skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't look good on mobile Chrome, either, and in horizontal mode the menu overlay dominates almost half the screen.
I'm not sure incompetence is the same as "doesn't handle every conceivable edge case." As the algorithms take over, "sorry, but you are an edge case we didn't get to" is going to be a common problem.
The cesium in the fuel and exhaust wasn't all that great.
Basically, people like to redefine racism to exclude everything less bad than the KKK and actual lynchings. A couple favorites from Reddit in particular:

"It's just a joke." - In defense of the slew of racist jokes that appear every time a POC is mentioned or seen.

"I don't hate black people, I hate black culture." - Every time a POC does something bad, or merely annoying. Mysteriously, nobody hates white culture.
Hopefully the SqlResourceLoader would do some caching.
The point is you shouldn't even try. The list is not there to get you to follow every point, but to illustrate that no matter what you think you can do to validate names, you're likely wrong, so don't even try. Think about what limitations are absolutely necessary for your specific usage instead.

E.g. if you want to be able to greet a user, ask them how they want to be greeted, rather than try to guess at which part of their name a user prefers to be addressed by and how to extract that part from their full name.
Has anybody actually beat that game without changing the source code or running it in the debugger?
Don't you need the BubbleUPnP server for that?

EDIT: No you don't, wow, this is fantastic. Thank you!
Twitter Pays $36 Million to Avoid IBM Patent Suit
I was going to say that I'd love to use all these neat Chromecast tricks but I can't because of its (native) poor support for external subtitles but then I got really afraid of saying so as disagreements about popular techs in HN usually result in downvoting. Offtopic: is it just me who feel like that and often avoid commenting?
How I used my profession as an advantage in judging the CrossFit Games Open
very fun, thanks for making this.
Yes! Personally, I use a tickle folder system within my email and it keeps me very organized. I would love to automate a large chunk of this but haven't found a good way to do this.
See also: http://r-s-g.org/kriegspiel/
Cocos2D vs Sprite Kit vs Unity 2D Tech Talk
Mozilla makes authentication system Persona Community Project
http://ycuniverse.com/female-founders-conference-re-cap-vide...

At the bottom of the page. I clicked play and it worked, despite telling me the channel was private on Livestream's site.
> Certainly something different than the daily "my framework foobar is the next successor to angular"-kind of posts. I'm actually happy for a bit of... rather unusual content.

I'm often extremely critical of off-topic political content, but think that "unusual" content that highlights some interesting bit of the world is great! It definitely fits "intellectually gratifying" far more than politics, or the latest "outrage story".

I'm happy to read well-written articles about things that are new and interesting to me.
Try to move up market if you can. That sort of really low behavior seems to go away as the budgets increase on projects. There are other challenges of course that come with bigger deals.
I'm fairly knowledgeable about Bayesian statistics, but I can't tell which technique you're referring to. It vaguely sounds like maximum likelihood, but ML doesn't iterate the model or priors. Could you explain further and give a reference?
simulated annealing. ;)
When I attended lectures with such cameras (which was some years ago) they were pretty horribad. Low contrast, low framerate, and motion blur everywhere. Probably had tons of latency too.
The reason you are not getting too many responses is that there is no right answer.

A lot of this is dependent on the industry, the type of business, your location and a bunch of other things that don't lend themselves to in depth answers.

I think you would be well served by looking at Steve Blank's materials (steveblank.com) and even maybe buying his book.

Aside from that, the simplest answer is:

1) Based on your own experiences what are the potential problems that businesses may be facing that you were exposed to.
2) Make a list of all the relevant companies in your area that potentially may be targets for investigation.
3) Find ways of connecting to these companies. Try hard to make sure its to the right people.
4) Contact these people and setup lunches/coffee meets etc. Your introduction should be about how you think you can solve their problems and the ideas you have of how you can do that. Please don't just email them and ask them what problems they have.
Low quality submissions get buried. Really low quality submissions often are killed. Bitcoin is attracting a lot of attention and therefore generating significant blogspam and redundant submissions to HN.

