skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should've read the next paragraph...

"This does not mean, however, that the men have no responsibilities for children. Every man will share responsibilities in caring for all children born to women within their own family, be they a sister, niece, aunt, etc. In fact, children grow up with many “aunts” and “uncles”, as all members of the extended family share in the duties of supporting and raising the children."
This is as trivial as XSS attacks get. Third on the XSS cheat sheet: http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html
Wally is a scientist, and has proven that exercising your brain can help you move rocks far heavier than exercising your muscles. Not that you don't need some baseline muscles, but nothing beyond what a healthy human being has.
What sort of music does Symbian play? Are they going on tour soon?
Regarding "B," are you thinking of direct contracting or subcontracting?
In a previous post, the author suggested that SSDs might make effective storing fewer bytes in more tables:

http://drcoddwasright.blogspot.com/2009/03/part-2-was-to-be-...:

"So, if we need 1,000 rows from the 0NF table Foo, we could get them as 10 rows from table Able and 100 rows from table Baker, where Able and Baker are a full decomposition of Foo. It is the full decomposition of tables that make SSD databases useful."
Right. Perhaps the article is assuming the cost of bandwidth is the same cost you pay for SMS or something ;)
Seems like a reasonable clash of internal cultures. It's a questionable value add for the company, as fun as it may seem for the employees, and those wanting to try something new and edgy finally lost out (albeit at the very last moment) to those trying to be legally responsible.

In all reality, it probably would have been just fine with a bit of proper management (open at the appropriate times, the right "Company Bar Etiquette", etc.), would have renewed Microsoft's "Cool place to work" image a bit, and could have fostered a more loyal and cohesive workforce. But they might be able to reach those same goals without the clear risks involved in having a company bar.
Sure... they don't have to... but they often DO - which is why M$ focus marketing there.

Just my personal opinion but I think schools, universities should be promoting open source, rather than backing commercial products.
That's the cool thing about science and technology, it only needs one person to see that something can be done to show everyone else.
That's what you have to do in America - that's not what you have to do in any other country. My coworkers in the US have remarked on this also - they visit Canada often and have never been given shit by a border guard; even when hassled, Canadian border guards are always polite.

Consider that for many people this will be their first interaction with an American at the beginning of their trip, it should be a higher priority that these people behave themselves.
Because we controlled the wages of engineers with a visa program, but not finance or legal professionals, we deterred our own from going into these fields

This is the key, really. Why should only engineering in general and computer programming in particular be "special"? Why isn't the US importing medical doctors (for example) hand over fist? There is a very deliberate attempt to treat programming as not one of the "professions" but as labour.
"If any American wants to down-vote me for this, just go ahead and try to get a _job_ overseas."

The failings of other, less-wise countries is not an excuse to fail along with them. They are xenophobic and protectionist, and turn away talent that can increase their nation's competitiveness... the US should not make that same mistake.

And keep in mind that a disproportionate number of big players who "built the greatest economy in the world" are themselves immigrants. Your argument that home-grown talent alone will suffice holds no water - historically the US has always relied on heavy talent import, and there is nothing wrong with this.
Looks like we are still waiting for the "IBM Compatible" of smart phones.

I also wonder what effect customization of hardware will have. With OS 3.0, hardware add-ons for the iPhone just got a whole lot easier. Arguably the iPhone is already highly customizable, selling a billion apps which don't require a fixed keyboard.
You get shit all the time from Canadian border guards if you're under 25 and driving across the border.
It's R&D versus labour. You don't want to import labour (e.g. doctors), but you want to import as much R&D personnel as you can get your hands on (this includes other professions such as biologist, physicist, etc).

The idea is that depriving, say, China of doctors doesn't really accomplish anything except generate more sick Chinese people, which doesn't really pose a major strategic advantage to the US. The only incentive to import them is if there is a major shortage locally (and so far there isn't).

On the other hand, depriving China of engineers can give a significant competitive boost to the US. The more researchers and developers you import the higher chance you have that something that would've been invented in a competing country is invented here instead.
It also shows the quality of management, in case there has not happened something we are not told.
Abrupt change decisions is not looking good, to begin with.
Wait wait wait. You expect your employers to tailor their required skill set for you, instead of following market trends and acquiring new, relevant skills for yourself?

