skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know man, I listened to a couple of the tracks and he definitely has lyrical skills, and I like some of the tracks, but the quotes you selected aren't very good at all, at best obvious topics with all the insight of a million college freshmen. Having said that I like "None Shall Pass" that has a really great sound.

To be entirely honest, I love rap, but not for any insight rappers have in world affairs, but for their lyrical ability. Some are very good at providing unique ways to describe their own insights about their lives but when someone starts rapping about world problems I just want to shut my brain off because it's usually pretty banal. Then with my brain off I can still at least enjoy the way the rap sounds.
Car design meets UX design
That's my feeling too. We have lots of famous examples of intuitive, breakthrough, "a-ha" moments by great inventors, so we use that for inspiration.

However, there have been billions of bad-instinct decisions as well, ranging from "should have zigged instead of zagged" while driving a fast car around a curve to Napoleon invading Russia.
I think the idea of the U-2, which was developed before stealth was really a thing, is that although you can see it, it flies so high it is out of range of your interceptors.

After Gary Powers, they probably double-check that the countries they fly it over don't have modern AA capabilities.
Great article - I bookmarked it - when our startup will go online I will buy associated number domain and redirect all Chinese traffic to it. I think that's a great idea!
Nice. So the system depends entirely on transponder?

What will happen when one plane is at the right altitude but report one higher by human or machine error on a day where everyone is flying blind? ...not that we have any blind day in LA but still...
TIL Facebook had a down round:

http://avc.com/2014/05/the-valuation-trap/#comment-136902035...
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Given the number of new/identified aircraft spotted in the last few months there's a strong possibility this was simply not a U-2.

http://theaviationist.com/2014/04/23/two-different-black-pro...
Show HN: Compare book prices across Amazon, Wordery, and the Book Depository
In case anyone tries to download the PDF and work from there: the embedded image appears to be low resolution raster, so that doesn't work either :(
My kids' school went away from drilling for times tables when my oldest two were in elementary, in favor of a new math program that would "help them understand what multiplication is". The result is they struggled with math ever after because the mechanics of solving more complex problems was constantly interrupted by not having the needed basics.

They since changed to a more balanced approach: some memorization, some conceptual.

Personally, I've come to the point that I think they should fully embrace technology and make math completely about the conceptual while letting tools generally solve the mechanical. There is no reason a seventh graders needs to be challenged in algebra because they don't remember their times tables.
Drones Banned at Yosemite, Park Service Says
This comment is nothing more than a cheap attempt to inject musical elitism. Please, if you have nothing critical to say that doesn't also inspire well-meaning debate, then take your business to Slashdot.
The application of this line of thought to activities such as obsessively checking email (or HN, for that matter) rather than working on your startup/open source project/big idea/ etc. are potentially interesting.

For that matter, the implications for creating addictive experiences (eg. Farmville) rather than rewarding ones probably have implications for long term sustainability of business models, though not as much as I'd like (eg. cigarette companies).
Hunger and Learning Potential [video]
that is frustrated me when entering functional language world. rarely good document compared to other language. In Perl, many modules will have their own tutorial
From the article:

> Nothing has inherent meaning. Everything is only what it is and that's it.

I think you come to the same conclusion but perhaps express it a little deeper than the author does.
I heard some people say, Japanese use the same way to memorize the year of some historical events
What can I do in these 4 months to maximize my chance of success at this company?

This presupposes that it's worthwhile to be successful at that company. Most companies aren't worth it. In fact, there's a correlation between a company being well-known and a company having horrible code.

It depends what you mean by "successful" though. I'm defining success as "increasing one's skill." But that's completely orthogonal to most people's definition of success, which is "climbing the corporate ladder."

If you just want a secure job, focusing on your software skills isn't the way to go. Focus on your connections at the company and how you present yourself. Your connections will mostly determine whether you'll continue very long at the company. (This assumes your skill is above a certain minimum standard of quality.) Companies aren't meritocracies.
Celery is a system for job queues / asynchronous tasks / whatever you want to name it. Usually in web the in-between time of request and response is the time it takes for your application to do the work. However, if you plan to do a lot of work (e.g. render business reports), or the work can take quite long (e.g. make a request to an external service), asynchronous processes make a lot of sense. The request will return the response fast and the application registers a "task" in the queue. A queue system will then pop one of the tasks independent of the web request/response cycle and process the tasks in it's own time.

In short, it simply makes your application respond faster (and scale better) while you still can keep track of all the work done.

