skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On reflection, maybe I got confused with the number of days you can go without water (also 7, at least according to my memory). I stayed awake for 5 days once and there was only a bare minimum of hallucination at the end. I could have stayed awake longer, it wasn't really hard by that point. The people I've known who stayed up forever on crystal meth typically started hallucinating after a week. I'm surprised that the limit is so much shorter, but I'll believe it, thanks for the link.
Dijit/NextGuide Gives TV Networks a Reminder Widget
...or you could call it 14.04 (and Android 2.3, 4.1 etc etc) if you don't like easy to remember words. Let's face it 'Mavericks' and 'Blue' aren't much better.
I know I can google it, but is there a particular link you recommend to read up on it?
The lack of imagination here is just staggering. Holy cow. I mean first and foremost you're just getting a link to this directly, who's to say he doesn't also have a RESUME.DOC file that he sends out, including a link to this page?

Beyond that, I feel like this guy just might be looking for companies that are willing to take 60 seconds out of looking through a stack of nearly-identical paper resumes to indulge something a bit different. Maybe this is his way of filtering out companies who would "skip this applicant" because he didn't send in a .pdf resume with a list of buzzwords. And of course this isn't the simplest way to get across the information in a resume... that would just be a well-designed text resume. He's trying to flex his skills and show you what he's capable of, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that he understands that this is not the single most efficient way to get that information across.
Would you still be holding onto those shares at this point? I would hope so but perhaps many sold earlier.
At least you have hangouts. </wp>
I think it's a second-order, behavior-finance oriented line of thinking. I know that stock price is basically arbitrary and market cap is a much better measure of value. (And arguably, earnings and growth rate are even better than market cap.) However, I also know that many people consider $1000/share to be an important psychological milestone, and that it will command news headlines when the stock makes it. And so, understanding that the stock market is to some extent a beauty contest and other peoples' perception of a stock's momentum influences the stock price, it's rational for me to believe that when it hits $1000 it will go up, at least in the short term. It's also rational for me to feed into and cheerlead that perspective, because as a Google shareholder, I benefit when other people believe Google stock is going up.
I'm failing to see the utility of hstore or json over adding nullable columns here, especially if the latest version makes adding a nullable column essentially instantaneous. It doesn't seem to simplifying the handling of missing/unavailable data, but does manage to complicate the SQL syntax.

I have clients that use a variety of databases for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is "just because that is where our data is." All the value of most projects is in the data, and the value of data grows with age, because you cannot recreate the past. If you lose something or you fail to record something, then you can't ever get it back in a way that will stand up to audit scrutiny. This has the awful effect of making technology-specific details of databases get pushed into the business-decision realm, rather than the technology-decision realm.

So complicating the SQL syntax is a significant issue for me. Sticking to as much standard, ANSI SQL as possible makes my programs more portable across RDBMSes. With some of the tools I've written, I can make a full transition from MySQL to MS SQL Server and back again and the application doesn't care. Having that sort of power makes upgrading your database a technology decision, not a business one.

Yes, the features that Postgres have are nice, but to me they represent a very great chance of vendor lockin. I don't believe that the Postgres team will ever pull anything to make me hate them, but then I thought the same about Sun at one point, too.
Elon Musk buys 007's underwater car, and wants to make it work
Yeah there is so much entertainment around these days that we really do not need friends anymore to just hang around and waste time.
interestingly of all developed countries only the US and Denmark of all places have a debt ceiling.
I would like to think that its overwhelmingly due to #2. It's a really articulate, I-know-what-the-fuck-I'm-talking-about explanation of a huge problem and market. Rest is icing IMO
Same thing happened to me in September. Fortunately I had backups so no data was lost but I was out a computer for a week and had to shell out $300 for the repair.

I spoke to Apple this morning and they issued a full refund.
You can watch many shows for $1.99 on Amazon right after they air.
"Tired of people stealing your content? Looking to make copying HTML text a huge pain for your users? Sick and tired of useful, well-made Python scripts?"

I can imply your message, but without saying it, it's not a message! You just offered a tool that some ass-hats can use to obfuscate their blog. However I don't fear this, because people know to avoid shit and avoided DRM too. Not because people care about privacy (see Facebook), but because people hate getting limited in their abilities on a free and living medium
Drop images from your email. Now.
Especially when the can kickers are being prodded along by the biggest armed force in the world.
> I am more infuriated by the idea that if women are underrepresented in technical fields, it must be the fault of the men in those technical fields.

Who's saying that?

> If we want to actually solve this problem, we need to go all the way to the beginning: middle school, where girls mysteriously start losing interest in technical fields.

What do you mean by "go to middle school" - who do you suggest should take what action in that particular venue?

