skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is a 404 page, do not assume that it's something the user has done intentionally. Links change, sites link wrongly. Link-shit happens.

If you really want your users to be helped by your site, even when they've ended up somewhere they probably shouldn't have gone, you need to have a basic 404 error page which gently describes that the page doesn't exist and contains a link back to the home. Not everyone using a website will see "404" and understand what it is, and without a link back to the main site, a user (potential customer) is lost.
You could add to your (self-answering) question "...would cannibalize their laptop sales..." the phrase: "...and that has perhaps 1/3 the profit margin?"

Apple's decision making looks to me more like (as with the MB Air), "can we develop a high-margin product that will draw NEW (ex-Windows) customers (and maybe some wowee press coverage)?"
The charge stuck out to me too.

My immediate reaction was that making developers pay a fee to be searchable doesn't seem to be turning the job market on its head at all.

I don't know if there's a non-slimy way to take money from developers when your stated goal is to help developers make money. It comes off sounding like any other job-assistance scam, where they take $20 to drop a resume into a template and spam it to X-hundred companies.

If you only want serious job applicants, you could just require the developer to check in every now and again.

And if this were really turning the market on its head it would need to provide developers far more information that they could use to get a leg up during negotiation and assessment. Developers would need to see things like: who's looking at their resume, what salary range they're looking in, team sizes, technologies in use, what search terms brought them to your name, what other developers they looked at, how many positions they're trying to fill, etc.
In the last 10 years? Red Hat since 5.0, Debian since either Slinky or Woody, SuSE since SuSE 5.0 or 6.
I seriously doubt there is competition waiting to steal my ideas. Heck, most of the time I can't convince people these ideas are good even when I try, and now you're saying there are people waiting to embrace my ideas with open arms without any prodding or explanation or grand vision from my side?

I see this attitude often, and I think it boils down to delusion of grandeur - people thing their ideas are so valuable that everyone will steal it or if things go wrong the whole internet will talk trash about it and their glorious future will be ruined forever. None of that ever happens of course, but what does happen is many engineers clinging to their ideas and half-finished products afraid to come out to light.
yeah but you are guaranteed 20 up votes and the selected answer points too. Basically the system is to easy to game since it is completely anonymous.
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Wolfram Alpha has been a bit of a disappointment in terms of natural language parsing, but it's hard not to be impressed by the way it handles mathematical inputs.

Does anyone know if the natural language parsing is showing improvement, or does it still choke on most inputs?
Emily used old school crowdsourcing, pre-online social networking ;)
Javascript MD5
MD5 is a secure hash algorithm. It takes a string as input, and produces a 128-bit number, the hash. The same string always produces the same hash, but given a hash, it is not generally possible to determine the original string. Secure hash algorithms are useful for protecting passwords and ensuring data integrity.
More importantly they also know which urls you visit for the sites that display google ads / use google analytics.
It shouldn't be that difficult to imagine. It's a very old tradition to travel long distances in search of specialized knowledge. Practically every famous medieval scholar did. But of course the tradition is way older than that. In the mid 6th century BC Pythagoras went to study in Egypt, and his biographer Porphyry said "It was from his stay among these foreigners that Pythagoras acquired the greater part of his wisdom."
Isn't this the guy that basically said if you have ever had to apply for a programming job then you are probably a loser that can't program anyway? (some article about "High Notes")
I don't understand how you can facilitate a real, in depth discussion with 160 characters or less.
Help someone get a BA?  Using slight hacktavism on Facebook?
So I'm an art student that is descendant of what is known as net.Art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net.art

We're a weird group. A Really weird Group. We're much marginalized. We don't know where to go :(

I need an artwork to go viral to work. Really. It's starting to. Slowly. I'd like to see a spike in users who I really don't know. I really need people to starting using the artwork, and having opinions on the artwork.

So this is what it is: It's an open facebook profile that anyone can edit. I do check in. Just to make sure that no one umm, hurts anyone. I'm not mean.

