skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the George Carlin quote is tongue-in-cheek, and illusory superiority is a bad trait, it is likely that there are areas in which you are better than your peers, and areas where you are lesser than your peers, and it's not impossible (though by no means easy) to measure this in a mostly-objective way. Same goes for illusory inferiority, which is an even worse problem, because it stops you from getting to your potential.

Personally, I try to measure myself objectively by averaging comparables. e.g. Around age 20, I figured out that I cannot blame my horrible shape on my genetics (even though they were at the root of it) - because I knew too many people with similar problems who were in much better shape than I was. So I figured out what the problem really was, and at age 20, after never having been able to complete a run of one mile, built my endurance to 10 miles over 6 months.

As for superiority, you can write down your predictions, and then evaluate them later; you'll see if your feeling of superiority is justified or illusory.

And it REALLY IS helpful to know when you are superior in some respect - or you'll be wasting your time and effort needlessly.
Great Big War Game port for Windows RT made only $83 in its first week
It's not just the false positive. If the algorithms had misclassified her photos, but there had been a straightforward grievance process to reverse the decision and allow the obviously-non-pornographic photos, I doubt it would have been article-worthy, but the presumption of guilt, unintuitive process, and requirement that users signify agreement to things they don't actually agree to before continuing to interact with the service are all problematic.
Finally! This is a fantastic Christmas present. Thanks friends at GitHub!
I wondering this while reading the introductory paragraphs. While I will keep the bookmark, it's good to know that I may need to reference the documentation a little more than I might for other frameworks.
Well, that will teach me to argue with an Econ professor! And I also find myself hungry after staring at pictures of bread on google for the past 10 minutes. Thanks for the interesting discussion. =)
Figure out why he wanted to leave, and see if they could remedy it (e.g. more money; different challenges; etc).
The smallest instance running 24/7 is $175.20 for 365 days. Add in S3 storage for 25G of data, and that adds $28.50.

This does not include incoming bandwidth, bandwidth used by your IMAP or webmail client, or DNS lookups that you'll do for every message received. (Also, spam filtering is CPU-intensive, so if you get a lot of email, a Micro instance may not be big enough.)

This doesn't include a secondary MX, either. (I like the DynDNS secondary MX service, personally, which is ~$30 a year IIRC.)
No what holdenweb is saying is that you use your common sense, and when someone tells you to back off, you back off. Being a bit creepy isn't harassment, being a bit creepy when you've been told to stop is.
I'm a little curious as to why the link to " the very first lines of code" is a link to a Google search result
All gTLD registrations are subject to U.S. law. Its an artifact of the structure of the market and technology.

If you want a reasonably safe registration, pick a domain in a country-code TLD with laws you like and registry directly with the registry.
The "batteries included" philosophy and commitment to making CPython work on multiple platforms has gone a long way. I don't think it has much to do with GNU tools specifically.

An interview with Guido himself that discusses some of the multiplatform emphasis in the development of python: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/frank/rossum_1099.html
Ditto. Been using them for the past couple years (only have a few domains with other registrars). They have good prices, no ads or upsells (well, almost none), they don't spam me, and they focus exclusively on making setup and management of DNS easy.

Most other services try to provide about 300 extra services (from hosting to hosted apps and junk I don't care about), and not only spread their support too thin, but make the entire experience (initial purchase to setup to maintenance) less efficient.
Apple Manufacturing In USA: CEO Tim Cook Shares Company's Plans
"The neuroscience of [fill in the blank] — not saying this will all be non-legitimate, but that it’s a field where a lot of goofballs are right now". Love it.
Shhh... we don't talk about progressivism's lack of logical consistency. You might spook the sheep.
Agreed. I love how simple it is, too. Very intuitive.
I've long held the theory that Dropbox's long-term secret plan is to host apps - as they already have the data, this will effectively make them the fabled "internet OS".

