skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The republicans would have all hackers in jail and on sex-crime registries because you know...they are tough on crime. Not saying democrats are better, but I give republicans no cred on these issues based on their history alone.
I think this shows the problem that people like me have with design.

I don't notice good design. Things just work and everything is where it should be. It's taken hundreds of years of collected wisdom and research and skill to get it like that, and someone has worked very hard to make it so I don't notice their work.

I do notice when someone draws a willowy slender tree on the side of a towerblock. It'd be great to have more shrubbery and trees up high, but at least they could do it realistically. And I get the impression that they forget about all the root system and maintenance and etc.

England has a problem with terribly dull architecture.
I agree. Ender's Shadow (the story of Bean) is also ok, but Card gets a little to deep into religion for my taste.
What's different is awareness. Child abductions, police brutality, etc. are now far better publicized.

Even so...

A girl was grabbed on her way to my son's elementary school and later found dead on a secluded beach, having been violated.

It's hard to not freak out. I absolutely was an over protective father. Intellectually, I knew the risk to my son was infinitesimal. But why chance it?

By comparison...

A classmate of mine was grabbed, but broke free, on her way to school. We were all freaked out about it. But parents didn't start driving their kids to school en masse.

Maybe our parents were pollyannas.
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>People can navigate a web page.

Barely. Perhaps you never read the complaints people have about webpage navigation, or noticed that almost no user understands hierarchical URLs.

You know what the top Google searches are? Stuff like "fb", "facebook", "twitter" etc. Because people cannot even understand they can write the URL on the address bar or remember it.

>They can find a food item in a menu or in the supermarket.

You kidding me? People can barely find stuff in the supermarket, and only after searching and scanning with their eyes the shelves. For items they haven't bought in a while, they have to check the sings over every isle, or ask a supermarket employee.

Really bad example.
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I think this is about on par with making programming mandatory in (elementary) school.
Yep, but trees are big, so the enclosure will have to be similarly massive.

One thing not mentioned in the article: roots. Tree roots get everywhere and have no respect for the clean lines of your skyscraper. They are also capable of going anywhere it damn well pleases - anyone who's seen tree roots break concrete sidewalks and barriers can attest to that.

Whatever trees we put on skyscrapers won't last very long. You'd have to destroy them/replace them every few years.
Thanks very much for the information; I had completely missed that particular meme until now.
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I'll politely offer some dissenting opinion regarding Scala for the Impatient. I found that it really doesn't live up to its name if you have done any FP before, ever, even in Scheme or Lisp, because Horstmann treats functional programming like a somewhat advanced topic, and doesn't really address it in the first dozen chapters, instead covering file IO, regular expressions, and packages before higher order functions and pattern matching. When he gets to it, FP is covered at an introductory level at first. Instead I think it would have been better titled "Scala for the Impatient Java developer", because it doesn't really get to the meat of what makes Scala different from ML and Haskell very quickly.

Even as a beginner text, I think it's a bit lacking due to hurried presentation. This Coursera class is a far, far better presentation of intro FP, and a much better intro to Scala IMHO.
I've found that seems to happen with most novel series. I guess they suffer just as movie sequels do. From my experience, on average, quality is maintained for the first two books, and then it starts to nosedive.
Perhaps you need to think of this hack as something that is useful not in the case of when you are stuck in a place for only 4-5 hours, but instead something for when you deliberately plan to be off the grid for more than 4-5 hours.
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Scroll down further. I almost missed it too for some reason due to the page structure, so I understand, but he does address that quite directly.
FWIW Speaker For The Dead also won both the Hugo & Nebula awards. It's fairly different from Ender's Game, so I can see why some folks might not like it but I thought it was pretty good. It's worth checking out at least.
That link about AllowOverride is true. The reason I didn't mention it is that one of the benchmarks I saw did turn off AllowOverride so I figured at least that part was fair :) But it is a very good point. I think I'll do a talk soon about tuning apache and make sure that's in there. Optimizing with strace is always really fun. I used it pretty heavily when I was researching php/apc and require/require_once. It's amazing how much faster you can get if you implement things to not talk to the disk 20x on every request :)

I definitely know VIRT is complicated. I couldn't find any kind of clarity on it. If you know of a good guide I'd love to see it.

That said, virtual memory still likely affects some kernel decision-making. For instance the oom-killer was kicking in on a daily basis until I made these changes. With mpm_worker using 250+ threads, I was able to reduce the "committed" by several gigs. The system overall seems more stable and the oom-killer hasn't reared its head in days.

