skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally would think that work-hardening could also play a part in this. By the look of the anchors they are likely made of stainless steel, most grades of which will work-harden under the correct circumstances.

I am only familiar with the effects of work-hardening in a workshop situation though, so I'd hesitate to say for sure what the effect of that kind of friction/strain load would be...
Depending on your market size/slice it's possible in a good sized company to have folks that are so well entwined in that community that they can help give feedback about their favorite products.
Part of the problem with marketing is that people don't know what they want. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y
Nice Herring, thanks much.
What a great site! Thanks for sharing; I'll be using this on many other sites to improve readability.
Since when did the phrase "job offer" take on the same meaning as "job listing"?

To me, these are very different things. If you're evaluating job offers, that means you're already in touch with the potential employer.
i saw its application...i wanted to take a team of windows developers to git, and i just couldn't get reliability out of the current gui software out there (tortoisegit and git extensions). i kept going back, trying to make everything work out. i'd think that things are smooth, but then when i try to branch, something would go wrong. eventually i concluded that i was wasting too much time and i'll come back to it in six months (due to the time when the team would start was coming up soon), and then again in a year if need be. if there was no time constraint i might have downloaded the tortoisegit code and seen if i could fix the issues myself...(contribute to the project), although that is totally not the problem i was ultimately trying to solve.

also, in the code itself, i sometimes get caught up on trying to make everything perfect and try to take care of every edge case....often for things any user doing such a thing should know - this isn't going to work....but in case they try :) i want something friendly to happen.... and so on, and so on.
The difference is that Lotus Notes doesn't give you the result halfway through typing your password.

This color scheme would work fine if they waited until the password was entered and then showed you the colors, but to do it at each keystroke is insecure.
You're about 7 years late. Job sites are on the decline and are losing ground to niche sites like 37signals' job board and social networking sites like LinkedIn. Going with a free-to-post model isn't bad if you're a niche site (e.g. one that specializes in jobs for developers) because it allows you to gain critical mass fast. Then you can charge. But for a generic job site, this is a recipe for disaster. No differentiation + No Revenue Model = Fail.
I have screenshots of AdSense that would make you shudder.
So were requirements, design, coding, debugging and testing all crammed into this 90 days?

I'm guessing that system is going to be very difficult to maintain. You need some downtime for designs to settle in your mind and to be sure that it's going to work.

If you're going 24/7 for 90 days, I expect the design to be poor, the code to be hacked/patched, the bug count per loc to be very high and the test coverage to be minimal.
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Microsoft Search Engine and Pizza Hut aren't as different as you'd think
I've always claimed that the arm-swing counters the angular momentum of the legs. Without that you have to expend more energy to prevent your body from twisting. If you walk with your arms constrained that seems to require a "twist" effect from somewhere else.

This could be complete nonsense, of course, but my personal experiments suggest and support it.
This exact question came up on a recent StackOverflow podcast.
That's not true. I just really, really wanted something.
Philosophy of Success
I find this to be sadly true. I work for a university, writing software for research groups. I only have a Bachelor's degree, and many of the people I work with are working toward's ph.d.s or already have them and are doing post-docs. What they don't have is practical programming knowledge. I spent 3 hours yesterday convincing a group of grad students that the just because the library we are working with claims to be standards compliant does not mean that it is. I even wrote code to demonstrate how the library was broken and the simple steps to work around it. The other group members refused to believe the real life results, because the documentation and some ph.d. (who wrote the docs) said otherwise. The worst part of this is: it is not even a core bit of the research, it should be simple to say: hey this 3rd party thing is broken, but when we do foo, we get the behavior we want.

I firmly believe every CS degree should include a practical component such as internships, or a demonstration of skills by working on OSS or similar. This would not only help cement the theory, but also help with practical issues like making code maintainable. Most current curriculums use throwaway homework assignments, encouraging and reinforcing ugly code.
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It's also just a strait up lie.

"Among the 55 of 162 studies that were included in the final analysis, there were a small number of differences in nutrition between organic and conventionally produced food but not large enough to be of any public health relevance, said study leader Dr Alan Dangour.

Although the researchers say that the differences between organic and non-organic food are not 'important', due to the relatively few studies, they report in their analysis that there are higher levels of beneficial nutrients in organic compared to non-organic foods. "

PS: There is a difference between saying there is no significant effect vs. no effect.
If you have a vulnerability that could result in the takeover of every iPhone in the world, along with a noticable increase in SMS message traffic over carrier networks, and the manufacturer has not fixed it yet...

... then you probably shouldn't release it.

(Also: Buffer Overflow? Hello? Did someone develop this ten years ago?)
Hi! Alexander Torrenegra here :) - First of all, thank you all for reading the post. I had no idea it was going to become so popular and controversial.

