skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a phone interview for a engineer position at Facebook, and the interviewer told me that the timeline project began as an internship project that got traction.
" I stil haven't seen anything like Akka on any other language".

You can use Akka from java but the messages are effectively dynamically typed which isn't a big deal. However, as Rich Hickey said, a queue is simpler than an actor (Go understands this also). Java has excellent blocking queue implementations. In fact java has libs that support all kinds of concurrent solutions and they are not that complex.

I still like Scala though (and really like Go but my work is on the jvm)
109 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997607
So, Nokia and Microsoft just do not exist in the mapping space?
Ask PG: If Viaweb hadn't worked out, what would you have likely done next?
Well if they are doing a mixed private/public net then it wouldn't be like the addresses are routable outside of their network. I've seen a number of clients which were essentially 'natted' behind the ISPs infrastructure. At its core the ISP gets all packets landing at their router and if they want to advertise an 'inside' route to 1.2.3.4 (or 10.0.0.1) that is something they could do successfully.
Email validation in the client side
Isn't "least bad" equivalent to optimal?
I work for a company in the telecommunications space. We've talked to several car companies about integrating 4g into their on board computers. I'm really excited for this update. I suppose I haven't really noticed how much better navigation has improved until a few weeks ago. Recently I purchased an 09 infiniti with full tech package. The thing that took me back, was how terrible the navigation system has been inside of Boston (a very complex area). I can't remember the last time Google maps has told me something wrong, but this stale nav system consistently get's confused about 1 way streets etc.

What i'd LOVE to see is for Nissan to throw away its custom OS, and replace it with Android... along with that I want google maps (instead of whatever Nissan is licensing). Plus it would be nice to download apps for my car such as a better mileage tracker etc.
You'd like fewer cores to "set it apart"? That's certainly one way of looking at it.
I think that traditional topographic mapping is not very useful from a business standpoint. When there are more, or a critical number of the autonomous vehicles from Google deployed in the wild, I fully expect very high resolution 3D maps from all the LIDAR and other data. That will be incredibly cool.
Most effective for me have been Railscasts, building real projects and not just following the book. Learning on the job far surpasses the book as I'm actively engaged and not just following along on Rails (sorry, had to)
4 Scenarios In Which A Company Would Use Outsourced Network Services
There used to be someone who had the email address john@dk (maybe it wasnt john). Mx records on tlds are frowned upon but not technically invalid.
Going by anecdotal evidence[0], there does seem to be some of the tendency ta12121 worries about among engineers, though.

[0]See e.g. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
> It comes out of founders' equity

And how is the next investor incentivized to let that occur?

Edit: I should be more explicit. The next investor is anti-incentivized to let it occur, which is why it gets negotiated away by sensible investors.
The Naming of Things
Your problem is that you require that the TSA be responsible for catching them. The two I know off-hand from popular culture are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

Found a better list here:

* American Airlines Flight 63 The "shoe bomb", a failed al-Qaeda PETN bombing attempt in December 2001.
* China Northern Flight 6136, a 2002 flight brought down by a passenger who had purchased life insurance, who set a fire in flight with gasoline
* 2004 Russian aircraft bombings Islamist terrorist attacks on two domestic Russian passenger aircraft flying from Moscow. The bombs were triggered by two female Chechen suicide bombers. Shamil Salmanovich Basayev militant leader of the Chechen terrorist movement claimed credit.
* 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot al-Queda terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives carried on board at least 10 airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada. It followed the same general plan as the Bojinka plot.
* Northwest Airlines Flight 253, the target of a failed al-Qaeda PETN bombing attempt in December 2009
* 2010 cargo plane bomb plot, failed al-Qaeda PETN bombing attempt on two planes in October 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_airliner_bombing_at...

