skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An excellent example of how math poorly taught is hard to understand. Nearly all math is poorly taught, therefore nearly all math students drop out in frustration. Only a handful of students can overcome poor instruction.
Keep refreshing it, it works about half the time. I would guess that the new files haven't been distributed to all of their servers yet.
Your page boils down to "I'm great. Someone please give me X, Y, and Z"

Someone amongst the people you know (and the ones they know) has a problem that you can solve with your skillset. Demonstrating a solution (or a compelling plan for a solution) to that person is an excellent way to show how you will add value... and becomes a very compelling argument for hiring you.

Go talk to those people, find out what problems they face, and show how you will help them solve those problems.

Also... "Spoiled"? Presumably you mean that in a dryly amusing way. Unfortunately, it has a fairly strong negative connotation to me. That connotation, coupled with the kind-of begging for a job "It's all about what I want" webpage makes me seriously wonder why I would hire you.

That's just me though, maybe other people would just find it funny.
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This is going to be very useful when the EU instates their internet filter...
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Completely uncalled for.
hah. You're right. Thats why I said I wouldn't mind pushing my resume to anyone really interested.
Funny you should ask!

I think the focus on news pieces as being long form text documents is fundamentally flawed. The paragraph (or proposition or whatever) is probably a more natural atomic unit, and makes a bunch of the problems currently plaguing how we interact with news content/knowledge go away.

The idea i've been thinking about, is why can't we harken back to the days of text-based adventures (really the distilled essence of user interaction), and make news queryable and navigable by users?

You get to know what your users what to know about a topic, and how they explore your content, and you can get that info w/o all the social overhead and shouting matchings.
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Not too mention you say that you are coordinating the HackerNewsDC group. A quick Google search narrows you down to one of three people.
More likely to be Facebook, since Social Circles seems to be directly competing with them, not Microsoft.
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Just get a different job with nicer colleagues/bosses.

I don't think it's the industry. I think your team/bosses are wearing you down.
It's nice, but the porter didn't publish the source code (DOSBox is GPLed) and has adds splattered on every page of his site :-/.

Publishing the source wouldn't have hurt his income and would have prevented some bad advertising.
They would first have to pass laws to force Usenet providers to log their customers' viewing and download history.

Many Usenet providers make a 'will not track' promise to their customers. This is from Giganews' homepage, for example: "We will never sell your information to third parties or track what you download." http://www.giganews.com/
Rather than hoping for people to stumble across you, you should probably look at a Who's hiring? post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503204) and Ctrl+F "remote".
Which is more important for my SMB - Email or Social Media?
On Mac at home, SuperDuper for bootable backup, plus TimeMachine, to a 2TB dual disk external with drives mirrored via RAID.

SuperDuper is great. Having a bootable backup is awesome when things go wrong. The RAID gives me some peace since I can't afford to lose this data. Backing up the backup online somewhere is my next step, I think.
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Some will, some won't. HR types are getting very good at the Google as a way of pre-screening applicants (trust me, my startup is focused on the HR space and I chat with lots of recruiters every day).
Great news! I'll start playing with it right away.

I won't drop Python for my day to day coding, but having Go as an option is good to see what cool toys we can build.
This open letter strike me as a bit naive. Communities, while important, do not decide what gets into or worked on in open source projects; in the end, it's the developers who do.

If you don't like where Ubuntu is headed, and it seems you don't, then it would seem that you have two options: move on or fork it.
Interesting.... I see how it works, any other benefit to this approach?
as most things, this could be attacked with semantic web technologies, specifically SIOC[1] does this.
Alas, 12 years after the RDF standard, the semweb has still not been widely embraced.

[1] http://sioc-project.org/
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You may want to consider adding code samples. If you still wish to remain anonymous(-ish), sanitize the code and link to it on the page; otherwise, link to Git.
Also, you can click the text above the text box after you've entered a sentence, and it will sound out the whole sentence in code.
This really resonates with me. I've found in Michigan at least the best people just aren't willing to take the risk of a startup.

If you can get traction first I believe it will be possible to bring in someone who can really add value because you've just reduced their risk.
I action on the things I've built. Maybe I should have pointed down to the links where "I do love data" etc... Utopiapimp.com, my job, and one of my current hobby projects are big data. I can't really talk about my job that much and my hobby project is in development. The only thing I have to show for "data" is utopiapimp.com.
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Absolutely stunning animation on http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/index.html
The old it isn't illegal because bob and joe do it too defense. The behavior of others don't change the legality of your behavior.
If you're a developer, and that isn't entirely clear, "stuff I have built" is #1 thing to show off.
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I feel that building some research profile would give me the confidence that I can excel in some field that requires significant intellectual work.
From that article:

>The service also privately sends each Gmail user the names of "secondary connections," a listing of the people each direct connection happens to be following publicly on the Web.

