skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think it is more 'did not feel fitting for this story' than 'missed'. He isn't mentioning any other parts they built on either (Cocoa, the Mac OS Unix-based networking code, the font designers for Mac OS system fonts, the GNU project for gcc, K&R's progamming language design, etc)
You are doing the same job as last year, except with a whole nother year's worth of experience.
But I never have to get up to use a keyboard with my PS3. That's the experience I want.

Customizability and linux are just very, very nice perks.
Fun challenge for anyone: reverse engineer what the numbers mean and the rules for acceptable combinations by typing them in and observing the juggling patterns or error messages. Been a good diversion, thanks for sharing the link.
Many people suggest working at reading through other peoples code, I've heard good things about ID's famous code for example.
From Wordpress to Pelican, performance without compromising aesthetics.
VirtualBox, with 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM for each OS. There are some CPU settings you need to change in VirtualBox, I don't remember them now but experiment, it made things 10x faster.
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Yes. However, each state has its own income taxes and sales taxes. The marginal rate at 100k (the tax rate for each additional dollar earned) is higher (28% according to this article). In my city, in California: 7.75% sales tax, 10.3% state income tax... Oh, social security, Medicare... These add more. My point being that at 100k a California resident (for example) pays much more than 21.5% effective rate, and much more than 28% on each additional dollar earned.
Reminds me a bit of knot theory, though knot theory isn't really as practical:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory
The bootswatch project (basically themes for Bootstrap) uses a similar system, though they generally have two less files, one for overriding variables, and a second one for theme-specific additions.

https://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch/tree/gh-pages/swatc...
The underlying thing that is broken here is TOS's in general.

They are obviously not being read and they actually rely on not being read. There is no cost in putting something in your TOS unless makes headlines. It reminds me of medieval merchants buying prayers. The Southpark episode on iTunes tTOS is the only correct response to this ridiculous situation.

In practice, this is not a reasonable way of making an agreement between users & sites.
very off topic, but i've always wondered whether 'nother' was an acceptable word to use.
One russian company called Yandex actually did: http://browser.yandex.com/
ACTA gets final stake through heart as EC drops court referral
I am not quite sure if things are really that bad for the US as you describe. You are absolutely right on most points, but I think that the US is in general more tolerant towards people operating in gray areas or gaming the system.

I also would argue that this is the basis for many disruptive innovations and startups like Uber or Airbnb would have had a hard time growing up in stronger regulated environments. Of cause this doesn't change the fact that patent trolls are a menace to innovation.
If anyone wants to know more, ask. I'll try not to swamp you with more than you want.

I am (slowly) writing a book about it.
Often you find people migrating from CMS's to Wordpress in search of nice aesthetics and easy publishing.
Being a system administrator I find that being able to use Vim as my editing application and the ability to use a well documented template system like Jinja is the is the way to go specially when performance is an issue.
The best advice I can give is - try to estimate how much you are worth to a company. It can be fairly complicated, but understanding what you bring to the table can not only give you peace of mind but can also increase your salary.

It's your career. Own it. Let your employer know you own it. Any good employer will support you.
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We can use Braid Theory - a sub-discipline of Knot Theory - to talk about juggling. Juggling patterns are usually in a single plane, so imagine juggling while walking backwards with the balls leaving glowing trails. Those trails form a braid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_theory

There are "invariants" for braids, which can then be used to distinguish juggling patterns. That can be used to show that the 3 Cascade is in some sense fundamentally different from Mills Mess. Mills Mess is actually the "Unbraid", something that's rather non-obvious.
A difference: IV works because there is a disfunctional regulation in place, while the others work despite the regulations.
From reading the title I thought that 'juggling' and 'tricks' where metaphors for how choosing the right notation in mathematics can make a problem trivial, while choosing the wrong notation can make it nearly impossible. Even though the article is talking about a concrete example of juggling, I think it can still be taken as an appropriate metaphor.

Perhaps the oldest and most obvious example of the power of notation is the invention of algebra itself. Before that, people used to write maths in words. Fermat's Last Theorem for example was stated as:

It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or
a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any
power higher than the second, into two like powers.

This isn't very easy to understand! With algebra we can just write

There are no integers, a, b and c such
that a^n + b^n = c^n when n is an integer n > 2.

This is much easier to read once you're familiar with algebra, but much more importantly, the notation is very conducive to being able to manipulate the expression to derive new results from it.

Perhaps that's the criteria for good notation - it makes additional manipulations and insights easy to the point of trivial.
Twitter login flaw allowed some passwords to be sent in plain text
It's only 6 am, but this is my favorite story that I will read on the internet today. Thank you.
Best we can hope for in the case of Facebook is some kind of rescue and archive act like for Geocities - although I think the Geocities archive started too late and some of it was lost :-(
I guess putting years of your life into a project that could easily fail financially is very discomforting. It's understandable when they seem a bit thin-skinned.

