skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are already plenty of well-written articles on the Web about traffic pumping; why did FeeFighters choose to write yet another article (probably heavily cribbed from others without attribution) instead of just linking to an existing one? For the juice.

Given that so many links on HN follow this pattern, however, I don't think this subthread is very useful.
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I'm looking for 3-month internships currently. I suppose that it wouldn't be advisable in this case, would it?
This is technically true, but it happens that clock speeds and MIPs have also increased at a geometric rate over long periods of time. It's a bit harder to characterize because processor architecture changes have a discontinuous effect, but on average MIPs doubled every 36 months. [1]

[1] http://www.meaningprocessing.com/personalPages/tuomi/article...
For those of you who suck at negotiations and how to go about them, I believe the single best thing you can do is to get more than one employment discussion going at the same time. Then you can be totally honest and open in your negotiations and still maximize the offer made by each company. It is quite difficult to mess it up at that point - you might not get the highest salary possible between the companies, but you will get close to the highest possible salary that at least one of the companies is willing to offer.
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Is this related to sacrificing numerical accuracy for more operations per second? That sounds like a good idea for some things.
Most of the stuff that I tend to find using Google is more about the things/features/products that tech companies are dishing out. However, I don't get blogs that are more into the technical details like Algos, architecture, design, programming etc.

There are a few goods posts on HN every now and then, but would love people to share what interesting technical feeds they follow regularly.
Why would I want a facebook like button on every one of my search results page? The only place facebook can't spy on me? And in all fairness, why doesn't this script puts a +1 button on facebook search results?
Super, I'll have to read about it.
Is this the perfect agile hacking chair?
I'm looking a lot at chairs lately - mostly the usual Hermin Hiller office suspects.....a buddy of mine works 12 hour days from home trading futures and swears by his reclining leather reading chair - it looks like something from a stately home, I tried it out and gotta say he might be on to something, its very plush but also supportive & its default sitting position is at the perfect angle for sitting back and using a laptop - I like to work with just an Air & no extra peripherals, its the kind of chair I could work & sleep in :-)

This is the exact one he has: http://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod150003&categoryId=cat1537048

Of course there is the slight issue of this thing costing over $2k.....

Does anyone here also use such a chair? Has it worked out for you?
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Jesus dude, I searched for two guys who essentially live in Google Plus - Trey Ratcliff and Guy Kawasaki.. and your extension returns everything but their G+ profile pages on the first page of the search result?? I know it is hip to be anti-Google now but this is ridiculous.
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Trying to make a competitive AI for Battlecode is uncannily similar to trying to create a successful startup (and much, much less intimidating.) Aaron deserves a lot of credit for starting it (the other founder is David Greenspan, who also did Etherpad with Aaron.)
(He's being downvoted because it didn't add anything to this discussion, and it seemed like a case of sour-grapes because he originally submitted the link.

If there was discussion on the original submission it would have been useful)
Nope. Amazon should buy RIM:

1. RIM makes decent hardware, crappy software. Amazon makes great software, not great hardware.
2. Amazon really knows how to sell stuff.
3. Kindle and Blackberry products won't need to compete anymore.
4. Amazon has lots of content to put on RIM devices.
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I did a simple RPG game engine (It handled basic scripting, navigating through different maps, some screen tricks, etc), back in 1999 when I was 15 y.o. (yeah, I had a LOT of spare time back then)... I'll leave a screen here: http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/2714/proyge0.jpg in case someone wants to see what it looked like (I had 'borrowed' some tile art from several games of the time: Final Fantasy 5 and Harvest Moon :P but some were entirely made by me!!).

It was made in C++ and some ASM (I needed to use assembler to improve the performance in some critical areas, like graphics, working with 0x13h mode, I wrote my graphic library from scratch).

I can assure you that it was laborious and pretty difficult (specially talking to the hardware directly). But I REALLY wanted to learn programming, and I didn't went on vacation that summer, so I spent a lot of time coding for fun :)

Do you want to know the funniest part of it? Some years later, I lost the majority of that code. While formatting my PC, I forgot to save that... Now I only preserve some exes, but I've lost the level editor and the tile editor I made =(

Oh gosh, I feel nostalgic now.

Having said all of this, I can really understand the guy who ported this game. The will to learn is a powerful motivator.
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Nah, I figure Richard Branson might actually have some plausible connection, he gets to stay. Paris Hilton? No.
Essentials are foundational subjects that have the highest probability of preparing a student to become more productive and useful to society. So your question about required versus elective courses centers around 1) what society collectively decides is useful and 2) what a student at a certain level can practically grasp and grow from. I think we'd both agree reading is an essential by this definition but truthfully socially and communally controlled influences make these decisions (thing like the economy, elections, and enrollment) not you or me.

The problem with discussing this on a forum on HN is that we're all biased. We all think programming is incredibly important to society because its incredibly important in our lives personally. If you go onto any forum where everyone has a collective interest, they'll all say subject A should absolutely be taught in school because of X, Y and Z. Truth be told on a macro scale every skilled field is battling for the attention of capable students to eventually join their ranks.

