skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They only loathe the security industry because they feel that those in it are incompetent. You say "effective promoters", they would reply "promoting what? the illusion of security that security companies give?"
I think what he's getting at is that the math taught in high school and applied college courses isn't fully formalized, often isn't fully explained, and even (as taught) contains ambiguities. I was a math major (and took graduate level analysis, topology, and set theory as an undergrad,) but the applied math classes I took felt really rushed and confusing. I actually felt kind of lost and dumb in sophomore DiffyQ, and what's worse, I was surrounded by engineering students who were having no problems. I sometimes felt dumb studying Lebesgue integration and transfinite induction, but I never felt lost like I did in DiffyQ. It didn't feel like math at all; I loved math but hated sophomore DiffyQ.
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Especially since the url slug is just "teen-decomposes".
I'm a math idiot, too, but I know that he's confusing indefinite and definite integration. Definite integration returns a number; indefinite integration returns a function. Differentiation does undo indefinite integration.
(I'm developing software for Android and i want to add my point of view regarding the Android market and the apps)

The author complains about sloppy apps that sometimes work, sometimes not. I see it the way that the Google/Android approach is even more revolutionary than the one of iPhone, especially for independent developers. They do not have manual reviews of apps.(!) Any developer can just go to the market website, create a new project, add a description and the bundle and click on "publish" -- it's immediately available on the market for users around the world -- and it's up to the users to judge it's quality. Think of it -- no manual reviews -- no approval process. It's a lot of freedom! (in particular if you think about all the iPhone approval process problems we hear of each week)

If the app is poorly executed, it will receive lower ratings and go down the "by date" list without ever being seen again. If it is alright the users vote it up and often leave comments, indicating that it works and hinting at things that could be improved. Apps can really quickly climb the "by popularity" list, so if well made, are seen by a larger number of people.

Therefore for me it's excusable if some apps don't work perfectly, especially because they are having lower ratings and a lot of comments complaining -- all things one knows of before installing.

Finally I think that the apps are _currently_ of a lower overall quality for a variety of reasons, one being the kinda small user-base compared to the iPhone -- i mean it's like 45 million vs. 1.5 m! :P

Around 20 new Android phones were announced for this year, all with a better performance than the G1. This game will be very interesting to follow over the following 5 years (and more). Android is here to stay, and will certainly become more equivalent to the iPhone and it's immense market share over time.
Windows 9x was a mess. That same is not true with NT which is really nicely put together.

I've dragged some stuff which we wrote for NT4, recompiled it with VC++ 2008 (plus spent some time frigging VS settings) and it just worked on Win2k8. The original binaries, even though they were compiled 12 years ago, still run on Win2k3 fine and past the test suite (!).
How "fit" or "obese" were the people, and how "elevated" was the blood pressure and cholesterol?

If the study showed that incredibly "fit" people who smoked occasionally and had a sightly elevated blood pressure and/or cholesterol had a "lower adjusted death rate" (what is that, exactly?) than people who sat in front of the computer all day but had none of the above factors, that would be one thing.

If the study showed that slightly "fit" people who smoked heavily and had an extremely elevated blood pressure and/or cholesterol had a "lower adjusted death rate" than people who sat in front of the computer all day but had none of the above factors, that would be something else.

The same could be asked of the fitness vs obesity results. How fit and how obese?

Also, have the results of the study ever been replicated? Or do they conflict with the results of other studies?
"Dean Canaris, 56...Harry Jackson, 55...Mark Montgomery, 53,...older men cut loose from employment at the peak of their earning power and work experience."

I had never stopped to think about this before. Is it a common assumption that one's earning power peaks in one's fifties?
I +1'ed you to make you feel better :)
Seriously man I don't even know how far can 20 bucks take you. How much you're goin to tip the waitress? 2 bucks?
Over-engineered products
And it only took them 5 years to reach that. Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004
There is even more confusion out there.
Think of abstract algebraic structures.

