skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed interesting how different educations differ. We certainly learned some of that, but it was never the center of attention. Geometric algorithms were another larger focus. Ofc there is so much to learn and it's only possible to confer part of that in the 4-5 years.
For me shame.css doesn't necessarily contain hacks. In mine you will find less thought out selectors that are added in haste and anything else that doesn't conform to the high standard I set myself.
That depends on the problem that is being solved. For instance, if your goal is to explain away what is obviously the case, then ignoring or hiding the truth is the ONLY solution. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Is it possible to make an update from 12.10 without having to reinstall the system?

EDIT: "sudo do-release-upgrade -d" did the trick. I will keep updated on progress.
Am I now able to install it in addition to an UEFI Win8 installation without any tricks?
Why would the venerable House of Lords be interested in Super-computing?
Doesn't seem to be any point for me [1], I don't use Python, or Libreoffice. And I use gnome-session-fallback, can't stand Unity, and just wish they'd give me an OOBE setting for having an 'old-school' Gnome 3 session!

Although Linux 3.8.8 might well make me upgrade.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview
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I question the idea that 90% of the U.S. has foreign ties, but your point (it's absurd) remains.

Actually I'd really like to see how much of the population something like FISA actually applies to.
» About That Kickstarter Campaign
Changelog: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview#New...
life is short, upgrade and feel it imo :-)
I think the theory behind this is a great deal more interesting than that video lets on. The idea started out as simple C programs piping characters to a UNIX audio device. But it's grown since then, now there's a web page that lets you create audio with Javascript expressions[1] (one of my favorite tracks from this scene was generated that way[2]).

There's some good blog posts about the origins of this[3], and music theory behind it[4]; both of which will go into more detail than I'd care to for a HN comment[3].

[1] http://wurstcaptures.untergrund.net/music/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... (5m 13s)

[3] http://countercomplex.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/algorithmic-sym...

[4] http://countercomplex.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/some-deep-analy...
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Patent Troll^H Assertion Entity Activities Workshop
Thanks a lot for the feedback. I'm the guy with poor diction. I agree we could have gone a bit more over the top, and since this video I've learned to speak a bit more clearly. If you like, you can see my YC Demo Day pitch here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH-1lhiIcBQ
Thanks for these recommendations, "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" made great reading.
Data center power consumption is a real issue and it makes sense that a website for renewable energy projects will itself run 'green'. I for one, upvoted this story, as I hope it raises awareness that, yes, the greenhouse effect still exists, and fossil fuels are harmful to people.

Also, even though natural gas seems to be growing faster than coal in terms of electricity generation, gas isn't green, it's just "greener" than coal.
Because www.bing.com is served by akamai CDN which is different to bing.com. Therefore the SSL on the site is different.
Regardless of his level of guilt, the aim of the prosecutors/government was not to punish, nor to rehabilitate - they wanted to break him. This is not 'justice'.

And, sadly (in my opinion), it appears they succeeded.
Amazon wakes up to targeted ads business
> By keeping [the CEO] out of the loop the CFO was able to hide the problems (including some irregularities involving private accounts and the corporate current account) from his partner.

Seems like you're saying a good way to go bankrupt is to have a criminal CFO. Aye, that will do 'er.
backupsify : 500GB @ 7$/month atm
There are three accounting reports that every business owner should understand. Profit-Loss, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows. Most small business people that I have met only look at the Profit-Loss (P&L) and do not look at the other two. They are the three legs of a stool. The P&L tells you how much money you made (or lost), the Balance Sheet tells you what the balances are on your accounts (bank balances, monies owed to you and monies you owe to others), and the Statement of Cash Flows tells you where and how the Balance Sheet changed and where the money moved to.

If you are C level at your company, spend at least an hour a month understanding these three reports. If you don't understand something ask your accountant or Google. As the OP says, there are more than just employees jobs riding on these reports (or what they represent); their families are also depending on good numbers. Sometimes the reports are not good news - they key is not to fool yourself, but to understand the truth. If you understand the truth you can make better decisions. If you do not understand the truth, it is very hard to make a good decision.