The Login is
dovafacebook@gmail.com

The Password is

psswrd

(yes I did that on purpose)

You can log in and change whatever you want. You can im each other from inside of it. YOu can send wierd messages. You can IM. You Can post pictures. People have.
There is an argument right now whether the profile internally should use pirate english. You can change the language. Be forwarned that it is a profile in flux. Constantly. If you choose to login.

Someone is currently creeped out by the fact that it will cause other people to see his profile who he doesn't know. perhpas it is a she. This is a normal feeling.

Enjoy free art! Friend the profile, use the profile, and pass it on.

Please. Thanks!

I don't know. My own artwork has sent me messages too. It's an artwork of an asynchronous collective being.
> No. [I don't know anyone in the armed forces.] I am a governmentally recognized pacifist.

Is there a connection between not knowing anyone in the armed forces and being a pacifist?
Just glued together very well.
"I want to know what's the performance of the SQL solutions cited in the article."

Vertica will happily arrange for a demo, and they even have a fast track for getting a cluster up on ec2. Teradata, Greenplum and the others you're dealing with the traditional enterprise sales process (bleh).

"all the SQL solutions cited in the article are names I never heard before of today."

This is sort of the point. While they may only be represented in the enterprise market rather than in FOSS, there are linearly scalable database products available today. For businesses that have the funding, these can have huge advantages over the options being birthed by NoSQL (as well as drawbacks).

And the larger point is that the majority of the OSS world working on NoSQL (or Mysql Cluster for that matter) is somewhat ignorant of the parallel database research of the 80's. I'd suggest starting with the position paper "End of an Architectural Era", and then continuing with DeWitt's publications.
Crazier than not getting a response from a Dell salesperson... describing that stock photo guy with the soul patch as cute.
I thought it was making something from nothing and having an impact. Something to do with vision and all that other nonsense?
you ought-ta work for google.
"The sudden cracking in 2005, referred to by geologists as a "mega-dike intrusion", opened up a rift over 20 feet wide in places."

Scientists seem to be the only group that don't have to worry about their terms being PR (politically correct). Science terminology trumps social word transformations.
Arrogance. They think they own the business business.
... except for setting up the function call, and all that jazz.
I think what we see these days is confusion, where APIs are trying to take over what has traditionally been handled by protocols and file formats.

I prefer that APIs actually do things, such as calculations, or composite actions that would be awkward to perform individually. (Yes, APIs can exist primarily to expose data, too; but I think APIs that do this are wasting time in unnecessary encapsulation; all they really need to do is something simple, like returning the URL of data in a certain format.)

If I am looking for only data, it should have a (preferably popular) format, optionally with a protocol to access it using whatever network and/or database. This opens you up to multiple implementations, too: so if it turns out that Social Networking Site Du Jour's API isn't actually the most efficient way to do X, you might find an alternative Y that is better, but could use the same data.

APIs are also not good for data for the same reason that APIs can be a problem for code: instability. You can't be sure what languages will remain supported, and when things will change. You have to wait for an API to do X, even if it might have been possible given the "raw" data. And ultimately, a company could go out of business and leave your API unusable, whereas actual data can be copied to avoid this, and cached for performance.
Lots of people (me included) are on Hacker News because of the community and the quality of articles (as compared to Digg, Slashdot, Programming.Reddit, etc).
You can see a discussion about difference tables here: http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=114995
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Oh no, don't get me wrong --- I agree: Chinese characters are hard. People can't read them. An alphabet would be much easier.

On the other hand, Mair seems to think that slaughtering your native lexicon and replacing it with a bunch of English/Russian loanwords would be a good thing, while I disagree. (This has been the exact consequence of alphabetisation in Dungan and Korean). And I also think that devoting a career to trying to get China to switch to the Roman alphabet is an irrational waste of brainpower --- it's never going to happen, for reasons totally unrelated to efficiency or practicality.

