skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's already mentioned in the answer under "misc tech". I couldn't find a lot of info on how Doozer is actually used at Heroku though.
Would this Facebook Smear Campaign Have Occurred If An "Adult" Were In Charge?
Has Zuck's power gotten to his head where he thinks he can get away with anything? Is his influence completely unchecked? Sandberg definitely deserves some blame for allowing this smear campaign to occur, but at the end of the day, the CEO is accountable and Zuck clearly gave the go-ahead on this distasteful move.
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"Compared with the rest of corporate America, Silicon Valley feels like a boomtown. Valuations are once again soaring. In our leader, we point out the differences from the last tech bubble, but we still think that irrational exuberance has returned to the internet world."
If if Ikea sold me a desk and used torx screws (and didn't provide a driver), I'd jump up and and down in delight, because it meant that they didn't use 4.5mm allen heads that are really damn soft, have no leverage, and still manage to strip out 3/4 the way through the project.
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It's a low return high risk move. Low return because Social Circles is not a major player or a significant threat. Large risk because it's very likely you will be outted and it's a very large, public failure.

Why would anyone want to do this?
It sounds good until you explore the details. At the end of the day, someone pays the bills, and whomever controls the checkbook tends to set the agenda. There is no such thing as independence.

Flashback to 1985. The Soviet puppet government was committing all sorts of atrocities against people in Afghanistan. Clearly the moral imperative was to stand up for the "freedom fighters", right?
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Microsoft would probably worth more than currently however.
Unfortunately, I don't think it's a question of disliking the regime, but people having the power/food/resources to fight back.
"Zero bugs" and "zero known bugs" are two different matters entirely :)
Yes but a tablet is a little bit more mobile. Also it can read QR codes/bar codes/NFC tags etc which the chromebook could do but not yet. More functionality can be built in to tablets even for inventory management and other use cases.
Google and Skyhook both do the same thing: their code can locate a device via what wifi access points it can see. This requires significantly less battery than GPS and it also is much more accurate in buildings and urban areas (where GPS doesn't work well).
Personally, I disagree that Facebook did anything wrong here. As they've stated, there were simply publicizing widely available, factual information.

Politicians run negative attack ads all the time. Why shouldn't tech firms?
I'm on AT&T as well and I can confirm it's not loading...
Slickscript? Slikscript? Slipskript?
I disagree. The following all mean the same thing (off the top of my head):

obj.( (a, b) => a + "." + b)
obj.(_ + "." + _)
obj { (a,b) => a + "." + b }

Seems to me that's syntactic sugar. The flexibility of Scala is the source of my love/hate relationship with the language. That being said, it's still my favorite thing to code in when I get the opportunity...
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I think the war against a former employer is an interesting position to be in but anybody who actually believes in the "Dont Be Evil" slogan anymore is a fool, even if they work at Google.

It's not that they are evil, but I don't think they are particularly different from any of the other decent corporations out there. When it comes to war (and, yes, this is war), companies will go to extreme lengths to win. This means also using questionable tactics. And I'm talking about Google, Facebook and any other huge player that has lots to lose in a war.

These Xooglers who moved over, surely must have known that they were switching from one team to another. The majority of these people, in the end, probably moved over because of the money/IPO/stock. So I imagine they expect their employer to bring guns to a knife fight.
Given the timing on this, I can't see it as anything but an attempt to distract from the fiasco currently going on with Facebook hiring a PR firm to smear Google.

I highly doubt that. The two groups responsible for each probably aren't aware of what the other party is working on. I don't see Facebook launching a feature if it isn't ready, nor do I see them holding a feature back that is ready.
No - it's just a ridiculous statement. A governments action does not reflect the opinion of the occupants of that country. Neither does it reflect that of an independent organization even if it is based in a country who has a different stance that may been seen as hypocritical.

Does your government and leadership reflect everything you stand for?
No, but a better input device than a touchscreen can certainly make creating easier.

When I'm creating text content, a keyboard is a fast and efficient means of data entry.

When I'm creating images or doing graphic design work, I want precision of control. A touchscreen isn't fine enough.

When I'm creating music, there are a range of input options but I'd still take some persuading that a touchscreen is quite there.
Agree. I remember hearing that the general population of WWII Germany was unaware of the atrocities that happened in Nazi concentration camps. Given also the recent events in countries you mentioned, I think that making regular people in North Korea know what's going on in their country could be very, very important.
If Microsoft does spend a billion on a time machine, my advice would be to buy Apple's 2006 stock and hold it in trust. I have zero confidence that Microsoft in 2006 or in 2011 could buy a disruptive company and not destroy it.