Some days you are making money, but you have to wait for accounts receivable to get paid. Some days you have a bunch of money in the bank because of new funding, or a customer pre-paid, or you haven't taken care of all the payables yet. Just don't lie to yourself, and don't get lied to.

It is not that hard to understand the three reports; they are basic arithmetic and counting - the key is to just do it. Personally, I look at it every week after doing payroll. You can choose your own schedule, just choose one and look at all three reports. Even if you only do it quarterly, you will at least know what is going on.
I think there are philosophical reasons why people prefer inference rules over working with sets. Many people work or have worked in a context of constructive logic, as constructivism comes in naturally when you consider computability. Now, implication is a far simpler concept than sets. Implication is modelled by cartesian closed categories, while for sets one needs additional structure, e.g. toposes. So I suppose the fact that inference rules are preferred over pattern matching and sets has to do with them being percieved as being based on simpler principles.

Of course, all this is a matter of taste and for particular applications like HM it doesn't make any difference at all which notation to use. I don't want to defend the rule notation too much; it takes up a lot of space in papers and if you have something better then fine. But maybe that explains why people prefer this notation.
You'd be better off sending your CV as a PDF, that way there are no 'corruption' issues.
Is Java the new C?
I switch to Korora for my laptop. It is basically the Mint of Fedora. Quite happy so far.

My feeling is that Fedora has the better engineering, but Ubuntu has better polish. Korora puts some icing on top: good font rendering, Adobe Reader, Skype, nvidia drivers.

Fedora stays closer to upstream than Ubuntu. They just package Gnome 3 for example.

https://kororaproject.org/
Can a mod put "(2012)" in the title?
Don't update, then, and use whatever distribution suits you better. It's one the greatest things about Linux, choice.

No change/upgrade will ever fit every user. I use Python, Libreoffice (not that these are really dependant of the new release) and I like Unity, can't wait to try it out.
Weapons of Mass Disruption: Creating The Drowning
Usually the CDN will have a single certificate which then has multiple SAN entries. What can happen depending on the size of the CDN is it can take a long time for the SSL to be added to the SAN entries on all the edge servers. So if a site just starts moving to a CDN they sometimes jump the gun and instead of waiting for all the edge servers to have the SSL they just change DNS records.

You then have a scenario where the DNS is waiting to propagate and the SSL is still propagating around the CDN. Hence you get soem users without a problem, some with and it eventually all clears itself up.
And a long history of pointing to techno-anthropology.blogspot.com .
Driving our bosses crazy
That was a minor (if contributing) factor, the bigger problem was the unprofitable strategy of expansion.

The irregularities were what triggered the review, the actions by the participants hastened the demise of the company but as far as I can see with the information I've got this one was unavoidable. Which totally sucks.

Companies have survived with people raiding the till, but no company will survive basic un-profitability in the longer term.
When some has commented "Maybe it's just me, but the Jobs worship on HN is getting pretty annoying.", it is vapid, as you say and without any tangible value or merit. It's not a particularly useful or constructive discussion and it certainly doesn't "challenge" anything or anyone. It's whining, and IMHO trolling. As I pointed out, there seems to me to be as much fawning of Linus' G+ comments. As the OP of this particular branch perhaps admires Linus, he doesn't notice it as much. Cognitive bias in action. My suggestion, which I totally stand by, yet apologised for, was actually meant constructively.
I've attempted something similar but without installing any external package and by documenting the config inline so that one could pick only what needed:

http://giuliofidente.com/2013/04/getting-to-know-and-use-ema...

