skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on your department. Some people get to work on the really cool and fun stuff. The stuff that gets IBM so much respect on HN these days, most people inside IBM never even touch. Then you have other areas, where there are internal applications that still rely on IE6 and have horrible interfaces (edit: and yes, Lotus Notes is really truly the application that should not be named :D).

You're right, hierarchy and bureaucracy are name of the game, but that's true in any big org. You're probably best off asking someone who's actually working in the department where you'd be applying. There are so many departments and each one has their own culture, processes, etc. Someone who complains or is happy about stuff in one department is most likely not reflective of another department.

For the record, my department isn't exactly great, but they're giving me the opportunity that I actually care about (an opportunity to live in China so I can learn Mandarin).
Speaking as a (Common) Lisp fan, Lisp is obviously hardly a good choice for Unix application -- it's completely orthogonal to Unix philosophy, and major modern free CL environments integrate pretty bad with Unix (I'm talking about SBCL and Clozure). It's especially bad for console tools like git, where loading multi megabyte core image every time is unacceptable.
Hi simplify. I'll be releasing an new version of SocketStream this Sunday which allows developers to do just that.

The new Request Responder API will allow developers to experiment with many different approaches to models, model synching (e.g. with Backbone.js and Ember.js) and reactive templating.

Rather than put opinionated choices about models and clients-side frameworks into the core, we'll ensure the best third-party modules are fully documented and supported before featuring them on our website.
It would be interesting to see some statistics before and after this announcement, even if it's still a young framework.
1st global data science hackathon to build the best early-warning model 
Big Data Week - 1st data science hackathon to build the best early-warning model to address a public issue that effects people all over the world.
I'm pretty sure they are already doing this, if not acquiring new minerals by active mining. I wonder if the actual compute r would be worth more as a functional device in a developing nation?
How does Apple do payments so well?
Neither did HP or Samsung.
Disbelief As EU Committee Proposes ‘Draconian’ Anti-Hacking Law
That's entirely off topic. We're discussing GPL versus a more free license. If anything, this is an argument for the GPL.
Our society will crumble due to porn, because easy access to satiation has rewired the male brain to be addicted to quick arousal, to binge and purge, to be numb to pleasure, eventually leading to an erosion of willpower.

We can prove this by comparing brain scans of people addicted to various things, noting that porn watchers were among them. Additionally, ED has become an increasing issue not due to increasing obesity or health problems, but a numbed brain.

Here are a few comments from people with addictive personalities about how purging porn from their life has made them feel better.

Oh, and ED only happens in houses with high-speed internet.
I wasn't implying that Amazon should change their business model to focus on services any more than they are currently.
Supplementary interview with Linus from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17784495
He says 'non free' there, not non-GPL'ed. The FSF considers lots of licenses other than the GPL to be 'free software'.
How would Coca-Cola respond to a writer asking about all their cans in landfills? How morally responsible should a company be for what their customers do with purchased merchandise?
Off topic? The topic, if I've read correctly, is: I feel it is sad that so few HN hackers seem to appreciate the vision of the GPL

Reusing GPL'd code forces developers to in turn release their code; more free licenses don't have this effect.
Put the color back (top bar and background) -- that is pretty much the entire graphical identity of the site (i.e. a distinctive, recognisable visual character).
That's how C is supposed to be used, in tiny bits to accelerate Python apps ;)
Yes, it was removed in the Haskell 2010 standard, which is the default from GHC 7.0. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/RemoveNPl...
Try speeding it up. For information-centric podcasts where comic timing isn't central, I find speeding up actually increases my retention, even when doing something else (I like to walk and do chores). Works like a charm for audiobooks too.
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To me, a good design at least has 16px font size! ;)

And easy to scan, easy to find what I want, fast...etc

Effective Design.
You should rethink putting the add and trash and move controls all in the same vicinity. The buttons are all but unusable on the iPad.

In general, the design overall could use more breathing room
The problem is I have no assurance that the plain text never reaches the server except for your word for it. It also doesn't solve the problem if the message can be intercepted before the intended recipient can read it.
It almost sounds like it's similar to the fact that in Australia you don't pay tax on your first $6,000.

The difference, though, seems to be that in Australia, all of your deductions reduce your taxable income whereas if Australia was using the same tax system as the US, you would have to have more than $6,000 in deductions before actually affecting your taxable income.

