skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Sony experimented with a shitty, "funky fresh" logo in the '90s and then went back to the serif capitals they use today.

Unfortunately, Pioneer did not have the wisdom to return to their classy-looking logo and font; they continue to use a more recent swoopy, bland, cheap-looking typography.
Good design should not be an afterthought in enterprise software
"If a gas power plant is more environmentally friendly than flared stacks (I have no idea if it is) then it would be amazing just to break even on this deal because you're profit is the health of the citizens."

If I were proposing this deal, I would approach the State of North Dakota and surrounding localities with a request for tax incentives, etc. to increase the probability of the project going through on precisely those grounds.
Ask HN: Unknown side effects of starting a new company?
I am currently thinking about starting a start up, and to fund it getting a "company" credit card. However, I don't know how that would affect my credit score.

Due to that side effect, I started thinking about other potential unknown "costs" I haven't thought about. What are some you have ran into?
SynthesisOS (http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/) used an optimizing assembler to recompile the operating system on the fly (think of it as the OS being JITed). The reason it had to use an optimizing assembler is because the operating system itself was written in assembler (MC68030). It could run SunOS binaries faster than SunOS on the same hardware.

And this was done back in 1992, when the major debate was Assembler vs. C (back when C was considered "high level").
If it's not okay, why does my comment have more upvotes than downvotes?

For me, this isn't a forum where degrading a whole class of society is okay. Except, from what you guys are saying, maybe it is okay because it's a visible and personally annoying class? That is where the anger comes from.

What's ironic about all this is that if you read his later comments, the original guy I responded to apparently shares my opinions more than yours.

Finally, did you get so hung up on the F-bomb that you missed my edit to the original post?
Please don't feed the troll. Nothing anyone can say about PostgreSQL will ever make taligent respond with anything but negativity about it.
For some reason, I never liked the American Airlines logo. Sure, it's historic, but it always felt too corporate and stiff to me. A big part of what I disliked about it was the colours. Overall, I think the new one is better looking, however I understand why some designers despise this change.
> apparently MIT had no right to keep anyone off its network.

What? How could some institution not have a right to keep somebody else off its own network? That makes no sense at all. Don't forget both JSTOR and MIT (after JSTOR contacted them) tried to block Swartz's massive downloads.
At least back when I was doing mindstorms stuff (pre-NXT), there were a number of projects that would let you compile alternative languages into mindstorms bytecode, therby giving you a rather more capable environment than LEGO's. I used NQC[1], some quick googling suggests it's been succeeded by NXC[2] for the newer NXT mindstorms stuff.

I wouldn't say it's necessarily a good idea to jump right into a language like this though - even LEGO's normal graphical mindstorms environment will still serve to teach basic programming skills, and it's probably more approachable for a novice.

[1] - http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/
[2] - http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nbc/
It reminds me of older Greyhound bus logos. I guess if you're trying to make people think you're a bus line in the sky, that's a good thing.
# Normally you should not import ANYTHING from Django directly
# into your settings, but ImproperlyConfigured is an exception.
from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured

The humor in this book makes it a joy to read, but the content is what makes it a must read!
Does this mean if a game doesn't succeed, you guys essentially did the artwork for free? In that case, is there any kind of screening process for games built on your platform to make sure you don't waste your time building something that's unlikely to produce revenue?

I'd also be interested in how the agreement works if the game has a Web component as well. Can the artwork be used anywhere? Is the plan to take a cut of revenue the game makes on other platforms?
Wow, did not see that one!
Hi, I am Dustin Curtis. I just throw vacuous statements around something to sound profound and edgy.
Some of the parameters are there to enable certain performance enhancements. For example:

-The home page, after rendering the search box and all that, asynchronously downloads the css, images and html needed to display the chrome around the results listing.

-That way it is cached on the client, and when they perform a query, less data has to be downloaded from Google's servers (just the actual results & ads), making the result page render faster.

-It knows not to download all the chrome due to the presence of the 'fp' GET parameter, the absence of that parameter will cause the entire results page, including chrome, to be downloaded.

I presume the rest of the parameters are useful for similar reasons.

It should also be noted that for non-HTML5 compatible browsers, modifying the hash fragment with JavaScript is the only way to change the url that gets bookmarked without causing a page reload (which would add latency), so if you want a bookmarkable local results page for images with certain preferences, adding a bunch of crap (latitude, longitude, preference hash, query, search type, etc.) to the fragment is the only way.
"Had?" Check out the corner spot on IBM's page, they actually run though all their previous logos, winding up on the iconic one.

http://www.ibm.com/us/en/
it's a 2 hour flight.
Nice find! Although, he doesn't really answer the question, which had to be asked more than once in that video. I'd love to see a talk going in-depth on this topic alone.
Things are different in less 'happening' cities, smaller towns or out in the burbs. You can actually spend a few days looking at units and have time to think about which you want. You can come back a 3-4 days later without worrying too much about your first choice being leased. If it is, you can probably get your 2nd.
American has been dead to me ever since they got rid of their 'more room throughout coach' tagline. As a taller guy (though not _that_ tall), it basically pushed me to United and their Economy Plus seating, which I love and happily pay a little extra for.

