skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think everyone here concentrating on sampling bias is missing the point.

The evidence in solar systems so far does NOT fit the theory involving a frost line, and giants like Jupiter are unexpectedly observed tightly orbiting suns. Whether our solar system is normal is conjecture, but our model for how solar systems are(were?) formed is obviously flawed. Pretty interesting find, imho.
Oh Heaven for Betsy. Every time some nitwit looks at new data with results they did not expect, suddenly every thing we have ever known is wrong. Give me a break.

Here's a "lightbulb" for you: A large gas giant near a star is created in the same fashion as a binary star system (a formation that is quite common) with the simple difference that the planet did not get enough material to actually become a star.
I have no doubt they could. They could pass all kinds of laws about how Bitcoin should be operated.

Enforcing those laws is another matter.
The CFEC may regulate Bitcoin. Why this is a good thing.
It's definitely a slice of pizza. It's one of the sub-versions which is normally called thin crust, or culturally, the "New York Slice."
Internet Traffic Source Breakdown in Q1 2013
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Thanks, that helps and kinda defuses my worries I had there.

Still, props to the people to whom such questions didn't even occur, who jump straight on the "let's repeat what everybody said, and generalities about mean people we knew" bandwagon, and mod a skeptical question down because those, contrary to the circlejerking, "don't add anything to the discussion". That made me so proud, I threw up into my mouth a little.
You appear to be suffering from the notion that there is a single defined value at which the speed limit will be optimum at all times.

But I entirely agree with your larger point that violation of arbitrary speed limits because of obvious engineering considerations does train people to break the law casually.
I use macports because it has better support for multiple version of python installed in parallel.
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True but in my case I'm actually a Software Engineer with a BEng
thanks very much for pointing this out, joined the class now, hope i can catch up
A few years ago, it was hard to imagine that there would be a breakout compiler that would get developers excited.

It goes to show the value in competition and a fresh perspective. Error messages, modularity, and licensing could unseat GCC, which is pretty amazing.

(I know GCC still has many advantages, but clang/llvm clearly have made a lot of progress.)
In all fairness, there has never been anything quite like "architecting" software, or "engineering" software. As Brooks put it, software is the most complex thing humans have ever built; perhaps we should find some other term that sets us apart from ordinary engineers and architects. Or we could just continue working, not caring what other people think. That's usually what I do, after I tell people I'm a "code monkey".
Here is the method that I use, which has been extremely effective for me.

This is a Gmail filter that will leave in your inbox ONLY emails that are from people you specify, AND emails that haven't already been labeled from some other filter rule:

Matches: (label:inbox has:nouserlabels -from:(importantPerson1@gmail.com OR importantPerson2@gmail.com OR ... ))

Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "_Non-VIP", Never mark it as important

Boom!

Now I never get emails to my inbox unless they are from my girlfriend, family members, friends, and other important people. This has the added benefit of also meaning that I never get email notifications on my phone unless they are from the important (and REAL) people I specified above. (And obviously I can add easily emails to the whitelist if necessary.)

The other benefit is that this WILL take into account any other filter rules you have in place. And also no need to worry about signing up for services with +emails.

Before you post that zomg this would never work for me, please don't. This works extremely well for me and it might work well for someone else so I wanted to share. If you have a way to make it even better, I would love to hear it!
My go-to WP plugin template solution is this one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oop-plugin-template-solu...

As mmuro mentioned, including your own copy of jQuery is bad advice. Just ensure that the 3rd parameter of wp_enqueue_script() is array('jquery') if you are worried about the order your scripts are loaded.
I dunno about software architects, but it's not terribly surprising that people are defensive over the engineering title.

The difference in difficulty between computer science courses and the engineering courses is like night and day, so it doesn't really surprise me when my EE/CE friends are frustrated when compsci majors try to call themselves engineers.
The physics of custody arrangemnents (paper)
You’re right, I remembered it incorrectly.

I started using Photoshop at version 2.5 and Illustrator at version 5, but I had forgotten that the upgrade policy used to be more liberal and that Adobe’s installers weren’t atrocious. It’s all coming back to me now. On the flipside: stupid ATM and screen fonts, buggy QuarkXpress, monitors with thousands of colors, and having to do preflight – ugh.

Some things really have improved. The Creative Cloud application installer is a delight. Updates are released often and the updating process is painless. No more hassle dealing with DVDs and serial numbers. Also, international pricing used to be way out of whack with US prices, the difference is a lot smaller now.
+ if (ctx->size < 0 || ctx->length < 0) {
+ goto invalid;
+ }
+

I don't know C/C++ but I was under the impression nobody used goto? Is there anything good/bad about using it?
Wow! One of the best self-aware posts I've read in a long time. Looking forward to reading more and following the progress of Exversion (which sounds like an awesome idea, btw).
Jaron Lanier on Moore's Law
I can see it now: two rings, one rubber to represent user requirements, and the other silicon to represent the systems we have to implement those requirements in.
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Actually, Computer Engineering is taught by the Engineering faculty at UofT.

