skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the winter I'm taking D2, because it's the vitamin prescribed to children and so less toxic.
If people can't read something and make up their own mind about it, there's nothing we can do to help them.
On error handling in Go vs. Python:

Lack of exceptions means the deeper the call stack the higher the proportion of error handling code relative to a normal (non-exceptional) code path.

For example, if you decide to refactor some code from a bigger function into its own smaller function then all error handling code have to be repeated twice (first in the child function then in the parent that calls it). It introduces unnecessary clutter and boiler-plate.

Exceptions allows you to limit the error handling to two places: the place where you detect an error and the place where you are ready to handle it and not throughout the whole call stack.

Language with a builtin garbage collection can (should) afford a builtin exception support.

I like that Go excludes some language features on purpose but in the case of exceptions Python has its merits.
This is the approach of Qubes-os: http://qubes-os.org/Home.html

By they way read also their blog: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/
Yes, it's Spengler, but I think he makes a good point here about why this happens with Islam and not other religions (note that he wrote it 2 years ago): http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LI14Ak01.html
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Well done guys, keep scaling and keep representing the Melbourne tech scene!
The key thing I got a bit wrong was high-traffic mostly static "content", vs high-traffic "very custom" which is a) what I was used to at envato and b) what I thought we had on our hands at goodfilms.

I think in a growing site with a lot of custom per-user content (like a social network) the extra complexity of a cache layer and managing expiry is more pain than it's worth while iterating the product quickly. If you're mostly a content site, it's definitely the #1 thing you should be doing.

Realising that we're both at the same time, depending on the user or page, means that sometimes the cache stuff is the right thing to do, and sometimes not. I was leaning too far towards not, and happy now with the balance we've picked.
This may be a bit off-topic.

I had to code a project in C once - nothing big, maybe 200-300 lines of actual C code. Instead of going straight to the computer, though, I sat down with a coffee for 2 hours and wrote the entire thing on paper.

Have you ever sat down at a computer and not known exactly where to start on a project? Usually this is because you've started too early. There's not enough content in your head to form a mental model of your problem.

Sitting away from the computer introduces a barrier and forces you to reconsider whether you have assimilated enough material before sitting down to program.
They won't look at it unless it's completely dead. That is a side effect of budget constraints as well. It is usable, though painful, once it's up.
Probably true, but with secondary markets you could probably sell a small portion of your stock for 10x your total investment, and be left with an immediate 10x return and huge upside with the remaining stock.
That's exactly what they did. That's what SOC means. Basically instead of having to have a separate chip on the board for the radio, it's within the processor. Of course the board still needs an antenna, but this is just another step towards x86 cell phones.
I'm finding it a little worry recently with the number of companies all focused upon making Microsofts latest version of windows overly appealing via indirect means.

What with intel and AMD both releasing chipsets that will only support windows 8 and now a direct blow to winXP users then the preasure for not overly IT aware users to upgrade to windows 8 becomes more and more a forced upgrade down the line.

Yes there are alternatives but for many users then they will be very limited in those options and with new hardware limiting there choices even further they will be of the mindset of having no alternative choice. What with microsoft pushing out windows 8 in a vain to avoid the backlash they got from Vista (still prefer that over 7 personaly) becasue they never adopted it internaly when they expected others too.

But I'm wondering how many of these limited choice impacts (IE versions, new hardware chipsets) are induced via microsofts influence.

That said I can appreciete how versions of IE have there quirks and changes making catering for various versions a utter nightmare, but when users of XP have little choice then to upgrade there OS or install a non microsoft browser then for many users they will end up replacing there entire computer instead of installing chrome, and thats becasue they don't fully know what there doing. Anybody reading here will be a install chrome or firefox brigade but not all users are at our level, some don't even understand binary and it is those that will feel the presure.
Calling nonprofit developers: Visual Studio 2012 now on the donations program
Live Weekend Project: TwoTapTextbooks
Hi, I'm Vik, a CS major at the University of Maryland!

I'm competing in PennApps2012 (http://2012f.pennapps.com/), a 48 hour hackathon at the University of Pennsylvania. My entry is a student-to-student book exchange, www.TwoTapTextbooks.com. It'll be updated nonstop during the competition!

A little background:
Last year I created an iPhone/Android map app of UMD called Campus Maps (http://www.getcampusmaps.com) which really caught traction; 25% of the campus downloaded it in 12 months (6,500 students on a campus of 27,000)! This year I'm expanding it to UVA and adding other apps to complement it like a textbook exchange!