I am quite familiar with gearman and beanstalkd, but Celery (as far as I understand it) is a python layer over these implementations. It allows you to write code agnostic of the broker, which helps for portability etc.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/7/4598834/apples-patent-case-...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/apple-wins-german-ba...
Wouldn't numbers also be faster to enter because you wouldn't need an IME?
Same here. 817598
While that is a possibility, there's nothing to suggest it is stronger than the reported id of the plane, so I'll stick with U-2.
yi-ga when asking for one of something
My iPhone was recently stolen. Within seconds, I had a pretty good idea of who had it. The insurance I had from carrier meant I'd have a new one in 2 days for a $249 deductible. What are the odds of a confrontation costing me more than $249? Even going to police has the potential of costing me more than $249 in lost time, and that's IF I can convince them to do my personal bidding.
plus it forces web sites to be designed in such a way to easily locate what you need, e.g. "recent transactions" shouldn't be buried deeply in the navigation tree.
It's not really about the value as much as it's about the principle of the matter. Maybe it's an American thing but we have a sense of justice that makes us do irrational things when rationally it shouldn't. For example, someone broke into my car and ended up taking a tennis racket from my trunk. It wasn't expensive to replace but I got in my car and drove around to see if I could spot someone walking around with it. I would have confronted them and fought them if they didn't hand it back. Even then, I would probably call the cops and report the person.
By economic I mean things like the absolute prioritization of so called endangered species (weasel words because they often turn out not to be) over human jobs and when you come down to it lives. The spotted owl being used to shut down the Pacific Northwest lumber industry, a bait fish being used to shut down a lot of California farming, etc.

Then there's general "environmentalism" and NIMBY/BANANAism that broken the compact between the city and countryside in California in the '70s, canceling the water projects necessary to keep up with the population growth of the former. Per farmer and intellectual Victor Davis Hanson, this year that's going to kill half a trillion dollars worth of agriculture, as an inevitable string of droughts require sending all the water to the cities.

Or the precipitous shutdown of the US coal industry; yeah, the stuff is extremely nasty and pretty much anything but bogus renewables (that can't scale, nor meet any demand cycle without even more expensive storage) would be better, but the speed and way this is being done is evil. And disproportionately hits fly-over country.

Or look at the XL pipeline, or unrestricted illegal, and way too great legal immigration. Etc. etc. etc.

All these are destroying working class jobs and lives, and the middle class ones that are based on them.
How does the book compare to his mega-tutorial? I liked his tutorial, but what does the book offer what's not in the tutorial already? I'd love to back Miguel by buying the ebook, but if it does contain valuable additional information, I'd prefer the hardcopy.
Even commercial airliners' transponders can be trivially switched off in the cockpit.
Funny. I came to the solution a minute into reading the article. I'm no graphics wiz or anything, it was all a matter of having the right inspiration...

Yesterday was my nephew's first birthday. My family had a basketball theme. In between superficial conversations I noticed the pattern on a cheap rubber basketball was made of dots that form overlapping, concentric circles. I thought the pattern was neat and it stuck with me...
Why Exams Should be Open Book
I imagine that it would be something similar to the German Tank Problem. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem ) Taking each writing as a sample of the words that are known then would allow for an estimation of total words known. I imagine that this would need to be modified to account for the non-uniform distribution of word use, but the principle would be the same.
Chrome isn't hotkey capable?

Ctrl+L -> Home key -> Type reddit.com/ -> Enter key
Yes, that's what it says in the article.
Poor Twitter, always doomed, never as good as it used to be.
It's not about being good at math, just at memorizing numbers. I'm Chinese American and was considered to be "good-at-math" in grade school, but damned if I can remember long sequences of numbers. Maybe I should try thinking about them in Chinese.
http://easybacklog.com is a backlog management tool. It is fundamentally different to many existing tools such as Pivotal or Sprintly in that its focus is to provide scrum masters and product owners with a tool to estimate, and manage the delivery of a project as opposed to the ongoing endless development of a business. This type of workflow is needed for freelancers and agencies who are typically trying to deliver a service at a fixed cost or fixed scope. Easybacklog provides tools to compare the backlog at points in time and thus renegotiate at each sprint with the client in regards to scope or price.

I have thousands of active users and have asked many of them whether they would be willing to pay, and they are. Unfortunately I just don't have the time now or for the foreseeable future to add a few highly requested features and billing systems for the product. This is an ideal product for someone to pick up, add a few of the really needed features, and start charging existing happy customers.

Get in touch with http://mattheworiordan.com if this interests anyone who has some time to develop a Rails / Backbone application, and wants to create a revenue stream for themselves very quickly.
U2s aren't particularly stealthy and if you want to hide the location you just turn the transponder off.
Maybe this is just me, but it's a little unfair to compare to literary texts.