Having Guido on board to make python its systems language makes sense - and would be enough to tempt him away from google.
Dang, Dropbox is stealing talent from every direction.
> There is no way to monetize images embedded on other sites

On the contrary, there's an incredibly simple way to monetize images embedded on other sites: put an interstitial ad in front of them or on them.

Modern browsers grok the mime type regardless of DOS "extension", so when a JPEG is linked from a monetizable site, say, Twitter, dynamically generate and serve a two frame GIF instead, with the first frame being a "brand awareness" ad, and the second frame being the desired image. Or be nice, and make the first frame be the desired image, and the second be the brand awareness ad.

Alternatively, serve up a normal JPEG with the original image rendered into a polaroid frame, with the polaroid label text being the desired ad copy.
Having worked with Guido on App Engine, I believe I can answer this.

Just because someone wrote a language doesn't mean they have no other talents as engineers. I will say that apart from being a good language writer, he is also a good Engineer. For us having so much invested in Python, Guido has been an important part of App Engine. But even if that wasn't true (as it may be for Dropbox), having well-known programmers is an important way of marketing to other engineers, be they customers or potential hires.

TL;DR - App Engine got great use out of Guido while he worked with us, and I'm sure Dropbox will too.
The advantage of calling out Dunbar's number is that it explains why there's an upper bound of some kind.

But yes. 150 is far too high a number. I'd say it should be closer to 50.

It makes me sad to link to this, since the PARC blog no longer hosts his images, but it's more than nothing: http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/10/dunbar_group_co.html
The Importance of Sensibility in Designers and Developers
Perhaps as Python has had Windows installers for a longer period of time?

If me memory serves me correctly, Python has had simple Windows binary install packages (from Python.org and ActiveState) longer that most other scripting languages in the same class, that did not need require an additional layer like Cygwin.
I know common sense can't be easily codified – wait, no, actually it can, it's called etiquette and it's all the rage in certain other social circles – but "having common sense" does not require you to be psychic.

For instance, if I am at a party, and people are drinking beer, and there is music playing, common sense tells me that it's okay to ask somebody I don't know to dance with me. If I meet a girl who's a friend of my friend in a casual social circumstance, and we get along, common sense says that maybe I could ask her if she wants to get a drink sometime. If I'm at an atheist conference and it's four in the morning, and a woman gets on an elevator, common sense says, "There is no reason this woman is looking to have a conversation, let alone go out for drinks. Probably she is looking to go to sleep, as that is why many people board elevators in hotels at four in the morning. Likely she is tired, and not super in the mood for conversation."

Perhaps in that situation, if I'm feeling soooo social that I just can't pass up on a chance to make a human connection, I say a small talk thing, like, "I'm really liking this conference!" But just blatantly asking a girl out to drinks? That's aggressive, and unexpected, and quite possibly comes across as annoying or creepy.

Common sense tells us all of this. It is logical. We're all nerds here, right? We love logic? This is basic logic that is easy that you can follow. You can defy these conventions, ask a woman out to drinks anyway, and not be a horrible human being, but it's stupid to say that Watson's reaction to the dude on the elevator wasn't completely justified.
On the plus side, the docs tend to be pretty good. There's always a bit of trial-and-error, though.
If you can hire Guido you are not a startup.
> This will probably help greatly with recruiting. What Python engineer wouldn't want to work with him?

Bingo. And it will make water cooler talk about the GIL a lot more interesting.
It isn't "bad science" to be suggesting something radical... but it is suspicious.

> "Everything that so-called "fringe psuedoscientists" complain about in regards to the arrogant elitism"

Either you are not very familiar with the claims many psuedoscientists make about that, or you are using a very loose definition of "everything".

