skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that the video could have stood for itself. WikiLeaks sent people to Baghdad to meet the children who were in the van that was shot by the Apache. That's investigative journalism, and it's laudable.

If the Pentagon shows you footage of a combat operation in which insurgents are hiding in a building that is seconds later destroyed by an Hellfire missile and they tell you that there were no civilian casualties, you may believe they're telling you the truth. If someone investigates the attack and finds out there were non-combatants in that building and that the Apache attack was a stupid abuse of force, later releases footage with captions suggesting a version of the facts different from the Pentagon's, then such editorializing is not bias, it's an accurate portrayal of the facts. The problem is that when the mainstream media is so biased and people have grown accustomed to it, then a cold-blooded depiction of the facts may look as an attempt to manipulate people's opinions, as if telling the truth were propaganda.

Lastly, Assange is burning bridges wherever he goes, and he's probably not making that much money. He lives the life of an international man of mystery, which may sound cool until one thinks of the downsides. A person who willingly embraces such lifestyle can only have a strong desire to amass power / fame and deliver impact. Assange is no saint, but he's useful, and that's all that matters.
> Webserver. I found a built-in webserver, so I can pull photos/etc. off my phone even if I don't have my USB. There are other ways to do this, but it suits me particularly well.

I had no idea this kind of functionality existed. As an iPhone owner, I'm envious.

I'm curious about your experience with Swype. I've read a little about it and I'm wondering: do you think Swype obsoletes the traditional advantage hardware keyboards have over software ones?
I gather that subvocalisation also is accompanied by eye movement and some facial muscle activity and that this is used by mentalists like Derren Brown. For example the way the eyes look can show if one is thinking about something in the future or past (although it doesn't work on everyone and I think is culture dependent).

If Sapir-Whorf holds true then we should see those using a specific language excelling in specific areas shouldn't we? Could this perhaps account for some of the stereotypical characteristics we ascribe to different nationalities.
OK, I missed the coincidence (by which I mean they are identical, not that it's by chance) or the names of the authors. That clears up my confusion on that point.

Regarding the lack of mention of the counter in the section of the description you mention, I thought it was obvious. In the section before he says: we keep the number of marks set. That means, to me, that if the element in array accidentally/incidentally points to an element in marks that accidentally/incidentally points back, it's not counted as pointing back because it's known (by using the counter) not to be valid.

It is subtle, I agree, but for me the explanation is clear enough already. Adding more detail could simply overwhelm the reader with words, without letting the reader see the wood for the trees.

I agree, now that you've expanded it, that your point is valid, but I, personally, prefer the version as it is.

In this I expect we should simply agree to disagree. One person's "necessary detail" is another's "pointless nit-picking."
Naming is a classic bikeshed. Sure, a good naming system is a good thing, and helps you recognize what box is where. But once you hit between 20 and 200 hosts (depending on your memory) you are going to need to stick 'em in a database and sort 'em into groups to manage them in a sane manner anyhow, and at that point, naming schemes won't mean much anyhow.

The problem is that as a bikeshed, /everyone/ has an opinion and everyone wants to have that opinion heard. I've been places where we spent more effort arguing about naming schemes than it would have taken to write the database and tools for retrieving groups of hosts.

So generally, when this comes up in situations where I'm in charge, I loudly declare it a bikeshed, and we choose the scheme essentially at random.
Until phone and carrier can be separated, the twain are one as far as I am concerned.
Residents pay taxes to the feds and the state, some of that money trickles back down to the state, and some of that money trickles back down to the city.

Wake me up when we can pay taxes to our city-states, and some of that money trickles up to the state, and some of that money trickles up to the feds.
How disappointing to read in the Texas study that "there was no evidence linking technology immersion with student self-directed learning or their general satisfaction with schoolwork."

When devising ways to beat school policing software, students showed an exemplary capacity for self-directed learning.

Makes you wonder if, had the schools spent less effort attempting to block the kids from non-educational activities, the kids might have directed that self-directed learning impulse toward the education.
I don't think we're necessarily disagreeing. I'm not saying technical details are going to make a sale (almost ever), but if one of the members of the sales team (note that I'm classifying the "sales engineer" as a salesman) can grant credibility & real world experience to the lofty promises that the typical salesman makes, it adds a level of differentiation that can—in some instances—make or break a sale.

Also, to clarify, it also really depends on the nature of the industry, the product, and even what we're considering technical details.
It's very cool that political scientists are doing studies about this.
From what I understand, cognitive science ID'd this a long time ago.

