skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good comment. Great point about sabbaticals.

It's a pity that when I read your good comments and the one above it, both had been downvoted into the grey. Many newcomers here at HN don't seem to understand that downvoting here is not meant to indicate that one doesn't like an opinion, it's supposed to be for comments that are abusive, obviously trolling, or that contribute nothing.

I propose an improvement to the downvoting API: One can downvote all they want, but each downvote will cost 1 karma/reputation point. That way, people with much good reputation can as needed mark abusive posts. But the newcomers will think more carefully about marking down posts they simply don't agree with since it can plunge them into negative.
Surely you can get paid by your own company? Do you mean you can't become an employee for it?
This will give their "almighty algorithm" a great input for recognizing "spammy" sites.

Of course, as soon as it starts working, we'll get various religious or politically motivated groups blocking sites they don't agree with, and blackhat SEOs selling packages of botnetted or mechanical turk-ed "blocks" of your competitor's sites...
What 'callback'? It just shows my ip. I don't need to RECOGNIZE that.

Your 'website' is shit!

:)
> It doesn't make any guesses, it doesn't look at related terms, and it often won't bring up the relevant article unless you specifically type that article's name.

I'm not sure it does the best job, but it does make guesses. For example, if you search for y cobbinator, it asks, Did you mean: y combinator. Though perhaps they should be more aggressive, like Google, and just go ahead and return the corrected results right away if the original query returned 0 results.
That's the same thing. When a culture "decides" something like that it becomes a behavioral reality. The human mind is incredibly plastic. Cultural expectations and preconceptions shape us tremendously, they play a big role in all issues where identity or life goals are concerned.
>>>> "Yes, he has. In fact, most people have forgotten about these things."

So in effect the "Blind Faith" title is correct, no ?
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You cannot work for an American company
Is this an issue for companies owned by HNers?
Poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809951
Team Leadership.
Where can I find a good book or a course to learn about team leadership? I manage a team of 4-5 software developers but haven't had any formal training in management. I am of course trained as a software developer (have a Masters), just not in management. Any pointers would help. Thanks.
> thus you can type 'w india china war' and it returns: Sino-Indian_War

That's the first result for Wikipedia's internal search, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&...
One potential reason for this:

http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/a-clever-adwords-hack-how-to...

When people run ads pointing to a site they don't own, it's often in an effort to get an implicit endorsement from that site. Note: I have no evidence that this is going on, but it is a risk with any site that has a recognizable URL and allows user-generated content.

From what I can see, it looks like ads pointing to FB were a) big brands advertising on their own brand names in order to promote social sites (e.g. 'windows 7' or 'hennessy'), b) big brands advertising on generic terms (e.g. 'hummus' ads taking you to the Athenos Facebook page), or c) house ads for navigational searches, including one for the notorious "Facebook login".

These ads are also growing in popularity. It looks like they doubled between April and June.
No, you're presupposing that it's some sort of cultural influence that came out of nowhere rather than (one of many) quite natural, pre-existing behavioral differences between men and women.
Before we jump to conclusions, it's equally possible Facebook is behind this. Google gets lots of nastygrams from companies who view ads containing their name as trademark violations.

A few years ago I had trouble running an iPod related ad on Google, not because of Google but because of Apple. Is there any indication this is Google and not Facebook's doing?
I wanted to make two points in response but e1ven has made one already - that visionaries in another time would probably just have created something different. That restlessness and urge would still exist, they'd likely just react to the different environment.

Secondly, even in hardware, there are opportunities like Kickstarter where anyone bold with a well-presented or confident idea can get some backing. There's a bottle-opening-iPhone-case on there (something that might be presented as a sketch on a comedy show and ridiculed) with $20-30k behind it! I was hoping that was a joke.
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It depends what "compatible" means, though, doesn't it?

If you include the Java bytecode-to-Dalvik compiler as part of the "system" it could be considered compatible.
I think these are really wrong rules: they are good for non-knowledge workers but horrendous for knowledge workers.

