skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As masklinn pointed out earlier, it's frustration with the lack of quality control rather than anger. While I'm certain that the multiple assignment bug will be fixed (if it isn't already, of course), I simply brought it out to illustrate a point: The Chrome(ium)? team needs to invest a bit more time in quality control, and less time on trying to make the web "faster" by taking shortcuts around well-established practices and specs.

I wouldn't be surprised if the multiple assignment bug was caused by some sort of speed-related optimization.
I know Gruber isn't liked, but I think his analysis of these commercials is accurate: They're sending the message that a buyer can easily get assistance if they buy a Mac. Not that the Mac is better, just that you will get personal and personable care to make and do things that you always wanted to.
I think he might be referring to a 1yr cache timeout on things like the logo.
Inspecting web pages, huh?
Thank you for introducing me to the term "wet bots"!
Neat.

After a quick poke around, this looks like a great codebase to learn from -- I will certainly point aspiring iOS developers in its direction. All the basics (CoreData, custom table views) are there, as are nice uses of more modern features like blocks and APIs like in-app purchase.

Out of curiosity, what's the deal with the CDKHTTPClient? It looks like the implementation is stubbed out for this release -- aka there is a back-end, but none of the back-end code is made available (at least so far)? I only took a quick look, so I might have missed something obvious.
i've seen the name dozens of times, i've done a dozen or so lessons on their site to try it out, i've told people about it, and this is first i've realized this.
Damn straight. Cheap jokes are not allowed.
It doesn't change the fact that there is already a Code Academy (.org) in chicago or that when I do a Google search, I have to purposely put in a negative keyword for codecademy for it to accurately get Code Academy, which people end up mixing up anyway.

I genuinely believe the name to be Codecademy and not Code Academy. But overall I wish they'd just change the name period lol.
Do you know of any particular source of offers for remote work?

Particularly where they would accept somebody from outside the US
That would be Samsung's claim, and thus the release of other, earlier mockups from Apple which more closely resemble the eventual iPhone. And again, Samsung's claim is based on an interview with a Sony designer about a product[0] which looked nothing like an iPhone, which inspired Apple to produce one mockup merging one of their existing designs with Sony design elements. It is not based on any Sony product.

Despite what I've been saying here, I'm not an Apple partisan, but come on-- this is totally ridiculous.

[0] This thing, I believe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_W950
There are plenty of todo apps for syncing to every device you own. Atleast I would pay $1.99 for a gorgeous, dead-simple to use todo list just for my iOS devices (that works offline too).
I don't know the facts here.

In author land, you may have sold the publication rights to the prior work to someone, and you may not have reprint/derivative works rights without a new deal.

You can see rights clearances on the copyright pages of some of your favorite novels, anthologies, and story collections: "Portions of this work appeared in a substantially different form in ANALOG June 2005."

When I see this in magazines and newspapers the credit to prior work is often in italics at the end. I guess I assumed cash (or backscratching) was on the line for them.
Agreed. There's no game that my desktop doesn't meet the minimum requirements for, and won't be for at least a few years. I don't make a habit of checking them.
Rover landing on Mars next week
OK, Apple's support product, for the Mac. The focus on support is to address buyer's apprehension that the Mac is difficult to use, support being a key benefit to many buyers. If you are saying support helps to resolve difficulty, then yes if you have difficulty with a Mac, Apple has the Genius bar. This is a different approach than setting an expectation of easy to use, because this ad is not for the computer but for the support. Reference the original iMac - "there is no step 3" ad. That ad was advertising the iMac as easy to use. Easy to use is probably an echelon below Excellent Support, on the user satisfaction scale.
But for most websites, it is something you have to do. Ruining the layout of your page is about as bad as any other DoS attack for most of the afflicted users.
Reminds me of the episode where John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival fame was sued by a former label for recording a song that was too similar to one he had recorded prior with another record label.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogerty_v._Fantasy
As a guy still in school, I would say that more than half of the people in my CS classes are complete dunces. I would think that even by selecting for the degree, you're still faced with the problem of needing people to prove their skills, no? Is a guy who graduated with an almost failing C really better qualified -- at least from a foot-in-the-door perspective-- than a self-taught guy that has the confidence in his skill to ignore the degree requirement and apply anyway?
If you want to dig into the specifics of any given model, well, you'd have to dig into the specifics of the model.

If you look at the Timeline of the Far Future, somewhere between 100m and 800m years from now life as we know it on Earth becomes untenable (asteroid impacts, solar flux), if not before (other effects).

There are some practical upper long-term limits to human population on Earth. I suspect it's anywhere between a few hundred millions to low billions (I don't believe present populations are long-term sustainable).

There are other resource constraints which may serve to set an upper limit on energy consumption per capita. From this we can establish long-term energy demands, available supplies, and feasibility of these supplies.