Are there any caveats, must-do's, or useful tools that come to mind for a 20 year old CS College Senior? Thank you so much HackerNews :)
I'm, in no way, suggesting not to bother

I'm specifically talking about the "social engineering" the 9.11 hijackers used. they exploited the expectations of people to self-absorbed to think outside the box. The advice for the passengers in a hijacking was not not resist. the only difference between flight 93 and WTC was what? an hour or two and some more imagination...

But this was on multiple scales...(a) They exploited the unwillingness to hunt them down (ie, after mogadishu) so they operated with impunity to prepare; (b) They expoloited the social norms by using educated terrorists to fly first class and get "student" visas to be trained; (c) Nobody wanted to bother thinking through the consequences, because it was not so pleasant to imagine people might not be so nice...

Terrorism is at heart anti civillian warfare by definition, this is the problem and the challenge.
How did this become a case in the first place? Who even bothered to "press charges" over this?
I'm pretty sure that's wizardry, not css.
Most spam transactions pass through just three banks
It's okay to sometimes cheat on an exam in the same way it's okay for software developers to ignore the dozens of patents they infringe on, instead of paying the holders. In the same way it's okay to sometimes exceed the speed limit without asking the police for a ticket. In the same way it's okay to buy stuff online tax-free and not pay use taxes on it in your own state. Everyone cheats.

I said they won't get much past minimum wage if they take the attitude "tough luck". Successful people get used to knocking down the hurdles others endlessly throw at them, often unfairly.
But these arguments are pretty much invalid today: C++11 introduces explicit support for concurrency, and the compiler MUST be aware of it, even though it may look (on the surface) as a "library".
Well, you're comparing two visionary entrepreneurs at different stages right now. Jobs wasn't quite as arrogant after he fell from the throne and had to start from scratch (Pixar, NeXT). That's about where I'd put Elon right now, even though the circumstances of his departure from PayPal was of course entirely different. I'd like to see him once SpaceX or Tesla becomes a megacorporation like Apple - the judgement is still out on that. You can't compare the way SpaceX acts towards Boeing with Apple towards its competitors - one is an underdog that has nothing to loose, one is a goliath with the world to loose.
Bezos and Musk deliver.
Is it really scaremongering? Fukushima was a close call.

Considering the population density and the inherent risks (quakes) in Japan, I would say it's a wise decision. Who wants a population living under fear?

Fission is a good source of energy, but nuclear plants are obviously less reliable than expected. That will be a thrust to research better alternatives, including better nuclear plant designs, why not?
"has not turned Pakistan into a pro-Indian country": I would caution against extrapolating the attitude of ordinary folks from the public stand of the govt.

Also, Pakistan is not a homogeneous country. It's got multiple ethnic groups. I'm almost certain that the people of Punjab (largest province afaik), and the descendants of the migrants from India (who live mostly in Karachi), do feel great kinship with Indians. Bollywood does play a role in that. YMMV.
Depends on your web server. AFAIK, nginx uses a combination of events and threads to handle a ginormous number of simultaneous connections.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_I/O

http://www.slideshare.net/joshzhu/nginx-internals

http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html

http://serverfault.com/questions/86674/why-is-nginx-so-fast

Also, Node.js.

Edit: formatting.
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> ... my own interface builder ...
Nice, but you have a "Try it now" button on the first page, that suggests (at least to me) that I can try it right away. When click-ing however, on get's a "Login with..." page.

Would be much better if users could try it without login, and only if they really like it and want to save their work than would be a login required, or when they start to use it professionally.

I think for demo/show purposes, lowering the "entry" is always better, as it will get more people to really try it.
Sure, you may have but are you the exception or the rule?
Why don't you outsource some of the work. At least version 0.1 - you will get a working prototype and market validation as well.
As far as not widely audited goes, the encryption is handled by GPG so that part is at least fine.
برنامج تركيب الصور - تحميل برنامج تحرير الصور  photoscape 2013
The dictionary of modern idiosynchracies
I'm a GPG noob, is there a way to configre pass + gpg so that my passwords are encrypted with AES rather than an asymmetric algorithm?
Sightings of T-Mobile 3G/HSPA+ coverage on 1900MHz (PCS/UMTS band II)
The Wealthy Should Fund Innovation

And how does one get wealthy...Patent troll!

WTF. This theory needs some dogfooding.
That simply lists precursors to calcitriol, which you can get but isn't recommended because it is hard to dose.

