skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not call this a "standard" practice. In my experience, most companies do no make claims to your off-the-hours projects. And that is how it should be. Unless you're doing some cutting edge AI research or something of that sort, this kind of legal claim is just paranoid stupidity. Even if you do cutting edge AI research, it shouldn't entitle your employer to own a phpBB patch you've done in your free time.
Maybe it was the way you phrased your post? The sentence "If you found this interesting you might also enjoy" probably sounded 'botty' to the spam filter.

Aside: There seems to be some poignant commentary crying to be wrested from the above, but I'm unable to pry it off. Anyone else?
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Certainly.. its just my username @ gmail.com :)
Although currently I perform my rakija consumption in Canada
You assume that a single blip in data integrity will cause functional errors.

I think you can design systems that can fail "in theory", but don't in practice.
For what it's worth, I decided to use Route 53 for this precisely because of the hard issues you discuss in your talk: Amazon has a huge amount of data at their disposal to use in figuring out how to route traffic. This is one of the areas where the scale of AWS gives them an unfair advantage, and for $2/month (roughly what Route 53 is costing) I'd be a fool to not accept their help.

Given the scale of Facebook, you guys can gather your own data and produce your own reasonably-accurate routing maps; this isn't an option available to most of us.
I have a similar idea but its based on candid videos where you choose your sharing site first, tag who will be in the video, hit record and once you hit stop it will automatically upload the video, right then and there. Videoroulette :D
FYI, Europe is a continent, not a country. It's compromised of several individual countries, each with its own laws & institutions. There is almost nothing that is singularly true across them all. To make such a broad generalization, either ignores their differences or involves selective inclusion of countries you consider "your" Europe.
A quibble of terminology: fields are rings too, so what you want to say is that it's not a field (or that it's 'only a ring') because the polynomial is reducible, rather than that it's a ring because the polynomial is reducible. It's a ring because it satisfies all the necessary properties--whether the polynomial is reducible or not has no bearing at all on whether the object under discussion is a ring.
I'd rather see Go ported to Inferno. :)
Nicely done. Seems like the technology is there now to do this relatively easily. I did it too on Google App Engine. Took me more than a weekend though. Did it for my wife, she uses it on chinese gossip sites.

https://monsterbagua.appspot.com

I used jquery on the front and golang on the back.
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(directly related to his Ron Paul support)
http://www.creditkarma.com/ is a better service for credit reports than freecredit.com
Thank you freshfey! Glad you like it!

I used the online Stanford CS139P class and some PeepCode screencasts to get started. I come from a web dev background so it was difficult for me at first to wrap my head around Objective-C, but after using those two resources I was able to understand the syntax (and the SDK) much more clearly.
Your profile is fairly sparse; I wonder if you'd mind emailing me; there are a couple of things I wanted to chat about. (Address is on my site.)
Yes, I've been thinking about file management problem for a while too now.

Most of my files belong in multiple directories. Right now I have to make multiple links in multiple directories and I hate it every time I have to do it. Because of the nature of the info I deal with, sometimes I forget all relevant directories. This problem is akin to tagging a blog post. I think that analogy could be used to solve this problem. Though the idea of a central file manager doesn't excite me, one solution would be to have a database handle all your file transactions. This could ask you to tag a file every time you create a new one or edit+close an old one. You, as a user, will never actually see the folder list unless the GUI was designed to facilitate this.

Another issue is directory structure. Traditionally, I've organized directories based on categories but I don't remember how I classified the file if I go looking for it a year later. And what when a file belongs in multiple directories?

These days, I've gotten rid of multiple directories and instead opt for a particular naming convention like category_subCategory_fileName . Not only does this reduce my cognitive load to figure out/remember where I stored the file but it also allows for faster access since I can user the keyboard to quickly scroll down to the category_ and do a visual inspection of sub categories and filenames. This works very well for me.

This technique doesn't work as well through command line though. I need to keep tabbing and sometime the tab returns to many results to parse through - directories are perfect for CLI.