Here is what needs to be done instead:
Instead ASK, you should EXPLAIN task/project multiple times preferable using different methods of communication (email, in person, chat, etc.). You should also explain reasoning, risks, bigger context, and similar things. And ALWAYS ask for input and improvements.

Instead WARN, just check for status - often. Talk to people. We all know that software development has so many unknowns that the initial schedule is only valid if project is very simple and all unknowns are know. And many many times schedule depends on decision how things are implemented. Also WARN has negative connotation: for example, if an engineer comes back and says that she might get 10x performance improvement but things will be 10% late, is that WARN?

And DEBRIEF ... In my experience this is "outsourcing special": I learn that engineers in India like to say they are done when things are not done: just to be on time.
"Sure, I know what that word means!"
I worked under such conditions and liked it. The responsibility is on me to finish my task, report slippage, or clarify the requirement. No one pesters me for daily status. Knowing that trust was placed in me to do the right thing was wonderful.
Oddly enough while children hate detecting that an adult let them win, they are oddly blind to noticing when an adult let them cheat.
Agreed, constant requests for status updates are annoying and unproductive. The lead shouldn't have to poll for data all the time but shouldn't expect everything to be pushed his way, either. I don't think it's that hard to have a good sense of where things are at from commit logs, building and running the software, bug reports, and casual conversation with team members. If, however, a team member is working on something high profile, risky, or is trying his best to crawl into a cave and avoid all human interaction, they are probably going to need special attention.
As to the "high contrast movement" OP, I find the lower contrast easier on my eyes. And I have friends who have to wear sunglasses to read books / computer screens because of the high contrast. It's a horse apiece.

External monitors, at least, have contrast controls as well as brightness (I wonder why laptops don't).
Just visited, and I no longer get that "lines too close" feeling, so I'd say whatever you did, worked great.
Are you speaking from experience or just from watching all the scummy TV commercials and hearing about the related litigation?
You're trying to explain to nontechies, so I'd ditch the code fragments entirely for psudeocode or solely the plain english version.
And the people implying this are usually anti-government nuts.

The fact is tax increases of any kind are currently hard to get. Maybe as benefits for seniors start disappearing we'll see that change since seniors vote. If we ever get back to 20% of GDP for Federal tax revenues there's no special reasoning that says getting to 21% is going to be any harder then going from 18% to 19%. The whole 20% thing is just silly.
This particular patent was invalidated and thrown out a few years ago. Kelora, through their lawfirm, Manatt, amended it and brought it back from the dead for round 2. So Manatt is the Palo Alto firm behind this. Robert D. Becker is the attorney willing to put his name on it and grab the mom and pops out there by the goanads (they are targeting the smaller sites who don't have the where-with-all to fight the legal threat, whether there are merits or not). Nice. And patents are supposed to encourage innovation, right? Or maybe they exist so that deep pocketed lawfirms can go after every lean-running online store around and shake them down ...
Useless Technology; Ford’s Fall from Grace
Intellectual Ventures recently posted a rebuttal http://intven.com/newsroom/insights/11-07-25/Disruption_Invi...

They like to say things like "ideas have value" and that they are "disruptive."

Are there examples where the patents they own and monetize actually represent valuable "ideas" and not after the fact claims of invention? I'm guessing not, but open to being proven wrong.

And who, or what, do they think they are disrupting? Isn't IV the incarnation of the status quo?

Reading their website feels like reading a politicians...
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> In OS X, at least, the default rendering of type on a black background bleeds horribly

It depends on monitor's gamma!

My monitor with generic color profile exhibits the opposite: black-on-white is bleeding red badly, but white-on-black looks fine.

