skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This site is great, good on them for making it. Though when I first saw it I thought, instead of posting all these instructions (many of them tedious) why don't they just get some developers to add one click download all your data buttons to each site?
I think that you were supposed to notice them.
Could you provide a link to the coding test? It sounds interesting.
Thank you for the response, I will keep these details in mind.

The GitHub similar site was http://www.kinspir.com/, which I helped them back in April of 2009.

I won two competitions in my area, which were C++ and VB.Net when I was in the 9th grade, first place for both of those competitions. I then went to state to compete against around 50 other contestants in each of those languages and got 2nd place and 4th place in the state. Wasn't able to compete at any FBLA competitions during my whole high school year, since I had an expulsion from school at the end of my 9th grade year.
Steve Jobs debates Valleywag editor by e-mail at 2am
Can't point to an essay myself, but I do remember an anecdote from somewhere that he did not actually own a computer until about six years before he died, and he only used it for websurfing.
I challenge you to find someone that I can't teach how to program a computer.

Maybe they won't be the next Donald Knuth, but they'll be able to hold down a job and make a living. I guarantee it.

You ship 'm I'll teach 'm, no matter how much time it takes I'll do it. The only pre-requirements are a willingness to learn and a willingness to spend the time, as well as an iq of 80 or more.

Anybody can do it, not equally fast, not equally good, some may hate it and some may love it.

That test is so biased it's not even funny, I've linked the script below, it assumes that people will clue in to the different meaning of the '=' sign in programming (assignment) as opposed to what it means in the rest of math (equality). I note that some programmers that are very well seasoned have been caught to mess up '==' and '='.

I always thought that the '=' sign for assignment was a huge mistake and that '<=' would have been far better.

But it's a little late for that now. What galls me even more about that test is that instead of providing a warm up with a bunch of assignment samples and 'print' statements afterwards would have given the really interested parties a shot at figuring out how it works, to test their assumptions.

The problem with programming is an educational one, not some kind of genetic pre-disposition to being able to program.

Just as there are people that are better and not-so-good at arithmetic there are people that are better and not-so-good at programming.

It's a skill thing, and if you work at it hard enough you can get better. The ten thousand hour rule definitely applies. If that's not the case then how come there are a thousand and one books that will teach you how to become a (better) programmer. It is teachable, it is a skill, there is no magic component, in spite of what this so-called study says.

Here is the test script:

http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/test(week-0)...

Have read, and see what you think, try to pretend that you have no programming knowledge and that all you know is arithmetic, it basically tests a single question in different forms over and over again.

In my opinion, a much better way to grade people to find out who will be the 'good' programmers is to find who is good at solving puzzles.
Thank you!

I will get back to working on the resume sometime during this week and get back in touch with you as well as tptacek, hopefully I can get a shot at something!
Hey, I uploaded it for you on scribd. http://www.scribd.com/full/31453326?access_key=key-1ar7q299r...

:)
First, that doesn't happen all the time. Another very common scenario is when foreign students come to America, get the best education they can get in American universities, and go back home.

And second, what's wrong with that scenario? I believe everyone has a right to pursue a better life for themselves. If other countries would make better conditions for their best people, they wouldn't leave.
my favorite quote:
'If anyone’s wondering, I am not autistic, or a savant, nor suffer from OCD, or suffer from any other form of clinical mental disease or illness for that matter.'

hehe sounds a bit defensive to me ;)
13MB? Seems like a lot. I think the full IDE, plus version control and all base libraries fits into a 14MB VisualWorks Smalltalk image. (Plus, if you disabled the splash screen and herald WAV, it would start faster than Perl 5.) Executable used to be way smaller than 1MB.
rudy and august rush.
The fact that you seem to be getting a little upset pretty quickly by the criticism in this thread probably says more about you as a roommate than the tools you use. I'm past my roommate days thankfully, but take it easy dude!
For what it's worth: while I won't have a temper tantrum either way, I'm not OK with my kids seeing porn in Wikipedia. I think the project is more useful if it is making a good-faith effort to limit graphic sexual images.

Have an upvote.

The thing is this; clearly a picture of a nude woman is appropriate on the "Woman" page. Sexual intercourse could reasonably be depicted (though there is probably no need to have an actually obscene image that gets across "having sex"). Even close ups of genitals would pass as educational.

But there was something of a growing "Pornography" problem on Commons. And there is a big difference between Porn and images of genitals (or nudity). There seems no reason for:

- more than one depiction of porn, for the porn article (and even then it's reason seems stretched)

- more than one good close up of a [healthy] vagina (there are - or were - a load)

And so on.. as you say - it is an Encyclopedia.
Nice. However, there's only 2 jobs in Berlin from Music Pictures whereas it said clearly on the other post that SoundCloud is also hiring in Berlin.
http://ventureloop.com lists more here but then again those are all VC backed.
So, somehow another job board didn't solve the problem.
do you not think it was a bit weird?

