skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I support/maintain Linux-based tools at an industrial (focus on power grid) infrastructure company. We make devices to protect, monitor and control thingummies related to high-voltage power. Embedded systems, piles of ASM, C, C++.

Some of those tools I develop/maintain are Mercurial based - I am the principal hg supporter at the company. I run a variety of Linux servers for different tasks and hack on a Linux build system in Python. I also drive the team efforts towards CI. :-)

I just wrapped up a MSCS in distributed/embedded systems written 9/10 in Common Lisp, and I hate Javascript. :-)
Modeling Markets Using Regular Expressions
https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/mac/index.action

https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
Yes, you still have to do an ALTER TABLE to change the type of a column within Postgres, because, well, that's just how it's done. This does not necessarily mean that the table will be rewritten, which I assume is what you're concerned about. See this item from the Postgres 9.2 release notes:

Reduce need to rebuild tables and indexes for certain ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN TYPE operations (Noah Misch)

Increasing the length limit for a varchar or varbit column, or removing the limit altogether, no longer requires a table rewrite. Similarly, increasing the allowable precision of a numeric column, or changing a column from constrained numeric to unconstrained numeric, no longer requires a table rewrite. Table rewrites are also avoided in similar cases involving the interval, timestamp, and timestamptz types.
hey bmj, you say you're taking the course now? My understanding is that this course is over - do you mean all the material is still available, including the corrections/grading and certificate-awarding system even though Odersky & team are no longer working on it behind the scenes?
There's so many aspects to that question, but I'll have a go.

The first thing to point out from the materials aspect is that there are compliances everywhere with vinyl records. They are essentially lubricated with plasticisers which are needed to give some reasonable playing life given the accelerations involved. They also depend upon shrinkage in the pressing stage, the metal stamps engineered to allow for material relaxation. There is a slight shrinkage in cooling, and this helps shrink errors as well.

However, these processes lower fidelity. The original masters, or even direct to disk recordings, use chiselled stylii driven by a high precision lathe and electromechanics to carve the track in the material. Corrected phasing, given that a difference in track lengths is present between left to right, is also performed.

So materials that could do with some annealing after deposition could help, at least until higher resolutions become available. Following a correct RIAA curve of course matters and using a steep low pass filter rather than down sampling an already phase damaged mp3 would help.

At the moment all this is hobby stuff though. Allowing material reflow would probably be the best way to preserve the life of the stylus and reduce noise. It's first playing will be carving off the printer resolution deposition errors.
Three more tips for important talks that you want to nail:

1) Go through your slides and remove as much math/code as possible, until you have a minimal amount of math/code. Now, go through your slides and remove as much text as possible, replacing it with images.

2) Rehearse your talk until you can do it without ever looking at the slides. e.g. practice it under your breath in the subway.

3) Do a practice talk in front of a few friends, a week before your talk. Incorporate their feedback.

I did this recently for the most high-profile talk I've ever given (How to do "AI" in 2013: http://new.livestream.com/gigaom/gigaomroadmap/videos/579403...), and I feel like it was my most polished talk to date.
I'll tell you why: because many of these deaths are preventable, particularly the deaths of children.

It's a red herring to talk about heart disease and cancer. Old people have to die of something. Children don't, and in other countries they don't die by being shot.
If it's really barebones, it should be small enough to copy and paste it from the site, I would think.

Right?
The donation page is on wikimedia.org and there's no mechanism to transfer your cookie, so good luck with that.
Dave McClure Backs Versus—More Silicon Valley Love For Berlin
Outlook 2013 removing legacy DOC/XLS format support
good idea. it's kind of a pain in the ass (esp if you turn off or frequently clear cookies like I do), but it seems ways more secure.
Please answer all my questions rather than just sniping at one of them.

How are your small arms going to defend against tanks, apaches, drones and the rest of your government's military might? Your reasoning is at least 60 years out of date. The prevalence of guns in america is a cancer on the american people.
What are some awesome JS libraries  any developer should be aware of?
I agree with you that the heart of the objection is in Silver's presumption of good faith.

That being said, the author has previous experience working on Wall Street as a quant, and is involved with the OWS Alternative Banking Group. She certainly comes with a strong perspective on the matter, but neither is she arguing out of ignorance of the system.
"We were not created to evacuate bricks."

"Created?" This is definitely the wrong concept to refer to here. The correct sentence is (correct because it takes mountains of scientific evidence into account):

"We were not evolved to evacuate bricks."
[Updated] Yet Another Javascript Loader (now with Template management)
We need to figure out a way to 3D print with the plastic they use for Shrinky-Dinks. Print your record out 4 feet wide with giant grooves and pop it in a pizza oven.
"I thought it would be about load handling"

Hur hur hur.
Clearly the tyrants of today disagree with you. They would not be trying so desperately to ban guns if they did not fear an armed population!

