skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love DVCS and used Mercurial for a year exclusively, but one thing that TFS does really really well is lifecycle and issue management. The way you can put a project plan (essentially) into it as a collection of work items and then track burndown/earned-value as code checkins are occurring is really awesome. My stand-by joke is that TFS would be an awesome lifecycle management tool if only it had a good version control product. When you work in a large enterprise (read: bureaucratic) where you have to satisfy a small army of project managers who are watching the dollars tick by, TFS has many pros worth considering.
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I think the most interesting thing about whatever Dustin does is the hype he's able to build around it—I'm consistently impressed, and wonder if he might not be as effective as a promoter as he is a designer.
>In this case, you're suggesting we completely ignore the statement of a source which is known to be unreliable on a particular set of partisan topics, and known to be reliable on non-partisan topics (such as sports scores), when they are addressing a topic within the second category.

Perhaps it is not quite right to say that ignoring it completely is "proper evidential weighting". What I mean is that it is a better heuristic than the ones your brain's native evidence-weighing routines will employ. And since it is impossible to completely override those instinctive heuristics, there is some level of credibility below which the best course of action is to simply disregard a source. The fact that we have limited investigative resources further raises that bar.

Otherwise, I would have to spend all of my time weighing odds and researching the plausibility of claims gleaned from Prison Planet, during which I could learn much more information about the world by focusing my attention elsewhere.

>(The problem with the heavily-downvoted grandparent post is more than mere improper evidential weighting. The larger problem is that it's boring and off-topic. Here on Hacker News, we prefer comments that add value to the discussion.)

Well yes, it just bothers me quite a lot when people act like ignoring disreputable sources is some kind of sin against rationality.
Kind of funny that an acquihire entitles you to housing in the Bay Area, isn't it? For a few hundred grand, you can get a house in an outlying area.
My guess would be that it's an attempt at making it very clear whose blog you're on, to disambiguate.

http://svbtle.com/ now has colours for each member blogger, and it looks like they all have their own left sidebar slideout thing. Additionally, their pulsing icons in the top left have an additional colour hint to them.

Edit: I think it's a little too intrusive and clashes with the overall feel of the rest of it, but that's just me!
Dvorak is not faster, but it is significantly more comfortable.

At least, that's what a lot of people say. I'd love to see some decent research. I guess it's hard to double blind for things like keyboard layouts.
It just reads mouse move events, so there are only so many per second. If you send me more events than I allow, I drop the rest of them on the floor.
I think this would actually work better as a quick reference for people who are already coders - sometimes you just need to look stuff up. Target Stack Overflow rather than Stanford.
That's pure speculation but I'd guess the editor simply uses a div with the contenteditable attribute set to true.

Edit : Okay, so much for speculation.
I didn't really custom build it; it's just a normal textarea element with the borders removed and the typography matched to exactly how it's displayed on the blog.
I've dealt with e-discovery sets. No one really has answers to what to do when you have a litigation hold on data. Legislation commonly requires "retention of anything related to X case", but how do you know what's relevant and what isn't? When you are a third party the ambiguity increases. So you end up with an everything and kitchen sink data dump. Even with everything the data is commonly useless without context. You have files without access logs and logs referrencing local namespaces etc...

With a 25 petabyte discovery, I'm not surprised that everyone's scratching their heads on what to do next. This isn't just an MPAA/Megaupload problem. Even a smaller dataset like a 10-20TB discovery has numerous problems. Hosting/indexing/classifying/reviewing millions of documents is an open issue for the legal field. What do you do when there are multiple parties who all need to see "everything"? If everyone does their own thing how do you reference materials in a consistent manner across the interested parties? If you all agree to host the data in a neutral place who pays for it? What if the technology of that host benefits one party at the expense of another?

For years the legal field has had a "print it all out and have a team of paralegals go over it" viewpoint. Clients don't pay for computers, but they do pay for paralegal hours. Only recently has that become untenable. Discovery sizes are growing exponentially per year. It's common to have a new discovery set come in larger that every previous set combined, and the legal industry doesn't really know what to do about it.
> I wonder what language/platform it's written in?

I've recently wondered if we (devs) shouldn't adopt a standard like robots.txt/humans.txt, maybe dev.txt or something where we could put such information and opensource links (instead of polluting the UI sometimes with all the 'powered by' braggadacio).