That's the way I see it, anyway.
Valve handbook for new employees
How does one build a software that will not deteriorate over time, if he uses unstable API?. I don't know. Just don't use unstable API if you don't have to.
First I thought this is one of the signs of a bubble, like when taxi drivers are talking about how the latest tech IPO will make them rich. But in this case, he seems to have a serious interest in programming.
nice idea to keep the key after the '#' tag. add binary data, 1mb would be enough, and you'll rock.
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Why would you write a blog post with a question for a title and close the comments?
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Way to export Realtek sound card equalizer settings through the registry cause they are lost on updating drivers.
Ranikhet : Panoramic in their views
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What absolutely makes me want to scream is that, if you pay too much and get some money refunded, they consider that refund income and they tax you on it the next year.

It's NOT INCOME. It was already my money. If anything, I should get it back with interest, since they had it for a while.
Huoratron’s Software Would Generate New Remix for Every Download
A very cool experimental concept of music distribution.
It uses a 47.6 bit key?

Generated by Math.random()? (According to MDN, that's seeded from the current time...)

Update: Another problem is that there is no message authentication. The server can flip individual bits within the message.

Update: Also, obviously, we have to trust noplaintext.com to send us an uncompromised web page.

But wait! View source!

<script type="text/javascript" async="" src="https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js></script>;

We also have to trust Google, specifically google-analytics.com not to steal the message.

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://crypto-js.googlecode.com/files/2.5.3-crypto-sha1-hma...;

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!

We also have to trust whoever controls the crypto-js project and the people running googlecode.com.
” … your main priority seems to be your book, while ours is to investigate and resolve this matter.”

The representative from Samsung nailed it.
As a thought experiment, I've wondered what would happen if prosecutors were required to go through a full trial every time they file criminal charges (no plea bargains, no dropped charges, and all the prosecutorial mistakes publicly recorded as evidence).
I forgot to add the word "homepage". They have merged it with the Google Search results. Probably a side effect of SPYD. Let me try that again.

> The Patent Search "homepage" shutdown is a dud to me. I wish the dedicated undiluted space continued.

The voting of comments here represents a fact of life. In no time, you get downvoted than upvoted. "Negative" opinions prevail over positive ones. Never understood this mentality.
Yes, scrolling on an iPad is torturous. What is causing this? An over active scroll handler?
I really feel this is a problem we all face, how much can we give before it starts to hurt us personally. This world is not forgiving, even for the good guys. Time is precious, so do not waste it. If giving makes you feel like your life has meaning then by all means give, but don't sacrifice the quality of your personal life or that of your family.
> It's a marvel of form design that any intelligent person with a pocket calculator can fill them out by following simple directions.

I'm gonna bet that you don't file 1120S.
Harnessing serendipity
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Similar to https://privnote.com, but slightly quicker to use. It would be neat to have an API-service like this, that could be useful for building messaging plugins.
Complication in taxes is a pet peeve of mine. It's incredible how much money it wastes. There is an entire industry dedicated to figuring out what you owe in taxes. Everyone working in that industry is fixing broken windows that get broken again every year. What a waste of productivity.

If I were King of America, I would mandate that the entire tax code fit on a single typewritten page with specified font and margin. Each year, a group of 3rd-graders would be asked to complete the tax form given all the necessary information. If they couldn't, the tax code would be considered invalid.
(whoa the background needs a <fixed> attribute...)
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Oh, no! Missed noticing my first link from HN for a few days. Hopefully I can clarify some of this.

First, this is in no way faster than cuSPARSE or cusp. I wrote this for an originally for a school assignment (hence older cuda version) and was hoping to convey what I had learned my first time using cuda.

The size of the shared memory is so the reduction has no buffer overflow without using conditionals. However I am using more than needed, it should be set to 32+16. I don't expect this to affect performance as the kernel already reaches 100% theoretical occupancy.

Could you explain the desire for more threads/blocks per row? I can't immediately think of one, having more additions per thread sounds good so long as all are running.

Thanks very much for the read and the reply!
"GPL takes away freedom" is a very developer-centric point of view. From user point of view GPL gives freedoms that MIT/BSD don't give.

Where freedoms of developers and users conflict, GPL sides with users.

In other words, GPL only takes away your freedom to take freedom away from others. If you don't intend to restrict others' freedoms, GPL shouldn't get in your way.
Yes, that was the original contrast, versus the MIT license of the OP. Sure, people will opt to not release code when it contains trade secrets or whatnot, but the thread is about MIT vs GPL, basically.

