skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does legality really matter if you are the point where money is the dominating factor? Funny you mention paparazzi...
As far as analysis, I believe this is the course I followed awhile back on MIT OCW and found quite good:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

"Introduction to Algorithms" (2005) but according to OCW more similar to what's now the more advanced "Design and Analysis of Algorithms".

Not sure how much it'll help you in deriving solutions, but good if you have an interest in actually learning the subject.
In this case, the constant really can't be ignored since file system access is so slow. Ruby scans for .rb and .so files (or .jar on JRuby).

Some other fun is RubyGems always appends to the $LOAD_PATH, so whenenver you require from a gem that hasn't been loaded yet, you're guaranteed to scan the entire $LOAD_PATH on the off-chance there's a conflicting partial path. And you can't cache contents of the $LOAD_PATH entries unless you have a filesystem watcher because the contents of the path can change and Ruby allows that.
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Yes, there's no more ticking time bomb so there's no urgency to replace the drive, nor any urgency to max out the drive for 15 hours straight during the rebuild. It can be eased into the cluster over the course of days or a week.

And yes, in the clusters I've built I've always calculated what the chances are that X simultaneous drive failures will take out any data, and it's always been astronomically low.
Would you mind describing a bit about what you learn or study in the program?
This is why Hired.com is interesting. I tried it after a couple rounds of interviewing where it either seemed like salary was a sticking point or the interviewees were unprepared. With Hired.com, I was able to explain my value in a context that those who I would like to work for would understand. I received a number of solid offers, interviewed with a handful and accepted one. Every person that contacted me was direct from the company that I would work for and these were real positions.
I just saw the gameplay of it and I am impressed! That's really justified the size - the details are just amazing!

Check out the gameplay here:
https://youtu.be/u9ishNVyV4k
Set up spell checking in Emacs on Mac OS X
Swatch Co-Inventor: Apple Will Succeed and Ice Age Is Coming for Swiss Watches
JavaScript is, in and of itself, a massive abstraction.
The flooding and landslides of 1969 killed 91 people, not "more than a 100 people", as the article claims.

(See <http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/heavy-rain-leads-...)
I'm sure this will get buried at this point, but I have experienced very negative side effects from my ability to empathize with people. Theres a term (which I find silly) that categorizes people as 'empaths' which I gathered means one can almost "link" emotionally with people. While I fid the term silly, i have experienced almost crippling emotional pain when someone close to me is hurting. I hate it, I wish it would go away.

My one friend, brilliant engineer. Has brain cancer. I sit a desk away from him. When he is upset, I can hardly function. My ex-SO, when upset, I can feel the anger and sadness. It destroys me to feel that someone feels that way toward me. Its truly awful and I wish this didn't happen to me. My siblings growing up, I was able to (and I'm not proud of this at all) basically manipulate them into doing whatever I wanted, because I was able to understand how they felt.

People tell me all the time "you're such likeable person, everyone likes you. That'll take you far." My boss said it not a month ago, which took me by surprise, as I don't care for my boss at all.

I wish there was a spectrum opposite the autism spectrum. I don't think I am at all unique in this, and I wish I could talk to others experiencing the same kinds of things.
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Cool follow up link, however it distinguishes between the difficulty of reaching the 1%/5%/etc. for a single year vs. sustaining this state. I'd argue the concept of "being one of the 1%" implies being able to sustain this level for longer than a year.
And Berkeley will just be waiting in the wings for the battle to bring you both down. Muahaha.
I don't want someone to win American Idol, I want American Idol to pick the best singer, whether or not said singer is a judge.

As an investor in a venture capital firm, though, you would expect the firm to award funding to the best, not to the insiders.
As a politician interested in fostering a successful startup environment in your district, you would expect the firm to award funding to the best, not to the insiders.
As a fledgling startup yourself, you would expect the firm to award funding to the best, not to the insiders.
As Simon Cowell, you would want to pick yourself. Therein lies the issue. Only Simon Cowell wants Simon Cowell to win over other, more qualified startups.
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I really enjoyed the book: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg - which despite the title, is actually very relevant to this topic.

I picked it up after hearing a number of very positive reviews, and despite my skepticism, I now understand why it's so highly praised.

I'd try to provide a brief summary, but I know I wouldn't do it justice. I will however say that it's almost certainly one of, if not the best, book I've ever read on improving interpersonal communication and relationships.

The author has a phd in psychology, so the advice has some real science backing it up too.
I think the important lesson is that if the prosecutor is being overzealous and you're a sympathetic defendant then you shouldn't be afraid to ignore gag orders and take your case to the press.

Lawyers are usually against it. Thier natural impulse is to try to win in the legal system. Angering the judge is a huge risk.

