skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am now in a simlar position. I have a BS in Software Eng. and did a Masters/PhD in Computer Science after a year and a half of software development work.

After my PHD I got a postdoc in a 3 year EU project just finished. Now I am craving to get out of "academia" and get into software development again. The problem is that I would consider my development skills as a "junion" or "mid level" developper but without hardcore expertise in a technology.

And the worst problem is that as you say, a lot of companies that see my Resume see "PhD" and think "overqualified".

Recently I tried appliying to a group some company that is doing Machine learning with the hope that they will see a PhD as a "feature" and not a bug.
I'd love to see statistics on how many people use AdBlockers and/or Ghostery vs the wider audience that would be picked up by StatCounter and friends. I would be surprised if they made a large dent in the statistics though.
So what you're saying is that a new Chrome user, in order to get functionality that other browsers have out of the box (I'm thinking of Opera, I'm biased like that), have to start digging after extensions.

That's fine and dandy for experienced PC users like you and me but what about regular people? Housewives, pensioners, working people who want to use a browser but don't have much time to invest in learning its intricacies.

History has shown that people can live with screwed up technology for a long time without looking for improvements because they think it's normal or they're used to it (floppy disks for file transfer in the 21st century, for instance) and sometimes new technology or features have to be forced upon the user for them to take it up.
In the case of Chrome, regular people get a truncated version of what a browser can do (no significant difference in features from Internet Explorer except speed). This creates a large entry barrier for regular people.

Do you think your average grandpa using Chrome (or Firefox, for that matter) will have a revelation at some point, thinking "gee, I'd really like to have mouse gestures, they would make my life so much easier for my poor hands"? Or "wow, I'd sure like a speed dial whenever I open my browser so that I can go with one click to the pages I most often use" (no, I don't want "most visited" as chosen by Chrome, I want speed dial). No, of course it's not going to happen; grandpa has never heard of RSS, mouse gestures, speed dial, and so on; someone (or something) has to explicitly tell/show him these features so that he becomes aware that they are possible.

I also have a personal beef with the people who thought that on startup Chrome should have "open the home page" as default option instead of "reopen the pages that were open last". This is the most retarded default option I could think of in our day and age - if someone wants to get rid of their tabs then they will CLOSE THEM. It's that simple. Just because I have to close the browser does not mean that I finished what I was doing and that I want my tabs closed. Opera got this right more than 10 years ago but some people still have the Internet Explorer 6 mindset. It's as if all your Gmail messages were marked unread when you logged in to your inbox because hey, it's a new session.

TL/DR - extensions are a poor substitute for built-in functionality in a world where the majority of users still are regular users (non-tech savvy). Grandpa Joe will not go digging for extensions.
> Since Chrome quietly updates, how do you think they'll handle updates that have significant UI changes?

They'll do it, and if people disagree, well, too bad.

> That's what they've done with the GMail transition.

On the other hand, that's not what they did with the Reader transition, or when they broke the "+" operator in search.
No I'm not. Seriously.

I would hope some day my country has such a thing too!

But I talking on the lines of gratitude. Gratitude is important. You can't really complain about stuff you got for free.
According to the author ([1], somewhere in the comments, in French), he's migrated to a dedicated server. Wait for the DNS to update and the page should be back up..

Google's cache [2] also works.

[1] https://plus.google.com/104846995293145552969/posts/cxxM2D3i...
[2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
There is no evidence either that Trident Media Guard (the company that reports IP infringers to the 3-strike authority) should be trusted more than youhavedownloaded.
Move semantics opens up a new age where higher level STL-like containers (and types built from them) can perform as well as raw C pointer based implementations. The last real roadblock is the elephant in the room: compiler support. I've argued with John Lakos that all the guys at work on the C++ committee should take a break from the standards process now and devote themselves for a time to getting C++11 fully supported into all main compilers. Only having move semantics in gcc is not good enough :/
This article sounds like someone that doesn't understand trolls, trolling, or how to deal with them. Which is strange because he does mention the origins of trolling on Usenet in his footnote.

Anyway, he's wrong on several accounts:

> Trolling tends to be particularly bad in forums related to computers

This really makes me wonder what other forums that aren't related to computers PG frequented, probably not very many. Let's see, there's forums related to wicca, libertarians (the nutty kind), religion/spirituality, failed startups, "magick", seduction, conspiracy freaks ... all those topics attract significantly more trolls than computer related forums. Both of the "broader" definition ("assholes") and the sports trolling type.

> There's a sort of Gresham's Law of trolls: trolls are willing to use a forum with a lot of thoughtful people in it, but thoughtful people aren't willing to use a forum with a lot of trolls in it.