But Phil Fish – the guy behind FEZ – made me feel really uneasy. He reminded me of myself in my late teens/early twenties, when I was actually suffering almost constant thoughts of suicide.

I sincerely hope he gets his shit together soon. I hate to see someone suffer for no real reason at all.
Correct, so using your statement that "most of these employees lived on factory premises", the equivalent comparisons could be how many college students commit suicide in their dorm rooms, or how many google employees commit suicide on campus. Those would be valid comparisons whereas comparing with a country, a region would be a misleading comparison.
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> Organizations that follow the letter of the law but ignore the principles behind them should inspire our strongest contempt.

And who establishes these principles? To suggest that an organization must additionally follow some ambiguous set of principles putatively inspiring an established law is the pinnacle of arrogance. How can a country function if its members (citizens and organizations alike) cannot look to the letter of the law to decide whether their conduct conforms therewith?

If you don't like the fact that some companies are legally engaging in contemptuous behavior, then change the law. That's the whole point of Congress--to legislate. Suggesting that laws additionally be subject to motivating principles comports with judicial supremacy, which is to say it's the courts (rather than our elected officials) who decide what the law is. That's not how this country is supposed to work.
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A friend of mine says that the act of "doing math" is the process of inventing a language (and its associated notation) in which it's easy to talk about the problem you're working on. Once you have the notation and language, the problem becomes easy. Well easier.

Certainly the notation for juggling has made a whole slew of juggling tricks easier to think about, analyse, and learn. A good notation is like a good programming language, it enables, and then gets out of the way.
This is less relevant than it seems, except for "leaning" experience (for example, familiarity with a system)

You won't grow by staying in the confort zone. And that's what most people do.
When I was with HP calculation division in the early 2000s, the project names came from Star Wars / Star Trek characters. Why? Because with we were working SciFi (SCIentific FInancial) calculators.
Reference fished out of the excellent essay The Mathematical Hacker (http://www.evanmiller.org/mathematical-hacker.html ), discussed here a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915328
Plans for UK Copyright reform announced [pdf]
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He was actually giving example of page that is ridiculous easy to mine.
Leads you to wonder where the 641a equivalent is in that building (or is it in the actual telco building nearby, which a lot of the fiber also runs through, with some additional fiber stubs from the exchange back to the carrier building)
At fifty bucks for a personal license, there's really no excuse not to buy!
Definitely ask for a raise. I think you are underpaid. A quick search for "Junior java developer" on indeed.com, indicates that you could easily be making $20k more than you presently do.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/12/11/seo-the-inconveni...

Sweet.io: why?
I don't understand how Economics is considered a science. It doesn't follow one of the underlying principles of the scientific method, mainly: If an experiment cannot be repeated to produce the same results, this implies that the original results were in error.
no native english speaker here, but i guess
"a whole 'nother" would be correct. but let people be lazy when typing online.
actually i guess you'd also need to switch the words to be gramatically correct: "another whole year"
Yes, but "trust us" is not a good disclaimer on a legal document.
As I remember: a few years back this was supposed to be the missing Textmate on Windows. ST2 ate its lunch though.
Colin, are you familiar with the Turntable Transcription Method? It's a notation for scratch DJs to describe their hand movements which seems similar in many ways to what you've been doing here, albeit less mathematical.

http://ttmethod.com/
Wasn't that Portal, which I got for free at that time?
> The federal government had a huge debt to pay down after the war.

Granted, but if spending had otherwise returned to the previous levels then that debt would have gone away entirely and then the new taxes along with it. That rather obviously didn't happen. :)

A now-deleted sibling comment linked to the corresponding spending levels, which confirm the continued spending (note that this graph doesn't even include the debt): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Us_gov_spendi...
I have a pretty good geographical specific domain name which makes use of the word Java (there's a massive java market here).

I am worried that if I go live with my niche java jobs board that I will get a DMCA / cease and desist from Oracle as it's their trademark.

Any thoughts?
Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. And no, I couldn't find the climbers.
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What's wrong with growing a neckbeard? For the kids around here; it hides your 7 chins when you get older and it looks more natural and is cheaper than plastic surgery! Disclaimer: I do Haskell, Mercury and have a neckbeard :)
you can refer to as I did to: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/fb-purity-cle...
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Twitter's Archive and (my) TwimeMachine.
Tom Ewing's paper ( http://stlr.stanford.edu/pdf/feldman-giants-among-us.pdf , datestamped Jan. 2012) says they've identified 1,276 shell companies, which is quite a bit lower than the 2,201 items listed by PlainSite.

