skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I would say that Marconi and those who followed in his footsteps have made a huge contribution to human welfare and to glorify Hertz and Maxwell to the expense of the engineers and businesspeople who've made radio a reality is a big mistake.

When I hear this kind of thing, however, I immediately realize how science itself does most of the work of turning people against science.

When I was in graduate school I quickly got the message that a son of a construction worker wasn't going to get a permanent career in academia. In all the time I spent around an Ivy League school, I met just one professor who didn't have at least one professor for a parent -- and I can say he was a thoroughly miserable twisted soul... the epitomy of the nasty physics professor.

Although the image of science is beautiful, the reality is that it's a system that runs young people like racehorses and disposes of most of them. Because of that, it's hard for me to reccomend a career in science to a young person, like my son.

That same university is now going through some drastic changes and the astonishing thing is the lack of resistance. Students don't resist because they're only there for four years and don't have a picture of what's going on. Tenured profs don't care because their motto, to a man, is "aprois moi le deluge."

That's the motto of a man (or woman) who can't be fired. If the personal fate of academics was tied to the fate of their institution, the fate of their field, the fate of their students and of mankind, we might see a major upwelling of humanity and morality in the academic class.
Quite obvious ripoff, too. Apple could at least have named it "nosleep" or something like that.
The form is the element screwing you over. It's compressing everything to minimum. Set form{height:100%} and it spans the page again. You can also move the form just inside of the table and get the desired effect.
Sure there is, here is my saturday morning no coffee's take on it:

<!doctype html>

<style type="text/css">
* { -moz-box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; }

html, body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
border: 0px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

.header,.footer {
width: 100%;
height: 10%; /*use percentage or fixed size*/
border: 1px solid red;
}

.content {
width: 100%;
height: 80%;
}

.leftPanel, .rightPanel {
width: 50%;
float: left;
border: 1px solid red;
height: 100%;
}

</style>

<body>
<div class="header">Hey I'm a header</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="leftPanel">Left Panel Here</div>
<div class="rightPanel">Right Panel</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">I'm a footer</div>
</body>

You should probably ask this question on StackOverflow.com

And it's probably been answered there already.But what heck.
Ah yes, this method does set the height of the header and footer as constant.
Then you get to shove mind-control worms into their ears.
"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."

The same, tired old argument. And the answer to that argument remains the same: http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...
Que crazy libertarian mantras in 3... 2... 1...
A few months back I decided to give some time to both Derby and Meteor. Derby appealed because of the packaging, but Meteor obviously had the media traction. I gave 10 days to each to see what I would learn and build.

After the 20 days my biggest problem was with Derby and trying to make progress as the community and support just wasn't there. Of course you might think that one shouldn't complain about this, but its important for the uptake to have clear documentation (it starts well), guides and people involved etc. I think it was Nate that would answer my stupid questions on IRC when he had time, but other than that I was on my own and the feeling I got from others was the same...

Normally I would just read the source, but it was in coffeescript ( glad that Derby has now moved to plain Javascript), and it just wasn't enjoyable when I wanted to integrate with my own datasource from a custom JSON backend - not just another NoSQL database, but an API I know well. I got it working and so forth but it did make me wonder why the hell I bothered and rm'd the git repo.

Doing the same exercise using Meteor the first thing that struck me at the time was their community. The second thing was I was having fun again, and thirdly it was less effort as long as I didn't leave the path too much. But the fact that it didn't have auth and that my datasource was completely exposed and that I couldn't use existing packages was a downside. So I put both to bed.

I hope Derby is getting greater traction and a community is starting to form around it. I also hope that the move to Javascript will make some of the design decisions clearer.

In a few months I will probably give one or other a proper project to work on.
Do you have any statistics to back up that claim?
I think you could be seeing a lot of 3a/3b with 3b being that Andriod JB is finally a damn good OS imho. I have been in Apples camp for a long time simply because I thought they had the best device OS combo out there. Honestly, I'm surprised they were able to stay the best combo for as long as they have.

I love competition and can't wait to see what Apple comes up with next.
The best solution so far!

http://raw.gibney.org/height_test_standards_1

Only problem: The textare is slighty misaligned.
Nosleep would be a ripoff of this project: https://code.google.com/p/macosx-nosleep-extension/
Right. If it wasn't stock options it would be salary.
More like command-line commands. Isn't that a bit like calling Windows command-line utilities 'new DOS commands'?
The 3GS is apples low end model, that doesn't mean it is low end compared to other models on the market. An 8GB 3GS sells for ~ 370 Euros. That price may be a bargain for that model, but I can buy Samsung phones much much cheaper.

