skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"you need to be in shouting distance or at least on the same floor"

What is, this a trading floor? For something that requires as much uninterrupted focus as coding, being within "shouting distance" of someone seems like the worst idea ever.
This was meant to be a reply to
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5352710
Thank you! I'm the guy who made it. It's very nice hearing these words from you. I remember checking out your blog many times in the past :)
Too much fun. Setup a simple 'chess puzzle' website that grabs a captcha every time someone wins, forward the result and you get to post.
And some audiophiles would pay up to $500 for a wooden volume knob: http://boingboing.net/2005/11/07/astronomically-overp.html. I don't quite trust those people's judgement.
That's, uh, not a checkmate. Kxb1
You may be confusing kHz sample rate with kbps bit rate.

I do not think you can distinguish 48kHz vs 192kHz over bad earbuds; I have my doubts that most people can tell even on high-end equipment.

An in-depth technical exploration of the issue here: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
I think it's an issue with hardware acceleration on Linux :(
I'm still trying to figure out why ICANN charges what
it does for just registering a domain name. Yes--close
to $7.00 a year is too much for what they actually do.

If you have a problem with your domain name, and try to
go up against Corporate Lawyers--you're in for a loosing,
expensive battle.

That $7.00 times millions equalls a lot of money, but they
won't, actively, defend your rights with competent lawyers.

The whole name game has irritated anyone involved with
website design, at least in my world.

In the end, the poor and middle class webmasters need to
stick together, and fight Corporate Abuse of Power.
Mental ill and nature life
In the light of the knowledge that mental illness is often transmitted by heredity
And the coexistence with psychiatric patient may not be as quiet
So there is a dilemma presents itself:
Does mental ill could marry and get family?
as he carry the life reason for kids and give them misery

http://withbipolardisorder.blogspot.com/
Thank you :) The technology has matured to such an extent that I think we'll see many great things in the immediate future.
Meh. too flat
The same people who buy towers to lift their cables from the floor, perchance?

Unless that $5000 rig is a perfectly engineered house (which it may well be, I admit), it don't make a diff. Especially if the furniture moves, a dog comes into the room, there's movement outside, a butterfly alights in Brazil....

There's a lot shared between oenophiles and audiophiles whose perceptions are seriously skewed by their expectations - as are all of ours, of course.
Thanks :) I had a lot of fun making it!
This compiles:

Func<string> func = () => "foo";
string result = func();
Stone Age headline: "Critics decry new bow and arrow technology: Will lead to world wars with nuclear weapons, automated drone strikes against civilians."
Instead of changing the name, how about making sure licensed digital "goods" receive all of the legal protections afforded other goods: warranties, first sale, the whole package.

Those concepts have a legal origin because we believed consumers actually had some rights that you shouldn't be able to simply whisk away just because you are a more powerful negotiator. Apparently we decided those basic protections, enshrined by both code and common law, are overrated for an emerging sector of the economy. It was an odd conclusion, decided in a funny way where no citizen nor Senator ever cast a vote and where the open policy discussion on this core economic issue was muted and invisible.

It's time to stop pretending nothing changed.

The solution is a completely unsexy thing: we need to revise the classification of goods in the intro to the UCC, the "Universal Commercial Code," then get states to actually adopt it. We need to completely re-examine the way goods are distinguished from services at common law so that selling a piece of software with no support agreement is a good while mowing a lawn stays a service.

This isn't the moonshot of legal theory, we should be able to handle it without completely breaking society.
"90% of car accidents caused by self driving system errors."
So if you had to double your servers (say to 140) would you be at loss?

I hope that this is just the initial phase of the company (although not too initial since you need 70 instances) and that you will get to a better margin along the way. Otherwise ANY bump you hit road ahead will break you.

Competing on a market that relies entirely on price is a death sentence, unless of course this is your plan.
I found it very constraining. It was good as an "enhanced" key-value store. But, if you planning to use it like a regular database, you would need SCAN, that scans the entire table:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9206424/scan-on-key-attri...
In case you don't get many comments, here's the lengthy discussion from last time this was submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3840979
Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
Both Microsoft and Apple have patents in the H.264 patent pool. It is in their interest for H.264 licensees to go through MPEG-LA; it is not in their interest to give away sublicenses.
Of course some bar is already banning Google glass.
The biggest hurdle might be finding some way to make the sharing of cheap or free software still viable, but this should be manageable. People are able to do favors for their neighbors like take their kids to school or shovel their driveways without facing crushing liability from service contracts. Surely we can find an out for shareware.

