skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ricer cookers are magic.

One of my favorite "I'm too tire too cook" meals is to just chop up whatever veggies I have laying around or picked up at the corner store on my way home, and toss the whole mess along with some rice into a rice cooker. I usually include some other random other miscellaneous dried grains/seeds/beans I have in bags to add some taste variety (red lentils = incredible, they're like a spice and a staple at the same time!). You don't need to pay any attention to the actual cooking, because the rice cooker will do it perfectly every time, without attention or care.

Press the button, veg in front of the computer for a while, rice cooker beeps, and ... dinner! :D

Cleanup is just a 2 second wash of the the non-stick pot...
You denormalize SOME joins.

On nearly all of the cases, they are very usefull, but once in a while one of them gets too slow, so you make a bit more of work enforcing the consistence by hand, accepts a bit more of risk, and denormalize it.

Throwing all of them away because a few may create problems later is a bit of an over reaction.
I honestly wasn't expecting you to see this and respond, so thanks a lot! I'm working on some machine lifetime prediction stuff for work, so it helps to hear about real-world cases.
Very beautiful indeed, and makes reading very easy. My only wish is if the URL's were working, or at least copy+pasting worked too (chrome, windows here). Last page of the document had 4 urls, and had to type them by hand...
walmart talks about this occasionally.. here's an article on the "food stamp rush" at walmart:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/food-stamp-rush-hour-12...
So may be now, gradually, we will be able to get rid of ridiculous patents like "Slide to unlock"?
http://hoverboard.io/stavros to see mine, as an example. I got bored after a bit, and figured that adding a portfolio to my personal site/blog would be much, much better, even though it wouldn't look as good.
The last public data I have on the fund was a 23 percent loss in 2010 with AUM dropping under 1 billion. My comment wasn't intended as a knock on Clarium or Thiel; I admire a lot of the man's thought process. It's just that institutional investors are extremely conservative and Ivy League/credential biased. So even highly successful funds would have a PR problem with actively seeking non-credentialed youth.
I'm saying if you created a website called humannews and the entire population of the whole world contributed to it they would consistently upvote the same stuff and it would look almost exactly like reddit.

Humans, acting as a group, are very predictable and easily manipulated. There are many smaller communities on reddit where you find a bigger difference from the mean.
...to expand on other answers - I encourage you to ask the same question, but about Lisp (Scheme, Clojure) =)
When installing a database system, it is rarely a "task". It's usually something that will live a long time and there will be many long-term consequences.
That's ideal, but many kinds of updates require some kind of read.

I agree in general though.
Office365 is also FISMA accredited no?

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft_office_365_blog/archive/...
If software patents die, and there is no grandfather clause. What are the patents that matter the most?
What version of Mongo and pymongo is he using? The connection client looks old (not using MongoClient) and the compound index selection (or lack of with $and) doesn't exist in 2.4.1. I'm curious as to how many of issues have been resolved...
Category theory is beautiful because it's so unavoidable. We might critique Turing machines for being tied intimately to our particular mode of thought—both Turing tape and lambda calculus are a certain kind of specific, at least in comparison to category theory. (Not that I'm arguing that any computational models are somehow not touching on another kind of Platonic ideal)

Category theory arises from probably the simplest imaginable notions of "transformation". There's no way to not critique me for being anthropocentric, but it's hard to imagine an alternative theory where this doesn't exist.
All the code the company I work for writes is AGPL licensed, and we don't need rent-seeking^Wpublic subsidies to get compensated for it. The trick is to get an agreement before the code is written, as well as providing other services around that code.
He means that the source for GDocs is private.
with or without a piece of paper...

Amen. I knew through my educational life, from early on, that I was capable of more than the industrial-era training and box that the current system in the U.S. puts us through. Glad to see the open shots of the rebellion finally coming to be and wishing you the best.
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It's just a faux-poor-translation because it sounds amusing, I think. It's a playful book with a playful title.
Aren't they entitled to do whatever they want with the code they produce without frowny faces all over the comment threads?

No, why should they? Nobody is entitled to be free from criticism.
The first thing that went through my head was "It needs to be rate of hateful tweets against the baseline tweet volume of the county, not just overall rate"
Actually, the situation is worse than you make it look. Most sites are running WordPress, which isn't particularly secure out of the box, and only gets worse as poorly written plugins are added.
From the perspective of "learn other languages to broaden your horizons":

Haskell is worth learning because it has an expressive, strong, static type system. Most other languages do not have that property (Java's type system is static, give or take null, and strong, but not expressive, and Ruby's is strong but neither expressive nor static). The Haskell type system lets you have conversations with the compiler about what your program should do.

