skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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So, if you were an early stage Google or Apple employee you would take salary over stock?
Clinton Judy. I have several years of experience with Ruby on Rails, EventMachine, Arduinos/embedded programming, databases (including SQL, NoSQL, and key-value stores), information architecture, user interaction design, information visualization (especially experiments with Protovis/D3.js), project management, and software estimation. You can read my resume here:

http://judy.github.com
Clinton Judy. I have several years of experience with Ruby on Rails, EventMachine, Arduinos/embedded programming, databases (including SQL, NoSQL, and key-value stores), information architecture, user interaction design, information visualization (especially experiments with Protovis/D3.js), project management, and software estimation. You can read my resume here:

http://judy.github.com

I live in State College, PA, and I would like to work here, but I'm comfortable with telecommuting positions.
-- Sometimes I tell people "I can type 240 words a minute" and they're like "Yeah, and? Who cares?" but sometimes people are like "Dude! That's so awesome! I wanna do that!" and that's when I think this thing actually has a chance."

I am firmly in the "Dude! That's so awesome!" camp. I will definitely be trying Plover.
I wonder how this compares to switching to a Dvorak keyboard. I tried that for a while and was much faster (my vi keyboard motions getting screwed up is why I switched back).
I take the view that many aspects of human 'irrationality' have their basis in people trying to avoid being manipulated by others, though they certainly don't always work.

I don't know how to prove whether or not that's true, but it tends to explain things like our response to the Ultimatum Game. And that's essentially what we're dealing with here: people who make deals that are too one-sided (huge price discrimination, etc.) may trigger a backlash, even if the offer is an improvement on the status quo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
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I'm looking to join a team that love software and creating beautiful products. I know a bunch of languages but my top 3 are C++/python/javascript. Although I would consider working elsewhere, I am really focused on staying in Boston, MA. I've worked on a bunch of interesting projects, please take a look at my linkedin profile (http://goo.gl/5hTHi) for details.
Scratch all of the above. I really don't want to sound like a dick here, but there is one skill that will help you immensely in your career. Try googling something before asking senior team members.

Also, and this is just nit-picky, but try to use complete words in your correspondence.
>In order to be a "programming prodigy" you have to "program" something
Programming an actual product is but just ONE measure of someone's programming prowess. Standardized tests is another one, and one that is quite Valid. In fact, it's the one used by almost every Technology Company out there to gauge programming skill and aptitude. Passing of MS Certification , at her age, in my book atleast is valid evidence.
You're insane. DMCA takedowns have such absurd abuse potential that it completely overshadows any perceived "benefit" for "people who engage in the production of IP". To say that "big guys" and "little guys" are on equal footing with takedowns is to be willfully ignorant of reality.

This completely ignores the blatant due process issues.

Aside: WTF? Everyone produces "IP". These are not a separate class of people.
I'm no expert on debates, but I was paying significantly more attention to your message simply because he was being so rude and obstinate.

For your part, you did extremely well to not even acknowledge that he was trying to interrupt you at all.

But of course, I walked in with a bias on the subject.
A guy that establishes an entire news channel, that fights in court for the right to lie to viewers, to get political favor accuses Google of undue influence? Huh.
Yes. Still working on it though: https://github.com/FooBarWidget/mizuho
It's not finished yet. The Juvia site key and URL are currently hardcoded in the source.
"The notice-and-takedown safe harbor was a pretty good compromise."

10 years ago? No it was not. It only seems ok to a perspective that has been warped by exposure to SOPA.
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I wonder if this will backfire among Democrats? There are more than a few who are likely to hate anything he's for just because.
Look, wealth of family is just one very minute side of it. To actually translate your programming skills into an actual product, or startup or contribute to a real-world project, you need a lot more than that. You need mentors, you need awareness, you need tangible inspirations around you, ones that you can learn from and follow, you need advice, you need peers that you can collaborate with. That her achievements remained limited to passing a certification at a young age was because she didn't have any opportunity, or i would even argue , even awareness to take it to the next level. This awareness and opportunity is a product of so many more factors that i have highlighted above, not just media attention and financial power of one's family.
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Why do animated gif images take so long to load?
Why Sales reps sandbag deals
At least he's not just calling it "SQL", like certain people at my job do.
svlada@gmail.com, Looking for remote job opportunities or relocation if possible.

Vlada, 25 year old, Serbia. Currently working as as Java/PHP/JavaScript developer.

javascript | spring | hibernate | symfony2 | java
I mostly work in Python/PHP/SQL. I also know Java and C++. Learning Ruby on Rails. Currently in Ottawa but looking to move to Toronto. Would be open to other cities in Canada if there was a good offer.

waltermil@gmail.com
I don't think they would/should black it out since Google search itself serves as more of a utility for every day life.

