skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What are your Google nightmares and how did you fix them?
Anecdotally, there are a lot business owners, developers, and administrators that run into nasty issues with Google. The biggest issue seems to be Google's response time, which can be measured in months.

Witness the recent HN problem with crawls (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277661). My own was having a site de-indexed due to spam, but Google never getting around to re-indexing it despite a fast and thorough response on my part. It eventually required finding a contact within Google that make things happen.

So, HN, what nightmares have you run into working with Google tools and how do you avoid them and fix them?
Rules of Blogging: why they are so important?
Is it possible to watch the actual interview somewhere?

EDIT: So it's only available in the US? That's pretty old school.
Richard Sander and Jane Yakowitz

Abstract

If we study the forty thousand law graduates who join the legal profes- sion each year, how well can we predict their future careers? How much of their future is predicted by their social class? The law school they attend? Their law school grades? This paper undertakes the first in-depth examination of these questions. Drawing on several large and recently-released datasets, we examine the role of class, school prestige and law school grades on the career earnings of lawyers and the success of big firm associates in becoming partners. We find that social class strongly conditions who goes to law school, but no longer predicts much about post-graduate outcomes. Law school prestige is important, but it is generally trumped by law school performance (as measured by law school grades). Law school grades reflect both personal characteristics not well captured by pre-law credentials, and one’s relative position in a law school class as measured by pre-law credentials. Our findings suggest that there is little empirical basis for the overwhelming importance students assign to “eliteness” in choosing a law school.
The CI Train Has Left the Station
Jenkins continues to be the strongest CI offering and a very successful open source project. The community is thrilled to have RedHat is an active, supportive member, and that they have embraced Jenkins with their OpenShift PaaS. And RedHat won't be the last of the incumbent packaged middleware vendors to figure out the value that continuous integration and continuous delivery bring to the cloud...
Whether you like him or not, he runs a successful, profitable business--which is proof he has some idea what he is talking about.
Building a photo search engine in Python
Nov 4, 2011–Tebow Riddled with Guilt after Masturbation Session
How do you compare a flu to a hemorrhagic virus like Marburg or Ebola? The reason you shouldn't be worried about the latter is that they are transmitted via direct fluid contact instead of getting aerosolized like the flu. That's why they don't spread well, not because of the mortality.

You minimize something that is not natural (engineered to be lethal) that could kill several billion people. I wouldn't stand up there lecturing anyone about hubris.
I think having 10% as many StackOverflow followers as for C# is a big win for an emerging technology.
honest question: why are so many people hating on unity? is it the launcher bar?
Actually I wasn't being snarky. Stuff like this happens and many times the owner of the site doesn't know it since they are using a local cached copy from their browser as only one example or the dns is cached so they are the last to find out. I was just pointing it out. And the only reason I saw it was that I read your comment. (Really) I see you've now removed the domain name from your profile now.
http://incubator.apache.org/wave/source-code.html
> humans are actively manipulating this ball in throwing it and are able to impart a directionally focused momentum so that the ball flys far, but in a specific direction.

I was thinking more of : Here is naturally occurring uranium ore in the environment. Sometimes water would seep through it and start moderating the neutrons enough to cause a self-sustain short term nuclear reaction vs Here is an arsenal of 1000 MIRVed 5MT thermonuclear warheads. Both follow the laws of physics , no question about it, one can wipe us all out pretty much one can make a few villagers sick perhaps.
Yes, I'm aware of the arguments.

Suffice to say that I don't find "it doesn't fit comfortably in the mouth of an English speaker" to be a good basis on which to form conclusions about how Latin speakers would decline their vocabulary.
Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent
Not sure on that part this question might be best answered by google android dev team.
Hmm why the downvotes?

It was stupid question, pardon my ignorance, but just a reply with an explanation would suffice.
Birthplace of Amazon.com
Just keep in mind every quote needs 'sic' after the end of it, because these transcriptions are pretty bad.
I have 2 24 inchers and what I do to get my "set up" in the morning is I have all the applications I need arranged in my launcher:

From top to bottom I have file manager and browser, then all my apps that I need to have open on my launcher, so I just hold down my winkey then hit 3,4,5,6 and my mail, irc, trello, calendar all launch, then I'm done.
Who said anything about lying?

All I'm saying is that life changes in 6 months. It can actually change a lot. Especially when you're young.

Think of it like this:

In December you verbally accept an offer to intern at, say, Adobe. It's a pretty cool offer and you have all intention on taking it.

Then in May you get a chance to intern at Google.

Would your mind process really be: "You know what, screw Google, I already promised to Adobe that I'd work for them over the summer"?