I really have a hard time telling if you're trolling or serious.
The USA does import medical doctors from overseas to work in healthcare in rural areas under the J-1 visa program. Virtually no american born doctor will work in rural under-served areas anymore , even though the pay can be 3x as much as in big cities. If you go to a GP in South Dakota chances are she will be from Pakistan.
That's pretty comprehensive, but this is the best introduction to Bezier curves I've ever seen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bezier_2_big.gif
The article has very good illustrations, I am wondering what was the software used.
I am the textbook example of Canadian immigration done right, I think. My parents came to Canada on the skilled immigration track. My father is a successful DBA in a major Canadian company, and my mother is an entrepreneur for arts and crafts supplies. Both pay oodles of taxes to the government (a lot more than the average Canadian anyhow), and both contribute to their communities.

Out of their kids, one is an engineer and the other is a PhD researcher in biology.

I remember my parents applying for immigration to the US. It was a long shot, but it was our first choice. Obviously we didn't make it, and looking at how we turned out I honestly believe that it was America's loss.
Karno has amazing endurance and recovery but he's not a competitive Marathon runner - his best Marathon time is 3:00:30, compare that to Haile Gebrselassie in 2:03:59. Geb competes once every couple of months on average.
But the typical H1B isn't in R&D - he's cranking out code for a large IT shop. The R&D side of things is taken care of with academic visas.

If the US is short of doctors and dentists - and it is, otherwise their salaries wouldn't be so high - then there's no economic reason not to import them.
The bit at the start, with him rolling square blocks reminded me of this video of a bike with square wheels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DLgbWu8zJubo
Ditto to the above and to hammer the point home: the site doesn't tell me if you're trying to sell your company's services (mobile app development) or selling said apps. The "Buy app now!" and "Try now!" invitations seem like the latter, but the mention of partnerships and the generic-looking mission statement on the bottom suggest the former.

I would highly suggest developing separate sites for these two purposes.
Many cultures are like this - and it isn't as terrible as you would think. Even some European cultures practice the godfather system - where the godfather serves as the traditional western father figure instead of the biological dad himself.

There are many other cultures (particularly southeast Asian) where the father is removed from the equation and the child is reared by other male relatives. The father in this case will get to raise someone else's child, so it all works out in the end.
Hey folks, thanks for the feedback. The reason why I titled the piece "slow erosion" is that this will take years...I know how valuable Google is for fact-based searches. But slowly, social search and in-context advertising will gain, not because Google will get worse, but because people will be starting from a different place. They'll start on Twitter or Facebook.

The key insight is that people trust others for certain types of information such as recommendations. A single recommendation from a friend is much more powerful than a list of restaurants Google will give you. "Hey, I know you and I know you will like this restaurant". You could argue that Google will eventually know a lot about us (they do already), but the fact is that social interaction trumps reference material in a lot of cases.

So this will probably take years, and many of the arguments against are that right now Google is better. No denying that...but have you seen the ads on Facebook lately? They're pretty stinky, but twice as good as they were even months ago.
And, and the end of the day, the very language runtime of the very ideal language, will have to be written in C, for efficiency reason...
Kevin Rose denounces Trueveo's iFrame use
Dude is drawing something like free body diagrams here -

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/newpage2

- so he's doing alright sans formal education.
MetaPost would be the usual suspect, but he probably used his own Python-to-PostScript wrapper: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/piscript/docs/piscript.html .

Recently many mathematicians I know are plotting with NodeBox which is a VJ software akin to Proce55ing but using Python.

Edit: He also authored a lovely PostScript cook book http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/
Well that is very impressive, and now I am puzzled - if Wall Street had such people, would be economy be better or worse?
Where is Techcrunch?

Even worse, why is valleywag on this list? If anything, this site does more harm than good for startup founders (by spewing baseless venomous hatred about them)
thanks, great info.
P.S. AFAIK Processing is not 55 anymore
You're comparing apples to oranges. If this really is the case, then Jessica Livingston would have never written "Founders at Work" - a fantastic read for any online entrepreneur

When it comes to the specific group of online entrepreneurs, the ideas may be different, but the EXECUTION has a lot of similarities - from funding to coding to hosting to design to monetization..........there's a lot to be learnt from those who went before us.
The problem here is that they want a candidate that is already perfect for the job and can jump straight in, and are unwilling to do any sort of training. Hence they let a position stay open for months out of irrational fear of spending a few weeks on training a smart but imperfect candidate.

edit: also, if there's really a 10x difference in productivity between the worst and the best programmers, isn't a truly great programmer theoretically worth more like 300-400k a year, rather than 150k?
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It seems to me that businesses need to adapt to the nature of the labor market as much as vice-versa. Complaining about the lack of X programmers isn't going to generate any.
Direct link to point in video: http://revision3.com/diggnation/safari4/#seek=1904:1960 (found this after I submitted)
Yes, it's very cultural. I have observed first-hand how people here go ballistic at the slightest perceived slight.

