skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I don't have a problem with drone strikes. I think they're cheaper and safer than the only practical alternative, which is sending special forces abroad. I also don't think non-Americans outside American soil have rights under our Constitution, because they're not members of our society. I also don't have a problem with monitoring of internet communications so long as its done by computers with security protocols to prevent misuse of the information, and robust court supervision of the use of the resulting evidence. I think my views are actually representative of typical Americans. So where does that leave us? You think those things on that list are "bad things" and I think they're "better than the alternatives."

This is why discussions turn legalistic, because people dissagree about what's good and what's bad, so they instead fight over what is legal and what is illegal.
you can certainly expect fairness. If you are unable to purchase due to the store being down it is fair to expect an extension.
If you can start with a blank record then printing it is a waste of time, for the same reason we don't print paper.
> Can you demonstrate in these other cases that Oracle, for example, was first used by people who thought it was "cool" and insisted on it being free, and worked their way up to "people should pay $150k a year on this"?

No, I cannot do that :-). What I think you are noticing is a change in the business and adoption models. While not being an economist, my hypothesis is that open source was one of the main causes of these changes.

Going back to your question, the closest things that come to mind in the data space that could give us some more info are:

1. Neo4j and InfiniteGraph (graph databases)
2. Cloudera and MapR (Hadoopy)

As far as I know (unfortunately without any real data though) is that both Neo4j and Cloudera are doing quite well financially. On the other hand that's not to say that the model chosen by InfiniteGraph and MapR isn't working.
But then the financial crisis is not within the domain of problem Nate is dealing with, because, as mathbabe says, the incentives were not aligned in favor of optimizing predictive accuracy. So Nate should not have talked about the financial crisis at all, yet he still did.
> if you have a cluster of games/etc managed by steam in your home directory that is already not under the control of package management, what do you gain by splitting out the steam client itself?

The same thing you gain from every other linux package that has a globally installed application with per-user configuration? which is... every single other application in the entire linux world?

>Steam has always been designed on both osx and windows to be a portable folder that you can move around from system to system and run stuff out of wihout worrying about installers and dependancies.

Huh? Are you familiar with Linux? You can move/copy your home dir, reinstall the package-managed binary and it "just works". That is the best definition of portable, far better than copy-pasting a "Program Files" directory between machines and crossing your fingers. Again, I've yet to hear a technical reason that we can't have /usr/bin/steam and ~/.steam/<steamapps> like every other Linux application does.
> You allow resets of your teams' admin accounts to happen through the publicly accessible password request feature. (n.b. Almost never a good idea, for one because it means you're probably doing shared authn/authe between your app and your admin console and that is generally a very bad idea. I say this in spite of shipping it in every product I write.)

Can you please elaborate more, or link to articles about why this is a bad idea? What are the common failure scenarios that splitting normal & admin users fixes?
About half-way through the rant she says:

[[Call me “asinine,” but I have less faith in the experts
than Nate Silver: I don’t want to trust the very people
who got us into this mess, while benefitting from it, to
also be in charge of cleaning it up. And, being part of
the Occupy movement, I obviously think that this is the
time for mass movements.]]

Ahhh, so she was part of the Occupy movement and comes from the world-view that the financial system and government is corrupt. She should have said that up front. Makes what she is saying make more sense.

Nate Silver doesn't believe those things, and so that largely explains why they come to different conclusions.
How to Seed data and create objects easily in Scala
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Just added a new section to the D3.js tutorial website. This one covers the SVG Group Element (<g>) and how it can be used within D3.js.
The models certainly contributed. (Note: I have read this far in the book.)

The modeling error in question was independence; that is, if you have five mortgages, each with a 5% change of default, then these can be packaged up as an AAA security as follows: you only lose your money if all five default. A bit riskier package is that you lose if 4/5 default. And so on, each with different returns.

If they are independent, the p(default) = 1/20^5. If they are dependent, it is 1/20. Now multiple mortgage pool size by a 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 (?) and see how far off the estimated risk is. :)

Now combine this with a 30-to-1 leverage when buying these "AAA" securities.

(This was quite a good problem to work through with my daughter to see what that little "independence" assumption means. :)

His main point here was that modeling failures are typically due to out-of-sample conditions; when the housing bubble broke, the markets were might more tightly coupled across the country than the modelers assumed. While they could have seen this kind of dependence if they looked to Japan, there was no such precedence in the US in recent history.
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>On this view O'Neil's view is correct: the cause was not "bad modelling" but "bad data." The "bad data" in the model was an "effect" of corruption, not the root "cause" of the financial meltdown.

So it goes that corruption caused bad data, which caused a bad analysis by the model(she claims that both the data and model are bad), which caused the financial meltdown.

