skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how much did you pay for your Mac when compared with a PC with the same technical specifications?

Plus, last time I checked you need to pay to be able to have proper access to all developer information, https://developer.apple.com/programs/mac/.

Please read properly what I wrote, "paying indirectly for them", do you know what _indirectly_ means?
Good riddance. There is nothing essential to the role managers fill that couldn't be done by someone without authority over you. That doesn't necessarily mean removing all managers, it just means not making them your boss.

Valve is proof that a flat structure can not just work, but lead to massive financial, critical, and popular success. It's also probably one of the only companies that I would be fulfilled working at that wasn't my own. There's no one to hold you back. I think the startup-minded hackers on this site can relate to that.
SAS spurns IBM and other acquirers to stay independent and private
The cool thing is that, as a BBC game, it well sell only slightly fewer copies today than it would have in 1988. You've lost nothing by waiting :)

Game looks great, btw!
Discussion on r/india http://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/nmnzf/how_accurately_...
Clojure to Objective-C (built with Haskell)
Well, there's no point in getting out of shape about it, and I've got lots of other more important things to do than trying to convince you of this, but it seems to me that learning 6502 is already pretty useless as compared with learning something like ARM7 or StrongARM. Even there the assemblers still use TLAs for the operations. I honestly feel that it just seems right to maintain the contextual relevance and, in some sense, the culture of assembler.

If you want readability then by all means use Python or Go or Ruby or something like that. I don't know anyone who writes in assembly who doesn't use the TLAs (or similarly concise designations) for the operations, no matter what processor they're using. In feels to me like there is something natural about it.

But even beside that, I personally find that abbreviations make it easier to think in whatever subject I'm working on. When I write in assembler I think "MOV" - I don't think "move". Jargon in any field is there to make communication faster and more effective, and linguistics says that common expressions gets shorter over time.

So I think you're trying to improve the wrong thing, and while to some it may seem obvious that spelling out operations more verbosely and making them more obvious will help people learn, I'm not convinced. Sometimes concise, precise and semi-opaque terms can actually help learners.
British Airways flies into privacy storm over Google identity checks
Probably as an intellectual exercise.
> It will be much better.

I'm from Kerala - things may be slightly better here than say Bihar but not by a whole lot.
Love it! Please hook this up with SoundCloud.
How about some fact checking prior to launching into an enflamed debate?
This seems a rather unlikely event, and the source provided doesn't look like a tremendously trustworthy news source. Where's the Google PR statement?
While this is interesting for those who still have very good teeth, I'm still hoping for a scientific method to provoke the growth of a third set of teeth: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=457467

I'm sure everyone would rather have their own rather than implants or even caps.
Well, sometimes what matters is not how good you are on an absolute scale, rather how better are you than the rest. Also, I agree courteous is more of a subjective point. Hence I did not expand on it much.
Vertical integration.
As a humorous aside, from Futurama the robot Bender allegedly runs on a 6502.
I must try out the NYC branch sometime!
Amateur "hackers" and DOT electronic signs in Alaska
5 second test for a landing page
Incontinence Products are used for Patients Hygiene
This incontinence device will keep the patient dry from all the oozing and make him or her feel fresh. For more details about incontinence device, male catheter, external catheter please visit at Urinedevice.com
Microsoft High Performance Lagless Touch Screen
Toronto's a hotbed of tech, but you won't find many of the companies listed on an exchange.

I find the focus on public companies to be misguided. Why not look at job creation instead?
Very well said. They customers they serve are retained and expanded. The idea of restaurants in India is very different from the ones in US or rest of the world. Hence, there may be quite a disparity in the idealogy and system of business.
If You See Yourself Here, Skip the Startup Dream
On Github, here's an article by Ryan Tomayko, the director of engineering: http://tomayko.com/writings/management-style
This debate will not be productive. It is clear that pederastic relationships are not the same as modern day homosexual relationships. You can shroud the concept all you want by applying an overdose of cultural relativism, but that doesn't make them the same. For example even though what adulthood is may not be clear to you, evidently it was clear to the Greeks since relationships with boys were OK but relationships between adult men were not. I believe the Greeks themselves looked at the body of the boy: if the boy was getting bodily hair, then he was no longer fit for a socially acceptable pederastic relationship. Of course there is a gray line. Every concept has grey lines. That doesn't mean that the concept (like "adulthood") doesn't exist.

Gender is actually a good example to illustrate my point. You claim that gender is based on cognitive processes, and I agree. That doesn't mean that there are not extremely strong biological influences on gender. You focus only on outliers, and ignore the bulk evidence. Gender is clearly strongly bimodally distributed and highly correlated with biological factors.
IMO there is a difference between prejudice and racist/homophobe.
Scranton, PA to pay municipal workers (cops, fire) Federal minimum wage
Ok. So consider my experience.....

