skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about you but I definitely don't show my humble side when I'm drunk.

In all seriousness though, I appreciate his attempt to be avant-garde. If it backfires, we know why. If it gets him a few jobs, we know why.
MacPorts 2.0 fixed all of the issues that I was having under Lion with 1.9.0. Thanks for upgrading guys! :)

To upgrade, make sure you install Xcode 4.1 via the App Store (free). That'll provide GCC. After:

$ sudo port selfupdate
$ sudo port upgrade outdated

All old versions of Xcode (4.0.x/3.x) do not work with Lion.
I too work for Google, and one of the people who interviewed me had a really interesting team. So I asked to be put on it, and I was.

What "allocation is a joke" experiences have you had?
Getting someone's attention is only one objective of a portfolio site. The most important one isn't as easy: convince people to hire you. Sure, many people are likely to scroll down. But his "argument" isn't compelling, nor is his work. He just comes off as difficult, arrogant, and not very good at design.

Maybe he has potential as a copywriter, but if he's going to use it, he needs to keep his eye on the objective for which he's writing.
w3m crashes. Is there a workaround?
Right, but it didn't give a lot of practical details. Probably the actual book has more; I guess I shouldn't complain because I'm too cheap to actually buy it.
My 2 cents, I really liked the UI. Not so much the UX. Have a common footer at the bottom?
Found it! Here it is on his site: http://i.imgur.com/9rFCs.png

And here it is on themeforest.net: http://themeforest.net/item/business-solutions/152308
I've toyed with it, but never really gone for it. I think I'll give it a real shot this time. Thanks.
Other organizations may rip off the government much worse than universities. So what?

It does not change the fact that science grants are subsidizing the rest of the university.
There is no "person". Only context.
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Macruby?
Props!

(Wonders if this feat can be replicated for the woman with the orange background and no text...nah, probably not.)
Upgrading to Lion is a great time to make the switch to Homebrew: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
NASA does work with private industry and educational establishments. In fact Lockheed Martin manufactured many components on the Space Shuttle and will be building its replacement as well. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5748366

I don't share your faith that this is a recipe for efficiency, as both Boeing and Lockheed regularly lobby congress for wasteful spending (however, usually for defense, not NASA).
Do you have any opinion on what the practices should be with names like yours? Should we somewhere between the view layer and the persistence layer convert to a canonical form? If so, can you provide any links for widely-preferred ways to do so?

About to find myself building some such systems and would prefer to do it right…
That you're reapplying makes me question whether you're persistent or just lack good judgement.

I think people get taught in high school to chase after "top flight" schools for their education, and you went to stanford so you've done that.

It isn't the same in the working world. You don't need to work for google.

I am sure there are dozens of startups who would appreciate you much more, and where your talents would be able to express themselves to a much fuller extent than at google.
I'm one of the authors.

This work is about looking at the Bitcoin transaction history as a network, and investigating privacy and anonymity, in practice, on it - something there's been a good bit of discussion around recently.

You can see a lot of non-obvious things, when you 'collapse' addresses, as we describe in the paper, and look at it as a network.

We're not really talking about the extent to which Bitcoin itself is useful as a currency, or investment - that's a whole other topic, and a big one.

If anyone has any questions on the work we did, if you post them here or on the blog, I'll try and answer.
Falling off the wagon with habits? This is a good one
I guess "My Freetime Project" would be more accurate but probably wouldn't get much votes.

Still there's a lot people can do in a weekend, more so as a team. Startup Weekend (Foodspotting is alumni) and Rails Rumble come to mind.

Ycombinator Weekend Audition anyone?
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Reminds me of calls I receive from top flight hedge funds.

"You'll be working with astronomically smart people who
use crystalline cohomology to obtain the best
polynomial time approximation algorithms for
intractable problems. The engineer who did this taught
himself calculus within ten to the negative sixty-seven
seconds of conception."

"Is that the work you have in mind for me?"

"No. You'll be cleaning the group's digital bed pans."

"That's OK. Perhaps you should recruit a Nobel Laureate
for that role."
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Ooh, nifty. The history of the "Command" symbol for Mac is a good story too.
Up vote this point...

