skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was never a big fan of his writing or politics, but the original Harpoon computer game (based on the tabletop game he was partially responsible for) stands as one of the best computer wargames I've ever played.
If you can get the audio, he was actually interviewed about that on 9/12. It is the most bizarre interview with him sounding both scared and mad.
You think? Maybe I haven't been comparing to the right phones - but I'm extremely happy with mine!
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I wonder if epigenetics [1] can also explain some of what you're saying. Genes can be regulated in different ways - and that can explain differences in identical Twins.

[1] http://www.livescience.com/25431-gene-regulation-homosexuali...
I can't honestly speak to the quality of the ghost-written VC Andrews books, but the whole idea makes me feel icky.
Lumia 1020 so far has the best camera
"They've been doing it for year!"
I mean that I want to use Excel as a spreadsheet and use its contents to drive a D3 diagram without the current hassle of getting the data out of Excel into a format that D3 can read cleanly (and continuously - if I update the spreadsheet, the diagram should also update).
That's a rather unique feature of postgres though. Not even Oracle has DDL transactions.
I suppose it depends on your approach - my two cents - is your book . . .

a. geared toward programming / learning a language? I've been surprised, given the sparsity, the efficacy of a "showing-by-example" style of writing seen in the Apache Thrift documentation. K&R (to me) is decent for language acquisition, but even more useful as a quick "how did they do that again" refresher. I've found "Linux Kernel Development" (Love) as a very nice book blending concepts with programmatic examples. So the above is maybe a spectrum within this style of writing that I've found helpful.

b. a more "textbook" / algorithmic approach? I remember thinking "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" (Kurose, Ross) was one of the lighter texts that didn't necessarily feel "textbook." "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (Manning, Raghavan, Schutze) also comes to mind, but more academic.
New 'Tom Clancy' brand books will be released for the next 100 years.
I did also mean "get 'sploited" - in that when someone is used to running curls into elevated shells, they're more likely to accept this from random forum goers as a valid way to troubleshoot problems; not necessarily as a problem for this company.
A lot of rally around the flag was going on around that time.

There was also a lot of talking up the amazing organizational skills of the hijackers. Meanwhile I'm thinking, um, let me get this straight... the amazing skill some stuffed suit is referring to is ... buying airline tickets?

All part of the big lie security theater.
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Finding inner peace.
It's Red Storm Rising, and there was a board game. I dug out mine just the other day: http://imgur.com/KEh3Y95

I really loved the whole scenario. It's the only time I've read a book with a ton of characters, outside of LOTR, that I wasn't incredibly confused.
The worst thing is that I work in a bilingual office. Excel's export to CSV does not work as intended when you have more than one number format.
One of my all time favorite books. I'm not sure if the newer generations would appreciate the nature of this book as it basically takes place in the Cold War. Yet as a story it is one of the most comprehensive and riveting.
A very sad day. R.I.P ...
Could you clarify your maximum packets math? You may have left out a word or two.
I meant contractor. I think it's a european thing - most contractors here call themselves consultants.
A cease and desist letter is pretty meaningless in and of itself. Care to expand on the story?
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Do you factor in an increase of the price of your home when you sell it?
As the author of this post, I can tell you that many of the things I do day to day are not mentally challenging, but are still fun. Have you ever played any games in your life? Are they still fun when they aren't mentally challenging? Of course. If you enjoy something, then it will be fun whenever you do it. Not just cool problems or challenging ones, but all problems. The only part of my job that isn't fun is going to pointless meetings..but that is a crappy part of most corporate jobs.
Apparently I need to find some government institutions for clients.
How do I know if Lisa provided me with the correct amount of money in OKPay account before transaction?
Redhat's strategy is a bit more complex than that:

They only support the official Redhat release, but that contains Redhat's trademarks, which you are not free to copy/modify/etc... and indeed, you have to pay for the official release.

I think it ends up being that if you need the official Redhat, you pretty much have to buy it, and buy a long-term-ish support contract.

In any event, support is not a public good along the lines of software: it's very much rivalrous and excludable.
I think you may be reading more into that sentence than it says. While I don't doubt that there are programmers working 'late night, crazed, caffeine-fueled session' you're extrapolating well beyond what the author said. Do professionals work earlier or later to avoid disruptive times? Yes. My least productive period (for coding) is in the middle of the day (between 10am - 2pm). So, that is when I plan to do things that are not coding. I tend to come into work early for two reasons: (1) it makes my commute easier, and (2) I get most of my coding done before the majority of the people in the office come in. I don't think it is a controversial idea that software engineers tend to find they do their best work in quiet or low-distraction environments.

