skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly scifi and fantasy. I've never been much of a reader, so I'm trying to catch up on classics.

* Hunger games 1-3 -- not bad, would probably recommend

* Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy -- good, surprised how short it was. really liked the style of writing, fun to read. recommended

* Stranger in a Strange Land -- currently reading this one, interesting, but nothing ground breaking. one character seems to dominate the book. don't know if I'd recommend.

* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep -- interesting, a bit boring. I kept comparing it to the movie, and in the end I like the movie better. they each focus on different subjects, but I like the movie's subject better, and it felt more professional/solid. would recommend.

* Ringworld -- pretty good. the 'Teela problem' is fascinating to me and got me thinking a lot outside of reading, which to me is a sign of a good book. the 'spacey stuff' in the book was not that great. even the ringworld itself was not that interesting. would recommend.

* The Mote in God's Eye -- my favorite book of the year. so much to think about (moral problems/dilemmas). the realistic part of the space travel was new to me (like the consideration of g-forces in constant acceleration), and so that was more to think about. definitely recommend.

* Cryptonomicon -- a close second. Neal Stephenson goes into wicked detail in his books and always blows my mind (never heard of Van Eck Phreaking before this book, how is that possible?). definitely recommend.
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>Personally, for a lot of use cases I prefer exact string matches over BS stem indexing.

Really? I've worked on a few search projects in different spaces (venues (aka places/stores), source code, and products) in the past, and while exact string matches are often a good sign of quality, stemming and other analyzers make huge improvements in recall (and when measuring transaction volume in A/B testing strict string matching performed substantially worse). Certainly if you throw out the exact match signal (i.e. only index stemmed) I've seen that result in a deterioration of quality. What sort of data do you work with?
They're not the only ones. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Linking%20to%20any%20we...
I just want to know what they mean in the next section by:

"We may, but are not obligated to, use-in any way we see fir-any ideas, concepts, know-how, text, photographs, images or techniques..."

Is "seeing fir" a Christmas thing? And what exactly is their position on tinsel? I think more lawyers are needed.
Tout Formulaire de trigonométrie
Religion is everywhere, even where it is specifically disclaimed (see also: The Singularity).

We're hardwired for it.
I'm pretty sure I've seen terms like this that predate Google and the entire concept of links conferring an SEO benefit.
I was taught this way and I happen to be rather young (19). I find that most of my classmates were never taught this rule, and they usually think it's some sort of error when proofreading my writing. It reminds me of the "don't button the bottom button on a suit" story.
I don't see a link for here.

>More information here.

Please complete your sentence?

>Standard SD seem to be okay, but SDHC cards (like the one I happen to use with our Canon camera.)
"After a couple of months at a company, a new grad may think “hey, this isn’t THAT great’, and not stick out the next 9, 10, 11 months, because that seems to them, an insanely long time."

Then he made a mistake during the interview process. Remember, it's not only them interviewing you, it's also you interviewing them. Bring up issues you care about (work ethic, work load, flexibility), and you'll have fewer surpises later on.

"On the other hand, for someone who has been working for a few years, 8,9, or 11 months might seem to be a much shorter period of time, and proportionally it is. They might stick it out, get equity, and become much more committed to the enterprise."

Yes, the company can issue additional grants, there's no law in place to say that what you get on day 1 is the only equity you're going to get, ever. The company can structure performance (equity for shipping major products) or retention (equity for 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 10th, 50th anniversary with the company) however it pleases.
Same story here. Called a number I thought was the hotel. They replied with "Hotel name, what can I do for you". I made the reservation, based on wrong information in just about every department, the wrongest being that the hotel has room (but also wrong about cancellation policy and other stuff, as I later found out).

Got to hotel, only to be told that hotels.com screwed up and confirmed 30 reservations when in fact the hotel in fact had 2 available rooms for the day.

