skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Defending yourself by taking stock of what you have
Hey arscan, designer for changemakrs here. We've also found that adding a visual element to something so textual has been really beneficial. Our big question is how to increase the effect of inspiration in the experience of the user. One answer has been images. We'd really like to use this alchemy as a jumping off point to an even more inspirational experience.
yes. They dont want to block google or other crawlers. They still want their traffic, but they also want to get paid for getting crawled and listed.
Some discussion about the quote one from last week:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838810

Spoiler: some people strongly dislike it.
I think it is entirely true:

> TDD is a tool, nothing more, nothing less

Essentially TDD is just one more form of testing and/or specification. The reason it's so good is because of the properties of executable code: namely that it's fast, precise and repeatable. Human-based QA processes also have their advantages, and if you had unlimited human QA resources then the value of automated testing would be significantly (though not entirely) diminished.

But in the end, testability is ancillary, it's a second-order concern to the actual operation of the software. The ability to write a good test is secondary to the ability (and wisdom!) to choose the right architecture. In other words, a simple and correct program using some advanced techniques in, let's say Haskell, would be preferable to a kludgy Frankenstein beast of a program written in Ruby but with great test coverage over the areas of the problem domain that the programmer was aware of.

Obviously that's a straw man; automated testing is an extremely powerful technique, one which requires practice to master, and TDD shines in its ability to lift the scales from the eyes of the beginning programmer and see programming from a new perspective. However TDD, BDD et al are no silver bullet and no different from learning functional progamming, gdb, printlining, modular programming, meta programming, dynamic programming, regular expressions, or any other algorithm or technique. All just tools.
Ask HN: Your thoughts & recommendations for the job of a Performance Engineer
I am a mid-level sys admin (Linux/Unix) and I am going to join this big Insurance company as a Performance Engineer. Any recommendations about books, articles or other materials I can go through to firm my knowledge in the area of OS performance tuning & monitoring. I would love to hear your experience or recommendations if you are working in this field.
IOS Tutorial: Writing SBSettings Toggle
That graph is awful. I'm not even sure that your conclusion is a valid one. Whoever made that graph should be beaten to death with the collected works of Edward Tufte.
What I'd like right away is even easier -- shorter copyright terms by default (maybe even the 1790 level), with positive actions required to extend them. Politically there is support from Disney, etc. to keep Mickey Mouse under de-facto perpetual copyright, but I don't really care about Mickey Mouse -- I want most of the books written, many now out of print, from much of the 20th century to be appearing in the public domain.

There was copyright renewal until 1992. It seems like a useful requirement. I'd support increasingly-onerous payments and renewal requirements -- maybe you get free copyright for 14-28 years, and then each year renewal after that costs an exponentially increasing amount of money.
Exactly, their "solution" doesn't actually solve the problem people had. Also, {}? Why not:

logger.debug(String.format("Hi, %s %s", u.getA(), u.getB()));

If they wanted to have format capabilities in the logger, why didn't they just use pre-existing standards?
Is it still buggy as all hell?

For example, it sometimes gets my HW keyboard state reversed (when I slide the keyboard out, the on-screen keyboard appears, and when I retract it the on-screen keyboard disappears).

It's also completely unusable with firefox.
This is also what I'm hoping for.

I think Apple said the Mac Pro is getting an upgrade in 2013, so it seems likely.
I got this working on my system (running X) with the help of a daemon (https://github.com/alols/xcape).

$ setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
$ xcape

Now I just have to flog my muscle memory into submission.
Hmm, if this is an A/B test by the Republicans I hope they get the right feedback from the responses.
Is this going to become a trend here? Some random start-up writing "Bye-bye <insert database name>" or "Why we moved from <db1 name> to <db2 name>"??
I feel that its because google is of a size where the idea of getting a letter from its lawyers is a scary prospect.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the intent of the point system, but in what situation would I upload something and NOT give myself a point? If none, then you are just giving me one more step to perform after each comment.
You apparently don't know my political stances :).
This sounds good, but how do you price the fees fairly for people who make different kinds of works?

If I'm a photographer, do I need to pay extension fees on all my thousands of works? Does my neighbor who makes movies only need to pay one fee? What if I make a book containing my photographs -- is that just one free? Can Disney make one long 40 hour movie containing all their stuff together and count that as one work?
And yet "try not to be an asshole" is still good advice.
> Content is a $100Bn industry.

I'm supposed to care... why? Horse buggies, beanie babies, etc.
Yes, I was referring to 3 strikes sentences. In Nevada, for example, 1 in 6 prisoners - over 2,500 people - are serving life sentences. A significant portion of these are sentenced under a wild "habitual offender" statute that enables life sentences for even non-violent repeat offenders. The Nevada version of the three strikes law makes its more famous cousin in California look tame and completely rational by comparison.

