skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing wrong with committing untested code, it's pushing it as a ref one can reasonably expect people will merge/fast-forward to that it becomes a problem. git add -p is a nifty workaround for the type of people who don't like the workflow of "commit early, commit often" (some people have 'save file' bound to also make a commit) but who still want to have lots of small, contained commits.
Tamarine ($$$):
http://www.yelp.com/biz/tamarine-palo-alto

NOLA:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/nola-restaurant-and-bar-palo-alto

La Bodeguita:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-bodeguita-del-medio-palo-alto
Good arroz con pollo.

Jin Sho (Steve Jobs' favorite restaurant):
http://www.yelp.com/biz/jin-sho-palo-alto

Palo Alto Creamery:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/palo-alto-creamery-palo-alto-2

Jing Jing:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/jing-jing-szechwan-hunan-gourmet-pal...
Salty/Savory/Spicy Chinese food. Not high class... but Stanford's CS department is known to order large quantities of food from here (for research group meetings).

Taipan ($$$):
http://www.yelp.com/biz/taipan-palo-alto
If you want classier Chinese food (and tasty dimsum), go here instead of Jing Jing.

Ike's Place Sandwiches:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/ikes-place-stanford-3
This is on the Stanford campus (in the Huang engineering building), and the lines are long. The sandwiches are great!

Gelato Classico:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/gelato-classico-palo-alto

Cafe Venetia, Philz Coffee, and Coupa Café

Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View
http://www.yelp.com/biz/red-rock-coffee-co-mountain-view
Lots of hackers hang out upstairs. It's one block from the Castro Caltrain station.

Enjoy your visit!
It may be the only thing I can do to help mitigate credit card fraud but is it not the solution to preventing it. Credit card companies should be operating on the theory that people freely throw around their credit card number (because, let's face it, a lot of people do) and come up with solutions that do not rely on hiding that information.

Obscurity of process/information can definitely be a benefit to the security of a system but it should not be the solution. The system should be designed for the absolute worst case scenario where this process/information could be exposed.

I realize this can only go so far until at some point there is going to be some sort of secret that needs to be kept (i.e. physical hardware key, encryption codes, etc) where if this is cracked your system is exposed and at that point you need to have some sort of plan B to regain control and minimize damage.
I'll agree with many of the guidelines, but some are just personal taste. For instance, I like to indent my JS with 4 spaces and so does Douglas Crockford (http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html)
And you can generalize from wantarray's Boolean to a more general parameter indicating required return type.

It gets harder and harder though, to provide information about more and more distant parts of the program in a dynamically typed (or untyped) environment.

From what I've heard, Racket's contract system is another interesting attempt to provide something that's typically done in a static setting---the benefits of dependent typing---in a dynamic one.
...you mean "uninhabitable" ...twice!
Amazingly, Silver himself said it better than I did above: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/03/1154733/-Nate-Silve...

Here's the quote on pundits saying the election is a toss-up: "then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public".
I'm willing to trust that he said it to the reporter who then printed it.

And for the record, silly rhetoric about boots on the backs of the taxpayer is completely out of place in an article where he should be pimping his investment. It does make it look like he invested for negative sentiment towards the gov't rather than positive sentiment towards the company.
What bothers me most about that car is what way round it is. It says the engine is at the back but if that end were actually the front, it'd look pretty stylish, like an SLR McLaren Stirling Moss.
That is a good point. It honestly slipped my mind. Thanks for pointing that out.
This is not the case. Other than MWI and Bohm, the major interpretations (not including Copenhagen) make different predictions that are, in theory, distinguishable. It's just that it is completely infeasible to perform the experiments at this time. Maybe in 100 years or in 1,000 years, we'll have the technology to perform these experiments.