But look at the Justina Pelletier case. She'd likely still be in a mental hospital instead of receiving treatment if her father hadn't broken a gag order and gone to the press.

Swartz had more than enough supporters to pay his legal bills and rein in the prosecutor. It's a shame that his team decided to follow the gag order.
It's a valuable but unnecessary intermediate step if you go into functional idioms (map, fold, closures) fully.

raganwald books cover this way of using javascript https://leanpub.com/u/raganwald
It's telling about the whole graphics programming scene that this has been such a well kept secret from the public. Games you see are not in reality running on open APIs, but are based on back alley arrangements between insiders camouflaged as open API apps. I bet this post is very demoralizing eg. to hopeful indie game devs or people holding out hope for driver situation improving on Linux.
Cal >> Stanfurd.
The split you speak of has already happened on mobile, that's why we have "apps."
There's certainly no reason to, but the brilliance of the model is that you repay open source generosity in kind with a killer tool. Naturally open source developers also tend to have day jobs, and then which commercial option do you think they'll be pushing for in all those companies?

Of course it only works because the product is brilliant, and the product is only brilliant because it was created by open source developers scratching their own itch. I don't think the lessons really apply to the wider web.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574
The legal status does not change retroactively. If the flight was done according to the rules set out for private flight then you, as a pilot, are prohibited to make any money from it (with some exceptions). Getting commercial license will not allow you to earn money on previous flights that were done as a private pilot.
Had it happen 3 times within a one month window (as in 3x double drive failures in the same array too close together for a rebuild to complete). It may be rare, but manage enough servers and sooner or later these things happens, especially if the cause of the failure is a power supply or the controller.

(We didn't lose any data - everything is replicated elsewhere in addition to the raid)
I might sound silly, but the fact that I'm 37 years old caused a a strange feeling after reading this.
Unionizing works for micro-optimization but rarely works at macro level, when entire division, company or industry can be outsourced.

To quote from
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...

"Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day."
Was that a rhetorical question--how could any third party possibly prevent deep links from breaking?
Will existing thunderbolt displays work with new retina macbook
Not any that I can think of. I just wanted different way of handling dates.
these kinds of problems may cause the array to fail, but won't necessarily lose data, right? If you have a ZFS pool and a faulty controller causes the pool to fail, ie. "losing" three disks in a raidz2 vdev, my guess is that you would just replace the faulty card and reimport the pool and chances are things would be OK... no?
I see a new feature for SATA called Rebuild Assist becoming available to help reduce the RAID recovery times.
No need for an Ivy, just go to Stanford.

There is an argument for prescreening, but having been part of the interview process for a high profile YC company in its early days, I can say that the weight placed on "likeness" is very high.

The correlation between likeness and competence, not so much.
Actually, 1,000 ft flights are pretty routine. Any model rocket engine with a "-5" on the end is going to coast for 5 seconds after the fuel burns out. If the model is light enough to be near the top of its arc at that time, it will be about 1000 feet up. Flights with engines that end in "-3" (3 second coast) tend to end up about 300 to 400 feet up.

Tip: if you want to fly in a baseball field, and get your model back (not drift out of the park), stick with engines like "B6-4" or "C6-3" and models sized for those engines. If you fly a C6-5 or a D12-7, you had better have a good size farm to land in and a few friends to help spot :-)

http://www.hobbylinc.com/rockets/group/enginefacts.htm

Flying G size engines and up? Go to a special event in Nevada. Those can go a few thousand feet up. (or lift some heavy/dangerous frameworks)
Interesting that it stops at Pokemon Yellow - maybe that's all that was known at the time. It seems like any video game where you can corrupt memory is potentially "Turing complete" - which is many of the old console game as the speedrunning community has discovered.
Oh, maybe the sky is not falling. Maybe
it is not true that "We've got trouble,
right here in River City. Trouble starts
with a T and that rhymes with a V
and a C and they stand for venture
capital"!

Why? Well in information technology (IT)
venture capital, in recent years a
strong theme has developed: The
VCs want the founders to be technical,
e.g., design and write software. As
I recall, the firm A16Z is an especially
strong supporter of this theme.

Well, then: For my startup, I've read
a lot of VC bios: My conclusion is that
only a tiny fraction of VCs are in any
very significant sense technical
in anything in or very close to IT.
E.g., when was the last time they
designed and wrote 10,000 lines of code?
Invented a new algorithm? Did some
technical work prior to the software,
e.g., the applied math of machine
learning or data science, e.g.,
some applied math for ad targeting?
How about some applied math for
computer and network security via
anomaly detection? How many
VCs are qualified to direct a
major IT development project
with planning, hiring, training,
software project management,
server farm planning and implementation
including performance, reliability,
security, growth potential? Gee,
let's keep it simple: How many
VCs could step into to a
slot as database administrator of, say,
a major site of SQL Server, Oracle, DB/2?

