skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And by that time, if you're right and people actually jump ship, they'll be using something else (either Windows 7 or Linux IMO) and will demand that at their company.

So, Microsoft is taking enormous risks in all the markets: mobile, desktop, consoles... Well, they still have Office going well I suppose. For now.
I expect it is something to do with the fact that Percona targets small and mid-size companies who want a complete package with support but have no interest in doing their own MySQL development. But MariaDB is more open and hacker friendly. This is good for Google because they like to adapt tools to their own environment and MariaDB is more like a box of db tools in evolution.
...and for Scala: https://github.com/epfl-lara/ScalaZ3 (/ shameless plug).
I'm not convinced of that at all. "One or two volumes is all it takes, since it's all pretty much the same."

Ah, so much time wasted on my English Ph.D. (studying under Richard Rorty, at one point, starting the year before this was written). Could have just read Culler (which, actually, I did), instead of the entire tradition of continental philosophy going back to Kant.

I've also read Gödel, by the way. But really, that was all I had to do -- mathematics is all the same shit anyway.

I'm an English professor who occasionally teaches in the CS department. I am fully capable of detailing the absurdities in computer science (as well as great virtues).

Forgive the vent (which isn't directed at you); the article irritated the hell out of me. I have to say I expected a lot of "Yeah, literary study is garbage" in this thread. I was pleasantly surprised to see so much thoughtful engagement.
Well, until one side voluntarily disarms. Then MAD no longer exists, and whoever is left with nuclear weapons can dictate terms.
I didn't read the article as making a judgement on whether nuclear weapons are good/bad, but since you asked...

At least one study claims a conflict with few as 100 detonations could result in enough fallout to trigger a 10-year global famine:

http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/nuclear/
You mean that East India Company trading post? It's an ex-colony that has been run by the same dictatorship since independence.
Not that I'm a criminal, but I don't use Twitter. I made a couple of accounts, but never used them. (forgot credentials for the first account due to lack of interest - the second has been idling for months)

So, the "cops" aren't really watching my "tweets in real-time."
Andy was the man at Stanford...and I'm guessing this is his attempt to prove that he doesn't need the "Stanford brand" to work his career advising magic. Will be interesting to see if other schools follow Wake's lead here and adopt a more b-schooly approach to career services (for better or for worse).
Bigtime. Summers is a key proponent of the financial practices that led to the 2007 financial crisis.

>Summers oversaw passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed Glass-Steagall ... He then oversaw passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which banned all regulation of derivatives

http://chronicle.com/article/Larry-Summersthe/124790/
Inspecting the elements in chrome wont let me open the any of the code. Once you get past the body tags the <pre> tags just keep on flashing.
Kudos, this is amazing.
Let me play devil's advocate: as a citizen of the USA, who assumes the NSA has good intent to protect me and my fellow citizens, why should I make the NSA's work harder for it? Shouldn't I be helping it? If not, should I also retrofit my home to be SWAT-assault proof? Should I also refuse to cooperate with the local police in their investigations because one time I saw a cop run a red light illegally?

In practical terms, how can the NSA classify your traffic as that of a US citizen and discard it if they can't read it?
A lot of SK's economic growth was the result of supplying goods to the US military post-Korean War. And the US military did plenty of slaughtering, such as in Vietnam. The South Korean military also played a not-insignificant role in that clusterfuck.
I do find it odd that when BSD people talk about the BSD license, they describe it as pragmatism winning over idealism. However, when they talk about the BSD OS's, suddenly that pragmatism disappear and everything need to be pure permissive licensed.

Is both "camps" just similar fanatic regarding licensing, similar pragmatic, or is it a natural distinct difference when talking about licenses, and when picking software licensed under one of the two types?
"He appears to think this is possible;"

I think you have completely misunderstood him. He is arguing against the fact this is possible. The whole point of the article is that there is no redemptive truth at all. The whole point of promoting the literary over the philosophic is to remove our need for redemptive truth. He argues that philosophy (and science) suffer the same mistake as religion in that they believe they are searching for Truth. Literature doesn't suffer from that mistake.

Perhaps you only read the first 2 or 3 pages?
Giving to Get Ahead
They were actually fairly stable when the US invaded
Go to the Sources tab and click the || button to pause javascript. If you're wondering where the code is, just curl the URL :) (or, with Web Inspector open, refresh the page, go to the Network tab and select the only request.
Hmm, that one says, "Copyright(C).Yusuke Endoh, 2010"

The author of this one apparently forgot to give credit.
Most people would agree that practice makes perfect, right? I think a big issue with software estimation is that it is hard to get practice. I'd done full project estimates for 4-6 projects in 3 years of working professionally. Compared to the amount of practice I have writing code, this is nothing. How can I ever hope to get good at something if I only do it once every 3-6 months and it might take 2 years to get feedback on if my final number was close to the actual cost? And unlike other skills, I can't practice on my own or take a course (I've never seen an open source project that did round-trip estimates, maybe that's something to try out...)

