skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's obvious from your constant "out of context" remarks, that you haven't actually read the emails. Instead of me starting a newsletter for you, why don't you download them and read those instead?
Then you'd post about it on twitter+reddit and the whole baying mob of sheep that compose the modern internet would track down said councilor and make their life a living hell forever.
As a smoker I can see their point but it makes me wonder why protective gear is not standard procedure? There are lots of nasty things besides smoke that can accumulate on a computer.
Sadly, no. I almost missed the SHDH that we hosted a few weeks ago.
i am only refering about requests that involve more than one person and not about multiple requests from one person. E.g. A feature request by more than one person.
I don't think the unemployment divide has much to do with technology.

Imagine that the economy of every country in the world is a lake. The depth of the hole in which the water resides is roughly proportional to the population of a country, and the amount of water inside the hole is roughly proportional to the average persons quality of life in that country.

America has a relatively high water mark compared to the rest of the world. When America opened trade with China, we essentially dug a hole between our lake and their lake. Because China's lake has such a low water mark, water from our lake (jobs basically) will flow to their lake until their lake and our lake are roughly at equilibrium. Same goes for India and the rest of the world we trade with globally. The lowest water (lowest paying, lowest education req jobs) flows over first, which is why lots of the manufacturing and call center type jobs went overseas first. The current downturn was likely caused by things not related to this flow, but as the recession makes its way through the economy it increases the flow as companies look for ways to cut costs.

I would further the analogy but I don't really have time. End result is: More education = less likely to lose your job. What sector of the economy you are in has little to do with your actual job security.
No, you present a hypothesis and try prove it wrong. And best science is done when many people try to prove it wrong. Less scrutiny is not better science.
This just very quickly jumped to the top of my list of 'favorite web applications.' I'd been using ColourLovers.com, but some of those schemes were simply too ... artistic? for me. Thanks for the link!
Your comment made me recalled a quote of Frederic Bastiat.

"But if, on the other hand, you come to the conclusion, as is too often the case, that it is a good thing to break windows, that it causes money to circulate, and that the encouragement of industry in general will be the result of it, you will oblige me to call out, "Stop there! Your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen."

It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another. It is not seen that if he had not had a window to replace, he would, perhaps, have replaced his old shoes, or added another book to his library. In short, he would have employed his six francs in some way which this accident has prevented.

Let us take a view of industry in general, as affected by this circumstance. The window being broken, the glazier's trade is encouraged to the amount of six francs: this is that which is seen.

If the window had not been broken, the shoemaker's trade (or some other) would have been encouraged to the amount of six francs: this is that which is not seen." - Frederic Bastiat
Ask HN : How to get good at topcoder/google code jam ?
I have been trying these competitions for sometime now but never got beyond the moderate level. Seeing code from people like ACRush and Petr makes me wonder if one can ever develop this talent or if one is just born with it.

And it not that I don't understand basic building blocks of these programs like dynamic programming or graph algorithms, but the way they get applied in the problem just bends my mind. So concretely what things can I do to make myself better at these compitions.

I do understand practice is fundamental. If right now I am from 0 to 10 I am because of that but anything apart from that like books, courses etc.
Wild accusations by people with political agendas hardly counts as "scientific scrutiny".
Android Splintering?
The biggest potential impact is reduced airflow from clogged fans and ducting which could lead to overheating. The smoke particles themselves are probably abrasive to the internal components but from my own personal experience it would have to be an incredibly slow process. I've worked on computers that were so full of smoke/ash/dust that you couldn't even see the PCB anymore. Many of these machines were 5+ years old. It's a very slow process at worst. I'd say smoking is no more of a danger to a computer than owning a pet and having your fans clogged up with their hair & dander.
It's not much different these days than giving them the right to send and receive mail, I don't see why you think it's so silly.
Not wanting to step into an argument here, but I'd like to tie it back to the climate thing.

I think it's cool that you'd go to an expert to see a reproducible experiment. I'm also going to assume that it goes without saying (could be putting words in your mouth but it seems to flow from your responses) that you'd ask a lot of questions if there was unfamiliar math or concepts and basically receive very narrowly focused training in the fields around the experiment.

It's interesting to consider the likelihood/prevalence of the casual commenters on climate change (ie the ones being referred to as idiots) reproducing the climate scientists experiments or coming up to speed on the maths/concepts behind the experiment to be able to critique the experiment in the way that an expert in the field with an opinion opposed to the prevailing thought could.

I know quite a few very vocal climate change skeptics and none of them have a science background or the willingness to attain one, and they seem very proud of that. Hopefully that's a local quirk of my small sample relative to the population.