So it will show me the friends of my friends? What is this obsession with degrading privacy in this way? Didn't Google learn lessons from the way Buzz exposed your friends to other friends? Why can't email and chat be just that? If I want social networking I will use a social networking site.

If this continues, I will look at making another email service my primary email.
This sounds more like an argument for open source. Ignoring efficiency issues, I'd much rather view a JavaScript framework on GitHub than in a View Source window.
I think they would. They are getting pretty savvy these days...
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> I'm also tired of this meme that women having some weird darwinian developed methods unlike men for processing relationships. While it may be true on some level people are making too much of it. They are ordinary persons

I didn't say that women have a biologically different brain at birth. I don't think they do. It's just that most women, starting from early childhood, are taught that other people are important, and that it is important to be nice to other people. The rest follows, as you said. This is how social skills are developed. And the part were girls compete at being "pretty" is their first lesson in self-promotion. Most boys growing up, on the other hand, often compete in tasks that have little social relevancy for whatever reason (or even are entirely anti-social such as anything that has to do with violence), and as a result do not develop advanced social skills.

I am a guy, and I prefer women with good social skills. I do not want to date some virgin from a strict upbringing who has zero self-confidence, regardless of how "hot" she is (btw, don't you notice how most men who talk about women being "hot" come across as rude?). I imagine the same is true for the preferences of most women.
I do that every month it comes out actually.
Nothing. I live dangerously.
Minification is vital. It has been widely reported that an extra 100ms in latency costs Amazon 1% of their sales. Google found that 500ms of extra latency reduced traffic by 20%. Optimising page load time is one of the cheapest and simplest ways of improving user experience and so your business.

Sacrificing profits and UX for a few hypothetical developers is lunacy. If you really want to share the wealth and let newbie developers read your source, blog about it or submit it to Github - then you can include explanation of your design and make it far easier for them to get the interesting bits.
I live a long, long way from my family. It's impossible to describe how much of a difference Skype with video makes. Similarly, I live in Europe and work for an American company. I can assure you that voice is not the same as voice and video for maintaining relationships with people. For both of those use cases, video makes it orders of magnitude easier to get the feeling of being near someone.
No. Noone is going to buy anything because it is "integrated" with a commodity video product.

They might if it is integrated (no quotes) with the call, chat, filesharing and screenshare client that they, their clients and suppliers use (and understand) if it is integrate in some useful way or maybe if it comes with some other corporate value add (data about who employees call, chat..).

Even though it really isn't marketed that way, skype is a business tool, something people use at the office. It is used by lots of people that use Office, Media Player and IE only.

I assume by the tone of your comment that you either don't think that something everyone knows and have already been using for 5 years is particularly valuable or that you are skeptical about people continuing to buy MS for any reason. Microsoft would disagree with both of these.
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I can't seem to make this work. I'm on Chrome 12 on Win7 and I enabled Native Client in about:flags and restarted... Still see "Missing plug-in." Will try on Linux...
A poignant observation. My coworker and I agree heartily agree :)
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This is why I used the word "claim". The sentence you quoted can be construed to imply that relational databases are relational because of the relationships between tables, but it certainly does not claim that.

I'm not merely nitpicking here, I'm trying to explain that what you perceive as the author's mistake is, in fact, your interpretation. I do, however, completely agree with you in that the text would have been better if the author phrased it in such a way as to deliberately avoid the possibility of that particular interpretation.
People "learning" by copying, coupled with large popularity, are what gave JavaScript, PHP and Perl such bad reputations. There are tutorials for most of the things newcomers might want to do in JavaScript. As such, I wouldn't place much value in people copying my work when deciding if minification is necessary.