This is just false. Of all the forums I've seen, the two most thoughtful and intelligent communities just happened to be largely made up of trolls and people very familiar with trolling. It's because they won't stand bullshit and call people on it. Regular forums or forums that can't really deal with trolls always tend to plateau on a certain level of intelligence and thoughtfulness, which can be high, but limited. This is not at all a rule btw, most trolls anyone is going to find will be forums filled with screaming kids, obscenities and bug porn.

I just mean to say this "Gresham's Law" thing is false, sometimes the trolls are the thoughtful people and the ones that get driven away are good riddance.
So IE9 runs on Windows XP?
It's not free. It's an insurance pool. People pay a little bit of their paycheck into it so they're not screwed if their life hits a speed bump and they have no money either due to poor planning or things outside their control.
> It's not that different from saying Google introduces voice control -> Apple introduces the same "but better".

iOS has had voice control since iOS3. The point of Siri is that it's not voice control, it's that it's 1. better at recognizing speech and 2. stateful/context-based, in that it can take "followup actions" within the context of the previous command
Prior art: trains.

Seriously, though, this is a complete waste of time. Mass transit has been solving the problem of getting people from point A to point B without them having to do the piloting for a hundred years. What we really need to be spending our money on is rebuilding the streetcar and intercity rail systems that used to connect nearly every town in the country and electrifying them. This will drastically reduce our reliance on fossil fuels (because oil is the only portable energy source cheap and powerful enough for automobiles) and reducing greenhouse gasses. Instead, we're talking about an overly complex solution involving creation of an automated driving system on all our highways and compelling thousands of users to upgrade to driverless cars, which may or may not be electric.

In other words, Google's driverless car is to transportation as Dart is to DOM scripting.
It searches others, as data is available. Most of the results your getting are from the open source hyve library we have been developing to help manage load and API limits. http://github.com/Tawlk/hyve . If a service you like is not included, please add it to hyve, and it may well also make its way into our back-end analysis platform.

Well currently it could be used by brand managers to see how popular or unpopular a given topic or person is, or to have an easy way to digest overall stats about the topics social presence.

You could also do things casual like just seeing how people feel about Obama compared to Justin Beiber or android phones or use it while watching a live event to see what people are saying about it. Live results are one of the ways this stack really shines.

As far as where we are going to take the platform, we have some strong ideas ready to implement provided we get the right investment group interested. Lots of things that would be more interesting to those wanting to hire this to do a "job" for them or their company.
I'm also taking the Algorithms class! I'm afraid it is going to be a bit math-heavy, but anyhow it looks promising :)
San Paolo is what it would be in Italian.
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Practical or not, I think the first jurisdictions to permit robot drivers will limit where they are permitted[1]. This would work well for that, though realistically, I think an online map of allowed regions and a GPS will be the real solution unless regular drivers want to be informed that others are robot driven, then it will be road side signs.

EOM

[1] I drove south through Nevada at 70+mph on a ruler straight road for 90 minutes without encountering another vehicle, human, or cow. Start there, expand as experience with the systems is gained.
Good news, but XP users still won't be able to upgrade past IE8.
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That is counterintuitive and thought-provoking. Thank you for stating it explicitly.
The internet has changed the way information is shared to such a severe degree that traditional definitions of intellectual property are now antiquated. This doesn't mean that the legal framework of IP protection should be thrown out entirely, but it has to adapt to the culture of sharing that the internet has fostered. Otherwise the internet will become a draconian environment that stifles new ideas and strangles the kinds of exchange that gave rise to it in the first place.
Is IE8 really that bad with regards to standards ? That's an honest question.
Ask HN: Any NodeJS repos I can reference when building node RESTful API server?
Hey guys,

I did a few node projects earlier this year, but with the pace at which Node development has been going, I think I'm a bit outdated. Anyone know any github repos of good code to reference when building a production-ready RESTful API in node?

Thanks so much for any help!
Yep, I wrote (and still use) that. It does two things. On the main page, it puts "(X New Comments)" next to comment links that you've visited. Inside comment discussion pages, it places "New Comment" tags next to new comments.

Simple but effective. It uses HTML5 local storage, so you'll need a compatible greasemonkey-enabled browser.