That does not invalidate Silver's point. It merely points out that Silver's analysis may be inadequate.
Pash is right, but I think he overstates his case a bit. It's important to realize that there are as many original interpretations of the Constitution as there are framers, and that the Federalist Papers represents the views of a certain subset of the people who wrote the Constitution. They are a popular reference, but they are by no means gospel.
Sorry, I often write my comments in reply to the whatever was linked. I should have written it differently.
The power of seven
Maybe they are or maybe they aren't. It doesn't change the fact that they have kept themselves out of the low-mid range font market through their deliberate choices about pricing and licensing. The "open font movement" doesn't need to displace H&FJ, because H&FJ were never the incumbent.
It aspires to be and everyone certainly hopes it will be, the behavioural economics crowd thinks they are headed towards that certainly. Their argument that the reason for the lack of predictive power in economics is the reliance on models that assume individuals are rational actors seems to have a lot of merit.

At the moment the techniques available and the predictive power puts it far down the spectruum that has the hard sciences on one side and pseudoscience on the other with the soft/social sciences in the middle.
I've read through the sample of this book and looked at the TOC and read Hello World from Manning, and honestly, as someone who has worked teaching programming to this age range, they kind of suck.

They don't teach kids how to think about programming. Their first instinct is to assault them with syntax and use words that aren't readily part of a kid's vocabulary (for example, introducing the concept of "types" and coercing (using that word) between them in like Chapter 3 is just a recipe for disaster) in an effort to give the kid results. "If they don't see results, they won't stick with it!" Bull crap. If you give them great results for the first hour, but then it becomes incredibly frustrating to proceed because they don't understand the fundamentals well enough to do anything useful, you're not doing anyone a favor.

I know Hello World was co-written with the author's son, and so obviously this isn't an across the board problem. But in my experience, if you don't teach how computers work (in general), how programs work (i.e., you type stuff, the computer does it, etc.), and how to develop logical thinking about problems and how to break them down, all you'll be teaching to do is ape the book until they want riff on it, at which point it just becomes an exercise in frustration.

There is always a learning curve, but I firmly believe that there is a very linear progression of thought that you can teach in that will make the learning curve much smoother for most of the kids trying to learn. I've been doing work on a book of my own very, very slowly, but I'm hoping to fix a lot of the pedagogical failures I see in these books.

Maybe it'll come out soon, but then again, the world ends tomorrow, so why bother? :)
I am trying this right now.

A few potatoes + one onion + some chicken + spices + 1 and 1/2 cup of water are cooking in the rice cooker.

I'll let you know how it was! (My only concern is with the amount of water)
Funding for Music Revolutionized
Hi, we've updated the site with a FAQ that addresses this

thanks
This is cool, and I kind of wish it was released a few months ago. I've been building something like this from scratch for a work project for a little while now. Did you guys look into using an actual <table>, or did you go with divs form the start?
Not sure why you are concerned. A cursory look at your past experience tells me you'll have no issue finding work.

Enjoy the time off for the holidays, spend some time with the kids, and start looking for work in January.
What do you think abut thiss?
A startup that will store your data in space — and on Mars
You'll never run out of microbrew beers. I mean for naming. I do run out of the real thing while coding.
I definitely see this the other way around. It's like music or art--people who don't care about an aesthetic pursuit are going to be the ones who never develop a "refined taste." And the pop music of food consists of sugar, refined carbs, and fat. Big, bold flavors. Just as people rarely appreciate subtle, nuanced musical pieces if they aren't "into" music, people who aren't "into" food end up only really enjoying the obvious flavors that happen to be terrible for them.
something like that :)
You can see there entire staff list here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff

Orlowski, again, doesn't name anyone. Lazy/deceptive journalism.
Compilers had quite a lot of programming - https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers
An always interesting facet to these types of stories is the ambivalence I feel for the people involved. While I would love to have a problem to tackle that is large enough, similarly unique enough to solve that it would make my career, I would have a problem large enough, similarly unique enough to break my career.

As another commenter mentioned, the engineering involved in the story is likely not required very many places on earth. To be in a situation, developing a solution to a massive problem with little to no precedence is an exhilarating and terrifying position to be in. It may sound overly-engineered to you but, at the time, it may have been the most cost effective engineering solution to a problem rarely encountered.
FundersClub Raises $1.3M From Small Investors For 4 Startups And Itself
TL;DR:

1. Provide an Experience that Doesn't Require Human Support

2. Be Responsive

3. Be Public

4. Be Honest

5. Help Users Help You

6. Prioritize

7. Tell Users the Official Channels and Monitor Unofficial Ones

8. Have a Short Memory
MessagePack for Ruby version 5
This year's site notice was less intrusive than the one from last year, IMO.
You can't even license H+FJ fonts for web applications; they're not even "priced out" - you have to be one of the "cool kids" to use them.