Which is, I think, the arch point of Gruber's quip. If Microsoft had bought Apple in 2006, does anyone seriously think Microsoft today would have a dominant position in phones, music players, music distribution, and tablets? Would it have a world-class retail chain?

Moving forward to 2011, people point out that B$8.5 could buy a lot of startups. Assuming that they could identify it, Microsoft probably could buy the next Apple or Google. Heck, they could probably buy it just by trying to buy everything. But does anybody seriously think that if Microsoft does buy the next big disruptive company, it would still be the next big disruptive company?
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Recommendations in exchange for implied (or actual) discounts is a shady moral area. Or if I've read it backward, and discounts are being given by businesses that I've already recommended, there's not much stopping me in theory of falsely recommending businesses to game for discounts, and it'd be limited only by your ability to secure those discounts from said businesses.
That kind of post can only attract a small number of developers, and developers are not my target users. The only thing I can get from it is SEO juice, but I have better ways of getting that.
> is the freedom promised in 1984 being revoked?

This is incredibly ironic, given how expandable the original Macintosh was, as well as Steve Jobs' aversion to hardware expansion in the early days of the Mac: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
I dunno, after seeing the FCC commissioner get hired by Comcast, it may very well be Dante's hell.
The article (and idea) intrigued me enough that I checked lanyrd.com out... but the visual design was far too cluttered. The thumbnails threw me off. Hope it improves...
Knuth discusses work, answers questions tonight at Stanford (webcast too)
As far as I can tell, anyone can go.
I would argue that an element of lobbying is in fact the practice of "smearing" or otherwise clouding the perception of a competitor or opposing viewpoint.

I think your classification of Zuckerberg as having low ethical standards is quite a laughable assumption. Do you know him personally or did you just watch the movie?
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Yeah, but how much would you have to spend to get 500 million users, many of which you already have credit card information for? Not saying this acquisition was necessarily worth the cost at all- but it wasn't just about the technology.
On Functional Complexity
Because it's sleazy.
Vice Guide has a great documentary available streaming on Netflix. It was so depressing/surreal/horrifying all at once.
That's an abuse of notation. Quicksort is expected O(N log N), where the expectation is usually over a uniform distribution of all permutations.

The actual notation for proportional asymptotic dominance of expectation is too convoluted for use, so people just don't use one. But to even leave out the word "expected" is just plain wrong.
Faster startup sounds nifty :-).

How's performance while the JIT is not yet warmed up, compared to CPython?
"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" [1]

Having said that, I do agree with you. imgur memes appearing on HN are worrisome.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I see no advocacy for a war with North Korea in the linked article. China will not go to war with North Korea, China supports North Korea and North Korea is to a certain extent dependent on China. This article wishes that China would use this dependency for good, no more, no less.
Yes, exactly. And that's what the fight is over. Google doesn't want to get cut out from having android phones send them the wifi points they see as Google needs that data to build their database.

Apple used to use Skyhook and more recently has created their own by having iPhones send them data. The recent privacy blow up over the iPhone's keeping a location log wasn't actually the user's location, but a cache of their version of the skyhook database.
If I was a black male in the United States, I would have a 1 in 10 chance of being in prison at this moment. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...)

Amnesty International estimates there's around 200,000 "political prisoners" in North Korea, out of a population of 25 million.

I think I'd rather be in North Korea.
"Don't try and compete on price." This is very good advice.

We've been using Odesk for about 5 years now for overflow and large projects. From the buyer side of things, communication is key. If you can communicate well and promptly it will go a long way towards instilling confidence in the buyer.

For buyers just going to Odesk for the first time, expect to be bitten in the ass a few times. All of the knowledge in the world isn't going to save you from having a developer half a world away bail on you for no reason.

Look for freelancers that are a part of a group, as a whole they are more responsible than single freelancers.
Computer science grads entertain juicy offers as tech hiring heats up
It's a seriously exciting time to be a developer. Or to be alive in general, really.

Growing up in the shadow of our failure to colonize space, it was easy to imagine that history had basically stalled and there wasn't much left to hope for except an uneventful decline. Added to that, all our interesting problems were too big for an individual to hope to solve.