Maybe they should invert their colors completely though. As in, make Google entirely black with messages all over the front page describing the magnitude of the problem. I'm not sure that a doodle alone would suffice though.
The list is missing a marketing budget. The single greatest factor (in my opinion) of what makes a game succesful in the app store.
From http://stenoknight.com/plover/:

This means that stenographers can enter text at up to 300 words
per minute (the world record is actually 360, but that's an
outlier), making it the fastest and most accurate text entry
method currently available. By comparison, top qwerty typists can
do 120 WPM, top Dvorak typists around 140 WPM, and voice writers
dictating to voice recognition software top out around 180 WPM.
This law is too complicated for the average TV viewer to understand. Debating it on the merits is going to make you lose. You have to find counterpoints that the average TV viewer WILL understand. They have to fit comfortably in a tweet.

When they say, "This is a jobs bill," you say, "This is a typical big government attempt to meddle in something they don't understand."

When they say, "This won't affect American sites," you say, "Search engines don't pirate movies. Neither do Visa or Paypal. Going after them is just unfair." [Note: Search engines. Not DNS. The minute you say DNS you lose.]

When they say, "Google profits from pirated software," you say, "Not as much as the congressmen are profiting from the $95 million dollars in lobbyist money that paid for this bill."

Other talking points: "How come congress can't seem to agree on anything that matters to the country? Unemployment, the deficit... they're totally gridlocked. But when the entertainment industry pays lobbyists $95 million to get a bill they wrote passed, both Republicans and Democrats line up to co-sponsor it."

Trying to say something that actually gets to the merit of the bill is a waste of time on a Sunday morning talk show... it's just too complicated an issue.
Build as little as you can get away with on your own. Focus on the core value of your business and not the incidentals, if you can help it. Use Dropbox or Box.net for file sharing, Github for version control, Google Apps for calendaring/email/contacts, and use S3 to backup your EC2 servers nightly. We also use the Github wiki for our various projects.

Of course, you can make your own choices in all of the above tech. I was just providing a list for the sake of examples. The point is, each of these things is the core value of these other businesses and they do them better than you will be able to. It's absolutely worth the small fees they charge to keep you focused on your core product.
There's a real use for this weapon. If it works, it's not a pointless economic stimulus tech demo. US troops get into plenty of firefights with insurgents. Artillery and air support must be around if we plan to win those firefights with low casualties. The XM25 makes artillery and air support less of a necessity, which means we could save money and gas.

Saving gas is important. If you're shipping gas or ammo by truck, you're creating targets for IEDs. Our casualty rates would be significantly higher if we couldn't use foreign drivers. The DARPA self driving car challenge was a response to the IED turkey shoot that's our supply line. At least we can avoid casualties.
Thomas Macdonald, I live in France, but am British.
I know C++ and C on Linux, Java, PHP, and JavaScript but I love learning new languages so have touched on Python, Clojure, bash, perl and even a bit of Brainfuck in my spare time.

I have a MSc in CS, with a focus on Operations Research since 2010.

I am looking for a small company, preferably in the US, but Europe works too, and I'll do backend web development, and/or optimisation software.

I would love to have the opportunity to learn a new skill, like Node or Ruby, but perfecting a current one would be fine too.

Also I speak flawless french.

My Linkedin profile is http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommacdo
Oh, that's fascinating. Thanks!
I thought they fought in court to be able to force their employees to lie (or be fired)? Or are you thinking of another case?

I can't quite keep up with all the things they've done lately, especially all the hacking scandals. Actually, that raises another point: if someone were, hypothetically, to register a copyright on those hacked voicemails, couldn't they get shut down for having used them? I guess those might have been UK emails, and I'm less sure how they do things.
If anyone is interested in figuring out how AirDrop works .. I registered OpenAirDrop.org a long time ago. I would be happy to point it to a github site.
Juvia currently also makes no effort to support nested comments. I believe nested comments only make sense for extremely active discussion forums.

Quite the contrary, high traffic sites like facebook have single thread comments where everyone keeps repeating the same things. Threaded comments are necessary for discussions.
It's very affordable when you compare it to air strikes and artillery bases.
Chris Hayes's introduction was excellent.

The guy Alexis was up against is assine. He stuck to his talking points, as instructed, which many are blatantly incorrect, but were portrayed in a way that joe public is able to understand and get behind.

During these kinds of talks, I'd like to see Alexis point out more how this is censorship in it's highest form, and list the reasons/examples why. Impassioned approaches are great, but the moment you step on the big stage you have to become cold blooded and go for the jugular.

A big part of what I like about Alexis is that he's not that kind of guy. However, if he's going to be representing us in this fight then he needs to arm himself with the same drivel and talking points that his opponents have. Otherwise, he himself is just a tool to help drive home the point of the SOPA-PROS.