Software Engineering is still a specialization under the Computer Science degree, and is taught by the Arts & Science faculty.
Urban Compass
I could lasso the moon "if I wanted".
Check out class-central.com for a list of all current and upcoming classes. Coursera also lets you star a specific class and get notified if they are repeated in a new cycle.
Well, I was thinking more of, say, the estaurine crocodile, white shark, box jellyfish, taipan, funnel-web spider, red back spider, blue-ringed octopus, stone fish, brown snake, banded sea krait, &c. &c. &c.
Can someone please explain me what the app actually does??
The problem with UNIX is that it is too abstract concept.

The POSIX standard will only cover you an API for command line applications and daemons, everything else is vendor specific.
I think you may be missing the point. These rings are given to graduating engineers not as a beautiful object of congratulations for their achievements, but as a token designed to remind them of the burden they have taken on.
All the conventional planet hunting methods are biased towards fast, large, close-in planets. If we could run Kepler for 20 years we might see systems more like ours.
You misinterpreted. The point of the article isn't to explore the epistemology of why or how we perceive ourselves to be "special".

The point was that a few years ago we had a solid, broadly-agreed-upon scientific theory of planetary formation. And it was wrong. That's interesting for scientific reasons, not philosophical ones.
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I don't know what decade you last tried a linux desktop but every distro I have used supports playing from multiple programs concurrently fine.
That book will change the way that you look at yourself.
I think you'll find that the US government can enforce them incredibly effectively - if you're not too big to fail.
I agree. They might as well add the start button back in and start calling it an early release of windows 9.

We've had exactly zero requests for Win8 on our product. The largest customers that we asked (and who get all the attention, frankly) told us they are sticking to the every-other-windows-release plan. And god help MS if they screw up on Win9.
Why exactly are these reminiscent pieces other than verifying that the past really existed getting upvotes lately?
It is interesting that, theoretically speaking, a rogue planet can maintain an environment conductive to life:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/steppenwolf-planet...

It probably wouldn't be intelligent life, but maybe there are microbial lifeforms somewhere in the universe which call a rogue planet their home. That's awesome to think about, although it is extremely likely that such a planet will never be discovered. It's just really hard to track down a rogue planet, even a large one.
Bullshit. There is nothing wrong with using personal experience for reference so long as it is properly cited.

It beats "This guy is wrong (source: random blog post that I didn't really read)", anyway.

Edit: To be clear, I don't love the Reddit snowclones, but there's nothing wrong with the sentiment behind "I'm a scholar in this field, and I think this guy is a hack."
Is Bitcoin a currency or a commodity? Does its classification affect who get to do what with it?
The http://zombo.com/ of 2013
"Don’t sell me your product, sell me your challenges"

I actually care about the product equally if not more than the engineering challenges. I write code to build products and businesses, not for the sake of engineering. I'm a bit different though :)
b) This actually creates a burden on internet retailers that brick-and-mortar stores don't have; it makes things unfair rather than fair. A single retail store has to worry about only the taxes of the locale it resides in. At most, they are filing 3 sales tax returns and could potentially have their books audited by 3 entities. An internet retailer now has to comply with 50 separate sales tax rules, file 50 separate returns, and potentially be audited 50 times a year.

For an individual making $30k/year (3% net on $1m in gross), is that really levelling the playing field? How many of your aunts and uncles do you think have the time and the skill to locate, understand and properly comply with 50 states' separate tax codes? Contrast that to opening a brick-and-mortar shop on main street in their town, where if they need help, they can walk up to the town hall and ask the tax administrator in person, or hire a local accountant who already knows all the local rules. That's feasible, where getting assistance from 50 accountants to start a business is not.
"I hoped that the national 55-mile per-hour speed limit--already in force--would help reduce gasoline consumption"

That's clearly not the current reason.

And more than just California has a law like that. I know Michigan does, I imagine most states do. It does show that somebody at some point understood the purpose. By no means am I saying all laws or bad, or that laws are bad, or even in a way that any particular law is bad; I'm saying people all to frequently conflate the letter of the law with its purpose.
Not guaranteed, no, but it has been verified experimentally.
Glass ring encased in rubber, with a label claiming it is exactly as flexible and stretchable as a 100% rubber ring would be.
Not in the requisite sense. Suppose that our existence depended on a purely random roll of a six-sided die coming up as 1. If the roll had come up anything else, we would not be here to reflect on it. But if it did come up as 1, that does not mean a mystical force guaranteed that it came up as 1.

