skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I don't know about TCP behavior, but this seems really wrong in the sense that it ignores HTTP semantics of GET and POST. I imagine this could cause unintended effects in intermediaries like caching proxies.
> It's kind of questionable that a one-paragraph throwaway rant like this has hit the front page of HN.

I was hoping that it would provide a good starting point for a discussion about using Facebook. I think it did.
You basically have the 'old media' practices right, but there's some variances. So yes, let's say your competitor breaks a story -- if they're the only ones and you write it up based on them bringing the story to your attention, you should give them credit, whether or not that's your only verification that the story happened.

However, if you feel that you would have gotten the story anyhow (or, even more likely, you were both working on it at the same time, and they just happened to publish first -- this happens all the time), as long as you were independently able to verify and really didn't rely on them for story, you don't have to credit. And this is a good thing -- you don't want reporters to rush their reporting over something silly like credit. But it's a trust thing, just like sourcing overall is.

Another variance: Let's say, for example, that a clown is riding a horse in Time Square, and for some reason you want that story for your Washington state paper. You really shouldn't write about it until you can independently verify. But you can't because you don't have reporters or sources on the scene, and you don't want to credit just the NYT. So then the Boston Globe reports it, then Wash Post -- and all three say they've independently verified the story (vs. citing original NYT report). THEN you can pretty much assume it's fact, then you don't really need to source the papers -- you can say according to multiple reports (or say nothing at all).

It also falls back to you can't copyright facts, just the language the information is presented. As a journalist you're responsible for making sure the facts are correct (generally held at 3 sources, whatever they are), but once you've done that, you can go for it.

But that's why just not sourcing someone (bad practice) is nothing close to the linked example because plagiarism (exact language = violating copyright) is something you can get sued for.

Probably WAY more info than anyone wanted, but FYI in case it helps.
Similar methods are widespread in interrogation tactics as well. With enough lies, you can determine the truth (eliminate all contradictory statements and what remains is either the truth or an amazingly executed piece of misinformation). Along the same lines, in SERE training, you're instructed to not answer any questions, and if you can't hold out from answering anymore, just tell the truth because lying helps as much as telling the truth.
Putting together a click-along demo
Make it automated and mobile: build a beautiful CV from an iPhone app, pay via in-app purchase and get 5 physical printouts delivered (also PDF in email and HTML version hosted for sharing).

Your sales will jump from $10,000 to $100,000.
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but I find it necessary to point something out: lack of evidence doesn't necessarily mean that something isn't a trend. For all we know, asking for a Facebook password could be the hottest trend that everyone is doing, but we'd probably never know about it because no one is collecting any data on the subject. The opposite argument could be made as well.

In other words, if someone is making an argument without any evidence, they're basically saying they know something when they really don't. On the other hand, you have to be careful not to fall into the opposite trap: claiming that they're wrong, when you have no more evidence to prove that than they do.
Next time someone tells me "scientists are always eager to disprove existing theories", I'm going to call BS. That may be what science is about, but its practitioners are only human.
You nailed it.

The worst part about that is that the people behind Facebook think this is a great thing.
The open source 3D Editor "Blender 3D" has a similar realtime view with it's new "Cycles" rendered, where one can change a mesh or material attributes, or change the viewport and see the raytraced, rendered result in realtime:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bDaRXvXG0E
Management is orthogonal to code design/dev/maint.

No one (ok... almost no one) has no management nor coding skill, rather each of us has a mix of the two. The great organizations I've worked in had extremely smart people in management and in development, but the type of brilliance was different.

So yes, hire someone smarter than yourself.
The templates look great, congrats on the success. How did you arrive at the $99 price point?

Also: the submission title implies the project earned $10k in a month, but I didn't see that in the blog post itself. Where did that number come from? Is it accurate?
Is this site suspicious? It's blocked by the Trend Micro installed on my computer.
kinzaa.com does this already.
... would've begged my mom to let me stay at your house so we could stay up all night talking hypercard and c++ and compiling perl scripts for mac os 6, and figuring out what a regex is.

Well, actually this was like in 1979 or 1980 and the Macintosh wasn't out yet. I don't think C++ even existed, but my dad did get his hands on UCSD Pascal.

You are the luckiest dude in the world.

A few years later, they sent me to a military academy in Indiana. No, seriously. I wasn't a bad kid. It's complicated, and maybe everything balances out.
In this case, Blumenthal is latching on to the right thing.

