jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That’s a really bad article, failing at the fundamental task of putting the quote into the context it was said in.

Jobs was asked what he does all day and how Apple is run. He answered that Apple is sort of run like a startup. To expand on that he said that Apple is great at forming teams, he implied that they have flat hierarchies and he said that he meets with those teams, listens to ideas and brings in his own and has discussions and arguments. (Asked whether people dare to disagree with him he answered “Of course!” and said that the best wouldn’t work for you if they couldn’t disagree with you.)

It wasn’t just a one-line marketing thing. You can certainly argue whether you really believe that Apple works like that on the inside or whether you think that what Steve Jobs outlined here is “like Startups work”.
Oh my I feel bad, I started this in the other post' comments.
Actually I was recommending "Sometimes a Great Notion".
Chrome is built on WebKit, so it's not a Google-from-scratch the way search, etc. are.
They should just use SPF. This is what SPF is designed for, and it allows them to keep the user experience simple and straightforward. No weird passphrase to enter into the email, no weird random email address to email to, etc.
Measuring the danger of being impersonated is very difficult. It depends on how creative the attacker is and the social circumstances of the victim. Further, the victim can easily be unaware of the danger until they get bitten once.

This is going to be a serious issue for Posterous if they ever go mainstream. Opt-in authentication schemes won't be enough to prevent scores of naive people from being humiliated the first time, particularly teenagers.
Idan, I don't think you're really contradicting what I've written (especially with the Sephardic thing). I didn't deny that racial profiling took place at all, nor did I debate its merits or ethical status, I was asserting that it's not in any way the only factor. About your friends, it could be partly self-fulfilling. If they think they're going to be given extra treatment they might understandably act in a more nervous fasion, and as a result get flagged. However I'm just speculating here.

As a fellow pasty white computer geek I've had my bags looked at on a number of occasions and some equipment swabbed, same goes for relatives who live in Israel. A British-Asian friend of mine went on holiday to Israel this year and didn't get any hassle at the airport. This is all the data I have to go on. I'm not doubting your account at all, but neither is mine "BS".

(Anyway, didn't mean for that to sound so aggressive. Drop me an email and we can get a beer next time I visit and talk airports and code.)
I think if you install Bootcamp, apple does that. I have a Win7 Partition on my 2009 MBP and I can see the partition from inside Snow Leopard.
What really bugs me about this legislation is who it targets. Obama's entire campaign hinged upon a commitment to avoid imposing new taxes on the "middle class" and going after big money hoarders who evade taxes. Those who operate S-corps aren't the ones avoiding massive amounts of taxes. This is a backdoor way of increasing taxes on the upper-middle-class, and it really sucks.
Google's had issues with those people, too. And book authors and publishers because of Google Books.

The issue is that Google TV is layering their ads and content on top of the television that the networks pay lots of money to acquire. So the networks pay all the costs and Google piggy-backs on it for free.
Also famous for the potrzebie system of weights and measures
Worker<->UI communication is asynchronous, and has additional limitations (only copying, only JSON-able data), so synchronous worker API in many cases would just shift complexity elsewhere.
Anyone else getting sick of seeing "you should follow me on Twitter" everywhere?
Maybe we are missing the point when we think school is about making kids happy.

1984 made me miserable. But it also helped make me into the man I am now.
They are not Infrastructure as a server providers. They provide platforms to deploy applications
I remember that from the start of Niall Ferguson's The War of the World - in 1913 the world looked quite a bit like it does today (at least from a "globalization" perspective).
http://wilderdom.com/images/IQ.gif

With one picture we can explain reality TV, crappy music, Chopin and Huxley.
Martin comes from the Smalltalk tradition, where the preference is for many small methods that share state via instance variables. ("small", "Niladic", and "State to reduce the number of arguments"). I don't like it. My mind feel scattered among a dozen locations, and I agree with the reviewer in preferring a more functional form.

But there's no need to depend on my tastes. What little empirical evidence there is suggests that up to ~100 lines is just fine, in terms of measurable outcomes.

So when reading the book, remember some of it is teaching style. To use an architecture metaphor, it's teaching Cape Cod style, and you may prefer Dutch Colonial Revival.
It ought not ring true for anyone.

“Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”

~ Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page, Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens; Perspectives on Politics, 2014
I think waiting on a channel takes something like 1000 cycles or at least on that order. And large buffer halves that number. But you know, microbenchmarks are not very meaningful per se.
It's not whole API versioning. If you have a resource that has different behavior, you can bump the version just for that resource.

There's no reason you can't change your data model with this. Why do you think you can't?
H1-B visa is a source of abuse. They should open the borders, no strings attached.

Of course it should work the other way too. People need to be free to leave.

However the talk about labor marker is bad. We need to have an economy where, cooperation, not competition, is rewarded.

