skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
while listening to the talk, I took notes. (Not exact notes, I probably reworded several things, hopefully not twisting the meaning too much.) Here they are, if you don't have time to watch the talk.

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Google, "where I work right now", they are doing great work to attempt to change the work. At least more than other companies.

I work on compilers. I like to work on big data, learn about data mining. Because even for compilers work I need to do large data analysis, and face
tremendous scaling problems.

Hollywood blockbusters summer 2011: why is this slide here? These summer movies are all crap, because corporates are greedy, they are incremental, not trying to shoot for real quality, real game changers. They chase money.

Except for "auteurs": people making money while keeping principle. E.g, Pixar. They show their passion, make every one look bad, but make money as well. Apple is also a great example.

Social networks; this is what I work on at Google :-( (lolcatz pictures on the slide). Is this principled? This is fun, and making money. But not principled? Is there anyone in this crowd not working on social networks? This is a hype. Why is everyone working on this? This is money chasing.

You are interested in social networks but when you are 60 you will be interested in your health. But then it is too late. You will wish we had solved these fundamental health problems when you are 60. These are hard problems that require math statistics and big data.

Human genome project: This will be an inflection point in human history. It is also a data-mining project. Reverse engineer the source code (genome) with respect to how treatments work/are-effective. The people who can solve it, data mining people, are working on crap problems, lolcatz social networks :-(

We need to change this culture. In this new culture: everyone is a mathematician. But how do we learn math and science? challeng to O'reilly publish books on math for developers. But, they already do. They have severeal stat and bioinformatics books. These books aren't selling. :-( They are trying to change the world, but we are not helping. Developer popular topics are javascript ipad, php, etc. :-(

Let's affect a culture change.
short-term: infrastructure and scaling
medium-term: math, data mining, bioinformatics
long-term: important problems

I had a midlife crisis instantly after rehearshing this speech once. I am not following my own advice. I had started work on math every evening. And I am officially quitting that social network job at Google. (Is he also quitting Google?)

This way I will be ready when we are in a position to face those important problems in five years.
downvote freely (but then don't laugh when watching Office Space).

If you have enough life experience, or read enough of Matt Groening, worst case watch enough Office movies/series, then you could suspect that bosses can be manipulative sociopaths, who do not deserve any professional courtesy.

BTW: most bosses don't fire f2f (Office Space), but with an indirection, through Human Resources Services (or hire scumbags, likeUp in the Air) [and then good luck, with your file].

I guess Steve had a reason to do this, and I respect him for having the guts to stand up in such a public way against dirty careerist office background politics, management decision support and calendaring theory.

Maybe this case doesn't fit, I have no clue (in my experience, it can be the "right thing to do" in large organisations detached from true ethics). But if Steve felt it this way, then it was this way (see Schopenhauer's most influential work, The World as Will and Representation)
Good luck. There's more than just the US patent system at play here.
That's a gross mischaracterisation of the situation.

The banking collapse was significantly due to a combination of over-weak market regulation causing a real estate market bubble and outright fraud at credit ratings agencies - I can think of no other term for securitising sub-prime loans into super-prime derivatives.

So, there's a major financial market crash / correction (significantly exacerbated by a very well known liquidity shortage due to institutions having to rebuild reserves and up risk factors), leading to a generalised collapse in revenues, government included.

If government is to 'live within its means' at such a time as some suggest then the spending cuts need to be utterly, utterly vicious, no way round it - cuts have to not just cover the reduction in revenues but also the increase in welfare payments, or would you rather have the suddenly poor and unemployed either starving or rioting? For the largest single player in the economy to make cuts on that scale at a time when the economy is already severely stressed, you bet the result would snowball and put the economy into an even more severe tailspin.

Which is why President Bush authorised the stimulus packages you're complaining about, which cost more on his short watch than Obama's rather longer period and yet which has still cost less than two other measures for which we should remember President Bush - top-end tax cuts and a war in Iraq over weapons that didn't exist and was pushed for after a terrorist attack by an opponent of the Iraqi regime.

All of which is on top of the limit being raised several times by Presidents Bush 1 and 2 and President Reagan, all of whom incurred significant debts. President Clinton, on the other hand, left a rising surplus which Bush took no time at all in reversing.

This whole debacle is idiotic and intellectually bankrupt pre-election grandstanding by the Republican leadership, who deserve severe electoral punishment for this absurdity.
And why is that? Do you hate it or like it?
This is great.