The issue is (mostly) fixable by using appropriate monitor color profile.
You're absolutely correct, I'm am. And you're presupposing that those differences are biologically hardcoded, I get that. I just don't agree with you.
The biggest part of the problem is that companies (and founders) are forbidden from speaking up after licensing deals are made. Perhaps you could post anonymously, but you'd still be violating the NDA in spirit and you'd be punished if discovered.

In other words, if three companies down the block signed millions away to Intellectual Ventures, you would have no idea. Maybe the risk is overblown. Unfortunately we have no idea of knowing.

They try to hammer this point home in the podcast.

It occurred to me there is simple legislation that might chip away at all this shadiness: Pass a law that forbids NDAs in patent licensing deals.
I really love your service, however, I'm not a fan of the design (seems cartoonish). Was this just the design aspect you were going for or are you seeking a redesign in the near future?
it took me a minute to find it, but here is the "ideas have value" quote http://www.geekwire.com/2011/intellectual-ventures-responds-...
Buzz words are a keen sign you are going to be working with a bunch of sales men.

The prejudicial reaction to buzz words is one of the things that I've found really weird in the programming fields. Often, a buzz word was a legitimate technical term just a few years, or a couple of decades ago. It's not the word, it's how it's used. Rejecting someone because they use a given buzz word is just prejudice. It just means you're selecting those people who are so aware of the march of buzzwords, they don't use the stale ones. In some cases, these will be savvy programmers. In other cases, this will be skilled users of word salad.

Buzz words shouldn't trigger a decision. They should trigger questions.
http://www.vidyard.com has it integrated into their landing page -> just click "Get Notified"

The results on our landing page are real, updated every 15 minutes with our top 6 influencers

Interested in using us ;-)
I meant HN, sorry about the ambiguity.

And yes to color variance on monitors. Early-gen laptop screens were horrible for accurately rendering subtle shading differences.

My stylesheet explicitly highlights links, and at least for a while there would add a yellow background on mouse hover, bolding on click. This was really useful especially for distinguishing closely-placed links, or links partially obscured by other page content.
I just did five minutes ago, and the invoice was paid two minutes ago, so you clearly can. Perhaps you mean you can't become an employee of one?
The term "hacker" has multiple meaning, and the use of hacking to manipulate a phone system is not only valid but was also the original use of the term when it originate at MIT in the 1960s.

http://imranontech.com/2008/04/01/the-origin-of-hacker/
I've found that settlers is very good at illustrating that random does not necessarily mean evenly distributed.
Oh, and if you've been targeted by them, reach out to me and let me know. I'm hearing that there may have been some mistakes made by this law firm in their process which may expose them to some legal dangers, themselves. If you've been targeted by them, I'd be happy to share what I know, but won't do it in a public forum. Not yet. I have been asked to help gather info that may prove very useful in a push-back, info which you may have in the letters they sent you. (Things are really heating up behind the scenes!)
Oddly enough, that is not enough to make patent law mandatory by the constitution: the text you cite has the structure "The congress shall have Power To […] promote X by using the mean Y".

First, it is not written that the congress has to exercise that power.

Second, what if Y does not promote X? What if it hinders X? It is written that the congress is allowed to promote X (through Y), not doing nothing about X (through Y) and certainly not hinder X (through Y).

I understand how one might assume that a patent system is a good (best? only?) way to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, especially back then. Nevertheless, I think this was a mistake: they wrote the mean in the same stone they did the goal. (Of course, goals themselves can turn out to be means to higher purposes, but in this case it is quite obvious from the beginning.)
So women somehow magically ship from the factory with a natural instinct to avoid IT jobs?

The fact that a large number of the original "computers" were actually women would seem to indicate not.
oh, there are likely hundreds, if not thousands. At least, when they first tried this, last year, there appeared to have been a ton of them ...
yep, whoops
Its half right.. the reason Sun was pissed between Schwartz's blog post and some time later was that there was some closed door discussions for Sun to become a partner in completing Android...

