skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone said below, it's only open for debate if you want to be pedantic. The Dr. Sheldon Cooper's among us may debate it, but it's pretty obvious what the question was looking for. There is even an illustration showing the cut, which would take an identical amount of time.
That's a good thought. There is an example on the page, but we do need to draw some more attention to it. Maybe we'll do it in style using the <blink> tag. ;)

But seriously, thanks again, this is really helpful!
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The Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
> On the other hand you are probably driving away the customers who can afford to pay for their own coffee and do not feel like being your guinea pig.

Eh? Seems like a simple "No thanks" would due just fine.
DriveImage XML (for Windows cloning) - http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
Lifestyle and genetics have a lot to do with things, but people are living longer and healthier lives these days... I don't consider 75 to be that old anymore. I have an uncle who's 80 who gave up scuba diving not long ago, one in his 70s who's president of his local school board, another who's over 70 and still lifting weights at the gym.
It's always been that way. In fact, I'm almost certain the time was shorter in the early days.
While some of those are good points, I'm convinced that the successful entrepreneurs didn't start by reading a techcrunch article about how to make x amount of money. Sure some get inspired and try, but the real entrepreneurs just get out there and do it. No one has to tell them to take the leap, he (or she) has to tell others that it's perfectly normal for him to take the leap. He's convinced himself that taking a leap and doing it himself is the only way that he can be happy and successful. And that's how I am. I started working for startups as my first job out of high school, I learned a lot, and kept moving up. My parents and rest of my family and friends constantly said and even say now 'When are you going to get a real job with benefits and security?' and I politely say, never.

It's the resilience that is baked into my personality and how I work that I never give up and I always make things happen. It's quite a delusion I'm sure because I have this I can always make it work out mentality while everyone else around me says I'm crazy, but in one way or another I always manage to work it out. I haven't hit a 'home run' yet but I've always worked for myself and always managed to pay the bills. Just in the two years from being out of high school I've come pretty far by my own standards. I'm co-founding a startup now and we just launched two weeks ago at a local university, we gained 1,200 users in just under two weeks at this small college. It's a small victory in a long line of uphill battles along the way to success but it's the only thing I can imagine myself doing. And I'm going to keep doing it.
Not entirely sure what Ghost does, but... dd?
Here it is: https://github.com/json-api/json-api
Hahaha, "for p calories [in the food] and q dollars [cost of the food]" is supposed to be implied but I like your quip!
I don't think he got personal. He simply attacked a position which may or may not be your position.
You are correct, but you can trisect that piece of wood an infinite number of ways. The logical equilibrium point is 3 even pieces.

The student chose a ratio of 1,1,1; which is the logical equilibrium point. your image shows 1.5,0.75,0.75; which is the second most logical ratio because it is in the form x + 2y = 3 (which can be trisected an infinite number of ways while maintaining that ratio). The third form would be x + y + z = 3; which can also be trisected an infinite number of ways and would be the least intuitive.

i am agreeing with you, i am just trying to show that it is illogical for it to be 'open for debate'.

There is a game theory term for this type of equilibrium, but i forgot its name. Its the same type of equilibrium as "there are three colors and a number, which one is different?" type sesame street problems.
I highly recommend James Altucher's book, I Was Blind But Now I See. You can get it for $.99 on Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Was-Blind-But-Now-ebook/dp/B005VPXXVM

Its the story of how he built a web design business, exited for ~$12 million, drank himself broke and nearly to death, and then built himself back up (he is a VC now). Its about learning to be happy even though you sometimes feel like you're broken. I drew a lot of lessons from it that help me daily.
I think for most questions that are not very straight forward, IFQ would be a valid answer with only very little argumentation. That's why formal languages are needed.
When a derived type add new fields, it is restricting the type's range, not expanding the base type's capabilities.
Can you elaborate on that. It is proven that sorting based only on comparisons has a lower bound of nlog(n) comparison operations. Given that algorithms such as insertion sort use only comparison operations to probe the data, I do not see how they can break the bound.
A friend of mine used to work at PG&E in San Francisco. He told me that there is an ancient server in the basement running COBOL code that no one quite understood, upon which was a hand lettered note to never touch that machine for any reason, ever.
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Well that's straight to the point, thank you. (But not very constructive)
I'm certain that apples do not fall into the negative calorie category of celery, cress, etc. but it's still a possible answer to the "what model" question, so thanks. I guess that's what "Filligree" was going for...
It's not a trick question, just a bad one. It doesn't include enough information to give an informed answer. Telepathy is required to suss out the author's intention.

In the real world, you can ask more questions and get a more complete picture. On an exam, generally you must accept what you are given.
I'm not my mom, so I can't do that! Such subjectivity is something to avoid in an analysis like this. And 'level of integration' seems just as hard to assess.
A GPU (or a cluster of GPUs) might be able to process, say, 10,000 frames in one second. This does not mean that the same GPUs can process one frame in (1/10,000) of a second.