So in other words, hcarvalhoalves was right, and the state of typography licensing in general really is a mess.
People rejecting SQL/schemas tend to fall into two camps:

1) People who don't know what they're doing. People in this camp tend to be inexperienced, and reject structured data because "it's easier to just deal with it in code". People in this camp, tend not to realise that they're still maintaining a schema, but making it harder because they have to manually code all the constraints.

2) People who are trying to solve a specific problem that is easier when you weaken constraints on the data. You could be dealing with naturally unstructured data such as web crawling. People in this camp have actually thought about what they want to build, and are making a conscious choice.

I think that people fall into the first camp more often than not. Using myself as an example, the team I was leading decided that CouchDB would be a good fit for a use-case involving "unclean" data. It turned out that the data could be cleaned manually quite trivially, and the overheads of utilising CouchDB massively outweighed the ever-shrinking benefit.

Note that I'm categorising people who choose to use NoSQL in production situations, not people experimenting or people not using NoSQL at all.
Having kids will do that to you :)
The villains in this story (ratings agencies) had lots of models, bad and good. They chose to publicly report the ones that suited their interest, rather than the most accurate ones.

The way to improve the situation is to educate the consumers of those models (securities purchasers) about what models are best, and which are misleading.

It's more productive to say, "Buyer beware, sellers are misleading you in the following ways..." than, "Shame on corrupt sellers!". Silver's book is doing the first, which does not constitute defense of corruption.
I know of a couple in San Francisco. One in Cleveland. See them in almost any city. Remember the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld?
What are the benefits of cooking stuff in a rice cooker versus a crock pot? Crock pots are also cheap and (I'm guessing) have a larger capacity, further "optimizing" your time. They usually have two heat settings as well and you can stick the lid on the food and stick the crock right in the fridge for leftovers. I'm sure they both produce equally boring food. Is the rice cooker faster or something?
But I also think that to do hardware design in VHDL or Verilog, you need to understand the underlying structures - latches, flip-flops, decoders, muxes, etc.

Only barely. Modern FPGAs are made up of LUTs and flip-flops, which can be abstracted as "cloud of programmable asynchronous logic surrounded by D Flip-Flops". I think if you start by explaining the abstract notion of asynchronous logic, and the notion of gating a design using D flip-flops, you can get someone up the HDL learning curve really fast without going into the depths of what boolean functions are, what a mux is, etc. Boolean functions and muxes aren't a central component of modern programmable logic anyway.

I've been thinking about writing up "30 minutes to your first HDL design" at some point. Dragging a competent C programmer up the learning curve is pretty easy, as long as you don't start off with "it's like C but...". I've trained a few SE interns to write some halfway-decent CPLD designs in just an hour or two, and consequently I think that the way they've taught it at school is way too low-level for someone that's going to be working with modern programmable logic, and it needn't be so painful.
Besides, I'd rather "cook" in a crockpot than a rice cooker. More versatile, same style of "dump everything in" recipe. You can also make a mean bbq pulled pork with just a crockpot and a hunk of meat.

I think everyone should save chicken bones for stock. They keep in the freezer forever, so even if you don't roast chicken often there's really no excuse not to save it. Homemade stock is so much better than the stuff in cans.
Just check his TED talk. http://blog.ted.com/2006/08/29/jimmy_wales_on/

He basically says it's dirt cheap to host and operate and that it's one of the best things about it.

At the time of the video their bandwidth costs per month was just 5000$ and one paid programmer.

Aka you don't need millions to run it. So I was a little baffled when I saw his first big campaign to raise money.
This looks great. Can anybody recommend a similar library (i.e. lazy-rendering table component) that either doesn't depend on a JS framework or uses backbone.js? I know Slickgrid but find it a bit too clunky on the whole, and re-styling it is awkward since its DOM isn't exactly straightforward.
We were using Slickgrid for a while and that was a very painful experience as the code was very complex, didn't do frozen rows/columns and didn't interoperate with Ember nicely. I think we wrote this with div's from scratch.
Heh, a bit over the top wouldn't you say? Do you consider the car you drive "your statement of worth" or the designers who designed your clothes "the most important voices of style this century" ?

Accept that you are a foodie, great. Accept that there are non-foodies too.

We had a discussion here a while back about "living" on a couple hundred dollars a month for food in the Bay Area. That is a very real sort of challenge if you're bootstrapping a company. And if you can "cook" your meals with maybe 15 minutes of chopping some ingredients and throwing them into a cooker and then going away for an hour, that is a good use of your time [1]. And its a lot better for you than Raman.

So sure, you're not going to win an Iron Chef competition with a rice cooker but its a much better way of keeping yourself fed on a budget than eating pre-prepared food.

