skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
randomwalker is spot on, from what I've seen, e.g. in working for scientists and mathematicians. My first job was for a group of applied mathematicians at MIT (maintaining the PDP-11/44 they used to for RJE to Crays and the like, and to write up their stuff (plotting, I helped them with TeX, which was brand new at the time), etc.)

Every once in a while we'd get a "walk in", someone with something he came up with, thought was brilliant and that "the people at MIT" would be interested in. Our lead professor was quite gentle with these guys, but the outcome was clear ... and part of it was certainly that they didn't "speak our language", which when you come down to it is a pretty low bar.

Low in that reading some of the literature and sitting quietly at a few gatherings would easily bring you up to speed.
It sounds like a good product, but I do not believe you have addressed the marketing aspects of it adequately:

1) Too geeky language - rather tell a story Company XYZ solved a problem by...

2) Design needs work

3) Call for action on landing page missing

4) Let the Customer touch the product (Tour/demo/video)

5) Put all technical details in white papers - the IT guys will try and rip them apart.

Who are most likely to be your Customers?
Do you open and read your organization's junk mail?
About 20 years. I don't miss it at all. In fact, I can't recommend it highly enough.
"The number of potential subscribers dwarfs the number of people who are actually purchasing music on iTunes," Mr Bronfman said.

The number of potential customers always dwarfs the actual, that doesn't mean you're going to get them.
Never underestimate what a fresh set of eyeballs can do for a problem, even a highly sophisticated and nuanced one.

Good hackers work in all sorts of fields they are not experts in. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen "breakthroughs" with technical problems simply because the smart group with all the jargon had to explain themselves and their situation to the outside hackers just trying to make a computer program help them out. It's extremely easy for groupthink to take over small groups of specialists, and it happens most of the time without any of them realizing it. By the way, just so we don't feel so cocky, this also happens all the time in groups of programmers in a project who take hidden assumptions and make them into unwritten law without anybody questioning them either.

The amateur, outsider, or programmer has a vital role in technical groups and efforts of all stripes.
I'll take those downvotes as a "Yes, Al Gore is personally placing space heaters on glaciers."
Viking frogmen chase Street View spymobile
New Russian botnet tries to kill its larger rival
"Not positive for the industry" vs. "Positive for the listener / potential consumer" No surprise which one they're going to choose given their history of treating digital music consumers like criminals.
Where in the Cloud Are We?
In all reality you are either a gaming machine and can play all sorts of new games and find information and reviews for each purchase or you can just watch TV and look for the new game commercials, there are a ton and I hadn't noticed until recently.

I personally just buy games at a lag usually they are much cheaper (after a year or two) and time proven, if you are a pc gamer steam is amazing and for consoles I really have no idea I guess I just hear word of mouth about the new games.
Harem Castle
Clever, too, as a short term fix and focus, and it helped her to appreciate her real live coworkers when she returned from her "two month sabbatical of sorts".
You should bye them all.

Hackers hack
At a far stretch of the imagination... maybe it's a message based system that simply provides checks (money out = money in) at every point. No centralisation = no reporting.

I really don't know the implementation, but if you're not designing for reporting then it's feasible that reporting is non-trivial against the implementation.

Just saying... though I realise it sounds dumb and I would tend to agree with your view, but it is possible that this could be true.
Not when you are using sloccount to measure the 'value' of the software.
Microsoft, the company, is "long at level"
Ruby's _other_ Begin
Do they have the data to filter? Given they're just a clearing house for sending messages between banks, it's not implausible that they might only have source and destination account numbers and amount.

I'm not saying they do, I can't find the actual contents of the message with a quick search, but isn't that a plausible technical reason?

But there's no good reason why the EU should hand _any_ data to the US, filtered or not.
Code to electrical signal
how does a computer program that we write eventually gets converted to electrical signals (after turning into zero's and one's)and flows along the bus to wherever it is destined to?what are the steps involved in this process?
i couldn't find a very detailed information on this .i would be very glad if someone could explain this.
With Stephen Leguillon of E-resistible-Connecting Customers to local Takeaways
I pointed this out last month. Got downvoted, though.

How long do you think Taiwan is going to last as an
autonomous entity, now that it can no longer rely on the
US for military support, because the US is in hock to the
PRC?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1050622
Google Buzz buzzkill
The most important lesson my mentor ever taught me:

We went to a client to work on Problem X. He quickly determined that solving Problem X would achieve nothing. Problem Y was the real problem, but was way outside our areas of expertise.

So what did he do? He slept 4 hours a night for the next 2 weeks studying everything he could find about Problem Y. He reviewed reports, industry literature, called experts, and talked to as many people in the company who knew anything about that subject area. Within 2 weeks, he presented a brilliant solution that no one had ever considered but was instantly understandable by their experts. (That solution included work done by us and we had a great client relationship for years.)

