skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that people occasionally use the simplicity of the URL detector as a feature, deliberately changing the URL in trivial ways so they can submit items they know or suspect will be popular.

More often, though, people just don't check at all and submit items with no checking at all. This leads to duplicate submissions, a crowded "New" page, and split disussions.

I just wish people would read more, so they'd have a chance of knowing that the cool thing they've just seen and want to submit has already been submitted, sometimes many times over. The Dup Detector is sufficiently simply (for which read "brain-dead") that it can't be relied on.

ADDED IN EDIT: Cool! A down-vote! I always appreciate the opportunity to learn something. If you've down-voted this, or have a reason why someone might, please reply with more explanation so I can understand the alternative point of view. Thanks.
Yes

It also leads to an improvement in the conditions of the home country.
Of course they could just tag all authorised USB drives with RFID chips with unique ID codes matching the owners they are assigned to and their clearance levels, and equip their machines and the installations with RFID scanners designed to both detect the RFID and also to verify that the chip matches the drive being used.

If the USB doesn't have the RFID, or it doesn't match the carrier or it has the wrong clearance code or the drive doesn't match the RFID ...alarms, guns, trouble.
A privacy policy sets expectation which can be compared against. If they promise to not sell your data, then do, you can do something about it.

If you read this, you owe me 10 dollars.

So this is the email disclaimer argument. Email disclaimers are admittedly useless, but unless they stop being common-place, they will become accepted.
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It's worthy to note that GIL is still there in pypy
Your point is almost the total opposite of what this article is about. It may or may not be true, but this article doesn't support it.

This article is about temporary, unskilled immigration for doing things like fruit picking. It's not arguing about any impact on the New Zealand economy - instead it shows benefits in the economy the immigrants come from.
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The original article deals with some more of your objections.

Immigration issues are rarely one dimensional.
True - in this case it does seem pretty beneficial.
Oracle shooting them selfs in the head. The open unrestricted competition in Java world moved that
comunity since the begining and everybody got profit from that. The tools were improved and preselected
by the user experience only. It was a win win. If your product was not good enough you got the valuable
information: that you should to improve yourself. That is the basic foundation of capitalism: don't concentrate
on your competitors but on your own products. Now Oracle is trying to block that open market of ideas.
They will be the first to get hurt.

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.” (Ayn Rand)
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> The web is competing with proprietary technologies like iOS apps.

Because users want those "proprietary technologies" (the world you're actually looking for is "native", by the way).

> So it's in Google's interest to invest into any technology that advances the state of the open web.

Such as their own "proprietary" mobile platform whose native applications are seen as superior to the web? Wtfbbq?
People in Australia may be interested to know that many Pacific nations have repeatedly asked Australia to setup a similar program, and these request have been strongly supported by groups like the National Farmers Federation (who currently have to rely primarily on British pack-packers to pick a lot of produce)

The response to these requests has been negative so far.
Iphone spy software
iPhone spy software will tell you about each of the phone calls made by her. And also each of the phone calls others have made to her number. The message sent and the messages received, even the numbers stored in the phone book.
Don't measure only your productivity - measure the team. When you pair with someone with a different skill-set, some learning also happens.

A good analogy is with sports. In a good team, every player knows what the other is doing, not because they can observe each other, but because they know each other so well they can predict what will happen in the field.
Three months ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1666339

No discussion there, so maybe it's worth trying again ...
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Yes I meant "procedural-only, pre-OO".

A lot of C software (one example: glib, as used by GNOME) these days is also OO, without any language support. OO is about encapsulation, seperation of concerns, and so on, generally resulting in more readble code.

Of course it can be overdone. I've also seen software more like OO-extremism, in that it was almost impossible to see what called what, or how the loosely-knit bunch of objects, interfaces, abstractions managed to do anything at all. Eclipse has a few projects guilty of this.
I registered to reply because this is exactly how I felt. When the page loaded I thought to myself "How come I'm not on Quora looking at this question?". Then I went to Quora and saw that it was dumb and closed it.
Quit complaining. You could have ended inside a Visual Studio shop...