Edit: Response to the parents edit: Yes, your view is US-based. If I buy a phone and get a phone contract without subsidy, my contract is cheaper - up to 10 euros/month. I'd be surprised if that's much different in the US - you always pay for the subsidy in one way or another.
You need to know what books to read.
Its not the same. You made a lot of changes. For example deleting the textarea and other elements.
The sharing command is new to desktops, but not new to OSX. I've used it in shell scripts on a Snow Leopard (10.6) server. (It's very useful if you are creating or updating the permissions for hundreds of shares at once. The manual method is brutal, as you can imagine.)

Checking the Apple man pages, they show documentation for it on 10.7.4 and for 10.4-intel[1], so it's been around on the servers for some time. (Also, the man pages still list it as a server-only command. Those may not have been updated yet for Mountain Lion.)

(If you're not already aware of them, Apple has a very full set of man pages online. The framed browsing style is a pain, but the pages are still great for scanning and finding new commands[2].)

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/darwi...

[2]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/darwi...
space bar doesn't seem to work for me (ubuntu, firefox and chrome)
Amazon has 2000 census data freely available http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/Economics/2290 as part of their Public Data Sets. I suppose they will have 2010 data up soon.
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Parallelism is when you run your program on multiple processors. Semantics of your program does not change whether you run it on single processor or multiple processors.

Concurrency is when you write your program using multiple threads. Your program looks and means vastly different if you use threads.

You use concurrency not for performance gain, but for clarity of your program. You use parallelism for performance gain, to utilize all your processors.
jlft already suggested this. Please see his reply. And if possible upvote it. He made the best solution so far, but his post is burried down below.
you just need to add this to textarea

-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
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> To me, "re-editable code" is much, much better than an untouchable black box or toolkit. (Knuth)

Probably Knuth misunderstood the concept
There isn't much to rip off, the whole thing is a few dozen lines long, trivial utility. The program name is probably a bona fide reference to the app.

The source code of caffeinate(8) is available at http://opensource.apple.com/source/PowerManagement/PowerMana...
yeah, I thought NBC's coverage was horrible. Do they really believe that the majority of the world actually needs _all_ of the imagery explained? I mean, who doesn't know who that lady on the umbrella, flying out of the sky is (for example)?
Samsung vs. Apple feels like the Yankees vs. Red Socks or insert your favorite sports teams. Instead of rooting for your favorite sports team, you're rooting for your favorite phone manufacturer or tech company.

I find the fanboy oneupsmanship from both "sides" highly tedious. As if someone can't praise both Apple and Samsung.
Just put the textarea in the left panel.

He asked for the layout in HTML5, not the same code. Separating content from presentation is a better practice than shoveling it all in a table.

<!doctype html>

<style type="text/css">
* { -moz-box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; }

html, body, form {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
border: 0px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

.header,.footer {
width: 100%;
height: 10%; /*use percentage or fixed size*/
border: 1px solid red;
}

.content {
width: 100%;
height: 80%;
}

.leftPanel, .rightPanel {
width: 50%;
float: left;
border: 1px solid red;
height: 100%;
}

textarea { width: 100%; height: 100% }

</style>

<body>
<form action="go.php" method="post">
<div class="header">Hey I'm a header</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="leftPanel">
<textarea name="text">Write here</textarea>
</div>
<div class="rightPanel">Right Panel</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
I'm a footer, hit submit<br>
<input type="submit" class="submit" value="submit" name="" />
</div>
</form>
</body>
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I noticed that too. As the house was lifting, I pointed out that the computer should be a next cube. If not, they did it wrong.
I think his point is that although people are often interested in parallel behavior, they should really focus more on concurrent design to avoid/remove the dependencies that ultimately limit parallelism. Slide 19 mentions automatic parallelization, but his point is that developers should think more about concurrency and not that Go will automatically maximally parallelize concurrent programs.
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Awesome! We got it!

http://raw.gibney.org/height_test_standards_2
Two HTML Standards Diverge in a Wood
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Good point. But it is the world's best opportunity to get leading investors on the platform to make an investment or two to give it a level of credibility others have not reached. That itself is a mini network effect problem but having them all in one room makes it much easier.

Having the world's leading angel investors on the platform would be one of the keys to establishing a successful two-sided network.
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Same problem as with "thegooley"s solution.
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They aren't my friends. Thought it was very sad/interesting though.
Key benefits of Office 2013
No integrated git-push deploy (I know you can use a gem with an extra instance to do that, but still). No SSH into your app. No custom app. Extra runtimes are there, but old (Erlang, for example), and no idea how to use them.