This spirit of vengefulness has gotten worse as the city has mushroomed with foreigners who now outnumber locals 20 to 1, making them a small minority in their own city. Their culture and way of life are under attack, from their own leaders' ambitions.
The thing that hackers (pg included) fail to understand about video online is that there is no first mover advantage. There's no network effects. There's little if any brand loyalty. It's about IP ownership of popular content.

Who cares if YouTube is big? Without the rights to the most popular content, they're stuck trying to make money out of dog weddings and tearful tirades about Britney with 13 hours of additional low quality crap uploaded every minute. The content owners who setup Hulu are under no pressure from them whatsoever.

Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube. It has never made a cent and its running costs are now equivalent to a small airline. Really, this is a no brainer. Shareholders should be asking for someone's head on a platter.
more source material http://blog.doloreslabs.com/topics/colors/
Really? I disagree. The original article was written in tones of anger and disgust. Most of what he said there is accurate by my reckoning, and these facts stand on their own without the need of his London-tabloidesque prose. Yep, I just made that word up.

This new article is a calm discussion about rhetoric and dealing with trolls, something HN seems quite interested in.
Absolutely - SSDs make irrelevant a lot of the advantages that a denormalised storage model provides: denormalisation means fewer seeks but more data stored/read, which is often a good tradeoff for disks, but not for SSDs. It should be noted that column-oriented architectures offer the ability to compress away a lot of the excess information (they're very friendly to RLE-based compression, for example, and vertica integrates awareness of the characteristics of that compression into the query optimiser). Fundamentally, though, in a data warehouse you're still going to be talking about pretty vast quantities of data, and disks are going to hold an advantage in price/performance for much longer than they will in the OLTP sector.

I don't mean to suggest that the author has no idea what he's talking about, more that he's set up a bit of a straw man.
More important than moving the stones were the accuracy of their placement:
http://www.solvingstonehenge.com
I don't mean to say that principles don't matter; they define your goals, not your methods. Design vs. implementation, as it were. You can go on as long you like about the kind of world you would like to live in, but the only thing that actually matters is what you can actually implement. (Not that personal principles aren't also important; I mean specifically on a large-scale, public policy level.)

I suppose I should clarify, in that I don't mean solely data, which is subject to interpretation, but rather using engineering principles instead of making decisions based on gut-felt, emotionally charged belief systems. In each of the cases I mentioned, I think that the "principled" and the smart thing are synonymous:

- Resource wars (and wars in general) often cost more than they benefit, particularly over the long-term. Burning oil to get more oil, resulting in diminishing the world's dwindling oil reserves even faster. Far more profitable to invest the peace dividend elsewhere.

- Data consistently shows that drug usage goes down with decriminalization and treatment programs. It'd be an interesting philosophical debate of society-vs-individual if prohibition resulted in lower use, but it simply doesn't. It's harmful, expensive, and counter-productive.

- The bailouts are admittedly more nebulous, but in short, we might have been better off if we had paid the cost of letting decrepit and irrelevant institutions fail. Paying their ransom may be the more practical choice right now, but we lose a large opportunity to clean our slate and reboot, even though the short-term cost might be high. (Okay, I confess, that one's 99% subjective opinion.) ;)

Anyway, my original point was that principles are guides, not universal constraints, and one can believe in both social justice and rugged individualism. At the end of the day, there are no answers, only trade-offs.
to be fair that is framing content under the Trueveo name, as opposed to adding a "toolbar" at the top of the page.
Not quite every see Disco 69165A, 691650 many others

It's a clever idea though, kind of like colr.org
Medical and dental wages are high in large part due to licenture, same as lawyers. They all have guilds, where a union also certifies, so they limit supply to the benefit of incumbents and the detriment of potential entrants and clients.
Operator of English language schools charged in massive [visa fraud]

http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/080409losan...
On consideration, to be fair, I should add that I quite liked the Symbian Java APIs (without being a fan of Java; boring). The APIs had lots of interesting functionality, but it was just not realistic to get applications signed so you could do a serious install on mobiles. The painful App store method looks like a dream, in comparison.
This politician wants to take India back to 1940s by abolishing English and Computers
The worst part, he has got his own sons educated in English medium schools.
Do politicians try to introduce such retarding ideas in your nation too ?
"a major difference between Asian cultures and here is that teaching is a high-status profession in Asia. Here, the assumption is that people become teachers because they can't get hired anywhere else, and they're paid accordingly."

