skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Usenet server is centralized though. They could sue the provider to get the names of everyone that downloaded a set of posts. This is made much easier by the fact that most popular Usenet servers are paid for nowadays (especially ones that carry alt.binaries.*).
Why the Skype investment worked
Most mathematical symbols haven't been in use for longer than a couple of hundred of years. Leibniz's now standard calculus notation was introduced near the end of 17th century.
We've been USING GWT for our startup the past 2 years and have noticed huge performance gains. When you factor in bootstrapping, code-splitting, and the inhering advantages of using OO on a large code base the benefits are huge. SEo is a little tricky at first but with a few weekends of hacking you'll be getting indexed just as good as the rest of them. Happy hacking!
I was curious myself why they didn't let the company IPO then buy it out. It seems that could have happened for far far less than 8 billion.

I guess the facebook preIPO buyout issue was there.
Learned a lot from that, very fascinating ... would have liked to see benchmarks after he made his adjustsments and a comparison with an innodb version of the database.
In the UK the liability of directors is limited to the nominal value originally invested (usually £100).
Marc Andreessen: Microsoft Is Buying Something With A Real Head Of Steam
Please Help Me Find a Remote Job.
Don't see how this is a "scandal" of any kind. These tactics aren't uncommon.
related: "Google deflects PR firm's attack of Gmail privacy" http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2011-05-06-google_n.htm
This is really cool. I think I might use morse code to encode a secret message in the next beat I produce :)
Draw or Fold: Shut Out of Sites, U.S. Poker Pros Mull Move Abroad
Two fairly simple improvements (to mathematics) I can think of:

1) Abandon the absolutely batty practice of representing everything with a single symbol. It's crazy. We still can't reliably represent mathematical symbols over the internet in text, we have to rely on images. I'm obviously biased, but mapping mathematical functions to actual words (ala programming) would be a big win, imo.

2) Lock up all the physicists, mathematicians, engineers, logicians, you name it, and have them agree on a single unified notation. Every symbol ought to have one meaning and everyone needs to stop stealing symbols from a different field and giving it a new meaning! I'd wager that more than half of the symbols in this list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols) have several valid interpretations. No thanks!
"Argh, how do I paste?!"

:h paste
Dude, you're rewinding all the work I've done on trying to tell others how amazing and friendly the web community in Greenville is. How about some substantial examples about Carsonified's bad advice instead of just trashing us?
"Caught" seems like a funny word to use.

They pretty clearly lay out a case that this is an interesting story, and all's fair in love and PR.

In fact the email they're sending seems relatively benign compared to what I expected to see.

And the juiciest part of the story - who's paying the PR person - is missing.

Wondering why this wound up @ the top of HN as a result?

EDIT - Slightly more interesting (err, predictable) if MSFT is the culprit? http://www.catchingflack.com/2007/09/burson-marsteller-outed...
What exactly is "news", as you are using the word, and how exactly are you proposing that people interact with it? And how exactly is the form of interaction you are seeking already not being done in a world of freely available blogs?
Duct tape and entrepreneurialism
You haven't listed any of your needs or wants that you wish to satisfy. Why isn't that just a short bullet point list somewhere? Why isn't all of this a collection of short bullet point lists:

* Skill set

* Achievements at last company

* Education

Considering the whole point of this page is to generate leads to request your resume why is it so long? why not keep it vague?

Some of your opening sentences need a lot of work. In fact, just remove words. Keep removing words:

"My experience with ArcObjects is extensive. I have been using ArcObjects for well over 3 years and have been using the framework almost on a daily basis"

= * 3+ years developing on ArcObjects

And this? why?

Python is one of the worlds best interpreted languages. Even though it is more than 20 years old, it is just now coming to the world stage. I use it in most of my crone jobs that need to be completed on a set schedule.

or this

Silverlight and me are like a pea in a pod.

(thats actually quite hilarious - do you mean two peas in a pod?)

Hobbies = irrelevant.
I'm sorry for the confusion. There are two ways it can be faster. The way you understood it, I guess, is in typing. The difference here is:

i Ctrl v Esc

vs

(Shift) " * p

Where, on my keyboard, both " and * requires the shift key, but YMMV.

What I meant, though, is the actual input of text. When pasting with Ctrl+V, that's like one character at a time for Vim, and that's visible, so if you paste a large body of text you can actually see it scrolling past. When working with buffer commands, it works just any other internal Vim buffer operation, which is instantaneous.
Google's stealth multi-billion-dollar business
That's why I installed Flashblock on my CR48.
no, what kills developer's passion is not having a say in what/how processes are implemented/evolved. The other thing that kills developer's passion is being tangled into a web of improvisation, contradictions and general confusion because the processes were forgotten.
I believe I am!
Hey all, Its the poster.