There is no conspiracy to silence anybody. TED is just advocating very basic common sense and skepticism.
Looks like it has been fixed (the checkboxes in question have been removed from the signup form). There's still a field for G+ info, but it's not mandatory.
Well, coming from a PC background (CS, Q3 etc), playing FPS games is already extremely awkward on the PS3/360 controllers, so I don't really think that's a great example. Actually, I'd rather use the touch screen like a giant track pad to aim in an FPS (if I can move and fire with the other hand). I also think it adds a lot to managing inventory, switching weapons etc. I haven't tried it though, so could be more awkward than it looks.
The registrar for a NameCheap domain will show up as eNom, which is reasonably reputable. NameCheap is a budget reseller for eNom.
Very cool, seems pretty useful. Worked great for me but I only spent a few minutes on it.
Yeah, I don't think that trait distinguishes Python from Ruby or Perl, or even Java, for that matter. Cross-platform compatibility is an advantage of interpreted languages in general.
Oh, why didn't you just say you were insulting poor people? Now I totally understand.
I'm not against vaccinations, I agree. A vaccinated public is something everyone benefits from. I was responding to healthcare in general, sorry for the confusion.
Lua Workshop 2012 Presentations
* Textadept - Behind the Scenes http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Foral.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMC2s0s-zA

* Crazy Ivan - Lua Driven Robots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55amYC20t5Q

* Gemini - An Open Source Library for Game Development on iOS Using Lua http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Norton.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQYLhctUYe4

* picoDB: a no-SQL database tool for eLua http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Freund.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olc0fAuY4nU

* Luerl, a Lua VM written in Erlang http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TolOxVxqoZ8

* LuaFlow - An Open Source Lua OpenFlow Controller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2UJr-h4pUU

* Lua multi VM system for home automation http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Zawadiak.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqiCfl_SHlY

* Building a Lua Based Platform (Luvit) http://luvit.io/hujs.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-UzlQrkbhA

* Small Team, Huge Game, and Lua https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQhlp6rCrY8

* What is Next for Lua? A Personal Perspective http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Ierusalimschy.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izhUbMGUIPE

* Incrementally developing and implementing Hirschberg's longest common subseqence algorithm using Lua http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Snyder1.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R9exap2jo4

* Adding an Lua-based integrated character-based menu system into the SciTE editor http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Snyder2.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTLCE18IcYI

* Integrating Lua for fun and profit: Vim's if_lua and PostgreSQL's PL/Lua http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPjAcJi5rk

* Make Your Own M2M Application, in a 1/2 Hour, with Lua http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_L0yiQekI

* Using Lua for Integration with a specialized IDE http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Muir.pptx http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4695230/Muir.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkHJUQ-6prY

* Lua Q&A Session with Roberto Ierusalimschy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VQBw5OpJIQ
I am clearly too paranoid. I was looking at my screen thinking what sort of information leakage there would be uploading a screenshot and then 'trimming' it to remove the stuff that I didn't want out there. And then thinking the upload sends the whole image, then the tools crop it and you get a 'final' version. But the original? Still there somewhere. Not that this is an original thought mind you, XKCD famously parodied the problem of creating a web site requiring email and an password and noting that lots of people use the same password everywhere so you could harvest passwords that way.
I disagree that joining with traditional banks and government regulators is the only way for Bitcoin to go mainstream.

The government regulators are the ones who cause fees, delays, or spying on international transfers. Bitcoin has solved this problem, and international transfers can be done just as easily and quickly as any other transaction.

At some point this is sure to change for Bitcoin Central customers, as the government starts making decisions about how Bitcoin transactions should be handled.

Again, I'm not complaining of a detriment to myself or anyone else. I just don't see the point.

Perhaps calling it a "huge step backwards" was misguided. What I meant by that was, if I were a customer of Bitcoin Central it would feel like a huge step backwards for me, and if the general Bitcoin community went this direction it would feel like a huge step backwards.

EDIT: grammar
Finally. This is amazing!!!
Ha. You're welcome.
> Even if the encryption is using a known-good algorithm, there's absolutely no way for the JavaScript client to generate anything close to a cryptographically secure random string for the key.