You can declare a state type, and have the compiler tell you if you switch on the state and forget to handle one of the possible states (or if you add a state later and forget to update all the switches).

You can tell the compiler "I think this function is a generally useful utility function that I plan to extract out of this project and use elsewhere", and it will tell you whether there's some dependency on your project that you missed.

You can specify in a function's type "this function should have access to the database"; then the compiler can tell you if you're trying to access the database somewhere you didn't expect to. (A colleague has just spent a person-year of effort refactoring a Django web app, because all the database calls were happening in the view code, and they needed to abstract them out to scale.)

Of course there are ways to do some of those things in other languages, and of course there are also downsides to the static type system. But those sorts of abilities open up new programming techniques (even in languages with poorer type systems), and have shown me ways programming can be better.
For someone who dislikes references to "poop", you certainly mention it a lot.
> they make graphing paper out of Excel to create a document

I hate that shit too! They use Excel for the most pointless reasons. I've gotten all kinds of documents as Excel spreadsheets when a simple word document would have sufficed.

It might be too much of a stretch, but maybe this has something to do with so much time spent in childhood writing on 原稿用紙 making Japanese people prefer "grid-like" organization.
I hope someone from Google PMs you, good luck to you and your sister.
Have you tried their latest one? The consumer version is at outlook.com
They said that, but never actually did it.
Maybe in accounting (who should have better tools, anyway) Excel is irreplaceable, but most other Excel users make all kinds of idiotic tables with it, all of them without even a single mathematical operation.

And that's to say nothing on the idiocy when those users decide they are empowered by their tools and decide they'll do math with them. I've seen more than one case where the AVG function was replaced with SUM and COUNT.
I am not familiar with the Borg or the Omega system in Google and resource allocation optimization is usually NP hard, but would a random allocation approach be a good enough solution? It might not produce the optimal allocation but since things are changing all the time anyway, a simple good enough solution that adapts to the changes is certainly desirable.
What is this followgen nonsense? It completely breaks Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/ldWnsRn.jpg
In case anyone was wondering, like I was how VP9 quality stacks up, here's a comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctjm1kxw-BM (although it's a bit weird since everything is re-encoded for youtube, so take with a grain of salt).

To my eyes, VP9 looks roughly on par with h264, but not as good as h265.
Probably because you'd sooner expect the word "shirt" in a message like this than the word "shit".
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I was interviewing for an internship over the phone and couldn't find any sponsored tours. I did just walk on to their campus and look around(very cool place), but there didn't seem to be anything official :(
God says...

8:7 And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to
set them also before them.

8:8 So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken
meat that was left seven baskets.

8:9 And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them
away.

8:10 And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and
came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

8:11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him,
seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

8:12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this
generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no
sign be given unto this generation.

8:13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to
the other side.

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What does scrypt offer over bcrypt? The only difference I seem to recall is that scrypt is more memory-intensive (making it so that the CPU/GPU/whatever isn't the only bottleneck).
Being tickless when idle provides significant power savings. Being tickless when active doesn't. The benefit here is to avoid trapping into the kernel an additional HZ times a second when you have a single CPU bound task bound to a CPU that nothing else wants to run on.
No, I think this is where the "pan selling industry" and the "tech toy/trinket selling industry" are different.

There's something going on in the "pan selling industry" which results in very little "race for the bottom price" type competition - there are clearly many individual companies importing pans from China, but the "well known retail price" of those pans is ~$30 no matter which retailer you buy it from (within reason - at least within enough reason that all the $30 price-point retailers are still in business).

Tech toys, on the other hand, quite often end up in the "race to the bottom" price category - with many innovative and desirable items ending up available from sites like Alibaba or DealExtreme at ludicrously low prices.

I think part of it is the audience - the "pan buying demographic" is probably a lot earlier in it's uptake of globalised web based purchasing than the demographic who's buying Arduinos and RasberryPis. Perhaps one day your average mid-western housewife will say "I need a new saucepan, I'll just check Alibaba before I drive to the mall and pick one off the shelf at Walmart - if I can save $20 and only need to wait a week I'll just get it delivered."

But like I said - I suspect it's "experienced companies" who are not exactly colluding or price-fixing, but who all know that it's better for _all_ of them to keep pans priced at ~$30 and have everybody make margins of almost $29 per sale, rather than end up trying to compete on price at $5/pan knowing that the total market for pans won't increase just 'cause the prices drop 85%.

