skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What percentage of Linux gamers are also Windows gamers?

If P(Linux | Windows) = 1.0, we know steam grew operating complexity instead of business.
Not sure if it's got some kind of learning algorithm, it mistook "school" for "scrubs" repeatedly for a whole minute but after that started to understand very consistently.
It's unfortunate that the word "hobby" carries such negative connotations. A hobby is something that you do for the art, because you want to do it. The ability to engage in hobbies was once considered a mark of cultured aristocracy.

My advice to my kids would be: if you want to pursue something like art, dance, writing, music, etc., get a practical no-nonsense job. Look for something with sane work hours and that's a seller's market labor-wise. "Boring" fields like accounting are a good bet. Then live below your means, save, and pursue your art seriously. Make a commitment to it above other things. Then, if someday you advance to the point that you can support yourself via your art, you can dump the day job. But even if that never happens you didn't sacrifice your happiness.
Is he actually rooting for photovoltaics? I personally have a number of issues specifically with photovoltaics that I do not have with many other types of solar. IMO any kind of solar "plant" shouldn't be using photovoltaics.
You didn't get it!
Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
Octal is base 8. Base 8(7,10,11) becomes Decimal(7,8,9).

7 8 9 is from the old joke where seven ate nine.
Storage is only part of the problem, and not one of the most important parts either IMO if you are not cutting off from the grid.
two foos walk into a bar...
You forgot one thing. Tack on 7 years of inflation and you're at nearly 52K.
Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook (2010)
> However, let’s assume for the moment that the electricity is generated from a hydrocarbon source like natural gas, the most popular fuel for new US power plants in recent years.

Above statement is mostly true in state of California where natural gas generates one third of its total power (source: http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/total_system_power.h...)

Not so true national wide. According to US Energy Administration, the energy sources and percent share of total for electricity generation in 2011. Note the the combined renewable energy sources is below 10% still in 2011.

• Coal 42%

• Natural Gas 25%

• Nuclear 19%

• Hydropower 8%

• Other Renewable 5%

• Biomass 1.38%

• Geothermal 0.41%

• Solar 0.04%

• Wind 2.92%

• Petroleum 1%

• Other Gases < 1%

(source: http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3)

Coal is still the king.
The technical advances used in archaeology illustrated over the past twenty years of this program have been phenomenal. While a trowel is still mandatory, the use of geophysics technology has advanced and assisted in fieldwork in so many ways. Highlighted by Time Team, its a shame to see that this won't be as public anymore to such a wide audience.
server glx vendor string: SGI

server glx version string: 1.4
Things I am building this Year
10 foos walk a bar ;)
What Type Of An Entrepreneur Are You?
An Interview with the Guy Who Sleeps in a Different Place on Campus Every Night
well, i did the same for just a website. http://colorlessgreen.net/ (twitter - https://twitter.com/ColorlessG ).

my verb list doesn't contain rape https://github.com/andrewcooke/pn-art-adj-adj-n-v-adv/blob/m... . i'm not sure why - i did check by eye, but i don't remember having to exclude it. however i did filter so similarly-spelt words are rejected. so perhaps it was similar to some other verb.

maybe i should make t-shirts.

anyway, this is just to say that you've also, now, met someone who makes random sentences with computers. we do exist.
This comment is extremely well put. The terminal is an amazingly pragmatic and honest interface. After all, almost all manual interactions leave you wanting a way to automate. Meanwhile, almost all automated processes need the occasional manual intervention. A defined library of specific and unambiguous commands really allows for both.
Stack Overflow ranks #1 for Bing Search for "Stack Overflow".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1
That was my first impression, too. My second impression was wow, this thing isn't a very good phone.
Came here to ask the same question as blahedo. Especially as the claim in made in the article, but not expanded. Are there any sources for or reports on this?
good laughs!
Interestingly, those numbers now fit the Model X, which supposedly will be a sporty four-door family car that starts at $52k: http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx
This paper:

http://goranlab.com/pdf/Ventura%20Obesity%202010-sugary%20be...

