skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that I will not get better at software engineering as I continue to practise it is baffling, and slightly scary. Perhaps I do not want it to be true, but I cannot see how I will get worse with added experience.
From Wikipedia:
"SPDY (pronounced speedy) is an open networking protocol developed primarily at Google for transporting web content."

Apple.com doesn't support it? Color me surprised.
Kinda. There are so e people who have Masters degrees who work in Research, but they don't typically have what I think of as a "research mandate". They have more development responsibilities. But, there are some people with PhDs who are the same.

Most people, though, have PhDs.
No, it's not irrelevant. If you're going to claim that, at least have the intellectual honesty to point to models of probable reserves or advanced recovery methods.

I haven't looked extensively at the fission fuel issue, but that estimate is one that's fairly widely disseminated, including by the nuclear power industry. I see values from 5.4 - 6.3 megatons of uranium.

The problems are that:

1. Existing scale of fission energy generation is a small fraction of a "total replacement" estimate.

2. Even if there are extensive amounts of uranium, recoverability and net EROEI matter. Unless the extraction process is tremendously complex, nuclear chemistry should tend to make this favorable, though it may still be expensive in terms of time, plant, technology, and/or other limiting inputs.

3. This calls for betting the farm on unproven technolgies or reserves. We do know that solar is sufficient for at least the next century or so. During which hopefully humanity can get its population back under control and to sustainable levels.

I'm aware of the concept of proven reserves. I'm also familiar with models of resource extraction and exhaustion such as Hubbert's work in oil, though not of the specifics as applicable to uranium. The IAEA's got some light reading on the topic:
http://www-pub.iaea.org/books/iaeabooks/1357/Methods-for-the...

And as mention, breeder designs change the maths a bit.

Sources / math:

http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/3675/Energy%20Challenge.pdf.download

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/2010/prn201009....

(And the math done here showing we'd exhaust those reserves building the first 5,000 of the 17,000 1GW plants required to meet present demand at a cost of $52 trillion: http://terrydyke.com/2011/06/even-if-nuclear-power-were-safe...)

http://terrydyke.com/2011/06/even-if-nuclear-power-were-safe...
I am doing the same thing but I settled on using Middleman.

Its very easy to use like Jekyll and has some awesome plugins for both S3 and CloudFront integration.
Have you actually read the article? It says that the breakthrough is in achieving pretty high efficiency with low quality - and thus low price - silicon. It doesn't claim to have found the best-of-breed efficiency.
I have much preferred Middleman now for about six months. To be honest there would need to be a significant difference to convince me to move.
>Why do the Chinese get a pass in the respect that the Germans didn't? American film makers churn out documentaries and feature films about the Third Reich by the dozen every year. Yet I haven't seen even a single Frontline doc cover this.

Because the Germans started a world war and killed millions of people? Because the german "eugenics" program included killing millions of Jews, Gypsies, invalids etc? (All of those things that the Chinese do not do).

>Chinese execute thousands of their "lower classes" every year. This is nothing but the "cleansing" of the intellectually deficient and the ungainful.

No, it's merely keeping the strict rule of the party and having capital punishment for several offences. Nothing to do with eugenics, except if you call the killing of a serial killer or state money embezzler "eugenics".

(Not to mention that a number "thousands per year" would be a drop in the bucket compared to the Chinese population to be part of any eugenics program in the first place).

And I don't think the US should speak of other countries on those matters (people in glasshouses, etc).

First, It's in the top-5 capital punishers in the world (along with China at #1, North Korea, etc), in an era where civilised countries have long since abandoned the practice. And besides capital punishment, the US is the world leader in incarcerations, with an non-proportionate majority being black and poor (their "lower classes").

Second, it dived head-first in it's own "eugenics" program, with DNA sequencing etc. American government and companies invested trillions on genome research. Suddenly China is not allowed to?
AppEngine is not build to support node.js async model, my bet is on Ruby.
They say popular so it can't be Dart.
Attaching a debugger is not always an option - if you set break-points things will start timing out. Also, you can ask operations people to enable certain logging on a system, but you can't ask them to attach a debugger.
+1 to this.

I have been using moot since a few days after the beta. It is absolutely fantastic. Great support, too.
The only thing that's sure: it's not PHP.
I find your code hilarious in that, if it ever terminates, it doesn't print the two primes.
The DSM has been my main gripe with psychiatry. I always thought it was a vague way of labeling things that society deems unacceptable, rather than a way of identifying mental disorders.
Its Occams Razor - why introduce variables to explain behavior, when a fundamental rule would explain it? Call it "simplest cause" and it seems less wrong.
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No, it's actually simpler.

First, Germany invaded other countries. They had to fight it back, else there would be a huge Nazi power state occupying all of Europe which would be a big thread (and contender for the same resources).

