skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked it too, but I don't think you really get a sense of the effect if 90% of the article is on the first page with only a few sentences on the second.
Why do you not have a contact me button on your blog. Seriously dude...

How do I contact you? I have a concept for this actually and am interested in discussing it.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0421/102.html
They seem to have forgotten to mention the fact that the radiation levels would exceed lethal dosages in a matter of seconds.
Whenever I find myself geeking out like this, I try to think of what it must have been like for a geologist to watch Star Trek TOS. The rocks were all foam and all the same. I didn't care a bit.
How important is it to reduce the number of lines in code?
Why the US? Are you just looking for a bit of a change? If so, you should look at New Zealand!
Keeping Your Email Subscribers With You
Using drawing software for prototypes has the disadvantage that there is a temptation to start tweaking nonessential details... fonts, shadows, colors, obsessing over alignment of widgets, etc.

Pencil and paper doesn't have these problems except for the most anal-retentive of folks.
Any concerns with epilepsy, running at the higher speeds? Seemed like the rendered spirograph got into the relevant frequency range.
It might be a setting or something but it definitely doesn't do that on my machine or the linux machine I have in the cloud.

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Works great in Firefox 19.0.2, I think that's pretty old.
I wouldn't say that at all. My company had voted that we weren't ready to move to Python 3 yet. It's looking very likely that we'll be making the leap for new development starting in the next week or so.

Python 2 is a beautiful, wonderful language. Python 3 is even better and there are very few reasons not to adopt it now.
Apple should have added T9 a long time ago. If it doesn't in iOS 7, its market share in China could fall below Windows Phone in a couple of years.
Google Chrome: Bookmark drop down box used to be grey. Why is now white?
This is actually why I will only buy sedans or other cars with trunks (well, and the special legal protections trunks have vs. "accessible to driver" passenger compartments. Otherwise, I'd have an A3. Fortunately Audi is coming out with an S3 Sedan in 2014/2015.
Is it all alpha radiation? Otherwise, astronauts and cosmonauts that did space walks are still alive. Don't think space suits are fantastic gamma ray shields, but I may be wrong...
Depends on your resolution / window size. It was two full pages for me.
Not only that, but unless you get a few optimal weights, they are unbalanced, so you are limited by what you can do. Sure, some things it doesn't matter if the right side of the weight is the same weight as the left side, but when I tried it I couldn't get past this.
I've always been curious what display advertising is and how it generates so much revenue for Google. Are there any good resources to learn more about what exactly goes on behind the scenes? Do those little ads on my gmail sidebar really create billions in wealth? Or is there some super secret illuminati-esque subliminal advertising going on?
Or, they throw you into a rescue ball. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Rescue_Enclosure
Vacations and Fingerprint Scans
Alice In Chains - Twenty Three - (Documentary) :)
> Once you spend a month in one company you can, if you like, send a few emails and be making more money in a matter of days.

Why wouldn't I like this? Who am I supposed to be emailing?
This is nonsense. Do you need the courts to tell you that you shouldn't be playing Angry Birds while driving, or posting on Facebook (it's technically not texting!), or reading your email? It's common sense that if something needs your attention for more than a split second while driving, you should be pulling over. It doesn't matter whether that's a phone app, a screaming kid or a paper map.
He sounds pretty sad.
Researchers find that nanowires can lift liquids as effectively as tubes
I can't add contacts from my Gmail account to a group, and a support article says there's no fix to this unless I recreate the contact locally.

Sorry, that's way too much work. The app looks really nice, but if I can't import my contacts, it's useless to me.

Just uninstalled.
Yeah, except that it's not technically possible on iOS (pushes glasses up on nose).
They totally could have been a can opener. Imagine how many missiles it would take to disable or sink a carrier - short of a nuclear device. Battle groups are too sophisticated (if im not mistaken 2 anti-submarine destroyers). To actually find and takedown a carrier today requires huge effort and firepower.

>While things have moved on, there's still some question over whether western naval defense missiles such as Standard or Aster can intercept a Moskit

In April 2012, the French Navy successfully shot and downed an American GQM-163 Coyote target. The GQM-163 Coyote was simulating a sea-skimming supersonic anti-ship cruise missile traveling at speeds of Mach 2.5 (3000 km/h) with an altitude of less than 5 meters. The Aster 30 missile was fired by the Horizon class frigate Forbin (D620), also present during the shoot was Forbins sister ship Chevalier Paul (D621). The successful shooting represents the first time a European missile defence system has intercepted and destroyed a supersonic, sea-skimming "missile". The trial was described as a "complex operational scenario".