The WebCrypto proposal includes a CSPRNG -- I believe it's now implemented in Gecko and/or Webkit (don't recall which one I saw). However, the bigger concern is that the JS is coming from their servers, which means it's completely compromised by default.
Seems like a cool service...not sure I would pay for it (haven't used so we will see) but I can definitely see Google buying these guys for Gmail to GDrive.
It's the first day.
Code reviews and design decisions can get old though. Sometimes you just want to write a bunch of code.
Why do they continue to do this when lowering their
standards for pedigree could cut their costs massively?

If there was really an opening in the market you could
drive a truck through, what has stopped anyone from taking
advantage of it thus far?

The key reason is that in this scenario, all the intelligence is being implemented in the computer, with a few Stanford JDs at the company making sure the code is up to snuff at a high level.

Then your less-skilled JDs can review the documents mass produced by software, in a sort of legal assembly line. They may not be able to follow chains of complex reasoning, but that's ok: engineers + Stanford JDs already made sure the legal templates and algorithms worked on representative data.

In other words, we are making use here of the old joke - "What do you call the guy who got the lowest GPA in medical school? Doctor."

Similarly, the less-skilled JDs who can't get jobs today do have one very important asset: they passed the boolean threshold and are licensed to practice law. Hollow out everything else, replace it by software, and use this army as scalable last-mile reviewers with the thinking done by code. Their value-add is that they absorb the last mile liability, as they are doing final review before release to client.

This is no different than the way that Intuit replaces the CPA in many situations. Kind of a TaskRabbit for law. By giving jobs to (a) young tech-savvy jobless students and (b) a few top attorneys from the very best law firms to write the contracts, you can do a pincer attack and massively reduce legal costs.
So, it's images only? I can't find any mention of what file types are supported.
Seeing as "Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission."

* Textadept - Behind the Scenes http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Foral.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMC2s0s-zA
* Crazy Ivan - Lua Driven Robots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55amYC20t5Q

* Gemini - An Open Source Library for Game Development on iOS Using Lua http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Norton.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQYLhctUYe4

* picoDB: a no-SQL database tool for eLua http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Freund.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olc0fAuY4nU

* Luerl, a Lua VM written in Erlang http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TolOxVxqoZ8

* LuaFlow - An Open Source Lua OpenFlow Controller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2UJr-h4pUU

* Lua multi VM system for home automation http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Zawadiak.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqiCfl_SHlY

* Building a Lua Based Platform (Luvit) http://luvit.io/hujs.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-UzlQrkbhA

* Small Team, Huge Game, and Lua https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQhlp6rCrY8

* What is Next for Lua? A Personal Perspective http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Ierusalimschy.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izhUbMGUIPE

* Incrementally developing and implementing Hirschberg's longest common subseqence algorithm using Lua http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Snyder1.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R9exap2jo4

* Adding an Lua-based integrated character-based menu system into the SciTE editor http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Snyder2.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTLCE18IcYI

* Integrating Lua for fun and profit: Vim's if_lua and PostgreSQL's PL/Lua http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPjAcJi5rk

* Make Your Own M2M Application, in a 1/2 Hour, with Lua http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_L0yiQekI

* Using Lua for Integration with a specialized IDE http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Muir.pptx http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4695230/Muir.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkHJUQ-6prY

* Lua Q&A Session with Roberto Ierusalimschy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VQBw5OpJIQ
'under unusual circumstances'

Hmm...
> Why is it bad science to be radically questioning the status quo?

It's not bad science unless the "questioning" isn't accompanied by evidence. Science is not steered by authority, but by evidence.

If you have authority but no evidence, scientists won't listen to you. Example Nobel Prizewinner Linus Pauling's claims about vitamin C and the common cold.

If you have evidence but no authority, scientists will listen to you. Example Albert Einstein, who as a lowly patent clerk overthrew much of the physics of his day -- but only after evidence and observation began to support his theories.

