skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time Team is the only example I'm aware of where proper scholarly research was created as a by product of popular television on a regular basis.

As the article states, "It is to the Channel’s credit that it did this [pump £4M into British archaeology]] despite much of that outlay being channelled into post-excavation work that never appeared onscreen."
Bad assumptions new tech entrepreneurs tend to make
Oh, sorry. I was under the impression that Evenote stored my files in plain text. Do you have information on what encrypted storage format the are using?
Neither SproutCore nor Ember compares favorably to Closure + Closure Compiler in terms of doing large web applications like Mail or GDocs.

Google has been producing and releasing web development libraries and tools for years not "recently".
There are more links on pages with the words "stack overflow" near the link, or with the anchor text itself "stack overflow", pointing to stackoverflow.com than to any other page on the web. Lacking additional context, the web teaches Google's algorithm that when someone is talking about "stack overflow", they are referring to stackoverflow.com more often than anything else.

If you made a website called "Nikon Cameras" today but the site had nothing about Nikon Cameras on it, it would not rank well for the search "Nikon Cameras". Other people writing about Nikon Cameras would not link to your site more often than something actually about Nikon Cameras.
What I said pretty much implies the opposite, so you may want to retract your endorsement ;-) There are various solutions to this problem but almost all involve some action on Heroku's part.
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For that matter, bankruptcy (at least the Chapter 11 variety) is failure in some sense, but is intended to allow the company to continue operating. You'll notice GM is still around.
I edited the answer so it says example.com now.
Again, that is hardly literary.

If you want literary use of "fucking" (there, I said it), then I would invite you and the repo owner to read "The Elements of Fucking Style" by Chris Baker and Jacob Hansen [1]. Maybe then you both would understand how to use the word.

Lastly, to help the situation I've decided to offer a helping hand to fix this problem, a pull request[2]!

Does anyone know if you can rename a repo with a pull request?

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-cking-Style-Helpful/dp/03...

[2] - https://github.com/undernewmanagement/heroku-fucking-console...

Edit: added a fixing pull request
What on that page makes you believe so?
Ok guys! Now take a look at these smart *aaS (SaaS, PaaS,...):
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What a shame.

That guy got girls drunk on Tequila, encouraged them to be stupid, filmed them, got them to sign off on it and for pay for humiliating themselves for life they got - money? Ha! Residuals? HA!

They got a t-shirt.

I hope this guy is eaten by snakes.
It's reserved per RFC 2606: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
That's disingenuous. The algorithm selects words, not meanings.
This was posted in 2010. A little long-winded for sure, but it's good to hear someone would have such positive things to say coming out of a 12-year tenure at Microsoft (I have a few friends headed there after graduation).

I remember reading this post of his titled "Ten Things I Hate About Working at Facebook" (http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/2012/08/ten-things-i-hate-abou...). It does sound like he's having a blast there- it'd be interesting to read a follow-up comparing the two companies.
I don't know about the Nvidia example, but both the 286 and 486 were damn nice boxes in their day, if you could afford them. The 286 was much better than the XTs, especially once the clock speeds ramped up. And the 486DX was a big win over having to pair a 386DX with a slow, expensive Weitek or 80387 chip.
Rape does not have a non-sexual context.
Why Five Days in the Office Is Too Many
Confirmed here too.

https://support.evernote.com/link/portal/16051/16058/Article...
In 2011, Wired posted[1] the transcript of conversations between Bradley Manning and Lamo, the man who informed on him. It's an interesting read and gives a window, albeit a small one, into his mental state and underlying motives.

I would not consider the transcript complimentary, it does not portray a high-minded, moral crusader. It portrays Manning, the depressed, confused, trans-gendered person, acting out against the Military Establishment.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs/
The Perils of Perfection
It's funny to see how common the tools he uses are :

Dell laptops, WinRAR, wget...

You would think the army has some fancy tech, apparently not.
It has been edited.

