skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Mozilla is starting afresh with its Servo browser engine based on its Rust language. Given the design choices for Rust and Servo, I imagine that it's going to be a lot more secure and stable than the current crop of browser engines (Webkit, Gecko, Trident, etc.)
I wonder what OS are these computers running... the article doesn't give much technical insight
There is significant debate as to whether public domain even exists except through copyright expiry.

Such serious claim requires some serious citation. It is certainly not true as stated, since all original works produced by the government are in the public domain regardless of when they were created (e.g., NASA images and many US coins designs.) The first Google result for [public domain existence debate] is your comment. I haven't come across any evidence that any such debate exists, and plenty of sources to support the fact of the existence of public domain (some given by others in this thread.)
At the Apple Store in Santa Monica there's a deaf employee and he talks to you typing on an iPad. It was actually a pretty cool experience and I particularly appreciated it since both my dad's parents were deaf (but I do not know the sign language, they were extremely good at lips reading)
Calling it. They went store to store buying Macbooks. Multiple sets of laptops just for a social experiement?
What kind of IT department would allow the KIDS to get the computers they need. And with no bulk discount, what school would allow that?
This happened in his dreams.
Sorry for the omission; I think Bind is actually a bit tricky to configure by comparison to the other three mentioned.
That school really should have dealt with the Apple store directly. I'm guessing they would have gotten better than the standard educational discount that way.

Also, wow, please don't map "escape" to cause navigation on your website. That's super annoying.
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Judge Calls for New Trial in Apple v. Samsung
A note -- when linking to arXiv, please link to the abstract, not directly to the PDF.
Wow...the Mac rumors buying guide but prettier with less info. Is there any real insight or innovation here above and beyond that?
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How is the price of the laptop relevant at all to the story?
I tend to agree wit the article author. I dislike the decades long trend towards low contrast icons, especially on keyboards and electronics. I regularly stay at a hotel where the alarm clocks have a bright blue face with black lettering. I cant read it in the middle of the night without putting my glaces on. These may be fine from twenty-somethings, but when your eyes are of the keypunch generation, they are illegible in low light.
Hi there --

We're really excited about everything that's happening in Idaho. I was there just last week and we saw some really great schools with students and teachers who are enthusiastic about what we're doing. Many of these pilot teachers have attended a workshop for teachers that we've held about how best to implement Khan Academy in a classroom; all the resources are also available free online for any teacher:

https://www.khanacademy.org/coach/resources

Let me know if I can answer any questions about what we're doing.
That's a Squarespace thing, can't be helped.
Why? The pdf is what I'm interested in. I don't particularly care where it's hosted.
This is exactly my experience as well. It's not obvious how to get started with it and there is no tutorial that I found explaining how I would go about using it.

At the very least you should record screencasts of you using LT to build LT with you talking people through what you are doing.

I really want to give this a shot, but it needs to be easy to get started.

Besides your feature and bug backlog, I would map out the user journey (i.e. create an experience map) for LT to discover all the pain and frustration points people may have with using LT.
So when Google's Panda update killed tons of user-generated-content sites like Mahalo, eHow, HubPages, etc., and greatly improved YouTube's (which is 99% garbage) rankings, that was pure co-incidence?

What about when Google rolled out universal search only after buying YouTube?
> What kind of IT department would allow the KIDS to get the computers they need.

I would guess that this is something more like a 20-kid Montessori school, than a regular big-building public institution. The kind where there's one teacher (who does things like run field trips as sociological object lessons), and no IT staff to speak of, but which has a big budget nevertheless due to the high tuition cost of private education paid by the (rich) parents.
The biggest mistake I made out of college was wearing a suit.

When I interview now I am in jeans and a nice shirt, but that doesn't differ too much from what I'd normally be wearing. If you don't like it, I don't want to work for you...

I want to know who you are, not the facade you put up in order to get the job.
They weren't asking for MacBooks at every store, that would be silly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks
Notable uses: The Mars Science Laboratory (also known as the Curiosity rover)[18]

Related: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/159637/what-i...
Firefox doesn't present it in a readable form (the page width is so large that reading the text is annoying). Which browsers handle this well?
This is coming soon - it's one of the top feature requests we get. Thanks for the feedback!
I view the need to use the reducer functions in place of the "vanilla" versions similarly to a compiler flag (you could stick it in the namespace definition and not worry about it for the rest of the code). In my mind, what makes this "automatic" is that in at least 80% of the cases, that's the only thing you would need to do. All of your code using map, reduce, and friends can remain mostly unchanged.

