skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I may, a small plug for my solution to this problem:

https://bitbucket.org/davidn/dotstuff

I settled on copying rather than symlinking, which has the benefit that the source files can be passed through a simple preprocessor to do some customization for different systems. Also you can get a diff between your current files and the state that you just synced.
Google and their doodles are part of their identity. The fact that it changes, and the way it changes affects people's perception of who google is, and their fundamental philosophy and approach to things. This idea of a changing logo was pioneered by Frank Olinsky and his MTV identity work. The change is part of the logo, not a search for a new/better one.

On the other hand, "not violating the sanctity of a logo" says something else about a company. Something a company may desire. Dependability. Stability. Reliability. (but also potentially dated, old fashioned, stagnated)

Neither of these things has much relevance to the point of the article. The point of the article is something like this:

Imagine you go on a date, and during the course of the date you try on 30 different personalities, and at the end you ask the girl (or guy) to take a survey on which personality she (or he) liked best- In order to determine what kind of personality you should have.

Wouldn't you think that would come off kind of fake? Who you are, or who you should be, how you should dress, the way you talk, this is not something you can get out of a survey of what people think of you while you adopt a range of different reinventions of yourself.
BuzzFeed is huge amongst the aged 18-24 crowd. I can't walk past a computer screen that doesn't have one of those "24 Reasons We All Hate Mornings" posts. They remind me of the "what would you call X" websites that were insanely popular a year ago.
This is my first ever blog post. Would love any feedback.
I'd much rather have someone on my team who knows how to get shit done. optimizing in a vacuum is easy.
As others have pointed out, this is not really an experiment for Yahoo to figure out which logo works best. It is just an attempt to shake things up, trying to appeal to the modern internet users. You can perhaps see this more in the line of kinda-Google-doodle-but-not-really
YAHOO IS RED!!!! doesn't anyone remember! <old crank sees himself out>
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Yes, I actually do keep an eye on it, and have the limiter set on it. My phone (from the UK) doesn't play well with the networks here so I am restricted to EDGE :( Just about to buy a new phone so with LTE will get much faster speeds. I used up over 400mb this month on EDGE, with very restricted usage. Once I get full speed I know for sure I will use it more. My wifi usage is pretty high, 3-4GB per month. I would regularly use up 2-3GB month in UK due to YouTube and streaming music.
Thinking About the Next Revolution
I take a similar approach. I have a dotfiles git repo in ~/dotfiles/ and have a Makefile which creates symlinks in my home directory. For example, ~/.bashrc is a symlink to ~/dotfiles/bashrc. That way, I can have a whitelist (whatever's in the Makefile) instead of a blacklist (like a .gitignore).
It's been a long time since my interview (2005), but I had a couple of brain teasers during my my interview. Not as many as I had at Microsoft, but definitely some. I specifically remember being asked the Two Eggs question (http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/july22012/).
I am thoroughly convinced that Yahoo! is purposefully putting out 30 crappy logos so that the stunning one they've spent considerable time and money on and that they're releasing tomorrow will just seem that much better.
Siracusa's essay is the only one worth reading: http://hypercritical.co/2013/09/02/nintendo-in-crisis

The rest of those clowns don't have much to add to the conversation.
You would think that with all the retro cache a SCUMM-based MMOW would have, that someone would try to stand that up again...i bet a lot of people don't even know it existed. I wonder what standing a Club Caribe server up would involve?...
Right, but if Google had played with their logo for 30 days, and then stopped, would it really be any different from if they'd never played with their logo ever?
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I've made my own similar solution. I have all mine on Github, so I git clone the repo, and run my bootstrap script, which initializes the submodules, Vundle's all my vim plugins, and symlinks all the files.

https://github.com/Aaronneyer/dotfiles
But not Free Software
This is hilarious! It's just like the ETS (education testing services) that runs all the US based standardized tests.

What is "hilarious" about it? How would you propose that new-hires learn how to interview?
To be fair, this says "reach" not "capture", but I have no idea what any of the words mean nowadays.

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB100014241278873241082045790...
NIST CSF’s Predictability Problem
This is really cool, I've learned a lot of latex in ~30 mins thanks to this.

I'm learning latex as part of a Numeric Methods course and will be sharing this with my fellow students

It would be great to have some feedback-app-thing integrated, I'll love to report issues, but I think that if it is in page would be better than going to some mail client or something. Maybe this could help: https://www.uservoice.com/ (I like it)
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How to find the password on iTunes backup on windows? iPhone backup password recovery tool will find the password for you easily.
Some videos are html5 and have speed controls (you can opt in to the program or add &html5=true to the url. Otherwise, you gotta youtube-dl the file and run it in vlc.