But, 2.5 mach and "test case" with your own hardware, can never know what a Russian missele is programmed to do.
Wired is mind-candy for the tech set. It is always a riot to read old issues. Take a look at another classic:

PUSH!
Kiss your browser goodbye: The radical future of media beyond the Web

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.03/ff_push.html

PUSH!, like the proverbial stopped clock, "came true" only after being utterly wrong for 15 years.
The article mentions an "epic 400-500 page Powerpoint document" outlining Mohan's strategies.

In the rare chance that this is floating around the internet, does anyone know where it would be or more information on it?
Nurse plus: most family doctors could be replaced by a friendly nurse and a big computerized database of symptoms and diseases and a relatively simple program to tell her which tests to perform and when to refer the patient to a specialist.

When you locked yourself out of your house you don't need a fully trained locksmith, you just need a guy who can open the lock which is easy with a modern tool.

In general there are a ton of jobs available through deskilling, guildbusting and creative thinking.
Our experience is that NFS works excellently in the environment it was designed for (a LAN environment of Unix machines administered by the same people). I still haven't seen a better Unix remote filesystem (and most of the modern distributed filesystem efforts are solving different problems, as seen by the fact that they don't support full core Unix semantics).

With that said, the environment NFS was designed for is increasingly uncommon. NFS is not necessarily a good fit for other environments, even if they look superficially similar.
Compared to the other story of a $100M GOOG Exec, this is a story I really like, as a programmer.
AFAIK Cisco bought Linksys back in March 2003.
> big company big wigs

I think Mohan is a little more than just another "big wig." Google probably should have given him an incentives package similar to $100 million a long time ago.
As a current user of Python 2.x, I can't wait to make the jump to 3, and have already done so for a few of my personal projects. It's probably best not to generalize too much.
Not massive amounts. The Twinkie guy ate 1800 calories a day, including protein shakes. And vitamin suplements to cover his deficit. The balance of the diet matters, so it is a very narrow claim to say that twinkies aren't bad because someone has 1500 Twinkie calories per day and no other junk food

He just got all his carbs from twinkies, and used willpower to force himself to not eat when he was hungry. His "massive amounts" are the same that many people eat, plus they eat MORE other foods.

A bad food is something that doesn't satiate you as it gives you calories and fat, so you need to do other work to force yourself to not overeat. Example: twinkies
People sometimes find it difficult to understand that some people are actually worth the astronomical figures they are paid. When we hear about the big pay day it's easy to focus on that number what not what was done to earn it.
That was the first thing I thought of when the author mentioned exploding eyeballs.
One example where hundreds of people need to be able to physically log into a single workstation is an educational computer lab where you have a 20 or so shared workstations, and requiring assigned seating would be cumbersome. Having a common passwd file for personal workstations is also an understandable configuration for ease of administration, though it of course has its drawbacks.
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There's an awful scene in the film 'Mission to Mars' where Tim Robbins removes his helmet in space, and his head instantly freezes. No, no, no!
You can drop load by putting a knee down during a pushup.

Pullups I don't know how to adjust.
personally, i think that when you're programming, not just pondering how to make your code simpler and shorter but also concentrating on patterns that repeat and packing them into a catchall solution can do a lot towards making code more readable and maintainable. I suppose this is what is usually meant by DRY, but I unfortunately still see an aweful lot of code that doesnt follow this principle. And i think it has to do with the fact that many (myself included) programmers think about solving the problem at hand and we sometimes allow our thoughts about abstracting what we're doing into overarching reusuable procedures to slip into the background.

for instance, say you notice you've got multiple for loops iterating over matrixes of pixel data and running transformation functions on member elements. The first level would be to abstract this into an each function taking the array and the function to call, the next step would be to pack the each into an even more general function, and now all those lines have been compacted into a single call pixel_data.update_array_matrix.
Works great in FF 3.6.24, too. Yes, I dusted off an ancient testing virtual machine just to see if it would work.
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With bands:

http://www.ironwoodyfitness.com/equipment/iron-woody-bands.h...
Serious question: does the sweetened language, how you couch the situation really make a difference to decision makers?
He ate 4 twinkies per day.
Not really. I have been curious on what kind of compensation Paul Buchheit obtained for his creation of gmail and adsense, the former being the one of the two GOOG services I depend on daily, the latter built the empire financially. I am pretty sure that that amount could be far lower than $100M, which is a very depressive fact for our programmers.
True, and it's way easier to accept how someone is a successful businessman or a stakeholder in a company, than it is to accept that someone may be actually producing this kind of value on a personal level. It's easy to imagine how some trader did some wheeling and dealing for a quick buck or how someone with shrewd instincts made a profitable investment, but it's very difficult to imagine how someone creates all this value by himself, day in day out; how someone stands out like this in an organization like Google, which is both an intellectual powerhouse and far removed from the compensation culture in the finance sector - this is even more difficult to accept.