In science, evidence means everything, reputation means nothing. The greatest amount of scientific eminence is trumped by the smallest amount of scientific evidence.
Why? The screenshot mentions RSA-2048. At which point of that algorithm is random input so important that it breaks the encryption if you don't have access to a true random number generator?

I know that you choose p and q by random. And it is obvious that you want to choose numbers that an attacker can't easily guess. But not having access to a hardware number generator doesn't automatically imply you have a real useable vulnerability here, or does it?
Exactly that

Besides, Dropbox has already received some substantial investments, and have a healthy revenue
"Acts of charity are anonymous."

That's not how other people use the word. You should pick a different word if you're going to have your own private definition.
The real threat that Samsung poses to Apple
The scientific theory of macroevolution makes a series of interconnected testable predictions, all of which have held up as new natural history discoveries and controlled experiments have been made over the last century and a half.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
What other ones should there be? Mediawise, seems like video-attachments are too rare to develop an inhouse viewer solution for. For binary types...why would they need to be viewed inline?
Yeah but the problem is, reasons for a career change are highly personal, and by the time the employee wants to leave, it's usually already too late to keep them by sweetening the deal. The only way to know is to ask Guido himself.
Yup, images only.
The strain of influenza each year is different. In order to create enough of the vaccine companies need to start making it before it's known which strain will be active. They make an educated guess with varying degrees of accuracy. Some years they get it spot on, some years they don't.
I agree, and I think GitHub is a fantastic resource for open-source projects, but it's a bit of a lobster trap in the sense that its existence lessons the need for an open-source alternative, but then locks you in to a paid model once you need private repositories.

What we should be looking for is an open-source project that allows people to keep their own projects private on their existing hosting, and allows easy sync with github for public projects.
This is a problem with paying people to work on an open source project, no? Either those people accept working without pay, or else they have to make compromises that might involve defying the principles of the Open Source Movement.

Theoretically a company can get around this by offering a commercial enterprise on top of their free project, but that's harder to pull off, especially if the point of your project is to offer a good enough open source environment that people want to use it.
This is a very interesting discussion to me. I'm still on the fence about the idea of putting links in API formats. For HTML that works of course, because we understand contexts and meanings. Usually. But libraries have a harder time doing this and semantics only goes so far.

Another short term problem I would see is adoption of this on the API provider side. That's of course something a well coordinated initiative would take care of.

I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes and learning more about it.
This may make good business sense as you point out, but do you think pros and cons for google's business were evaluated before Larry decided to pay for these vaccines? I think in absence of any evidence, we should give him the benefit of doubt and look at this as a genuine act of charity.
Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches
Not generating good random numbers is not a huge concern for something like AES, where there's just such a large search space. But with RSA, generating a "bad prime" is the difference between something taking until the death of the sun to break, and taking days.

Edit: To clarify, primes for RSA keys are generated probabilistically -- we don't really know that they're prime, we just have a fair amount of confidence to that effect. It's entirely possible to generate bad 'primes' that really aren't prime at all, which makes factoring the keys trivial.
I was thinking of non-media files - arbitrary files. PDF, docx, odf, txt, etc. The lack of being able to attach arbitrary files to Issues is awkward. That said, for open projects, I can see them wanting to avoid becoming an accidental free file-hosting service.
They probably copied the link from the results of a Google search, which comes with the Extra Special Googlecruft™.
The Tortoise and the Hare and Ruby on Rails
Considering the OLPC (as pictured) is a dedicated i386 hardware without touchscreen, and that OLPCs runs on a customized RedHat, while the article refers to hacking Android (?) and a Motorola Xoom tablet, I wonder what kind of huge mix up this is and what it is supposed to mean.

EDIT: thanks for the helpful explanation in the comment. I read the article twice and still couldn't figure that out. My first idea was the journalist mixed this up. My mistake