skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's key! It's too tempting to just rope in a weekend for this sort of thing.
I really agree with your points made. Changing the nature of this is a valid argument. But it's really not a big deal, because as you said this topic will be evolving and changing more than anything else. Personally I have experienced the same happenings where there is an enormous power evolving from the group, which is really a group and not a crowd. Also I like this because it centers the people contributing - the group and not the organisation, person whoever sourcing the crowd. It is essentially about this, because the process itself is enriching for everyone participating. Although I usually don't care too much about semantics, this one is an important one. :)
So about 1000 people have unfettered access to all of the live data, but there are absolutely no safeguards against them modifying it, copying it elsewhere, or peeking at it? That's terrifying. I'm under the impression that Google has more a stringent philosophy about this, and even then, one of the few SRE's that they do give broad access to was caught stalking teens via GMail data. Imagine the range of bad behavior an FB engineer can get away with after just 4 weeks of "Boot Camp".

Part of the reason I never made a real FB account was my general feeling in 2005 that securing a MySQL/PHP site against internal abuse takes incredible effort, and they wouldn't ever bother to do it. According to this article, that's likely true. And the "everybody can modify anything anytime" philosophy with little QA explains why, after 6 years, FB is still a gaping maw of security holes.
I lost my dad on 31st December, 2010. He had a cancer in his rectum, which eventually reached his lungs. My mom and I are still trying to recover from our loss :-(
You mean for the privacy thing? Yea, I doubt it's impossible to stop altogether.
$215? When I clicked through to the book, I see "Available from these sellers. 9 used from $597.95"

WTF?!??

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0444875085
Doesn't Steve Jobs take a salary of $1/yr?
I read it as saying that most CEOs are skilled but interchangeable workers, like bus drivers. It takes skill, but the route is set, by the board, by shareholders, by expectations. Of course the metaphor breaks down pretty quickly, but I think it's apt. Jobs took Apple in directions that few CEOs could even imagine, let alone implement. Most would have driven Apple straight off a cliff.
“If I'd thought "Jobs matters" was going to be so controversial I would have prepped the examples better!”

I’m not disagreeing with you. I just don’t know how Apple would do without Steve Jobs and I don’t think Steve Job’s recent leave showed any clear or dramatic effects, I’m not even sure whether there were any changes at all.

Anything longer than six months might be different but I’m not sure about that.
I normally find articles with titles like that painfully condescending, but this was quite well-done and worth a read.
The lack of a Y chromosome doesn't help or hinder any given task, but the best teams seem to have people who look at the big pictures differently. Having different points of view means having different ways of looking at problems, and will (I feel) lead to stronger teams.

The solution isn't to optimize the process to hire more women, it's to look at the reasons why women avoid tech. Getting more qualified people into the hiring pool can only help.

When I started off in CS, the introductory class was 60/40 (approximately the same as the school) at the start. By the end it was 85/15 - women dropped it at a far higher rate then the men. Why? I don't think it has to do with men being better at it than women, I think a lot of it has to do with what we're told to expect of ourselves.

Everyone in that class was smart, and almost everyone was used to getting A's throughout high school. A guy who got a B or C would look at it as they we're doing well enough and work harder, a woman would be more likely to think that "they" were right and this field wasn't for them.

In high school, my guidance counselor told me not to bother applying to MIT, and if it wasn't for my parents standing up for me, I likely wouldn't have. I know other women who heard the same sorts of things growing up. That's where the problem lies, it's not something that can be fixed easily. Maybe it's too deeply rooted in our society to be fixed any time soon, but I think that if we at least can help women over that hump and get them to realize that they can do it, that the numbers will come up, and everyone will benefit from it.
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“most engineers are capable of writing bug-free code. it’s just that they don’t have an incentive to do so at most companies. when there’s a QA department, it’s easy to just throw it over to them to find the errors.”

Bull. Shit. This one line makes me think that this entire post is completely hear-say. A 500 person engineering team that writes bug-free code on a system as a large as facebook? Give me a break.
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Check out the sidebar in the OP. Rands has written two books and I personally enjoyed his latest tremendously.

He also worked with Apple and Borland. Not your average tech blogger.
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$7.49 for 1 year. Just prefix it with a "get" or append it with an "it" or "hq" etc.. be creative. You can usually "get" any domain you want this way.

Successful examples: GetDropbox.com and Highrisehq.com.
Huh? SFGate is a little slow on the uptake. The museum has been open for many years now. I was there two years ago.
Conventional medicine is a lot better than the alternatives, although it is not without flaws. What's needed is a more open marketplace, more effective regulation and administration, and a better mechanism for protecting intellectual property than the awful system of patents provides.