Facebook pretty much allows pseudonyms in practice whatever they say. If Google+ is actively stepping on the pseudonym accounts of people with well-known names, it's a problem - seriously.
Facebook pulls app directory, makes finding new games that much harder
I would have assumed they were asking about HTML entities. Like &amp;, etc.
Benefits over MacPorts? Which has more up-to-date packages?
ahhh, good point. Will look into fixing this.
This guy knows how to market. He's like Zed Shaw

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/16/ebay-wetsuit-bear-urinal/
Felix Salmon: The Cost of Patent Trolls
Well.. if the database doesn't enforce a schema explicitly, then the code will impose one implicitly. Maybe that makes some types of applications easier to develop. But the user doesn't get much say in the matter either way.
Bitcoin is pseudonymous. I have always been a little irratated that the developers have not tried to dispel the myth that it is anonymous. I am not sure if they ever said it was anonymous but they do not do enough (in my opinion) to stress that it is not anonymous.
I would think that the people are hacker news of all places would not get caught up in media-hype trends about how all government spending is waste bla bla. NASA tried to change the paradigm of space travel. It didn't work the way they'd hoped, but that's the risk of trying something different. Comparing it to TARP and Afghanistan is a ridiculous non sequitur that only works if you buy into the anti-government yammering in the first place.
Looks like they decided NOT to include the scalar type hint.
https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54

Even better would be bool/float/int/string/func ref type hinting...
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For a long time I thought there was a limit of 65535 concurrent connections, but I learnt today that it is for local ports only. Now I'm confused. Doesn't accept() create a local port?
Okay, it's not anonymous but it's easy to receive money at a wallet that is otherwise unidentifiable (and thus can be sent in a way equally unlinked to your real identity or public wallet endpoint).
I don't see why people would hold JPN yen in the United States. (hint, investing)
Here's a neat example of Flash integration, and it's cool in its own right: http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata
Twitter Is Said to Buy Employee Stock With Half of $800 Million in Funding
Welcome to the USA, land of the free...
Perhaps, but it is nice that Philosophy is so general. Another side effect of studying it is that it's made me hungry for different perspectives. For most questions, there's a bigger context that can raise potentially more interesting questions.

My favorite take on the subject is James Carse's lecture at The Long Now: http://longnow.org/seminars/02005/jan/14/religious-war-in-li...
While great news for those who can go to RadioShack, I'm somewhat disappointed that where I live, Vancouver, Canada, Radio Shack's have been replaced by "The Source". NOt that I was really a fan of what Radio Shack had become, but I've got good memories of Radio Shack from it being the only electronics store as I grew up in a smaller town. If Radio Shack is really trying to offer hobbyists more, than it's too bad that their retails stores are no longer open up here. [Checked Wikipedia, CircuitCity owned RadioShack, changed the name to "The Source", then sold off the Canadian operations as part of bankruptcy proceedings.]
This article makes a lot of good points, but I felt it failed to really break the surface and address the core problem that led to the failure of the Space Shuttle program.

That core problem is misalignment of incentives. Or in short, politics. When you've got a public budget and your goals are political ones, you're going to pursue a specific set of capabilities and policies that help your political career. This is true from the President all the way down to the lowest level of managers at NASA. I think the real cost, and thus tragedy, of this era is the thousands upon thousands of good engineers who were sucked up into NASA because they believed in the dream of human space flight, and were never able to accomplish much over the courses of their careers.

The solution to this problem is very simple: No government agency with control over space. Outsource everything. If government wants to fund scientific research or exploration, great- give grants to institutions that then have effectively complete autonomy. For instance, JPL, could be a separate institute with little connection to government other than primarily getting its funding from the government. If politicians want to send a probe to Mars, let JPL be the master contractor, where JPL hires the scientists, while subcontracting out the design, development and production to private entities.

SpaceX is much more efficient getting to space, cost wise and reliability wise (I believe) than NASA ever has been, and they are using (IIRC) a discarded russian design, off the shelf as the basis for their system (though certainly they've done a lot of engineering work.)

The commercial space industry in the USA has suffered under the government control over all things space since the beginning. I remember when Richard Branson-- the founder of Virgin Galactic, and the one who funded the design and development of SpaceShipTwo was prevented from seeing the design he'd paid for because he was a british national!

In fact, I'm certain that the only reason Burt Rutan and Virgin Galactic were successful is that their "launch" requires only a runway, and thus they can easily do it from just about any country. Previously, NASA and the FAA has made it very difficult for private entities to pursue space access, by denying them the necessary permits to do testing.

After the X prize was won, when commercial operation plans were announced, there was a flurry of congressional noise about regulating the space industry ("for safety" of course.) I think the only reason that died down is that there is literally nothing stopping Virgin Galactic from flying off and launching from a newly crated "space port" in, say, Panama. (Well, except that the government apparently considers their designs "National Security Secrets".)

