skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And on the other hand, there are all my hairdressers over the years who asked me what I wanted and then did whatever it was that wasn't like anything I wanted.

So, flipping the allegory now, if a client comes to me and asks me to develop a Twitter, would it be OK if I deliver an eBay instead?

My conclusion is that it's probably time to treat our hairdressers like they're developers and instead of just saying "yeah, that's perfect" when we really hate the cut, tell them that we are not happy with the results and that we will be back once the hair grows for another iteration, and that we'll pay once we can go live with the haircut as we specified it.

Either that, or stop using irrelevant allegories.
The people do have a say--it's just people like my mom and not whoever you apparently think should be making the rules. They see "someone hacked the Fed!"[1] on TV and think we need CISPA. Maybe they are wrong, maybe they are right, but the U.S. is quite structured in the direction of rule by the majority, not rule by the technocrati.

[1] By and large, they also don't care about their privacy, as the popularity of Google, Facebook, Instagram, etc, attests to.
Boy, I remember the days of thick coax, pre-commercial Ethernet and Ethernet workalikes.

For the MIT AI Lab, LCS and EECS departments, we strung the fat coax all the over the campus for CHAOSnet (home-grown MIT equivalent used to connect the Lisp Machines and DEC-10/-20 machines with vampire taps), and any kink/dent would cause massive signal loss. So we'd get out our trusty TDR (time-domain reflectometer) and find where the kink was on the cable from the test point, then climb through ceilings and crawl spaces to cut and splice it out, or just replace whole cable segments.

Fun times!
I agree with it and don't see why your comment has been downvoted. 6000 people signing is pretty small compared to the scale of Java. That negligible number is more a sign for Oracle that they can bundle whatever crapware they want with Java.
I think it's also worth considering, "How does one become a top doctor or programmer or whatever?" Just because talented people are well paid, does not mean we live in a meritocracy. There are lots of people who have untapped talent they are unable to utilize. Impoverished child prodigies and Taxi driver M.D.s come to mind.
Microsoft’s 128GB Surface Pro Sells Out At Online Store Just Hours After Launch
Will smart machines create a world without work?
He has to make up for overpaying for a dying company somehow. Squeezing Google for money didn't work, so I squeezing everyone else that has anything to do with Java is the answer.
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One can defend copyright - either the current or a modified version of it - without changing any definition of property.

The only purpose of the change is to manipulate people into accepting copyright, especially at a moral level. It's pure propaganda.
Excessive use of X-rays and CT exposure have been linked to increased cancers, especially in occupational contexts. That's why there are safety protocols when you get an x-ray.

I'm sure the safety standards at a shoe store were less than robust.
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He would become a highly paid defense attorney, using his intimate knowledge of overzealous prosecutors to work against them.
Ah yes, the seven classical elements.
That's a very good idea. As of now I don't even know if there's a structured way to display known errata in a paper.
It was only free for 24 hours...sorry. :-( now it's $9.94 for the kindle and like $24.95 for paperback I think...
Fabrice has done some amazing things technically, but doesn't strike me as a successful businessman. His seemingly most brilliant work is being given away for free. The Zuckerberg, et. al. point comes from their vast wealth, not their technical chops, countering the idea that college is a requirement for financial success.

I don't think anyone would argue that college cannot expand the mind and enable brilliant people to do even more brilliant things. The argument, however, is whether that leads to increased income and access to jobs. The data, even outside of the popular anecdotes, seems to indicate generally not.
Neat!

Although, I'd have done it differently. using some packet capture tools, fake replies with the various different IP addresses. That way you don't even have to run a physical router that bounces it back and forth.
I don't think it's interesting in a "hey look, you can find porn on Google." It's interesting in that it's a bug that produces results for imposible queries, but for some reason seems to mostly turn up porn results. Is that just a statistical sampling; so much of Google's index is porn, that a random bug which picks up impossible results, that thus don't go through its safe search feature, is predominantly porn? Or is the bug somehow linked to the safe search feature, accidentally turning the blacklist into a whitelist?
I posted this on the White House "Contact Us" webpage:

"I received notice on a technology message board that CISPA is being reintroduced with an executive order. The previous bill, which was shot down a few years ago, would have infringed upon our God-granted rights. Now that it is being reinstated, I wanted to express my concern for the citizens of America, who, with every day, and every tick of the clock, are subject to a more powerful and potentially tyrannical government that is eroding their privacy and rights one by one.

I would also like to express to the administration that they are merely public servants, and nothing more. The citizens of the United States are their rulers, not vice versa. This administration, and the previous Republican one, are by far the worst in terms of right infringement. The PATRIOT Act, the Section 1021 of the NDAA 2012, and now CISPA have all but erased the privacy of American citizens.