And there is also stuff like this, which was not a habitual case... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d0_1272286354 . That video is a pretty chilling look at how quickly and non-chalantly courts in the US are willing to take away a person's life for relatively minor offenses. Call me crazy, but I don't think that the statement "She is getting a greater penalty for having a boy touch her breast than if she killed him" should ever have to be uttered by an attorney in a court in the "land of the free".
I would really like to like the pirate party but in their current state they are absolutely unvotable for me. This is one of their core topics but I havent heard anything from them yet. What I have heard is that the youth organizations of almost every party (yeah I know, including the young pirates) have voiced their concerns regardings the lsr.
Are charges of murder and running a drug lab necessarily "unjust"?

You've decided his innocence already, the rest of us require something more than his word.
> but any way you work it paying $15-20 for a refill is a much better deal than paying for SodaStream cartridges.

I get a discount for trading in my old cartridge? A single cartridge lasts me 3 months. We make 2 bottles per day.

The standard price is $15, I always buy them at Bed Bath and Beyond with a 20% off coupon ... which makes them $10. Ten bucks for 3 months isn't bad.
"The irony is, I really enjoyed the original post. Upon reflection, I believe there is something to be learnt there." -- Care to expand on that a tad?

The way I see the world, what parades as 'love' between two people is actually 'attachment', that is, a selfish modification of love -- love of oneself.

Thence arises the two of the three dichotomies mentioned: commitment/exclusivity and love/ownership (although I would argue that perhaps love is used here in the context of a feeling rather than the more metaphysical 'recognition of oneness (identity) with another' that I prefer).

The apparent jarring presence of sex/intimacy (which you noticed) is what propelled me to ask the question of the OP originally.

Regarding vomiting - I'm not entirely convinced it's always from a complete lack of thinking on the poster's part. I feel like people are genuinely afraid of putting themselves out there, though they want to, and so try to be cryptic and vague. Perhaps that's from a lack of introspection, but I don't think that's always the case.

By making a post you are 'putting yourself out there'. If you are not confident about the idea that that post represents, then why are you making it public in the first place?
Well, maybe it's my personality, but I expect people to be basically honest. I realize people lie constantly, but why should we believe anything that they say if we assume they are lying?

As in, if I believe that Steve Ballmer is lying about the iPhone being an overpriced product that won't sell, why should I believe him when he says that Windows Phone will sell millions of devices and that it's worth developing for?

I realize that nobody wants to admit that their competitors are making a good or better product than you, but I don't see why they wouldn't be willing to tell the truth.

Maybe it's a midwest thing, but if we assume that Jobs, Ballmer, and Rubin are all lying through their teeth, why would we ever buy their products? That is even dumber than believing they are telling the truth. The only thing dumber than trusting someone is buying from someone you don't trust.
There are approximately 3,000 nerve endings in a working cochlea that need to be stimulated by a few (8, 10, 12, 24) electrodes. So no matter what, it not going to sound like what a fully functioning cochlea. You can't get the resolution. The algorithms are important, but so are the number of electrodes. Ideally you want 3,000 electrodes perfectly aligned with the nerve endings.

It must be a difficult choice for parents to implant their children. Children make the best candidates, but the technology is changing at such a fast rate. 24 electrodes today could be 3000 a few years from now. Once they are in, you can't replace the electrodes, only the signal processor.
The great conceit of thinking you are "smart" is believing that because you are very good at working out consequences from axioms, you needn't know everything. If you know the axioms and the rules, that's it, you know everything.

I feel like I have to deal with this all the time -- people who think they're smart and reason their way to tenuous conclusions based upon a ton of seemingly solid beliefs. This rarely ever works, and it surprises me how people who base a significant portion of identity on being "smart" don't grasp that basic point.

There are a lot more confounding variables than there are times when things go perfectly. 6 months of direct knowledge/experience of a particular domain can go a lot further than a year of theory.

In theory, anyway.
real wages... meaning adjusted for inflation.
Lemme see if I can find it, read it when this story first started
The problem is stimulating the nerves. While these implants are marvelous, they are still pretty crude in the stimulation portion.

The implant has an electrode array that is shoved into the cochlea. In diagrams of the ear, the cochlea is the thing that looks like a snail shell.

The cochlea itself wraps around the auditory nerve, and normally works with the auditory nerve as a pressure transducer. Pressure changes in the cochlea result in nerve stimulation.

Different frequencies of sound can propagate to different lengths of the cochlea and stimulate the nerves in the respective areas. You can think of the nerve bundle as a piano keyboard wrapped in a spiral. Different frequencies correspond to different positions. So having a bunch of electrodes matters for granularity, but positioning in the cochlea is just as important.