ETA: I want to note that my issue is only that you stated a factual incorrectness: that no terror attacks have occurred involving airplanes in the past 11 years. You can denigrate the TSA all you want; just do it based on factually correct statements.
If I zoom them to be readable they look like crap (and its very tiring to read them) I've got an Illiad V2 which I originally used for this (167 dpi) and its "ok" but not great, and not enough real estate for the whole document. My 3rd gen iPad is quite nice but has the issues noted above. I had hoped the Plastic Logic folks would have made a dent here but alas that was not to be.
What city are you in? We have a bigger presence in certain cities than others, but we're definitely national. I'm pretty sure we could help you find clients.
I got very interested and tried to find out but haven't suceed. So I just second it that I would be very interested reading that study!
I don't want to step on too many toes, but I have to make mention of the error in the particular arrogance among the scientific community that their work qualifies them to reform other industries and facets of the human existence. Obviously the work of scientists and engineers is vital, and worthy of credit and praise, but I would not trust even the smartest scientists and engineers I know to handle the foreign policy of a nation, for example. Or tell me how to live my life, ethically or morally. I'm saying this from the perspective of an engineer, to my credit--I'm well aware of the talent and brilliance in the community. I just think it's dangerous to worship the altar of science to solve all of our problems.
oops, the two '*' characters were interpreted as Markdown. So, the operation is “3×600+10×400=5800”.
You sound like one of those fellows who exhibits a lot of healthy skepticism 6 days a week, while leaving it at home on the 7th. Why don't you drop the facade and argue your actual point?
We're lucky in that we have so many technically astute users, who've already built cool stuff in spite of us. I'm excited to see what they'll do now.
You know, I'd love to be a new wave avant-garde programmer but I'm stuck as an anorak-wearing Java programmer. No beret for me!

I must be suffering some kind of cognitive dissonance, however. I know I'm supposed to be some kind of moronic corporate cog who doesn't know better but I have these odd phases where I distantly recall knowing multiple operating systems very well, I believe I know Vim, Emacs as well as several IDEs. What's more - although I know perfectly well that being a Java inmate, I shouldn't be able to see past my corporate sponsored thought blinkers - I do recall being able to program in C, C++, Lisp, Haskell and countless other languages. I even believe that I may have been doing this for decades. And weirdly enough - and this is the most shocking thing - I have this odd feeling that I may have chosen to stick with Java despite knowing perfectly well that it's not at all cool and entirely unproductive - Hacker News has told me that repeatedly, and PG can't be argued with, surely?

Clearly, I need to find some twenty somethings to set me straight with a strong shot of Python therapy! Yep that's it.

Although... crap! Don't I already know Python as well? Shit! What is wrong with me?
I love Postgres, and I usually get grumpy when forced to use Mysql, but ... rather than lots of fluffy features (most of the stuff listed here is not that compelling taken individually), the thing for me about Postgres is that it's solid, reliable, and dependable. It behaves correctly. It has transactions. It has DDL transactions. It can, by and large, be counted on to get things right, rather than take shortcuts. It's a well-crafted tool that you can get a lot of mileage out of if you know what you're doing.
/.+@.+\..+/ would be a bit too ambitious as the dot is not necessarily part of a valid email - an MX record can appear on a TLDs DNS records[1]. Considering ICANNs new licensing of hundreds of TLDs this could be a very real concern soon.

1: http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/191/
I made something like this for my girlfriend. She uses it for school. It's not very polished, but it may work for your needs or give you some ideas.

notecard.herokuapp.com

You can create an account (no email verification necessary). Your first step is to create a semester, then a section, then you create notecards. The notecards flip front to back with a single click. You can also put your notecards in a "Known" or "Unknown" pile so you know what you have to study.

edit: The notecards also support HTML
"I’ve visited Singapore a few times in recent years and been impressed with its wealth and modernity. I was also quite aware of its world-leading programs in mathematics education and naturally noted that one of the candidates for president was Tony Tan, who has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. Tan won the very close election and joined the government of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who also has a degree in mathematics."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/gibson.html
This is not agile in any sense that I recognize. The first value in the agile manifesto is "individuals and interactions over processes and tools." Yet, Scalable Agile appears to be completely about processes and tools. In fact, I don't see a single reference to actual, direct interaction between two people in the entire article. I particularly dislike this quote:

> Code management tools were neglected in the last generation of agile methodologies, which focused on interactions between people. However, the reality is that managing code is a lot easier than managing people.