For someone who uses the advanced features of VLC, web video is a frustrating experience.
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It sounds like she just realized she's human
(writing this from 15" early 2013 rMBP) You can build a hackintosh with comparable specs for much cheaper than the equivalent Mac Pro, but the laptop space is no-contest
Any similar implementation but for obj-c?
In LaTeX, or a pdf stuffed with jpegs?
I believe that is precisely what Riak does in the "Riak now does this" link provided, and that's effectively what is going on under the hood with Cassandra. This means more overhead per column and the loss of the ability to just encode the data fields in an application native serialization structure.

In effect, you throw out a lot of the less talked about advantages of NoSQL and end up with something more like traditional SQL databases (not necessarily a bad thing, just different).
Your solution is bonkers and has zero chance of happening.

You know what Valve charges to put you on the Steam store? 30% or more. You know why some people do it? Because they make more money doing it. You know why some people don't? Because they make more money not doing it.
To build on this, Phase 1 trials are meant to determine safety - the treatment is given to a smallish group of healthy individuals to look for side-effects and what not. Phase 2 is a small scale test for effectiveness of the treatment and more side effects. Phase 3 is a large scale test of effectiveness and more side effects. After passing Phase 3, the treatment can probably be put out to market, and then 'Phase 4' (post-market) data can be gathered to ensure that nothing was missed.
Those traffic numbers are really impressive...aside from their popularity, I think Buzzfeed is probably the content site that actually gets the value of an efficient CMS. It's easy to dismiss them as being nothing but listicles, but lots of sites have tried to do that and don't come close to the well-thought out finesse of Buzzfeed.

On a related note, I kind of wish that HN would remove its blanket ban of the Buzzfeed domain. Their longform section has as great of HN-likable original content as any other legit site: http://www.buzzfeed.com/longform

Users should still exercise the right to flag the Buzzfeed list crap off of HN...but let's face it, with the numbers at Buzzfeed claims, the HN bump would merely be a blip for them.
Just because something is in the cloud doesn't mean you don't need backups.

Backup your entire Google account. Here's a tool to do it:
http://www.syncdocs.com/
Print out the 10 password recovery codes Google offers. Here's how to do it:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/180744?hl=en
Having a backup and extra security is essential for everything stored in the cloud.
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The usual things. Move somewhere else, vote for other politicians, petition, or supplement the education outside school time.
There's a difference between syntactically-correct code (meaning every single paren/brace is balanced, no dropped semicolons, should compile exactly as written, etc.) and what I call "valid" code. Expecting a candidate to write the former without an editor and compiler is silly.

A good interviewer (and good hiring committee) wants to see that you can write "correct-ish" code: it looks like it would compile modulo a typo or niggling detail, but the algorithm, data structures, and control flow are clear and valid. A good interviewer will also tell you that up front, e.g. "I'm interested in your code, not your syntax". If they don't, ASK!

The problem is: not everyone is a good interviewer, and it's surprisingly hard to teach someone to BE a good interviewer.
Gotta agree.

Developers are motivated by per-DEVELOPER revenue...

not per-APP STORE revenue.

It's just crass selfishness... but there it is.
There's also absolutely no reason to force developers to use a particular brand of hardware or a particular operating system to develop for a particular phone.

Well, it costs money for Apple to support development on Windows and Linux platforms. Who's going to port Xcode and the simulator to run on those platforms? How many different types of Windows and Linux configurations are out there?
I take the term more to mean 'under-maintained code' than just old code.
It wasn't presented as breaking news. Salon is not the Associated Press, but a long form journalism publication. Also, if he never read Gatto, he still could have reached the same conclusion.
You might also be interested in the work of Dr. Mark Guzdial on the subject of introducing students to programming/computing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIkRUW6BEBc&list=WLF05B05A86...). Now, he argues that language doesn't matter, and that what's important is teaching concepts through engaging applications (more akin to the MIT approach, from what I can tell). Clearly, that approach has had pretty good success (perhaps more so that CM, it's hard to know).

However, it does not strike me that these two approaches should of necessity be in conflict. Why can't we use a good functional programming language (like Scheme, ML, or Haskell) to teach useful concepts through interesting applications while still leveraging those mathematical intuitions? I think we can. The idea of using a language with a functional core (e.g. Haskell, Clojure, Erlang, OCaml) has been gaining traction in the industry.
Good summary; thanks!
You don't need a exact parabola. You can get almost the same effect with a spherical mirror. Almost all the rays converge to the focus point, but there is some aberration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_aberration

The same effect is possible to obtain with a hyperbola. A "small" section of a hyperbola is very similar to a small section of a circle that is very similar to a small section of a parabola. With any similar curve you get a "focus" point. Some are better to concentrate the rays in a small area and produce more heating there.