Anyway, not to play thread police, it just seemed to me that it was veering off into another direction. I'm cranky in the mornings!
How is this different than any other security functionality, though? Unless you plan to cipher your message yourself, you always need to trust that whatever encryption you're using works as designed.
Its good to step back, clean the board and re-draw
They could easily have been purchased new but left unopened in some warehouse, which is still 'new'. Just saying.
Title should read: Aspiring author with evidence of a relatively minor issue — finding small quantities of harmless e-waste at an e-waste recycling site — is peeved that tech companies were more interested in resolving the issue than providing material for his book, launches an unsuccessful campaign to smear said companies' reputations and get free publicity for his book
Firefox 14 supports site specific Click to play plugin feature
I thought A* _was_ Best-first-search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best-first_search

Can someone explain the difference here?
This kind of company coulture seems to run thru the most succesful software companies, such as Google is prominent is their areas, Valve are huge in games, Facebook seems to work in the same way. AFAIK Apple is hierarchical and is run in a very "traditional" fashion, but are still very successful.

Is there a pattern about theese things, and what way of managing a software company works best?

EDIT: Also, Half-Life is the best game ever.
This is incredible. Valve is possibly the only company EVER that truly operates with a completely flat hierarchy and does so well!
This is awesome. The part about picking your project is just like picking a research program as an independent researcher in the sciences!
http://gyazo.com/8f7972ac6813c6957e0613b4492a8175

"undefined Completed"
Agreed. Lionizing this clown shows how far HN has fallen.
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My Sokoban game with path-finding for boxes.

http://sokoban.ws/sokoplayer/SokoPlayer_HTML5_en.php
The problem is Best-First Search (Best First Search) isn't optimal (finds the path of lowest cost), whereas A* and Dijkstra/UCS (Uniform Cost Search) are. (It should be noted Best-First Search is a family of search algorithms, of which A* and Dijkstra are a part of).

Here, Best-First Search uses geometric distance (estimated with a heuristic) from the goal to prioritise nodes. UCS uses pathcost only and A* uses the sum of pathcost and heuristic. This means this implementation of Best-First Search will expand nodes that are closest to the goal first, even if it has a high path cost. A simple example is a straight path and a path with lots of twists, with the straight path starting a few nodes further away from the goal. Best-First Search will proceed on the path with twists first, till it reaches the goal. The result of this Best-First Search isn't optimal, since the straight path is shorter. Both A* and UCS will get the shorter path (there are conditions though, UCS needs strictly positive path weights, and the distance heuristic must be an underestimate).
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If you wouldn't bat an eye at $30-40 a load, then you're also priced pretty close into getting a maid. In most areas, you can get a maid for less than $100 a week.

If your primary focus was laundry, have her come by, throw a load into the wash, maybe clean a bit, or dust, then swap the load to the dryer while taking out the trash or something, then fold it.

It's a couple hours at best, and maid services tend to fall closer to minimum wage than not, and since most of the time doing laundry is waiting, you can have her fill the time with some miscellaneous cleaning.
The fact remains that if it does happen to millions of users, something is terribly wrong.

It's pretty likely that there are more ICS devices than there are WP devices, but then again, they've been in the market for longer and ICS devices represent phones from many handset manufacturers as opposed to just one. It's like comparing browsers which use WebKit to IE alone, it's an apples to oranges comparison that won't tell you much. Besides, I'm not arguing that WP7 is superior, just that the article isn't stating all the facts that it should.
A few months ago, I found some C64 5 1/4 inch disks in my Mum's loft. I didn't need "crates of Apple II's", just a 1541 drive from Ebay and a XA1541 cable to connect to my laptop's parallel port.

I worked out a system whereby I'd read a disk, then when the drive head got magnetic filth on it, I'd swab the disk head with isopropyl alcohol.

Anyway, I recovered about 1/2 of the disks with no errors, recovering 4 short stories - thought lost forever - and 52 Boulderdash 4 caves I did with a friend. Also, a sampler/sequencer.

My point is that the C64's 1541 disk drive has its own ROM, so you don't need a C64 to read its disks!
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Coca-Cola should be responsible for making sure that its cans are recycleable, I would say.

Due to the toxic materials embedded in electronic waste, the consumer can't be expected to, or be trusted to carry all the burden of disposing of it appropriately. How this burden is to be divided between the makers and sellers of electronic goods and governments is an important question for debate.
Best-First Search is a family of algorithms. Specifically, it picks the best candidate node that has been discovered. A* and Dijkstra/Uniform Cost Search are in this family.