So, what exactly are those experiments that allegedly could distinguish between interpretations?
INSTAGRAM STOLE MY IDEA OF MAKING INSTAGRAM FOR THE WEB(Webbygram founder rant)
It could be useless, but because Instagram has no direct RSS feeds I always use web.stagram. This currently looks left out even on the new profiles.
How I integrated Keen IO and Ducksboard
True, but markdown is incredibly easy to learn, especially with this side-by-side layout.
Or the best of both worlds, tshark! http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/tshark.html
If you read the chat log he posted, it actually makes him look bad more than anyone else. Yes, it's bad, shady practice to require someone to call you to get a refund you promise, especially if you don't list that they have to call you anywhere.

But again, looking at the chat log, the 99 Designs guy is very apologetic and helpful and Andrew immediately says "OK, I think I'll blog about this and post it to Hacker News and see what everyone else thinks." (This is in response to "Justin" from 99 Designs apologizing for the inconvenience of requiring a phone call).

Hacker News is not your personal soapbox.
TOMS uses Parse to Power Their Official Mobile App
If I'm only a few key presses away from the solution when using a terminal to some small box, I certainly don't want to play with a big who-knows-dependent-on-which-libraries who-knows-how-much-time-to-install Wireshark.

I use Wireshark when I need to. I prefer to type a few characters in the command line if that's enough to get the right answer.
ah, the second i read that title fallout 3 came to mind..

always wondered about its feasibility; interesting to see it was based on a real-world concept (though a very unrealistic one at that).

though i wonder how life would be different if nuclear really had gained traction and supplanted fossil-fuels as our primary energy source.. today a concept like this seems laughable (to me anyway), but i'm thinking given the atmosphere back then and considering all the promise nuclear held, it wouldn't have been that ridiculous to imagine a time when mini-reactors could be powering passenger vehicles. i know the science behind it is far more complex, but just like computing devices have evolved and gotten increasingly smaller/safer/more-reliable over time, so too could nuclear reactors i imagine..
"It's either the best or the worst customer service email I've ever seen."

Considering the post, I'm leaning towards "best".

Two things about the article:

1) Order of information seemed really backwards. It was like the blog version of Memento.

2) I've never read an article that had so many sentences begin with the word "so". About half by my count.

...soooo, that brings me back to "best customer service email ever".
Thankfully there's the Mr Fusion Upgrade:
http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/EB00/121GMF.oap?key...
Content Distribution Regulation by Viewing User
Windows RT Takes Up Half of the 32GB Microsoft Surface’s Storage
App Starters for Android - Worth the Effort?
I found this out last year when I offered markdown support on my forum that used traditional bbcode.

I run a collaborative writing forum and, newly obsessed with markdown at the time, I figured that since users were mostly writing many paragraphs of text, they could pick up the markdown basics if a toolbar + cheatsheet helped them out. In my head, it was going to be some sort of amazing improvement and my forum community would begin chanting my name as they experienced the splendors of markdown.

Classic mistake.

Yeah, sure -- the writers could certainly grasp markdown #headers, how two linebreaks become a new `<p>`, and even `[]()` vs `()[]` links (with toolbar/cheatsheet help). Great! But nested elements and pretty much anything more complicated were a real monkey wrench or just plain unsupported.

Writers would put great effort into their posts (just like a blogger would), changing colors, right-aligning, center-aligning, changing font sizes. -- Things that markdown just doesn't support without some extending or post-processing that would turn into something far more confounding than the intuitive bbcode you started with.

Everyone just understands:

[center][size="6"][color="red"]My Cat, Mittens:[/color][/size][/center]
[img]http://imgur.com/mittens.jpg[/img]
[size="3"]Mittens says: [i]"Meow!"[/i][/size]
I think the best use case for 99designs is to browse around, find logos/designs from other contests you like and then contact those designers directly. They will likely work harder because they know they are getting paid and you will get a longer term relationship.