//edit: submitted for discussion http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3742784
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Really confusing title. Searchify is hitting a million queries a day to their own API, and also selling themselves as an IndexTank replacement (since IndexTank is shutting down.)

Your title makes it seem like there's an IndexTank Search API.
Did not expect this post from 2010 to hit HN... Happy to see that my content is still useful :)

To add something new to the discussion I think HN should use Reddit's comment sorting algorithm (the confidence sort). It produces way better results than the current algorithm since it will rank the best comments highest regardless of their submission time. Would probably produces an even better comment section here on HN.
yeah, but the people who write blog entries 'threatening' to switch all tend to be using unity or gnome-shell, or else threatening to switch to one of those two.
It boggles my mind that the court hasn't taken position of the hardware/data then.

If the hardware is left running, and not in official custody, how do any authorities know that the data isn't being tampered with?
Sorry about that, I see what you mean. Wasn't trying to mislead, I just suck at titles :)
Ha. That does not surprise me at all. At first I thought it was someone else but the dots matched exactly so I thought it was a bug instead.
Not to mention embedded devices. Linux is everywhere.
A similar discussion/blog post in a thread on another trending HN post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742455

Maybe we're all just seeing an end to the vague rhetoric about college "preparing you for life" rather than training you for the workplace.
I am formerly a big fan and user of Gephi, so I think graph drawing is "important enough" to deserve its own JavaScript library, which is why I made sigma.js. I know d3.js is already a great tool, but it looked hardcore for me to tweak it to draw graphs on a Canvas element (it is more easy to use SVG elements). And basically, using a Canvas makes it much more scalable.

About the features to come, you can check https://github.com/jacomyal/sigma.js/blob/master/TODO.txt to see what will come soon. Also, of course, don't hesitate to add some ideas you have in that list :)
I'm a little surprised they are still a service provider. I mean I would think they would have changed there model to be more of a service for those who do "Pay as you go". Hmmm.
How do you edit? Directly into the textarea or do you toggle between markdown and preview?
I don't mean to be that guy, but you are not really adding anything to the discussion.
Yes. HN was once flooded with Erlang submissions to make it look boring.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

As for your comment, I don't understand why you're bringing race in.
the MSR video of decision-tree based body recognition/segmentation was pretty neat http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/145347/CVPR%202011%20-%20... . is there a list of good applications of this technique besides credit checks and face recognizers?
You've nailed it absolutely perfect. Thank you.
Why is your blog completely unusable without javascript enabled?
IBM isn't particularly aggressive with its patent portfolio, especially in areas not relevant to its core businesses, nor are they likely to want the distraction and cost of suing a company a fraction their size in search of a small slice of its revenue.
Extrapolating from the contents of the software patents I have seen, I shudder to think at how much utter slop and obvious-to-any-engineer-versed-in-the-field kinds of patents are going to be among those 750. "A method by which a button is rendered on the screen such that it can be clicked on with a mouse, causing some action to occur." etc, etc. Also the fact that any company could even buy software patents, let alone buy 750 of them, makes the system look absurd. The whole point was to reward the original inventors. Now it rewards trolls and lawyers and those with big war chests.

(a method by which my comments are posted to a website configured as a discussion forum with an orange bar at the top. the target website may also include links to other pages, and include caching.)
How is TortioseGIT deficient compared to TortoiseHg? I would think at this point, they are sort of equivalent, but I don't have experience with Mercurial.
endemic - I do not think it means what you think it means.
Another example from a favoured database - MongoDB. Rather than trying to come up with optimal query plans they try all pertinent ones concurrently. Whichever finishes first is noted and used in the future. Its performance results continue to be monitored and if they start diverging all are tried again.

This means not having to guess big O correctly, or access patterns or other stuff in advance. It is possible to add future optimisations and not worry about current ones since they just won't be used work inapplicable workloads.
I think what the GP tried to say is that France is not the easiest environment to launch a startup. Labor laws, taxes etc. make it one of the less desirable places in Europe to start a company.
My rule of thumb: if I LOL, it's satire. If I don't, it doesn't matter. I remember a couple of times it was embarrasing, though.

One was at the movies. Pulp Fiction. Christopher Walken is telling the story of the watch. When it reaches certain level, I am the only laughing person around. The more I feel everybody throwing me vicious looks in the dark, the less I can't stop.

