skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course! I wrote my own blogging engine in C (http://boston.conman.org/about/technical.html) but when I did it (very late 90s) there wasn't much competition (it was originally intended for an online journal, which is what weblogs were called back then).

It works. No reason to scrap working code. It has features that most blogging engines still don't have (mine can accept posts via email, in addition to the web interface) and some that I've yet to see in any blogging engine (you can display all posts between two arbitrary dates, in chronological or reverse chronological order, via the URL). The only feature it really lacks is a commenting feature, and there, I'm not sure if that's really a bad thing or not.
> 'Current law provides a range of options to protect society, he says. "It would be horrible if they started repealing laws and taking those options away."'

This quote also disturbed me, but for a slightly different reason: The prosecutor who is speaking is implying that the large number of laws give him a lot of options, i.e., he is (almost) free to persecute on whim. If there were fewer laws, he would be more constrained, have fewer options.

The whole point of written law is to prevent government from prosecuting on whim. A written law forces government to use objective standards. Yet when there are so many laws that everyone is guilty, the effect is the same as when there are no laws: prosecutions are conducted on whim (aka police and prosecutorial "discretion".)
Can you think of any examples of real-world "free" societies like the ones you describe? I can't.
Let's call it for what it is: facebook's process/technology to determine real people is many many notches above google's.

This is as much tech failure as it is a policy failure.
He lacks standout skill, but he sure has moxie and that counts for a lot.
What makes this better than Goodreads?
I've heard that they have a streamlined process to avoid false positives by sending them additional documentation.
You're implying that the Wall Street Journal, the businessman's newspaper, is trying to foment revolution. Things must be bad indeed.
I have been suspended fro Google+.

I wish I knew what terms I have supposedly violated. Google are being really mysterious, very Kafkaesque, because they refuse to tell me what I have violated and they refuse to allow me the option of appeal. I am guessing I was suspended because I posted a Google-critical thread regarding the user-names issue but the ToS don't mention anything about not being able to criticize Google. Free speech is theoretically permissible.

The most detail I can get from Google is that my suspension is due to "text and images" which alleged violates community standards. No precise details whatsoever and no option for appeal.
A good point, but antibody sequestration isn't how they explained the vaccine's actions. Instead it's that the cocaine-antibody complex is too large to cross the blood-brain barrier.

So it's unclear whether the antibody response (which the study showed was limited) would sequester the cocaine enough to eliminate its systemic effects.
His websites look like every cookie-cutter wordpress "business" theme out there... Horrible, to put it nicely. His "graphic design" is no more than a few mouse clicks in illustrator on someone else's photographs.

Not even sure why we're talking about this.
This reminded me of the flipside of doing everything the client wants:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
It matters little how bad the migration is, when you ain't gonna need it in 99.9% of cases. When you are big enough to need the migration, your company has enough resources to roll your own Hadoop distribution.
I can see a future where potential acquirers of startups (i.e. big guys with big patent portfolios) put meager acquisition offers to promising (and threatening) startups on the one hand, and a gun in the other with the threat to sue the poor startup to oblivion if they don't accept the offer. The aggregation of patent portfolios into the hands of a small cartel couldn't possibly be beneficial to startups and the innovation economy.
With different names on each?
1) It's a native Facebook app
2) Goodreads has a lot of extra features that clunk up the interface, this is about as simple and easy to use as you can get. For you, this probably isn't a big deal, but for your less-tech savvy friends, it could mean the difference between using it and not using it.
A criminal defense lawyer once told me that he was convinced that certain police officers had a personal mission to make sure that every black boy in certain neighborhoods has a criminal record by the time he is an adult.
Restaurant pos
Fair enough, I'm sure you can understand wanting to get feedback on an idea before investing in SSL.
Ask HN: Is this a new trend to access a page quickly via Google "+1"?
I've noticed a couple internet pages that restrict immediate access to the site's content unless you "+1" their website.

Here's an example:

http://googleplusanswers.com/

The above website isn't even affiliated with Google! It irks me to take that extra step to bump up its rating when I haven't even visited the site yet!

What are your thoughts about this tactic?
I don't understand why someone would hold a large amount of money in BTC. The only real value i see for BTC is in secure online transactions. Basically a 'last mile' currency that should be used much like cash. So having some money in BTC would make sense (say < $200 US) just for the convenience of secure online purchases. But why would someone transfer a large amount of wealth into BTC? It seems like the digital equivalent of stuffing your money into your mattress. Am I wrong on this? is there some major benefit that im missing?
I would have chosen the fax machine over Billy Joel in 1991. The fax machine at least has the potential of being useful.
Because to many people it is not the digital equivalent of stuffing money into your mattress; it is the exact opposite. It is the digital equivalent of investing.

