skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think very many people around here have the kind of absolute faith in Google that you're talking about. Most often, Google is seen as the yang to Microsoft's (and increasingly Apple's) yin.

Google doesn't have too hard to be seen as the more ethical corporate citizen, given how low Microsoft has set the bar. Remember, this is the company that brought you such treats as the AARD code and the Halloween memos.
Well-written, interesting article. Worth clicking through and reading.
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You're right that the comment is in the positive now(unlike some other times) but the point count is still seesawing wildly.Since HN doesn't allow people to change their votes once cast, this only means that there are a lot of downvoters who aren't even replying. Because HN only allows people to downvote if they have atleast 500 votes, it means that these downvote-without-reply-ers are otherwise respectable members of the community. You can draw your own conclusions from this.
Yes, plus Linus is relevant and important for both linux and git.

Git has been hugely, positively disruptive in a way no Dvcs was prior.

And anyone (cnn evidently) that thinks Linux developers are fungible misses the point of having a fierce, opinionated, blunt semi-dictator running the show. Great things can happen. He's the anti-steve jobs.
http://cmus.sourceforge.net/
You think I'm enraged? I'm sitting here chuckling and shaking my head in bemusement at you.

> I'm surprised your so proud that your team will never have a free account on the largest repository of open source.

I'm not proud of it. When I say it's unlikely to change, I'm making a considered prediction. Don't confuse 'is' and ought'.

> Thats a rather baseless statement. What would you know about my ability to code or not to code.

It's not baseless. It's Bayesian statistics. They are enough sigmas above the mean that I feel comfortable making that bet. If you were to reveal your identity and it turned out you were, say, Guido van Rossom, I might lose the bet and have to update my prior.

> You mean people that are passionate enough about programming to voluntarily write code on evenings and weekend and share it for the broader community of developers

Nah, I mean people who assume anyone who isn't exactly like them must be a second-rate human being or at least a second-rate member of their profession. This is the same personality flaw that turns enthusiastic, inveterate puzzle solvers into the kind of puzzle-mad interviewers you seem to hate with a vengeance. Isn't it nice to find out you have something in common?
B. Reduce the term of patents to, say, 5 years instead of 20.
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The real point of this is: don't turn to CNN for your technology industry news.
B) Shorten the term of patents for software. IIRC, the current term in the US is 20 years - basically the lifespan of the internet to date. Software innovation turns much faster than that. A patent term of 5 years would allow serious patent filers to capitalize on the R&D, while providing too short of a term for patent trolls to get a return on investment when acquiring mass amounts of patents.
I looked at the demo site.

I know there are domains which call for Project Euler solutions.

Really. I do.

But I only run into "CS" problems about once a month right now. The rest of it is code cranking, talking with people, and working on deadlines.

I'm not saying that this is drek in the stream. It's not. It's just... not even close to a demonstration of what I can do for the company I work for.

Yes, I could work out these solutions. But (these days) I'd rather work on writing software rather than developing one-off algorithms.

(And of course this sort of thing tempts me to submit in Haskell or Lisp, because hey, more mathematical notation. And you probably don't want to read >>= or ))))), do you? ;-) )

I'd rather share my open-source code (it's on github and bitbucket!), talk about my prior projects, and present my ability to work with other human beings to get the task at hand done.

Yet- all that said - Best of luck, Interview Street. Anything that helps people connect with jobs they are suited for is a good thing in my book.
Although it's obvious they were wrong about Hastings in hindsight, I can't disagree with their reasoning (I'm guessing this was before Netflix streaming). And if Netflix hadn't launched a streaming service, it's clear that Hastings would be a nobody.
The Chinese description looks like machine translation.
It isn't evidence of that. Implementation in browser JS is in fact a reason to distrust a cryptosystem.
Fantastic podcast by history-phile Dan Carlin (also a political journalist, who does a fine job bashing both parties in reference to historical context, "Common Sense, with Dan Carlin" podcast)

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh
Death Throes of the Republic: The Fall of Rome

You will find so much fantastic similarities to our own downward spiral, re: military, political class of protecting special interests, where near the decline, voting blocks were outright purchased, etc. He brings together several historians, records, etc.

