skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
philfreo & sil3ntmac rate a mention:

"If you’re crowd-sourcing, better check the inputs! One of the crowd-sourcers was thrilled to receive a result with a reported hamming distance of zero! Only to discover one of his crowd-sourcers had hacked his javascript to report back this (incorrect) result."
VM, which (like gnus) is built on top of Emacs. I use a very old version (version 5) because I did not like the direction the project took after that. Heavily modified by me.
How and from what (if it's ok to ask)
Hated it. Looked in to leaving early. It didn't work out.

(Not sure I qualify as a hacker, though. I code my websites by hand but that's it.)
But is it because young adults these days don't have to grow up as much as teenagers had to say a century ago? You can effictively stay a child emotionally for a very long time.
When the tech press disparages you, that will likely have no correlation at all to how either the public or the developers see you.

I'm not an app developer, but I'd be quite surprised if the tech press Apple has been getting has not discouraged developers or potential developers to some extent.
No, that's what you get for not preparing yourself for all the different shapes and sizes of user created content.
Click the title for the pdf.
Yeah, I don't remember all of my passwords either. And I usually have the most trouble remembering my most important passwords, since the number of times I use a password is pretty much inversely correlated to the importance of the data it protects. So the idea that I could be jailed for not admitting something that I no longer had knowledge of is somewhat scary.
2003 called, it wants it "I spent the least amount of time I possibly could to come up with a just barely relevant criticism" back.
Forbes ranks West Point as nation's top college
The advantage of this is that it might subsume other redistributory policies. A lot of money is simply transfered from one person to another in this country, and to have a single method of doing so would make every adjustment to the amount a large national debate, rather than a rider on a bill no one reads.
Climate change geoengineering
Visualizing Our Problems: New Techniques for Government 2.0
Me too. Stable, fast, extensible, keyboard friendly, and tons of features.
I think there are a lot of poor HTML/CSS questions and answers on Stack Overflow, but I don't think separating them other programming questions and from non-front-end programmers is really going to help anyone.
Casinos really only have Blackjack tables because patrons want them, or else they would probably get rid of them pretty quickly.

True, but ... isn't that the case with every game in the casino?

Once upon a time, actually, blackjack wasn't terribly popular; craps was the king of casino games. But after Thorp demonstrated it was beatable there was a surge in demand for blackjack. Turns out, nearly all those new blackjack players weren't really very good at counting and lost money hand over fist. Thorp's work (among others) led to increased casino profits and lent an air of legitimacy to gambling; it wasn't just luck anymore, if you "worked" at it you could profit. [Citation needed].
The "Copenhagen Consensus Center" - LOL

"Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." R. Feynman
What: After spending 3 1/2 months bedridden, I was diagnosed in May 2001 with "atypical cystic fibrosis" in my mid-thirties. Doctors blamed my condition on my genes. I figured there had to be more to it than that.

How: I have a small website that attempts to answer that question: http://www.healthgazelle.com

To sum up my point of view: White people are more vulnerable to sunburn than darker-skinned people but "pale skin disorder" does not doom you to be chronically sunburned to the point of peeling and does not doom you to die at an early age of skin cancer. Similarly, cystic fibrosis makes one more vulnerable to infection, but one does not have to accept being sick all the time as their only fate. It takes both pale skin and sunlight to cause sunburn. It takes both CF and germs to make one deathly ill. The environmental and lifestyle part is what we can control. So far, so good.
Women Prefer Poaching
What free email provider do you use?
I like GMail, any more/less than the next guy, but it's all google these days. I wonder, if there are any other mail providers (for free) that have services POP3/SMTP/IMAP (which live.com/yahoo.com is said not to have)
Our brain grows and develops not so much as a function of time but of experiences. I don't think MRI images of modern day teens is really enough to base a conclusion on. It may be true that teens today show less development but the reason for that is not a foregone conclusion.

I think what the author is trying to say in his article is that teens are capable of much more than they are allowed to do. And that very fact may be what causes the results in the research you linked above.
It would only be more ethical if your ethical system was based on a utilitarian viewpoint.

In contrast, most capitalist democracies (all that I can think of anyway) are centered on individualism... the only ethically allowable sacrifice is the voluntary sacrifice... and children (anyone under 18) are not considered sentient enough to make decisions about their own lives and futures.
Your argument is that because there are already restrictions on private property, that there should therefore be more. I respectfully but completely disagree.

