skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Mozilla?
You have to compare them to some metric in your world. In my case if I make an estimate I have to quantify it as a "Sean" estimate. That means to need to effectively triple it for most of the team. We rate people as fractions of the Sean time continuum.

Of course that's subjective... And impossible to compare dev a using tech 1 vs dev b using tech2.
I'm not talking about MtGox. The aggressor in this case is the phisher, and the victim is the OP.
Or the ability to set our own hotkeys? Is this possible?
Will Mozilla Firefox 21 Be a Healthy Open Source Browser?
What does that make Compylr?
Wait, so Om Malik has yet another reason to bash Zuck? I'm shocked.
Nailed it from top to bottom.

That's about the time I noticed that I no longer felt the need to upgrade.

And, yeah, tablets feel very constrained for creation. It is a consumption device. Perfect term. I am typing on a Galaxy Tab now, and after over a year, it still drives me slightly nuts to type more than a couple sentences; not to mention the thought of actually designing or developing on this thing.

Maybe that will change as new input devices and peripherals are developed. But, at some point if it evolved enough in that direction, then it would no longer be a tablet per se, but more a PC in a different form factor.
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The sad thing about this is that tablets and phones aren't nearly as good at content creation. A physical keyboard is still the fastest brain --> computer interface in town. Also, tablets and phones aren't self-hosting. You can't develop iOS apps on an iOS device. This makes it much harder for inexperienced people to get into programming. Taking the plunge into programming will be like deciding to buy an instrument and learning to play it.

While most people are never going to write software, those who do will be hurt by the drop in PC sales. In the past, PC R&D costs were borne by the general public. Now the public is moving to mobile devices, but developers still need to buy full-fledged computers. Lower PC sales means costs will go up (since R&D can't be spread across as many units) or manufacturers won't develop new features as quickly.

There's some silver lining: the technologies used in tablets overlap quite a bit with those used in laptops. Developers won't be stuck completely in the past, but future PCs might be a little too tablet-y for their tastes. (This is already happening with Windows 8).
"At press time, sources confirmed this is why Cipher is the best in the business."
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the only reason that make sense for me is that 4sq is going to be acquired in the near future
Blink-WebKit split endangers some browser features
I have a dual monitor setup, with 27 inch (2560x1440) and 24 inch flat IPS displays.

They are fantastic to develop software on, and they cost less than my PC.

I couldn't have afforded anything like this 12 years ago.
I guess it depends what you call 'innovation', but from a making-my-work-experience-nice perspective, I'm delighted with the progress of desktop displays.

I'm not sure how much benefit I'd get from higher res, with the distance the displays are from my eyes?
The technical reason is that when a font is drawn, a few coherent chunks of Unicode are included and the rest are left out.
I, for one, choose to believe it was named for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLK5ZOjWaXE
I get the feeling that some of the tribes are getting much more tech and IP savvy. At some point, some of these projects are going to get served WTO complaints. Particulary if they change their websites to put up revised histories.

Regardless, it is a scummy practice and obscures searches.
Currently in SEMO job hunting in STL and KCMO--if I make it to KCMO, I'll take you up on that!
Xah Lee is a long-time troll. However, this post is true. See references:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466302
* http://xahlee.info/Netiquette_dir/troll.html (from his own site)
* http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/python/489908?do=post_view_threaded#489908
* https://github.com/hober/troll-filters
If Apache wants to rewrite history, they should at least acknowledge that the version they now regard as incorrect was propagated by their own documents for many years.
Try Pyxl

https://github.com/dropbox/pyxl

I don't work at Dropbox but I did work at Cove where this was originally developed and it is great. Makes working with HTML in Python so easy.

I also my own version of it that I have rewritten to treat the HTML object more like jQuery does and added more jQuery methods to it.
What practical purpose would that serve, other than breaking a bunch of links?
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> Stealing the coins was immoral. -I think we can all agree with this statement.

Yes. This is my main point. It's easy to agree with in hindsight. I was insistent because it seemed like the parent completely forgot that there were more than two parties involved in this affair: the OP, MtGox and the phisher.

There is a certain attitude among folks that some people who don't properly secure themselves somehow "deserve" what they get. I vehemently disagree with this sentiment, and it is in essence what I was trying to combat.

> We should pity, not scorn the victim I probably, maybe agree with this.

I am all for calling out the victim's poor security practices as stupid, senseless, etc. But it's another thing entirely to blame the victim for someone stealing from them.
I don't think I would feel so conflicted about this immigration policy if I didn't feel like American's weren't getting a raw deal with regards to High School Education, costs of higher education, costs of healthcare, lack of 401(k) funding.

I get that labor is simply a fixed cost to be minimized, but it feels like legacy costs of the system are hurting the ability of those to compete.
| Basically, PCs are dumb, boring work
| terminals for old people.