Later, I asked him why he tried to accomplish something so difficult with such a seemingly tiny possibility of success. I'll never forget his reply...

"I didn't know that I couldn't do it, so I did it."
I'm not sure the amateur-professional dichotomy is useful.

They put the data out there and someone found an error. Someone else might spot an anomaly that leads to some important discovery.

Whether that someone is a professional scientist, a professional programmer, a statistics student or a crank is mostly irrelevant. Putting stuff out for re-use can (if planned for) be cheap and easy. There's no reason in this day and age, not to do it.

That's what's important here and pitting professional against amateur doesn't really move you forward on that issue.
The Tracability of an Anonymous Online Comment
In my experience (math, physics, CS), most journals are only single blind. The referee is anonymous, the author is not.

Additionally, referees can sometimes give themselves away.

The authors also fail to cite [Irrelevant Paper, Irrelevant Paper 2, Peripherally related paper 3]. These works should be cited and compared to the work being reviewed.

"Irrelevant Paper", John Smith. Journal of Trivialities, 1995.

"Irrelevant Paper 2", by John Smith and Steve Jones. Journal of followups to irrelevant papers, 1998.

"Peripherally related paper 3", by John Smith and Phil Johnson. Journal of Blah Blah, 2002.
Complete and utter trash.

"Returning to the original measuring stick, let us see if society is productive.
Bashful is working to make ice cream. But Scrooge is not productive.
If the venture is successful, then Scrooge will get money for nothing. He has
gotten his money “to work for him.”23 In fact that is not what is happening.
Money cannot work. Bashful is doing all the work and Scrooge is taking
some of the rewards of Bashful’s labor. Is this fair? In history, this arrangement
is thought to be fair because it is an equity investment.24"

This person doesn't have the faintest idea of what investment means. Scrooge didn't do nothing, he delayed his consumption -- he worked in essence for free, until his investment has returns.

In general when investing you're improving efficiencies for instance buying a faster assembly line. This allows you to make the more goods for less price thus customers are benefited and the investors take a return. It's a win win situation.
I'm still waiting to get Buzz enabled so I'm not sure on this, but is there an option for per 'buzz' use of location data? I could see good use for the odd occasion of "meet me here" message with the data added. Even better if it knew the recipients location and they could be provided with a route on how to get there!
I was TV-less for several years-long periods (starting when I lived overseas in a non-English-speaking country). It's actually easier to do now, thanks to the loads of other time-wasting alternatives, such as Web video, Web surfing, and mobile apps.
Why Subversion is better than Git
The hottest JS framework, according to Google Trends
When I stopped watching TV on a regular basis about a decade ago the biggest thing I noticed was how peaceful and relaxing a quiet room can be. Getting rid of this constant fast paced grind that is linear TV can really be a load off your mind. It's OK to just sit down in a comfy chair and do absolutely nothing other than enjoy your own thoughts. When I visit a friend's house who is a believer in TV as "background noise" it actually makes me uncomfortable. I feel like my brain is being pulled in a dozen different directions at once and it's hard to focus with the distractions. I think most people would benefit from taking breaks from TV so they don't get totally de-sensitized to the effect it's having on them.
Climate science is broad, and a few parts are deep. Nevertheless, amateurs such as JGC and Steve McIntyre have identified and corrected errors in the field.

You are being downmodded because you are nonsensically comparing them to deranged conspiracy theorists. You do so without evidence, most likely for political purposes.
> a peaceful protest is far more effective

Voting for these people would seem a good protest -- http://www.pirateparty.org.au/
This reminds me distinctly of this onion article: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694

It's great that he doesn't watch television (except that he does, he just gets it through an alternate channel and is more selective of what he watches) but he puts forth no interesting discussion about the merits thereof. He does mention copyright issues, but only to say that he doesn't violate copyright because it's too much work. He again doesn't make any discussion points on the matter.
Google Trends will only show 5 trends. Prototype got left out, but still won't beat jQuery (it gets a huge peak in mid-2009 due to the release of a video game with the same title).
Interviewing only the disgruntled and fired is just as one-sided as business books that determine rules of success by only interviewing people who made it rich. What's the opposite of survivor bias?

Just to give the other side as somebody who worked there for a while and retired pretty successful, driving big changes isn't trivial but it isn't hard either. As an individual with an idea, you don't have to do ROI, fill out complicated budgeting forms, etc. Just make it work and then convince your managers -- all of whom are techies! -- that it's a good idea and you're willing to spend the time to make it happen. But I did see a lot of people fail with their "great idea" when they didn't want to be the one to build and ship it. Nobody there is going to do your work for you.
Flickr code blog interview about WildlifeNearYou, machine tags and API tricks
The official newspaper of the Communist rule of Soviet was called Pravda. Pravda is russian for "Truth". I think this is what they are joking with.
Google Wave Phishing Hack
Incentives don't work. This has been documented over and over again, and it's truly puzzling that large corporations don't learn from it.