I also don't think your analogy is very applicable, since domain names are just floating in the ether, not sitting in physical proximity of one another. Ads plastered on one will not drive down the values of the others — the complete opposite, in fact. Furthermore, no one would buy prime commercial real estate, do nothing with it, and then be able to cover their costs with some ads on it — whoever bought it would go bankrupt. Ignoring all that, however, I really feel that if someone wanted to do so, the city council should not be able to levy fines on them for letting their property go into disrepair. Would I want to live next to such a property? No, definitely not. But it's their property and I respect their rights to do as they wish with it. I don't feel the ends justify the means in this case.
Yeah.. openid still feels really funny to me even as a developer. I guess I should read up more on how it actually works (behind the scenes).
However, some people have to live with the systems (err nightmares) that were built by people gaining "real-world experience". Just a little bit of focused education can do wonders (esp if you mix in a little passion).
Presumably they'd rather put them away for 5 years than let them go free.
No, no, no Computer Science would be destroyed, not Mathematics.

A large portion of Computer Science is the study of algorithms including their complexity.

How can you say something is going to be destroyed by something that isn't even a question in the field?

If anything Mathematics is going to be improved by getting rid of some grunt work and giving way for some more creativity. Not to mention the theorems that if P=NP would come about which could be used for even further results.

All-in-all it's a win-win for Mathematics.
PE Study: 77% of GPs could claim top quartile status
That's not my experience, either. I just got a new laptop and chose a matte screen because my previous glossy screen was impossible to use on the train as any bit of sun turned the display into a mirror. The matte screen is much, much better.
I used Gmail for quite awhile, then started looking for alternatives. Inbox.com is decent, but has no IMAP, which made it worthless for me. GMX Mail also looks like it could be good; seems very similar to Gmail. I hear very good things about Fastmail, but usually from paid users; if you're using a free account, they only give you 10mb for storage.

I eventually settled on paying ~$20 a year to Tuffmail. The features (Bayes classifier, sieve filtering, company who actually cares about my mail, etc.) made the marginal price worthwhile for me. If I were to go back to a free account, it'd probably be Gmail; I haven't seen anything better than it yet.
That's because it will most likely result in more spam. If you give write access to the inbox then app developers will go crazy. Notifications from apps (bottom right) are already starting to fill my stream.
If I were a pirate who had little gold to lose, and a grudge against some of my fellow pirates, I could always play the spoiler and cause everyone's gold to go to the captain or into the sea...
I personally have no problem with the negative comments I'm just skeptical and bored seeing it repeated over and over again. Especially with all the broad generalizations like "Apple is the new Microsoft" or other non-sense. Makes me think some of these folks are just trying to cash in on a controversial story.
I think you're right. I recall noticing that after I turned 12 my approach to situations was fundamentally adultlike... I don't think I've changed much cognitively since then either... Just the slow accretion of experience, etc.

I did learn how to be more self-actualized, etc. since then, since a good portion of even the best K-6 education constitutes obedience training... which I had to unlearn.
Wow. I find the idea of driving around the country a bit much. You biked, thats pretty amazing. You need a beer, or two.
Ok I'm back, after 'experimenting' with that flash game for the last 19 hours I can report that the music does get a bit annoying after hour 13 or so. Also Incognito mode doesn't stop the flash bugs.
Unfortunately, for some companies, IE6 is just a front end for a lot of legacy applications. To them, internet browsing is a secondary function.
Interestingly, stack overflow is not popular with Caffeine...

"HTTP Requests optimization": 2nd result with old Google. Not in the first 3 pages with Caffeine.
DVD Jon Posts His Apple Anti-trust Subpoena
That seems like a common problem. You gather requirements which suggest that the software will be used once or for a limited time, so you cut corners in order to get it done quickly and then years later the software is still being used and everyone is complaining about the cut corners without understanding the circumstances by which they came to exist.
That's about 14 million tons of carbon dioxide that won't be going into the atmosphere every year. Not too shabby!
So in scenarios where you have direct sunlight shining on your screen, glossy is better.

On the other hand a glossy screen is a mirror and distracting compared to a matte screen in all other cases.

I've never been in a situation where I couldn't prevent direct sunlight from hitting my screen. I am in conditions all the time where reflections would distract me and I cannot orient the screen to fix it. This doesn't seem like a difficult decision.
I've no doubt that many reports of app store horror stories are exaggerated and there are always two sides to every story, but as a dispassionate observer (I don't own an iphone or build apps for any mobile platform), I think boycott is absolutely reasonable.

The fact is if even half of the horror stories are half true, Apple is downright abusive to iPhone developers. Are they within their rights to behave this way? Sure. But they also shouldn't be given a free pass just because they have the best platform from a technical standpoint. End users don't really give a shit, so the burden to put pressure on Apple falls disproportionately to developers.

