skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary contractor has had plenty of large gov projects including some for Medicare and SS. Of course so have all large consulting firms and they fail often as well. What the issue is isn't clear from random musings. Unless someone who worked on the project at a high enough level can explain all we have is guesswork.
Uh... that looks to me like they want to license WP8 to hardware manufacturers for "Android" marked phones. Where did you get dual-boot from?
Definitely. Nested sets have a lot of weaknesses, and any decent modern database will have CTEs so you can just use an adjacency list with a recursive query, or materialize out the closure table.
I love the way you've presented the underlying structure so much, I found myself wishing you would replace the spreadsheet itself!
I'm not playing word games, but rather trying to clarify policy conflict that gets obscured by terminology. Simon's definition of income is the one animating the U.S. income tax. Lots of things have been added to the income tax over the years (the capital gains preference wasn't added until 1921), but the underlying theory is one of taxing net changes in wealth. Capital gains, being changes in the value of property rights, are clearly income within that framework.

Many economists do believe that we shouldn't tax capital gains, and they might be right. But it's also true that the income tax was conceived as a progressive measure to reduce income inequality and shift the tax burden to the families of wealthy industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller. A theory that exempts capital gains from the definition of "income" is plainly inconsistent with those purposes.

So I stand by my original point, which is that capital gains are income and so long as we have an income tax, should be taxed as such. There are compelling arguments that consumptive taxes would be more efficient, but efficiency isn't the only policy concern in play.
Wouldn't you only need to change the control word when switching between 32-bit and 64-bit arithmetic? I don't think that would happen in every instruction, at least for the FP-intensive apps I work on (graphics).
Of course, which was the main driver to moving to a compiled language. We just happened to choose Go :)

I've done a lot of Java and C++ in the past, and wasn't looking to go back to either of those.
Just remember that financial aid includes loans. So while a university may boast that the average student receives enough financial aid to cover the full cost of their education, that could still mean they are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. (And I say this without any knowledge of Stanford's ratio of grants and scholarships to loans).
Technically speaking, the little flag does not prevent installation of third-party desktop apps. It prevents executing executables not signed by Microsoft. It is just a policy, that Microsoft will not sign classic win32 executables.
Commenting to bookmark.
As a former Blackberry user, I feel sad watching their slow decline into irrelevance.

I really enjoyed the Blackberry Pearl back in the day, and the 9900 had the best keyboard on a mobile device that I've ever used.

It's sad to see them desperately struggle for survivial.
Heavy Launchpad for years here. Launchpad is the only way we can do we what we currently need to do (no, GitHub and others aren't enough, we need the Ubuntu and packages magic part).

That said, I hate it. I can't stand the UI, it's not that it's "ugly" (which it is), but that it's really not functional. Things are just hard to find and others don't work the way I expect them to.

Plus, it has a lot of 'missing features' I now expect because of things like GitHub like tagging issues, naming Bugs as "Issues" because I like that everything (anything really) is reported like a todo list (not just 'bugs' in the regular meaning of the word) and other things.
Writing about technology for newspapers is a tough gig. You aren't just writing for us geeks. You have to write for grandpa who refuses to get a cell phone, for the boss who doesn't see a reason to upgrade a fax machine, for the mere mortals who _need_ technology "dumbed down." Not because they are dumb but because don't have a foundation of knowledge to build on -- or interest in gaining that foundation.

Though I did stop reading anything from Kim Komando once she explained how a floppy drive worked, and she got all the facts wrong. (That was long enough ago that someone might explain how a floppy disk worked.)
This looks awesome! I quite often stumble upon the task of automating or porting spreadsheets into code. This is always a pain as it might in some ways be hard to visualize the flow in a chart. This tool would greatly simplify the task. Looks really sweet!
Your first statement is just plain false. Much of the contemporary art world (and Modernism and Postmodernism) can be characterized by a rejection of realism and strict representations of nature. Have you been to a contemporary art show recently? The same goes for the design world.

Your second statement supports my argument.
I blame the D programming language. Light your torches and grab your pitchforks!
> 3rd party manufacturers are doing to Microsoft's brand what Mac clones did to Apple in the early 90s.

I’m not sure whether that’s a fitting analogy. The Mac clone program was launched for other companies to build cheap computers with low margins, so that Apple could continue serving the higher end markets while MacOS would gain marketshare. Instead, clone makers ended up building very high end machines that were faster than anything Apple offered. They hurt Apple’s brand because they were so much faster, not because they were cheap trash.

Daystar Digital’s Genesis had 4 processors, PPC 604e @233Mhz. It had 12 RAM slots and 6 PCI slots. It was a monster and it creamed Apple’s PowerMac 9600, but it was also considerably more expensive.
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For what it's worth, Zooko thinks I'm right:

https://twitter.com/zooko/status/392334674690723840
Brought this to mind: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57602984/hawaii-womans-l...
What does this site do? I can't tell by first looking at it - do I really have to register to get a clue?
Mike Bostock just finished his Ph.D. in Computer Science (in the School of Engineering) at Stanford, so I would argue he is the definition of an engineer by training.