As much as I dislike Facebook, I think it's appaling that you are required to give up keys to employers. One step away from feudalism, where you have to prostrate yourself before your liege.
Emory, my cofounder, designed the website and a few of the resumes. We contracted with some really talented designers regionally and around the country for the rest of the resumes. We didn't want to have the same look and feel for all of them so we plan to continue to use a variety of great designers.
You forget:
3. Monetizing through shady data-reselling channels.

Who cares if your data is not 100% correct because the occasional smart nerd will use a throwaway email? Somebody somewhere will pay something for the database and empirically prune it later on their own.

Especially for "free" services without a clear monetization path, that must be a strong temptation.
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Yes, we actually did better than that. I had tweeted about that so that's where the number came from.
I don't think carbs are necessarily bad. Vegetarianism was long deemed healthy (maybe still), and I don't see how low carb should be possible for vegertarians (if you have ideas, please tell me).

I have a non-proven theory: perhaps humans can adapt do different diets, not only different environments. Or actually in former times the environment pretty much dictated the diets. So if humans were good at settling in diverse environments, it practically follows that they are good at adapting to different diets.
So maybe not the modern 90% junk diet (sugars and white flour), but the difference between low and high carb might not be so important.

Also not sure why pizza tends to be condemned so much. Sure, if you buy a pizza at a restaurant, it is probably soaked in fat and covered with cheap cheese. But if I make one at home, it tends to have a lot of vegetables on it, and the amount of cheese doesn't have to be excessive. It seems at least healthier than the average cheese sandwich.
That's pretty cool!

The first thing I thought when I saw the page was "that's one ugly glove" - but I'm sure a commercial version would be much different.

This also gave me flashbacks to the PowerGlove for NES, which only worked in that Fred Savage movie about Super Mario 3.
Congratulations, great design and execution.

I'd be really interested to see how you phrased the emails you sent out to the bloggers to get them to write about you, and what your success rate was.
Thanks for the explanation... I didnt quite get the trick as it was described in the parent.
Unless you are claiming that he is lying, I don't think that contrived means what you think it means.
Why mobile? I'd much rather edit my résumé on a computer with a full keyboard.
Good info. Thanks for sharing
To many people, Facebook is the default communication channel

Exactly. Many of us geeks have dreamed of improved e-mail clients, better to-do lists... but frankly for the average person, they want to hear from their kids and relatives, easily see pictures of birthdays. Guess what: Facebook is years ahead of email clients for that purpose. Come up with a better client if you want to, but understand that some people have "simple" needs and your decade-old technology (what has changed since UUCP?) gets in the way.
Kudos on owning up to a big mistake, but the story about merely quoting a friend seems incredibly thin.
That's certainly been brought up to us before. We've run our resumes through parsing software and they've actually performed well. We don't advertise that because we haven't run every resume through every parser, so we can't say that they perform as well as Text files. Our advice for folks who are submitting to places where resume parsing software may be used is that they have a text version of their resume on hand as well and then use the Loft Resume for interviews and emails.

Most statistics show that 70% of jobs are found through personal networking, while 30% are found through career boards (like Monster.com.) We feel like we fit well with those 70%. However, even within the 30% of jobs that are found through career boards, most of those end in an email and an interview. We think a Loft Resume is a great way to stand out when job candidates do land that interview.
Is it even healthy to reduce body fat too much? Seems to me to have some buffer for hard times might be a good idea? Hard times could be some illness, for example - less worried about actual famine.
Congratulations on the launch and the beautiful work you're producing. I'd love to hear your feedback on the very popular discussion from a few days ago here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804134) on Raganwald's blog, "I don't hire unlucky people" (http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-dont-hire-unlucky-people) .
Specifically, I'm curious as to how much you as the creator of this service think making a resume standout really helps an applicant compared to a bland resume from a measurably more qualified candidate? Thanks!

A snippet from the blog...
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“First, I stopped caring so much about little things like how 'professionally' a resume was formatted or whether the cover email had spelling mistakes. I realized that throwing people away because of a spelling mistakes was really another way of discarding half the resumés because you don’t want to work with unlucky people.”

“Wait,” said Oscar, “but surely all things being equal, the person who takes the time to get the email right is better than the person who doesn’t?”

“Sure,” agreed Ernestine, “But all other things aren’t equal. What if the email with the spelling mistake came from someone who’s really busy because they’re talented and have a lot to do in their current position?”
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I'm thinking about doing another blog post about this specifically - how I research and contact bloggers.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps

Yes, and then we see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)

Give me a fucking break. You are clearly not worth engaging in discussion; I'm done.
I think a big part of it is the interest in functional languages in general. There was also something of a minor Lisp renaissance around the time that Practical Common Lisp (2005) and pg's "Revenge of the Nerds" (2002) was written. Now Clojure is fueling another bump in interest, including interest in CL and Scheme, as people coming to Lisp via Clojure are discovering some of the Lisp classics: PAIP, SICP, On Lisp, Lisp in Small Pieces, etc.