They may not mind now, but the American citizens know about their government. We the people of the United States are not blind. We can see through the smoke and mirrors that the bars of government continue to put up. If you erode our rights, we will be upset. And when we are upset, you will lose your jobs, your credibility, your haughtiness, and your confidence.

Remember, a volcano never stays dormant forever."

Any thoughts? Or should I just start one of those seemingly useless petitions on WhiteHouse.gov?

Feel free to use the above text if you're going to contact your senators or the like.
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رودي وجيني وساره يمتلكون فرقة غنائية واليوم هو موعد حفلتهم الاولي امام الجماهير
ساعديهم وقومي باختيار ملابسهم التي سيظهروا بها علي المسرح اجعليعم يبدوا متألقين ولامعين
Get rid of boredom in NYC: Do something interesting tonight.
Indeed! But it makes a lot of difference to whichever schmucks who had to pay that person, too. Perhaps a few million homeowners spending a few hundred dollars less on painting services every year could buy something more meaningful than a guy standing around on a ladder fixing paint jobs that don't need to be broken.
Many universities have DS courses based on the same syllabus and labs. I took this at NYU: http://news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/fa12/
You can read the notes/papers and do the labs as instructed.
To elaborate this is more of a theoretical question. E.g data of size X (doesn't matter) that is always in transit.
I'm skeptical about whether signing a petition would do any good and whether it'd be worth the effort. If Oracle gave a crap, it already wouldn't be an issue. I expect a lot more people care about this issue than signed the petition. I know I'm one.
Obama is the same as Bush, just with better marketing.
Maybe there should be a "notes" field in submissions to explain why you've modified the title, so if the editor does want to edit, he has some info on how to edit it while retaining that information.
Just remember to leave important data in the cloud and if you need to access them use a secure storage and protocol (e.g, Dropbox, VPN, etc).
No wonder we're out of IPv4 addresses...
You seriously want a list of every species alive today? (Or can I just mention homo neanderthalensis?)
"[0025] As used herein, the term "keratin fiber" includes hair of the scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows, facial hair, and body hair such as hair of the arms, legs, etc. Keratin fibers are not limited to humans and also include any keratin fibers from a mammal, such as, for example, pet hair and mammalian fur."

I see. They've patented the waterproof dog. ;)
>If Earth were devoid of vegetation and instead uniformly rocky, running into a sliver of a downed plane might've been far more probable.

Yes, more probable, but still not probable enough to seriously consider.

>Especially with volunteers scouring every taken image for anything that doesn't look like a rock.

You'd still be preposterously unlikely to even encounter any debris.
Swartz's lawyer did not believe 7 years was realistic.
I know at least a few doctors (and one surgeon) who know they weren't in optimal condition at times because of personal issues. It's only human, but it's horrible if things go wrong because of that.
That was worthless. It starts with hyperbole, and the closest it comes to an argument is that a prior version of the bill was bad and so we need to stop this version--which is not much of an argument.
I get so tired of hearing people trot out the humble bundle example. Linux has historically been mostly ignored by game devs. Of course linux users are going to (initially) earnestly support developers in the hope that more games/devs will start coming their way.

Lets say the humble bundle worked as a means to encourage a non-trivial amount of indie devs and publishers to build for or port to linux. Lets say this trend remains significant for more than a year or two. I don't for a second believe you'd see anything close to the same level of support. Right now games on linux are a commodity.

I defy someone to find another software category... hell, an individuel piece of software that has enjoyed any real, monetary support from the linux community. You don't get to argue enterprise support for distro X or open source framework Y from Z corp. Show me end users purchasing software for linux.

Don't get me wrong, I used linux as a desktop for years and still use it every day on the server. I'm a fan but the desktop community? As a developer, I wouldn't waste a second of my time building something for linux unless it was purely an open source passion project. Linux desktop users seem overwhelmingly more than happy to eschew a paid product for a free one even when the free one is absolute crap by comparison. <Insert snide comment about linux desktop users not valuing their time as evident by their use of linux as a desktop in the first place.> I hate to use the term freetard but as someone who makes money from building things, that's how I largely see the linux desktop community. To put it bluntly, there isn't much evidence that they are worth the time.
CISPA would not have given federal agencies unlimited access to private data. That's the argument this site leads with, and it is a deeply dishonest one.
They both had great marketing. Both got elected with slogans. Bush: "you are for us, or against us". Obama: "Yes, we can". There was nothing behind this marketing, but these simple empty phrases got them elected. Reality TV has reduced elections into catchphrases.

The ones that did not have good marketing where those that lost to them in the election.
While this article makes many good points:

"The other great unfairness has to do with the preferences that elite American universities give to well-connected children, either because their parents went to the university themselves or because they have given money."

