skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This phenomena between the Earth and the Sun reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4867577. Is it possible that what Voyager 1 is currently encountering is an interaction between the Solar and the Galactic magnetic fields that resembles this Earth-Sun phenomena?

I'd never really thought about the existence of a galactic magnetic field. But when I think about it, why wouldn't it happen?
"sprint's budget brand: $79 for a wimax+3g hotspot"

I had to look for it, but here it is, apparently Sprint uses the Virgin brand name in the US:

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/mobile-broadband/broadba...

I'll be in the US for the rest of the year, so I'm buying one of these - way cheaper than international roaming. Thanks for the tip!
Well, maybe you say you don't think it is immoral but it does have some sort of bad connotation with it for you, perhaps quite a strong one? It's a strange thing, right. Without money most software wouldn't exist or have much of a reason to exist. But what I was getting at is in our world, the world of programmers, there is so much self-loathing about making money off of one's labor that doesn't exist in the vast majority of professions. Unless the whole world goes the way of Gene Rodenberry, how would these web apps be hosted and how would people have the actual hardware to run applications? I don't see anything wrong with one that 1) programs and 2) does not take a vow of poverty. Just my thoughts. :)
23% isn't too shabby.
I know all that; but I'm looking for at least one specific use case that would become unfeasible.

Mild ghosting -- e.g., if you leave a static image up for 3 minutes with no change, then switch to a gray background you can see the outlines of the old image -- is pretty obviously not going to affect GarageBand (!).

I doubt it'd be detectable in any video work, but I don't do much of that.

I do occasional image editing, and doubt I notice it there (I don't normally have any single view of an image up unmoving for more than 30 seconds or so, max... I'm constantly changing the zoom or shifting the view).
Here's a mirror:
http://kristofferr.com/files/IAmSafe-McAffee.png
I'd be a big fan of sending loads of bacteria with the potential to survive, and some water and stuff, to Mars. Just to see what happens. Hey, the Martian environment would be a "gross evolutionary pressure", right? :)
I thought being an assistant was a good experience. I'd do it again. This was a great deal for participants too. A similar class at a professional training center or college could easily cost between $1000 and $2000. In my opinion people got enough information to continue learning on their own, or evaluate if they want to they want to continue with paid training elsewhere.
I can feel you there. However, there is a certain zen in the opposite as well. Having a general idea of what to build and a general plan and direction but little else. The specifics are left to between you and the thing you are building as you build it.

And that's what's beautiful about a good general purpose bucket of bricks. It's right brained creativity which complements Lego's instruction-based kits.
This is task-based parallelism and does require significant (and verbose) annotations of the source code.
But prior to that you say:

Inspired, I hacked out the feature that was the answer to the flunked question and used it on the partners.

If it was such an easy feature to add and so important that you had several strong answers to the issue that required the feature, why wasn't it already part of your product?

edit: If the feature was already present in your product, it would have been almost impossible to have gone blank.
>I was only pointing out that there's a massively wide variety of electronic music these days...

On that note, if you have not seen this site yet, be prepared to have the rest of your afternoon's productivity destroyed:

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

I posted to first version of the site to Hubski a while ago but I can't find it. I think the author has updated it since then, but the general look and flow is the same. Incredible wealth of historical knowledge, complete with audio examples.
As someone pointed out earlier, Zap.com is a publicly traded company, with a 5.5m market cap. The odds of this being given away for anything less than 5.5m is about as close to 0% as you can get.
You would have the opposite problem.

Even if the buyer sent back the original item, the seller could always claim that he received just a brick.

It's all just borked, pretty scary selling any one of items on ebay once you realise this :-(
That depends entirely on your field. A (not insignificant) number of PhD students who've gone before me at my university got their PhDs without having published by the time of their viva.
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What happens when you need someone else to take an action before you can move forward? It's like blocking IO.
curious, why was the title changed?
Rosetta Code is a great resource (http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code). Examples from many languages are provided per a given topic (e.g. http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes)
It's not so much the quest for the domain name, it's the energy spent at this stage on it.

A domain name won't make or break your business. But all that time and energy spent on this problem could probably have been spent better on something else.
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That is a good question, yes.

Maybe there is a generation gap. I wonder if Nick Crew and his broken family ever did talk about their expectations they have for each other. Or he just never expressed his opinion clear and cut to his children and, once he had enough, just cut the cord.