Also,

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, over 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, over 50 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million "educated" people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

That places total victims who lost their lives because of gun control at approximately 86 million in the last century. Since we should learn from the mistakes of history, the next time someone talks in favor of gun control, find out which group of citizens they wish to have exterminated.
I had been a Phoenix user for several months when I heard it had run into problems with the name. When I heard it was going to be called Firefox, I thought it was the most ridiculous name I'd ever heard! Funny, now I really like it.

When I first heard the name Barack, though...
http://rense.com/general84/brck.htm
The author is being polemical to get readership.

Her criticism boils down to, "but there are agent-principal problems!"

But I think that's a bit of a sideswipe at Nate, who is dealing with a different domain of problem: modeling inaccuracy when the incentives ARE aligned in favor of optimizing predictive accuracy.
huh. thanks. so that's the second type listed at wikipedia? or am i confused? perhaps you or he could fix / clarify the wikipedia article? i guess i could but it feels odd to do it third-hand...
Yep, all material is still available, but I don't believe you can submit your work for a certificate. I just wanted a structured way to learn Scala, so I wasn't interested in receiving a certificate for my work.
I like the simple and direct Press Page. Especially the app screenshots. Great idea for helping a blogger/journalist that may want to cover this service.
> The underlying issue is my biggest peeve with both the buisness and political world. There is a popular viewpoint spread by many defacto authority figures that one should presume good faith from all groups involved, even though everything I can see tells me the opposite.

This is a pretty big deal.

Assuming good faith by authority figures is a popular and common fallacy from people who sit in the "Lawful" quadrant. N.b., I see this a lot in academic circles. Arguing from authority is the M.O. there, and assuming from authority is the consequence.

There's also assuming bad faith, a equally fallacious and (at least equally) popular idea from people who sit in the "Chaotic" quadrant.

We have to remember to have nuance in our opinions and dealings with others.
In order for this to be true, she needed to make the argument that it is. She's not saying anything to that effect at all.
Andevcon versus Appnation
SpaceVenture's Cluck Y'Egger in new iOS game
This seems like a nice app, but it's a very fine niche. Why wouldn't someone in hospital just use Facebook to let their family know how they're getting on/request items?
I know a lot of people (and am in that group) that would pay for high-quality vinyl 3D models once we all have a printer in our kitchens, especially for non-mainstream releases that have little chance of getting a wide distribution on vinyl. An example of there being a market for make-your-own-music: check out Beck's sheet music album, it's been very popular. http://songreader.net
You may be surprised that the semantic web continued to develop after you dismissed it, the latest milestone being Google's Knowledge Graph.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3983179
But it's not [true].

What, specifically, isn't true?

So C(corruption) directly leads to B(bad model). She does not argue that A(everything falling apart)<-C anywhere in the piece.

The point of the piece is that the financial meltdown stemmed from corruption, not from models. If this wasn't her point, then why else would she have written this piece?
You're imposing a cause/effect dichotomy that doesn't actually exist. Most causes are effects of something else. When we talk about mixing up cause and effect, we mean that A is said to have caused B when in actuality A was caused by B. Showing that A was caused by C does not mean that we've mixed up cause and effect, because nobody said A caused C.
Since you adding ARIA related info a small example for a table can be useful. Thanks for publishing it.
I noticed that quickly, too! Very poorly masked image.
At the time the cable was installed (72ish?) 230kV was a very high voltage cable. The type of cable that now commonly carries that voltage underground is HV XLPE

http://www.fujikura.com.sg/hv_xlpe.htm

At the the maximum voltage over XLPE was 110kV.

Sticking 2 of these cables side by side would have other interesting effects.

http://www.emfs.info/Sources+of+EMFs/Underground/multiple.ht...

It appears oil and paper systems are still used, but I don't think they use the high pressure oil system like the one in the paper.

http://www.hitachi-cable.com/about/publish/review/__icsFiles...
Add a little "sponsored" part that is easy to see and this should be fine. Same thing Google has used for years.
Ummm, what exactly is a "C# Application Service"?