I never consider a job offer finalized until I am actually doing work for the company. When I start actually being given tasks and completing them, that's when I start declining other offers. Until then my time is fair game. Those who move quicker will get it.
Have you used it? The principal thing is that it's different and offers less customization than gnome2 and even gnome3 with gnome-shell. Any action requires a hilarious number of clicks to get done. These sorts of things are self-evident when you've attempted to use Unity for any length of time.
Ematic eGlide 7-Inch Touch Screen Tablet with Android 2.1 – Black
Alt-shift-tab cycles backwards through the window stack for me. What did you want it to do that it is not?
If you want to write really short code then take a look at Shen:

http://www.shenlanguage.org/Documentation/index.htm

It supports Lisp, Scheme and Javascript as backend.
Jesus. A decent, level headed article, ended with the same fear mongering of every other article where the author doesn't like Unity. For some reason, if Ubuntu has Unity has the default launcher, you must choose a different distribution in order to use a different DE. Because a distro's DE is more important than it's package management, community, available random software, etc.
You are right that the word "interesting" is a perception but I think what the parent post was suggesting was that: there is the definite possibility that on doing what the author of the article suggests you appear 'interesting' for some people, but to others you appear as somebody inauthentically 'trying to appear interesting'.

I agree with the parent post. Although I'd consider this kind of person relatively interesting, I'd mentally put them on a lower level for doing 'interesting things' with a lack of passion.
for now i only use linux server-side, but i'm thinking of maybe swiching from osx to linux for my next laptop. i played a little with both mint and ubuntu in vmware, but i don't think i can make a fair assessment.

personally, i don't care for customization at all, so i was wondering if there were other issues besides that.
Anno 2070 - RELOADED
I see the "dumbed down" complaint a lot, but I don't understand it. What is missing from Unity that you could do before? Or is it that if something is pretty or simple it is automatically worth less somehow than something ugly or complicated?

For me Unity is far more powerful out of the box than GNOME 2 was. Being able to position and tile windows with the keyboard and having 10 applications easily and automatically bound to a keystroke are huge timesavers for me.
There are few ideas that I see that have the potential to change the world, but I would say this one may. A lot of people are too busy or to intellectually lazy to research facts. As such they default to non-verbal ques in candidates. The strongest being confidence.

A candidate can be confident while completely fabricating information and more people will believe them than a candidate with no confidence and truth. Having a tool like this to refute the information immediately will be valuable.

The trick will be the credibility of the "truth" provided. We all have biases and keeping them out of our creations can be more tricky than it would appear. No doubt if the product gains wide traction, many will accuse it of bias the author needs to make sure that they have double and triple checked the facts so that it can withstand the onslaught of accusations that will surly come from both sides.
What makes you think you don't have a choice? I'm running Ubuntu with xmonad, and before that was on xfce; it's super easy to switch. I will probably switch to Debian soon, but that has more to do with Ubuntu pushing nonfree software than Unity.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. There's Cream for a simpler Vim, and Evil for Vim bindings in Emacs.

I've been using Evil+Emacs for the past month and it's quite nice.
Funny cat pictures. Some cute kittens pics
Do you like cats? I just LOVE them. I want again to share some funny cat pictures. I hope they will make you smile.
While I know this isn't the biggest case, sometimes the building are torn down because they can't be fixed. I've watched more than one where I used to live in NC be unable to be fixed for any reasonable amount of cost. Some of them on the order of 100 years old costing 400k+ to fix (while keeping the house historically intact) because of rotting beams and other termite damage.

Now even given that, I really doubt that this was the case with him.
Some people get used to a workflow. They have an environment set up just how they like.

All of a sudden Gnome release Gnome 3 - which breaks a lot of that workflow, and also means that people wanting to stay at Gnome 2.x are going to drift slowly into dependancy hell. And Shuttleworth plays his benign dictator card, saying he doesn't care what the community thinks, they're wrong, and Unity is the way forward. Unity also breaks the workflow.

Now those users are kind of stuck. KDE also has an example of dramatic change, so people might be reluctant to move there.

LXDE or XFCE aren't yet mature and there are some frustrating features with both. (But they've picked up some users.)

And then you're left with self-built desktop environments - one of the *boxes or some other WM + file manager + etc etc.
Err, Mint is Ubuntu(-based).
The whole point is trying to figure out that part for yourself. If someone told you exactly how to do it then you wouldn't learn much would you? You need to try it with 1 ipod not bulk and see if you can make a profit. It is difficult, it is challenging, that is the point. How do you think you get good at something by taking the easy way?

The point is to try and figure out how to make a profit on your own. Its not to ask someone else how they did it and just copy it. If you copy someone elses homework it does not make you any smarter, you gotta do the homework yourself.