(Linked from here:

http://healthland.time.com/2010/10/28/study-hey-hipsters-mex... )

Explains that the Mexican coke tested had fructose and glucose in it. It could have been bottled with HFCS or perhaps the cane sugar split in the bottle.

That doesn't in any way account for all the possible differences with Mexican coke though.
I meant advanced, but mostly a collection technology and software that any car company might have put together but the incumbents didn't do it. Like the 17" central console screen, a screen for a dashboard, internet access, google maps and navigation, etc.
I'm thinking of being able to serve pages when you hit the front page of HN or Slashdot or Techcrunch. You'll probably be fine, or worst case you can put it on AWS in five minutes and have all the scalability you need.

OTOH if you have a database, scaling's going to be a pain.
Yeah, I wonder if I'm blaming the HN case on a Safari oddity. It never seems to expire on my desktop PC running Firefox, yet I have to log in almost every time I access HN on my iPhone.
For those who might be interested, here's a fantastic Scientific American (back when it was still good) article about the aluminum can and how it's made: http://www.chymist.com/Aluminum%20can.pdf
This is just an advert for C++ Builder XE3. There is nothing in this article that a C++ programmer does not already know.
In the 30s, 40s, early 50s, workers were a lot more DEAD!

I still have family who remember Stalin's purges, starvation and WW2. The same people say life in the USSR was only reasonable under the later leaders like Brezhnev. Nobody likes Gorbachev, but they would be first to admit that the differences in their lives in the 1940s and 1980s were vast.
You can do online clustering with pg_repack (https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack).

Given a table T, it will:

1. Create a new empty table T'.

2. Add a trigger on T that will clone any operations to T'.

3. Copy all rows from T to T' in clustering order.

4. Atomically switch the tables so that T' becomes T.

Unlike CLUSTER, the only lock required is in step 4, when it needs an exclusive lock on the table; it cannot do the switch until all current transactions are done with T (you can specify a timeout). The only other drawback is that that it does not support TRUNCATE, CREATE INDEX, or some ALTER TABLE operations being run while it's busy in step 3.

Also, unlike PostgreSQL's own CLUSTER command, it does not need an index to order by.

We run pg_repack regularly at night to keep our databases clustered. It works really well, though I really wish Postgres could get native online clustering. SQL Server has had automatic clustering for many years, as has DB2, and Oracle has index-ordered tables.
then what is the point of ever having a unique constraint
They've followed the plan well. I'd also like to point out a lesser known article from 7 years ago: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...

The New Power Play

The Investor: Elon Musk, co-founder, PayPal

What he's backed: SpaceX, Tesla Motors

What he wants now: As Musk's two most recent investments - in a space rocket and an all-electric sports car - suggest, the 35-year-old entrepreneur likes to think big. So he's intrigued by the promise of a next-generation battery called an ultracapacitor, capable of powering everything from cars to tractors. Unlike chemical batteries, ultracapacitors store energy as an electrical field between a pair of conducting plates. Theoretically, they can be charged in less than a second rather than hours, be recharged repeatedly without sacrificing performance, and far outlast anything now on the market.

"I am convinced that the long-term solution to our energy needs lies with capacitors," Musk says. "You can't beat them for power, and they kick ass on any chemical battery."

Musk would know: He was doing Ph.D. work at Stanford on high-energy capacitors before he helped get PayPal off the ground. At least one startup, EEStor in Texas, and a larger company, Maxwell Technologies in California, are working on ultracapacitors. Yet Musk believes a university-based research group has an equal shot at a commercial breakthrough, since universities are where the most promising research is bubbling up. "The challenge is one of materials science, not money," Musk says.

The team to pull this off, he says, would need expertise in materials science, applied physics, and manufacturing. Musk wants to see a prototype that can power something small, like a boom box. "Make one and show me that it works," Musk says. "Then tell me what's wrong with it and how it can be fixed."

