skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty standard economics. Large command-and-control organisations develop remarkable pathologies because it's basically impossible to have a single set of objectives for any reasonably complex system of interacting agents.

But so long as the "transaction cost" remains lower in the command structure than in dealing with the market, stuff is done inhouse.

Then mix in the oddities which come from how budgeting works and you get situations like these. Nobody really has a good fix. There are better ways of doing things (or at least, different ways with different mixes of drawbacks), but not necessarily an optimal solution.
Linking html to css on web editors
I know this code is supposed to do it, <link type ="text/css" rel ="stylesheet" href ="stylesheet.css"/>
However I can't seem to make my html talk to my css on ANY WEBEDITOR!

Someone please help!

Thanks
Actually my math is based on real world experience. I can easily drive for 12 hours straight without a major food break. Quick bio break at a gas station, sure. Turn a 7 minute fillip into a 12 minute fill up.

On a trip that long, my wife is generally along as we'll, so we can trade off shifts driving. We will usually bring some snacks to eat along the way as well.

So, my numbers are still pretty accurate. You can go farther between fill ups on gas, and you can refuel (you, and the car) in less than 30 minutes ( or 45-60 minutes of you need more than a top-off, based on accessories use in the vehicles).
Wow, dont understand why I was downvoted. I was agreeing with you. My point was people were scared of the LHC without scientific reasoning.
Why foxes are bad at math...
I don't see Latour as a particularly bad choice for bridging those worlds. One of his main points is paying close empirical attention to both how scientists actually work, and how non-human things work. Unlike a lot of humanities theorists of science, he actually went into laboratories and wrote down what seem like pretty honest accounts of what he found there. He's fairly controversial among pure social constructionists partly as a result. For example, he had a dispute with David Bloor some years ago [1] over Latour's insistence on including nonhuman objects in his explanation of how science works (rather than treating science as a purely social process). More recently, he's been attacking the tendency, born of the legacy of critical theory, to treat intellectual activity as a series of de-maskings of something the scholar will always find to be "naive" [2].

I mean, the last thing we should want, as scientists, is to have blind faith in a quasi-religious, idealized view of how science works, rather than empirically investigating how it actually works. Plus he seems pretty interested lately in tying in some philosophical ideas with quantitative network-analysis methods: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/123-WHOLE-PAR...

[1] Bloor's attack on Latour, http://reclus.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/bloor-anti-latour...., and a reply, http://www.melissa.ens-cachan.fr/IMG/pdf/latour_-_reponse_a_...

[2] http://www.pathguy.com/Latour.pdf
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Some of us like the noise.
The comparison with Einstein is a bit of a stretch. Surely Einstain has a fair aomount of credibility going in.
This is really the kind of thing where A/B testing is both necessary and straightforward. Decently intuitive arguments can be made for both sides and there isn't really overwhelming strength on either of them.
Be was so hard to catch, you practically had to infect yourself with it. Netscape mutated into the Communicator Virus, and what with it's bigger molecular structure, transmission became so difficult, that it eventually died out.
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Also, it's a reasonable low bar to begin with for a college-educated programmer (not that all programmers need to be college-educated), because the Fibonacci sequence in mathematics (and in everyday language) is commonly defined in its recursive form, so it's likely that people will be familiar with it.
That was basically the business idea of Better Place. Last I heard though they hadn't gained much traction.
Second reply:

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2013/02/11/estonian-schools...

A quote: “We are re-thinking computer education with the assumption that computers are the tools for computation.,” said Mr. McLoone. “Schools are still focused on teaching hand calculating. Computation used to be the bottleneck. The hard part was solving the equations, so that was the skill you had to teach. These days that is the bit that computers can do. What computers can’t do is set up the problem, interpret the problem, think about validation and strategy. That is what we should be teaching and spending less time teaching children to be poor computers rather than good mathematicians.”
That seems strictly worse than the first two options.
I feel a little the same in SF. Maybe not at the same ratio, but still. Quite a few places are rented, but the people are rarely there. I always imagine they're just all very rich and have those places instead of hotels when they move from city to city. But really, i've no idea.

Note they all seems to own the place, ie it's not a rent.
StoneKnifeForth is a toy, and the executables it generates were probably actually invalid in some way I don't understand because I haven't read the ELF spec. Preventing the kernel from barfing on them would have an insignificant real benefit, I think, and possibly a significant cost. If we were talking about PulseAudio or something, I would agree, but no.