It's because of the capricious nature of this bill that we are left with the prospects that this could be used as a method to squash speech deemed undesired by those with the power to control it. Pointing out a hypothetical case where someone in an elevated position, like Rupert Murdock, could have had (online/third party) magazines, who were reporting on their recent phone tapping scandal, shutdown for any number of reasons would be a perfect example.

Many of us agree that piracy is primarily a service problem. The fact that Netflix makes up over 30% of the United States nightly internet traffic is proof. That's a whole lot of bandwidth that people are using because of the convenience. However, this can't be the only argument we make to say why this is poison legislation.

That said, I'd also like to have the talk that this legislation is still easily circumvented not even mentioned. It's worth noting, but once again it can't be a talking point as to why this legislation is bad.
what I do for myself, is a local Synology NAS in RAID1 configuration for synchronizing all business documentation, such as offers, invoices, salary statements, etc.

Every night the NAS compresses and encrypts the whole archive and pushes a copy to a VPS at the provider site. This way I am sure I have a relatively recent off-site copy, and it is secured enough, so that even the VPS provider is unable to read it.

I use GoodSync for synchronizing my documents folder with the NAS. Also NAS is reachable from the public internet over HTTPS, and I can synchronize my files when I'm at the customer site.

Also I use another VPS (extremely cheap one from http://www.buildyourvps.com/ -- a bit slow, but fine for these needs) as my Git storage. I use Gitolite to organize my Git repositories, and basically create a new repository for every set of scripts or configuration files that I do for my clients.

For public and open-source code, I use Github.

A third VPS is used as a virtual PBX where I organize hotline service for those of my customers which need support with an SLA. You can see some technical details in my blog (http://txlab.wordpress.com/tag/dvop-net/). Also an instance of RT: Request Tracker is running on it.
Why wouldn't you? Microsoft is a major software vendor. If they make a solid DB for Unix, why not consider it alongside Oracle and other major software vendor's offerings? You would consider it on the merits of the product.

None of the reasons in the article make much sense to me except for the one left for last, that it just doesn't make overall strategic sense for Microsoft: Microsoft's model is pushing Windows, and selling SQL Server for an alternative OS is a bad idea (it's a good idea for SQL Server revenue, but bad for overall Microsoft revenue).

As others said, Gates would have veto'd SQL Server for Unix, that's the bottom line.
I wonder. Between Fabric and Chef, what do you feel you need to add to the mix? Provisioning of machines perhaps?

Personally, we're using Puppet for server admin and some cobbled together shell scripts, for app deployment. The latter is heavily inspired by Capistrano. We have a few shell scripts for generating new manifests in Puppet. All together a not-fully-automated, but quite close solution.
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Sadly, I think Joel is right. Format is designed for soundbites.
yes exactly. The reason for the escalating healthcare and education costs have to do with the guilds these professions enforce to prevent newcomers from undercutting their wages.

If the U.S. were to abolish the AMA and the teacher's union, the medical and education costs in this country would plummet, and the coming medicare debt could be halved.
Right conclusion (iCloud is DOA), but wrong reasoning.

Lots of people are 100% Apple ecosystem (I use Linux and FreeBSD servers, but all my desktops/phones/laptops/etc. are Apple). I have only ever used Dropbox from Apple platforms, too.

Yet, I still use Dropbox, and not iCloud. Why? Because so far, iCloud has been totally useless. iTunes Match is marginally useful, but it was done internally by Apple as a first-party thing (and really, iTunes and all online Apple services are an embarrassment to a company which is so good at design; even the online Apple Store is crap compared to their physical retail presence. Some people should hate each other for every Apple Internet service.)

Basically no non-Apple first-party apps support iCloud in any meaningful way. 1Password, Chrome, ... Plenty of third-party apps support Dropbox API.

Dropbox may have three main things going for it (simple initial "put stuff in a folder", cross-platform, and great API), but any ONE of those is sufficient. Cross-platformness is the easiest one to discount (since even Dropbox isn't cross-platform to the platforms I really care about, like Audi RNS-E, various fitness tracking devices, people who aren't currently dropbox users, ...).
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If people keep repeating the same thing then that would qualify as an active discussion. Juvia is specifically not designed for active discussion. It's just for simple commenting.
Here's a decent soundbite: how about stressing the threat that SOPA poses to the internet's power to connect the world?

The foundation of the web is links. SOPA attacks any internet company that links to sites that host copyrighted content. Well, Google links to sites that host copyrighted content. So does Reddit, and so does any other company that allows the public to create and post content.

Our founders called this nation the United States of America. United. They knew that where their is unity and community, there is power.

