skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use XP, but only in a VM for those few apps I use that either don't work in WINE or don't have a Linux port (Quickbooks is a big one).

I see no reason to use Windows 7 in a VM for this since it has a larger install footprint and uses more memory.
Surprising Facts About Otzi the Iceman
> Small breasted women (being that breasts are considered 'adult' in the US) was the only thing that would get through and wasn't a huge concern.

But that could also be developing breasts on a youth, and that would mean the image is something you very much want to block and report.
It's not that much different than squirrels saving nuts for the winter. Saving for the future is wise.

More to your point though, I think retirement dreams have been born out of blue-collar type work. People physically cannot do most types of blue-collar work when they reach the "golden years". Consider how you can enjoy your life now and how you can position yourself to have an income when you are not as nimble and healthy as you are now.
I eliminated the loops and did the processing with STL algorithms and iterators. It is ugly as sin if you try to process lines like the original code. Most scripting languages do rather well with lines but C++ does not.
And indeed, Netflix Canada doesn't have it. =(
Yes, I know that this is the correct way of doing it in bash. I posted this because someone might test the speed of the two scripts and conclude "bash is faster" while they actually measured the speed of "sort" probably.
Reproducibility in science is something that badly needs this push. It's an incredibly difficult "sell" to anyone with funds for research, and I'm extremely happy that they've found capital for it.

The foundations of our scientific knowledge need to be solidified, and from all the science news and developments, this one is the one that makes me by far the most excited for the future of science.

Next on the list, open source repositories for protocols of experiments! Maybe someone surprises me with a link to an existing solution :).
Only one of those flights is domestic- to Texas. Your parent is flying three people, so $660 per person round trip.

When you consider the sheer size of the USA... It's an 8 hour flight from Anchorage, and a 3hr 20min flight from San Fran.
It's called solving the chicken-and-egg problem by funding one of them. There was an Elon Musk interview about that stage - IIRC they invested/gifted ~100 million (!) in such activities; but this marketing paid back afterwards in billions.
> Take for example a Brit or a German. The people you grow up with and your families might move to another city, but they are always just a reasonable train ride or drive away.

UK - I don't know anyone with friends in a different city who frequently sees the people they grew up with, (or their parents for that matter.)
It doesn't "remove brightness magically", it just swings the color temperature of ALL colors displayed towards the red end of the spectrum, which studies have shown can decrease the inhibition of melatonin production which means you will be more likely to get sleepy around the time you're supposed to, whereas before you might not have until much later and disturbed your sleep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
Why is it necessary to break the motivation into percentages? Who cares! He's got an interesting product, and wrote about it in a blog post.

If I were answering, I'd say I was 100% motivated to talk about making a product for coders, and 100% motivated to get people to check out the site.
Study says Saint Teresa was a horrible person
Maybe you have more money than vacation time? This is a nice way to take a break without anyone looking down on you or forbidding you.
SoftBank Buys 51% of Finnish Mobile Game Maker for $1.5 Billion
Adding more close-minded people to the political system will only hurt us in the long run. What we need now, more than ever, are people who understand the political process and are willing to compromise.

The 2010 election is famous for electing a huge number of close-minded people to the House of Representatives. You see, it is your very "anti-incumbent" mindset that has gotten us to where we are today.

HALF the moderate Blue Dog Democrats were voted out of office in 2010. And need I remind you about the rise of the Tea Party in 2010?

Congress is deadlocked today because close-minded individuals destroyed the moderates. Proven Moderates were voted out of office, and American became more extremist from the 2010 elections, and 2012 elections. We need to work together, find the moderates in Congress and reward them for their efforts.

Blindly attacking incumbents is how we got into this problem in the first place. Continuing the dumb, ignorant, "head in the sand" approach will lead to our ruin in the long term.

Stupid voting is stupid voting. Don't vote against the incumbent unless you've done your research.

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Why can't Representatives get together and hash out a deal? (Even within the Republican Party, they failed to pass a bill this week at all). Maybe... all of the dumb newbies don't know how, they don't have the bipartisan connections that were utterly destroyed as all of the moderates were voted out of office in 2010.
Jury rules for Mark Cuban in insider case
Do you know if they get to advanced concepts about front end design? :)
Humanosaur
There is such thing as figures of speech. :) I doubt I'd seriously just up and walk out, but it would be a huge strike against you on my part. Remember, you're not just interviewing me -- I'm interviewing you as well.
Your neighbor knows how much you make? Everyone you've listed has a need to know, that doesn't mean that everyone has a need to know.