Or maybe I'm overly optimistic. Again, we'd have to roll up our sleeves and work this stuff out, but I don't put it out of humanity's reach to balance the freedom to share code against the right of consumers to resell digital goods.
I bought that book too. I was skeptical after reading some of the author's blog but decided to take the plunge. Just twelve bucks, so whatever. After reading it I'm certain most of those reviews are faked or the work of the author's friends.

This book is just a slideshow. The chapters are tiny, and there's very little useful content, just a bunch of "do it this way because we say so." No real justification or understanding here. Author hasn't made anything substantial with Django, and his understanding of Python itself is lacking.

People have been request a free sample chapter since the beginning, and he keeps saying that he's getting one ready. You see a free chapter, and you're much less likely to want to buy the rest.
This needs something that shows how it works. I wouldn't sign up with no visuals.
Claiming the TSA agents at the airport are the first line of defense is idiotic thinking. If the bad guys get that far then everything else has failed. They are the last line, and not a very good one. (Bad guys can try multiple times, and use multiple people - they just need one to get through while the TSA needs to stop every single one.) The other thing/something else is good old fashioned police work and intelligence to discover/prevent the plots before they reach the stage of people at the airport.

The TSA could never be perfect - consider the example of prisons where there are essentially no rights, lots of searching, controlled access etc. Things still get through.

And even if they stopped everything getting on planes, they are still reacting to a tactic which has repeatedly been the problem. The bad guys can just blow up queues at the airport, or a mall, or a stadium, or a highway. There is no shortage of targets or methods that will instil fear. (Good old fashioned police work and intelligence should be tactic agnostic.) The reality is that not that many people actually want to be bad guys, and a US policy of not giving people reasons would be a good one.
how many applicants does hacker school actually get?
Excellent points. Still, "powerful" is defined by client needs (especially performance) and client needs are based on 30 years of expectations derived from the relational model (even if most clients have no idea that's what they want).

If you're exposed to the accretion of business requirements you do not control, you'll eventually be pushed toward a definition of "power" that relational databases meet the best... except when the dataset gets large.

What you say is still true, of course, and will only become more true over time. As more work is put into technologies, they tend to become more well-rounded. Languages that used to have awful performance (100x C) are now closer to 3-5x, for one example. The best NoSQLs now have many of the traditionally relational benefits, and the best relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) are overcoming traditional deficits associated with "relational".
It's not in the sense that there is no social interaction between "peers" and can't be. They just reduce Spotify traffic bills for their own money.
The way I look at it, there are three classes of companies when we talk about this issue. There's the "changes the landscape of the world" level, there's the "massive disruption to a segment", and then there's "incremental improvement on something".

None of the companies in this list are, IMO, in the first class. Self-driving cars, insulin injections, freedom from oil, eradication of common diseases, the internet, semiconductors, the smartphone, etc, IMO all fall under this category.

The second class is where I see AirBnb, Facebook, Square, and the such. They've turned their respective industries upside down with something genuinely different and new (as opposed to simply executing better at lower cost).

IMO the majority of your list belongs in the third class - they're great products, but ultimately they are incremental improvements in their field and have not shown themselves to be disruptive. How has Pinterest changed the world? Or Groupon?

Funny anecdote about Groupon - I've talked to some small business owners way back when Groupon was at the tip of everyone's tongues, and it was never perceived as a disruptive force. Business owners considered them an evolution of coupon books, and treated it as a new, alternative marketing channel - it was never truly disruptive.

The whole point of the original post is that we're funding an ocean of "class 3" companies, a small handful of "class 2" ones, and basically none in class 1.
Allowing small knives is the most reasonable thing they've done in recent memory.

They already allow scissors, which are really just two knives pinned together...
Fairly certain he means it as "be in the same room", "be present", "don't be in your high and mighty office". It's a phrase that doesn't actually mean shouting.
"If he doesn't remember with precision, that's fine. Of course. Report it that way. Simple standard.
What isn't fine is reporting precision that doesn't exist."

"Why are Elon's defenders hung up on this? It's a red herring."

I don't see how it's fine to just push blatant dishonesty to the side..yea it's understandable for people not to remember with precision - which is why journalists/reviewers take notes. We as the reader accept that when a journalist presents (and later defends) precise numbers that are put toward their argument that there is some basis of accuracy to it. When logs show up refuting these claimed accuracies then you start to wonder where else have similar things been 'skewed'.
You're right, I'm a bit rusty, not having written anything large in C# for a couple of years. The compiler can't infer the type, so it would be:

Func<string> foo = () => "foo";
func()

I'm well aware of the difference between an anonymous function and an expression in C#. What in your example suggests that you should be using an expression? In practice, you never need to work with expression trees unless you're doing metaprogramming of some kind. They were added to the framework primarily to support metaprogramming and support the DLR.