Went to a friend's house, as no other hotel around was available. Called hotels.com; waited an hour on the phone, no answer. Disputed charge with credit card company (took less than 10 minutes), and emailed them that I've disputed, and if they want it to NOT go through they are welcome to contact me.

They emailed me within 24 hours with some credit, saying it will take them 72 hours to resolve. After 120 hours, I email them; they say it's going to "take them more time". After 4 more days, I email them - still no response.

The next morning, credit card company gave me my money back. Haven't heard from hotels.com since, but I have a paper trail saying they will check and contact me, and then silence. And so does the credit card company.

Never booking through hotels.com again, even if it means I have to work much more to figure out a direct phone number.
Take a look at the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS) neutrino beam experiments. They start with a proton beam at CERN. Aim it at a carbon target. The results produces pions and kaons, which decay into muons and neutrinos. The beamline, and hence the neutrinos, was directed towards Italy.

In the experiment, they can generate pulses of 3 nanoseconds, each with up to 524 nanosecond gaps. This gives a 2MHz signal. However, not all of those pulses were detected.

If I read this right, "We report here on results based on part of the data taken during 2008 and 2009 runs, which amounted respectively to 1.78 and 3.52 × 1019 [protons on target], respectively. Among the 10122 and 21428 on-time events taken in 2008 and 2009, respectively 1698 and 3693 events were identified as candidate neutrino interactions in the target bricks."

Elsewhere, I found that the experiment ran from 27 May - 23 Nov 2009. I don't know if the beam was in continuous use for all 6 months. Let's assume it was full-time for only 1 month of that, which is unlikely.

There's a signal of some 3000 events per month, giving a transmission rate of 100 bits per day, or about 1 bit every 15 minutes. Rather a lot lower than 2MHz.

We would need some way which is about at least 1,000,000x better at detecting neutrinos before some company is willing to fund the Sydney/Wall St. neutrino beamline.
These are some of the movies that I watched and liked in 2012:

The Grey

Prometheus

The Avengers

The Dark Knight Rises

Skyfall

The Hobbit

And these are some of the good ones I would like to watch:

Argo

Lincoln

Looper

Life of Pi

Zero Dark Thirty
So basically this enables to use Elisp as a query language (from emacs, of course). How is this better than the sql-mode? It's a genuine question, I would like to have a concrete example of why I would use it over sql.
Yep! Actually, the name "EDBC" is from "JDBC" as well.
Your links are swapped!

Is that a typo or humor about facts being wrong?
I'm sure that's correct, but in this case OP is mistaken. He failed to setup those new iPods correctly - You can use different account for iMessage, Mail and App Store. He must enter his own account in the App Store section of those new Touches and leave iMessage and Main empty (or, create new account for his/her children).

Now, those kids can't see his/her Mail and iMessages, and even if try to buy something from the App Store they can't (they need the parent's password).
With timings that are several orders of magnitude in difference I'd just ignore the constants between factors as they change too frequently. Also there is a difference between latency and bandwidth and the chart is simply inconsistent.

CPU Cycle ~ 1 time unit
Anything you do at all. The cost of doing business.

CPU Cache Hit ~ 10 time units
Something that was located close to something else that was just accessed by either time or location.

Memory Access ~ 100 time units
Something that most likely has been accessed recently, but not immediately previously in the code.

Disk Access ~ 1,000,000 time units
It's been paged out to disk because it's accessed too infrequently or is too big to fit in memory.

Network Access ~ 100,000,000 time units
It's not even here. Damn. Go grab it from that long series of tubes. Roughly about the same amount of time it takes to blink your eye.
I don't see how Google could possibly be expected to parse legalese English sentences.
Victoria's Secret's restrictions sound like they are trying to prevent someone from making a lingerie porn site consisting of nothing but penis enlargement ads and Victoria's Secret catalog photos.