Hell its not even the digital equivalent of investing. It's just plain old investing. (Or speculating, you might say)
Well, the 'pet feature' that MySQL lacks is 'ability to efficiently join between tables'. I think that is pretty high up on the list of important features for a relational database.

Saying this is a 'no true scottsman' is a 'straw man' on your part. Lots of people only have experience with MySQL, and think that it is somehow representative of the quirks and performance characteristics of all relational databases, which is simply not true. MySQL is popular, and that is the entirety of the list of positive things I can say about it. It's buggy (known segfault bugs accepted in final release versions), slow (I've seen identical fairly simple queries run on identical schemas with identical indexing and identical data run side by side on Postgresql and MySQL when we were moving away from MySQL. In Postgresql the query in question ran in about 4 seconds, on MySQL the query never finished, even after allowing hours to pass), bizarre (many table engines parse and silently ignore all FK constraints), non-transactional (unless you use one of the transactional table engines, and then it is slow), poor with concurrency (several table engines have table level locks, the ones that are MVCC have silly concurrency limitations, until recently Innodb could only do 4 core concurrency, due to some weird implementation), and will fuck you in sneaky ways (a VARCHAR(N) can hold N bytes, so if you store unicode data you can't necessarily store N characters. That's not the only absurd and horrifying wart, there are literally dozens).
I've interviewed many engineers in my career (I've been writing software for over 20 years.) I've evolved my process for finding good engineers.

The problem with most technical interviews is that they end up asking trick questions, where the answer is more important than the process (and thus the "process of problem solving" is not even relevant.) You'll notice, this guy actually solved the problem in question, immediately, but that wasn't acceptable because it wasn't a technical solution.

Critical thinking is very important, I agree. Far more important than problem solving, and one of the real problems is, that people think that these kinds of interviews actually reveal ones ability to think critically. They are not the same. Problem solving is more of a process one can learn, critical thinking is more of a talent, or maybe a willingness, to step outside the problem and evaluate, for instance, whether it should even be solved.

In my experience- but I could be wrong- I would say there is a very strong correlation between being able to solve mathematical brain teasers and having trouble with critical thinking. (Unfortunately, these people do not realize that they have trouble engaging in critical thinking.) I can't find a correlation between solving the type of problems on google billboards and being good at critical thinking. Its mostly about awareness of obscure (to the mainstream, anyway) math.

Being able to solve problems is good for an engineer. All good engineers can do this.

Critical thinking, however, makes the great engineers great, and it eliminates the need to solve large numbers of tough problems. Engineers can end up in the weeds because they chase tough problems to solve (they're fun!) rather than employing critical thinking to keep focused on the important business problems.

The examples from this blog are not very illustrative of my point, but there it is.
I think it is possibly the annoying and irresponsible business promotional tool anyone could implement. Many tried to do this to allow you to see videos on Facebook with "likes" as well.
@font-face actually has pretty incredible browser coverage:

Safari 5.03, IE 6-9, Firefox 3.6-4, Chrome 8, iOS 3.2-4.2, Android 2.2-2.3, Opera 11
(http://www.fontspring.com/blog/the-new-bulletproof-font-face...)

It does require different file formats, but these can be generated trivially:

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
I only know of one experiment on this: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park >. It concluded that morphine addiction in ordinary rats is not just influenced by their environment, but pretty much determined by it.

I'd be interested to hear how much that can be changed by breeding the rats selectively. Until you know that, I won't believe anything you say about genetic influences on addiction. It seems that no one has tried to find out. So I assume that Addiction Studies (or whatever it's called) has very little to do with science.
5 Essential Basics for Using Google+
Thanks to everyone involved!
everyone wants to rag on the portfolio (fine, go ahead) but the long-form copy on that page is great. it's really well laid out, easy to read, and got probably everybody to scroll from top to bottom and read almost the whole thing.

as someone who's unsuccessfully been trying to coax something similar out of a designer, it's refreshing to see. my product requires a bit of convincing and explaining, so the standard business type website with a couple pictures thrown in isn't as effective. long copy is hard to get right and this guy nailed it.
Amen!

Though how we could ever expect federal government programs be efficient and cost-effective is beyond me, when the work is being done by the governmental agency itself.

We're much better at using governmental funds (which I still think are taken largely by theft) via agencies like DARPA, which operate through private industry and the educational establishments.
bitcoin represents a set of capabilities that haven't been combined before. People believe that the market hasn't discovered the correct market price for this set of capabilities yet.
What amazes me is how uncritically the media usually treats this issue.

A great many things the government does follow a similar over-promising, under-delivering pattern. The notion that perception is reality and a loss of confidence is the worst thing that can ever happen conspire to stifle public questioning.