When I was a kid and a teenager, and a young adult, I never found other men attractive personally. I suppose I could recognize attractive people to some extent but never felt sexually attracted.

Then I read Plutarch's biographies of Spartan kings and he talks a lot about the role of pederasty in the political structure of Spartan society, and also talks about wifeswapping as a part of the political structure. And I also read works talking about prevalence of homosexual activity in many other cultures. And so I asked myself "if I was in such a culture would I be attracted to other men?" and it seemed the logical answer would be "yes."

Keep in mind this was already in my thirties. I was already married, had 2 kids at the time (now have three), and all the sudden on realizing this, I started finding men sexually attractive too. I am not about to cheat on my wife with another man. But I will admit my attractions.

So what does this mean? Was I bisexual all along and just had to be convinced by Plutarch? Or was there a cognitive shift that occurred from contemplating other places and times? How can you differentiate?

Certainly it wasn't due to lack of exposure to gays. I had a gay roommate in college, a gay business partner for a while, etc....

My experience is a big part of the reason I am not convinced sexual orientation is in-born. I think it is very complicated and is relatively plastic.......
I am, since the bureaucracy is part of the problem I don't see why adding more bureaucracy might be of some help.

What we need are simpler regulations and a modern public administration. IMO, of course.
Emacs with SLIME (http://common-lisp.net/project/slime).
The freely available [1] is a nice supplement to some of the material in Concrete Mathematics, and this [2] is an approachable introduction to graph theory with side notes on both proof techniques and algorithms.

More generally, if you're not already comfortable with linear algebra (a couple college semesters "or equivalent experience"), I'd recommend both [3] and [4] for two entirely different perspectives. For modern algebra more generally, I'm a huge fan of [5].

If I could only take one introductory mathematics book to a desert island, I'd cheat a bit and take [6], [7], and [8]. While never directly involved in CS, Courant was very interested in the practical applications of theoretical mathematics, see, e.g., [9] and, well, most everything else he wrote.

I could go on and on, so I'll stop here.

[1] http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/DownldGF.html
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Graph-Theory-Graduate-Texts-Mathematic...
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Applications-Gilbert-St...
[4] http://www.amazon.com/Finite-Dimensional-Vector-Spaces-P-R-H...
[5] http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Chelsea-Publishing-Saunders-La...
[6] http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Calculus-Analysis-Classic...
[7] http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Calculus-Analysis-Classic...
[8] http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Calculus-Analysis-Classic...
[9] http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1943-49-01/S0002-9904-1943-...
This is basically what it is like commuting by bus in India: http://www.preetindersodhi.com/pictures/the-indian-bus/

Imagine being crammed in during a 100-degree+ summer just to get to and from work every day. Oof.

I live in NYC; we have a very tame definition of "taking the bus" as compared to India.
What struck me about that quote is that maybe he's approaching things from the wrong direction. Why make a dent in the universe? What explicitly do you hope to accomplish with that?

Not attacking personal philosophies here, but this seems to run along the same vein as the desire to be "famous for being famous". Focus on building something, on creation and life. All the dents you make will be relative anyway, because as many have said - there's always someone doing something better. First, know what you want to do, second, do it to the best of your abilities. The dent that makes on the world is dependent on a plethora of influences most of which will be beyond your control.
You seem to think mass-market consumerism is the only kind of success. I assume you view Arduino and the Rasperry Pi also as utter failures?

The Internet Tablets were not intended to that market (N9 was the first real mass-market device, the step 5 of 5), but instead were well-loved by the hacker niche.
The salient point is flatter organizations along with the feedback loops that surround developers has changed the role an engineering manager plays. Drucker was correct (as usual) about the knowledge worker's primacy in the modern organization.
That is really cool. I have been dreaming about creating something like that for a long time. Seems like circuit design should be about defining inputs, outputs, and some set of constraints, like available components, and board size, power, and heat requirements, and then optimize for a fitness function which is a weighted formula of price and performance.

I have used an evolutionary algorithm to do real work, saving real money for a company. Basically we had an extremely expensive tool that made vias one at a time. Since this tool was so expensive, it was always a bottleneck in the manufacturing process. I created a genetic algorithm that optimized the path of the tool, which significantly increased its throughput. I've stripped out all the proprietary stuff, and left behind a simple genetic algorithm to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem in Java and put it on github. Its got a GUI and its sort of mesmerizing to watch it evolve a solution. Works well, even with over 1000 different locations, which is unbelievable, considering that means a solution space of over 1000 factorial!

https://github.com/YesSql/TspGA/wiki
They're probably all at BioWare / EA.