The entire series is wonderful, and you WILL find yourself spending way too much time on them :)
If a prospective client isn't willing and able to <i>enthusiastically</i> pay 1/3 upfront, you should run, run far away.

I wish you the best of luck in getting paid in full!
My Plan B: Only one parameter is changed, everything else stays the same.

The parameter that is changed is how long the patent lasts. And that is determined by the pace of innovation ("number of patents / yr") being awarded in that category. The more patents in software the shorter the duration of patents in this category.
Really?? It is exceedingly clear in the Terms of Service that you link to, where is says to "use your full first and last name", that the name "Doctor Popular" violates the terms of service. I think it is pretty clear what Google is trying to do here and to try and make your self sound like the victim here is disingenuous at best.

At this point if you refuse to use your real name you are no longer being persecuted, but simply making a choice not to use their services because you don't agree with their policies. Don't look for other peoples pity "Doctor Popular".
I actually agree with you.

What I was asking was: if you change Cuban's argument from "If you want to see more jobs created – change patent laws" to "If you want to see more prosperity created – change patent laws", would you agree?
> Seven out of ten isn't all that bad.

Actually, it's pretty terrible - bear in mind that they could have picked ten (reasonably well-known) people at random, and chances are 8, 9, or all of them would be "has-beens" in four years.
Need an iPhone app linked to local government data with where, when, HOW to vote, appropriate links to the various candidates, etc. Start at a local level, burgeon up. KickStarter or O'Relly Gov20 project. Would love to see this tackled.
> Actually, I would be happy with just one patent.

I nominate RSA, which is kind of the foundation of modern commerce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=4405829
Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?
Earlier this year, a MSFT advocate offered us a free WP7 smartphone if we would develop an app for their WP7 platform. We politely demurred as we thought the effort/possible download numbers didn't mesh. Not to mention, the headache we'd get (we're a small team) trying to context switch between Android, iOS, and WP7.

I've seen the numbers for smartphone usage, and I consider the News.YC community a forward-thinking, early-adopter crowd. What is the smartphone platform that you rely on a daily basis?

If you own multiple smartphone platforms, please only vote for the one you use the most.

If you don't use a smartphone, I'd be interested in why you do not use one - please comment.

If you chose WP7, please comment on why you chose WP7.

Choices from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone
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There are some people who do these kinds of problems for fun. As a recruiter, I know plenty of companies who would be interested in interviewing people like that, and this is one way to reach those people.
Why people gave you upvotes? You clearly stated that your reward system is not working.
what does it matter history has shown people will start over with whatever services are better or easier. if google falls you'll go with another set of services and the cycle starts over.
The B5K architecture is the prototype for what modern systems aught to be like. If I ever strike it rich, my next business would likely be reviving the B5K for enterprise. Think TCO,
enhancements to support dynamic languages, etc. Oh, and I'd use pascal style strings (32bit length field minimum).

The idea of an instruction set designed for the application is enlightened. Obvious yes, but not obvious enough for people to follow through with it.

EDIT: Also, this and the Carmack keynote in one day makes HN worth all the noise. This is what I came here for.
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Ignoring the TOS for a second, isn't the main part of the complaint that his entire Google account is locked out?

This isn't just a 'please choose a "real" name' for access to G+ ... it's 'you can no longer access any Google service'

Granted, it's as a result of his choice of his name, but everyone affected by this is amazed by how their entire Google life is put on hold indefinitely due to someone not liking their chosen identifier.
Interesting ... why would he bother writing the check after the fact?

If he simply refused to pay then it would seem to remain a contract dispute. Writing the check only digs the hole deeper for no benefit whatsoever.
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This is true. Uncertainty lies in discovering a large, highly motivated group of interesting people. Any ideas?
There has been no confirmation that W8 and WP8 will be the same OS, and in fact the rumors from quasi-reputable sources have been to the contrary: W8 and WP8 development are currently proceeding separately and WP8 is still CE-based; they want to eventually merge the kernels but that is planned for further out, Windows 9. (though I'd imagine whatever plans they have for that far ahead are tentative and probably open to heavy revision once they get around to actually working on

(a more realistic and interesting possibility though is that the new Windows Runtime/Jupiter framework in W8 will be ported to WP8/CE, which could make it easy to write (new) apps that work on both. There is some evidence of this in the leaked W8 builds as they include support for phone dialing.)
Hrm, this may help you / someone else get closer. This also relates to the 2,000 - 5,000 year subject:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.62....

from Google Scholar:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=all+living+hum...
What about loading Java applet (and communicating from JS) that handles all encrypting/decrypting? Would that take care of at least the latter concern?
Dan Carlin's series Death Throes of the Republic is also fantastic re: Rome's history and eventual downfall.