We see it with Afghanistan, stimulus spending, TARP. As justifications don't pan out, something else is used to justify things.

Of course, the real root cause is that those paying for things are far removed from the decision making process. If voters individually decided whether they were going to be taxed $500 a year for continuing the shuttle or $100 a year for returning to disposable rockets, this program would have been killed long ago.

But everything is put in one big pot and dollars borrowed to conceal the actual ultimate pain. There are so many deceptive aspects to how this operates, its difficult to describe or even grasp.
Something personal I guess...
Too bad, cause it was one of the best Solaris blogs out there.
That is not the only real value of BTC.

For example, it can be used to transfer wealth halfway across the globe in at least ten minutes.

Also, the network operated 24 hours 7 days a weeks, so you don't have to plan around banking holidays or banking time nonsense.

It is also used a store of wealth because the network put an upper limit on bitcoin money supply.
I've been a happy homebrew user since it launched - anyone care to comment on the benefits/improvements of MacPorts V2 over homebrew?
My main issue is when you want to add multiple books.

After entering one book, you're presented with the standard "Share/Skip" dialog box. But after closing it, you're left on a summary of the book you just entered with no options to add more books. In order to add another book, you first need to click Home to get to the "Add Recommendation" button.

After entering a book, it should probably either take you directly back to the Home screen or give you an option to continue adding books. The extra click gets annoying.
Don't enable any payloads besides blacklisting then. Problem solved
Sounds like studying math or theoretical computer science would've accomplished the same :)
You can invest in a foreign currency and BTC is as foreign as it can possibly get
"Developer Advocate is a highly technical role [1]."

Doesn't appear to be from the link you gave.

From your link:
"You will be an evangelist for our newest technologies in the outside world, as well as a vocal advocate for developers' needs within Google. You will be an engineer who thrives on the cutting edge of technology and loves seeing exciting, new applications and business that other developers are building. Your job is to drive momentum for exciting new technologies such as Chrome, Android, App Engine, Google Wave, Google Maps API, HTML5, and our core Google Apps and Ads APIs. "

Guy Kawasaki was one of the first evangelists. He was a jeweler previously. Of course Guy has a great many talents, but I don't think anyone would call him "highly technical." Notice the middle sentence says "you will be an engineer", but the rest of it talks about being an "Advocate" and "your job is to drive momentum", etc.

The requirements don't seem to be highly technical either. (most of the languages are scripting languages, for instance.)

From the description:
BA/BS in Computer Science or a similar technical degree preferred.
Experience blogging and writing technical articles, ideally with an existing follower base.
Strong command of web application or mobile application development landscapes.
Experience working directly with large partners, or with press and bloggers preferred.
Considerable success as a software developer, architect, technology evangelist, CTO, or consultant working with web or mobile technologies.
Strong command of web application or mobile application development landscapes.
Solid programming abilities in one or more of the following languages: Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET, JavaScript.
Familiarity in my case -- for my legacy Mac servers I'm sticking with what both I and my boxen know. :) New servers will all be running Linux, so it'll be with the package manager for that distro, likely Debian.
Sexy placeholder page. Hit refresh a few times.. simple but effective
I can't agree with you more. I remember coming across a blog of one such individual, rejected school and Japanese corporate society, drifted for a while but suddenly got the urge to quit being a NEET and traveled the world. Learned English, graduated an Australian college, got a seishain job at a Japanese company, became a dropout again, went to Singapore, multi-national company adores him.

The problem with the salary man system is it's so demographically bankrupt. Work to death on low pay while you're young, kick back and let the young work for you as you get older and better paid (co-opted by your more capable co-workers if you suck at what you do). Doesn't work with a shrinking population and dismal economy.

There are so many brilliant, young Japanese people out there and IT is a real magnet for them. But they're not the aggressive type either. The American equivalent wouldn't afraid to start a company or pick up women if they find someone attractive, though they may be more shy than the general population. The Japanese mirror national tendencies. I hope this crisis provokes long-lasting change. It's already given me some hope to see how the younger generation are taking more charge after seeing the power of technology to make real differences in the world.
Air Jordan 7 had the outstanding performance with MJ in 91-92 period
All three of the links I posted were calling out bullshit. But they did it in a way that didn't sound like it came off Jerry Springer. I have a million times more respect for those guys and those guys had far more substance to their criticism too.

Just calling "bullshit" rant-style is a cult-of-personality sort of move: people are responding more to your machismo than the actual substance of your argument.
If you say something that is positive to Apple and negative to google, you will get down voted here. IF you ask why you're getting down voted, you'll be introduced to all the logical fallacies and errors in your comment, however, this is a red herring. Note the votes that pro-google, ant-apple comments get, even when they are merely assertions.

