skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the point of having a pissing match between engineers and scientists? You need both to push technology forward.

Science can lead to better engineering, but better engineering can also lead to better science as well. You don't get very far in astronomy unless your engineers can build telescopes. You don't get very far in computational biology without engineers to create microchips, write software, etc.

What was the use of spending all that effort to get to the moon? There wasn't much interesting up there, scientifically. And the ballistics used would have been familiar to Isaac Newton. But it turns out that going to the moon pushed forward a lot of fields, like materials science, aerodynamics, and so forth.

If you have only disdain for practical things, you end up like the ancient Greeks-- smart guys who were unwilling to get their hands dirty by actually doing an experiment or building a device. So, for example, they philosophized about what must be inside the human body, rather than actually looking. They discovered the steam engine but dismissed it as a toy.

If theoretical CS hasn't advanced that much in the last 30 years, maybe it's because there isn't that much left to discover there. And that would be fine. There's more than ever going on in computational biology, material science, chemistry, and so forth. Who knows. Maybe some grubby engineers will come up with a quantum computer, and then theoretical CS people will have something to do again. All we know for sure is that keeping an open mind and a reasonable-sized ego is the best way to approach the problem.
"anti-competitive practices" is an anti-concept (look that term up in an epistemology book if you don't know it). Microsoft didn't initiate force or fraud against anyone; therefore, they weren't cheating.

In the long run, had they continued those practices, Linux and Apple (or some other competitor in the marketplace) likely would have risen farther/faster. Forcing everyone to use IE was not a viable strategy back when that was a death sentence for computer security.

AFAIK AMD is alive and well.
That is exactly what happened to me after I moved from the east coast to the Midwest. Every login to Facebook was a reminder of the abundant (real-life) social network that I had left behind to be in a place where I knew virtually nobody. It eventually drove me to close my account. Much as I'd like to rationalize closing my account in terms of privacy or principles, it was really mostly this phenomenon.
Yes. Mainly because I can't stand ads with animation.
Moving away from all his friends, I'd assume.
"Success" is a continuum. "Winners/losers" is binary.
No, it's not because of using social media too much. I have the exact same feeling. Most of my Facebook friends are people I met in grad school in Thailand. I dropped out and moved back to the USA. Thai people are about 20x more active on Facebook than the average American and they had the time of their lives after I left and the party is still going - and they document every second of it on Facebook. Deep regret/sadness is exactly how I feel every time I see their photos filling up my feed.
Sweet, I like it much better that way.

Good point that your payment likely would come from multiple addresses, I had overlooked that.
Came to say this. This can be biased by cultural differences - brazilians, for example, are very prone to say everything is terrible and everyone is corrupt.
yeah, I think that is a valid criticism. Actually it feels a lot closer to a Stack Exchange site, not including the way to transfer a payment from one person to another. I like how stack exchange tracks reputations and allows people to up/down vote answers to questions.
You have been mislead. Better advice for panicing in Go is to panic in truly exceptional or unrecoverable circumstances. For example, a programmer error (violating the terms of a function contract) is a perfectly reasonable justification for panicing across package boundaries.

The Go standard library:

grep -nrHIF 'panic(' /opt/go/src/pkg/* | wc -l
632

Note that this is somewhat inflated with a lot of `panic("unreachable")` calls. They are a symptom of the standard Go Compiler requiring a `return` on every code path of a function that returns at least one value. A `panic(...)` relaxes this requirement. In this case, a panic arising would indicate a bug in the package. Which is another good reason to panic across package boundaries :-)
IDEs, no matter which vendor they come from, are complex things. A zillion options, keystrokes up the wazoo. Moving from one to another is like having an arm lopped off. It takes a lot of time to get comfortable. Muscle memory is a powerful thing.

For software I use a lot, I find learning in bursts works well.

On first use I have an initial explore until my brain starts to overload and then just try to get stuff done.