Over the past few weeks, I have learned that my job is moving to a location I would very much not like to travel to. So I decided to do what I can to stand out. Its pretty tough finding full time remote jobs for developers, or at least it has been where I looked. So I decided to try and be a cut above the rest and create something that might be an extra push for a job.

So I am looking and could only hope someone who looks at this is interested in hiring a Full Time Remote Worker.

btw, I wouldn't mind traveling/flying once a month for a few days at a time to the office. I know there would be some requirements that involve face to face. I am definitely willing to talk it over.
> Why are techies like this? I believe its because we are extremely analytical pattern hunters - we hate replication and deficiencies. Marketing to us represents an inefficiency in the system because it doesn't represent 1 or 0

Actually it's not just that. True, techies recognize that marketing represents an inefficiency in the system, but, lacking social skills, techies are naive enough to think that they can improve the system. They can't, and they don't understand why (but look ma, I made a goooood product, why won't anyone buy it?). They assume that everyone has plenty of time on their hands to read the latest reviews on the product they buy, to compare specifications, and then to trial-test the product themselves, all the while being careful so as "not to fall into a marketing scam." No, most people are not like that. Most people make snap judgements in a split-second about whether or not to buy a product and if they feel like they spend too much time deciding then they simply move on. Techies specifically choose to ignore things like public image and social status (actually they replace the status ladder by their own one), and consequently suffer from it.
I believe it is

"You must sign in with your google checkout account, which must have an active and verified credit card, to make this account for your kid".

I think a demo of this is a 2 week project tops to tie the verification to your account creation.
Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5 Billion In Cash
Some are corrected, and it's being proof-read at the moment.
Will update every buyer once the corrected version is out :)
This is what the beginning beat of YYZ by Rush is doing with the letters Y-Y-Z. Not much of a secret message since it's the title.
Yea. If they were to sue you for downloading (but not uploading) they could have huge landmark cases for millions of dollars in damages. Because the current math goes like:

statutory damage limit = $150k
people we *think* you distributed to = 1 million people
damages = $150k * 1m = profit!

You would have a hard time convincing a judge that either: a) the copyright owner suffered millions in damages over a single download of a movie or b) that the person needs millions of dollars in damages to 'teach people a lesson.'
No, you can't, tinypay uses only Paypal...
Open letter to Mark Shuttleworth
Dear Mark,

First, I want to thank you for all what you offered to the opensource community. Ubuntu is a huge success and millions of people are using it worldwide. You could, in few years, create a distribution that became the most popular linux operating system in the world. And I'm sure that hundreds or may be thousands of people do respect you as much as I do.

Second, I can't stop myself thinking of the latest release of Ubuntu and I want to share with you my thoughts.

I'm really disappointed that Canonical decided what the Ubuntu community should and should not use. I mean, despite the fact that Unity is a disaster (my own point of view), I don't think that obliging Ubuntu users to use it is a good idea. We're in Linux and it sticks in one world, Freedom. It's not right to think that you are right and the rest of people are wrong. Many users expressed their anger against Unity since it's first release, and Canonical still think that Unity should be the future of Ubuntu.
It's the Ubuntu community who decides what Ubuntu should have, not Canonical.

My father loves Ubuntu. He was a Windows user. Last summer I installed Ubuntu 10.04 in his computer and he liked it so much. He could do the upgrade to 10.10 by himself and could even install many softwares from the Ubuntu Software Center since Ubuntu was easy to use and almost perfect. Yesterday, he called me and told me this : "I think there is a virus in my computer, I don't know what to do". He upgraded to 11.04 and he got completely lost.

Dear Mark,

Ubuntu doesn't belong to Canonical. It belongs to you, to me, and all users who love open source. Canonical should not decide alone what's good and what's bad. (Python 3 vs Python 2)

Linux should be an example of democracy and freedom. Not a joke that mac/windows users tell each other.

How can I, as a Ubuntu user, change all my habits to understand/use 11.04?
How will you explain to thousands of Ubuntu users in governments and schools all over the world, that the Linux that they spent hours trying to understand and use is now gone, and that they have to learn again from level 0. Do you think that governments will trust Canonical after this disaster (my own point of view)? It's a betrayal of trust of many Ubuntu users.

Why didn't you just hire the Docky/AWN developers to create an awesome dock ?
Why didn't you hire the Gnome Do developers and use it natively in 11.04 instead of the search bar menu ? I'm not the only one who asks these questions.

I simply hope that Canonical knows what it's doing.

With all my sincere respects,

Nathaly.
Apple’s Guy Tribble appears before congress, addresses iOS privacy issues
I get it.. this is a good idea for web n00bz. It would get tons of usage... I might start building this.
Quick spelling correction under python 'Crone' to 'Cron'
What's coming in PostgreSQL 9.1
There's an Israeli working on every kind of ponzi scheme(s) the wall.street calls too big to fail
Completely disagree. Math isn't manipulation of symbols. At all. Math is the study of mathematical objects, a practice often done using a formal language for the convenience and power it provides.