They should have calculated where this point is and be sure that wherever the sun is, the point is allways bellow the earth surface, so they get a big lighted area in the floor. (Another possibility is to put the "focus" in the middle of the air and hope that no one notice the roasted birds.)
I'm Google
Not being able to offer the same discounted upgrade pricing to all our customers no matter where they purchased is obviously disappointing for us. But it just means we're back to the same state of affairs as I outlined in my original blog post from the launch of the Mac App Store:

http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/mac_app_store_or_omnis_o...

As I said in that original post:

"The Mac App Store is the most convenient way to buy our software, letting you purchase, download, and install our apps with just one step, and easily update our apps at the same time as you update other apps you've purchased from the the store.

"But to be clear, the Mac App Store is not the only way to buy our software: we'll continue to offer direct sales and updates through our own website as well. Through our website, we can offer much more flexible terms and options: trial and beta downloads, upgrade pricing, and discounts for volume, bundle, and educational purchases.

"No matter which way you buy our software, you'll be getting the same product: all of our Mac App Store apps are exactly the same as the apps we sell through our website (except for a few minor changes made to work with the store). We'll also keep future updates to our apps in sync—apps you've purchased directly through us will continue to update themselves as they always have, while App Store updates will appear on the App Store (after a slight delay due to the App Store's review process). And either way, you'll have the same great support from our team here at Omni."
I read that as:

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader! What
a great read!
I played with that platform a bit for its possible use in education. I was blown away by what it provided so many years back. SL I think is one of the best digital life environment still out there. What I would have hoped for is that there was a DL (Digital Life) along with SL (Second Life) where users would use their real names and real like avatars. Would have been lot more fun for teachers to be meeting their students and people meeting their friends in this environment knowing who they are. I think SL limited themselves by this little restriction.
I also keep my whole homedir in git, and it's great. My approach isn't to .gitignore, because I want to ignore almost everything -- I just add and commit things when I want to track them. One of my many git aliases[1] is 'git sn' for showing status without untracked files; this helps when dealing with my homedir:

status --short --branch --untracked=no

[1] https://github.com/cespare/dotfiles/blob/master/.gitconfig#L...
Cassandra exposes functionality similar to checkAndPut as Lightweight Transactions: www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in-cassandra-2-0
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This strikes me as odd. As a parent (dad) of two, I wouldn't ever dream of feeling odd about holding either of my kids' hands - or even for that matter chasing them down when they run away screaming (which happens often).

Just a counter data point here.
If the issue is as bad as the issue with the majority of homeschooling, then you sue the ever-loving fuck out of the school district: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School...

Oh, but you probably just mean that they don't have enough money for new microscopes... In that case @jeltz has your bases pretty well covered.
Perhaps. It's an interesting theory. I've seen it claimed in the past that Apple has given explicit permission to activate in app purchasable features through other means such as contacting a developer's server with an unlock code. I'm still leery of going through the effort to build and support a kludgy solution like that and still have the risk of Apple not approving of it.
To add a bit of context:

- The OpenStack project makes a major release every six months. The feature freeze for the next release (codename: Havana, scheduled to be GA mid-October) was 00:00 UTC this morning. As this commit has been approved prior to the cutoff, that means that (barring any serious problems it may unintentionally cause, which is unlikely as hypervisor drivers are isolated from one another) it will be included in the Havana release.

- It's probably more accurate to say that a new hypervisor driver has been added, rather than a new hypervisor. OpenStack is an orchestration layer that is used for allocating resources to users/projects (more in an excellent comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6330947) and has support for a number of hypervisor drivers, including the usual suspects (VMware, XenServer, and KVM) as well as non-hypervisors (baremetal and others). Docker, and the container technology upon which it is based, is not traditionally considered hypervisor virtualization.

- OpenStack has been evolving as a sort of "Linux of the Cloud", and as such, a number of "distributions" (for lack of a better / easier-to-understand term) have cropped up to make installing, setting up, and running an OpenStack-based cloud easier/manageable/supportable. Some distributions take a more free-form approach with respect to what they include. Others provide a single vertical stack which they support (e.g. KVM-only) and using a different hypervisor driver would either be unsupported or in some cases (and for reasons I won't get into) impossible.

- Running Docker on top of OpenStack / within OpenStack has been possible for as long as both platforms have co-existed, as OpenStack has always been capable of running Linux VMs and Docker has always been capable of running within Linux VMs. What this patch allows is for OpenStack to orchestrate Docker container provisioning, and take advantage of the not only the orchestration capabilities of OpenStack but also the client/API/library support.

I have no connection to the Docker project but I do applaud the Docker OpenStack team as getting a new hypervisor driver into OpenStack is no small feat!