There are other reasons to sunbathe (e.g. NO release) but there is only one active form of D.
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Look up wazapp, it's a third party client for Nokie N9
The CDMA model does GSM as well: http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

CDMA model A1429: CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1900, 2100 MHz); UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz); LTE (Bands 1, 3, 5, 13, 25)

The CDMA iPhone 4S was the same (minus LTE), it has a SIM card slot for global roaming and everything.
TerraPower.
I don't assert anything, I'm just sharing my experience: That I made _exactly_ the same arguments/points you and others are making when I was young and not taken as seriously. Now, having walked further down this path, I feel differently. I'm just sharing with you a single data point.
Fukushima was a freak event in an old power station with inadequate sea defences. Simply building another 2m on top of the wall would have been enough until the station lost its licence due to age.
Get checked anyway. I eat sushi quite frequently, and prefer fish over other meats; and I was still very, very low, somewhere around 12.
When I purchased a big screen TV from Amazon, it was hand delivered and setup by a team of two for free, at a competitive price for that model.

I won't claim to be an expert on TVs or their delivery, but that was nicer than buying it at Fry's and manhandling it up the stairs myself.

This was in San Jose area, but I think it was provided anywhere.

Anyway... What I'm trying to say is that a mattress pickup service isn't necessarily out of the question.
Absolutely. At theconversation.edu.au we run a content site—we publish the news, which is the same for everyone. This means we can cache the front page and all the articles as static HTML, and then annotate the page with user info for signed-in commenters, editorial controls for signed-in editors, and so on.

(We have a separate cookie that is present for signed-in users, so the fronted knows whether it should fire the annotation request.)

The result is that we can serve a sudden influx of unauthenticated users (e.g. from Google News or StumbleUpon) from nginx alone, which gives us massive scale from very little hardware. It's likely that the network is actually the bottleneck in this case, and not nginx.
As someone close to me working with foreign countries and the Japanese nuclear energy industry said:

"Which country is willing to buy the products of our industry if we are not willing to buy them for ourselves?"

There are already a bunch of countries way ahead of Japan on renewable energy. But Japan is suffering from severe populism over the last years, nowadays it appears that taking responsibility for governing the country has become to equivalent resigning when the going gets tough. So, I don't think it is likely that they will stay the course and talk about safe and modern nuclear power.
Exactly.

Had it been a gas plant or whatever, it wouldn't have mattered. But it was a nuclear plant, and in a nuclear plant any improbable event like that is a major f* up. That's the core issue.
We built it!
If you've done enough mathematical analysis of previous downturns and trends, there is no need to experience one yourself. You can obtain all of the information you need to make better (future) predictions through objective study, and in my opinion this is much more effective than some sort of intuitive hunch accumulated through the years.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a patent troll in possession of an enormous fortune must find a pretext by which he might be judged something other than a parasite.

There is a serious argument to be made that very wealthy individuals are the only ones who can fund certain projects. But no one as wealthy as Myhrvold can make that argument seriously. So here are two links. I'm pretty sure that neither author has ever called for a pay-per-click internet:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/07/the...

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/01/we-need-the-very-rich....
I'm no nuclear expert, but from what I gather very few people consider TEPCO or the Japanese regulators to have shown a high level of expertise in handling the Fukushima situation. Some of it was definitely bad luck, but most reports I see have pretty harsh criticism of regulators neglect of the situation prior to the event and TEPCO's handling of the situation after the event.
Here's where I'm at now on nuclear power, as someone who has lived in Tokyo for the last 7 1/2 years:

'Nuclear scaremongers' are right, that is to say they have a point, but for the wrong reasons. They are wrong that nuclear power is inherently dangerous, or that it's bad for the environment when compared e.g. coal, or basically whatever other anti-scientific bullshit they care to trot out to support their anti-nuclear stance. The science is clear - if you are an environmentalist you should fervently support nuclear power generation because it stands head and shoulders above everything else in terms of safety and environmental friendliness...

... when operated responsibly.

Therein lies the problem. After what's come out over the past couple years about the shit that has gone on at Tepco and the regulatory authorities, it is hard not to take the view that most of these assholes in executive positions should be put in prison. Hell, if Japan is so dedicated to the death penalty, some of them make prime candidates for it. That they could show such casual disregard not just for the safety of the towns near their facilities, but really their entire nation and even region, is profoundly shocking to the point that it starts to make you question your fundamental assumptions of human nature. Fundamental assumptions such as "human beings are generally not, as a rule, criminally incompetent psychopaths".

I'm sure most of the anti-nuclear crowd in Japan truly believes the bunk science that supports their stance. Others might be more cynical. At the governmental level, however, I think (and hope) something a bit more introspective is going on. Namely, that they have come to the realization that they can not be trusted to effectively regulate the nuclear power industry. Not when the consequences of failure are what they are.
For those who don't understand the prosecution, it is important to know that impoverished parts of northern England have seen violent race riots on several occasions over the past few years, as have many other countries in Europe. There was significant rioting across England in August of last year, which had a substantial racial element and which ultimately led to 5 deaths.

