skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
b.) Accept that things are not going to end well.

Fresh gazelle is delicious. Try not to overeat. There's a whole heard, and the pride will catch another one tomorrow. It's all a matter of perspective.
depends on what you mean by language, people can express themself and communicate different ways without words (music , drawing,art in general...). If you consider music and drawing as a language then there is no limit.
Martelli's Python in a nutshell is the best I have seen on python. Not a cookbook, more of a reference, but this guy is extremely precise and rereading is always deepening my understanding of python.
I've used both Echosign and docusign. Either one seems to suit your use case well; replacing back and forth faxes or email sending.
On http://www.aep-emu.de/emus.html is a pretty good list of common emulators sorted by platform.

(Language of the site is german, but that shouldn't be a problem)
Citation needed.

I'm glad you asked.

Schooling and Society: The Politics of Education in Prussia and Bavaria 1750-1900 Karl Schleunes (Oxford: Berg, 1989). (ISBN 0-85496-267-0).

There are more good citations on the foundations of the current state-controlled school system where that citation came from.

http://learninfreedom.org/school_state.html
Nesting a maximum of three levels deep is generally good practice, but don't let that stop you from using parent references (&). This doesn't create a longer CSS selector, even though it's technically nested deeper in the SASS.

In case what I'm saying makes no sense: http://codepen.io/seraphzz/pen/ByEcx
Wow, thanks! I might just do that :)
(On phone, can't edit the other reply)

Though you are right, the architecture we tried earlier, when we were doing a proof of concept, would not have helped with compression. Back then we were trying to play nice with mongodb's data format and keep its legacy indexes around. It turned out that for many reasons (concurrency, recovery, and compression, and a few others), it was a lot better to replace all of the storage code, so that's what some of us have been doing the past couple months.
Everybody loves a good underdog story, and Marissa has the background and qualifications to be a potentially great underdog story.

The evidence is how much Yahoo is in the news lately. Before her strategic moves, everybody had written Yahoo off. Now, everybody is genuinely interested in Yahoo. Their products are actually starting to feel cool again. That is seriously impressive work in such a short time period, and she's just getting started.
I assume that base 10 makes it easier since we have 10 digits. But, yes, I too missed the grandparent's point.
Dave McClure's definition of a startup
It's really sad to me that the top comment on any thread at HN is ad hominem. I'm not around much but this community really has changed.

Seriously, ebbv you have nothing to add that is interesting or unique? Calling a columnist at the NY Times a "hack" is hardly original or insightful.
All good managers rely on the people under them to give them high quality information and feedback to make decisions. don't blanket all managers as being too egotistical to avoid irrational escalation of commitment.

That being said, decisions like reversing project directions or pivoting are usually huge multi-party decisions not up to a single person (unless it gets escalated to the very very top).

A politically savvy employee would be able to make it work. Albeit, after saving the project (or making an admirable effort that catches everyone's eye), that employee would probably be marked by management for a management role. ;)
So do a death march or quit? Very extreme.

Unless you're in a tiny company that will literally go out of business if the project isn't complete, there is a valid middle ground: cover your ass to avoid blame, pitch to the PM to get the schedule extended, salvage as much as you can, and move on and do better next time.

In the meantime, take a better job if one turns up. But don't be lured into extreme action by magical thinking. If a failed project is inextricably linked to your personal well-being, you're in the wrong business.
I have alternative theory - it is a bit wacky but bear with me - by giving basic literacy, proper grammar, math, history and reasoning skills we create a class of people that can enter the economy easily, can create a lot of value added and develop their full potential. By giving roughly the same start we could also do a lot to diminish the class separation.

Calling Prussia - Germany while they had a king is just wrong.

And the think with UN- it is helpless organization, kept that way, and forever will be. It is even more pathetic than League of Nations.
I don't quite agree. I agree it can be difficult. But, if there's sufficient respect between the management and developers, then it's totally possible. The manager wants to succeed, and most are pretty reasonable to ideas, especially when put into a tight spot.
I can open any MS Word document with any computer out of the box. Without installing _any_ crap or having account at Gevil (and uploading anything). On OSX Textedit, on Windows Wordpad, and so on. On iOS any MS doc as attachment. In that way Microsoft Standard is different, i can view the docs without doing nothing, only "standard" ODF documents i can not view on standard computer.
Prediction: Apple Will Buy Thalmic Labs (Creator of the MYO)
Yesterday, Tim Cook said "the wrist is natural". It's already pretty obvious that Apple is building a smartwatch but since that is, and will be, a saturated space, I imagine Apple will want something to get ahead of everyone else in wearables. Cook also scorned upon Google's Glasses so I doubt they will be going for that. But the MYO seems to have a young and clever team behind it plus a great product already. The company is young but has great potential--and I believe this is why Apple will be attracted to acquiring them soon.
Dammit! I suck at Jeffs :( I should stick to my strengths.
>These clocks are so sensitive that they can easily measure the gravitational redshift, in which clocks tick more slowly in more powerful gravitational fields. In other words they can sense changes in height....The new clock should be able to discern changes of around 1 cm at the Earth’s surface