Here's a quick and light article on the subject: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.html

Here's a video lecture on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdkQwQQWX9Q

And here's the classical Harvard business review article that originally proposed it: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam;jsessi...
15 years and counting (without a TV).

I get to see some TV when I visit my parents (two weeks a year) but that's it. I've come to think of TV watching as something you do on Holiday when you are just lazing around anyway. The only time I miss it is World Cup Football time.

All that said, I suspect the web can waste more time than the TV, if you are not aware of it. Timing web usage (or alternatively doing without the web for a month or so) can be very educational.

From the article,

"It was only by being away from TV for so long that I saw it like that."

Replace TV with internet ...
My first thoughts on reading this were that it was super-cool. Then I thought about customers who could benefit from it (we provide Linux consultancy to a number of medium-large enterprises), and I pretty much drew a blank.

If you're large enough for the downtime associated with a reboot to be a big issue then you've presumably already got a minimum of two machines performing the same function. That being the case, it's no problem to remove each node from the cluster in turn, upgrade the kernel, reboot, test and add it back in.

That rather makes the service more of a convenience. For example, for active/passive setups where a failover produces an undesirable amount of downtime (say 30 seconds whilst services migrate), or single server setups where uptime isn't critical, but downtime is still a pain.

Cool technology, but perhaps an example of a solution looking for a problem. I think at $4/month the convenience aspect can probably justify the cost in many cases.
A little over a year for me. Don't miss it at all. A lot of free time in my hands - spending the time reading copious amount of books.
The Product Group, Needs & Wants & March More & Thanks All Around
Yeah. One person.
Do you need a "Google Profile" to be able to use Buzz?
Writing a college research paper cover page
If you are writing a college paper you will agree that making the college research paper cover page is one of the easiest things that you could do when writing a college paper.
It's odd that it reminds you of that. Is me mentioning this once on my blog your measure of 'constantly'?
You are being downmodded because you are nonsensically comparing them to deranged conspiracy theorists. You do so without evidence, most likely for political purposes

I have no political purpose -- and I'm not sure how politics play in watching shipping lanes open up on the north pole.

I'm glad if they find errors. But correct me if I'm wrong, it hasn't change anything. And this is what concerns me: that it raises a hand for debate. The debate is over. We need to act and we need to have started yesterday. I feel like I'm watching a woman get raped, but instead of people stopping it, they want to talk about if it's really "rape" if the man wears a condom.

We are at a tipping point and we can, and should, cut carbon emissions. Moving to alternate energy sources is an important step that we will make eventually anyway, but to do it sooner means that the poorest of the world will not get quite as screwed in the end.
Completely unviewable. Yet another site with a "mobile" version, except this one redirects between /mobile and /mobile/ repeatedly.
The real question is does microsoft need to innovate? The business philosophy seems to be more reactive than innovative and it has worked out for a great deal of time.
When I used to run 10 servers or so, I might have used this service to make upgrades easier. With potentially 100s of servers in the cloud at a time now, I've already figured out how to bootstrap my image off a base install and start and stop servers on a daily basis. Upgrading an image is as simple as picking a new base image and applying my handy dandy boot scripts to it.

I don't see a huge value to IaaS customers as their infrastructures are mostly ephemeral anyway, and are serviced by the likes of RightScale and Opscode who both provide tools that help you get your cloud image booted and configured.

As for the larger own-their-datacenter customers, they'll likely have some solution based on Chef (Opscode) or Puppet, and be more tolerant to reboots.

Smaller data center users might get a kick out of it though.
Linus Declares the Google Nexus One a "Winner"
I haven't owned a TV in a few years. I used to watch TV stuff online, but rarely do so now. Every now and again, I'd watch an entire show over a weekend, but then nothing for the next month or two. The only TV-like activity I do still engage in is gaming, though thats irregular too (ie obsessively for a month and then not at all for three or so).
Well, it used to be that being a scientist wasn't a profession at all. Most science was done by the independently wealthy.

In many fields, today, to be an amateur you need to be independently wealthy as well. Most science requires a lot of expensive equipment. The "amateurs" he spoke of were using techniques that required little money (data analysis, pen and paper math)
Geeking Out on SSD Hardware Developments
If China declares unrestricted war, and attempts to use debta as a weapon, we have a very simple response: "Dear world, all T-Bills we sold to China are hereby repudiated in response to their hostile acts."