Humour me for a moment.

When an artist writes a song, he (or she) has constraints. Most rappers would like to rhyme the ends of their sentences. I know sometimes they don't (like poetry), but it's certainly pleasing to the ear to have that constraint. Artists endeavour to make their songs catchy, that's highly correlated with the gross sales of the product.

When an artist writes a novel, this constraint is not weighted quite as highly. I know Shakespeare wrote poetry, too, and to call me out on this comparison is entirely fair. That said, there's also an argument to be made for eye rhymes. Shakespeare used these a lot. Eye rhymes are words that don't rhyme aurally, but do rhyme visually. It's the story that pleases the reader, not necessarily its aural 'catchiness'. I probably made that word up. But Shakespeare made words up too. The point is, you knew what I meant.

At the end of the day these comparisons, while certainly interesting, should be taken with a pinch of salt. While I'm at it, this advice can easily be extrapolated to any dataset. Always understand there may be unknown correlations.
How long has Firefox been logging security warnings (in the web console) for insecure login forms? Do you know of telemetry about how prevalent the problem is or whether the security warnings have helped? I assume, for compatibility, Firefox will never be able to simply reject insecure login forms.
I don't know about that. Just look at the webpages you see when you're on the web. See which have AdSense and which have other ads but not AdSense. If AdSense pays the most, then most sites would have AdSense unless they were denied, suspended, or banned. There should be quality differences.

Is there a pattern of quality differences between AdSense and other sites? I am not seeing one.

The only ascertainable difference I see is -- heavily trafficked sites generally use AdSense, and sometimes have more than the maximum three ad units per page in the AdSense terms.
In the director's commentary for Swordfish, director Dominic Sena outright admits that he made his computer consultant/animator create exciting outlandish sequences over the consultant's objections under pain of being fired, because a realistic sequence would be "just a bunch of scrolling data", it'd be boring, and the nerds would object to it but they don't really matter anyway. Pretty much a picture-perfect snapshot of the contempt Hollywood had for our profession.

It's good to see some studios and directors addressing these issues, particularly David Fincher but also Disney with recent Tron works (few surprises there, Disney owns Pixar where many computer graphics pioneers work; nerds are some of their most bankable filmmakers).

But see /r/ItsAUnixSystem for even more funny sequences even from modern times.
For now I don't see it fitting my need. But if I have many many bookmarks, how can I deal with them? what if there is a rank feature to let me see what the audience/friends are interested on will be greet. Like hot/cold.

Edit: Just to let you know I am in the same case then you (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7692320).
Vampire Science: Young Blood Recharges Old Brains
Because We’re Running Out of Resources, Government Must Manage Them
Yep it was Nourish right in downtown Savannah.
Look up the volume of world trade before WWI, and just how long it took to get back up to that level. Much, much later than you'd think.

Looking the results of the of the infinitely more brutal Pax Romana should give anyone pause at the prospect of the end of the Pax Americana.
As a coder who get shocked every time those running lines and "ACCESS GRANTED" pop-ups appear as that guy just break into the bank account and other phony stuff, I have to say that it did not started in here at all.

Hollywood has been faking it all the way, from ridicules gun-shots scenes, bombs explosions, cars that keep driving after getting smashed and street-kids who can shot and kill in one hand.

It is simply that code, software and hacking is closer to us than the other examples, so we care about it that it will look real.

Also, how would you show an owned server? a prompt that reads:

# root

This means nothing to the masses.

[1] - regarding bombing scenes, I think is one of those rare directors who don't fake it, rather make it looks as realistic as possible, see Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty as examples.

[a] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_3

[b] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1
Until a competitor's SEO outranks your site for those keywords or buys similar Google AdWords.
Aren't Google AdWords effectively "stable keywords for sale" today?
Ask HN: Why Will No One Hire Jr. Devs?
I'm graduating from a developer bootcamp in Portland, OR next month. I have extensive startup experience in non-developer roles. As I'm pounding the pavement looking for my first jr. developer gig, I'm finding many companies are turning their backs on jr. developer candidates without reviewing work / resumes / etc at all. It seems like a lot of people are excited about training jr. devs, but not excited about hiring them. Does anyone have any tips for a new jr. dev out in the wild? Why are companies reluctant to hire jrs?
> at best obvious topics with all the insight of a million college freshman

Art is weird like that.

We have to remember that it isn't all about needing to learn something new from the experience. Sometimes it's just about getting something out of it.