In there I tried to address also other issues like saving the backup files out of the working dir, show the line numbers, highlight long lines.
I played with the beta and I have to say that it is way more polished than 12.04/12.10. I have played for many years with Linux (since early 1990s) but it was always to much of a hazel to use it as my main os. But since 12.04 I fully switched from OSX to Ubuntu the only thing I kind of missed was the polish of osx. 13.04 makes lots of things nicer and more fluid. I actually like Ubuntu better than osx. One thing left to do is to get some descent icons and getting rid of the default orange :)
How dare Eskimos eat meat, they should eat bananas and fruit!
With RapidSSL if you order a cert for www.domain.com then it will also cover domain.com. But if you order a cert for domain.com or sub.domain.com then it will NOT secure the www.domain.com.

So basically make sure your CSR request is for www.domain.com if you want to also secure the root domain.
Unfortunately I think most of my CSS would deserve to be in shame.css

Related: is there a good short "remedial CSS for programmers" book or something?
Css specificity conflicts (components, variants and states)
Counting and generating λ terms
I am burning out
Mozilla finalizes proposal for changes to Firefox’s customization options
"A lawyer that you do not pay is not working for you"

That's pretty good advice on a personal level - in the early days of a company it is easy to view your company's lawyer as "your" lawyer. However, as a company grows and has external investors you may reach a situation where your own personal interests do not coincide with those of the company - this can lead to rather unpleasant surprises!

I guess the trick is spotting the point where your own personal interests and those of "your" company diverge without spending huge amounts of money on redundant legal advice.
I've been looking for such a list before, glad to have found it! Please don't stop developing it!
I wanted to stay on 12.04, however 12.10 came with the option to encrypt your whole hard-disk straight from the installer with dm-crypt, which is much better than ecryptfs, at least when it comes to performance. And manually encrypting your hard-disk with dm-crypt can be quite painful.

The downside of that is that 12.10 and non-LTS versions in general only get bug fixes for critical bugs, otherwise the bug fix is the upgrade to the next version, in this case 13.04. So you end up on the upgrade treadmill, whether you want it or not.

I'm waiting for a month at least before installing any new Ubuntu version though. At release they tend to be a little unstable.
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 2560–2540 BC, Cleopatra reigned from 51–30 BC.

So - this statement will remain true for another ~446 years.
does a proper arm release mean that samsung arm chrubuntu will be flawless?
Captive lions and tigers can mate to produce non-sterile offspring
Firefox’s Australis theme may be bad for users who customize the browser
Amendment 27

Section. 1. The forth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
How did you arrive at that price? Their site states 0.02 per 1 GB which times 1000 would be $20 per TB.

EDIT* I guess you meant their $5 VPS allows 1 TB of bandwidth before they start charging you for overages. You would have to startup/shut down when each VPS approach 1TB of usage I guess.
Mozilla posts second draft for Australis customization changes
New Startup Without An Inhouse Developer
I am one of three co-founder of fansunite.com a startup based out of Vancouver B.C. We have already put 100k of our own money in to the site development and are now in the process of looking for investors to take it to the next level. Between the three of us we can turn a computer on and log into our email accounts, not much beyond that. We did however come up with what, in our opinion, is a great idea. The problem we face now is that we have had to out source all of our development and have recently had a falling out with the company that developed what you see today. A fully functional Beta site that is a shadow of what we believe it can be. I guess my question to the HN community is what would you recommend we do next? What we want is to find a coder who is willing to take a stake in the company as well as a small salary so that we have a member of the team who can actually make reality what we imagine. HN community what are your thoughts? We are at a cross road and need to make decisions pretty damn quick.
Google’s Got A Problem. Search Ads Aren’t Just For Search Engines Anymore
Also I think a cube of water at 1:50 that holds its shape until it hits a rabbit does not reflect how a real water would behave. But overall I find this simulation very compelling.
Slow-mo exploding things for the win. Also this is a super good, interesting explanation of nothing I never would have cared about before.
I'm pretty sure 90% of US citizens visit foreign websites, which might be enough.
Rule of thumb: if you feel that your roles as shareholder, executive and the corporate interests conflict to the point where you would take different decisions depending on which hat you wear.