I have to confess, I do have the unusual habit of starting my day with a cup of coffee so maybe I am one of those caffiene-fueled crazies after all :)
It's a good time to be in the weather data and forecasting business. So much is possible now that was unthinkable just 5 years ago.
Tom Clancy, Best-Selling Novelist of Military Thrillers, Dies at 66
It's a shame. He was a smart detail man and he got the right balance of human interest and technical correctness in his novels.
I think everyone is over-thinking this: Delta probably received bids with some simple requirements (screen size, resolution, PDF/document capabilities, battery life, etc.)

Microsoft strikes discounted price deal coupling it as a marketing opportunity. Why WOULDN'T Delta use the Surface if they can get it for significantly cheaper than other alternatives, plus it still has the ability to be expanded in the future (automatically file syncing, user permissions, communication, etc.)
First I've heard of spiped/tarsnap, what makes it more secure?
Good post.

The original article (which this article addresses) falls straight out of the most entitled kind of thinking ("the world owes me a living I enjoy"). I'd go further: even if you don't enjoy programming, there are far more horrible ways to earn a far worse living, and plenty of people have little choice.

Yesterday, I ordered pizza which was delivered by a guy older than me (and I'm no spring chicken -- I learned programming on an HP calculator) who wasted ten minutes finding my apartment because the delivery instructions were so poorly printed as to be unreadable.
I have one and I'd definitely regard it as a terrible camera - particularly compared to my friend's iPhone photos.
That's the kind of stuff we need to make Bitcoin really take off.

I'm really looking forward to seeing more of this.
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MTurk + Google News API = press
I don't think I am ever qualified to write text book material. Bits of the book I suspect will be "How I got to this point in the code".

There will be a lot of show-by-example. I've written half a chapter so far and it does really feel like I'm just annotating my code, which isn't a good thing.
At the exact moment I read this headline, I was cropping a picture of Sam Fisher, one of Clancy's characters, for a fan website. (I'm a nerd, I know.) Terrible news. I'll definitely miss his knack for portraying action and suspense.
This is a Backend as a service for Content management. Its basically Salesforce for "Content Management", which isn't a bad idea. However, for my two cents: The documentation is lacking and as a potential customer I don't quite know enough information about the product to make an informed decision to say yes/no (on spending money on it). I had this same idea a while back (except not content, mainly blogging as a hosted web service), and didn't chose to pursue it. I do believe that there may be a market, and god knows word press can use some competition. God speed and good luck! Oh and just at a final glance, the API Documentation can be cleaner.
6% is also false.

There is a word for market share without profits. Failure.

Value is measured in money. Apple creates 45% of the value in the PC industry.
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In Ontario you get 39.6c per kWh fed into the grid, down from 54.9c per kWh last year. Worth noting that when you hook in and sign up, your rate is guaranteed for, I believe, 25 years (meaning reductions, which are surely going to continue, impact new builds). It is completely unsustainable and is not rational pricing, but instead is built around the notion of bootstrapping the industry through subsidies, and it does seem to be working -- solar panels are getting more efficient and less expensive as a result of programs like this, which would never have happened had they been left to their own merits.

I should add that the Ontario program also demands a percentage of domestic content of installs as well, again trying to bootstrap a domestic industry rather than simply benefiting foreign manufacturers. As a result various solar manufacturing businesses have arisen here.
That doesn't factor in numerous externalities such as healthcare costs due to emphysema and other diseases caused by coal smoke, ocean acidification killing fisheries, rising sea levels displacing seaside residents...
You're right. I looked a little more on their site and found:

The policies are reinsured by Swiss RE Corporate Solutions Ltd which also has an A.M. Best rating of "A+" (Superior).

It looks like Swiss Re has a pretty significant global crop insurance business.

http://www.swissre.com/reinsurance/insurers/agriculture/

edit: I'm still a little confused though. What is the point of developing their own sophisticated risk model when the price of the policy will ultimately depend on Swiss Re's risk model?
Don't know the relation, but I've heard https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Ripple is catching on as a p2p bitcoin exchange.
Well for legal reasons, many of them do claim to charge money for the greeting and chatting, and whatever two consenting adults happen to do after that is their own business.

It's true that they probably couldn't charge for the greet and chat if it weren't for what they do for "free." It's also true that Mike Perham probably couldn't charge for his commercial work, if not for what he did for free.

Admittedly this is a rather loose analogy.
Centerpoint has some overall price data they monitor at http://www.mytruecost.com, though at present it doesn't include distinctions between electricity sources. I submitted some feedback via their contact form suggesting they should put some data together.
The question is how you would get a single allele that gets you from lower apes to fully sapient humans in one mutation, in one individual, that also protects against something which killed off everyone else.
What 25 year old developers hasn't learned frameworks like django, rails, Java EE, iOS, node.js etc. I know fair few frameworks, some more than others.

