skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew I'd see this comment here. Not all man pages are easy to read. The git man pages seem to be more focused on consistency and preciseness than readability, which is a great thing! However, newcomers may not be able to interpret the information into practical terms. If I were to describe 'git push' to a novice developer, I wouldn't say "Updates remote refs using local refs, while sending objects necessary to complete the given refs. ", even if that's exactly what's happening.
It's dead - probably because multiple ordinary users flagged it as off-topic, possibly based on the title alone and without even reading it.

It happens. A different title might have seen a different response.
The other thing that is interesting is:

"Android and iOS are covered tons in the media, and Windows Phone—surprisingly for a Microsoft product—seems to have missed the boat on brand awareness. An embarrassing 45 percent of consumers surveyed by NPD said they were unaware of Windows Phone 7.

And among the 50 percent of consumers who said they will be buying a smartphone, but didn’t want to buy a Windows Phone, the biggest reason, accounting for 46 percent of respondents, was because they didn’t know enough about the Windows Phone OS."

Basically if you know about WP then you'd consider it. But nearly as many people don't know about it at all as those that have heard of it.
I'd go with this one: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/index.php?title=Garden_of_Ede...

It is the smallest Garden of Eden, is rotationally symmetric, evolves to nothing, and looks cool.
the OP explains it all quite clearly - you should reread the post.

But in a nutshell his point is that by its very nature GPS data collected over a constant time period cannot be anonymized. If your car is located >50% of the time in one of two places, chances are one is your home and one is your office. I now know where you live (and thus your identity) and I know where you work.
I really saw the hostility start to show when Google required "real names" with G+. Before that I don't recall as much hostility; at least not more than any other large company would receive.
As a designer, the prospect of a service like this is exciting. Crowd sourcing sites like 99designs (as well as sites that focus on spec work) often turn out to be a waste of time where people want more designer hours than is ever reasonable for the amount of money on the table.

Don't get my wrong, 99designs is a great way for new designers to cut their teeth, but something like this seems better for those designers who are already more established.
I think that there is a perception that Google is turning to the "dark side", whether true or not. Recent examples include: Android isn't open enough, Google wallet is going to be used to track you, G+ puts you at risk of losing your Gmail account, and so on. I happen to agree some of the points that get raised regarding Google. Whether or not they're "bad guys", is something I'll leave for others to decide.
I love Google+. I have an Android phone and an Android tablet. I live in Google's world and I love it. I'm very excited to use the new Hangouts, too! However, my girlfriend has an Apps account. So our online lives are now totally separate - I don't see anything she posts on Facebook and she doesn't see anything I post on G+.

And that's where a lot of the bitter comes from. Google's built an amazing product that many of us want to use, but they've screwed up a lot of "small", separate things - so that pretty much everyone has been hurt by a policy, be it the Real Name Fiasco, No Paid Users Fiasco, No Friends Allowed Without Invites Fiasco, etc. It seems like they went out of their way to piss off every single user in a different way.

I love the product Google+, but I can't stand how they're handling it.
I'm not sure I get this: you are saying that I basically have to pay 100$ to have my job offer sent to the designers you have on your site?
This is EXACTLY how I feel. I don't need a lot of introductory chapters dedicated to first-class functions, closures, and higher order functions like map/fold & friends. So much Scala material is clearly targeted at Java programmers and leads with something like "look no semicolons!" I want something like "Scala for Lispers". (or even "Scala for Ruby programmers")
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If you are lazy, you can get the functions coded in PHP here:
http://abtester.com/calculator/
Point taken. The title of the post has been updated.
[edit: actual explaination and not just an example]The following is an example of what doesn't make sense to me. Although, I realize that this could be explained by flags that I'm not aware of.

47. Ask HN: Does anyone use Opera browser?
3pts/54days

56. Ask HN: Media Temple
3pts/796days

60. Ask HN: What is your impression about new friend list feature in Facebook?
5pts/2days
What Netflix Could Have Said This Week
Normally I'd agree, but 0% to 44% is a huge jump. I'm finding it hard to believe.
That shouldn't be too strange. I'd consider buying one, and I don't use many MS products. No reason not to evaluate it in a purchasing decision.

All things being equal I'd probably buy another Android device, but I'm not zealous enough to say "if MS makes a better product I won't buy it!" (Though if you do say that about Apple or Microsoft, I can understand the sentiment...)
Facebook has had privacy since the very beginning. Only friends can see what you post, by default.
I'd argue that software is never your business. People use your software to do something. Understanding that usage is your business.