They call it, "confirmation bias." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias)

Framed in this post:
"If we believe something about the world, we are more likely to passively accept as truth any information that confirms our beliefs, and actively dismiss information that doesn’t"

The point by both cognitive scientists and political scientists is this determination to believe something is completely sincere, not about deliberate deceit or spinning (though that does occur, it's a different phenomenon ). Anything that disputes your view is seen as exceptional circumstances/ invisible. "Yeah, but that's an edge case," "yeah but he went to Yale," "yeah, but she moved from France when she was 3."

We may even see it happening on our favorite news aggregator sites.

More reading (from cog sci perspective):
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/
>The truth is that we all think in an undefinable mental language and our common language is an abstraction of that layer.

That's a very big assertion without substantial experimental backing - care to provide some?

Even just defining "think" sounds hard to me.
Regardless, you can't really argue with the Apple tech note that jonknee linked to - those ports really do need to have port-forwarding enabled for it to work. I'm a big Apple fan, but they still have gotten the firewall-piercing trick down as well as Skype has.
Disagree about the tarpit comment - where I work about half the sales team came directly from the SE department- including the guy who has been top salesman in the company for 4 out of 5 years.

SE (or presales as many places call it) is a great job as you can move into almost any direction you want very easily. You are essentially the ultimate all rounder - you must have extensive product knowledge, great communications skills, good sales awareness, marketing skills, work with the development team and services too - so you can then go into any of these directions actually very easily. I worked in presales for about 6 years and personally moved into product management which I love. If I wanted to I could move into development but I don't had those skills - but if I found a developer with a presales background I would snap them up immediately - would be a killer skill set combo; or a perfect startup founder.

So yes, I completely agree that SE or presales is the perfect job to do to get exposure to nearly all functional areas of business. And that is ideal for 'founder training' or simply if you don't know where you want to end up so want to learn what each part of the business is like.
How about:

"I gave my kid Harry Potter 5 MARSHALLED! I've never seen a kid deserialize that fast!"
That's not correct... you can, in fact, polish a turd.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd...

:P
Very good. Now I can safely append

192.168.1.254 bipentquadium bpq

Thanks.
That's the problem. It's so easy to censor differing opinions instead of engaging in a reasonable discussion over the differences.
Probably about half the SE's I've known personally very explicitly wanted to move into sales, and not one of them (in maybe about 10 different companies) actually managed to make that move. The career path --- inside one company --- for SE's appears to be either VP/Sales Engineering or to Product Management (and thus into marketing).

I'm either wrong or your company is a (welcome) anomaly. I'm happy to be wrong.
"In an age when nations have become so large that their citizens no longer identify with distant governments..."

What? it would seem like the complete opposite of this is true. I would say that nationalism and national identity, in the US and most other places in the world, is stronger now than it has been in the past 50 years.
>Thisisalsowhyitssomuchahardertounderstandenglishwhenwedon'tputspacesbetweenwords.

I've got to say I scanned over that as quickly as the rest of the para and had no problem understanding it. Indeed it's hard not to see the word patterns. This sort of thing gets tricky when you remove the vowels or when there are collisions at word boundaries (expertsexchange, etc.).
"WikiLeaks lost me when they released selectively edited video, spliced in editorial overlays, registered a domain name "CollateralMurder" and advocated a position."

Showing that the U.S. Military makes mistakes helps destroy the dangerous myth that all U.S. servicemen are saints. I have no idea how this meme that "WikiLeaks is bad because it showed U.S. soldiers doing bad things" was born, but it's, frankly, really ludicrous. When you see cold-blooded murder right before your eyes, you do take a stand. If you don't, you're a monster. Or an accomplice. Period.
AngelConf: A How-To for Prospective Angel Investors
> It's simply insane to think that an ecosystem that has been operating in a certain manner for its entire existence will suddenly change directions and begin operating in a massively different manner.

Are you talking about the future of the Android market?Continued growth is hardly operating in a "massively different manner." Expecting something as fluid as a marketplace not to change is far more unreasonable than expecting change.

> Betting on a platform that may in the future become awesome instead of voting on a phone that you admittedly think might be the best phone on the market is as crazy as betting on a horse that looks like it has the potential to win instead of the horse that is winning.

The author thinks that the iPhone might be the best "overall", but that Android is a better fit for him personally. Your horse analogy doesn't make a whole lot of sense, either.

Consider the next two years (typical smartphone lifespan) a horse race. Right now, Apple's horse is ahead, but Google's horse, while taking longer to accelerate, is now moving faster than Apple's horse. Which horse do you bet on?
Ask HN: Concept Testing
Does anyone have some good, real world advice on testing a concept? I thought I had read about a service that you can point a domain name at, that will allow you to construct some quick copy, a simple survey, a contact form, and a mailing list so that you can gauge a market before you build anything. Does a service like that actually exist, or am I imagining it? What do you all do to test a market before you build something?
> Some GPS modules are crippled to not work very high and very fast so they can't be used on ballistic missiles.