Edit: BTW, I enjoyed the story a lot, thanks cstross!
I didn't laugh but I found that incredibly arrogant and pathetic.
I think both behaviors provide continuation to the problem. On one side, the people who is actually sexist, or racist, or just believe in stereotypes. In the another, the people who also believes that the rest of the people are biased towards their sex, skin color or condition. Ignoring information that is not interesting or useful for us is the best tool we have to not be hurt by other people so easily, get stronger and prepared to survive in an unfair society and preserve freedom of speech. Nobody wants to be negatively discriminated, but does somebody think positive discrimination is the solution? I believe is the same social problem after all.
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Who's vetting the bloggers invited to join the Svbtle network? Is it Dustin himself? Something about an exclusive, invite-only network for "creative, intelligent, and witty people" really turns me off.

Not that I wouldn't be interested in reading what only the best and the brightest have to say. Maybe it's just the way it's been presented, but in its current form it seems sort of like the Mensa of blogging platforms.
Yesterday I made a quip about how 3 of the 5 members were on the frontpage of HN arguing, and how I didn't want an invite.

Insert foot in mouth.

I really like the idea of the two columns. I'd totally use this.
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It happened with Erlang a few years ago.

http://thinkingnectar.com/2009/hacker-news-is-funny-of-erlan...
While it may be tempting to look to nature to draw inspiration for engineering, realize that nature/evolution often makes horrendous engineering "decisions" precisely because it is not intelligently engineered. The most often cited example is the inferior laryngeal nerve in mammals, which is 15 feet longer than necessary for giraffes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Evide...
No arguments on the long shot part, and you're right, focusing on accreditation does put some serious limitations on exactly how we can structure our business model. Not focusing on accreditation, however, means it is very easy to create a business model that is impossible to accredit. Udemy, for example, will never be able to achieve their original vision of being a real college or university because their business model relies so heavily on revenue sharing for the instructors, which is a big no no for accreditation boards.

Cost is actually the one area where we can compete very aggressively. Columbus state may be able to sneak under the $10k mark, but for an equivalent program we'll be just over $3k with a much more flexible and adaptable system. That number, btw, is with state and federal subsidies for the school, often upwards of $10,000 per student per year. We're coming in completely unsubsidized at a price that's less than a third of our cheapest competition with an offering that is significantly higher quality (we're competing with MIT for some of our professors).

Brand building really is the toughest nut to crack, and one what we have a couple different strategies for. Not really comfortable discussing those strategies on this forum, but let's just say we've thought a great deal about the problem.
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This is a clear violation of the webmaster guidelines - the subdomains should get swatted by google soon.
I laughed as well, but because I thought it was a fantastic move. The entire design is a brand, and by not opening it up to everybody, it will create the desire to be on the "in crowd." Arrogant? Hardly. Brilliant? Definitely.
I've often wondered this too, a "Dvorak for pianos".

Googling it now turns up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki-Hayden_note_layout
It's blogger. Not really something we have control over.
Yeah, seriously, talk about Eternal September. ;)
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But investigations take hours, while this case will take years.
Daftunes is an interactive sound visualizing project. During playing a song, you can enjoy some types of visualizing that synchronizes sound and lyrics, also, it shows what people are doing with the lyrics from twitter.com.

Technology:
HTML5, JavaScript, Three.js
What if you created an account after being hired, or had plausible deniability to that effect? Would you be obligated to inform your employer whenever you manage other social media accounts?

The implications of this are terrifying. I'm glad that organizations like the ACLU are on this, because if corporations can set a precedent for this sort of privacy invasion, we're screwed to the nth degree.
Excellent point, and a strategy we have built in the learning system part itself. As odd as it may sound though, I actually wouldn't want to go up against Stack Overflow. They are a much more dangerous competitor than Stanford.
> Now you could De-dupe... but the hardware to process and dedupe that much data.... not really an option.

FYI, the data is already comprehensively de-duped.
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Original discussion (same post, from Geoff Lewis's blog):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742070
It does not mean you are not creative, intelligent, and witty if you are not invited.
Thanks, I was asking more in general - I think many people could need that advice. Sadly, I rarely ever have female colleagues. But I am also not in the dating scene anymore, so it is not really a problem for me to ignore attractive colleagues atm.
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> screwing up Expose

"Screwing up"? Works much better for me. Have you actually taken some time to play with it?

> the changes in scrolling

You mean the changes you can turn off?

> 1% is the unwelcome increase in skeuomorphism.

To what are you referring, exactly?
To be fair apple's CUPS is pretty critical for printing under linux.