Managing people is hard, let's go shopping!

Going agile doesn't mean that a team replaces its managers with automated tools. Kind of the opposite, actually. "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation." That's also from the manifesto. It means you should be talking more, not less. Don't write an email to get someone's help, go talk to them. Don't file a ticket to express a requirement, go talk to somebody. Don't sit around rearranging stories in a backlog in order to convey priorities, stand up and tell people what the priorities are. Push decisions down. Talk to people. Let them self-organize. Don't force feed them a backlog of "stories" like cows in a factory farm.

True story, I once worked in an "agile shop" where my direct supervisor told me that there was no assigned seating, but I couldn't sit at this unoccupied table, I had to sit at that adjacent one, because that's where the developers sat. Also his seat was reserved, so don't sit there. And that was nearly the only time he ever spoke to me. So I have kind of a beef concerning "agile" shops with shitty management.
This idea is just picking at low hanging fruit. It is like saying that the killer app of the web is retail shopping. Sure Amazon is cool, but the web is so much more than that. Perhaps "location" will be like the web and have millions of little niches. IMHO it won't really take off until you have higher smart phone penetration in the developing world. These kind of apps need a market with lots of pedestrians, not car bound America.
Nah, just a web page showing how much in debt you are to the company.
At Loggly, we integrated our alerting app with PagerDuty, and open-sourced the whole thing if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/loggly/alertbirds-community-edition
The abundance  of slowness
After reading this article, I realize now that Watson was this cute thing IBM was working on that they thought was novel, while Google was building machines that think, collaborate and formulate, period. They don't just answer questions: they take data and turn it into something we know how to breeze through.

I am truly astounded by how quickly we are accelerating through this information era.
Hushmail has a fantastic pseudonym service (among other fantastic services) for this use case.

real email: name@hushmail.com
servicexyz: name.servicexyz@nym.hushmail.com
serviceabc: whatever-isnt-already-taken@nym.hushmail.com

https://www.hushmail.com/ (no affiliation)
Thanks for replying, I got a similar option down this thread on tomatousb.

The hardware specs of these are a little bit too lightweighted for me, like I said below, in itself the idea to put that functionality into a router is great.
How You Can Build Your Own Business
I don't value the underlying database as much anymore since I have been working with Rails apps. The database is just an API. I want to write my code in such a way that I could unplug POSTgres and plug in SQL Server tomorrow without skipping a beat. Using AREL you should largely be able to do that.
I am chose my phrasing for the very reason that it's merely incredibly unlikely and not at all impossible. I've even sent mail with bang-paths post-2000 just to confound the recipient, though it is a rare network that would accommodate that today.

Edit: punctuation.
Here's a link to the previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3910743
TL;DR New Pagerduty API docs at: http://developer.pagerduty.com/
Because it's proprietary and your CFO wants GS in their next round of financing.
Here is an interesting list of test cases, some of which parse as valid email addresses and some of which do not. If not, the page says why:

http://isemail.info/_system/is_email/test/?all

For example: !#$%&`*+/=?^`{|}~@iana.org is valid.

Here's an essay on the subject:

http://isemail.info/about
If your selection function optimizes for minimized damage, not maximized improvement, sure.
Another cool feature: recursive queries using the WITH common table expressions.

