skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing more and more issues on G+ that annoy me about Facebook.

They got some things right, but I'm afraid the core is the same old revenue-oriented and privacy-invading crap.

Not-Facebook is not good enough and looking at the end-result it is kind of disappointing.
Oracle ordered to lower damages in Google Java lawsuit
Either the author dislikes the "term" or the "concept".

I do not see any take away from this article, except to make the people who go about their jobs with josh in those companies feel bad after reading it.

If that is the intent of the article, then the job is well done. (Disclosure: I am now out on my own and had been there in big companies).
Ask HN: is customer development necessary for an existing B2B market?
I'm in the very early stage of a creation of a startup focused on online file sharing for companies: the idea is to do something like sharefile.com or smartfile.com but in France. So I know that there's a market with established competitors (also a few ones in France). I still can't decide whether doing early customer discovery, testing hypotheses etc is a good idea or whether I should spend time on building a product instead. I'm not sure whether customer development methodology applies for an existing market with existing competitors.
I was surprised at how CS Theory oriented they are in hiring. My technical interview went like a CS final exam. I don't expect that I will apply to Google again. If I was interested in CS Theory I would have got a masters in CS. They have to weed people out somehow though.
We already have a nontrivial number of women only events in technology. What's wrong with a men only event?
Linking to this will probably kill this guy's server, but there's an interesting flow chart of semiconductor company inheritance in the article: http://steveblank.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fairchild-sili...
Actually, their "winning" is a lot more than $65M. They took $20M in cash, and the rest in facebook stock, which has increased from the 15B valuation to anything from 50B to 70B now on the private secondary markets.
You Know What's Cooler Than 65 Million Dollars? 6.5 Billion Dollars!

On a serious note, I kind of wonder if there is more to this story than just mark stalling the twins. e.g., they claimed on a show that there was much more than they could talk about due to the settlement -- such as mark using the ConnectU code.
Sorry for the late reply.

That's an interesting question - would a unit test prevent this error?
To answer this, let's consider what happened: the database didn't respond in an appropriate way, and probably returned an error. I'm not exactly sure what exact error was displayed, but WordPress has caught this situation, and handled it the best it could - displaying a proper error.
I would write a unit test for this exact scenario - using a fake (mock) object, simulate the database timeout, and make sure that the error was caught and handled appropriately. Other then that there's no real other way to gracefully recover.
Has this ever happend to anyone?

It happens to most people. Very few ideas are unique. In fact most aren't.

I'm also looking to avoid legal problems.

Is your product/service classed as competition or do they provide a product/service that's copyrighted?
The do have legitimate competition abroad and they just purchased Accoleo to get a physical presence in Europe.

Additionally, expansion in the U.S. is going to come at a higher cost as they battle for the lucrative vacation rental market with other well-funded companies like VRBO.

Airbnb is really interesting because their relatively agnostic platform can hit a huge market - couches, single rooms, apartments, houses, boats, independent hotels, etc., along with a lot of international markets to play in, whereas competition has generally been more focused on satisfying a specific segment.

I'll be very curious to see how this company's next series of strategic decisions play out, given this very nice Series B.
Funny, there was an article earlier on HN arguing about the merits and usefulness of studying philosophy....and in a CS/AI context:

http://chronicle.com/article/From-Technologist-to/128231/#

Maybe I'm biased, but I tend to find the arguments of a computer scientist much more compelling than that of an investment banker. Or anyone else versus an investment banker for that matter :)
Let's also ban anyone with darker skin from attending because we know that the typical gamer can't help but use the "N" word too. Brilliant reasoning.

Edit: Did anyone downvoting me bother to read the article? This is exactly the reasoning they are using to ban women from this event.
It happens all the time. Actually you should be worried if it doesn't exist (it may mean there's no market for it - however another website doesn't imply that there's a market, but it's a clue). Also, you will know what to copy and what to do better!
Yes -- one could argue this opens the door for other bad behavior at OSCon, since it's not on the (new) list of things not to do.