Frankly, I wish pg would just add this feature to the site itself...
First off, IE9 doesn't run on XP. So what does this really mean? Does it mean we'll be writing hacks for 5 browsers instead of 10 now? Not good enough. This sounds real good but I get the feeling they'll make updating so convoluted or the opt-out process too easy to the point where it barely has any effect. Lame sauce.
For anyone currently unable to view the sidebar stats due to work firewall restrictions or web-socket issues please have a look at the reference for now: http://dumpon.us/media/uploads/TAWLK_GUI_HORIZONTAL_V18_1.jp...
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I can't get my friends to shut the hell up when I'm using voice search or music match software. I say "hang on a second" /beep/ "search for polar be" "dude we should get Taco Bell" "ars in Michigan".

"Now searching for taco bears in Bell, Michigan"
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No we can't : English isn't the mother tongue of all the People of the Internet/World !. If you want your customers, the people who pays your salary, speak perfect English please stick with UK-Market and stop cry.
Of course, the import tax is just the beginning.
Yeah, it'd be nice if more people read patent claims before passing judgement.

I took the obvious practical implementation of this to be a method to guide autonomous vehicles into a parking lot/structure. The car rolls up to the landing strip, the driver gets out, the car switches to autonomous mode, gets the connection information to the parking management server, asks for and receives a spot assignment and instructions on getting there, etc.

GPS and map data are simply insufficient to handle autonomous parking. There are precious few universals in parking laws, customs, lot-flow, etc. And automatic parking is one of the unavoidable expectations of self-driving cars.
The way Siri converses & jokes with the user is the interface. Not all interfaces are graphical.
That's fine and dandy for experienced PC users like you and me but what about regular people? Housewives, pensioners, working people who want to use a browser but don't have much time to invest in learning its intricacies.

I think you are vastly over-stating the cross-section of the population that both has no idea what a browser extension is, yet knows about RSS and cares about using it.
"Today we are sharing our plan to automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PC." First sentence of the article seems pretty clear to me, the latest IE that your PC can run will be installed. Not sure why the confusion.
I hate trying to enunciate Google over a cell phone. I hate it with a passion.

But Siri isn't much better. "Sir-ei"? "Seer-e"? "Sir-eh"?
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fwiw i got the connection failure error but dismissed it and it just worked (using chrome 16)
Sounds like the signal to hundreds of millions of Windows users to turn off automatic updates.
Yes. That's an honest answer.
I've been on Fab for a while now. I love the site, and have purchased a few things from it. That said, it's still a niche site. I'm a little confused as to how they are going to use a $40 million dollar investment. Is this to give them the ability to buy better deals from suppliers?
Great! Now they just need to switch their entire browser codebase over to Webkit and sanity will be restored to the web.
Well I think on a blog post with the title 'php suckx!' there want be an intelligent discussion but when there is something about a cool project you sometimes get good discussions. For example the resent post about the Facebook Jit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3348853
Daily Mobile Minute #73: Flipboard for iPhone hits 1 million downloads in a week
I'm not a fan, and I don't understand the gushing. As developers, I suppose folks are glad to reduce their support matrix?

But as users, creators of highly customized workstations and rabid fans of particular development environments, doesn't it bother anybody but me, that the browser choice has been hijacked?

Sure, its just stupid Windows users, they don't care. Is that it?

Every IE UI is different, and they seem to be spiralling down is usability. I'm particular about optimizing my own time and changing UI to suit Microsoft's agenda is definitely going to piss me off.
Does anyone know how this works in practice?

Are any measures taken to prevent someone from spray-painting a rogue QR code on the ground to reroute traffic?
I find it interesting that Safari is not picking up with all the success they have recently.

And these plots should start to show more clearly what's going on in the mobile and desktop browser-space. I assume this plot (page 2) does not show mobile at all.
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I'll make an analogy.

In the hypothetical nation of Robotopia, most people live in mansions, have flying cars, all the education and health care they want, and robots handle most menial labor. This is true even for the "poor", who have their robots (5 year old models, occasionally a little scratched), mansions (only 10,000 sq ft instead of the normal 20,000 sq ft) and flying cars provided by the state.

However, due to a massive corruption scandal, one of the poorest parts of Robotopia now can't afford to provide robot house cleaners. The "poor" (who mostly don't have or want jobs) are now forced to clean their own houses.

As a result, those poor people are complaining, threatening to riot, etc.