Maybe that's why people pick on CEO salaries but stay silent on the shareholder profits from the very same corporations. You can imagine 100 million dollars of oil barrels or real estate, but you can't imagine a 100 million dollars mind.
It's the IMEI, and Apple is certainly not alone in helping - any wireless provider can help, and indeed there are services available to law enforcement to determine if a cellular device is registered to another wireless provider, and contact them. Every cellular provider can also blacklist an IMEI, and it won't be able to be registered on any network, effectively bricking it.
spacebar scrolling also broken in ff. grrrrr
Seems bad for your neck to have eyes on a fixed TV during a moving exercise.
This is awesome, but after going through all the trouble to protect your identity doesn't putting this up online undermine your efforts?

You mention days of the week in the post as well as some details of your exchange with the thief in your replies to his Craigslist ad. He could likely tie it back to you easily if he was informed of this story.
Of course you are tired after you exercise. But a day or two later you should feel more energetic, after sleeping better. You have to do the sleeping too. And eating well. Don't pile on greasy calories to feed your exercising body, that will drag you down more as you eat note. It's all synergistic.
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I got a startup pitch via Snapchat, here’s the story
Things are complicated, but it's a well-known fact that lines-of-code is literally the worst metric of source-code health. Lines-of-code have been previously used as a productivity metric and as an efficiency metric, but in the past several decades, LOC has been debunked as virtually worthless in both cases.

In other words, if you're thinking "that guy must be productive, he wrote twice as many lines as this other guy" or "this code must be slower since it's 3 times longer than that code" you're most likely wrong in both cases. Or, in the best case, very naive.

And what's up with Ars Technica just copy-pasting SO (or prog.SE) answers into an article?
The span between software and design is small.

You have managed to insult both programmers and designers with this statement. Yes, there are people who program and design. Yes, to some people its easy to go from one thing to the other. But neither skill is nowhere near each other.
In my experience, there are two kinds of CS PhDs, one which is more theory oriented and not very good at coding, and the other which is more systems oriented and tends to attract crack coders too bored to stay in industry.
I just realized this. It fit perfectly on my screen (no scrolling/paging). I resized my window and realized how quickly that could get very, very annoying if you had a smaller resolution screen.
I agree it is trivially easy to jump ship to another startup every month in SF if you we're so inclined. For entrepreneurs, this culture makes it a challenge to build a lasting company though... the focus employees have in SF & the Valley seems much more short term IMHO.

Besides, the safety net alluded to exists in any big city these days. I'm in Dallas and a good developer or designer showing up here today would have several job offers in a few days.
$7b revenue will put you in the 300s on the Fortune 500.

Since the display ads is one of Google's high margin cash cows, would guess quite a bit higher on the list in profits.

Google has about 1/2 the earnings of JPM, about 1/3 the book value, but a larger market cap than JPM, and let's just say there's some wiggle room in what JPM reports, loan loss reserves, 'debt valuation adjustment', non-marked to market 'whale' losses, etc.

Anyway, as a shareholder I have no problem at all with that kind of pay package if it's for a legitimate superstar who could otherwise run a competitor, it's reasonably tied to performance, not guaranteed if he pulls a <name a disaster/CEO scandal>. If he's adding 0.5% of earnings growth compared to the next best candidate it's a bargain.
Young Coder With Worried Parents. Advice Needed
Hello,

I am a 15 year old programmer who has taken up programming in the past few years and has come to love it. I do not own any gaming consoles nor do I play video games excluding the occasional flash game. I am not the typical media programmer and none of my friends know that I am interested in it. Infact I am somewhat popular at my highschool and I hang out with different friends almost every weekend. Usually I spend about 1 hour mon-fri and 1-2 hours sat-sun on the computer. What I dont think my parents understand is that I am not your typical kid glued to the screen playing minecraft. I literally want to change the world. I am in the process of creating an education site that could seriously impact teachers all over the united states and the world. The problem is that my parents think I am spending too much time on the computer. Honestly 2-3 hours a week is the usual but sometimes I have spent more sometimes almost none. I need help showing them that I am doing this to help myself improve! They always tell me that learning is more important than grades and while I do have great grades I love learning programming in my spare time. With no programming classes offered this year programming at home is my only option. I want to explain to them how this is no different than playing guitar. In fact they would be happy if I practiced 3 hours a week but apparently it is totally different with a computer. Could any of you give me some advice on what to do? I'm hoping to talk to my parents about it and compare this to playing an instrument. If any of you have any advice or resources you could recommend please tell me. I know it is cliche but I really do want to change the world and in today's world computer programming is the way to get there. I do not want to be stifled by a misunderstanding. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
It will continue increasing, unless it doesn't.
oh come on,, this looks totally fake...
no wonder i dont believe the nasa...
> Well apparently it was a military installation

So are Nellis and Groom Lake. So are the three air force bases in the central US that house Minuteman III ICBMs, and the two naval bases where the Trident-equipped Ohio-class submarines are based. So are the Pentagon and the White House.