See? I could be much worse.
Thanks, this will be really helpful. I've looked at hresume microformat and as I mentioned in the original post, I was actually going to implement it that way.

The reason for including a lot of other non-professional things was that I would like to be hired by somebody who understands a lot of them; be it a one man startup. I have often found that 'jelling' is more important than technical competencies.

Thanks for your feedback.
Any chance of a link to any of the studies or directions where to find them? I am interested.
Well, I don;t know if networkworld i the best source for recommendations on the state of the market. Further, IT is a pretty nebulous term. Given that it is networkworld, I am going to assume that they are particularly talking about system admin, db admin type roles. While those are not my direct fields, it appears to me that as of lately, there has been a sizable uptick of employment activity for software developers. Whether this is due to the quantitative easing money being in the market or not, I don't have the requisite skills to deduce but there is most certainly an uptick in activity, that seems to contradict the conclusion of this article.
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Linux attempted to make an object-oriented kernel and failed? Can you give a link?

Small correction, btw: in Python everything is an object and you have classes n' stuff, making it just as 'OOP' as C++, Java.
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My guess would be that the high resolution is required to interpret the IR pattern at the maximum distance supported by the kinect (tens of feet). I'm wondering if the 30Hz is a limitation of the camera sensor or the pattern matching.
The mantra at every large company I've ever been at once we get past the initial "Get it done" phase, is, "Do it cheaper, cheaper, cheaper."

I think the thing that everyone overlooks when they price AWS out is they are looking at the cost of the bare metal. They aren't pricing their Network Engineers, their DBAs, their Storage SysAdmin, Their Data Center Ops Manager, the finance overhead required to buy/track all this gear.

Forget about the fact that no company over 200 employees I've ever been involved in could add 30-40 servers in less than 30 days.

The reasons to not go to AWS have to do with things like control, security, customization. Cost is the #2 reason everyone I've talked to is looking at moving their infrastructure over to AWS. (Ability to quickly scale is usually #1)
The right question is - does Google use it internally or not. (Seems that they doesn't.) If not it is definitely dead.
Thanks. I just made it up.. but I don't think it's anything complicated.

Control should only be exerted over things where you have sufficient knowledge. In a rapidly changing environment - be it business or battle - knowledge can only come via communication.

Strong centralized control can only work well in environments where communication is strong too. Otherwise decisions must be made with less knowledge than other parts of the organisation closer to the action the decision affects.
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Fair enough. It definitely depends on your websites profile etc.

I worked out a while back what it'd cost to run Mibbit on EC2 (Let alone any intermediary), and it was crazy money. But we use a fair bit of bandwidth and not too much CPU so it all depends.
There are two kinds of programmers (there are also coders) - those who did read SICP and those who didn't. He definitely did. ^_^
Depends on your business. If you need the ability to scale up rapidly, don't have much operational expertise or have high availability requirements, AWS is probably the cheapest option.
He doe have a pretty straight forward tone and in writing comes off as a little condescending, regardless of that there is one gem in his message that I agree with:

It's not about splitting hair but having the domain knowledge in addition to coding skills.

That one I would have to say is pretty spot on, domain knowledge adds a lot of value to a developer.

As for the it's all CRUD, I think that is a oversimplification at best. Software development can be rolled up into patterns and best practices but to oversimplify it down to it's all CRUD is a little beyond the reality of the duties of the role.
The google translator for markups.
From my point of view, Some actual features or interface design options from this Google translator could, may be, inspire you as well. :)
Are we reading the same page? I don't see anything saying it's dead. Perhaps out of focus, but there's still a plan to merge.
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It is one thing to express an opinion in a peaceful manner, and a completely different thing to threaten and physically attack people. Intellectual battles are fought by persuasion, not physical force. Disagreeing with a government action that does not threaten you physically is not a justification for hurting people and destroying their property.