I LOVE the Mac Preview, its a must have.

When it comes to software design, I still use multiple directories instead of categories but thats only because all my tools facilitate the use of directories.
I'm really curious about the actuarial basis of this policy.
There are enough comment on here, so I'm going to give some critiques.

I think you should change the calendar mockup.

From the Xs on the calendar, I was reminded of Jerry Seinfeld's: "Don't break the chain"[0], an anecedote about how making a chain of Xs on a calendar is the best way to form a productive habit. Someone else mentioned it in the comments as well.

However, the chain on the calendar is broken! Those users with the impression that this app will help them form a habit will be confused. If I'm making a big change in my life, I want to do something every day, not a piddling three times a week.

The calendar mockup should change to at least one week with a full chain of Xs, so users won't get the subconscious impression that this app is incapable of helping them build a habit.

Besides repairing the subliminal messages of failure, adding a full chain of Xs opens another avenue for 'gamification'. What if when you completed a full week of an unbroken chain, you received some type of bonus points or prize? Of course, these prizes would be in the form of a cool UI animation.

Also, it's 2012: have you ever heard of a favicon?

[0]: http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...
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In a vm you can do dynamic loading and bytecode manipulation tricks that are much harder to do in native code. Look at all the crazy AOP stuff people have done on the JVM.
Hmm, this article is awfully short. I would like more details.
I think the successfulness of open space plans depends greatly on the work you're doing.

If you're working primarily alone on difficult engineering problems, with well-defined specifications and a clear division of who owns what part of the code, then (from my experience) solitary offices are more productive. Communication doesn't need to be as high-bandwidth, and concentration needs to be deep.

On the other hand, there are many environments that are different. If your organization intentionally has low-fidelity product requirements, the cost of communicating with business stakeholders needs to be low. If you intentionally eschew code ownership, engineers will frequently be working in areas of the codebase they haven't worked in before and need to talk to colleagues who know it better.

Open plans make concentration harder and communication easier. Closed office plans are the reverse. I think no office plan is "better" than the other, but rather our office plan should fit the work style of your organization.
I'm not sure how college debt works in the USA but in the UK you don't have to payback the debt unless you are earning over a certain paycheck (£15k p/a or so I believe).
So if you end up unemployed you don't have to worry about it.

Also the debt is written off after a certain number of years and the monthly payment is always calculated at a relatively modest amount compared to your earnings and deducted straight from your paycheck.

It's not counted as debt for the purposes of getting a loan or mortgage either, so essentially it's not something you really have to worry about as you will never get getting a court summons or baliffs through your door unless you have deliberately defrauded them.

How is it in the USA? Are you constantly chased for the debt regardless of your circumstances?
It's a little different, in that as far as I know, no one is trying to flog off CDSs or other swaps on Student Loan Asset Backed Securities. So it will come as a shock to the higher education industry, but may not have the broad impact that the housing and tech bubbles did.
> it does say something about the ease of getting good performance without having to know much about the ecosystem

The root cause of most "I used [MongoDB,PostgreSQL,MySQL,CouchDB,...) and my site fell over" articles.
Just got off stage. Say what you want about TechCrunch, their hackathons are a lot of fun! NYC's tech scene is solid!
A debt strike would be the ultimate 'hack' of our current economic system.
At previous jobs, I complained it was too quiet - everyone was just a robot staring at the computer screens. But then when people started chatting, I complained it was too noisy.

I realize it has little to do with the noise. And more to do whether I actually liked what I was doing.
Here's an Android app that looks kind of similar (but not half as pretty): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.ha...
I was more interested in when Thiel talked about whether technology growth is decelerating. It was back in March, here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrLyckg8Nc
"This page is not available for mobile viewing at this time."

I am assuming that the article is just text, and that that text is somehow not available because my user-agent claims that I am on a mobile device. Why?
I guess they could offer this insurance themselves and I'm sure if this became a big enough thing the insurance companies would want a slice of the action.