Another issue is when you have an "indirect estimate" - basically I will estimate the work, but someone else is the one that ends up doing the project. If you aren't careful to consider who will be doing the work, you might estimate too low (if you are an expert and the work is done by a bunch of new hires).

And none of this even touches on misinterpreting client demands, scope creep, dev team turn-over, or often neglected timesinks like documentation and meetings.
Does Palantir use Voodoo magic to recruit?
I cannot understand how Palantir recruits so well.
Yes, there mission statement is interesting, but can we just focus on how the hell they get people to come over from a monetary standpoint.

I am a recent grad who has said no to Palantir because they don't really offer competitive salaries compared to other companies in the area, i.e. (Survey monkey, Cloudera, Box, LinkedIn etc...).

It's pretty standard to make 120K starting, but at Palantir that is around your salary cap. People talk about attractive stock options, but EVERY PLACE HAS AROUND THE SAME OPTIONS! And if they are providing people with more and more options wont it eventually be diluted?

Can we please refrain from any of the hyper cliche "people work there to change the world?" I want to know how Palantir has become one of the most thought after jobs by students with CS degrees who are soley concerned with there careers. I often hear the argument that "having Palantir on your resume will go a far way," but is that saying that working at any of the other big data gods (Cloudera, Splunk, Sumo Logic, Tableau) won't?

I need to know whats going on around here, because the fact of the matter is, they recruit very very well. I need to know the voodoo, how do they get people to believe "if I work here I am going to be rich".

PLEASE NO STUPID "PEOPLE HERE ARE CHANGING THE WORLD" COMMENTS.
I think LaTeX is overprescribed.

I think it's underprescribed.

I've only just started using it (I've been aware of it and taken peaks from time to time). For both my own authoring and for marking up content from elsewhere (HTML or text dumps) it's quick, easy, and convenient. Some works take a while (lots of formatting and footnotes), others largely require only slapping on a prefix, an "\end{document}" at the end, and chapter headings.

Among the best aspects: once you've got marked-up Tex format, you can publish to pretty much any format you wish. The source can be managed under source control, you're free to use any editor you wish. Autoload / autobuild features make tracking minor tweaks easy (as others have noted, the evince PDF viewer will reload a file on change).

Styles can be modified. That's the brilliance of LaTeX. Write your text. Worry about the presentation side later. And the default styles _are_ good. Better by far than much of what goes on the Web these days.

And if you absolutely must, it's still possible to go to a specific layout tool to get pixel-perfect output.
Wow, great guide to some seemingly awesome tools I didn't know until now.

I love posts like this, well written and easy to understand. This show that finding vulnerabilities is not magic for some ubergeeks but straightforward analysis with a bit of trial and error.
Simple way to start development with Flask using Vagrant
Bootstrap Flask development environment using Vagrant and Chef. Setup development and production environment using the same recipes.
If this article is slanted, it's because reality has a bias, not MIT.
I made 130,000 lines in ten years. In the last 3-4 years, I've been idle, mostly, but for the first 7 years, I worked long hours.

It isn't very difficult code, but simplicity is genius.

God says...
Gift falsely OF Blessedness pardon_the_french belly assiduously
You can deduce the source of the fissionables and the design of the weapon by analyzing the isotopes left over.
Most out-of-court settlements entail non-disclosure and non-disparagement. It's fairly standard.
> Most experts believe that warming of less than 2 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels will result in no net economic and ecological damage. Therefore, the new report is effectively saying (based on the middle of the range of the IPCC's emissions scenarios) that there is a better than 50-50 chance that by 2083, the benefits of climate change will still outweigh the harm.

He caused a bank run, which is all about balancing predictions with risks. It's all about evaluating economic impacts. He is entirely unqualified to make the statement above from that single data point alone.

About the hasty generalisation, I didn't mean to indicate that these would be the effects across the world, and I though that much was obvious. Most of the world doesn't even have coral reefs, for example. It's just that a global perspective might be in order, and most people here aren't likely to live in Queensland.
Feedspot RSS reader spams contact list with invites
Recently tried out Feedspot, a thoroughly unremarkable RSS reader. Logged in with Google account, and the service appears now to have emailed a bunch of (but apparently not all) my contacts with an invite email, without permission:

http://i.imgur.com/qiIlovw.png

Just thought I'd warn everyone. There's also no way to remove your account (although I've contacted them asking them to do so). Stay away from this one.
I'd love to hear from people who've managed to do this

Anecdotes about how "hardcore" people are in this regard usually wind up being worthless. 9 times out of 10, when I ask someone about an "all-nighter" they just pulled, it turns out they actually stayed up until 4:30 and slept until 9.