The obvious first step to reporting the bug (after looking at diffs, which I did try) would be to instrument the ELF loading code with printk calls to explain why it's failing to exec a supposedly ELF executable, so that I could report what it was about the executable it was that made the kernel barf. And then I could fix the executable. I just haven't gotten around to recompiling my kernel with a modified ELF loader.
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I personally think this is a matter of personal preference, but the critical thing is to ensure you always use the same terminology throughout the entire application. Mixing them up is horrendous.
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Yeah mine was pretty hacky too - I scraped Amazon's gift suggestion categories, then realized some of the suggestions were terrible (e.g. Maxim subscription for Mom) and had to hand-prune the lists. I like your approach better actually, a lot more open ended.
> The article notes that the properties are seen as a safe place to store money.

But that isn't true. Real estate isn't that safe in the first place, and they are also throwing money away by not renting it. They'd do better in buying a commercial property and renting it out.
I found Question #1 to be bad, #2 is alright but coming close to just a 'trick' question. #5 is just a simple trick question, and I can see where people went wrong with it. Especially if they skimmed over the code, and in a high pressure test environment. The bonus question is reasonable and can be worked through, if it wasn't printing the string literals, which makes it just a mean trick question.

I think that's the problem with a lot of first time test (or interview) makers, they make their questions into trick/puzzle questions where they want the test taker to guess what the writer had in their mind.

--edited because I skimmed over the last question and assumed it was printing the values of the variables not the strings--
>Do you think it's likely that the lower-income people they're talking about are choosing to read Slate?

I suppose Slate would know their own demographics better than anyone, so I guess not. I just found the reasoning behind the assertion pretentious. I think some low income people with children probably read Slate, and some of that group will read this article. The idea that since they read to the end of the article, they're somehow better or different than non Slate readers, is funny to me.
How so? I seriously doubt he's typing on that 82" touchscreen, it wouldn't be very fast and it'd be hard to keep up. So if he uses an external keyboard, how does using that giant gimmick help him in answering quickly?

EDIT: Ah, I didn't notice the sarcasm tags, +1.
Cool, thanks for hijacking my browser with some other YouTube video I don't give a shit about.
My stuff is what runs locally. Your stuff runs on a server, which also hosts other people's stuff.
Warning: While this story is interesting, it also launches a full-screen Javascript popup that autoplays a Youtube video.

Seriously?
I have flagged articles by accident before due to vimium + my sausage fingers. The flagging might have been unintentional.
Its funny you say that, my wife and I recently went to a local adoption seminar and the entire time all I could think of was "Wow, this process seems incredibly broken and in need of some technology-based efficiencies" ... I think it would take a startup comprised of an existing agency + attorney(s) + hackers but I totally agree with you. Sprinkling some crowd-funding could also be possible here.
DLP projector?
"your profile" sounds odd. Either "profile" or "my profile".
May it should be an action such as "edit profile" or "view profile".
I assure you I am not racist, being an Indian raised in Kenya.
Ha! Is that a good thing, or bad?

This is not the first time I've gotten that.
Being "invalid" doesn't nullify the backwards-compatibility rule - if the kernel accepts a certain kind of invalid ELF file, and people have come to rely on it doing so, then that has become a de facto part of the ABI. "But userspace is buggy!" is not considered a valid excuse.

What does nullify the backwards-compatibility rule is no-one noticing or caring that it has changed.
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Thanks for your feedback! What do you think would be a fair offer?
I agree with you; however, there is something to be said for "not subject to drive-by mass tagetings on short notice" that is ignored by this argument. There may be 7 obvious bug in your program, but of you have a couple hundred users, will any of them bother? However, even if you have no users at all, you are going to get hacked by these 0-days due to people just scanning the Internet looking for vulnerable systems. In my case, every single time I've been hacked has been due to a 0-day dropping that I didn't pay enough attention to (like exim4), as opposed to the assuredly infinate number of bugs I have in my own software.
For selecting a single random row with equal distribution and no need to worry about holes, the following might be simpler:

SET @var = (SELECT FLOOR(RAND() * COUNT(id)) from random);
PREPARE statement FROM 'SELECT name FROM random LIMIT ?, 1';
EXECUTE statement USING @var;

I don't know how well this compares in performance to the examples in the article, but it's certainly easier to comprehend.
so there is a chain:
"notprotected\nprotected"
it's not found in include? so tryes to assign, then method_missing parses it and founds another attribute just below the first one.
I've just started learning Julia and I'm also loving it so far.

