skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like anything, there is a balance. A good part of my childhood was spent making rockets or transistor radios with my father, but it was always my choice. They never forced me to learn anything, and I found that when I was free to explore almost any subject, that was how I actually wanted to spend my time instead of playing and watching TV 24/7. The most important thing is that my parents supported my interests to encourage me to pursue them.
Well, you can view all of the comments you've made on Disqus-powered sites in one place, and I imagine that Disqus would very much like to become the Twitter of blog comments.
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Apple needed DRM at the beginning to get label deals. Now they don't.
I didn't really mention timescales, but in my case he added the various complications gradually over about 4 years. It was never something I sat down and "learned". Whenever I started to drift away via boredom, a fun new twist would mysteriously appear.

Love what you're doing w/ the gum machines -- think it's an amazing approach.
That happened to me too. I was testing an idea with AW and was banned for life, without having any chance to talk to a real person.
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This wasn't a change of an entire codebase, only one portion of it (the tag engine). But more importantly, when only 6 web severs are running stackoverflow.com there's a decent chance a non-triggered GC happens stalling the servers in rotation anyway, granted this lessens the chance of a user-facing stall overall. Also, it complicates the build processes since that queue of rotating servers out gets involved, for example if 3-4 are in a GC rotation then 1-2 are starting the build loop, you're running only on 5 and 6, while that's fine and doesn't even hit 50% CPU, it's a little risky. Worse is you have the very real possibility of taking ALL servers down during a build and GC combo, which we'd never want to happen.
Essentially, except that playing Anno 1602 doesn't feel like a chore. More like being part of a work of gaming art.
Indeed it would certainly make me not want to apply to the position. In my experience it is hard enough to maintain adequate professionalism in the 20 something caffeine crazed all nighter atmosphere of a startup. If it can't show a modicum of it in its official communication, I can already see the scenes in the office.

Also: I would try to hire flowgrammers because you know they are always in the zone.

EDIT: Make that flogrammers
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Ask HN: Examples of mobile web apps with good/clever UX?
Hey guys. I’m working with a team on a web app with a responsive-designed mobile component.

This is my first adventure with mobile design and I’m finding it hard to find good examples of UX for something more complicated than a brochure site. Right now I’m looking to iOS and Android apps like Airbnb’s and the processes behind them for guidance.

Any suggestions?
Sounds like a machine learning problem. Showing people the cache of really bad articles would lead to overfitting.

Making each user's vote a vector with the value of the honeypot formula determining its strength, and the vote total for any article a floor function of its total votes would be pretty cool, but might be too computationally expensive--certainly more so than the user-categorization approach.
The thing is, it's a professional relationship, not a friendship. If they need to fire you, they will. Sure, a friendship can form, but... I would say that true friendships are ones that have already weathered various changes of employer.
Agreed. I always took the term as mocking the mindset/appearance than anything else.

And these YC guys... they're just knuckleheads using the latest buzzwords. The "web scale" meme may fit them too.
Yes, think of internet explorer.

A decade later, many developers are still supporting IE6's peculiar dialect of HTML. And a few are still supporting IE5's even more peculiar dialect.
It's not really supervised learning. I suppose one could argue that the bootstrapping phase resembles supervised learning, since you are in fact measuring how well each user discriminates between honeypots and acceptable articles. However, after that it's more like unsupervised learning.

If I were going to use this terminology, I would say that implicit honeypots are a generative model that is bootstrapped via a discriminative learning phase.

And who is being fancy? It's not like those formulas are that confusing, are they? :)
That's the first thing that popped into my head. The worst part is I'm not even all that old, only 31. I had a serious reaction wondering if I would even consider working for anyone that posted a job ad like that. It gave me the same twitch that "rockstar programmer" does.
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That's because it's already an Office MANager.
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New TV serial is launched on Shant TV. Serial actors are all-knowen famouse armenian artists.
It is one of best serials helping people to be happy and enjoy their time.
As ramchip says below, there are a zillion reasons why high margins may happen, including some that are "good", and some that are "bad". All other things being mostly equal, I'd go for the guy who's not making as much money off of me, because that means that more of the value is accruing to me, rather than to him. Simple as that.
Essential reference material : http://bros.failblog.org/
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It means: hey bro, we got funding from stupid investors, so come join our startup and hang out on our sofas until the bubble pops.
I didn't even get that far. I had no desire to click the link.
If the software is executed by the boot loader (UEFI), before Microsoft's windows boots, that is not by any fault of windows.
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I certainly would like to see some more complete disclosure from dropbox to explain what's behind the experiences the Ed Bott relates.
Wouldn't mind one for kayaking in winter time either... Pogies are good, but once you get wet and cold, you stay that way.
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William Black, who was a lead investigator/prosecutor for the 1990's savings and loan crime spree, would disagree.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04232010/profile.html

When an investment bank packages up securities to sell and doesn't communicate material information to potential buyers (e.g. "the bonds are junk"), that's fraud. People committing fraud as part of doing their jobs are criminals.