I can imagine that the stack is treated differently since it'd be a terrible idea to page out stack. I couldn't find proof, but if I were a kernel I wouldn't page out stack :)
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I definitely agree with most of your points especially understanding and using the product. It would infuriate me when people would walk into a Zipcar interview having never even considered signing up. My only concern is how long do you wait after starting to use the product before reaching out? <1 week shows you signed up just for the interview, a month seems reasonable but too soon to say you're a super user, while anything longer means you're spending less time w/o a job...unless you're still banking.
Brilliant. The fish segment is comic gold.
When I was learning JS last year, coming from a background using other languages (Python, Actionscript, Java), this was the first book I read. It helped me immensely. Obviously AS3 shares a LOT of DNA with JS, but Crockford's funnel paved the way. Certainly not the be-all-end-all, but for a book I was able to read in an afternoon, I give it high marks.
>It became such a pain in the ass for audio users that a new inter-app standard, AudioBus, was given the greenlight by Apple after accumulating signups from thousands of musicians who wanted to push audio & MIDI data between apps.

AudioBus doesn't have anything to do with sharing files on some folder. It's about passing audio and midi information around, which is different. You can do that, and still have every application perfectly isolated and deletable at will.
Guinigi Tower's height doesn't come close to that of a modern skyscraper.
There is a timing script on the page called time07min.js which is minified so painful to read but there are some "waiting x seconds" to reload - I suspect a cunning and amusing take on time and relationships displayed in slow motion across your browser window. It will probably be full of pathos too.
I cannot recommend this course enough. The lectures and assignments are very well organized. It was worth every minute, and I look forward to a "level 2" FP course from this instructor.
I was about to read Enders Game, and while looking for reviews, I came across a piece regarding his homophobia. I'm really glad, I would have been really upset if I discovered after I had read the book. I can't change the world for the better, but I can choose not to put my money in the hands of bigots.
He lists several. Actually, most of the article is listing these conditions.

> It’s hot, cold, windy, the rain lashes at you, and the snow and sleet pelt you at high velocity.

> Wind is perhaps the most formidable force trees face at that elevation. Ever seen trees on the top of a mountain? Their trunks bow away from the prevailing winds.

> Next let’s add extreme heat and cold to the mix. [Long paragraph of explanation]. The surface of a leaf—especially in direct sunlight, as on the unshaded side of a skyscraper—can be many degrees hotter than the air, up to 14 degrees C in some species (nearly 26 degrees F).
Are you thinking of https://svbtle.com/ ? Yeah mine looks similar but I assure you, it wasn't ripped at all!
Here's an interesting and very relevant TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/danny_hillis_the_internet_could_cra...

The Internet was not conceived to be what it has become. Having had a front row seat to watch it go from academia to what it has become today one can only be in awe of what --I'm gonna say it-- private enterprise, capitalism and the drive to succeed can produce. Yes, it is not perfect. What project at this scale is?
EDIT: As mietek points out below, the site does provide precisely this information.

I guess that every answer that the site gives could link back to an authoritative source (such as a site run by the government of the destination country), in order to give you an opportunity to verify that the information is correct.
This is not about good design, this is about whether it's possible.

If it was possible it would certainly not be a bad idea as it would allow for even more interesting types of architecture.

So you might not notice it, but you do reap the benefits of good design (which should not be confused with aesthetics)
There's that "document technology" canard again. It never fails to appear.

So your suggestion on how to make the web better is to abandon it. Okay, your input here is done.
This is something I think Martin Odersky did really well in this class... he spent a decent amount of time discussing tradeoffs between FP and OOP and how one might arrive at choosing the different features of Scala, even going so far as to cover the "expression problem" in Scala. I think it was a superbly tasteful presentation of Scala and FP.
Ben -- since you're around, and it seems to be "struggle with getting started with X.js week" around these parts ... I figure I should ask you about this:

> which is what causes problems for a lot of people
> when getting to grips with it (myself included).

What exactly did you have a hard time coming to grips with?
Nice hack. I would have liked to see some power draw measurements on this. The LiPo battery is a good source of power, however if the draw is low enough, a portable solar power source would allow for indefinite usage (perhaps even charging the LiPo, which would be used as a night time power source only).
It's not that you're a heretic (I do my work using ST2 on Ubuntu), it's just that stcredzero said TM was "one of the best free editors out there." So comparing it to a non-free editor is irrelevant to that comment.

If you said Chrysler was one of the best American car companies, and I said "They've got nothing on Toyota", then that would be a silly thing for me to say.
This is just awesome.
This is what the web needed.
Globo.com will be the next Google, keep an eye on it.
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Concerning, James Simmons!
coderdude, Founder of wrapbootstrap.com

I'm a seller on wrapbootstrap.com
Recently, About 3 weeks ago. I published a new theme.
Now the process requires wrapbootstrap staff to review and publish it for selling. Usually it takes about 2-3 days.

