skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These cases proceed based on a person's obvious intent to defraud. A person logging onto a WiFi hub in a public place doesn't normally fall into this category, unless they can be shown to have an intent to defraud. Example:

http://tndf.net/tndf/currentbill.htm

Partial quote: "It is an offense for any person, knowingly and with the intent to defraud a communication service provider ..." (emphasis added)

The burden of evidence for an "intent to defraud" lies with the prosecutor, not the plaintiff. (IANAL)
In my class of 200, there were two classes of 15 or so students who took that programming course. My school was an outlier, not me. Kids can do great things if you provide them with the opportunities.
It's not live, we are looking to build the team.
That sounds like someone who has never got that pause or "oh" when details of their race/gender/sexuality has been revealed.
Agreed, definitely need to capture emails.
Climbing Mount Everest: 5 obstacles (usyesterday.off, 1952)

1) Trip time

A round-trip human expedition to the top of Everest, using current technology, could take two to three weeks. The slower you go, the more supplies you are forced to take and the higher the odds of a catastrophic collision with a rock. Mountaineers would lose more energy and regenerate slower as a result of the longer stay in high altitude. And they would be exposed to larger doses of cosmic rays and solar energetic particles, increasing the probability of cancer.

2) The Big C
Problem: Cancer.

Mountaineers traveling to the top of the world, or working on its surface, will be exposed to potentially high doses of sun [...]

3) Sex in Tibet
[...]

4) The Yeti
[...]

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my 2 cents:

You can sit there and keep talking like this or f*ing go do it.
A 5 year old today who wants to win the Olympics in 100m works every day for over 10 years for his or her goal. No guarantees of any kind.
If we approached Mars the same way, our fathers would have walked on it already.
I'm seeing "member since NaN" and "created NaN" on iPad.

Cool stuff :D
Just so we're all clear, opening any to any rules on the DMZ means no longer having a DMZ.

That could be a valid move - there are always trade offs to consider and possibly the trade offs stack up such that you should no longer have a separate network for public facing services.

However it's part of the ops team's role to mediate all interested parties requirements and not just allow random changes to make something work right this second because one party needs it for their requirements. Every other team might be a bit miffed if we opened that thus breaking our SOX and PCI requirements and so landing us with a heavy fine, or worse.

I think the point you're trying to make is there are cases where such an action could be warranted and so the goal should be to make that resolution process as fast and as painless as possible for all parties.
When I first heard of HP's memristors, I was looking forward to them using it in the TouchPad, to really compete against Apple. Now this. FAIL all around, HP.
I would worry about this too. It seems like you could get bogged down using a tool like this, spending days creating pixel perfect mockups, just to throw out your work later. That might be why Balsamiq is such a popular tool; the mockups look like ass, but they let you iterate quickly without caring about the tiny details.
I love reading about how companies scale their BigHuge data but it bothers me that we still haven't reached the point where scalability is a commodity instead of a patchwork of technology that everyone actor solves in their own way.
I think, that this kind of post ir misleading. During past month there has been several of those "Kindle edition for free", which does not represent actual price (at least for people not from USA). Same here - edition I see (from Latvia) is priced at $7.59.
> How about they start with "in my opinion" or some other obvious marker, and everything else should be assumed to be fact?

Sadly, I think the problem is that journalists have the same dilemmas as teachers. If you're a teacher, you're generally considered to be a teacher whether you're at work or not, so you have to uphold some arbitrary standard for public behavior 24 hours a day (i.e., make sure no photos of you being drunk while on vacation show up on something like Facebook).

A "journalist" who isn't perceived as being "objective" 24 hours a day (impossible) will rightly or wrongly be criticized as having their opinions bias the work they produce.
It is a lot more clear from the description on https://github.com/kmalakoff/knockback what this is about:

When I was evaluating client-side frameworks, I liked lots of the pieces, but wanted to "mix and match" the best features. I started with Backbone.js and really loved the Models and Collections, and used Brunch to get me up and running quickly.

After a while, I found the view coding too slow so I wrote Mixin.js to extract out reusable aspects of my views. When I was looking for my next productivity increase, an ex-work colleague suggested Sproutcore, but at the time, it wasn't yet micro-frameworky enough meaning I would need to learn something big and "to throw the baby out with the bathwater" as they say (it is hard to give up Backbone models and collections!). Then, I discovered Knockout and knew it was for me!

Knockout provided just the right building blocks for a layer between my templates and data. As I used it more, I built additional functionality like Backbone.ModelRefs for lazy model loading, localization helpers for truly dynamic views, and most recently, an easier way to sync collections and their model's view models.