It was not about propping up JavaME as Android OS was similar to SajE in approach as far as putting java at the OS level...and that was vastly different than what JavaME was doing..
I'm suggesting a possibility; you're presupposing a dogma.
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Return geoip information. For example:

{
"ip": 204.172.40.10,
"geo": {
"latitude": 86.783273,
"longitude": 92.106578,
"accuracy": 24000
}
}
The idea's coming from the right place, but it looks like a serious troll magnet to me...
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From the comment you're replying to:

And Plex, the main alternative, crashes as much, but in different ways.
Trusting Microsoft (for the First Time) To Unify an Ecosystem
Wow, this really looks like an ugly antitrust issue. Since the feds already have an open investigation, it is probably worth letting them know directly about this specific issue.

http://www.justice.gov/atr/contact/index.html
What problems did you encounter? I own .lt domain purchased via french registrar without trouble.
"He also says that the batteries may not actually explode..."
The GPL won't do that for SaaS. You need the AGPL.
As a data warehouse newbie, this was an excellent introduction. I've heard a few of the names mentioned, but there are lots of new faces to explore.
On August 3, if Congress does not get its act together...

My intuition is that what's happening right now is just theatrics and sabre-rattling: A solution will be reached before the deadline, and then both sides will proudly declare victory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman
Okay, I've updated my script to catch all of them: http://yellowrubberball.com/2011/07/dafont/.
I think it's popular because it is mostly random chance with a veneer of strategy. It's a clever game in that it equalizes people who think about it a little with people who think about it alot, but gives both those groups an edge of people who don't think about it at all. This makes it more accessible to people who wouldn't otherwise consider themselves serious gamers because if you try, eventually you'll get lucky and win.
For almost everyone in the world outside of Cambridge, Boston and Cambridge are equivalent.

Even where I live in New Hampshire they're considered the same.
Kit steals Mac login passwords through FireWire port
Goodbye wikianswers?
However its still possible
> [...] they accidentally infringe on a patent

I hate to break it to you, but chances are that you infringe on hundreds, if not more, patents in the US. Nobody can tell you what or even how many patents you infringe on, though. Nobody has read all the patents and every single one is subject to interpretation. An interpretation, I might add, that has to be validated by a legal system that really doesn't care about correctness, technical validation or even fairness.

Patents in the software industry were historically held for defensive purposes. If you get large enough you start building a patent portfolio so other companies can't sue you because you'll sue them back. Everybody infringes on everybody else's absurd patents so suing is a Mutually Assured Destruction scenario (neither party wins and the lawyers take all the money that you could have invested in something worthwhile).

Companies like Lodsys and Intellectual Ventures are different. They only have patents and they have no product. So if they sue you for patent infringement you can't sue back even if you have patents because they don't have a product and by definition can't infringe on your patents (if you have them).

Patent fights between corporations are ugly enough, but are generally on a more-or-less level playing field. They happen in the courts between very well funded armies of lawyers.

Suits between, say, Lodsys (money + patents + lawyers + no product) and independent developers (no money + no patents + no lawyers + product) are so vastly uneven and unfair that most developers will just give up before this ever comes before a court. Even if you want to do it on principle it'll bankrupt your life. Just giving up and finding safer markets with (maybe) lower profit margins seems like the obvious way to go for anybody.
The promo video is fantastic. Reminds me of those car demolition show commercials:
THIS WEEKEND...CARASAURAUS REX...THE FIRE BREATHING...CAR EATING...ROBOT MONSTER DINOSAUR! Live at the civic center, tickets available now!
Since there's no DRM you can't help it if people are buying one key and then burning a bunch of CDs, but that won't affect the average price much. Seems to me that if they're selling license keys for $1.50, the best way to counter this is to change the download screen title to:

Thanks for purchasing the Humble Indie Bundle #3 for $0.01!

... if the customer thinks that's fair, so be it, but it might at least encourage the "resellers" to pay slightly more.