Your doctor knows, your parents know and your insurance company probably knows, but does that mean you broadcast to the world that you have a third testicle?
I love my parents, but the knowledge that I'll only see them another ninety times... there's only so much hearing them my mother talk about her life or watching my father sit in front of the TV that I can take.

I'd prefer to have 90 days of goodness than 300 days of meh, you know? There's only a certain amount of content you can share in a given relationship.
Red Hat decripples OpenSSL
Designing Microinteractions
Personally, I wouldn't want it shared with the world. The people/organizations you have listed are somewhat trusted entities.

Income data can be used for a slew of criminal activity. I wonder if you can correlate the release of the data with burglaries or other crimes spiking in the relatively wealthier households, compared to their neighbors.
My guess: What screwed China was the
Roman alphabet because China didn't
use it. Then when the written word
became important for the masses
in the West and for progress in the West, China
started falling behind.

The effect is still easy to see in
Chinese culture, say, cooking: It's
still strongly the case that Chinese
cooking is essentially just not written
down and, instead, is learned by
apprenticeship. E.g., I have stacks
of books on cooking -- US, French,
Italian, German, and Chinese -- and
far and away the worst written are
the books on Chinese cooking. So,
the books on American cooking I
got from my family from, say, the
1930s, are very nicely done with
times, temperatures, weights, and
volumes, but the books on Chinese
cooking have essentially no
measurements at all. Then for
explanations of the steps and details,
again the Chinese books are far behind.
Again, simply, Chinese cooking is
so far nearly never actually written
down in anything like what is common
for thorough descriptions in
countries that use the Roman
alphabet.

Why the Roman alphabet? Because
it's so darned easy to work with,
and the Chinese little drawings
severely throttle what that masses
might do with reading and writing.
I'm sure that for some people, "email marketing" means sending spam. But my comments were entirely in the scope of legitimate, legal, opt-in email marketing.

Any tool can be used for good or for evil. I feel it's unwise to assume that just because people talk about profit in the context of delivering content to customers that they are black-hat. Plenty of white-hat people are savvy to these terms, and these techniques are very useful when trying to run a business while practicing "don't be evil."
Slate - Build beautiful static API documentation quickly
Funny thing is that I just moved my sites to Media Temple yesterday.
Two things you need at the beginning of starting a business: the ability to have a product/service and the ability to sell. The better your product, the less skilled you need to be at selling and vice versa. If you're doing it alone, don't underestimate the effort and skill needed to market and sell a product -- it is extremely challenging and is a big commitment either in terms of time and/or resources. You've made it easier on yourself by making the better product, but sales (especially B2B products) will never magically appear even with a superior product.

Don't view your competitors as people peddling 'crappy tools' or 'junk', view them as expert sellers, business people. Learn from them, figure out what channels they're using to sell. Are they reaching out to CTOs via LinkedIn? Are they calling directly? Are they doing targeted ads in the right publications? Pursue those routes and get your numbers up - at the end of the day, sales is very much a numbers game. Reach out to 100, speak with 10, sell to 3.

Similarly to how often Business guys underestimate the difficulty in the work of the Technical guys, it's really important to have respect for how truly challenging the marketing and selling is.

EDIT: I know OP is asking for specific steps he/she can take, but my view is that the first step is to have the right perspective on the problem and have a healthy appreciation for the competition.
I tend to say that sed could be considered as a domain-specific scripting language usable to edit text. awk is a more generic language - to my shame I used it only for parsing and translating text - even without a REPL you can 'test' quite a lot of constructs by providing the expressions to awk as an argument.

I concede that REPLs is not a must for a scripting language, but it will definitely make it more enjoyable ;)
FISA Court's status as a rubber stamp is a straw man. The central issue is the secrecy, not the function within. With a secret court, no matter what the results (good or bad), no one knows the what/why/how except those operating within the court itself. They are, by definition, not objective evaluators of their performance. This is the issue.
Oddly enough, when I was a corporate intern technical writer, everything was being done there in DocBook XML. We were using PTC Arbortext products which were very expensive per seat.

It's inevitable that the publishing industry will dump Word, but I don't think it's realistic to expect it all at once. First, they have to offer the ability to use other formats and they may require that the industry adopts a standard software package and document flow that does exactly what it needs. This sounds like an awesome open source project for someone who knows that industry's exact needs.
I think it's awesome that billionaires are filling in the important gap in investigative journalism.

Interestingly, Jeff Skoll is also doing great work in the "content to make society" better category.

Frontline (see NFL concussion doc) and Propublica (http://www.propublica.org/series/overdose ) are doing AWESOME work in this space as well.