So here it is...the refactored and shareable version of my Backbone bindings for Knockout: Knockback.js
When CSS modules overlap
Funny enough, vectors aren't usually discussed in a math setting until Calculus III. Despite being a relatively easy concept.
The current version of the app was built with Titanium, but I'm not sure that I can recommend it for nontrivial apps. The API still has plenty of gaps and the platform isn't as 'cross-platform' as we had hoped (there are plenty of controls and properties that are platform-specific.)
Sorry, but my comment is spot on. If you don't know how the wealthy manipulate the tax system and believe you can somehow "trap" their wealth in a country, you just haven't been paying attention.
> It seems Oracle is on a trend to kill everything open source they've acquired from Sun.

Oracle is, above everything else, about monetization. If they can't make money out of it, they will either change it so they can make money out of it, or they'll kill it.

Sun was generally good at open-source (though not perfect by a long shot, OpenSolaris was not exactly a slam dunk and the CDDL was rather weird — and explicitly and expressedly made incompatible with the GPL), but they were rather bad at monetizing. Oracle's the exact opposite.
CIA doesn't want other operating systems. CIA==KGB

Duh! You think they would let another operating system exist! ROFLMAO Win8

You can have your starry eyed view of the US.

Back in 2001 when I made SimStructure, the CIA made SimStructure. I learned my reality is a joke like the 1960's the prisoner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPDO63rI1E

I get no emails, except FBI.
> When you need the insurance, it's the money of the other clients, that with hindsight never needed the insurance, that pays for your costs.

This is the normal approach, but it's a coincidence -- the insurance system doesn't collapse if it's not the model. Insurance can equally be a case of one policy, one client, all depending on what's being insured -- see below.

> Emphatically: no! The issuer is betting that in the entire group of clients the total loss will be smaller than the rates they set.

My point is that system works with one client the same way as with 10,000. It's a matter of accurately assessing the risk of a claim. Insurance doesn't suddenly stop working because there are few clients or only one client.

Multiple clients is the usual case, but it's not required for the system to work. Large insurance houses will very happily write a policy that only applies to one person:

http://voices.yahoo.com/bizarre-insurance-policies-famous-ce...

A quote: "America Ferrera is the newest addition to the list of stars who have some of their body parts insured. Famous for her role as Betty Suarez in the top-rating ABC sitcom "Ugly Betty", Ferrera has had her smile insured for 10 million dollars by Lloyds of London."

One person, one smile, one client, one policy.
I've been using Percona for a number of years now. Are there any solid comparisons between Percona and MariaDB?
MariaDB is by Monty, creator of MySQL who previously sold-then-forked it. So there's no guarantee the same thing won't happen to it (quite the opposite really).
About 40,000 Americans die in road accidents a year. 90% of those due to human error. If you think that your freedom to mindlessly stare at some tarmac is worth 36,000 dead Americans every year, that's your right. Good luck trying prevent the inevitable. More realistically, good luck whining about your freedoms on the Internet.
How I got into Call of Duty
Call of pooty durpe doo dee
Does HP have patents here that would prevent others from introducing this tech? Or are they/Hynix simply the only ones with experience with the tech to pull it off? This is such a clear example of one of the fears spelled out in The Innovators Dilemma it isn't even funny.

Edit: whoops, mtgx says Samsung is also in this space, so it sounds like patents can't be an obstacle, or at least until the suing starts.
As a CS student who has done some AI research I can tell you strong AI is not around the corner.
Offshore is, most of the times, about getting the same quality of work at cheaper cost.

I see you've never worked with offshore development.
in my experience more often than not the only people who can tell a well-done app is phonegap/cordova rather than native are nit-picky, self-righteous developers. if it works as advertised, users are generally happy and cannot tell the difference... and, unless your app is built specifically for developers, that's all that really matters.
There are 2,592,000 seconds in a 30 month day so actually that's more like 104 page views per second. But that also does not count peaks (peak is likely 250+) and that each page view requires multiple queries.

Either way, no need to hate on the traffic figures of what everyone knows is a very large website.
The model where there are many clients and one policy is the norm, but that doesn't mean the system requires it. If insurers went to the trouble of making it work, you could have individual policies written up for each and every client, and sell the risk to subscribers (as is done with mortgages). Example:

http://voices.yahoo.com/bizarre-insurance-policies-famous-ce...

A quote: "America Ferrera is the newest addition to the list of stars who have some of their body parts insured. Famous for her role as Betty Suarez in the top-rating ABC sitcom "Ugly Betty", Ferrera has had her smile insured for 10 million dollars by Lloyds of London."

One person, one smile, one client, one policy.

> Everything you wrote is wrong, sorry.

It's generally thought good form to offer some evidence for your position, as I have for mine.
> I hope they introduced some NoSQL sweetness by now.