If your submissions are not generating interest, assume they are low quality even though it may be bad luck. If your submissions arrive dead, find better sources.

The system provides good feedback. It's up to each of us to act on it in ways that meet or exceed the norms of HN. One way is to create and blog original content and then submit a link.
You forgot about the f-35. Oh, wait.

That explains where (alot of) the money went.

That and all that NSA crap.
While you may be fine in this case, be careful with that sort of action. When in dispute with a client, even a deadbeat, you have to be really careful what actions you take. Their failure to pay may well be a breach of contract, but under the law your right to pursue that is in court, not by throwing a brick through their window or interfering with their business.

You cannot cause harm to someone because they stole from you by not paying you. That is not proper, legal recourse.

I have been in the situation where I decided the most prudent action was to "shake the dust off [my] feet" and learn to screen engagements better.
I thought it was an interesting comment, so, cancelled that out for you. :)
I'm sure the programmers who did this had no ill intentions, but when someone tells you about a broken algorithm multiple times and you ignore it then you are no longer smart.

A lot of very common names are also dictionary words (Jack, Jon, Dick, Smith, Smart, Baker, LARRY PAGE, etc...) so someone clearly sat down and figured out an algorithm to allow or restrict certain words. Whoever came up with that algorithm should have quickly realized they didn't have a good way to distinguish real names from fake names.

My vote is incompetence.
Building a Bauhaus style clock with raphael.js
I prefer the Xterm default Fixed fonts ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_(typeface) )

The IBM VGA font is a close second: http://i.imgur.com/XtzqR.png
In Defence of Microsoft (Honestly Ad Controversy)
It's even simpler than that, ning.com is on whatever block list (or at least, many of the subdomains there).
You'll perhaps take this as snark, but I am not going to read light gray text on a white background with a poorly rendered font (windows 7, firefox 27, 47yo eyes).
Templates for gaining wisdom
Python Language Features and Tricks
>Mysteriously, nobody hates white culture

Man, that's been the exact opposite of my experience.

Obviously unscientific, but it's interesting to compare the difference between https://twitter.com/search?q=white%20people&f=realtime and https://twitter.com/search?q=black%20people&f=realtime .
Yeah, I've found ESR's old "how to ask smart questions" is very wrong. The more details you provide, the less likely you are to find an answer. (It's more accurately titled "how I wish people would have asked the question because I would have less work to do but it doesn't actually get their question answered, which is of course less work.)

It seems that every detail gives people another reason not to answer. If I say I'm trying to search for a word somewhere in a directory of files on OpenBSD, people who only know Linux will think that "well, grep must not work the same way on OpenBSD" and not respond.

Partially this is because of prior experience with assholes. If someone says "well, on Linux you use grep -lr" then an asshole will shout back at them "HE WAS ASKING ABOUT OPENBSD NOT LINUX YOU MORON LEARN TO READ."

(Spoiler: the answer is the same on both Linux and OpenBSD.)

People get the Internet they deserve.
MBTI is almost pseudoscience. It is popular, but it is not a valid psychometric instrument. Do NOT take it seriously!
The final version would belong at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law?setlang=r...

The first step is to read the article at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page...

The complete list of steps is at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Preparing_a_page_...

Sorry, I didn't realize it was so complicated to do this.
> It is unlikely to be notable enough to meet the criteria for being included in Wikipedia

Why? Wikipedia is an encyclopedia [1], there is no need to keep the amount of pages low, storage is cheap and no one prints out Wikipedia on real paper.

The "not notable enough" is a real threat to Wikipedia and the future of the project. The German Wikipedia already lost a lot of former authors (volunteers) because of admins gone crazy. They don't want anyone to edit "their" pages, and revert and ban almost every new edit/user. You can read about this serious situation on Heise.de [2]. Read also the 650+ comments of the related discussion [3]. The English version is still better in shape, but it moves in the same direction, unfortunately.