BTW: I'm at a bit of a loss as to why my original comment got downvoted so much... would someone care to help me out with explaining what was wrong with what I wrote?
CIA and the pentagon love thinkers and people with very analytical minds. The pentagon's job is to dream up the future of the world and war and prepare for it.

So as an analyst or grand strategist you would be tasked with studying how such and such technology will change global politcal and economic rule sets, etc and what america needs to do to take advantage of it or prepare for it. You can also be a person that researches the latest and greatest technology.

These military agencies were the people who developed the initial need for technological innovations like the internet and the database.

Also, you would go out talk to all these opinion leaders and participate in various think tanks with super smart people and create research that can influence the entire history of the world if compelling enough.

It is a lot of fun if you really want to contribute to the world and make a difference.
But this is an implementation based on open web standards. It'll eventually work on mainstream Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and maybe (if <canvas> is supported and planets align) IE9.
Start your own business.

Every day I have to do a lot of intense thinking... Every week, long term strategy and planning. Pretty much every business email that I write or phone call that I make requires a lot of thinking and analyzing. Especially since there's always an understand that if I fuck up, it's usually directly money out of my pocket.

It's not for everybody, but if you're looking for a job that makes you think, that's the one.
Link is a broken page with an unplayable Flash movie. Mirror?
Haha! Khan Acad. keeps growing and growing in terms of videos and popularity.. this is just awesome! :D
whats out of date about the Gmail method? (download quota as in your ISP data, I live in Australia, our internet still has limits, I know people on 5-8gb plans, if their Gmail is 1-2gb thats a fair bit)- Feel free to edit the page with a different wording though!

I don't have much of a problem with Backupify, as its another method that people can use, but I've updated the posting to have ($$) in the name to denote that it costs money. My hope is that there is a bunch of different methods for each different cloud based service, so I'm happy for Backupify to be one of those, would be good if there were more free ones for some of the products it covers though :)
Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf, decreasing oxygen levels by 30%
> The problem is that almost everyone would rather think than do.

I'd disagree. I think that the majority of people would rather work with something more concrete (doing) than abstract(thinking).
Clearly it would be hard to explain to a kid (especially one who has already had the birds&bees chat) why those images existed and what they depicted.

It's a question that stymies me still!

The problem is there is nothing technically illegal in those images. They have historical value, there is also value in keeping them as historical record. What is served by deleting them?

Gratuitous pornography is, obviously, another matter - but that doesn't cover these. Because what this originally started as was a troll by Sanger - and he has ended up with the exact reaction he wanted...
The phallic drive knows no bounds ;P
This would actually be a good use for an HN wiki, as suggested here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1330602
It is incorrect to dismiss the possibility on that ground: RIM has the worst smartphone OS from either a usability standpoint or from an application development standpoint.

They've got major catching up to do; internal development doesn't seem fast enough. We're nearly midway through 2010 and the closest to a decent browser that they've delivered is a few leaked images.
Basically the challenge in Sim City is to grow your population, attain a high approval rating, keep crime and pollution low, and keep your citizens happy in general. One does this by zoning properly and creating the right government services. If you fail to do this well, buildings will become abandoned, citizens will revolt, and your tax base will erode, which will send your city into a downward spiral of deterioration, not unlike what is seen in modern rust belt cities.

He has essentially obtained perfection by building a totally perfect (in the eyes of the game), uniform city.
I'm tempted to refute point by point... but Dvorak is often just an elaborate troll. Speaking loudly against common wisdom is a fairly reliable way to eyeballs.
The city reminds me of the Caves of Steel from Isaac Asimov. There are no roads in Magnasanti, only hyper efficient subways. The population density is extreme, nearly seven million people piled into such a small area, every building is like a sky scraper from Manhattan. And did anybody else notice how every building is a historical landmark? All utilities are shipped in from neighbors.

This city is precariously hanging on the edge of destruction. I feel something as simple as a Sim moving to a dinner on the other side of town could upset the careful balance of food supply, but yet the city is 'perfect'.

And that is exactly what the game creator wanted. :D
From another article on the same issue:

>In a telephone interview with Channel 10, Chomsky said the interrogators had told him he had written things that the Israeli government did not like.