Given the blackhole nature of official channels to address grievances, I think Apple is just asking for this kind of developer backlash, and they deserve what they get. Schiller's responses so far to me are underwhelming. He has a right to make factual corrections, but Apple needs to take real action instead of just trying to placate big name Apple bloggers. Gruber's response in this regard was fantastic.
It depends on how you measure n. The O(log^{6+\epsilon}(n)) quote on Wikipedia is for n being the number to be tested. This is "cheating"; inputs to an algorithm need to be measured by their length, and numbers are exponential in their length (i.e., the length of the number n is order log n for "reasonable encodings").

As an example, the knapsack problem with n objects and weight W is solvable in O(n*W) time, but it's known to be NP-hard. This doesn't prove P=NP, because W is exponential in its length. This is called a pseudopolynomial algorithm.
Seems the recruiting problem is a big one -- I wonder if there is a job board specifically for companies that are bootstraping abroad? Maybe there are too few companies doing this to make a job board worthwhile.
Plus you can vote for more than one candidate. This is a good thing, I think -- approval voting is a very well-behaved voting system -- but perhaps not what people were trying to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
it's in a post above, but they "removed" this option from their newly designed laptops because it requires an entirely different screen construction. i also don't think the majority of users want matte screens, even if many do.
Read a great short story by Charles Stross about this called 'Antibodies'. The notion was that a discovery like this would rapidly lead to strong AI. Never connected the two myself like that but now it seems obvious - AI is essentially an algorithms problem.
Steve Yegge talks font-locking, js2-mode and more
Guy wrote the foreword. He's not the co-author.
Ask YC - Quantity up, Quality down?
Seems like the quantity of submissions to this site have gone up but the quality has gone down. What gives?
I didn't hate high school, but I certainly don't miss it.
Thanks. I did that based on the feedback I got here.
This is very true. Everyone can remember how a year or two ago Greenpeace started going after Apple and their dirty manufacturing processes. Nearly everyone in the techosphere tried defending Apple, but if you look at the new MacBook Pro website, you'll see their improved environmental credentials featured very very prominently.
All startups would be instantly ramen profitable.
postbox is not free :(
I've known a couple of people who grew up too fast, and that can be kind of ugly sometimes. I'm all in favor of the emancipation of children and the abolishment of school, but atta same time, there's gotta be some kinda line.
WordPress 2.8.3: Screenshot gallery
Why do you assume that people know what they want to do when they're 13-14 years old? If you were to ask me what I wanted to do back then, I'd look at you funny and say "computers".

Come to think of it, If you were to ask me what I want to do now (I'm 19, a junior in college), I'd probably give you the exact same answer. Even though one of my majors has nothing to do with computers at all (other one does), nor did my internship this summer.
When I start getting worried about the quality here, I find better articles to submit. Just a suggestion ;).
Thunderbird for Windows over SSL POP3.
Why we chose the Apache License
I was going to complain about the lack of a text summary, but then I scrolled down, and hey, there it was! It might make sense to push that a little higher on the page, though.
Agreed, that is an issue unfortunately.
The fact that this API is one-way really highlights the difference between Facebook and Twitter.

It's one-way because Facebook has to be worried about spam since anyone can send a message to anyone else. Twitter doesn't have this issue because you have to opt-in before you ever receive a message from someone.
One point: people here seem to be assuming they want to sell the ad space on the right hand side of the page.

Rather, I suspect that the whole site is an advertisement for their services. If they're successful, they'll gather huge amounts of google juice (for good reason, with useful links).

Further, I suggest that people should view this as good, organic marketing, rather than as some sort of evil practice because their intent is to market. There should be lots more marketing like this.
old; tuomov is an angsty old man with no sense of aesthetics. AA and subpixel hinting drastically improve the readability of fonts except at an extremely small size (which I can't read anyway). He's right that the current state of fonts on linux is terrible, but removing AA is a horrible idea.
I got my father $80k to pay the IRS within 48 hours. At the time, I was 21 years old, making $6/hr working full time at starbucks, and was in a bachelor house with other college kids. He called me and said I could go to the office and take the fridge, TV and whatever else I liked, because there will be nothing left of it by January 7th, first federal working day, and IRS was coming to take it all. They already froze his accounts and step-mom packed her stuff and left for Canada.

I called him from the office to ask him for the password so I can check my email. I played some music, stood there and decided to take a look at his business software. The rest was history. We did a lot of apologizing to people later, and we lost 5% of our clients, but the feds where paid, we kept the family business, and we paid people back within a month.

Since then, I have fucked up and fucked up big. Me and him fought repeatedly. He disapproved of my life choices and sometimes we didn't talk for weeks, but STILL, every time I screw up he tells me I am a very gifted screw-up and loves me very much.
i switched from thunderbird to evolution and have been very pleased.
The general principle is fine. The principle (stated more precisely) is, "if you have an accurate mathematical model, you can do engineering."

