skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great solution and the impetus behind Interiew Street.

And while HN is a very programmer centric culture, most jobs can't be automated in this way. Look at the OP's job description, how do you automate that? And how does someone like the OP automate that process? Believe me, I would love to live in a world where every position in every company is able to command a great developer to build a customer filtering solution, but most companies in the valley (much less out of it) won't invest this time/infrastructure. Hence the rise of BS keyword filtering systems. I'm personally very interested in solutions that can make this process better, but it's a highly non-trivial problem in most subject areas.
In the TeX output, say the DVI file, we can (I presume, though I don't know any details) find all the information about detailed placement and size of all the characters and diagrams. This is provided in a certain format, according to certain conceptual framework.

On the other hand, the web technologies, including javascript, can theoretically be programmed to respond to such instructions and recreate the same kind of control we get with PDFs, and even go beyond it.

What I wonder is: if we want this kind of inter-operability, what is the crux of the matter? Where precisely does the mapping have to be made?

Thanks for your 2 cents, I "ain't" asking for your "help".
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The London Olympics 2012 Total Perspective Vortex
And now Chick-Fil-A continues to expand out of its home region, and the things they used to garner that support in Georgia may not help them in the Northeast, where religion is considered a more private affair.
Nice. I saw your edit to change it from "10x" to "10-50x". Moving goalposts are of course much harder to hit.

But regardless, this is what I mean by choosing which causes to bring up when preaching your moral superiority.
Looks to me like a feeble attempt by Karim Kai Ani of Mathalicious to generate some PR for his for-profit website. What better way to drive traffic then to "build up some controversy" by hating on Khan? Sal's noble efforts have allowed countless people obtain a first-class education at virtually no cost. Shame on The Washington Post for promoting this hidden agenda. Seems like they also have an agenda of their own.

1) Post a controversial guest article bashing a guy whose actually trying to do something good in the world.

2) Act like the neutral party so they don't have to take any blame. Allow Karim to be the scapegoat.

3) Sit back and enjoy while traffic explodes to their site.

I see you Washington Post. You ain't fooling me!
Some OS X apps and system services go even a step further — or at least have in the past; I feel like one sees less of it these days — with options in GUI apps that are exposed through the command line (usually via the defaults command) only.

That to me feels like a very nice hierarchy:

A few basic, common options available in the main UI.

A few more-advanced/less-commonly-desired options available in a part of the UI that's labeled "Advanced". Things that mortals-but-not-noobs would be interested in. Novices actively don't want to hit Advanced but the sort of user that would be interested in these options goes right for it.

Then really exotic options are available through an interface that takes up absolutely no UI space but is easily accessible by most of the kind of people that would want such things.
Great questions. They should be directed at not just Google but other players in the market and across a number of industries as well. I have a feeling that in many cases answers would not be pleasant to hear.
My only question is, when can I have it in the city I live?
While my Roadrunner did a fine job on downloading, the uploading never exceeded 800Kbps, which is really painful these days.
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The significance is not in the individual person itself it is in that they know the individual person and will have a deeper connection with them than a number of unknown people they have never met.
I've spent a lot of time in the PHP internals, and this seems like an excellent and comprehensive guide.

However, I think that the title and the concept behind the post demonstrates how PHP got the way it is. Note how it's focussed on the syntax - this isn't a guide to ensuring that your feature has good semantics, or that it works well with existing features, or how to avoid creating new syntax by extending existing hook points in the language.

Nearly every PHP internals discussion about creating a new language feature has started and ended with "what will the syntax be" (sometimes even with a _vote_ about it!). Some more emphasis on the other aspects of language design would be welcome.
You're making the problem harder than it needs to be.

Knowing when the car is braking is trivial - the vast majority have a dedicated brake switch wire.

Why do you want to prevent the normal brakes from engaging when regen braking is happening? Since the electric motors are on the rear wheels, braking traction will be severely limited. The majority of braking needs to happen up front due to dynamic weight transfer.

Instead, use a simple brake balance controllers to reduce the mechanic braking effort at the rear and make up for it with the regenerative braking. Brake balance controllers are readily available in the aftermarket, so this is a solved problem.
>There is a difference between boycotting people because they have different opinions, and refusing to give money to a company who turns around and uses it to actively support anti-gay legislation.

I respect anyone's choice to do so.

However, for me personally I see trying to convince other people to share your opinion as just an extension of having an opinion in the first place.

I wouldn't vote for a law to ban gay marriage, but I'd still patronize a business who's owner did.

Unless that owner was doing something more than peacefully trying to coerce people to vote for said law.
> On Thursday, Instagram released an update in which the "find friends from Twitter" feature is broken. Instagram shows a warning message: “Twitter no longer allows its users to access this information in Instagram via the Twitter API.”

