skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consensus is an imperfect metric. Some of those things, even if discarded by consensus in the near-to-long term could prove valid in a couple years' time.

We want as many avenues of exploration as possible, even once the proof is decided right or wrong.
I am hitting the gym with a friend to do weight lifting. That's OK.

For cardio I prefer the outdoors, like you do.
Really? I think being honest with your employers is as valuable to them as it is for you. If you can't do that you certainly don't deserve to complain about what you get, or how you are treated.
I'm not judging the US. That's the story as it was was over 15 years ago. I personally have been to the US over a dozen times since then.

I have no idea what it's like in Derry, FWIW, as I've never been up north.
A clear signal to do what, be less transparent and pull their office out of Korea?

(Remember, Korea has no great firewall. Google can profit from Korean users without having an office there.)
So he's not going to release the source until the first version is done?

The benefit of open source is that others can help with the coding and getting to the first release.

I guess I'll try the email thing.
it should have been totally obvious that my original statement was related to business strategy, not homicide.

I'm well aware that I have a looser sense of ethics than average, but ethics is a cultural construct that can be debated on its own merits.

Not abusing trust, not breaking promises and not being violent are the core tenets of my ethical/moral beliefs - the violence one is just not relevant to business discussions. I've often discussed this with people who have stricter codes that are adhered to less stringently.

your comment verges on ad hominem. If somebody wants to twist my words to make their point, yeah they'll get a little sarcasm in return.
Well, well, well. A man who sucks at the government tit complains about taxes that pay his bills. He's probably also getting stimulus money, but that's just an unfounded jibe.
The Truth About Foursquare's Stalker Problem: It Isn't Foursquare's Problem
It's something that bothers me because Zed is actively out to destroy people at times and anybody that criticizes Zed or his work can expect being on the receiving end of a rant that would make you blush from your ears to your toes, and would make you wonder if you shouldn't have used an alias all along instead of your real name online.

So, far from snark it is an expression of frustration that Zed gets to play mr. Hyde on one day and mr. Jekkyl the next, and that he apparently is encouraged in this.

Check out his motivation for writing the book that this email is about, he wrote it to get back at someone who made a living from his python book and gave it away for free because of that.

Such negativity.
Completely agree, was going to say, any company that doesn't recognize performance early on (vs. tenure) is not going to have very talented people who stick around very long. A bad fit period for anyone who wants to be part of a top notch team.
Stop Calling Yourself a Rockstar, let us do it for you. http://www.startupsquare.com/index.php?id=people
What if they're wrong based on what they said AND who they are?
None. I use vim on so many different machines, so it isn't feasible for me to move a bunch of plugins around. I'll very rarely use BufferList, if it's installed, I often forget it's there.

Here's my .vimrc: http://gist.github.com/517464

I like to use cursorcolumn and cursorline with low contrast colorschemes like obsidian or evening.

I've been using vim for 10-15 years.
"js.twitter_widget.bad_words" in the UstreamLabels object is quite a lovely read
God I hate resets.. Every time I see one of these I want to reach through my screen and slap the creator, then say go learn css before talking.

They make me, the developer, work so much harder, cause me so many more headaches, make my fingers type more, adds so much more code to the codebase, has all sorts of useless crap, and did I mention they make it harder on the developers?

regardless I took a look.

I downloaded the bare-bones one just to take a look around. 3 css files none more then 60 lines. using the always frowned upon @import command.

The _print css made me laugh. There is a main.css and a core.css. The core.css is empty and the main.css just says to import core.css. A lot of good thats gonna do.

I have no idea why a "HTML5" reset would have style sheets for IE5?

Horrible.. waste of time, to even use. Even worse because it has the nasty, awful meyerweb reset.
Except I've heard the sentiment expressed on HN for years.
But Will It Make You Happy?
In my experience, managers are actually more constrained during the annual review cycle. They tend to have very specific quotas for promotions and raises. One large company I worked for literally had a bell curve for raises that managers had to fit their employees into. Every meaningful raise I've gotten has come outside of the annual process.
"everyone just complains about it"

Everyone complains when its awful code. Everyone enjoys good code.
Does this guy believe that when coders call themselves rockstars and ninjas they ACTUALLY mean rockstars and ninjas?