Who needs groups?
No one. Until one realizes that certain simple equation transformation rules are not based on natural numbers, or real numbers but on groups. Once something like that clicks in your brain, you can suddenly solve weird equations with sets and symmetric differences, or bitstrings and xor's or other pretty akward things which looked really scary earlier.

Who needs rings and semirings?
No one, until one realized that a certain algorithm requires a structure... and this structure is a semiring! Thus, if one can prove that two operations and a set form a semiring, you can apply this algorithm without any effort, because it will just work! :)

Or, even more. Who needs the theory of katamorphisms, Anamorphisms and such? No one. Until one realizes how beautiful recursive datastructures are and how easy it is to program them once you understood the idea behind them (Check http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.1... for a nice paper about this)

Who needs integration (besides those numerical people)?
No one, until one realizes that any simulation, most iterations and such are discrete intergrations in very, very akward and convoluted algebraic structures.

Ach, I somehow wish I studied math before studying computer science by now.
This depends a lot on where you live.
hell yeah 2 bucks, what was she expecting?
My experience with math in school is that it was taught as if it were modern art: a bunch of meaningless procedures (up through calculus) and meaningless puzzles (beyond calculus).

If it were taught as providing some insight or serving some purpose, it might be a lot easier to learn and retain.
Not sure what your main goal is, but in my compilers project class, we used lexical analyzers to break out tokens from the input stream.

Try looking up "Lex" or "Flex"...these were the tools we used. There may be better ones around now.

Here's a quick google: http://dinosaur.compilertools.net/
So Linux works for me and not for you.... Like I said, if Android reaches that point, I'll be happy ;-)
Anyone who's done an engineering course will have heard about the metal fatigue in the Comet's overhead windows.

What I didn't know was the comet originally was supposed to be equipped with rockets for take-off on short runways, and at high altitude. From Wikipedia:

"The Comet was originally intended to have two hydrogen peroxide powered de Havilland Sprite booster rockets for takeoff under hot and high conditions from airports such as Khartoum and Nairobi. These were tested on 30 flights, but the Ghosts were apparently powerful enough without them. The later Comet 4 was highly rated for its takeoff performance from high altitude locations such as Mexico City"

Cool!
Firefox and Chrome will sure change the browser landscape in the years to come. The playing field will change dramatically once Chrome gains a good traction. And we have Chrome OS coming up. So lets hope for more exciting things.
We have palm-sized devices that can provide you turn-by-turn directions to friend's house, while streaming music over a (semi-)pervasive data network, and keeping you in constant communication with everyone you know (eg. IM, etc.). They can continuously update a map with your location, for all to see, and query what more or less amounts to a global intelligence for information on pretty much anything. Remember the hitchhiker's guide? The thing that was complete fiction in the '70s?

We've developed methods to selectively suppress gene expression (RNAi), which is already paving the way to new disease treatments and cures, and even more effective genetic manipulations. Maybe soon we'll be able to completely change our genetic makeup with a designer virus.

Transistors are now only a few atoms thick, and still growing smaller. We've finally discovered the memristor, which should provide even more complex circuits at a fraction of the size (memristors are physically less complex than transistors) -- we're configuring components at an atomic level.

How can you seriously claim that today's technological progress doesn't stand up to that of the 1920's? Consider my mind boggled.
So what that it's "natural"? All sorts of things that can harm or even kill you are "natural".

- Cyanide is "natural".
- Hemlock is "natural".
- Mercury is "natural".
- Cobra venom is "natural".

But none of these are things I'd want to spread on my toast in the morning.
I wonder what ugly intellectual property issues will be dredged up when I can just copy, xerox-style, any small physical object I can stick in front of my $3000 scanner.