I mean, it's not as nice as, say, SAS's normal economy class, but for a US carrier, it's as good as I've gotten without flying business/first.
you don't like it when you search, but you like it when you track your campaigns and stats.
Duolingo Effectiveness Study
Errr, perhaps you missed his call yesterday to ban "assault weapons" and "high" (really, standard) capacity magazines? You may consider these to be "mainstream liberal boilerplate"; where I come from, they're "fighting words", and we'll see if we can send any Democrats and Republicans who support him back home to spend more time with their families in 2015.

There are also serious implications to his claim of executive privilege in the DoJ's denying the Congress documents on Fast and Furious. Either that operation reached into his staff, or the claim is bogus.

Your statement that starts with "While this could be the first salvo in an attempt to undo the 2nd Amendment entirely..." is irrelevant about my defense of my assertion that he's a "gun grabber".

Although one should note how every time something does get passed, it's described by "gun grabbers" as a good first step.....

ADDED: The massive funding wasn't of the Heller case per se. It was of legal "research" to support a future case like it, they weren't willing to bet the Supremes would keep dodging the issue like they have since the manufactured Miller case in 1939.
Michelin only provides "red guides" for 3 US cities: New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. (http://www.michelintravel.com/guides-cat/north-america-red-g...)

It's not possible for any other city in the US to get a starred restaurant, no matter the quality of the food.
Good for ND. At least they are providing jobs.
Verb Mill (podcast network) 2nd live show.
Umm... AA fired the designer, after he wrote back to Dustin Curtis with "an amazing response describing some of the design problems faced in large corporations."[0]

[0]http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html
What I don't understand is his rush. He could have gone for stealth mode: get a few laptops, program them to download at (largish) random intervals. Leave them operating a year or two. Check up on them every once in a while.

He wouldn't have been caught, at all.
Easy to work around, no plugins or silliness require.

Get to Google via Duck Duck Go as your intermediary. Either from your search bar (if DDG is your default search engine), or directly from the DDG search page, search for

!g testing

!g tells DDG to send the query to google, and you land on the google results page (not DDG), at the following URL:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=testing

Even if you prefer google to DDG, you should make DDG your default search, and get to google via !g.

!gi searches google images.
!am searches amazon.
!imdb searches imdb, etc.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
Hey, we're working to build the network and looking for any feedback. Technical or other.

What's going on now is an auctioneer competition and commentary from the host's of Fast Talking (a podcast about auctions)
Not affiliated with Hipmunk at all, but can you elaborate why you think that?
You're very welcome, and I'm glad to hear that my primary goal of education has been successful.
Riddles are useless interview tools. When I am building a new dev team or adding to an existing one, I care about two things:

1. Did the candidate make a critical contribution to a piece of technology that I respect. I will start by asking them for examples of this in a lot of ways including asking them to present something they're proud of to the team. I will not rest until I have verified they did this through my network and back references.

2. Is their chemistry compatible with the team, or as it is more popularly put today, are they a good culture fit? That opportunity to present to the team is an important test. Another one is that the interviewing team has to catch them out being wrong about something and then see how they react to that. You can learn a lot about how someone deals with learning they're wrong about something. Lastly, we look for opportunities to socialize with the candidate. They can't be a good culture fit if nobody wants to spend non-work time with them.
A Cry for Help
> Is there not police corruption, abuse of power, innocent people thrown in jail (especially for drugs), unjust laws, etc?

You can fight against drug war (and this seems to be catching on) without abandoning the idea of police and judiciary.

Indeed, several high-taxation socialist countries in Europe (and here I'm using socialist literally) have decriminalized many drugs.

I don't see a correlation between this: taxation serves a legitimate purpose of protecting society, yet most drug prohibitions do not. If we de-criminalize drugs and you, say, start your own drug factory (not saying you will): who will protect you if the Zettas decides to move and destroy you as competition?

I do commend you for having the intelectual honesty to advanced anarcho-capitalism (as opposed to "government can tax me to go to war, but taxation is slavery if they use my taxes to provide healthcare"). However, I'll suggest this: if you want to focus on advancing the cause of anarcho-capitalism and small government, focus on drug war, foreign wars, police overreach, etc... first and then start talking about taxation. If you must talk about taxes, first start talking about gross abuses of taxation and eminent domain, e.g., using tax liens to confiscate homes of otherwise poor people and put them in the hands of real-estate developers. You can also talk about how the wealthy don't actually pay very high taxes in reality (long term capital gains vs. income), and so on... but the arguments about how the government is unfairly exploiting the rich to benefit the poor are simply silly.