Our existence (whether likely or not) does not constitute evidence that our existence was guaranteed or predetermined. Low-probability events happen sometimes, their actually having happened once does not make them high-probability.
GOTO is often involved in error handling. If there are a bunch of different ways that code inside a function can fail, and the cleanup after failure involves tearing down the same objects, etc... then it's usually considered acceptable to use GOTO to target it.
An excellent read. Life is rejection. I loved the symmetry between the co-founders' mutual rejection when they first met and then finally their company's rejection at YC.

Cultural matches are important and they drive more decisions than we're all comfortable with. The truth is, we often like to hire, promote, or buy from people who fit a certain stereotype. It's essentially a cargo cult around what successful startup people are expected to look like, and the most uncomfortable thought arising from that is not the number of founders who "wrongly" received funding, but the number of hopefuls who never got the chance.

However, taking the time to really get to know and appreciate a startup person is not something that can reasonably happen a lot when you're in contact with customers, the press, or even your own employees - so the (bad) impression a team makes while interviewing for an incubator or fund raising does tends to follow them around.

People can and do change their appearance to match other people's expectations - and it's a proven, working method of upping your chances. Learning how to interact better with others, while certainly painful, also helps and is more often than not necessary to become successful.

We're often distracted by the Zuckerbergs or Jobs' who are abrasive and embody their own don't-care-for-anything style, but the ugly truth is that those guys got so unbelievably lucky that they never needed to actually work on themselves.
Is it not obvious?

1. Search for nearest pizza place (probably using Foursquare)
2. Pizza-looking-compass-needle points to said pizza place
3. Distance updates as you're pulled towards pizza

Simples.
When their account is activated, have a landing page that provides the onboarding links, and offers them the opportunity to opt in to onboarding and new feature emails as part of their profile or registration.

For lapsed accounts, it should be a user-initiated process. If you're genuinely bothered about lapsed accounts, a "We're going to deactivate your account as you're not using it" email is probably fine.
A 'simple' DNS attack would get them access to the mail servers too.

There are plenty of CAs out there who will give out a (non-EV) cert to anyone who can receive emails to webmaster@example.com.
As a DJ and receiver of various promos/press releases from record labels, I can confirm: yes, they're a waste of time.

I get spammed so much by labels / distributors / PR companies it's unreal. The content of the press release is almost always useless when it comes tor describing the product. Although sometimes it's useful as a filter for which promos to not listen to (i.e. superlative overload).

Here's a couple example excerpts from some that are currently sitting in my inbox:

"Simon’s signature sound, ‘Hideout’ is swimming in gentle drum pads and irresistible melody, yet maintains a deep and chunky synth. The Native American esque flutes are simple yet add all the intrigue to this track. "

"Volume Two continues our voyage, to shores unknown leaving rich textures and undeniable grooves in our wake."

It's a never ending influx of hyperbole. I realise it's hard to write about music, but there must be a better way!
Interesting! by 2003, Yahoo had acquired 22 companies:
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/info/faq.html
It's not uncommon in C as an alternative to exceptions. You don't want to be using it for every-day flow control, but when you're checking results from syscalls repeatedly, using a gigantic nested if-else chain would get more messy than using goto. The other alternative is early return/exit calls, but then you have to remember to clean up everything each time before you return/exit.
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A bit off-topic, but can you recommend any recent space 4x games to check out? The last one I played was Galactic Civilizations II and I enjoyed it immensely.
Ooops. Fixed now - thank you!
I think it's worth remembering that the U.S. government funded the development of the Internet in the first place, and then made an affirmative decision to release its technologies as a freely available public good. Tim Berners-Lee, a British citizen in Western Europe, followed suit with his WWW.

As far as I know, China has brought nothing to the technological infrastructure of the Internet but crime and annoyance.
"Having speed limits where a large percentage of drivers regularly violate them teaches people to break the law casually. (Similarly, COPPA basically teaches kids to lie about their age online.)"

I'd suggest that there's also a widespread lack of understanding that there's a difference between having a law, enforcing a law, and potentially even having the capability of enforcing the law. It's part of the reason why "law" isn't the answer to every societal problem.
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How does this compare to raphael (http://raphaeljs.com/) ?
The only thing I find to be slow is auto-complete mode on our rather large Pythonic code base.
This is very cool - thumbs up for the simplicity, implementation wise! Will give this a spin.
To be fair, tastypie development seems very active right now. Look at the commit history: http://git.io/Na3iHQ
To me "no functional changes" just means that the commit does not mean to introduce/change any functionality, for example if you refactor code or clean up.
Exactly

Neural networks of course "mimic" the way the brain works, but it stops there.

Not to mention several modern AI techniques have nothing to do with mimicking biology (like SVMs)

This looks a reporter pushing his own agenda to make for a colorful story.
The decision for Backbone events vs other events is based on this performance review: http://jsperf.com/events-vs-events2/25
Probably because it's interesting? I never saw the web in its infancy like this. I've spent hours browsing archive.org before to see what the early days of the internet was like back then.
> I just want to know one thing: did or didn't they leak the credit cards?

Does it really matter? If your card was used with Linode, it should have been blocked by now anyway.
Totally agree, the mix of both curation and creation is a vital part of an effective content marketing strategy.
I can't accept the one off 'hacking the slot machines' comment.
He used it correctly irregardless of your caring less.
It feels like DRF is trying to do too much. I'm not a fan of Django's generic views for much the same reason.

I really wanted a framework that was as easy to use as plain Django views while still handling the REST heavy lifting.

So I made Delicious Cake: https://github.com/pretend-money/delicious-cake

It's based on Tastypie, but features a complete Resource re-design that moves serialization and validation out of the Resource. The power of a REST framework w\ the flexibility of plain old Django views.

Two companies are using it in production and a few more are evaluating it. If you love-hate TastyPie you might like it.
it seems like you, and the top comment are interpreting this news story as some attack on atheism? i don't see how that's even related. is that your preemptive strike against non-atheistic interpretation?
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Thanks for the overview.

> All it takes is one zero-day, and you will all be hit by one in your career, so cut Linode a little slack.

Actually, the biggest lesson I'm taking away from this is to never trust any one piece of software, and to always have multiple lines of defense/alerting sitting on independent software stacks.
I wasn't inconvenienced by it, but I remember myself and everyone at Dartmouth receiving a single email inviting us to join Facebook at the same time somewhere in the early winter of 2004. It wasn't a viral action like "your friend has added you", but was instead a direct invitation to sign up. I remember my roommates and I all immediately signed up and wasted the first of many hours on there.

I think the email was from another Dartmouth student, so I assume they just paid someone to send the entire campus an email.
The issue isn't license plate readers, it's data retention.

They certainly have a valid point about the need for limits on data retention however I feel they're going too far in demanding "public disclosure of the actual license plate data [(a week’s worth)]" just to highlight the issue.

For reference on how this is handled in other countries take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti...
Non-engineers notice mine all the time too. I'm so used to wearing though (and sort of forget that I am sometimes) that usually there's a few seconds where I'm very confused as to how they know I'm an engineer.

It's also great for tapping out a rhythm on any hard surface you can find.
It's special from our perspective, certainly. It's just not special in a cosmic sense: it just happened, and the universe produced something that could observe it. It could have happened anywhere, but it happened to happen on Earth. To me, that's the special part, and I find it fascinating and mind-blowing to think about.
I am getting somewhat jealous now – people should make wearable cyclic particle accelerators or something like that for those hacking nature rather than mere computers :-)
Also, we're hiring!

Looking for a frontend lead and a senior rails developer. My email is in my profile, ping me if you'd like to hear more!
OK, I haven't had time to download the app, but was curious about the description

> PIZZA COMPASS IS THE EXCITING NEW LIFE-AFFIRMING IPHONE APP THAT HELPS PIZZA GET TO YOUR MOUTH. CREATED BY A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TRAINED TEAM OF PIZZA EXPERTS. EXPERTS WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT LIFE, LOVE, AND FRIENDSHIP.

The screenshots featured famous pizzerias...so is the data "curated" by the pizza-compass staff? Or does it rely on other APIs, such as Foursquare? In other words, is it similar to other locations (Google, Yelp, etc) services out there, except filtered by Pizza?

Cool design concept...but is it really a serious effort at an app/startup (i.e. there's a press kit, accounts for the pizza-compass domain)? The use case is pretty limited...that is, limited to the times when you want just pizza and are in an unfamiliar neighborhood. This is not a scenario that I've found myself in...I either eat cheap pizza as part of a routine at a place near work, or know exactly the fancy-pants pizzeria that I want to go to dinner for. Unless there's a lot of custom or well-aggregated data specific to pizza (such as, what kind of pizzas are there, price per slice, etc), it's probably not an app that I would ever use habitually.
Luckily the type of pizza will be determined by where you live and not the app. So whether you want a Detroit, Chicago, New York, or Italian-styled pizza, you'll be okay.

Writing this made me realize it's time to dig deeper into pizza history.
>. You had the metro interface, the desktop app, the lack of a start button... How could they not figure out solution to these issues after having ALL THAT TIME.

I don't get why people are so upset that the start button is gone. To launch a program I just hit the windows key and start typing the name. This is exactly what I did on windows 7 (though I never used it as my primary OS). The things that show up on the screen are somewhat different, but the result is identical.

As a longtime Alfred user on the mac, the winkey+typing method feels quite natural and works well.
The article really doesn't make this situation sound like an unavoidable consequence of regulation. What part of " he strictly follows the rule insisting that every mobile-food employee has Health Department certification... And stationary restaurants, by the way, require that only a single employee on duty have a Health Department certification." sounds like an inevitable consequence of having regulations?