Perhaps it's semantics, but I think it bears repeating.
I'm a Web Developer
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E.g.: Facebook did not have to go get approval from the government that they could run Facebook. And since there was no license involved, there was no limit, on say the number of users, etc. Pretty different from pre-liberalization India.
On the usefulness of mailing lists: when I'm stuck on something, transforming the problem so someone else could understand it usually leads me to a solution. So many times I've written up an email asking for help, and then scrapped it because of a new insight while writing.
There's a simple solution to that: don't give a stream of location data. Chop it up into 5-second fragments, and fuzz the data by a meter or so to prevent re-assembly.

That would still be a very valuable dataset (for me at least), and almost completely free of PII.

Than again, I'm not an expert in these things; am I missing some way that this could be deanonymized?
I am agree. Its a tension management mantra for me. When I feel something is taking more time due to a technical problem, I manage my tension by telling it to client. And they understand things.
The durability of tattoo's subject does not matter in the slightest if a tattoo is done to record a moment in one's life rather than to impress other boys in geriatric care. And that's exactly what this guy did.

One thing I would agree with you on though - what an odd typography choice. Why not a monospaced typeface?! :)
1. Phone network firmware is supposed to control the hardware. That's it's purpose. It's supposed to be able to turn the microphone on and off. On CDMA networks like Verizon, it should stop the user from attempting to access data when they're making a call. It should be able to be updated when the carrier makes changes to the underlying protocol(s). I don't see how this is "malicious" use, especially if it's a technological restriction on the carrier.

The network firmware having the ability to control the radio is acceptable. Having it also able to modify the main CPU's RAM and interact with audio hardware is not. Control of the audio hardware should be entirely the domain of the main CPU. The main CPU (or an auxiliary low-power audio chip under the exclusive control of the main CPU) should then send audio data to the radio chip/SoC component via something like I2S. That way the network firmware can only transmit audio when the user-controlled software on the main CPU says it's okay to transmit audio, and it only transmits the audio fed to it by the main CPU (which may or may not be coming from a microphone, audio file, Internet stream, etc.).
Disagree. Social networks are a social trend, they will all make a cycle. Google will attract a large number of people with old and tired facebook accounts with 5000 people they barely know. The freshness effect is significant, it's the online equivalent of moving to a new city. However, google+ still feels geeky, there are many corners that need to be rounded to make it feel like a fun place for everyone. Playing the "better privacy" card is not enough. I also suspect there will be a significant migration of Moms who will flock to start again their favorite games on the g+ platform.
other article by Steve Silberman ( December 22, 2010 )

"Meet the Ethical Placebo: A Story that Heals"
http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2010/12/22/meet-the-ethica...

about IBS placebo study:
"Silberman: One interesting aspect of this study is that it suggests that are two layers of belief in the brain — one that knows there’s nothing in this pill, and another that knows that a placebo can be an effective treatment. It’s as if the brain can entertain two different notions of the effectiveness of a pill at once.

Kirsch: Yes, but they’re not contradictory notions. I believe in both. I know that this pill does not contain a physically active ingredient, and I also understand the conditioning process. I know that the placebo effect is real, so I understand that this inert pill might help trigger that healing response within me. We need to recognize and understand that patients are active agents in their treatment, not passive. The placebo effect does not come from the pill. It comes from the patient."
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Google+ failed because they weren't fast enough at implementing ways to migrate my data from facebook.

Facebook's API is very, very easy to crawl around. Why was there not an option within G+ to migrate all of my data (my pictures, my status updates, etc.) from facebook to google?

Personally I ended up writing a set of tools to do this...but why did I have to? Google, what the hell?

I mean...cool product, terrible implementation.
I'm all for big screen, but 4 ft 7 inches is just too big. Titan is a good name for it. ;)

I suspect you mean 4.7" instead. :)
BB, sorry for the confusion, I was using your post as an opportunity to stand up on my soap box. I didn't mean to put words in your mouth.
We would only do the half day test with a subset of the candidates. A lot of people actually welcomed it - we would explain it was a way for them to also get to know us, see what we were like to work with etc.

A lot of people about to make a long term commitment to a company also want to make sure the company is right for them. So this was a good way to get to know one another.
I always find these cases strange given that in court you can overturn a speeding ticket if the police officer can't provide a certificate of calibration for his speed trap device.

To apply the law equally, the driver can't provide a certificate of calibration for his GPS device so legally he's unable to prove that his GPS is giving an accurate speed measurement.
To me it seems like HN comments have been getting more hostile in general. More often than not the topmost comments on a link now are pretty negative (in my subjective opinion).
If I recall, this was in the late 60's. So. Umm. Ya. I think they were still using slide rulers.
"I'm more interested in knowing what PgSQL does better than MySQL today, in 2011."

The most striking difference[1] is probably the cost-based optimizer and the availability of a lot more execution plans. Most often cited is that MySQL has no hash join, but there are lots of plans that make a huge difference in execution time, and (for the most part), mysql just doesn't have those execution plans available.