I think what many on HN are missing is that if your going to introduce programming (especially as a core subject) into formal education, you'll need to sacrifice other subjects to make room with the way education budgets work. Of course everyone is going to say something like oh well you should cut down on art, music, social studies etc but its not a helpful perspective unless expressed in a truly diverse forum.
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If you're just trying to validate an idea, you probably want to stay away from actually charging a credit card. A simple call to action and email submit should suffice. You could do a mock shopping cart, just be aware that charging credit cards under false premises is illegal.

Another option would be to set up a Kickstarter project.
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Not trying to be anti-Google at all.
I searched both of those names and both of their Google+ pages came up on the first page.

The extension only adds more social links the "Related People and Pages" sidebar. Even then, it only adds links, it doesn't remove the Google+ pages. Your regular search results are not modified at all. Try searching for "movies" to get a better feel for what it actually does.
No, you'll compete with Quentin Tarantino, and the Cohen Brothers, and they don't put out a film every week.

Anyway, you've named some of the best high-budget movies over the last 10 years. They don't release an Avatar every month.
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WoW! Great work.. A good resource.
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Computers are complex machine and only an expert can ensure that they are always in perfect share. With a long list of software entangled with a complex hardware, it is surely not a common man’s game.
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Pseudonyms on Google Plus? Wrong.
There are many people that are not comfortable with negotiation. They see it as a game, and want to avoid it. They would rather just produce something and get paid for it for a living, and cut all the bullshit. For those people, maybe the template below will help (just a suggestion).

1. Find out what you really like to do (technology or domain-wise etc)

2. Find out where you break even on your daily/monthly expenses.

3. Add to that a savings cushion that you are comfortable with. Thats your number.

4. Find out companies that do 1, and drop that number right away so that they know where you stand.

5. If company rejects, keep looking.

6. If the company okays it because they think its well below market rate, and you come to know of it, work for them for a couple of years and then jump ship.

You may have been low-balled for sometime, but you worked on something you liked, and have some experience under your belt to search for other opportunities in the same field.
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Google+ pseudonym policy lets Google reject names that aren't "established"
They should consider moving the discussion to Google Groups or something. Not everybody loves to read the discussion threads via email.
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"The interesting question for society is, should these people have phone lines? And if they should, how much of the cost should they bear themselves? And how far should we be willing to go to run phone out to increasingly remote areas?"

Phone lines, or roads, or fire brigades, or police. Or tax collectors…

I suspect most farmers would choose to fund their own telecommunication, if it meant they didn't have to pay tax.

I'm not quite sure where the line gets drawn about what's reasonable to "expect" the government to provide in return for your tax dollars, and quite how to ensure "fairness" or equality between city-dwellers and rural taxpayers. But deep down I'm a bit of a socialist - I think phones should probably be owned by "the government", or at least regulated so heavily that the decisions about who does and doesn't get phone service is largely driven by ethics and "the greater good" than by "increasing shareholder value".
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This conversation goes rather differently in the age of the mobile phone.
"... Why is this on the front page? This isn't news, innovative, attractive, useful... none of the above ...this doesn't seem like Hacker News to me."

You've been here for 25 days and yet your sure this article isn't worthy?

I've been stumbling around for 1797 days and I still can't work out exactly what articles are "interesting to hackers" [0] Here's a hint. I find it interesting because @polyfractal displays a "HN" favourite, showing, instead of telling. If you've got experience using TF do @polyfractal a favour and explain why, instead of venting? The backbone of HN is hackers building something, showing, getting some useful feedback & rebuilding.

Lead the way.

[0] "What to submit" ~ http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The profile URLs are:

Trey Ratcliff: https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts

Guy Kawasaki: https://plus.google.com/112374836634096795698/posts

Neither of them show up after I install your chrome extension because the "Show Personal Results" is enabled by default. Your extension does show those G+ profile pages ONLY IF I switch to "Hide Personal Results". This is a problem with the original bookmarklet as well.
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> post by the Product VP for Google+

This is kind of the point, actually. Or perhaps a side-effect of it. You (that is, Googlers in general) live in a bubble where that sort of information becomes common knowledge. You have large quantities of context unavailable to the outside world, and seem utterly unable, at least when it comes to Google+, to step outside of that context and figure out how to communicate with people outside of Google who have a billion other things to worry about in the ordinary course of their lives that are far more important to them than Google.

> From my perspective the leadership had a strong vision for the product and had some strongly held assumptions and opinions about how best to achieve that vision.

This is more indication of the bubble. Google's leadership may have had such a vision, and may have communicated it with some clarity internally, but it was not communicated to the outside world.

