skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For now, do what you need to do pay bills. Eventually, you'll find problems you want to solve, and solve them for fun. Once you've programmed for long enough to deliver great solutions, you become competitive.
If there are many homonyms that could be mistaken despite context, how do people understand the spoken language? Are verbal inflections incompletely represented in hiragana versus kanji?

As for grouping into words, other languages have found spaces useful. ; )
Most people spend most of their "free" time browsing the internet and being unfocused.

Don't be like most people.
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That moment you expect an 'up up down down left right left right B A' easteregg but it's not there... time to fork this T_T
I'm not saying it's not a big deal, but what I am saying is this means nothing at this point in time. Discovering proof of the Higgs Boson opens up the possibility of understanding our universe and how things work, but at present the discovery means nothing to anyone but the investors involved and the employee's at CERN who keep their jobs for another few years.

There is a possibility that even though we've discovered the Higgs, nothing else will ever be discovered or come of it.
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Remember, the people giving the reviews are stanford students. They are much better academically, and are used to much tougher courses than you're average college student.

On the other hand, i've seen a review from somebody in kenya i think, that said that those online courses are much much better than university courses offered in his country.

Also there are varying levels of difficulty at coursera,MITx and udacity. Someone in this thread said MITx course was challenging. So we still have to see if courses are challenging and to whom.
Named Method Arguments: From connascence of position to connascence of name
Fastest Java solution I've seen to date:

kryo - Fast, efficient Java serialization and cloning

http://code.google.com/p/kryo/

It'd be fun to see how kryo stacks against native C++.
Hearing-aid hackers fine-tuning their own devices
Nearly everything you said here is false.

They have disabled new signups for Tada list and writeboard. Disabled creating standalone writeboards and new lists... Backpack isn't listed on their site anymore, but seems to work perfectly for me. Though, I'm not sure how useful it is now that most of the functionality seems to exist in Basecamp in some fashion.

I also have plenty "Legacy" Basecamp projects and am not being "stranded", they work fine. Please elaborate.
No offence, but I'm looking for something more proactive. :) I want to actively work towards my goal, not wait for something to come along.
At $300, "secretly it's a game console" doesn't seem like a great business plan. If that was the plan they should probably have lead with that.
Perhaps you are being unrealistic. Don't expect to be competitive now. If you don't have the skills, you need to develop them. This takes time.

But then again all you need to create a startup, is some working code. I doesn't even need to be bug free or optimized or thoughtfully designed for that matter. If it's good enough to offer something for someone it's enough to get you started.
Most of those frameworks you reference are much greater than 1 microsecond round trip which is the same ballpark as good network IO. For IPC this is much less. I operate in the financial low-latency space where this matters.
The banana plug ports are a completely mystifying design decision. I honestly think they were chosen because they made the design look interesting, rather than because they served any common or essential use case. I'd venture that, in descending order of adoption rate, these are the likeliest audio interfaces in people's homes:

- 3.5mm

- RCA

- TOSLINK (optical audio)

- HDMI

- Coaxial digital audio

- Tin can and string

- Banana plugs

Besides, if you've got speakers that are so good you're wiring them up with banana plugged-cables, you probably already have a pretty nice receiver. What purpose was served by adding an amp and making this thing into a mini receiver on its own?

As it is, the Nexus Q embraces two sorta common connectors and one extremely high-end, therefore niche interface. The most common and obvious audio interface, the 3.5mm jack, is left in the cold.

(An expansion on my reply to:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4205281

Which includes an almost comical photo in support of this argument:

http://yfrog.com/z/oe42wqagj )
What's wrong with Air? I've used other apps built on it and they work fine (such as balsamiq).
The way this information is being released seems very shady. They don't mention what market they're analysing (US? Worldwide?), it's not clear how they could aggregate all sales information (which makers? does it count both corporate and consumer market? etc.), and they seem to be counting computers sold with Windows, when in many parts of the world PCs are sold without operating system but the users install Windows themselves. And so on. Too much noise, too little data.
This title sounds so indignant. 37signals can do what they want.

I'm sure they'll give existing users plenty of warning & time to migrate content elsewhere before they shut down these services for good. For now, sign-ups are closed. Carry on.
That's how Wolfram usually is, but I do find him to be intelligent and have some interesting things to say, if you can get past the style. For example, I think there really are some interesting things in A New Kind of Science about philosophy of computation, if you read it as a Regular Book and pretend all the hype and Book To End All Books positioning isn't there.
I'd like to see a translation of the app store description.
Why not everyday?
Pre-order for $135 on the company website: http://www.solid-run.com/

Details: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/SolidRun-CuBox/

"This is probably the only Android TV box that is shipped in such a small form factor and the only development platform in the market that is packaged in an elegant plastic box and not provided as a barebones system or in a bulky enclosure."