From then on, every so often - perhaps a month later and even a year or years later, I'll go on another exploration session to build on top of what I know.

If you've never done it, it's worth trying. It worked wonders for my vi skills many years ago!
Quitting Facebook in 2007 must be the modern equivalent of quitting email in 1990.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
It's a bit presumptious to say that Apple is any different. Sure they are attractive at the moment because of the unique niche they are filling. If Sony, HP, Dell, Acer, Gateway, Lenovo, etc all sold a laptop with similar specs, Apple's differentiation becomes much less unique, and normal competitive factors come into play (scale, marketing, etc).

So tell me, does that still hold water?
> but to never do so across package/api boundaries.

There are good reasons to panic across package boundaries. See my other comment. [1]

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4879994
Storing data on DNA
There's some good and bad stuff in this post.

The good part:

"[these questions] can help identify winners even amongst the nervous, “I don’t interview well” types of people who may warm up and shine on the job. And I’ve hired a lot of great people who don’t interview especially well. But when I jump into the above questions, they are able to speak eloquently to how dynamic and thoughtful they are as people."

So yeah this is a technique that's worked for him to help "find winners" that he otherwise wouldn't have.

The bad part is, rather obviously, the assumption that anyone that doesn't pass his test is a loser:

"her upside enabled her to take on a lot of the unforeseen — and valuable — tasks that the previous candidate would have stumbled around."

This is a serious case of choice supportive bias and because it's the focus of the article people are justifiably piling on the author. No you don't know that person is a loser. If it was that easy to find losers the billions of dollars used in hiring would have found this out already.
Can you provide the verified facts? I've yet to see where a granted permission is _fraudulently_ used. I've yet to even see or see reproduced these supposed facts. In fact, the token granted from Twitter is a non-rate-limited permission to tweet indefinitely; the only abuse here is a user's trust; but that shouldn't preclude Prismatic from making good on a mistake before they are chastised forevermore.
Standing at the Top of a Sales Platform
The experience I had typically fell the categories of Revenue Recognition . Things like round-trip revenue exchanges with other companies, Shipping gear with the understanding that return would occur at the end of the quarter, and capitalizing OpEx.

The thing was - these executives (CEOs, CFOs, and EVPs of sales) never used words like "Wrong" and "Right" - they just made sure their activity wasn't discoverable and would pass muster of the Auditors (Auditors, who, were hired by those very same executives and were also doing consulting work for the company in other lucrative deals.) Anything that they could get away with, they simply presumed to be the best course of action. And, you really buy into that mindset when you're with them - and don't really realize what you are involved with until you hear about your CFO being indicted for something she got caught doing.
I always find it funny that someone actually ported Fruit Ninja. http://tiwizard.com/downloads/fruit-ninja/

The controls are pretty clever too.
Lifestyle changes might be necessary. But it might be worth it.
Conveniently left out is any analysis whatsoever on Google's bottom line. If Google pays $30+ billion for a losing company, they will be in the red for a long time until they turn things around, assuming that's possible (and they can get the spectrum).
No, cash flow and profit are both differentials of net value. But they are both noisy.

Ideally, profit abstracts away all the messy details of cash flow. If you buy a new robot, that's not a loss, that's an investment, so your profit shouldn't change (until the robot starts depreciating). So profit (not cashflow) is a better metric. On the other hand, you don't know that the robot will really be useful, so maybe cashflow is better.
Sublime Text Font Smoothing (anti-aliasing) issues in Mountain Lion
"Facebook has been the gateway drug to the internet." I have never thought of it put that way, but it is such a true and insightful statement. When I began high school, almost none of my adult family members were on the internet (less one aunt who did a lot of internet shopping). Here I am closing in on my graduation from college and my entire family has adopted the internet -- grandparents of both sides, my father, aunts & uncles, etc. -- and in every case their first experience was making a facebook account.
Cashing in on Gangnam Style's YouTube fame
Culture of silence surrounds sexual assault at Stanford
Uber charged with licensing offences in Toronto
I have an account so that relatives who don't use email can contact me, and for those annoying event apps that require a facebook login. Aside from responding to private messages, I log in about once a month to turn off whatever invasive feature they've added and automatically enabled.