> mysteriously

What's mysterious about it? What expectations do you have that this observation runs counter to? What needs to be changed in our mental model of this system, so that instead of this being a mystery it becomes a predictable of the system's properties? (At which point we can start asking "how to change the system so that we get different outcomes".)

(This is me being curious, not Socratic, BTW.)
Lots of human groups are underrepresented in technology (africans, older people, latinos etc). Why are feminists the only ones that always make it to the frontpage (even superficial pieces like this one)?
So what happens after when they reach Z?
Yes you are probably right. I really like Postgres, the attitude (reliability, standards etc.), the documentation, basically everything and don't want it to change too much.
This is a slight tangent because it is about mechanical computational skills rather than formulas, but the idea is the same.

I am currently teaching a bunch of very bright graduate students from a number of countries. On the most recent midterm, students from countries that force people to learn to compute and learn some formulas finished in an hour, while US students and some others took two. US students in particular were caught up on figuring out the solution to x+y+z=1, x=y+z, y=4z. Just impossible.

US students in my class are wasting time on mechanical calculations rather than understanding the meanings of the theorems they illustrate, because they have weak computational skills. I can't write problems that are computationally easy enough. They are unable to apply their much-vaunted "creativity" and "critical thinking" because even once they Google a formula they can't carry out meaningful work with it.

I can Google how to use a hammer and a table saw, but I'll produce a crappier table than the person who has so much practice she can use them without thinking. That person can think about the final design while I think about not hitting my thumb or slicing off a digit. The argument about knowing how and when to apply formulas misses the fact that practice in applying those formulas is essential to competence.
GOOG Stock Hit All Time High after Strong 3rd Qtr Results • vlogg.com
> The only legal way to stream Game of Thrones or Homeland without a cable subscription is to pay $40 per season on iTunes or amazon. So who's subsidizing who?

Umm, My wife and I watched Homeland on Netflix. That's streaming and we don't have a cable subscription.

What point are you making exactly?
FF 24.0 ESR on FreeBSD is getting there but still some issues:

http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Problem-with-FireFox-24...
Surely it can't be the case that Google was serving the 1% till recently. Their products - Gmail, YouTube, Android, Search, Maps etc. - are all leaders in their categories. So the 1%-to-99% argument doesn't quite hold.

I personally think Google held itself back from OTT monetization strategies all these years as it waited for (a) its individual products to become undisputed market leaders, and (b) a unified privacy/social glue across all its products.

Now that the majority of users are locked in to Google - to specific products and across their entire suite of products - they are lifting their self-imposed restraints on privacy/aesthetics/advertising.
Some Numbers On the Launch of Listudy
Einstein's brain a wonder of connectedness
That must have done the trick, it starts now, thank you for your help.
> Do high school girls somehow sense the "hostile environment" in engineering schools before they spend a single day there?

Quite possibly, potentially in cultural portrayals of what goes on there. This isn't to say that necessarily is the cause, but you've by no means clearly demonstrated the lack of causal relationship you seem to think you have.
Nobody is denying this. It's an all-time high for this company. Where do you see people claiming that the $1k number is meaningful on its own?
...except for the last two quarters, where it missed earnings and the stock took a huge tumble after they came out. GOOG tumbled from $813 -> $774 in April when earnings came out, and from $923 -> $882 in July. That's probably why calls were affordable this earnings season; after the last couple quarters, the street didn't expect Google to blow out earnings.
Back to bartering? There have never been a big scale bartering system as they always end up being debt based since that is a lot more convenient for all parts.

6000 Years of Debt is a book that can be recommended for information about that. It is not a very good description of the present, but it captures the past very nicely.
You might want to see my take on a concept of a structured block-based editor for Markdown — http://andreypopp.github.io/markstruct/

It's still a rough draft — so expect it to work best only in Blink/WebKit now.

Some shortcuts:

* Arrows — move between blocks

* Shift + Arrows — rearrange blocks

* Enter — creates a new paragraph

* Esc — merge with previous block (only for text based blocks, remove current block otherwise)

* If paragraphs starts with # it transforms into heading (repeat # for more heading levels)

* If paragraphs starts with ``` it transform into code snippet

* Images are entered as ![](url)

* HR — *

It's just about 500LOC, Thanks to excellent React[1] library. No inline markup yet, but it's not difficult to add. Also needs some more polishing and tests.

[1]: http://facebook.github.io/react/
where's the source code though?
Is this sax? http://www.saxproject.org/ Not sure I understand what it is and what role it has in oboe.js.
Your comment prompted me to actually learn a little about the history of the US debt ceiling and why it was implemented.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_debt_c...

> In 1917 (and during World War I) the Debt Ceiling Law was passed, which allowed the executive branch to issue bonds and take on other debt without Congressional approval, as long as the total debt fell under the statutory debt ceiling.