"0" is a formal symbol with particular formal behavior

"empty/missing/none" is a well-known physical concept

Zero is a precise, powerful mathematical object which can be represented by them both.

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This is difficult to deny. Unless you want to deny the providence of most widely recognized mathematicians throughout history, you have to accept that formal language of math is relatively new. Furthermore, it's alive and growing, inconsistant and incomplete. There is a meaningful frontier, and there you observe mathematicians are really studying something else and furiously creating the formal language to describe it.

In this light, metaphor is absolutely a useful tool in the same class as formal language for explaining and reasoning about math. You're right to point out the non-equivalence of the two, but the author's Kill Math project is in no way not math. Furthermore, I'm anecdotally a supporter of the author's belief that doing math competently requires knowing a the metaphorical side since your symbolic projects may fail or be unclear.

I'd be willing to accept that metaphor will never be as powerful as formal language, but it does discredit to the way (I'd wager) most people understand math to deny the metaphorical.

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At the heart of this trouble of definitions is Gödel's Incompletenesses. The practical effect of their discovery was the destruction of the dreams of formalists who had for years hope to discover the essential shape of the formal language from which all math would spring. With Incompleteness however, we are forced to admit that we can study, meaningfully, the behavior of mathematical objects for which the language of math cannot be used to reason about.

Then we extend that language, of course.
Also, there has been much more man to man violence in the past. Its been an exponential decrease since the beginning of man. Stephen Pinker had a TED talk about this http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen....
My sense is there is growing momentum behind GWT for people working in large teams. I've talked to a number of very talented developers that have worked on large scale projects that report big payoffs.

Unfortunately, there really don't seem to be any real alternatives or competition in this space.

It is somewhat surprising that Microsoft hasn't delivered any response. Silverlight is leading many companies down a road even Microsoft admits is a dead end for all but a few narrow applications.
I thought this was going to be a plugin that would allow a user to click in Morse code on a text input in order to "type" their text. I'm kind of disappointed that it's not, since I've been meaning to write a browser extension to enable Morse code input on all text fields after someone suggested it as an addition to Tapsure (http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/tapsure/).
I think you are overestimating the average computer user. As personal computing and broadband access has risen quickly, so have the class of technophobes.

Also, a product will seldom sell itself. The Skype brand has plenty of intangible value, for instance from their collaboration with Oprah.
Forget passion, focus on process
EXPLAIN provides a bit of the clue but the meat of the problem is that the VARCHAR is being changed to a CHAR. EXPLAIN is just verifies that something is going on to force a temp table to be created.
John Mercurio is the the Director of the Media practice in Burson-Marsteller and more interestingly, "a leading political expert on national politics, campaigns and Capitol Hill"

http://www.burson-marsteller.com/newsroom/lists/PressRelease...
"I can write especially well."

and

"I love high tense situations which move my mind and body quickly."

Consider rephrasing :)

I don't think that page will get you any jobs, it's all about you you you and not about the potential employer.
When I look at resumes, I'm looking for a few things:

- You're passionate about being a software engineer. This could manifest itself as side projects, or simply showing that you were passionate about a work project and went above and beyond.

- You've had broad experience, and understand many areas, not just one narrow area. This is less about specific programming languages as broader technology areas. For instance, have you worked on performance tuning? Can you explain to me how a network works in excruciating detail?

- You have a formal CS education. Some may not care about this, but it's a good indication that you have solid fundamentals, and understand things like big O notation. If you're a new grad, getting good grades is important too.

- Have you worked at another startup? If so, I want to know about it - it's an indicator you understand what working at a startup entails.
If it is Microsoft, they are wasting their money.
Not sure if you know, but it's pretty easy to get your name by using a whois...
For what it's worth, there are 27,999,404 people connected at the moment (according to my Skype application).
Seems like a good time to revist Paul's essay "The Submarine:"

PR is not dishonest. Not quite. In fact, the reason the best PR firms are so effective is precisely that they aren't dishonest. They give reporters genuinely valuable information. A good PR firm won't bug reporters just because the client tells them to; they've worked hard to build their credibility with reporters, and they don't want to destroy it by feeding them mere propaganda.

If anyone is dishonest, it's the reporters. The main reason PR firms exist is that reporters are lazy. Or, to put it more nicely, overworked. Really they ought to be out there digging up stories for themselves. But it's so tempting to sit in their offices and let PR firms bring the stories to them. After all, they know good PR firms won't lie to them.

A good flatterer doesn't lie, but tells his victim selective truths (what a nice color your eyes are). Good PR firms use the same strategy: they give reporters stories that are true, but whose truth favors their clients.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Live - the Senate's mobile privacy committee hearing
No way would people from different campuses show up to 15 minute meeting. And they certainly would not take it seriously if we ended the meeting on a hard 15 minute limit. They'd have spent more time traveling than meeting.