(In his interview with Ira Glass, broadcast in July 2011, Ewing said there's "very close to 1,300" shell companies, http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/TAL441_t... , so I guess he's been working on this for a while.)
> Throw in city and state taxes and burdens can be pretty abysmal.

Ah, see, that's the problem.

First, you pay federal income tax. Second, you pay state income tax. Third, you pay payroll taxes/fees. Fourth, you pay property taxes for your residence. Fifth, you pay state/county sales taxes on whatever you decide to buy.

Oh, did I mention that widget you bought that came from China probably had some tariffs on it?

Made in the USA? No worries. You paid for some of the federal/state payroll taxes/fees the manufacturer was responsible for.
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citricsquid,

Don't forget state income tax, sales tax and various other embedded tax. Realistically, taxes are around 40% - 50%.

Also keep in mind that we get very little benefits for those tax dollars compared to Europe for example. Our healthcare costs and higher education are not covered by that tax the same way most European countries are. The only thing we do get for that money is perpetual war and bank/industry bailouts. Kind of a raw deal.

Preferably, I'd love to see a mixed system. A VAT tax, a flat income tax and capital gains tax. Something like 13/13/13 across the board (or maybe less if the US could get unnecessary spending down - not likely). This has worked brilliantly for several eastern European countries ever since they implemented them.
European Union Laws to protect from European Union mandated snooping?
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The new ToS seems to imply that you are going to give your house key to a known thief/escaped convict and you are also thrusting him with not stealing anything from your house.

Seriously? How certain is anybody that with the new TOS the thief won't steal anything from their house?

If the thief wasn't going to steal from the house in the first place then why its called a thief that is even authorized to steal your goods?

Why is there such a ToS in the first place if the thief is incapable of stealing?
So, your advice is "Write something worth reading and make it visible."

Is that right?
I like it! Can't say I have much use for it, but it's nice.
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NOOOOO. I've been waiting to upgrade Resharper for VS2012 and their page is offline.
Exactly, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947182
The response was overwhelming! We should be back up and running shortly :-)
Unemployment is extremely high (From 4%/6% in 2007 to 10%/14% today)

LOL! I wish we had that "extremely high" unemployment in Spain. By the way, we're an even better example of austerity not working.
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If that's directed at my comments, then I wasn't stating they were protesting against the party-aristocracy, just that the "free-market" reforms were not free-market reforms, but the transfer of industrial ownership from the state directly to party members. I was taking exception to the definition of "free-market" as something that was neither free, nor a market.
You've hit the nail on the head. I (very) occasionally visit a messageboard that was active about a decade ago out of nostalgia.
I thought it was a bit strange to go from mills mess to site swap. Any site swap can be juggled as a mills mess, they're effectively independent. E.g. see the first trick in this video for a five ball mills mess 97531 pattern.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZx4cLTDWTE

As the article mentions, site swap doesn't help you to find the interesting variations. E.g. the 97531 above probably moves too fast for the untrained eye to appreciate, it just looks like a blur. But a juggler can appreciate the level of difficulty involved.

For examples of what non-jugglers prefer versus jugglers, compare "Chris Bliss" and "Chris Bliss Diss" on youtube.
Looks very cute, and might be useful (not having to leave the terminal is always good), but I think I speak for many others saying that I don't want to start a new address book from scratch, let alone one that won't sync into my other devices.

So my suggestion for the killer feature here is an ability to sync with some major service provider such as iCloud or Google (preferably both / some standard protocol?).
I'd love to help the development of such a feature.
Ask HN: Is LinkedIn broken?
I can't view mine or anyone else's profiles on LinkedIn (from 2 different accounts). All that shows up is the activity stream. Are these isolated cases or is anyone else experiencing this?
I don't think the term you want is "write off". Creditors write off debt. Borrowers default.
How to explain phishing to your Grandma [video]
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We improved the choice of fonts ant the size. I hope this works better for you.
>Why will they choose hyphenated variables instead of camelCase?

Presumably because hyphentation is the standard in CSS.
Haha I just upgraded my Resharper license last night. That was a mistake.
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End of the world DRM-free sale
Why do you have to trust them in the first place?

I tell you why, because their ToS is malformed otherwise you wouldn't have to trust them, you would only need to agree that the contract you signed with them is respected accordingly, by them as well as by you.
Also keep in mind that we get very little benefits
for those tax dollars compared to Europe for example.