Other than those, it's a very good PaaS.
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Fwiw, tea doesn't contain any caffeine - it has it's own methylzanthine, with similar but slightly differenr effects. (It also contains l-theanine).
htop over top, tmux over screen, zsh over bash, and postgres over mysql

That doesn't seem like a good comparison to me. I use htop over top because it has features that top doesn't have (the funky coloured ASCII graphs). I use tmux over screen because unicode seems to work without any effort on my part. I use bash because I have never looked at zsh in detail and don't care enough. I use postgres because I like its license better than mysql and its not controlled by any one company.

So its not at all about the perception that one is significantly better than the other, at least for me, its about specific features (license is a feature). Or in the case of zsh vs bash, where there are no specific features, I use bash because it seems to be the default on most distros.
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Really touching and a shame this hasn't gotten more attention here. I bet most of us could learn something from those wise and kind words.
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For a playlist, it's "sort by the original arbitrary order that the user put it in" so you can't rely on the usual sort methods - e.g. clicking the column header.
Fabio Pietrosanti pointed out on twitter https://twitter.com/fpietrosanti/status/229113274698981376 "My view from Italy (without ever crossing US border): DEFCON: NSA is a friendly agency to work for HOPE: NSA is a unfriendly agency to fight". There was a NSA whistleblower at HOPE Number Nine barely 2 weeks ago, William Binney. He detailed some of the abuses there. http://www.hopenumbernine.net/speakers/#binney You can listen to his talk here http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/#binney
When did that comparison take place anyway? I don't think anybody is still using Pascal in this day and age?
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change height: 10% to min-height: 10% in “.header, .footer” ?
Being in Canada this is going to suck immensely having people just across the border with 1Gbps meanwhile I pay $100 for 15Mbps/950Kbps (cable TV included).

Pretty soon I bet I'll come across someone say "Here look at this file...what wrong? It's only 9GB you should be able to download this no problem."

Or Xbox oh crap I'll forever be stuck with racist Scottish ten year-olds since I'll never get matched to my own region everyone will be 1Gbps.
(largely agreement here, can't say much about Knuth, though)

The essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html ?

I think a lot of everyday reuse (by factoring commonly used code) happens at a level of programming which neither fits application nor library development but writing small tools to automate ad-hoc tasks (e.g. by scientists, admins, etc.) Environments like Python, the shell, or Lisps seem to be more suited to this kind of development than, say, Java.

In the case of the example, I could easily imagine that the "isolate words in input text"-part will turn out to show up again, and then one would factor it out to a function. When the first text containing unicode soft hyphen characters is encountered, only a single shared function has to be updated, and all little scripts using it will benefit!

A function extracting the text from xml-documents, skipping a configurable set of element types, might find similar reuse, etc.

Just an aside: I'm not familiar with Python, what I found disappointing was the mix of chained object method invocations and "outer" function calls - since replacing the built-in string class seems to be frowned upon, I was wondering how the example script would look like using pipe[1] :-)

One question about the Python code: is the first call to sorted needed, and if yes, why?

[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pipe
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Hold your horses everyone, we still have time. Apple won't take over a technology until it can find a way to make it worthless without an iTunes account...
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You are right in that the US does not accredit universities. Instead, "the Secretary of Education is required by law to publish a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies that the Secretary determines to be reliable authorities as to the quality of education or training provided by the institutions of higher education and the higher education programs they accredit."

Which means that while you can start a bunch of fake universities and have them start an accrediting agency, it isn't the case that that agency is considered equivalent to, say, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (which accredits Stanford, among many).

You wrote: "In addition to that, it is illegal to call yourself a PhD in Germany if you are not really a PhD." My understanding is that the rule is a bit broader than that. For example, http://chronicle.com/article/What-s-Up-Doc-German-Law/40636 highlights an example where the "director of a prestigious research institute in Jena, Germany", with a PhD from Cornell, was charged with Missbrauchs von Titeln because the law did not then allow him, in Germany, to call himself a "Doctor" - Cornell being outside of the EU. The "state education ministers met last week and decided to allow holders of degrees from designated American universities to call themselves "Doctor."", so this is probably not a problem now.

However, it does seems to mean that Germany has to 'accredit' that a given US PhD program is good enough for a recipient to deserve the title "Doctor" in Germany.
As someone who has experience in having to get apps to run on almost all Android phones it is a very painful experience.

Would you mind giving some product names? Just curious to understand your perspective.
Mixtaping.FM does a good job of reimagining the mixtape.
Not the same. In the original, the footer adopts its height to its content. Putting in a min-height of 10% will not accomplish that. You can simply verify it by comparing your solution and the original visually. They look completely different.