Postgres has good support for being used as a key/value store. http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/january-2012-state-of-servers... indicates they're still using Postgres for the main backend, and Cassandra next to it as both cache (it replaced memcached back in 2010) and to store data for some features (moderation log and flairs)
People should not believe that those who execute ideas necessarily own them exclusively. There can and should be other devices with almost identical form factors without people saying "Oh, they imitated Apple". The truth should be known. The Cupertino guys aren't the navel of the universe.
The most interesting part of this article was the fact that the next 8 episodes (after the one today) will air summer 2013 :-(.
Apple's pinch-to-zoom victory. Creating usability hell?
FWIW Reddit replaced memcached with cassandra in early 2010 for caches and transient stores.
From the article, it does appear to be so easy, if the article writer had not been intentionally obtuse and on purpose interpreted the "resource view" as significantly stricter than what he later admits the proponents of it actually intends it.

I found myself seeing example after example in that article and thinking I didn't see the purported problem, until I came to that bit at the end and realized that the author was knowingly presenting the examples in the context of a version of the "resource view" that I've not seen anyone argue for.
I'm not seeing anything. Seems like you've been a/b punk'd.
Here is some text from wikipedia:

Microsoft continued to gain market share with Windows, focusing on delivering software to cheap commodity personal computers while Apple was delivering a richly engineered, but expensive, experience. Apple relied on high profit margins and never developed a clear response. Instead they sued Microsoft for using a graphical user interface similar to the Apple Lisa in Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation. The lawsuit dragged on for years before it was finally dismissed. At the same time, a series of major product flops and missed deadlines sullied Apple's reputation, and Sculley was replaced by Michael Spindler.

sounds familiar eh?
Cool site! My suggestion for more features/changes:

1. Social share bar for each link.
2. Finding common links/stories in all those tech sites.
3. Probably a tab view?
4. Search feature!
The second link is broken... It should be this now:

http://statland.org/MyPapers/MAAFIXED.PDF
Girls struggle due to the difficulty of the problem, and not their gender.
Also, it was back in 2009[0]. In December 2011, they were up to 2.07bn page views (~750 pages/sec on average)

[0] according to http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/january-2012-state-of-servers..., December 2010 saw 829 million page views
>: The oil needs to be kept rather clean, otherwise it will loose its good insulation properties, hence you need sealed containers or purification devices, in industrial scale deployments this means keeping an eye on the chemical composition of your coolant by regular chemical analysis.

Considering that they say that it only needs to be changed once a decade, it sounds like they've got that figured out.

>Connectors and cables need to be really oil-tight, otherwise the oil will creep out through cables hanging out of a closed vessel (even if they go higher than the oil-surface)!

You've already proposed one solution to that problem. Another possibility would be a simple lipophobic coating on a small section of the cable.

>you'd basically need thousands of cubic meters of pure, constantly filtered oil...

Once again, if it's changed once a decade, that's not really a big deal.

>"Professionally", one would use this technology for a reason, hence in devices that are even more densly packed than usual blade-centers and there I expect issues with forced circulations of warm/hot oil just as we have hot/cold air distribution nowadays.

OK, but Intel has been testing this in data centers for over a year. This isn't an idea that they're toying with. It's something that has been put into production.

>A technology like currently deployed water-cooled devices, where the majority of heat is collected by water at the concentration points (mainly CPU) and air is taking care of the (much reduced) remains seems much more sensible to me.

Well, I mean, that should be comparable with numbers. They say this takes energy consumption down to 3%. What are the numbers for water cooling?
I saw no ad. Yeah, I'm a sucker who watched all of it too. Next!
Title is awfully misleading, this is from 1993, I actually thought for a second Apple is going on a lawsuit spree.
If you're going to make a tortured analogy, it would help if you actually understood the things you're comparing. The writer clearly doesn't understand Breaking Bad.
Youtube marketing done right - Dollarshaveclub
The title of the article is misleading -- one can "live completely off-the-grid", but not with what's being sold (an inexpensive housing kit), and the outcome also depends on where you live. What works in Hawaii won't work in Montana.
I haven't feel any of that among the companies I've contacted. I've been pretty selective about whom I've contacted, so there may be some selection bias there. But my choice has always been based on product/position fit, not on employee age. And HN has by far been the best source for things I'm interested in.

I'll admit I often consciously choose to wear my XKCD hoodie when I meet people for the first time. Not that I don't wear it a lot anyway, but ...

I kind of feel like Steve was sort of an existence proof that age no longer represents the cultural divide it might have at another time.
What I know about successful software releases.
In case people only read the title: this is from June 2, 1993.
China’s Netizens React to Clint and Mitt: Please Pay Us Back
How to Fix “Could not find this item, this is no longer” error
It's an all-of-the-above strategy.

I remember when the Bigtable paper was released. It was very early in my career and I remember it sounding so alien to me. Sure, i had Memcached in my stack, but no SQL? It seemed like something they had to trade off to be able to build the kind of services they offer. I felt the same way after reading Dynamo.