This passed QA? Users don't need to be aware of an implementation detail like this.
> So this still seems like something that Apple could (and should) really improve on without breaking important functionality.

I'm not seeing how any of the suggested changes are an improvement.

Yes, the current scheme isn't mathematically random. That's irrelevant unless mathematically random is a better user experience.

So, let's see some evidence for different schemes that improve the user experience. Note - users don't care about mathematical purity.
Right. Australia's fundamental "problem" vis-a-vis China is that China has about 70x the population. Which means that even at much lower per-capita income China has a lot of money to throw around compared to the size of the Australian economy...
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Parliament make the laws.
I think it just may be poor paragraph structure.

"Below is Khan’s e-mail to me, which I shared with the author of Monday’s post, Karim Kai Ani, a former middle school teacher and math coach who is the founder of a company called Mathalicious. He said Khan is wrong. This won’t be the end of the debate."

It was part of the recap, I understood it to mean "Khan responds to this guy who posted the other day who said Khan was wrong" and then "stay tuned for his response to Khan's response" rather than "And then he replies Khan is wrong in his response. Stay tuned."
>In other words, each new song now has to be significantly different from what came before, so as to conform to our expectation of randomness. Which isn't really random at all.

That's the trouble with randomness. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
I wasn't complaining that Google is a nameless, faceless, soulless corporation just like the ISPs, just trying to remind people.
I find this line of discussion dubious. What you want to know is _not_ if he has spent hours preparing but if what he is saying is correct/the best way to explain something. He might be so gifted that everything just comes to him. Or he might be the person that might suck at math even with hours of preparation. Just because he said "I dont prepare for my lessons" (paraphrased) does not mean what he's teaching is no good. There is a reason why the videos have been watched as many times as they have.

The thing that annoys me about Karim's argument is
1. There is no constructive criticism. He does not tell Sal (or me the reader) how one can make SA better
2. He has a competing for-profit venture that is a direct conflict of interest with SA and leads me to question his motives
3. He is a self-proclaimed expert with no proof of his own expertise
4. From his rant, I don't get that there is something structurally wrong with SA videos in general as his claims make them out to be
It is unlikely that a natural gas conversion could be done for this price. The tanks to hold natural gas are quite expensive and I doubt we will find a significantly better way to build a high pressure tank than we already know about.

Then you have the issue about a filling station.

Then considering taxes on fuel are nearing 50% of fuel cost, you're right around where this conversion gets you. (I don't know if NG at the pump would be taxed)

Electric solutions work around the issue of fuel cost and filling locations nicely. Electricity is cheap and basically available in every garage. If you have a garage. Having a hybrid electric works around the issues of limited range and cold weather.
This wasn't the question I thought it was. It's actually "why don't things get reshuffled when I expect?"

The answer to the stated question is: because randomness clumps and plays too many songs from the same album/artist/wtfe and bugs people. See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4301922
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Complaining about HN's site operation strikes me as being similar to complaining about Marilyn Monroe's driving skills.
For example algebraic topology, category theory and (mathematical) logic.

(Functional programming comes to mind, but I really am no programmer, despite some interest in the languages.)
So you believe she speaks about herself using "We" instead of "I"?

Her contribution is the first 2 paragraphs, the rest is the critique from Christopher Danielson and Michael Paul Goldenberg.

Edit: And please explain, how is the abbreviation terrible, because I've clearly missed something.
How is this different from Status.net or Identi.ca?

http://status.net/product
http://identi.ca/
Don’t you browse your music? I’m very particular about my music collection and I definitely need to browse it. Sometimes I just do not know what I want to listen to, so search is useless. And looking at something like all albums from 2009 (because I know some good music came out then) can be very useful for me.

I do not care about the structure on the disc. I use my music library app to browse.
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What can you do with a fb fan box and a QR code
No more scratch.txt on my desktop
One of the strongest arguments for free speech is the practical impossibility of knowing which views are and aren't correct.

Another is the fact that pretty much every apparatus ever erected for the enforcement of "correct views" has ultimately been corrupted and abused.
Before iPhone, after iPhone
The random play algorithm iTunes should use
There seems to be a consenous(ish) among players of Super Meat Boy (a mario-like, very hard, platformer) that using a controller is slightly easier.

Certainly I have tried playing street fighter with a keyboard and found it extremely hard.

Also, I couldn't imagine how you would play a 2d platformer which used an analogue stick. You lose the analogue if you map to the keyboard, and it doesn't really map easily to a mouse (as you can't keep moving your mouse in one direction forever).
Fogus leaves Relevance and Clojure/core
"It's not hard to adapt to using oAuth+Twists for a given provider."

