skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is nonsense. The logic seems to go roughly like this:

Google+ needs your real name. What needs your real name? Your bank! Google+ is going to be your bank!

By the same logic, Google+ is also going to be Customs, Immigration, your employer, the IRS, your government, and your mother.

(Of course, Google+ doesn't really need your real name. It needs a name that appears real.)
In so far as this sub thread has been polite and respectful (70% of it), it's an enjoyable digression.

I see nothing wrong with the occasional gold thread in a red tapestry.
Yep, the hope is that our firm does not have to spend lots of time spinning their wheels getting up to speed on this just to give us some basic advice, but I fear they will need that.

If there was a firm specifically geared to dealing with IP patent trolling that would be ideal.
"Unsolicited redesign" blog posts are just linkbait posts that ignore the most important part of redesigning a major website: user testing.

These unsolicited redesign posts just feed the author's ego and redesign a website with one user in mind: the author.
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Given the current debt ceiling situation, I think it's more likely this breakdown is being presented as an answer to the question "who suffers if we default?" rather than "how reliant are we on external influences?"
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" Honestly, when you hear the phrase 'the world’s best developers,' you see a guy. "

Thats the key right there - women are comfortable competing, they just have a hard time picturing themselves as the alpha geek hacker that this competitive language brings to mind for many people. At least thats how I interpreted it.

Also there are studies that women tend to underestimate their skills while men tend to overestimate them which might also be relevant, see Sheryl Sandberg's commencement address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdvXCKFNqTY
There has been some excellent feedback on this topic already. I just want to point out a distinction that has been glossed over - OSX laptop users have a very different scrolling experience than Windows users (laptops or desktop). The two finger scroll method is very pleasant, and highly accurate. I don't ever have to re-find content while scrolling, because of how tactile and accurate the feedback is.

As interfaces get better, I believe the vertical scroll method will be preferred, because it allows the user to quickly skim, jump ahead, or reference previous content, within the same context.

To be fair, I had forgotten how different scrolling is with a traditional mouse. This design trade off (arrow keys and next buttons) is probably excellent for windows and traditional mouse users.
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I couldn't agree more. If we had that I might have stayed - or gotten a hell of a lot more done.
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Sounds like a pro-piracy business model, too (music, Photoshop, etc.).
Where's the calculation? Also this is this would be trivial.

Besides, when human dies he's no longer old. He's dead. His corps might be oldest corpse but he's no longer oldest human.
Private presentations and consulting work don't show up on bittorrent as quickly as downloadable PDFs.
That all depends where you are sitting. The Chinese certainly don't consider them a separate country.
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Many lawyers offer free consultations. You may want to talk to a patent lawyer and find out what your options are. Discussing it with them might help you better understand what the different options might cost.
I don't necessarily disagree with the points the author raises but to paraphrase JFK "ask not what your people can do for you, ask what you can do for your people".

I've been in team leading positions before and my approach is this:

1. Lead by example. You should be working at least as hard as anyone else who's reporting to you. Never make a fuss about it. Never complain about it. Just do it;

2. Shield your people from crap. Part of your job when you're in a leadership position is to shield them from crap. And by crap I mean things like management BS, customer requirements and so forth. Let them get on with getting the job done. Your job, at least in part, is to deal with these (typically overblown if not outright imagined) exigencies that customers tend to have. Likewise, your people should spend very little time in meetings, particularly with people outside your team;

3. Appreciate that every developer is different. We all like to work in different ways. Some of us are good at (and like) sailing through uncharted waters. Some like a far more structured environment. It's your job to cater to that to get the most of your people; and

4. Make sure each person knows how what they do fits into the big picture. This can be as simple as "you're writing this component so when the reporting falls over, which happens because of X, Y or Z, the system recovers". People work better, in my experience, when they have a level of understanding about where their piece of the puzzle goes and why it's important. Again, different people want/need different levels of detail here.

Too often management also thinks that team leadership just happens. In my experience, depending on the project and the size of the team, it can take as much as 25-50% of your time. Too often you're still expected to produce work as if you were spending 100% of your time programming however.
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Here you go: It seems like sometimes the family computer is bought mainly for the boy to use and then he’s kind of forced to share it with his sister.

That pretty much explains it, doesn't it? Girls are discouraged from using computers because they learn from a young age that computers are the "domain" (property / territory) of boys.
I don't follow how these don't always end up being distributed queries since the index key doesn't include the partition key. Where is the locality coming from in the index scanning and value retrieval?