The above is the main premise in this discussion. Next comes the entitlement argument. The UK government is not introducing a new policy, rather it is scaling back on an old one, restricting its involvement in education. It is sensible to bring back more freedom in education, where prices, just like in every other market within a free uncontrolled economy, should reflect fundamental value.

Obviously, the government has to be careful not to withdraw its support too quickly. After all, its involvement has distorted incentives in education to such an extent that withdrawing substantial funds too fast can cause a major economic upheaval. From what I know about the issue, this is not the case. I hope this is a gradual change in the right direction.

The best the students can do is re-evaluate their moral and philosophical stance on the issue and if they still believe that someone else should pay for their education, rather than their parents or themselves, they should try to persuade the government by peaceful means. But obviously, I question the "ethics" of forcibly taking away someone else's income to provide for cheap education. Some student leaders in the UK claim that it is only fair that the super-rich pay for their (the students') education. It is ok, if such rich people want to donate to universities and sponsor students voluntarily, but it is unethical to force them to pay (as some students want, although the majority are indifferent about the outside source, as long as the money is provided). To me, a person who advocates the violation of someone else's rights cannot claim that he/she is protecting his/her own "rights" from a moral standpoint.
What about the Love Potion? It didnt make the risk. Also, on the health debate, marijuana has some negatives side affects, but no where near your average pharmaceutical.
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Is the JCP dead?
That actually directly contradicts the OP's statement.

There is evidence that cannabis smoking is associated with an increased risk for lung cancer. (See "Cigarette smoking and other risk factors for lung cancer", section on 'Marijuana'.)
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I don't see neither this rant nor DHH "f-u to enterprises" (a not very descriptive of the real thing term you coined) as inflammatory.
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There was an interesting blog post about this problem few weeks ago on HN. In general you can defend your b) or c) or d) situation with on word "Timing".The only problem is that you must convince people in the audience that Timing is right and why it was hard/impossible before and right now is easier/possible.
If Oracle can't be trusted with Java, can Microsoft be trusted with Mono?
I think your feedback about icon placement is quite correct; they should be uniformly placed at the end of sentences. Also, thanks for pointing out typos. The initial section is indeed about an 'objective'.

There are some of the points that I would like to explain (and not defend ;-)). I'm based out of India, and a lot of companies here are quite traditional - upto an extent that they block facebook and gmail in the office.

I have listed a set of things which are out of context, but then I want to ensure that I want to get hired by somebody who actually understands the importance of IRC, Joel's views, etc. How to win friends and influence people = people skills, which I think connects with other aspects like Peopleware, Developer happiness and motivation, etc.

Finally, having an objective insight from another perspective is very helpful, and thanks for doing so! All the inputs that I'm getting are being taken into consideration and will help me further refine the CV.

Cheers!
i kind of expected this to be a more serious attempt at solving the current state of privacy policies being "hidden" behind overly long and complicated documents.

i think it's a brilliant idea to have a few standard privacy policies and/or terms of service documents where the service provider just fills in the blanks, a la GPL or BSD licenses.

seeing "our privacy policy is FPP" on a web service where FPP is a hypothetical document blessed by a reputable privacy advocacy group would certainly increase the appeal of that service amongst the ones who care.
Their working on it...
I'm surprised that this got downvoted, and you're both wrong; your argument is equivalent to saying that there's no point voting as you're only one vote in a big population.

Do people really care this little about the environment?
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Funny, I was just talking about them not being able to remove the GIL today while working through a tornado app.

I wonder what the future holds for pypy.
The original utility on SF http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ and some addons http://ditaa-addons.sourceforge.net/

Ditaa has also been integrated with in orgmode for emacs - http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#playingwithditaa
This! If you're watching futurama for the 10th time, you have to wonder if your time might be put to more use elsewhere. It's actually quite funny, not only makes pot stuff more interesting, you also forget a lot of details which makes is much easier to do them again and again and ....
foo := 2 * a + b;

No type checking will ever get that this is simply the wrong formula, computes as (2 * a) + b and was supposed to be 2 * (a + b) .
Great dissection of why email is currently a problem, but really, really short on anything constructive. In fact, looking at the last part:

> In the coming days, I will feature some of my favorite
> tools and techniques for winning the battle against email.
>
> Please share your favorites tools, tips, and stories
> below ... How do you fight the email flood? Is your
> company losing the email battle?