Twitter is actually more annoying because they keep sending me "you haven't logged in recently" emails.
Suggest a feature enhancement with the Jetbrains folks for it.
I don't care if people are going to downvote me because I like FB. Let me clarify myself: I don't like FB as a company because I am a Google fan, but I like FB more than Google+ to be honest.

I like FB because I follow these interesting nature, animal pages. So half of my dashboard is filled with that kind of pictures (oh and memes). I also follow some universities (including mine), and some club pages. I also follow some youtubers like Wong Fu Production and RayWilliamJohnson. Basically, I get most of my updates from FB because the UI on Google+ is really hard to use IMHO. Besides, almost all my friends are regular FB users. They post their life stories on FB.

Privacy? Oh please give me a fucking break. Seriously. As long as FB doesn't steal my money from my bank or credit card I don't care if Macy's gets my likes. I really don't. I might actually end up clicking on that if I find it interesting. Stop those BS privacy critism. If you don't like it, then don't use it. I enjoy my trolling and my fun comments on FB with my friends.
I found it obvious that the new screenshot was showing off the dark theme. I found it far less obvious whether they expected to it to show a "more clean and functional" interface.
That was the first danger. How much is the insurance? We were talking about 1% at CoinBase, I think that MtGox was 0.65%, and that's only for buying and selling. Withdrawals are free. Bitcoin-to-bitcoin transfers are (still) free.

If it's $20,000 cash in the mail, it weighs about 200g (100 $100's) and to mail it about an hour from here (1 hour 30 minutes by car) Rochester to Buffalo, registered mail with $25,000 insurance, flat rate priority mail envelope is $53. I guess that price is the same across country.

OK, so it's actually cheaper to mail cash than to trade bank dollars for bitcoins. I'll get off my pulpit now.

(PS: I'm pretty sure you actually have to pay taxes on that cash you received by mail, especially if it's registered and insured, now that it's yours, it's income. Bitcoins on the other hand are not cash. I am a newbie to taxes, but I don't think you would have to pay tax on bitcoin income unless you were actually cashing them out. Maybe capital gains. Any experts?)
Revolution R is also really nice to develop in. I believe that you can get an academic version for free.
We brazilians say that our country is not the most corrupt in the world only because we bribed the makers of the list.
One interesting place is down the south of Argentina, off the east coast. Although there is no land there, there is the (almost spiral) pattern of lights in the ocean. They seem about as bright as Melbourne, and more expansive.

I was told once that these are fishermen, who tend to congregate in one area at night time. I'm not sure if it is for social reasons, or business reasons, or something else.
Great idea, great start, kids (3 & 4) are excited to play - didn't want to go to bed.

A few bugs, like a misplaced arrow sometimes can't be moved any more.

Please make clear why a level failed! The board just kinda disappears the moment the "program" "crashes".

One big recurring issue with games for toddlers: make it very tolerant of multiple touches. Kids often will touch other fingers to the screen, lean side of hand on it, or put other hand on. Try to identify which touch point is the "real" one and focus on that, ignoring others.

Great job! Looking forward to how far the kids take this. Several times a day they ask for "ghost game" (DragonBox, which starts with a ghost as a logo); they'll be asking for this one too.
Thanks, wouldn't have been possible without node and redis.

It's 24GB of data, half a million news articles, and prices stored at minute intervals for several thousand stocks.
> You don’t know the job as well as they do – in fact, you are hiring them precisely because you don’t know how to do the job. So how do you hold them accountable for doing a good job?