Even with an infinite number of parallel GPUs, there will be an amount of latency required in copying memory to the GPU, running a job, and copying it back. After the frame is compressed, sent over the network, and picked up by the client, further delay (possibly tens of milliseconds) is added on before pixels appear on the screen.

See the discussion around John Carmack's superuser post:
http://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-fas...
Can you back up that assertion?

Those who look for flings date more. Most men who date are looking for flings. Thus, it becomes more likely that most who date are looking for flings.

See Jaynes's book "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science"
It's always interesting to hear how people go about solving math problems. You mention a pie chart visualization and then the much more labor intensive (but maybe "correct"?) method. I used a third way, which was thinking that 13/13 would be one, so 12/13 is pretty close, so that's ~1. And 8/8 would be 1, so 7/8 is pretty close and also ~1. 1 + 1 = 2 :)

I imagine there are myriad other ways people approach estimation problems like this. In response to the rest of your post, I was never taught how to "think" about math. I was educated in a decent school system, but it was all rote memorization of multiplication tables. I think most people who are interested in learning will come up with their own tricks regardless of curriculum. Of course, imagine how much better I'd be at this stuff if I had math teacher's who were competent :)
True Image is a good commercial alternative (now it's a full fledged suite of products)
Ghost is like dd, but with filesystem knowledge (i.e., so it won't dump block belonging to deleted files, and can restore do a different size disk).
Somewhat like what dump/restore is on Unix file systems, but of course with Dos/Windows support.
Couldn't agree more... the one product that wasn't inherently horrible...
I use Astrid all the time to keep track of things I need to do, so I will be very disappointed if (read: when) Yahoo shuts it down and opens up a new "Yahoo To-Do" service. I understand the willingness of small businesses to be acquired, but it often really sucks for end users.
> It's really in no sense "vastly better" the market pretty much bears this out.

Some markets. iOS is big in the US, Android's big in the EU. It's clearly network-effect.

Because of that, "the market" doesn't bear out anything regarding quality.
But gasoline has nothing to do with the total cost of ownership of a Tesla. If they wanted to have a calculator that showed you the "real cost" of a competitor's car (with gas included) vs a Tesla (with electricity included) that would be a fair comparison.

If I bought a Tesla it would mostly be replacing bus trips not another car. That shouldn't have an impact on the cost of owning a Tesla.
I'm not going to go into conversion rates and exact numbers for the moment. I avoided that in the blog post mostly because we haven't, as a team, had the conversation about how much we want to publish in that regard, and I don't want to make any unilateral decisions about it.

I will say that most of the current customers do know us, but a majority of them know us because they have some business relationship with my partners, Cirion Group. It makes sense because it was these same clients who first made the need for such a product known to my partners, and who, however indirectly, sparked the idea that made this happen. Also, most of our advertising has been word of mouth up until this point and will likely stay that way until we fix the messaging problem.

So, do they know us? Yes. Are they are posse of friends? No. There's no quid pro quo. They're people who, like us, are running a business, and aren't likely to buy something because it'll make our socks roll up and down.
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I don't understand how that maps to the original statement. Can you go word by word or something?

Unless I'm missing something it sounds like a reaction and not at all an interpretation.
You'd think so, but the comparison to Google+ doesn't seem very apt - it shouldn't be a threat any more than Gmail is (but something to be leveraged).
I have a friend who is a physics major, one of the primary reasons he was learning to program was to use MPI & OpenMP languages, and presuming fortan has a very high performance / robust compiler for using MPI, this would probably be the soul reason it's used for large super computer & cluster computations because it's designed for distributed computation. I think this guy has the best answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2266643/for-what-are-fort...
G4L - http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
I didn't see the picture at first, and reasoned just as you exposed.

However, the teacher corrects it by writing "4 = 20". This is plainly wrong and with no possible explanation, since following the above reasoning, cutting in 4 pieces would require: 10 + 10 / 2 + (10 / 2) / 2 = 17.5 minutes.
I've always been curious, how is working for a porn company affected your social life? does it at all?
Because if they don't they get defunded.
Oh man is that why I keep accidentally sending half written emails!?
Adding the cost of gasoline to gas-powered car makes sense in making a buying decision. So does adding the cost of electricity to a Tesla. But subtracting the gas costs that you aren't paying from the Tesla does not make sense. The cost of owning a Tesla should not vary based on what you're comparing it to.

If I decide to get a Tesla instead of bike to work does the Tesla now cost more than $900?
Um, what? How did they exploit terrible design? They got a really high up guy to defect, and he happened to have the keys to a lot of stuff. Why would CCP roll that back? That's exactly the kind of metagaming they whole-heartedly encourage. You must have ties to BoB if you're going on about this "fair fight," e-honor stuff; this is how the game is played.