Or that kid down the street that used his laptop to get something into the AppStore, and is actually making money...
My first eye-opener about 1-way functions is this algorithm:

Take a word.
Remove every second letter.

This is a one-way function, because it's basically impossible to recover the original, even for two letter words. It's not a very good as a one way hash, because you can trivially construct collisions. It does, however, nicely capture the idea that you are pretty much always going to be discarding information to get a hash (if the hash is shorter than the input), without really resorting to the pigeonhole principle.
What was Keynes wrong about? (Keynes, not Keynsians)
They only know that data because you put it there in the first place.
If you don't want it available - dont put it on the Internet.... is this really such a hard concept to grasp?
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You're basically saying, "What's your backup solution?" Backup solutions are needed even with spinning disks, it's nothing new to SSDs.
The sad thing about this is that tablets and phones aren't nearly as good at content creation. A physical keyboard is still the fastest brain --> computer interface in town.

Tablets are a faster brain --> interface than a keyboard for visual arts like drawing, painting, video and photography. Arguably music too, because you can simulate many different types of input from drum machines, to strings, to even wind instruments (ala SMULE's Ocarina).
You may be right about WISPs.

I was referring to cellular networks and wired networks.

I'm guessing the hurdle is still legal/political. I'm gonna look into this, thanks for the insight
Indeed. I wasn't talking about Amazon per se, more discussing loyalty cards in general. For example, I purchase some RayBan sunglasses the other day in Brisbane city, and they asked for a _lot_ of personal details. Far more than were needed for warranty purposes, and the like. I have issues with things like that :)
Because we're the godzilla of search engines, apparently. Looking forward to the IPO!

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4578856/mozilla-ceo-on-the-la...
I'm sympathetic to your post (and more sympathetic to the blog post), but Google has overstayed the web's welcome. is just emo bullshit.

The guy that replied to you is right, and hopefully I'll start following that advice too, because I'm not a big fan of Google practices these days either. For me it started with Schmidt's comments about privacy. There's some comments that clown has said, which should have gotten him fired immediately.
Significant NLP for UI purposes could push hardware.
The PC (or the Mac) is, of course, a long way from perfect, but you can count me as another data point for the theory that hardware pretty much reached "good enough for just about anything" a few years back, and I'm saying that as someone who is a programmer and a gamer, so for Joe Q. Public running Office and Chrome this point was reached even sooner.

Core 2 Duo w/ 4 gigs of RAM was, I'd guess, basically the tipping point for normal users, Nehalem w/ 8 gigs of RAM, GeForce 4xx and an SSD for the system disk was the tipping point for people like me.

I used to upgrade my system yearly (buying parts off Newegg, reusing existing bits where they made sense to do so) but now it is more like every three years and growing each time.

There are, of course, lots of ways PC manufacturers can turn this around with increased novel input methods, more hybrid devices and especially an increased focus on higher resolution screens (which has a multiplier effect because if you truly boost your on-screen resolution, you'll soon start feeling cramped by your CPU, GPU and memory again), but the days of tossing out more powerful CPUs, GPUs and a bit more RAM (and then calling it a day as far as new features are concerned) are over.
> has overstayed the welcome of a few entitled silicon valley golddiggers

Is the web a bunch of people posting pictures of their cats, and commenting on "news" stories; or the people who are building it?
A laptop is an anti-PC. I'm lost...
The same plan he has when his hard drive dies a horrible death?

SSDs may have a shorter lifespan than some HDDs but the WILL both fail.
Why the desire to change college team names to something other than Native American names? Why shouldn't they get to use their name on the web?
The benefit of b2b is that companies are used to spending money and have budgets. B2c tends to be "give it away for free and make money on volume" (aka collect underpants).

That said... B2b means you'll have to provide better support (contracts etc).
Or perhaps the masses will never adopt a currency that requires them to become "acquainted with the volatility of the BitCoin currency and adjust their buying and selling practices as a result", especially when the current status quo offers none of these pitfalls.
Backbone vs Ember vs Angular vs Knockout from a newbie's perspective
Technically, this is very cool work. But one thing the paper overlooks is divisibility. How does one make change with zerocoin? It appears that the trapdoors allow only a whole coin to be spent, with no recourse for spending a partial coin. Needless to say, non-divisibility will make a practical deployment difficult.
No it doesn't.

The only way they display this information is if you (a) add it to your profile, and (b) make that information public.

If you use LinkedIn to tell people when your birthday is - and I have no idea why you would, given its intended use case - then that's your doing, not theirs.

Use this link to edit your profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=tab_pro

In the "Additional Info" section, either set Birthday back to "Month..." and "Day..." or click on the icon next to it to reduce its visibility to only your network or connections. Then click the "Save" button.