>"I suggested [the interrogator try to] find any government in the world that likes anything I say," he said.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/noam-chomsky-denied-ent...
It didn't bother me. It reminds me of the "edgy" look in a lot of trailers for movies or video games. In particular I am thinking of Portal now, although I'm not sure if they used that exact thing.
This is why I love my work
Yes, it is. I just tried it with and without a VPN with a US endpoint and I get 'No preview' if I appear to be outside the USA.
HTC, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Huawei although Huawei talks stalled early on so they may not be considered.
You also get angry parents thinking you have it out for their kid. Reffing was one of the most exhaustive jobs I've ever done (kids basketball). Will not do it again.

And I guess it depends on the situation, because I only got $10/hr.
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He's training a discriminative classifier. Run for the hills!
If you believe your company is that good then just show up at the office and ask for 5 minutes of time from one of the bloggers.

Make sure you are well prepared and that what you have to talk about is actually news worthy and interesting.

Just don't a fuck and go and do it you have nothing to lose.
So does Jira. But it's just basic comments. Full conversation tracking like this app (including image and video embedding) would be amazing. For example, I would like QA to be able to embed a screenshot or video walkthrough when evaluating a specific revision.
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Clearly a "Hacker News Piano-Playing Contest" is in order. And a juggling one too.
> They undoubtedly violate the child pornography laws in some jurisdictions

Not in any particularly relevant to this situation.
I've heard about your software form somewhere other than the websites you listed :) So at least you're doing something write on the marketing front!

My experience is that the blogs either run very minimal 'skim' pieces based on a press release (which they probably don't like but owe someone a favor) or a solid piece based on a single event.

Like Peter said, build a story... but make it relevant to today's events. It's almost like submitting a story to Digg.

Look at things going on with the blogs (i.e. location mobile app hype) and figure out a way that you can use your software to provide them a great story on that relevant news. For example 'VWO profiles Foursquare, Gowalla, Company X - here's why Foursquare wins' or something along those lines.

You need to present a compelling article, video, blog post or infographic that they can quickly skim, instantly get it, then can easily summarize it in a post.
I'm Irish therefore you should bend to my rules, quirks and grammar....
I used to play piano, but don't anymore, so I put "don't play piano". I juggle quite regularly.
I am truly in awe.

It routinely amazes me the lengths to which many people go to in their chosen domain. Some people choose physics, or medicine. Some people choose Rubiks cubes, train sets, or Sim City.

I find it hard in my day to day life to decide I will work on something for three years to truly and utterly dominate it. Especially something such as Sim City. I would say that I wish this gentleman had worked on curing cancer, or rubinius, or financial modeling, but I am beginning to think that that level of passion is non-transferable, and not something that can be taught or imbued.

Of course, this guy is an architecture major, so maybe we will see that same level of skill, dedication, and attention to detail come out in the real world.
Xkcd joke?

http://xkcd.com/327/
Maybe it's a pack of three iterative dichotomisers.
Subliminal messaging has largely proven to be a hoax and the downvoting is probably the result of a heavy aversion to pseudoscience most users on this site ostensibly possess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli
The word is "decadence."
I don't find it the same. I learned classical guitar, then piano much later. Playing guitar, the hands have separate roles and the timing of your hands does not have to coordinate in the same way. Think about playing a fugue in the piano - there's really no equivalent on guitar.

There are of course challenges presented by guitar music that don't exist on the piano. Eg, there are multiple ways/positions to play the a given note on guitar, but exactly one on the piano.
What Is a Philosopher?
Well, there is no way RIM is going to ditch their own OS, it is incredibly popular and well known amoung business users. They are already starting to add new features catered towards the general public, like Webkit browser, for instance.

The only reason they could buy RIM is if they wanted to do their own line of consumer phones, and from what we have seen, Palm has not really taken off yet. So it would be better for RIM to focus on improving their own OS, dumb it down a bit for new users.
thank you, i am now able to juggle.
This is just a minor piece of feedback on the video and site itself but.. I didn't understand how i get my site to work with your 'visual designer.' My site is complex, has lots of CSS, etc. How can I just type in a few fonts into a wysiwyg editor and start? :P

This is the key piece to the 'duh' moment that I'm missing. If you could spend a second to give an example of how THAT piece works, you could probably cut out 75% of the rest of the video :)
To speculate that they would be interested just because you don't like their OS and think their development team is too slow is also incorrect.

I will agree that their OS is lacking in many areas compared to many of the newcomers in this space, but that doesn't mean they run out and buy another failed phone OS for a whole lot of money in exchange a few features their rapidly growing team could implement or a smaller acquisition like their purchase of Torch Mobile could deliver. RIM's main focus is also more enterprise customers than consumer and the feature set demands of their customers are a little different.
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The general path involves adding some locks around critical sections, then benchmarking until those locks bubble up, then reducing the number of locks, then repeating until your server has very little lock contention.