And these are algorithmic differences. Typically, you think of optimization as something that does your same algorithm, just a little faster. In a SQL DBMS, optimization means choosing a better algorithm.

And it's hard for MySQL to add new algorithms because it doesn't have a cost-based optimizer, so it would have no idea which ones to choose.

[1] There are lots of other differences, but sometimes differences aren't easily represented as convincing "check-mark" features. So I really think you are asking the wrong question. The right question is: if I were making non-trivial application XYZ in postgres, how would it be done (from both dev and operational standpoint)? And is it easier to develop and smoother to operate if I do it that way?
I thought this trend would have stopped when they integrated google apps with regular google services. I guess not. I still have yet to try G+ because of this.
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This is motherfucking awesome!
Google+ Now Open for all
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No, it's pretty clear (if you've been following this story) that this guy is being about as deliberate as anyone can be within reason. If he fails, the "10,000 hours" claim will indeed be in serious jeopardy. One data point, sure, but if the first data point is hard-won and correlates to "theory==wrong", few will take it seriously enough to make the second data point happen.
They 've released a hangouts api, yet there's still no way to retrieve someone's friends? (or is there such an API? couldn't find it). Come on google, we haven't got all day!
is this basically the same as https://tinyproj.com/ ? it was on HN the other day.
It would be wise to note that G+ achieved 10 million+ users in a matter of weeks. Comparing Facebook and Google+ along similar time frames shows that Google+ is doing phenomenally well.

The comparisons aren't really that important (to me at least). It's possible that these products can (and will) coexist. What is with the need to pronounce a winner as soon as possible? A product like Google+ is going to take a while to gain a user base and mature (just like Facebook). Launching in the shadow of a massive competitor (just like Facebook did VS MySpace) doesn't call for an instant death-knell.

I'll repeat something I've said here before. People said the same thing about Chrome weeks after it launched. It. Took. Time. How about sitting back and letting things shake out a bit before pontificating?
I need randomness in my life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Long live the PC!

I'm as tired of these proclamations an anyone else. But MS does seem to be in trouble long run, because its business model has been disrupted. Even if Metro is a wild success, it will be on devices that aren't expensive enough for them to command the margins of traditional Windows/Office.

That said, I find Metro to be very interesting, and might even dovetail with this in some ways: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9325300749/a-different-kind-o...
Will Demand Cause Silver Prices To Explode?
Welcome to the genomic revolution (TED video)
If you have some time, read "Warrantless location Tracking" 83 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 1324 http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv2/groups/public/@nyu_law_websi...

A common step in police investigations today is to secure a court
order tracking the movements of a suspect or anyone else whose
location the police believe useful. The flip side of this
powerful tool, though, is how revealing and intrusive it is. Few
people would be comfortable being followed by a police officer
all day, even if they did nothing illegal or even interesting.
Justice Brandeis once invoked the "right to be let alone," and
undetectable location tracking pressures the alone part: No one
is "let alone" if the police may, without notice or probable
cause, find out everywhere they go for a day or a month.

It's a good, if disturbing, read.
That's why you don't give out your e-mail address.
Absolutely, productive people are very important. Especially in early-stage startups, where nearly every day feels like all-hands-on-deck.

However, productivity comes in multiple forms -- just depends on how you measure it. Because of the limited resources in early startups, people need to fire on all cylinders -- productivity and smarts.
Twenty-two Americans get $500,000 "genius grants"
True...only in the cities.
Seems like the biggest difference is that this a curated list of designers, rather than just anyone who has signed up.
Opening a US Corporation: an Incorporation Guide for Foreigners – Part 2
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My current start page is google with instant on. But, interestingly, it used to be mint.com. I became very addicted to mint for a period of about 3 months. After that initial phase, I never used it again. Maybe I burnt myself out.
The countries I mention here are because they are directly above India on that list.

I'm hoping you are not trying to say you need a lot of natural resources and less population to be rich.

Singapore -> Almost no resources, pretty dense population. Singapore is much much ahead.
What does it even mean that they're "considering" WinMo phones? When I bought a car, I "considered" buying a Kia - I was aware they exist and of their brand, value, etc.... that doesn't mean there was any actual chance I was going to buy one. The only car brands I didn't "consider" were ones no longer selling in the US.
Mozilla wants to shorten Firefox’s six-week release schedule to under five weeks
I've found "Scala in Depth" to be really good for learning more about the type system http://www.manning.com/suereth/
OK, I have no idea why the "Media Temple" item is ranked so high.

Fer reference, reports of unexpected behavior are best received when they contain really, really specific examples, rather than just generic "I don't understand this" type comments.

I now leave you to people who might actually know how the system works.
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The article seems to imply that renouncing citizenship isn't that easy; particularly, they will still want you to pay back taxes.