You can do one or the other. Mach 1.5+ below 60,000 feet. Above 60,000 feet below Mach 1.5.

Not really sure how much protection that provides given that most commercial flights are below those speed and altitude thresholds.
Company X Continues to Write Defective Software, Customers Continue to Buy it
If I were in charge of California, an independent Bay Area would be paying through the nose for water.
A very simple sales model is that your prospect has to understand what your offering does, believe that you can deliver, and then find a reason to act. Technical expertise and experience can contribute significantly to the first two steps (although the ability to clarify benefits is critical) but "sales" is normally more important for understanding how to get a prospect to act/purchase.
...and here I was hoping that Lady Gaga was headed for space. Disappointed.
It looks like they've built an online application system since I was on that project. 6 years ago, you just emailed your resume to an email address that mapped to a job requisition, and we tried to process whatever attachments came in that way.
"Heck, a lot of North Americans don't understand how to clap in time on the downbeat! (Unfortunately, you can also find the same cluelessnes in Europe pretty easily as well."

This should be written more about. I always find it annoying people clap on the downbeat here in Sweden, or even more annoying - on every single beat like it's some sort of march. Interesting subject!
I think much of what he wrote is good advice for doing a PhD. That being said,I would recommend avoiding an advisor with this kind of attitude if at all possible. Despite what he says, he sounds like many professors who focus on the reputation game, carefully weeding out any students that might adversely affect their reputation. In other words, education is not their priority.

As far as the RA memo, what the author failed to mention is that the grant-RA relationship is a two way street. PI's need students to do their research for them and they need students simply to receive grants. They are not supporting students just because they are nice, but rather because they need them.
I'm not sure what you mean by "mind," but I think you're missing the point. The article only hinted at the implications of this, but let me make it explicit.

There is a huge distinction between the pre-lingually and post-lingually deaf. Signed and spoken languages stimulate completely different areas of the brain. So if you are delayed in acquiring a language like English you're going to have difficulty mapping between a signed and a spoken language, in grammatical terms (note this does not really affect speech/the ability to speak, since that depends more on training and residual hearing).

Delayed acquisition of a spoken language is basically like learning a foreign language, except much, much harder. And this wasn't really proven definitively until fairly recently, with fMRI studies.

There are some other interesting consequences for things like testing (psychometrics, etc), especially for those tests given verbally or in writing.
Indeed. Honestly that seems like the biggest problem with the plan- most local politicians and representatives are complete nobodies, they get elected by riding the coattails of presidential and maybe the senatorial elections.
You missed my point entirely. If they want to leak material showing the government doing "bad things", go ahead. Leak it. All of it. The more the better.

But selectively EDITING video and hyping it under the "Collateral Murder" banner enters into ADVOCACY.
See, that in itself is interesting to me - that you found it hard to parse that sentence because of a misspelling.

To me it seemed easy to understand: I think the internal process is that as I read I'm speaking internally to myself and so hear¹ the phonic reproduction, homophones don't matter then, the meaning is clear as in that context "rather course" the path/progression/learning-period meaning of course is nonsensical. Also there's probably something in the couplet "rather coarse" being common and there being few words that can follow rather.

I'm pretty good at proof reading but making many homophone (homophonic?) errors in informal writing.

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¹ I wrote this as "here", lol.
Not that I was aware of, it just closes most of their information off, but leaves photos and their wall up so people can leave condolence messages.
Do you really believe Manning is the leaker?
This probably isn't the place to argue out the difference (for the record the points you highlight are not what I refer to as editorial - I mean stuff like calling it collateral murder etc. which is unnecessary) however...

Lastly, Assange is burning bridges wherever he goes, and he's probably not making that much money.

I'm calling bull on that. Or at least argument from the unprovable. Who knows what he makes or how he lives. I doubt he is a millionaire from all this but he flies around the world a lot.

He lives the life of an international man of mystery

Everything we know and read (mostly from the main himself) paints a picture of a guy living in this in his head. The reality is probably quite different :)

Im not calling Assange bad or anything; but I think he has too strong beliefs to head up such an important movement. He's a good poster boy - but I actually feel his attitude can harm the movement - because the mainstream media have a tough time taking him seriously.
additional thought, after ability to edit had passed:

I wonder if it's to intentionally deflate scores which drop to -4. For particularly bad ones, it'd encourage moderators to downvote.

Not that I particularly think yours is. Must've rubbed a few the wrong way.
Ask HN:  Best application to run PC programs on a MacBook?
I have the PA Bar Exam this month and for some reason they require it to be taken strictly on PC's... I am very used to my keyboard and would like to use my macbook - any suggestions? I've heard Virtual PC but is there anything free out there?

