skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everywhere except china behind the GFW. It's always funny (in a sad way)when people come here and find they need to scramble for a VPN to look at plans on google docs. Dropbox ditto.
BeagleBone Tutorial
A tutorial for the small, powerful and hackable BeagelBone board.
Is this close to what's actually happening here? I ask because this contrasts significantly from what happens with Windows Phone app updates, even though you have similar testing issues (different hardware). What's so special about the Xbox?
Do you think it's even possible to say that those gains, if they occur, are a direct result of the CEO's actions? Is it even /possible/ for Marissa to provide /that much/ value to the company? I feel as though the collective actions of everyone other than the CEO have a much greater impact on the company's success in a given year.
> Can either of you explain why the French police does not get involved?

Steve Mann says it was a factor of luck: "I also contacted the Embassy, Consulate, Police, etc., without much luck".

But IMO it could also be that he didn't have a clue what he was doing. What was he expecting to accomplish with the embassy or the consulate??

You're not going to have much "luck" with an embassy unless you're being arrested or personally held at the police station.

And you're not going to have much "luck" with a consulate unless you need assistance with formal documents regarding international relations such as passports, visas or permits for international trade.

And the police. Correct me if I'm wrong but if I'd be in New York City, say in a posh area near Wall Street, and I get into a scene in a McDonalds where somebody physically assaults me. I go to the NY police and try to explain, either in French or in broken English with a very thick French accent, how much "luck" do you think I would have?

I would go to the police for one thing and one thing only, which is to file a report so I can make an insurance claim. Because that's the only person who speaks your language and gets paid for helping you and has a 24/7 worldwide hotline: your travel insurance agent! Not to mention they have a lot of experience with exactly these kinds of troubles.

Especially if it's about damage to his important medical aid, which surely the same anonymous doctor that wrote the letter that supposedly explains he requires it for medical reasons, told him he might want to consider insuring separately before travelling abroad.
From the video I thought it was going to be more of a hardware issue - eg the hot chips are on that side of the device, and the heat interferes with the touchscreen.
Nice shifting of the goalpost there.

Let's add some more companies: 37Signals, DHL, Dropbox, Evernote, UPS, Kayak, LastMinute, Orbitz, Continental, Mint, Quora, Tumblr, Techcrunch, Slashdot, NYT, NBC, Reuters, Wotif, Zappos, Wikipedia, Youtube.

You still think any of these companies would tolerate loss of ANY data for ANY reason ?
You're ignoring the fact that it dramatically raises the risk in the venture. When you only have a limited time to profit the risk that you won't profit skyrockets.

It'd likely affect funding at every level as investors realize quickly the dramatically increased risk. Who wants to invest in a company that will be out-competed in two years?

It would likely drive a lot of players out of those markets, bigger players who naturally move more slowly with their conservative product development cycles.

Not that any of that is explicitly bad, but it's certainly a big change.
Visual web traffic study
The headline is a bit sensational, for such a thorough article. Now, just waiting for an article that summarizes the other side of the debate.
Toyota Sienna Recalls
Any ideas if this is a software or hardware defect? If the former then a patch may be on the way.
So ask yourself the question, why not "thee", "thou" and "thy" (and relevant possessive forms)? I'm not saying "whom" is wrong only that it is archaic. Reviving just that word seems rather capricious and arbitrary no?
Also notice comma placement, which makes the citizenship requirement very interesting to try to parse. Is there anyone alive today who qualifies?
Finally, a paper and post I can link to when people ask me why using it's in place of its or vice versa makes me angry.
Thanks for the support. Much apriciated!
On your point, we actually dont do any advertising. Our data can help influence advertising so it becomes more relevant to the user. Rather than just spam adds.
But we dont actually supply advertisements.
In other words, "I don't understand #2, so let's assume it's not a problem and handwave it away." Alas, it is a problem, and a critical one. Pray tell, how do you check the VM, from inside the VM sandbox? Guess what: you have no way to do that, not in JavaScript. That's another chicken-and-egg problem which is insurmountable with client-side, in-page JS.
Same difference. PC sillyness has crossed the Atlantic.
This site more or less does the same thing as deadrop.us so why do I need to sign up?
YouTube restores previously removed Romney ad following copyright claim
not so sure about the "Finally" claim. been using https://github.com/terkel/jquery-floating-widget for a while, it also has the ability to stop floating when past a certain container's bottom edge. it's also much lighter weight.

demo: http://terkel.jp/demo/jquery-floating-widget-plugin.html
Nexus 7 Screen Washout and Ghosting a Potential Widespread Issue?
It's not novel work. It's an toy implementation of standard technology. It's impressive for a young person to understand and synthesize the components, but it's an engineering practice project, not an innovation.
As a first design, I even use a theme because it has all the tools I need : different layouts, buttons, boxes, typos...