There's also serious issues with the profit-driven industry surrounding conventional medicine, yet this is not unique to medicine.
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What does it mean to be "publicly shamed" in this context?
It keeps the hot attic air in homes from heating the air. Yes, it's insulated, but this would be even more effective.
The thing to remember is, he came up through the ranks to became a manager, and seems to be one that decided to put the energy he used to into learning new tech/coding techniques/etc into becoming a good manager.

If you've not read anything from his blog before, it's worth at least skimming back through the archives to see what tickles your fancy. He's got some VERY good articles.
after boot camp, all engineers get access to live DB (comes with standard lecture about “with great power comes great responsibility” and a clear list of “fire-able offenses”, e.g., sharing private user data)

This is through a third-party, so I'm not shaking the finger at Facebook outright yet, but the wording of that — sharing private user data — is kind of frightening. What about merely accessing private user data? Like you mentioned, I know Google is super-paranoid about even simple data access.

And now someone from Facebook chimes in and replies to this and talks more about their developer privacy safeguards and makes us all feel better. Go!
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This is wrong twice, first, a bus driver is in full control of his vehicle, he can't decide on the route but he's totally autonomous in his decisions.

Then, a CEO does not decde 'what the goals of the company are', that's something that will be decided usually in close cooperation with other managers.

CEOs that act as dictators usually do not last very long, typically they'll be the ones to maintain relationships with the outside world at the highest level but that's not reason enough think that they and they alone make the decisions as to what the goals of the company are. A CEO tries to get his people 'on board' with respect to the decision that are being made, and if as a CEO you do not do that you will either find yourself between jobs or you'll face a walk-out of your managers. In many cases the 'goals of the company' are codified either in a mission statement, in the articles of incorporation or in a separate agreement between the major shareholders of the company.

In a company where the CEO is also the largest stockholder it may well be the case that the CEO dictates what the 'goals of the company are', but in that case it is probably better to speak of him or her as the 'owner' of the company in that context rather than the CEO.

CEOs carry out the corporate vision, they do not define it by themselves.

We're writing this in a thread about Apple, and in the case of Apple it is probably right to say that Steve Jobs is the man with the vision who indeed does set the goals of his company but just as he receives only $1 in compensation for his work (he has substantial stock so that is where his real compensation is) he is something of a rarity in CEO land.
You mean assigned immortal to SteveJobs.
That really is a strange paragraph. Turing machines only consist of a line of memory cells, a pointer to the current cell, and a CRUD mechanism for the cells.
Get yourself a password manager (such as 1Password) that will generate a unique password for every site and remember all of your login credentials for you. This has solved the problem for me.
I'll believe it when I see it. It's one thing to check a box on a survey, but the outcome will be contingent upon a lot of factors, not the least of which is the contractual situation that each of these customers finds themselves in. Wireless carriers love contracts. More specifically, they love to keep customers under contract.

Of the 26% that said they would switch, how many would do so if it cost them an additional $100 in early termination fees? How about $200? Add in a $199 iPhone, plus activation, and you're looking at over $400 in some cases.
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Sounds like a good bargain to buy on tomorrow's drops
Hehe, you can try. :)
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Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing
"A phone's a phone. In two year's time they'll all be buried in a
landfill with a load of dirty nappies and rotting chicken carca[s]ses."

Ignorance at its greatest. As long as millions of people continue to use smart phones, the OS will continue to hold great significance. What ever replaces iOS or Android will be based off them, so it's important not to pass of these OS's just because a new OS will replace them. People are spending a huge portion of their lives on their phones. The OS is what they are interacting with, and even a slight change in the interface or functionality can leave a lasting impression on users. Mobile OS's are very, very important, and concluding that they're useless without any justification whatsoever is simply crazy.
Agreed. Anyone who works with FB apps/apis surely notices their lack of QA leads to frequent and often times routine breakage.
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I was wondering the same thing as Google reports a fraction

1337 * (pi%) = 42.0030938

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...
You're being really pedantic. The degree of leadership and autonomy required of CEOs is orders of magnitude more than bus drivers. Lumping them together in any meaningful way other than as fellow human beings is disingenuous.
I might be wrong but wasn't streamingmedia.com doing some bullshit Theora vs H264 comparison before?
1. The decoded Base64 data is smaller (three quarters of the size?) than the encoded data.