[1] One of the huge benefits of rice cookers over other cooking methods is they automatically switch off and go into 'warm' mode, this allows a distracted person to come back in 1 - 4 hrs after starting the 'meal' and eat it nice and hot. If you're coding this is priceless.
There is a deletion review, and articles can be undeleted.
This link is to a PDF scan of The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint that came from a library
I'm referrig to the massive drop in all tax rates starting around 1979(which are clearly visible in the chart on the page that this comment thread is discussing.)
I had leftover Easy Mac that was made with Eggnog instead of milk because I had ran out.

It was sinfully delicious. Probably took a year off my life though.
Fascinating to look back at the reactions from when I posted this 500 days ago. One person said:

while this is a classic, my snark is thrashing against
its bonds. I could have sworn it said 'news' up there.

And another:

SENSATIONAL HEADLINE ALERT!!!

And that was it. No further comments to be had. Both those comments were downvoted, but even so, interesting that no one else commented, and very few voted for the submission.

For reference, the headline I used was:

Engineering pornography - underground
power cables gone wrong

... which I felt was more informative.

So on this submission, now even older, we have 16 comments (and counting) and 60 points (and counting). Has HN changed? I'm off to check some records ...

(pause)

A bit of hunting shows that this got at least one vote while still on the "newest" page, but it looks like it never hit the front page, which will part explain why it never got many comments or votes. Still, the tenor of the comments is interesting. I continue to learn.
Whoops, I thought you did early on. Sorry about that!
TL;DR:

1. Don’t give a presentation - have a conversation

2. Speak in your voice and style

3. Tell personal stories
So, I generally like Dependency Injection (except that it makes things hard to debug) The code tends to be cleaner and there's less of it. It's also easier to test.

But I really dislike reading this kind of code. It is just really hard to understand. And if it's hard to understand, it's hard to maintain.
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Why do you choose to read the 5th amendment as granting protections to a class of people, instead of reading it as a declaration of prohibitions to government action?
Instaprofit:  A solution to the Facebook/Instagram Problem
It's called "rewarding loyalty". Companies used to do that, then the '80s happened.
I love what you've done here. It's indeed a great starting template and unlike that -other- html5 template it does a good job explaining why you would or wouldn't use some of the elements.

I also disagree with some of the other commenters on the inclusion of GA code, yeah it could do without but i have never put a site online that didn't have that tag in it while i have released many that did not need Modernizr, jquery or some of the other fancy pants stuff in boilerplate.

Also i love the plug-and-play video template. Well done sir!
I commend the RethinkDB folks for supporting Mac OS X explicitly. However, the .pkg installer, while handy for folks that prefer that installation method, installs to /usr/bin/ and /usr/share/ -- areas that are traditionally reserved for system tools provided by Apple. Sure, the DMG also contains an uninstall-rethinkdb.sh script, but I'm still left quite unwilling to kick the RethinkDB tires on my primary Mac workstation.

A better method, in my opinion, would be for the RethinkDB devs to contribute a Homebrew formula. That way everything would be installed into /usr/local/ by default, and updates would be a quick "brew upgrade rethinkdb" away. Am I the only one who would prefer that?

UPDATE: It seems they had originally planned on a Homebrew formula but thought the .pkg format was better. Clearly, I disagree with that. Want to offer both? Awesome. But if you're going to pick one or the other, I think Homebrew is the vastly superior method. More here: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/5
I am trying to buy PyCharm but the price is still $99 in the JetBrains shopping cart. Is anyone else seeing that?

edit: Sale prices are back.

edit2: Purchases complete still working, still awaiting license code.
Jimmy Wales: RE: Wikipedia Doesn't Need Your Money
I guess you haven't seen this... http://evilbrainjono.net/pages/startup-or-pokemon.py
(OT, but this sounds like a weird setup line for a joke on the food network).
Getting Unicode right is more than "working string support". It requires programmer knowledge upgrades. No amount of boilerplate you put in your programs--or in the language itself--will fix a programmer's lack of knowledge.
It seems like it's up again, but it's now not applying the discount? (Trying to buy Resharper c# version). The discount is there until you add it to your cart.

Edit: it seems fixed now!
OmniFaces 1.3 is released
Email me (michael.o.church at gmail) and I'll put you in contact with some recruiters in NYC who'd love to work with you (although I don't know if they have remote options). With your CV, I doubt you'll be unemployed for long.

If you're interested in finance, Wilmott and NuclearPhynance are also good places to find headhunters.

Sorry to hear about the startup. Good luck!
rice cooker: versatile

crockpot/slow cooker: more versatile

combination rice cooker and slow cooker: most versatile

http://us.sanyo.com/Microcomputerized-Rice-Cookers/10-Cup-Mi...
Same with RubyMine.
Programming is harder than chess(2006)