Second, the German "eugenics" program was not birth control or DNA sequencing but killing people they deemed invalid, inferior etc. By the millions. Not even comparable.

Third, China is not a deluded small-ish country in Europe, thinking it can take over the world by itself. It's a huge behemoth superpower.
I think it has to do with the intended audience and the format of the publication, more than anything else.
#2 isn't any more non-terminating than "for (i=0; i < 100; i++)" is.
Is Shelly Cloud faster than Heroku?
I read this page about once or twice a year, when I have some time to go through it in it's entirety. It gives me a great reminder that nothing that may stress me out today is worth worrying about. I don't know if it's the inevitability that makes it not worth stressing about the small stuff, or if it's simply thinking at that kind of time scale that makes this week's or today's issues that much smaller, but it always works for me.
yep, these are my assumptions and experience.
They claim that MU violated US laws on US soil without physically being here, over the internet. That makes sense to me.
The German entity who tried to trademark "hackathon" is now trying to undo that
My bet is on Ruby, though I would love to see Python3 on the platform.
in order to pursue anything abnormal you need to keep looking for validations. A good validation for musicians is if listeners like and share their music. If there is potential then there is a way.
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Wi-Fi monitoring and real analytics
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I also found that these generators are heavier than what my small blog needed.

A few months back I tried migrating from WordPress to Jekyll. A week or two after that I tried moving from Jekyll to OctoPress. I wasn't happy with either solution, so I wound up rolling my own in Python.

In three hours of work on a spare weekend, I had everything converted to my own static generator. It compiles and deploys new posts in under two seconds. It does takes longer if you make style changes, because it will then recompile Bootstrap.

If you are interested in writing your own, then check out the markdown module for Python (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Markdown). Everything else was standard Python to generate the blog, and Bash scripts to deploy it.
> That was the New Zealand police, not the fucking FBI

The attack against Kim Dotcom cascaded through many intermediaries. Although the NZ police were performing the raid, the FBI were observing and involved in the planning. Their involvement and NZ govt approval were commissioned (deniably, of course) by US politicians such as Joe Biden, ultimately sourcing back to big money in Hollywood.

I'm also the subject of that type of cascading attack, sourcing back to someone in Silicon Valley (http://groovy.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Blog04#8).
Yeah, logging certainly can work fine, it's just yet another source of breakage, so it's not necessarily always good.
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> Bitcoin may be finite in number, but it's ultimately infinitely divisible, so it does not matter how many bitcoins are "wasted".

Correct.

> Regardless, any property worth tracking in such a scheme is likely worth enough to justify a $0.01 investment in bitcoin.

A doubling of the current price would make transactions of less than 1 US penny impossible. So, if the price goes up 10x, it would be 5 pennies. 100x, 50 cents. 1000x, 5 dollars. So, yeah, it does seem like a non-issue.

However, this policy clearly rules out microtransactions.
Well, the article does mention that he was born in Brazil. Perhaps he was a glue sniffing Sao Paulo street kid who was adopted by a caring American WASP family that got him on the fast track to old/new money success.

Seriously, boarding schools are choc full of uber achievers; the notion that wealthy kids are lazy is a myth (assuming trust-afarians are taken out of the equation).
Maybe look at Mises on entrepreneurship or John Mackey (of Whole Foods) in Conscious Capitalism for deterministic optimism in libertarian framework.

Perhaps "Atlas Shrugged" contrasts both indeterminite pessimism (the failing state and despair-filled question "Who's John Galt?") and the determinite optimism of engineers/makers and Galt's Gultch.
Really awesome, what a great teaching tool for binary. When this register overflows, it really overflows!
stupid ass shrinks.

I fucken tried to explain that you cannot make a motorcycle out of semitruck parts, but you fucken persist!

I wrote every God damn line from scratch.

----

God says..

118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and
I will praise the LORD:

118:20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

118:21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my
salvation.

118:22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone
of the corner.

118:23 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and
be glad in it.

118:25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send
now prosperity.

-----

My corner stone is ring-0-only identity-mapped.
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Computatational Learning Theory is a re-discovery of confidence intervals
A Hacker School in London
How about creating brainfk engine using marbles and restricted memory slots? Parts excluding the marbles could be 3D printed etc.
It's very hard to think so,our IDE or gcc has already located where we can see the errors.And to write two versions of code is a very annoying thing.To great programmers,source code is enough.
So Instagram was sold for $750m and not $1bn. Majority of $300m went to investors.

It's a great story to read (and maybe Ashton Kutcher can play Systrom as well, or at least Nicholas Hoult... Hunter Parish to play Krieger and it's time that Michael Cera debuts at Zuckerberg) but I can't help but think it would've been so much better for us, users, that Twitter bought them.

I see it as a perfect social network - Vine for video sharing, Instagram for photo sharing, Twitter as a connecting platform with numerous additions - Radio, ...