And then there is webkit.
I think I might like leaving my ideas in their raw form, though. I tend to create a bulleted, indented outline of what I'm writing before fleshing it out.
Please don't copy it just yet.

I'm still working out the problems and polishing the interactions. When they're all ironed out, I'll open it to the public.
Windows, because Apple uses Azure[1] in the iCloud infrastructure.

[1] http://www.infiniteapple.net/apple-icloud-azure-use-tested-c...
Lots of games (including ones I worked on) ship with hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code and practically no unit tests (if any).

Lots of games are buggy as hell as well. In the past year, I gave up on a number of AAA games because they were simply too buggy and felt unfinished to me. Needless to say, I won't be buying sequels and will think very hard before buying from the same developers again.
I'm not sure but if it's a vertical take-off and land (VTOL) it must be pretty durable.

Found this gem on Wikipedia under Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

Canada had previous experience with a high-accident rate with the single-engine Lockheed CF-104 Starfighter with many accidents related to engine failures. Defence Minister Peter MacKay, when asked what would happen if the F-35’s single engine fails in the Far North, stated "It won’t"
I expected a github link to the software, found... a snobby, invitation-only network. No thanks, amigo, I think I'll steal your idea and release it for free.
Paging Dr. Cutts....
You could lift his CSS.
Is Searchify a new installation of IndexTank? It displays IndexTank "white papers" on its site...?
I'm not sure I follow. Am I supposed to pay $10k for an online course that I know little about their reputation, with no free trial nor guarantee from existing businesses that they actually value your certification? It's hard to imagine how you'd get early adopters to get traction.

I think you're looking at it wrong. You shouldn't be comparing yourself to universities. Don't compare your prices, duration and accreditation with them. You should be building something completely different from the ground up. Something that is viable in today's world, not trying to bandage existing university models to today's world. Like pg said, build your own thing, if it's really good, it will eventually replace universities without you even aiming for that.

Personally, I think you should focus much more heavily on the accreditation side than anything else. Just try to build a certification system together with existing tech employers, something that they would sign and put a banner in your website saying "company X approves this certificate as important for our selection process". That would get early adopters interested. After you have that. Offer your classes for free, make those as widely available as possible. Charge for the certificate and one on one help with those who feel they need it to get your certificate. Well, that's how I think this universities will actually get disrupted.
I made a traditional offline business online. For now it's local, for now it's like "beta" version but in 6 month we will go global. Then I'll open a SHOW HN topic and send you a message ;).
That's an excitingly ambitious project. I really hope you guys pull it off.

One (extended) question though:

The first course is "a cutting-edge class in web application development for mobile devices. Not only does it use texts focused on practical application and cover tech like PhoneGap, Jo, Sencha, jQTouch, and jQuery Mobile, but it is taught by a real-world developer with decades of university teaching experience".

That's not a university course, that's a trade school course. Look at the "textbooks". Probably a useful one but it's not CS. I know you say "We not only teach CS/SE theory at the highest level, but also provide the practical implementation that prepares you to excel in the workplace." but to be honest that seems like a lie. I don't have much experience with teaching CS but I have some.

The idea that you could teach a practical (necessarily complex) toolkit at the same time or alongside high level CS concepts seems absurd. Students have a hard enough time getting those high level concepts to click but now they are mixing trade school toolkit training in at the same time? Those two goals conflict with each other. It's like using gcc internals for a compiler course.

I am so onboard with the online, just in time, at your own pace learning thing. But I have to say that the copy on this page has seriously dampened by enthusiam.

You're called "Turing College" and the only course is a trade school mobile app course covering mobile app framework libraries (at least they'll have to come back in 6 months for the new version of the course) and say things like this: "We’re teaching you to be a rock star, not just look like one on paper". WTF? Was brogrammercollege.blogspot.com taken? And blogspot? really?

I hope my impression is wrong, but I'm not coming away with a good one from this page.
From that article:

Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is "difficult" and declined to comment further.

Ha!
It's also the dominant OS for supercomputers and (probably) set-top boxes.
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I think if you are Brad Pitt or George Clooney (or some other desirable man), that comment is fun and flirtatious, otherwise it is creepy. If you are not Brad Pitt or George Clooney, you should make yourself invisible in the presence of women. Or maybe you could offer foot massages.
How many other blogging platforms have boiled everything down to just that simple workflow? I'd say this is much more about execution than about the idea.