By persecuting companies for linking to illegal content, SOPA threatens the unity and connectivity that the internet provides.
Hit back on the bogus jobs claim. What do you think creates more jobs, the dying business of distributing media in physical form, or the Internet? Americans don't want Congress interfering with the Internet -- it's the one positive and reliable source of job creation in our country. This bill will harm or destroy many young innovative businesses like Reddit in order to save a few old unneeded middlemen who don't know how to innovate.
Do you think you have to earn enough to be in the top 1% of all earners in the country in order to be 'rich'?
Yeah... but I do mind NY. And I really mind the financial industry... ;-)
I think the problem with drawing the line at the 99% vs 1% is that it let's the bottom 90% of the 1% side with the top 10% of the 1%. (Refering to this previously mentioned link: http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manage...)

"We are the 99.9%" isn't as catchy but strategically it would make sense.
After watching the video, it's clear that the argument of SOPA supporters is going to be "this will never affect US companies". Google and Facebook have come out very strongly against the bill, and I assume they did so not on a whim, but on the advice of very high priced and intelligent legal counsel who think these US companies WILL be affected.

The NBC exec successfully skated around any scenario that may happen in which a US company gets punished due to SOPA. At the very end of the interview, the talk was getting there ("So Google HAS to take Pirate Bay down from search. What happens if it doesn't?") but the segment ended.

We need someone to get out there and clearly enumerate the scenarios in which generally law-abiding US companies can get burned by SOPA. This was not accomplished in the interview.
We use Airdrop a lot for sharing large files over our local network, for that it works great, and is a lot more efficient than Dropbox. But I agree that it would be more useful if it's an open protocol.

With respect to iCloud - it makes little sense to make it generally available. It's an free add-on (except iTunes Match) that ties you into 'the Apple platform'. If you and your applications use iCloud for synchronization, and it's limited to iOS and OS X, there is one more hoop to jump through if you want to switch to another platform.

Whether Apple succeeds on that front, we have to see, and depends on things such as adoption by third-party application developers.
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Is Juvia compatible with Gray? (Judging by the comments so far, few people will get it, but with that logo, this comment is required)
I'm not sure if you can really characterize this as a "slam". His twitter feed is mostly incomprehensible.
…simple initial "put stuff in a folder…"

Apple's goal with iCloud (and iOS) is to eliminate the concept of a folder in the filesystem. Of course it won't work well for you. You want folders and files.
Yes. Sorry used the package name(dkim-filter). It's a milter though.
> my first time doing live TV debate

If you were at all nervous about that, it didn't show. Most people (myself included) cannot speak truth to power so easily without being visibly phased. From your comment it sounds like you know the bill to a T, so my one criticism would be that you could have conveyed very unambiguously that he was wrong on three counts (with respect to the bill not affecting US sites). The details that follow might be lost on the audience, but the "wrong on three counts" is what people will walk away with.
Echoing cbo a little bit, I agree that you did well dealing with the NBC GC's interruptions - you were steady even when he was trying to jump in, and as long you have a reasonably effective moderator (like Chris in this segment), you will be heard. Creating that contrast is important - rather than letting it escalate on both sides, you get points for sincerity over obstinacy.
As an aside, I use vim under Dvorak without too much trouble. I find that reciting the letters of keyboard commands in my head while executing them keeps them from becoming pure muscle memory, and I am able to do the same recitation when I need to work on a Qwerty keyboard.
Well it's pretty easy actually to show that you are using the domain but you don't have to always even do this. You just have to not be infringing on someone else in the majority of cases or at least have a leg to stand on.

I know of a specific case where none other than American Express wanted a particular domain and wrote the scary lawyer letter. They received a letter back saying the domain was used for email. They never filed anything or took any further action. They went away. (And they had a trademark on the domain and I would say the name was valuable to them). A few years went by and the domain was then sold and the email transitioned.

I know of another case involving the NBA as well. In that case the domain pointed to a site but it had nothing to do with basketball. And many others involving less prominent trademark owners.

There is plenty of nuance in this business. It's hard to summarize everything or make generalizations. Every situation and strategy is different. In ways it's like the difference between reading about medicine on the Internet and seeing an actual doctor. Certain combination's of circumstances change strategy and management. No way to understand and read about it. It comes from experience and actual practice.
The funny thing is most of his on-line sites would get shut down with SOPA, seeing that his journalist plagiarise a good percentage of the articles they publish.

I know this first hand, my friend and I have a football blog where we posted an exclusive video where he managed to interview a footballer, the next day The Sun took the video and splashed it on the front page of their sports sections with out permission or attributing it to our site.

So with SOPA would I get to shut down thesun.co.uk?
that's quite a shame that the link on Jimmy Wales' comment page made it in the top news, but that the real poll does not get the same level of advertisement here :\
Paul Krugman with the breakdown for the top .1%: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/but-the-top-0-1-...