I find it interesting that a law which was passed nearly 100 years ago to free up the executive branch from being constrained by congress has now resulted in the executive branch being bent over a barrel by congress.
Was curious as to who the ship was named after:

"As the coffin passed each SEAL, they slapped down the gold Trident each had removed from his own uniform and deeply embedded it into the wooden coffin. For nearly 30 minutes the slaps were audible from across the cemetery as nearly every SEAL on the West Coast repeated the act.[8]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Monsoor
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/datatype-json.html

> Such data can also be stored as text, but the json data type has the advantage of checking that each stored value is a valid JSON value. There are also related support functions available
Unlike OP, Breaking Bad for me (on Amazon Instant) is $1.99 or $2.99 depending upon if I want SD or HD, and the SD streams are actually quite good quality-wise, certainly good enough for the masses who like to stretch letterboxed content so their screen isn't "wasted".

But that aside, The 34 hours a week includes a lot of advertisement watching too, so I'm sure there are hybrid models that could be explored where you get a good discount on streaming for choosing to watch some ads inserted into the middle of the show, say $1.99 for the SD show without commercials or heavy discount (maybe even free) if you choose the ads, and then the higher end $2.99 for people who really insist on "HD".

Also, I'm sure not all of that 34 hours per week the average person watches is Breaking Bad quality, presumably a lot of it is filler that would be valued far less by the watcher and thus have to be priced far less, which is one of the real benefits of ala carte. When I was a cable subscriber I felt like I was subsidizing a lot of really shitty networks churning out really shitty programs. I'm perfectly happy to pay the same amount per month (or even a bit more!) but with all my money going to programs of a high enough quality that I choose to pay to watch them specifically.
I think lthread (http://github.com/halayli/lthread) is the only coroutine lib that allows you to block inside a coroutine and do heavy computation without affecting other coroutines.

Example:

void my_function(void* arg)
{
char buf[1024];

int ret = lthread_recv_exact(fd, buf, 1024, 0, timeout);

lthread_compute_begin();
/* block as long as you wish, run heavy computation on buf, access your stack variables etc.. */

lthread_compute_end();
}

Disclaimer: lthread author.
Because it's a pointless measure--If $X legally must be spent, one would generally assume that's permission to spend $X. Denmark at least keeps theirs set high enough (for now) to avoid any political stances and shenanigans around it.
Hypothesis one: Women are a majority of the population; Their absence is more surprising, and the number of people interested in changing it is higher.

Hypothesis two: There is a perception that the absence of women in tech is more a function of tech culture than broader socioeconomic issues (e.g. There's no racial equivalent of "Code Like a Pornstar")

Hypothesis Three: It's possible that the female gap is bigger than that of other groups.
Agreed, although for those who already see one as having 'won' on technical merit, it might make sense for them to try and shift development to the future of that project, rather than continue down a route that they believe will always be inferior.
Why do people instantly put up ideological blinders at the first mention of feminism in response to an interesting article?

I mean, do you find anything at all objectionable in what it says? Please share! Or a subtlety that it leaves out? Totally!

I agree with you that racial issues are underemphasized in technical communities, and in the same way we should use feminism as a framework for achieving the organizational and social goal of equality, we should try to do the same for race.
The original title was indeed interesting. I expected a different case to be made, though - that much like metrics can be necessary to improve performance, feminism can be necessary to improve equality, but in both cases it's possible to focus too much on the means and not enough on the end. I'm not entirely sure how much I'd have agreed with such a case, but it's an interesting lens.
ShareThis Named #1 Fastest Growing Co. in SF w/ 4,698% revenue growth
I doubt she has a nuclear plant, actually; there's a Raytheon paper [1] which spends some time talking about the need for fuel efficiency to maximize operational availability, which isn't often a concern for nuclear-powered ships whose rate of fuel "burn" is constant and whose refueling intervals are best measured in years.

[1] https://www.navalengineers.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/2010%...
My first thought was, "I remember this. Blame Joel Spolsky:" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html (well maybe not blame, it's a tradeoff.)

But he mentions it at the end.
ALTER TABLE always creates the AccessExclusive lock.

If you add a 'not null default something' to the column, it'll rewrite the whole table, which can take some time. And since the table has the AccessExclusive lock, this is what will block reads/writes.

Doesn't matter for small tables.

For large tables, you want to add the column without a not null or default, commit that transaction, then populate the data, then add the not null and default constraint.
Although LTS releases are more reliable and better supported, I find the other releases to be more exciting. Hence I will probably wait for 'Ubuntu 14.10 Unitarian Unicorn' or whatever it is called.
I think I'm missing something. If an operating system doesn't come with a version of Ruby installed at all, how would you run RVM if it was written in Ruby? Unless it came bundled with a version of Ruby, which sounds bad. I thought the entire point of having these systems written in bash was to make them usable _before_ having Ruby installed at all?
One of the most helpful title additions is the (YEAR), for older articles. This gives nice context for the reader, before clicking the article.
The good times will keep rolling for quite some time. 12% of the debt is held by the Fed (aka. they printed money), and inflation is still 1.5%.