The end of scarcity in the physical world will make the upheaval the entertainment industry faced at the hands of the internet seem like an argument at a PTA meeting.
Yeah, I tend to say "computer science" when I mean "theoretical computer science." To me there is a clear split between the stuff that's math/logic and the rest of it which I'm happy to lump under the catch-all of engineering (and don't feel comfortable labeling as any sort of science).
Or you could walk next door and mow your neighbor's lawn for $10 (at that rate, who would refuse?). Focus on earning more, not spending less.
I think of something like a comment or an abstract; security is not an issue here because input validation and escaping is done elsewhere.

Basically, I think of a string like "ham, egg." which should result in "ham" and "egg", and "Ветчина, яйцо." should also result in "Ветчина" and "яйцо".

The challenge is that you cannot whitelist all possible characters as there are (imho) too many charsets.
Holy crap! There goes 25 of my ESX host machines. Might have to buy RHEL now.
"White men over 55 had a record 6.5% unemployment rate in the second quarter."

The overall unemployment rate stands at 9.5% today and averaged 9.3% in the second quarter. While I have sympathy for anyone involuntarily unemployed, it seems like white men over 55 are doing relatively well all things considered.
Because offering a simple, intuitive explanation that doesn't skimp on details is a hallmark of expertise, and the holy grail of education.

We like it because it works, and because it's a show of craftsmanship. Very much like hacking, I suppose.
Get a bicycle, stop commuting and grow your own food.

Works for me. Costs virtually nothing. Keeps you fit and healthy. Provides 75% of our food needs.

Also stop the guilt complex on quality, organic foods and branded goods. People give you evil looks if you pick up the "value eggs" in Tesco in the UK. "Think of the chickens" they chant. Fuck the chickens.
Care to provide some more details for your statement? I've never seen the film in question, but I've seen (and eaten) McDonald's "food". Fast food has been implicated in weight gain and insulin resistance by numerous studies. Hopefully your argument isn't that you can just exercise more.
Right, it is not tech focused, because his point is not so much Portland as the actual cultural distinction between good places for entrepreneurial people and good places for starting up.
The Book vs. The Kindle
Not only common, but I would think accurate as well.
Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch Unlocked
Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch is a truly beautiful looking phone. User can view the large 2.8 Inch colour screen, touch screen displays up to sixteen million colours, it's built in 8 megapixel camera which comes complete with easy to use camera
I think so, at least for the "normal person" that follows a path along the line of school into a series of jobs with medium to large organizations.

Most salaries are based on seniority or else on skills and abilities. Although those are not the same thing by any stretch, they both normally are correlated with age, though of course there are numerous exceptions.

Seniority takes time, and only time, to build up. So while the older people do not necessarily have seniority, the young necessarily do not.

Skill, experience, and knowledge generally improve with age, especially amoung the ambitious that continue taking opportunities to improve those. Even more than that, it takes time to build up a portfolio/resume/references to prove to employers that you have those needed skills and experiences.

So as a general rule income will go up with age. But people start retiring in their sixties, for some people in their early sixties. Also, some others that do not fully retire will transition into a career with less stress and correspondingly less income. So, average income for the population as a whole is likely to start plummetting by that point.

So, for the population as a whole, peak income would come in the mid to late 50s with a rapid drop off afterwards. There are of course many outliers. Most athletes and startup founders for instance will pass their peak long before that, but they make up a small portion of the population as a whole.
Sort of, for well-defined functions (for some definition of well-defined). I remember seeing an example in analysis which showed that it was possible to get some nonintuitive behavior in functions.
In the same manner: Was there ever a time when a human could not figure out that black rocks got hotter than white rocks?
> it's about how particle physicists are headed in the wrong direction. Oh no.

"Wrong," as the book's title suggests, is not a strong enough word.