That's the problem with putting these things in writing -- the more rules you write down, the stronger the impression that whatever's not on the list isn't against the rules.
That would be resounding yes. I have over ten years of experience in my market, but I still learn something every time I talk to a potential customer. Talking with customers will challenge most of your assumptions, and we can all use a little time outside our bubbles.
Reading the headline, I was hoping this was a ruby-debug console in the localhost browser for the current request. Perhaps that can be shoehorned into rack-webconsole?
Because the only reason they are doing this is because they can't be bothered to force their male attendees to adhere to a standard of common decency. They would rather remove the need for them to be good human beings. Also it is tantamount to blaming women for the men's behavior.

It is not uncommon for minorities in any group to be encouraged to show solidarity (women only events in tech for instance) while the same is frowned upon for the privileged majority.
I dont really see what they hope to achieve, i think they want 100% ownership of Facebook or something. 65 million is a nice chunk of change and its not like they were poor to begin with. You'd think they'd stop allowing this issue to control their lives and focus their drive into something more constructive. They're unlikely to topple Facebook, so why not pick a different industry and dominate that, its not like they dont have the resources or intelligence to be able to do it. If they could get over their egos they could become extremely successful.
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As far as I can tell, this is not in anyway affiliated with or sponsored by EA or DICE. Is that correct?

Just want to make sure people don't automatically leap on the BF3 link and blame the publisher or developer, when this appears to be a privately run event.
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If you're looking for great javascript books, I'd highly recommend 'Eloquent Javascript' by Marijn Haverbeke.

http://eloquentjavascript.net/

It's free or $14 on kindle. And it's brilliant.
Well, after reading what your blog is all about I can see why you did that. That being said, your strategy is based on "throwing against the wall to see what sticks" and I think there are much more efficient ways to make friends for common mortals ;) One of them is to target people you want to be friends with before approaching them (through meetups, common friends, etc.). I can say for sure that I probably wouldn't want to stay your friend after reading your blog just as I'm sure women don't want to be with guys who have their own "pick up artist" blog.
It'd be pretty silly for them to keep the ConnectU code in there, even if it were true. In such an instance, I'd expect that Facebook would've changed all instances of plagiarized code, and edited it out of their revision history.

Without any actual evidence in there, what case is there?
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I wrote an article on `find` performance a few years ago, may be useful to someone:

http://scott.wiersdorf.org/blarney/071024a.html

tl;dr version:

find examines each entry in a directory hierarchy; if the entry (be it a regular file, symlink, directory, device, or whatever) matches the given criteria, it will be printed. If no criteria are given, it’s an automatic match (and will be printed).

find evaluates its expressions in the order you specify them; by carefully choosing the order of the expressions, you can shave tons of time off the cost of the search and get your wanted results quicker.

As is true with most programming endeavours, a little investment up front in crafting the expressions will yield better results later. If you’re only running a find operation once, maybe you don’t want to take too much time fussing over saving a few syscalls, but if you will be running find frequently (e.g., as part of a cron, or some other regular occurance), do your disk a favor and let find skip as much as possible.
It appears that Yu's goods are genuine, whereas the other 2 were fake store with fake product.

"Yu’s stores buy iPhones, iPads and iPods from authorized dealers and sell them at the same prices listed on Apple’s website, said He, the manager at the Wu Cheng Road shop. Margins are low, he said."
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If they could get over their egos they could become extremely successful.

You think so? Personally, after seeing the situation unfold and the choices they've made, I'd be extremely wary, simply just on principle, of supporting anything they make.
IANAA (I am not an American) but it's an important aspect of the American legal system (as well as a political issue about state vs. federal government in the US).

Here's a chart that shows the differences between the state and federal legal systems: http://www.uscourts.gov/EducationalResources/FederalCourtBas... are many differences.
Oh that is awesome. I've wanted something like that.

Sorry it doesn't make money!
You also need to have some documents proving that you are qualified for the role. This includes diplomas, license, university transcripts, and a resume with relevant work experience.
I think you're narrowing in on the distinction I'm trying to make between a methodology and a tool there; writing tests before you implement a piece of functionality is a useful tool to have in your testing toolbox.

Labouring under the idea that Tests Must Come First (and everything I've seen, and everything I /do/ see now suggests that that is the central idea in TDD - you write a test, then you write the code to pass it) without pivoting to see that testing is a useful practice in so much as it helps developers is the wrong approach.
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Cool! Firebug for the frontend, rack-webconsole for the backend.
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Nice way to introduce Rack. Much better than the usual hello world.