Here is an example of a theme with the related website :
- http://themeforest.net/item/fadelicious-responsive-html-blog...
- http://jolishare.com

I think working with a designer comes later.
Yes, and "space age materials" now invokes a feeling of being quite out of date.
Yahoo to Pay Mayer $100 Million Over Five Years
You are misrepresenting the article. SSL is only a mitigating factor.
My advice: Don't hold out for perfect. Don't even hold out for pretty good. If something doesn't materialize within about a month of serious job hunting, lower your standards and start getting some relevant experience. Freelance and college jobs are okay, but that's not experience an employer is looking for. That's experience that people looking to hire a freelancer are looking for. If you're wanting to make a career of freelancing, then great. If not, get a job with an employer.

I have two younger brothers who were unemployed for around a year after graduating college, because they were holding out for their dream job. They are working now, but their career path trajectory is not great.

I got married right out of college, so I had pressure to pay the bills. I applied and went on interviews for 3 months, but nothing materialized. I took a job doing desktop computer support for an elementary school making $17k per year, just to get some experience on a resume. 8 months later I got a job with an IT consulting company making $35k, still doing mostly desktop support. I wasn't much different skill-wise, but I had something real on a resume.

The great part of this job was I was in a place where I could learn a ton about a lot of technologies (Windows/AD/Exchange/networking/etc). That was 7 years ago and I've had the opportunity to learn a ton and now I work for another IT consulting company making 6 figures.

A year ago I put a resume online and I had to be very selective because I had so many recruiters calling. I'm not saying "I'm so great", my point is that employers are looking for skills, and concrete experience that "proves" you have those skills. So get some post-graduate full-time work experience on a resume as quickly as possible. Leverage that for a better job. Repeat for 3-5 years and you'll be on a good path. Obviously don't hop jobs too frequently. If you can stay at least 1-2 years it looks better.
That's an excellent point. The sidebar on railstutorial.org is quite functional, and aside from some bright social icons not very distracting. I think that is the perfect use case for a sticky sidebar, navigation or additional information related to the actual body text. I guess I just see it used more as a new sidebar, basically emulating what framesets did for us back in the 90s.
Great post. Thought this was interesting from the Schmidt & Hunter article:

"This meta-analysis found that the validity of GMA for predicting job performance was .58 for professional managerial jobs, .56 for high level complex technical
jobs, .51 for medium complexity jobs, .40 for semi-skilled jobs, and .23 for completely unskilled jobs."

Apparently having a high IQ is a better predictor of being a good business guy than a good hacker.
2006 called, it claims it's copyright for old stories
deadrop.us seems to be focused exclusively on short messages. aes.io, in addition to messages, supports file uploads and sharing, for example...
oh the US Constitution is wonderful to throw at grammar nazis.

Article 1, section 10, clause 2:

"No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress."
(I didn't downvote) His point is that economic growth in developed countries requires advances in technology (to get beyond the 0-4% gdp growth) while in developing countries copying can do (that's why china has 10% gdp growth). i.e. the average chinese can earn a living just by importing technologies (in the short run), while an american need to invent new technology to earn a living.
Wow, what a load of nonsense. Some of smartest people I know are dyslexic.

I guess they won't be working at any of his companies.
Here's the deal: all languages have downsides. It's called "tradeoffs". Depending on what's important to you, those tradeoffs could be Really Bad.

Take for example my current bread and butter, C++. Because it was designed during a time when people still really cared about speed, a number of design decisions were made for the language (eg, non-virtual by default) that may not make sense today. This is just the tip of the iceberg; I trust I don't need to go on about exceptions or the various things left out of the spec or "left as a decision for the compiler implementers".

Now, I know many of the problems with C++, and I'm willing to admit them. It only seems logical, if you are competent at using a tool, you are familiar with its limitations and will admit to them, and maybe justify them in the context of tradeoffs.

This cannot be said of many who defend PHP. I'm not going to rehash criticisms of PHP, but it seems to me that the shortcomings of the language can't be justified by tradeoffs because there were no benefits gained by the downsides that are in PHP. It really seems like an ad-hoc spaghetti mess. That many defend this by citing irrelevant facts ("it's popular!") or debatable facts ("it's easy!") while not addressing the shortcomings at all, tends to lead me to believe that defenders of PHP are lacking in professionalism and probably have little experience of other programming languages.

That articles like this one keep coming up is a sign that people (mainly PHP defenders) can't just admit their language has downsides like everyone else's (okay, maybe more than everyone else's) and move on.