What he'll invest: $4 million over two years for a working prototype

Send your pitch to: mbb@spacex.com. -- M.V.C.
Fascinating to see Automated Design (optimization software applied to product development) in the wild. Some of the more interesting applications deal with situations where the definition of 'optimal' is based on a changing data set, like trending topics on Twitter.

Obviously, this went horribly wrong in this case, which brings us to the lesson:

Optimization technology can generate lots of designs that score well against some set of metrics. You still need someone with decent 'taste' to select which solutions you'll put into production. It doesn't matter if you're optimizing stock trading strategies, jet engines, or t-shirts.

Creating a decent UI for selecting good designs from a giant batch of autogenerated designs is a hard and interesting problem, and almost always needs to be custom built for the domain. Picking the best jet engine needs a totally different UI than picking the best stock trading strategy.
There is a bit of neomania in this view. The keyboard has been with us for many years, which only strengthens that case that it will continue to be with us for many to come. Even touch screens use a tactile keyboard. If you take that further and think about the history of humans using their hands to express themselves, it goes back to all of written history (further if you include cave paintings, etc.). I'm sure non-tactile manipulation will be very important, but it doesn't have the history necessary to make solid predictions about its level of importance in the future.

"For the perishable, every additional day in its life translates into a shorter additional life expectancy. For the nonperishable, every additional day may imply a longer life expectancy. So the longer a technology lives, the longer it can be expected to live." -Taleb
> Welcome to a fundamental fact of taxation, most of what our taxes pay for does not directly benefit us. Once it has been taken by the government it is in no real sense "ours".

That makes sense for things that are targeted at a particular audience, geography, etc. But television? They had to spend money to implement the blocking feature, and seemingly for no additional money they could let people in Europe watch. I'm not asking for special treatment. And I'm not interested in watching Sesame Street, but rather programs which are not offered for sale (I'd even pay $0.99 per episode, if I could).

As a side note, if you want services from a US embassy, you often have to join a days-long waiting list, and then pay rather high rates for the services. Contrary to popular belief, it's not a place you just walk into because you're a citizen and they do things for you. It's more like a state-owned Kinko's plus law office in a prison-like setting. I appreciate your point about your taxes paying for them, but you should know they aren't giving me anything for free in there.
https://www.google.com/search?q=stackoverflow&aq=0&oq=stackover&aqs=chrome.0.0j5j57j0j62.3537&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=stack+overflow&oq=stack+overflow&gs_l=serp.3..0l4.4882.4882.0.5337.1.1.0.0.0.0.135.135.0j1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.5.psy-ab.gWmJt4vWzvg&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.43148975,d.dmQ&fp=c1794afd088c3d78&biw=1440&bih=795

isn't that too long just for

https://www.google.com/search?q=stackoverflow
I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
Is immature snarkiness really needed when someone is talking about a real physical effect carefully observed over years?

Caffeine gives me an urgency to urinate. Having that first urination in the morning after drinking coffee is just like the effect many people describe after drinking the beer. See "Breaking the seal".

Googling the subject shows confirmation from health and medical web sites. Here's one from the Mayo Clinic:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/urinary-incontinence/DS0040...
Oh crap, I just accidentally thought about deleting my document.
You know, reading more of the comments here and on the blog, I think Pete Ashton may be right in calling out technological illiteracy. Some people seem to be unable to make a distinction between something said with no ill intent by a human and something said with no ill intent by an algorithm.

It really seems to me that this is the result of a failure to properly internalize the full implications of what algorithms are capable of, how they work... really just what they are.

You may as well be offended by what a toddler says. It is very very easy for a toddler or an algorithm to say something that could, in other contexts, be offensive. In the correct context however, primarily the realization that there is no intent present, you would have to not understand what a toddler is to be offended by what a toddler says.
Since a lot of the comments here about the case-sensitive file system, note this comment on the blog[1]:

> pkgsrc hasn't required a case-sensitive file system for some years now. If you've run across documentation that told you otherwise, could you point me at it so it can be fixed?