I assume we're talking about individual per-site code here, since they can always download non-minified versions of commonly served frameworks easily somewhere else.
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I find it frustrating that the null hypothesis for the outcome of Artificial Intelligence is always The Coming Robot Rebellion. The historical roots of this go back all the way to the play R.U.R., back in a time when Marxism was all the intellectual rage and all exploited workers were supposedly bound to unavoidably rise and overthrow the hated bourgeoisie. Now we know that was wrong with regards to labour relations; but we're still stuck with an all-pervasive, irrefutable prophecy that intelligent machines are bound to hate us and rebel against us.
Maybe you are logged into skype by default and 3rd party apps can access it.
This is pretty standard -- get anti-Google (and Microsoft, and Apple) pitches all the time. About the only thing that isn't standard is the fact that the PR firm won't say who their client is. That pretty much never happens (at least to me). So the fact that they won't say who it is makes it kinda interesting, but it could just be some nutjob somewhere who decided to spend his money on hiring a PR firm.
In some cases minification is absolutely vital.

Yet there are so many neat JavaScript tricks used on throwaway or one-off projects that are minified without reason.
Yeah, I don't think the old loophole of running GPL'ed code on your server would apply here since DOSBox would be downloaded and executed in the browser. He has to release the source.
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Google crawls publicly available data and uses it -- scandal! This is getting old, but it seems like some people still need a reminder: If you submit information about yourself that you know will be publicly viewable, you have no right at all to anger. I think that some people truly still do not understand how the internet works, and think that login page == walled garden privacy.
> The fact that women prefer men who are good at socializing is, ironically, direct Darwinian selection for intelligence.

Wow... you really made my day! That is the BEST statement ever :-)))

My girlfriend is prettier than yours, so I am more intelligent.

Of course, as history shows, often the dumbest animals (cockroaches..) are best at survival...
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New posts don't start on the front page. They start on the "new" page. They don't make the front page unless they get several votes in the first few minutes.

If you're used to some other site where new posts start on the front page and then drop down over time, this might surprise you and make you think your post was removed or pushed down. That is not the case.

Also, I think you owe pg an apology.
Reason number seven million we are not registered in Germany.

Seriously, though, how difficult is it to get a limited liability going in Germany? Moving there next month.
Screenshots for those of us outside the US please!
Same here on 13.0.761.0 (84610). Not sure.
We can't micro-manage it, and there will be tremendous dangers, but there are reasons for both hope and fear. Code, in and of itself is lazy. If I compile a C program with nothing in main(), it will do nothing. So the only goals an AI has initially are what we give it to start, and what it ads to aid in achieving those goals.

Blank slate computer programs, and AI start from an ultimate desireless state of zen. It doesn't want to take over, it has no cares, it doesn't want to eat, and it doesn't care if it continues to exist or not. It doesn't want anything until we, or the system we design to evolve it in, trains it to want something.

Scenarios where we evolve AI or transcribe human brains are both the most dangerous, and most likely to succeed I think.
But the problem with both methods is that we don't directly control the goals of a transcribed AI, and if we evolve one, we would likely end up with an AI that is interested in self preservation. That, to me, is where it might decide that our interests, and its interests, are not aligned, and where we might run into...problems.
This kind of sucks to read ... I read so much/process so much information nowadays (blogs/programming books/facebook/twitter/pictures and videos from places I've been etc etc) that I've actually changed the way I remember information nowadays to this more 'over general model' ...

I did this because I was initially spending so much time trying to remember specifics about things I read or saw that I wasn't able to get through it all effectively. Now if a topic comes up, I might not be able to give solid details about it, but between FeedDemon starred items, twitter faves and delicious I can get back up to speed about the thing I was trying to remember (delicio.us is a godsend) ... and though I've only addressed data/information ... it has become the default way I remember things now (life experiences etc)

It just seems to be a more efficient way to process information, but to find that it could aid depression is a bit of a downer ... but I guess I'll just have to work on changing the way I think about life experiences and take time to smell the roses more.
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It bothers me when this happens... I end giving up to find proxies or other ways to reach the site.
Could you get more done by leaving work early?
Why not put a more easily-readable resume? This is a site I made (free) so you can create it here and leave it as it is (while sending it out to companies you want to join), without fear of retribution from your current employer since you can always say that you are just storing/maintaining your resume online. Also shameless plug.

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Flexible time.
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When you're not relying on 200k of external libraries minification is a lot less significant.

When you enable GZIP it's even less so.
If you want to share your code with others, open source it. There's no need to not-minify it so they can see it.

I don't see this an an anti-minification argument at all. Instead, it's an argument for open source in disguise.
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I just wish that scientific publications came in Python code instead/besides of "in formula (a) the variables ... represent ..." . Just get me the code and I will just plug into the general framework for that (robotics, chemistry, politics, finance) and see if it works as stated in the article.

And ! code cannot be misinterpreted, either it runs or it does not.