The majority of university courses teach you compilers(Parsing, Multi-pass optimisation, machine code output) and ML. I've built a fair few compilers in spare time, and I'm in no way special within my peers. Sure the stuff you learn probably isn't leading edge in terms of research, but unless you take a second job reading research papers, it isn't going to happen for most software developers.

The most enjoyable part of job is probably introducing better software processes, but once it is set up well, I get bored again.
This is a great answer!

Although I personally believe that with present-day framework performance spanning multiple orders of magnitude, the lower-performance frameworks have a substantial amount of ground to cover before I personally would consider using them. Higher-performance frameworks have, for my use-cases and in my opinion, reached or nearly reached parity in developer efficiency while providing significant pain-reduction on the performance and scale side. In other words, why not enjoy both performance and efficiency?

That said, everything is evolving, so whatever we see today is subject to change. As you said, our answers to this question will be a matter of opinion and belief about what will happen in the future.

Looking forward with only the context of today's technologies, I personally believe that WebSocket and the various protocols built on top of it may eventually supersede the conventional HTTP request-response conversation. To me, this would mean simpler and more direct communication between client and server, putting the two on equal footing with respect to the conversation semantics (the server can take the lead, for example). It's something I have been wanting ever since I replaced an old client-server app with a web application in the late 1990s with a boggled sense of "Why am I shoehorning an application on top of this hypertext document fetching protocol?"

So when building an application today, I like selecting platforms and frameworks that have natively implemented WebSocket.

But echoing your point again, it's impossible to know what else will come up in a few years' time. Unless your system needs to survive for a very long time, technology is too unpredictable to expend that much worry on the long-term future.
Paper is not clear on how their scripts work because they don't show exact scripts per output.

Meanwhile, using bilateral deposits you can insure any sorts of contracts, not just currency exchange. In my scheme scripts are symmetrical:
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/58240549599/contracts-without-...

The coolest part is when this sort of thing is used in autonomous programs that randomly connect to each other and establish contracts. In such case there's no place for extortion - there's no human to negotiate with. Based on this idea you can build never-seen before networking protocols. For instance, a micropayment network that propagates IOUs from peer to peer where each pair of peers is mutually insured to repay all accumulated debt when it reaches 50% of insured amount. It'll be like a global distributed clearing house with as little fees as humanly possible (and instant confirmations!).
I agree, I wrote this to just to show that there are still people who enjoy their work and think that it is a great profession.
This is at least one of the studies I've heard of: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6872627
Our new employee works 4 days a week, for a 32 hours / week contract.
I think it shouldn't be too difficult to find a company that accepts that.

The more difficult part is the "3 days at 10 hours", IMHO.
That sounds quite difficult to achieve on top of the 4 days a week thingy.
It helps if you have something good....
I think it is worth mentioning that Monsanto is a general technology company, which includes the seed technology you mention, but they are also involved in research and advancement elsewhere, like in precision farming. Weather forecasting technology ties into a lot of areas of their business.
Bullshit. The "We don't need offices" cheerleaders are always upper management--WHO HAVE OFFICES.
That depends on how you define "sustainable". So far, a perhaps pessimistic assessment of sustainable energy is that it's driving up energy costs, while reducing the increase of CO2 emissions by only a very small amount. It's increasing fuel poverty and deaths from cold weather events, and ultimately it will drive business out of the countries that are building sustainable energy into countries that have cheap energy, by making business uncompetitive. Then, people will buy products from the cheap energy countries that are emitting CO2 (although they'll be poorer, so perhaps they'll buy less).
This is great step for allowing more user control / detection over sound within Firefox.

I recently open sourced MuteTab (http://www.github.com/jaredsohn/mutetab). If MuteTab were to also work on Firefox (it builds with OpenForge right now), it should be possible to get audio indicators working within Firefox, at least for HTML5 audio/video and for Flash that is supported by Shumway.

Although perhaps a native implementation of what I just described is in the works.
It's smaller on browsers running this implementation of Flash but you're dealing with browsers running the real Flash runtime AND this new implementation, which may expose bugs you are not otherwise exposed to.

Let's suppose you're an ad network and you don't want to mistakenly inject malware into other websites because that would be bad. Now you need to think of a whole bunch of new cases. E.g. you might have carefully sanitized all the JPEGs on your site, but not the ones embedded in SWFs. This is merely an example.