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

Edit: this was also posted below along with Ghosts of the Ostfront, brilliant as well.

For a fantastic dissertation on History, humanity and the overall pessimism of a historian (and, the discussion on systemic structures needed to prevent war (the EU as an example):
http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive/Show-25---The-Dy...
Are any of the patents currently being used in litigation against Android not bullshit? Really, is there even one?
Yep, I didn't find Rescuetime very helpful. I tend to think employee monitoring is evil and if I am personally not engaged in the work I am doing I would rather find engaging work than look at the time I waste on other things (HN, for example).

A proposed startup: web interface that would block all devices totally (or simply from the internet) for certain period of time. For instance, you could click a button when you get home from work that says, "I'm done for the evening" that removes all electronic distractions until some set time in the morning.

Possibilities exist on different devices for this, but nothing that ties them all together. Of course, it may not be that popular since not all that many people that are addicted to their devices treat it as a serious problem to be remedied (HN addicts included).
Yeah, I might have accelerated the timeline a bit.

Even so, I think it's clear that they're going in the direction of merging code-bases, and I'm certain that touch-screen Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps will be cross-platform and be based around the same high-level framework. It'd be insanity otherwise.
Yes; you could just use Bouncycastle's Java PGP implementation, which is probably the safest option.

But people hate Java, and it's increasingly disabled in browsers.
Yes yes yes. Further, I think 'safe' processes, languages, and approaches play a strong part in making mediocre programmers.
If you do, just clear the "read-only" and "system" flags from that file.
Oh I don't doubt that I'll be able to start over somewhere else, but this event would be the first of its scale.
Google own/hold more of my identity than any other online system/organisation ever has - something I'm sure is true for others too.

Moving to other providers, after having invested so much time and effort (for better or worse) into the almighty GOOG would be a massive pain for me, a techy, let alone for those not so inclined.
I can't imagine having to walk through the Yahoo! Mail interface with my mother, for example :)
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I don't think the big tech companies would mind the nullification, would get a lot more objection from patent trolls and small companies that happen to hold a few key patents.
I'm not sure how relevant it is to the work that many web application programmers do every day, which fairly rarely involves algorithm optimization. I understand that there are lots of optimization heavy jobs out there, but I'm not really sure that it is important for many of us (esp. since there are lots of great developers out there without a Comp Sci training).

To the downvoters: Do you disagree? If so please tell me why.
I was assuming it's because it made me resort to the dreadful horrors of profanity, but that's a good question. Why does this quotation demonstrate why these stories should be flagged?
To the average reader of CNN, git is a piece of software they've never heard of, much less understand why it's better. Linus never stopped being important to the software community, but git doesn't make him more important to the non-software community.
Exactly, if they are routinely but independently producing infringing work that is evidence that the patent system is broken, not that they have a poor attitude toward IP.
Seriously?

"There’s been plenty of times one could take the easy way out. Dying like this is easy. Within 45 seconds he passed out from the pain of burning. Within two or three minutes he was dead from asphyxiation or his organs burning and the skin peeling away from his bones. Big deal."

I'm sorry, but after reading that paragraph I lost all interest in the article, and respect for the author, regardless of the "point" he was trying to make.
Was the patent really necessary, though? Wiki even mentions that it was only patentable in the US because of prior art, and likely would have been unpatentable if all extant prior art were known.

If anything, this seems like an example that argues the insufficiency of patents. If you invent something as important as RSA, you should be rewarded with a kingdom— and the information should be freely available to everyone. I'm not sure our compromise is doing the trick.
For other humor:
The Joe Rogan Experience (humor, drug talk, alt realities, etc.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/...

The Lavender Hour - comedians Natasha Leggero and Duncan Trussel. The ep A Tea with Reggie Watts and Hairy Gold are mind trips.
http://lavenderhour.com/ (horrendous webpage)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lavender-hour/id35058...