The article is somewhat sparse on details. I would have liked it to have some sort of broader social-cultural analysis of sorts.
Sigh or not, you are sighing to someone who already went through this (me) and was told by the Las Vegas Police that it was a dead end. The buyer used a fake name and hijacked someone else's paypal account (or claimed such had happened to him). So, you are right on two out of three counts: it was expensive, time consuming, and complicated =D

I wish it had been easier, trust me!
I thought airbnb meant "air bed 'n breakfast" which makes complete sense for their product.
I think the sillyness of your comment comes from the imaginary line between, one the one hand, making toys that "may appeal to one gender more than the other" and "being exclusionary about it."

Is the fact that there's an aisle at Target full of pink stuff and dolls exclusionary, or simply grouping by appeal? If my niece wants to go down the Hotwheels aisle, she's certainly not going to be kept away.

And if the daughter I'm going to have here in a couple months wants to play with "boy" LEGOs, great! But I'm also grateful that if she doesn't, LEGO is trying to help me out in my quest to get her interested in their wonderful toys by making sets that appeal to typically more "girl'ish" sensibilities.
I am getting a 404 error.

That said, if you will be speaking at a conference, http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/ is well worth reading.
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Further to the money fixation. Has no one considered that I might have actually tried to raise money from Falcone? When I get him in a room, you can bet that I'll be trying to get the domain and some capital from him before I'll try to buy it off of him with my own cash. What do you think is more likely to be successful, a billionaire throwing down a relatively small amount of coin to invest or him hearing out an offer to acquire the domain for 5-6 figures without laughing me out of the room. We might have different values but to me 2-3 grand for a holiday and a roll of that dice is chump change.
"Cave Johnson here. I think we found something that will help us stick it to those blowhards at Black Mesa. Turns out there's a natural portal phenomenon connecting the magnetic fields of the earth and the sun. The lab boys are still trying to figure out the properties of this thing, see how it can be exploited for science, so we need volunteers. All test subjects who want to go on an all-expense-paid trip to the surface of the sun please meet in Testing Annex 5B and await further instructions. There's $60 in it for you if you make it back alive!"
The minimum number should be 0.

Papers are useless to rate the quality of a PhD thesis - the jury, if chosen right, should be experts in this field and thus able to analyze by themselves whether the PhD was an original contribution to science ie finding a way of doing something that was never done before and believed to be impossible, or in reverse, proving something to be impossible, and therefore PhD worthy material.

The amount of papers doesn't matter - or should not matter, if the PhD is to have any sense. Meaningless papers are just a waste of trees.

For ex, in my PhD I identified a specific kind of variability in written sign language that for some reason hadn't be grasped by the linguists who worked on the same problem with us. The PhD was in computer science and there was a linguist in the jury- she had read the acts of the conference where I had presented a communication on this variability, and for her this contribution alone was worthy of a PhD.

In the end, since there were other interesting things, it was awarded summa cum laude, even if not a single paper was published on the subject in a journal - my work was only disseminated in presentations, acts of conference, and a research report ordered by the government.

That was in 2008. 4 years later, my work is leading to an actual implementation of the ideas discussed, for the reasons discussed in the manuscript, and I have my own page on the SignWriting website (SignWriting is the written form of sign language I worked on) : http://www.signwriting.org/library/history/contributors/Azna...

I feel damn proud to have been proven right not just by some research paper published in an obscure magazine, but by real people working on this same problem and bringing the issues in front of the Unicode committee (in progress - hopefully it will be completed in 2013 or 2014)

It's far from done yet - it is still research work. But after my work from 2008, I made a tiny dent in the universe (as in http://www.openculture.com/2012/09/the_illustrated_guide_to_...)

When it's complete, I'll be happy to write a paper presenting the difference between the theory and the actual implementation, which could prove useful to other people attacking similar problems.

But a paper is not an end by itself.

EDIT - adding some links

Intermediary work : http://www.irit.fr/-Publications-?code=2628&nom=Aznar%20...

Manuscript : http://www.irit.fr/~Patrice.Dalle/Publis/these_aznar.pdf
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The quasi-scientific term "study" is a bit over the top for a data-mining observation that only describes and doesn't make any effort to explain or analyze. In other words, it's a disposable "study" in contemporary human psychology that will be forgotten a week from now.

"Look -- look! Joe saw Karen pick up her cell phone, so he picked up his cell phone too! Let's publish! Oh, of course the psychology journals will accept our paper -- they accept everything!"

Description alone is not science -- one must try to explain what's been described. Were this not so, astrology, all description and no explanation, would be classed as a science.
Seems to me if I was in their boat, I'd change the server API to require some sort of passive token in order to get a response, push an update at the App Store(1), and force all legitimate users to upgrade. Maximum downtime, one week. The .ipa hackers/leakers will have to get into an arms race with the main company by putting new revs out every week.