Would it be a Good Thing if every copy of the Flash runtime magically disappeared and got replaced with this thing? Maybe. But as it is, life just got more, not less, complicated.
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I get the a similar bug where the cursor gets mangled when swapping monitors on Windows also.
I believe xbryanx was referring to the externalities (ie the costs arising from pollution, global warming, etc that traditionally go unpaid by the producer) rather than just the financial cost of producing the power.
I too am a frustrated Verizon + Galaxy Nexus user, but I'll be leaving them in December when my contract is up. They have handled their Android line terribly, and I can't blame Google for not wanting to deal with them. I STILL haven't got Android 4.3 on this "flagship" device, and it's their fault. I can't uninstall their bloatware without rooting, either.

Net 10, Straight Talk, and a few others are what I'm looking at now. Going to save a ton of money and get a better device with comparable service.
Hey Patrick!

Just wanted to say I love following your blog - And this is definitely something that's been engrained in my mind after reading it, and I'm glad you've reiterated here.

If anyone would like to follow him - here's a link to an arbitrary archived newsletter that he's published where you can sign up: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/sources_o...
The biggest problem is that job descriptions sound like they were written by HR. Sometimes there are numerous qualifications listed which are unnecessary for the position.
Good question! OKPay has an API so we check if the correct amount has been transferred to your OKPay's account. If that happens you sign the transaction and the exchange happens
because OKPay and payments processors proposed, provide an API.
I'd assume "business as usual"; preparing a publication like this takes far, far longer than the time delta to nVidia's announcement allows for.
How do you expect the phone to distinguish between "password entered 10 times incorrectly by asshole" and "password entered 10 times incorrectly by thief"?

If this is a problem with your circle of friends: find new friends, or disable this feature.
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Ripple is based on social networks, in many countries these socialnetworks are prohibited as China, etc. Also, PAUV don't have a external dependencies.
But just because you hate your job is no reason to damn an entire profession.
The query in question is an UPDATE mytable SET flag=1 WHERE ID IN(...) statement. I'm assuming that another system was in the middle of a performing a SELECT statement on the flag column.

In this particular case it's perfectly ok for the select statement to get slightly incomplete data (e.g. returning a record with a flag that might have just been changed), so it would be nice if I could configure the table so that select statements never lock. Is it possible to do something like that?
The author believes that brains can't comprehend an unfilled shape as a shape, and instead must effectively parse it from individual lines every time. Is it possible his brain is the problem? That is, is there some subset of people who actually do find it difficult to see unfilled images as shapes?
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I find this article bit too skeptical. Solar panels improved a lot in recent years, and you can break even with investment even in UK without subsidies.

My friend in Czech Republic is a software developer. He works from home and his house is not connected to grid. He has 12-volt house grid with dozen car batteries. His office has 2 LED screens. Everything is powered by solar energy, except once a week he runs a generator for one hour to do a laundry. Heating and cooking is done by solid fuels and gas. Investment into solar panels and grid was about 6000 euro.
some of the in demand skills? Such as?

Mobile Development Skills? I know that. The majority apps are boring though, interfacing with a web service, saving and displaying data etc.

Web Devs Skills? I know Django the best, but again 99% of people using web frameworks are just doing the normal inputting and outputting data out of a database routine.

ML? I know that, but most companies only hire serious academic researchers, or people with previous experience of it. I have MSc in CS with quite a lot ML in it, but most are looking Ph.Ds;

Compilers? I've built a few prototypes. But very few companies actually need this.
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I think it makes a ton of sense. Steam targeted Ubuntu from the beginning.

But even if they are working with Ubuntu for some of the reasons you mentioned, that doesn't mean that they have to go with Mir. You could install Mir for any distribution. You could install Wayland on any distribution. You could just keep going with X because at least it's stable and people know about it.
I've come across ShipBuilder before and I think it's great. Cloud 66 actually provisions and deploys the apps to your own servers, so I guess that should tick the box!
>Although this is true, I believe HN has two audiences: the startup people and tech people.

That's fair. I have this romantic view that there's a brand of ethical/hacker startup, but that's, of course, without data to back up that not everything goes to shit when you have demands for meteoric growth.
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Wrong. Google scams the mail of people who have never signed up for anything. Also, the judge has already given to the opinion that even GMail users do not give consent for google to scanning the contents of their email.

Most advertising does not involve a company reading your email. The fact that gmail is funded by advertising doesn't mean people know their email is being read.
The camera on the Galaxy Nexus was pretty awful, too. It is particularly bad in indoor environments (gets very grainy without the flash, gets super washed out with flash).

I'm embarrassed to post photos sometimes because of the bad quality.
Yup, I agree. Routine is key and I personally like having a large part of that routine set in the night.