skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Energy is fundamental to the economy. It is very fundamental. If a future in which California decides it is expedient to extract the oil under its lands and waters is one in which there's been widespread economic disruption, it's possible that the total decrease in economic output would lower the price of oil.

This is a very good point.

Edit: on a related note, though, the state can't really borrow money, and generally spends as much as it takes in. (and tax revenues vary wildly with our rapid boom-bust cycles.) - In a very real way, the worse the California economy is doing, the more each dollar of extra revenue would help.

>Peak oil will happen, it's merely a question of when it will (or whether it already has). The economic, political, social, and other factors associated with it may not be triggered for some time after, though again, perhaps they've already started.

My problem with peak oil is that we have fission technology right here, ready to go. It's way cleaner, and way safer than coal. We've got enough uranium to party for a few more generations, and many generations after that if we put some effort into using the stuff more efficiently. It's just political resistance that keeps us on coal/gas instead of fission for our 'in place' generation.

And yeah, not all of our energy use is in-place. But having a good source of cheap and mostly clean electricity? it helps a lot. Heck, there's a lot of oil about that takes more energy to extract than the oil will yield, right? if we have cheap fission power to pump in, well, more of that starts to make sense. So yeah; while cheap fission will power the gears of industry, and long-term can power much of our transport, well, it's going to be a long time before oil stops making sense for transport. (I mean, electrified freight trains? probably realistic. fission-powered container ships? maybe not so realistic.)

And also, I'm being optimistic; I'm assuming that because we have fission, and because it's proven and safe (compared to the alternatives... which is to say, not completely safe, but reasonably so.) we will overcome the political resistance before things get really bad. It's possible I'm wrong.
It's that godawful UI that kills it for me. It's plenty powerful and since I don't do print anymore, having or not having CMYK doesn't really matter as much. But I'm not going to waste the time learning a UI that's not native to any platform when platform alternatives are available.

One might be able to say the same thing of PS, but it has the weight of history and industry acceptance behind it.

Also, the name is not liable to cause embarrassment in some circles. At least PS is a marketable name.

But mostly it's that UI.
I own .IO domain and I was able to set it as gccTLD in Google Webmasters Tool for at least last 6 months (but not when I registered it more than 2 years ago).

Not to mention my .io domain ranks quite well for my keywords across all national google front-ends for quite some time.
They have to pay attorney fees of about 40 grand, and another 40 grand of punitive damages. At this point, that's about it, but with a ruling like this, there's no doubt that there are going to be many more problems for the Prenda gang in the future. Don't worry though, given the gravity of the recommendations Wright's sending to the DA and to the IRS, you can be certain there will be much more popcorn to be had from this case.
Dude. He's right.

Vim is clunky, I'll admit it, but it is a text-manipulation language separate from vim script.

Vim-the-language looks like this:

ci)char* arg<ESC>/func<CR>V}:s/param/arg/g<CR>
Right. Damned if I'm going to go listen to a conversation if I can read an article written as a 'transcript of the interesting bits' instead.
What does "poor queries" mean other than queries with poor asymptotic complexity based on the query plan?
I do program at work, so I have logged many "flight hours" so to speak.

I learned CS basics over time, but I created my first webapp in two weeks, knowing nothing of web technologies before that. The education and tools are a lot better now, so I think someone trying to learn now would have everything they need to make a basic app in a month.

As for building something that other people want to use, well that is a separate question :) sounds like you are well on your way.
Link bait indeed.

Ooh, a video!
Aptly named latexdiff: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/

Oops, already mentioned below.
I perform much better at interviews when I am relaxed. If you put too much pressure on yourself, then you will not be relaxed and will perform badly.

If you do a perfect simulation of an interview at home do you perform well? Find an interview question you haven't seen before, and attempt it exactly like you would at an interview. Have a software developer friend mock interview you.

If you feel like you perform better in a simulation, you may consider seeing a psychologist or reading some books on the subject. I once went to a workshop on how to deal with high pressure situations, and many of the exercises suggested made a difference to my interviewing.

The tips in the following article I feel apply equally to interviewing. I suffer the mentioned symptoms during interviews. When adrenaline levels are high the brain will enable a short-cut mechanism that allows you to make quicker decisions, but often not correct when considering a difficult question. The dreaded "tunnel vision" is a fight/flight response.

http://blog.bufferapp.com/what-happens-to-our-brains-when-we...
Further discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5665902
Minecraft using this anyone?
That would be pretty poor for inserted rows or columns, right? (Essentially showing everything after that as changed)
Slightly offtopic, but I almost daily trigger the mute switch on my iphone 3gs when shoving it in my pocket.
Now, when I am annoyed at what I believe to be an absurd default setting, I'm going to clench my fists and grumble,"Stallman!"
This is done through a simple script that uses Excel to do so. Same for Word where it uses Word's native comparison feature.
Is it just me or is the pink (flowing into orange) the main areas of the civil war?