It is time to dismantle NASA. Let the capitalists pursue profit in space, and government can get whatever it needs launched (or built) by the same contractors under whatever terms the government wants-- but at much lower costs.
I kind of have the impression that "there is no such thing as bad publicity" is the general view here. I made a comment which I deleted* which was also downvoted and also agreed with the idea that not all publicity is good publicity. I like the quote (attributed to Mae West and various others) that "There's no such thing as bad publicity" but I don't think it's really accurate if taken too literally.

* Not because of the downvotes but just thought better of it -- like I think I am blathering on too much here about me in a way that could lead to trouble.
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Newcastle. For now.
Someone cleaning toilets full-time would make around £10k. This is income before taxes.

No iPads for me.
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The title is a reference to the fact that G+'s identity system fails to cope with names considered normal in their respective cultural contexts. In fact, it couldn't be more to do with "web scale" since it refers to how literally everyone in the world reveals their (sometimes multiple) identities through Google's world wide social network.
So, am I to understand that your position is that NASA is efficient in its spending, and that this who think governments are inefficient (cost wise) at achieving goals are caught up in a "media-hype" that is "antigovernment"?

If that is correct, how were SpaceX and Scaled Composites able to do so much with such limited resources?
Like you, I disagree with some of the points in her blog post, but I can't agree with your statement "As for what team you'll be working on, you as a candidate have a lot of power in that regard."

I had one referral decline an offer because he wouldn't know what project he would be working on until he was hired, and therefore, didn't know if it would be more enjoyable than his current job. I also knew PhDs who were hired and expressed disappointment that the project they were working on didn't make use of the specialized material they studied towards their degree. And I wouldn't think that the majority of new engineers assigned to ads projects expressed advertisement as a preference with their recruiters.

But most new hires, well, get over it.

Yes, there are some cases where people are recruited with specific expertise to fulfill specific roles, e.g. John Barton of Firebug or Sebastian Thrun for the self-driving car. But this is the exception and not the rule.
While I don't use PHP any more, this is still a massive improvement for those that do. Next on the list: Array and String literals as proper objects!
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That's going to fail if you have a file with a newline in it.

And what are you going to do when you want to find all files modified more then 32 hours ago?

-delete is necessary because otherwise there is a race condition which can allow a regular user to make root delete any file.

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699050

You should not use -exec, you should use -execdir, -exec is not safe.
I think the gap between your perspectives comes from the existence of lobbying and the bid process not being open. Further, there is less competition because the previous control over the entire industry that NASA enjoyed prevented many possible competitors to LM or Boeing from getting off the ground.

Of course there is a wide array of subcontractors involved in NASA projects. I don't think anyone who accuses NASA of being inefficient thinks that NASA workers do all the manufacturing, etc.
Not true. I filed IT return using this website https://myitreturn.com/default.aspx and it has handful of users
Felix Salmon omits a point that makes Microsoft's participation in the patent cartel especially absurd: they had already licensed all of the patents from Nortel in perpetuity. Microsoft claimed, without legal basis, that it was concerned about the risk of this license being ignored by the acquirer.
This is very nice work, thank you. I've only had time to skim the paper; pardon me if these questions are answered therein:

1. You stop short of actually identifying the thief; is this primarily due to ethical concerns or the paucity of off-network information? Could you speculate on whether non-public information available to law enforcement would be enough to resolve the thief's identity?

2. How easy is it for users to protect themselves to foil your analysis techniques? Could client software automate some of these obfuscation mechanisms?

Incidentally, you cite my Netflix work, but my work on deanonymizing social networks based on topology (http://33bits.org/2011/03/09/link-prediction-by-de-anonymiza..., http://33bits.org/2009/03/19/de-anonymizing-social-networks/) might be more relevant, and some of the techniques potentially applicable to deanonymization of the bitcoin transaction network if and when it grows larger and gains a more substantial resemblance to the network of real-life relationships.
There are two general reasons why a hn comment might get downvoted.

First, if you are not contributing something positive to the conversation, most people will downvote you. This is why the comment where you are asking why you got downvoted is now downvoted.

Next, it is generally considered acceptable to upvote comments you agree with and downvote comments than you disagree with. I think this is why the comment you are asking about was downvoted initially.

Note, there is some controversy about downvoting because you disagree. Personally, I feel like this makes hacker news a more uniform and less interesting place than it would be otherwise, but I believe I am outvoted in this matter. On the other hand, upvoting or downvoting is clearly better than content-free 'me too' posts.
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I see, thanks for your response. I think that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" makes sense. It's certainly true that the downside of this site is not that it's drawing people in who don't like it. I think the problem is that the publicity isn't likely to overcome the deficit in work that's likely to result from serious potential clients being turned off. The publicity isn't necessarily bad, but the portfolio website is, if that makes sense.

