skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you may have got me there; i was under the impression that the das was a buckling spring, but googling reveals that it isnt. But how does it compare for noise?

<EDIT> Ah, according to Ars "How loud is this product? Very loud". So for my situation (quiet open plan offices usually), probably no good.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/02/office-warfare-our-mo...
So your complaint is not that they don't archive blogs, but that they don't list it first among that which they archive?
An invasion of Danish vikings?
Funny how they addressed the fact that its from Oracle and there might be some hidden gimmick. At least they are self-aware. I want to not be skeptical and believe but I can't.
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Meh. There are things that are normal for Scoble and that which is normal for the rest of us. For every piece of frictionless sharing gold, there are 5-10 pieces of crap to filter through.
https://gist.github.com/3136483
If they think they have the most compelling Linux offering out there, why go to all the trouble of explaining how close you are to Red Hat?
Oracle is the last company I would trust after opensolaris, etc.
Bare repositories cannot have a working tree.

fatal: core.bare and core.worktree do not make sense
The test was done with DB and HTTP servers on the same box.
I tested both the HTTP response times from another box and also the time for the SQL queries to return inside the same box. Indexes were setup for the joins and there would have been enough RAM to store the dataset.

I did not really bare IO in mind doing the test because if IO was the bottleneck then I would have optimised enough.

Certainly a bad test from anything approaching a scientific view but I had expected to see a performance difference even in this scenario (especially when testing the turnaround between the Java app and Mysql).

I think my faulty logic at the time was that N+1 selects would be slow because of the overhead of parsing multiple queries. What led to to that conclusion was that I had previously optimised an old PHP app that was using mysql_query() to use joins rather than millions of selects and more or less got 10x performance back.
Richard Stallman is weird. Seriously.
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I personally believe IQ is a fairly good predictor of intelligence the way people in (at least American) society think about it. This study attempts to prove that high IQ is good for most jobs. What it doesn’t prove is the high end of the spectrum where someone of 120 IQ compares with someone of 140IQ in extremely high level jobs. My experience is that creativity trumps IQ in most cases where people are considered generally intelligent. The people that really are viewed as most successful typically have a high or very high IQ, but are always very creative.
Quite right! But I think the cool thing from a mathematical/nerd perspective is that you can have everyone pay with that probability (splitting the bill stochastically) without figuring out what those probabilities are. Ie, without figuring out what everyone ordered.
A year and a half ago I worked at a place that had a Deployment Spreadsheet.

Each file was carefully FTP'd from the shared development area to the live site, and then marked off on the sheet with the date that it had been deployed, and with what feature.

Each new deployment meant either adding a new set of rows to the spreadsheet for a new feature, or for updates to existing features going back and finding an earlier instance of the file in the list and bumping the date on that.

Because of the shared nature of the CMS across different websites, we couldn't svn up in the CMS directory without destroying the current known state of the site. We also couldn't svn up outside of the subdirectory we were working on, as everyone else working on that site was working off the same network share. Everything was done very gingerly.

The day one of the developers came up with a method to take a list of files from the spreadsheet, tar them up and FTP them to the server for later extraction, he was overjoyed and very, very proud.

I got out of there, swore off PHP and its community entirely. I got tired of checking for a baseline of automated deployment, automated testing, version control, and individual dev systems at every single job I applied for; Ruby people don't look at you funny when you mention these things.

Addendum: I personally know a developer currently working for a famous local radio brand who directly works on the live website network via an FTP plugin. He has to contend with other developers dumping the contents of archives directly into his public folder.

(For context, this is all in Sydney, Australia.)
The care taker of that café woke him up, and Chuang stood and walked a few steps, and then later he bowed. He . . . he reportedly died after his arrival to the hospital. . . the law enforcement agencies and medical guys reported that he died due to sitting for so long. His cardiovascular malfunctioned and Chuang eventually died.

Sounds like he formed a blood clot from sitting too long, and when he stood up it dislodged and caused a pulmonary embolism (or maybe a heart attack or stroke).

The sensationalist video game angle aside, this is a good story for us hackers to keep in mind. We tend toward long periods of sitting, and even a couple hours without getting up and walking around a bit will put someone at increased risk of having this sort of thing happen to them.

For a less "video games are evil" example, there's Heavy D's death following an intercontinental flight.

(disclaimer: not a doctor)
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// I don't visit HN for memes, and don't like to have to click through to follow discussions.
Oh wow, Taiwan. I was expecting South Korea.
I've run 200+ server environments on centos4, a 40+ server cluster on centos5, and now run a 50+ server cluster on rhel6. I'm pretty much dead on their target audience here.