Instead, the ability for individuals to meaningfully innovate has jumped to levels that haven't been seen since the industrial revolution, or the renaissance. I always envied the 19th Century inventors who created bleeding edge tech without requiring teams of a thousand engineers. I don't think I need to be envious anymore. The coming decades will be just as important.
North Korea does have large mineral resources, but China already has the upper hand in exploiting the political situation to gain access to them:

“There are growing concerns that North Korea could be selling the development rights of mineral resources to China at a very cheap price as the relationships between the two Koreas worsen and North Korea has no other market to turn to,” said Yoon Hong-gi, an official with Korea Resources Corp.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2931111
Not just racial discrimination, but also discrimination based on one's manner of speaking, confidence, or charisma. Some people don't have English as a first language, undersell their abilities, or aren't comfortable on camera; does that mean they should not get a gig for which they are otherwise qualified? These are exactly the qualities that a video judges.
the mobile thing is questionable, either way you are carrying around a 10" device. If its the 1 lb that makes a difference to you .. so be it. I don't own a stand for my tablet, so it becomes awkward for example eating and trying to use the tablet at the same time, where as the screen on my chrome is already upright, but yeah with a stand this fixes this problem. You need to buy the right product for your needs. I would never carry around my tablet for scanning.. when I have a mobile phone, but if you don't have an Android or iPhone I would suggest that over a tablet.
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I don't understand the motivation for this at all. Please explain.
Actually you'll notice that I haven't ever said HN is turning into Reddit, and when somebody else said that on a thread earlier today I was the one replying against that opinion.

I was merely expressing that this one single comment which links to a terrible image doesn't belong on HN.

(And not that it matters but I've been on HN longer than my account has.)
Startups that are hiring for Scala?
There were some responses here, including ours, so I figured I should ask: which startups are hiring for Scala? (both as a measure of Scala uptake as to help people find jobs) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2540594
Its fun to read these sorts of things, back in the day when I was at Sun and Sun had taken a billion dollars of VAX business away from DEC there was a similar article about what DEC could have bought with that missing billion dollars in revenue.

A hallmark of a successful business is that it generates enough cash that you can step into adjacent markets. The down side is the risk to your focus if the adjacent market it too off axis.
I'm a fan of sparklines and of, as the post states, innovating within the rules of a form of communication. The biggest problem with this is the low resolution, as most sparklines you'll find are generally (though not exclusively) line graphs with a point at their max and min, but this definitely is a step in cool direction.
I've similarly joked that for the 3 trillion we're spending on Iraq and Afghanistan we could've just flown planes overhead that dropped porn, pop music, fast food, junk food, Xbox/PS3s, iPods/iPads etc. It would've been much cheaper, more effective, and worked much faster.

Who's going to want to be a martyr when you're Tivo'ing something at home microwaving a Hot-Pocket?
Having even a faint cloud of uncertainty hovering over a competitor (direct or not) is an advantage even if you don't have a specific product to promote in place. Think of this as more of a psychological war to win the hearts/minds of the consumer marketplace.
The DoJ under Bush was extremely lax in its enforcement of antitrust rules. EU, on the other hand...
I'm not asserting that the US has a superior human rights record or that we don't engage in policy that could be seen as 'evil'. The argument being made here seems to be that we lack the moral high ground to criticize the NK regime. I've heard a similar argument used to counter the US criticisms of China's human rights record, and while I think it could be relevant in that case, we're talking about mass death camps here. This is a completely different animal. We don't need to be perfect citizens to condemn abhorrant policy like this.
And from that thread: http://blog.getgush.com and https://foursquare.com/jobs/ and http://www.connexity.com/jobs-software-engineer.php, to start.
With the amount of thought-policing that goes on in that country, I can't imagine even beginning to explain to those people their true nature and the nature of pretty much every other human on earth.
Consider the words "Legal" and "Ethical." Are they synonyms? Or are there some things that are legal but not ethical and other things that are ethical but not legal?
Pay each user who signs up and uses your service $10. You'd still have $3.5 billion in change.
Does halfway around the world mean Nigeria? :)
Four bars? The disconnect between bars and cell signal
If you're interested in Theresienstadt (the concentration camp) there's a great documentary called Prisoner of Paradise. It tells the story a Jewish filmmaker forced to make a propaganda film about the camp.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_Paradise
tl;dr

The article argues that MacRuby is the future of Mac & iOS software development.
the right way would be to stop trade with china since they are the ones holding up that regime. Of course that won't happen.
We do business with China and visit them regularly, even though we know that much of what makes their manufacturing industry so competitive is the use of slave prison labor

Though the conditions of labor in China seem shocking to comfortable Americans, they are not, in general, "slave prison labor".
Your opinion. There are quite a few artists who would disagree with you about the images part.

But it still doesn’t matter. Looking at the whole picture, tablets make creating easier. That’s it. To suggest otherwise seems crazy to me.
I'm 100% delighted that Google chose to standardize on the Arduino platform, but I fear it means we'll now be stuck with the infuriating 0.160" header spacing between shield pins forever.