This seems like a pretty big deal! Perhaps not for measuring height, but measuring gravity field with such a precision can have more applications
hey, let's all just start submitting links to every new book that comes out on amazon with our affiliate links!
The article didn't say that he did not read the script - just that he also offered information about the 5th amendment. That's not an instance of failing to fulfill his obligations. Also, even if he acted in a way to thwart the "intent" of the school system administration, which has not been demonstrated, it is not at all clear that this constitutes a failure to fulfill his obligations as an employee. It might be that his obligations should be interpreted as including the thwarting of the intent of the administration in some instances. Just as a soldier in the American army is obligated to disobey an illegal order.
It would be interesting to see the current spot instance price plotted as well.
Save some money on a very short term.

I'll put my hopes in Tesla. Long term thinking is where the future becomes reality.
Just for comparison Weta Digital had 35,000 cores for rendering Avatar.
People generally respect professionals more when they have the choice of shopping for the professionals who fit their needs. You would respect plumbers less if every time you needed a pipe fixed, you were assigned a plumber by your "plumbing district" and the plumbing district received revenues from your taxes whether your pipes leak or not. Teachers should take advantage of the opportunity to be treated like real professionals by supporting education reforms that give learners (and the adult guardians of minor learners) more power to shop for providers of education.

(By the way, I can tell that I am a good bit older than you are by the short time frame of your comment. Commentary about government-operated oligopoly schools not being staffed by teachers who are able to do their best for the learners in their care goes back many more decades than you guess.)

Something that HAS changed about teaching, as an occupation, in the United States in my longer lifetime is that now women have many more employment opportunities besides schoolteaching. When a woman can become a medical doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer, she may decide to take her talents into other labor markets besides the labor market for staffing schools.

http://www.personal.kent.edu/~cupton/Senior%20Seminar/Papers...

Again, I think if schools were more client-responsive, because learners had more power to shop, that would change management practices of schools and allow schools to reward better the teachers who do the best work. A teacher who does a good job is worth her weight or his weight in gold.

http://hanushek.stanford.edu/publications/teacher-quality

But the incentives in the current system, in which most schools get the bulk of their revenues from taxes, results or not, don't set up incentives for schools to value teachers who do well as schools should.
As everyone said, keep a paper trail and update your resume. It would be even better if you are left out of the finger pointing-' blame circle' on D-day.

The project might be doomed to fail but there will be individual tasks that can be completed successfully. Complete these tasks (and your tasks) and present them as your contributions to the win/progress column. If you are one of the few engineers who is getting stuff done, you will be noticed in positive light and it will be harder to throw you under the bus.

you cannot stop the inevitable failure of a project, but no where does it say you have to walk towards it. Complete your tasks and just a little more. publicize your minor achievements, and stay out of the politics. this way you can do what is right and remain unscathed when all falls down. Good luck.
50 Years in Color
Google and Gmail down in spain
I can't open gmail, google.com , and many other services.

"Error 15 (net::ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED): Unknown error."
It varies from district to district though. In most districts I would assume things move along just fine and has been that way for years. In some districts teachers resign in protest because of the constraints placed on them due to emphasis on standardized tests which forces them to alter their teaching plans to the detriment of the students. In other districts teachers go to jail for allowing students to cheat on standardized tests or skip the middle-man to do the cheating themselves.

Much like most things in life, sometimes teachers deserve the criticisms they receive and sometimes they don't.

Personally, I feel the most likely culprit is a combination of the government and education administrators.
Edge.org presents things as 'conversations' but they are generally just essays, with no possibility for other edge members to leave comments. Thats not a conversation. There's no dialogue, nothing anyone says is challenged. None of these 'great minds' at Edge are actually presented talking to each other.

Consequently although Edge.org says its all about conversation and advancing knowledge, I suspect its really just about selling pop-science books.

It would be a much better site if it was a proper forum (for the 'great minds' that are members) and we could all watch the discussion, disagreements, flameouts and ragequits. Seriously.
Two Thoughts On Phone Interviews
Great, now that my Twitters, Googles and Dropboxes are 2FA enabled, how about a US bank follows suit? Pretty please? Ally, ING?
How much did you get off? If you got anything over $1000 then that 4 hours was time well spent. There's a good chance you don't make $250 per hour at your normal job, you're the exception if you do.
Bolts along Bay Bridge bike path fail
Apparently Multi User Chatrooms for Google talk:

http://partychapp.appspot.com/
I'm not sure I understand the point of this. Am I just dense? Can someone explain in some detail?