I'm confused by the article. The humor is dry and I honestly can't tell if he really thinks we are serious about the terms. He couldn't actually think so... right?

Nobody tell this guy he has "killer shoes" because he may start to think his feet are out to get him.
it was rather entertaining in a surreal kind of way...

it's also interesting to note that 4chan is pretty questionably legal and it's interesting to see how it is addressed in court, e.g. it's really clear you need to have a prominent rule page!
lol, I've tried to get my dad into programming quite a few times.. he used to be a whiz on dos batch files, lisp, and c.. if i could teach him effectively, i'm sure he'd make good money if he got back into it- he says that too much has changed since then. although, i think the opposite is true- with full docs available for php, ruby & perl, i'd imagine they'd be easier to learn than ever. it's got to be a long road to start thinking from a web-dev standpoint instead of purely client side scripts however.. maybe javascript would be a better starter.
Brain works more like Internet than 'top down' company
I find it quite practical that a certain type of people started to attach these rockstar/ninja labels to themselves. This way it becomes very easy to spot the douchebags.

The same goes for job listings that state these terms. Why would a smart person care to work for a company that actively seeks to hire douchebags?
Author of P!=NP proof received confirmations from experts on August 8.
Hilarious. Much easier to blog something than to change something.
Hey, nobody is arguing they shouldn't try to save some dollars... just that if they were going to gather more data than originally planned, they could have told us.

Moreover, if it was just economic sense, and hence it was done on purpose, then it would have been nice if they hadn't lied when prosecutors asked them.

I don't think it's that much to ask.
The totality of compensation (benefits, taxes, salary) scales primarily with living standard, not with economic or political structure.

If we moved those taxes off income into sales, then you'd have to pay your workers 25-33% more for them to be able to buy the same stuff. If we moved healthcare and other benefits onto the employee, you'd be paying that money as extra salary, or else they're getting effectively less compensation. If we went with a libertarian model, you'd just be paying higher wages so that your employees could buy their current stuff and also hire their own police and fire companies (and you'd need to pay for your business's protection).

That's not to say you couldn't trim some fat with other methods, but the only real ways to eliminate paying that 33% involve cutting your employees' standards of living. I'm not saying it's your job to care about that, but let's call a spade a spade here. That money isn't dead weight loss, it's money that straight up improves the quality of life of your employees, and is therefore compensation.
The actual paper is https://research.microsoft.com/pubs/135609/reartype%20mobile...

They only had 12 participants, and while they cite 15 WPM as average performance, one of the participants did 47 WPM. Unfortunately, they don't give original keyboard speed of participants.

Their testing also compared between the 3 - touchscreen, keyboard, and rear-type in relatively short bursts. The all-important question is how well would someone do if they used this exclusively as their input device?

Judging from the pictures, the hardware used is a MIMO usb monitor[1] with an ergodex keyboard[2].

[1] http://www.mimomonitors.com/

[2] http://www.ergodex.com/mainpage.htm
I can't overstate how useful Cscope is for large C projects. With a couple keystrokes, you can do searches like:

- Where is this symbol defined?
- Where is this function called?
- Where is this variable referenced? Assigned?

It's the one plugin I use all day, every day.
Yes, I am in Southern Spain and the concept of being an entrepreneur and starting a company seems to be completely foreign (pun intended!).
There is a department in Andalusia that is supposed to help startups but they seem to focus on startups with very high capital behind them already - they point blank refused to help my company do anything (even finding an accountant!).
Stop thinking that above average is good enough --- you shouldn't be happy with that. You should be thinking about top 5% (of people with your number of years experience).

Listen to the other advice here and go negotiate, but if the best point you have is I'm average and not paid average, you aren't at a strong negotiating point, yet (I know you said "above" average, but you also said that you "feel like" it's that -- meaning you accept that you might not be).