Assuming that's correct, then using pkgsrc on OSX is very simple: simply download pkgsrc, bootstrap it and then use it.

[1]: http://www.eliteraspberries.com/blog/2013/03/pkgsrc-on-os-x....
Note that that's their recommendation for a single VPS that includes the postgres & redis servers on it as well, not just the Rails stack.
You're living in a dream world! Rape means forced intercourse. Nobody says "sf was getting raped until the second half" - nobody except a complete moron with the sensitivity of a very insensitive thing. Among my friends, someone saying those example sentences would make the others there cringe and feel embarrassed by the person talking like that.
I did not say it was my primary definition, I simply said when I hear the word spoken (I did not say when I use it), more often than not, it is being in a non-sexual context. My primary definition would be that of any other human, but that is the point the shirt was not created by a human it could have picked the word based on another definition, such as Urban Dictionary like you mention.

>your argument is rather specious.

What arguement? I asked a question in context of the algoritm picking the word/phrase. For those offended, would it matter the intent/definition of the word? I did not make an arguement on behalf of any position.

As far as Urban dictionary, I do not think you are likely to find the word "deballatio" in the urban dictionary. My examples aside (which again are real life examples how I have heard it used, not how I have used it), I defined rape in a non-sexual context as a "deballtio", which admittedly is not a real definition and some could argue "debellatio" is as offensive if not more so than rape.
People actually use Bing?
lold that one
So where does all the cocaine go that's extracted from those coca leaves in New Jersey?
Too bad I can't downvote you. The first iPhone was awesome comparing to the 2nd best, namely, Nokia with its Symbian OS. I had both at the time. God, the iPhone was light years ahead.

OK, I will stop digressing. This is not a thread about iPhone.
hahaahahahaha
Does Sandberg actually do anything at Facebook?
It's no different at Carnegie Mellon. I spoke to a former SCS dean who revealed that cheating rates in CS courses are as high as 70%, yet most professors turn a blind eye (which as the Crimson article points out, may be attributed to apathy or inability to enforce class policy at a large scale).

The fact that academic dishonesty is so prevalent these days makes me inclined to believe that cheating is symptomatic of the state of higher education (and maybe the way pedagogy is approached in the modern classroom), especially in light of rising tuition and unemployment rates. When a majority of students across institutions resort to compromising their integrity and learning for a letter grade, at which point do we start reassessing education at large?
I don't see the Stack Overflow home page at all in my search results. http://imgur.com/3WHKhGv

Second link is the login page
I see this article as a battle plan. If we want to rid the world of C++ (and we as the programmers community certainly should in my opinion) it has to be done by building a language/platform that addresses the needs of the software mentioned.

Looking at the graph it amazes me Microsoft has not tried to tackle this more directly. C# and Haskell only attack the application level, why was there never an effort from them to improve the system level?
But you MUST, as a logical prerequisite, "break" the CSS protection to view the content.
Please don't ever comment again. Thanks in advance.
And here's why: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5411601/620239. Forgot to change that first occurrence after pasting it in. "Oh, it works. I'm done."
Show HN: StackX - Android application for all of Stack Exchange
How Government Spending Moves Public Opinion
Not that he's presumably anywhere near the end of his life - but does Tesla or SpaceX have a contingency plan should something happen to Elon Musk? Don't get me wrong - I absolutely love everything they're doing. It just scares the crap out of me that such a grand movement opposing very powerful forces is led by a single individual. Please tell me there's more brilliant leaders with the same mindset involved in his mission, ready to take the reins should the need ever arise.
"In those days people could very well see the socialist economy improving their standard of living, education, health care, etc."