Say you have a table fs <id, name, parent_id> representing a hierarchical filesystem, and you want to print the full path of each file, here's how you can do it in a single query:

WITH RECURSIVE path(id, name, parent_id, path, parent) AS (
SELECT id, name, parent_id, '/', NULL FROM fs WHERE id = 1 -- base case
UNION
SELECT fs.id, fs.name, fs.parent_id, parentpath.path ||
CASE parentpath.path WHEN '/' THEN '' ELSE '/' END ||
fs.name as path, parentpath.path as parent
FROM fs INNER JOIN path AS parentpath ON fs.parent_id = parentpath.id
) SELECT id, name FROM path;
VC's love affair with greentech over the last 10 years by sector
I'm actually in a similar position and thinking about moving to the valley. I've actually done a lot of research on the visa stuff as well, not sure about the college degree stuff and how it would affect things, but mobility for Canadians to the US seems to be ok?
http://designcodelearn.com/2012/08/22/to-sf-from-canada/
The reason is people are not so naive. In 20th C., affiliating your position with [Science] has often just been short hand for [Trust Me]. It has been a way to dress up mutton as lamb. Only a certain kind of person argues: I know the all the facts. I am 100% right. They are usually (1) people who do not know what they are talking about; or (2) people who [bracket] their scope of knowledge to the subset of things that [conform to their education/training/expertise], but then extrapolate further. And, everybody knows, politics covers a broader scope of ambition and emotion. Certainly, broader than what is taught [in XYZ school]. It covers hopes and dreams [mlk, ghandi]. As well as other more base instincts [20th century wars, etc]. So, there is no [expertise] in politics that is an academic credential. And to substitute an [academic] [science] credential and call it an [expertise] in politics is dressing up [mutton] and calling it [Lamb]. Its just short hand for [Trust Me]. And the reason people do not buy that? The reason is that people are not so naive.
Actually Apple does have a big part in it. They bring together all the data from Tom Tom, Waze, OSM etc as well as the two teams they purchased: C3 and Placebase into one coherent product.

It's amazing that Apple has nearly matched Google in some parts (maps, directions) and far exceeded them in others (3D).
"...scientifically literate government leaders who push for evidence-based policies and demonstrate a scientific outlook are needed more than glib panderers with attitude."

In my subjective experience, scientifically literate leaders usually have way better attitude than ones who are not that literate.
> Gates still have a controlling share of the company.

No, he doesn't. He holds around 6% of Microsoft. He lost his controlling stake with the Microsoft IPO in 1986
There is an MX record for ai, so the dot after the @ is strictly not required:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ai.	14400	IN	MX	10 mail.offshore.ai.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mail.offshore.ai.	14400	IN	A	209.59.119.34
Agreed that password validation is the worst. (Github, I'm looking at you.)

Even worse than excessive validation is when they make you change your password often, for no apparent reason.

On some sites that do both (ahem Apple), the only way I can login if I haven't been there in awhile is the security questions or the password reset mechanism.
How to decide which features to offer for free
The Sun Exploded Last Week [video]
You're right. I'm wrong. Apologies to Mr. Kohn.

He's not a bonehead either. But that is a boneheaded cartoon and he is making boneheaded arguments.

When you look at what he's doing now and who is clients are it makes perfect sense why he wants to submit an amicus brief.

As a consumer, Kohn is not looking out for my interests.

The internet makes publishing less expensive. We are getting things for free that we used to pay for. This aggravates lots of people. But technology has no moral sense. It is a means to an end. (The information in legal research databases, not to mention the dubious "copyright" status of court decisions that some "Legal Publishers" assert, are fine examples you should be familiar with. The internet does not benefit every business. Poor Lexis-Nexis. Poor Westlaw. Poor Martindale. They have to adapt and compete. What a tragedy.)

But the internet clearly benefits consumers. We get lower prices and better access to information. How is this a bad thing?

Amazon may be no angel but they have embraced the internet, openness and interoperability to a far greater degree than those who now oppose them, seeking the help of the courts to slow Amazon's progress.