But these are little quibbles compared to the real issue: even if China threw out Chinese characters tomorrow, all the historical linguists like Mair would STILL be mad, cuz the damage has already been done: we may never have any clear idea of the pronunciations of so many old languages from civilisations in China's orbit. In the rare event those civilisations' literate elites wanted to write in their own languages (instead of writing in classical Chinese), they had to use Chinese characters to try to approximate the sounds, because they never developed their own alphabets --- and their approximations sucked. In the mean time, the Indologists point and laugh cuz they can tell you exactly how Sanskrit sounded all those thousands of years ago.
Facebook changes, ‘Scamville,’ & fact vs fiction in the offers debate
There are other places where Google gathers lots of information about you: blogspot, youtube, all sites using Google Analytics, all sites serving Adsense ads, all sites serving doubleclick ads, all sites using Google Analytics.

So:

Clear your cookies.

Use tor.

Don't forget about flash cookies.

Don't forget that your computer's real time clock skew can reveal it's identity. By examining packets sent from it.

Funny times to live?
I've been thinking about buying a X25-M, but prices are a bit too high for me at the moment. I'd better go to the US for a day and buy all the gadgets/computer equipment I want and go back, it will be cheaper then buying everything here in europe (plus it's good for the US economy!)
One thing not touched on regarding the strategy of following a lot of people. Whenever you follow somebody new, an email is sent to that person. For people who already have lots of followers, this may get lost, but for people who use Twitter relatively casually, getting this email along with a sample tweet is a great way to get introduced to a Twitterer that they may be interested in.

It may not be the intent, but it works well as an announcement mechanism as long as you remember that not everybody uses Twitter for business reasons.
check your spam / junk folder!
This guy did us a disservice in many ways. He is one of the instigators of the politically correct Our Evil Religion school of thought that our culture is no better then anyone else's (thus chipping away at Western Civilization, the hidden agenda)

Whereas the truth is everyone in those 'equal' civilizations is pissing through concrete trying to get the the West. The know damn well the equality thing is not so.

On the whole, an intellectual idiot.
That's the price you pay for great free software. At least the ads actually relate to you.
First, it's not code. It's just a datamatrix that reads "Hello, world!"

Second, you would need to do some heavy filtering and distortion to process the image into a square, readable form. Here's a 1-bit PNG processed from an image taken from the programmer's flickr site. It scanned on my G1 just fine: http://bit.ly/4lxG4U
Thank you, delackner. I've been sitting here a little mystified at how something I posted was so easily misinterpreted. Then you provided some specific feedback. It took a day and a half, but it was worth the wait.
Nope. You can make tons of cool stuff and have an impact with loads of 'vision' as an employee, but you're not an entrepreneur if you're taking a paycheque and instructions from someone else.
Actual scientific content and pictures here:
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3486
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Similarly with blogs, photostreams, generic web sites, etc.
It can all be a PR tool. It can all be banal. It can lob grenades that spark research or discussions or the genuine (unpaid) discovery of a neat product.
Twitter is what you make of it. And you can find pretty much whatever you're looking for.

Though I'm definitely with you on the protocol/provider bit.
Python in the Scientific World
No..... I'm pretty sure we don't have a neighboring one.

Wait, are you talking about the one where everyone wears cowboy hats?

I pretty sure we won't hit that one.
Which large scale OSS projects?
Let's be honest: He is communicating with aliens.

Those little light beams that supposedly come out from the bottom of the saucer are really infrared-like beams to read semacode.

+1 to you Mr. German man.
Yes, but when the company you're trying to join sees you answering a bunch of retarded questions...
This article claims that it could take 4 million years for the crack to each the red sea.