The string theorists have proclaimed that we should no longer require a model of reality to make testable predictions. This should not be confused with an honest mistake, and the fact that a majority of the field's participants are in on the fraud is no excuse (when you lie for money, it is reasonable to call it fraud, whether or not the deed fits the narrow bounds of any legal definitions.) Physics has been Lysenkoized.
"Green" bags have become quite popular in Australia. I think they look pretty horrible [1] though, but even girls carry them around while shopping. And you do not need to keep it in your pocket, just hang it on your shoulder.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/GreenBag...
No windows though. Big turn off.
I haven't got an iPhone. Instant fail.
See also Sussman's talk on how terrible math notation is:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2726904509434151616...
That's kind of irrelevant if you live in an area where winter actually exists, since your roof is automatically white from about December on. :)
This is pretty much what I mean. You buy fairly average food, but I wouldn't touch most of what you mentioned with a barge pole.

Meat? No.
White Flour? No!
Sugar? Hell no!
Chedder? Maybe a little.
Milk? Maybe, but expensive.
Cereal? Probably not, unless it's real like granola or muesli, in which case it's expensive.
Veggies? of course, but those also cost.
Butter? Maybe a little.
Lunch meat? No.

Try doing without white rice, sugar and pasta, and getting fresh greens and fruits, whole grain everything, brown rice, etc. Even if you make a lot of it from scratch, it adds up.
founder of ww.com, small time investor, coder, tinkerer.
> unless the externally motivated people impede the internally motivated people in such a way that negative progress is made

Is it not obvious to you that this must be the case? Every scientific field (and the set of professional researchers as a whole, I dare say) has a prevailing culture, like any other community. A scientific culture which rewards grantsmanship, bootlicking, and smoke-and-mirrors tricks is necessarily hostile to anyone who is genuinely devoted to advancing science.
Similar case to the Mazda Laputa (in spanish: The Whore)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Laputa
These days, the "word of mouth" is increasingly becoming the "word of fingers", as most viral ideas spread through typed media (email, forums, Facebook, blogs, messaging, Twitter...) much more than by spoken word.
Read this from end to end:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632680%28VS.85%29....

Unchanged since 27 July 1993. Used trillions of times a day by millions/billions of computers.
What about those who were not smoking, had no elevated blood pressure or elevated cholesterol AND ALSO were fit? I would expect them to be better off compared to both groups mentioned. It's not like one has to choose between smoking and obesity ...
I'm in Eugene now. And it's got a fair number of tech companies and branch offices (aka. telecommuters). If you are there and want to connect with the local tech scene there is a monthly tech brewpub hosted by http://itproforum.org
It's definitely more economical to buy lots of food in bulk. It also helps to have lots of refrigerator and other food storage space.

Unfortunately, buying in bulk isn't going to be an option for many single people with lower incomes and not much refrigerator/storage space... (maybe with the exception of beans and rice, which can be stored relatively compactly and for a long time without refrigeration).

Another thing that works against people with lower incomes is that much of the nutrious food is more expensive than the less nutritious food.

Bread is a prime example. The cheapest bread is highly processed white bread. The more nutrious whole, multi-grain breads are usually two or three times as expensive as the cheap crap.

Same with organic, cage- and cruelty-free produce vs the pesticide-ridden crap.
"Bank" has always been a four-letter word
If I'm not mistaken, at least Drupal has a module that allows you to host the google analytics JS files on your own server. This would lead me to believe that you can do that sans Drupal, though I've never attempted it (in either fashion actually.)
One useful side-effect of a time-tracking tool such as JotBot (note: I'm the developer) is that it routinely prompts me for input on what I'm doing.

Now, that sort of thing can be annoying to some (as opposed to some passive activity tracker), but the upside is that it makes me aware of when I'm dicking around at the time I'm doing it, rather than at the end of the day when it's too late to correct it.

I've tried blocking tools; hated them. I'd rather be allowed to make these decisions, but with a nudge that reminds me when maybe I'm getting too distracted.
As a book collector, I love print editions of books, but digital books are inevitably going to become more prevelent. And while I don't think paper books will be going away any time soon, ebooks will take their toll on bookstores.