Before reducers, I'd have said that Obj-C's blocks with GCD was the closest thing to "automatic parallelization" (in that you could get concurrent execution without the need to handle explicit concurrency primitives). The problem, of course, is that writing C/Obj-C with closures is a non-trivial shift in design. With Clojure, the way that code is currently written is already well positioned to benefit from reducers.
Try telling that to a dedicated C++ guy. Apparently the C calls are dangerous, dirty and just to be avoided.
The DyND code looks fantastic btw.
The fact that you are not the original author has nothing to do with the author exerting any control, it is a question of fact. Beethoven no longer exerts any control over the Moonlight Sonata and yet it is a fact that he wrote it and not you. Why should it be any different for a more recent work released to the public domain by the author?
And yet, the president originally supported the sequestration cuts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...

And Republicans were willing to give the administration more flexibility in how the cuts were made:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/us/politics/obama-urges-co...

Make of that what you will.
I don't quite remember which product had just released that morning, but it was the kind of thing that had attracted a long line of campers outside the entrance the night before

Seriously? You work at an apple store, it was supposedly your most memorable experience, and you don't remember what product was being released? It's not like they have hundreds of products. Sounds fishy.
Don't you expect better service when you're buying something more expensive?
This violates the five-year rule, so if I was ever in a position to consider something like it, I wouldn't.

Whenever anyone, in any field, posits anything on a greater than five-year timeline, it is more than likely bunk. An engineering feat, economic projections, anything. It's not necessarily the thing being projected that's bunk, but the projection itself--past five years it's pure speculation, and you probably have no idea. Six-years? You might as well say twenty years, or two weeks. My assumption isn't that you're in it for the long haul, it's that you can't do projections. Which is troublesome in the case of options, the point of which is to have an upside. If a company isn't targeting some kind of material upside within five years, I don't know why they're issuing options at all--just pay people better, and/or let the mission be its own reward.

I know there are instances where the five year rule doesn't apply, but it serves well as basic test for what to take seriously.
My experiment with cold calling
Weird. I worked for a couple of department stores before I was 20, not as a sales clerk, but stocking shelves. I don't remember the sales staff as the sorts who would snub customers. Of course, I wasn't treating them as lab rats in a high school psych course.

I will also point out that retail sales staff get a lot more exposure to anyone and everyone than your average hacker does. One can become jaded and perhaps impatient fairly quickly. Should you? No, maybe not. But it's Friday, your feet hurt, and some kid is social engineering you. Do you feel as if you need that?
> Lotus Notes is hilariously awful

I think it's enough to stop right there. :)
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Github is a transparent and familiar way to show off your talents. Facilitating the need for people to know what you can do via github is a smart decision.

Github can be used for more than just developers. I worked with a sales guy who made great github issues. I'm talking the type of "issues" that make reproducing the bug, and understanding context very easy. If he showed that to someone who understands the value in that, than he has demonstrated a great communication skill without every writing code.
Importantly, gzip is twice as fast as xz at decompression.
Their characterization of their spam procedures is grossly misleading. They do not send emails to most people that have been penalized, nor do they give clear instructions on how people can fix their sites.

Thousands of small sites were killed by Panda for no good reason, and have little hope of getting their traffic/incomes back. Google's spam policy is skewed heavily in favor of large sites and their own properties.
I really, really, really wish the themes were simpler. And that it used templating instead of having the php and html all mixed together. Which is perfectly valid usage for php but still frustrating when you just want to deal with changing the html around.
Pearl Jam is cum on toast.
This is not how search works!!
Invisible things is awesome, they're right up front too. Outside of the mainstream players my claim isn't worth much.
I've been using Swiss Arrows.
https://github.com/rplevy/swiss-arrows
The coolest experience I had as an Apple Store Employee was saving Christmas...no really, we literally saved Christmas. It was about 1:30 AM on Dec. 25th, and a man comes in to the store out of breath. He needs two iPod nanos. "My wife thought I was getting them, and I thought she was getting them..." he explained. Not a problem. We got the nanos, and sent him on his way.

That was fun...
Been there done that. Software development is sometimes Social development as well.
One thing to add is that the physics for tire simulation are are just as complicated, if not more, than all the other physics. And incorrect tire simulations can give you some odd behavior. Very good article though.