I can't wait for the day wages become as antiquated as the idea of kings and serfs and the idea of a labor market is as strange as the market for slaves.
I'm kinda wondering what's the reason for that that check to begin with. Just being pedantic for pedentrys sake?
Well, Darwin would certainly have to be considered as one such example, so I wouldn't say that it can never happen. But I agree, at the cellular level things get much crazier. Never is a long time though.
Michael, I think your pragmatic perspective here is important, but I disagree.
If you aren't prepared financially to play the startup game, you shouldn't. If you do play, you should be WELL AWARE of the risks associated. It is a game, you play for sport not survival.
according to this it does https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/issues/143

However, like the majority of network-enabled Android applications, RedPhone relies on the existence of APIs provided by the Play Services Framework. If you're avoiding Google Play because you don't want your device to "phone home," you should be aware that merely having Play installed (even without an account registered) is enough for your device to phone home. If you uninstall Play, however, the Play Services Framework will be unavailable, and RedPhone (along with many other applications) will not function.
So what? Would you rather they do what Microsoft did and take out 40,000 sites at once?
I can relate to this on a deep level, because apart from being an introvert, I also happen to have a stutter (though they're mutually exclusive. I would've been an introvert even if I didn't have a stutter). So, I try to avoid talking to anyone new, because that triggers the stuttering. Being a startup guy makes this much harder as I have to meet new people now and then. I love meeting new people, but the talking becomes unbearable, and I usually find a way out of the conversation to avoid awkwardness. A lot of my feelings can be summed up by the movie, Rocket Science.
And if they canned online - all the pundits will be saying:

"Google is beating Microsoft because Microsoft DOESNT EVEN HAVE A MAPPING PRODUCT OR SEARCH ENGINE.. they do not see the FUTURE IS ONLINE.. blah blah blah.. "

This is Microsoft playing defense - and cheap relative to the profit machine they are defending
". Greenwald certainly does seem to think Manning was the leaker. But he also seems to think that Manning is very possibly not guilty (or as I carelessly put it, 'innocent') on both factual and legal grounds. "

I've read every article Greenwald has ever written on Manning, and I've never seem him state that, or even imply that Manning is not guilty. About the furthest I've seen him go is imply that perhaps we should not presume him to be guilty before trial, and that we should treat him as a suspect, and not a convicted felon, until that point.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

I help run a family restaurant with tight margins to deal with. With really small capital to budget, my father and uncle decided a POS system was not worth the money and commissioned me to build a usable system since I was the "tech guy" of the family.

I hacked something up using kiosk mode browser running off of locally-hosted PHP scripts saving to a MySQL database that backsup online nightly to Google Docs. It's an old computer and hacky system, but it works because of the ability to review data at night at home in the office via GDocs with pretty stats and keeps the family happy.

I asked previously here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1431181 on HN, but got no response.

I'd devote more time to this and get a better MVP out the door except for extreme time commitments to said restaurant on the floor and in the back, and due to school commitments.

Like Retric said, you could make a killing with a web presence+POS on the floor+cloud saving features if you built a startup that showed how you could save time and money for restaurants and make things easier, while not charging for an arm and a leg. The market is filled with Geocities-era looking sites from spammish vendors all with their unique-as-a-snowflake proprietary file and data formats.
Right. They also bundled player software for the PC that would organize things for you by metadata, and generate playlists to sync to the player that reflected that organization.

You didn't have to organize your music into directories and manage it yourself unless you wanted to.
And a voucher that is valid for the day you are visiting.
The player didn't care about metadata. However, it did understand playlists, so Archos would bundle with player software for the PC that DID use metadata to organize things, and would sync with the Archos by writing out playlists that reflected that organizaion.

Thus, an ordinary user could indeed have an iPod-like experience of letting software manage his player for him (although the player Archos bundled was not as good as iTunes).
I'm an introvert but I also understand it goes both ways. Some of my extroverted friends may need me to swing the pendulum more their way as well. It may be uncomfortable and draining for me to be that outgoing or engaged, but I think back to the situations in which I made a conscious effort to do so -- I seem to have grown a little bit each time I did.
What makes you so certain? Have you run a candidate on a 30-hour/wk legislation platform and communicated that fact to 18-30 y/os via media they actually pay attention to, and measured how that affected voting rates?
syntax-quote can cause this:

> (type `(1))
clojure.lang.PersistentList
> (type `(1 2))
clojure.lang.Cons
> (list? `(1 2))
false

edit: however http://clojure.org/reader#syntax-quote does specify that syntax-quote is not the same as quote for some forms, including lists.
truth, but its up to us as programmers to make it better by combining logic and design. for mostly employment reason etc.... but i prefer low gui and more command line in exp, more flexible/powerful than any gui exp :)
Looks clean on retina mac. Maybe a font rendering issue?
Kinesis is not hosted Kafka in the way that ElasticCache is hosted Redis. It was developed internally within Amazon.
Thanks. Did anyone see an initial CapEx budget range? Also, OpEx ranges for ongoing lifecycle maintenance by year?
Yes I can imagine that. 2014 was the first time we got AngularJS on a RFP.