Sure we have nice brisk meetings with devs in the same job role who might not be on site, but someone from PR or a Vice President is going to think it's a joke.

In the case that it was a top down order from my VP everyone would just have pre-meeting meetings so when the VP sits in we could hit his 15 minute deadline.
Never publish your salary; you've just lost your negotiating power with anyone who's read this post.

EDIT: Looks like the comment containing salary info was deleted.
But it's nothing new. :P
seems to me that different people can grok stuff in different ways. teaching is about trying to find a way to explain something so the learner can grok it, and in your case a lot of teachers failed before one finally succeeded.

I think anyone is capable of grokking anything, just the time taken to do so is variable. people that give up on "learning" something (academia in your case) just don't want to spend that time.

p.s. I also gave up on academia for the same reasons :)
I don't find your site to do a very good job at articulating what you're looking for, and what your skill set is.

The first thing you read is that your attributes are "Big Data" "Strong" and "Commenter" why don't you put actionable things? big data is debatably valuable, but the others are just noise
"Learning and growth is extremely important to me. Any position I fill will need to provide room for me to grow, and the company will need to fulfill my need for continuing education, specifically regarding my chosen paths. "

Cool idea, but if you're going to include the above line I would probably mention what your "chosen paths" are, and what the company would need to do to "fulfill your need" for it. It sounds like your asking for financial assistance, but it's really not clear.
The sad thing is that he's right. I see it every day.

I work in a process-heavy shop in a process heavy industry and more and more, our developers are getting sick of it. But at the same time, our bug counts are dropping and our schedule accuracy is improving.

It would be an easy decision if all the process didn't accomplish anything, but the data shows that it does. The difficult part is isolating which parts of the various processes are contributing the most, and scaling back the parts that don't. Unfortunately, if your management doesn't realize how irritated the developers are with all the data gathering and paperwork necessary to track the process, these drawbacks remain hidden until your best people start to leave in disgust.

Of course, you can ask the question if passion should even be relevant in software dev. and what its relationship is to product quality. A fantastically intuitive UI requires one type of personality and a "Can Never Fail" aircraft braking controller requires a different type. Should they use the same type of process?
I'm sorry to be the one to have to bring this up. But not all mathematics can be represented visually. Maths breaks into a number of main branches, among them principally algebra, analysis and geometry.

Usually only the third can be represented visually, though often mathematicians develop diagrams which help internalise the complex notions involved in analysis and algebra too.

For example, in algebraic geometry, the more familiar notions of geometric objects such as curves and surfaces are replaced with purely algebraic notions, such as schemes. This is because of various categorical equivalences between geometric objects (on the geometric side) and various algebraic objects (on the algebraic side). But on the algebraic side, schemes are a very expansive generalisation of things that actually correspond to geometric (and visualisable) objects.

I once went to a teaching seminar on the use of a package called GeoGebra for the teaching of mathematics. None of us mathematicians could bring ourselves to put up our hands and ask how one might represent a complex of modules over a noetherian ring pictorially in GeoGebra. There's this fundamental misunderstanding amongst educators that symbolic mathematics is not essential to understanding maths.

This is an important insight when it comes to computer programs though. The same thing happens in computer science. You get splits between things that are geometric, symbolic and purely computational.

Often I get really annoyed at people showing off their latest concurrent programming paradigm by implementing a GUI or event loop for some graphical or network application. They forget that many things simply don't fit into that paradigm.

I equally get annoyed at computer scientists for forgetting that the number of integers is not about 10. Sometimes us mathematicians really want to do things with matrices of ten thousand by ten thousand entries.
Jaynes' work is valid within limits as a concept of method for some areas of science and engineering. However, his error was in effect trying to replace the logical law of identity with the mathematical law of equivalence, "A is A" becoming only "A = A".

In his book, Jaynes says that Aristotelian logic is a special case of probability theory, applicable in a situation where 100% certainty is achieved. This makes all of logic subordinate to a mathematical process, and as such this modeling approach is anti-conceptual.

What I meant by "frequentist Bayesian" was the property common to both the frequentist and Bayesian approaches with respect to induction, that being the idea that certainty is in general mathematically established by counting and ratios. That may be the best way to bet sometimes, but it is a fallacy to define logical certainty as such in mathematical terms.
Whitespace for the taking
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Well, its also pretty easy if they go to my blog. My name is scattered all over. I just figured HR type folks wouldn't be that inclined...
6 weeks of vacation per year, and the understanding that it's actually ok to use it. It's normal in Europe and Australia. Why couldn't it work here?
Isn't it moot to withhold your name but still list that you work at Northrop Grumman and are the webmaster for the International Women's Flag Football Association? There can't be too many people who fit that description.