LINQ (or at least "LINQ to Objects") does not use expression trees. For example, this is the signature of the Select() extension method:

public static IEnumerable<TResult> Select<TSource, TResult> (this IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, TResult> selector) { ... }

Note the lack of Expression<Func<>>.

Things like LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework translate these statements into expression trees, but they do it transparently inside the framework.

My point in bringing up Java is that in order to do something like what we're talking about, you'd have to jump through a whole bunch of hoops. It certainly would be more difficult than in C# -- which is really what matters more than the "purity" of the language.
> Seriously, fuck off with the flat UI already! I can't express it in any more politely

Apparently you can.

Regardless: ull/6342#issuecomment-12332378
Gradients and other embellishments have temporarily been removed while I focus on other things. It has nothing to do with skeuomorphism or anything like that.
Modern mixing tends to over use dynamic range compression to make everything loud, rather than allowing a full dynamic range.

Thus, when comparing vinyl to MP3 you might not be comparing like with like.
Eg. look at what happened to AMD after Core 2 replaced NetBurst.
Reading this brought me back to all the comments surrounding the Facebook IPO.

There were a bunch of people using the fact that the stock didn't pop and that they had to use the greenshoe to prop up the price as a sign of failure when in fact it was really a way to approximate the dutch auction process by overselling and then pulling back to get to market equilibrium.

Then there were all the investors saying they were hurt by the IPO because it didn't pop and they couldn't sell it a few hours after buying it, so they took a loss. They then argued that this was a bad move because now Facebook stock had a bad name in the markets which would hurt more long-term than if they had just submitted to common practice by giving them some free profits for doing no work.

The old days of making 4x returns in a few hours of busy work on a trading terminal must have been really nice.
Yo: Gender neutral pronoun emerges in Baltimore school children
David Wheeler has an interesting list of what he considers to be important software innovations. [1] Most of the innovations listed occurred in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

An interesting quote from an article[2] about an interview with Linus Torvalds in LWN.net:

"A member of the audience asked Linus to describe his single most memorable moment from the last 20 years. Linus responded that he didn't really have one; the kernel is the result of lots of small ideas contributed by lots of people over a long time. There has been no big "ah ha!" moment. He went on to describe a pet peeve of his with regard to the technology industry: there is a great deal of talk about "innovation" and "vision." People want to hear about the one big idea that changes the world, but that's not how the world works. It's not about visionary ideas; it's about lots of good ideas which do not seem world-changing at the time, but which turn out to be great after lots of sweat and work have been applied."

[1] http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/445687/
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342#issuecomment-...
Gradients and other embellishments have temporarily been removed while I focus on other things. It has nothing to do with skeuomorphism or anything like that.
Oh whoops, I had the orientation of the board upside down haha. My mistake.
This is basically David Simon's journalism in a nutshell as formulated by Campbell:

The more any quantitative social indicator is use for
social decision-making, the more subject it will be to
corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to
distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended
to monitor.

Michelle Rhee's tenure is a cautionary tale that people insist to not learn anything from.

Gotta juke them stats.
I use Gill Sans on Presentations! Interesting bit of trivia/factoid about Gill Sans!
Anticaptcha is easy to implement: just ask for some straightforward heavy calculation and require quick response (less than a second).
Genius is ... [comic]
this looks really good! Is the source available?
Unless you are buying at a shop in a different country, in which case your bank isn't in the list of valid banks.
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342#issuecomment-...
Gradients and other embellishments have temporarily been removed while I focus on other things. It has nothing to do with skeuomorphism or anything like that.

Also, considering the nature of Bootstrap, the UI design is always optional.
Sadly, the contractors of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars would probably be cheaper and more effective.
My point was that it doesn't support the "technology is neutral" meme. A world with antibiotics is always going to be better than one without them. The worst you can do with them is make them less beneficial.
I am flagging this.

I am flagging this precisely because I believe the Hacker School experience is valuable and yet you offer a sexist and discriminatory grant to women.

Hacker School is valuable due to the experiences, the education, and the networking opportunities.

Do you offer scholarships for living expenses?
We offer a limited number of $5,000 need-based grants for women to do Hacker School. You can apply for a grant simply by checking the box that you need financial assistance on our application form.

It is within your rights to offer this grant. But I see no reason why your sexist bullshit should be advertised without complaint at Hacker News.

Would you feel comfortable offering such a sexist grant to men only?

Do you feel comfortable about traditional "old boys networks", the existence of such were one valid reason that women's groups protested men's only clubs, men's only dining rooms, etc.?

They why do you perpetuate sexism within the industry?

Either your students need financial aid or they don't.