Then again, I am glad the project is now gone, given the direction AngularJS is going.
As far as I can tell, you have two main objections to prioritizing worrying about Strong AI:

1) Strong AI is very far away, so no use worrying about it yet.

2) Strong AI if developed will not be likely to take over.

to which I would counterpoint with:

1) Sure, but when it happens, it will only happen once and thereafter will likely be out of our hands and control. Thinking about the groundwork that needs to go into safely developing an AI is cheap relative to the opportunity cost of getting it wrong. Prevention, cure, etc.

2) If developed, Strong AI will likely have SOME goal. It's not that a Strong AI will actively seek to rule humans, it will just have aims that will likely consider us as disposable as ants. To quote Yudkowsky:

"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."

- https://intelligence.org/files/AIPosNegFactor.pdf (Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk)
Bit of a personal plug, but I've put together a screencast about Docker, and people seem to think it is helpful at giving an overview @ https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/31-introduction-to-docker
Throughout history men have probably lived through worse conditions, either while being prisoners of war, stranded on a desert island and whatnot.

The way to cope with such harsh conditions is, I suppose, always the same : hope of escaping and returning home.
Don't have a foreign policy so shitty that people are willing to kill themselves flying planes into buildings just to attack you?

Hell, I bet we'd save money.
I am a customer that bought this app (the UI version) back when it used to cost ~20EUR.
After checking the open source command-line project, I decided I don't want to mess with installing Python packages and so on so I got it from the AppStore. The easy install process was a major selling point in contrast with other available tools too (e.g. I don't want to interact with Haskell at all).

On a technical level, I was quite happy with the app, but the fact that it was made free is disappointing, because unless it will be open sourced it means it's pretty much dead. Even then I will probably have to do a lot more work to upgrade.
What are your plans regarding that?
In fact, if they enable satellite to satellite communication (like e.g. Iridium) and get full worldwide coverage, there's no reason why they couldn't in theory delivery much shorter roundtrip times than what we get between many locations over wired networks, given how much traffic takes huge detours today for various reasons. E.g. lots of European traffic to parts of Asia still goes the "long way around" via the US because it's a far better served route thanks to massive amount of undersea capacity going in/out of the US to pretty much everywhere, while the land routes to parts of Asia are fraught with problems.

Being able to ignore political boundaries, war zones, problems with theft and vandalism and other concerns that often limit the placement of over-land long distance cables has a huge potential value in itself.
Yes. More generally it's remarkable how often not getting something you wanted turns out to be for the better. Perhaps because improving your situation often also constrains your options, and we undervalue lack of constraint because we underestimate how much things could change in the future (or how mistaken we could be now).
Posts like these reenforce my dismay at the total and utter devaluation of the education system when dealing with recruiters for full-time positions (15 years minimum of full-time education, but you still need that one final test).

That said, I don't have a problem with these tests if the setter understands that they are not there to filter in or out the competent, but instead serve as a filter of convenience because dealing with 60 resumes is easier than 600. This seems an acceptable pragmatic approach.

When rubber hits the road a business needs to make money by being competitive. If having read a book on JUnit is your metric for hiring competitive employees, so be it. I can't help but wonder if there is a sizeable amount of latent competitive advantage in the complement of this set.
I think the reason that people suggest Mac over Linux for laptops is that 1. Apple makes really good laptops. They're solid, they're lightweight, they're not creaky and they don't feel cheap; 2. You can do anything on OS X that you can on Linux (e.g. running bash, RoR, Python scripting, most open-source software).

This is a big part of the reason geeks are moving in large volumes to the Mac: you can have your laptop, you can compile and run Apache or PHP, install gems, test Rails, and it's all just as effortless as in Linux (or, depending on the Linux distro, even more so).

What you don't have to do is re-configure X or your nvidia drivers when a 'yum update' does a kernel upgrade, and you suddenly find yourself without X for ten minutes while you find and run the nvidia kernel module builder/installer (a problem everyone in my office had every few weeks at one company).

A lot of stuff just works effortlessly, and while this is getting better in Linux, there's still a lot of 'gotchas' that crop up out of nowhere because some company or some developer just doesn't care.

It's not a question of 'You want Linux, buy a Mac and run Linux on it', it's a question of asking why the user wants Linux. If it's so that all your software, top-to-bottom (excluding the BIOS) is open-source, then get a Lenovo, but if what you want is a better Rails dev environment than Windows, a Mac will do that for you and be less effort in the long run.