I'm not sure, but I suspect that might actually be my point.
I'm sure if you had that kind of student-teacher ratio in normal schools students would perform better anyway.
This article is very ambiguous on what kind of linux talent they see as being needed. Are they looking for sysadmins or developers? By linux do they mean using tools like gcc, make, etc? Or do they mean writing tools against a POSIX interface? Also, considering that basically every college uses a linux environment, I find it odd that they can't find devs who can work in linux.
There is a reason why you don't see Batman suit up...
I'm fortunate to be using a Teksavvy connection with no caps. However, they're still running on Videotron's equipment, meaning I'm still paying Videotron-like prices for cable internet. Teksavvy's Ontario rates appear to be cheaper for exactly the same speed tier.

Overall, the CRTC is less interested in competition, and much more interested in serving the interest of the established telcos (Rogers, Bell, etc). They seem especially afraid of foreign competition; witness what happened initially with Wind Mobile's efforts to break into the market.
>So why do you think they need to revolutionise the controller? The original XBox had a mild stab at something new but they quickly reverted to a design much more similar to the Playstation Dual Shock.

There weren't really that many changes from the original XBox controller to the 360's controller. The face buttons and the stick positions didn't really change. In terms of buttons, the only major change was the removal of the black/white buttons from the original XBox, and the addition of the RB and LB bumpers to the 360.

The major change was that the side grip rails were made smaller.
I know, right? Reminds me of this: http://www.thrivemovement.com/
Definition and technique to calculate are not the same thing. Consider integer division, which is defined by an equation, but calculated by an incremental long division algorithm.

Most definition use a phrase like "such that", which says nothing at all about calculating.
Can somebody tell me why building a centralized service that stores messages is a good idea?
I agree that there are a lot of excellent questions there. The author references the Google-Kansas City agreement [1] throughout the article, and has articulated some very real, pressing concerns about the terms of that contract.

It's my understanding, however, that ALL of the infrastructure providers for a city will have similar contracts with the city, but I've been unable to find any online records for Google's competitors ATT & Time Warner. I imagine that while each of the contracts will feature significant differences, the average person would balk at the privileges the city government affords to each of these companies.

Without those documents to put the Google-KC contract into context, I'd hesitate to draw any conclusions from Google's (possible) response.

[1] http://www.netcompetition.org/wp-content/uploads/Google-Kans...
"How does one use that template? Can you show me a function that takes anything with a do() method? Like this?:"

It should work without the template parameter:
do(a), do(b)

"Can I take any arbitrary type with an "int do()" method and use that with do?"

Yes.
Google's Perforce server
These are 3 implementations of the same thing. I can imagine there are people using Backbone, YUI, and EventEmitter. Oh, and they might be using some other library which shims the EventTarget interface and uses CustomEvent objects.

Read the Holowaychuk article. We need to stop working with frameworks and start working with components. How great would it be of I could use Backbone without Events (not picking on Backbone.Events here, just an example), or use a JQuery function that one of my libraries requires without including all 32k of it.
Yeah, If they show me one more ad relevant to my interests, I'm deleting my Google account all together!
It might help them lobby to get it back. Or maybe they want to show that Twitter is responsible, not themselves.
github, for example. Owners wanted a large equity event, and they wanted money for a larger expansion.
> Could you explain what you understand by "intent"?

Did you intend to use a technique? Did you intend to use it without permission. Note that the latter doesn't require knowledge that permission was required.

As to treble damages after being informed, that's an extra hammer, sort of like "you had a chance to clean up your act".

> Do you think you can have intent to infringe a particular patent without knowing that the particular patent exists?

Yes.

It's sort of like violating the law. You can be guilty of doing something with intent to do that thing even if you don't know which law is involved.
Is that not the same principal? Person X chooses career Y and must obtain a certification through path Z.
If the gay community would just leave this company alone he wouldn't be forced to stand up for his views (in public) in the first place. I've known this family for years. They are good people and don't wish any ill will on anyone regardless of their views. The gay community just won't accept the fact that Chick-fil-A will never agree with their moral stance. BTW, this has been going on for years.
Maybe that was my point. I am not sure. You see, a new technology was considered and eventually chosen because it was a different kind of project. And so it happened that Node was a perfect fit for the job and a good opportunity to try it out. It is still to be determined if the choice was correct.

It is better to get out of your comfort zone not by doing the same thing in a new way, but by doing a new thing. You are bored with your job? Its not Java, or c#, or c that is boring. It is the stuff you are using it for and the way you are using it.

Anyway, Node is an excellent tool. Just don't use it as an easy way out of your comfort zone.
>Why should the government endorse practices only supported by you? You are not special.