EDIT: A little less inflammatory.
I know the NFL gives the Wonderlic to potential draft choices. I guess they must have done some tests showing Wonderlic is useful to get around disparate impact.
> My issue is if you're unable to delineate between "it's" and "its" and it's the language you've been speaking natively for the past 25 years, I tend to doubt your ability to know what form of "const" to use in C++.

Eh, how about asking me about const-correctness than inferring from my use of "it's" and "its"? You know, you can actually talk about const-correctness instead of inferring from the grammar test.

> At the very least, lack of proofreading suggests to me you might be rash with your code as well.

It's hard to be rash with code if you aren't copy pasting. It isn't the same as posting comments on HN.

> And on a personal level I don't want to work with someone that communicates like a tween

As I already said elsewhere, you are assuming things to be binary when they are not. The spectrum between "liek dis if u cry everytim" crowd and "People with bad grammar should be hanged" people is quite wide.

> Quite frequently a non-native speaker will stumble upon what is written and be thoroughly confused.

Not an excuse for bad grammar, but a non-native speaker is fine with both "didn't go" and "didn't went". I don't see how he is going to be confused. Non-native speakers are confused when they encounter phrases, idioms and slangs they don't know. Fun exercise - ask an Indian if he/she would like to go out with you sometime. He/she would most likely say yes/no without understanding what you meant. Do you have any examples where simple grammar mistakes confuse non-native speaker? I am a non-native speaker, and am curious to know.
So basically an environment where everyone must self-censor himself and avoid all jokes, fun and adult talk except maybe the most childish kind of fun (say, nerf guns).
> "In the case of nearly every other consumable, I'd prefer 50% more because it means a longer period before I have to restock, if I'm careful."

Surely if the price works out the same per unit, it's always better to have the discount than the quantity increase. If you prefer to get more so you don't need to restock then great, you can buy more of it at the same time and the cheaper price means it's just like they offered you a quantity increase instead. On the other hand, if they offer you a quantity increase and you don't want that much... doesn't help you.

For example the shell garage across the road from my office nearly always has an offer of "2 bottles of coke for £x" - if I'm buying a drink there, it's because I'm thirsty at this point in time and don't have anything in my office fridge, and quite likely I'm about to be walking somewhere, buying two doesn't help me, even if there's a good chance I'll want a second one the next day.
Hackage2 has been around the corner for years.
The "public testing instance" doesn't exist.
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB/2.0

If someone's actually working on it again, that would be delightful.
Hacking Society: Visualizing the Web's Hidden Economies
Even the cool look holds a fatal flaw....never again will we design rockets where the cargo rides adjacent to the fuel, rather than on top.
I imagine that sites akin Hacker News would arise to help filter and curate each field. They could range from highly professional, well-financed operations to a prominent academic who catalogs interesting papers on her blog to a popularizer who focuses on exposing/explaining journal papers to a lay audience. Academic could use tools like Scholastica so self-publish in dozens of small sites free of charge - but they could also use Scholastica to replicate the 3-4 journals seen today. I don't think it's a given that a field will be harder to track - if anything, discovering great work would seem easier if more voices were able to play a role.
As a foreigner, I can try to answer that. I've noticed that in general foreigners have a much better grammar than English native speakers because we (at least in my case) went through boring English classes. Learning English was a conscious effort and every grammar rule had to be learned and understood.

Reading English also requires a conscious effort, and reading poorly written English requires an even greater effort to parse the bad and incorrect clauses, something a native English speaker doesn't have to do.
This is the reason that almost all infomercials always throw in something free, regardless of what the product is. "Order now, and we'll throw in this convenient travel size, absolutely free!"
Pareidoloop: Faces generated at random
So teach yourself not to make the mistakes because the next person in behind you working on your code might not know what you mean. If you know the difference it's just laziness to not communicate correctly.

As for periods outside of parentheses or not, that's syntax, not grammar. Your position here is weak. Good grammar is an indication that the person wielding the language at least takes care over what they're doing. A valuable trait for anyone, no matter what.
Maternity leave is also not necessarily paid. In my experience with maternity leave, the only pay involved short- and long-term disability insurance. Of course, individual employers may offer paid leave, but that's not required.
"Whom" is uncommon but by no means archaic in British English. I think it's just American English where the form has disappeared.
I cannot do that from inside the sandbox, but as I completely control the page, not just one script on it, I can be reasonably sure no rogue script is running on it (by using SSL).

I've read the Matasano article, don't assume I didn't. Most of the points in it are negated by controlling the page 100% and using SSL.
So how do I know you (aes.io) changed the JS to leak my password to you? I can never be sure without comparing the JS you send me to some JS I know to be secure.

disclaimer: I'm working on a client-side JS crypto web-app myself :P
Mr. Armstrong replied:

"Thank you Mr. President. It's a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing not only the United States but men of peace of all nations, men with interests and a curiosity and men with a vision for the future."