The process is pretty straightforward, but as you walk down the path, you end up with something that looks a bit different from where you started.
Sorry, did you mean to say he was fond of complying with the law?
The VZ300 was made by Dick Smith, a successor to the VZ200. It had a huge hacker user community, their were program listings and hardware mods in APC magazine. After the VZ line, Dick smith bought out there CAT computer line, which were much more powerful, and more expensive.

Great little machine for $100. Funny thing, the VZ200 had a chiklet keyboard, which are becomming popular again. One of the big selling points of the VZ300 was that it had a proper keyboard.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=...

To do Assembly language programming I had to get the 16KB upgrade kit, which was this huge piece of hardware that stuck in the back.
Well, and RIM just bought another company for their OS.
I've been thinking about this a bit more, and I think in fact that the reference to Alan Kay was probably quite appropriate. Alan Kay has been at it for decades, _why has done it for a few years and then destroyed (or at least, attempted to destroy) whatever he made. Now, in principle, that is his good right, but when you're an educator and people have started to come to depend on your educational tools and have built a little eco-system around it destroying it is an extremely selfish act and causes a lot of damage.

The very least he could have done would have been to transfer the maintenance to others in an orderly way in stead of this wanton act of vandalism, and without a second of warning to boot.

_why was a very good influence during the first period and he may have approached computing the way Alan Kay has tirelessly advocated for his whole career, but he wiped out a lot of that credit at the end.
You really think so? I think a lot of people become habituated to doing because that's what they need to do to put food on the table. And most of the time, they won't find anyone willing to listen to their thoughts anyway, so why bother spouting off?

But if you really listen to people, I've found that most can think pretty deeply about grand and overarching subjects. And it's people from all walks of life - auto mechanics, high school dropouts, civil servants, retirees, in addition to the engineers and executives and authors you'd expect. Look at how many people had opinions on the bailout, for example, or how many think they could do a better job than Ben Bernanke at steering the economy. Or look at the traffic to forums like Reddit, where people are invited to leave their comments about all sorts of stories. Most of them are wrong, but that's still an awful lot of thinking going on about pretty abstract subjects.
So google dominates intent driven advertising and facebook is trying to be the king of intent building advertising.

Facebook's competitive advantage is its horde of demographic information that they have on individual people.

I am somewhat undecided on how successful facebook will be at this. They have the information to see what will influence you, but I don't think they have a tool that will allow you to ingest it into your brain.

For example, they may have information that says you like britney spears and that she can influence you, but their mechanism to get influencing messaging to you is through a banner ad for instance. The overall effect is uneffective because the tool (banner ad) is just straight up ignored by most people.

So the vehicles that exist in delivering advertising content online is just not effective and there needs to be a better way that needs to be created.

The initial results of such tools that facebook to build intent don;t look to be effective.
Why shouldn't a comprehensive encyclopedia include multiple articles about different kinds of sexuality, different varieties of pornography, etc.? How to illustrate them we can argue about, but it seems strange to argue, as Wales seems to be coming close to at some point, that, say, BDSM isn't an encyclopedic subject. That, despite the fact that many people have gotten their PhDs writing about it, and there are dozens of scholarly books studying it (it makes up a large part of Michel Foucault's writing, for example).
So, as I understand it, all this money is to work on an open source project, which is quite different than a startup. Now a well-done open source project inevitably leads to a company (Wordpress, MySQL, etc.) but that isn't what they said they were going to do with the money. (Somebody has to host all these nodes for joe-everybody.)

Are there contractual obligations of raising money with Kickstarter, or can they use this for legal fees?

If they can't use the money for a startup, I doubt they'd have trouble raising money for a company separately, though investors know that any software product developed will be open source.
Why cut just the porn, though? It's not even the most offensive. I'd say gore is the most universally offensive thing on Wikipedia, and there are some pretty gory articles about medical conditions. So much so that I sometimes disable images before reading some of those sections of the encyclopedia. And there have been perennial debates about whether Wikipedia is limiting its educational reach into the Muslim world by unnecessarily including Mohammed images (and there are similar examples of Wikipedia's inclusion of blasphemous or otherwise offensive content from the perspective of other cultures).

My view would be that it makes more sense to produce all the content in one place, as one large project that's all-inclusive and has no offensiveness standards, and then repackage subsets (no-nudity, no-blasphemy, no-Tiananmen, etc.) if doing so would aid distribution of the result, or maybe subsets for other reasons too. I.e. the primary focus of Wikipedia as a project should be producing the encyclopedia, not distributing it--- the great thing about open content is that anyone can distribute it in any form they want. It'd be great if there were third parties dedicated entirely to distributing nicely repackaged and curated versions of it, including, say, a version that school libraries would feel comfortable installing on their machines.