This is the reason I'm on a Mac, and it's the reason a lot of other open-source or web app developers run Macs as well, and I think it's the secret sauce that's made a big difference in Apple's sales numbers - geeks buy, then geeks recommend.
And this is where people in the power user group always miss the boat. We have different sites for different things, and the overlap is minimal to nonexistent. This isn't true for most people.

It's been said google is the homepage of the internet.. Well, facebook is quickly becoming that to a growing group of people. If people can get a good recommendation for a phone from the website they're already on, they sure as hell are going to use it. If people can get "recommendations" for a website for whatever they're looking for, you'd be foolish to think they aren't going to use it.

Why is it that Mozilla is sustained by having a little search box on the browser? People use it 'cause it's there.
They don't provide anything but I was responding to someone who asked what the wow facto was. There really isn't any wow factor, but for some reason people are suckers for achievements. Just look at pretty much any video game today for additional examples.
What would be interesting is if someone made a web-based GUI wrapper around such apps. I am sure it would be possible, considering that curses-based wrappers have been around: http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/.
i have used templates from this site back in 2005. just checked - same templates. probably, this site is outdated.
reddit is made of people.
http://www.lessframework.com

Grid based css with inline queries for mobile/ipad/desktop.
I think AT&T giving discounted renewals six months in advance is good indication that they will be losing exclusivity early in 2011.
Except it's not hands free, laptops have the camera in a pretty good position without any additional effort.
Does your grandma have an iphone 4G hooked up to Wifi, and a friend that has an iphone 4G hooked up to wifi?

My father has an N900, and he video calls europe every day. I didn't need to show him how to use it or anything.
Then flag the link.
I love seeing framework or language homepages with good copy and design like this one. The best ones make you want to stop what you're doing in your favorite language and go code something with the new hotness right now.
Don't complain, flag.
Updated: No Verizon. Less 4G than the Evo. Lame.
I agree the main problem with Digg is the community as well. The broader Digg community just isn't interested in the kind of content that I am. That doesn't mean they all aren't though. I'm sure there are a lot of people digging quality content from good sources, ie Fast Company and The Nation, but their submissions and Diggs get lost in all the other crap the majority of the community is submitting and digging.

The way I see myself using it would be to subscribe to feeds of primarily publishers, like say The Economist, FT, Fast Company, Inc., PopSci, blogs, etc. just like in RSS.

But rather than seeing just a straight stream of their updates, the social voting aspect of Digg will help highlight some of the best content coming from these sources.

I don't expect to be discovering the latest Suster, Wilson, or Dixon post from the new Digg. HN and Twitter already make sure I see stuff like that, but not the broader realm of publishers who produce content that I would read...but they never get in front of me know.
By that standard, Apple isn't really a company.
It was over 30 degrees in May here in Lyon this year and since then we have been several degrees above historical norms pretty much every week.

The heat wave of 40 degrees a few weeks ago was intense not just because it was 40 degrees but because the night time temperates did not drop by much.

Usually in France while we have some very hot days once the sun goes down temperatures drop to the low 20s or even high teens so we can open the windows and our homes cool by heat exchange and it isn't too uncomfortable (without AC).

However recently we have had nights where it is still 28 or 29 degrees at 2am meaning it is still hotter outside than inside (indoor temperatures in my home without AC on is usually 25-26 even when it is high 30s outside) so opening a window just lets in warmer air. Without some kind of air cooling you end up with a hotter ambient temperature in your home which is horrible night after night after night.

And of course warmer rivers make nuclear power plant cooling more difficult.

I am from the UK originally so follow what is happening back in my home country too and the heat there has been insane as well. Highest recorded temperatures, way above what anyone can consider "nice" in a country with homes designed to keep as much heat in as possible and almost nobody having AC.

It is changes like we see here that worry me a lot for the future my son will be living in when he is my age. Really sorry state the world is in these days :(
Because non-chinese visitors (who aren't behind the Great Firewall) also get served this malicious javascript if they load up the code. It's not just Chinese visitors that visit these sites and therefore get the JS code.
I think you'll find that they wouldn't have any choice. You can't just change the deal once you've made it. The only options are to reach another agreement (2-sided!) or give the money back. They'd be breaking too many laws otherwise.
I wonder if there is a conflict here because for some people careless statements are reliably at too low a precision to be helpful because one has already considered the topic at higher precision.

When you are an expert at something, to improve further you need to hunt down every last mistake you can find. You don't just dismiss logical fallacies as not being germane. Sometimes they don't look germane but actually are for a subtle reason.

By contrast, for newbies, even if a fallacy is germane in some subtle way it doesn't matter b/c they aren't learning subtleties.