That said, I know the 99Designs process does work for many people, so the above might not be good advice for most people.
I thought it was interesting that the passwords for accessing the HSM were only 12 chars (3 employees * 4 chars). Even then, it's not clear if it is characters or just numbers given the numeric keypad shown.
Yes, but you could argue it is the killer feature of Facebook.
They still have preset buttons, but many that I've encountered have no visual indication that one is selected.
A complete wild-ass guess -- those concerns are most important in small-scale reactors, and the primary driving force behind small reactors is Navy submarine use. At sea you are surrounded by water, so there is no reason not to use it as your fluid. Adding salt would add another complication to the supply chain.

I guess you could theoretically pull salt out of the water, but there is no telling what impurities may be left. Reverse-osmotic water filtering makes water so pure that it supposedly extracts minerals back out of your bones and teeth, so impurities are no concern when it used as an exchange fluid.
I can personally attest from first hand experience that "code rot" due to not taking advantage of the peculiarities of the current JS VM (and yesterday's "techniques" no longer being suitable) are far more commonplace than in any other programming environment I've dealt with.

Also of note -- with C you make your product, compile it, ship it and largely forget about it. Its rare that PC games get slower, even if compilers change, because you don't keep recompiling it. However, if you make a JS game, that thing is interpreted from scratch every time its loaded. So if I make a JS game and ship it, the performance characteristics have a higher chance of changing in unexpected ways on me long after I've moved on.

(Note: This is simply a response to this particular aspect of performance tuning JS, I am obviously not getting into the benefits of interpretation which may very well outweigh these costs.)
So there are actually some countervailing forces at work here. On the one hand, people who have social status associated with ethical behavior tend to be more likely to act unethically (I wish I could find a reference for that offhand, but no matter).

On the other hand, self-image plays a pretty big role in determining behavior. Robert Cialdini discusses this at length in Influence: Science and Practice. He discusses several studies that demonstrate that getting someone to take an action that affects their self-image makes them more likely to make decisions corresponding to that self-image in the future.

For example, researchers divided home owners into two groups. Those in Group A were initially approached and asked to place three-inch signs in their yards saying "be a safe driver", and most of them complied. Group B was not approached initially.

A few weeks after that, the researchers went back to everyone in both groups and asked them if they would be willing to place a large billboard in their yard saying "drive carefully". They were shown a picture example showing a poorly designed billboard so large that it almost entirely obscured the view of the house. Almost everyone in Group B declined. The majority in Group A accepted.

The conclusion of this, and many other experiments is fascinating: people have a powerful drive to behave consistently. We are strongly repulsed by the possibility of hypocrisy. So if you change someone's view of themselves to fit a certain pattern, they will tend to continue to conform to that pattern in the future. So to some degree at least, giving money to a homeless person will create in you an internal psychological pressure to be more altruistic in the future.

And choosing not to give money because you think giving it to charity would be more effective may inadvertently cause you to incorporate "cautious about donating" into your self-image, and cause you to have more difficulty with future altruism. After all, what if you gave money to the Red Cross instead of the homeless person, and then found out that they weren't such a great charity after all? You'd look like a hypocrite for being cautious with the bum, but not with the Red Cross. Your brain is very good at anticipating "I'll look like a hypocrite" and avoiding it, even when the end result is worse for everyone.

Incidentally, if you find this stuff fascinating (or terrifying), I highly recommend Cialdini's book. But it might make you a little paranoid about salespeople and marketers.
You're 100% correct Rick. I should have been more explicit in my original post. It was a quick glib comment that I should have put a bit more thought into.

There is a reason people don't go around wearing their credit card numbers and SIN on their clothes. The system to protect them should be setup to work its best in the scenario this information is completely exposed but our attempts to hide his information does add a tangible benefit.
It's not about malicious or benevolent. Obama has actively reduced civil liberties in this country and abroad. I fully expect Obama to reduce civil liberties even further in his second term

(sources: Obama's stance on the NDAA, warrantless wiretapping, extrajudicial assassination, Omar Khadr, prosecutions of whistleblowers, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project)
>Worst Customer Service Ever?