4 billion year forecasting is rather more fantasy than science, so far as human endeavors go.
I looked through the BASIC manual of the ZX81; it had no thick section of memory addresses?
Two I know of:
http://blottr.com - Has huge traffic and reports early.

http://Orchive.com - New company I heard of recently with no traction yet.
Winter Olympics in 2006 and 2010, too.
> > I want to write to the socket.

> That's what you do when you yield to the each's block.

No IO object in ruby uses the `each` method for writing.
Use slicing to do the counting for you:

n_divideby_3 = lambda n: len(''.zfill(n)[2::3])
"No, being a 'corporate shill' is not 'quite more serious' than fabricating quotes."

How do you figure? Do you actually think that corporate shills cause less harm to society than people fabricating a few (largely inconsequential) quotes?
Can you predict who will love a song?
eep, that's 1/5th of my messaging plan, and exactly why I'm afraid to send a text to any automated system.
You wouldn't, but if the vast majority of your ad click visitors have javascript disabled, and only a tiny percentage of your other visitors do, what conclusion would you draw?
Actually, tests from us and several of our customers have shown us significantly faster than Edgecast throughout the US and Europe. (I work at Fastly.)
You don't, but it's very unlikely that there were enough noscript users to match the stats. From the post:

"...in all of our years of experience, only about 1-2% of people coming to us have JavaScript disabled, not 80% like these clicks coming from Facebook."
I used to have a darkened version of the hubble deep field set as my terminal background and currently have a satellite photo of martian dunes and one of those absolutely mental long exposures from the ISS by Don Pettit as some of my desktop backgrounds. They are lovely, I keep meaning to find out about getting some prints. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_jsc_photo/sets/72157629726...
ZNGA new 52 week low
Do you think that the great explorers of the past would have risked their lives if they could have avoided it? Danger is a big part of the adventure of exploration, but no one wants to die unless it's absolutely necessary. If Colombus could have sent a robot, he would have.

The bottom line is that Bags of Mostly Water don't belong in space. Our only hope for colonizing the solar system is to do most of the heavy lifting with robots. And if I were one of those colonists, I would sleep easier under the martian moons knowing that I had an army of space robots to help me with any problems that arise.

Humans find ways to explore the universe while keeping themselves alive. Let's embrace it
Yes, yes it can. For specific definitions of creativity anyway.
Training data doesn't need to be in-flight. Testing/operational data does. These are two different things, and the GP makes a good point.
Twitter is stating that posting the e-mail address was "personal and private information." NBC suggests that the guy's e-mail address was not published on NBC's site.

Honestly, I can see NBC's point. The outing of the guy's email looked to be a means to have the Internet Lynch Mob attack the guy with that thing they do (hate mail, spam, incoherent ranting about death and cats) in reprisal for some slight.
So excited about the Python courses! Enjoy!
I don't get Twitter, never have.

For every "social media is changing our world" moment that pops up every few months there are 12,460,000,000 worthless tweets clogging up the other 89 days.

It seems to me that the primary use of the service is to provide an IV drip of useless information for update addicted. The "great" moments are purely incidental.
Access logs that write continually from different processes or threads (like PHP) can cause System IO to reach critical proportions. In any non-trivial enterprise application it's completely reasonable to have a stat-logic-layer for recording events... The access log can still do it's own sorta thing - this is more true if you have more than 1 server.
So, NBC and The Independent are screwing up, so blame Twitter?
I see nothing.
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Whenever I pronounce it, I just say, "Code Cademy, without the 'a'."
Ross Levinsohn Exits Yahoo
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Really like the new ads. So much more mainstream and less elitist. Great job Tim.
It's a subclass of AFHTTPClient. See:

https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/
What do people honestly expect? The only person keeping Apple relevant and cool was Steve Jobs. I'm a Windows user myself, but I won't argue Steve definitely changed the game, when he died Apple died as well. Steve was working on a slew of projects and ideas before he died to keep Apple progressing for a few years after his death but without his final sign off on those ideas accidents happen like this ad. What goes up must come down, I hope for their sakes they're ready to cushion the fall because advertisements like this are only early warning signs of a company that has once again lost its way.
The Motorola A1000 didn't really follow the same conventions as the iPhone. For one, it used a stylus, and had 6 face buttons.

The iPhone has one face button. Most Android devices initially had buttons for call-related functionality, though most manufacturers have dropped that for either software buttons in the UI or static capacitive "Buttons" on the bottom of the device. The only similar convention that the Motorola follows as the iPhone is that the touchscreen is the primary input device.
If we're on features, I should also be able to do that wherever a user name is shown on screen - i.e. click on it and go to the profile & comment history.