Of course, my crime is much worse. I have pointed this out. But there it is. (Do it too many times and you'll get banned completely, so beware, and log out periodically to make your your contributions are actually appearing on the forum.)
How is that ironic? There's no reason why two offices of a multinational have to share the same working practices.
Links to past 'complaints'?

You haven't addressed his fundamental complaint: don't contact him.

"As for what team you'll be working on, you as a candidate have a lot of power in that regard."

Are you serious? Allocation is a joke. It's hard to say what you are willing to work on in sufficient detail when you don't know what choices you have.

(I work at Google.)
He's a no-name designer (not to be too disparaging) in a sea of no-name designers. A tiny percentage of a large (HN) crowd is still going to be a bigger audience for him than he might have got with a plain site.

I have more experience and a broader portfolio, but do you think anyone would have reason to submit my site to HN? Nup.

If the large percentage rubbed the wrong way by this were likely to rain his house with stones, he'd have a problem, but they won't. They'll move on to the next topic and forget him pretty quickly.

On top of that, he will get a more receptive crowd as this moves around Twitter and the like too.

I'd guess that big business or even medium enterprises won't touch him, but anyone needing a freelancer or with a start-up might. Those two groups would be reasonably well represented here.
If anyone is interested, this is a great book for the hobbyist curious about this sort of thing: "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality" by Brian Greene
I recognize the one in the 4th column, 3nd row from themeforest.net
Not only do I not care if a project was completed in a weekend...

I don't care if a project came to someone in a dream and they wrote the code onto their bathroom mirror with their left hand, while shaving with their right hand.

I share some of the author's sentiment, but let me be clear: I'm sure some of these projects actually are finished in a weekend or less. But my view is that I don't care about that. Let's focus on the value of a project itself. How long it takes could be useful information for the purpose of critique, but doesn't need to be a central feature like "wow, you're coder superman".
I'm surprised Natsume (Harvest Moon) isn't suing all of these companies.
> 2. Quit

And then what? There aren't that many games jobs in NZ.
my 2 cents. You should spend less time with a cool effect, and changing the image, and more time on explaining what your product is if you really want people to sign up. Really nice copy, screenshots, and details on how your different would be more effective.
What do you think is different about Mac OS/iOS context vs others that makes Cocoa's approach more or less appropriate?
Thats exactly what some do. Some work on protocols, backend efficiency, general coding, internal applications, and then spend their 20% on something 'really interesting'.
agree completely annoying and wish there could be a way to flag these types of pages to google. Just close and don't ever visit again. You only perpetuate this behavior by giving in.
Alright, so, there are good and bad things about this. First, the good. The copy is pretty solid and for someone with a sense of humor, it's quite charming. It's not too rude and for the person with a decent head on their shoulders, it shouldn't upset them. The bad, however, is the quality of work that rests on the shoulders of that brass copy. It's not necessarily bad, but it doesn't muster up to the talk that's going on. Not to mention, you can't even click on anything in the portfolio so it sort of makes the work worthless. Cute, but the whole thing should be put back in the oven for a wee bit.
If Google doesn't hit you up, dude I would surely look at some startups. In fact, I believe Fresh Plum is looking for some really good people!
Little bit off-topic; at least you get interview call from GOOG. I've never had that privilege of interviewing with Google. Though I've always applied for their design positions. And I was always referred by someone working at Google (and that too stellar recommendations). I've interviewed with all the biggies (including some of the hottest companies) but never with Google.

P.S. By the way, I have undergrad in CS too
One good habit of thought not mentioned in the article is thinking in analogies. Comparison and contrast seem to be fundamental brain operations. Smart people express themselves in analogies, especially parables/stories. Always be thinking, "What is this like?" or "What does this remind me of?"
By investing, I'm not sure if you're referring to the amount of time, or the monetary cost. If the latter, there are legitimate free SSL certs available. I am unable to think of the one which is most highly recommended around here, but a Google search should turn up something useful.
I definitely feel that in my life. The urge to create things, to grow, to change myself, the condescendence at anyone who is satisfied with current situation. It's like someone is itching my brain, it feels very similar to craving nicotine, or caffeine, or just mind-altering substances. It's like someone is shouting at me "common, this sucks, now go do something" even when everything is seemingly awesome.
i think you place way too much importance on being a facebook app. The only difference from developer pov is that one is in an iframe and one isn't. Just create both. You can have one with a nice homepage, screenshots, and explanations why its different. Right now as is, I wouldn't sign up.
Ask HN: Who's got experience with the haXe meta language?
I like the idea that it can generate both Javascript and PHP code. Does anyone have experience with the language? Can you describe something useful/cool you've done with it?