Not-even-close...

There are certain assumptions people make when trying to help out others. I'm probably not going out too far on a limb to guess that Allan read OP's emails and one of his first thoughts were, "this guy didn't spend more than 2 minutes reading the documentation."

Given the ease of locating that information, I'd have to agree.
Because some places, like Europe, use the comma symbol as the decimal point, so pi would be 3,14159...
It's not so much that you have to worry about losing a judgement, but rather that you have to spend time and resources fighting in court.
It's closed Monday & Tuesday. (Turns out that I had plenty of time Monday and Tuesday to visit, but everything else filled up; wish I'd thought to look that up)
Seems like a horrible idea to have a nuclear reactor in your primary crumple zone -- most high-speed collisions would be front-end collisions.
They tend to overheat past that point in normal computers. Enthusiasts can get production chips running at up to 6GHz, but at that point they're having to use things like liquid nitrogen pumps. A passive radiator with an air fan can only conduct away so much heat. My newest PC (A core i7 or something, I forget exactly what now) has a heatsink that's bigger than my fist.
I think the lack of visibility in this industry has more to do with who the target customers are. Storage/Energy tech is primarily sold to governments, utilities, or large industrial customers. If you are a consumer app, getting a lot of press can make or break your company. Not so much with energy companies.
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Maybe you're capturing on a device that doesn't have the grunt or environment to run wireshark?
Yeah like scott_s pointed out I did not consider anti-fraud. In my quick glib reaction comment I did not consider all scenarios. Thanks for pointing this out.
Temperatures mainly. CPUs were approaching 4GHz a decade ago, but the power consumption and temperature output made higher speeds (and even those speeds) impractical. Multicore at those speeds would've (again) been power-wise impractical, so it made more sense to drop the speeds and have 2-4 cores until process improvements allowed clock speeds and core counts to both be higher.
This thread suggests that a small power plant at 1.5 GW takes about 1500 kg of uranium a year[1]. That's 13,140 GWh, or 0.114 kg uranium pr. GWh.

A regular car motor produces up to 90kW[2].

10000 miles at 40 mph average is 250 hours, or 2,500 hours over the 10 year. It's low speed, so let's assume the engine runs at half the rated output on average, 45kW, for a total of 112 GWh or 12.8 kg uranium.

The classroom stuff is $90/kg[3], or $1,152 total fuel costs for ten years.

1: http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=360052

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_SR_engine

3: http://www.chemicool.com/elements/uranium.html

Edit: more importantly, though: nuclear reactors are very poor at variable power output, so they are a bad fit for cars. Perhaps long haul trucks.
A lot of non-hackers are good programmers. Just sayin'.
How do you deal with a cofounder who has an MBA and is an MBA? I've been having this issue for the past two years and it can get very frustrating.
Why didn't they just buy http://instagre.at?
I have a B2B app too, and get email from people who are downright rude. I wouldn't bundle the OP in with this bunch: he just seemed frustrated.

But as the service provider it's your responsibility to maintain a professional tone. When I get what, at best, are difficult customers, my approach is to be tersely polite. Then half tend to back down and be apologetic, the other half I never hear from again.
What's with the downvotes? I don't think this os off topic and I don't see how this wpuld offend anyone.
Focused ultrasound could have been used to do cardiac ablation as well, though it's probably still in experimental stage. It's also noninvasive.

In general, focused ultrasound is the cure to a lot of ailments but is criminally underfunded at the moment. It's a potential immortality device.
That's rubbish. You're effectively assuming someone else will do the heavy lifting of preventing the crazy, which means you can be suckered into voting against any candidate by the simple expedient of putting a newbie with no track record upa against them.