The Pacejka magic formula was refined to help model the tire interactions with the ground. http://www.racer.nl/reference/pacejka.htm
Retailers that sell more expensive products typically hire friendlier, more capable, and more numerous salespeople. This is why many people prefer to buy at an Apple store rather than Best Buy, even though they both carry Mac computers.
> Admittedly, I wasn't thinking about browser based JITs when I said that :)

Don't HotSpot and JRockit also do background (de)compilation & swapping of generated code?
Wow, Apple Stores stay open that late on Christmas? They stay open that late at all?
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Please don't do this. While this author seems to have enjoyed the experience, many retail workers have enough to do without being jerked around by those pretending to care about the experience of people with disabilities. It seems ridiculous to me that the teacher thought it was a good idea to lead these children in an extended "lie" in order to teach them about tolerance and empathy.

Once when I worked in bookstore a man came into the store and faked being deaf. My coworkers and I jumped through all kinds of hoops to accommodate him and spent a lot of time writing notes back and forth to help this customer find a particular type of book he said he was looking for. After half an hour of scribbled notes, fetching books from the stacks, and iterating towards what he was describing the man bust out laughing and declared "Hahaha! I'm not actually deaf!!" and walked out without buying anything.

I felt stupid and annoyed that he had wasted so much of our time. Not only did that man's behavior distract us from other legitimate customers, the experience left me feeling guarded about whether to accept people at face value. I never encountered any other customers with hearing disability while I was at that job, but I'm sure I would have had skepticism from this hoax experience in the back of my mind as I tried to help them.

You are not helping anyone by pretending to have a disability.
That's a great reason! I agree their design sucks and yours is orders of magnitude more usable.

It's just too bad that you have to re-collect the same data. N historically up-to-date data sources for N designs is just unscalable.
Agreed, and this bugs me about many of these things. The site should be developers-throw-out-your-resume.com

I'm a mechanical engineer, I know all my possible employers would love to see what I have on Github... yes that's absurd. Sometimes I fear these people live in a bubble all their own and have idea there are other professions our there that people might want to work in.
I wonder if a popular web browser could get away with changing all its default CSS rules to resemble modern readability guidelines, without breaking a large majority of the web?

People who use CSS resets would be fine; people who use things like normalize.css might have to go get a new version; but the rest of the internet (which is implicitly relying on things like the line-height of <p>s and the padding of <body>) might just spontaneously combust.

Then again, it might be fine to apply an alternate "default theme" if and only if there are literally no non-user-agent CSS styles defined on the page (either by stylesheets or DOM-manipulating Javascript).
That's an outright lie. No PrivCo salespeople and research people interact whatsoever or coordinate whatsoever. And salespeople deal with partners at top VC firms, major law firms, etc. They would never email some random little crappy company an email off their domain, not would they ever waste their once a week featured research note covering a mom and pop operation like you sound. Who would even read it? This is completely made up and libelous. Expect a subpoena for your IP address because that's a made up outright defamatory lie. Leaving aside it makes no logical sense whatsoever, go read PrivCo's featured research notes and the companies the subjects of them (usually new IPOs like Zynga, Facebook etc., which you obviously aren't) right on PrivCo.com home page for all to see. Which "Company" were you supposedly featured in your fantasy world?
In the case of the Apple store, these kinds of sales are the last thing a salesperson wants.

Apple salespeople are not paid on commission, and since the guy was told exactly what the students were buying and that they already had the money distributed to them on gift cards, he knew he couldn't upsell them on a warranty or in-store training. Selling a baseline macbook is easy, people line up to buy them. It is the upselling that determines an employee's performance. So I don't think it had any bearing on this guy's behavior.
I worked the overnight shift at the 5th Avenue Apple Store. I got to spend two Christmas mornings (and two New Years Eves) in a row with some of the best people I've ever worked with...hell, some of the best people I've ever met!
There are some good facts and numbers hidden in rather toy explanation:

1. Spam detection is automatic

2. There 6 types of spam

-Unnatural outbound links (link selling)

-Content copy/manufactering

-Keyword stuffing

-Forums/user generated spam

-Parked domains

-Sites hosted on spammy DNS

-Different content humans and bots

-Hacked sites

3. Google is removing as many as 50K spam sites per month, they get 8K reconsideration requests

4. Google's machine learned relevance model may be using about 200 features
>Furthermore, "to the extent permitted by law" could mean, depending on the jurisdiction, as "not"

Surely every license is, by definition, "to the extent permitted by law"? No court will ever interpret a license to be valid beyond the extent permitted by law.
Space-faring pre-biotic molecule precursor.
e) do not allow downloading of any file. Instead use chrome's plugin to open any word/etc files in google docs.