So dear mathematicians please do the evolution and cast your ideas as python code.
When I was a child, I always found math easy. Fractions, calculus, formulas—they were always visual. Fractions were pizzas; equations were deformations of the plane; integration was tracing out a shape using a slope.

So I'm sympathetic to the author's desire for better visualization and teaching tools.

But when I reached college, I became frustrated with math. It just wasn't easy anymore, the way programming was: I could pick up a programming book, read it in a weekend, and understand it. But when I tried to read an advanced math text, I became lost after 10 pages.

Eventually, I figured out what had happened: The information density of college-level math texts is insane. Even if you're bright and talented, it may take you a day to understand a single page. And there's no substitute for working carefully, finding concrete examples, and slowly building a deep understanding.

Here's an example that involves programming. Once upon a time, I needed to understand monads, in hope of finding a better way to represent Bayesian probabilities.

I started with the monad laws, a handful of equations relating unit, map, and join. I read countless monad tutorials, and dozens of papers. I read every silly example of how monads are like containers, space suits, C++ templates, and who knows what else.

I wrote little libraries. I learned category theory. I wrote a monad tutorial. I eventually wrote a paper explaining a whole family of probability monads:

http://www.randomhacks.net/darcs/probability-monads/probabil...

And then one day, I thought about the monad laws again. I realized, "Hey, that's it. That's all. Just unit, map, join, and a handful of equations. Anything which quacks like a monad, is a monad. How did I ever think this was complicated?"

But when I look at the monad laws today, there's this huge structure of connections in my head. All that work, just to grasp something so simple, and so easy.

So I'm all for building better visualizations, and for helping people to understand math intuitively. That's an important step along the path. But math doesn't stop at an intuitive understanding. When you really understand it, the equations will suddenly be easy, and everything will fit together.

And then you'll encounter the miracle of math: Your deep understanding will become the raw material for the next level. Counting prepares you for addition, addition prepares you for multiplication, basic arithmetic for algebra, algebra for calculus, and so on. And someday, I hope that my rudimentary understanding of category theory will prepare me to understand why adjoint functors are interesting.
No, it is not about rebellion, it is about resource competition. And no, it is not Marxism, it is Darwinism. If we could ever give birth to the machine intelligence, and if AI can reach the same level as human, the resource competition can be ruthless. It is exactly because we have so much in common and there is no reason for co-existence.
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Ask HN: Searching for a technical co-founder
Who we’re looking for:

An extremely talented, self-starting engineer. A true technical co-founder who will challenge,
influence, and ultimately drive technical product development; someone who wants to join for
the long-haul and be a core piece of building this company.

What the business does:

Our product is an innovative way to collect and share media captured at live events. If you are
a fan of concerts, sporting events, or generally attending live events then this would be for you.

Currently, sharing media from live events is limited to the people you “know” through social
networks (Facebook, Twitter). This media is scattered in lots of different places, making it
impossible to aggregate and difficult to search. We’re going to fix that by giving users a way to
digest content centered on the experience itself, not just the people sharing it.

Note: We are not sharing full details of our plan in this post, but we have detailed mock-ups to
share with the right candidate in a one-on-one conversation.

What we’d ideally like you to be able to do:

We are flexible on language and frameworks - one of the key roles will be to determine the
technical architecture that best suits the current and future needs of the business.

With that said, here is what we think we might need that isn’t language and framework related:
● Experience with cloud hosting infrastructure (Amazon Web Services, Rackspace etc.)
● Strong enough front-end capabilities to build web prototype
● Comfort with developing in iOS & Android platforms
● Comfort managing the growth of an engineering team in the long-term

Most importantly, the technical co-founder should
be a broad generalist who can work on all
areas of the stack (front-end, back-end, monitoring, deployment), building and managing a team over time.

A final thought...
We take recruiting and hiring a technical co-founder extremely seriously. We realize
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We want you to be the leader of this team, and we are willing to do what it takes to create an
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Don't know that I've ever seen a resume that covered everything from hardware engineering all the way up to some of the most highly regarded user interface designs. He has certainly covered the entire gamut of "things you can do with a computer."

Which makes him the perfect Apple employee, as they cover the space from hardware engineering through user experience better than anyone.
I already requested an invite, but here is what the 'Thank you' page looks like: http://jhn.me/6ckz
Looks like it's currently just a beta signup page (at least that was all I got).
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Any advantage (performance? memory use?) for using Go vs. Python? Or is just programming language preference?