Alternatively, I don't think setting the minimum payment to $1 would be at all incompatible with the "pay what you want" slogan & worthwhile if it eliminates the payment fees problem.

(But what would I know? I've bought all four, and last time 'round I felt like I got my money's worth just out of Braid.)
Very nice, I luv it! The one thing I can say I don't like is the blurred logo... gives me a headache :)
Because software is, by its nature, ill-defined. If you fully specify every detail of a project, you've essentially done all the work.
Fun fact, hook.io uses Dnode as it's primary TCP transport, which is written by Substack! http://github.com/SubStack/dnode
This is pretty sweet sauce. You get the modular ideology like Erlang.. without the syntax. Ew.
I respectfully disagree.

All the information coming from DC right now is political kabuki, posturing, and high-stakes negotiating drama. If you find that sort of thing entertaining, sure, follow along.

Otherwise, ignore it until it blows up and/or there's an election. For now, certain people have been elected to deal with this, and they almost certainly will. If they don't, and there's another fiscal crisis, they'll lose their jobs next go-round, which is how it works.

In the meantime calling congresspeople with a general admonition to "do something" or "get it together, this is SERIOUS BUSINESS" or "go along with the President" or "go along with the House" is meaningless, especially compared to the rapid market/economic feedback that will arrive in the absence of a resolution.
It doesn't seem to work. I've blocked w3schools, and they're still 2nd result for "doctype" (perhaps it's an US-only feature? Google keeps redirecting me to .co.uk search)
You are correct. I should have had two oversimplification disclaimers in that sentence. (-:
You'd know it if it happpened. Management may not do a PR, but people talk. Remember the lawsuit and NDA agreement are proceeded by talks. At the very least you'd know they were approached and then suddenly went silent on the matter.

If it did work it would be the greatest conspiracy ever pulled off. A company extracting a billion hostile dollars and people not even posting on anonymous sites? So not likely.

The genius of IV's NDAs isn't that they have millions of companies paying them, but that they can create the mythology that they might. And you might be next.

I'm literally about 100x more worried that my architect gets hit by a bus than I am of being sued over patents.
There's no planned SaaS component to this. It should primarily all be client-side and interface with established SaaS systems instead of requiring its own.
Design looks great, glad you guys listened to me... sort of ;)
> We at Intellectual Ventures fundamentally disagree with [the notion that patents have a negative impact on innovation], which flies in the face of centuries of evidence.

I know of a rather serious source that says patents are a net evil, baked up by… centuries of evidence: http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm

About the values of ideas, it is quite evident that most patents' ideas are extremely valuable. The more obvious the idea, the more valuable it is. The artificial scarcity created by the patent system merely shows how valuables simple ideas actually are. Imagine for instance that breathable air becomes scarce. How much would you be willing to pay for it if it meant your life?
This is why you don't stake the well-being of your company on the good intentions of another's.
We like the design! We're not looking for a redesign.
heres a quote: "Many of the world’s leading technology companies are beginning to recognize that patents are a strategic asset worth billions of dollars. "

At least in the technology companies ive worked for, the strategic value of patents comes purely from the fact that having them can keep frivolous lawsuits at bay.
> I've dumped my consoles in the last year and moved to finding 'indie' game devs like these because, as the old saying goes, 'It's not about graphics, it's about gameplay'

Ironically, this is pretty much what made the Wii such a success in the Moms & Dads demographic ...
Thank you. I agree re: the search bar; not such a big deal. YouTube will be much nicer now.
Does not adequately cover hg.
You should also ask if you are being threatened by a patent troll. Paying the license fee is the last resort, really.
In my experience, at least in US, less than 1% of medical students go into the field "to help people." In fact, nowadays saying you want to become a doctor "because you want to help people" sounds almost cliché. Most of them do it either for money, social status or because that's what their mom wants them to do. And while it's true that very few programmers are "incentivized by positive social change", many of them do it because they find it interesting and fun in some way.