I wouldn't use it for obvious reasons, but I like the demo.
Last time I tried Chromium, it used more RAM than Firefox for me for the same amount of tabs open. Maybe things have changed now. My laptop by the way is a 1.4GHz Celeron M with 768MB RAM
Men are not a majority in the United States.

No, but men are a supermajority among gamers, or in the tech community. That's what he was referring to.
I would first note that more 'voyages of discovery' were prompted by the desire to establish new or improved trade or resource exploration routes, and we've pretty-much established that there's no one to trade with and nothing to exploit within reach.

And I would like to see the cost comparisons, but I'd bet that just as pan-oceanic trips were an order of magnitude more expensive than explorations before, space journeys (especially manned), would require an exceptional economic incentive to be at all viable.
Of course, the fact that code exists in ConnectU namespace does not necessarily make it unique or valuable.

He lifted our entire DB layer!

Someone needs to tell these guys that they already won.
Minority status can indicate a power imbalance, not simply a numeric one.
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> read about it somewhere, called them Morning Pages, or something like that

AFAIK, it comes from Julia Cameron's book, "The Artist's Way".
Apparently this problem of fake stores isn't limited to just China; others were reported in "...Burma, Croatia, Columbia, Slovenia, Spain and Venezuela."[1]

[1] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/25/fake-apple-...
I suspect after a few percent get kicked out the other folks would improve their behaviour.
Did I say women were a minority in Texas or the United States?

We are talking about tech and gaming here. Are you seriously suggesting women are not minorities in either of those communities?
Argh - this is a really good point.

I'm from the UK, so I often forget that:
a) cell phones have area codes (unlike the UK),
b) area codes do not change when cell phones move, and
c) there's no way to tell a cell number from a land line number (again, unlike the UK).

Put those three factors together and you're right - the tool becomes far less useful for cell phone numbers.

I'll do a bit more investigation and see if there's a way to improve this situation. Thanks for the input!
A free preview chapter and review is coming...I'm still working out the details.

And...while JavaScript is the same...breaking down the nature of objects into small conceptual sections supported by executable code (jsfiddle.net) is anything but old hat. IMO!
Middle click (open in new tab). At least it's not flash or something where you can't do that. Definitely annoying though.
Sure, but you write /some/ tests first. And that means, if you want to do it meaningfully, that you either need to zoom down in to tiny bits of functionality first in order to be able to write those tests (see the isPalindrome discussion in the article), or you write a test that requires most of the software to be finished, or you cheat and fudge it.

Making tests a central part of the process because they're useful to developers? Awesome. Dictating a workflow to developers that works in some cases as the One True Way: ridiculous.
Too bad that "professional expert" website designer doesn't even follow 960px width, the entire right side of that page is cutoff in my browser.

Maybe it's because I use windows large fonts but a pro would have considered that. Actually it seems he uses 1000px image width so right there is a lack of understanding that 40px makes a big difference in adapting design to what the market will accept.
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You can work within TDD by just calling all code that comes before the tests a `prototype'.
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Yeah - its incredible when you consider just how much the cash, and more importantly the stock they've already gained is worth. They are like a patent troll in many ways - keen to exploit as much money from someone without having to put in more graft themselves!
I am intrigued by the overwhelming support for Homebrew here -- is there a web resource for package lists so I can see if it will work for me? I haven't been able to google one up.

I don't use macports a lot, I think the biggest things I have installed are Python 2.7, PIL, and Hg.
I think Google's on the right track - they're just optimizing for friends and families instead of brands. It's defensible to posit that the relatively high quality of Facebook's social graph is due in part to how strongly they validated identity in the early days (by requiring e-mail addresses from reputable universities). Further, it might not be realistic for a social network to pursue both the highly validated identity model (i.e. Facebook) and the wide-open, syndication-friendly route of Twitter simultaneously in the early stage.

There's room for improvement, but this has some of the air of the usual end-user indignation that a product doesn't have a comprehensive feature-set at launch.
As a point of contrast - I've been using OS X for about 8 weeks and I had some problems when first installing Homebrew (I do not remember the specifics, but I seem to recall some issues with installing iPython and the modules I wanted to use) - and since giving MacPorts a try I've really had no issues with it.