If you don't get the raise, and you feel like it's hopeless to get it. End with: What do I have to do to merit this raise in 6 months? Then go exceed it by a lot, and keep going. Future negotiations will be much easier.

Also, becoming more than marginally above average will make finding a different job much easier too.
Gabriel mentioned it was manually done and took a lot of time. Fair enough, but boy I wish it was updated and current.
Ask HN: Interviewing Neil Patel  - need ideas for questions
Hi HackerNewsers,
I'm doing a video interview w/ neil patel (quicksprout.com, co-founder ACS (SEO consultancy), cofounder KISSMetrics & CrazyEgg) tomorrow, and I need some great questions for him.<p>Do you have any great questions about metrics, SEO, social media marketing, or anything else you'd like to ask Neil?
I hope they get somewhere with this, but it just seems like the wrong direction for tablet interface design. "Perfection is not when nothing more can be added, but nothing more can be taken away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
I'd like to know if there are any investors that

1. know how to read source

2. let that affect their decision of investing
It all depends on what your site is about.

The HTML source attractiveness really matters if the site is about programming, CSS, etc.
On the other hand, layout attractiveness does not matter that much if you're about results... see Google.com
The biggest takeaway I got from this article is that I should start calling myself a code samurai.
I meant startups that are deliberately non-profit, thats why I gave the example of kiva.
Three digital myths
This looks like an awful kludge. The thought of typing for extended periods while holding my arms up at that angle, plus supporting the weight of the iPad seems like an ergonomic nightmare. If you need to do some serious typing with a tablet, pull out a bluetooth keyboard and prop the tablet up, or go for a clamshell keyboard case for the tablet, like this:

http://clamcase.com/
Apple does this with portables too. It is generally in groups of 10+.
It's a very good question to ask what it means to pass a class. It's also a difficult one to answer but I'll try.

More than a few people should pass because that's what the Board of Regents, the college president, the Governor, the Legislature, and society at large want and they pay my salary. This isn't a flippant statement. In my state one of the Board of Regents wants my pay to be dependent upon how many people pass my class. Every year the president of the college sends a report to the Department of Mathematics and asks what we are doing to improve the passing rate.

The state wants three things,

1. we must accept anyone who applies
2. we should pass almost everyone who takes our classes
3. everyone who passes should 'know' the material

You can have any two of these things but not all three. I have a lot of pressure from the administration and so my perception of what skills it takes to pass has been a decreasing function for the past 10 years.

Almost all of my colleagues give point based on things that a well trained chimp can do. They give points for attendance. They give points for turning in homework. (The homework doesn't have to be correct to get the points.) My colleagues try their hardest to give students enough points so that they can reach the magical 70% thresh hold. Some have lowered this magical thresh hold to 60%.

What it means to pass a class is a level of achievement that most people in the class can reasonably achieve. It has nothing to do with knowledge, skills, or anything that really matters in terms of learning. Will 70% of the students pass with this grading scheme, with these assignments, with this level of work and effort? If the answer is yes then you've got a good idea of what it means to pass a class.

This has bad, long term consequences for society writ large. I'm aware of this and I try the best I can to reach as many students as possible.

I definitely don't teach my students as if I was in the audience. I'm an outlier in terms of mathematical talent and interest. It would be insane for me to teach as if I was in the class.
I am frequently offended by the things people say out of convention.
Open Source Projects that Changed the World
No, he's saying the analogies are far short of appropriate:

Seriously guys…I’m sure we can think of some ego flattering terms for a good programmer that don’t immediately imply that hiring them would be an act of blatant stupidity. I’m open to suggestions.
This is the first time I see a file, decide not to download it because I think it is a pdf, then see it is a [scribd] and then decide to go ahead.
I also use a lot of different machines, but I keep all my vimfiles, including plugins, in a repository. This keeps it fairly simple to add plugins to all computers.