If the key is individual armor type, there could (and usually will) be values in any price range at every partition.

Is the index partitioned separately on its own key? Is a copy of the value stored in the index or is it then retrieved separately from the index scan?
Nevertheless, it is economically and administratively distinct. Debt controlled by Hong Kong is controlled by a substantially different set of people than debt controlled by China proper.
Apple is not like Google or Goldman Sachs. They do not ask for your GPA or care where you went to school.

By that definition, Google is not like Google.
Awesome feature, but why these terrible URLs?

# Query for category_bin = "armor"
curl http://127.0.0.1:8098/buckets/loot/index/category_bin/eq/armor
{"keys":["gauntlet24"]}

# Query for price_int between 300 and 500
curl http://127.0.0.1:8098/buckets/loot/index/price_int/range/300/500
{"keys":["gauntlet24"]}

Why not use URI query parameters for the query parameters?

/buckets/loot/index?category_bin=armor
/buckets/loot/index?price_int=[300..500]
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What is interesting to me is how much those two countries are themselves in debt. Everyone knows about Japan but China has quite a mess to deal with too: http://tinyurl.com/3upnavb
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Has Google stopped asking for GPAs?
I'm pretty sure Schwartz was aware of the fact that Google hadn't licence JavaME from them...
I haven't tried, but I would expect doing the linear search in the reverse direction will be faster than binary search. It, on average, inspects just two values; binary search does about five.
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While there seems to be a lot of disagreement with the letter of these rules, there's an important and salvageable takeaway from the spirit of them. And that's clarity.

Always strive for clarity. Take the guesswork out of the equation for your direct reports. Set clear expectations for them and for yourself. Help them map out what success looks like, and what reasonable timelines to get there look like. Then let them perform. And be on hand to address questions and concerns as they arise. Be ready to support them when they need it.

From them, expect communication with each other and with you. There's a reasonably high probability that neither you, nor they, are mind readers. So don't operate as though you are. (And if you do have a telepath on your team, report them to the government for further study).
"Also there are studies that women tend to underestimate their skills while men tend to overestimate them which might also be relevant."

In general, men have far more pressure to be confident than women do.
Talk to an attorney, and one who does nothing but patent law. If you go through your regular business lawyer that's what they will do anyway.
The article does not do a good job bridging that concept. Even with this statement, I'm still scratching my head with what you're saying.

Google doesn't want to be a bank. Google+ is not a PayPal competitor. Google doesn't want to make loans.

>Google-Plus is their integrated communication system. Over time, it's going to be at the core of everything they do, from auctions, to paying for things with Android phones, to their groupon and yelp clones.

I disagree with this, but even if we allow this statement, but how does that make it bank like?

A Google Account could be a unified online identity. Google Checkout could be a common monetary exchange system (though they've pushed away from that). Google+ could replace email, but I don't think it will.
This is awesome! Finally something online that gives me an experience which is close to reading an actual physical paper. Except this is a little more convenient because everything is on one page, no awkward folding or anything.

I have been waiting for this a long time, how come periodicals haven't done this before? (Or have they?)
You have caused me to resolve to buy more RAM. Thanks.
Looks great. I just signed up to test it out.
Cool! Lemme know if/when you do so's I can see.
ADD: No, I just never think about it.

I usually hit the site, and there are 4 or 5 stories that interest me. I check them out, comment, and then by that time my mind has moved on to something else.

Too bad I can't display HN in 2 columns, top stories on the left, New on the right.
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Maybe I was too lax in my description.

This is a math task. Given whatever you need (size of human population, probability of death at any age and similar statistical data) and assuming whatever you need (population distribution is such that it does not change over time or sth. like that) calculate average time between deaths of oldest individual in the world.

In other words instead of:

<google_search> therefore oldest man dies every 6 years.

I want:

<given_this_data_and_assumptions> -> <calculation_and_reasoning> -> oldest man dies every 6 years.
Basically just posted about them on Facebook. Two of them also have links on the Wikipedia article for that game. And they all link to each other.

The biggest referer is Facebook, with Google coming in second. Ive also created all of them as Chrome Apps in the Chrome Web Store so people can "install" them there. (basically just a big bookmark on your New Tab page in Chrome)
But realistically speaking, Taiwan has it's own government, China has no say, and other governments of the world interact with Taiwan as a peer.
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Nope, I'm trying to get anyone interesting from all sorts of fields. These are all the people who've said yes, for one thing. :)
Yet some of the most successful consultants have written books on the subject of their expertise.