With the implants though, they don't try to stimulate via pressure, they just send electrical impulses through the electrodes. The resulting electric field is what stimulates the nerve.

So it's pretty different from normal functions.
All the management involved has already got their fat bonuses to that point.
Hype Machine down?
Ubuntu for Android, atrix and galaxy note 2 have all steps in the right direction here. i guess in 2015 android, chromeos and linux hybrids will dominate computing..
Or maybe he has a different perspective on what would constitute "struggling". The company did post its highest revenues ever this year, right?
Would it work to just put your blog under a permissive distribution license (Creative Commons or the like)? I know nothing about the German legal system or the exact phrasing of this law; could someone with more domain knowledge comment on how this would interact with licensing terms?
It matters more for financial contributions and other support than for the vote. Writing off California makes sense for libertarians, but I could imagine single-issue Bay Area tech voters who are newly rich and techie and might aggressively support a candidate over this.

I personally think the President's power is limited enough, and have enough faith in the judiciary (and overall faith in the bureaucrats who make up the government) that I'd go single-issue on any of a few issues. If there were a Republican or Democrat who wanted to "fix" firearms, IP, debt, entitlements, end foreign occupations and the drug war, and/or fix the tax code, I'd consider working for him for a campaign, donating the max to superpacs, etc., if I thought he could win. I'd be ok if that candidate was against gay rights (since the courts would protect the gains so far, and could extend them), was short or ugly, etc.
It's not, unfortunately :) I'll keep working on it.

I'm back working in an office. I'm really enjoying the routine, having a place to live, go to the gym, cook good food etc.

I have no idea what the future holds, but that's how I like it :)
One guy complains to support about the quality of the video on a Dexter episode, and Kim writes concerned mail to his team about video quality!

This is called "Doing it right."

If Showtime would sell me a license to view their content, I wouldn't even be tempted to download it for free. Since they refuse to, it's going to be tough to work up any righteous dudgeon towards Schmitz and crew, especially when they go out of their way to adopt a customer-oriented approach.

Copyright is a government entitlement that we spun from whole cloth. Capitalism, on the other hand, comes naturally. You can't fight Mother Nature.
This is a bit of revisionism. Windows tablets, and tablet support in Windows, have been around since Windows XP. It was unsuccessful every time it was tried.

Saying "no" to tablet support was, in light of Microsoft's experience with tablets, the right thing to do.
When I was a kid, Scientific American had a cover featuring a high voltage transistor, which was supposed to revolutionize power transmission.

My very weak understanding is that energy transmission is directed by a delicate balancing of loads. Which is inefficient. Where using a solid state switching solution would be more efficient.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?
They have, but only for the first couple of weeks. How long has the iPhone 5 been out now?
There is the "Zitatrecht" (quotation right), which allows you to quote short excerpts, provided they accurately represent the original text and you acknowledge the source.
But unlike in the US this is only valid for texts, not for other copyrighted material like movies. ( This means that youtube remixes are most likely illegal in germany.)
Unless you're a fan of individual liberty and don't like state controlled redistribution of wealth.
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What would be the difference between "licensing" the API for private non-commercial use only, and "licensing" the website for private non-commercial use only? I assume the TOS for the website are restrictive to satisfy the licenses they have with others, could you make an API that has equivalent terms?
ESC + timing. You have to click "shop now" and before the facebook/login prompt comes up, you need to ESC.

Off-putting to say the least. I don't expect high-quality brands to force a membership check before I even examine their products.
I just started a pet project some days ago where I had to store some JSON stuff and was sad to find heroku postgres did not support it yet.

And now it does :)
You might try watching the "Story of the Ribbon" presentation, or just read the articles on Jensen Harris's blog. The amount of research, data, and care that went into designing the Ribbon is astounding. I'm not sure what other approaches work, when you need to present thousands of commands to end users.

I wasn't a fan of the Ribbon on first sight, but when reading how they came up with it, it's clear this wasn't just some arbitrary cosmetic adjustment. Contrast that to the Office 2013 design, with it's random all-caps on items in no apparent pattern.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story...
I think in the instance you described you were and weren't being smart in the sense of a True Smart Scotsman.

Mathematic smarts isn't always enough to know how something really works. But I still think you were smart enough to realize you might be wrong and to double check how it really works.

Also, you have the GTD mindset to accept how Proc works and try to learn from the experience instead of obsessing about how Proc is broken and ruby sucks.
Got it: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121117/16492521084/hollyw...
You can get a raspberry pi. It's a credit card sized arm linux computer. http://www.raspberrypi.org/
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Please make sure your CO2 is food grade, as has been discussed in other threads.
Cloudera Raises $65 Million in Round Led By Accel
What's important here is how you're using and what encapsulates "transport", that imo is critical to the point you're wanting to make, and whether or not I disagree with it.
I realized the other day that web scale makes differentiation hard. Gmail is the poster child for it.