I imagine that if you were born abroad you might not realize that you ever need to submit any tax documents to the US, and then I'm pretty sure they will want to collect money before allowing you to renounce.
These days, my github account.
I actually don't think it is entirely unreasonable to tax ex-pats, especially since the first $80K is exempt.

Agreed, though I think that 80k needs to be bumped up. As near as I can tell, it was made 80k in 2003, and the US dollar has changed quite a lot since then.
Maybe and maybe not. GPUs are good for problems where the appropriate data can be placed near the vector processor, a priori. There are many embarrassingly parallel problems where memory coherency does not exist, or where the input data sizes exceed what is currently available on GPUs, and for these, the bandwidth to system memory is going to be a severe bottleneck on performance.
That guy's Predator algorithm could very well have been an essential enabler for this. Previously you'd have needed humans to keep the crosshairs (of one sort or another) on the target.
Entreporn – NSFW
I don't think there's a "Scala for Haskellers or ML'ers". Try Tony Morris' blog, or maybe this draft book

https://github.com/leithaus/XTrace/tree/8498f3294c8e8e52fe52...

I haven't seen this book, the review war is unfortunate, but the one 4-star review seems credible

http://www.amazon.com/Steps-Scala-Introduction-Object-Functi...
I have not but now that I have I will use in conversation. It will make me look smarter than I am, exacerbating my own Dunning Kruger effect
"they can use questionable patents themselves to shut down competitors"

Particularly small competitors, who cannot afford to go into a legal battle with a large multinational. Android is kind of a special case in that Google has a warchest of patents and a lot of money. Most companies would be forced to simply roll over because of the expense of five years of legal proceedings.
For those who want to check part 1, here it goes:

http://myeverwrite.com/opening-a-delaware-corporation-an-inc...

It's about incorporation and 83(b) election.
Yes, that's basically the main difference. Also, unlike TinyProj you can browse profiles on Folyo, and contact designers directly if you want.

I know both concepts are very similar, but I can't help it if me and Kyle both had the same idea at the same time. Great minds…

But seriously, I think both services are different enough that they can coexist.
> While Linux is supposed to be open source

What an extraordinary statement.
I don't know about your experience, but for me there was a period when my privacy controls kept resetting to different defaults, as well as adding categories of sharing that defaulted to very open settings.
And did nothing with it! They eventually sold the IP to an asian company that, as far as I know, also did nothing with it.

That's why I fear for WebOS and its future. It seems like once an operating system is sold to another company, it often just dies. The one success story that comes to my mind is Nextstep, which became Mac OS X, but I think that its success has more to do with Steve Jobs than anything.
I can relate to this, but I can also relate to the other side of the question. Sometimes it isn't me, its you. Take someone who gets things done and suddenly in your organization they aren't delivering. Could be them, but it could also be you.

I had this experience working at Google. I had a horrible time getting anything done there. Now I spent a bit of time evaluating that since it had never been the case in my career, up to that point, where I was unable to move the ball forward and I really wanted to understand that. The short answer was that Google had developed a number of people who spent much, if not all, of their time preventing change. It took me a while to figure out what motivated someone to be anti-change.

The fear was risk and safety. Folks moved around a lot and so you had people in charge of systems they didn't build, didn't understand all the moving parts of, and were apt to get a poor rating if they broke. When dealing with people in that situation one could either educate them and bring them along, or steam roll over them. Education takes time, and during that time the 'teacher' doesn't get anything done. This favors steamrolling evolutionarily :-)

So you can hire someone who gets stuff done, but if getting stuff done in your organization requires them to be an asshole, and they aren't up for that, well they aren't going to be nearly as successful as you would like them to be.

The other risk is of course the people who 'get a lot done' but don't need to. Which is to say they can rewrite your CRM system and push it out to the world in a week but only by writing it from scratch.
That wouldn't prevent it but it would make it much more difficult. Although, I suppose you could automate the whole thing, right from the stealing of the credentials to the booting up of 100 new instances and adding them to the ddos cloud.
I wonder if this has ever been done, or if the number of AWS users is just too low to make it worthwhile (like the old argument of why macs don't have viruses)?
The Linux desktop is dead. Long live the Linux desktop
That is a very interesting approach. I wish I had done that when I started playing.

I have been playing the game for 20 years. My father was a semi-pro tournament player and I picked up a lot from watching him. I quickly became a "natural" (I really don't like that term, I just had a good base line to start learning from).

For years I just went out and played and did fairly good. Better than average. This year I decided to really focus on practicing so I can get to scratch and the gains I've seen in the last two months are huge. This year I have gone from hitting a 5 iron about 170 yards to 200+, consistently.

Starting to learn the game from the hole backwards is a great idea. When my game dropped off for a few years I stopped hitting anything longer than a 5 iron.

I hope he succeeds. I haven't read a real passion for the game in the posts I've read, though. Does he love it? I believe talent = passion + time spent.