(And sometimes, you get the evil-Walmart-effect, where someone big enough to absorb the temporary losses chooses to drop the consumer-expected pricing down to $2/pan, waits out until the competition goes broke and vanishes, then puts the prices back up near $30/pan while owning all or most of the market.)
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No, why should they? Nobody is entitled to be free from criticism.

Can you really be critical of someone for choosing to close source their own code?
> If you post such video on your website, you're violating mpeg4 patents and have to pay mpeg4 licensing fee (up to $5 million/year).

No. There is a (in my opinion) fairly permissive "free" tier[1]. Posting a h264 encoded video on your website does not immediately mean you need to pay royalties.

> That basically puts mpeg4 out of reach for 99.9% content creators that cannot afford even talking to mpeg4 consortium about the license.

I think that's a bit of hyperbole.

It's not cheap, but the MPEG-LA don't charge you for talking to them. If you submit a valid request for a license based on your units[2], then they will provide you with one. In fact, you don't need to pay fees if your paid-for content is less than 12 minutes long[2], and you're looking at $5000/year + $2500 per encoder for a 500k - 999k audience.

As always comes up in the discussions of AVC/h264 vs WebM/Theora/VP8-9: there's no guarantee that use of the latter solutions provides protection from patent litigation. AVC/h264 isn't immune either, but at least you have an idea and (so far) there doesn't appear to have been any major trolls chasing h264 content distributors. WebM/VP8/etc are untested here; not just because of their youth but also because there are few (if any?) big deployments outside of YouTube (and even then).

[1]: http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/mpeg-la-h264...
[2]: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsS...
Actually, it has. You can nest labels. With the extra benefit a message can be in more than one folder if it pertains to two different subjects. Very powerful.
Interesting samples & discussion on (sometimes "busy" & hectic) Japanese web design: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/25/1712256/the-puzzle-o...
Windows 8 pushes out the tick. See "Idle Hygiene" here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/11/08/building-a-pow...
Internal private data. We don't know exactly what it is and he can't say.

Really, in the end, this is little more than a moderately well-sourced anecdote.
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I'm sure that could be an issue as well, but it's not causing the problem in my case.

I've found 1-2 emails in mail from a particular sender, where gmail was unable to find any results, even with their exact address.

I've likewise found perhaps 7/10 of a set of emails in gmail, and found the remaining 3 in mail (while confirming they had unique information not listed in gmail).
Yeah, sure. My email is in my profile, not sure what your email is but if you send me a message, I can give you more info on who I am and we can talk details.
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Because it's no longer science. It's corruption.
It's hard to say, the freedcamp landing page doesn't say much about the specifics of what it offers. The one thing that sticks out is that freedcamp is a hosted solution, just like Basecamp. Duet is self hosted, which is going to appeal to a different set of users...
The author is a very funny/insane guy. Exhibit A is his twitter account (https://twitter.com/bonus500). I wouldn't call it an inside joke, but rather a general feature of good comedy where it feels familiar yet distant.
If anyone is curious, I just updated the post with a quickie analysis of the GRG data (I'm on the mailing list and brought this and the post up and someone else posted the relevant table). Turns out the actual timing differs on whether you're looking at mean or median, because Calment screwed things up by living a ridiculously long time.
Just PHP 5.3 and MySql. Any host, even a shared godaddy server should be more than enough.
Mutable data structures are a much more accurate abstraction when it comes to how computers actually store data in memory and on disc

Yet programming in imperative, mutating, mainstream languages is nothing like how code works at the machine level. I understand you're talking about data, but I think the analogy still stands. Or maybe a better one is that a file system or even a database itself is an abstraction of how data is stored on disc.
> I always see it mentioned on Reddit but I have yet to come across any notable project written with it.

xmonad, one of the best tiling window managers for Linux, is written in Haskell (and is open source).
Licensing isn't a major export, but products that are made harder to copy with patented software technology. The algorithms implemented on a DSP in a cell phone baseband are also subject to software patents. Also, think of something like Google's (patented) self driving car algorithms.

We've lost our competitive edge in manufacturing due to cheap overseas labor. The future of our economy is going to be IP and services export.
> That's why the answers are so irrelevant to the nature of the question.