But seriously, who wants to live in Edmonton? I know a bunch of people at BioWare, and the company is the only reason they're in Edmonton. They complain about the weather constantly.
I have some open source projects that I've released on multiple occasions without having tested them. I think people make the assumption that things that have adequate documentation and comments/support tickets, etc. that indicate use, that they are tested before release. That is simply untrue. You get what you get. That is true in the world of both paid and unpaid open-source and closed-source software and well as life in-general.

Something that helps in this regard is travis-ci. It's a free CI server and if you have at least some level of testing, you have some level of confidence.
+1 for Project Euler! It totally rocks!
Thought the exact same thing! I clicked to read about new developments funded for Clang the compiler and was wondering why I haven't heard of the fundraising effort...
Nice post. It serves as a good reminder that you can get more than one chance in life. It's not success or bust, the end. You get to pick up the pieces, reflect and learn, and continue successfully, however one defines success for oneself.
> Many scientists work outside their chosen field

Yes that's a terrible fate

My "field" = nuclear physics. Since the Russians turned into a bunch of cowardly wusses the opportunities in the 'converting Moscow to a glowing crater' field have diminished somewhat.

Fortunately I have since managed to use those 4years of experimental physics experience to design big bits of the Airbus A380, laser eye surgery machines, automated remote mining operations and now 3D medical imaging systems.

My colleagues who stayed in academia - at least those that missed out on being the 10,000th author on an LHC experiment paper - are grinding out a series of temp posts doing feasibility studies on what experimental result a new series of detectors would produce IF they were ever funded. Which they wont be in their lifetime.

Many of my other ex-students had to demean themselves to using their physics/chemistry PhD to earn a fortune in the city as quants or analysts.
When I've done it, I've done it as a status log at the bottom of the README, or in a separate file in the project. But I think your level of detail is just right: it doesn't look ridiculously time consuming, and yet it captures the real content & momentum of the project.
This might not relate, but I'd be interested to know how many of the people that think this is a good idea would also support Google were they to take a stance on something as charged as abortion?
Yesterday an article made it to our frontage about what 'bubbles' we live in. By bubbles the author meant assumptions that shape how we see and interpret everything.

I think literacy & education is one of the biggest bubbles. I had to spend a lot of time thinking about it, and talking to people with experience in the subject before the vast idea of what it means to be illiterate started to dawn on me.

For example, teaching a class on how to use computers to people at the library. They all want to know how to 'look for a job' online. Show 'em how to use the mouse, what icons represent the internet, how to get email, and see they're having trouble. Slowly begin to understand they're only memorizing shapes and patterns of letters, and don't really know how to read or write.

We're all so hyper literate, I can say that about everyone here. We're practically a different species than people who don't know how to wirelessly communicate through space and time. It's impossible to hold poor people in india who basically only have spoken word communication, and oral tradition historical context, to our standards.
Someone has gotten it working with the soundcloud api to pull in songs from soundcloud and visualize it, getting an example up on the repo :) or do you mean natively on the soundcloud website? (something else I'd love to do!)
taking "required courses" (Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology...

So smart. Many of my best developers came from outside of CS: bus driver, ballet dancer, EE, history, poly sci, mfg, aerospace, etc.
Guess I was thinking more from a standpoint of the social status of taking public transport versus having your own car. But you're right, those considerations are irrelevant next to the aforementioned heat and overcrowding.
Pengobatan tradisional penyakit gondok
ACE MAX’S. Khasiatnya lebih hebat dari semua herbal dalam membantu mengobati berbagai macam penyakit berat. Fungsi pencegahan yang terkandung didalamnya mampu memberikan perlindungan maksimal bagi tubuh dari serangan berbagai penyakit degeneratif
Gum disease.

Brush your teeth.
Do you seriously think that the average Indian citizen is less politically empowered than the average American citizen?
Do I need to have homosexual sexual relations to prove I'm bisexual?

Far from it, you have it backwards. My point is that having had homosexual sex doesn't automatically make you bi/homosexual. I've said nothing about the relation in the other direction.

Furthermore, you can hate anal sex yet still be bisexual, homosexual, etc.

Of course. I never said anything to the contrary. There are lots and lots of ways of having "sex", many that don't involve sticking your penis in an orifice and having penises stuck in your orifices.

edit: In case something was unclear, Kinsey's numbers obviously also included people who self-identified has home/bisexual, no matter their sexual history(or lack of it)
But what else has Scranton, PA been spending taxpayer money on? The police are an essential feature of a proper government, set up for the purpose of protecting individual rights. The police, courts, military are all functions that a business can't and shouldn't do (sure, private contractors can carry out tasks for these aspects of government, but the ultimate authority must lie with the government, beholden only to the law, not to any one person or group).