Fucking awesome.
Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles (2009)
In one case I discourage it as well, because with it you can't write the funniest sentence ever composed: "I would like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God."

Otherwise, no strong opinion, although I usually use it myself.
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"2. Seek Natural Light"

I wish! The people I work with like to turn the lights off and work in the dark. Depressing.
A good summary, though I think evil is the wrong word, Walt isn't evil, but he's no longer good. Really, the title says it all, the show is watching a good man "breaking bad.".

Being a bad guy is much less severe than being evil; Walt wouldn't kill randomly; Walt doesn't enjoy killing; Walt can be reasoned with and trusted to keep his word if you keep yours, but cross Walt, betray him, and you've got a big problem and you won't see it coming. Walt it turns out, even to his surprise, is really good at being bad. A talented scientist and chemist, his knowledge is dangerous and he's weaponized it.

Walt's transformation is some of the best character development and acting I've ever seen on television.
Oh, wow, someone nitpicking this guy's grammar — never saw that coming. What an unhelpful, predictable comment.

FWIW, I don't believe the author was talking about style guides at all anyway. Rather, he seems to be discussing general and very basic principles of English.
> And yes, you can come up with a lot of stories of people who had terrible experiences with them (but yeah you know what, no one who had good experiences with the police brags about it)

That is exactly the reason why I always make a point of "bragging" about having a positive experience with the police. Which has been about 2 or 3 times (fire, mugging, and a local robbery I happened to witness). Glad to have them. Even though afaik they never caught those responsible for the last two, it's how they dealt with the victims that makes it count.
When you write your app, you are choosing a programming language to express your ideas. This is a MODEL of what you want to do - for example if you code using Object Oriented Design, you may have a Workout object and an Exercise object. So your design uses "HasA" inheritance - a Routine HasA Workout. But when you want to store the data these objects contain in a database, the model is now Relational. You have one record for the Routine and multiple for the Workouts.

Because the MODEL is different, you get impedance when you move data between the layers. An ORM is an Object-Relational Mapper that helps reduce this friction, but it can still have problems especially when you have many-to-many or circular relationships.

NoSQL datastores allow you to save your data very closely to how you model it in your application and you do not need an ORM. However, you do not get it for Free you have simply decided to move the logic of maintaining a consistent state into your application. Also, as your application evolves, it will become more difficult to manage your changes in your schemas because you have only deferred the cost change without following a good software development process, your system may spaghetti code very quickly.

If you want to learn more contact me at Ric AT NoSQL dot com
>>In short, I don't see the problem.

You don't see the problem because you look at it from a different direction.

Hiring good programmers is already hard enough. And you are likely to hire a bad programmer despite having them run through many programming interview sessions.

If you put all sorts of irrelevant criteria in between, you are likely to get people who have mastered the art of beating interviews by specializing in those criteria and diverting your attention from actual issues. Then we all go back and complain why its so hard to hire 'good' programmers.

Ultimately you get what you truly want.
Not at all. Like I say above, right tool for the job. I don't doubt that all those companies use MySQL for something, indeed probably every large company in the world has at least one instance of it somewhere.

For example, taking the first company on your list that actually deals with real stuff in the real world rather than just running a website, DHL, here I see http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/037809 - they're an Oracle shop. I could continue but I think I've proved my point.
>I don't think this is heat related as switching the screen off and on again clears the issue.

I'm talking based on a very rough understanding of how capacitive multi-touch works, but it seems plausible that on restart, the screen calibrates itself for the current environment, "zeroing" itself according to the capacitance it is currently seeing, and that that zero value is no longer accurate once the temperature changes significantly.
I'd agree if IDL were meant to be a serious policy organization or directly lobby Congress. But that isn't the case - it's a way of applying grass roots pressure by making people like your average redditor aware of issues and motivated to do something about them. That's the target, so thus the geek pop style of communication. Wholly appropriate for what they're actually trying to achieve.
Dear Mr. von Neumann:
With the greatest sorrow I have learned of your
illness.
The news came to me as quite unexpected. Morgenstern
already last summer told me of a bout of weakness you
once had

I am pretty sure that "already last summer" is poor English grammar. Tisk - this Godel character. Probably not worth a face to face.

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/the-gdel-letter/
>>I've found that those that express themselves well in their native language write better code.

If this is true, then apart from US and UK people who write good code don't exist elsewhere???

Its difficult to take you seriously after reading this.
I wouldn't expect, though, that turning the screen off & back on would significantly lower the heat within. Leaving it off for a minute might, but the quick cycle he demonstrated in the video wouldn't.