I'd always assumed that US taxes were lower than European taxes due to this (no national health service for example) but from what you and others have pointed out that seems not to be the case. Using the example provided by mikiem of California I would be paying more tax in the US than I do in England (according to this calculator: http://www.paycheckcity.com/calculator/netpay/us/california/...).
I am also looking for a job in Netherlands, do you know any company/friend ? Send me an email to bcambel@<google's-fantastic-email-service>
I'm from Germany. Can I tax deduct this? How would I do it? Just show my bank statement to the German IRS?
Cool link, and interesting - thank you. It clearly has a lot in common with music notation for pure percussive instruments - time along the horizontal axis, an action indicated vertically.

The thing about all these other notations is that they are descriptive, but not predictive. The thing that sets SiteSwap apart is that within juggling there are things that are (with certain axioms) fundamentally impossible. The notation encodes that in its structure, and then predicts the existence of things that are possible.

In plain SiteSwap we assume that the juggler throws and catches only one ball at a time. With that restriction, there are illegal combinations, and SiteSwap lets us work out what they are so we can avoid them. An example is 543. The balls throw in that combination all land at the same time, and hence is illegal in Vanilla SiteSwap tricks.

This has, in turn, led to a lot of people explicitly deciding to break the rules, and seeing what comes of that.
It depends on your level of experience before. If you have 20 years experience, 1 more is probably negligible. If you are an entry level new starter, 1 year is massive.
Better quality royalty-free audio and video codecs would have arrived a lot faster if it wasn't for so many people taking an astoundingly short-term view on what "sucks".

Instead we're going to be paying to watch H.264 encodes that "suck" compared with the state of the art for the next 10 years just as we're still paying to watch MPEG-2 and listen to mp3 codecs that "suck" compared with the state of the art from 10 years ago.

And you know what? That sucks.
Experience is secondary. It's only any good to your employer if it increases the value you provide.
Excuse me, but what do you agree with? Do you think that it is enough to write any arbitrary bold statement and then say something in the lines of 'I know that sounds like an extreme position blabla' to make it sound more credible and less pompous? Do you realize that author of this article completely mistake some elementary SEO for content development plan/strategy? SEO has evolved, you know? These two things are not mutually exclusive, they should go hand in hand if you're going to have any kind of traffic before your business dies.

This whole article is trying to somehow prove that SEO is definitely not caring for you users, but writing content (what does it even mean?) magically is! Ignoring the reality of search engine ranking algos may help you build some kind of cool image if you are famous or lucky, but it doesn't necessarily need to help your business. If you're in a business, writing good content for the sake of writing good content is nonsense (it's worse, actually, because it costs you money).

As to your suggestion: I've seen pure ads being both much better and much worse than pure content building, but this is really comparing apples to oranges. Careful testing is your best friend here, and I'd say that you can always implement both strategies of building traffic without mixing them too much: have pages with great (and optimized) content, and have landing pages built specifically for ad-driven traffic.
btw - personal licences only (i.e. not commercial licenses).
It's how it happened. Mills Mess made it clear how hard it was to write down anything, so we started from scratch to invent a notation. We simplified things to start with, saying "Let's not allow the hands to move about" (thus eliminating Mills Mess initially) and "Let's keep the timing fixed", and so on. Thus SiteSwap was born.

There is a similar notation for restricted types of hand movements called "MMSTD", and there is a general, unrestricted notation called "BeatMap". Not sure how much either have caught on amongst juggers in general, but certainly SiteSwap is well-known in the juggling population. Loved by some, hated by some, understood by some, it's an interesting mix.

With regards the "Chris Bliss Diss" video, note that the soundtrack - including applause and gasps - is from the original video. Jason recorded his "Diss" video in a gym without an audience. It's also not a single take. Not to take away from the incredible juggling - it's stunning. I just wish he had done something for himself, and not this diss.
native english speaker here, and I grant that english is flexible enough that such things are largely a matter of opinion, but "nother" bugs me. I would write 'other with the apostrophe used to indicate the mixing of "a whole other" and "another" into 'other. I would pronounce it "other" if I was thinking, but possibly "nother" if I was being sloppy.
Because you use it to navigate, also on Safaris?

That’s one of those things that make perfect sense to me. I’m mystified in what respect that would not be a fitting icon. It’s certainly better than an “e”.
I just had a thought. What if Myhrvold has realised that the only way that the patent system can be changed is if he brings innovation to a halt completely using Intellectual Ventures. Only he can't tell anyone because he believes that if he does, it will undermine his efforts.

Yes. This is somewhat flippant. Hopefully his motivations aren't relevant and IV still acts as a catalyst for change. The real danger, I suppose, is regulatory capture. I wonder how much lobbying IV does.
That's a great idea I might steal. I'll go through the names in dex order, as I happen to know at least the first 151 in order...

Also I'm pretty sure that they make new Pokémon faster than anyone starts projects...
Perl 5 is no good? Actually tchrist disagrees with you. Check his slides: http://98.245.80.27/tcpc/OSCON2011/gbu.html