This seems almost mean. Its a billion dollar company calling out a volunteer group of a couple of guys for being slower than them.

Part of the reason I switched to rhel was exactly this graph, I didn't have a lot of faith in centos as a going concern given the delays on 6. But also, its clearly not easy for a reason. There is a lot of work to be done, and the farther you trace your way up the rhel/epel/fedora tree the more you realize this is a community providing an insane amount of value and deserves to be funded.

So if Oracle is going to sell me on using and/or paying for their distro, being faster than a handful of volunteers isn't gonna do it. Going toe-to-toe with redhat on funding, contributing, producing and supporting open source software such that I want to fund you is what'll do it.
No, you shouldn't, but you can still calculate more. For example, do one calculation up front about 'should I in general take the subway or a taxi?' and then follow your answer for the next couple years; for maybe a few minutes of work, you save money-time for perhaps thousands of days to come.

In general, the best space-time tradeoff will never be 'all time' or 'all space'.
The noisy space bar is the worst part of the MS keyboard. The other keys are fine. Seems like such an obvious problem that they'd fix it.
I'm in the love with the first couple images, but not this [0] one. Why would they make it so tiny like that? Reminds me of what they did with the Minecraft lego set [1].

[0]: http://cuusoo.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/9cc0d/c0a44/45a9b/7...

[1]: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Minecraft-21102
Dare I ask what the individual tests that make up Testacular are called?
Here is a list of all of Architects/Engineers. They each include credentials, license numbers, etc. The list if overwhelming. Graduates (and professors) from top schools in the country are included.
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I am not an expert and I have no idea what actually happened on 9/11. It is up to each of us to form an opinion using the evidence that we have available.
That would be my main point.

There are a lot of hidden sources of value which are hard to quantify when it comes to anything like customer service. Therefore the errors that she was making are likely to be systemic in anyone who is trying to be economically efficient.
I've thought about how many more places I would be willing to bike to if I could just hop on the freeway with my bike. We have an event every year where they allow you to, and it's a tease.
Come to Vancouver - we have the same rain but with hills and N American drivers.
Because RHEL compatibility is an important selling point, at least in the US Linux market.
Thought #16: A world without Visa/Mastercard
Have they improved dtrace since this released abortion: http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2011/10/10/oel-this-is-not-dtrac...

update: http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2012/02/23/dtrace-oel-update/
Thanks @repsilat, "Push" or "Post" are seen used more for Facebook as they have the wall, while for Pinterest, the used verb is 'Pin'.
Okay, I found the reference on page 10. Somehow my keyword search didn't work and we didn't number pages the same way.
If you are in south America, it's just redirect to http://latam.puma.com/ . I can't access to puma.com , I don't like that kind of redirect design
Ooh, I like that!

But to clarify, the method in the article is quite a bit better than you think:

"On average you’ll only traverse half the bill — and that’s half in terms of dollar value, not number of items. So much less than half the items if most of the bill is concentrated in a few expensive entrees."

I actually think it's kind of fun, with the multiple trials for who will pay. But I'm eager to try your idea now!

EDIT: You're totally right, this is a faster fair way! It's not as simple as it sounds though: if you land on, say, a $2 drink of which there are multiple such on the bill then you need a protocol to disambiguate. You could randomize again among the people who got one of those items.

What I like most about the method in the article is that you can avoid the confusing smaller items with high probability. Maybe the way to achieve that with your method is to walk down the items in decreasing order of price. That also forces you to identify sets of things that all cost the same, so you can do the second randomization if necessary. (You could also just pick a canonical order of the people, like alphabetical, or where they're seated, since there's enough randomness in the original random number.)
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There must be a way to upvote this comment more than once... :)

I always get strange looks from my fellow programmers when I suggest that we just ditch the ORM and use straight SQL. With some complex queries, like generating reports, I had a much easier time using iBATIS many years ago than hacking through ActiveRecord's oddities. AR is good for simple select/insert/update, but once you get into UNIONs and nested subqueries, you're fighting AR more than you should be.
What's their track record with Java, MySQL etc?
(Disclaimer: I had a hand in a lot of this)

That's not quite the intent. Look, here's the deal: I know we all like to think that corporations are evil and the presence of corporate interests actually messes stuff up.

But this really is one case where you want the oomph of bilion-dollar company making sure that you get your security updates in time.