Kind of like using a high-level language and/or a framework: Are you using it because you don't know how to do what the software does, or are you using it to automate a task you could do 'by hand' if you had an infinite number of hours in a day? Only in the second case are you qualified to tell if the tool you just brought in is doing a good job.
What the heck is going on in the middle of Australia? There is NOTHING there (not even stuff that might burn!), yet the map shows a pile of lights.
John McAfee arrested in Guatemala
McAfee arrested in Guatemala
I put up a static page a couple of weeks ago with no issue. Granted, I'm not using Jekyll and just generating the static files on my own locally before committing / pushing.
Oh man I really wish I had this at the beginning of the semester. I'm towards the end of a grueling stats course - difficult, and not the best professor. Each homework assignment I feel like I barely scrape by without really learning. This is the first time I've ever felt this way about school.
The apple selloff is all fiscal cliff hedging:

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/fiscal-cliff-capital-gains-and...
This is interesting, anyone porting it to node.js?
Sorry, I wasn't talking about the ability to create pixel based documents, and/or inches based. I was referring to transitioning between them. (i.e. normalizing your ppi of all your artwork and converting a pixel based document into an 'real' width).
"Why the author should just shut up and think about why Google hasn't moved into traditional telecommunication sector "successfully". The answer is they monopoly and Google is not good at customer support. Sometimes, it's better to keep your company focus on what they do best. Think about MS. They tried so many things and at the end they couldn't even make WINDOWS OS that makes customers happy. Google is on that path after acquired Motorola. People probably wouldn't know XBOX was MS product until they have to pay for the subscription.
It's free to get, quick to download, and easy to start playing. A video is almost a waste of time.

Summary: using symbols, construct a "program" that guides an avatar thru a maze. Complete one maze to access the next, more complicated, maze. It's cute, simple, and (almost) instantly understandable by even a 3 year old.
I'm using Pelican as a static blog engine, had no issue at first, this happened after the number of commit grow.
U.S. now 'totally unified' in opposition to U.N. Internet governance
In our age social networking is necessary, not Facebook.
Where's the "I'm lazy and bored"
http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
> sometimes the language disguises itself by choosing conservative language defaults that are maximally compatible

Also, they don't like to change their name very often.

Seriously. It matters. Lisp has been Lisp for the past six decades or so. Therefore, someone who learned Lisp in the 1970s thinks that Lisp Is Lisp and therefore hasn't changed, except maybe for a few dialects. (After all, C and Java are just Algol dialects, right?)

The fact Clojure actually has a new name is likely more important to its success than anything else the language creator did for it.

"I don't know what the technical characteristics of the standard language for scientific and engineering computation in the year 2000 will be... but I know it will be called Fortran." John Backus
Lawsuit targeting MLB's blackout policy to proceed
Google doesn't operate this way, this article has no real basis. 30 Billion for being better at retail?

Maybe they could take a mayor shareholder stake for influence, but Motorola is still separate and was bought for the patents.

Google will far more likely create it's own carrier.
The same technique works with automotive "passive keyless entry and start" (PKES) systems as well.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9205478/Keyless_syste...

http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/332.pdf
I am currently reading the "The Art of R programming" by Norman Matloff and it is a good book for R beginners. Some familiarity with maths and stats basic is obviously required though.
How about you offer some pricing with the idea and then give backers a discount? Might work with a mail list, people sign up to get an opportunity for discounts on potential products they'd like to use. Would skew the audience but that's going to be the case with any incentive.
What is wrong with people today when you sell them a simple smartphone with no training and they don't immediately learn to tell a valid cert from a forged one or a trustworthy application developer from one hired by a bank? The biggest WTF here the fact that we use email for anything and continue to not have a standard encryption protocol. I'm sure they'll get that nailed down though as soon as they find a good way to access all the required decryption keys from a Nasus device.
Depends on how much your cost of living is currently but in my own experience, its probably more expensive overall to be in the Bay. Not only has cost of living hiked in recent years, but also to consider one of the highest sales tax, etc... And everything is in general more expensive for the equivalent elsewhere.