British American Tobacco may be trying to ensure they aren't liable for someone else presenting material from their site in a way that violates restrictions on tobacco advertising. When it comes to law, I'm never sure whether it's a case of too many lawyers or sensible paranoia.
Cabin in the woods
It's a little easier to follow if you are going through the process and have something to look at. But yeah, it's needlessly confusing and complicated, but it does work. We have 4 iPhones and 2 iPads running this way.
Ya, I just wish I had a better map like this one for vehicular homicide:

http://www.textmap.com/offence/vehicular-homicide.htm

I bet we would see more geographic correlation with not too much variation in city areas (e.g., the Delta is still a dangerous place to live, which would correspond to anecdotal evidence). Unfortunately, I can't google up a decent gun homicide heat map.
Dangling by a Trivial Issue
Laws of Physics Can’t Trump the Bonds of Love
And that doesn't even account for all the fossil fule burned to grow corn, which is a notoriously fertilizer and pesticide heavy crop.
Unless I'm really mistaken, a full reset is not required. Simply de-associate your iTunes account from kids' "iCloud" section of the Settings.app (but, leave your account in the "Store" section).

Now, they can't see/edit your data, but share your "Store" account. You can create new iCloud accounts for them to iMessage/FaceTime/Mail if they like, and it won't remove any of the apps from those devices.
I try to keep the question "What do you know, and how do you think you know it?" in my head as much as possible (I think I picked it up from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality). I mentally recite it a lot, often without really thinking about it. Every once in a while, though, the thought catches me as I'm recalling some long-known fact, and I'll realize that I don't have a good reason to believe it. Many of these are things I was told long ago by friends/parents/family/teachers and stored away, their sources forgotten. The maxim has proved useful in unlearning things I was too young to disbelieve when I learned them.
Apple and Microsoft were never going to allow vp8 in the html spec. What Google should have done is press vp8 more on the web and not left Mozilla floating in the breeze.

However, Google only purchased on2 in 2010, and hardware support has actually spread remarkably quickly for that amount of time, probably because they've been pushing it on Android. A bunch of current devices support hardware vp8 encode and decode and, in a year or so, it will likely be difficult to buy an android device without support.
Is there really actual fear today in a western country?

I think actual fear would have to come from injuries to someone you know and can feel empathy towards. Dunbars number suggests theres only very little of that based on the number of deaths due to terrorism.
I type like that, I was a self-taught typer.
This simply isn't the right way to set up the devices, it should be obvious that if you sign into iCloud, its going to sync your iCloud data... One account corresponds to one person. Create an account for each person, and use that during the initial set up. For iTunes, you can have a shared account between all family members so you don't have to purchase things multiple times.
I think too many businesses are misunderstanding differences between laws and their self-written self-fullfilling TOS-es and policies.
In other words not following someone's TOS is not illegal and cannot be prohibited by the business itself, unless it somehow conflicts with country laws.
I like prgrmr. They used to be cheap, but they aren't anymore - because everyone else lowered their price.

I'm paying $10/month (+$1/$2 more for outgoing traffic) for a 256MB Rackspace Cloud. It costs $8 or so at prgrmr - it is 25% but it's only $2, and rackspace always has space and bandwidth (unlike prgmr which has no spare capacity every now and then).