Don't be so afraid to fail. If you try it and your not very good, its ok! Just try again and again, you'll improve. But looking for someone to give you the answer for this is not a recipe for success, its cheating yourself out of an opportunity to learn something new.
I'm switching my Linux box and a friend's machine to Linux Mint (from Ubuntu), and was going to use v11. I want a simple desktop and something solid that isn't going to be buggy or difficult to setup. I basically use the terminal, emacs, Ruby, and a browser (Chrome).

Should I stick with v11 or go ahead and install v12 now? Would it be better to wait a while to let any bugs shake out, or should 12 be pretty solid now?
This is an approach that could work for sure, but then you need to be disciplined and remember what is open on each desktop. I love the simplicity of just having a list of windows at the bottom of each monitor, requires no memory or keyboard shortcuts to switch between things.
The ATI drivers don't work all that great either. The post-release drivers won't install at all. The other one installs, but it's really glitchy.
Exactly, things like previous or desired salaries then give them a benchmark to start the conversation. Let them put the first number on the table.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboar...

You can launch or switch to any of the first 10 applications on the launcher, resize/maximize/minimize a window, tile multiple windows, switch workspaces, or bring up the dash with a single keybinding for each. The only one of those I remember being able to do in GNOME 2 was switch workspaces.
I get (and practice) the part about user-visible macros. But what about macros that are just to make my module easier to implement? I often write those to concisify (well, you did say "uniquifier") my code. There's a tension here: encoding the package name in the macro name can easily make the name so long that the whole thing is why-bother, but using a short name runs the risk of a collision. For example, paredit.el defines XCOND. Although I don't have an XCOND, that's just the sort of macro name I might have chosen.
Linux Mint Debian Edition is a rolling release distribution. There are important differences between regular mint and LMDE.
Please give an example of this. What's the markup? It's almost certainly more long winded and harder to read.
"""I care about what I am using, and he cares about what he is using."""

So, by you own logic, nobody cares to read what you and he are using, except you and him respectively. Which was kind of, my point.

"""We don't care what they are using. """

Good for you. This thread is about adoption, though, and about caring about what they are using --and specifically whether Unity is good for mass Linux adoption.
The car analogy doesn't work so well here because cars are far more interchangeable, although if you use a less popular type of car perhaps it is more difficult get parts for it for example.

The advantage of using a common OS is that other people have probably had the problems before you have , often on Linux I feel like I may the first person to experience a particular problem. More users = more software generally, cars don't require "extra" stuff that is designed for a specific car in order to do their job.
"I really don't understand what other power users are missing."

With Unity, if I am on a workspace with no terminal, and I click on the terminal to open it, I am warped back to a workspace that already has a terminal open, and I have to open a new window from there, and move it back (with several more clicks) to the workspace I really want to be on. Much different than just clicking on the terminal icon, which worked before.

I'd like unity to work out, and if they could get past the awkwardness of task-switching and workspaces, then I'll go back to it. Maybe it would be best to just treat a new workspace as though there are no applications open at all, and if you want an application on another workspace you have to switch to that workspace first.

Also, it would be nice if I had a way to go directly to, say, the third instance of the terminal that I have open, rather than trying to choose it from a picture.
Shame he doesn't talk about flash at all - I understand that he may not be able to use it in the performances he shoots, but learning to use flash effectively is also a worthwhile skill. A good resource is http://neilvn.com/tangents/flash-photography-techniques/
i dont know where you're from, but your universities are RICH!
In theaters, I understand.
The marketing leaves me with many questions. I suspect this could be a very successful drive if it answered some of those questions. Here are some that spring to my mind:

What are the stats on what other people have been paying, or am I the only person who is going to go for this? Also, why is it a "holiday sale"? Have you been offering this bundle before? If not, that doesn't make sense. Of course you don't need a reason to have a sale, but currently you aren't marketing your sale. You are just saying "sale". You also basically fix a price in the minds of most customers, 10 albums for $1 and 17 albums for $10. The second looks like bad value against the first. Why even suggest a price? Is there any reason for a limit of $1? Do you trust your customers that little? Or is that the PayPal minimum or something. And what is a "game album"? I've never heard of such a thing before. I don't know if I want to buy such a thing or not. And where can I get a sample? And what is the license on these? Also, a little bit of information on where exactly these game albums come from or what technology was used to create them, or something about their provenance would help. How do we even know that you aren't selling someone else's albums that can be found for free on the web somewhere else? Why are we paying you for them?
"So, by you own logic"

That is your logic, not my own. I care what he is writing because his perspective is similar to my own. I don't care what operating system he is using.
While I usually don't upgrade to a new version until a few weeks after a distro is updated, it boils down to personal taste more than anything. Honestly, the best answer is make live CDs of both, play with them both and go with the one you like.
I was about to correct you, but, in looking over the FSF opinion on APSL 2.0, I noticed that while APSL 2.0 is considered a free software license, I had forgotten that the APSL 2.0 license is still incompatible with GPL.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html