As an aside, if you can find a set of experts with the time to spend (plus, you know, equipment and money) I'd bet a decent chunk of change that you could take the prevailing scientific opinion and ask for reproducible experiments - in this case a lot would involve analysis of data already given to explain why they want to test want they want to - then you'd end up if not agreeing with them then at seeing where they were coming from.
>Politics in Europe are so unproductive and ridiculous, I really hope that it doesn't spread to the United States and other countries that still have some personal freedoms.

Wow, congratulations on the stupidest sweeping generalization I've seen all week. I mean, it's not like politics in the US is ever unproductive or ridiculous, right?
Do u think we should have a separate thread for entry-level ?? New One like this one.
No, I didn't download them. (As I said: "The single worst-looking one on the examiner.com page was ...".)

As mcantelon said, that (while certainly unpleasant and possibly unethical or illegal or both -- but it's hard to be sure in the absence of context; ousted from what? The proposal to go "through official AGU channels" suggests that what's being proposed is unlikely to be too nefarious) has nothing to do with falsifying data.
We still have the freedom to ignore stupid rhetorical questions, fortunately.

But I can sort of see how people would form this opinion of life in the UK based on internet hyperbole.
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Why are you taking the parent to task for this rather than the OP?
The only people afraid of sunlight are those people with something to be ashamed of.

I wasn't aware that you needed to be "qualified" to be allowed to reproduce mathematical models.
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Peak-coal? Really? The last I checked there was enough coal in the ground to last several hundred years more, at least. As for oil, there's a pretty damned good chance that our extraction technology will improve (as has been the trend) and our ability to use new sources, like shale, will improve as well (as has been the trend).

Peddling the "fossil fuels will run out, we should find alternatives" line is a dangerous path. It risks a lot of very stubborn people saying "really? well, let's just find out, to the bitter end" and calling that bluff. And there is a very real possibility (even if you are skeptical and put that possibility at, say, 10% or less) that the world ends up using every last drop of coal, and far more oil than we ever thought possible, and ultimately burning 10x, 20x or more fossil fuels than have been burned so far.
That sounds like a good idea. Though 768k is probably fine.
This is awesome, but it also feels like something that should have been there from the beginning.
re: "who needs a service": Jitterbug is an open source plugin that renders images of text suitable for image replacement:

http://github.com/flyingsaucer/jitterbug

There have been solutions for PHP and others in the past, too. I think even a few hosted, though I can't recall any off the top.
I mean, wow - I'm totally impressed and will probably become a paying customer. If the free version works out to be as impressive as the sample, I'm sold!
Try approaching the quote without any pre-conceived notions on the meaning of the English language. Similarly, I might say "I used John's hovercraft to hide the fact (from my date) that mine was full of eels."
For those in NYC, Connected Ventures (CollegeHumor.com) is looking for a PHP developer. http://www.collegehumor.com/jobs
Because it negates the whole point you put them in prison.

At some point we'll get the human right to "not be in a cell". And then where will we be?
It's really irritating when people write the title to make it sound as if a bill which hasn't gone through parliament yet is already law.
I'm 23, and my two co-founders are 27 and 31, respectively. It works because we bring different skills, points of view, etc to the table.

The biggest problem is money. I can live on 1500 a month but one of my co-founders has a mortgage, the other a kid, etc.

This means we have different timelines and requirements for success.
Not everyone is so popular, and not all audiences are so political.
So wait - you would submit to various forums lots of crossposts and then send it back to me? A spammer's dream!
Add the song information above or below the video. When you play the video you lose sight of what song is playing. I'm hard of remembering, so I noticed it.
It should also be said that this development house has made good use of Lisp in the past.
They're/There/Their going to oust you, next.
I'm 21. Currently, our startup is a two-person company. The age difference is like 13 years. I don't actually feel such a difference, as long as we can both work hard and achieve our goals, I think. :)
If you think Google wont make this incredibly enticing to companies, you're a fool and probably would have scoffed at the idea of Adsense ten years ago.
You don't want very passive people working for you. You want people who can route around what you're busy doing and manage their own projects.

If you are absolutely critical to whatever they need to do, they have to be managing you about it, not just sticking more work on your lap and waiting for it to bounce off. Which means more than sending an email and never following up.
>Because it negates the whole point you put them in prison.

So you think that being in prison would be perfectly pleasant just as long as you had a broadband connection? Some life you must lead.
It's a fair question. To me, it's a positive thing to criticize the decline of civil liberties in one country, but a negative thing to respond to that criticism with a "at least we're better than another country" flame. It's not productive at all to play the "my country is less bad than yours" game.
The title had me worried it was going to be a melodramatic open-source screed. I was pleasantly surprised. And I agree entirely with the point. By opening our lives, we're providing people with access to information they never had widescale before.