Is the size of the image adjustable? I'm developing an online text editor and this would be a great tool to display some kind of "page preview".
Easily less than 1%. The code is just the manifestation of the solution that I spent most my time coming up with.

I am actually annoyed when I need to use Java because it triples my typing time compared to Python.
That doesn't seem to be the conclusion of said experiment.
"In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent (26 of 40)[1] of experiment participants administered the experiment's final massive 450-volt shock, though many were very uncomfortable doing so; at some point, every participant paused and questioned the experiment, some said they would refund the money they were paid for participating in the experiment."
IMHO Milgram's experiment has more to do with obedience than ethics.
I'm glad we don't have to do that stuff anymore just to play a game.
It's certainly not a direct correlation, but it does help to sort the spam bots and people who created an account but never use it from the rest.

However, I did mention that the karma approach would not account for lurkers which was why I proposed the logged in method. There are many other interesting data points I'd love, but without pg releasing a lot of the info, it's tough (or in some cases impossible) to gather from public data.
There is a difference between programming paradigms and programming languages.
"I don't think that means what you think it means."

That experiment deals with ability to disobey authority, not with the basic goodness of the people performing the actions. Nearly 100% of the people performing the actions questioned what they were doing. That indicates they knew it was wrong, instinctively and didn't wish to do it. But we are well trained to listen to authority, and the authority figure was telling them to continue.

This actually backs up the idea that people are essentially good. But it also provides evidence for the idea that most people can be easily lead into violating their natural conscience.

Studies of innate "goodness" performed on children reveal that most people, from birth, have an innate moral conscience that we would consider 'good'. I'll see if I can find a link to back this up.

Here we go: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01human.html?adxnn...
Am ordering the book as well.

It always gives me pause: if reading self-improvement/productivity blogs and sites actually worked, they'd eventually have no audience.
"make -jN" is peanuts.

Now, "make -j" on Linux source tree is not something most machines recover from.
IBM Reinvented the Typewriter With the Selectric 50 Years Ago
People react wildly differently in different circumstances. This has been proven over and over. The Milgram experiment was heavily designed to influence how people act. A twist in circumstances can easily get 100% of people to do the "right" thing. If you only look at extreme cases like this, you won't get an accurate idea of human behavior.

I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of people, in normal circumstances, are essentially good.
I'm with you, but I'm not so sure that it's not that people aren't good, but that the human race is inherently selfish, and many of the good ones are afraid of conflict.
Amazon 7" Android tablet possible by end of Sept.
LulzSec's 'Topiary' arrested
This is such shitty reporting by TechCrunch.
1. The face detection APIs were new in 5.0 – although under NDA, they are hardly newsworthy, especially considering now that 5.0 has been in beta for weeks if not months.
2. Face detection is NOT the same as face recognition. There's an important distinction: The latter recognizes a particular face where as the former can only recognize facial features and detect that it is a face.
3. 9to5 published this story on Monday. It took TC 3 days to notice and rip it off? Lame.
I wish it weren't so that younger professors have to focus more on publishing than they do on actually teaching.
This is cynical past the point of healthy. There are plenty of sectors that would be revolutionized if smart people focused their attention on them.

You don't have to cure cancer; that's absurdly binary and based on fame. You can do less sensational things like invent a device that improves patients' lives using modern robotics and sensors. You can design a system for Alzheimer's patients that incorporates your knowledge of big data sets. I can't dream of all the things to improve, but your domain knowledge is probably tremendously useful in all kinds of fields.
I never heard him say "bio is only domain that is world-changing". But unlocking the genome would have unequivocal implications on quality of life and longevity for all of humanity, what is more important then improving someone's life?
The Verizon small bang
That talk had a really inspiring energy to it.

When it started I thought Yegge sounded nervous and jittery and seemed a little intense, like he had a chip on his shoulder and I thought "Oh boy, I hope he doesn't do a melt-down".

Then as the talk progressed, I realized he was just excited/nervous and that's how he talks.

He gradually hit his stride and the message that his talk was meant to convey slowly started to take shape for me... and it's a hell of a positive message.

It is a call-to-arms to give a damn and use our powers for the advancement of everyone. To stop spending out free time working on icanhascheezeburger SMS alert apps and pickup a book on mathematics, bioinfomatics, data mining and other hard topics and start learning.

It is a call to arms to send yourself back to school (in a sense) that don't be afraid to start learning about other topics that have always seemed interesting to you but maybe you figured were outside of your area of effect, e.g. "I'm a server guy, I'll never do anything interesting in 3D visualization!"

It is also a call to arms to make money and effect change with principle; like a Google or an Amazon.