If Pierre invests $25m a year they can run a 100 person newsroom ($150k all in for the top journalists + tech team + sales) for 10 years for the price Bezos paid for WashPost.
I think you misunderstand why the "soft" sections of the newspaper exist. Real estate, automobile, and lifestyle sections are all very profitable in terms of what they can charge advertisers, and I would guess technology and business are similar. In effect, the typical news organizations run a cross-subsidy by which advertising in the "soft" sections subsidizes the "hard" news, while the latter drives the reputation which builds the readership. It seems to me that this logic applies equally well to any advertising-driven media organization, no matter the medium.
Is the beer any good?
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In my life a see a large assymetry between the cultures. A fiar number of scientists/engineers I know are good in the arts, theater, music etc. I dont se as many humanities types as familar with science. I observed this MIT, Harvar,and Stanford where I have degrees and took courses.
Bulk Science. I like it.
Looks like Fatigue Science makes a device called the READIBAND [1], which is used to track sleeping patterns so you can adjust your schedule accordingly, but right now it is only available to military, sports, and big industrial clients. Sounds pretty interesting, in that sports teams are seeing a real benefit.

Can someone who uses one of these performance monitors weight in? Doesn't have to be the READIBAND, but what about Fitbit Flex [2], Jawbone Up [3], or the Nike Fuelband [4]. Does anyone actually notice a marked difference in alertness throughout the day?

[1] http://fatiguescience.com/readiband-2/

[2] http://www.fitbit.com/

[3] https://jawbone.com/up

[4] http://www.nike.com/ca/en_ca/c/nikeplus-fuelband
Fair enough. I guess I was more interested in the "why" than the "how" from the title. And given how thoroughly researched and annotated the "how" section was, I was surprised so little consideration was given to why in the world you'd want to do this in the first place.
The greatest part about my project is I can also do absolutely nothing, and I can do it for $30,000 dollars less than these guys. That's an infinite return on nothingness! My kickstarter to stop the big bad government from searching through our amazon shopping carts just reached it's goal of $0! Thanks guy's! We really taught them a lesson about collecting all that data we throw out in the open and give to multi-billion dollar corporations. Safety be damned! Plus the NSA is useless, look how few attacks we have had since 9/11, obviously the NSA has nothing to do with that. The government is out to get us people, this entity made up of hundreds of thousands of positions, changing and revolving all the time definitely has an organized long term goal set up to spy on everything we do, because it's not like they are also american citizens watching out for themselves as well. The government is a single entity that wants power just because, they don't care about observing and foiling terrorist plots, they just want to control you because big brother.

/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s
Who knows why this guy wants to get into the Olympics, people want a lot of strange things. And maybe it is "narcissism" but I don't know that this is always a bad thing. As long as he is being honest and following the rules, I don't see what is wrong with what he was doing.

However like you, when I saw the title I expected him to adopt the smartest training regime and tactics while competing, thus enabling him to compete with younger fitter individuals. That would have been much more interesting.
I probably wouldn't literally just up and walk out, but it would count against you. Why would I want to work for someone who can't be bothered to read my sample code or resume? There's a double-standard here, where I'm supposed to have done research on your company before showing up, but you don't necessarily have to do that for me.

Are you hiring me to recite textbook definitions to you, or are you hiring me to write code? You can't really have it both ways. By asking me to recite textbook definitions when I've clearly demonstrated that I know the basics (at the very least), then you're wasting my time and your own.

This isn't hubris or egotism -- it's pragmatism. I've already provided the answer, and you're asking me the question again. You should ask me something you can't easily find the answer. Or better yet, ask me a question that answers several questions at once.

You might ask "I noticed on your Github profile you have an application called NaNoWriMo clone. What's that all about?" and I might say "Well, it's an MVC-based application that uses third party API calls to Google Docs using cURL and...."

And you might find that I've answered all of the stupid, basic "What is MVC?" and "What's a POST request?" and "Describe how HTTP works" questions that you would have asked before, except now instead of asking me rote questions that I get at every single interview, you'll find that you're getting the answers to those questions and then some.
Apple should be a Louis Vuitton and not Zara
My thesis is simple: Apple should become be a Louis Vuitton and not Zara, i.e. Apple should evolve to become a high end consumer brand and as a result, they do not need to fight for market share and be a profitable company.

Will be good to hear your thoughts on the issue.
On Patriarchy and Homophobia
Male/female distribution in data viz
dragonwriter, first, I want to say, you are correct that FTP/FTPS is not the World's Best Protocol. In fact, maybe it is the worst protocol in the world.

What I'm saying is, that doesn't matter. It's still the most common and easiest to set up for a novice user.
Trust me, I don't enjoy reading obscure RFCs on FTP's UTF8 encoding.