Sure, I thought a lot about data design. I thought about usage patterns to inform how we denormalize. And I grew into using, eg, Gearman, to pre-compute dozens of tables every night. I evolved, a bit.

But a few years ago, a little before this OP was written, I had a great experience with some Facebook engineers and had an a-ha moment that has made me a much better software engineer. Basically, I realized that I needed to let my data be itself. If I have inherintly relational data, then it should be in a relational database. But I've built EAVs, queues, heaps, lists, all of these on top of MySQL and Postgres. Let that data be itself.

We have more options now than ever before. K/V stores, Column stores, etc. I use a lot of Cassandra. A lot of Redis. Some Mongo. And a put a lot more in flat files than I ever thought I would.

I know a lot of people that are smarter than me left the womb knowing these things. But for me it was transformational and has made me much happier. I realized how much energy I wasted fighting my own tools.
Obviously, proposing that we need more independent perspectives does not mean that I think journalists should abandon their professional ethics, or that there's no distinction between news reporting and opinion pieces. Journalists still need to report the facts, and in that sense, we should expect them to be objective.

Unfortunately, reporting the news is usually not like reading a clock. Composing any article involves making a variety of decisions in a variety of circumstances -- where to be, who to quote, which connections to prior events to draw, how much background to report -- that all affect what goes into an article and what does not, and which give it an inherent perspective. Two journalists might write articles which consist entirely of reporting objective facts, yet provide quite different narratives about the same events.

The demand for "objectivity" becomes unreasonable when it asks for even this curational perspective to be eliminated. There is plenty of room for a greater number of independent perspectives in our news sources, even within journalists' obligations to objectivity and "straight reporting."
This test-case controversy was both discovered and ginned up by Monty and the MariaDB folks, who have much to gain by the rejection of Oracle's brand of MySQL and the promotion of MariaDB. While it may be part of some larger and sinister plan to "kill" open source MySQL as the article suggests, it seems more likely to me that it was simply a mistake, and one they'll walk back at some point.

If it is an anti-competitive move, it reminds me of the recent move by RedHat, who have started shipping their new kernels as one big source tarball, without patches, which undoubtedly pissed off both Oracle and the CentOS folks.
Arcing is a problem with open air transformers too, and one of the functions of oil in oil-filled transformers is to prevent arcing. Probably this property simply breaks down at very high temperatures, but since arcing isn't generally a problem for computers in the first place, it shouldn't be a problem regardless of oil temperature.
It's time to go back to printed books, the last mass-media holdout with no ads (yet).
I don't see why this is a big deal. It's a year, so what? We've waited decades, a year isn't going to hurt anything. Hynix is a big business that is heavily invested in flash and it takes a lot to completely change the core of your business over, especially when you have to possibly build new fabs and fab technology.
IBM Pocket Watson a Siri-Killer
This was a piece of reporting that simply never took off. The reporter was not able to get the subject of the story to open up, and the whole article contains nothing that was not found in the endless discussions on the forum that he referenced. The result is a meandering and repetitive article which seems bloated and full of fluff. I don't see any really compelling or three-dimensional characters in it. Mark Singer should have had the guts to say "I didn't get the story. The guy wouldn't open up, I've got nothing interesting to say about him". Instead, he holds the reader's attention with every trick in the book, leaving us with nothing at the end of all the buildup. I do appreciate literature, but this just isn't literature, and it's bad reporting.
Even better: Don't use sessions. If there's data you're caching in a session, pre-compute it and store it in Redis (or other suitable NoSQL database).

Going statless wherever possible almost always wins. (And I only say "almost" because I'm not smart enough to know if it really always wins. But for me, it has)
In my Danish high school we covered the algebra and geometry of vectors in two and three dimensions in our second year. The high school mathematics curriculum in Denmark is ridiculously unambitious; I'm certain my American friends covered more than this in their high school AP classes.

There's a compelling argument for withholding the abstract theory of vector spaces and linear maps from non-mathematicians until multivariate calculus. Linear maps (as approximations to differentiable maps), determinants (as Jacobians measuring volume distortion under pullback), eigenvalues and quadratic forms (as Hessians measuring curvature with eigenvalues as principal curvatures) all make prominent appearances and become easy to motivate geometrically.
From all the different ways I have seen 'journalists' trying to create traffic by making up stories around the legend of Apple, I wish I could say that this is the worst and most shameful.
Don't modern CPUs (like x86) have about a zillion registers internally, which are, behind the scenes, allocated to the virtual registers (AX, BX, CX etc) that are seen from the assembly level?

Itanium has a register stack, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the first.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/itaniumr-processor-...
Two big things I would love from a tool that intends to solve this problem well:

- Do it on the web, making it free of platform ties.
- Make collaboration (versioning, sharing, maybe discussion) much easier.