In the case of cancer, we don't have an accurate model. All we managed to do is use a large statistical sample to average out over the non-radiation variables.

In the case of climate modeling, we have a sample size of 1. All our conclusions come from a family of models which are claimed to be very accurate. According to the IPCC, our models are accurate enough to make the claim (with 95% confidence) that CO2 and not other unforeseen factors is the cause of the current global warming trend.

If our model is that good, what prevents us from using it for engineering?

And if the model misses all sorts of important facts, how can we draw conclusions like "AGW is true" from it?
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/07/announci...
I just learned something new. Milton Friedman supported a form of basic income.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/business/23scene.html
I do appreciate what you're saying, but with this kind of thinking, where do you stop? Yes you can do defense in depth and defensive programming and all sorts of nice things. But if you tried to do this for every scenario all the time, you would never get anything done. At some point you need to trade off being productive against well pretty much anything else, which is basically YAGNI, i.e. do enough but don't go overboard.
He did write about this in The God Delusion briefly - how religions might have started, why they propagate so easily etc.
To set the record straight, virtually all laptop panels are 6-bit.
I try not to send messages through FB because it seems that they never delete anything.
I had a nutty professor in college. He hooked me on scripting languages -- his favorite was gawk. He would write absolutely everything in gawk. Need a data structure? Use an associative array, it is the Gawk Way. Need code reuse? Cheaper to delete and start over. He was brilliant, I learned a lot from him, and I would not let him near my code if my life depended on it.

Lisp has always struck me as a "nutty professor" sort of language. I hear it is wonderful and pure and that if you truly grok it you see the Hand of God Himself in its awesome majesty staring out from within your code. But while Lisp seems to be long on awe, it seems to be short on software I'd actually want to use.

No one has ever claimed to have had a religious experience from reading PHP code (and if they did, I would suggest dousing them with holy water from a safe distance). But PHP has Wordpress. "Lisp can do a blogging platform too! Better! Stronger! Faster! We can do it, we have the technology!" Yes, Lisp can... but Lisp doesn't. (And if it did, I have a disturbing premonition that the steps to build a piece of blogging software would start with "#1: You need a webserver. None of the existing ones are exactly right, but that is no problem, since making a web server is easy in Lisp. First we define a few simple macros...")

Now, if I were a Lisp developer POed at ignorant savages on the Internet suggesting my language was perhaps a bit ivory-towery, I'd probably spend my time writing software which was so good they'd be unable to ignore me.
Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?
Made in America (Not China)
stackoverflow doesn't claim to be XHTML
The Herman Miller Embody Chair
It seems like they tried to make this scary just to have a story. Unless you're connecting to a site without SSL, or using an old unpatched version of IE, or ignore your browser's warnings about the SSL cert, etc., I'd say you're pretty safe. Am I wrong?
I'd have to agree, I was merely wondering; I'll check Tuffmail out though :)
Netflix to follow up its million-dollar contest
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Screw it. I've implemented it many times and still don't prefer it myself. I like to be able to setup a new separate semi-anonymous account on each site I use.
What if you forgot your password. O have a file catted from /dev/random that looks like a it could be TrueCrypt partition, good luck trying to convince them it is not an encrypted file. They'll just say "yeah, yeah" and you go to jail for 5 years.
Validation would prove that they knew what it meant to paste this at the top of their template:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

If they actually served the pages with the correct Content-Type, their pages would not render in any browser.
Outlook at Work.
Gmail and Google Apps gmail for my domain accounts.Also use gmail on my blackberry through the regular blackberry email client.
These sites are 90% SEO focused (even if they don't admit that it's true). I wonder if it's better to separate it all out on these different sites. They have to build up PageRank on each one separately. It seems risky, although it probably will benefit them in the long run because they'll effectively compete with themselves.
seems a shame to have to jump through these hoops simply because the gmail web client doesn't handle account switching. Gmail really needs to fix this!!!
That's all well and good. There are a lot of internal corporate applications that were developed on IE6. Knowing that IE6 required workarounds that would break in IE7/IE8/FF3/etc, it would be irresponsible of Microsoft to force upgrades to IE7 or IE8. Meanwhile, corporations are not likely to revisit working apps and upgrade them to IE7 or IE8 - there are better things to do with people's time. So, the sad truth is that IE6 is going to live on as a legacy application, but not one that necessarily must be supported by present and future applications. There are plenty of alternative browsers that can play alongside IE6 in corporate environments and allow web development to progress.

This reply is a bit blunt, but if you're outside a big corporation, it's easy to say 'bad developers, get with the program', which is an overly simple answer that ignores the reality of most big businesses. They want to get things done, and that doesn't always mean doing things 'correctly'.
I would love to browse a job board of these openings.