Just as digital music (arguably) has not hurt record sales, it has (again arguably) had its toll on bricks and mortar music stores. It is a way of life, and love it or hate it, it is inevitable.
I am enthused. For a turnkey package $3k is very competitive - if I had the cash etc. etc. I'm not sure what I think of their 'HD pro' option - spend another $995 and get 2x speed and 4x resolution! such crippleware is begging to be hacked. Also cant' tell how their $995 CAD offering (NURBS and other 3d goodness) stacks up against the internal performance of other 3d packages. Anyhoo...

One reason I like this is that I've always loved film special effects, but have been disappointed by the recent trend towards CG-everything. I personally do not enjoy 3d modeling at all. But with this, we might see a resurgence of the (nearly) lost art of miniature building for film and video and now gaming. In general I think it's way faster to sculpt from real materials and scan the result than to do the same thing in a modeling package for all but the simplest items.

For hacker purists, here's a page about going DIY... http://www.chromecow.com/MadScience/3DScanner/3DScan.htm
Replying to myself: I meant to say general inflexibility. I.e., one right way to do it, rather than many.
You might enjoy "Counterexamples in analysis" [1], it shows, for example, a two argument function for which the order of integration matters, while the geometric interpretation would suggest otherwise. A must have!

[1] www.amazon.com/dp/0486428753
I apologize beforehand my ignorance, but how did you that?
Well barring the practice of specifying meaningful characters, the only thing I can come up with is to have your program use statistics to take it's best guess at what 'special' characters are. Let's say 95% of the characters are between 65 and 90, and every now and then there's a 44-32 pair. Then your program could be pretty sure that 44-32 is a delimiter, and that 65 and 90 are the ranges of characters used in keywords. (The above examples are ASCII).

However, that does nothing to eliminate words like 'in' and 'of' in a query, which you may want to do. It isn't very practical at all, I think, and you probably want to look at more practical ways to list possible delimiters, etc... Although the above could help you determine what charset you're using.
You're right. I'm used to verb-noun commands, which are more popular in Unix, and the only option in Powershell.
omfg - it's running windows!
This should go up dramatically once Microsoft adds firefox to it's list of browsers included in its OS.

I guess technically, the downloads won't go up, but usage almost certainly will.
Ape brain narcissism misses the singularity
I think there are health department regulations that may require that. But it could be just that they were being bastards.
Get rid of all Top Level Domains
I actually thought about mentioning that...

All software (code+data) on the Wii must be signed, but the code burned into the supervisor chip does a strcmp on the raw binary signature. It's pretty trivial to generate a hash collision when you can force only the first byte to be compared :)
A friend who used to live in Florida told me they would put water on the roof in the summer. The evaporation of the water would cool down the roof and house.
Not my post, but thought the author makes a compelling argument for moving to a country code only domain name system.
Well, yes when you put it like that - however, that CentOS guy apparently was not in any active role in the project for quite some time now and his disappearance does nothing to CentOS.

When other people, who actively participate in the project, quit - like Alan Cox did, most of them - if not all - responsibly manage the transition.
yeah...I don't think you'd get very good fidelity just holding the camera up...maybe some sort of camera mount on the back end and make it modular where you could go back and forth between naked eye and taking pictures...I think I'm going to try this with a usb webcam and netbook first.
Is he seriously suggesting that governments control domain names? Because that's what it sounds like to me. If so, that's possibly the worst idea I've ever heard in my life. Seriously. I cannot think of a worse idea.
Minimum wage at a WalMart is not a survival strategy. If you are lucky enough to get full time (unlikely), one minimum wage job is not going to feed a family and make a mortgage payment. $1300 a month gross, $975 net, $400 after mortgage, $200 after essential utilities, negative balance after pre existing debt service. Nothing for food, medical, essential transportation to and from job, etc. Sorry, the house must go, file bankruptcy, move to a homeless shelter next door to WalMart and walk to work.
Black Hat Researcher On Cloud Computing's Vulnerabilities
thank you, I'll have a look at that, that may be helpful!