To me this looks like a superfluous layer of indirection that causes you to have to manage your object method calls through an "interactor" instead of the object itself. That's just breaking the encapsulation pattern of OOP and I imagine this is nightmarish in terms of its impact on reusability of your code.

did I get it wrong or is this actually just a huge anti-pattern?
Maybe because 5 billion years ago there wasn't anything life-like going on around these parts. Many changes have occurred since then, and many will occur yet again.

Not every genetic sequence is sacred, and the vast majority that modern taxonomy would consider "species" have come and gone without me shedding a tear.
It's like killing Napster but only after bittorrent was invented. They could not bother themselves and just wait till liberty dollars are obsoleted by bitcoins. And then just accept that from now on transactions are semianonymous and irrevokable and they can forget the whole antimoneylaundering crazy efforts. They might actually focus on better laws and preventing crimes that now they are just trying to disincentivise by going after criminals money.

For example credit card fraud is possible mostly thanks to stupid rules and even dumber application of technology.
As a speaker of 3 different languages (English, German and Portuguese/Spanish) I believe that although correct this is a wrong discussion. Yes, languages does influence the way we think, but overall culture does influence a million times more.

One example is the democratic debate in English speaking countries compared to the same debate in Portuguese/Spanish countries. I hear a lot of words that don't have a direct translation to a single word: entitlement, pork, accountability, delusion, bullying, patronage, solipsism, ... Because words similar to these don't exist in Spanish/Portuguese I feel that the democratic debate is sometimes so truncated and clunky.

Another example might be how any discussion in English is so strongly focused on providing empirical evidence for claims; even today Anglo-Saxon remains the culture of Sir Francis Bacon and the inductive method.
Yeah, my upload speed is about 0.5Mb so I guess I can stream at 640x480 :P

Although many people seem to do fine for the Ludum Dare.
"confidential, not for redistribution"
org-odt-export-to-odt

http://orgmode.org/manual/OpenDocument-Text-export.html#Open...
Your views are likely outside the mainstream in the same way Alex Jones' views are outside the mainstream. Your "simple deduction" would better be labeled "uneducated guessing based on nothing".

The reasons behind the dramatic decline in the American education system are obvious and known very well to any public school teacher: "No child left behind".
>Everything you read in the news is outlier in a sort.

Indeed. Otherwise it wouldn't be news. Anything you see in the news is automatically not worth being afraid of. Your life will be ruined by something mundane, car accidents, cancer etc.
That's not true. Being able to endure and suffer silently is a skill that is often the way to survive through struggles and win the game in the end. It is mostly the case for politicians and mafia members, but it is also useful for developers.
I guess that by illegal transaction they mean transcation executed by illegal means namely by using unregistered money tranfer agent.
SASS can also take a bunch of PNGs and auto generate a sprite map and it's CSS.
For 30 days 24hr scenario, "Total cost of instance" graph is showing bogus numbers on the iPad. Let me know if you are unable to replicate and need a screenshot.
Jef Raskin on "Intuitive Interfaces" [1994]
"All are beyond the line worker's control."

This is probably the most important piece of advice in the whole discussion. Getting all worked up about someone else's responsibility.

Another interesting side issue not explored yet... I believe its a distorting factor that he has semi-privileged information and opinions about his own area of expertise. If he had semi-privileged information and opinions about the supply of packing tape in the shipping department, or the technology level of the forklift battery charger in the warehouse, he'd wisely be advised to stick to casual careful gossip unless its human safety critical, aka just do his job... at work. At home, if certain that the battery charger is going to cause irreparable financial harm, sure, go update that resume... just keep it at home.
Technologists Need to Team With an Entrepreneur
Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication: 5 Reasons To Avoid
"Global Illicit Financial Team" ie. GIFT wow, cool, these must be the good guys.

Thus begins the FUD storm to discredit BitCoin :

Implication : "if your using Bitcoin rather than a 'legitimate' currency, you must have something to hide. you must be an evil pederast/blackmarketeer/hacker/terrorist"
Video showing the effect of Quantum Entanglement
Not to mention they also bought Doubleclick, which helped.
I love how this idealism is so accepted here, sure it works, but there is plenty of good in "staying until the job is done", you just don't believe it.
Understanding the cause and effect of CSS (XSS) Vulnerabilities
Isn't it one of the themes in "A Clockwork Orange", which was published in 1962? It's admittedly not a scientific text however...
http://allgoogleglass.com

Wow - very cool. I sort of like the layout but wish there was a way to just browse by headline (a la HN). I like it though. One problem I had is that, on FF21.0, the fonts look awful. Even when I zoom in at 150%, they still look all goofy. I don't know if that's a firefox thing or a you thing - just letting you know.