I don't. However ~50% of American's don't support it.

At the same time I don't think there is a legal reason to ban gay marriage.

This is a proposed compromise between both sides.
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Sounds like the KC municipal governments rolled out the subsidy trough for Google here, which I'm sure played a big part. Also, I would imagine the market for connectivity in KC is closer to the national average that it'd be in NYC or SF, so Google gets a better idea of how to sell their service.

To be clear, I welcome this development. I am skeptical of Google, but symmetrical 1Gb/s opens the door for actual technical solutions to the potential privacy nightmares, rather than relying on the utterly corrupt state machinery to provide anything like a remedy. All broadband providers are heavily subsidized, and while my preferred solution is pretty radically different than opening the market slightly wider for more regulated oligarchic giants, I'd rather Google get the subsidy than one of the unquestionably horrid cable/telco dinosaurs.
Except that the notion of homeschooling is hugely co-opted by cultists who brainwash their kids. It's hard to get a serious dialogue on homeschooling going when most people equate it to a stand-in for Bible study and avoiding science education.
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Great Article on Ending the FED
Maybe the answer is to have local nodes.
Think of it like a traditional video arcade, somewhere in your town is a small datacentre full of servers hosting various games.
It may be good for developers, but what about it will convince users to switch from Twitter to using it?
pull request? I'm no Haskell expert (which apparently you need to be to get decent performance.)
Look at the previous Google threads and those who have used its customer service recently were pretty happy with it.

Google's support was awful a few years but it looks like they improved with time.
Huh. cool. Of course, even if that problem is solved, it's still very difficult to track meatspace interactions (I spend, actually, more money on meatspace ads than on online ads. check out the checkout lanes in the safeway on shoreline in mountain view.)

If I'm right that people are willing to pay more for advertising they can track, and that meatspace advertising will remain nearly impossible to track, meatspace advertising will remain undervalued.
That's about 20 times what coal costs per equivalent energy. There both carbon based fossil fuels, one's just portable.
Pardon my ignorance, but how did you come up with this $7 figure? Was there some technical calculation you made or more of a gut instinct?
When I lived in Houston, I would've loved to see a hybrid retrofit of the type the original Honda Insight had -- a motor/flywheel. That could have turned my old biodiesel Mercedes into an acceptable hurricane emergency diesel power generator.
Sounds to me like he chose to ignore the ad hominems and focus on the complaints for which there is a factual definitive answer.
There are laws on the books full of references to "men" or occassionally "White men". The Americans, "re-wrote" all that by adding a few lines to the constitution saying that women and other races had equal rights as white men, and could not be discriminated against.

Thus the old laws applied to everyone,without a need for someone to go at them with eraser and ink.
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I'm sure they won't let that stop them from continuing to fund the erosion of civil rights worldwide. The assholes.
Same with KDE3->KDE4. They released 4.0, saying it was a beta. Guess what, if you call it 4.0 and do a release announcement, people will get it no matter what you say. And then they'll judge based on your pre-release status, calling your software crap. It's the lesson no one learns.
Easy answer: the majority of users won't switch. This reminds me a bit of the Diaspora hype a few months ago.
Sorry about that. What happened when you submitted the form? Did you receive a confirmation message saying that you'll receive an email? If so, you might want to check your spam folder in case it made its way there for some reason.

Two reasons for the email: 1. Marketing purposes. So I can send additional educational (and hopefully useful) content. 2. I actually take the name and email address then dynamically create a PDF proposal using that information on the cover page.

The execution is a bit sloppy as it was an experiment and quickly put together so I'll need to work on improving that now that I'll be keeping it.
This is my first Haskell code, so I read several sources, and posted my code to some online sources asking for help. That's what I came up with. I tried a bunch of strictness hints, I found one that cut the time in half. Lots of trial and error. Apparently, there's another one I didn't find. Could you submit a pull request?
So I can read them from anywhere?
I'm just thinking people would fill up at home. If nothing else use it for commuting. Most Americans already have a natural gas line coming into their house.

So charging stations wouldn't be necessary and taxes wouldn't be an issue either.
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And if that still isn't good enough then each gamer can have their own personal mini-datacenter in a box right by their TV or monitor! :)
Is TiSP Real? Questions behind Google's April Fools jokes
The redefinition is relative to a variety of traditional definitions which include weird (and also Biblical) concepts like polygamy, concubines and having compulsory sex with your brother's wife.

The redefinition is ultimately dictated by changes in material conditions which lead to proximate changes in people's interests.
I can read web pages from everywhere, too. And emails, and XMPP messages, and RSS feeds.
But these electric engines could be programmed to only run when the car is moving in a straight line. If the wheel speed between the two rear wheels starts to differ then the motors turn off.