I mean, compare: http://www.acws.co.uk/about/images/secede.gif

http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/5200/5292/5292.htm

http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/7400/7489/7489.htm

http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/800/809/809.htm
Try copying the headline and searching for it in Google News.
I use vifm off and on for moving files from one dir to another. (IIRC there were some issues with the latest version on OSX, perhaps sourceforge does not have the latest, and brew picks from there).

Another alternative I use a lot is `cetus` (a ruby project). https://github.com/rkumar/cetus
I lived in the Mission for many years and I find your description overwrought.
The 2nd amendment isn't important because our government is trying to enslave us today. As a matter of fact, I don't know any sane person that thinks that it is. But over a long period of time, maybe several decades or even several centuries, it isn't unreasonable to think that our freedoms may(not will) have eroded to the point where the only thing we have left to cling to is the right to bear arms.

Realistically, if that did happen, we probably couldn't do much. But with things like that, you gotta at least give it a shot.

My problem with gun control stems from the fact that it doesn't appear to work very well.
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
-- Walt Disney
I wonder how much effort they will put into making it hard to crack -- if they put most of the logic in the cloud, they could do a great job (you'd have to fully re-create the software, or do some crazy proxy service to multiplex a bunch of users to one legitimate account.
It's even a ZIP file with multiple files inside, only one of which is the actual document. So naïvely you'd just get back a binary diff. But I found some ways of crudely extracting text and feeding that to git for diffing so maybe those are already built-in in Windows versions. But that still just gives you a normal text diff and nowhere near as user-friendly as having something directly in the tool you're working in.
Oh shoot. I used array = [array, other_array].flatten to get around the += slowness. Way faster on lists of tens of thsouands that I was throwing around. Totally forgot push. (Granted, my solution was developed on Sunday morning with a hard deadline of Monday morning and I had been working hard all week. )
EU: Motorola’s patent attack on Apple was “abuse of a dominant position”
The vulnerability surface of the honeychecker may also be significantly smaller than that of the principle server.

It's possible that the password compromise is affected through other means as well (backups, database compromise, etc.), In which case the honeychecker van help validate this.

A similar approach would be to have sentinel accounts which aren't ever accessed, and which would trigger alerts if they were.
Teacher 'powerless' to stop ex-girlfriend's cyberstalking
Cloud pricing provides some interesting alternative remedies for his problem. For example, it might make it easier to offer schools discount pricing so all their students get CC. More creatively, if they could offer "student" pricing for say 5-10/mo, I think you enter the territory where it's easier to pay than to steal. If you imagine an ideal in the future where photoshop was just a website you loaded, this pricing model is how it would work probably.
I see "Internet Search: 'model xyz'" in a lot of car ads. Easier to remember than a URL and shows off how good your SEO is ;)
I think Guido alone has a lot stuff to share with Python lovers.
btw, the original article about using Genetic Algorithms to derive Mona Lisa's image also generated quite a bit of interesting discussions here, 4 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=389727
When are you going to give up the capitalized acronym LISP? It has the same archaic vibe and makes you want to code in it as much as in FORTRAN. Just call it Lisp.
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Aston-Martin's developed manufacturable monopoles!?
Please at least slightly pimp your business, it sounds awesome. (Is it Gotham Dream Cars? that's the only place I know of which rents multiple Aston-Martins in the US)
UN was 'following voluptuous German porn star on Twitter
When they do they mandatory customer surveys (to come up with ideas like "what people want from their desktop PC is t he ability to touch all over like crazy) I wonder WHO they interview. I maybe a power user, but every time I have to reach for the mouse interrupting my workflow on the keyboard (like when programming or writing) I treat it like a failure in my setup. When I'm working on something other (music editing software, Photoshop), I tent to use a pen tablet because the mouse is not accurate enough (but certainly more accurate that my finger).
Right -- Big O notation is a useful formalization of a thinking process that in practice usually includes more information.

That is -- anytime you write a loop, you'd better think about what's inside it (and how long those things will take), and -- given the amount of data you might be sending through that loop -- if that's a problem or not.

I want someone to notice that they're making a remote call in a loop when it could be batched, cached, etc.. I don't want them to spend 2 days optimizing an algorithm tinkering with a bit of text that yes, is inefficient, but in practice is only going to take a few milliseconds anyway and isn't a hotspot.
The only real touch based "smartphone" that was released in the 1990s was IBMs Simon Personal Communicator. You seem to be confusing smartphones with PDAs. Palm released the first PDA/phone hybrid in 2001 and to call it a touch based smartphone is a stretch. Ditto any of the Windows Mobile based devices that were around at the time. All the stylus based devices had interface elements that were based around that. The iPhone changed the game, like it or not. As the author noted, the LG Prada existed, but it was goddamned awful.
While I'll certainly give it some more thought, and grill my acquaintances who have more than a passing familiarity with the subject (both natives and academics), I am still not sure it's a very good model for the generic circumstance of handing out some chunk of value for people to build on; there are way too many confounding factors.