Here are the past revisions: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/5411601/revisions
Google results can dramatically change based on various parameters (location/time/browser/history/whatever-new-they-are-testing.) They presumably cram all this info into the search bar in case you want to repro the results.
SExpression.NET: an s-expression parser written in OMeta
Would you mind explaining why do you think we should get rid of C++? Do you have the same opinion regarding C (since you talked about the system level)?
Yes, because it's very frustrating when Someone is Wrong on the Internet and you're impotent to do anything about it. I know the feeling. :)
1) Yes, price does not necessarily mean value. But that is a really philosophical tangent (What is "value", bla bla bla etc.) that is pretty irrelevant. For all intents and purposes the two are interchangeable on the market. For all intents and purposes, the value of something economically is the highest price someone will pay for it.

2) >Groupon is Groupon. Groupon is not Silicon Valley, Groupon is not Amazon, Groupon does not represent any other company/industry other than itself. Do not go the Amazon, Webvan, etc. route, because mixing stories does not make the story any more right.

This argument is true in a tautological sense, but doesn't really provide a reason against comparing Groupon to other companies when valuing it. Yes, the fundamentals of Groupon matter, but growth in the abstract (not just YOY revenue growth) is difficult to evaluate. People will turn to other ways to evaluate companies, typically by comparing a company to other companies in the same sector. To give you an extreme example of this principle, VCs really don't care about an early startup's fundamentals. They'll look at the strength of the team and they'll evaluate (in a hand-wavy fashion, I acknowledge) the idea of the startup, and the reason they'll value, say, a YC startup with 3 co-founders at $6 million despite no revenue is because in their experience, they've seen companies with strong technical+operational teams return 100x. Yes, this example is not directly applicable to Groupon, since they did have revenue numbers to look at, but no doubt some people evaluated Groupon based on the idea of ecommerce growth.

I never thought Groupon was a good stock to buy. But I remember at the time that even though I saw that the fundamentals were weak, I personally could not be sure of myself because I saw my mother and many of her female friends (also mothers) buy tons and tons of Groupons. Hindsight is 20/20.

3) That is a terrible idea. How do you define "fairness?" Again, given that the inherent definition of "value" is essentially (in a market economy) the highest price someone is willing to pay, I don't see any situation in which a company's IPO would be canceled. In fact, this appears to be a de-facto price ceiling since you are essentially capping the valuation at whatever the SEC/auditor determines is the fair valuation, regardless of what people are willing to pay, something you will get virtually no economist to agree to. Last I heard, the SEC is not in the business of setting IPO prices (yes, you might argue that they're not technically setting the price, but the end result is that they are setting the price).
Well, you can call it whatever you like. But, I'd certainly prefer google self-driving car to a taxicab with a human driver. And I don't see how is that much different from a robot performing a routine operation by the way. So here goes these surgeon jobs, alongside with the cab drivers.
http://monster.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Software-Developer-I-...
http://monster.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Software-Developer-I-...
http://monster.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Software-Developer-I-...

So that does seem like the ballpark figure, with the following 2 caveats: I don't know how reliable Monster is for this kind of data, and I picked three cities off the top of my head roughly in the middle of the USA that I don't think of tech centres but I don't know how out-of-touch I might be in that regard.
"YOU are full of bullshit." (quote from Linus)

I'm pretty sure the Linux kernel uses C.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...

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Those don't count as we can't access them directly. The idea with solar is we can access it directly, but we are using indirect methods.
As you know (having been in ibanking), the IPO sales process of shares goes something like this:

1. The company and ibanks determine the offer price and offer the shares to institutional investor customers (ranging from mutual funds, money managers to other banks).

2. The banks then turn around and sell these acquired shares as "IPO shares" at the offer price pre-market-open to their clients. Basically, "financial advisors" at places like BoA, ML, JPM, etc move these shares onto their retail customer base.

3. The next day, the market opens and the shares start trading in the open market. Any "mom and pop" investor can buy the shares on market.