This post has no introduction and dives right into the details.
Rice Cooker Bread (we think?) for a Snack

I'll take the liberty of reading the screen for you: Yes, it is bread. Bread in Japanese is a loanword from Portuguese: pan. Japanese bread? Ja-pan. Get it? (This comes from the genre of puns called oyaji gyagu -- "jokes only considered funny by crusty old men.")
That would be fantastic. If you find the time, we have a discussion list over at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/rails-api... , please feel free to share thoughts there!
I would recommend toning down the advertising a bit. Leave it in the beginning, or at the end, but not both.
Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern [2004]
with "significant", "multiple", "independent" and "reliable" all being decided arbitrarily depending on which deletionist you are dealing with
I used http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html on one high-throughput system. Wonder if that has made any inroads.
2 days? I'm curious why software companies still use Digital River. As a customer I've run into issues with about half the orders I've placed through DR subsidiaries.
Why is it called the "ecological" fallacy?
Same here, haven't received any form of acknowledgement.
I use http://www.remobjects.com/ro/, and have something similar, called RODL Files (http://wiki.remobjects.com/wiki/RODL_Files), this is how look like:http://wiki.remobjects.com/wiki/RODL_Library_(Service_Builde.... This are like SOAP, but better. With them, I can parse the RODL file, and build a python client automatically in seconds, with a python script that output a python client for the remobjects server, with all the class, method calls and that stuff. RemObjects also generate automatically the clients for .net, delphi, js, obj-c, php (http://wiki.remobjects.com/wiki/Generating_Interface_Code_fr...). Is something I miss very much when try to do a REST server without RO.

And the documentation is embebed in the RODL file, so is possible to output the client with the docs inline, and get it to show in the IDE when a call is made to the python client...

So, I think a meta-data about the service is VERY usefull. But the hypermedia is a poor attempt at that (IMHO).
It depends, I was more involved with my daughter when we read the Hello World book and it was really nice because some odd things about computers were explained in simple language, and the character of the kid which questions everything is really fit for this type of book. Also, there were lots of small games with different mechanics.

Python for Kids is really good also, has a intro about the Python language which feels more focused than the other book and it has a chapter about drawing with a turtle, as I did with LOGO many years ago! ... Python for Kids also has plenty of notes about running it on Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu so you'd be fine on any OS you have.

I think you should try both, but the best order would be to finish Hello World first and Python For Kids second.
I didn't know there was a contest for the title of "Most ruthless competitor", but it makes sense in retrospect.
Do you use there straight out drawing capabilities? Or is there someway/plugin which allows the drawings to have the semantics of a graph (e.g. Line routing or layout managers.

FYI I use yEd because it deals with all the semantic stuff very well.
"The bad models were a consequence of a fraudulent system. So by definition, the models weren't the cause of the financial crisis. Therefore the bad models were an effect, in the same way the financial crisis was an effect."

This is faulty reasoning. A pool ball may go into a pocket because it was hit by a cue ball. In this case the cue ball hitting the other ball is the cause of the other ball falling into the pocket. Yes, you can look back into the chain of causes to find one further back, e.g., the fact that a person used a pool cue to hit the cue ball into the other ball. This doesn't mean that the first cause you found was not a cause, and certainly doesn't mean that "by definition".

If a corrupt and fraudulent system could have brought about the financial crisis by some means other than causing bad models (which I assume is true), then you can say that the bad models were not a necessary part of the causal chain. But you can't say that they weren't part of the causal chain at all. As a matter of fact (at least according to assumptions everyone is making in this topic's thread) they were.
It is starting to feel like Twitter is coming off the rails. They "challenged" themselves to duplicate Instagram's functionality.
Preparing for the End of the World
The thing that Ive found is that once you get into the upper-tier range (I define this as 125-150k and on average seems to include people with 5 to 10 years experience) it gets harder than before.

My first 5 years on average I had great raises - 15-20% on average (all mostly from job changes). Now it seems a little bit harder - I most likely can go out and convince someone to pay me 5 or 10k more but I feel my head starting to skim that glass ceiling. There are things I could do to change - I could go find a job doing financial transactions or blindly go work for the highest bidder with no care work conditions and other things, etc.

The point being is that developer salaries in the first part of the career can go up relatively fast but in my opinion top out relatively quickly (not such a bad thing necessarily). I think from there you need to go out on your own if you want to really make more.
I see Google as a science experiment on the biggest scale imaginable. I know they have their faults too, but I feel more comfortable with Google's vision of the future than Facebook.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
> I haven't heard RDBMS systems have to justify "look, this company used us at scale and we worked fine" in years.

The main reason you've not heard this recently is because RDBMS have been around for 30+years. If we could go back to those times we'd probably see exactly the same things. The Oracle Wikipedia page actually lists the first customer of their solution [1]

Also if you take a look at the analytic databases (which are built on top of the relational model, but more recent), you'd notice exactly the same behavior.