"An educational institution should focus on attracting the best people, and then work out how to finance the poorer people in that category."

====

Legacy admissions usually come with legacy donations. These donations can be in the millions each year for an organization like Harvard, which in turn pays the tuition of the poorer people in the category.

The issues of legacy admissions and affirmative action are pretty closely linked. So to address one part of the issue without looking at the other is not quite fair.
See my comment re: humble bundle. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5193118
Let Oracle bundle their bloated adware. Don't provide them a free service by telling them how stupid and self-destructive this practice is; if they're too dumb to work out that it isn't in their long-term interests, they deserve the consequences.

Publicly traded corporations are all the same; they're all equally obnoxious, a-moral, and hostile to customers when it suits their perceived interests. Oracle's Java adware is just a tiny little symptom of this; the actual problem is systemic to public corporations.

This kind of obnoxious user-hostility is what made me abandon closed source software for personal use. Additionally, my company (a private company) doesn't use any closed-source software in our systems, and never will. For us, open source software is better, more flexible, more supportable, and the nail in the coffin is that there simply aren't any vendors that can be trusted by a small organisation such as us.

Oracle don't care about little people signing a petition anyway. If one of their large corporate customers told them directly that this was unacceptable, they would stop it in a minute.
"Meritocracy is not a problem with government, it is the solution. This badmouthing of Meritocracy is a way for the ones who are in power but don't deserve to be there as a way of maintaining that power"

The myth of meritocracy is more akin to predestination. A person is in power or successful, therefore they were more deserving of the position than others, regardless of privilege, nepotism, special opportunity, luck, originating class, etc.

There is a vast difference between the people who push to make society MORE of a meritocracy than the people who push the false narrative that we ARE a meritocracy, especially those who use themselves as evidence of this.
I didn't read your links yet (on mobile), but I will. I know of great knowledge base systems from the 80s which were never accepted but performed very well. A UK PhD who now makes his money in pharma told me that, although the results were better, those systems were effectively blocked by the physician community (anyone has any citation/references?).
It's much simpler and more convenient to use one device than two, which is why people no longer use Palm PDAs. This doesn't mean Surface Pro is the best form factor for everyone. Surface Pro has about the same battery life as a MacBook Air, but it could be much longer if the keyboard had a second battery.

That was the idea behind the Asus Transformer, and in hardware terms, it works very well. (The software is another story.)

Of course, the resulting weight would be more like carrying both an MBA and an iPad as well, but at least you wouldn't have to pay for two motherboards, two screens, two keyboards, two sets of RAM etc.

In passing, you don't get longer battery life if you use two devices at the same time, as in your example. And if you search on one screen while coding on the other, the Surface Pro is dramatically better. You get real multi-tasking and two apps side by side on the tablet screen, and you can copy and paste between the tablet and the desktop, or use a Share charm to send stuff from one app to another. Basically, you're using the iPad mini like a book, aren't you?
Evasi0n Is The Most Popular Jailbreak Ever: Seven Million iOS Devices Hacked
This is kind of empty without knowing how much the online store stocked.
because weather prediction is inexact, and it's hard to account for all eventualities.

-- why not engineer a stable micro-climate for the battery?
Which is exactly why people should reflect a bit before lauding them for producing in such a way.
How & what to look for during Security Code Review
This guy isn't making anything important anyway. He isn't needed here nor are the foreigners he wants to hire.
"Africa would be revolutionized by it."

Correction: Healthcare in Africa "could" be revolutionized by it. No amount of tech/aid is going to "fix" Africa until decades of human greed and stupidity get reversed.
You never know when one will come in handy!
"anyone who is a woman or gay will almost surely agree with me."

Only because politicians pander to their perceived voting blocks. Is there any evidence, out side of statements made during the campaign, that Romney actually holds views towards gays and women that are substantially different than Obama's?
Snapchat Lands $13.5 Million in Round Led By Benchmark
Is efficacy binary? A partially protected person could spread less and recover more quickly than someone who isn't protected. I'm not sure enough of the math to know whether 100% of people being 65% protected works the same as 65% of the people being 100% protected, but it might not be.
The problem is the shape, not just the material. As a layman, I'm not used to rocks having that shape, except in very rare circumstances but in those cases "abnormal" shapes are usually found in clusters (Grand Canyon etc). This is a seemingly-solitaire rock of abnormal material AND abnormal shape, which is possible, but almost as unlikely as random probe debris.
parts falling off this vehicle

Hate to be cynical, but this seems most likely explanation.
That was my first thought. How hard would it have been to include a link?
Ah, but they don't have unchecked power.