Radical Islamist and far-right groups are constantly looking to provoke anger and dischord, with regular demonstrations and counter-demonstrations by groups like Islam4UK and the English Defence League posing a real threat to civil society.

The American notion of free speech is reliant on a level of cultural homogeneity that limits the risks of political and ethnic tensions. Europeans are much more comfortable with the idea of limiting speech which is a threat to peaceful coexistence, because we are painfully aware of how quickly a society can degenerate.

Americans perceive free speech as an inalienable right, but the European perspective is generally that there is a careful balance to be struck between the right of the individual to self-expression and defending the political stability which makes such freedom possible. The provocation of social tension is very much perceived as equivalent to shouting "fire!" in a crowded theatre. A great many historical failures to strike that balance loom large over the European political landscape.
> let me know when Kevin really innovates.

Digg created social news. The company ultimately failed because of some missteps, but the concept is still thriving on the Web today and can be seen with Likes, Retweets, Upvotes, and others. Digg Labs was cool, they had a great API, and while I'm not going to claim it was the first website to feature this, it was at least the first time I'd ever seen a website with an RSS feed of search result pages. Getting an RSS feed (when feed readers were cool) for any search query you wanted to amazing as it allowed you to follow any topic you wanted to.

Overall, the early execution of Digg was brilliant. They just thought too big.
It's not that the plants are less reliable. The technology is great. It's the humans that aren't reliable.
Great job! Can you do such page for EC2 too?
No. They've been doing that since they were founded.

Then again, so were the Christians. And the Buddhists. And the Hindus.

Then again, I cannot seem to find any sources of recent (last 1000 years) Jewish vs other violence. They seem to be picked on more than doing picking.
Coulda shoulda woulda.

I'd like to think the right managers and authorities will do the right thing in such situations. But empirically, they didn't.

Perhaps it's a specific failing of the Japanese governance regime, and knowing their own affairs more than we do, they don't have sufficient confidence they can fix that failing before another 'freak' event occurs.
In course names, be sure to handle spaces "Math 141" and handle full
course names "English" versus "ENGL".

It would probably be helpful if you stated the university since course
names/numbers are not necessarily fixed to specific books.

If you can get course->teacher->book data, it would be useful.

If you can get such data for multiple universities, fantastic.

Allow ISBN lookup to match a book to one or more courses.

Allow Title lookup to match a book to one or more courses.

Allow Author lookup ...

If you don't have any listed for sale, access Amazon, B&N, ... --Most of
the book sellers have API's.

if "m" is entered, two MATH141 entires show up, but clicking them does
nothing --are you using a popup?

Good Luck!
That's good to know, thanks. I may want to use Nginx with Go someday, in a stateful way. The built-in web server may not be ready for prime time, I've read.
Where are you currently working, out of ahem curiosity?
I think it's incorrect to use free health care as a "competitor" for this product. Here in Belgium (with free and awesome healthcare) people still pay for organic food, supplements, gym memberships and many other things to stay healthy.

So I would assume there would be a market for this too. I am speaking anecdotally though, like you.
unfortunately not,
I haven't used any time tracking software so far - just wanted to point out that the focus of archify is currently not time-tracking
The article is pretty much confused drivel with no clear substantiating data. My observations are that India is unable to control the growing fundamentalist Islamic element within its population. Recent riots and pogroms against native North-Eastern Indians (they have a significant East Asian component to their appearance) by Islamic groups is a clear marker of rapidly increasing instability. India as a state is one of those mixed stable-chaos types that is teetering on the brink of disaster. A mafia driven monarchy (Antonina Malno aka Sonia Gandhi) has effectively injected massive corruption into India's state bureaucracy and destroyed the improvements/gains made in the 1990s by civil society types. It is a mess. I would not invest any hope in India unless there's some massive change in their politics.
More discussion on Quora about the article.

http://www.quora.com/Quora/What-do-quora-admins-think-of-thi... <-- No answers.

http://www.quora.com/Quora-product/What-do-Quora-users-think...

http://www.quora.com/rage-against-quora/Why-Quora-Won’t-Scal... <-- Rage Against Quora post

It's ironic how the article talks about how the admins engage in censorship and a "spiral of silence" for minority views, but when an article talks about the spiral of silence and gets press, the ALL the admins are silent themselves. Oh the irony! Guilty conscience, much?
I'm all for starting young, in fact I am downright angry because I think our educational system is holding us back (living in Germany). Just a note, though: you won't stay young. I am not sure it is even worth fussing about being too young, because while you are busy fussing, suddenly you are already old.
I would never publicly post opinions that could put me or my current or future employer/company into legal jeopardy with respect to discrimination against protected classes.

Yet, there seems to be quite a bit of this on here.