That was primarily because the previous regime was terribly bad, not because the new one was terribly good.
I was lured by Bing Rewards. I plan to use it as my default for a month. So far, I'm content.
And how those things not only survive but flourish in the same environment. It's mind boggling that those designs can co-exist without immediate repercussions! The complexity through the times amazes me!
I've often wondered what all those extra bits of information mean and whether there's information encoded in there that I may not want to give someone.
It's 3rd on google.co.uk, after www.doioig.gov and Wikipedia
The power of .gov backlinks.
An application for all of Stack Exchange websites (stack overflow, super user, server fault, etc.).
* Browse any of the Stack Exchange websites with ability to write comment. (NO write for answer or question).
* Login and have access to your profile, inbox, questions, answers and favorites for each of your registered site.
* View syntax colored code.
* Notification on replies to your question, answer or comment.
* Provided the user has permission, the ability to post, edit or delete comment.
* Search and advanced search.
* Learn a topic by creating and saving your advanced search and choosing to add it as tab in the front page .

Request for feedback:

It will be really helpful to receive any kind of feedback. This is my first mobile application and I have zero prior experience with user experience or user interface design. So any critique or feedback will be nice.
however i did filter so similarly-spelt words are rejected. so perhaps it was similar to some other verb.

"Keep calm and ripen?"
That's brilliant, surprised that Google managed to rank them so highly because of it though!
> though I really wish Postgres could get native online clustering.

Tell the community - pg_reorg could be cleaned up, improved, and merged into core... and should be!
The process is representative of the complexity involved in something so pervasive that it almost replaces water.

It is the complexity and the pervasiveness that makes it mind-boggling.
How about this?

http://googl.com/#q=stack+overflow

Source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-shortest-google...
> signed up for 8.8Kw solar panel system for my house

How much power does it generate in a day? Will be enough to fully charge a Telsa?
I don't see a reason why they should implement the brand dilution that has caused so much pain for the other car manufacturers.
Google for "Groupon series D" or "Grouponzi".
Never use a case-sensitive file system for the OS volume. The OS itself is fine with it, but it breaks too many badly written third-party apps, including Adobe apps and Steam. I strongly recommend creating a read/write .dmg instead.
Yes. And DuckDuckGo. And Google.

Why give all your searches to one search engine and one company?

Depending on what you're searching for, Google doesn't always provide the best results.
I am working on a project, it is very basic at this point. Email me or provide your email and I will send you more information.
I interned at Microsoft so I've been using Bing since last May. Only really have issues with super obscure error messages that I encounter, since Google often indexes the source code that generates the error messages, and Bing just has nothing.
Happy birthday to us
In the UK it still uses sugar, and imho tastes a whole lot better than the HFCS version.
The way I understand it is that they are making an investment in Linux to allow their upcoming steam box to run Linux.

Also it allows (or will allow) users to avoid using Windows just to be able to play games. This is a good thing all around.
We're just very direct. There's not much value placed on unnecessary politeness or platitudes. The biggest social faux pas to a New Yorker is wasting our time.

Some people see that as us being rude and others actually appreciate it.
I think it's obvious that Rap Genius would be happy with a "I see how its a problem, let us fix it" quote from Heroku - just acknowledging that there is an underlying problem and that there is a future on the platform.
No, the fact that nothing makes it illegal is what makes it legal.

I'm sort of confused where this is coming from.
You pretty much need an Apple ID to use OS X these days, so if you don't trust Apple to not use the information it can/may be track(ing) against you I guess it would be a good idea to not use OS X. Personally, I don't really care...I already use the App Store so I'm already signed in, I guess...and getting automatic updates through one clean interface is way nicer than the previous Software Update / App Store cross, which was always annoying.

However, jackalope, I'm hoping you've seen the recent articles on using ChromeOS + Ubuntu on a Chromebook and you'll stop buying overpriced Mac hardware =D
Heroku API Unavailable
Note that Model S is not a first-generation car. It came after the Roadster. So it's more like an iPhone 3GS, which was a very solid phone.
Ah, personal attacks.
I'm not so quick to think that Heroku can't improve their routing. www.rapgenius.com resolves to four IP addresses/routers; why not one or two?
Well, here's an anecdote: when searching for "stack overflow", the first result is more relevant on Bing than on google. So yeah, a few people will go with that one.