This is my configuration: http://bitbucket.org/johannes/vimfiles/src
I donno, protecting cops sure seems double-plus good to me.
Extending this point a little, in a competitive environment I believe it matters what your competitors are paying for their labor and services. Since overhead (taxes and insurance) is relatively uniform, taxes should matter very little to his ability to compete.
I don't understand why I was arrested for driving off with a new BMW that was parked in the street. It even came with a baby in the back! Lucky for me the keys were in the ignition and the door was open.
The problem with a repository is not every machine I work on has git installed (nor could I install it in some cases).

I'm a netadmin doing a sysadmin's job, though. If I was slingin' code regularly, I'd use several plugins.

When I wear my developer hat, I dig nerdtree and vimoutliner.
I've got an updated one of these in the works that will be up within the week!

Let me know of any specific requests for things that Gaberiel's list doesn't have. I'm already planning on keeping a current link to the most recent "Who's hiring" and including "Rate My Startups"s.
He may be deliberately using a strange wording to point out that these activities "pass time" (and not much else). However, I agree that the wording is off. Especially considering that's what "pastime" means in the first place [1]. Paul Brians notes that "pastime" is correct, too [2].

[1]: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pastime
[2]: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/pasttime.html
Good, cheap, fast, pick any two.

I can guess which two this guy chose every time.
Why do we need to put faith and trust in authority figures?

Respect and trust aren't the same. You can not trust someone and still be polite. You can not trust and cooperate.
TED Talks For Becoming A Happier Person & Finding Your Passion In Life
To whom? Accidenture?
That doesn't solve the problem (unless you're advocating piracy) - they're looking to distribute paid apps from the App Store on many devices. It does strike me that they're willing to pay for the iPads at $499 a pop but don't want to buy more than one copy of an app.
So what you're saying is that we should dramatically cut the standard of living of the average American in order to solve our unemployment issues? In the face of increasing corporate profits?

Further, there's another massive flaw in your argument: You're not going to hire twice as many people unless you have excess work even after the first hire. There are a few companies in that enviable situation, but for the most part, demand is lagging right now. So at best those companies would hire one worker at half-price and then keep the money saved.
Some projects (see zedshaw's Mongrel 2, for example, or Diaspora) prefer to have an architecture put in place by an exclusive group, and then use open source to iterate.

Sometimes, too many cooks spoil the broth.
I think the problem is on the demand side: its employers posting jobs with ridiculous titles. I don't think applicants are walking around calling themselves ninjas or pirates or rockstars.
'A. That is a misspelling, actually. It's Anime
& Mango.'

I don't think that's what Moot said. The more worrying one is where he's asked to explain what the significance of '.jpg' is.
Probably... I've got 5.0.375.125 beta. It's not new, but it's at least from this year.

I'd expect VeriSign to be on top of this.
In his first first of the series the author states "I convened a meeting to suggest ways that we could get past this problem that everyone wanted access to computers in almost all classrooms almost all the time" - In places like Italy they make do with donated PCs running Linux, which works fine, rather than spending hundreds of dollars of an Ibad solution which doesn't work
The best and most right and pure way to do open source software
Unlike Maryland, the law in Illnios is much clearer. It is illegal to record anyone in public without their consent.

Does that apply to security cameras?
post url is a unix timestamp, eg 1281413656.html => Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:14:16 GMT
Dual Core Snapdragon 1.5 Ghz Coming by End of Year
Qualcomm will launch a new generation of its Snapdragon chip, by the end of the year, and will come in smartphones, tablets and low-cost laptops
"The tax burden in this country is lower than European nations, lower than Japan, lower than Canada." Possibly, I didn't compare it to other countries.

"If you're a true neutral centrist and you care most about lowering taxes, I can point you in the direction of a gigantic defense budget that could be cut." I do agree its WAY out of hand. They pay for all sorts of crazy ridiculous things, the budget should be closer then half of what it is.