EDIT: typo
> As far as I can determine in testing with Jepsen, there are no cases where one can safely (e.g. in a way which guarantees some causal connection of your write to a future state of the system) update a cell in Cassandra without a strong timestamp coordinator: either an external system like Zookeeper, or Cassandra 2.0 paxos transactions.

It depends on what you mean by "guarantees". In most real world systems, if you can actually have two concurrent writes to the same record, it is non-deterministic which write wins... which is precisely what happens in Cassandra if you have multiple concurrent writes to a cell without a strong timestamp coordinator.

There is a somewhat more complex case about scenarios where you have multiple cells tied to the same record being updated together, but even then it will look identical to if you allowed both writes to happen, but it was non-deterministic which one happened first.

While you can create an timestamp authority that arbitrates precisely what happens when, the reality is that if there wasn't an already observable mechanism for determining this, who is to say which one happened first?

Really, the only problem you run into is if there is atomic validation logic you need tied in to whether the updates happen at all, which is what Cassandra 2.0's lightweight transactions really address. Without them, you generally do need some kind of external authority or a "log concurrently and then resolve serially later" strategy. That sounds like a pain, but the latter in particular is again closer to how most of the real world operates (in particular, the world of financial transactions).
I thought the comment "x == 1 here" could use a little more explanation (I figured it out, though, so maybe not.) I also found the function signatures confusing, especially the function with a local variable q that is nothing to do with its returned value q -- seems like a bit of a wart in Go. (Being able to assign return values vs. using return, as in Pascal, seems like an obvious reason to declare return values this way. Perhaps this feature exists but is not explained.)
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I hope you haven't forgotten to see if ICE might work for you, before you go looking at these "new" things (Not assuming you haven't, but it seems ICE fell a little out of hype from the day protobuf launched. I'm not convinced that fall from hype was entirely justified):

https://bitbucket.org/arco_group/example.ice-websocket
also see GitMinutes #13: Richard Hartmann on Managing Your Homedir with vcsh:

http://episodes.gitminutes.com/2013/06/gitminutes-13-richard...

https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
>Ah. I've always wondered why people pay "starchitects" to design horrible, hideous, poorly designed buildings. I've always figured that they were paying more to get something of worse quality, but figured that people were paying the premium just to be in vogue.

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every 6 months" -- Oscar Wilde
> The school system teaches us first and foremost that it is the best education system.

Literally no one ever claimed that, or so much as implied that, a single year of my own public schooling. Or, for that matter, at my son's.

It's a good thing too, as it would have been obviously a flawed argument (we can't all be the "#1 School" so someone is not getting the best). Even the most clueless of administrators can figure out that the kids would figure that out.

Likewise I don't see PTA members going around with an agenda full of "NOTHING TO DO. THE SCHOOL IS PERFECT TODAY". So it seems to me that more than the libertarians and anarchists seem to agree that we don't yet have the best setup.

Don't get me wrong but I have to wonder where these strawmen come from. Surely there's enough actually wrong with public schooling today that we don't have to stoop to anthropomorphic analogies that are trivially provided counterexamples?

E.g. you could argue that public schools are probably bad for those who are talented but anti-authoritarian. I'm sure most of us could agree with that (even if we couldn't all think up proper solutions).
No, it's a very measured and pragmatic response. It even struck me as something an engineer would write.

You know the old joke about the engineer and the hot-air balloon?

http://www.poeticexpressions.co.uk/poems/Engineer%20v%20Mana...
One random idea that just hit me if you're thinking about RPC layers anyways. Make sure that Cap'n Proto plays well with 0MQ. They probably do already, but a published example or two demonstrating it would not be a bad thing.
Put the logo dispute aside, any great products from Yahoo delivered recently?

All I see is good & old ones get closed.

Heck, Yahoo China simply decided to close all together.

http://cn.yahoo.com
A ha! Ha ha! Aah…
Why would you throw out the new hires' interviews entirely at all? Why not use it, even if you give it a lower weight?
Companies redesign logos all the time and it's highly doubtful all of them have endless angst over representing the gestalt of their company values to their customers with it. This piece reeks of self-important design student.
In the southern hemisphere everything is upside down too, so the rays would reflect off into the atmosphere, I expect.
Even with "sneaking in a video camera," most outsiders are only allowed a view of North Korea that doesn't see the bad things. I know there are instances of people seeing parts of the country that aren't on the guided tour, but these are few and far-between, and usually don't include foreigners given free reign to wander over the country-side to see what they can see.
If you add more features, like store the settings in a sqlite, universal config r/w interface, and live config change notification to apps, you'll come up with a system like Registry.
I use a similar method, but structured around a single Makefile: https://github.com/staticshock/seashell

This lets me perform any necessary initialization (e.g. cloning submodules) via `make` and installing the actual symlinks into $HOME via `make install`.