No one else is providing that. Oracle happens to be doing so, and we're making it available to you for free, so why shouldn't you benefit from that? (And seriously, I get that you're not paying for CentOS, and I'm not interested in getting you to pay for Oracle Linux either.)
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But, if I wanted a better alternative to CentOS, wouldn't I just go and use Red Hat? Why would I lock myself into a company that has this bad a track record?
They're a very effective tool.

I have hand coded and maintained a lot of SQL. And you know what's not fun? Adding or removing a column and going through all the selects, updates, inserts and manually changing them all and still getting bit by the 'Table X has no corresponding column of type Y' for a piece of the system used once in a blue moon.

And every time you want to add a new class creating the table, creating all the boilerplate select, insert, update statements that are exactly the same as the thousands of times I've done this before.

All that pointless busy worked done away with in a second. In a couple of keystrokes.

You, in my opinion, do not know what you're missing.

That's what an ORM is for. It's not a 'little time'. It's only a 'little time' if you don't actually do serious business coding where there are often 100s of tables to effectively solve a problem domain.

An ORM will dissipate that entirely. And when you want to drop down to hand coded SQL, you can! Best of both worlds!

The only problem with ORMs is when novices don't understand what they're requesting the DB to do.

And guess what, SQL has exactly the same problem!
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Just as someone ripping you off will go to lengths to explain that they aren't ripping you off.
I donated because fear is the mind killer.
To be fair, it is powered by MediaWiki, perhaps ARM, et al devs could help beef up those sections a bit. It seems like a large chunk of the content is fairly CPU agnostic (unless there are CPU assumptions in them which are deeper than my current understanding, in which case I retract my statement upon some explanation of them).
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Just buy a visa gift card with cash and donate with it. Completely anonymous.
Caps lock as escape is surprisingly convenient in other apps than Vim too. I thought I'd run into trouble, but in fact it's very nice.
Geoff Hinton's Neural Nets online course (via Coursera) - September 2012
I don't understand this part: "(the region) has provided $1.6 million for the superhighway project. "

How is it possible to build 14 miles of this bike highway for this little money? (I'm an American). Here, you'd spend this amount just on "feasibility study" and buying off the inevitable opposition.
CentOS now have sponsorship to pay two developers full time, and had their 6.3 clone out much more quickly.

http://centosnow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/centos-project-relea...

That matches Scientific Linux in terms of full time paid packagers/QA &c

I'm not sure how much paid development time PUIAS has but there is some as it is the system used at the host institutions.

I imagine that the Oracle Linux team has plenty of extra people providing the paid support.

What I find interesting is that you can't simply download an .iso, you have to create an account or run a dodgy script. Strange combination of free and corporate approaches.
No. Banks - hopefully - spend a lot of time and effort securing their systems so that side of things should be secure enough (though obviously not impenetrable). The weakest link will in fact be the user's PC (e.g. keyloggers) in this case as even a few hundred passwords stolen could get the thieves a pretty significant sum of money. So, this is much more secure than entering the full password each time.
Which would be far less secure than just hashing the entire password. I don't think it takes long to generate a rainbow table based on one character long pass-phrases.

I seriously doubt they do this, storing a hash for every single character would eat up a lot of space very quickly. My guess is that they store your password in plain-text. What bank is this btw?
From the list of "Infringing URLs" for Wrath of the Titans at http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=291695:

17. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646987/

32. http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/wrathofthetitans/

37. http://www.hulu.com/watch/344340/wrath-of-the-titans---clip-...

These copyright holders either have non-internet people doing their grunt work, or bots. I don't know which one makes them look dumber.
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Are you still allowed use the word Pinterest in your app name?
Not tomorrow, but what about 10 years from now?
If you believe that the US spending isn't infinite, then spending on this helps aid his cause. Eventually, the spending shuts off and the US pulls out, right? We're talking about healthcare spending vs. military spending at some point. Other than shipping lanes and some oil supplies, all other middle east presence seems optional.

This NSA database has to cost a lot and a) they aren't supposed to admit it to the American people and b) they aren't supposed to even use it. Under what circumstances does it become useful?
> and it's incredibly easy to switch services

Not when you have your entire team/company using gmail as a paid service. And when you factor in the part about the user being the product in social networking, basically you're forcing a paying customer of one product to become a revenue stream in another.

Monopolies find themselves in trouble over this all time, just like when a customer service agent from your credit card company or local energy conglomerate passes you onto a sales rep from a third party without your knowledge. It's how they scam the old, ignorant and uninformed.

tl;dr: you cannot change your bookmarks when you have no other options.
Our pivots in SF weren't familiar with tmux or command line git (most command line tools, actually) at the beginning of our engagement.
One thing that I don't like about Google Hangout's screen sharing implementation is that I can't seem to view other participants screen in fullscreen. I often find myself squinting at the screen trying to read something.