Now, the institutional investors in (1) have done their homework and think it's worth buying the shares, whether they intend to keep the shares or push them onto someone else soon. So they don't need to be "protected" (as long as the S1 is accurate).

What about the people in (2)? Well, the sophistication of these retail investors ranges from sophisticated to clueless. Actually, there's really no material differnece between (2) and (3), other than (2) having a bit more money on average than their (3) counterpars.

But what can you really do when all the necessary financial information of a company is presented in the S1? Retail investors have developed this strange notion that investing in common stock is this "easy" way to make money, when in fact it has always been an area where "you better know wtf you're doing". Do you prevent "clueless" people from buying shares at all? Do you similarly prevent "clueless" billionaires from buying Picasso paintings?

I mean you'd think that if the IPO price is too high, then the investors simply wouldn't buy. After all, if we consumers think a product is too expensive (whether it be a house, a car, or a phone), we'll exercise discretion and shy away from the purchase. The underlying issue (provided that the S1 information is reasonable and accurate -- which is one valid concern you raise) I think is the ignorance and unfounded optimism of the average retail investor towards IPO shares. TBH I don't see how this "retail investors getting wronged" phenomenon gets rectified unless these investors themselves become educated about basic investment principles.
Has anyone tried this? My two worries are that:

(1) OS X is different enough from NetBSD and pkgsrc's assumptions about how the OS is set up and what kind of base installation is available [compilers, linker and what not), so that I can't really expect that the average package will actually work; and

(2) It might not have the packages I need (possibly because of licensing issues). Homebrew, which I am using, is license-agnostic, whereas I think NetBSD excludes (L)GPL code?

A casual browse through the package list [1] shows me that it has many things I use, but also lacks many things I use. For example, it lacks Discount (the Markdown processor), rbenv (what I use to easily switch between Ruby versions), rbbuild (what I use to easily install Ruby versions), Node, Elasticsearch, Redis, Riak and Proctools (pkill etc.). Not too bad, but it means that any switch away from Homebrew will involve a lot of work with very little upside.

(Also, I notice NetBSD makes the same mistake as some Linux distros in creating packages for Ruby gems.)

As a side note, I know this is the *BSD way and all, but remembering a path to "cd" to in order to run "bmake && bmake install" seems silly in this day and age. Is there really no command-line tool that integrates this process, as well as the task of keeping the ports tree synced? "brew install" is so much simpler.

[1] http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/README-all.h...
3D printing on the frontlines: Army deploying $2.8M mobile fabrication labs
And what percentage of the 71 have been bailed out by the government at one time or another?
Great stuff. Thanks!
That sounds too easy. Also, if doioig.gov redirects to stackoverflow.com that just makes doioig.gov an alias for Stack Overflow. An alias shouldn't rank higher than the real thing.
The content is premium! Great job so far. The tool itself is a bit buggy (completed tasks are still showing as incomplete and progress is not being reflected).

I think it is an invaluable resource for founders. I hope the tool bugs get fixed.
An obvious omission: salt.
Nuclear regulation is a bear to work through.

The lower third of the United States, particularly the southwest, could migrate toward a more solar-based economy today, economically, without the red tape or regulation around handling radioactive fuel.

It isn't as ambitious or forward-thinking, but it is also vastly easier to get started.
ACM SIGMOD 2013 Programming Contest
Apple should buy Joyent immediately and put them in charge of the entire Service side of Apple (iCloud, etc.).

There isn't any better way for Tim Cook to spend that amount of money, full stop: Apple is getting it's ass kicked on the server side by Google, and they deserve it, because Apple doesn't have the talent and won't get it because, let's face it, who wants to work at Apple on server stuff that has any kind of skills?

Buying Joyent would change that overnight.
To watch a DVD you need to get around the CSS.