All are covered on Wikipedia in far more detail than this radio station.
Thank you so much for your advice. I have been looking into other languages, primarily Python and Ruby. I have seen Spring and Hibernate many times and thought it a good combination but, having not looked to in depth into them, I don't fully understand their capabilities. Thank you again for your very useful insight into this.
I think that safety net exists for anyone who has a sufficient network. A lot of that can be dictated by geography - sure, but with so much work happening remotely, geography is more of a convenient determiner of job/career security rather than a absolute one.
How so? The GOOG exec story is about how to get rich by climbing the "Corporate Ladder", while Persson's way is to become successful by going indie and producing games people want. The interesting fact is that their wealth are comparable number-wise.
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Intrapreneurship: More than a market trend
Very cool. My company has offices on the left hand edge by the Old South Meeting house spire near Milk St. Amazing how much stuff has changes and stayed the same. The spire's was where the revolution started in 1773. It's now dwarfed on all sides.
Thank you for the book suggestions. I have indeed read Brian Goetz's book though it would be useful to review again as I don't believe I was as focused and knowledgeable then as I am now. Thank you for your suggestions in moving forward.
1. San Francisco is a tech boom town. That means as a half-decent developer you're practically guaranteed a job. Until you're not. A lot of people learned this the hard way in the late 90s.

2. It's ironic that the author recognizes most startups fail, and suggests that startups in San Francisco have been particularly blessed with the ability to spend millions on "crazy" ideas more likely to fail, yet he doesn't at all question the sustainability of this. His assumption: investors will continue to pour money into startups indefinitely regardless of the returns, and the "talent" will continue to be a primary recipient of this investment regardless of the value it creates.

3. Personal savings is the only true safety net most people can rely on. Ironically, the author is "bad at saving money" which explains why he confuses a "currently hot job market" for a "safety net."
Nice to see a fellow Maroon on here!
> How could a page take 30 seconds to load? Why does everything have a murky gray background?

This perfectly describes the modern. JS-overloaded "subtle shading" design of modern web apps...

The grey backgrounds were really weird, in retrospect. But they were cool and different! Oh, and that's why grey on grey is back-- fads coming and going to look cool and different.
Because after only a month it's a dick move. And it might give you a bad name. Right now I happen to be in a position to do that, and I choose to stick with my current commitment.
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Clearly not written by a semiconductor process engineer in 1986 or a web designer in 2000 but the basic truth is that when the system is engaged its pretty effective at consuming available resources and putting them to work.
Typical YC type post. Full of BS...
"They'd spent the months prior trying to turn Twitter into "a real company" after years of neglectful management."

Anyone care to explain how the management was neglectful? Serious question.
LOC is also used as a "maintainability" metric. Don't know how useful it is. I assume it would need to be massaged with some other metrics - or at least placed in proper context, whatever that means in your environment. Also, if your code verges on throw-away, maintainability would not be a consideration.
Hey, sorry I just saw this. All together it came to just over $1600. Also, my MBA has an i7 processor.
Matt Might enjoys a certain amount of credibility on HN for his fantastic blogging on CS topics. While I don't begrudge his attempts to share aspects other aspects of his life and even monetize his blogging, I think you raise some valid criticisms of this post. Certainly the topic of personal fitness and weightlifting is much deeper than a single article with sparse links, I'd treat this more as his personal experience with starting instead of a definitive guide to the subject.
It's true that processing isn't inherently evil; I've had good luck with protein and fiber shakes between very small meals. But processed white bread (or pasta or white rice) might as well be candy--just a big hit of carbs that'll leave you craving more right away. Whole wheat and brown rice are only somewhat better.
Anyone who lived through 2002-2005 might beg to differ. It's a great town, tons of opportunity, but downturns do happen, and the folks at big companies did much better than the startup surfers. There's (honestly) a lot that's different this time. For one thing, many more companies are making actual money, and the non-coder costs (hardware, marketing blitzes) are much lower. But that doesn't mean winter won't come again.

Fortunately, when it does, you can probably get a rent decrease.
I don't understand, are you currently working at any of these companies still?
I know a chinese Bus driver who plays better Golf than Tiger Woods but because he was poor he could not become a professional golfer. Now that reason does not matter nor the smartness. What matters is their current state. A TCS employee no matter how smart he is has very little positive impact on economy than an average Stanford graduate. TCS employee coming to US on H1B is less likely to create/contribute in building another Billion dollar company than say a Stanford graduate.
It took me a while to get it to snap in, but once saw it I couldn't look away. Now my eyes hurt. But damn, that was cool.