Mohr Stories (these give some great insight into Hollywood in general (the first two ep's), and tend to make me laugh out loud throughout. The Bert Kreischer ep is hilarious.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mohr-stories-smodcast.com...

I also like Adam Carolla, but pick and choose based on the guest. Its hit or miss. The recent Teller ep was great.
http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/2011/07/29/penn-jillette/
I think tech companies creating product based jobs is more economically efficient and leads to greater wealth than using those same funds on lawyers.
Well I thought the question was interesting because if that'd work, so would a native Web API.
A wise man, you are. Not another Facebook!

My network specifically scratches a personal itch by allowing extensive "profiling" of people in my social network. FB is focused on allowing self expression through an aging set of rigid channels (Wall, Games, Notes etc.).

My network will be based initially on letting you add to a user's profile with wiki-like ease. For instance, you'll be able to add private margin notes that only show for you on Friend A's profile. That's just the beginning.

Why people will use my site? Not sure, yet. More important is building a site I want to use! Hence my desire to add "passive" user profiles. This way, I can visualize my entire social network whether they exist online or not.
Does it show that he hates Christians? I would say it indicates he is strongly critical of the role Christianity has had on the world. The strongest that you could say is that it shows that he hates Christianity.

Hating Christians though? That is an unfounded allegation. For example, I hate all religions, including but obviously not limited to Judaism. However, if you said that I hate Jews, that would be slander. It is incredibly untrue.
Ask HN: What upcoming conferences are you attending?
I just found out about the strange loop, which looks like an amazing conference, but it's sold out. There are some upcoming Ruby and Rails conferences that are possibilities, but I'm more interested in attending conferences that cover topics I don't work with on a day to day basis.

With that said, what upcoming conferences or training sessions are you excited about?
A native web API would work! I think it'd be great if everyone could agree on some basic, high-level crypto functions, implemented in browser C, to expose to JS. You'd want the interface to look much more like Keyczar than crypto-js, though.
It'll be interesting to see what happens -- from a marketing and consumer communication/perception standpoint when Windows 8 is out on PCs, and the 360 gets its matching OS update as well. It won't be a perfect arrangement, but it'll be Microsoft's first cross-platform alignment to that degree in ages.
This is interesting because software is a composition in a computer language. So the OP has an interesting point there. Code and algorithms shouldn't be awarded patents just like you can't patent a musical composition.
People aren't pissed at Google because of they are trying to get into other people's markets.

Startups and developers are creeped out by of Google.

Follow me:

What is Google's product? Really, If you were to sell Google, what would you say it's product is?

Think about it long and hard, and what you end up with (I believe) is the world's largest trove of personal data and information ever accumulated: email, voice prints, search data, location data, music preferences, sexual predilections, travel information, etc... And, they have an insatiable hunger to gather more data.

How do they make money off if it? Right now... selling ads based on the world's biggest recommender system.

Couple that with Google's strict NDA policy which prevents Googlers from being out and about in the community talking about what they are doing, and people really get creeped out.

Google's IP restrictions essentially prevent Googlers from working on a startup in their spare time, because it would compete with their employer, whose mission is to "organize the world's information". Which makes a deafening silence around the Googleplex when it comes to spinning off startups.

Finally, the current interpretation of Delaware corporate law states that a corporation must maximize shareholder value. In the next 20 years, Google is going to have to start extracting more value out of this massive database of personal information they are assembling. And, Google's secrecy and self-isolation erodes trust. No one has any clue or guarantee about what Google is going to do next. It's impossible to contact someone on the inside if the Google behemoth blindly steps on you. They have no customer service to speak of.

This is why people in the Valley are creeped out by Google.
Sure, that's one possibility. Other possibilities:

Or maybe, just maybe, they didn't understand the pros and cons of rewriting a mature codebase from scratch.

Or perhaps they couldn't make the lisp code into an indecipherable mess that made them look intelligent for having written it like they could with C++.

Or perhaps they believed that too many parens would make the curly brace Gods smite them.
Oh, I see. I was struck by the direct phrasing of "You couldn't take the average number of pages", which made me parse the rest of the comment incorrectly.