By and large you guys have huge brains, but you need to shut them off for a minute. Read about Google+ from the perspective of what you probably consider to be a stupid person. Notice how nothing makes sense. Then realize that the "stupid" person you're envisioning is actually the 7 billion people on Earth who do not have the context of working at Google.
No, the point of the 5th is that you cannot be compelled to give testimony against yourself (which is under oath and for which you will go to jail if you perjure yourself.) You are not protected from helping to convict yourself if you leave the evidence of your crimes available to the court. An encrypted drive is being considered as something like an un-crackable safe for which you have the combination; providing the password is not testifying, it is providing the court access to evidence that you would otherwise be concealing from a valid warrant.
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parseFloat("08") === parseFloat("09") === 0

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Here's a discussion of a ray tracer written in Rust:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2011-December/00...

and here's the source code on GitHub:

https://github.com/brson/rustray
The contents of the laptop are such that they exhibit a high level of entropy. By definition, they are not information.

uh, the bits of a compressed file also exhibit a high level of entropy. Are compressed files not information either?
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Blake why are you guys completely kicking out the legitimate G+ profile links from the search results using the bookmarklet? I thought you were against search result manipulations. I search for people like Guy Kawasaki or Trey Ratcliff who are very active in G+ and yet their profiles are not listed on the first page of the results if I use your bookmarklet.
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Do you mean that being ring-0 makes TCP faster, or insulates existing code?
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I will look into this and try to modify the original script so that Personal Results remain untouched. Would you be willing to post a screenshot comparing the results with the extension on and off? I can't seem to reproduce what you are seeing.
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No, it's not. Not in the same price range it's not. Not on the same tasks it's not. 100 times faster? You need to sell that beast for some real cash because you've got something nobody else does.

The only way that can be true is if you didn't realize your 2007 computer was continuously in swap.

Edit: Oh, sorry, read further down the thread, wherein your secret definition of "orders of magnitude" is revealed. Even then it's not true; the only place you're getting 4x speed improvements in single threading for the same price is either the very bottom of the market (maybe) or in certain benchmarks that carefully test only certain aspects of the single thread performance. It's certainly not across the board.
"this socialist scheme never really changed anything, except it distorted the visible prices so that they do not match real costs. now all you've done is made it harder for the market to optimally allocate limited resources."

Unfortunately, "the market" is only going to optimize for the metrics used to evaluate it. When those metrics are almost exclusively "profit" and "shareholder value", the market optimizations aren't always going to align with "societies expectations". Without external pressure, "the market" will optimize for Haliburton being in control of military budgets, investment banking being in control of police departments, and farmers having no phone access.
But rears it's head again as soon as you start talking about broadband internet access…
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I am a 'prepper' and I am heavily armed and very prepared to shoot looters. In TX we can legally shoot anyone on our property (you can even shoot a mugger in the back once he turns around).

To me having a few weeks of extra food and basic supplies can never hurt, it is a lot easier than most people think for global supply chains to fail. If you have ever been in a natural disaster you would be surprised at how fast the shelves at a walmart completely empty.
Demo Day for YC W12 is mid-March, so I assume mid April as they need to be focused on the current batch and assist them with fund raising before they can focus on the new applications...Then interviews would be around early January for an early July start...
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The servers seem a bit slow (probably overloaded), but I was able to get responses to everything in the end. In the end, it was pretty good, though not perfect (about what I've seen from Siri, except that Evi doesn't currently support integration with actions on other applications - though since Android seems to support this nicely, I imagine it'll be a nice addition once they add it).

My main problem with Evi is the same as the problem I have with Siri - I don't really see a need for it. It's kind of cool at first to have a computer listen to my voice and tell me what I want, but it's only marginally faster than typing it out myself (and not necessarily as accurate).

On a related note, natural-language processing may be useful in this context for people who aren't very tech-savvy, but after years of using less intelligent search engines, I've mentally trained myself not to use complete sentences in web search. For example:

'When does the nearest Duane Reade close?'

vs.

'Duane Reade hours 10036'.

The former might be more natural for the average person, but I knew without even testing those out that the latter would be more likely to give me the what I was looking for. (The same applies to the less-natural 'When does Duane Reade close 10036?'

The latter is faster to type, and if you're used to using search engines frequently, it's actually a lot more 'natural' than the first one, despite not being a complete sentence. So for me, the appeal of interacting with a human-like computer is outweighed by the annoyance of having to think like I'm talking to a human, not a computer.

That's not to discredit all the hard work that went into these - this is essentially the first generation, and I think a lot of great stuff can be built off of these tools. But at the time being, I can't imagine using Evi or Siri in daily life.
How do you propose police execute a search warrant in someone's house? Or should the police never be allowed in your house under any circumstance?
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How is that different from finding naughty stuff in the closet while searching for the murder weapon?
That only applies to parseInt because it tries to guess the radix if one isn't supplied. parseFloat assumes base 10 and doesn't accept a radix argument.
Her stating her current salary would be detrimental.

Her giving a suggestion of what she wants to make would not.
> I'm sure there's an even better way to accomplish something similar that I'm not thinking of

One example is what TrueCrypt calls plausible deniability. Your drive has an encrypted volume which initially appears to be completely random data (like all well-encrypted data). You have two decryption keys: an "innocent one" and the "real one." If asked or compelled to decrypt your drive, you decrypt it with the innocent one, and it becomes something innocent (like a bare operating system with no personal info). Obviously, the "real key" reveals your real operating system which you actually use, and thus contains personal information.

The kicker is, without the real key, not only can they not see your personal information, but it's physically impossible to even prove that there's another key which decrypts different data on the drive.

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability