skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great. Now I have to spend inordinate time mining the proliferation of answers for the correct one. Google is great at showing you wrong/invalid/incomplete answers to questions asked years ago, burying the rare & obscure answers you're looking for.

This instead of it just working, and/or having a definitive central answer site.
Do you happen to have a citation? I would like to know who in the government is pushing for this, and how they are proposing it be done (I do not want to see a Windows binary or some Flash applet; I am thinking more along the lines of Prolog or a similar declarative language).
ranger is another good alternative: http://ranger.nongnu.org/
>but they'd almost certainly expect me to give up a Creative Cloud subscription before giving me any financial assistance in college.

Emm, how about not telling them?
It's less about the money and more about filtering for people who are serious about attending.

Just like WWDC or F8, I'm guessing you'll get to speak with engineers and designers at Dropbox to get a sense of where the platform is going. If you're building products on top of Dropbox, this is invaluable.
For the lazy...

https://github.com/ngerakines/commitment/blob/master/commit_...
Having lived in KC for 10 years, I never noticed an accent at the time. But then after living in the Northeast for a while, the KC accent seemed to have a very distinct Southern drawl. Not as much as e.g. Texas, but there nonetheless.
I think part of the problem is we don't teach Math in a way that is visual/obvious enough, which means early math is experienced as 'mechanics' not 'understanding'.

For example, we should explain commutative rule [ a(b+c)=ab+ac ] by drawing the rectangles.

My efforts to help this in some way : GridMaths.com
[ sample pics + blurb : quantblog.wordpress.com ]
Senate Signs Off On Marketplace Fairness Act (Online Sales Tax)
I agree. It's like the opposite of a typical Reddit link title.
I'd respectfully disagree. Illustrator is far more common as a wireframe app than fireworks from all the UX people I've worked with.

Also, as a designer, CS6's pixel snapping and improved artboard handling and better smart object integration means web design has never been better.

IMHO, fireworks was fantastic 8 years ago, and has stagnated. Every serious pro designer I've worked with in top end design studios are psd/ai only.
>and it's taken almost an entire year just to get Retina Macbook support, and there are still a number of apps that don't have it, like Bridge.

Well, it's not like updates come out of thin air, or that shoving more engineers and money at them makes them come out faster. Especially more so for complex software.
I see a lot of articles that try to apply the current power good developers have given the relative scarcity of computer programmers today.

Others talk about how everyone should start a business (software), not worry about degrees, or even stop whatever they're doing and just start programming.

It's this same bubble where we look around and think everyone is using an iPad, on gmail, etc.

The truth is most people don't have the bargaining power some of us enjoy, and that's not going to get better, our bargaining power will probably just shrink over time.
(1+ 'A)
Let's say you want to send a multimedia collection from your co-lo to someone in a different continent, via a relay.

You might be able to relay it via (someone like) me, because I get megabits per second download, but I get much less upload, so your target is in for a tedious wait.

But, if you send it via Amazon web services, you might be able to direct connect to their hosting centre near you. From there, you could get a gigabit per second over Amazon's own network to a centre near your target where he/she can download from - instantaneous.

And we're not even talking about Amazon's datacentre internal networks, where you might be able to arrange for 10 gigabits.

Centralized beats decentralized by orders of magnitude. Sorry.
We're getting a few disapproving tweets. I'd like to ask for some direct feedback.

The tweets are mainly that we're objectifying women.
Eg.
"this is beyond commodity and into unitless essence. ratio is how we speak of % nitrogen in the air",
"Treating potential partners as a commodity demeans them and encourages objectification."

Our intention here isn't to objectify women (or men). We've just noticed pretty skewed ratios here in SF, and were curious about starting to report them. We even started offering some insight/analysis based on SF Census numbers.

We asked a few of our friends. Many of them, both m and f, gave us really positive feedback.

We're not trying to treat people like numbers. But, if you're trying to meet someone, it might be relevant. Of course, meeting people in real life and connecting with them on a deeper level is still completely a human endeavor.

What do you think?
Your description of corporate programmer made me laugh.
WIP progress.
Ask HN: How do you comply with new US sales tax law?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketplace_Fairness_Act

Soon this law will require online retailers to collect sales tax, but deciding the correct tax rate for each purchaser and item is difficult.

Do marketplaces like Amazon or payment processors like Stripe handle this for you?

Is there an business opportunity to provide this type of service? How cheaply could it be accomplished?
Did interviews for 5+ years at Google... the real problem is that there's no uniformity to the hiring process. I was allowed to just make up my own questions and judge candidates based on those. And I did so. And admittedly, the questions I asked were so difficult that I seriously doubt I myself could've answered them when I first got hired.

But I didn't give a crap, because hiring is something you're kind of coerced into doing (it's not technically required, but not doing interviews looks bad at promotion time). And I hated doing interviews with a passion, so I'd just give them one impossibly hard question, which is easier than asking a bunch of questions.
Sentences of the form "(business/art) are all about _____" are ludicrous. Do you really think that all businesses share a single aboutness attribute?
Agreed, but it did mean that most of the time you were working with an outdated version. Also, you had less than half of the apps that are available in the Creative Cloud.

For folks like me, who bought the Master Collection once, and then upgraded every year, the Creative Cloud is way, way cheaper.
Thanks Mike. I've been playing with small networks as well (partly to confirm things working correctly) - wrote up a few notes on one little one with slightly counter-intuitive behavior - http://www.nowherenearithaca.com/2013/05/google-pagerank-eva...
So, I actually grew up in the Mat-Su Valley. I lived in Palmer (a quick bike-ride from Wasilla) from 1987 through 2004. I was born in '86. My grandparents were some of the original settlers in the area in 1936.

Sarah Palin's accent is not typical there, nor even common. My own and those of my friends growing up would probably be classified squarely as "General American" and unaccented. I recall knowing exactly one person with a noticeable Minnesotan accent while I was growing up, and I think they were actually Minnesotan.

As far as I can tell, calling upon the influence of a portion of Minnesotan settlers 80 years ago to explain Palin's atypical accent is more of a back-justification than a real explanation of cause-and-effect.
It could be greed. It could be both projects were useless. It could be something else came along that was better. It could be really anything. Not enough information to draw a conclusion.
Pumped storage is very limited in suitable sites and total capacity. It also has impacts on the local environment and safety (large bodies of water with large daily fluctuations and keeping people and property out of water intakes).

Direct thermal storage addresses some needs but not actually providing grid-level storage.

Thermal electric storage does seem based on reading and some back-of-the-envelope calculations to be one option that scales reasonably well. It can be based on cheap, abundant substrates, and fits well with existing technology for converting between electricity and heat (or for CSP where heat is banked during the day).

Tom Murphy's "Nation Sized Battery" presents some good numbers. If you want to extend his coverage to other techologies, you're going to want their storage density (by volume or kg), round-trip efficiency, and materials cost and availability. The key to me is that you need massively abundant, massively cheap materials.
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/08/nation-sized-bat...
I would refer to it as a "drink" or a "drank"

"Do you want a drink?"
"yes"
"What kind?"
"Fanta"

or

"Yall want a drank?"
[see above]
Academia.edu Lets Researchers Share Their Raw Data
No, they were quite clear in Quill [1] that Congress can do this.

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This aspect of our decision is made easier by the fact that the underlying issue is not only one that Congress may be better qualified to resolve, 10 but also one that Congress has the ultimate power to resolve. No matter how we evaluate the burdens that use taxes impose on interstate commerce, Congress remains free to disagree with our conclusions. See Prudential Insurance Co. v. Benjamin, 328 U.S. 408 (1946). Indeed, in recent years, Congress has considered legislation that would "overrule" the Bellas Hess rule. 11 Its decision not to take action in this direction may, of course, have been dictated by respect for our holding in Bellas Hess that the Due Process Clause prohibits States from imposing such taxes, but today we have put that problem to rest. Accordingly, Congress is now free to decide whether, when, and to what extent the States may burden interstate mail-order concerns with a duty to collect use taxes.

Indeed, even if we were convinced that Bellas Hess was inconsistent with our Commerce Clause jurisprudence, "this very fact [might] giv[e us] pause and counse[l] withholding our hand, at least for now. Congress has the power to protect interstate commerce from intolerable or even undesirable burdens." Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana, 453 U.S., at 637 (1981) (WHITE, J., concurring). In this situation, it [504 U.S. 298, 319] may be that "the better part of both wisdom and valor is to respect the judgment of the other branches of the Government." Id., at 638.

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[1] http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us...
This sort of freedom is available to perhaps the top-earning 1% of the world. At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 per day [1]. Many people have to live in 40-square-foot foot apartments [2], or cages [3], or have to spend their entire waking lives carrying bricks on their heads [4].

You are in a rare position where you're capable of living a leisurely life, but do not misconstrue this as long work days and factories somehow becoming obsolete.

[1] http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-sta...

[2] http://inhabitat.com/chinese-human-rights-group-releases-sho...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4jjdRzy3w

[4] http://www.lisakristine.com/atlantic-slavery-exists/
They won't though.

Look at Business Catalyst. That's hardly a coder or creative friendly platform. There (seems to be - it may have changed) no way to reliably archive your sites unless you spend a grand to become partner, and the templating system is so arbitrary and chaotic as to make it almost impossible (at the very least, impractical) to move a site from BC to another platform (I tried to make a general purpose PHP framework to run a basic site, stitch together the templates, mock up the 'webapps' which are not at all webapps and gave up in frustration.) And look at Muse, the WYSIWYG editor they want people to use with Business Catalyst -- it 'compiles' the html into a proprietary format.

The last thing Adobe are likely to do is something that looks like open source. At the very least, it won't be free.
Associative/sparse arrays in pure C? Give it a trie
After Bangladesh Disaster, Denial From Some Brands, Promises From Others
From full stack dev to backend dev and then back.
Who did Facebook spam? Would you rather be Facebook or Instagram?

I don't have a strong opinion on this topic, just pointing out a flaw in your logic.
thx - think I fixed that the other day.
Absolutely the best questions to ask in interviews, in my opinion, are open-ended questions. The problem with those, however, is that the interviewer himself has to know enough to be able to correctly judge whether the candidate's answer is a reasonable one.

Not only that, there are fewer language barriers when asking some canned binary tree bullshit. So a Chinese programmer doing an interview who barely speaks English can still proudly ask the candidate some crap about Heapsort and feel like he's done his job well.
If it wasn't intentional by them, you've certainly explained the benefit of it.
Desktop, yes. Happy user here.

But server ? That's still Red Hat's game, at least until Canonical becomes profitable.
``subl`` also works in both Windows and Linux.

If you're a huge OSS proponent though, then Sublime is quite clearly not for you anyway.
I certainly agree with what you're saying about the feedback loops, as long as you're able to manipulate the loop into healthier behaviour then it doesn't really matter where in the loop you intervene. My issue with pharmaceuticals is that they are used completely inappropriately. There are people who have neurochemical imbalances which do require pharmaceutical intervention. Taking the USA as an example though there is a huge proportion of the adult population taking pharmaceuticals for psychological issues. Many of these issues are related to what you might call experiential issues i.e. they're not happy with the circumstances of their life. In these cases there is no physiological issue that requires correction, the brain is functioning correctly. The issue is with the configuration of the neurons and while drugs can encourage reconfiguration in a particular direction (happier say), it would be far more useful if those individuals could learn to deal with the hardships of life without external intervention.
I wouldn't really call it a "generator"; it uses a static list: https://github.com/ngerakines/commitment/blob/master/commit_...
Even if you don't count phone and tablet mobile devices, I know more people running Android or ChromeOS for their desktop than I do any traditional desktop Linux distro.
"Have you seen this?"
TL;DR Microsoft, who's forgotten what innovation is in the past 10 years and is hanging by a thread in a declining market, engages in the one thing it still knows and loves to do - FUD campaigns against their more successful and innovative competitors.
Holman has in the past made the claim that nobody's quit. I wonder if that still holds up?
Adobe used to allow upgrades fron any version to the latest for the same upgrade price. That changed somewhere around the time of CS1 to only allow upgrades from 2 versions back, then down to 1. As a longtime Illustrator (v88) and Photoshop (v2.5) user, this is the end of my Adobe purchases.
Wednesday: Hearing for Sonic.net Fiber Buildout in SF
I have a similarly mixed opinion about the City.