This is all speculation on my part.
I agree. If he had no idea what the source was, why quote it? Why not go back and ask?
1. You're a geek, you prefer computers. Random people who need help with CVs don't see it that way. They take whatever they find.

2. They find the app because it's cool to try and use. Websites are boring and obstruct. Apps generate huge traction way faster. The in-app payments are also easier for users, no credit card forms.

3. Smartphones outsell computers by 20% every day.

4. Once you find a way to make the interface great on a phone, you can deliver to tablets easily.

Build future now. Change the pain to fun.
It's no different than how RightSignature/Scalr works. And both of those services seem to be doing pretty well.
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Saying that I think the story really happened is an exaggeration in my case. Obviously I recognized that the story was false strongly enough for me to know that I should put my skepticism filters on. I knew intellectually the story didn't happen soon after starting reading, from the style of writing. But it took extra, conscious effort to ensure that that understanding was shared by my more base word-understanding mind, too. Basically, I read in words as truth, and have to manually tag each thought as "dubious" after reading them. Or perhaps I would still disbelieve what I read even if I didn't consciously attempt to disbelieve it, but consciously disbelieving what I read is a much-practiced habit that I would find hard to stop, so I still prefer straightforwardly-presented arguments to fictional-story arguments.

Apart from that misunderstanding, I do find it plausible that, as you hypothesize, most people need less effort to disbelieve what they read than me.
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How does this compare to dotcloud?
"carefully select privacy settings (which are quite extensive)"

That's ridiculous. Maybe you'll try a couple of times to keep up with their changes, but eventually you'll just give up. Besides, they will constantly tempt you to share more (that is how they grow).
I grabbed Clozure CL. Started it up, got a REPL. Wanted to know what I could do with it, so I went searching for help. The help is a silly, mostly empty window that starts with "Aren't you glad you waited so long to see this window ?" The first hyperlink in it is broken. The second (and only other) hyperlink takes me to something about OpenMCL, whose relationship to Clozure CL is a complete mystery to me.

Giving up on the help, I go back to the REPL and try some basic things. I quickly discover that this REPL window lacks essential features like pressing the up arrow to get the last thing you typed. And that was the point where I came back to my web browser and started writing this reply.

I realize these are small things to nitpick in the grand scheme of things, but it's such a horrible first impression compared to what I get from e.g. starting up Python for the first time.
Damn, you're so right.

This sort of data gathering is boring and nobody wants (or has time) to spend time trying to refine it; frameworks try to automate/simplify this sort of development task as much as possible, but that's not their core mission, and we can't all use the same language/framework anyway.

A simple service that works well and packs lots of intelligence (properly auto-defaulting address info, handling shipping/billing/company details, including VAT, automatically linking social networks where possible, etc) must be worth something.
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Maybe it's an allusion to Dr. Strangelove? That's what I thought of first when I read it.
From the paper (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et...), page 5-6: "Shalvi et al. (2011a) asked participants to roll a die under a paper cup with a small hole at the top allowing only them to see the outcome, and earn money according to what they reported rolling (1=$1, 2=$2, etc.). As participants’ rolls were truly private, the authors assessed lying by comparing the reported distribution to the distribution predicted by chance (Fischbacher & Heusi, 2008). Participants were asked to roll three times but to report only the outcome of the first roll. Although all three rolls were private, the distribution of reported outcomes resembled the distribution of choosing the highest of the three observed rolls. Modifying the task to allow participants to roll only once reduced lying. Participants clearly found value in being able to justify their lies to themselves. The authors concluded that observing desired counterfactuals, in
the form of desired (higher) values appearing on the second or third (non-relevant for pay) rolls, modified participants’ ethical perceptions of what they considered to be lying. Observing desired counterfactual information enabled participants to enjoy both worlds: lie for money, but feel honest."

Shalvi et. al. (2011a) is:
Shalvi, S., Dana, J., Handgraaf, M. J. J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2011a). Justified ethicality: Observing desired counterfactuals modifies ethical perceptions and behavior.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 115, 181-190.
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The mobile version of this site breaks the zoom function. I tried to zoom out to look at the cayley table, and it caused me to go to a previous story.
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If you didn't write it and don't cite a source, it's plagiarism. Doesn't matter if a friend sent it to you in email -- that just means you plagiarized a friend, which is kinda worse actually.