So, in an IT startup at the seed or
Series A level, why would a
founder want to hire a VC, and why
would a VC want to invest in
a VC as a founder or a founder
who would hire a VC?
How 'bout they wouldn't?

Sure,
at the Series B, C, ..., maybe some VCs
could do business development,
marketing, setting up the sales
channels, running the sales
organization.

Net, bottom line-wise, the goal
of the VCs and their limited partners (LPs)
is to make money, and a VC firm
that doesn't make money will have
a tough time raising more. And,
LPs may look with surprise and
even concern at losing bets
on VCs within the firm. Or,
such a VC darned better make money!
But the thing is, being an insider is usually a good indication of future success.

If you already have those connections, that means you have a huge leg up on the competition. You can raise more money at better valuations (meaning you can make longer term bets, build a better team), you have access to better talent, and you have access via your network to other executives that can make deals happen.

We are upset because it isn't fair, but that isn't really the point. They want to make a ton of money. Yes, they also want to change the world, but tenacity and people skills (required in the VC word) are huge indicators of executing on whatever vision you have.
You have to learn to set boundaries and set some distance between yourself and that person.

There are lots of articles and books out there that probably cover this better than I can. This was an interesting read though.

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/balanced-life/2014/05/setting-...
Not to contradict your post. But Stanford is equivalent in term of prestige to any Ivy out there, including Harvard. It seems like you agree with GP so that's probably just a wording matter.
Challenge accepted. I just added in Stylus. Arguably the best CSS preprocessor out there. Period.
With all due respect, how will this help others in the same situation?

How will you establish a multiplier effect for donations?

How will a donation continue serving the cause in perpetuity?

How would a donation help me, if I got into a similar situation?

Even if the insurance company loses, they aren't going to suddenly come to the realization that they've been wrong all along, and start paying out more frequently.

I guess I don't see what this crowdfunding campaign is selling which would serve the greater good. Funding the EFF means that you're contributing to the greater good of privacy, etc. Funding the ACLU means that you're contributing to the greater good of civil rights, etc. Funding this campaign means that a single person can't or won't find a lawyer under any payment arrangement, contingency or otherwise.
Buying a Suburban and riding around in it alone could be considered offensive because it's somewhat selfish.
Looking at the bug bounty record from Chrome and Mozilla it seems that fuzzing-for-bounties vulnerability research has largely moved away from WebGL. Must be at least partly due to WebGL reaching a reasonable level of robustness. Bounties may be harder to claim since bugs can be hardware/os/driver ver etc dependent, but still there used to be a lot more WebGL bounties dealt out.
Good to hear (no pun intended) that you have recovered your hearing, but sad that it's not going to last. Might I ask why?
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I like AirBnb because I don't like most hotels. They are like airports; ugly, generic, a place for just passing through whose pretensions of courtesy and happiness are a thin veneer over crass commercialism.

If I can find an apartment that is nicer than a hotel (they are not all nicer, of course) then I will gladly pay a premium for my own entrance, my own kitchen, my own fridge, etc.

Having spoken to my friends about this, I know I'm not the only one. I'm not a millennial, though, but then I doubt that millennials are the ones propping up AirBnb?
It wasn't until Win8 that they finally disabled NTVDM by default in fact.
And I didn't even notice, so thanks for pointing that out. Agreed, great example.
The salient point is the barrier to entry. The fact that they still have some form of revenue related to the engines doesn't elevate the up-front cost any and the royalties (where they exist) are structured in a way that cannot prevent them from being a viable option for indie studios. The engines will be making the benefits of new graphics APIs properly accessible to indie studios in all the ways that matter; it won't be a AAA-exclusive thing.

(And professional studios don't have to license the ancillary tools and services and source code access of the Pro editions in order to ship a game.)
I think it is partly due to the failure of Vista, which also reminds me that the reason Server 2003 got an extra year of support is that they waited until after Vista SP1 to release Server 2008.
The article is ridiculous really.

If anything, the "skills" demanded by the present economy are those of a high-functioning psychopath [1]. That is, total lack of empathy but with a modest ability to fake it.

[1] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/10/1015320/-Why-High-F...
This is written in 2003: I do not think it is a coincidence that Kent Beck is credited ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development ) with re/discovering Test Driven Development in that year.