I hate Gmail, at first I was neutral on it, then I went to work for Google and got to see it used "in production" as it were and found how it could be really useful, then stuff I liked (layout, features) got changed and/or deleted and I now I don't like it.

Now there is nothing wrong per se with Gmail, its doing its thing and I'm doing mine, but I cannot step off the train. I can't just not buy the upgrade and stay with the feature set I like, the train keeps moving, I get sucked along with it. We pay for Gmail for our company, as a paying customer the majority of our users wanted to stay with the old format, we could not. Not an option. I supposed that it true of IT shops that are built on top of Notes or Exchange as well, you get what you get.

I stopped using Gmail labs features when I realized that if they don't "graduate" they vanish. And if you've grown to depend on them, you're screwed.

Sigh.
"Default reply to all"

This isn't a feature. It's a bug.
Cell plans.
What Is the Social in Social Media?
I guess you would look for correlation in price changes. Problem with that is that external factors (oil prices, failed harvests, earthquakes in Japan) can cause correlated price changes, too. Correlation of price changes between some major competitors while some other players do not follow suit might be an indicator, but those other competitors might just be in a slightly different situation (other manufacturing method or other company structure (e.g. if one of them owns a mine or has a long-term contract, price changes would affect them differently))

In the end, it is really hard to detect cartels. That, I think, is the reason the EU has the rule "the one who tells us walks free". Without it, companies taking part in cartels would have too little to fear.
Whilst I am not a fan of the logging pain in java, not invented here would apply to anyone thats not log4j since they were really the first to get properly started.
Ever had to use a lawyer? You'll probably find no lawyer that hasn't 'lied' in some court case. In fact, it's a lawyer's job to present his client the best way in a court case to get the least punishment.

What about buying a car or used car from a car dealer? Your salesman is 99.9999999% a liar.

>why should I believe him when he says that Windows Phone will sell millions of devices and that it's worth developing for

Why are someone's words or opinions enough to sway you? Can't you do your own research on the company's track record, the public demos, the public sales data etc. to make a (semi)informed decision? Ballmer could be telling the truth but he might be wrong in retrospect since he's heavily involved in the decisions on Windows Phone and would've changed course if he thinks it wouldn't succeed.

Also, the politically correct word is 'spin', not lying. There are entire professions where you need to spin your way through. PR, Law, selling cars etc. come to mind. Perhaps take a poll on HN about how many people lied or hid the truth in an interview. I think you might find yourself leaving HN after seeing the results if you're so fixated on absolute honesty.
SMS, oh God, SMS.
We just upgraded our database plan on Monday. Guess we're doing it again soon to get on the new hotness!
I don't think the Puritan work ethic came out of debt; it came from the sanctification of work.
Going to become a trend? Posts like this have been fairly common for years now.
> The "that's Marc Aurel for ya" makes it seem that he is a well known writer/thinker so maybe I am way off base thinking its Marcus Aurelius.

Why would you think that you're off base? From what I gather Marcus Aurelius is a well known* thinker/writer - just ordered a copy of Mediations for myself after reading this post and comments.

* edit
I really hope so too. At some point in the near future I need to get a beefy desktop with current generation / upgradeable hardware, and i'd really enjoy it being a Mac.

(caveat: its not for gaming or vm instances, it'd be my frontline local machine for benchmarking hpc codes, 'cause a mb air doesn't cut it for that :) )
What is the role of environmental regulations on locating silicon fabs?

A buddy of mine made a mint working as a welder building fabs in Phoenix when they were leaving California in search of cheaper water and lower regulations. He was very worried about the toxic emissions and very lax (non existent) oversight.
Sinofsky reported to Ballmer. His replacement(s) report(s) to Ballmer. How is a more active role by Ballmer "clearly" indicated?
I'm sure some lawmakers have heard of robots.txt, so what is their rationale?
Windows 8 style on an Android Phone – Launcher8 App
When I was running the Postgres databases for reddit, I was constantly seeking people who could teach me better ways to tune Postgres on AWS. Most people I would meet would just regurgitate what anyone could learn with a day or two of googling and reading.

At one point I got scared by the prospect that I might be an expert on Postgres on AWS, because frankly I didn't know all that much about it and thought we were doomed if that was really the case.

Then I went over had lunch with the Heroku team, and it was eye opening. These guys truly knew how to run Postgres on AWS (and presumably still do).

I can't think of another org that is moving Postgres on AWS forward better than Heroku.