I used to love to go to the Roxie Theater in the Mission, where they showed movies you might never encounter otherwise. During a retrospective for some anniversary of a Friedkin film, the great director himself just came walking up the sidewalk right through his speechless fans.

On the other hand, I have been stuck in traffic on Mission near 17th while the SFPD put down rows of little yellow numbered plastic cones across three lanes of traffic -- one for each shell casing.

Is there any public transit facility less welcoming than the urine-drenched BART station slash homeless zoo at 16th? Yes, actually. Just pop down to 24th, if you dare.

Heroin dealers used to turn little alleys off of 26th into open-air markets in the wee hours. Maybe they still do.

I just can't bring myself to visit the Mission anymore.
The issue I have with places that expect you to write functions and solve complex problems off of the top of your head is that they prove nothing. You might be able to write a complex sorting algorithm but you might also struggle to work under pressure, you might struggle at coming up with solutions for simple problems by overcomplicating things and taking longer which in turn yields a more complex and working end-result but cost the company twice the amount of money it should have.

Interviews should be a lot more simple. How about sitting the potential candidate down after validating their resume and skill-set meets the requirements of the role with your developers and have them help the team out for an hour or two and see how they go. There are many other factors to consider like; are you a good fit for the team (personality wise especially), are you able to adapt to other coding styles and conventions you might not be accustomed to?

As Albert Einstein once said: "Never memorize what you can look up in books" — Google is the 21st century equivalent of a book. Why remember what you can Google? You might not know how to write that complex algorithm off of the top of your head, but that shouldn't matter. What should matter is knowing what to search via Google or a book to solve the problem.

As a web developer who uses a plethora of languages like PHP, Ruby, Javascript (Node.JS and jQuery), CSS, HTML and Python it's a given you won't know how to do everything. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable but the things I don't know, I Google. The difference between a good developer and a bad developer is whether or not you have the skills to find the answers to your problems not whether or not you know the answers off of the top of your head.

Another approach when hiring someone is sitting them down and ask them to build something, not solve a mathematical problem but actually build a website application or software application. Interviewing a web developer? Ask them to build a simple blog application or script that interfaces with the Twitter API and fetches 10 Tweets based on a hashtag...

That's my take on it anyway.
I don't dislike or otherwise feel viscerally towards the default Octopress theme - I can just remember the way a website looks far more easily than I can someone's name.

When I see a visually distinctive site for the second time, I think 'ah ha, I've been here before'. When I see someone's Octopress blog, I never know if it's the first or second or tenth time I've visited that particular blog.

I have the same trouble with Svbtle blogs, if they use a similar accent color - there's 'red Svbtle guy' and 'blue Svbtle guy' but with very few exceptions there aren't any discrete individuals.
lsb_release -a is what you want.
How does this approach handle zip codes that are split between two municipalities? I happen to live in one of those, and there is a 0.25% difference between the two cities.
> by my reading list you'd think I was university-trained but I'm not.