It's really well designed with loads of great features (and decent libraries) for scientific computing.
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This sounds like the most important thing you can teach your kids early on. Parents seem to be (in general) bad at this, at least some random preschool teacher might be more "willing" to scold the kid/praise them reasonably.
Those are 4 character domains. 4 characters before the .com is a 4 character domain.
Watching paint dry, the animated version.
If the exit node is shady, that still leaves your emails potentially open to being monitored. All the more reason to still use GPG/PGP and SSL.

I imagine, traffic to the popular mail providers are routinely being monitored by some governments.
I have the "Reddit Enhancement Suite" extension installed, and it allows me to jump to each comment he responds to. If you are a frequent redditor, I recommend installing it.
Too bad I just saw the app, I leave SF in the morning. Been using a mix of Google Maps/Routesy/Transit. I do like the ticking timers of when the next bus is coming. It's been an awkward experience constantly refreshing the apps if I can manually. I do like the Google Maps because it shows markers for bus stops, I heard they have an SDK to use. Also I like that Google Maps will show you the stops on your route as well, helps to remember how many and what stops there are without constantly watching your blue do approach your destination. Just things I noticed as a "tourist".
I mostly agree.

I also think that physical vs. digital is a big determinant of whether Yours or Mine is appropriate. When using a physical object, you are at the very least spatially aware of all of the components. Your pencil, car, hammer are all items that operate due to mechanisms easily understandable at a very basic level simply by observation. There's no mystery. It is purely an object, and it is my object.

Digitally, however, you cannot understand the mechanism by which a mobile app works simply by observing it. There is a level of obscurity, a veil of mystery, as if someone, something were behind the scenes pulling the strings. Unlike looking at an engine and observing all of the gears and rods involved in making an axle spin, one cannot observe bytes of data travelling between microprocessors. I think it's that layer of obscurity that gives digital products a degree of personality that a car or hammer or pencil or knife cannot have. There's something at play that you're not seeing with digital interfaces, and perhaps we most comfortably assume that another human is involved in the process.
The bummer is that 'extreme position' posts on hacker news attract lots of up votes; moderate ones not so much.

So it's basically a training system to encourage people to comment like this (remember; you need 500+ karma to down vote, so for many people, you can only ignore or up vote; therefore, all you see for a post is upvotes).

:/
I find your tone incredibly condescending. What average person has the time, energy, and expertise for all of this? What you propose doesn't sound practical to me at all. Take this statement:

> they spend 20+ years meeting with politicians, advocating their position, forming lobbying groups, and slowly winning politicians over.

This is exactly what I'm talking about - what average working person with a family can compete with an army of full time lobbyists whose job it is to meet with congress, take them out for meals, and do whatever else they do to get what they want?

Doing all this is a lobbyist's full time job. They're backed by various industries with seemingly unlimited wealth. Compared to the average person's net worth, their funding may as well be unlimited. What average person with a full time job and family could ever compete with this in his or her limited off time? How practical and useful is it for us to flood congress with letters, emails and faxes "all the time, every time"? I don't think this is a useful strategy at all!

And what's wrong with "complaining about it on an internet forum"? Sometimes it's nice to vent the frustration and hopelessness to people who understand. I certainly do. There's nothing wrong with this. Sometimes complaining is all we CAN do right now.

The only practical solution I have found is to fund those whose full time job it is to be watchdogs and to fight back, like the EFF. That's about the best I can do for now. I haven't been shown another reasonable action that I can take that would be truly useful.
It seems like this would also change per application, in which case A/B testing could really help you understand how users are thinking about and interacting with your program / tool / application. I think both of the paradigms that Dustin brings up in his article are good and there are applications I use that fall into both camps. Just as an example, SimpleDNS is a tool where I work on my stuff. Facebook is a social network where I got to interact with lots of stuff and the Your feels more appropriate there*

* Interestingly enough, it seems like most of the major platforms have moved away from using either "my" or "your" altogether, eg Facebook and Twitter both just have Friends, Followers, Tweets, Photos, etc.
I've always thought there was something condescending about "My" stuff. Like, I need this page to tell me where my stuff is so I don't edit someone else's. Or something.
Why should an app have a personality? Apps should 'do', not 'be'. In my opinion, the user shouldn't ever notice the interface, because its only purpose is to facilitate the service; anything that disrupts the purpose (like a 'personality') is distracting from what it's supposed to do.
I just wrote a little bit about building the generator: http://thirteen23.com/garage/2013/02/building-our-bubbly-pos...
How to build aviation software and why I quit flying to build a startup
That was humor.
I challenge you to drink a glass of gasoline.
This is not an Ad Hominem at all..
Also unusable in IE9 because it crash.
Anything for meaningless internet points! ;)
That "door handle" on Mars explained
Why Apple should ignore its shareholders
Great insight from Felix
Even if you can't force it on for everything, the bash construction ${variable:?message} lets you error out on individual null or unset values[1]. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be as simple a way to handle all of null, unset, and empty string as rachelbythebay points out is needed. You can fudge it with a test against ${#parameter} (parameter length), but you don't get the direct error effect.