Looking over the lists of the best songs of all time[1], we can see that there aren't a lot of incredibly insightful songs. Quite frankly, most speak of your "obvious topics" and probably don't talk about them with any sort of magnificent linguistic grandeur.

But that doesn't mean they aren't great songs and don't offer their listener an experience worth sharing and repeating for generations.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_considered_the_be...
Your boss is your de-facto mentor, choose your boss wisely. It would be very difficult to grow quickly in software if you aren't already doing it full time.
Ummm. False? You have a legal obligation to your shareholders regardless of whether the company is public. Fiduciary responsibility.
Poll: How much do you trust Google?
Just wondering how much trust people have using Google services such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google+, Voice and other services.
I trust Google with my personal data and I have no reason to find other services
I no longer trust Google but still using their services because I don't see any other good alternatives.
I no longer trust Google and I have moved some of my data to another service
LocalBitcoins Infrastructure Attacked, Bitcoins and User Data Safe
(This is of course wandering down the same meta path, but...)

I've always wondered if it would be possible to tag comments with tags like "tangent" or "meta" (or whatever else seems good), and then apply sorts based on that (probably in some user selectable way).

> By the way, the reason we reverted the title in the first place is that the editorialized subtitle immediately provoked a bikeshed debate about the "communities" and whether they're really distinct or not—when the meat of the post is about things like fault tolerance in distributed computing.

I disagree that the comment was a bikeshed debate: the article spends several paragraphs (and the first four!) talking about the relationship of the two communities, and the discussion of their relationship (both in the article and here) explained some of the ways that knowledge I knew about math intensive computing (and related technologies, such as GPUs) related to problems I hadn't previously worked on.

Exploring the relationships between subdisciplines, especially closely related ones like these, is a benefit both in the article and in the related discussion.
it's simply not a problem in practice -- even for very very large tables. Use bigserial if you must.

you can also modify the child table to use a different sequence for each table.
I think you hit the nail on the head: the problem is education. Generally, a C programmer who took the time to understand integer types and their behaviour won't make mistakes with either signed or unsigned types. But making unsigned types second class only reinforces bad habits (or what I consider bad).
Wait, I'm confused. From the following line:

https://github.com/Nubisa/jxdocs/blob/master/benchmarks/core...

Doesn't this line calculate the amount of time it takes to compute a single task? (elapsed time / number of runs = time per run) Doesn't this mean that JXcore is actually faster, since the number would be smaller with more runs?
yes, the parent is also a target table -- but for partitioning you never put anything in the parent. I could probably talk about the troubles of putting data in the parent table.

and yes, a trigger function is possible -- and I could have mentioned it (although this was written as an explanation of partitioning using the gem I created). I should mention the alternatives and why they weren't employed.
The guns thing really is pretty epidemic. There's a huge thread over on Something Awful about this, hundreds of pages of people pointing out how the movie's "M-16" is actually an SKS dressed up funny and how it doesn't have any sights, that kind of thing. Similar thing is most cases: how hard would it have been to buy a real AR-pattern rifle? And when they hire a consultant, they ignore them half the time, just like with computer stuff in movies.
The Node core dev actually went back and forth on this, and came to the conclusion to not commit dependencies to the repo, and introduced "shrinkwrap" [1].

It felt wrong committing dependencies to the repo, which I agree with. I hate my diffs being drowned in external changes, I'd rather see that someone simply upgraded a dependency. Plus it does skew the project, both for what the primary language is, as well as how much a committer is contributing.

I would love to see this eventually in Bower! They have an issue for it [2].

[1] "Why not just check node_modules into git?" http://blog.nodejs.org/2012/02/27/managing-node-js-dependenc...
[2] https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/505
I see exactly what you mean. Maybe it's clearer if we go with "XX GB of storage space".
Right, but there's no real proof the dropbear/sh/etc. you talk to is untampered after reboot; it could easily be logging, if someone shut your system down and replaced the boot drive. ssh vs. serial console at least requires they extract some (unencrypted) key from the drive, though.
Those theories (also in your link) have only one source: Roger Penrose.

If you open any Neuroscience textbook, there will be no mentions of quantum phenomena as related to consciousness.
I like some amount of realism in the fiction I watch and read? Why? Because I believe it makes for a world that is much better constructed and is indicative of quality.

Of course, sometime we don't want realism, because it would make things uninteresting. For example, it is an acceptable break from reality to have space ships slugging it out in space opera. Otherwise, space battles would be mostly about who is the first to shoot their kinetic weaponry against an opposing side's planet.
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A Lifelong Fight Against Trans Fats
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/health/a-lifelong-fight-ag...

The Oiling of America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKdYUCUca8
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