When the government moves past its core mission of protecting individual rights, it violates them. The lesson of Scranton, PA (and a lot of other governments) is that trying to be more than a limited government turns into no government at all (or awfully close), in the long run. Not good!
A little transparency can make life easier. Try this:

"Don't panic. You are using a backup datacenter. Some very recent queue or account changes may be missing, and some changes you make tonight may be lost. We are working nonstop to resolve this and appreciate your patience"

When stuck, just change the requirements.
Well you haven't mentioned how much math you're familiar with. But I'll assume that you know school level mathematics and are looking to learn more about the math mostly used in computer science.
Get Concrete Mathematics( http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Comput... ) by Graham, Knuth & Patashnik - It's based on the course taught at Stanford since 1970 & it's really really good.
Another book I think you should get is Meta Math: The quest for Omega( http://www.amazon.com/Meta-Math-Quest-Gregory-Chaitin/dp/140... ) by Gregory Chaitin. It's not really a math course book, and is mostly the authors take on his favorite topics in math, but if you want to improve your thinking process then this book will definitely give you a different perspective.
Insight magazine 2012 special edition
http://jeena.net/images/2012/PHP-The-Good-Parts.pdf
yes,me too from kerala.
they will feel opposite if someone read this and visit here.
I find that people who don't capitalize, especially their names, tend to lack confidence in themselves. So in a way the lack of capitalization actually makes a point.

The other reason may be that he sees capitalization as unnecessary as punctuation already performs the same task (akin to the JS semi colon debate.)

Personally, I find it a bit arrogant to ignore such a basic grammar rule, but it does not bother me so much as to not read it.

I would like to know his reasoning behind it.
Ah, I see. Sorry, I misjudged you there. :)
Not sure how many people here have managed people before, or at least have first hand experience in a company that has 1) too many managers, 2) too few managers.
But what point is there to an intellectual exercise if you don't know whether you've done it right in the end?
From the video comments:

"Furthermore these aren't even touchscreens. This is just a projector with IR sensor allowing us to experience 1ms but is in no way a touchscreen. The purpose of the video is to show us what touchscreens will be like with 1ms delay"
But email does rely on servers; it's just that the servers are distributed. And so are StatusNet ones: I can run my own server and subscribe to some feed on yours and they'll talk directly without relying on any other.

And all the protocols are open: Atom, PubSubHubBub, Salmon, etc.
That's the point of the article. The claim is that he knows he has done it right because the declarative types are simple enough to understand as a whole, and they enforce and ensure correctness, verified through compilation.
This is a well written article. I am an Indian based in US and biased but the fact is India is a young democracy. It has only been 20 years since economy was liberalized and middle class got jobs. The middle class grew and is at a point where we will see meaningful difference in social life.

Once the tummy is full and people see that their basic necessity food is met, they start thinking about other things, like cleanliness, civil society and other comforts which they should have. India is a powerhouse of energy, we have entrepreneurs in every nook and corner and people have learnt how to survive and excel. We educate our kids and that is the biggest power a country can have, education eradicates all ills.

If you look at states like Gujarat in India you will be surprised to find them cleaner and better maintained than any western city. Their are women who run dairy businesses which bring millions in revenue in Gujarat.

What defeats India is its political class and miracles can be head if you have a government which can act. It will happen soon and the young entrepreneurs and startups in India will change the country. I love India.
I understand that as a partner in an LLC/WLL that even in a "limited liability" the liability is quite present. :-)

I'm too young to remember private banks as llc/wll though.

This reminds me of an anecdote told by my dad. He had bankers calling him quite often asking to "invest" his money instead of letting it sit in the account. For the first few times, as courtesy he'd politely decline. But when they really started getting to him, he coolly said something like this, "If you or anyone in your chain can PERSONALLY guarantee that you will NOT lose my money in the current scenario I will pull out every single cent I have and gladly hand it over to you". Needless to say, he stopped getting the calls.
I think the interesting point here is that Haskell provides such a high static assurance out of the box that what you write is correct that this can happen. You'd never hear of a ruby programmer releasing a gem without trying it.
David Mitchell on Machines
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Knuth
There is a number of really quite good applied maths courses on youtube (roughly in this order from each group):

MIT 18.06, 18.085, 18.086, 6.262, 6.450

Stanford EE263, EE364A, EE261

Profs Strang, Boyd and Gallager are quite a bit better with maths than the typical engineering lecturer, even though their courses are not exactly at the level of Rudin, Breiman et al.
In 2008, Gladwell wrote an excellent article on this same topic:

http://www.gladwell.com/2008/2008_10_20_a_latebloomers.html

An excellent quote from the article:

"The Cézannes of the world bloom late not as a result of some defect in character, or distraction, or lack of ambition, but because the kind of creativity that proceeds through trial and error necessarily takes a long time to come to fruition."
I don't need synthesized recognition, I just need good, polite service.