Typically, spreading rates are measured in millimeters a year. I don't know what the spreading rate is for this rift.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18114-giant-crack-in-a...
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Good(or perhaps bad) thing my name is fairly common if you googled it you would more likely find Andy Hunt of Prag Prog than me. There is also a few PHDs that match my first last name exactly. There is a Gary Paulsen book that is one character off my name. Googling my nickname turns up an unaffiliated construction company, a printing company and oddly enough my profile on HN which is devoid of detail, so the only internet leads you will find on me are ones I choose to reveal.

So if you google my name and find Andy Hunt's blog or if you find the not me Dr. (PHD in Mathematics) Hunt, do I get a call back? Google is a powerful tool but to randomly believe there is only one person X out there is kind of shortsighted.
You can only prove that the answer is incorrect.
New nano-fibers fill light bulbs with sunlight
Yes, I'm sure that Apple's willingness to invest in research and whatnot while other companies do differently has nothing to do with their differing circumstances, like Apple's profits growing >500% in 2003 as they began to reap the iPod whirlwind. (For once, Steves Jobs is right - listen to the quote of him, not the blogger!)
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I think that this is the more informative link: http://geek.net/press/sourceforge-inc-changes-its-name-to-ge...

The only 'Learn More' link that I saw looked like it was about a specific product, and not about 'what is geek.net?'
yea, me too. all of these searches about burning sensations while peeing.. i mean, uhh...;)
One of the more amusingly bizarre things Lodwick has done in his career. Also worth nothing is http://odwick.com/, his series of arthouse (and frequently nude) movies.

I love characters.
how come dell doesn't automate the quote process? I don't want to fuck around with a salesguy, just tell me what it fucking costs.

This is half the reason I build my own servers. It's impossible to decide what tradeoffs to make when the true cost of those tradeoffs is hidden behind some sales asshole.
What a waste of a great domain name.

Dharmesh shouldn't be worried, community is everything
There's also nothing stopping other sites from pointing at your SO profile.
Twitter has allowed for a focused elucidation of a tiny concept. It bridges the gap between the line-by-line nitpick of an article and the 'so-short-it'd-be-flippant-elsewhere' single line nitpick.

It helps that this is a small twitterstorm with a bunch of seasoned professionals, but the following seems like a slightly more asynchronous IRC convo:
http://orbit.vect.org/misc/gamedesign.html
> Did I mention the competent and attractive staff?

I realize that you're just trying to rag on AA, but I don't like the implication that 'unattractive' people shouldn't be airline employees.
Of course, if you Do It Wrong in a way that is correct enough, eventually that becomes Doing It Right. If you Do It Wrong in a way that is actually wrong, well, nobody ever hears about you.

I'm coining a new term here for when I see content like this: OST. Or, Simply: "Think."
Spending some free time learning your craft does make you one of the elite programmers (for certain values of "elite"). Sad but true.
SSH was gameovered in v1, and the current protocol has had serious findings. I could argue that the worst SSH flaw is worse than the worst SSL flaw, but I don't have to; that's not my point.

Instead of answering my question, you editorialized. I'll assume you can't name a widely-used crypto-secured protocol that hasn't had a serious flaw discovered. That's OK, because I probably can't either.

It took over 10 years for anyone to find this most recent flaw in HTTPS. You, for instance, didn't know about it. That's OK; neither did most cryptographers and protocol designers. What's weird is that from this fact you manage to draw the conclusion that people should just design their own protocols, as if they would do better without 10-15 years of attention from hundreds of academic and industry researchers.

I happily recomment Tarsnap to people, Colin, but to my mind the reason there are no findings in the Tarsnap protocol is that a finding in Tarsnap is worth $0 to an industry researcher and 0 cites to an academic researcher.
Agreed. If you're writing something in a web browser, use sane JavaScript. Every time I have done something "fancy" with a language, there has been a large hidden cost later on, be that complicated debugging sessions, new hire training, or unintended side effects. Terrible syntax/rewriting hacks in Rails are probably what convinced me that I do not like ruby. If you truly care about programmer efficiency, you probably want to look into cross compilers like Objective-J or parenscript.
Obama Uses Malia’s Test Scores as a Teaching Example
Coverage of the awards:

Crain's: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=36050

Chicago Tribune: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/11/chic...
Same here. We learned of them in 4th grade, in Sweden.
I was just pointing out that it's unfair to judge a tool based on how it might be used by people who don't really understand what it is and what it does.