The wealthy want and actively benefit from big government, so policies that make the government more (not less) responsive to the wealthy, actively hurt your cause.

David D. Friedman is the one anarcho-capitalist I am familiar with, but he mostly makes a consequentialist as opposed to ethical case for anarcho-capitalism (acknowledging the imperfections his system will have).
Peter van Hardenberg (@pvh) and Craig Kerstiens (@craigkerstiens) have done many Postgres presentations over the last few years. I didn't see any specifically on lessons learned, but their blogs/quora/tweets have lots of good info based on their experience.

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/
http://www.quora.com/Peter-van-Hardenberg
There are extremely few modern cases where pagination at the database layer is a good approach.
Agreed. The solution to a bad law is usually to get rid of the law and start again from the ground-up. Amending a law leaves open the possibility of missing out on critical flaws.
Wall Street would disagree. You should look outside your bubble.
I never had to use a hotkey in the past. I do for regular expansion, and I haven't looked into why koans stopped working, but I imagine that is hotkey related.
What are the main differences between MongoDB and RethinkDB? Things that you hear people care about? I don't use Mongo but I've seen projects that use it. I ask because I want to store & retrieve some analytics.

After seeing the screencast of RethinkDB it seems to me that it's just like Mongo but a much better API and easier handling of sharding and replication. The only con I see of using RethinkDB is that it's very new (so is Mongo...) and probably is little too early for production. Basically I hope not to find worse surprises down the road than I hear of Mongo :P
For results you click on? Those will be handled independently from the /search?q= URL.
I think you need you consult your dictionary.
I think that depends on a lot of factors. Some programmers are willing and able to work remotely. If you have no ambition to become really huge, some people will find a place off the beaten path to be an asset rather than a liability.

You might try making two lists, one which lists things you personally need to thrive and the other which lists things you believe are necessary resources for your business. Then do some digging and see if you can find a place which adequately fits both lists, keeping in mind that some criteria are more make-or-break than others.
I think the integrity test came when he made up his mind and accepted an offer before the interview. If I knew he had already accepted the other position then it would be a waste of time.

The problem wasn't that he cancelled the interview, it was that he made up his mind before a scheduled interview with me.
Google: slowing fucking up a good thing.
Graph of the day: This is why you're fat, America
IMHO, you missed the Linux kernel(, OK, it's kernel and does not count as an app).
Thus are military training rounds. The bullet are plastic, but the cartridge is brass. They are generally not deadly, and are sometimes used to fire at people with (as a form of paintball, but that is ill advised).

They are meant for training with outdoors. They are cheaper then normal bullets, less pollution then lead and don't goes so fare (a normal 7.62mm bullets can be deadly for upwards to 3.5 kilometers, making random shouting in a simulated setting outside unsafe).

More info about this bullets are available at http://gunlore.awardspace.info/rifledarms/ammunition/dag762b...

However caseless ammunition also exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caseless_ammunition . Thus could probably be made without any metal.
> these people have all the resources in the world to get out of their situation

Perhaps you've missed the changes in the last 40 years of American funding for welfare and social services.
I assumed you were talking about Google tracking you or something. what did you mean with "tracking" then?
I always thought school zone laws existed not for deterrence but to provide for stronger punishments, and that the signs are there to help law-abiding citizens carrying weapons from unintentionally breaking the law.
A cry for help
"None of those languages give you the raw performance or low-level memory control of C++"

Really? That's funny, because entire OSes have been written in Lisp, and I am pretty sure that those systems needed low-level memory control. In fact, the Lisp compiler I use in my own work has support for low-level pointer operations and a form of inline assembly (which in the past was used to implement SSE intrinsics as an add-on library). I am not sure where people got this idea that all high-level languages were slow or robbed programmers of the ability to do low-level things.

"why none of them are used to write things like Chrome, Firefox, Ableton Live, Photoshop, AutoCad, the JVM etc."

I suspect that has more to do with the OSes that were targeted and the availability of C/C++ programmers who are familiar with programming for those OSes than with some hypothetical performance advantage of C or C++.
I think the cartridge is mostly plastic too, since it says "plastic case cartridge... steel base...." And if it were steel why would they bother painting the cartridge blue? The primer is definitely steel, however.

In any event, the barrel at least has to be metal, so this seems similar to the risk of someone bringing gunpowder into a secure area.
I don't think so. I don't want to disclose here the concerned pages. But It is pages of android device manufacturing company. I don't think those kind of company need to buy fans.
Garage sales. Those will have old TV's for the rest of the decade at least.
Convicted hacker Stephen Watt on Aaron Swartz: "It's just not justice"
Yup, we end up taking the hit on art/promotion/other costs. So far the best screening process has been motivation. We haven't yet encountered someone who was motivated enough to finish a game with us and whose game was poor enough we didn't want to publish it. We help with game design and playtesting where needed as well.

