skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Do you read childrens' books? :) Well, you are correct, but again it depends on the size of the font on the book, right? Normal book or magazine text seems to be slightly larger than HN test on screen when viewed on "normal" reading distance.
Security vulnerabilities? Are they still supporting vista?
We're on Hacker News, so https://github.com/lunixbochs/reslate Ultimate solution.

FTFY.
What attracted you to computer science? Put another way, why do you think it is that when your penpal showed you the website she built your reaction was "cool" instead of "lame...." (especially in 98 when the web technologies were much more primitive)?
Linux -> Mac ports and vice versa will be much easier than Windows -> Mac ports so you might be in luck!
I think she pretty clearly explained why she felt a need to make the post - she feels underrepresented and also wants to prove a stereotype wrong.

I'll go second... why in the world did you feel it necessary to mock her post?
Yeah, this is why I just shell out for my own docsys 3 cable modem whenever possible.
You know they won't actually delete your data, right?
I wouldn't be so quick to call BS. They state in the abstract that it's not limited to dogs:

Several mammalian species spontaneously align their body axis with respect to the Earth's magnetic field (MF) lines in diverse behavioral contexts.

You can read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoception --- though, this is not without issues:

The largest issue affecting verification of an animal magnetic sense is that despite more than 40 years of work on magnetoception there has yet to be an identification of a sensory receptor.

I remember having read about this effect in homing pigeons, and the Wikipedia article also mentions that:

These results suggest that magnetite located in the beak of pigeons may be responsible for magnetoreception via trigeminal mediation. However, it has not been shown that the magnetite located in the beak of pigeons is capable of responding to a magnetic field with the Earth’s strength. Therefore the receptor responsible for magnetosensitivity in homing pigeons has not been cemented.

Without being an expert, it seems to me to be worthwhile research.
She might find inspiration in Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters"

http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp...
The second thought is not really attached to the first question. Having a desire to make a website/making a website has little to do with computer science.
Skype's Official Twitter, Facebook and Blog Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
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No, I mean it's not there for Xubuntu/Ubuntu either. I have the same external monitor problem with both. The graphics drivers however have worked fine for me. However, my girlfriend who is running xubuntu with fglrx (radeon card) has slight issues with textures staying on screen.
Aren't these considered "idioms"?
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I love learning and working on new technologies and platforms, but currently, my main experience is in Node.js and PHP. I also have some experience in working with Ruby and Sinatra. I work on linux, and I have deployed and managed web, database and application servers on CentOS and Ubuntu. I am familiar with bash scripting. I am also familiar with some basic Python and Go, but I have never really got a chance to work on it.

One of my previous jobs involved working with a large WordPress application, so I am quite adept with WordPress too. Most of my freelance work from reddit has been on the wordpress front: Customizing and working on various plugins.
I have worked with various data stores too: Mysql, mongodb, redis are the primary ones.

On the front end side, I have worked on big JavaScript projects working with various html5 APIs. I dig semantic clean HTML markup and know my way around CSS.

I have worked on AWS on an earlier job, though my current organization has its own servers in a data center. I like working on big problems, "architecting" solutions which scale out and working on them, and tackling and troubleshooting live issues. I usually try to work on git whenever possible.

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eh, with business... it's not so much what skills you can't get... as what you don't want to do.

I'm all for helping technical people negotiate from a strong position... but personally, were I able to send messages back in time to advise myself before going in to it? I would advise taking on a business person.

It's a lot of work, and perhaps more importantly, while business people /say/ they have this "give 110%" or "can-do" attitude, in reality? if it looks like you aren't going to make money, they are gone in a flash. And frankly? that's a good thing.
Japan outlines 2020 exascale supercomputer project
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I wonder how much work they have to do to support retina.
WSJ.com revamps tech page as competitor ReCode launches
This is really, really impressive. From a current CMU SCS student (who also went to crazy lengths to get in here!), I hope to hell you are accepted!
> I am really curious to know how Intel graphics drivers work on linux. Intel seems to be more linux friendly compared to AMD/Nvidia. Is the support a lot better?