Minimal rackspace is now 512MB @ $16/month (comparable prgrmr is $12). If you're doing anything nontrivial, I suspect rackspace is a better option.
We used it only for Spanish, it worked well enough (and fast enough). We deployed on bare metal so no hosting provider (appart from the rack space) was in the middle. If you are doing things this "difficult" you'll need at least a VPS of course.
Life of Pi. No contest the best movie of 2012. I saw pretty much every release, and this is one of the few that left a significant impact on me.
I read it since Tarr is one of my favorite directors and I saw the movie recently (the author works closely with Tarr on the screenplay and on set). It's dark, very dark but full of humor and great visual descriptions. It adds a lot to the movie, although they are separate works.
Re: The title: Not for me, baby. I haven't many "facts", and most of those are math or avowed articles of faith. I learned a long time ago to replace "is" with "I have read that" or "I have heard". My opinions are wrong all the time -- but not for long.
Would the law actually consider the use of a trademark inside a meta tag, where people couldn't see it, to be an infringement? Has this legal theory ever been tested in a court?
Adding to this, maybe "true" is a bit of a loaded word. Newtonian mechanics works just as well today as it ever did. I prefer to think of it in terms of usefulness. 18th century knowledge is like a Pentium 3 that we just don't want anymore.
A counterpoint - The Relativity of Wrong, famous essay by Asimov. http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
Yup. Most of the DNA is not directly involved in coding proteins but we've been finding out more and more of how DNA works. Significant parts of DNA are there merely to help maintain chemical and solubility properties so that the DNA coils correctly. And far more of it is there for gene regulation.
Better For Companies: Slow And Steady Or Fast And Furious?
Many small engine repair shops know what local stations sell ethanol free gas as well. Stop by one and ask.
There's a startup option (-w for word processor mode [1]) that changes this behaviour (as well as enabling word wrap). It's a big improvement, but not quite perfect IIRC.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/doc/#Invoking
I live in Spain and have no private insurance. Privates won't cover me because of the pre existing condition, if I had private insurance before being a diabetic they may have covered me, but things like CGMs and pumps always need a fight.

Public insurance won't cover CGMs right now and are hesitant to give out pumps. I checked yesterday again, a Dexcom G4 [1] is around 1.5K, and I would need around 200€ each month on sensors.

I'll probably end buying one out of pocket, but it's not something most people can afford!

[1] http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8457/8066666840_465937321d_o.j...
Honestly, sed -i is so useful that I'd file a feature request if a sed didn't support it.
Except those areas are also fairly well armed with guns. It just turns out IEDs and suicide bombers are more effective in kill rate than guns in certain situations.
As if a plain vanilla SharePoint installation wasn't bad enough, where I work we have documents spread across: SharePoint, Lotus Notes, Gmail for Business, Google Drive, Google Apps, shared directories and more.
How looking beyond UK may save British newspapers
military-industrial complex

Most of what you said is true enough, but this nonsense loses you credibility. It's like saying "it's the corporations, man."
In fairness, the DoD didn't just wake up one day and decide to Do The Right Thing. This development is the result of years of effort and millions of dollars spent on lobbying by SpaceX.

And even then, SpaceX is only getting a couple of launches worth at most a couple hundred million dollars. The entrenched monopoly that Lockheed runs, on the other hand, is trying to get locked into about $10 billion worth of no-bid contracts.

These trial missions could be a beachhead for SpaceX in the DoD market, but this is a pretty tiny step in the right direction by the US government.
Yes. All our main backend code is in Perl. There's frontend tasks in JavaScript and some C and Python around, but my rough guess would be that less than 1% of our code falls under that umbrella.

We're hiring, and not just "Perl guy[s]". We hire good programmers, some of them know Perl already, but others pick it up while on the job.

Contact me at avarab@gmail.com if you (or anyone else here) would be interested in exploring opportunities at Booking.com. Our current openings are listed at booking.com/jobs.
I think most people do expect that.
The idea is that the longer you stay with the company, the larger percent of your remaining equity you get per period. Hockey-stick equity, if you will ;)

I think it's actually a pretty reasonable approach. I've had people straight-up tell me during interviews that they're leaving their current position because they've reached either their one-year cliff or their four-year package and want a new opportunity with potentially higher gains. While leaving after four years if your options package isn't extended isn't unreasonable, the one-year cliff does seem a rather broken approach for keeping all but the most-dedicated people more than a year.

Of course, if your employees don't want to stay more than year and are only doing so because of the vesting cliff, you probably have bigger problems that need sorting out. But let's assume that your employees are only going to stay 12 months no matter what - would you prefer to give them 25% of their options, or ~3.6%[1]?