Edit: No official news or publicity posted by SolidRun in 6-month? http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=640
There are lots of subfields of security. (for instance I really wish I knew more about appsec; by far my weakest area, working on it.)

However, CISSP is a worthless piece of paper for IT security managers, crypto custodians, developers, pentesters, and auditors.
Since it's built on Adobe Air (basically, Flash), I assume they're using its built-in P2P video library. I've used it before and found it to be quite good. It's what Chatroulette, or any other web based video chat app uses.
Last night I read something about 16 ways to be productive or something like that. After some thought, I realized how much time I waste just mindlessly surfing the net every day.

One point the article made was that scheduling is key, especially is self-discipline isn't your strong point (and believe me, it isn't a strong point of mine). So I decided that, before going to bed, I would create a schedule for the following day (that is, today) and stick to it. There were a few bumps along the road that required moving some things around but now it's 7:00 PM and I've managed to complete everything on the list up until this point.

From now on, I will be explicitly scheduling free time (I actually have some coming up in about 30 minutes).
Which smartphone has the best battery life?
"They should fire the PM who came up with this work flow."

The PM could have done this to beat up an intransigent subteam with market feedback.
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Quo Computer developing custom Ivy Bridge OSX Mobo
According to the Quo Computer's facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/QUOcomputer), the Mac Clone builder is developing a custom-designed Z77 Ivy Bridge Motherboard that will include Firewire 400 & 800 ports. See their Photos section for teaser pics of the board, a board on workbench, and the new maxQ2 case design.
I would think that releasing before working out bugs is considered to be bad practice. Is this not the case?
Hi everybody,

I'm delighted to share my latest little idea to make getting files from others easier.

It will be like having a public folder and letting people to upload you something.

Please check it out and let me know your feedback, you're always awesome - http://sendfiles2.me
I've gotten the feeling the Atlantic has made a major change in publishing policy in the last two or three months. They now seem to have a lot of what the print world calls blogs, which is to say: linkbait by notables that is conspicuously below their long-established reputation for quality. I hope they're not in trouble, this is one of those metrics-driven last ditch moves that media companies having trouble moving to the web pull.
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Wolfram and you both make the mistake of thinking that there is any value in saying that an established natural fact 'feels like a hack' or 'disagrees with your intuition'.
One of the most important lessons of modern physics is that intuition is a terrible guide when it comes to understanding the physical world at its most fundamental level.
Don't want to detract from your recommendation but just piggyback on the price remark - the guys in my office buy sandwich supplies at the start of the week and do four days worth of two sandwiches each. $10-12pp for the week. It's pretty social too as everyone preps and eats together.
Lucky for us, Apple has provided one: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-...

All iOS apps must use HLS for videos longer than 10 minutes and Apple verifies compliance during the app store review process. As mentioned, with AirPlay all HLS media files are downloaded directly by the AppleTV, not piped through your device. I can tell you from experience it works very well.
When UNIX was made, C was made.

When LoseThos was made, C+ was made.

Linux is a kernel, GNU/Linux is a compiler.

You are a monkey with no vision. Why on earth have 7-bit ASCII everywhere and why was the library signed characters!

The more names spaces the better. How many name spaces do you have? I have 2000 and it's only 100,000 lines of code. Pretty moduler, huh!
You know what the great irony in all of the "agile methologies" is? Lean manufacturing is almost always about process improvement. Going back and looking at your process and finding ways you can make it better, faster, cheaper, more reliable, etc.

Kanban IS the new Scrum insomuch as it's the latest buzzword, but any agile process should be in itself "agile". As in, it's about shipping using the best possible process for your situation. Maybe that's scrum, or kanban, or waterfall, or something in between.

If you are using any of them you should ask what problem you have with your current process and what you are solving by doing scrum, xp, kanban, etc. Dit it work? Can it be done better? What needs to be fixed?

Iterate enough on your process and you'll be running like a well oiled machine regardless of what method you use. People get good at stuff with practice.