I expect most people who talk about how they can stay locked in the zone for 8 hours, in reality take breaks for coffee, browse the internet, and break for lunch.

(There's nothing wrong with taking breaks!)
Ask HN: Very strange favicon on Gmail. Has anyone seen this?
I don't know when I first noticed this but on gmail, the favicon displayed is different for my account but not anyone else's that I've talked to. It's a round flower with a yellow symbol in the middle that looks like the end of a crescent wrench.

Here's a link to it:

http://imgur.com/MlcXQRX

When I search for it on Google Image search, I can only find 8 results for it, all on Chinese sites.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/oj99epk
(with preview link so people can see the full google search url before navigating to that link)

Has anyone else seen this or at least know what the symbol is? I don't recognize it at all.
Link in text doesn't work, forgot about that - here's a clickable one.

http://i.imgur.com/qiIlovw.png
Hi all,
Randolunch finds random restaurants for you to try based on your location. I'm a .NET dev, but I began learning Rails a few months ago and this is my first Rails site, so I'd love to hear any feedback. Thanks!
The license is a non-commercial one, which makes it impractical for many use cases. Could be why it hasn't been ported yet (I might have done so myself, had the license been otherwise).
+1. If you just replace "smaller" with "less armed", you get the history of most Sub-Saharan African countries in a nutshell. Unfortunately the schools there still teach more history about medieval Europe than post-colonial Africa.
eric schlosser is an historian. not that i think it is a good idea to maintain our nuclear arsenal, but i think an historian's opinion here is ... well, a bit out of line?
He asks us to question not whether something is an X or a Y, but rather to get "meta" and start examining what makes it possible for us to go through life assigning things too ontological categories (X or Y) in the first place. Because the mechanism of ontology -- that everything has a "being", that it "is" something -- is not a given

This is exactly where anyone coming to Heidegger for the first time ought to start. Unfortunately, for many people it's also infuriatingly difficult to unpack, due to Heidegger's style. For example:

"The discussion of Being as just that -- Being -- still speaks an inadequate language, insofar as, in our perpetual references to Being itself, it is addressed with a name that continues to talk past Being as such. In making this remark, we are voicing the assumption that Being -- thought as such -- can no longer be called 'Being.' Being as such is other than itself, so decisively other that it even 'is' not."

This obscure ditty[1] is from Nietzsche, Vol. IV. The key, as you point out, is to focus on the 'is' and, equally importantly, the 'as'. Replace "Being" with "the hammer" or some other object and things start to clear up, at least a little bit. The insight is that that thing in the carpenter's hand exists 'as' a hammer (for the carpenter, for you, for me), but it 'is' not a hammer; the 'is' of a thing is simply an 'as', a way of being in a world. A world or a way of being in it can change, and then the hammer 'is' something else.

A seemingly small insight, to be sure, but it's Heidegger's point of departure, and has a wide range of practical applications in later thinkers, even ones working on the sciences (e.g. Bruno Latour and others doing "sociology of science"). Deconstruction -- destruktion is Heidegger's word -- is on balance the practice of resisting what is given, of not falling "into the grip of ideas already decided beforehand"[2]. The clearest statement of this idea in Being and Time is I think in §32, which starts on H149. This is the starting line for basically all contemporary theories of interpretation, from Gadamer to Ronald Dworkin.

1. Of course there are reasons for Heidegger's writing the way he does. Whether or not they're good ones is a whole 'nother discussion.

2. "Language", from Poetry, Language, Thought.
The fact is that he is still with that company, so he obviously was a good fit. So it is the interviewer who didn't have a caliber to do his job - determine if the person was a good fit.
God's favorite animals are bears, then, elephants.

You wanna ask Him about T-rex?

Let's see, was T-rex smarter than my birds?

God says...
talk propoundest na_na Panama driven Upon BUT demands agree
lifts silly_human called Swaziland Saudi_Arabia seats
Pylades deceits billion gardens December earth vouchsafest
sweetlyvain sharpsighted happier self-will festival-food
singular shining confessing neglecteth intelligence IT
donation recollected imaginary weight Midnight faithfully
apprehension enjoinest results Kazakhstan ensnared I'm_busy
centre healing Boo deceiving chaste Essence care
They're not prohibiting teaching. They're setting the terms under which you can copy their bits.
List Building Essentials
Italy is corrupt and has serious economic issues. It's probably a nice place to live otherwise though, I guess they "just" need to completely replace their government.
I really like this. I live in the country and I'm currently in a 2400 square foot house but I want to downsize. I could see having one of these as well as something else like a shipping container or Quonset hut (I live in a hurricane area so I'd need to have something I could ride one out in if necessary -- though I wonder if your design would have similar functionality to the geodesic radar domes in the far north). Do you have more pictures from when you constructed it? I'd like to see the individual shapes comprised of the corrugated polystyrene and foam insulation and a close up of how the bolts work. Where did you buy the large pieces of polystyrene? I have similar motivations as you, I want to live cheaply and learn new programming.
If you look closely you'll see that there's a parallax effect, where the lines near the equator move faster than the lines at the top, giving it a sense of depth and motion that you wouldn't expect from any ASCII art animation.