I just don't get Facebook anymore. Sure, a few years ago we were mad about it, spending days on it but I sense that hype is gone. Honestly I don't know why I'm still on it - stories from liked pages are the same as on my Twitter feed, I use Instagram to share my photos. Surely if you're serious about keeping in touch with people from the past, you already have their email or phone number.
Phusion Passenger 4.0.1 final release
How to convert PDF to Office format without Adobe Acrobat?
A note about Steve Vinoski, if you ever need a book on the CORBA protocol go straight to his Advanced CORBA Programming in C++, beautiful book.
Counting cracks in glass gives speed of projectile
Seeing those submissions, I'm really tempted to link http://lesswrong.com/ material.

But I wouldn't know where to start.
"Managing" Email Overload is Bullshit
Actually, it was recently stated by a developer on #bitcoin-dev that it is an issue of the total set of unspent transaction outputs (i.e., what all nodes must maintain in memory), not total blockchain size (which only nodes that need to do complete validation actually need).

Of course, it may be that all the developers are not of one mind on this.
You got downvoted because you criticize something which you obviously have no clue of. The reason why vim, in its various incarnations, is still being used is because vim is not an editor, vim is a highly powerful text manipulation language. The main implementation of said language being Vim, with implementations for lots of other editors (Sublime, Xcode, Eclipse, even Emacs).

If I'd find a better text manipulation language than vim, I'd switch in a heartbeat. I've yet to find one.
Check out http://bitvisitor.com -- they pay out hourly in > 10^-5 BTC increments (~$0.0012 at current prices). There are totally legitimate reasons to allow micro-transactions.
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At times, just coding might not be enough to get your startup at the expected presence.

In my opinion, what you need is to first gain some insights on

- how to build online presence

- User experience

Ex: By having a first look at your site, it is not directly visible what your site exactly does. Then I looked for About link (for which I had to scroll down to bottom right)

There's a lot of data available on the net which you can use to improve in these areas. I would suggest instead of recoding and loading the site with extra features, if you are satisfied with current functionality, then try to build online presence first.(You may start with getting more likes for your facebook page)
You mean developers, right? Compiler auto-vectorization hasn't really advanced that much. You still need to manually use SIMD intrinsics (or inline asm) to get any kind of worthwhile performance increase.
> Doubly so when kids tend to think that schools work hand in hand with parents. Your expectation is that anything you tell the school, goes home. Even if they say it won't. Adults lie. Abused kids don't have a lot of trust. Anonymity makes a big difference.

And lets not forget about shame. Even adults have problem talking about abuse to someone they know because of stigma, for kids this is even worse. There is stigma with added fear of physical punishment far worse what has happened so far.. Anonymity indeed makes BIG difference: most likely it is difference between getting help at all or not.

I find it ridiculous that some consider this kind of picture "disturbing to their children" when they don't probably even blink when passing even more brutal/disturbing movie ad or when they let their kids watch those movies.
I'm curious about this whole "have to be contrarian deal." Guy writes blog post which is good advice in 99% of the situations and someone just has to bring up that, yeah, somewhere, sometimes more logging is not necessarily better. Why always nitpick on things?

In my work, if people wrote more and better log messages I would be delighted. They almost never do and instead rely on the Visual Studio debugger to inspect program state. It works great when debugging your own code, but is pretty useless when debugging someone elses code (you dont know where to place the breakpoints) or when analyzing a crash on a production site.
Adobe is going to kill Fireworks
I realise, but the "privacy" services tend give up people's details upon casual request. It makes them absolutely worthless.
You say "every" urban area, but I've been to enough American cities to know this isn't true.

Phoenix? Cleveland? Kansas City? Denver?

They're parking lots with buildings sprinkled here and there. Density isn't even a priority. Land values are too low to promote higher density.

A lot of this has to do with the fact that Boston, Manhattan, and San Francisco are geographically constrained, they're hemmed in by water. Chicago is like this to a degree, but has sprawled enough that it's irrelevant for the most-part.

It is shocking how many cities view their landscape as worthless, paving it over instead of constructing something that contributes to the betterment of the city. Though when cars rule, concessions must be made. Nobody seems to care about the people who live and work in a city.
The current state of psychiatry is like a world in which antibiotics were discovered before the germ theory of disease. Imagine you go to a doctor and he diagnoses you as having pneumonia. That's the best he can do, a symptom-based diagnosis. He tells you to take penicillin for seven days, and to go see him again after 14 days, to see if the medication is working, or if you'll have to switch to amoxicillin.