There is no authorised method to do this on Linux. Thus, anyone watching a DVD on Linux is circumventing an effective rights protection measure without authorisation. That's a crime in the US. (And similar actions are crimes in other countries too.)
Disclosure: I'm white.

I never thought of "thug" as conveying an implication of the subject being black. "Thug" to me is more of a attitude / mindset / way of life, not something that corresponds to race. IOW, it's as easy to be a white "thug" as a black "thug". In fact, now that I think about it, the context in which I usually think of the word "thug" is the phrase "jack booted thug" which has connotations of Nazis, who were - as far as I know - mostly white. The other thing the word "thug" brings to mind for me, is the stereotyped image of a big white (Italian, probably) guy in an expensive suit, working as an "enforcer" for some mafioso type or something.

Maybe it varies by region, age or other factors, but I would not think of myself as being racist towards blacks by using the word "thug".
Ask HN: Why aren't we using SSH passphrase keys for website logins?
Logging into one of my unix hosts, I merely enter

$ hostname.org.com

And I'm in. I'm in without specifying credentials every .. single .. time .. because I use SSH passphrase keys, with a passphrase.

I can do that because I took the trouble to setup my ssh key and copy it to my server's $HOME/.ssh directory, performed a little magic on it.

...

I had this thought the other day, when I was logging into gmail and work-help-desk and work's erp platform and the EDI tool .. all of it web based and all of it requiring me to specify userid/password ... why don't we do SSH passphrase keys for websites?

That is, a user would ..

- create a key
- push it to the web server
- when you login, web server looks for that key and ... you're in.

This - to me - would seem to be a lot easier than what we do now.

Inside a company we require a lot of userid/password keystrokes, one per application. Even with SSO (via LDAP or whatever) we still require these keystrokes.

In the wild internet to either remember userid/passwords, or store them in your browser, or use an add-on for that purpose. We're still using userid/password and that sucks, when you could simply point the login at your key and bang out a passphrase.

But we don't do this. The reason is probably simple, but I'm just not seeing why.
I wouldn't discount IBM so quickly- to my understanding IBM's been partnering with a lot of institutions to beef up Watson. I know Carnegie Mellon was quite involved through the whole Jeopardy showcase (I even got to watch him school contestants from local universities in Pittsburgh).

What's to say better software and algorithms won't be developed as a result of IBM's push to find new use cases for Watson? The article goes into great detail about how Watson has already contributed to the current AI landscape. I for one love that IBM's relocating Watson to a university where students will get to interface with the machine.

Haters gonna hate.
http://monster.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Software-Developer-I-...
> One of my goals was to eliminate the modes that plagued contemporary editors and attract people interested in ease of use and efficiency.

I certainly bought into this line of reasoning when I learned Emacs instead of vi all those years ago. These days I'm not so sure. Me, RMS, and most of my Emacs-using friends have developed carpal tunnel syndrome, while the people I know that use vi have mostly not. Furthermore I can feel my fingers hurt every time I have to type C-M-something or M-something C-something M-something C-something. This sort of stuff is rampant in Emacs, not to mention Eclipse and all the other IDEs that I know of, and from what I can tell of vi, seems to be less so in vi.
I honestly find "callback hell" a lot easier to follow and understand than the vast majority of fixes everyone is coming up with.

They're just continuations, seriously, what's everyone's problem? You define a function, it gets access to the current scope, it defines the rest of the program flow.

If you feel like your code is nesting too deep, you define the function elsewhere and just reference it by name. Then you don't get access to the current scope.

Why is this so difficult to people?
I didn't read through the comments of his "Ten Things" post, but it certainly reads to me as something wholly ripe with sarcasm, in fact mocking what is truly wrong with much of corporate America by complaining about these "flaws" found in Facebook.
> If people were informed about amazon not being the ones who are selling the t-shirts and the algorithmic nature of the t-shirt generation

Umm... Only on Hacker News does that count as a normal business model that one could possibly expect :)
Personally I found "learning to draw" process quite slow. Like most people, I thought it would be like learning a new language and probably bought some sort of tablet and started reading up on some tutorials. However I found the process almost unrepeatable when doing it on my own intuition. Ive been told I was much better at drawing when I was younger so I thought I would try and revive that "talent", and it was no easy process. I still have my wacom tablet, and still look in awe at the amazing illustation and digital artwork that people have done with these tools on DeviantArt.