What's the bet he's about to do the usual consultant trick and listen to everyone else, then regurgitate the material and claim it's all his own wonderful insight?

I hate these "teaser" posts, outlining a problem that everyone already knows, and claiming there's wonderful material to follow.

Complete waste of time.

</rant>
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I didn't even see the link to quora at the bottom...
Sure. I was just explaining for those who prefer to write things like this themselves.
Judging by the comments on that thread I think that it was a pretty safe bet when google scrapped Wave that people were going to be more skeptical of google announcements in the future.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575928

Of course, free hardware is never bad, I wonder how long it will be before some enterprising character figures out a way to put UNR on it, I've heard Chrome-OS be described as a scaled down Ubuntu so this should not be all that hard.
So in essense, they are getting approximately the same revenue from iOS's 'purchase the app' as from Android 'ad revenue' model. Interesting, thanks.
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Or post-hoc rationalization. "Oh yes, that is what I intended all along"
Over-simplify even more and we have a generic verb... Not only software engineering, everything is CRUD!

A baker does CRUD with bread, a surgeon does CRUD with people's organs, a dentist does CRUD with teeth, and a physicist simply does low-level CRUD at an atomic level.

By stating it this way it sounds simple, but you know, the devil is always in the details...
Pitch it to them and assemble a team.
Yes, since Microsoft Community Promise http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx
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But it seems they managed to do it at a pretty large scale, this time, though.
NILFS, as a log-structured filesystem, is particularly well suited for flash storage. Its performance wouldn't be nearly as good on a spinning rust benchmark.
Just like no car will ever be able to transfer hundreds of people across an ocean.

That is not the purpose of static types, instead they offer a basic guarantee on correctness, a minimal correctness proof on the structures of the program and in particular a sanity check on your logic to see if the structures implied by your types are in fact inhabited (excluding bottom type).

Or say if the type diagrams on a series of function you are trying to use commute.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspond... for some interesting stuff.
I haven't tried, but I think this should be very easy to implement as a Google Chrome extension, if it hasn't been done already.

Just had a quick look, and there is this extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/eochlhpceohhhfog...

That could be a pretty good starting point to build one that scrolls based on the mousewheel rather than choosing an option.
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Bravo to Wired for correctly pluralizing court-martial. In hyphenated terms you add -s to the dominant or defining noun, e.g. gins-and-tonic, Egg McMuffins.

Ahem, back to politics ...
not sure, but I did have fun playing with the ripples in the header though :)
That's hardly a drop-in replacement. CPython is.
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It might be within Quora's contract, but, damn it jim, it's just not ethical!
On the other hand, if you never publicly fail you may just be prudent. Or paranoid. Or depriving yourself of some beneficial pressure. But it's not quite as clear-cut as you make it seem.
The response to these requests has been negative so far.

i.e. "stop the boats"
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Nice editorializing there. I suggest readers who care should read the entire thread, and be careful when they see future posts from "ot".
"In the concept of Anonymous there are no genders, faces or names, all are equal."

Sounds ghastly.

Edit:

Lol, so I'm at 0.

No, seriously, as an aspirational statement it sounds horrible. The elimination of difference instead of its celebration! The difference is life, and faces and names are individuality!

And the privileging of certain characteristics inherent in such sameness would itself be tyranny if carried beyond a game. Everyone is deemed a Gentleman and questioning that homogenisation is considered worthy of downmodding?

Celebrate individuality and difference, don't deny it. Fight sexism by celebrating each individual and not by pretending that gender doesn't exist and then calling everyone Gentlemen.