Single-issue voters are the bane of a healthy political system.
Great news, congratulations on the deal! I dare say you're a big inspiration to a lot of young inventors out there, and we here are all awaiting big things from you and LightSail in the near future (no pressure!).
Yeah. Requiring a call in for cancellation is shady but the guy just seemed like he was looking to whine/complain. This guy must write a lot of blog posts about every company who makes you call vs email. I hope he never has to do anything with the DMV- They make you go in person some things! shudder
So, none of them? It doesn't include other domains and it shouldn't include other domains. Really, it is being exceedingly generous in that estimation already. Hosting thousands of totally independent, small sites is trivial, and does not require scaling wordpress in any significant way. Facebook is one site, all their data needs to be able to be accessed by all their software. Bob's blog and Joe's blog are totally independent, and have no need to be on the same software or hardware at all. Thus making scaling a non-issue.

I agree that using caching is normal, but the difference is the total reliance on caching. I wouldn't be impressed with google's scalability either if it were 99.9999% static pages being served up.
Yeah I am forwarding this to my be an MBA bro in law. Hopefully he can snap out of it before he graduates. One can hope, right?
I'd forgotten how great this book is, and that it was published in 1998 is incredible. Time to re-read.
The most i've ever hurt my brain was reasoning about a timezone-aware fleet management system, and what it meant when a vehicle was driven from one timezone to the next while properly billing the time driven. We ended up going with an 80% solution that we know is wrong in some cases, but that we an actually explain to users.
No Free Lunch!
I have this great idea for a really cool new product. It shouldn't take a good coder more than a couple of days. Contact me if your interested.
So, the company asks you to place a phone call to get your refund. A phone call they pay for courtesy of a toll-free number. When you refuse because... of whatever made-up reason in your head... they are apologetic in the online chat and give you your refund anyway. And then you make a whiny blog post about it.

Good companies listen to their customers when they have a legitimate complaint. But the best companies know that when a customer is being too whiny and entitled, it's best to fire that customer.
Haha, I think I've just proved I'm an aesthete first, engineer second (or third..)
> P4 would have to be running at over 20GHz to match what the i7 is doing on a per-core basis.

Seems to me memory getting 10x more bandwidth and cache getting 8x larger probably accounts for the majority of the performance differences between these processors not instructions per cycle, which I think has gone up by more like 2x.

So a Pentium 4 with current memory and cache would need to be more like 8 Ghz if it scaled linearly like that (P4 had ~3 instructions per cycle, i7 ~7-8).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second
While you're in Mountain View to check out the Computer History Museum, check out Hacker Dojo, and try and find a contact at Google to feed you (their campus is a wonderland).

Meetup.com worked out great for finding ways to fill up those awkward spaces in between events and attractions.
It's clearly just a horrible idea to have a nuclear reactor in your car. I'm not sure worrying about where it's placed is even necessary at that point.
That might make sense if we didn't have such a divided government.
Show HN: Hamburger in Space
Playing with the JVM from Linux
I love the interface and the colors. Also a nice use of tabs on the top. Here are a few questions and comments that I have:
1. How does one edit a list and add a picture?
2. Can a note be smart enough to fetch a relevant picture and display it alongside?
3. There should be an info page explaining all the buttons on the tabs. Some are obvious, but I couldn't figure out what other buttons are for.

Overall, warm colors and a fresh design to look at.
Rake in as much cash as possible from their ads whilst Instagram aren't doing it and then wind it down?

I can't see what other benefit they'd bring over the official site (except as another post noted, RSS feeds).
Apple paid only 1.9 pct tax on earnings outside US
I completed a dual MBA/MS in CS last may. An MBA is phenomenal for personal development and a broadening of perspective - certainly not essential to start or run a successful business. I personally think everyone should do an MBA as opposed to general undergrad requirements. A basic business sense is a great prerequisite for any career.
Multicore at those speeds...

In addition to power concerns of many fast cores on one chip, server chips (the multicore champions) tend to be larger dies, and place higher value on MTBF. I believe both of these factors work against super high frequency server offerings.
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There are three other candidates for Senate in Minnesota besides Bills and Klobuchar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_i...