Also you may prefer white on black, but I strongly prefer to read in black on white. Option for colours?
Yeah, I have implemented streaming myself once for a rack app. It was rather simple to implement and has worked stably in production for over two years now.
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They seem inconsistent in enforcing it. One piece of software that accessed it got a complaint from Google: http://igargoyle.com/streetview/

I was working on a similar project a while back, to view Street View through various filters (B&W high-contrast, pseudo-cyanotype, etc.), but I did it by pulling a few hundred images and caching them, to avoid hitting it in real-time, which I thought might be a problem. Given that I see several of these not being taken down, though, maybe I was too cautious.

Fwiw, Cyano-View Copenhagen was my project (hit "[reload]" at the top/right for a new random view, or scroll down for concept blurb):

http://www.kmjn.org/projects/cyanocph/
We don't have an ETA just yet, but Perl support is definitely on the way!
Is there a way to turn this around by gently prompting the VC to start playing the role of a truly interested investor? That is, challenge them to reverse some of these listed signals. If as a part of normal conversational cordiality, the VC plays along (to avoid sending a clearer no-interest signal), eventually they're hypmotized into thinking they are interested?

For example:

"What are your suggested next steps?"

"When should our next in-person be?"

"Which more senior partner will be handling the next steps?"

"Why should I take money from your firm?"
At least he was caught before he became another Stephen Glass.
Even though technically the email address is not a non-public one. As pointed out in the article the email address can be found via a simple Google search.
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"I'll take that as a no. But hey, thanks for your interest. "

["that" being a wishy-washy response, no contact for weeks etc]

Here's a post I wrote about this ages ago: http://www.derekscruggs.com/slow-turndowns-bad-up-front-cont...

I've found that giving people permission to say "no" is powerful in many contexts, not just sales.
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I don't believe Columbus would have sent a robot. Sure, explorers would rather not die exploring, but generally, I don't think that not being there is an acceptable price.

Would you send a robot to the top of a mountain if you could, or do you want to climb it yourself?
My Google HR Response
(throwaway account)
Reply following approach by Google (due to Stackoverflow etc), then rejection on sending CV.

Thoughts? Do you hire non-degree holders?

---

Hi (HR person),

Thank you for your reply. I had to think about this for a bit, as Google is the first company/client I have ever had ask about my degree (or lack of).

Unlike other disciplines like mechanical engineering or architecture, we programmers can start at an early age building virtual things, exploring complexity and simplicity. Many of us spend a considerable amount of time studying the science, rather than just coding.

I have had a lot of exposure to CS graduates over the past year, at a highly regarded UK university. Of those I encountered, most of students were doing it because they were bright and didn't know what to do with themselves. Some "downgraded" (as they saw it) from maths or physics because it was harder than they thought. Of the remainder, half were ego driven coders and half were actually any good. The very few that were good nearly dropped out because they were not excited enough (and some of them even ended up coding cool things alongside me).

You can't build amazing things without science, and the Internet means I don't require a degree to learn the science to build cool things. I can do that on my PC, right here, very cheaply and efficiently.

I do accept that the cost of exploring what excites you most without the formal structure of a degree has its costs (such as being filtered out of Google's hiring process) ... despite this I wouldn't go back and earn a degree if I had a time machine, so that's a cost I happily accept.

One of the beautiful things about programming is its immediate availability to all who want to learn ... even those who decide to do things differently.

I hope Google would in future take a longer look at people learning on their own steam, in their own time and out of love.

Regardless, I've very much enjoyed talking with you and I hope you find great candidates for the positions.

Thank you for your time!
(me)
Weavir: Music, Blogged Content, and Concerts (IndieGoGo)
A live-demo would be nice to see. It's hard to gauge how to use the app and the descriptions in the help screen are far too long for anyone to read carefully IMO.
Are you sure about that? Haven't you ever felt your car as an extension of yourself while driving or anything like that?
it hurts my eye.
Linkedin is trading at 698 times earnings. I'm siding with DHH in the long run on that one.
Note: Google approached me after seeing my stackoverflow account and other things on the Internet. After a very nice email chat, I sent my CV and got rejected due to no CS degree ...
Looked pretty cool but it slowed down my work computer so bad that it practically crashed it.

And this box is an i7 with 10GB of memory...
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Steve Souders blogged about how to serve scripts with far future expires without updating the client's script tag [1]. This technique initially loads the (potentially stale) js from the client's cache and checks for updates in the background, updating the client's cache if a new version is detected.