I'm using FTP/FTP-SSL because it's the easiest and most common for the end user. FileZilla Server does not support SFTP.

The goal of the project is simple: Let the average tech-savvy person use their own private server to sync. So it needs to be simple and free: FileZilla Server backend (runs on Windows or Linux) and IQBox front-end. I'm open to ideas but I think that's the easiest option.

Even a QNAP will support FTP out-of-the-box.

HTTP-1.0 was a mess. POP3 was a mess. All these protocols were insecure and evolved because software makers put up with their madness and made great software.
It says "Tue 16 October 2012" but after reading the text I'm sure it should've been 2013.
Interesting, never heard of this before. I would have expected endurance running to translate to endurance skiing better, but I don't know how good runners they were. Even top 1% is great but probably not Olympics.
I would wonder why you don't like to release your code publicly, or at least have code samples ready to show. If I asked you for code samples and you didn't have any, I'd ask you to complete some work-at-home tasks, as I mentioned in my previous post. Those code samples would probably be enough.

If you refused to send me code samples, I wouldn't bring you in for an interview.
You can't say that anymore!

I'm not a government employee, directly, but I am a contractor that has been furloughed for two weeks now, and I'm happier than I've been in a long while. And no, I won't get back pay; the first two weeks were "administrative leave", which I have to make up (typically with vacation time), and starting this week the charge code is leave without pay.

Apparently, my job sucks worse than I thought.
You could also use WolframAlpha, e.g.:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=life+expectancy+in+usa+...

Though that's really the current life expectancy, no one actually knows future life expectancy, which depends on future technology.
Facebook now lets teens post statuses and photos publicly
>" It blocks payment from any prepaid Visa/Mastercard - even reloadable cards"

This is to prevent money laundering and tax fraud.
> I could go on for hours

I, for one, would love to read more of these.
Dave Morin Laid Off 20 Percent of Path Employees Today
I think anyone can list a Github profile as part of their resume, absolutely. That's why I said you should ask questions about the contents of that Github profile. Explain why you built X and how Y works and if you could do Z differently, what would change? What were the biggest problems with this project and what did you think would be hard about that project but turned out to be easy? And so on.

IMHO, there's no need for whiteboard coding.

Having said that, if you are going to ask me to do some whiteboard coding, I would greatly prefer something like you described -- a high level response that tests my thought processes. You can see my code on Github, I shouldn't have to write some on a board. But I'll be happy to explain thought processes while solving a problem.
I'm confused but I think I mean it the other way around: most users will pay Beeminder occasionally. There are some exceptional people who never ever fail who will never pay Beeminder (and those people apparently didn't really need Beeminder's kick in the pants anyway).
he fixed that
As a senior engineer with 7+ years in the field, I shouldn't need to prove the equivalent of my ABCs to you. It should be understood.

You'd be surprised how many 'senior' engineers can't code their way out of a cardboard box.

Background: I've interviewed hundreds (if not thousands) of engineers.
Great doc reference, thanks. I've always been impressed by RethinkDB and so was surprised to see the blurb above about being "CA". Good to see that's not actually the party line.

Obligatory Coda Hale reference:

http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/
How do Pocket (app), Instapaper, Flipboard, etc., extract articles from a page?
Here's a video of the press conference after the verdict: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F82EHPP3bkM
I'm just glad I work in python mostly and no longer have to deal with off by one errors...
I'm slightly biased in that I've played with cljs more than scala-js, but it was tough to find a productive workflow from the time I started looking into it. For example with lein-droid you run a lein command to start the android app with embedded repl and connect to it, with seesaw you can use your local repl, with clojurescript ???

Instead there seemed to be a whirlwind of finding info on lein-cljsbuild/cljs and dealing with little problems like the repl not finding jarred or external js files. also online theres all sorts of grumbles about browser repl instability so it gives you a big warning feeling even though it seems like the only way through. Ultimately I felt lost in the tooling and setup. I haven't had time to investigate clojurescript in lighttable, maybe its easier there. I just figured any editors repl and the source files should be all you need to start working productively with it.

By contrast I haven't done much scalajs yet, but it builds like just another sbt project (after a local install of the scala-js project itself). I was able to clone the sample scala-js app run sbt;/packageJS and see the js file. Sure that's not updating live, but its clean and straightforward from the first time you investigate it. 5-10 minutes to "wow".

Good luck, I really want clojurescript to become easier to use as I really enjoy clojure.
The FIS website will be up to date, he does show up in a Biographies search.

http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/disciplines/cross-country/competit...