2. Keeping only the encoded data would mean having to decode it every time the image gets redisplayed.

Ideally, one would remove the Base64 coded data from the document, and cache the binary data.
The problem I think is that many people only think short term and hence focus on taking value, they feel they start giving they wont be able to take. Where as people who focus on long term know that if they give value now, in the long run in will come back to them in multiples
She wouldn't have hit the NYT Bestseller list if that happened since she forgot to also add half of those people who didn't buy the books in the NYT Bestseller list.
one that doesn't read hacker news all day.
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OK, but that link still shows Software and Computer engineering ahead of Mechanical and Electrical engineering.
Had I visited the link I would have seen a much longer fractional part..

http://www4b.wolframalpha.com/Calculate/MSP/MSP520319e206bcf...
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As I sit in my cube, mandated business attire donned, bright fluorescent lights flickering above me, and listening to the constant drone that is the heating system, I read this article and utter a small prayer. That somehow, somewhere, someone who actually manages developers reads this blog, and hires me.
I wish someone had given me this useful advice back when I was a sophomore.. oh wait, thanks! It's really good advice, IMHO.

With regards to the first point...

Most companies here (Pakistan) are in the web/mobile app development business or developing CRUD apps for clients. While I don't necessarily think that's bad, I'd prefer doing something more innovative or interesting, possibly AI, data mining, or just something that's good on the social/humanitarian front.

What I'm wondering is, how can someone like me have a chance of getting an internship at a place doing something really useful or innovative? Getting a visa would be difficult for just an internship.
Sorry, but that's nonsense. A CEO that tries to 'drive the company in to the lake' would find himself fired just as fast as a busdriver that did the same.

Really, the autonomy of CEOs is vastly overestimated here and I think that it is in part people like Steve Jobs that re-enforce that myth, but typically the CEO is not the person that decides like some kind of dictator how a company is run.

They do carry final responsibility but that's another story.

Please make a distinction between CEO/owners and CEO/minor shareholders, the difference is huge in this respect.
Good post!

Unfortunately, it also works the other way: somebody works in a company until they recognize how useless that person is, and before he or she gets fired they jump ship to a new company where they are greeted with open arms as the new guy/gal that will fix everything. Lather, rinse, repeat. If they are smart they use the same argument you made to actually rise in the corporate hierarchy with each step. This allows them to beat the Peter principle and rise above their level of incompetence, leading us to totally incompetent people at the top of the hierarchy.

So if you see somebody who changed jobs every couple years, be careful.
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Quoting myself (from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1859185 ):

I've been looking for material about Eurisko. Other than this championship, there appears to be no credible documentation of any of Eurisko's reported achievements.

It might be super-duper, but the fact that he wouldn't let anyone else use it, and that those amazing feats have not been reproduced by others despite huge advances - might just mean that there's more myth to truth in the stories about Eurisko.

(and ... quoting jonoff from same thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861890 )

Adding to the mystery, I read the newyorker article (2009) linked from wikipedia on Eurisko, and it seems Lenat forgot the winning strategy Eurisko developed, or the first article is wrong.

"Eurisko, however, had judged that defense was more important than offense, that many cheap, invulnerable ships would outlast fleets consisting of a few high-priced, sophisticated vessels. There were ninety-six ships in Eurisko’s fleet, most of which were slow and clumsy because of their heavy armor" - 1984 article

"astronomical number of small ships like P.T. boats, with powerful weapons but absolutely no defense and no mobility, Lenat said. They just sat there. Basically, if they were hit once they would sink." - 2009 article
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I started using IDL at one point (the facility used it) and hated the syntax--but, I will say that their licensing was cheap. Then, I moved to Matlab and ran into problems building maintainable code (to be fair, I think things improved after Matlab 7) and with exchanging code with people who did not have access to all of the toolboxes (want to optimize a function--that will be another few thousand dollars....Want to do a bit of DSP....). Also, in fairness, their editor is rather nice--so is the JIT) So, to build code that I could exchange (and to do GUI building, etc) I switched to primarily to the python/numpy/scipy/matplotlib stack. Somehow, I passed over octave....I would recommend numpy/scipy/matplotlib. The plots are in matplotlib are excellent and the community is very friendly. Also, with numpy, I can do array processing very quickly. Finally, if you need to build an app, then you can make a GUI, or provide a webservice. Finally, you can play with libraries such as CUDA and bind them to python if your project needs it.
I'm not an expert on this but I'm guessing with tomcat being so ubiquitous they do an initial release of the new version, and then it takes a few revisions out in the wild for them to deem something production stable. I think its the equivalent of doing release candidates ala Firefox but without the RC label.
I used to have a hole in my lung. The tissue regenerated. I'm a former homemaker and homeschooling mom. Currently a divorcee with an entry level job I can't get promoted out of. Stating that I have done this and therefore I know it can be done -- and it doesn't take fancy technology -- is met with incredulity, to say the least. Suffice it to say, I have strong feelings on the matter but it's probably best for me to try to leave the subject alone at the moment.