Where it goes wrong I think is when you worry more about scrum vs. kanban vs. xp vs. flavor of the week because the rules don't matter, doing your work better for whatever definition of better you're optimizing for is what truly matters.
How do you know if entrepreneurship is right for you?
Nice original idea but what incentives do people have for sharing their possible winnings? Wouldn't that be counter productive?
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Yes underscore's bind works exactly like the Native bind and even uses it if it exists.
I'm not sure what the answer is but I think the same point applies if the answer is "no". For Apple it makes more sense though since they are all about the integrated experience; but I think Google is trying to be a disruptor here so I think they need a more open/easy-to-access solution.
love it, even works for unity -> ios projects!
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As far as places to stay and network, take a look at Chez JJ (http://chezjj.com/), a "home for itinerant hackers". I haven't stayed there to do a startup, but I've been there several times and I know the folks running the houses; they're good people, and everyone who stays there seems to enjoy it.
You might want to look into the area of robust statistics (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_statistics), if you haven't done that, yet.
They have a big advantage, you know! When you create a jQuery plugin, you can show everyone - instantly. I feel like desktop applications (and even websites, to a degree) don't have that luxury.
Except a GoogleTV has a remote and an HDMI pass through for video. So it could be a crippled GoogleTV.

Alternatively Vizio now has a small $100 GoogleTV box. With one update it should be able to do what this does but a third of the price (and it comes with OnLive for gaming)

http://gdgt.com/vizio/co-star-stream-player/
Oh my gosh! A company wants to make money? This is horrible! We should black out Wikipedia to protest. Give me a break, 37signals doesn't owe anything to anyone. Don't like them, don't use them.
Security+ is the "easiest" of the big certs (I did CISSP with about 10 hours of prep, and probably didn't even need that, but I had been working in the field for 15y, read the Rainbow Books when I was 11, and enjoy security trivia for its own sake rather than for application only; it normally takes about 5x more time to prep for than Security+ vs. CISSP).

Security+ seems a bit more focused, and obviously vastly less comprehensive (Part of CISSP is some fairly esoteric and never-used theoretical models). In practice I'd say it's on par with CISSP.

https://www.isc2.org/dodmandate/default.aspx
DoD considers Security+ to be level I or level II, CISSP to be ok up to level III, although prefers CISM or CISA for certain roles over CISSP.
Bugs have priorities. It depends.
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Not if part of the information is kept in code only, like iteration count on bcrypt
Sorry to hear that the account creation process didn't work out for you. Based on your description and our server logs, I have a good sense of what broke for you, and it's a case we've never run into before when testing, but we're working on fixing that bug now.

I agree that it's absolutely critical that it just works, and in this case, it didn't just work for you. From all the traffic today, we found a bunch of new bugs that didn't show up in our testing, so we're working as fast as we can to fix them and fix our testing process so we find similar issues.
I agree with Eric, but the problem is that even if you own your router (many residential users have provider-provided hardware), and run Tomato or DD-WRT, etc ... You have only one next hop, and zero control over that router.

So yes, don't invite Cisco into your living room, obviously. (Nor Cisco/Scientific Atlanta, but that's another discussion..!)

But you're still powerless and privacyless, sorry. Get a VPN box and tunnel everything (I do), but that's just kicking the can a few years down the road (less if you pick a cheap host).

Also, the bigger message from this fiasco is that Cisco is feeling revenue pressure even in their protective low margin consumer networking business. Cisco has never been a good consumer company, but they've just never cared enough to get "creative" before.

That's a bad bad sign for Cisco. Chambers, like Ballmer, has presided over ten-plus years of sideways, and this move seems desperate.

Run for the exits.
How is this valid research? You can only draw a correlation between money and "humanity". It makes more sense that people who have less "humanity" causes them to become more wealthy, not the other way around.

To show convincingly that more money causes you to have less "humanity", you have to have two groups:

1) Control group. Monitor their "humanity" over several years.

2) Test group. Give these people lots of money. Monitor their "humanity" over several years.

This would be quite an expensive study.
Udemy is closer than Udacity to being the future of education but both are far too narrow.
Fish isn't an adjective, is it? How would you interpret "Fish fish fish fish" as a sentence?
Definitely doesn't look right on my laptop, using Chrome/Windows 7. http://i.imgur.com/Yt5H9.png
Weird. I've had great success with DLNA and my Samsung TV. I had an HTC Thunderbolt and it was ridiculously seamless to play stuff on the TV. The Nexus, not so much.

Either way -- if the Q had been DLNA, wouldn't that have been better than what it's trying to do now?

Edit: more better english
This already exists: http://quadrant.tumblr.com/
It's well-known to the people reading skepticblog.
I wish Plex on the Roku just turned my TV/Receiver/etc into a dumb yet high-quality media player. I don't want to use the awful Roku remote with a 10 foot interface -- I'm happy to use my laptop or phone as the control module and have the TV be little more than a digital "projection screen".
What's the purpose of torrent again? Is that the thing people use to steal copyrighted works or are millions of people using it to exchange wedding videos? Torrents are the reason movies and music is so expensive relative to their actual production and distribution costs.
Are these generally off-work or out-of-work chefs, or people specifically setting up to provide this service? In the TC article, it sounded like a current restaurant chef; in that case, isn't it basically takeaway?