If Screenleap solves this then I'd be willing to give it a try.
My understanding was that much of the money was spent improving already existing trails (and perhaps funding winter maintenance).

Edit: Also, I think that was one source of funds, not the total cost of the project.
You are almost certainly correct in thinking that the password is stored as plain text - which is a massive no-no.

Do they use HTTPS?

The technique could be OK if this is a "second" password (you have already supplied one password and this is a second check) as it would then make it difficult for automated scripts trying to hack the site without compromising your primary authentication.
Thanks for all your advices. So far I think "EasyFast" could be my favorite. As "Pin" is used as verb to represent the action to publish a photo, so i'm hesitating to use another verb like 'Push', 'Tack', 'Stick', 'Peen'. They might be new to users.

EasyFast uses two adjectives. It's independent of what action is done, so we can avoid using "Pin". And I like the meaning of "Fast" to indicate "fasten"

This is so far the option i favor of. Thanks for all your help to think about this. And i'm open to new advices. I hope to get the perfect name, and if you guys can help trying the app and send comments (paul_yan@pinssible.com), i would appreciate.
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Readers please note this is the same 'Oracle Unbreakable Linux' they've been peddling for a while. If you can read that product name without feeling some sort of incredulation, this may the distro for you.
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Ask HN: Would your company use this, too?
A lot of managers don't thank their employees enough. I built a product for my company that helps managers give "props/thanks" to employees. When employees get to a certain amount, then can redeem cool stuff: 5 props gets you a 6-pack during work, 20 gets you a steak lunch with the boss, etc.

I'm considering building it out and making it awesome. What do you think? Thanks in advance.
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You can download an ISO from any of these mirrors:
https://wikis.oracle.com/display/oraclelinux/Downloading+Ora...
CUUSOO is part of LEGO. After a CUUSOO project reaches 10k supporters, it goes through a review by LEGO corporate which includes stuff like Brand Fit Analysis (too violent?) and Business Case Development (will this actually sell?) and License Agreements (can we license this?). If it passes that, then it gets a model designed by a LEGO designer which is not necessarily the same as the submitted idea.

http://legocuusoo.posterous.com/the-quarterly-lego-review-ho...
Still no good answer... why is Oracle doing this?

I don't see how this story doesn't end with a whole bunch of people having to convert back to CentOS when someone at Oracle questions the value in offering this distribution for free.
Because with Red Hat you have to pay for access to updates.
Statistically speaking, you give up your right to vote anonymously by registering your political party with the state in return for the convenience of getting one of two ballots instead of both.

"There are two ballots here which one am I interested in again? Better ask the State which one I registered for.." Seems like a stretch.
If this were about Steve Jobs, these guidelines would be respected - they would show his attention to detail, the importance he placed on clarity, etc, etc. As soon as they're about Stallman - it's because he's weird, a social outcast or whatever other insult people choose to throw at him.

People like Stallman are a good representation of the "misfits" spoken about in Apple's iconic advert, though try telling that to the RoR 'hacker' who has declared themself a misfit/troublemaker/round peg in a square hole because he decided to use Coffeescript rather than Javascript in his latest GTD app.
Really? Are you talking about the Clinton whose sanctions killed half million Iraqi infants from 1991 to 1996 alone and his the secretary of state though the cost of sanctions was worth it? The Clinton who in 1998 knowingly bombed an aspirin factory in Sudan that supplied cheap medicines to millions of Africans?

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084/

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.

--60 Minutes (5/12/96)

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2...

But a British engineer, Thomas Carnaffin, who worked as a technical manager during the plant's construction between 1992 and 1996, emerged to tell reporters there was nothing secret or heavily guarded about the plant at all, and that he never saw any evidence of the production of an ingredient needed for nerve gas. The group that monitors compliance with the treaty banning chemical weapons announced that Empta did have legitimate commercial purposes in the manufacture of fungicides and antibiotics. The owner of the Shifa factory gave interviews in which he emphatically denied that the plant was used for anything other than pharmaceuticals, and there was never persuasive evidence to contradict his assertion. At the same time, members of the administration retreated from claims they made earlier that Osama bin Laden had what [Defense Secretary William] Cohen called "a financial interest in contributing to this particular facility." It turned out that no direct financial relationship between bin Laden and the plant could be established.
That's a neat trick. I wouldn't use that for control since I map that to caps-lock instead, but it might be a good way to distinguish between windows/alt/function, which often move slightly from desktop to laptop.