But really, what's most confusing is that you say a massive war was ended in seconds. BoB was highly entrenched in Delve and things had basically stagnated, there was less of a massive war going on than trifling skirmishes on the outskirts of their fortress. This singular event created a massive, chaotic free-for-all that injected a ton of life and activity into the region, and got a lot of people excited about the game again. Sorry for your loss.
Laplink. Now there's some memories right there. :)
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I've added a 'padding: 1em;' to the sidebar so hopefully that deals with your left menu issue.

Looking at your screenshot, I think I like what you did with the table of contents. Could you post the CSS you used to do that? (Maybe it's obvious to you how to do that, but I know very little CSS so it's a mystery to me.)
Life goes on. If people stopped having families because they are poor, we wouldn't be here.
Macrium Reflect: http://macrium.com/
I haven't had occasion to use its recovery features yet, but works great as a disk backup solution.
>Older programmers are sometimes being enticed out of retirement to maintain legacy systems (this is rather hit or miss as there appears to still be some age discrimination here).

Dear Lord. The one area where age discrimination should rationally favor older programmers and they still get the shaft. How does that conversation go in HR?

"Here's a candidate who knows COBOL... but wait, he's over 60. Ewww, it's so depressing looking at old people [i.e., those over 30] who aren't management track. And we'd have to pay him good money to do something that isn't focused on giving orders to underlings. How yucky. Welp, guess that mission critical piece of software can wait."

Perhaps I've been channeling Michael O. Church a bit too much for my own good, but sometimes it looks as though he's nailed it.
I can cut a piece of wood into thousands of pieces in 5 seconds. I just slice it across the top a few times with my saw, and all the sawdust that comes off counts as separate pieces.
That's great to hear. One particular example which I found needlessly strict is this:

The request MUST contain a Content-Type header whose value is
application/json. It MUST also include application/json as the only or
highest quality factor.

It makes sense for fully compliant implementation to have those headers, but they way I understand MUST here is that a server would reject any request without them.
I have long held that the Web is text based with photos & videos for content.

After meditating on the Google Glass concept for awhile I realized this could be the next evolution of the Web.
>I've heard just the opposite from friends of mine that have moved to the west cost, i.e. that it's easy to make friends there but it's often not a long term thing.

I think these are just silly stereotypes. Some people make better friends and others don't. There are times when you make friends easily and then there times when you don't. The East/West coast thing is simply spurious.
Altucher is kind of known for his sensationalist article titles. However, in this case the content of the article is solid and pragmatic, particularly the bit about "picking a boring business." If your main goal is to work for yourself, finding a not-so-sexy niche is the way to go. Potentially less competition, more room to breathe, and plenty of opportunity.
I think it came with a giant yellow parallel port cable, right?
If you understand a concept, then you can reason its big O. Memorization implies a superficial understanding that may be revealed later.

Interestingly enough this works both ways. To say more accurately, memorization MAY imply superficial understanding. Memorization (and associated intuitive pattern-matching) may also lead to understanding.

A cheat sheet like this is also good shortcut refreshing one's memory of the concepts if this knowledge is not used on a regular basis.
>Your searching for a string point is moot. It's not a strict text-only search that is impeded by HTML directives, it's exceedingly trivial for rendering engines to . . .

It might be exceedingly trivial in theory, but in practice what happened on the web is that those "style: fixed" elements that remain in the same position within the window when you scroll often (usually?) obscure the string you are searching for when you use "find-in-page (i.e., Edit > Find). In other words, when "fixed" elements or whatever their proper name is were implemented, the browser makers did not do the work to make sure that users can still see hits when the users is using find-in-page.

Moreover, a few years before the introduction of fixed elements, find-in-page started to mystify me during searches by landing on (what I guess are) invisible occurrences of the search-for string.
A more apt comparison would be https://www.getdrip.com/ by Rob Walling (one of the organizers of Microconf) although that is still in closed beta.
It seems to me that we hackers/nerds ought to work at not being drawn to new technologies because they're "cool", and instead think about their broader social implications, especially those implications beyond immediate convenience.