Swombat: You seemed to assumed that LetMeGo is my 1st startup. Actually, LetMeGo is my 4th startup. Not all of them have been successful, though.

27,000 hours may sound like a lot, but that is just a fraction of the time our competitors have invested in their software. Although you can be successful in other industries with very simple software, that is not usually the case in the lodging industry. I may be wrong, of course :S
The big thing for me that's missing from Django's ORM is being able to map a model to an arbitrary select. It offers so much flexibility.
This is just content theft with no source given. The source is http://www.paleofuture.com
I can't find the deep link now though.
I agree. You really have to be disciplined to do this, though, because there is always something in a startup that needs to be done right now. Rushing for a month and then taking two weeks to refactor/improve code is fine. But doing the same for 12 months is a big gamble.
I learned this from my body work and martial arts studies. Good to have scientific validation...
It's a risk/benefit problem. If things go wrong, we're talking about serious and permanent damage. What if roundup-ready plants end up messing with the bee population (or whatever)? What will happen to species down the food chain? What affects will arise after a while from bio-magnification? Point is, nobody yet knows. GMOs are fine, but you had better be 100% sure of what the consequences are.
Shopping malls are basically roofed cities. The roofed cities concept has been a very popular nation of the utopian literature of that time. I think one day we'll reach that state. We're just not yet there.
Out of curiosity, what would be the point of making a fruit toxic to animals? I thought that animals eating a ripe fruit was the entire reason for the fruit (to distribute seeds).
Have You Heard
Yes, but efficient farming is having a negative impact on the biosphere. Like with most issues, the question is "Where do we draw the line?"

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming#Productivity_an...

http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/~agroeco3/modern_agriculture.htm...
Call me dense, but I have no idea how this possible made it to the front page.
I have been climbing for years all over Southern California, Mammoth, Bishop, Red Rocks. I would be down for a HN trip in CA or nearby.
3) is the most difficult obstacle IMO. Finding people who share a vision, have elite skills across broad functional areas, and have the lifestyle flexibility to start something are hard to come by. I've been searching for a year and it is a real challenge. Finding potential partners in the Boston area has been tough. I imagine its even harder elsewhere (excluding SV/NYC).
Java Development Kit, let's you compile Java code to bytecode (As opposed to the JRE, Java Runtime Environment, which runs it).

It's cross platform and not a marketing buzzword at all.

Have you done this before?
Be careful with this. You can get the "USDA Organic" logo with less than 100% organic ingredients. So it's possible that your frozen dinner has preservatives and other crap in it that you are trying to avoid by "going organic". Read the ingredients to be sure. If it's something you can't buy and add to your food yourself, it's probably in there for the seller's benefit; not for yours. (Less spoilage == higher profit margin.)
Putting aside the question of whether God exists, why would it be surprising that an animal with a brain sophisticated enough to contemplate its own death would evolve protective mechanisms against that eventuality?
The assertion of the study, "Organic foods are not more nutritious" is a function of the metrics used to measure "nutritious".

Did they check trace mineral content? Did they check phyto-nutrient levels?

No, in fact, they checked nothing at all. This was not a study. It was a meta-study. Meta-analysis is a very poor tool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis#Weaknesses

Note in particular the File Drawer Problem.

As other posters note: Organic food tastes better. Now, why is that? Is the only difference between the two really a matter of trace-pesticide use?
How many YC lessons is this guy following as well or better than you are?

* low cost / Ramen profitable - check!

* viral marketing - check!

* avoiding bad hires - check!

* keeping codebase small - CHECK!
Thank you for reading the post. I must clarify that travelers are not bidding. Instead, the lodgings bid for the itineraries of the travelers.

Additionally, we, at LetMeGo, use the word "lodging" because we are not only limited to hotels, beds, or rooms. We also cover vacation rentals, tents, and pretty much any place where you can sleep. "Lodging", which is the abstraction of all these, is not a common word because most online services only offer one type of lodging: hotels, or rooms, or vacation rentals, etc. That, hopefully, will change, as more options equals more competition and lower prices.
So, there are just Google and Microsoft, and that is very good for Google, because a good karma matters!

And where is Apple with "the search for rest of us"? =)
The phone is perfectly capable of running background processes -- it really is just Darwin running on a small ARM device.

The default sandbox does not permit calls to fork/exec, but there's no guarantee that the SMS application runs in that sandbox, or that an attacker can't find a way to escape the sandbox.
Not all Debian developers agree with this "decision" anyway. They are right now discussing it. See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/07/msg00148.html
It was clear that Yahoo never planned on being a search company when they passed on buying Google. And you're definitely right: Yahoo operates much better as a destination site. But in terms of media creation, Terry Semel and his Hollywood crew was brought on for that and it was just a waste, treading waters, not grabbing YouTube, not grabbing Facebook, flubbed on creating a better search ad product, etc.