(1) along with code in the app to make it either highly annoying or completely unplayable unless you upgrade if it detects from the server that an upgrade is indeed available.
The paper referenced by the article, "Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism", says:

The group has written several million lines of code, including: core libraries
(including collections with polymorphism over element permissions and
data-parallel operations when safe), a webserver, a high level optimizing
compiler, and an MPEG decoder.

So it also handles data-parallelism.
You still do. They do break things with each major release, sometimes in a big way. (Fatal-by-default errors for some types of "bad" OOP code and not setting the timezone in PHP 5.4, for example). Just not as much as some other languages.
Thanks for the clarification. I now understand the parent's point and it's a valid concern.

However, for a first launch, I'm wildly speculating that they didn't consider this. If you're going to share your bandwidth and are concerned about this, Karma will probably suggest that you disconnect from your own portal.

Karma's reasoning is probably as follows:

* Connecting via wifi usually implies a mobile device of some type (phone or laptop);

* When connecting to a public wifi hotspot, most mobile devices can see (and attack) each other on the same SSID;

* If you are normally willing to operate your mobile device in public wifi hotspots, you'd probably have no problem operating in similarly (and possibly hostile) conditions with your own access point;

* One hopes that you and (at least) Karma have the slight comfort of knowing exactly which Karma customer joined your hotspot and tried to attack you, versus an anonymous device in a public wifi hotspot.
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Is Alt+Shift+M significant to the article? I don't normally code in IDEs.
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I'm assuming something that was not mentioned in this story, the kid also got to keep the $100 he had been saving all this time? :)
I've had to speak often lately in front of small and medium sized groups, and the biggest thing that has helped is to just practice my talk several times alone.

Obviously giving the talk in front of others is important, especially when it comes to message and content, but a practice run for other people will obviously be a little rough around the edges from a word-flow perspective (assuming you have a hard time with this like myself).

Lately I try to give my talk to a blank wall at least 3 times before I will talk in front of real people so that I really know my slides and I know how long it will take. Usually you have a fairly strict time limit, so running through the talk with a stopwatch is critical.

I've also tried writing my talk out and simply reading it for practice, but it always sounds awful and is much shorter than an ad-lib version, which is never the same twice. I imagine people who have had drama, or any other acting/standup experience have a great advantage, just because they seem to be able to say almost exactly what they want, two times in a row. Perhaps it just has to do with have done enough speaking, that you become used to saying things in front of people.
What is a TL;DR anyway? The core of an article in fewer words, an alternative title, an excuse for laziness, a tool for busy people, a bird's perspective? Some people like writing a TL:DR, it's an attempt to reverse the article's conception, it's game-like. The problem is when we assume TL:DR to be a perfect distillation of the article and comment on it. And, do writers mind being TL;DRd?
They could have done that but they didn't so they seem to need to dig themselves out somehow.
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Here's a pitfall I know from briefly trying to improve PHP, and having developed in it:

The syntax definition is used for some types of basic type-checking.

I'm completely serious.

Because of this, if you try to do a combination of property/array/etc. accesses that the grammar designers didn't envision, you'll get a very cryptic error. For example, this (which runs an anonymous function dereferenced from an array dereferencing from a static member of a class):

self::$views[$path]();

Doesn't work. It assumes that the result of self::$views[$path] is a string, and then complains there is no function with that name. (Yes, you can execute strings with names of functions, as if they were that function...) But this:

$x = self::$views[$path];
$x();

Does work.

Please, don't use PHP. It's horrible.
But bicycles are already very cheap in India - a two second google gave me this:

http://www.fitjog.com/bicycles-for-weight-loss/atlas-bicycle...

At roughly 60USD that is a bike sold on the best SEO'd web site. What is sold out of local garages will be less.

I am not a Indian native and I am not a developmental economist, but I cannot see a cardboard bicycle doing this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingpongong/7855376404/ or this http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidg/533780375/

The traditional Phillips style bike has a long pedigree - its brakes may be useless and its long in the tooth but everybody in SE Asia can fix one.

When a cardboard bike folds, you throw it away and get a new one.

I think the environment will still have a net win on steel.
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Was it The Daily that struck a deal with Verizon, or Verizon who courted The Daily? The latter is to me the more likely scenario. Purely speculating, Verizon could have offered The Daily distribution to its millions of Android customers at a rate better than Apple's 30% off the top.
> I'm sure a percentage of these people are playing it merely because it was pirated -- like kleptomaniacs, these people want to play the game mostly because they aren't supposed to be allowed to.