My only advice on MacPorts is to always do a dry-run before installing packages (port -y install), to see what dependencies will be dragged in - installing num.py wanted to re-compile a numerical computing package from scratch which I had to kill after a few hours of compilation (with no visible progress on the command line).
Fair point. Parent post removed.
Doesn't look like the URL is functioning ...
The guys approach to the problem wasn't smart enough.

Testing doesn't help you come up with good algorithms. It can help you with not messing up an implementation, though.
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> I can understand it doesn't suit all problems, and can potentially be a hinderance sometimes

Then why do it exclusively?

Testing is about helping developers, and recognizing that automated testing is about benefit to developers, rather than cargo-culting a workflow and decreeing that one size fits all.

Writing tests first as a tool to be deployed where it works is "Developer Driven Testing" - focussing on making the developer more productive by choosing the right tool for the job. Generalizing a bunch of testing rules and saying This Is The One True Way Even When It Isn't (I mean seriously, you continued to use it when it was a hindrance?!) - that's not right.
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Do we? What counts as "nontrivial"? No doubt there are exceptions, but women-in-tech events that I've experienced certainly don't ban men from attending (though generally not many men do attend).
Yeah, it's called geothermal.
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This is a great book. But its more broad than it is specific. Its extremely wide in its purpose. The intention of JavaScript Enlightenment" is to focus in on the nature of objects and the native workings of JavaScript objects. I don't see these books sharing the same purpose.
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How many actually ban men from attending? More to the point, how many ban men because the attending women just can't help themselves from being insulting and degrading to previous male attendees?
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What a terrible article, it completely misses the point that for many people there is no such thing as having a Single Real Name.
I'd say they already are. They've made a career out of suing Facebook, and a lucrative one at that. Its not great smalltalk when "what do you do?" comes up at cocktail parties, but they could always use their facebook money to throw their own party...

I don't think they are actually that involved. I'm guessing their army of lawyers are constantly thinking up ways to try to get more money beating this particular dead horse and the twins are just giving the nod. $65m already, why not?
"We gets hundreds of thousands of applications a year. Who else has that scale of a recruitment problem?"

IBM employs 400,000 people worldwide. Google has something like 25,000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_employees

Answer: A lot of people? Google isn't anywhere close to the top employer by size in the US/world (and even by number of applications, surely other companies get more).
No, it cannot.
Of the items you mentioned, only rent, electricity and legal/accounting services pay are paid for by overhead.

HR services are charged directly to the grant - if a grad student receives $20k in salary (+ health benefits), the university charges about $50k to the grant. The staff to run the machine, training and maintenance are not paid for out of overhead. Also, PIs need to do their own grant accounting.
I used to hear somewhat-reasonable cynicism over this, that the drug companies could just make some minor change (add more sugar) and repatent it. Did this ever work, and does it no longer apply?
Could you source that claim? Nortel should not have the power to unilaterally change the terms of license contracts.
Sadly bug fixing in corporations is all about closing tickets.
I know what you mean, I heard this guy was going to make some site called GesichtBuch, but some guy had already made MeineRaum before, and it was wildly popular,

Oh wait, that's facebook and myspace.

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Ask yourself, are you making this platform to make your competitor happy? No? Why is this a concern for your business?
TDD is new abstract concrete factory of super factories. People who get so caught up in an ideal, they lose focus of actually delivering solutions.
If we do vote online, we should receive some sort of confirmation number and be required to submit the number or token to a polling place to verify who we are.
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I can understand why some projects close bugs due to inactivity, but I was a little surprised to see that it was closed after only a month of idling.

Asking for a code sample test case in this instance is inappropriate, and IMHO is a lazy shirk of one's responsibilities.
Sure, if I can't reproduce the bug I'll ask for a test case, but in this situation it was not called for. That's certainly not how I'd treat a user who cared enough to submit a bug in one of my programs.
You will find that the Sikh and the Malayalis (colloquially, Mallus) were one of the earliest communities to emigrate from India. They've had the time to build a local base in a foriegn country and hence might seem like a difficult group for other Indians to break in to.
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