At least in India, many people become teachers "because they can't get hired anywhere else, and they're paid accordingly." This is particularly true in Engineering/Science/Mathematics.

Most teachers have zero industry experience, have never worked as engineers, have never done any significant engineering/science etc etc and do choose teaching because they couldn't hack in the industry. [except for a few really good teachers at say the IIT's - which have their share of terrible teachers - but you could find equivalent folks in say MIT].
As you said "(& a couple saints that just don't want to work there, for any amount of money)."

So maybe you are talking of China/other parts of Asia?
language runtime of the very ideal language, will have to be written in C

Or, maybe not: http://piumarta.com/software/cola/
Why we don't develop for platforms other than iPhone
Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in?
There are good times and there are worst times. I recently had to write code in a hot room with temperatures near 107F; nothing to sit on; warm water for drinking and a lot of distractions. I am sure many people have been in similar situations and would like to know your experiences.

PS: I asked this question on StackOverflow but it was closed.
I consider advice in the context of "hope for the best, but plan for the worse."

I would like to have the health of a 20-something in a hundred years from now thanks to some wonder pill but just in case I'm going make sure my lifestyle supports a long, happy life with the current constraints.
It's just for creating some controversy to gain eyeballs.
The use of the word "only" in front of the description "an obligation" is what is really misleading.

Another way of saying "we don't know who's holding the debt and who owes it" is to say:

"I don't have the cash on hand to pay you what I owe you but I promise you that the cheque will be in the mail any day now."
Ah, Indian Luddites. We fought this battle during our industrial revolution as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

Here's a great parody of these ideas from Bastiat. It is a petition from candle-makers to the government, complaining about the competition from the sun.

http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
Had to write code in Sanskrit on a banana leaf in an isolated island... but then, it was just a dream.. that may come true someday.
I would say the system that was used to build and train 20Q is a mind.

Keep in mind (heh) that calling something a mind doesn't mean "human level consciousness".
Don't ask questions like that.
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Kinda, but really the logo at the top left of a page (generally) is the branding of a site. Plus to an unsuspecting user, it seems like the site is endorsing Digg.

At first I didn't mind the digg bar, but since working on a project which sometimes comes across digg bar links...quite simply I !#?*ing hate it. They've broken how the web works, now I need to specially parse the page to find the real link. The least they could do is change it so it only shows the Digg bar to user-agents that are from a well known browser, else just redirect to the real URL.
Interesting. In the reaction to this article, I see a lot of people betray their emotional angst when their shibboleths are threatened.
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Ask HN: CSS gradient hacks - are they worth it?
I came across this site the other day, and really liked the results:

http://www.designdetector.com/demos/css-gradients-demo-3.php

I was wondering if any designers out there could shed some light on whether or not this has any advantages over images.
Not working conditions per se, but debugging a legacy bioinformatics program written in perl. Comments were in french which I do not understand. It took three days to run and exited with:

"Error - good luck finding the bug".
Then he's criticising the applicability of column stores to a mode of use for which they're not designed.

ah, ok. That makes sense, agreed.

Here is question to you - not directly concerning the article - If we talk about all those new (or not so
new) hash databases
(a.k.a. "key/value stores" like Amazon Simple db, Google's
equivalent which they make available with Google App
Engine, Berkeley DB etc.) and if we talk about OLTP: I
have been thinking lateley that those stores that often
require the programmer to denormalize and trade relational
features for performance could soon become largely irrelevant SSDs, and soon (OLTP databases are often
not that big in my experience [compared to OLAP databases], many should fit into an SSD today).
In contrast to column stores those key/value stores
are explicitely marketed for transaction processing (if
a RDBMS doesn't scale enough).

As I understand it, most
of the time performance and scaling problems with relational databases result from the database being
disk bound - a problem that should largely vanish with
SSDs.

Do you agree?
it sure have a little control over it as they have millions of users, so they can BUZZ something up

but i don't think they'll control the media in long term.. no one can even control it
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Back in 2000 I was working at a startup in Washington, D.C. and we had been working 80-100 weeks for nearly 1.5 months before management finally brought in some contractors as reinforcement. All of the developers were in a 20x20 or so room working at folding tables. One of the contractors that they brought in had a form of Tourette's that caused him to make this noise that I can only describe as a loud squawk at random intervals, about every 60-180 seconds. Combine that with the pressure, lack of sleep, and the effort to concentrate and it became my own personal version of Chinese water torture. I truly think I came close to having a nervous breakdown during those two weeks.