Thanks
> But selectively EDITING video and hyping it under the "Collateral Murder" banner enters into ADVOCACY.

To be fair, both the edited and the complete video of the attack were released simultaneously.

Watching some 40 minutes of a clip mostly filled with inaction vs. the clip containing only the important parts with context, which would you rather watch? I know what I'll choose, time is important to me.

I can almost understand your argument against the editorializing, but the bottom line (at least to me) is that Wikileaks does eventually leak all data in its entirety, you can so choose to ignore all their commentary if you desire.
A home network and a corporate or military network are much different. Your friends' home network probably has no firewall running on it so all ports are allowed. It's fairly common for corporate networks to whitelist ports and in that case you will need to explicitly open them up or set up forwarding (per Apple's advice).
"Techcrunch are full of shit"
I don't care that much, but, what's your theory?
Well, technically they all have other 'stuff' to help you do whatever it is with that single box. Google is the only one that doesn't require you to signup before using it. Digg and HN kind of only have 1 input box.

It definitely is an interesting trend. I've even tried to come up with startup ideas restricting myself to simple inputs like a single textbox. Sometimes adding some constraint helps you be more creative.
Describe the steps for video call using iPhone 4 and whatever you used before.
>OOo, umm, still sucks.

I'm curious. I've come across some things on more complex forms (PAYE+NI calulators for example) that differed from the MS Excel way but not much/often (but I don't use it much).

Can you be specific about what your colleagues are doing in MS Excel that OOo Spreadsheet can't do or how else it sucks?
Awesome. Here are a couple questions.

Is it possible to send a balloon up and not have it burst. Just float around for a few days?

How do you calculate the balloon size And helium needed for a given payload?
I'm assuming you mean Windows. If you have a copy of Windows which you can install, running it on VirtualBox (virtualbox.org) isn't a bad option. The Windows will cost you (or you already have your license) but virtualbox is free to use.
your are delusional about the definition of murder and war.

1. Murder is the un-lawful killing of humans by other humans.
2. Murder in war occurs when humans kill other humans by not acting within the confines of the rules of war.

Although most military bodies including US military have to follow Geneva convention that does not mean every war time act is lawful. How many unlawful military acts in Iraq/Afghanistan got prosecuted last year? More than one did.

This specific event has not been ruled un-lawful yet and reporters are always told that in battle areas if they are with the armed enemy they may risk being fired upon.

Hence, the Collateral part of the video name. However, usually in these cases its the organization workings that fail the solider in determining differences between lawful and unlawful acts not the individual solider himself or herself.
What happens when you have to move a server for some reason? Has that never happened?
Sales skills are different than public speaking skills.

I'm deathly afraid of speaking in front of people, but I'd like to think I'm a pretty good salesperson.
It's too tempting to ignore the customer problems for as long as possible because effect is not immediately apparent, and once that resource is exhausted there is a huge pile of debt to be paid down before you get back to zero. At this point shunning customers is no longer a choice but a necessity - not only there is a huge backlog requiring huge temporary increase in manpower, the product itself ends up designed with sharp corners sticking out in places where customer complains have been routinely ignored for a long time.

It's a lovely trap for any large business to fall into, so that they can fail and give way to smaller, nimbler guys, who will in turn grow, repeating the circle of life.
Yes, but why cause more?
You can probably get the experience of unworded thoughts if you stop speaking for a few days (or just reduce to very very few words only when necessary). There are religious organizations that do vow-of-silence retreats, or you could go camping alone or with just a couple of other people in a setting in which very little will need to be discussed each day.
It would be a real shame if where I work is an anomaly. SE to sales is a great move in that it makes for a great sale person, and as I say our top sales guy came from that transition (the one year he wasn't top, the guy who was was also previously from SE). This is mainly because they have extensive product knowledge. That is a rare thing in sales and immediately buys you a huge dose of credibility. Clients will then be more likely to believe the more salesy aspect of the process too (where people are more naturally sceptical).

Don't get me wrong, not every good SE will be good at sales - as you say there is a magic element to being great at sales - generally it is the non technical people who make this move. The more technical ones like me go down the product route.
The people at Zynga are many things, "idiots" would not be one of them.

"Okay, we need the new chewy coco grove coconut tree special item out by next Monday. So that means everyone's coming in on saturday."

Surprisingly accurate portrayal of actual meetings here though.
It depends on how much it costs. I needed this for awhile. My startup sends faxes from the internet (http://www.hellofax.com). We need to convert files from 40 some different file types to PDF before we send it to the fax server. There were other converters out there, but they were limited in the number of file types that they convert. So, we are now paying $30+ dollars a month for a Windows server at Rackspace to do it. So, if you can convert a ton of different file types, we would have definitely been a customer.