I still think its a great place to be but you really have to decide if you love being here or not. Its definitely a unique culture.
It does sound like a subreddit, actually. I don't see what's ironic about your statement?
Why the Amazon App Store sucks and you should stick with Apple
That's a good point - revenue is not profit - but I'm not sure it is it a conclusive point. First, why would you assume the final estimate of revenue which came out of the sausage system of the legal system, with Best Buy's lawyers presumably heavily incentivized to knock down the estimate at every point in every way possible, is remotely accurate? An economics book on cartels and their prosecution I read (_Global Price Fixing_) noted dryly that the estimates of illicit revenues and hence profits in the cases were nowhere near what an outside would calculate especially in the case of the vitamin cartels.

(A more picayune point is that a small profit or a loss to Best Buy in one case doesn't mean that its practices are not a net expected profit; indeed, if they weren't losing an occasional case, they probably aren't taking enough risks to make the most possible profit.)
Cool, yeah, beer is awesome. Appreciate the discussion.

Another way to express what I'm saying is this:

Individuals do lots of things that aren't directly for profit, like open source or art or helping out a friend. But over the long term they need to create more wealth (apples, chairs, computers, etc.) than they consume.

Groups of various kinds (companies, etc.) do lots of things that aren't for profit, like throwing birthday parties for their members or having their people sponsor charity runs for research. Yet they too need to have wealth creation exceed wealth consumption to survive in the long run.

Municipalities and local governments -- ditto. Municipalities provide services in exchange for property taxes, and they can/do go bankrupt. We're seeing that happen to CA cities now.

Now, a federal government is definitely special in some key ways: it can order guys with guns to your house and coordinates national defense. But you can still model this as a municipality that is competing with other national governments for your tax dollars. Immigration is in part about getting a better deal from country A and moving from country B.

This is not how we've been raised to think about government. Many on the broad political right are sort of emotional about the federal government's defense efforts; many on the broad political left are sort of emotional about the federal government's non-defense efforts. And in our current world it is kind of unpatriotic to just think of them as a service provider: "are they keeping the peace at low cost? are they pursuing the right strategy for long term health?".

There are macroeconomic arguments as well about whether the "government is or should be modeled as a company", but really you do get at a good point in that the idea that government is just a service provider cuts against the grain of American thought, both left and right.

However, it is an interesting line of analysis that is gaining in currency. See for example KP's "USA Inc.", which looks at the USA as if it was a company:

images.businessweek.com/mz/11/10/1110_mz_49meekerusainc.pdf

While physical proximity will always mean banding together for common defense (so long as we are corporeal beings!), I'd argue that the internet makes migration-to-a-better-service-provider a much more feasible option. Facebook facilitates transnationalism: your friends are sometimes nearby, sometimes on other continents, but they often aren't your neighbors. Skype and all these telecommuting tools allow you to work remotely as well.

Moving doesn't have the same cost that it used to. Making the cost of migration plummet could be very important.
Your calculation ignores the likely dozens of other companies Best Buy and other BigCorps have screwed over with no consequences whatsover. They rolled snake eyes in this case but this will still be business as usual until damage awards become 100x actual damages, since 99 times out of 100 the BigCorp's lawyers will have their way.
Revolution R is just Enterprise R. RStudio is on Github, folks. Real talk.
Dave was awesome. If you don't have "Time Out" in your collection, that's shameful. College wouldn't have been the same without it.
It hits the end merchants, since they're technically the merchant who is charging the credit card.

In cases where the marketplace wants to act purely as a platform (and not be involved in with the money in any way), this is perfect. You're exactly right that Stripe Connect isn't for the use case where you'd want to shield your users from that, though. (:
The gross margin comes from Best Buy's SEC filings. They have every incentive in the world to report the highest possible margin.
I thought http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/free-open/statistics-course-detai... was a great introduction, after completing it.