Please be aware, that meanwhile there is a working solution here:

http://raw.gibney.org/height_test_standards_2

It was suggested by jlft but his post got no upvotes, so its burried almost on the bottom of this thread.
> (Also, talking about security-people-hackers on a site primarily focused on programming-startup-hackers confuses the crap out of me.)

From the Hacker News Guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."

The folks at DEF CON are some of the best hackers out there. Have you seen any of the presentations?
Yes, what I'm saying is that there is an implication here that Samsung is winning against the iPhone. In reality they are simply selling handsets at price points Apple is not even competing for.

What an absurd way to frame it...

Companies care about units sold (market share) and profit.

Samsung is winning on units sold, Apple on profit.

Nobody cares about one individual model "winning" over some other, you can't measure that anyway. How many people would have bought an iphone if there was no roughly equivalent $300 samsung available? How many wouldn't have bought a smartphone at all if there was no $300 samsung?
I'm pretty sure that Windows has had a lot more money poured into it than Linux has. But I'll stick with Linux thanks.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment! I am taking notes.

And you are absolutely right about the UI. I did not get time yet for that (I even did not copy the CSS and linking directly from django site - just like viewing image from external site :D)-

Will make the site itself secure using HTTPS or RSA key as you suggested and include sample code and some applications that will help protect machines and networks.

Thank you!
So true. The other I went to change my cellphone plan and god forbid, I asked why the monthly fees are so high in Canada compared to US. The answer "the cost of running a country wide network for so few people is costly" Let me say this, bulls*.
I had a 2 1/2 year old Droid and was waiting for the iPhone 5. Then 9 days ago I stopped by my local Verizon store and bought the Galaxy S III on an impulse buy after checking out the beautiful 1280x720 pixel display. ( have written about it now being an iPad substitute http://blog.markwatson.com/2012/07/new-cellphone-samsung-gal...)

My wife liked my phone so much that she bought one a few days later.

Awesome phone. I don't think I have ever been as happy with a device.
Some of us have tried both and prefer Samsung, fwiw.
Read item #8 in the doc that you're discussing.

"8. BTW, it has to hook into Twitter. Key point. The thing that's kept the other networks from working is that they don't peer with Twitter. Luckily this is in keeping with the new Twitter mandate of putting stuff in but not taking stuff out. Great. If you want to read what someone says on Twitter you have to use Twitter. Not a big deal it turns out."

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/25/anOpenTwitterlikeEco...
I think what was meant was something like "when the enterprise market reaches a tipping point and gravitates en masse to substantially less expensive but more or less equally effective technologies, the way that consumers and smaller businesses have already done."
"Program specifically designed to demonstrate literate programming turns out to be a good demonstration of literate programming, not a good demonstration of library creation"

... can someone please point out what the problem is? I don't see it :-|
Facebook's price drop is just reality setting in. There was a lot of hoping and wishing going on that was dispelled with hard numbers.
My guess is Twitter doesn't want Facebook to have access to their friend graph and Facebook did the same thing to them a while ago.
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One of the comments notes that this was a well publicized change, citing page 9 of Siracusa's in-depth review. I'm sure every affected user will have read through his entire review before upgrading.
I mean when there is no "enterprise" market. Tech is changing, devices are getting smaller and more powerful. The need for "enterprise" software/hardware is slowly dying.

Eventually "enterprise" will mean big servers of data. And that's about it. Look at Google Apps (and others like it). It's fee for services to anybody. You pay for what you want and it's accessible to everyone - corporate and the joe on the street.

Now granted, Google Apps (and all the rest) have a long way to go. But they will get there. And sooner or later, companies won't have to buy 10,000 copies of Office, or spend $300,000 on a database.

I see the day when a company joins Google Apps, and says "I need 25TB on Big Table".
The problem is that it isn't what they wanted it to be.
When will they learn that they can't win these things.

Perhaps they'll even succeed to shut this one site down. Within weeks there will be two knockoffs to replace it. And that's not even mentioning the dozen desktop apps that do the exact same thing.
That can't be right. Threads don't improve the clarity of most programs; they're notoriously unclear.
I recently read that Heroku was considering going multi-region.
My point was more that on the web everything is a destination/reference/document at the same time.

The content is the interface, the interface is the content.
I would hope so. Perhaps they should call those out to make it clearer?
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Another comment: the high resolution display really makes a huge difference for activities like SSH shelling into servers, browsing the web, showing people slide shows, watching Netflix movies, etc.

I actually wish the device were even larger physically with even a higher resolution screen, but I am happy enough with it. I am 6'4" tall, and the Galaxy S III fits really well in my hand. I understand that someone with small hands might not like the phone as much.