When an S&P manager tells one of his professional credit raters not to request information on the loans underlying the instruments he's supposed to rate, what would that be?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-k-black/the-two-docume...
It might not on the face of it, but deep down someone that writes that has something where they think the best programmers are male.
I am currently attending college, and I can confirm that many at my age refer to a good girl friend as a "bro". It may be stupid and immature, but it is what it is. As other commenters has said, "bro" is describing the relationship and not necessarily referring to any specific gender.
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But they are not open to the public yet.
I agree that everyone needs time to unwind and I'll be the first in line for a drink or to hear an off-color joke, but a job ad isn't the place.
would you accept sissadmin as your job title?
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> No special powers other than helping to ensure their submissions are not 'honeypotted' and submissions contrary to their view are 'honeypotted'?

Please see my detailed explaination of why this is not a problem [1].

> I notice you're in AI, have you run some formalised tests on how such a voting system would play out?

No. If there is a top-tier conference publication in it, I would be happy to do some MC runs. That being said, this is not really a publishable idea unless I can actually implement it and measure the results somehow on a real site. :)

> Are there actually upvoting and flagging cabals in operation on this site now?

Probably not. There definitely are such rings on Digg and reddit (I know for a fact). This is a general system, so it could be useful on any social news site.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166548
It looks like the most recent test did not convince people, so I doubt this will be proved either way today.

In the past, they've not been very careful with measurements:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-controversial-energy-gen...
I think of Apple as akin to a warehouse club like Costco or Sam's.

These "clubs" sell a high margin membership, and you get to buy low-margin toilet paper 50 rolls at a time.

Likewise, Apple sells digital media, which is a relatively low-margin business. But by doing so, they get you to buy high-margin hardware and services.
10 bucks against.
I think it's more than a little sad that it's suddenly news the fact that a corporation did the right thing.
> No wonder it is used internally at Google.

Well, I think that's more because it was written at Google.
'Manage' comes from the Latin manus for 'hand'

Edit to add: 'Man' either started in Old English as man or mon, or came from Old High German man. In either case it meant 'human being'. It seems to have become male-only more recently.

Source: Marriam-Webster.
I'll bet he want to complificate the formula to look something more like

"P(H|Q)=P(Q|H)P(H)/P(Q)" where

H = "User upvoted a honeypot article" and

Q = "User's votes are not a good signal for article quality"

And a similar adjustment for flagging.
While the iOS bundled apps are usually quite good, what if you really don't like the built-in e-mail client?

I remember apps being rejected based on replicating functionality that already existed in Apple-branded apps. Is this still common?
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It's generally important that your coworkers know how to communicate via text...

There are words that work in person, at a party, after several drinks, among friends that just do not work in text. Good writers know that. Sometimes bad writers learn that.
Arguing against threaded / nested comments must be someone's sick joke.
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Really? The world of film is vast and wonderful. Perhaps you needed new (different) content more than a new TV:

www.criterion.com
Completely agreed.

A few years ago, I tried a virtual assistant and it never worked out. The types of tasks that I needed a hand with were not easily breakable without detailed explanations.

Then I was at an event last month and a flock of friends recommended one assistant in particular. I emailed her about availability and listed out the problems and roadblocks that I've hit recently. A few days later, we met over coffee and she pitched me on solving one of those problems for now with a hook to work on a few others as time goes on.

Three weeks in and it's working beautifully. Everything I've handed her just gets done. It's not a huge amount at this point, but it's a start.

If you're in Austin and looking for an assistant, drop me a note and I'll pass along contact info.
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There is no active patent pool for MPEG-4 systems.
If you read the recent thread about RMS you will see a large market exists of consumers who don't want the power to make decisions. They don't even want that option to be available. Quotes like:

- Why would I care? I don't know anything about what's under the hood and I don't want to.

- Apple puts DRM on for the user's safety.

- The days when every software users was if not programmer then at least IT guy in some sense are long gone. That model no longer fits the world.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163920
This was the killer line for me:

Further, three scientists calculated that, based on the diameter of the hose, the steam should have an exit velocity of 67, 76, or 137 mph. When Krivit visited Rossi, he took a video of the steam exiting the hose, which he said appears to be flowing at around 10 mph - the expected velocity due to the amount of electrical input energy.
Here are some good comments on polling on gun questions in the US: http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2011/10/don_kates_on_po.ph...