If anyone has any suggestions/links to things that helped them the most in the process I would like to hear.
Yes, United States stopped using penal labor at twentieth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labour#United_States). Soviet Union at fifties.

I think 30 years lag is not soo bad considering level of social-economic development of USSR and USA.
I didn't realize that they were adding caffeine; I was under the impression it was a natural by-product of the ingredients.
Burst Training Workout
Sustainability has to come into it though. In some mediums this is less of a concern (wind perhaps), but it's paramount when it comes to hydrocarbons. The "cost" right now on sourcing energy from oil and coal does not reflect the true "price" when you take things like pollution into account. This needs to be quantified for all forms of energy collection and extraction in order to have a true representation of value/efficiency. Then solar starts to make a lot more sense.
Is it possible to craft a course that assumed that students would collaborate/copy from each other and the internet while completing any take home assignment (so homework and projects but not in-class tests), allow for it explicitly, and still teach as much as the existing courses would have if students didn't collaborate/copy?
I am a huge fan of Elon and have a lot of faith in anything he's involve in.

I am interested, however, in how this reconciles with the Innovator's Dilemma. He's starting at the top of the market and working his way down.

My possible explanation (assuming he will be successful) is:

There isn't enough of an existing market to be disrupted for the Innovator's Dilemma to apply. What I would be worried about here is the other electric cars that ARE on the market are on the lower end (comparatively. The Leaf is $23,000 vs Tesla @ $52,000).

Nissan is working on using cheaper tech, and then will find ways to improve that cheaper tech versus Tesla using expensive tech and finding ways to make it cheaper.

Opinions?
I think that a couple of states in the US southeast still make use of chain gangs and labor.
By contrast, you can make wine from a single ingredient. And it's an awful lot better than coke.
You would have to transport the key to each computer you want to log in from. You couldn't just sit down at a friend's laptop and log in to your account on a website.
I'm not sure intent even does matter, when we're talking about something a computer wrote.
It's a real shame to have a language this high level, yet still have to go through this much crap just to get things done. Manual memory management is easier than this. But while including GC in the runtime has it's drawbacks, there is no reason that a language can't just handle task switching for you (like Go does, for example).
Prime Yourself for Advice
Well, most of the time I already know the site best suited for my queries (e.g., SO for programming, amazon for shopping, wikipedia for facts, Wolfram Alpha for calculations etc), so DuckDuckGo's bang syntax really comes in handy. Google is astonishingly good at parsing vague queries, but otherwise DDG or Bing are pretty much OK.
Secret: One of the reasons I want to get a good job is so I can afford a Tesla... Don't tell anyone.
$52,000 in 2006 is worth $58,991.30 now.

$52,000 now was worth $45,658.39 in 2006.

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi
It seems like this problem would be elegantly solved by starting a thread, green thread or coroutine (depending on language) for each task and calling the API functions synchronously from within that. I'm not sure what support JS has for these things.
That link sadly does not work for me who uses iGoogle (for now) on google.co.uk.

If it's a short URL you want, then http://bit.ly/YUJZLu. But you'll have to trust me when you click that as you've no idea where it'll take you to.
FWIW, Andrew is one of the smartest founders I've met (and I've met a lot).
I think you mean "surprisingly 71 companies survive from the original 1955 Fortune 500".
Where do you get apples permission to install mutt? They're only going for a developer id. Put in bogus information if you want.

I guess I don't see this as being a freedom issue at all. From my vantage it seems over the top. And this is from someone thats used linux since 1997ish and osx since whenever 10.3 was. Seems over reactionary to me.