Really?
Absolutely refusing to handle anything but that #1 priority is also its own cage. What if the #4 priority suddenly catches fire? If you change your focus to #4, isn't that just multitasking?

Multitasking is a myth on one level, but so is this hyperfocus. There must be room for task switching, for thoughts, for interrupts, and for breathing.
Alt+Shift+M extracts text to a method in Eclipse.
Normally I would agree with you; Language is open-source, people can adapt it as they like as long as they are commonly understood by those around them.

But not in this case. Definitely not 'legos'. Never ; )
OP here. Agree completely.

The average article quality used to be great there, especially for niche apps/programs, the "hive five" feature, and detailed how-to guides. There's still some great content on there - like you can see in an aggregate article like this one.

However, the average article quality has declined significantly. Once Gina Trapiani left, I noticed a drop in quality. The awful, Gawker-pushed redesign hurt too, probably turning away some of the more valuable members who contributed great stuff in the comments like you noted. If lifehacker was an independent entity (or even an autonomous one like Reddit within Conde Nast) it could be fantastic. Not possible while Gawker is pushing it's media properties to a race to the bottom in search of traffic though. Gizmodo has gotten significantly worse too unfortunately.
Read the comment text. Checked the userid. Was not disappointed.
I don't think anyone is saying you can't make money. It's just a lot more theoretical and difficult. Then if you weigh that difficulty against a possible moral judgment that perhaps making directly selling software isn't so bad after all then maybe the question is not really a necessary one.

It's like on one side you have those saying "Look, making money of this paradigm is not impossible. You can reinvent everything and turn it all upside down and slog through and you might be able to make money and earn a living, perhaps modest but hey." Then on the other you don't necessary have people that disagree with that view just their view is something "Sure, I agree you can do that. But there's nothing wrong with this so what's the matter?"

Usually, when people come up with all these ways to make money off of open source (like well paid speaking gigs) they are taking a few top 1% examples (like Linus) and not fully appreciating how much more either complex or difficult such a business model is. I think the more common way that programmers earn money from open source is to actually be funded to work on such projects from, usually, large companies that have made money in a variety of ways. Obviously, you can come up with counterexamples but my point is to keep in mind the likelihood of success.

Anyway, I'm certainly not against open source, I just don't think that program and earn money of said work are immoral or only able to be saved if they stop selling their software in that sense try to build a corollary business a part from the code.
How did the fact that you have job offers come out to your committee? Is that part of the normal process to ask?
I can't believe I forgot about that with LEGO's. I find puzzles are good for that too. I think I'll have to buy myself some kits.
Some pirates like to collect games and I'm sure they try a lot of them, but I don't think they play them just because they're pirated. Not for any length of time, anyway. The game still has to be fun to keep them playing for more than 20 minutes.
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Commenter on the blog nailed it (“noise is a substitute for quiet”), or: activity as a substitute for inactivity, work as a substitute for rest.

In the Buddhist traditions meditation is used as a tool to examine the subtle nature of the mind's processes, how they may create suffering through craving, aversion & identification (dependant origination) which initially at least requires some down-time to bring the mind to a relatively quiet state. You really learn a lot about craving when all the goodies are taken away, similarly you learn about aversion from the small discomfort from sitting.

I love coding, it's my main intellectual outlet, but I never want to be someone who has to lug along a laptop on holiday because the pain of being away from code is too great, I take any such pain as indication that I'm broken in some way (addicted). If I simply coded every time I feel that addiction I'd never truly discover how dependant my happiness is on coding & I'd never discover that I can be happy without coding. I think coding is nicer when I'm not addicted to it.
> Please, don't use PHP. It's horrible.

I wish I could upvote this comment a dozen times, for a combination of candor and useful fact.
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I think I'd go as far as to say that I respectfully disagree with the article and agree with you.
Programming like a pirate? I was expecting this to be about R.
A friend and myself managed a slightly less epic 9.45m in 1989. We did it in the gap in the stairwell of our old flats. The base was only 8x8 and tapered every couple of meters and it was essentially hollow (to reduce weight and because we didn't want to run out of bits). We provided horizontal stabilisation with some string between the banisters to stop it falling during construction.

It was stopped by one of the whingy old fart neighbours wondering what we were doing and threatening to complain to the management company. We had a good 5m left and probably enough bits left to cover it!

Smashing it was awesome and made one hell of a mess which took hours to clear up.

Most of the Lego came from a car boot sale in two large bins and was purchased for a mere 5 GBP. Went on ebay in 2001 for nearly 200 GBP (good investment!)