I've always thought the game changer in this field would be based around bulk orders (group buying) - e.g., cheaper curry dish for you if others in your office or immediate area group together to improve scale efficiency for the chef and delivery.
Other than probably historical reasons and interface definitions, is there any reason why this is the case? I can't immediately think of any sensible argument against allowing the binding of a value into a limit/order field. In fact, it should be type-checking/converting it as well, to prevent exactly mistakes like this.

Even if the DB interface doesn't directly support this, it seems like it's something all client wrappers should handle, preferably at the low level in addition to having to pull in a whole ORM + assorted bacon for the purpose.
Windows 7, Chrome 20.0.1132.47 m. The last line of text from people's bios tends to be left aligned and overlapped by the animation of the next person.
You mean over all versions, OSes, networks, and locations? I believe someone built a smartphone with a gsm board and E ink that lasted several weeks on one charge. I'll try to find a link if you are interested.
Ok, let me drill down into to a little bit. You say, "equity has a peramanent effect". But don't most equity contracts have a vesting period, and thus if you fire the engineer before the vesting period is up well the person forfeits that equity?

... seems like this is not so peramanent. Unless I'm misunderstanding something and need some education in this (and if I am, please let me know, as I've had this happen to me on at least one occasion and maybe I'm owed some compensation after all)
Are they the banana jacks where the outside is a nut you can tighten down on bare wire or spade terminals? That's actually good—nearly all the speakers I have ever used have been bare wire.
*I don't know of any other profession that has such elaborate...*

Education (the profession) comes close. But probably does more damage long term.
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The thing that I really like about scrum is that reviewing your work habits is built into the process, where it's more resistant to management interference.

Review is a major part of doing any sort of good work, but most people seem to overlook it when talking about scrum - "I did scrum and it locked us into doing stupid blablabla" means that you're not doing scrum.
I've tried Trippy and liked the experience but I like Tripit because even though it has a terrible interface it's easy to share to it and it automatically posts to my Facebook.

http://trippy.com
I don't want to be that guy, but as someone in the medical field, I take issue with OCD being thrown around so casually as a good thing to have. It's a legitimate mental disorder that can cause its sufferers a lot of turmoil.

I absolutely get what you guys are going for, and you seem like a fun bunch, but I'd be a bit more sensitive about using terms like that. It'd be like someone saying "We're looking for ridiculously good programmers, like autistic good."
I just performed this test and it didn't work the way you describe:

1) Found a video on iPad YouTube. Longer than 10 minutes.
2) Played it to the TV with AirPlay.
3) Turned the iPad off.

Expected the video to continue to play but it stopped immediately.

Can you get a similar test to work?
Discovering the Higgs boson is a victory for physicists but a sad day for physics.

That's just perfectly backwards.

This is great for physics - now humanity knows that much more about the reality in which we live.

Bad for physicists, becuase now they will have a harder time getting grants.
It looks like another commenter possibly answered this question, but I would also point out something possibly more important: You don't need to. That's because Apple includes a cheap little 7-button remote with the Apple TV. The iPod/iPad/iPhone remote does greatly enhance the UX of the Apple TV, but you don't need it to use the Apple TV for its intended purpose.

Just to reiterate: The reason people make a big deal about the fact that you need an Android to control a Q, but don't make a big deal about needing an iPhone to control an Apple TV, is that you don't need to buy anything extra (or already own anything in the Apple ecosystem) to use the Apple TV from the couch. For people who don't already own devices in the Android ecosystem, the Q is a $500 device, but the Apple TV is only a $100 device for those who don't already have an iThingy.
It's not contradictory to say that the scientific method produces our best understanding of a subject to date and that its statements are falsifiable. In fact, it is because of the standard of falsifiability that scientific knowledge reflects, in all likelihood, the actual facts much more accurately than say, religious dogma.
Every Android phone and tablet (2.3+) is a Q remote. Google TVs take different forms from integrated TVs, to buddy boxes, to complete solutions. It would be a GTV with different ports and and as a consumer you should buy what fits your needs.
> running outside and screaming "THROW MONEY AT ME"

On Sand Hill Road, these days, that seems to work.
Question (on Quora) that is related to this article: "What are the regulatory/legal problems that ride-sharing startups face?": http://www.quora.com/Ride-Sharing/What-are-the-regulatory-le... -- I am especially interested in what is preventing P2P Taxi services from popping up. You know, all SoMoLo map real time virtual taxi meter reputation trust bitcoin payment platform wallet HipAirTaskRabbitBerg. Thks :)
Well, one way to make a lot of money is to help other people make money, with some demonstrable results.
Isn't this was friendster and orkut were for?
I remember one of those two, at first, was all about dating your friends friends.