Also note the article says that the NYTimes didn't hire enough "engineers and data scientists", which apparently got cut off in the title here.
I once saw an economics paper finding that if the top four players in a given market have more than 60% marketshare between them, they'll naturally act as a cartel. Ergo preserving an effective free market for consumers requires preventing that circumstance.
I think it's only good if they fess up to it. Leveraging other people's work is fantastic, and underdeveloped in our educational system. Taking credit for other people's work, well.... :-)
Personally, I liked his work when he was writing Desktop Critic articles in MacWorld -- very enjoyable, but not really technical. For example, when I received the April fools issue, I would always flip directly to the back to read his article first. However, since then (circa 2000 or so?), I haven't really followed him at all.
Same problem with government relations. People don't understand that this is a structural problem with the major media that makes it untrustworthy.
That was a single-variable test, right? I just talked about that...
Are you referring to how Android will reclaim memory from inactive processes? Android handles memory differently than you expect, it tries to keep thinks in memory and only kills apps if it needs their memory back for a more demanding process.

Google consolidating most APIs into Play Services would ensure it's constantly active and never purged from memory, but the same isn't true of Gmail or other Google Apps. They can and are purged from memory as other apps demand more memory. That being said, I've encountered very few situations where any app gets purged from memory. About the only time this happens is if I play a game like Galaxy On Fire or decide to open 100 tabs in Chrome.
Dublin; there's some activity in Cork as well but since it's already a bit isolated from the rest of Europe being near a major airport is a pretty big factor in its favor, at least for me.
I would say the term length is too long, especially for software patents. And non-obviousness is not a precondition anymore, especially for software patents. Otherwise we'd be fine. Instead, nobody can scan-to-email for twenty years.
I love Chiang Mai, especially the Pai area... I'd like to return someday...
Abstractions for the Functional Roboticist
I am in Cousera's Cryptography I course, just out of interest mostly and it doesn't dissappoint so far :)!
I decided to listen to an RMS talk as it had been a while... In this one, he comes across as quite pragmatic.. I was impressed..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN6Q--zqroM
180 Websites in 180 Days: How I Learned to Code - Lean In
[Show NH] What's new in Weber - Rails like web framework for Erlang VM
Thanks for posting! If anything is unclear (it's always hard to find quotes without trimming too much context), let me know.
I don't know if I would use the word propaganda...but speculation definitely fits the bill.
Beautiful landing page.
When I click "sign up for free" the "begin selling now" text was on the bottom third of my screen, should be in the middle or at the top.
Fair enough. Maybe I am just a little too sensitive to the broad brush and heavy handed approach we seem to touch everything these days with. Frankly, I love my country, but I sometimes wonder if the Facebook "Iceland is so cool" movement isn't making us, internally, a little to complacent.
Oh, to lend some more context - being an English-speaking country in Europe with an immigration policy that doesn't consist of "gtfo unless you're a billionaire" added to its appeal as well.
I’d assume they’d do what you suggest they already do sometimes - make the segment without a leaderboard. Just show your times.

I like your suggestion better than mine. But it seems that Stava is trying to shirk as much responsibility as possible, and as such your suggestion seems less likely to get implemented.

My proposal doesn’t involve them doing anything good - it just has them no longer encouraging blatantly illegal behavior. It’s a minimum bar that should be code-able in minimum time. Almost all of the dangerous segments would still have leaderboards - only the blatantly illegal ones wouldn’t be and they could say that they "do not encourage illegal behavior" - something they can’t honestly say now.
"encyclopedic knowledge" is usually meant to be "I can recite the cities phonebook by heart"
The slides as PDF: http://acowley.github.io/NYHUG/FunctionalRoboticist.pdf
What happened with sci-hub.org?
> This being the same bubble world as the chromebook thread on HN yesterday; tech people think non tech people actually notice what they are running; they generally don't. If they can play the games their friends are playing and if they can use 'the software' they are used to they are happy. What brand it is is not important.

At the same time, those people are first to complain about a single button located somewhere different from what remember. Unless all they are doing is the bare minimum that any of interface elements doesn't matter, they would continue caring about what operating system they would be running on. I guess problems are people between complete novices and experts -- they know more than some basics (to recognize what they are running) but not quite up there to mitigate the difference themselves. (And somewhat, this could be said true so far as there haven't been so much of UI functional changes happened up to 7 from the Windows 95 era. People around me haven't really exposed to themselves to Windows 8.x would do to them when they finally hit them...)
Smog Shuts Down Chinese City Of 11 Million
Student-faculty research shows Oreos are just as addictive as drugs in lab rats
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Well, maybe one day...
IPad Predictions, Revisited. Will Apple go for market share?
Funny, the Linux kernel performs excellently on my $35, 800MHz, 400mA ARM RaspberryPi embedded machine, my x86 desktop, and some of the world's largest supercomputers with who knows what architecture.