They ‘just work’ – you can change the resolution/screen setup any way you like at any time, either using xrandr directly or one of the many frontends (each DE usually has one called ‘Display Settings’). Of course, the drawback is that these are still just Intel on-die GPUs; enough for Portal (2), CS etc., but even KSP runs rather slowly/only at low details.
Based on our experience running large telephony applications, I would say that the threading approach, using JRuby as it provides a stable GIL-free interpreter, is vastly superior both in resource handling and developer/sysadmin productivity, also known as "less headaches".
ARM chips in servers in 2014
Chip Designed for “Deep Learning” Could Help Smartphones Understand Your Photos
But this netstat thing is only taking into account those computers with Internet usage. Would the amount of corporate, administration, financial... computers limited to intranet usage be long enough to modify this graphic?
I think you are confusing "investing in" with "producing". They are in fact different activities.
Fiat Gains Full Control Of Chrysler In $4.35 Billion Deal
I liked math and physics because they allowed me to predict or affect future events. I also loved design because it allowed me create things that might have never existed otherwise. CS was the perfect combination of both - you can create things, solve problems, and distribute them to the rest of the world for free (I couldn't afford to buy even books at that time). I started with HTML and flash because the computer my mother (a brick-and-mortar entrepreneur) eventually got was an IBM 486 machine with 20megs of space and only Flash 4 would fit on it for graphics.
Something similar happens with cows and deer as well: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/google-earth-re/
We made a little prototype electronic device in this little plastic box. A coworker, a mechanical engineer, went to install a switch on this little plastic box. I was shocked because he did not measure with a ruler to put the switch in the center.

I thought to myself, "I guess if it looks right... it looks right!"

At Ticketmaster, working on their VAX operating system, I learned many tricks. They had one trick where they put alignment on the start of code that was JUMPED to.

I made my compiler align everything, code and data. On a whim, I removed alignment and compiled my operating system and ran applications. I couldn't tell a difference. If it looks right, it looks right. I got rid of all my alignment stuff. I did not test on other processors.
I as a Pakistani Approve of NSA spying and Drone Attacks
I think the last individual who might've been in a somewhat similar position was Daniel Ellsberg, for releasing the Pentagon Papers.

"For his disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was initially charged with conspiracy, espionage and theft of government property, but the charges were later dropped after prosecutors investigating the Watergate Scandal soon discovered that the Nixon administration had ordered the so-called White House Plumbers to engage in unlawful efforts to discredit Ellsberg."

But I think Snowden opened a far bigger can of worms, considering that the Pentagon Papers didn't involve spying on US citizens, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers
Why would you need hundreds of worker threads? If you're using an event-loop in each process (which you probably want if only to minimize context-switching overhead, and is how Unicorn does it), then you need only one process per physical core in the machine. Anything else will just sit in the runqueue and cause context switches.

There is definitely annoying memory overhead with multiprocess (vs. multithreaded) architectures, but it's on the order of 2x-8x, not 100x. And that's 2x-8x the code size of the application, not data size - you only need duplicate interpreter objects, anything at the app or framework level (like templates or data files) can be stored in read-only shared memory or just COW'd with no writes. (It's technically not even every interpreter object - a number of function objects are completely static data that will never have additional references made, and so COW means they'll be shared perpetually between processes.)
Nice step forward. This really needs to be all around Australia not just Western Australia. With the majority of the population on the East coast, something like it or even an app like California has "Shark Net" would be super.
Vista gets security updates until 2017.
Video of a Bitcoin point of sale solution using NFC for contactless payment
I'm thinking the original plan was some non-sacrificial anode system, and that was replaced by sacrificial anodes (requiring maintance, which was never done).

If there is no protection then the hull corrodes, as this story shows...
For me, the open source radeon drivers do not work at all. I am on an AMD 7790 on Ubuntu 13.10. Is the hardware not supported yet?

Is the AMD open source driver better than the closed source one?
"3) In the heyday of the telegraph era, deploying lines was an extremely expensive and capital-intensive process, and it wasn't until other technological advancements that made possible various multiplexing and aggregation schemes (frequency-division, and later digital TDM) came along that the idea of running a copper line into every home really got to be realistic[1]. I agree that Western Union was a bit shortsighted in turning down this patent, but one could hardly blame them for thinking that universal telephone service wasn't economically possible. That's like selling a business idea today that relies on everyone having a 10 terabit fiber cable run to their home. Yeah, it's possible, and I have no doubt someone will make fun of me in a decade or two for naysaying it in any way, but would you invest $2bn in a related patent today?"

I disagree - Multiplexing didn't play a significant role in the local loop until the 1980's. There were multiplexing techniques for toll lines prior to the paper you cite - look up phantom circuits. [1]

If you want to check out about what drove the creation of the telephone network check out "Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System" [2], its a great book on how local toll traffic (among other things) drove the creation of the telephone network.

Western Union didn't see the future in the telephone network because it disagreed with its existing model - wich is to say office to office messages - also their network was multiplexed from very early, telephones for practical reasons couldn't be until the invention of the vacuum tube.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_circuit

[2] http://surface.syr.edu/books/18/
Yes, there's hardware acceleration. For games like TF2 I never dip below 45fps and I'm usually up around 75fps

TF2 isn't exactly a new game, but neither is my graphics card.
The desire to learn CS came with the need to do more on the web - the more I tinkered the more I wanted to learn. I got Flash for design but then realized I could animate with code, so I started borrowing trigonometry books from my high-school math teacher in order to make flash animations that move by trig functions. After doing 4-5 years of self-learning how to do cooler, more fun things I wanted to get a degree in it because I thought it would accelerate my learning and reduce the friction of having to manually find materials and approaches for things I wanted to make.
What Futures Shall We Make? (John McCarthy - 2008)
Oh wow; that might explain why Javelin hasn't taken off nearly as quickly as I thought it would.