In this case, I think wmf is right to point out that what the OP is talking about is a proprietary, as-yet unducmneted video codec. Surely the inevitable outcome of such things is to concentrate power, rather than decentralize it. Is that the kind of thing that anyone associated with Mozilla wishes to encourage?
I've used Drive Snapshot for years with great success. XP, Win 7, 2003, 2010, etc. It is my go-to tool when migrating disk images. It handles live snapshots and differential images very well when working with Exchange, etc...

http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/
I think holds for founders from all countries outside of the US.
Compared to Cobol and Fortran, Pascal always was a blip on the radar. Some success as a teaching tool (UCSD etc.), then DOS (Turbo) and Windows (Delphi) programming. Small niches, not that much of legacy code (especially if you can keep the database and just e.g. exchange the Delphi frontend with an ASP.NET one).
No one finds the next big thing. People find little things and build them into the next big thing.
It's an online web app. You can give different people different interfaces for the same data. You can even let them choose which interface they prefer. Your data-collection might tell you that 90% of users would be better off one way, but that's an argument for changing the defaults, not for alienating a chunk of your userbase. And if every change like this is upsetting 10% of your users...
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I understand grading on a curve. This is not that.

What we're talking about here is remapping a fraction (what the student scored) to a higher-than-equivalent percentage (what the "standard" requires).
I am creating a simple webapp with PHP. What are my best hosting options?
They are just a part of the larger culture of German intellectual thievery: from German politicians who plagiarize their PhD dissertations to writers who plagiarize their books to business people plagiarizing the products of their competitors. It's amazing how little Germans seem to care about it.
> - Left sidebar has no right padding...- The measure (line length) at its max width is about double what it should be for the font size (which is inheriting the browser default, usually 16px).

Fixed or wontfix, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5654011

Fixed.

> - The right sidebar loses its left padding in narrow viewports

Don't know how to fix this.

> - Currently, the line height is set to 130%. If using your current measure, the leading should be about 5 points, for a line height of about 141%. If you halve the measure, the leading would be about 1.5, for a line height of 109%. However, I'd still set the line height to be ~140%

Done.
for a long time, techcrunch has been on the same low level that gawker and allthingsd have been producing. they're all pretty much TMZ for tech, with various results.
imagex from Windows AIK (or windows ADK if you want win 8 version)
I like the idea, it seems like there is a pretty large, mostly unexplored market there, but the thing that personally makes me pause as a potential customer is that I have no idea how to write those emails.

If you could create a micro-course that illustrates what a mailing list should be like, or even bake some kind of "meta wizard" into your product, I'd be much more willing to sign up.
i disagree with your disagreement. how big something is irrelevant. more relevant is your execution.

crap + well executed => big return

the next big thing + poorly execute => wait for someone else to get rich off of it
It's not my job to tell Medium to raise the standards of the articles it pays people to post to HN. All I can do is comment and flag.
I enjoyed David Friedman's discussions of the incentives present under market anarchy in "The Machinery of Freedom", now available in its entirety online[1]. Your objections are not new and have been discussed at length by market anarchists. Whether or not you find the responses satisfactory is up to you.

David writes for a mainstream audience which is assumed to have some familiarity with concepts of economics and property, but does not need to already be a libertarian. I feel he is the best representative of market anarchist thought.

[1]http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
To the respective mobile carriers.
Would anyone pay about $20/month to rent an RPi colocated somewhere in the states, along with a basic control panel (reboot, reinstall, virtual console access, etc.)? Something like a model B with a 16 GB SD card? Just curious if there is a market for this vs virtual servers.
Emergent gameplay requires quite complex game systems to happen. The tendency in modern gaming is to make games linear or "streamline" them. Another game that supports my point is Dwarf Fortress.

Big game publishers don't value (new) systems and mechanics. That's one reason why Wasteland 2, Divinity: Original Sin and Sui Generis got funded on Kickstarter.
Kerouac - Express-inspired static site generator written in Node.js
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Best takes on a few forms, but the cheapest option for something that will be public is certainly "shared hosting". That requires zero to minimal admin skills and is pretty cheap, a couple bucks a year. If it scales beyond what shared hosting will provide, hopefully you're making money on it and you can pay to have professionals deal with it.

If its not public, you could probably just build/run it on your workstation.
Windows, FF as well. It needs the divx plugin but then works flawlessly.

Granted, needing additional plugins is kind of bad. But I don't know an easy way to embed very short videos so it's as good a solution as any.
If you don't need to store anything on the filesystem and don't need a DB larger than 100MB, then AppFog is a great and free starter choice. Doesn't work in all cases, but a really nice choice if it fits.

https://www.appfog.com/
I was a little confused that an "author" rel would be retrieved from a "people" resource. Is there a way to define that author's are people other than the client knowing this?
There was nothing like that when I went to school. Looks like a fluff course to me. (Maybe that book might be worth reading on your personal time.)

Engineering at all big schools I know about required more courses than other majors so it was much harder to graduate in 4 years, and departments looked for courses they could exempt engineering students from taking. That Intro course sounds like a prime candidate to expunge from the curriculum.
That's an awesome idea. I'm going to pass on a direct link to this comment to the Cirion guys. That's right in their wheel house.
"Rule No. 6: Say YES!", aka. "Rule No. 6: Lie to customers."