P.S.: You can always lie about your birthdate.
Shows how clueless the NEA is at making proper decisions - They could of just as easily backed the pre-existing free Scratch program used world wide that already does the same thing.
>Everyone else has a "walled garden" why must Google be different?

The FSF would beg to differ. Google does contribute to open source, claimed android to be open source, prescribed to the notion of "don't be evil", and seems to be enthusiastic about computer science in general. Suddenly having a walled garden makes their image not only the exact opposite of what their users thought they were, but now we can add deceitful.
There are many things, tangible and not, that are valuable and traded other than 'currency'. Why do you see Bitcoin only through that lens?

Innovation has created many things that are valuable, which didn't even have names before they existed, and much of the value comes simply from mutual consensus. Joint stock companies. Intellectual property. Domain names. Mineral rights. Publicity rights. Bonds. And many would say also: fiat currencies themselves are a consensus, but useful, hallucination.

There's always a bit of self-spawning alchemy in this process. "We choose to broadly value this, because when we broadly value this, other good activities ensue."

Again, my framing is: one of Bitcoin's aspects is as (divisible, transferable, even votable) equity in something with interesting novel characteristics. There are a lot of people, working on a lot of interlocking things, for which Bitcoin balances will be the price-of-participation. If that coordinated-action superstructure throws off enough value to its participants to be self-sustaining, each unit will continue to grow in value.

And sure, current volatility makes 4-year-old Bitcoin worse, for many uses, than the best 100-plus-year-old fiat currencies (USD). Bitcoin also has capabilities no 'currency' has ever had before. Your argument seems to be, "it's not been stable enough yet for quoting prices of things, so it's no good for anything" and "it's been in some crazy bubbles, so it can never be useful or valuable".

New hard-to-value things are volatile. Only experience creates stability. As you note, anything can suffer a bubble... sometimes the underlying thing continues to build real value, and sometimes it doesn't. Merely observing that it's bubbly so far is just frothy gossip. Yes, and...?
And your character was obvious to me the minute you said that "do no evil" is a more useful standard than "don't be evil".

"Do no evil" is an impossible and therefore pointless standard. How many people do you know that have done no evil in their life? Have you? I've certainly made my share of arguably evil mistakes.

Now consider a company with tens of thousands of employees. Even if 1% of their employees (intentionally or not, per your standard) committed evil at work 1% of the time, that's still (on average) multiple incidents a day. Exactly how many days do you think "do no evil" would last before it was drowned in noise?

Yes, "don't be evil" is a more complicated and ambiguous judgement. But at least it is one that can meaningfully be made rather than an unreachable standard that's trotted out when it's convenient and ignored when it isn't.
When I first learnt about orangered ten days ago, it felt like "too much was going on", but an experiment showed that slightly more than half of surveyed users prefer it over #CCCCFF.
Not Safe For YouTube: How Google Draws the Line Between Porn and Art (NSFW)
That dude was already trolling Usenet's comp.lang.java.* newgroups back in the days...

And I hated the dude back then. But now to be honest he's obvioulsy more experienced and although he's not a native english speaker some of his writings are quite OK. For example I've seen some good Emacs functions and explanation from him.

But, yup, he's still spamming a lot.
No, Bitcoin is not an abstraction. People are trying to "use" it today.
It's all of California not just SV. It's a complete economic mess. They need to overhaul the CA government and make severe changes.
I'm finding a hard time finding people who even care - they either want to hire a developer or hire a designer. I feel like I'd need to jump in with a startup or into a company with few employees to get the commendation.
Winklevoss twins own 1% of all Bitcoins
Does everyone who starts a political group have to work on or state an opinion on every problem connected to whatever broad policy category they're worried about? No, that would be crazy. It's okay if Zuck only cares about (or only makes noise about) skilled immigrants. Part of the reason we have a democracy is so people can watch out for their own interests. It's not as if there's no one speaking out for unskilled immigrants, and if there wasn't it wouldn't be Zuck's fault or anyone else's fault who only chooses to speak out on some other specific issue.

I have no particular love for Mark Zuckerberg, but really, there's nothing to see here. The system is working.
Do you start off as a key holder/shift manager? Or did you both start out making much less?

Now, with regards to Geek Squad and Car Audio shops, they rarely want a weekend and nights person, they want someone who ~needs~ the job.

It's possible if you stick them out, but I can't imagine people who don't want to put in years can just jump into these well above minimum wage gigs as easily as you claim.
Use HAML

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And he did it in 1994: http://www.karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html

There was also earlier work, e.g. Witkin and Kass, Spacetime Constraints, 1988, but I don't think I've ever seen a video.
Most novel technologies (and social/legal-arrangements) start off much worse than the established alternatives. Risky, unfamiliar, sketchy, only of interest to niches. But then they get better.
"the sum across the appropriate universe" for Reals is an integral. An integral can go from -Infinite to Infinite and still equal 1. This is the reason, for instance, why Zeno's Paradox of movement doesn't really forbid all movement.
"You have to admit this is new ground."