SQL is a great tool and there are many, very good reasons that it rose to prominence. It just isn't the only tool and it isn't right for every problem.
Redis rocks
Ruby on Sails: a homebrew Google Wave provider
Why would I take startup advice from someone who admits to being a sheep, and worse, admits to hating it?

Because he didn't admit being a sheep? It's useful (to the point of being necessary) to know and understand the arguments on the other side of the table, and it's extraordinarily important to have a common ground with the people you expect to talk to. If everyone is reading 37s, 37s is a much better starting point for an intelligent conversation than the recounting of a lesser known articulation for unfamiliar participants.
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Can anyone explain why it takes so long to find the equation differentially? I understand that is subjective, but the 'constants' are only constant from y''' to y''. From y'' to y' the 'constant' is linear (meaning you have to solve for change in y' - y) and the 'constant' is quadratic from y' to y.

Basically you can't just integrate each DE and solve for a constant C by finding the value of the lower order DE where x=1 and finding the difference. Why not?

I'm in Calc BC in high school so this could be a stupid question.
IT is a cost center. There's constant pressure to contain its headcount and budget.

The costs of providing a high level of service are obvious, but the costs of lousy services are all hidden. As a result, yes, there's usually NO incentive to do anything more than the minimum.

(The minimum, of course, involves the ass-covering.)
If you don't want to "fuck around with a salesguy" you pay the same price that everyone else does. A few vendors I've dealt with over the years have had a system in place which allows large customers to buy products with discounted prices online, but it isn't common. Even if they do, you can still get a better price by calling, especially if you are able to provide a quote from a competitor.
Yup. If all the points followed each other and then just DM'd, then it would be one step better.
I love up-front non-predatory pricing. I hate wasting my time with salespeople, though sometimes you can work out a better deal with them.

My preferred vendor is Silicon Mechanics:
http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

They sell SuperMicro equipment, they list prices, estimated power draw, etc, all up-front. You can add machines to your shopping cart, checkout, and you're done.

They've always provided us with fantastic customer service, and stepped up to replace/repair anything that didn't work right, even if the cause wasn't entirely clear (such as a hard drive issue that could have been OS related, but turned out to be a Seagate firmware issue).
Hurricane Ida could be the worst storm this season
Under the long range forecast, Ida would regain tropical storm strength, move into the Gulf by Tuesday morning and generally aim toward Louisiana. That prediction, however, remains far from certain.
I think its incredibly foolish to try to get funding for something that has no basis in reality yet. That's what a demo really is -- a toe-hold. But that toehold is usually enough to know whether a team can make it a reality, and whether they have a chance in the real world.

There's so much competition from great teams that it may well be a waste of time without showing your best.
On the stupid smirking idiot appearing in your emails:

It's marketing. They don't understand that you don't give two shits how much smiling is going on in your email. The marketeers are used to doing mass marketing to people who want $300 workstations for their houses, not people interested in buying some server hardware that they'll hopefully never see after it goes into the rack.

They don't get that no matter how many smiling guys in suits they put in your email, it isn't going to change the hardware your asking about. These people seriously believe that if they show you crappy hardware with a smiling silk-tie-guy, you'll be happy to buy it because the silk-tie-guy gives you a good feeling when you see it, and you associate that good feeling with the crappy hardware.

Sorry, ranting; we just got a new batch of marketing drones at my job who want to spam the living-hell out of our customers with this sort of garbage. I've been arguing with them back and forth about it for the last few days and I'm not making any progress.
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