IMO this has nothing to do with the maturity or approach of the products, but rather with the adoption cycle [2].

alex @ rethinkdb

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle
This thing gets guitar tablature notation and I am in for 10 licenses. Either way, great publicity stunt.
Why oh why is this argument always framed like this?

"If Deltionists can't cull at their whim, WP will simply end up as a pile of rubbish!"

Junk is typically not that hard to find and cull, it's the actual content that gets removed, and the absurd politics behind it, that will probably bring about the end of WP.
If her point wasn't "corruption caused the financial meltdown," then why did she write this piece?

The simplest explanation is that she was, in fact, arguing that corruption caused the financial crisis.
The only full-screen responsive layout for articles that I like so far is smashing magazine... They know not to have all these fancy floating nav bars, or to have this crazy "scroll to the next article" thing. Pages should be treated as pages. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Oops! I thought about it and I forgot one! If you live in a big city, there's a chance they have an income tax of their very own!

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/services/business_tax_nys_i...
slava @ rethink here. DB innovation moves slowly. It takes time for people to adjust to new technology, for new technology to adjust to market demands (DBs are fundamentally more difficult to develop than most other software, so it takes more time), and for existing large companies to adopt new technology. As a result, the NoSQL field is still evolving, and there hasn't been a product yet that really nails it. We hope Rethink will be it, but it will take a little bit of time for that to happen.

Either that, or we're all nuts :)

EDIT: ahh, Alex beat me to it!
I think you are blowing things a little out of proportion. As you mentioned in your blog post you say that ever other bank's app you have tested has had the same "shortcomings". That said I would venture a guess that none of your other banks are anywhere near on the same level as Simple.

I have been a Simple customer for a couple months now I absolutely LOVE the service. I have dug into what happens behind the scenes on their website and yes, they do pass more data back and forth than is always needed but they are using SSL so I'm not too worried.

You say you reached out to their security team and waited 8 days for a reply before following up, why didn't you just use Simple's support? I have reached out to them multiple times and always received a response within an hour. One of those times they redirected me to their engineering team so I could talk directly with one of their programmers, we exchanged 3-4 emails that same day. Should they have monitored this security email address you sent to better? Yes, but they provide the best support of any bank I have used in the past.

Pretty much I don't feel like the "concerns" you raised are all that important and in fact the whole post smells of FUD IMHO.
thanks , what to download? what are the must tools for developers ?
what are the must sites/forums for mac devs?
3-D printer MakerBot cracks down on blueprints for gun parts
The potential in free e-learning software has always been close to my heart as well. Have you checked out sites like:
https://www.coursera.org/
http://www.udacity.com/
https://www.edx.org/
Wikipedia gives me so much value US$50/year is cheap. I wouldn't mind if people there where getting rich building it. Although Corporate/Organizational transparency is always a good thing, and should be demanded.
There is no "simple mechanism" to transport 600-800 amps across 10 miles. That amount of current alone is just mind blowing.
She does not prove that claim, though. She argues that corruption causes bad models. For Silver's cause and effect analysis to be incorrect, she needed to prove that the inaccurate models had absolutely nothing to do with the financial meltdown.
20 Seconds of Insane Courage
Yours is such a wilfully ignorant post, I'm not sure where to begin, or even if it's worth replying...

How do you explain the countless genocides in countries where guns are or were freely available? What about the Soviet dissidents that were exterminated before 1929? Would widespread availability of guns have prevented the holocaust - of course not!

It is the people that have the power to prevent genocide, not guns.
2012 Steam Holiday Sale
I'd consider donating when they get serious about the deletionist problem and stop pretending that the drop off in new contributions has anything to do with the absurd notion that wikipedia is exhausting the depth and breadth of human knowledge.
While we're on the topic of slides, read Edward Tufte's "Cognitive style of PowerPoint". It is short, cheap and sweet discussion about all he sees wrong with most powerpoint (or keynote or libreodfice) presentations.
The amendment should have been dropped. More importantly than what it disallowed, it allows Congress to authorize indefinite detention - "unless an Act of Congress expressly authorizes such detention." A bill that authorizes Congress to do something unconstitutional is both unconstitutional and sets a very bad precedent. Congress quite clearly can not authorize such detention.

"An authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority shall not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States apprehended in the United States, unless an Act of Congress expressly authorizes such detention."
Ecology is the scientific study of the relationships that living organisms have with each other and with their natural environment.

An ecological fallacy (or ecological inference fallacy) is a logical fallacy in the interpretation of statistical data where inferences about the nature of individuals are deduced from inference for the group to which those individuals belong.