But I'm worried about the status of my theme.
I've tried to contact the wrapbootstrap.com staff through
wrapbootstrap.com/contact

The policy says, "Please allow us 24 hours to respond".
It's been 3 weeks.
James, If you're reading this. Man.. I need a reply. Soon.

Contact me at nanu.clickity@gmail.com
I had a similar experience buying a MiG-17 as my primary vehicle to commute to work 17 miles away. The DMV was initially not happy about my taking off and landing on quiet highways, but luckily they became more understanding after many letters. How much did you end up paying for your CVBG?
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One of the best resources for PostgreSQL is the online documentation - I've hardly seen a F/OSS project with a better written documentation. The only drawback is that it is quite verbose and it's easy to get lost. You might want to start with the official tutorial [1] and might also check the dated "MS-SQL to PostgreSQL Migration" (from 2001) [2] which still provides some nice transition tips.

Make sure to check the "Postgres Guide" [3] which is a recent addition and is excellent to get you started quickly.

The quick intro by Packt Publishing [4] looks useful and concise as well, but is not as good as the Postgres Guide.

Since you're familiar with the RDBMS concepts I would suggest you take a look at the nice "PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook"[5] which has a solid collection of recipes that you can use to learn the specifics of the DB and a bunch of nice features.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/tutorial.html

[2] http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server_to_Post...

[3] http://www.postgresguide.com/

[4] http://www.packtpub.com/article/introduction-to-postgresql-9

[5] http://www.amazon.com/dp/1849510288/

edit: fixed the link to postgres guide.
Okay, so you make an argument, when I say it is wrong and that I am going to critique it formally you say that 'of course it was wrong, I wrote it to be ridiculous' because apparently responding to what you are saying and not just accepting it is 'starting a logic pissing contest', then you go on to reassert the thing that you have not proved where the only argument you have made for it is laughable... fuck off troll.

edit: Also you mischaracterise my entire point. Not surprising given your sloppy thinking. It isn't anything to do with 'whether an act of sexism is verifiable sexism'. It also isn't 'power dependent' - power is only an aspect or manifestation of structure that is easy to talk about. You'll note (if you can read) that in the post where I discuss power I have first an example of a simple non-symmetrical situation that is analogous to sexism (to do with exerting power), then I talk about sexism. I have nowhere said that institutional sexism is solely about power differentials or power relations.
Isn't this exactly what the site does? If you're snarking on the parent poster, then your subtlety went over my head.

Example: http://www.doineedavisafor.com/visa/polish-citizen/travellin...

"Source: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/citizen/move-live/index_en.htm

Last checked: 4 March, 2013"
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Still, his point that creative works should be viewed in a vacuum holds merit. If the work itself doesn't express something you disagree with, then there is no reason to rail against it.

Our creative works can be better than we are.
In the US, you'd be lucky to make $9/hour working at McDonald's, generally (may vary by region)
In nature you get trees halfway up spires of rock, for sure. But they are scrubby, scraggy, dwarfed, wind-bent, un-photogenic, and uncommon.
Mister Spock has a 30 foot tall oak tree on top of a building for many years now, http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3228/2896752060_d5bd34df28_z.j...
No, she just finds it fun that the US has decided to call themselves by the common name of two continents.

I will propose that Norway call itself the United States of Europe and we start calling ourself europeans and poke fun at the EU.
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When I was a kid in the early 90s, my dad took us to a Navy retirement in Philly that was on the deck of a mothballed battleship. (Maybe the USS Iowa?) It was really cool, but the ship was also pretty much completely closed off. I think they had a couple of compartments open on the deck level to provide storage for chairs and stuff. So not too much fun for exploration.
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At 15 I was learning how to binge drink, smoke weed competitively, disrupt class, and use my fists offensively/defensively.

So ya, I might have some advantage in the EQ department, but I regret having blown my youth in school.
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The expense makes tree'd buildings a show of conspicuous consumption not "green". This IS marketing genius in that it appeals to both the "ha ha I'm richer than you" crowd and also at least superficially to the wanna be greenies.

There is a certain "startup wisdom" to it in that one way to save marketing dollars is to appeal to two groups at the same time. Maybe a very crude tech example would be facebook being a workforce automation system for teen girls social interactions AND also for their mothers, sorta. There are cars like that, the Prius was cool enough from a technological standpoint that I got one quite a few years ago although I don't care about the mileage, yet it also appeals to the greenies as being lower eco impact or something. You can be a success only appealing to one group, but if you can appeal to two for free, why not?
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Have an NES game you're particularly fond of? Load it up in the latest fceuxdsp and start playing around with the debugger, RAM/ROM/PPU viewers, trace logger, etc. Try to figure out where the level data is stored in the ROM, how it's loaded into RAM and converted into name tables, how the game logic works, etc.