Only mostly unchecked. Bigger evils have falled (see Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Assyrian empire, Chile, Argentina, Spain, etc).
Texas school board searching for “another side” to theory of evolution
I do agree with your sentiment, however, while the argument is weak, it does make sense. I'm as wary of jumping on bandwagons as any of you are, and while the fear-mongering could be laid off a bit, many different news sources confirm that this is really happening.
I'm a bit surprised by the most voted answer by a user who has 80K rep on SO.

By this part:

"If you decide to compile and run this, pay attention to your CPU temperatures!!!
Make sure you don't overheat it. And make sure CPU-throttling doesn't affect your results!"

Fair enough for the CPU throttling.

But did the nineties just call? Computers dying due to CPU overheating was all scary and spooky back when we were running old AMDs and old Pentium CPUs but I haven't own any CPU that could die due to overheating since a very, very long time. They do automagically throttle to: a) make sure they stay within their TDP specs b) make sure they don't melt.

I mean: honestly, scientists should start to worry about overheating their CPU that are going to melt?
How the Post Office Made America
Its worth noting that ATLAS is actually pretty terrible compared to hand written BLAS.

Figure 2 and 3 in this paper (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gcbd/vignettes/gcbd.p...) show atlas is only better than an unoptimized ("reference") BLAS implementation and that it is many times slower than the winner GotoBLAS (now OpenBLAS http://xianyi.github.com/OpenBLAS/), which is written assembly by Kazushige Goto while he worked at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.

Edit: Article in the NY Times about Mr. Goto http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/technology/28super.html?sc...
A friend of mine worked for EA and he kept on complaining how it wasn't possible to write reasonable portable code that supports PS3 without negating performance benefits of its 1 principle / 6 satellite CPUs architecture. Technically, it is possible to abstract it, but the abstraction layer would end up absorbing a lot of game code and thinning the portable part considerably.

In other words, you want good performance - you will have to write thick abstraction layers.
Raw communication and sugar coating
Another reason may be that it's easy to let students validate their work with the built in `go test`.

> Your job is to modify client.go, server.go, and common.go so that they pass the tests in test_test.go (which go test runs).
Study the Reagan campaign, before reality TV. And he wasn't really the first.
It is usually not so bad to make it cross-platform, but just as an example, the direction of the z part of vectors is into the screen in D3 and out of the screen in openGL (or it is the other way around) which means that if the game wasn't meant to be portable, it most likely won't be.
Great Idea.

I have just tested it ,I followed the steps but it keeps giving me "No Connection" on the other side! is there anything else I need to do?
Yes, if PayPal does business in those countries.

There are some countries were you can pay but not receive funds and some where you can sell but can't keep any money in your PayPal account (it's automatically transfered every day to you local bank account).

PayPal wants to do business everywhere it can (that's how they make money) and modifies how it does business to meet the laws it must.

So, it can't do business in countries where the US prohibits it (see the OFAC list) as they're a US company and limits account functions where other laws require it.
Why are the feds loading up on so much ammo?
It seems obvious that for something like this, you'd set up a new company, call it "Beats by Dre", assign everything to it, and then just have equity ownership split between the two companies. Far simpler and more transparent.

It's hard to imagine anyone would negotiate with the music industry without assuming they're trying to screw you.
I don't think anyone thinks that it's wrong to try and give your children a better position in life than they would be able to achieve through their ability alone, just that it's beneficial to society as a whole to minimize this effect. Prisoner's dilemma and all that.
How anyone can watch Fox and trust anything they report is mind boggling. Not suggesting other news outlets are not bad but stuff like this make Fox look more like a satire. Maybe its time for the emergence of a new news organization that does actually do investigative reporting.
This sounds like the technique that bands use when they first come to a new city. Use a smaller venue so everyone hears the show was sold out.. then the next time they come back, they can play a bigger venue and fill it.
All 30 of them?

It would be nice that these "news" sites refused to publish this kind of information unless Microsoft (in this case) revealed the number of units sold.
I think the only thing in favor of the argument that it might overheat the CPU is that many more functional units on the CPU will be active at once and with no time in between. Normally they would be idle due to cache misses and memory access.

I don't think with modern CPUs that this is a problem, but you would have to test to find out!
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This idea of petitioning Oracle would be comical were it not so pathetic. In case it needs to be said, Oracle is a corporate sociopath -- it cannot empathize. One could have a petition with quite literally 6.9 billion signatures on it; it would change nothing. As I've cautioned before[1], do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-...
Because Star Wars has the famous "upwards scroll" title screen.
One thing can be worlds different from another, even while you hate both. Hating two things does not make them the same or even similar.
The scarcity of WoW goods is precisely as artificial as the scarcity of high-def movies.
Ask HN: I am designing a iOS app. Is there a cheat sheet for sizing?
Also, for retina display, don't I basically need to make the designs twice to accomodate for both retina and non retina displays? Thanks for all your help. I'm new to mobile design.