After all, the decisions flow from those interests so they're a good benchmark.
"One of my old Physics teachers was an expert on Stone Henge. Did a lot of original research in the 1980s."

Did your teacher publish anything? I'm aware of Alexander and Archie Thom [1], John North [2] and Fred Hoyle [3] as well as the pop science books by Gerald Hawkins.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Thom

[2] http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1999JHAS...30...83R...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/On-Stonehenge-Fred-Hoyle/dp/0716703637

PS: remember that climate in Britain was very different from now and changed a lot during the construction of megalithic sites. Inland Britain was as you say covered with dense forest so river valleys and coastal areas were very important then.
You shouldn't need the -d, because it's no longer the development release.
I'm graduating soon from a top university (not Ivy League though) with a masters in CS. I've interviewed with 4 companies so far and 2 of them have just never gotten back to me. One of them was after 4 interviews including a 4 hour coding test. I sent several emails, but just silence.

I can only attribute this behavior to cowardice. I guess they (HR) are just to afraid to be upfront. I apply to one company at a time so they have my full attention. Finding out I waited around for nothing makes me rage. It's so incredibly rude to treat people like that.

I want to start a list of companies that do this. Make them accountable, or at least keep people from wasting time.

In fact, here they are: SpaceX (4 hour code interview, then nothing), LogicMonitor
Given the JVM supports Unicode identifiers, and given the rich vein of mathematical operators therein, I always thought it would be fun to do the APL thing with Java. Scala went a (very) little way towards this, but I don't think anyone has taken it to logical extremes yet.

(although I did once threaten my co-workers that I would tell the theoretical mathematician on the team about Unicode identifiers in Java. He used to write LaTeX in the Javadoc comments [which Doxygen handles rather nicely])
Let us agree to disagree. There are tendencies only to remove strict math notations (particularly ones with implicit assumptions) from programming. Once removed programming languages that use such notation gets adapted by wider and wider communities and gradually become mainstream. And on the opposite, languages that use heavy math notations, even if pushed vehemently by academic community tend to die down.

I think this will be demise of Haskell by the way. As good as it is, the notation is still full of '||', '!!', '++', ':' ... So I think there would be another iteration in the functional world. Haskell will die, just like ML/Ocaml/etc had died, because Haskell with slightly better syntactic sugar had captured that segment of developers.
Nestle is trying to patent the Fennel Flower
In fact, they are talking to a foreigner right now!

(My apologies to any American who have had their lives ruining for talking to me. By their government, that is, not by my own personal malice.)
That's because Bulgogi is simply amazing. I'm yet to master the recipe.

In seriousness: I think they'd classify her as "Asian". Whether that's good or bad, I don't know. I think it's a shame we "need" to classify anyone at all.
>The big difference is that Flask is based on other technologies such as Werkzeug and Jinja2 that exist for a longer time and it does not try to reinvent things. Bottle on the other hand tries to stick to the one-file approach. I want to merge them but the Bottle developer does not seem to be very happy about the idea of stepping away from the “one file” requirement.

And seeing that Flask still does not support Python 3, while Bottle does, I'm happy with the decision of the Bottle developer.

Not to mention that the "one file" makes deployment very easy.

Plus: Bottle is quite faster than Flask, even if you count the overhead of a DB query:

http://blog.curiasolutions.com/the-great-web-framework-shoot...
Thx, very interesting!
Whether Arabs are caucasian or not is not GP's point: it's that someone who was born in Africa, and lives in America, can fairly consider themselves to be African-American, just on that basis.
I can't get code completion to work :-(
That wasn't listed as a life hack.

| here’s a list of strengths I’ve noticed in my team over the past few weeks (and how that strength helps our team do its best work):

| ...

| - Remembering to celebrate birthdays and other important life moments (makes our team feel connected)

| ...