Royalty rates are a matter of negotiation not actual production and distribution costs. It's interesting to see how some commenters seems to view what the publisher deems a reasonable rate as a "fixed cost".

The top post in this thread is spot on. There's nothing to stop anyone from offering low prices like Amazon. It's pretty obvious why they do not want to and why they would go so far as to suggest Amazon is breaking the law.

I don't want to see people's book collections turn into some ridiculous propreitary iTunes-like lock-in, denying people ownership or any reasonable amount of interoperability.
Jimmy Wales threatens to encrypt Wikipedia if UK passes snooping bill
Oh, downvote for what would be a good business decision in most companies? (unless super high performance is necessary?)
I think the main benefit is that a scientist elected to a political office would make decisions based on real data when possible. Obviously it is often times not possible - for example, you can't use science to determine whether you should take a pro-life stance or a pro-choice stance - but the insistence on using numbers would greatly simplify many decisions.
Are You Ready to Bet Against Your Smartphone?
(it's not terribly important, but if you change the title to " iPhone..." [note the space at the beginning], HN's super-smart auto-capitalization system stops working and you get a nice "iPhone..." instead of "IPhone...")
There's still some advantages to the database you choose. For example ActiveRecord will support the JSON datatype which will come with Postgres 9.2. While they may attempt to make this work in some form for other databases, the performance differences between the two will be quite vast.
Internet 'snooper's charter' could jeopardise national security, ISPs warn
Mod up for the quote, unfortunately sums me up nicely!
What I learned on the first day of my crowdfunding campaign, without funders
Original author here, after the original post there was so much great feedback that it was worthwhile to publish a part two - http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/05/07/why-postgres-part-2/

Additionally there will probably be a third post when Postgres 9.2 releases soon highlighting some of the great new features such as the JSON datatype.
Illiad V2 looks nice.

My dream is just having an e-paper monitor next to my regular monitor to which I can just pull text over to read. I wish I could just get my hands on an e-paper screen of a decent size to hack.
The hardware buttons are better in my experience.

Even after months of practice with the touchscreen, I find that one out of every 10 or so page turns I get a response different from my intention: the page turns in the wrong direction, turns two pages instead of one, triggers "open menu" command incorrectly, or does no action. I've found the swipes somewhat more accurate, net-net, than tapping, but they are a little awkward one-handed.

I've had miscues with the hardware buttons as well, but they're much less common.

The touchscreen's advantage is its on-screen keyboard. I found this a little better than the physical keyboard (which added too much size/weight) and d-pad selection. Though I only use that function once in a long while.
Does anyone know if DigitalPersona readers, such as the one in my HP TouchSmart tm2t tablet, are similarly insecure? They seem to not need the Windows password to configure, but I could be mistaken.
Traditional topographic mapping is still hugely useful in many niches. Try laying a 100 mile pipeline, or building a factory, or organising search and rescue without traditional topo mapping. I would agree that it can be obtusely formatted and wildly expensive.

High resolution 3D modelling is already available in much of Norther Europe. It is very cool, but surprisingly difficult to actually make useful. In most applications comic book style generalisations actually work better.
Well mentioned. Nokia has been far ahead of the curve for turn by turn navigation and Bing's aerial view has almost always surpassed Google.

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft's amazing augmented reality research will end up in a mapping product some day soon as well.
Live edits of OpenStreetMap http://live.openstreetmap.fr/
Datadog hearts PagerDuty. We use it every day. And sometimes nights too...

And here's its awesome API in action in Datadog -http://www.datadoghq.com/2012/07/pagerduty/
I misunderstood, that's all. The reference to Taiwan came out of the blue, and I did not realize it was intentional.
Interesting timing.

Hadn't seen your post.......
To reframe that question, who wants to read straight through someone's timeline like it's all a big blog post?
Well, there is the botanical pov and the culinary pov. From a culinary pov, corn is mostly a veg. but there are exceptions like the grain (dry fruit) for popcorn.