For a company with hundreds of millions to spend on R&D, you'd think Microsoft could match a bunch of hobbyists.
His appeal is precisely that he's non-technical. There's a large audience for that.

If Pogue was the only tech reporter, there'd be a problem, but he's not. The web is full of extremely technical blogs and forums.
Q&A With an Entrepreneur: Lily Tse of ThinkDirty
Of course - that's the whole reason for the mandate. Similar to social security, there needs to be a pool of people paying into the system that are not using it. I don't agree with you that the plans will be worse though - maybe in some states, but certainly not here in Washington.
If you don't think we've been working closely with Colin, ... you're wrong.

We heard it directly from Amazon. To quote:

"After reviewing with our team and leadership, we will not be able to list the product in its current form. Only products built on supported file systems are allowed, and specifically we are not accepting any new FreeBSD products into Marketplace."

As I indicated above, we are continuing to work with them. The "supported file systems" is about the process used to build the AMI. (And yes, Colin uses exactly the same process.)
"Frankly, I'm not sure people really want real freedom at all."

Someone answered that already, thousands of years ago:
"Only a few prefer liberty, the majority seek nothing more than fair masters."

The vast majority doesn't want freedom, or at least they don't truly want it, as they can not use/value/appreciate it. I would say that the ones who do are the ones that induce the demand for freedom in the rest of the population. It just is the the easiest way of achieving such things. In this light, although the wish for freedom is touted as a noble goal, it isn't that different than some other personal quest in which a minority reaps the benefits of something that a majority fought for. Maybe our freedom (i.e. all the things that define it) is currently just tending to be reshaped to a more natural form, fitting better our average human nature?
Sorry - I see now that my original questions were pretty vague.

I guess what I'm trying to do is turn your interesting information into an actionable strategy.

Let's try a scenario: Let's say I have a job opening for a senior developer. My goal is to recruit the best possible candidate. I put out the job description, and I get 20 responses. I give them all the same structured interview (.53 validity). I also ask for a work sample (.54 validity). So, in terms of these validity scores, what do the numbers represent? Does a .53 validity say that the applicant who scores better will have a 53% chance of performing better in practice?

Anyway, lets say I somehow qualitatively interpret their interviews and samples, and using some rubric, rank them. (But, how do I know that my qualitative review is even valid?) Then, I give the top candidate an offer.

How do I determine how much better the top candidate is than the 2nd top (to give an appropriate offer)?

Also, how do I know if need to continue interviewing another 20 candidates?
I hope you're not suggesting that "The newsonomics of “Little Data,” data scientists, and conversion specialists" would be a better submission title...
Interesting. I've been throwing around the idea of roughly the same thing for myself. I was keeping a TiddlyWiki, but that's stopped working. Developer solution ... write my own!

In general, developers are a terrible market because they think they can do whatever you did better / cheaper / faster, and they won't shut up about it.
What I found most interesting about the article was some of the mathematical techniques presented. See page 44 for an accurate formula for angular distances and page 48 ff. for an alternative formalism for the vector cross product.
Yes, it requires some configuration though.

On the S3 side there is a Ruby gem that will send .deb's up to a bucket and put the right files in the right places.[1]

On the client side, apt-s3[2] provides the functionality for aptitude to download packages from S3 (Remember that S3 doesn't use normal HTTP basic so if you don't want your package public it needs to speak Amazon's language). A few people improved on this, and I have a straightforward fork and PPA built for this.[3]

I've been using all this in production for a few months and it has worked wonderfully. Jenkins builds the package and sends it up via deb-s3 and app servers have chef scripts that stop/start the daemon and update the package.

[1]https://github.com/krobertson/deb-s3

[2]https://github.com/kyleshank/apt-s3

[3]https://launchpad.net/~skye-book/+archive/apt-transport-s3
Will anyone upgrade from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2014?
I suspect it's more because this sort of ritualised patriotism/nationalism has really nasty associations for many people; for Americans, who are used to it, it probably looks entirely different.
Serious question: what happens if say Wikileaks or Snowden or the next important whistleblower uses this service, and then the head of DHS, FBI, DOJ, etc (not a Court) "gives a call" to Google? Will Google "protect their free expression", or comply with the order within hours, like Amazon did [1]?

Google may have great lawyers and a lot of money, but what if they tell them "hey, you know that tax-free money you're sending to the Bermuda [2]? Yeah, FTC will be knocking on your door tomorrow to ask you about that".