It's really hard for me to see this as an "honest mistake"; it just seems more like your average, run-of-the-mill, laziness-induced plagiarism.
I think a CV is something you have more investment in; I don't think as many people would be searching on their phones for an app... especially as writing a CV generally happens on a PC.

You're more likely to be sitting in front of a word processor bleakly wondering how to prep it up - and go do some Googling for CV tips...
There are also plenty of social norms that are harmless but still insipid. For instance, here in Sweden, every other male between 20-30 seems to be some kind of ironic lumberjack judging from their clothes. Which I just find to be utterly ridiculous, albeit harmless to all but my aesthetic sense.

That's right, a sizeable portion of Sweden's population would fit right in on this blog: http://hipsterorlumberjack.tumblr.com/
1.) You named one deficiency. You Googled it and although there were answers, you didn't like the answers that you received. Please enumerate the other deficiencies so I can laugh at how incredibly lame your perceived problems are.

2.) The docs for smtplib are longer than the code for cl-smtp. You'd get going quicker by reading the code and examples (tests) included in cl-smtp. Docs are wrong as soon as someone forgets to update them anyway.

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We have had this discussion for much longer than four years. The problem is people whine about not having documentation, but refuse to put in the effort to go document libraries themselves. Same with serial ports.

How long does it take to write a few CFFI wrappers and put them on Github? If you want it so badly, do it yourself. Of course, you'd rather just use Python, which is fine, Python is fine... Norvig likes it too. You probably already know Python. Python is safe, Python is your friend. The reality is that you are justifying your perfectly reasonable desire to stay in your comfort zone with python by saying 'blah library doesn't exist'. Creating 'blah library' sounds like a perfectly reasonable place to start learning the language to me.
You know what, he shipped. GNU is still important today, and so is FSF. So stuff your attitude. If you don't like his opinions, ignore them. You can't ignore his achievements.
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They look nice.

In my experience clean/light CV's are by far the best for almost every job - particularly engineering jobs. The exception being designers.

What sort of CV's are you seeing come in?

I know quite a few HR types who will find a snazzy looking CV and instantly demote it, on the basis that the sizzle is probably hiding some inadequacy (this is not necessarily a bad marker in my experience).

It would be interesting to see if the investment in this pays off for the candidate - whether the really high quality of the design flips it over that danger marker.
Good explanation on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_sc...
I actually read the entirety of the USA PATRIOT Act when I wrote the Wikipedia article. It took me two years to complete!

Surprisingly, there are a few issues of concern, but by and large the Act wasn't as bad as everyone said it was.
Dotcloud is closed source, but much more mature - they have customers using it in production. PlatformLayer is open source, but I wouldn't run a bank on it - yet!

But the big difference is one of scope: PlatformLayer makes it easy/easier to build a service like DotCloud. You could choose to run it internally (e.g. if you want to run on a private cloud). You could choose to make it publicly available as a DotCloud competitor (maybe not today, but soon!)

The end-goal is that it will be much easier to build these services, so there will be more of them, covering any software you want to run. So if you just want to consume services your options should be better, cheaper and more numerous; even if you never run PlatformLayer directly.

But this is the beginning of a project, where DotCloud is a useful hosting platform today.
Modifying the rendering engine used is an extremely minor aspect of 'disrupting Hollywood', and Otoy is a minor player regardless.

That said, physically-correct, unbiased rendering is absolutely where Hollywood visual effects are heading (and in some cases, are already there).

My own company, Fohr, is currently in pre-production on the first computer-photographed feature film, Carpathia. Our tech has been in development since 1998, and encompasses a lot more than just a new kind of rendering.

I think adoption will skyrocket once the studios see (a) that it can be done (and how), and (b) the cost savings and quality improvements that result. Like 3D animation after the introduction of Toy Story, it'll likely take a decade or more before other studios learn how to use the new technology to produce good films.
We just launched about a month ago and have been doing our best to keep up with orders so haven't had time to do proper surveys. That's certainly something that we want to do in the near future. I think it would really help from a marketing perspective - having some great success stories. I actually got the idea for the business because a friend of mine hired a graphic artist to design his resume and he ended up getting a ton of call and interest - many of them saying that they were impressed with his designed resume.
http://zerply.com/ does something very close to this.
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One problem with the privacy-protectionist view is that half of my email recipients use one of the three major email services (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail), so even if I decided not to use them, half of my email would end up on their servers. Taking that into consideration, and adding the fact that I haven't found an email service that I've liked within an order of magnitude of Gmail, it doesn't make sense to boycott it. You just have to assume that the email providers are reading your messages and act accordingly. Some things I talk about over email, and some things I don't.