Background: http://brettbeauregard.com/blog/2009/07/arduino-offset-heade...

Here's the explanation of how the bad spacing happened from Massimo Banzi: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1212632541 (scroll down 10-15 posts)

"We had 5 minutes before the deadline to go into production, the PCB guy was on the phone saying 'send it now or it goes to next week' and we didn't have a name yet... they I said let's call it Arduino like a bar we used to go...there wasn't much time to think."
read it backwards, but that's my fault. i clarified it for future readers. thanks for the feedback
It would have to be more densely populated than the center of Hong Kong.

This town/prison/concentration camp/detention center (or two valleys) would be lucky to have 10,000 people.

We better not let the facts get in the way of chance to bash North Korea.
How about just dropping food?
Right, any human-governed force will be corruptible. Now combine this with another fantasy: A benign Skynet-like central authority for such a force, its prime directive being the maximization of welfare for humans (a utilitarian approach, that has its flaws). Or the authority can be made totally decentralized, i.e. "all people on the world with cellphones vote: should we attack North Korea"?

One problem with this would be the "saving fish from drowning" syndrome, e.g. intervening certain acts where the "victims" are all too willing. An example is France's draconian recent law (which I totally back) against burqas: evidently these women are doing this willingly (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/10/france-burqa-law...), so how can our force intervene?

The more you think about it, the more you realize that, although the current situation is unacceptable and despicable, there are no clear alternatives to it. This is indeed a sad thought.
Aren't there controls in place to prevent companies from buying up each others' competitors' stock?
Tim's email address is timbl@w3.org. Is this faked?
I'm sure they didn't stop other development and allocate all their resources to the smear campaign. They just happened to be going on at the same time.
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That’s very nice! And a little rearrangement will bring it from three to two “big multiplications”, making it faster than my routine:

def fib_ring2(n):
assert n >= 0
a, b = 2, 0 # invariant: phi^n = (a + b*sqrt(5)) / 2
for bit in bits(n):
ab = a*b
a, b = (a+b)*((a+5*b)//2) - 3*ab, ab
if bit: a, b = (a + 5*b)//2, (a+b)//2
return b
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Because it's extra sleazy considering facebook's behaviour since its inception.
ZS is defined by select.

I don't believe Prolog will become any more popular than it is. The Japanese had some sort of a government project a few years ago, but I think that fell through. Now we have Erlang, Haskell and Java libraries that replicate most functionality, and then some.
They're being murdered because of our own un-pragramatic religious and ideological interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. I agree with the right to bear arms, but there should a limit. A hand-gun with a limited magazine seems reasonable, an assault rifle with armor piercing bullets and an extended magazine doesn't.

In 2005 when the assualt weapons ban was lifted the cartels were able to get their hands on a cheaper and better source of weapons. The balance of power shifted more to the cartels as they were able to get better weapons. We should be helping Mexico because the cartels are beginning to look like an insurgency.

Edit: If you're downvoting me can you at least try to explain why it's not our fault that our weapons sold in the US are being used to murder civilians and contribute to a narco-state? Felipe Calderon even said this as recently as yesterday on Bloomberg.
I did not think that from the title, but after what you've written, I can't help but picture the antimatter as illegal immigrants. I can see the typical reactionary newspaper story now:
'"They took our joules!" One ground-based electron was quoted as saying.'
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I understood the GP in a different way, complaining about the discrimination of people with 'less capable' social skills.

Presenting yourself in a video might be a challenge:

* You are an introvert/shy guy

* Your written english is fine, but your accent sucks/you are not that fluent

Both (especially the first though) are really no big problems in a business relationship, especially for these kinds of projects. I'd even argue that number one is the stereotype of a potentially great hacker. So - letting guys like these compete in a video contest with people that are more self-confident/marketing savvy is 'discriminating' .
Agree. The arduino processor is also pretty weak given the price/performance ratio. I'm in favor of seeing them work with say an arm-5 or arm-7 device.
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>Politicians run negative attack ads all the time. Why shouldn't tech firms?

Politicians run negative attack ads because they work, but unfortunately by manipulating the uncritical public's fears, prejudices, and ignorance.

Id like to think most of us in the tech industry aspire to exactly the opposite - succeeding and winning by hard work, merit, and perhaps luck, and whatever other positive forces of which humanity is capable.
There are certain anti-monopolistic laws in place. You might need to put a hundred million aside for lawyers and lobbying to get your deal past the regulators.

But given patience and money and a willing seller, I'm sure Microsoft could buy anyone and find a way to get the deal approved. We are talking about a world where Adobe can buy anyone it likes just to kill off their competition.