Bottom line: be extremely skeptical about any single poll; the willingness of people to answer questions like "Do you own a gun" appears to be a much greater factor than anything else in these polls. Which is one of the reasons I stressed "revealed public opinion" like what happens in the privacy of the voting booth. It could be the overwhelming factor in the changes plotted by Gallup starting in 1959 are only in the nation's Zeitgeist, the level of controversy of the issue, and people's reaction to a modern witch hunt.

The gun-grabbers and their cause is in such poor shape ( review the recent archives of this politically oriented gun blog: http://www.pagunblog.com/ ) that it's likely that recently many more people are willing to tell the truth in an opinion pool, something that wasn't so truth in the period after 1959. I again bring up the example of Massachusetts citizens voting down a handgun ban at the first height of their state government's anti-gun hysteria in the '70s.
No reason they can't do both, it increases security.
Security is all about layers. You fight malware where you can. You should never depend on any one defense, however strong it is.

>I think parent was wondering whether Microsoft should be more concerned with why their system allowed the rootkit to install itself in the first place

Short of iOS style lockdown, how do they do that? Even OS X and Linux can be rootkitted.
I see your 10 bucks and raise you 100 magic beans.
Any one know what the legal implications of using a free decoder for a patented compression format are? Products like flash make it seem free as Adobe pays a flat rate to the patent holders for decoding mp3, h.264, etc. alleviating their users from having to worry about royalties. But would using this decoder, though free and open source, be infringing a patent?

note: I realize it's not production code. I'm asking more about the concept.
Very nice. Too bad I spent 5 weeks rolling my own already.
This has more clout than you notice at first. For starters, it illustrates that satellites are really up there. I know, only the insane are Flat Earthers any more, but still, it's hard to imagine "from orbit". This kind of thing puts "in orbit" into the hands of everyone.
this is why I always use "looking for brogrammer or hogrammer" in my job ads
OT: "Facebook required to comment on TC?"

This is the first time in a long time I've considered commenting on TC (for the gawdawful headline typo) - and so just now discovered comments were not displaying. It then occurred to me it might have to do with my use of facebookblocker.

Yep. Turning off FBBlocker displayed the comments - and would have permitted me to comment. Sorry. Not interested in unifying all my visibility on the web. Am I the only one that is uncomfortable with this inescapability of to participate in web discussions?
Please spare us your pseudo-psychology.
You have a lot of time to decide, so why not apply to both jobs and graduate programs.

If you can't get a job upon graduation, then go to grad school. But know that graduate degrees (in computer-related fields) offer a poor ROI. You should probably only pursue one if there is specific research that really interests you and you don't mind being in debt for a while.
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Get a job. You'll actually learn more working than you will at grad school. The Harvards and Whartons of the world want applicants with industry experience anyway, so worst case scenario you go back and get a masters in 3-5 years.
I can't believe we're having this conversation.
To put things into better perspective, here is the letter from the B&N CEO that was sent out some weeks ago informing Borders' customers of the acquisition of some assets. The sale was approved by a federal bankruptcy court.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/container/stores.asp?PID=39742

I think that they've done a fine job with disclosure and much better than many companies have done.
Use and distribution of implementations requires a license (though, curiously, x264 seems to get a pass), so using the decoder will require a license as with using a closed-source one.
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It's a big reason I'm not trading in my netbook anytime soon.
"Ok so you don't like electronic dance/club music. We get it."

I think what he meant was that the act of mastering popular music often isn't exactly a subtle process. During mastering they try to make the music as loud as possible, reducing dynamic range in the process.

"With the advent of the Compact Disc (CD), music is encoded to a digital format with a clearly defined maximum peak amplitude. Once the maximum amplitude of a CD is reached, loudness can be increased still further through signal processing techniques such as dynamic range compression and equalization. Engineers can apply an increasingly high ratio of compression to a recording until it more frequently peaks at the maximum amplitude. Extreme uses of dynamic range compression can introduce clipping and other audible distortion. Modern albums that use such extreme dynamic range compression therefore sacrifice sound quality to loudness. The competitive escalation of loudness has led music fans and members of the musical press to refer to the affected albums as "victims of the loudness war"."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
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I was in the same situation 3 years ago.