I've grown up reading things where people just talk about life nonstop. AskReddit, certain forums on SomethingAwful, Metafilter, smaller sites. And as a result, I find that I come across many situations in life where I have a good idea of what to do because I've been privy to others' thoughts. I also get the same thing in reverse: People who've read things I write email me pretty frequently to say that what I've wrote has somehow impacted their life.

That's what I think lifehacking really is. It's gathering data about the human race and figuring out hacks to improve performance, which sounds utterly nerdy but is really more like Psychology 2.0, psych that's guided, for better or for worse, by the masses. It's exciting and I think we'll see awesome things come from it, even if it takes another two generations.
The only people afraid of sunlight are those people with something to be ashamed of.

There are plenty of reasons to be afraid of exposing internal communications due to the vagaries of political processes and vendettas.

To claim otherwise is naive, disingenuous, or both.

I wasn't aware that you needed to be "qualified" to be allowed to reproduce mathematical models.

I'm sure that if he just wasn't being kept down by those evil climate scientists, he'd prove them all wrong.
"As a counterpoint, not every Ruby app is a Rails app."

Quite true. I have a commercial desktop JRuby app,

But I've been running a production JRuby Ramaze app for about a year now as well (in support of that desktop app). It just works. Memory is not an issue.

It may be a matter of how various libraries behave, and specific demands of different apps, but I've not seen a reason to think JRuby is unsuitable for Web apps.
Listen, we don't much tolerate hostile assholes around here - so if you're just going to hurl insults at other members of this community from the comfort of your chair, then please do us all a favour and GTFO.

To address your rather poorly communicated point though: the concept of IP isn't going to disappear, especially not overnight. To pretend that we don't need to find solutions around the IP minefield is unwise at best.
This isn't a MySql problem; it's simply how databases work. When you change a table's structure by adding/removing/changing a column, any database (MySql, Oracle, DB2, etc) has to change every single row. To change all rows, that requires an "exclusive lock" on the table.

An ALTER TABLE statement that adds/removes/changes-data-types of a column requires what is called a "schema lock" - meaning that you must acquire exclusive access to the entire table so that you can fundamentally change each and every row. You can't add a new column to only "some" of the rows, right? You have to modify the entire table. In order to adhere to relational database standards, this must be an "atomic" operation: all or nothing. To do so, MySql locks the entire table.

There are no shortcuts that I know of. Sorry!
Yeah, a lot of it looks scammy to me.
Science doesn't recognize authority. Science recognizes the data. And theories backed by the data. The wonderful thing about science is that "some random schmoe" can come along and upset all of the conventional wisdom in a field by proving a new theory with data.

Defensiveness of this sort is unheplful to the legitimate pursuit of science. You can disagree with people, you can tell them bluntly "your ideas are not backed in any way by the data" (indeed, the most crushing insult in science, far more potent than a term like "idiot"), but when you defend a position merely because it's the position of the experts and ignore the data then you have stopped doing science and have engaged in either politics, religion, or both.
A good friend of mine is still looking for a job after graduating from college - and he's been suckered into scammy pyramid scheme interviews already.

Seems like the vermin come out to play when the economy is bad.

Funny/sad part is that he got this lead from a posting on my college's alumni jobs system.
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It's a fair question. To me, it's a positive thing to criticize the decline of civil liberties in one country, but a negative thing to respond to that criticism with a "at least we're better than another country" flame.

The OP's comment was clearly a flame of precisely that sort. It wasn't making any constructive commentary on civil liberties issues, just asking a dumb and inflammatory rhetorical question.

I suggest that the only reason you find the OP less offensive than the reply is that you're American and not British. If our internet laws are fair game for criticism, I think your (crazy) alcohol laws and health system must be too :)

Also, what makes you so sure that civil liberties have been "declining" in the UK? There have been steps forward as well as steps back, I don't see any justification for overall pessimism.
IMO, I would look for opportunities at smaller companies where you would get more of a chance to see larger parts of the operation.

I'm not familiar with the programs at Google, et al, but you would want to make sure you were not stuck in too much of narrow silo.
A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises
Well, I certainly appreciate your taking valuable time out of your day to respond. I'm not sure whether you were responding to me, but don't let that stop you.

Here's the deal: I didn't say science is dependent on "smarts", and I rather resent the implication that I did. (I also kind of resent the implication that I would need to look up phrenology or Lysenkoism - really you pretty much come off here as a jerk.)