I wonder if it would be possible to persuade them to insure a "theoretical car" that pays no road tax and does 0 miles per year.
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As a non-US person moving to SF later this year, I don't have a US credit rating yet. How do I go about looking for places?
Maybe it wasn't as necessary without the context of a wide spread literate culture and market economy?
Missing option: (11) work remotely and live wherever you want.

Red Hat's virtualization team is based all around the world, in offices but also many remotees. I'm one of them and I like nothing more than sitting in my cottage garden on a sunny day with a laptop and wifi connection. It's a great place to think.
I don't have an iOS device so I can't try the app, but I love the idea, love the name, love the reviews and implementation looks good. This is a great first app. It is not overly complicated and solves a problem in an elegant way. Congrats!
> He who hesitates, is lost.

I tried to be the super flexible tenant recently. I needed to move 200 miles and I found the PERFECT place (http://imgur.com/a/XpksU) so I contacted the letting agency and asked for a viewing, they gave me a date a couple of days later so I booked my train tickets. Day of the viewing I get a call that it's cancelled, that sucks but we can re-arrange, so we re-arrange for a few days later and I swallow the loss on my train tickets (about $150) and order some more (this time paying a premium for refundable tickets) and again they cancel, so I re-arrange (and get a ticket refund, yay!), this time the viewing is for a day later so the tickets I needed were going to be $400 for ordering so late and so I decide whatever I'll go first class; it's only $100 extra and I can work from the train. Next day I go to the station, collect my tickets and board the train: finally I'm going to get to view my new home! My heart was set on the apartment... anyway 10 minutes into the journey I get a call, the viewing is cancelled and the apartment has been withdrawn from the market and unless I'm willing to buy it for $1m I can't live there... so I'm sitting in first class on a train using $500 tickets for no reason. Hurrah!

Anyway moral of the story is renting sucks and moving long distance also sucks, good article, next time I move a long distance I think I'll follow the advice and stay in the new place and look for apartments, much easier than travelling the entire distance frequently just to view.
"You know close to 50% of new grads are unemployed right?"
No, I didn't know that, but the statistic itself is largely unhelpful without a demographic breakdown. I would be curious as to the distribution itself by degree. I would additionally hypothesize that degrees that are more "geared" towards entering the workforce (Engineering) would have significantly lower unemployment numbers than degrees that are primarily designed as an intellectual pursuit. While there is nothing wrong with intellectual pursuits, obtaining such as degree without the desire to ultimately enter academia is a strategically poor decision to make.

I imagine that re-stating this metric by degree will tell a very different story.
The interesting question for us who agree with you is why do other people think otherwise. Two reasons come to mind: some co-workers don't mind the disruptions themselves (e.g. if they do a different kind of work), and some managers simply just like the view.

I'm a cynic and tend to believe that in most cases it comes down to a belief (rooted in short-sighted thinking) that open-plan saves money by compressing more people into a given number of square feet of office space. That is, I think few - if any - managers actually believe that open-plan is better for productivity or anything... they just think it's cheaper, and they don't bother balancing the cost savings with the other factors.
You've done an awesome job with this. The UI is gorgeous and it looks like you didn't lose any functionality with it. I really can't think of anything to critique you on. It seems like most of the criticism on this thread is very minor nitpick-y things. Especially this business about the battery percentage and the alarm icon and not having a favicon for your website... Seriously guys, he's asking for some comments on the app, not the way that it's mocked up on the website. Keep on hacking kid.
166k is kids play. At this amount we will not see any measurable advantages among serious contenders. The key data is how these perform on multiple servers, with sharding and master slave configurations, etc.
Where exactly? I wanted to subscribe but I couldn't find a blog url. Probably because of the language. ;)
While great, creditkarma.com only provides your score.