I was talking about https://github.com/tailrecursion/javelin introduced in the talk http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ClojureScript-Javelin
That was such a refreshing article. I've been saying it for a while now, I'm hopeful that we're going to see some very positive reforms in 2014 or 2015, as well as an eventual hero's welcome for Snowden. It takes a while for such a massive shift in public opinion, but it's inevitable. The reason it's taking so long is just a knowledge gab with the people that aren't as well-informed and don't know the magnitude of the abuses. As people learn the full scope of what's been revealed they tend to be (for the most part) outraged. I look forward to a couple decades from now, when I can tell my kids about how us folks who were paying attention were all vindicated when the NSA reforms were enacted and Snowden was given a full pardon.
That's what Latvia did - 20% wage cut across the whole country, up to 40% wage cuts in some areas. Government sector lead the way and privates followed. Devaluation also destroys any savings that people might have AND makes the country less safe for the investors.
A "catch 22" you might say...
Yea I wrote it up on my blog here. Just didn't want to risk spamming heh.http://earlz.net/view/2012/06/07/0026/rooting-the-nvg510-fro...
Seeing how they deleted all their previous content (allthingsd) off the internet without a warning, I will make sure to never link to this website.
This is with their u-verse service. Basically it's like DSL but using some different technologies and no easy way of bridging like PPPoE
This would likely be more apt for reddit, which does AMAs. I respect you, but this sets a rather polluted and boring precedent. Founders not from tech hub cities, founders over 40 years old, founders who grew up poor, founders who were born outside USA, etc etc. Everyone is unique in many ways, many more interesting than race or gender.
I started treating what Joel says much less seriously after discovering that FogBugz sends E-mail using "windows-1252" or "windows-1250" character sets instead of UTF-8. I reported this as a problem to customer service, but was told that it will not be changed. Quoting from the reply I got "joelonsoftware.com is a blog. Fog Creek Software is a business."

Some people might give Joel additional credibility because of his successful business — but there seems to be a gap between theory and practice, which undermines that credibility, at least for me.
Is there any scenario where Fn+Backspace can't be used for the Delete key?
I don't see the two as mutually exclusive. The lean startup methodology doesn't care at all what people think about the feasibility of something. What matters in that methodology, however, is whether people will pay for something, if implemented.

A side note is that people telling you they will or won't pay for something can be quite misleading. The act of talking is quite disconnected from the act of actually paying you.
You are confounding several things. It is NEVER cheaper to import than to fish, because importing costs money and fishing does not.
What you mean is that the opportunity cost of fishing is higher than its market value, meaning that there is another job that you can do for 8 hours that would make you more money than the fish that you could have caught in 8 hours would be worth. For that to be true, you need that job to exist that you can do, which is not always true in high unemployment situations.
And when that IS true, then it is a good thing, because that means that the economy as a whole is working more efficiently - you are not spending your time doing useless things, you do something more productive instead.
Our experience at Google (using first CPython and then Java) was that the single-threaded multi-process approach lead to better developer productivity but worse sysadmin productivity. It made reasoning about the behavior of the code significantly easier and wasted less time searching down race conditions, livelocks, and deadlocks, but it meant that SREs and infrastructure teams had to spend more time managing memory consumption and dealing with deployment and monitoring hassles.

So it's a trade-off where the downsides often get pushed off into another group. As a developer, I really miss the CPython solution, which was a lot simpler and seemed more robust. But then, I wasn't the one responsible for pushing out new code or monitoring. I do think there were various optimizations we could've made to our other tools that might've compensated for the need to run more server processes, and wish we'd tried that before jumping to "Let's use a GIL-free language."
This goes back to the glass half full/glass half empty discussion. It's not anything really new or different. The problem is half full people, tend to turn into half empty people as they age, get more conservative and have power/established interests to protect.

In short, disruption seems scary when you are part of the powers that be.
Why not. Are you familiar with SciPy's `weave` module? It's basically a plugin for plugging C++ code into your Python. In a variety of extremely cool compile-on-the-fly ways. It's really quite sweet :)

No reason you can't do that with Python 2.7. Should be easier in fact because the interface will be much thinner.

I am NOT saying this is a good idea however! Haha
Not all telecom people are sticks in the mud, that said modern at&t (SBC) is not known for being progressive, forward looking or flexible.
Support for the Radeon 7000 series in the open source driver arrived pretty slow. You should check to see what version of the driver is included with your distribution, as it could easily predate the 3d acceleration support.

For older hardware, the open source driver is getting competitive in terms of performance, and of course has the usual benefits of open source drivers.