I'm interested to know how google's cloud is going to implement my updated video card drivers.
There's more formats available, for one thing.
I guess it depends on how you quantify usefulness. There's less info, but I think I visualized the information that I do show much better than MacRumors.
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Does anyone know where he came up with the magic number?
"Mason's annual salary is $756.72"
Data Visualization of the Languages of NYC tweets
University College of London's James Cheshire, Ed Manley, and John Barratt gathered 8.5 million geo-located tweets between January 2010 and February 2013. They then placed points every 50 meters throughout the city and illuminated all the different languages throughout the paths.
I had a similar experience while working at a big-box retailer in high school. You don't get to have many "feel-good" experiences in retail, but using MS Word to sell a deaf woman a computer was one of those rare occasions.
Yea imagine if they sent them all to a car dealership...
Those people would be benefitting from the original pirate's crime. Generally feigning ignorance is not enough to absolve you from the responsibility in such cases. If you buy a stolen car (even not knowing that it was stolen) the police will take it away from you and will not reimburse you, and you may be even looking at jail time.
Thanks for the introduction to Twitter Commons! I've used Dropwizard in the past and loved it. It seems like the shared libraries of both frameworks -- Jetty, Jersey, and Jackson -- provide them with an equally strong foundation. Guice seems to be provided by default in Twitter Commons whereas it's provided via a separate module in Dropwizard, so that's more or less another commonality between them. Can anyone describe differences or pros/cons between using these two frameworks? (Similarly, who was being referenced in the phrase "an opinionated framework that forces certain patterns on you")?
How do you say no to your boss?
If you're going to cold call -- call yourself, do not outsource the essential part of talking to customers and understanding their needs in the early stage of a company to someone doing it from a script!

Also, briefly looking at the sign up page, the call to action is a indistinguishable text link - if it were a button I am sure the conversion would be higher!
I don't care if it's slightly embellished or even pure fiction, it could have happened. It highlights the discrimination faced by many groups of people, and encourages readers to act excellently with all types of people. I like the article for that reason alone. The class outing was also a cool idea, it would be fun to try a cheaper variant.
Compilers can work around that choice - if you want to do something with immutable strings (like the Haskell example I mentioned, it does have immutable strings) then you will have to make some copy, but you don't need to make a copy per every function - if you're stringing three string functions in a row, the compiler can "fuse" the processing so that only a single, final copy is made, not the intermediate ones.

For any language the compiler may know which variables won't ever be used - for example in pseudocode

b = a.lowercase()
c = b.replace("x","y")
d = a.lowercase.replace("x","y")

both 'b' and the intermediate result in 'd' are strings, but the compiler can flag these two 'throw-away' variables as mutable strings (while still maintaining the promise that all programmer-visible strings will be immutable); and you may have a special version of 'replace' standard function that does no-copy, in-place replacement in such cases. It means extra work in building API/stdlib, but brings better performance for the same programs.
A Kenyan Teen's Discovery: Let There Be Lights To Save Lions
So I guess the bulk of the brainwork in producing this result was in a) deriving the low-stretch spanning tree definition and algorithm, and b) proving the performance bound? Because, aside from understanding the low-stretch spanning tree calculation, the algorithm is indeed pretty simple.

Actually, I should add: one other tricky is coming up with (the probability distribution for) how you choose the order in which to restore edges.
> On the other hand, it seems pretty WTF-worthy that the first amendment be rendered void in a building charged with protecting it.

If you consider this to be a case of voiding the First Amendment, you'll also be interested to know that the First Amendment is also voided in the case of giving jurors relevant information in the middle of a court case.
Apple's maps for iOS.
Successful Woman Gets Attacked For Standing Out Too Much, Again
Google's cache: (the site is down as I am typing this.)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h6o6.co...
> You are no different from the dropbox forum moderators

That was the line I was referring to...
Aaron Swartz's partner accuses US of delaying investigation into prosecution
It's endearing, but I've always found that a bit facile. The idea that even a self-aware rover would want to go back to Earth is blasé anthropomorphism. The rovers weren't created to live in our gravity, or our atmosphere, or our ecosystem; they were created to live on Mars.

I find it more touching to think that we sent them home.
True, but they both got significantly revised before coming back in the final form, that passed last year, due to pressure.
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Well, I think the manager of any establishment can simply say "As the manager, I ask that you remove a piece of clothing or leave. If you don't we will call the police."

I don't find that particularly out of the ordinary. It happens all the time at nearly any place people can just walk into.
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I'm also skeptical that among 15 teenagers, including a "rowdy troublemaker", not one would be chatting or giggling during this "experiment"?