I have a similar aged nephew and a niece that would benefit from Hacker School, but you will only enable one of these people to attend. That's sexism, and that's not the fault of patriarchy, nor the fault of male engineers, that's Hacker School bullshit.

So I flagged this.
> I can't speak for Chef/Puppet but I tried in the past to incorporate Fabric into my workflow but I couldn't find a fabfile that worked out of the box [...]

You should think of a fabfile as a glorified shell script (or Makefile). So, instead of writing your own shell script that uploads your assets to your remote box, restarts Apache, etc. and then adjusting your script to run on multiple boxes, you can just write a simple Fabric task or two that does the same thing (with minimal configuration). Chef/Puppet are completely different tools than Fabric. In fact, the two are complementary[1].

I totally recommend Fabric to beginners because it builds on what you should know, i.e. how to write simple shell scripts, and it makes life easier.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdkAXM36C7M (DevOps for Python: Fabric + Chef)
I would probably like participating in something like this, but it's not really an option being on-site. Seems like it's geared towards students on summer leave, and not those who may already have a job or other obligations.
Simply delightful. I spent a good amount of time flying through the terrain attempting to avoid the mountains. Thank you!
Tools. All data processing tools right from analytics to integration need to work with the datastore. RDBMS has accumulated these tools for so many years.
It is not a level playing field for NoSQL to beat that ecosystem.
I had a single IP on a customers 10M-bit fiber line get DDoSed for what seemed like no apparent reason. We had the ISP blackhole just that IP and the issue went away, but it was a real WTF on why it happened, and no it wasn't some ones accidental DNS mistake.
Really beautiful work, Stavros.
Very cool. Are you using occlusion queries for the lens flare sprite? This something I implemented recently in my engine. Eventually I want to do something like this... http://john-chapman-graphics.blogspot.com/2013/02/pseudo-len...
Don't use Fabric, Fabric isn't for provisioning. Use Salt/Ansible (my current favorite)/Chef/Puppet/etc.
This is the bug that made me lose all confidence in Canonical and switch distributions. In 10.04, they cared about integrating a Twitter client into the panel, but failed to notice that the system load never went below 1.
SXSW: How Mobile Devices Are Changing Africa
Thank you :) I'll clean it up a bit and make it public soon!
Could you please complete my study on workplace nootropic use?
Mozilla won't bring Firefox to iOS until it can use its own rendering engine
Thanks CamperBob2! :)
There is a lot to be done with data accumulated in current databases like http://rcsb.org, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, etc. This work doesn't require any wet lab.

If you want to do wet lab work, I would recommend to get at least few months of experience in a managed biology lab.
All results will be shared on HN!

If you have any suggestions for how I should change the questions, I'm all ears.
> lens flare is ubiquitous in photography, hence its absence in a computer generated images can be conspicuous

wait, what? Lens flare is not common in photography.
Honestly I'm not sure if I should be surprised at how high the cost is, or how low it is. I can't tell if $11 per passenger is ridiculous or not.

How do we put this cost in context?
Runs super smooth 60 fps on my Thinkpad with Nvidia Quadro 2000 on Windows 7. Very well done.
Logic Programming is Underrated
What's the motive for destroying building 7 when the much larger twin towers had already collapsed? The marginal impact of destroying a smaller building seems completely insignificant. Most people aren't even aware of those smaller buildings that were destroyed.
Not sure you read my reply? (note the italics part below)

>> MS-Word as a product is intended for the "write it, and then print it" market (whether the actual printing happens or not is another thing altogether), and for that demographic, the typographic convention is Serif for body text

Same convention holds true for typesetting packages like Quark/InDesign/LaTeX, etc. The established convention for documents cranked out is what I mentioned earlier... So regardless of parent poster's/your opinions [0] on this topic, the choice is mixed up because body text ought to be Serif (and heading something else if needed).

[0] it's not the design choice that's wrong, but the assumptions about who Word is now intended for
(Hacker School founder here)

It's varied a good amount by batch, but for our past couple batches, we've gotten a few hundred. That said, I don't think looking at raw numbers is particularly useful, because many (most?) of the people we say no to fall into one of these categories:

* the applicant says he/she wants something very different from what Hacker School is (e.g., a highly structured curriculum, some sort of "startup school", etc)

* the applicant has never programmed before (we don't require much programming experience, but you need to have coded enough to know if you actually enjoy it. See: https://www.hackerschool.com/faq#faq-how-much-experience)

* the applicant doesn't appear to actually like programming

* the applicant didn't take the application seriously, or provided little to no information in the application

If you have a clear idea of what Hacker School is and you're a smart and friendly person who enjoys programming (whether you've been programming for two months or ten years) and want to get dramatically better, your odds of getting in are pretty high.

I hope this helps!

Edited to fix formatting