I posted a historical response there, so hopefully that settles the issue.
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To be fair, the publisher claims that "all tweets containing each 'hate word' were aggregated to the county level and normalized by the total twitter traffic in each county"
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Do not be depressed, at least because of this. Few people will ever write anything that is correct, can not be meaningfully simplified, yet incomprehensible and essentially unreviewable. The only other thing that comes to mind are the top-grade encryption algorithms. (They are reviewed, but even after extensive, extensive review by the very smartest people in the field, there's still an irreducible part when selecting an algorithm where everyone still just has to sort of hope there isn't some fatal flaw in there somewhere. Often, years and years later, there is.)
Readability tried something like this. Among the problems: authors / publishers didn't sign up, and money collected had to be distributed or reimbursed. Unclaimed funds eventually were awarded to a charity.

Though I believe Readability had good intent, they took a great deal of flack for this.

Money weirds things.
Can someone explain to me why expansion of visa programs for skilled workers is so controversial? Hell, Mitt Romney wanted to "staple a green card" to every STEM diploma.

Why the need for these three dimensional Vulcan chess tactics if that's the goal?

My guess is because labor unions and the Democrats (generally) don't want to expand visas for skilled workers without "comprehensive" legalization. But I am definitely biased so I would not at all mind an alternative explanation.
FWIW, I like name.com. I've been with them for around five years and have always had good customer service experiences. If I need help or have a question, it's very easy to get a human being on the line. In fact, one time, the rep spent fifteen minutes or so explaining the whole domain name expiration process. Yea, I'm not happy they were hacked but I think they're trying to do right by their customers.
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Thanks! I will email you, expect it from vpenajr@gmail.com

I never expected this to end up on the front page. Thanks everyone!
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As far as I can see no on submitted this yet. It's more interesting than the other Wired submissions for May 2013, in my opinion.
That would be a pretty big grain, Comparisons like that are basically useless. Your YouTube is likely to be using H.264. H.265 and H.264 will be sharing much of their encoding technologies, so they gain fewer encoding artefacts and loose less quality by taking a H.264 and re-encoding it as a H.265 than you would by taking a VP9 and re-encoding is as a H.264.

The only real way is for someone to shoot raw video, and compress them both separately.
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Python has been getting bloated in recent years. Why not just do the following?

def enum(*args):
return dict(zip(args, range(len(args))))

colors = enum('red', 'green', 'blue')

# {'blue': 2, 'green': 1, 'red': 0}
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You have described what I can only assume is Apple's sales pitch to the carriers: Do you want to be stuck charging $50/month to "cable cutters" or do you want to sell a sexy "Apple TV" with an associated $100+/month "smart TV" plan?
You could do the same thing on Earth probably much cheaper. Bury it in a remote location like Antarctica or something. Just have a manual switch on it that will stop it from broadcasting for 20 years or so. That way it doesn't interfere with any radio traffic in the present, but if something happens to humanity that prevents us from going to it, it resets and starts broadcasting again. Anyone remaining on Earth will be able to listen to it. Even if all humans die out, it would still leave a legacy for (possibly) other intelligent races to find.

It wouldn't have to be terribly expensive, though you would want to add things to make sure it would survive such a long time, which would add to the cost. I don't know how you would store information that long though. At least in a way that would be machine readable and not take up a ton of space.
There isn't anything official. It's not _incredibly_ surprising, I think, that a workplace doesn't have a tourism programme. ;) If no Googler volunteers to give you a tour, no one's giving you a tour.

Google is an amazing place to work. But when loved ones visit, I'm not actually sure what there is to _show_, you know? I mean, there are amusing sculptures (google "stan the tyrannosaurus") and volleyball courts, but we all know that's not amazing. There are great free cafeterias, and snacks in the MKs and on-site laundry and a dozen gyms and .... but come on, now that I've told you that, how much extra value do you get from seeing the gym? Whee, brightly-coloured bikes!

And I can't show anyone the awesome stuff we work on, because it's confidential and besides how would my parents (or whoever) understand why it's awesome, beyond what everybody already knows about Google?

tl;dr: I haven't figured out how to give good tour. Thought at least when guests come I feed them well, on the company dime.
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I'm not an expert on this issue either but I think you're understanding it correctly. There are interest groups on both the left (protectionist labor unions) and the right (nativists) who are hostile to immigrant workers, in both high-skilled and blue collar positions. The "3 dimensional vulcan chess" approach here is an attempt to get congress to actually vote on the law even though it pisses off some entrenched groups. Its really really hard to get congress to do anything at all, let alone do something that pisses off some of the activists in the party bases.
Nice, I liked how I could see the relative attractiveness change as the bodies moved.

What was the shading on the bodies for? At first I thought the bright side might be pointed towards the centre of mass of the other two, but it seems not.
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