Or, to paraphrase: When you owe China $1000, you've got a problem. When you owe China $800 billion, China has a problem.
Ask HN: Review my Startup - Preceden
From what I understood, they can send all the data - so why not just a fragment? They operate on full account numbers which can be mapped to a any region/bank via IBAN needed for SWIFT transfer after all... Maybe I'm jumping to wrong conclusions here, it just seems highly unlikely / crazy that they're able to send everything, but not a subset.
As someone who gets intensely bored with even the best video games after an hour or less I'm really amazed anyone would have the time to play that many games and expect to actually complete each one in its entirety. Video gaming has that weird addictive drive to it for some people that I do not think is healthy. You might like good wine but you don't drink wine 8 hours a day. You don't obsessively consume every good bottle of wine you own. You don't sit around stressing out about not consuming and finishing enough wine. If you do these things you're not a wine lover; you're an alcoholic.

I think rabid video game fans should consider this point strongly. Part of having good taste is being selective because it's impossible to consume everything. Are these all good games? Maybe but you have a finite amount of time in your life. You need to plan accordingly. It may include making tough choices like playing video game X instead of video game Y but you'll survive and your life won't be significantly worse off no matter what choice you make.
About 13 years--on moving out of my parents, to college. Never missed it a single minute.
Er, no, he means the fall of the US, or at least the fall of the US economy and/or the value of the US dollar.
It wouldn't change the real value we have to pay externally for oil and so on.

It's my semi-vague understanding that "competitive devaluations" don't work well. If by citing Argentina you're implying this is a solution to our debt problem ... well, that would be totally catastrophic in a nation where something like 70% of the wealth is in financial instruments. When countries cancel their debts by inflation, they also tend to "cancel" their system of government (i.e. it gets replaced, as happened in the US with the Continental Congress ("Not worth a Continental")).
I'd recommend get_iplayer for UK-based geeks who want to have a bit more control over when and how they watch stuff from the BBC iPlayer.

http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer

It's a command line PVR. There's a surprising amount of good stuff on at odd times on BBC Four, like the two science programs he mentioned for example.

It's one more step away from having to watch TV on its schedule and its terms.
What the hell is a 'digital music consumer'? How do they differ from analogue ones? Lol.
Google Buzz: Awesome or scary?
Magic Maze Game Download Free
Magic Maze drops you into a dungeon with nothing but your trusty firearm and a nose for treasure. It's up to you to explore the labyrinthine passages, sniffing out riches and mowing down the monsters that try to get in your way. Your skills will automatically upgrade as you progress through the action-packed stages, allowing you to freeze monsters and unleash toxic gases that clear the way to the exit.
How high school will make you a follower
It's been years for me. Occasionally I find myself watching TV in a hotel or at a friend's house or bar or some such. What amazes me is not how bad TV is, but how good it is. It's enjoyable, stimulating, highly pleasant distraction. There's some really, really good shows. It's easier to zone out with than reading a book or playing a difficult game. Really, TV is pretty good stuff at what it does.

Just - my long term goals don't jive with TV. I want my distraction/relaxation to also further my social life, learning, or industriousness. So I'll play difficult games that force lots of thinking (Civilization IV on one of the top three difficulties, online Risk over at Conquer Club, Darklands with an emulator), or I'll read a book, or I'll go to a museum, or I'll watch TED talks, or read Hacker News, or I'll click around in Wikipedia to learn more of different philosophies and eras of history, or I'll do something social with someone, or just go sit in nature or a park or a place I can be out amongst people.

These distract, stimulate, and relax to different degrees, but one of them should get the job done at any given time, and ideally my distraction/relaxation/stimulation also furthers one of my other goals. I'm amazed at how good TV is - and that's what scares me about it, because it doesn't further my other goals at all.
If it wants to compete and stay relevant to its customers, yes. The Office/Windows quasimonopoly has eroded a lot in the last five years, and they need new and better products to keep current customers and attract new ones.
Sleep Dep Not All Bad for Creatives
Somehow I get the feeling that he's getting bored with Subversion even himself and ready to move on to Git ;-)
Google Street View Snowmobile offers view from Vancouver's Whistler Mountain
I think that works for a while but it catches up with you eventually. Once you miss enough next big things you just aren't prepared to react anymore.
"Most people were using CVS or other proprietary version control systems"?
People who don't watch TV do tend to mention it at every opportunity. But they likely watch youtube vids, interviews, webcasts etc.

So it's like someone constantly going on about how they haven't even owned a car for 5 years! And forgetting to mention they have a 4x4 pickup truck now.
I'm not a grammar Nazi, but this headline (which is from the actual article) is actually misleading. This is not an article about the the motivations for criticisms by former Microsoft employees but is instead an article about those criticisms. It should be entitled, "Former employees say why Microsoft can't innovate."
Exactly the kind of brain-dead decision Warner has every right to make. I guess I'll be listening to a lot less Warner music. Too bad for them I'm not going to notice. Also too bad that I'm one of the idiots that actually buys stuff he likes from Last.fm.
They've ignored Git's superior branching scheme though. Once you use Git for a while and get a hang of branches, you won't want to go back to the Subversion way of doing it.