They should have just worked it out with AOL last year.
Here is the link to Part 2
http://theshyam.com/2009/07/what-could-be-done-to-improve-cs...
Googlers are also about the weirdest population you can get outside of religious cults. They tend to skew technical and often focus on details, which can distort your feedback when the average user just wants something that works and doesn't make them feel stupid.
These guys are really awesome.
I've been programming as a hobby for years, am now a junior in a CS program and am consistently disappointed by the level of difficulty in my classes at school. When we do have to program, the grading criteria is so loose that it's difficult to fail at all.
If you have a vulnerability that could result in the takeover of every iPhone in the world, along with a noticable increase in SMS message traffic over carrier networks, and the manufacturer has not fixed it yet...

Looking at how Apple behaves in the market, I'd say that it might provide just the market correction that they need.

(Also: Buffer Overflow? Hello? Did someone develop this ten years ago?)

Apple's clear strategy is to bolt on traditional "managed runtime" features to the existing low-level languages, and their technical groups have a large standing investment in C development experience. Quite a bit of code is still written in C and occasionally C++, interfacing with Objective-C.

Whereas everyone else is clearly pushing for managed runtimes, Apple is expending considerable effort to bolt GC, closures, etc onto C. I don't think it will play out well for them.
Maybe it's just me then, I deactivated anti-aliasing in Vista as most traditional fonts look crappy and barely readable with it.
Nonetheless, I'd rather stick wit the classic web safe fonts like Arial/Helvetica and Verdana.
The problem is that our current farming practices are not sustainable. They are dangerous for the farmers. Farms produce an incredible amount of toxic waste (poisoning anything in the rivers their fields drain to), and consume an amazing amount of petroleum. (Fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides don't grow on trees. They require a large amount of energy to produce.)

So, if you are willing to poison our planet to make high-fructose corn syrup slightly more profitable, conventional farming is great. If you want your kids' kids to have strawberries, though... maybe not so good.

(Remember, commercial farms in the US don't grow fruits and vegetables; they grow corn. The government pays them extra for that.)

But anyway, if people not having enough healthy food is a problem, the government should subsidize healthy food instead of corn. I would rather my tax money help a poor family eat well (balanced, nutrient-rich, sustainable whole foods) than to pay someone to dump toxins in our rivers so that we can have soda that's one cent cheaper per liter. Unfortunately, I am not a congressperson, and there's a lot of money to be made selling sugar (erm, corn) water to kids.

The deeper problem is that businesses and industries tend to only analyze their direct costs. They would be fined if they, as a single entity, killed off all the fish in a river. So they don't do that. They let just enough toxic waste run off their fields to not be doing anything illegal. The problem is that when all their neighbors do that, they end up killing off all the fish. But it's not anyone's fault, so they keep doing the same thing. Externalities are either going to be the death of capitalism, or the death of human life on earth. I am betting on the second one.
Is it safe to assume he will be playing the guitar while driving me around?
Sort of a self-downmod font, don't you think? What you said, but I think pompous and self-serving. And possibly wrong.
Thank you. I can't count the # of times I've heard Microsoft described as innovative. Yet, nearly every time they try to innovate they fail. MS Bob anyone? Or how about that home automation pitch they made in the late 90s? Or Cablesoft / MS Media Server. Nearly every single one of their successes came from copying the competition (XBox, Windows) or through acquisition (Frontpage, Hotmail). And a lot of their failures (Zune, Vista, Win7 TBD) came from un-successfully copying the competition. Office is home grown, makes a lot of money and seems to innovate on its own, but it seems like the exception to the rule.
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Ask HN: Web service in the cloud, to handle multiple concurrent requests?
What cloud solution should I use to handle multiple concurrent requests?

I have a web service, which communicates with its client in XML-RPC. It can handle one concurrent request. I would like to use to cloud so I can handle multiple concurrent requests?

Which cloud solution will allow me to quickly spawn a new process for each request / session?
1. cross which platform?

2. where I can get JRE for linux on ARM?
nice! If you like Glenn Gould then look into Dinu Lipatti as well.
Jerry Yang would have never sold out.

Now this newcomer gets greedy, some money exchanging hands under the table and now Yahoo search is dead.

Carol Bartz? she will be forgotten quickly.
Ask HN: Is the market efficient or not?
I suppose this is the defining question of our century. What do you guys think?
Maybe a better question is why have we let so much farmland get repurposed for other, arguably trivial uses?