Whatever your feeling are about the poor complaining Robotopians, that's probably how someone from India feels about the American poor.
In 5 years it will be compared to the other browsers, just like the others are much further ahead of IE6 now. IE6 used to be a good browser, too, when it launched.
Going to DC and getting your picture taken in front of the White House is not effective activism. It's really embarrassing how out-schooled we're getting because the bad guys have better lobbyists. How many tweets do you think it takes to overcome the actions of one lobbying meeting?
Using 'same origin policy' for conditional JavaScript behavior
So is this separate from the normal updates and installs regardless of your update preferences or is it part of the normal updates?
Didn't understand how the sentiment analysis works, since results look quite not what I expected. I did a test search on 2012 presidential candidates:

Obama: 44% positive ("barack obama" is 62% though)

Mitt Romney: 67% positive

Michele Bachmann: 50% positive

Herman Cain: 71% positive (?)

Ron Paul: 71% positive

Rick Perry: 81% positive (??)

I am not sure the sentiment calculation is just based on Positive/Negative dictionary comparison or something else. Is there a logical explanation of above percentages? Do results vary for other people?
It's there in clang and Visual Studio 2010.
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Agree, I hate nothing more then ChitChat. Sometimes I hear people talking in the train or something and the say nothing of substence.
French gov is always prompt to make a fool of himself... Remember the EPIC fail of france.fr launch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/14/france-launches-multi-lingu...
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I'm a Google fanboy, but I'm not sure if I want them to have a majority in the web browser space.

While they do move faster than MS, they also seem to have an habit of working on something internally, then one day they announce the feature in Chrome, dump a library to the other browsers and expect them to just integrate it.
And since they control the biggest websites, there's immediately an unfair pressure; "Oh, you don't want to use SPDY? Well, then your browser will be slower on Google sites than Chrome" (they don't say - or probably even think - that, of course, but it's true)

Mozilla talks a lot about their development and seems to be more interested in a better web, and not just a better browser.
Very cool image. My uni computer lab has a poster that has a family tree of Unix derivatives, starting from the Bell labs that is similar to this. Like the unix tree, this tree is also (naturally) incomplete because anyone can create their own linux distro or unix clone, and many do.

One particular omission that caught my eye was OpenWRT descendants, there was quite a number of them a few years ago. OpenWRT is huge in the wireless router market.

Many people see the large number of Linux distributions as a negative thing. I don't agree. The rich diversity of Linux distributions is what fuels constant development and makes it possible to run on pretty much any piece of hardware out there and handle any computing task you can throw at it.

There are even separate Windows distributions out there, in addition to the ones sold to regular customers, they have specialized distributions for e.g. point of sale computers. And of course, there are some custom hacked pirate Windows distros.
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Here are two links that work for me: http://www.nikopik.com/2011/12/ca-telecharge-aussi-illegalem... http://www.nikopik.com.nyud.net/2011/12/ca-telecharge-aussi-...
It's not great. A large amount of the nice fancy stuff that makes designing a website easier and more efficient is not available.

But it is a huge step up from IE6 so if a large chunk of those people suddenly find themselves at IE8 then the world will be better for it.

I wish MS would go back and try to update the IE8 render engine so that it can use some of the newer standards of IE9 or even IE10.
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I didn't manage to find much to write about for Day 1 and Day 2 of Ruby, but I think Day 3 has enough to give it a chance of being interesting to a larger audience.

I hope you enjoy the read!
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You can opt out of it, but it will be enabled by default. I'm sure it's not meant to target technical users, but simply those who do not know any better.

Old browser versions have been a detriment to web development for years. This is definitely a step in the right direction.
I'd like to add that if you live in Canada, do _not_ register a 'corporation', unless you know exactly what you are doing. Your accountant will tell you a good idea, your lawyer will tell you it's a good idea, but wait until the end of your first fiscal year and it costs $2,000 + to have your taxes done!

In Canada, just wing it as a Sole proprietor!
My college girlfriend's dad's first language was Chinese and he would often refer to either her or her brother as "it." "Tell it to come down for dinner!"
Only leaving CC (Oracle), xlC (IBM), aCC (HP) to name a few. I got 99 platforms and x86 is only one. :)
Because they are not our enemy? And the US has enormous obstacles to adopting any new nuclear technology.
>> Sysadmins blocked the updates

There's something about this that really bothers me, maybe someone can better clarify.

Why are admins enforcing a policy that leaves the company target to just about every possible security hole that has been fixed in the past 20 years?

Is there a valid reason for this that I'm unaware of?
Stuff like this makes me twitch. Why are researchers so keen to have my car controlled by radio tags? The potential for abuse is seemingly never discussed because I feel that admitting it will kill this idea stone dead, as it should.
That doesn't matter so much, because this project is about highlighting delicate code regardless of reason, not assigning blame.
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Data? What data?
Siri is AI which tries to understand what I said and then executes, it's intelligent command line processor. All the words in English and their meanings are very small data, nothing that Google has and nobody else not.
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