In this website, Best-First Search uses only the heuristic distance function (distance from current node to goal, in terms of coordinates). This means it will prioritise nodes geometrically closest to the target first. In most cases this works well, but paths with lots of twists that are close to the goal will get longer paths. This also means it isn't optimal (returns the path of lowest cost), whereas A* and Dijkstra/Uniform Cost Search are optimal.

Now Dijkstra/Uniform Cost Search only considers path cost to prioritise nodes, and A* considers the sum of path cost and heuristic. This means they do find the path of lowest cost.
It's quite similar what I made just for fun: https://off-the-record.appspot.com/ Of course I could add javascript AES encryption, maybe I'll do it. I have also planned to use Raspberry Pi as server instead of Google's servers.
Unless you've worked at those companies, I'd suggest you refrain from stating that Google&co compares in openness with Valve in the way they let new-hires pick their own starter teams and similar things.
Like I said above, one of the WTFs is "Meanwhile, you have a 'deduction' -- an amount of money that you're allowed to deduct from your return as if you'd never gotten it in the first place."

So that's deductions. You don't get the money back, you just get to subtract it, as if you'd never earned it in the first place.

How do I calculate these deductions? Well, the first problem is that you will need to keep a bunch of receipts for a couple years, just in case the IRS summons you to account for your deductions. But okay, what receipts should you save?

(1) If you donate to a registered charity, it's as if you never earned the money in the first place. This is the least WTF-y part of this idea.

(2) If you paid medical bills, you are only taxed on the first 7.5% of those bills (wtf?) -- the rest is a deduction. Old wealthy white folks, rejoice.

(3) You also have to pay taxes to your state, because otherwise the 50 states would get into a nasty tug of war over federal money. (But they do this anyway.) These taxes are deductible.

(4) Certain forms of interest (mortgages and investments) might not count in certain cases.

Since that's complicated and is entirely devoted to making rich people pay less tax, there is also a deduction for poor folk like myself who don't want to keep receipts, and that is called your "standard deduction". Standard deductions are also a bit WTF, but less so.
> 3

The main text is too light and low-contrast: it looks like it is frightened of being there and trying to run away and hide! (and so the most big and powerful thing on the page is the footer, which does not seem the right priority...)
We need more open source cloud based software. The trouble with relying on services provided by companies and corporations is exactly this - they make no promise to do a hand-over should the service be discontinued.
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Ask HN: Learning flask, I need a small project to make. What can you suggest?
Hi guys,

I'm a PHP/ASP.NET programmer and I was hoping on learning flask and python more. Hopefully, I can land a job someday.

My problem is I don't know what project should I do. I want something that would serve and be valuable to a lot of people.

What can you suggest me?

I'd appreciate all your comments. Thank you very much.
Except it uses crypto written in JavaScript, which is inherently broken.
Fine, yes, functionally -- and that is probably the most important thing -- but not really so interesting for speculative discussion.

It works, but seems to subtract more than it adds. It looks a little less like itself, and a little more like every other site.
Relative to what? Because it looks like nobody has done it yet.
Holy crap, Clementine is on Windows and I didn't even know it. In case anyone else needs it - http://clementine-player.googlecode.com/files/ClementineSetu...
Inspiring reading. I wish they had chosen a better example of the archtypal "T" employee than the Heavy class...many of those attributes he has are just things that are obvious consequences/contributing factors to his main skill "hugeness, killing people".
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This has the single best description of a team lead I have ever seen:

"[Team leads are] keeping the whole project in their head at
once so that people can use them as a resource to check
decisions against"
The GPL actually trades off freedom over time. Specifically, it trades away actual freedom right now for the person who currently has a copy of the code, in an attempt to secure potential freedom later for people who do not yet but might someday have copies of the code or of code derived from it.

As such, the GPL is always, in the "now", a license which grants less freedom than, say, the BSD or MIT licenses. Most objections to the GPL, including my own, come from a position of cost/benefit on the trade it wants to make, and of disagreeing that that trade is worth making.
The FSF has little choice but to consider a lot of licenses "free", but is also quite clear in the opinion that strong-copyleft licenses are always superior, and that people who do not use strong-copyleft licenses aren't really as good as people who do use them.
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There was a good discussion on this kind of service a while back--check out "Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful"

HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935220
Direct link: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/