You don't need to scrape every last piece of skin off of your customers hide in order to post big quarterly profits to be successful. You can develop positive relationships with your customers, employees and the world around you and STILL make the money necessary to continue growing an innovating.

The "quitting" part of the talk is unimportant, it was just his way of illuminating his point. The value is in his message.
I agree on the point that on average there may be some differences between genders when it comes to mental capabilities. That said the range that it varies from may be quite large for both genders and there is plenty of overlap to it might be quite small and their is little overlap. Even when phrasing this as a question when it comes to populations there is lots of wiggle-room depending on how the data plays out.
This story has been circulating the internets for years since the original article. Has there been additional research on the Pirahã?
So, in the end, if it affects less than 1% of your time, language choice is not such a big deal for you, right?
That is what I though.
I don't live in fear. But I'm not going to go stay with random people thankyou. They might be in a cult for a start.

I'll take my hotel room thankyou.
This isn't exactly a new idea; S/Key used the same approach to creating memorable hashes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skey
I'd argue that the existing system does just that.

The big boys have portfolios of patents that they fling at each other until some sort of cross-licensing deal is reached, whilst smaller players just have to cross their fingers and hope that nobody decides to tax them too extravagantly.

I omit the possibility of creating non-infringing products simply because it's virtually impossible to bring any meaningful product to market without infringing on somebody's overly broad patent.
One of the few articles who recognises these patent law suits as what they are: means of gaining leverage and cutting into the winnings of other companies in the same market. Also a lot of references to further reading. Great article!
There are very few opportunities for Linux users to buy games?
Or the simplest explanation is that they wanted people to install Chrome to be able to see it.
Worse? That is exactly what we have right now!
One of the best TAL episodes in recent memory.

Absolutely. While listening to it, one of my thoughts was "I can't wait to read the discussion of this over on HN".

I'm going to use this opportunity to remind people to donate to their local public radio station, TAL/WBEZ Chicago, or both.
Google is sexy now (Tom Anderson)
On the plus side it only adds 2% additional time to a given project.
Apple's officially over the optical drive, for better or worse
Why would you ever rent your place, important valuables inside the property, without being home?

I can understand leaving the place empty of valuables and renting it remotely, but to rent your primary residence while you are away is incredibly foolish. I just don't get it.
Sticks may be fine, as long as you don't use it to play fetch with your dog later:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=hhYJAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&...
Wow, Dave Carvajal,
That was a name I was hoping I would never see again. I actually worked with him for a while at the ladders, and after every conversation with him I felt like I needed to take a bath to get the slime off.
LivePlay: Access and Share your Photos and Documents.
The cycle of life, or school as it may be. You have the freshmen, then come your sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Of course the freshmen are going to be immature. Yes, and the sophomores are going to be struggling to identify with something; new web fads. Juniors and seniors then become old people, "get off my lawn" type. But there is no real way to sort out the cruft. We are all in the same "class"(internet). I like to think of repost as re-education.
Ask HN: How many hours have you spent programming?
I just got done reading about the 10,000 hour rule in "Outliers", and I thought it would be interesting to find out how much time people on here have spent programming. Try to also include your skill level and what age you started programming.
The worst edited my CV before sending it to companies without telling me first

This is what happened to me when I first graduated from University. I showed up to my first job interview and they started asking me questions about my 4 years experience with Oracle and 6 years experience working on an open-source project that was critical to their business.

It left me shocked, depressed and seriously wondering if this is what it takes to get a job after graduating.

Luckily I had some other interviews at companies that I organised myself. Things went a little more smoothly.
Interesting. I can't see the upvotes but your comment didn't go gray on my downvote. I guess the YC/Airbnb/"laws don't apply on the Internet" fanboys are out in force just like I expected.
Wouldn't the drives have degaussed by now?
As others have noted, it's because Apple decided to get their hands dirty first claiming intellectual property with ridiculously broad patents. In that sense HTC is being perceived as defending itself to the bully on the playground by throwing back punches.
Excellent article. I've also noticed that Google+ is giving Google new life, and it's like they're starting over. They're redesigning all their products and services with the Google+ style, and hopefully Android 4.0 will get a bit of this style this fall, and they're going to integrate Google+ across all their services.

Because of Google+, they're starting to become a "media darling" once again, and they look better even if the eyes of some bloggers that love Apple. I think we'll see a more positive tone overall on the web about Google from now on.
I have seen a Meth head steal something from someone, and then politely offer to help them look for what they just stole from them.
Including oil in inflation costs distorts the picture though.