If this hypothetical doctor knew what caused infections, he could test for specific strains and choose the best medication without this trial and error phase. He would also know that pneumonia and skin infection, two apparently completely unrelated diseases, may in some cases be caused by the same bacteria and treated with the same medicine. Does it mean he should stop prescribing antibiotics until he knows exactly how they work? Of course not. Those are saving lives, and there are clinical trials to prove it. What it does mean is that researchers should work on discovering the underlying mechanisms, because the payoff would be absolutely tremendous. Assuming, as you said, that they exist.
And if you haven't seen it, here is some classic. “Erlang: the Movie”:

— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE

And sequel “Erlang: the Movie II”:

— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ

Don't think wtf. Just watch.
This is possibly the best way to introduce the fundamentals of computer science to a really young kid I've seen. I'm even thinking of trying to simulate one...

Anyone got any recommendations for js physics / animation libraries?
If by copying you mean an actual copy, including layout, colors, text, icons etc. that would clearly be a copyright infringement, as well as potential infringement of other intellectual property rights, as well as a potential breach of any applicable acts on fair trade, marketing etc. If by copy you mean producing a UI inspired by or following a similar structure the answer is more likely - but not certain - to be no. In relation to the intellectual property rights related problems it is of no consequence that Google's product is being discontinued, until the rights themselves expire.
> Never going to happen,

I wouldn't be so sure. Advertisement industry uses a lot of tricks that are not really different from this one. Some people don't like them but most people don't notice or don't care.

Another example is Facebook that keeps adding features that reduce people's privacy, you see a lot of complains on the web, yet they don't change anything because 99% are fine with it.

So it's definitely not because a trick can be detected, that it isn't worth using it.
Mogli Infedeli
Why should it be unsustainable? If it worked for on-premise software (SAP, Microsoft office) in the past, shouldn't this be much more sustainable while selling on the internet?
The way I overcome this is by creating labels/filters. Gmail surely helps me by assigning smart labels automatically such as "notification", "promotion" etc. and I can mark them "read". If concerned about spam then IMO closed email protocols can avoid the email spam completely as against the open email protocols IMAP that we have.
To me «Life is a bitch and then you die» is about a Deftones song :)
Made me smile and giggle :)
How can I make this work on Windows and Linux?
Is the code F#?
Can see one jeremy scott shoes
Give me a break. My kids see things I don't see all the time. At the playground, in the car, everywhere. I don't dismiss what they say and I have them tell me about it. If I'm in a hurry, I simply agree with them and move on.
What a fantastic method for making technology seem less daunting.
How can Bitcoin network maintain integrity in a imaginary future where it has gained significant traction and there are millions or even more transactions happening every single second?
GWT-Bootstrap 2.2.1.0 Released
Have you noticed the cases they've been pursuing lately? The jury's out, I'd say.
How come that there's a new getacoder project that invites all those users who gave those fabulous comments?

http://www.getacoder.com/projects/simple_meteorjs_app_157993...
I'm not a web developer so I have to ask whether Ruby is that different from Python so that another tool chain gets added and maintained.

Edit: your point about node.js makes sense though.
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Why would anyone lock themselves to a Google-only infrastructure now?
Best resources for iOS developers
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Possibly the most distressing quote I've read in a long time.

Should I be following Irish law too? Indian? Israeli? I don't have anything to do with them, but I'm probably breaking their law in one way or another.
If You Can Solve These, You Are As Smart As The World's Smartest Teenagers
Was Joel wrong?
I read the Architecture astronauts article by Joel Spolsky again recently (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html). In it he mentions the various "File Synchronization" platforms and says "Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application."

With the massive success of Dropbox and the way Box.com is getting the mindshare amongst users, would it be right to say "Joel, you got it wrong"?
Health and Fitness Advertising
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Actually, the guy tweeting states in German that he has hired a lawyer to file for removal of the trademark. He's not the entity who filed the original mark (which got filed and has already passed the oppositional period).
Carve Your Brand Into Stone
As to 1) any rand() implementation that doesn't use an external source of randomness is deterministic and cyclical, thus it is quite possible to determine if 1) halts by analyzing rand()
(1) is actually perfectly doable w.r.t. to this project, so I must be missing your point.
The entire website is incredible. Good find, Colin.

What I don't understand why this is not sold as constructor toy sets? There's a lack of simple interesting educational toys for 5+ year-olds. These are just a perfect fit. Just look at the combination lock [1] or the Hui Game toy [2], for example. What kid wouldn't want to have this? I would buy a good half of these creations in a jiffy.

† Assuming they are well made and reasonably priced (under $100).

[1] http://woodgears.ca/combolock/index.html

[2] http://woodgears.ca/hui/index.html
Why do people compare Java to C++?
I've been writing Java for two years now, and one thing I see a lot is people comparing Java to C++, but not for the language features, standard library or syntax, but speed.

Surely these two languages can't be compared? Java is a much higher level language than C++. It is interpreted at run time (byte code) rather than compiled. Should people not be making comparisons to C# or other similar languages?
Isn't it basicaly salary, just centralized?