This was brilliant, just absolutely fantastic.
Startup Accelerators Are The New MBA
Doesn't look like the code is that similar. Doesn't look like copyright has anything to do with it. Does Endoh have a patent? That would of course be a different matter.
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Another way of saying this: When it rains, it pours.

And of course this is true. For any given node in an example network, the number of incoming links to it is the same as the number of people who have already 'vouched' for that person. Obviously, more links are given to those who already have higher credibility in virtue of being vouched for. In a social network this is true and in an economy this is true. The more incoming links you have, the stronger your 'brand,' the more incoming links you have.

More than just a currency, what BitCoin offers is the most complete data on any economy. In no other economy is a complete record of every transaction, and every amount of every transaction, available. I wouldn't be surprised if BitCoin's economy becomes an extremely popular laboratory for academic economists to study actual, real-life economic effects with great precision.
> If you know C++ you will have no problem accommodating with C if it better fits your need.

While I understand what you mean, the two are completely different. The lack of OOP in C means that you have to have a different set of programming methodologies to accomplish what you would have done with classes. So, while knowing C++ helps, it isnt the same as if your 'main' language were C.

Furthermore, one of C's strengths is it predictability. The way that is accomplished in C is different than C++.
Two problems with that:

1 Monitors vary greatly in their color intensity.
2 For emissive rather than reflective displays (that is, monitors rather than paper), increasing ambient light decreases contrast. I've found a huge number of websites are very unreadable not only on mobile devices (which tend to get used out-of-doors) but on desktop and laptop screens if there's a high level of indoor lighting. Worse if there's low-angle early-morning or late-afternoon sun.
I don't bother with backups on Windows or Mac since I made the wise decision to backup every computer, Mac or PC using Crashplan to NAS and cloud.

I would have once been mad with this Microsoft feature removal. However, I've come to realize than neither Microsoft's or Apple's backup solutions satisfactory for my needs. Time machine is arguably better... until it decides to stop working. Since I've been on CrahPlan, no problems on any computer. I've had one laptop that shorted since then and it was easy enough to recover my files.
'Deep Web' likely refers to their access to the entire Twitter stream, though it's far too buzzword-y.

With that said, there can be huge value in aggregating and correlating all social media commentary occurring in a specific area and around a set group of subjects. The bad guys will seldom reveal their activities on Twitter or Facebook but what others nearby are saying can help track them down.

Just to give an example in another sphere, social media analysis was very useful in tracking M23's mortar and rocket attacks on Goma during the recent flare-up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along with judging the success of the FARDC and United Nations Force Intervention Brigade counter-offensive.

It will always be limited of course, in no small part because very few people enable geolocation on their tweets and social media posts will never provide a complete picture of an event. But used smartly it does have some value.
I saw something similar in perl years ago. I can't seem to locate it now though so maybe I'm imagining things.
This article is really hilarilous and so so true. I changed from English to Biology when I took a Lit Theory class and they were talking about Freud's theories like they were fact and I was like this is literally one of the most rediculous things I've ever heard. It's like the guy was high on cocaine or something.
Faster JavaScript through Category Theory
Why are we presupposing the market economy to be free of human behavior in any case? In practical terms a market economy will always be involved with human behavior... because it's a market where all parties involved are human.
Inversely, there is a tool for writing iOS apps in Objective-C and then porting it to native Android :

http://www.apportable.com/

There are also dozens of tools for developing native apps in many platforms with HTML5/JavaScript, most notably Titanium : http://www.appcelerator.com/platform/titanium-platform/.
The "cops" likely don't monitor all services you don't use...b/c you aren't using them
Thanks for your question. I grant you, it could mean that the strategic thinking of the strategist is still immature. But in context I don't think it does.

Musashi lays great weight on developing keen perception of the moment and its potential. When he says _nama_ 生 'unripe' strategy, I understand him to mean strategy that is settled before conditions have ripened. That's comparable to Knuth's remark about optimizing code. I don't think Musashi means that the strategist is too inexperienced.

Although there is a vein in East Asian military theory about wizard-like long-range anticipation of strategic conditions, Musashi doesn't indulge in that.