The NES uses basically a 6502, which is 8-bit and has a limited instruction set, so it's totally grokkable. It's fun since it's a real game, too, instead of some toy example from the web.

I've been spending a few weekend dissecting MCKids[1], trying to dump level images for TCRF, with great results. It's my first time doing this, so it's hard, slow work, but the breakthrough moments are absolutely worth it.

[1] https://gitorious.org/mcmapper/mcmapper/blobs/master/main.c
There is no "close to" when it comes to Fiorina's sociopathy. And she doesn't even have the saving grace of competency.

Also 2010 was not actually an Obama re-election year. But the Republicans have a fundamental demographic problem in California, and I think that the national party understands this.

According to national trends, in 10-15 years, the problems that they are having in California are likely to become national problems until they can change their political identity. (Why do you think that the Republican leadership is trying to be soft on immigration reform?)
There is a building in Paris whose facade is a forrest of shrubbery.

http://www.eco-eloquence.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_2736.jpg

I was there and it's pretty cool looking. All the plants look very happy too.
There are probably solutions to the root problems.

Bonsai growers prune roots, so you just need a big double walled structure. The inner liner has many holes which is good for drainage and allows roots to grow, and you prune roots growing out of the holes.

I say 'Just' - having read this it feels very wrong and anyone who knows anything about how tree roots actually grow will be able to point out the flaws. But it can't be that hard. In West Drayton there's a garden with everything grown in pots. (http://goo.gl/maps/G2oXN)
Btw. I'm european, even though I don't live in a country that's even part of the EU (we are part of both the EEA and Schengen area, though)...Norway FTW.
The series does tend to follow the law of diminishing returns. Speaker For The Dead feels more mature and literary, but was less fun to read. Xenocide and Children of the Mind, in turn, are scarcely worth getting through, and the payoff at the end isn't worth the suspension of disbelief or, indeed, the trouble.
I have decided to not say anything about such issues several times, precisely for fear of being bullied.
I don't want to waste this opportunity of telling you my thoughts, so I'm gonna let your question settle a litte. Will reply soon :)
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>One could say that the Internet was so well done for 'utopian citicens'.

Even for utopian societies, some of the Internet's security problems would still be problems. The main issue is that for the most part, the protocol assumes that information provided by another source is correct. This could clearly be used mallisiously, but it also allows small, innocent mistakes to take down the network.

For example, back in 2008, Pakistan decided to block youtube within their country. While this specific example would not happen in a utopian society, there could be valid reasons that a sub-network would want to disable or redirect requests going to a different server.

What happened was that one of the ISPs, instead of simply blocking outgoing requests to youtube, advertised itself as youtube. This change propogated through the network, and youtube went down globally.

Still, when these issues do come up without any malice, they should be relatively easy and painless to fix.
Not his son [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigran_L._Petrosian
My issue is that it's pure speculation. Trees won't grow there because he says they won't. Except trees do grow under some of the most extreme conditions possible. This is after all just a blog.
AMD is a pain to use , and make the code really ugly. It has some compatibility issues with some older (but widely deployed ) mobile browsers and doesnt really fix javascript shortcomings. You can still have global variables into a module anyway. And a lot of libraries dont even support AMD , why should they ?
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#1: Don't waste your time reading pointlessly generalised "N things that you should something" blog posts.
IMO, Speaker For The Dead is the true masterpiece and Ender's Game is simply a necessary bit of back-history to setup events for the Speaker story to be told.
If you spend a lot of time making a good deck full of programming language facts, I'm sure that it works well enough. I don't think that it's any kind of substitute for sitting down and coding. I think that the core issue is that there are a lot of things you CAN memorize in order to make coding easier, but there are very few things that you MUST memorize in order to make coding possible. No matter how much you memorize, you're still going to end up sitting down to code and learning from your mistakes.

That said, if you want to give it a shot, I'd suggest starting with the desktop version of Anki. Make your own deck, because making a deck is its own form of studying. Use it for a while, and if you feel that it's something that you want to invest more time in, get the mobile app.

Oh, one other thing I'd like to mention about SRS. SRS techniques are designed to manage HUGE numbers of cards, ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands. If you have less than a hundred or so cards, it's just a really smart flash card system - you could review all the cards every couple days without much trouble. People who really get into SRS tend to use it for everything, because it's an easy way to integrate more knowledge into their existing knowledge-management framework. As such, you should be careful about recommendations for using it for one particular field. The people doing the recommending usually have lower friction regarding adding a couple hundred programming cards to their deck than you will as a beginner.
Nice! Was hoping for a more realistic profile for Jesse P :D