What I did imply, thinking that a casual reader would not need this to be spelled out explicitly, is that if I were to get to choose someone to ask about climate, I would rather ask a climatologist, who studies climate, and therefore can be expected to know something about climatology and the actual facts thereof. I personally find that a far better way to get to the facts of the matter than, say, a pundit, or a politician, or an oil baron. Perhaps you feel that pundits, politicians, and oil barons should get equal time when I want the established current models of climatology, but that's just not the way I roll.

In fact, you say exactly that, when you say that scientific opinion is a matter of political decision. Even if you're right in any one instance, you're really wrong when it comes to the ideal scientific process - and I'll still take prevailing scientific opinion over prevailing political opinion if I'm looking for something reality-based.

In fact, in the end, I'm wondering why you took your valuable time to write this comment at all.
Blabber adds a negative subtext. Not all extended conversation is blabber, even if much of it is.
Does anyone know if this was created using the Flash Pro's iPhone app generator or is it a native Obj-C app?
I'm asking since there seems to be a Flash version so that would have been the simplest route for this game.
Here's a trick to consider if you've got a truly large table to migrate, but with today's ActiveRecord-style abstractions it's harder to implement than if you were doing it yourself (like back in the PHP days).

1. Create a new table with the desired structure.
2. Modify your application to check the new table for data first, then the old table if the new table doesn't have the data.
3. Create a script that migrates data X rows at a time (in a transaction), populating the new table with the old data.
4. Once the new table is in place, replace the old table with new, and modify the application to check only that table.

Again, the setup required here can be developer-intensive and somewhat hackish, but if you have a truly colossal data store that'll take hours or days to ALTER TABLE, it's one way to work around it.
Make it so hitting the random tab works even when you're on the random tab. If I hit the random tab repeatedly, nothing happens. I have to hit another tab and then come back to he random tab to get another random selection. (Ubuntu, Firefox 3.5.5, from canonical's package)

I think "next" on the random page does what I want, but I also think it's more natural to hit the thing called "random" when you want another random selection. Especially when your mouse is already on "random" and you aren't interested in what was just served. "Click - click - click - OK, this one."
Oh, sorry! I agree, but that wasn't what I meant. What I meant was, we found the information on their site, and I was surprised that WP hadn't gotten around to it.

The relevant link is: http://www.examiner.com/assets/examinerfaq.html (under, "Will I be compensated?")

I attempted to update the Wikipedia page, but found that the examiner.com domain is blacklisted in WP -- page edits don't allow links to anything in examiner.com.

So! Mystery solved, and it'll stay uncited because I'm not about to set aside a bunch of paid projects to take on the bureaucracy that is Wikipedia.
A beautiful illustration of the extent to which choice and distribution of colour influences the interpretation of a graphic. The ominous rushing-in of the doom-and-gloom purples and greys was just about terrifying (ok, I exaggerate a little). Would this animation have had the same effect if scaled from e.g. blue to yellow?
do people have any jobs left in usa? lol
An open letter to Google
I think it has a lot to do with lifestyle/attitude more than age. For example, I'm 40, but I don't have kids, nor a mortgage, nor any other major financial responsibilities. I do have a long term partner but she's also an entrepreneur working on her own businesses. I hate to get up early, like to play video games, work out regularly and like a good strong drink now and again. I have the lifestyle of a 20 year olod although I'm much more stable both financially and emotionally. Plus I have a lot of experience - what's not to like?

Don't let age/race/gender/ determine who you partner with, look for commitment, passion and energy - those are the things that are important.
"... I am currently looking for and seeking a technical co-founder for a new music start-up I am working on. ..."

Age isn't the problem here, understanding the problem domain is.

"... This year makes me 18 years old...An ideal co-founder for me would have to be no more than 2-3 years older than me, because most older people may not be very comfortable working with side-to-side with someone of my age. ..."

I think the idea of a co-founder and age being incompatible has less to do with age than perceived and actual competence and power. Competence because it's difficult to work with idiots. Power, because an in-balance of power regardless of age turns working with anyone into a master/serf relationship.
Hey unalone, thanks for writing this. We're in this together.
Why necessarily a programmer who understands music? Sure you want someone who loves it, but it sounds like you'll be bringing lots of the product/industry expertise in this case,so you two can complement each other.

I think if you looked around in NYC, you'd likely find some of these people too. NY is somewhat better for music+tech than SF, though SF is lovely as always.
PS. I run the Hype Machine (http://hypem.com) a well-regarded music site that keeps track of music on blogs. Would love to know what you think about it.
I always thought the 4 weeks compulsory time off in Australia (same as UK I guess) was on the low side. I mean if you don't get some time every year to sit back, take a holiday and enjoy what are you working for?

I guess there is a big difference between doing a job you love and being stuck in something to.
-1 goodwill to Google. The whole thing is ridiculous.