed out there.

Sadly HR have grown and so have a whole generation of IT managers who don't know IT or can use word and think that is knowing IT. These sadly have no clue and will look at a CV for certs.

Bottom line if they need certs then generaly they are not a company that you want to work for and if they dont demand certs and do proper technical interviews/screening, then they are the ones you want to be working for. Anything else is extra crap/stress you will never be paid to endure.

Remember that there is only one real certification that carry's any real weight and needs to be respected and that is the certification of sane and insane. Respect them both as one bites and the other knows somebody who bites.

How to get a interview and bypass HR, now that is a certification I'd study for thesedays.
rprasad was responding to yummyfajitas https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182231, and misread the byline
My interpretation of that sentence was that, with limited-time monopoly protection, it's in the producer's interest to sell as much of the stuff as possible before the monopoly ends, after which point it won't be possible to make significant profits from the same product. I haven't yet figured out whether this makes sense.
Or several smaller sensors and fancier software.
According to Wikipedia China has "66 land-based ICBMs and 24 submarine-based JL-2 SLBMs" - compared to the US or even Russia that is hardly "gigantic".
0. No risk of losing a human, which makes it easier to decide to attack or go to war, and so you look more bad ass in the balance of power.

The increased willingness and ability to attack is a bad thing.
Big Children, Big Problems?
No Netscape Navigator?
Why will a magic camera be useless to artists?
You're correct, Lyndon and Pete Rive are Musk's cousins.

He has invested a considerable amount of money in SolarCity and oversees the board; both are indispensable as the former allowed SolarCity to scale (which was the main problem with lowering installation costs outside of material procurement) and the latter has provided the Rives guidance when they needed it.

But as Musk has said, his main role at SolarCity is showing up to the board meeting and hearing the great results.
It's the language where the idea came from originally. It's basically the Smalltalk of prototype-based OO :).

Here's a nice paper about it: http://ranger.uta.edu/~nystrom/courses/cse3302-fa10/selfPowe...
Your information is obsolete. Cassandra will only send a single copy of your updates cross-region, which will then be rereplicated within each region if necessary.
I'm happy to have another partner- in- debunking- broken- crypto here and so a little giddy at seeing the 'tzs comment, but he missed some stuff.

Grab the source code and you'll see that --- at least as regards the cryptography components of this application --- it's practically the "Hello World" example from the MSDN System.Security.Cryptography documentation.

That's not in itself a problem; lots of "hello world"-grade libraries are useful. Unfortunately, like every other low-level crypto library, the MSDN documentation does an appalling job of showing how to write a secure cryptosystem. Blame the docs, blame Microsoft, blame the developer, but this program gets a bunch of things painfully wrong.

By way of bona fides and to start this off: I'm pretty sure that using PBKDF2 to generate the key and the IV for AES-CBC is broken; it produces a deterministic repeating IV for every message encrypted under a given key. Had the default mode for AesManaged been CTR, or had the developer chosen CTR mode, this would be a devastating problem; it would mean attackers without knowing anything about the key or even the encryption method could, in seconds, discover that CTR mode with a repeating nonce had been used and decrypt the messages. Fortunately, since the .NET default is CBC, it just subtly weakens the cryptosystem instead of killing it.

Why-oh-why derive the IV from the key? An idiom in modern cryptosystems: generate a random block and tack it to the front of the message.

Do you want to entrust your secret messages to developers who get this wrong? Only if you want to do that developer a favor. It's fine if you do, but I recommend trusting your real secrets to GPG/PGP.

There are significantly worse problems with this library (at least, I think; I read it for just a few minutes). Exercises for the interested reader.
Here in the UK, I've got two main sources of tomatoes: supermarkets, or the local once-a-week farmers' market.

At the supermarket, they tend to be packaged. At the farmers' market, they're on display loose or on the vine.

I don't buy by colour: I buy by smell. No kidding -- the tomatoes on the vine bought from the speciality farm stall smell utterly different to the supermarket variety; a pungent, 'green' scent that you can pick up by sniffing the vine. The supermarket variety, even vines of tomatoes, barely smell at all when you get them out of the packaging.

And smell is a major component of the human sense of taste, conveying many of the nuances of flavour.

Is supermarket over-packaging actually an attempt to disguise the lack of aroma of foodstuffs by forcing customers to evaluate by sight rather than by the more obviously applicable sense?
He did release the source code.

On the other hand: don't trust secrets to developers who call passphrase-based encryption "absolutely uncrackable" because theirs contains the letters "A-E-S". The block cipher function this system uses has almost nothing to do with its security, which (modulo implementation errors, of which there are several) devolves to PBKDF2.
Do you have access to Varnish in your standard run-of-the-mill shared host service?
Google said to face US probe over Motorola patents
The difference between an AI-flown jet, Predator drone, ICBM, or even human-flown jet is mainly academic if they're headed in your direction and you lack the ability to defend against them.
That's certainly good news. Appreciate the correction.
Not surprising. In spite of all press that Y2K was just a silly waste of money, its events like these that makes me suspect it would have been a much bigger deal if everyone had ignored it and fixed it after things where shown to break.
Neat article, then I read the last sentence. That was a very large leap from Earth cycle to blaming global warming...

Isn't this happening because of the moon being farther away from the Earth?

source:
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=124
Replacing water with ice at the poles would mean more mass at the poles, not less, since ice is displacing water and is less dense. So he may have a plausible argument that it's the other way round, but I haven't done the calculations.
I'm familiar with the apc but would ccv run on Android?
>la·zy/ˈlāzē/
>Adjective:

>-Unwilling to work or use energy: "he was too lazy to cook".

>-Characterized by lack of effort or activity.

And now you're telling me he's lazy because he "thought about the problem", "worked for quite a bit longer than his supervisor thought" and "planned out the program". What do foresight and smarts have to do with being unwilling to work?
From discussion of this same issue in prior threads, my takeaway was

(a) it's really not at all difficult to handle leap seconds, but

(b) the POSIX standard specifically disallows them, by specifying that a day must contain exactly 86400 seconds. (Analogously, imagine if leap days occurred as normal, but a "year" by definition contained exactly 365 days.)

The existence of leap seconds means that it's not possible to simultaneously have (1) system time representing the number of seconds since the epoch, and (2) system time equal to (86400 * number_of_days_since_epoch) + seconds_elapsed_today, and all the proposed methods of dealing with the problem involve preserving (2), which seems worthless to me, and throwing away (1), which I would have thought was a better model.

edit: actual system times may be in units other than seconds, but the point remains
I didn't mean that as a commentary on our healthcare system. I mean that my income would be reduced to whatever level our long-term disability insurance provides.

Since you mentioned it, though: for people that are well-off in this country, the healthcare system works fine (more or less). That's probably a large source of the complacency. For both my wife and I, our health insurance plans are very good. They are paid 100% for us. They include a 10% co-insurance but a relatively low out of pocket cap.
Is supermarket over-packaging actually an attempt to disguise the lack of aroma of foodstuffs by forcing customers to evaluate by sight rather than by the more obviously applicable sense?

Yeap. Speaking about tomatoes for example, organic ones never look quite red, they have a yellowish look on them.