[1] http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/05/22/self-updating-sc...
I'm a journalist -- technically you can't plagiarize yourself, so while not best form, it's not really anything "wrong." And often there's certain phrases that as a writer you are going to use over and again (he took it well beyond that though). So that's why he was still around. But yes making up quotes is WAY across the line. I'm curious if he just up and resigned knowing he would be fired; if I were his boss, I'd rather fire him to make sure people know how serious his transgressions are.
I've been increasing my intention to learn Python for awhile now, this may just lower the barrier enough to be my tipping point.
They are offering it, the 'lack of response'. You can choose to drop people and then been strictly interpretive of their requests (or lack there of) for followup. So if you leave a meeting and there are no next steps, just stop talking. Later at your series B you can offer to bring them up to date on your current plans.

Understand that some (many?) VC's understand that saying "no" explicitly can hurt your prospects with other VCs (you will be asked to explain why that other VC said "No" which is impossible to do usually because you don't have the complete picture). So they let it drift quietly silent and understand when "you are really busy and might not get back to them for a while."
Good work, but the gradient alters the color.
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The app works great, I think it would be nice to also have a "light" color theme.
What is your algorithm for shading here? It seems like brightness is partially provided by the density of the characters (eg, '8' vs '.', as in normal ascii art), but also partially by the color of the characters.
Yeah, but the whole point of the mission, robots or no, is to benefit large hairless mammals. So if the hairless mammals think it's to their benefit to be on the ship, that's where the resources go, assuming they can get the resources together. Of course if that's not the goal of a given mission, then robots are more likely.

Yes, humans make everything more complicated, but without them, there's not much point in doing anything.
To be fair, the "self plagiarizing" thing got way out of hand.

It's a little bit not cool to not tell your audience that you've recycled some of your own columns. But… at the time I really didn't see any grounds for all the cries of lèse majesté.
It's rare to find actual Calorie information for a beer (except mass-produced "light" beers).

You can estimate it at about 30 Calories (kcal) per % ABV in a 12 oz beer. About 40 for a 16 oz (american pint), 50 for an imperial pint.

Basically, yeast converts a fairly predictable percentage (70%-80%) of the sugars into alcohol, so the Calorie difference between two different styles at the same ABV will tend to be small because they'll both have similar amounts of residual non-fermented sugar. (well, sours will often have a lot less residual sugar and particularly strong beers are likely to have more, so those estimates get further off for those).

Some beers do print the Original Gravity or Plato, and given that and either the final gravity/plato or the ABV you could calculate the amount of residual sugar for a much more precise answer.
Those are all technical reasons. None of it matters to end users. Apple has, in large part, arrived at where they are today by not concerning end users with why something will or won't work. "It just works" is practically their mantra.

I have to agree with the author here. If you can't get it right, don't do it at all.
Meh, more just an off the cuff rant, which is why I messed up the HDMI issue. I was looking into getting a MB for a while, what I liked about the MB was the 500GB disk space + 1000$ price point. I also miss the 17" MB pro for different reasons, but it really seemed to me they where sacrificing a lot for an interesting display idea and then killing off some of there models to make it look like a better option than it is.
I would add that you gain perspective later in life from the experiences of your youth. Someone who both worked and played will be more rounded than someone who only did one or the other.
It does amount to the same thing.

If I am writing a mechanism to charge for ads based on traffic, one of the first things to QA/write test cases for is fraudulent traffic.

The leap here is from facebook being remotely competent (which is likely), and willfully ignoring checks on certain types of traffic because it benefits them financially.

My assertion is that this is the same class of bad behavior as running your own bots. Note the distinction in 'willful' ignorance.
Couldn't agree more. It should be almost trivial for them to track down bots and flag bad accounts. I definitely wouldn't classify it as one of their harder problems.
Could just call it The High Country, given it's lack of mountains.
If you keep zooming in eventually the perspective flips. As you keep zooming in more the perspective gets warped and it creates a bizarre fish-eye effect.
I had about as much fun playing around with perspective warping as I did the finding things to look at in ASCII.

It's a pretty cool toy!
This appears to be an exploit one can mitigate simply by removing that plug-in from one's browser. As such, exposing it to all is a good thing. It needs to be patched ASAP, not hidden.

Ref: http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/122/1225585p1.html
You could also have some anonymous understanding of B. This reminds me of Richard Feynman's story about his dad and the bird.
An experiment in iterative recording
Send an e-mail to ipo@4chan.org and I'll be sure to invite you to our roadshow.
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Fabricating quotes is doing a sloppy, lazy job of defending one's position. Selling one's position, on the other hand, is clearly more serious.
agreed about being able to do it for all usernames (i might just have them go to a profile view, from there you can view their threads). also added color/theme option to todo list.
And yet the number of specific incidents for which we have evidence of a false-flag attack being carried out is relatively small.
lol! Do you have suggestions for improvement? I'm not sure what I'm doing to brand the site. My expertise is in tech, not branding. I'm open to suggestions, but I will not compromise on the color pink (or Ruby-San)! :-)