Easy, money and risk. Building a high-rise building with 200 units takes about as much land as two or three single-family homes. But it is much riskier to build the high-rise; it costs more, and all 200 units might not sell. So it's easier to just build the single-family homes; now you only have two things to sell instead of 200. Very inefficient use of space, but efficient use of space is not rewarded in any way. The fact that there is no longer any place to grow crops is Someone Else's Problem. You have money to make!
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The intended meaning always depends on context. People are rarely precise with their words; it's takes too much time and doesn't improve communication if all parties have a shared understanding.

At the start of my thermal physics class, my professor spent a lecture to define what a thermal physicist means when they say "never." We spent time calculating things like the likelihood of Hamlet emerging from 6 billion monkeys banging on keyboards for 13 billions years. This sort of understanding is important when talking about entropy and the laws of thermal dynamics.

For example, a thermal physicist would be comfortable saying all of the molecules in a room will never spontaneously exist on only one side of that room. With simplifying assumptions, we can calculate the probability of that happening. While it's non-zero, it's so infinitesimal that physicists are comfortable saying "never", and we have the second law of thermodynamics.

Your insistence on putting a dollar number on my confidence is strange, since even in your case it's rhetorical. No one is asking you to put money up, nor does the infrastructure or even rules exist for how to handle it. Further, my entire point was to demonstrate that certainty in science is impossible. All we have is confidence in something.
But isn't that possibly a result of their agreement with at&t?
That it tastes better may just be in my head, but I can definitely tell them apart just by taste.

It would be interesting to do a blind taste-test between organic and non-organic produce ... Pepsi Challenge style.
I don't believe it is in the short term efficient nor that its self-correcting, in the short term. In my opinion, the only way to reliably make money is to have insider information. People day-trading with no non-public information are trying to extract patterns from noise.
I agree... instead of trying to make up projects, schools should just send students on internship gigs at the end of 3rd and 4th year.
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Before 'monocultures' - agricultural output was terrible. Is that not important at all?
Ah, good point. I just checked the WHOIS and stopped there.

Still, http://yellowbird3d.com or anything else possibly reachable outside of links or copy/pasting would be nice (though I guess telling people "google yellowbird" works).
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I'm guessing that he dug Yahoo in the old days much like myself. Kinda weird seeing them working a deal with MSFT. I guess Google needs some competition in search.
Multiple top-security sites hacked (zf05)
Actually, some organic products get shipped further - when there is no local production. Milk is a good example of this. Organic milk is literally inferior to plain milk - it is pasteurized at higher temperatures, has lower levels of Vitamin D as a result, because it has to last longer during shipping in a larger distribution network.
Great interview, but didn't Sprint have an exclusivity agreement with Loopt at one point?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/15/loopt-may-be-friending-...
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Thats all fine, Monstanto is not nice.

Again: whats wrong with GMO food?
I have worked on grossly inadequate systems in many different businesses for years. I am writing the software that should have been there, but wasn't. How could I not be driven?
'Platoons' are potential pile-ups++. My wife used seek these out. She said she thought of them as being like a group 'hug'. It's much safer to spread out a bit.

The instantaneous risk incurred by speeding away from the group for a bit is usually far lower than the sum of sustained risk it averts.

Slowing down only helps until there's someone behind you. The real issue is traffic density. If it's 2AM and you're the only one on the road, you couldn't cause a wave if you tried. Traffic density can be reduced by increasing the speed of traffic and or the number of lanes as well as by reducing the number of vehicles.

Waves are an interesting phenomena to keep in mind but if everyone were to slow down, there'd be problems at the on-ramps (in addition to the cost in time just from being slow). You need the guys at the front to speed up until they can move right/exit to a less-traveled road.
I'd love to start a mailing list of hn climbers. Send off an email every time you visit a popular crag. I'd be willing to start one, just need everyone's emails.
How do you know it's "someone else"? It's the login page, you don't know who you're displaying the page to yet.

And if you mean a different salt every time the page gets loaded: doesn't that completely skip the supposed point, which is to give the user a recognizable visual cue that they typed the right password?
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I have always questioned his inclusion on PG's list of people he admired [can't find the post]

- but he is very well spoken and seems to have 'it'.
I used to think that CS programs need reform for this very reason. Now I've turned around completely.

Colleges are optimized for getting broad ideas and theories across. Theory of computation, algorithms, etc. are necessary for programming.

The point this article makes is that those ideas and theories are not sufficient for being a professional programmer. So what? Almost all engineering fields require some sort of on-the-job training. For software development, it's about writing maintainable code. I don't think this is something that can be taught easily in a CS program, and you'd have to stop teaching something else to do so (probably lots of something elses, since I don't see how you could do it in one semester).

Furthermore, either the majority, or a substantial minority of CS PhDs can't do this right, so it's strange to think that they will be able to teach this.
Organic food doesn't taste better. In fact, it can taste worse. There is an enormous amount of variation in taste of any given food each season, each harvest, each field, etc. You're just telling yourself what you want to believe.