The standard response to inflation is to suppress demand within the economy to make price rises unsupportable and dampen things down. When the inflation is due to factors that are external to the economy though, such as a global spike in commodity prices, this measure is largely ineffectual; the dampening effect on global market prices is insignificant compared to the dampening effect on the internal economy. You only end up suppressing your own economic growth to your own cost while seeing a small at best effect on inflation in the commodity that was causing the inflation for which you're trying to control.

Oil prices are rising for perfectly sensible global reasons, get used to it. This is causing inflation you can't control and which the economy can't afford to compensate for; your standard of living will drop. If you want to avoid this, work harder to earn more; it's the only way out.
If I owned a home, I would seriously consider paying for that fiber. As far as I know, there are no providers that will let a private party run their own fiber.
I found this article linked within on the cult-like hedge fund Bridgewater Associates that subscribes to "radical transparency," pretty interesting as well: http://nymag.com/news/business/wallstreet/ray-dalio-2011-4/

"Transcendental Meditation informed his belief that a person’s main obstacle to improvement was his own fragile ego; at his firm, he would make constant, unvarnished criticism the norm, until critiques weren’t taken personally and no one held back a good idea for fear of being wrong."
You might as well just take out "newspaper" and put (arbitrary old model content industry)

The examples cited are endemic problems in leadership, organization and focus. I worked in newspaper for 6 years, then the music business for 6. There are really smart people in both industries, most of whom have left or are leaving because at the top, the motivation is to bolster justification for existence rather than innovate.

Its often easier, and more profitable to let the ship sink. Sad as that is.

Of note, some of my former colleagues at the paper have done interesting things, like Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand
caps on future spending and a balanced budget amendment is ridiculous grandstanding?

keep in mind the group that passed this bill were not in the congress 2 years ago, let alone 10.
Also keep in mind the republican leadership that was in office the last 10 years did not endorse or get behind the cut, cap, balance bill either. T
Why, it perpetuates the "My <pretend dev-time^> project" type submissions that I seem to be in extreme minority in hating, while adding just enough of a twist to seem forward thinking.

^I still don't understand why anyone cares how much typing time went into a project - large small cool slick boring complete incomplete pretentious humble whatever - and much less do I understand why that information belongs in the title.
As someone who was originally a science major, then switched to comp sci, I always get a romantic tingle when I hear about bioinformatics. Most of the science I've learned is gone by now, but I am sure it still there somewhere.

What are the good starting points for learning about bioinformatics?
Thanks DOS.
When I first saw a computer I thought it was a type of typewriter.
I'm using the latest Chrome. No image preview is showing up.
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if its less than 1% then why are you on this board?
I usually end up doing a lot of the thinking about the problem while talking to whoever is requesting it. That's the only way to guide them to easier, cheaper, cleaner paths. There's still a lot of finer details to work through, but it's usually enough to get started coding.
Totally agree. Causing problems for PayPal may cause relatively short term problems, but fixing the system is better for the long term.
Meet the Beetle
It's Amazon.com.
Samsung will soon be the new phone/smartphone king, to replace Nokia. Apple might take the smartphone king place for a quarter or two, but they can't compete with Samsung in sheer numbers, because Samsung is also making $150 smartphones, which appeal to a lot of people because of the price point. The new Galaxy S2 seems to to give the iPhone a run for its money, too.
Yes, I'm going to be that guy, but Google showed off face "detection" (not recognition) at Google IO, and in my opinion, in a fairly cool way.

Sorry that I actually read the source material (or is it merely that I implied that it's not some god send from Apple). The only conclusion that is supported by the literature, source tweets, or "revealed" API functions... indicate "facial detection". Not recognition as commenters here or the TC article imply. Maybe someone else has info they're not sharing with me.

Downvote away, feel free to actually indicate where this is new from information that was known or anything that supports the "facial [recognition]" that we're all speculating about. What a joke.
or the mpegla? not sure we want more of those.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=DlttAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&...

It appears that's allowable now, since the patent has expired.
I'm wondering if this will trickle into unlock screens and profile logins, I can only see that being highly frustrating. I have little faith in biometrics and can just imagine that not being able to log in due to having your angry face on can only become a viscous circle of lockout.

Then again, if you can teach it your intoxicated face then you could have a phone version of gmail's mail goggles.

On a more serious note, can anyone give me a practical non entertainment use for facial recognition in an desktop app? With the quality of camera it's likely to be working with in the near future there doesn't seem to be much scope for more than just 'yep, that's a face, here's roughly where the features are'.