Somehow I don't think a book would discourage consulting clients. They want him looking at their situation and data with the benefit of everything he's learned since writing the book.

If it gives him a higher profile it might actually result in more consulting gigs.
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"Eric Schmidt suggested that young people should be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating detail on social networking sites such as Facebook."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7951269/Young-w...
This is awesome, just signed up.
Taiwan makes the same claim on China. No one takes them seriously either (not since the Nixon administration anyway.)

It's the same with the Koreas.
Here is my take on the situation:

Access Copyright receives a fee from large institutions (educational, government) in order to provide licensing rights to protected content and ensure copyright holders are compensated.

Late last year, institutions started to receive word of a substantial increase in the Access Copyright fees for the upcoming year. Access Copyright claims that they are about to make a lot more material available to these institutions, so the cost is justified.

In response, the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada (AUCC) issued a fair dealing policy of their own (http://copyright.info.yorku.ca/fair-dealing-guidelines/) that membership institutions could choose to adopt that allows them to manage their own copyright processes no longer requiring the Access Copyright license and associated fees.

Access Copyright disagrees (http://www.accesscopyright.ca/educators/fair-dealing-in-the-...) and claims that institutions will not be fully covered by the AUCC policy.

More: http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2010/12/auccs-final-fair...
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Hooray, you get it!
I'm sure they earn money through the iTunes affiliate program.
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You are right. Apple is more like Oracle and Microsoft: they look for a talent and they will happily ignore GPA or lack of degree.

However, that does not mean it is easier to get job at Apple than Google. Not at all.
The uploader is the one doing the copyright infringement. I've never heard of anyone being prosecuted for downloading.
Feel free to suggest people, btw.
a) is ridiculous - if you want to reproduce, reproduce. Nobody's stopping you. Obviously ethnic Europeans have found other priorities.

Only idiots think other people should reproduce so they themselves won't feel so lonely.
Thanks Dan!

We built this because I needed it for my own apps and figured we might as well build it in such a way that other people could use it too.

We made at least 80% of it as part of a 2-man, 5-hour HACKBLITZ. Checkout the game plan: http://i.imgur.com/uYgoO.jpg

It was fun! Hopefully somebody will get some use out of it.
Actually if you use software out there that takes the name you use on the credit card to buy the book and puts it on every single page of the PDF it has been proven to be a pretty good deterrent for the bit torrent problem.
As damontal said, take a nasal steroid, they're awesome. The other thing that helped me was taking Nasalcrom, which acts like an antihistamine, but you can take it long term, and has a localised effect.

What you probably have is an issue with your carpet, or some other allergen in your home, perhaps mould. I recently moved and noticed in the bedrooms at night I would get very congested which would affect my sleep. Taking the nasal steroid and the cromolyn gave me instant relief. I had the carpets thoroughly cleaned and bought a HEPA vacuum cleaner, and now no longer have to take the medication.

You could also have a dust or dust mite allergy. Using a latex mattress cover can help there.
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I think you missed the point. The article is highlighting the increasing inevitability that OS X will become a closed system where you will only be able to install apps and add ons through the Mac App Store.
Ouch, that hurts to read quite apart from the offensive stereotype. Barring the pervasive use of shorthand, I don't think someone writing by hand has any hope of keeping up with even a moderately skilled typist, even when writing English rather than code.
I went Quicksilver -> Launchbar(paid)->Alfred.
All of the loops could be written recursively, but that'd be rather atypical for solving this problem in C.
Congratulations to the Rails team! My team is building in Rails 3.1 and our tests are showing good results. The new asset pipeline is great and HTTP streaming makes for a much smoother user experience.
Firefox didn't pick up the proper encoding for the pages; it looks to be closer to MacRoman than anything else (View -> Character Encoding -> More Encodings -> West European -> Western (MacRoman)), but that's still leaving bizarre symbols in some places.
Day #1 of my startup: Making sales calls.
My startup currently does not have a blog (nor does it have a finished website), so I decided to post this here as a way to assist others in breaking the ice on day #1.

After worrying for about 2 weeks about how to get sales, I decided to jump right on it, and start cold calling / faxing / prospects.

Now, my startup is nothing new or even exciting: I sell low-cost, ready-to-use websites for small business.

You might say "Wait, that's not a startup!"

Well, after I get around 5 or 6 paying customers, I will launch an online business directory that will feature some useful apps for the local market.
The apps are not yet coded completely, but (I guess) that qualifies it as a "startup" startup.