"But in my experience, people who think Obama is an evil business killer also think that we mustn't cut a cent from the defense budget." Normally so, but I wouldn't say I follow that same boat. (see above)

"Finally, saw something interesting yesterday.. apparently annualized corporate profits hit 1.2 Trillion recently, the highest ever recorded." Its only the small businesses that are really be effected particularly non-tech around 25 people.
Interview with the author of "game-based marketing"
Just added this so obviously results will be somewhat limited until more people review / rate books. Let me know if you spot any problems, thanks.
Qualcomm joins the Linux Foundation, gets seat on board
Homepage Redesign for Startups: The Steps We Took Before Handing Off to Design
The server is misconfigured: it's missing intermediate certificates in its chain. Chrome 6.x should be able to work around this on all platforms at the cost of making the site slower.

Additionally, the server is open to prefix attacks.

For a bank, that's a pretty miserable state of affairs.
There needs to be some plan to phase out pennies. Perhaps have retailers round prices after tax to the nearest multiple of 5 or nearest quarter and phase out nickels and dimes as well.
The point I was making is that it might help to acknowledge non-financial comp you already get. I really like my job and I wouldn't work at a bank for a $20k pay raise. I don't need my boss to increase the non-financial comp if he can't fully meet a bank's offer, since I already get it.

(Our vacation policy is "don't be unreasonable" and our only ranks are "founder/owner" and "everyone else".)
Yet Another Study Shows How Copyright Can Hinder The Spread Of Knowledge
PC gaming: a platform to rule them all
> Is starting programming only for the young?

no, but don't dance around the issue. tell him what you told us. if he wants to go down the road, he can do so, even in his free time just to see how it works for him.
This is largely why 'real-time business intelligence' in banking is a pipe dream, and currently, any vendor who claims to do this is a snake-oil salesman.
Yet another site that logs way too much information. I have a dream that some day, web logs won't include the remote IP address.

In the mean time, use Tor.

Also:

Q: The last column, the user agent string, does that show which browser, operating system, and other information that this particular user and that date and time had on their computer.

A: Yes.

No. It shows what advisory string their user-agent chose to tell the web server. Please tell me that something like this is not evidence in the government's case.
Uh, as a reply to myself, I think I confused an IPO with a tender offer.
Best Way to Quit...Ever - girl quits job on dry erase board
Lighten up people, it was a joke... sheesh
Hey guys, I really want to learn ruby for web development, but without rails or sinatra or any framework. I want to start from zero and go all the way up.

I want my first app to be:

puts "<h1>Hello world</h1>"

and I'll take it from there.

Any good tutorials or docs?
I want special gloves and special glasses.

That's my dream portable computer.
Confirmation as in "Thank you, I have recieved your paper which looks interesting and will read it when I find time", not as in "I have read your paper and fond that all details are correct", obviously.
BIS Blackberry Internet service
Well, you're going to want to look into Rack.

Really, you should just check out Sinatra. The whole 'framework' is like a thousand lines (or maybe two) of Ruby, and it's a pretty thin wrapper over Rack.

... any particular reason I'm at 0? Rack is the absolute minimum you're going to need to get Ruby to serve up dynamic pages, and Sinatra is an extremely minimal framework, to the point where it almost doesn't really deserve the term.
To be more careful with privacy.

I am sure Google would not want to be prevented to provide a service - personally I think a great service - of viewing the streets of Korea.
I know in NY there must be some sort of sign that informs people that there are security cameras watching. I assume it is the same in Illinois
Bright flashes and heaps of ashes: a new X-ray laser source
How do you handle young people that are extremely productive? Are they "senior" or "junior"?
The Execution or The Idea? Here's How the Greatest Minds in Tech Answer.
I think the fact that some judge/prosecutor would be pulling up 4chan in a courtroom and pointing out pages fascinates me. 'Mr. Moot can you please verify that this hentai tentacle rape scene is in line with the 4chan rules' etc :)

Not a big 4chan fan myself but the idea of website owners dealing with such questionable/taboo content in a court of law is quite interesting.