No. It's always "different" ground, same outcome.
> The only real Google stronghold is search.

I've experimented with switching away from Google products and I found search easiest to replace (I went with DuckDuckGo personally). YouTube, Gmail and Google Talk are what I've had difficulties replacing.
Cheers. It's a totally reasonable decision, and I agree with it generally- except in cases like this.

I'll have a look through this issue and articulate my stance if it's not already represented.
Concerning the libertarian argument, a counterpoint is that the student is kind of "forced" to do an internship.
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> His answer was that there were a lot of unknowns facing Google and the only insurance they had for dealing with them was to have a lot of capital.

Waaaat? I was at that TGIF and I do not recall any response remotely resembling the one you recount here.

And: as far as I can figure, it's basically impossible that your $30 million figure is accurate. This is not based on internal knowledge, just a quick product search that finds water bottles available to consumers for 10c a bottle. The number you mentioned would mean that Google was supplying 15k water bottles per employee per year (300 million water bottles among 20k permanent employees; remember, there were much fewer Googlers in 2007). I would guess, again, based on no special internal knowledge, that the amount was closer to 3M. If anyone believes that 2007 Google cared about 3M in the bank, I have a bridge to sell them.
....and all the videos he points out have now been taken down lol
Agreed. The periodic screenshots are perfectly sufficient.
I can relate to the author. I had a hard time passing exams in university due to undiagnosed concentration issues. I knew I was smart, but failing standardized tests left me feeling like an imposter. Regardless of finishing projects and tasks in the 95th percentile.

I am multilingual, an autodidact and I love programming. I also have a gift (your 6th sense) for engineering in that I am able to visualize and analyze machines/systems by glancing over the designs or watching them work. Combined with soft skills and programming experience this has proven of great value in industrial settings where I am able to relate and connect the mechanical, software and other engineering departments.

A couple of years back I started working at a start-up doing robotics and machine vision. Due to lack of time and personal I had to teach myself everything from inverse kinematics, path planning to a solid knowledge of 2D and 3D machine vision. In less than a year I was developing and integrating 3D vision systems and steering industrial robots. Only after delivering that first project on my own did I allow myself to internalize my accomplishments.

I might not have a formal engineering degree, but being a jack of all trades has proven to be a high value asset. It's about finding an environment where your (broad) skills pay off.

Generalizations as the one above make it harder for people like me to start a career as I very much belong to the second group.

Also, I can show you pointer arithmetic in my pet language.
I must say, despite the gloomy outlook, isn't the fact that most of the market is running on old machines not a bad one?

Why do you buy a new pc? Why, of course, to do something your old one couldn't. Now, you have six year old consoles so your standard port won't be incredibly pretty or taxing.

Give it a months after the launch of the next-gen consoles and PC sales should see an uptake as people start buying the awesome looking ports that are being crapped out in the dozens by the big AAA devshops.

While it won't fix the market, it should have a serious effect upon the profitability of a pc business. Combined with the fact that your tablet, which was nearing the current console power, is now looking pretty bad that is even more reason for the market to keep on chugging with consumers realizing their all in one isn't the beauty they thought it was.

You guys say you haven't upgraded in years because you can run the new games on a very decent level? Just you wait.
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Long term? People stop using bitcoin.

You theorize that the boom/bust swings will diminish in intensity until eventually bitcoin becomes stable.

Others theorize that the boom/bust cycles will grow in severity until eventually everyone just gives up on bitcoin.

So far there's very little evidence for the stability option and a lot of evidence (and economic theory) for the speculative bubble theory.

Do you have any evidence of the "market share" of bitcoin users who are in the market for purely currency reasons growing relative to that of those who are in the market for purely speculative reasons? From everything I can find out it seems as though the reverse is true.
Great! I hope more companies start using Gittip. All companies built on FOSS should think of tithing this way.
So post a response where you address the issues raised and refute them with sound theory and provable hypotheses.

Until then you're just waving your arms.
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>yeah, tablets feel very constrained for creation. It is a consumption device.
Which why I like the idea of the Ubuntu smartphone so much; a portable consumption device that can easily turn into a development machine. At least, that's my hope.
Interesting post, but I think a lot of times the nuanced details of a name are usually multi-faceted (read, there are multiple reasons for a name, which is why is sticks). I'm sure it was innocent, and not ill-willed. Both Apache nations have given much to love.
MtGox knows who you are, and is not a secret underground operation thumbing its nose at The Man. Over the long run, you should consider them as transparent as any major, bailed-out bank.
Get your Oculus Rift on with the MIT licensed Torque3D
Divorcing marriage?