TDD can go horribly wrong, too -- but if your tests are on high-enough-level functionality, and you maintain them, then they can encompass the lessons you learn from fucking up every time you do it. Writing & Maintaining tests isn't fun, just as fixing bugs isn't fun -- so in spirit these kinds of arguments hold just as much sway: there are fun parts of programming, and there are parts of programming that are significantly less fun, but even if you fork and start from scratch, it is feasible to have a checklist of bugs/features developed in the order that they are developed initially.

Do most open source projects do this, even the more well-maintained? Of course not. However, if people are seriously worried about this phenomenon, that's probably one of the ways developed in the decade since this essay was published to approach it.
Huh? So they are just counting papers published in conferences by faculty members as ranking function? That's nuts in 2015. Exactly the reason why this people couldn't have invented PageRank.
Well there are currently four volumes of TAoCP, so I guess I'll drop Volume 2. I can't see myself ever even contemplating implementing a number system or pseudo-random algorithm from first principles.

Not that I am likely to implement much of the other three volumes. They're top because they remind me of how many sigma I am away from the long tail of CS.
Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs his liver
In gmail you can setup a filter that automatically deletes messages. Not quite /dev/null but pretty close.
Simplify, or your users will do it for you
Your experience might be like that, but reading the comments above it seems that you are in the minority.
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Transaction layer for Node.js LevelDB
The slicker MtG speculators are running things like http://www.quietspeculation.com/ . They generally have pretty intense interest in the subject though. Identifying an opportunity seems difficult without some minimal interest to recognize it.

Self-styled "MtG Finance Guru"s have also been paid to give talks to players at events like Grand Prix.
The new medium has been born, but the old one is still being abused, so the split isn't complete and won't be until this no longer happens: http://xkcd.com/1174/
Biggest poulariser of the idea of existential risks, founder of the Field of Friendly AI research, founder of MIRI, an organisation dedicated to its research, author of a number of published articles on same. Better than most ever do but if that's all it's not enough given his ambitions.
Have to respect that.

At the same time though, competition is great -- plenty of me wishes you guys had tried to compete via a paid offering, one which may have lasted longer or even have been profitable. And, as a paid offering, potentially brought in some revenue and therefore maybe also had more funding/staff/effort/polish/etc. Provide choice at the very least...

And, even still, maybe Github or similar would have been better -- but I can't help but think that more competition would have resulted in a better outcome [for everyone] than a product shutdown...
Never say never, but I don't see the git killer anywhere on the horizon. Look at how hard it was for git to beat out svn, and that was with the advantage of svn being built on an irredeemably broken repository design that no objective engineer could ever put on the same playing field with git, hg, etc. Nevertheless there was a definite period of flame wars where large groups clung to svn religiously until they were dragged kicking and screaming.

Now git has its own weaknesses with large objects, steep learning curve and complex UI, and difficulty of central control. But the difference is that those things are all the result of tradeoffs which make git very very good for the most talented programmers, and open source in particular. You're not going to magically make something that solves all those problems but still is as good as git for versioning the average small to medium open source software project.

But even if you do, will it be good enough to convince the greybeards to switch? Did Sublime kill vim? I actually think that whatever kills GitHub will not be the same thing that kills git. It will probably be a convergence of trends that remains unforeseeable for the time being, much in the same way that GitHub rode a series of trends which would have been utterly unpredictable 10 years ago.
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for the record. I meant "with Enterprise Java and not thinking..."
IBM wants to create a cash and payment system for fiat, will be centralized
That is based off of the BER (bit error rate) of the drive, as stated by the manufacturer. It's usually spec'd at 1e-14 or 1e-15 - that is to say one in every hundred trillion or one in every quadrillion bits. This works out to 12.5TB or 125TB respectively.

http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/storage-hardware/selec...
But sandboxing does nothing to protect information if the information resides in the sandbox (sandboxing wouldn't have stopped heartbleed).

Rust and friends would aren't going to make all securty issues go away, just as sandboxing would not. There is no one true silver bullet in securty, at least not yet.
As restarting is often one of the first debugging steps for so many things.

If you're the kind of person who can troubleshoot a faulty drive, then you're not the kind of person who should reboot as a first step towards debugging. Especially if you suspect a faulty drive.
Except that it probably was not true the previous quarter, where XP market share dropped faster.
From the Guardian's obituary for Terry Pratchett.

>In a publishing world where popular success often equates to ill-written or hackneyed work, Pratchett’s novels, although in a racy, readable style, were constantly witty, with many cultural, vernacular and literary references. You never quite knew where the next association was coming from: you would find sideways references to HP Lovecraft, William Shakespeare, Beachcomber, Sellar and Yeatman, Thomas Hughes, Peter Shaffer (a good joke about Salieri), JRR Tolkien, Egyptology, vampirism, dragons.