The solution to our fiscal woes is simple: we keep printing money. Eventually the markets will tire of this, and interest rates will go up. When that happens, companies and rich individuals will have a disincentive to hoard money and will begin to do something with it, which may increase inflation and interest rates more. The risk is that countries, companies and wealthy individuals will stop hoarding funds and start spending money, further increasing the money in circulation.

The gamble is whether this happens before or after the demographic bubble that is weakening the ability of schemes like Social Security to fund their benefits. Once the boomers go away, the entitlement programs will be more self-sufficient.
Yup and the reason is exactly the same for Denmark. 1st world war.
Oh man, quite some room for disagreement. In my opinion Android's UI is a complete joke. Maybe they're doing their research after all.
Yeah, but people-based metrics are subjective, even if they have hard numbers stuck in there. That's the problem.

The mistake here is viewing the entire system as simple, instead of emergent. Emergent systems are not usefully measured by simplistic top-down metrics.

You have one piece of code, yep, you set up some measurements and have fun with it. You have a thousand programs, running across a hundred different platforms? The idea that you can determine cause and effect by a simple top-down metric is a problem in itself. Yes, you may be able to determine that overall the system is not working as you would like it to be, and you may certainly decide that some kind of action is required, but that gives you no clue whatsoever what the required changes would be! In fact, by looking from the top-down in an aggregate fashion, it's even arguable whether or not your metric is the one to be optimized!

That's the difference between complex systems and simple systems. Stop over-simplifying. We all might be able to agree that some aggregate statistic is out of whack. Maybe. But that's a freaking long way from actually knowing anything about the problem or what to start doing to address it. Instead, we wrap it all up like that answer is straightforward, wave our arms around, get all emotional, and demand action. This is not a recipe for success, whether in complex systems of programs or complex systems of people.
Microsoft's PR Boss Slams NYT Gadget Guru David Pogue After Infavorable Review
Are pilots with Android devices cheap? A new study says yes.
Same exact issue here, in Safari.
Might be interesting to see what happens if you hide the vote count until after someone votes. I look at a word I like and if the vote count is already really low, I figure it will never get to the top so I don't vote for it.
1. Pick a license. You'll probably want something compatible with Qemu (GPL2+).

2. Ship a COPYING file, add a header to your files: https://github.com/osterman/copyright-header
AMC Networks (AMC's parent company) made $1.35 billion in 2012, about 58% of which came from cable and other distribution fees, of which 10% came from Comcast and DirecTV combined. [Source: AMC Networks, Inc. Form 10-K, Year End 2012]

Let's be super conservative and take just that 10% into consideration. That's still $78.3 million a year from the Comcast and DirecTV accounts. If we take all cable fees into consideration, the number climbs to somewhere closer to $400-$600 million a year.

That's a pretty big chunk of change to sacrifice, especially very suddenly. If the CEO of AMC Networks "cut cable" out of his model in the course of a year, the company's stock price would collapse, and he'd be out of a job in record time.

No question that there's a lot of money to be made from VOD licensing and a la carte purchases. But we need to be realistic about how companies like AMC are going to get there. It's going to be a slow transition, not a sudden one.
"Is this just another ridiculous idea like the plan to pay for TV adverts in Romania trying to depict Britain as an awful country to would-be migrants?" That is a bit like telling a teenager they shouldn't smoke and drink.
Grandparent poster is looking for leading indicators, since that's where you make your money. GDP growth, by definition, tracks how the economy is doing today. Unemployment is a lagging indicator, tracking how the economy did a few months ago, because it takes businesses time to hire. Bond yields and stock market prices are considered leading indicators, because traders try to anticipate how the economy will do in the future.

To beat the market you need reliable indicators that are more leading than the stock market. Some of the ones people look at are advertising spending (companies only advertise when they expect consumers will have money to spend in the near future), capital investment (companies invest in new productive capacity when they expect demand will be higher in the future), and R&D spending (companies can only afford to spend on speculative goals when they have cash burning a hole in their bottom line).
Port Knocking: Why You Should Give It Another Look
This is a trend that expands far beyond aviation apps, but an interesting look from one developer. What do you think is behind this? Google Play has come a long way, and prompts for credit cards up front. Devices on Android aren't universally cheap, and shipments of Android devices crush that of iOS. What is the missing link?
keep collecting emails, and build your Minimum Viable Product as quickly as possible, then launch it
OpenStack Havana is out and includes native Docker support
Well, one would assume that had the US not stumbled into 2 expensive foreign wars we probably wouldn't be in the situation we are in now. We went into massive debt during WWII as well we just weren't able to borrow the money from foreign markets, we had to settle for US war bonds.