In short, I'm happy I chose a job. Granted, I was lucky to get one that is doing work I consider meaningful. But having that job has made it much more clear to me what I'd like to do in the future. The MS I'd apply to now is dramatically different than the one I'd have applied to before having the experience. Which is a good thing I think.
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"Do we want to be a community which actively cultivates a 'no girls allowed' policy?"

That's not fair. An unwise attempt at humor isn't actively cultivating such a policy. It may be inadvertently fostering such an environment, but so many comments are busy casting aspersions on the job poster without addressing that issue.
Sort of. It does have some publicly-traded shares but the Ochs-Sulzberger family has majority control and their shares are not publicly tradable.
Before Android took over the market crown, RIM held the market crown.

Sure MS might not have a viable presence in servers, but if they are making more money doing it than anyone else... by definition, they are winning. They aren't going to pack-up a billion-dollar-per-quarter sector of their company because they don't have the market share numbers they'd like. If anything, having such a successful business with such a small market share represents potential growth.
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I drew a different conclusion when I got that email from Barnes & Noble. While I dislike B&N buying Border's customer list, B&N was transparent about it and pre-emptively offered a clear opt-out before they started sending advertising material. The opt out process tried to convince you that being on the list was worthwhile, but also made it clear about how to finish the process.

B&N did something shady, sure, but in very plain language told you what they'd done, how to be removed, and during the process suggested why it would be worthwhile to be on their list. Their transparency is respectable.
I really think this is a douche term to be honest. What's next, "coder's shore ?"
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For reference: drilling for oil or natural gas also causes earthquakes. For example, many (even most, I think. http://www.knmi.nl/seismologie/aardbevingen-nederland.html has a map of the last 30; most are up north beneath the Slochteren field) earthquakes in the Netherlands are caused by the sinking of the earth's surface due to removal of natural gas.

It also is important to notice that earthquakes need not be disastrous. The largest of those 30 was a magnitude 4.5 a couple of months ago. It made the news.
I almost stopped reading the ad at "we like to party". I did stop reading at "get crunk".

Serious, that's how they're blowing their startup money?
"If the software is executed by the boot loader (UEFI), before Microsoft's windows boots, that is not by any fault of windows."

That's what it does after it gets installed. It got installed by attacking Windows itself.
Wow, that seems like an amazing price. I wonder how bad the network really is? Surely you can't go wrong for a small startup / hobby site at €49/mo
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The vacuum is the key to the whole thing. The blood vessels in your extremities are very good at contracting when they get cold, to help preserve your core temperature. The vacuum draws them back to the surface, meaning you can cool much more blood more quickly.
maybe they are going for cultural fit, first and foremost. if you were offended by this job advert, it's likely you wouldn't be a good fit. why hide company culture by writing a stiff and sterile ad? i'm not saying what they did was good or bad, unless they are actually breaking laws in the post--then it's bad. other than that, if you don't like the way they phrased things, don't apply.
Any hints as to what kind of work you're able to pass over to the assistant? I just can't see myself working something like that into my life.. but it could be interesting.
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How can you be a 'bro' and not be male??
Strange -- because after I play video games for a while, I have to warm my hands to regain my reflexes -- which aren't very good anyway.
This is a bit tin foil hat. They're a book store, borders was a book store. Cross business customer relevance couldn't be higher. They offer a simple opt out.
I was referring to the following:

"Compare that with getting a Mac to print to any printer that wasn't specifically designed with macs in mind... torture."

Like you said, printing is not a problem in OS X. As for the other functions of a MFC, I agree: it's hit-and-miss. But that wasn't what OP was complaining about.
I think the term is being used to note that the price is artificially high - supply is virtually limitless once the first copy of the song is created, so the price should approach zero.
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My particular task was logging business cards, collecting my notes into my CRM, and then flagging each one for follow up.

Life changing? Probably not.. but immensely helpful. And now I don't have that growing stack of business cards staring at me.
It was my understanding that they bought Borders, and the list came along for the ride. As one of the assets of the company, and since everyone opted into the list, it doesn't violate CANSPAM.

They are now giving you a very visual notice that you can opt out.
>Google is a publicly traded company, their first duty is to their share holders.

I'm a shareholder. It's not much, but it does imply a tiny bit of ownership. And so, as a shareholder, I want Google to be totally righteous even at the risk of going bankrupt.
To SamS and the SO team: what drove the choice to Free Text Search? Any other options evaluated at the time?
It's the second wave of the Ruby on Rails "rockstar development" thing that more or less died a death a few years back. Very sad.
http://pttrns.com/ & http://mobile-patterns.com/ have screen captures of top apps, grouped by pattern, like Activity Feed, Sign In, Empty Data Sets, etc.
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