Sadly, this may be the cause more than anything else. Degrees are a very quick signal. The author may be doing as equally well as candidates with degrees, but the degree becomes a tie-breaker.
Just make it simple. Give users the ability to toggle the video display. That shouldn't violate any agreements.
'This' doesn't exist yet, so nobody can handle it for you today. It's not yet a law, and even if it were to become one, it will be months before any state meets the requirements to begin collecting taxes. Until that happens, the tax codes, databases and software they have to make available don't exist. Once they do exist, yes there will be a business opportunity here, written right into the bill in the form of Certified Software Providers.
Give the user the ability to toggle video display. This does not violate Google policy. Everyone is happy ;)
Though Postgres is a great DB and supports JSON directly you get just a fraction of the query possibilities you have with Mongo. With Postgres you get some basic operations for the JSON data type (since the JSON support is added recently, think 12-18 months ago). So, I wouldn't consider it as a real substitute to Mongo.
If you are running it through an HSM, wouldn't that accomplish this goal? Take a code, encrypt with HSM, then do hashing, etc. You would have to hack the server then compromise the HSM in order to do an offline attack.
Leslie Lamport - The Part Time Parliament - Lyrics
> It's certainly an RTFM thing, but last time I didn't know how to get PulseAudio to go away

`pulseaudio -k`
Does it really just show the upside down "63 days" at the top for you?
The only good thing about Ubuntu version names is how easy they are to mock. I personally prefer "Onanistic Otter"
I'm not a native English speaker myself, but this is what's usually taught as "standard" American English:

bag /bæɡ/
vague /veɪɡ/

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bag#Pronunciation

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vague#Pronunciation

Another example, which is also a minimal pair, is "bat" vs. "bait".

If you look at the posted article you can probably find the exact dialects that pronounce these words like that. But I'm pretty sure "bag" doesn't rhyme with "vague" in most English dialects (including British and Australian dialects), even if they don't use /æ/ and /eɪ/.
You'd be surprised how little is spent on cops, fire and teachers.
Looks fine on desktop. Doesn't work on iPad though.
I call those ‘poke’ devices, not ‘touch’ devices. On resistive displays, you really need to press hard for the device to register your action. That gets tiring, so people would use a stylus to poke at it instead. Anoher reason for the stylus was that the interfaces often weren’t made with fingers in mind, so the targets were way too small.
Secure password safe anyone? Keepass...
PS. This project seems perfectly suited for AngularJS. Also, check out Foundation framework for making both the desktop and mobile versions of the site ;) good luck. I will surely check back soon. This is a great project.
"The BRCK works much the way your cell phone does"

That about sums it up. Amazed this got onto kickstarter.
I run FreeBSD and Postgres on ZFS. It's been an entirely painless experience. No pitfalls to look out for from where I sit. Your use-case and results may differ.
>Modern Desktop Linux is very fragile because everything has to be configured and managed automatically. You haven't been able to startx without a lot of reconfiguring for years.

What distribution does not support startx out of the box. If you boot into terminal (or kill the X service), then startx should just do whatever the system does to start the X server anyway.
Obscure C
It was a similar pricing strategy which in part convinced me to switch from work involving a set of proprietary tools to pursuing opportunities which largely made use of freely available, free software tools I could download and experiment with myself.

The cost for the tools I'd previously been using ranged from hundreds to several thousand dollars. Annually. In addition to the expense, additional and advanced features were only available at a significant additional annual cost.

The vendor was also increasingly focusing its efforts on systems I had little interest in using. Despite a multi-platform legacy, much present use is on Windows systems (I've not used these as my principle environment for over a decade now).

I understand why Adobe would do this, and to a certain extent, subscription-based software models offer benefits: upgrades are already paid-in, and you can move users to the current level with fewer constraints (or with no alternative in the case of web-hosted software).

Operating in multiple markets, with multiple propensities to pay, and freely-available competing products suitable to at least some users, this sets up Adobe for a difficult situation.

Not entirely unlike book publishers: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/business/supreme-court-eas...
Here in Australia, I'd say go learn C# and do CRUD - but then again I'm sitting in Canberra and the feds love Microsoft tech (admittedly, I do love C#)

Java seems to be on its way out here.