Those in the USSR didn't suffer only the meeting of their needs, but also a constraining of their hopes; the cultural mythology glorified the state, not individual achievement; quotas frequently lead to poor results; and, quite importantly, I would expect that outright oppression contributes something to the breaking of a people - I believe there were several examples of groups taking initiative to better their lot and winding up dead, which seems strong incentive not to try.

What actually contributed to the "fall" of the USSR is a somewhat orthogonal question. A decline in worker efforts certainly might have contributed. I've been under the impression that a significant problem was the politicization of scientific and economic questions, in ways that just didn't square well with reality - I know that in particular they were slow to take up computers, and an ideological commitment to Lamarckian evolution lead to poor agricultural planning.
Maybe they have only windows licenses of IDA pro? There are a few very useful tools for windows - especially for reverse engineering and hardware/embedded stuff.
Because they (the lawyers) didn't care about copyright infringement, they just wanted settlements. Copyright trolling is typically lawyer-, not rightsholder-, driven, with no intent to take cases to court.
> The name of China’s first aircraft carrier was also misspelled. It is the Liaoning, not the Lianoning.

I wonder how many people spelt TianAnMen as Tienamen...
EU Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds & plants not registered with govt
Your line about only one mirror. The other mirror is optional. I bought a Maruti about fifteen years back when i returned from the US. Was shocked that there was no second mirror.

Seems no one here uses the second mirror so it is an added cost. When I asked them about "blind-spot" they were puzzled. No one here has heard of it.

I think some of the other points are just for fun. The two showers in a bathroom, and the shower facing the pot. I've never seen such. Must be a rare case. Or someone hastily put together a bathroom so he could rent a place :).

Actually, I am surprised you did not mention anything about there being no water considering there are severe water shortages in summer. Then there are lanes on the road, but no one does "lane driving". "One Way" and "No Entry" are quite a joke. Signs in English but very few people can read (in Delhi).
If it works as well as the existing pressure sensitive stylii(Is that the right word?) for the iPad, then it is going to be horrible and unusable. If they mean that it's going to be as good as the surface pro's, then it's time for me to break out my wallet.

Apple likes to consider themselves to be the choice for artsy, creative types. It boggles my mind that they have such a hysterical dislike of the stylus. There is clearly a large market for this type of thing, just look at the galaxy note series.

Not all of us are artists, but almost everyone likes to draw. Hell, look at Draw Something. If the iPad had a decent pressure-sensitive stylus as an add-on accessory, they would sell millions of them.
Heart surgeon? No. But lawyer? Yes. Chemical engineer? Yes. Physician? Yes (private family practice is a dying art in the US). Movie star? Yes.

Very few career paths offer absolute job stability and an infallible guarantee of employability. That's no reason to be embarrassed of a career choice.
"A safe place" really depends on your threat model.

If you live in a place where home entries by persons with an interest in your online accounts is common, then no, your home would not be a safe place. This could include: living under an oppressive nondemocratic regime, living in a democratic regime with broad search and investigation rules, living with your snooping parents, having an ex with (authorized or otherwise) access to your home, roommates, roommates friends, being a highly social person hosting parties and not being able to secure your computer area.

Among others.

A friend tells doing consulting work with a national diplomatic corps in a foreign country, using his personal Linux laptop, had the device scanned on his exiting the country by a known, trusted, and competent security expert. Several surveillance mechanisms were detected.

The offices of faculty and staff at major universities associated with that foreign country are also subject to surveillance software, according to the same source. Those offices and the buildings they are in, as well as the associated computer networks, are generally readily accessible.

Computers are complex enough, even for sophisticated users, to be difficult to secure completely.

An advantage of physical, nondigital records of passwords is that they provide a much smaller attack surface. Computers (especially always-on systems) can be attacked from anywhere on the Internet (at least in theory). A slip of paper concealed in some out-of-the-way place in your home is much less likely to be found, though unless it's encrypted, it's much more likely to be useful if found.
https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/540
Those "stupid programming puzzles" are about evaluating problem-solving abilities. Asking about architecting a system from a higher level also does this. Asking how a browser works is in the memorization category, and I just don't understand how that can give you useful information.

Now you didn't give a lot of details - maybe you're upset about being asked to implement mergesort. That would also be an exercise in memorization. I'm not condoning that.