So I guess what I want to know is if Google will actually stand their ground and protect their users till the end by doing the right thing, or they'll "compromise" if the potential cost to their business is too great. Maybe in the past it was easy to believe Google would actually do the right thing, but it's becoming increasingly harder to believe that.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-websi...

[2] http://www.cnbc.com/id/101104483
I put servers in quotes to denote something that serves that wasn't purpose built for the role. Nothing more, the context from justincormack wasn't lost but there are a lot of uses for osx servers, for example compile farms.

What I was referring to, which I thought was apparent but failed to convey, is that this perception of nobody doing it is a fallacy.
AAC/AVC/MPEG4 are open. Your other points are arguing that it isn't that hard to do which I don't dispute but it isn't free and doesn't benefit them.
It is a good move on Pogue's part, he gets to do more of the stuff he likes to do.

But the comments here, especially the dismissive ones, seem to miss out on his popularity at the Times. Granted that "popularity" != "good" for a number of things but he brought a lot of readers to the Times and that was something the Times needs if they want to stay in business.

It annoys me when people make that choice (popularity over quality, as I felt Dr. Michio Kaku did with his TV stuff) but I have come to recognize it is there choice to make.
> It is much more satisfactory and social to play MMORPGs on your PC than single-player RPGS, much more satisfactory to kill human players in Halo matches than alien AIs.

I'll grant that it's more social. I won't grant that it's more satisfactory. For me, half the point of video games is an onanistic retreat from the world to a simpler world where I can just play around with some robots for a while. I spend enough time managing my social circles in real life; I don't want to have to do it when I relax, as well.

I don't think I can blame the internet for this. I was born before the rise of the PC, never mind the internet; even then I would much rather have curled up with a good book, or sat around drawing, than go out and make friends. The net is great IMHO because it lets introverts like me connect to other introverts, and disconnect when we need to.

> As ever more opt out, the larger culture is damaged.

I don't think so. I think it's stronger. "Culture" becomes a flourishing ecosystem of subcultures, rather than a monoculture. Some of them grow and become major components of the overall culture. Some of them die out. Some of them never grow to more than a modest size, but stick around.

The author of this speaks of "otaku" with a hint of disdain - but how common is the stereotype of the "absent-minded scientist", who is so focused on their work that everything else in their life kind of falls apart? What's the difference?

I dunno, I just feel like this essay starts from the unspoken thesis that "social connection is good and introverts are bad" and goes from there.

Fuck it; I just spent the whole weekend in a highly social environment, sitting behind a table selling my comic book to people. I'm gonna go play Skyrim in my bathrobe for six hours straight.
fixed! http://www.quill.org/develop
> Because HTTP is inefficient due to the TCP three-way handshake, and because pipelining has many problems. These are fixed by multiplexing.

So why should HTTP care about this?

> They are using TLS.

But it's specified as part of the HTTP protocol
> It still boggles my mind that people are surprised by this...

I was surprised because I was told that this new coverage affordability came from getting insurance companies greed in check.

I didn't know that insurance companies were actually lobying for Obamacare, not against it.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/62541/here-s-the-proof-oba...
Probably handle the TOS violation/comply with the law just like Amazon did with Wikileaks previously.
A moleskin or Trello, but neither were good at keeping the fragments that make up or develop an idea (websites, images as well as text or files). So I built my own tool that is good for people like me who think visually, curator.co
You earn how much? Breaking the workplace taboo
The only problem is if you are in between a metal object and the MRI machine however.

Unless you're planning on augmenting yourself like in Deus Ex I agree its not a big deal. But a big thing coming at you at high speed would ruin your day.
These measurements are both from Anandtech, which a while back absorbed this obvious lesson and started testing at a standard 200 nits, instead of "50%" brightness like a lot of clueless review sites use (including Ars Technica, sigh).
They are open as in "specs are available". They aren't open as in freedom to use them. Let's not start the semantics arguments, you know what was meant above.

Whether that benefits them not to do it - you are correct. My point is, it benefits them to sabotage the industry and to hold back innovation. It's because they view control as their main benefit, not the innovation. And that's why they are a problem for the open Web (it defines the medium that diminishes control of the likes of Apple). That was in my original point, so we don't argue here.
He was hosting the show as if he was the central focus of the program. I bet a few people actually enjoy his wit but I'd prefer that be left out of a show like nova. If e wants to introduce his comedy stylings, it'd be better on a show dedicated to him.
Comments ≠ Engagement
I figured you would have been working with him, I was just going off of what his older posts has said. I didn't know they had somewhat changed their policies.

BTW, thanks for the work on PFSense, while I don't use it at the moment, its been very useful in the past.
I find Haskell's to be relatively simple, while Scala's seem to be all over the place. Probably not weird since Scala tries to straddle 2-3 different worlds/paradigms.