Peace.
Well, the early release works to an advantage: the power users will be there from February to June (when the iPhone 5 is released.) Meaning that anyone willing to wait for the new one will get to pick a carrier in real-world conditions.
The sidewalks and driveways in the suburb where I live are pretty light gray. If the roads were the same color, it'd be hard to see.

Also, walking/driving doesn't stay pavement very much, save for skidmarks and oil.
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The transfer would have to be gradual. Don't ask me how to do that, though :)
Is there a Web page for this?
When I hear pitches by startups, I always despise the TAM slide. I'm more interested in markets that are too new to calculate.

I worry that VCs who ask what the size of the market is are looking for evidence where there isn't any.
Conventional medicine is a lot better than the alternatives

I have pursued alternatives and gotten better results than conventional medicine can give. So I am afraid I can't agree with you on that one.
When you are so overwhelmed by work that you don't have a choice.
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The same thing happened to me in Egypt and Jordan.
I must admit... I switched exclusively to Numpy / Scipy / Matplotlib about 3 years ago and never looked back. The power, flexibility, and extensive developer libraries offered by Python are unmatched (IMHO).

Oh, and for anyone who would like to try out vector computation on a GPU (eg. CUDA), you should check out the Theano project (a symbolic math library that can offload execution to the GPU): http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/introduction.html
As somebody that is frustrated by the Graph API nearly daily, their code is certainly not bug-free.
Welcome to the next financial outlet after sub-prime mortgages.

There seems to be an entrepreneurial spirit to this, however: find a regulated niche, weasel around it to provide clients with a high-growth and unsafe market. If the SEC doesn’t clamp down on this, I can see this sort of dark trading becoming popular enough to destabilize the economy once it fails.
That's a very US centric view of things.

It's about a rich man in the US. If he was in another country than this would be a different conversation.

Organ transplant is already hard enough, adding another layer doesn't improve anything. Jobs didn't jump the line, just found a shorter one. Since organ transplants are compatibility and location dependent wouldn't you also attempt to find where you had the best chance at advancing in the list and having a better match.

It would make an interesting table if you could display organ phenotypes correlated by location. Maybe that is exactly what he has done that made him decide that Tennessee was the best place to be.
This is a great example of someone finding a nice, untapped niche that was staring us all in the face. Well done!
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Well AT&T certainly got off easy... I expected something closer to 60 or 70%
> The GPL is sometimes a problem for commercial users of Octave or other free software.

<obligatory-GPL-comprehension-nitpicking>

GPL is never a problem for users. The GPL is a problem for rogue developers who might want to extend (or just rename, or not even that) Octave, close off the source code and then themselves start posing a (licensing) problem for users of the extended Octave version. But that is OK, since the GPL was designed to pose a problem for code closers and problem makers in the first place. Thanks for reading.

</obligatory-GPL-comprehension-nitpicking>
You have the same issue in other areas. For example I wanted to check out a multiplayer city builder game with a friend some years back prior to buying and there was no way to do this outside of piracy as the demo didn't cover this feature.

Bootnote: We did buy the game following this!
Reminds me of a chapter from Michael Lewis's "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" (a book about the recent financial crisis) in which one trader asks "who's buying these?" [toxic housing assets], and the other replies "Dusseldorf. Stupid Germans."

http://www.economist.com/node/15955490
Shocked... shocked I am that that buggy pile of crap has no QA.
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In typical northern zones, the daily solar energy delivered in July is about twice that delivered in December. Winter suffers from a combination of oblique angles, shorter days, and more clouds.

If painting white[1] saves you from moving X joules with your air conditioner in July, that will cost you an extra X/2 joules from your heater in December. This is a win until you have many more heating days (without snow cover) than cooling days.

[1] for perfect white and black, reality will be closer together.
So what you're saying is that now anybody can still do it, but everybody knows not to talk about it.

I'm gathering that this will never change.
To mention the obvious: GET exposes the information passed to the page in the URL, POST does not. The parameterized URL is often available to the user from her/his browser. Whether that constitutes a security problem or not depends upon the design.
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It depends on the topic of the book, of course, but some of the best computer science books I've read were written in the 70s and 80s (SICP, Dragon Book, etc.). The C programming language, one of the most popular languages in use today, has not changed much since the 80s.
App developers and other API users do in fact rely on them. Their unreliability is part of what's convincing many sites to rethink that.
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