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

[2] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Blutet-Wikipedia-aus-... ; Translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...

[3] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/S-Blutet-Wikipedia-aus/...

Edit: I am not against "notability requirement", with a better balance it's fine. Wikimedia Foundation should have a closer look at the German branch... maybe resetting all "admin" privileges would help?
How difficult is it to scan the entire area using satellites? There are civilian satellites that offer resolutions better than 30cm today, surely enough to spot wreckage in the middle of the sea. DigitalGlobe alone has over 3 active satellites that can scan an area of over 10,000 km^2 in a single pass, and the combined revisit times should be good enough. This should also be possible using SAR with a good enough resolution, as the sea would appear mostly black and anything non-smooth on top of it should stand out.

Edit: made a mistake concerning the area. Fixed now.
Iterative algorithms which attempt to solve maximum likelihood usually fall under the category of expectation maximization (a good example is K-means clustering).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation-maximization_algori...
This "if it's profitable it's morally ok" model can have legitimate applications, but this sure isn't one of them.
That's called a Straw Man. Start with a naive solution and refine rather than trying to get it right all at once.
The actual implementation may have been bad but the intent (improve the quality and civility of comments) was not a bad idea and has arguably worked.
I use this on my kids.

"What happened at school?"

"Nothing."

"Did you race motorcycles in the hallways?"

"No, we had music!"
I find it really strange that they interrupt the checkout flow to offer a Pay It Later option. I have a verified account, with bank account and credit card, and in all my years of e-commerce development experience, I've always worked hard to minimize cart abandonment. And yet, it's central to their cart experience. I suppose the upside of the profit on that feature is greater than the frustration and abandonment factor in even offering it, but it definitely feels like they're veering from their "payment service" brand experience to.. something else.

Which just seems weird. But knowing how EBay operates, they must have data proving otherwise.
Mind blowing facts about banana
Very helpful to have a UI for digging through profiler results. I use the django debug toolbar but I think your profiler will be incredibly helpful for finding bottlenecks. Thanks for posting, thanks for sharing.
German Researchers Project Future Of Text Displays
Obviously they read XKCD. "Little Bobby Tables we call him".

http://xkcd.com/327/
I remember when this happened to Oceanic flight 815.
It's absolutely the best way to learn. I remember my mistakes better than by successes.

But then you encounter an employer who says that they want to see your StackOverflow account which is full of wrong answers and silly questions.
The area of sea involved quickly works out to tens of thousands of square kilometers.
Often, people forget to look a history but it's a good teacher. Applying history here, look at most successful technology companies and you'll see co-founders (Google) or a founder that hires (Amazon).

Supposing you can't build an mvp, logically, you're best to try the above routes.
I think you may be confused - I read that as the client deleted the wordpress instance, not the contractor.
For less snark and more helpfulness, consider removing "I am not going to read". I think you'll be happier and less likely to be perceived as snarky.
Oddly, I think it's a side effect of the way that technology works. When we humans want to do something we find a way and usually it is extreme and capital intensive. Afterward, we find more economical and less extreme ways of doing it.

The Colosseum in Rome still exists because the only way to do it was to do it in stone and stone lasts forever. Since then we've built millions of arenas that won't last as long because we've used economic forces to develop just-good-enough structure. Likewise, the SR-71 has been replaced by the just-good-enough surveillance satellite.

There's another aspect too. Sometimes we do things just to see that we can. Going to the moon is in that category. If there was a compelling reason to go back we would've. The Concorde, one could argue, was in the same category - we had to have the thrill of taking commercial flight into the supersonic realm, but we found that they economics were such that the thrill of going supersonic and getting there a few hours earlier were not enough to support a market.
Ahh sorry about that. I'm like the most terrible UI person. ever... thanks for the feedback. made the text darker.
Kernprof and lineprof are also helpful.
I'm mostly a backend dev, who knows basic frontend stuff.
If I need to build a marketing website should I choose WebFlow or Startup Design Framework?
Does WebFlow uses Bootstrap 3?
Note that this article compares Pandoc Markdown to ReST; Pandoc adds a lot of features that vanilla Markdown lacks.