His 'life hack' is to recognise and celebrate peoples' strengths in his community. One or more of those people, it seems, is great at remembering birthdays, and he recognised this.

Also, you may want to say that what he's doing isn't a life hack either, but remember who his audience is ;)
"And some days, when a weekend passes and I played at the park with my son, helped him in his first programming project on the RaspberryPi, enjoyed a movie at home with my wife and a bright spring Saturday morning at the farmers’ market… but I end that weekend just kicking myself for the code I didn’t finish?"

Did you not just pretty much describe the perfect weekend?
I'm not sure you're burning out, I think you're realising what life is really about.
Robert Scoble on Google Glass: “I’ll never live another day without it”
12.04 and earlier versions always had the option for full disk encryption with dm-crypt, but you had to use the alternate install CD with the curses installer. It wasn't complicated at all. All they did with later versions was to roll the option into the standard live CD installer.

Regarding bug fixes and the need to stay on the upgrade treadmill, it's much easier nowadays to stick with LTS versions since they implemented the LTS enablement stack (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack). Essentially it's the kernel and X.org of the current release backported to the LTS release, so you don't miss out on new hardware support while getting all the bug fixes and stability that come from the LTS.

That being said, however, I'm finding 12.04 to be extremely buggy when you're using Unity+Compiz.
I'm using openSuse. It's fast and stable. Ubuntu Gnome ( http://ubuntugnome.org/ ) is also a good choice, but its not pure gnome as always.
Jeremy Siek also has a good intro to the notation: http://siek.blogspot.com/2012/07/crash-course-on-notation-in...
It's difficult to get a handle on the real business value of Palantir: homeland security bubble has burst (sequester and US govt debt); big fight against DCGS for Army procurement; high cost of doing business overseas; financial product line is a drag; low cost competitors building product from OSS/COTS components (e.g. Hive/Hadoop, graph DBs, HTML5 front end) ....

The strangest thing is that Palantir is almost 10 years old, but it still prides itself on behaving like a startup. The flat all-for-one structure means there's no specialization of labor, so over-qualified CS wizards work as Forward Deployed Engineers, building servers and doing post-sales support. Imagine how much fragile spaghetti code 100s of really smart hackers can produce in 10 years - it's a lot. But Palantir is not an algorithms and data mining play, it also prides itself on having a human-in-the-loop, so there's no real underlying IPR value or barriers-to-entry either. That prejudice also inclines them against a real-time (CEP) front-end: you can't squeeze the human into streaming algorithms. Where's the enterprise platform? The elegant API and the end-to-end SDK? The vision for a strategic data processing and BI pipeline?

Palantir's principal asset is its collection of amazing employees. The biggest benefit to workers is not $$, but toiling alongside other great people. These are strong, creative and independent minds, any IPO or acquisition will disperse many of them to the four winds, to create a future networked diaspora of Palantir Mafia, building the next generation of great Valley companies.

The one area that Palantir does not behave like a startup is frugality. Where has all the money gone? We know it's expensive to build fabs in Asia, but Palantir doesn't have any. We know that companies sometimes acquire their way to a customer base, but Palantir hasn't. Series G for a software company!

Palantir is not a spartan ramen noodle kinda place. There is free food, but most of the over-catered lobster dinners are donated to homeless people. Seven rounds of VC money buying lobster dinners for tramps. Only in Palo Alto.
You got lucky with SpaceX. From what I hear, it's a sweatshop, with minimum 70 hour weeks and 120-hour weeks not unheard of.
> I’m hurt you don’t use my website platform.

> I’m hurt you didn’t use my journal tool.

> I’m hurt (so few of) you use my plugin loading library.

This is entitlement, not burn-out.
European keybords (All?) dont have that key, atleast not in that place.

On for example german and nordic keyboards there is some other useless symbol there, and command+"that key" does not work.

I know you can configure this, but its strange that there is no sane default.