The artwork can be used in versions of the game that live on different platforms, we will take a cut of any version that uses our art/music/characters.
Ok, here is a funny story. At Sun we had a beer bash every Friday. Every bash there would be a drawing for cash, the cash would be a function of how many workstations we had sold that week. Sell 10 workstations the check was $100, sell 100 it was a $1,000 [1] etc. When the checks got too large they started splitting them, had to be present to win. It was a great way to share in the success of the growing company and it made for great attendance at the beer bust! Then the SEC complained. They complained because the number was proportional to sales and that gave out information that was material to the company (it had IPO'ed in 1986). That sucked and sadly the drawings stopped rather than just giving away money on Fridays.

It is entirely possible that Facebook was told to obscure the numbers for the same reasons. Facebook's "value" is tied to its active user count and getting app counts might provide enough information to out perform a less sophisticated investor in the stock. I have no idea if that was the answer but I could imagine it was.

[1] Example numbers, I don't recall what the real numbers were any more, the key fact is that they were proportional to workstation sales.
Should you do a masters?
I am not sure of its origin. But these days you'll find good ORMs that would craft the query for you. My point is, the Mongo API seems to be more of a machine readable API with the $ keys used somewhat in a hacky way.
Sorry for reposting this guys. My blog went down and some stupid cache plugin revealed my db password, I had to remove the previous HN post and reinstalled my blog. Now it is back. I posted this again for people had no chance seeing this before I deleted the old post.

Thanks for everyone proposed helping the guy I mentioned in the post with their comments in the post I had to delete.
It's a lot easier to blame the attorney prosecuting your child for his suicide than to point to his chronic depression (which I've not really seen acknowledged by them)...
The video shows Australia. Particularly curious to me was the abundance of light in Western Australia, given a lot of it is unpopulated (sure a bit is mining operations).

Turns out it's bush fires.
My read is that while non-metallic guns are currently illegal, the existing ban doesn't cover the magazines themselves.
> school zone laws existed not for deterrence but to provide for stronger punishments

I imagine stronger punishment is supposed to be deterrence. When your only tool is a hammer..
not to take away from any of your great points in this post but isn't it the same as:

SELECT posts.* FROM posts
INNER JOIN post_tags pt ON pt.post_id = posts.id AND pt.tag IN ('foo', 'bar', 'baz')
WHERE posts.author IN ('Joe', 'Jane')
ORDER BY post_date DESC;

My SQL is rusty, I could be missing something but they seem essentially equivalent if you use the SQL helpers such as IN.
I took the compromise route: I donated to NRA-ILA as needed, but refuse to join NRA proper. In short term, NRA-ILA solves the most acute problem: lobby against stupid gun laws.

However, they don't solve the problem that (you too have pointed out) of population gradually turning against gun ownership. If anything, railing against pop-culture makes them look like hypocrites and actively hurts the longer term (10+ years out) outlook.
Be careful about statements of the form, "That language is great, but it could not possibly be used for performance-critical code." There is nothing inherent to any of the languages I mentioned that makes them slow, and modern Lisp compilers can compete with C compilers on emitting fast code (and that is despite the fact that those compilers often lack some of the optimizations of C compilers; SBCL, for instance, has no peephole optimizer and it shows in the disassembly of compiled code). There is no reason why a Lisp program cannot access special hardware, use special CPU features via inline assembly, etc.
Yeah, and that's fine. What I'm saying is that when the computer is a primary mode of delivering course material or is otherwise absolutely necessary for the curriculum, malfunctions, whether caused by user error or otherwise, are unacceptable. Most schools just don't have the resources to support "real" computers in the hands of the students.
Super helpful! (powrtoch, add me on Facebook, I'd love to chat more > http://facebook.com/mattfs)

Here's what we're thinking:

- If your music isn't good enough to go viral yet then we can provide you with feedback on how to improve and reach that point.

- If your music IS good enough to go viral the we want to promote you, get you press, get you featured on YouTube, Ustream, etc (these are all things we can do very easily if your music is good - we already have these relationships).

- If you are really taking off we can help you monetize this growth in very interesting and artist/fan friendly ways. When you reach this stage we will enter into a production style agreement and take a % of the revenue we generate you. This is where we make our money and NOT on the original $20.

Concerns:

- If we don't charge we will be bombarded, like you pointed out, with low quality content. This is a problem we want to avoid.

- If we don't charge then we will be paying artists to review your content out of our own pocket.

Question: What would this site have to say so that when you saw it, as a musician, your reaction was "Holy shit I have to do this and would be stupid not to"?
How America Drinks: Water and Wine Surge, Cheap Beer and Soda Crash