Being able to analyze an algorithm from a time/space complexity standpoint is about whether you can reason about code. I think that is also a useful thing to find out in an interview.
I see. So they bid it out. Thanks!
Speaking to prospective customers I have found that many want fixed pricing. It's easier for them to get budget for $x than to get budget for $y and then have to ask for $z because they used more data than expected.

So it really depends on the audience - if you have both audiences then you need to have two plans - tiered and pay as you go.
Real World JavaScript Part 1
UK pricing includes VAT (20%). US pricing doesn't include taxes because they vary by state (not a US citizen, but I've been told that's the reason).
You are twice as good as I am. And you have put something in words I would never ever have dared to, or am capable of.
I see you as a bright individual.
I am struggling with the same question. With 7 years of experience and not good enough open source code to show, I am spiraling in a vicious circle. I love Math, programming and physics.
Thanks for posting, you glorious dude.
Thanks for sharing this link. For e-books I find PDF a superior format, as it maintains the original design and layout of the book best, while still having all the advantages of an e-book, searchable, etc. Appreciate that informit.com has that option.
Steve Blank on his Dysfunctional Family and the Valley's Pay-it-Forward Culture
I was born in and raised in California and got The Inland North:

> You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?

Interestingly enough though, my parents ARE from Chicago. Hmm.
Yea, you and me both are baffled! I almost wonder if he treated it as a sinecure.
If Google can fall victim to an ICS attack, anyone can.

Did Google write this software? If not, it's kind of like writing "Google locks vulnerable to lock picks". Well yeah, just like every other pin tumbler lock ever made.
App idea: Take data from two 23andme users, do a random combination, and then show pictures of what their kids might look like. Anybody know where to get the information to generate a face from the raw DNA?
If I could upvote this more than once I would.

It limits the number of people who are going to show up and ensures that there is some level of interest by all in attendance. Even if 1000 people go to the first conference, that is hardly a big money maker — $350,000 disappears quickly with costs associated with hosting the conference.

They will make money, but it's hardly a boondoggle. The real benefit for Dropbox is getting 500-1000+ developers all in the same location sharing ideas, creating, giving them feedback, etc. A few days of a conference is worth months of emails/tweets/HN/etc — in both directions.

Those complaining about the price probably don't have any business interest in Dropbox and are unlikely to attend — which should suit everyone just fine.
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I know a specific case where a manager was convinced he could do a better job of something than his employee, and coded up an algorithm over the weekend that performed 20% better on the test-data and was only slightly slower.

The employee had to explain that they couldn't deploy this algorithm because it was O(N^3) whereas the (already deployed) one that was doing worse on the test-data was O(N log N). The test-data was two orders of magnitude smaller than what could reasonably be expected while deployed.
The Luckiest Village in the World
A brief history of Windows sales figures, 1985-present.
Cool space man graphic at least.
> They're not useful books in most jobs, and bringing them up just makes you look like the kind of person who doesn't understand that.

That seems like a rather silly conclusion to draw. I actually think these sorts of hasty conclusions are part of the problem with the hiring process in the industry.
I've had some good luck with open-ended questions like "Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a scaling issue." How they define "scaling issue" often says just as much as their explanation as to how they solved it.

I think I've had to ask for clarification a few times due to the interviewee answering the open-ended question with something I wasn't familiar with, but that's an excellent opportunity to gauge their explanatory skills anyway!
> NOW - that all being said, I'm not going to make any judgment about this guy and his work at Tesla and what this means about that. There is far too much that goes into the production of a car to make any real judgment call about things to come -- Astons could have been beautifully engineered and then ruined with bad supplier decisions, that were outside this guy's control. Etc. etc.

One encouraging thing: with the Roadster, Tesla took a Lotus chassis and made something magnificent out of it with brand new drivetrain technology. They based a car on a Lotus, who hasn't made a reliable car... ever? (they're wonderful cars in their way, but sorry, it's true) From what you're saying, perhaps it's sort of similar to Aston.

If it's an ability to turn sketchy-but-brilliant British design into great cars that's needed, they seem to have it.
Because some people don't use the spacebar for themselves, or use a browser that doesn't support spacebar page-down scrolling, and think shortcuts are smart. For them it's OK to experiment and remap a key to some feature, even though only them are aware of it, and most other people won't see it and won't use it, or will get bitten as you are.

Tumblr is a a particular nest of this kind of websites.

That's unfortunate, and funny at the same time. Internet is also a playground, a sand box, a place to learn.

Best you can do is contact them, and teach them a polite UX lesson.
I've been looking for something from start May till end July. We'll be spending an equal amount of time between Downtown and in the Valley.

I've just landed a private place from someone who is going away for a break over summer. Avoid any of the "rental agents" on Airbnb or craigslist. They charge through the roof.
but Think of the Children!
Batman-The Costly Superhero