Still, I thought generally "adding value" isn't contingent on agreement. Do people generally downvote things they disagree with? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, haven't been here for long.)
My complaint about arrays in PHP is warnings for reading a array member that may not exist, such as when reading a form input that might not be there.

$foo = $_POST["foo"];

Undefined array key! Oh, no! Tragedy! A crime has been committed! Are you kidding? Just set $foo to undefined and let me deal with the consequences, please?
The part that stands out to me is this: "Half-fearing the wrath of his superiors were they to discover his pet project, Tomlinson initially kept his invention to himself. As a colleague recalled, “When he showed it to me […] he said, ‘Don’t tell anyone! This isn’t what we’re supposed to be working on.’”"

How many of you have stumbled onto something very cool and useful which was fairly emphatically not what you should have been working on at the time?

Hell, my entire technology career is an outgrowth of (mostly) playing on the campus UNIX servers while at university. To say nothing of a number of tools I've come up with.

The other observation is that email to G+, the killer apps are those which allow people to connect to other people through technology.
Can't reply to the reply for some reason, but duly noted. Thanks very much for the explanation! Obviously there won't be any need for me to post something like this again.
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Check if there already is a bug regarding w3m at

https://trac.macports.org/search?q=w3m

If not, file one at:

https://trac.macports.org/auth/login/?next=/newticket
Frankly, even a developer relations position can be a technical position. I personally think a developer relations person who does understand the inner workings of the code base he represents, or at least demonstrates the ability to understand it given time, will be much better at his job than someone who doesn't. So really, I agree with Google here in their decision.

There are a number of jobs at google that although do not involve writing code, are closely coupled with the technology google is working on - developer relations actually being a very good example. I think they are keeping the bar high in these instances for valid reasons. I'm sure there are positions where technical background is less crucial, graphic design comes to mind, but that's to be judged on a case by case basis. Everybody wants to work there, so they can demand very high standards, but in most instances i've heard about the standards are not incorrect, just high.

EDIT: And probably another reason is they simply want to keep the particular technical culture throughout the company.
Sometimes people have a slip of the finger, especially on certain devices (iphones or the like). Sometimes someone just doesn't like you personally. There is no way to completely rid a community of that. Sometimes the phrasing was just really poor. "Low content" posts are sometimes downvoted and, yes, downvoting to express disagreement does happen. Stick around a bit. Get a feel for the place. Learn as you go. Brush it off. The next discussion is a chance to start anew. The size of the place seems to genuinely foster that more than other forums I have been on.

Peace.
In general, 'weekend projects' might just something that you work on in your spare time (ie. weekends) but then again we do have things like http://nodeknockout.com/ and http://railsrumble.com/
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The article is mostly about addictive personality and the connections between addictive personality and innovation or success aren't really well drawn. Moreover, their anecdata suffers from the problem that people who are in a high stress environment may exhibit addiction-like behaviors which are are actually self-medication for stress.
I'd go for sheer package numbers, and also MacPorts traditionally has had much better support for Python packages, and the rudimentary python_select.

Macports says they have 8199 packages. Brew has 1626 by my unscientific count (hint: $('table.tree-browser tr').length ).

A major difference is in how packages are installed. Brew by default will use native OS X packages. Macports installs all dependencies to /opt/local. So a trivial install for Brew could lead to a long install in Macports. I've had Macports build GCC.

But this new version is supposed to allow for pre-compiled binaries. So maybe a lot of that beef will disappear?
Maciej Cegłowski's essay "A Rocket to Nowhere" is a much better description of how and why the Shuttle was doomed by political and military considerations.

http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
If you are interested in FreeWriting, I highly recommend Keith Johnstone's "Impro"

In it he talks about doing a writing exercise while counting down from 100 simultaneously. That really preoccupies the limiting consciousness and lets stuff come out.
I made the switch to homebrew fairly recently (within the last two months).

Things I like:

* I install everything to ~/.brew/ and it works great. I did _not_ like their documented recommendation to install everything to /usr/local and chown it as your user. I have yet to run into any issues installing to my home dir.

* Installs of things have fewer deps, or at least perceived, compared to macports. Nice to not have a separate copy of everything. I haven't run into issues (yet!) where an OS update makes something puke, so this could be a problem down the road, but so far so good.

* Upgrades are very simple: brew update / brew upgrade

* Toolset is easy to work with.

* timely updates