Kudos
My impressions exactly. Does anyone have another example? I think I'm missing the main point of the article because I don't get the example.
Duolingo Android app released
Video of school board vote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Is_Awj4Pvg
Everest: Rivers of Ice by GlacierWorks and Microsoft
Top Ten Things Android Can Do, But iPhone Can't
I'm failing to understand, are you saying the survey was manipulation or the teacher reminding the students of their fifth amendment rights?

How would debates about the US Constitution and its laws make you worried about the US? These are likely the same discussions and debates that many people from many different countries have over their local issues and/or laws. How is the US any different?
Component Based Engine Design
Also fun to try: justifying ones use of "innit" as a general purpose tag with reference to the french "n'est-ce pas." This drives people up the wall, as there's no comeback to it, and it invokes the shallow europhilism which the kind of person who tells me off for saying "innit" typically indulges in constantly.
A much better list:
http://nonmess.retrogames.com/
Widely accepted is stretching it. There are very few linguists who believe there's enough evidence to support the weak hypothesis.
I think this is a bit unfair. I'm not sure you know Mark well enough to know that.
I have been intending to buy this book for over 3 months now. I finally got around to it today. The coding conventions won me over in the first 5 minutes.
date = new Date();
s = date.toISOString();

Then pull characters from s.
A Polynomial Time Algorithm for the Hamilton Circuit Problem
What is the point in mentioning that you've never heard of Zooey Deschanel, a popular celebrity (who starred in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)? Does that add something to your comment, or are you just trying to show proud you are of being out of touch with popular culture?
Nexus 7 On Android 4.3 Announcement Is Imminent
There was a good discussion about this on Language Hat a few months ago:

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/004914.php
Yep, it's quite common in New England to find stone walls in the middle of a forest, that used to be on the edge of a field. Further, it's kind of amazing to think that the woods down the street had someone pull all the rocks out at some point... makes you reconsider what you consider "natural".
I use notepad and it works great.
My fav editor(ST2) coupled with a markdown plugin does the trick for me.
5 Important Facts You Need to Know Today about Graphic Design, Copyright & IP
I work in an environment where radios and cameras of any kind aren't allowed (not an unreasonable policy for where I work). So, I'll be stuck with the fobs for a bit.

The trend of everything moving towards smartphones limits my options. However, YubiKey OTP works well, so it's not a big issue -- I just hope more competition pops up.

Also, personally I trust fobs more than my smartphone. My smartphone is a device which is always connected to a network. I don't want to be one remote exploit and a password leak away from having every credential I control compromised.
That is such a lazy and non-helpful answer, especially considering that the poster didn't just ask what it was.
Putting an entirely new team on an existing code base is madness.
At this point I don't think they are trying to compete with google or anyone in particular. I think right now they are just trying to be relevant and not be just a lost cause.

I think I am one of the few who actually wants Yahoo to be a success. But the reality is that they are far behind from years of just sitting on their ass that it will take a herculean effort to turn itself around. I actually think they are on the right track in doing this.

Here is my take as an arm-chair analyst:

Yahoo has a shortage of superstar developers to turn themselves around. This is hard problem because there are too many big companies with lots of money and very interesting place and projects to work at who are also after these so-called superstar developers. So in that regard Yahoo is the least interesting place to work at. What can Yahoo do?

- They can offer high wage, but its not always about the money. So it is unlikely that they will get many good developers like that.

- They can make yahoo relevant and interesting place to work again but acquiring new projects, developing new projects and improving existing projects. I believe Yahoo is doing that right now. It takes time for public perception to change, but I think they are doing a good job.

- Acui-hires is the easiest way to get good developers under yahoo roof and thats exactly what they are doing.

So I don't think they are competing with google, but instead they are trying to get their base in order and clean up their existing products. Once they are moderately relevant and people starts caring about their product and then maybe they will start looking at challenging the big players like Google.

They are in no position to challenge google now.
Run around your desk with your arms flailing about screaming then after a few minutes crawl under your desk and go into the fetal position repeating over and over its the end of the world.

But no seriouly, if you want to stay at the same company after do what you're asked. Don't burn yourself out. If you're in a position to make change then so it. And if not then fire up your résumé ASAP.
That's an interesting thought. Yes, it'd be very nice to see detailed statistics on various US dollar denominations, and Bitcoin as well.
Here's another article, and a good voice example:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/vocal-fry-cree...

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/vocalfryshort.mp3