That assumes that the exponential grant continues for the entire period, not just for the first year as the article suggests. I'd also be a bit concerned about possible tax implications of that approach; three years in you only have 31% of your stock, and you get about 10% of the total in the last month.

Here's a graph, assuming my math is right.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0AgIFMGYSPNuPdH...

Seems to me that this would be a pretty good way to get people to stay for longer than a year, the issue is when employees still leave early. With the cliff, there's one less shareholder around, helping the company stay under that magical 500-shareholder limit. You lose that benefit with the exponential grant.

[1] I've probably done the math wrong, but roughly solving m^48=100 (percent), getting about 1.1007^(month#) = total percent of equity granted at the end of that month
Did the OP ever agree to the terms and conditions for this web site? There is no legal contract unless it's voluntarily agreed to by both parties, and when you go to victoriassecret.com, there's nothing that says "click here to confirm that you agree to the terms of this web site".
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I stepped out of my proverbial comfort zone and saw Holy Motors[1] at a film festival on the recommendation of a more film-literate friend.

I knew going into it that it tenuously had a plot (more of a theme) and that it would be extremely bizarre.

I haven't seen any David Lynch, but I hear it's quite similar. Holy Motors thoroughly entertained me, and I wasn't really upset at the lack of coherence. If anyone's looking for something a little out there, I can't recommend it enough.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Motors
Also, worth seeing in 3D IMO.
No, that's ridiculous. You can't stop people from linking to your site. However, on the off chance the paperwork will be hand-delivered by a VS model:

http://www.victoriassecret.com/shoes
I second this comment! Excellent book that will have you up and writing idiomatic C++ in no time.
Nice try, new grad.
Incidentally, that's how emacs recognize sentences by default:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sen...

But I always set sentence-end-double-space to nil.
It’s not complicated. The short version: Don’t set up your kids’ devices with your Apple account because that is going to sync everything. I think that is logical and obvious.

Apple helpfully also provides the option in the setting to sign up with a different account just for purchases. Then not all the stuff but just purchases will be synced.

I’m not sure how you can do it much easier. Suggestions?

Sure, this is a pain and it should be easier, but I’m not sure how? (I’m also sure that not many people sign in with their accounts on their kids’ devices. Seriously. That’s just a weird thing to do.)

Wouldn’t the most logical thing to do be to just not sign in with anything when you set up the device (I honestly don’t think kids need iCloud accounts for what they will be doing with an iPod touch) and then to try and find some way to sign up only for the store to get your purchases on the device?
Actually, EFBC is from another project, Emacs-cgi, which use to create CGI script. Hence, it's run on server only.
At first, it's only works with Sqlite, and Add MySQL support yesterday, so I created a new project for it.
I know its good to have a healthy self doubt but this makes dumb people look more confident (who don't revise their facts) than the smart people who are too cautious with their knowledge. This is the reasons most dumb people end up being the boss of the smart people.
It's great that OP had super public school teachers. Mine were lousy. Sorry, it's just a fact, they collected their checks and went home on the clock and didn't give a damn about the kids they taught.

There was one who was outstanding. He got laid off in a budget cutback because he was junior. Everyone agreed it was a shame, but no one did anything about it. That's what taught me what those people were about.

I've been helped by a great many people. Public school teachers aren't in my particular set.
Oddly enough, if everyone complies with their wishes, there will be no way to discover or get to their website. Suits me fine.
The NDAA did exactly what this bill purports to do: leave intact an unfortunate status quo. Almost nothing people say about it on message boards is true; it has become a shibboleth for "I pass along public policy gossip without verifying it".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_com...
It doesn't have the main feature of "DAD I WANTED AN IPOD TOUCH" unfortunately.
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I've been researching doing this for a while, but there's one big caveat that I can't get past- there's no decent server solutions for push mail. For desktop computers there's IMAP IDLE, but all the push solutions Apple's software uses are based on Microsoft Exchange (expensive).

I'm all ears too.