Of course, this is one of the big problems with Markdown; there are a bunch of different implementations, each of which adds its own extensions. Actually, if you take a look at the Pandoc homepage, you'll see that it implements 5 different Markdown flavors: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Last month, I have spent quite a time researching various types of emails web apps / SaaS businesses send to their users. This is my findings. Hope it helps!
They are neither racist nor incompetent programmers. They simply are a company with little to no customer care culture. I suspect this will bite them in the rear in the future.
- I use Thunderbird.
- I created a folder in my Gmail Inbox named after me (Jugurtha).
- I created a filter that puts any e-mail I send to myself in that folder.
- I just e-mail myself, and the mail gets to Jugurtha.
- A specific thing gets a thread I add to as I go. Ideas, websites specific to that topic, etc.

I also used to have a "Next" spreadsheet on Google Drive with coding colors. Green is done. Red is not done. Orange is halfway (with a remark in a third column saying why exactly it's not done yet, so these are next tasks).
The whole area between Malaysia and Ca Mau is bounded within a square of less than 500 km^2, and even that is a vast exaggeration of where the plane is most likely to be.
If you have a sufficiently rapid turnaround time, this works for products, too.

For example, don't have a good idea for a landing page? Throw up a bad one. It'll get you data and you can improve from there.

Obviously, a less good idea for things where iteration time is measured in months...
Try the aftermarket, sites like Sedo and Snapnames. 'Available names', especially .com's, are few and far between now.
The idea is to prevent Wikipedia being turned into a tool for self-promotion. An example would be if I created a page for my name describing myself as a spelling consultant, then went to every article that mentioned a high-profile spelling blooper and added a line like 'without the services of a spelling consultant, such as [[hmsimha]]'.
Try having an apostrophe in your last name. O'Brien, O'Keefe, O'Dell and my fave O'Charley's. It is really simple to accommodate this in software and databases, but the problem is getting worse and worse. The pharmacy can't find my prescription, the cleaners can't find my clothes, my doctor's office can't find my appointment. My passport doesn't match my drivers license. Some of my credit cards have the apostrophe and some don't. I have to use the right credit card to pay certain bills (Straight Talk, I'm lookin' at you). One employer's system set email addresses from your name in the payroll system, and believe me, you really don't want an email address with an apostrophe in it. The sneering response to this is that I should change my name. Really? It's part of our Irish cultural heritage. Sigh.
oh don't get me wrong, i love speedrunning and trickjumping competitions, except that they always should require the whole replay - and even then you can't be sure if the whole thing was or wasn't TASsed.
It's not about storage or page count. It's about quality and relevant material. When I search for "band" (disambiguation) I wouldn't want to end up seeing a list of every high school band in the western hemisphere. It's just not important enough (to enough people) to include as part of an encyclopedia.
What looked odd to me at first was not the deviation but the fact that it seemed almost mechanical. As I looked at other flight paths vs actual flights however it became clear that this sort of deviation was relatively common.
You are right, of course. And that's what I meant. I just equate unit testing and TDD together so often that I tend to (incorrectly) equate the two.
Hey, I just want to say: good for you to develop your thing and show it off on HN and make the source available. It takes a little bravery.
On second reading, you are right! I did misread that. Sorry, piratebroadcast for reading into your statement something that you did not do.
Ask HN: Is membership to the BCS worth while?
I've been a Member of the BCS for 3 years and originally joined during my undergraduate degree as a student. I joined because of the discounted rate for those in university and once again my membership has come up for renewal. At a cost of £118 per annum I'm questioning whether it is worth while?

The BCS seems to be targeted at management and those more advanced in their career. I haven't found any events or anything in the quarterly magazine that peaked my interest.