Anyway, I woke up early, went over my sales script, went over my marketing materials, and sat in front of the computer for about 2 hours.

I was terrified. The idea of picking up the phone and calling a total stranger (to sell them something!) was absolutely terrifying.

So I postponed and lost a lot of time while thinking of ways to get me to make the calls.

Life, eh? We dream of getting things, and accomplishing goals, but when the time comes, we get scared.

What is it about fear that makes up want to drop our dreams? Is fear more important than our goals?

Nope.

For me, it is not.

I finally sat down, picked up the phone, and called my first prospect.

To my surprise, they did not hate me. Hell, they treated me very well!

Not only did I realize that the enemy within was harming me more than anything else, but that sales require a lot of organization.

I did 4 more calls (a record for me), and decided to stop. I stopped to organize my sales related stuff. Without an organized system (term used loosely), you really can't call fast enough.

Here is what I learned on day #1:

1. Your fears will try to stop you from achieving your goals. Don't let it stop you. You are way more powerful than fear.

2. People are open to hearing your ideas, if you treat them properly.

3. Sales is more about the salesman, and less about the customer.

4. Being organized is a must. Prepare a prospects list before picking on the phone.

5. The fax is still a worthy tool of communication.

6. Realize that a startup is about building something. This will require you to roll up your sleeves and get "dirty".

7. There is no time like the present to get things done.

8. After all, you will realize that getting what you want is way more fun than settling for what you don't.

Even though it may seem like I did not accomplish anything (plus I did not make a sale), the lessons of today will allow me to continue working towards my goals.

I must go now.

Have a nice day, and kick some ass.
Being able to produce additional revenues of 1 or 2% from an economy of trillions is not my measure of ineffective tax increases.
That should be the media's responsibility.
While Bruce and company are correct in that it has always been this bad... what they are failing to notice, or at least point out, is that this is the first time it has been so publicized and in such a spearheaded manner.
LulzSec or AntiSec is the first hacker movement that other people are rallying to and nobody could possibly predict what is going to come of it.
Returns True when v==0, and yet 0 is not a power of 2.

Further, this technique - correctly applied - is essentially #9 in the list.
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It leverages merge_index from Riak Search, which stores the index data on the same partition as the object. Queries are only performed against a subset of partitions that the "query planner" thinks will contain the object.
> Have you thought this through? [...] Are you aware of what happens ...

Yes. That's why I want strong and definitive legitimate punishment. Because otherwise that's all we have left and as you say, it can get messy.

> Just because I think the most responsible person shouldn't be assassinated in front of his children doesn't mean I didn't get angry at the idea of an arrogant Cisco overstepping its bounds

That is a little harsh. Maybe... They did try to get this guy a lifelong prison sentence, and that is a bit like death.

Hauled away and chucked in jail for as long as they intended to jail their victim though, that I want their kids to see. That might teach them something valuable - that their parents obviously missed while growing up.
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Actually, it's only a problem because males dominate high paying industries.

There's a lot of talk about gender transitions on jobs. One common argument is if men leave jobs as they begin to pay less or is it that as more women take to a job, we value the job less.

Outside of a few niche industries (modeling, porn, etc...), men generally are in higher paying industries. And gender transitions within industries tend to favor men (for whatever reason).

I don't expect men and women to participate equally in every field of employment. But it would be interesting to understand why women aren't represented as highly in some of the higher paying fields, especially since the opposite is almost never the case (women are over-represented in a high paying field).
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> The worst physician's salary averages about $50K more than the best programmer's salary

And they have to spend ten extra years in school, none of which is guaranteed to do anything but leave them poorer.
Too easy to edit out. Even a little sed could do it.
The candor about the trade-offs involved in picking one database vs. another is definitely appreciated and is a tone the community needs to take on the subject in general.
> I'm sorry but this "study" doesn't exist because it isn't true.

All existing studies are true? Intentionally or not, many studies contain mostly false information for the benefit of some or all of the parties involved/referenced in the study.
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d) survivor bias: you conveniently use the term "European" because it is now considered an integrated population, but one century ago, French people were scared of Italians immigrating. That's just an example. There was no such thing as being "European".
At the risk of getting quite off-topic, in my opinion most physicians will eventually be replaced by a combination of Bayesian diagnostic software and surgical robotics. There will be an intermediate period where physicians will control and oversee the software and robots, but this too will pass.

Those tasks which cannot be easily roboticized (for example, all the soft skills) will be shifted over to nurses.