[1] There are a lot of beautiful strangenesses in bash, especially the Parameter Expansion section of the manpage.
I sort of figure your first block of text is self-evident. Apparently a lot of people don't think so; perhaps I need to be much more verbose in the future.
Heh, it's okay. We just want to make sure we can patch right away. Your 5 emails at lunchtime today were fun. :)
Companies have systems for requesting paid time off. It's not a willy-nilly thing one can surprise their coworkers with on a short notice.
This is a silly point to make. Exit nodes ARE shady, you should assume that with Tor and encrypt everything. That is not the purpose of Tor.
Fair enough about stink and noise, but personal experience really isn't good for judging toxicity. Automobile-related pollution is a pretty big deal, but it manifests as large-scale health changes, not immediate personal changes.
I'm mildly curious why they use direct electrical resistance.
It's not like you can't make heat pumps that operate down past 0F.

My mitsubishi mini-split:
1. Can produce it's full BTU load all the way down to 5F, and 75% BTU load down to -13F.
2. Doesn't bother to blow air until it's warm
:)

They aren't even that much larger than a resistance based coil system (though I could imagine the model S may not be able to fit them)
Anyone interested in this effect would probably appreciate the Lumarca too: http://lumarca.info/

(It makes 3D images by projecting into a depth field of vertical strings.)
I like the explanation of terms, but come to a different conclusion. Rather than a universal my/yours I would think it ends up being whatever is appropriate to the interface. Some interfaces are for tasks that require "tools" others not.
It actually requires O(fib(n)) function calls, or equivalently about O(1.62^n) function calls.
"Check your privilege!" you hear, after a woman scorned summons her white knights with a simple retweet.
I can't speak for all women, but as a female developer, I definitely find this event discouraging. I hate being seen as "female dev" instead of just a dev. The last thing I want to do is go to an event that is based on this distinction and could possibly be used as evidence that I am less skilled at my job because of my gender. This is why I only feel truly comfortable at all-women hackathons. It's the only place where I can believe with reasonable certainty that if I mess up it won't lead to a generalization like this: http://xkcd.com/385/
I am 44 and feel this way. Didn't start till I was around 41 though like waterlesscloud. Slight variation on the same theme. Early on I think I made a lot of decisions to please other people. To reinforce their perceptions of me. Nice house, nice cars etc. An enhanced sense of mortality made me embrace "go big or go home". I had to do what I wanted to do - even if that meant failing and being "poor" for a while as we bootstrapped and then angel funded things.

I wish I'd never seen Godfather III. When Michael Corleone sits down in that wooden chair in the vineyard and his entire life flashes before him. That haunts me. Am I going to be proud that I took chances and embraced the full range of emotions that life has to offer? Or would it be rather dull for the most part although numbingly comfortable in an upper middle class way.
There is also an IDE for Mac, Linux, and Windows available here: http://forio.com/julia/downloads
That kind of thing does happen when the stakes get high enough. There are a lot of rumors (and some evidence) of special-cased "cheating" on commonly used benchmarks, including the 3dMark GPU benchmarks, SPEC CPU benchmarks, even SunSpider JS benchmarks.
Well, the community for Puppet is good, but oddly there are many modules (what Puppet calls a 'cookbook') missing for some relatively trivial things. For instance, I have written about 10 modules now for various system utilities/resources/services now which didn't exist as of yet, or at least were very... ahem... not good. For example, I've basically re-written my own nginx module because the ability to add reverse-proxy caching to server entries didn't exist even in the Puppet Labs nginx module (really, this is a thing)!
Tcd.vim: Tab-specific directories in Vim
How long do I have to keep it down? ;)
"Flat design also forces you to really care about typography and layout, two areas where web design has traditionally lagged behind its more established print cousin.
And on the mobile side, flat design can make it easier to focus on animation and interaction design, as apps like Letterpress and Clear have shown us."

This bit is a good summary. I think flat design on mobile really frees designers up to look into animation and interaction design. Letterpress definitely proves that. It also frees designers up from focusing on detailed effects and stylized UI. Focusing on typography and layout will create much better and more usable applications.
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