I know there are other services around and some recognition for status (I have thought about becoming a Chartered Engineer) but are these relevant/valued in today's world with firms/recruiters?

More broadly, does the ACM have these same problems? Would I be better to in joining something else (such as ACCU (http://www.accu.org/))? Or am I missing something which would increase its attractiveness?
Interesting. What would be awesome is Google hiring a Native American Indian named Joe NoFucksGiven. I mean, it would be hilarious.
This is general human tendency, that is "to correct".
The "Real Names" policy is the stupid policy.

The reason it is a stupid policy is Google has no intention of making sure every person signs up with their "real name."

So they create automated rules about what a "real name" is. And that's dumb.
Python's unpacking is a poor man's pattern matching. I'd really love to see them extend it to support user-defined patterns like Scala's extractors or F#'s active patterns.
> The SR-71 has been replaced by the just-good-enough surveillance satellite.

Given that the primary motivation for the SR-71 (and, before it, the A-12) was to have a platform wasn't vulnerable to interception like the U-2, I think satellites aren't merely "just good enough", they are far better in that key respect.

They might be worse at "be where we want on demand", but if that's the overriding concern, there's all kinds of other platforms (drones, U-2). The problem with the SR-71 is that it is highly optimized for survivability through speed, but the speed it has doesn't do enough for survivability to be worth the cost given the other alternatives available.

> There's another aspect too. Sometimes we do things just to see that we can. Going to the moon is in the category.

Well, if you ignore the Cold War geopolitical context of the space race, sure, going to the moon was "just to see that we can".
Totally of topic, but I think it might be interesting and new for some of the HN crowd: both Lagrange and Laplace, not the least of mathematicians, didn't believe that idea when Fourier presented it to the Paris institute. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Four...:

"[...] a committee consisting of Lagrange, Laplace, Monge and Lacroix was set up to report on the work. Now this memoir is very highly regarded but at the time it caused controversy.

There were two reasons for the committee to feel unhappy with the work. The first objection, made by Lagrange and Laplace in 1808, was to Fourier's expansions of functions as trigonometrical series, what we now call Fourier series. Further clarification by Fourier still failed to convince them. As is pointed out in [4]:-

All these are written with such exemplary clarity - from a logical as opposed to calligraphic point of view - that their inability to persuade Laplace and Lagrange ... provides a good index of the originality of Fourier's views."
The problem isn't the drone airframe. It's taking the person OUT of the airframe.

Having that pilot in that seat removes the need to replicate the kind of situational awareness you have when you're flying your plane 100-1000 feet off the ground and making passes to identify who is who so you avoid a friendly fire incident. Until we have the kind of immersive, low-latency, realtime kind of virtual reality you'd need, using drones for CAS is a pipe-dream.
What Is Hadoop Exactly? A Cynic's Theory
Shoebox size datacenter – The Hardware
On March 6 Christiaan & Dennis ministered a session at the Dutch VMUG Conference. During this session they presented their shoebox size datacenter.
Re: #1 - so far...

Software updates, component changes and supplier cost cutting don't necessarily maintain safety records.
RFC865 – Quote of the Day Protocol
>And don't even talk to me about "$100,000 isn't that much in the Bay Area". Even in the Bay Area software engineers easily make double the median household income.

I've never earned $100k in the Bay Area, but I can tell you that I had to pay $1100 to rent a single room in a shared house for a month, and that was getting a good deal compared to what I saw on Craigslist and Padmapper.

Yes, that level of real-estate cost does discourage my taking a job in the Bay Area.

At $100k you can spend 30% of your monthly gross income to pay a rent of $2500/month, which will just about get you a one or two bedroom apartment depending on how fashionable a neighborhood you want to live in or what distance to work you're willing to commute. That is lunacy. Consider that most people don't even make that much, not even in the Bay Area, and that the people who are capable of making $100k could get a much nicer life for it elsewhere.

For instance, if I could live in a decently cheap area while earning $100k/year, I would be able to save up enough to retire early after a while.