Huh. I was pleasantly surprised by the sentence: "Apple's lawyers worked with the FSF to produce a license that could qualify."
also, it would make more sense to compare node to ASP.NET.
In the vast majority of cases, computers (software and hardware) are quite generic. It is only the people with exotic cars and computer setups (Linux on the desktop for example) that have a concern.
How Germany could save the euro
I wasn't saying that playing video games does not engage the creative part of one's brain whatever it is. I was simply saying that at the core of creativity is producing something that you can show to others, and that the biggest pleasure you derive should be not so much from being engaged into the process of creating (many great artists in fact literally suffered expelling inner demons/whatever when they made art), but from being proud that you have something to show. Otherwise you won't be pulled in one direction (to show something great to others) but in many at once (by whatever tickles your fancy during the creative process), which means you won't be as productive, which means you won't be as creative as you could be, which means that you will eventually stop valuing creativity because people in general are biased to value only those things they are good at.
http://www.stevejobsthelostinterview.com/

I guess it's doing a limited theater run for awhile, in SF and Austin. I saw it last week in SF and Cringely showed up and did a Q&A afterwards, he mentioned wanting to have the interview seen in a shared setting.
I think the real answer to this is as simple as disclosure. If you accept the "exploding offer", you should be explicit and clear that you are still considering other positions, and your acceptance is tentative. The company is fully informed of the possibility that you may leave in the near future and it is then their choice if they decide to continue with you or not.

If you don't want to provide that level of disclosure, you should inform the recruiter that you won't have a decision by x date, only by y date, and they'll have to live with that. They may continue to pursue or they may forgo your candidacy, but either way you were honest. There are plenty of gigs out there that you can get legitimately, even if a would-be ill-gotten gig is presented first. You shouldn't give in.

I don't think it's acceptable to accept an offer with the intent to leave in short order without providing disclosure of that possibility. Justifications like "Microsoft will survive" don't make your actions any more correct or honorable and should not be used. Man up and be honest with your potential employers.
let's spin it the other way: what advantages would following the LSB have? there is little need for standard linux utilities to be easily ported to android, the standard utils are not included, and package management is dealt with in an android-specific way
With a clean install, there's less chance of an incident, and if you put /home on a separate partition, you don't have to back up your data (although you should, anyway). If you installed extra packages from the repos, you can get them back with:

dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt

After reinstalling, do

dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

As for automatic upgrades, that goes against the Linux / free software attitude that the user should be in control of her computer and know what it's doing. I think that's why there's no GUI option for automatic upgrades although unattended-upgrades does exist.
This is a very good idea. However, the interface isn't very convenient (especially having to mouse over items to get the description).
>Is it better than Ubuntu?

Is Coke better than Pepsi? It boils down more to personal preference. Which one do you like more?

>Unity is really not cool at all.

I use Ubuntu without Unity. Google "remove unity" and follow instructions for whatever version you are using.
For the record, I'm not really connected with Wikipedia anymore; I used to edit a fair bit and did a short project management contract for them, but now I have no time.

I appreciate the effort you put in (and encourage you to do it with existing articles you think need improving), but no, I don't think you were there to engage seriously. I think you came in with a personal motivation (help a pal), a conclusion (her page should be there), and an attitude (you people are crazy and do shoddy work) and worked backward from there. You acted thoroughly entitled and created a lot of drama, showing little understanding and no respect. Which is, sadly, the typical MO of somebody who doesn't know much about Wikipedia but is sure, sure, sure that article X obviously belongs there.

I agree with you that Wikipedia should find a better way to work with subject matter experts, and am on record as having pitched a couple of them over the years. But I don't think deletion review is high on the priority list. For basically the same reason than an appellate court doesn't need a drive-up window for filings from random passers-by.
I'm tempted to generalize this sentence to "Learning (anything) teaches you how to think".

Computing certainly conveys a stronger worldview than, say, skateboarding, but I really think mastering any activity can be a valuable and profound lesson.
Internet-controlled robot arm
Oh. Right. I'll change it tomorrow. I'd appreciate it if you guys would actually 'Like it' if you liked the game. This is in for a Mozilla's Dev Derby competition.
You know, it's funny how ridiculous D-wave sounded when they insinuated they were scaling qubits about as fast as Moore's law, but here they are in 2011 with a 512 qubit chip that clearly works. That's nuts.

It's hard to believe our technology has advanced this far so fast.

Combined with technologies like IBM Watson, at this rate in 10 years we'll have no idea what the fuck our computers are even doing anymore.
Lights is a Stunning WebGL Demo