If you're looking for a complete credit report, there is no reason to not use https://www.annualcreditreport.com/. It is the official site set up by the three reporting agencies, as mandated by the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act.
It's not just Word. Lots of microsoft programs have modal dialogs that lock out other open windows. Outlook is the one that give me the most trouble.
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Ok, but it's just the same things that we could do for some years with Flash. What will change? Before was Flash, now is HTML5? So, what? Just technology? Many users does not notice even what technology you are using
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You probably look to rent in Oakland instead. Rockridge and Lake Merritt are very nice areas (Rockridge being my preference, as there seems to be less property crime, and I lived there for six years).
Stupid "bet" by Thiel. If he was truly thinking of the future, he'd be better off supporting Rand Paul not Ron. But a fool and his money...
0 * 1,000,000,000 is still 0
Flagged as it is copied content (see bottom of the post) and not even up to date (slopsbox is dead for example).
The system creates liability for owners of instrumentalities that inherently create a risk to society, like cars.

Should to owners of a coal plant be liable if it explodes and injures people living nearby? Even if they weren't the ones who were operating it at the time?
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Open plans make concentration harder and communication easier. Closed office plans are the reverse. I think no office plan is "better" than the other, but rather our office plan should fit the work style of your organization.

I actually mostly agree with that in a sense. I won't deny that - at times - there can be advantages to the increased communications bandwidth of having everybody in one small space, communicating freely. I just don't think it's the optimal setup for all the time.

To elaborate on what I said above, if Fogbeam Labs had funding and employees and all that jazz, I would plan on putting employees in private offices. But, I'd also want to accompany that with plenty of open space, with tables, chairs, couches, and lots of big whiteboards-on-wheels, so that people would have a place to spontaneously self-organize into small groups to collaborate on an ad-hoc, as-needed basis. But yet, everyone would have the option of retreating to their private office for periods of deep thought and intense focus.

The thing is, I think that it would be better to put the open-space lounge like areas near the outside walls of the building, where the natural light is... which would mean putting individual offices near the core, away from the natural light. On that point, I'd love to hear the opinions of other HN'ers. What would you prefer, a private office with less access to natural light, and the lounge-like area described above near the windows, OR an office with a window, and the collaborative space in the middle, away from the natural light?
It's going to be very tough because you will be competing against a ton of people with a US credit rating. The best chance is to go with a larger apartment rental company like Avalon that has the capacity to check a foreign country. You will pay a lot more, but that's likely your best bet.

If you have a hard time getting a place, you should also strongly consider places outside of SF.
SF just isn't worth it anymore. The fog (I know there are fog-free areas, but much of SF is foggy-to-super-foggy), the filth, the homeless, and the insane landlords and rents are out of hand. Also, I'm of the opinion that SF culture peaked in the 90s.
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I've always had an office until the last few years. Now I work in a cubicle. My feeling is that communication was much easier for me in an environment with offices. The reason for this is that I could have in-depth conversation with others in an office. In a cubicle, I feel that having a conversation with someone else is antisocial because it will annoy everyone else.

The real reason for cubicles and open floor plans is that it makes the bean counters happier. Everything else is rationalization, IMHO.
This is hugely important, and seems to have been glossed over. "attending college" != "graduating from college". College is, for better or worse, a binary signal. You either graduated or you didn't.

When you apply for an Engineering license, the Engineering board doesn't care that you completed 100% of your Engineering courses but never received a degree because you forgot to take History 101.

Because of this, it's even worse in that it's a sunk cost. Better to go ahead and drop out earlier rather than later, because not only will you not have a degree, you'll have wasted that many years for no measurable improvement in hiring potential.
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I'd recommend either finding a sublet or a group of people with an existing lease who are seeking a new roommate. This will give you some time to build your credit score and learn the neighborhoods before you sign your own lease.
I know the future might be LightTable ... maybe. But for now I'm happy to see that it's becoming fashionable to have your IDE "small" and "thin". Not only in the hardware that you use it on, but also in the features and functionality. Even the idea of distributing the execution of scripts is appealing. Sometimes it does feel as though I want my laptop to just deal with the text (format, highlight, modify with ease) and have some other device take care of the execution and simply ping me when things are going well/bad.

Right now our world it text based. And efforts like this make that circumstance better IMO.
"I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years — part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion," he says. "And all the engineering disciplines that had to do with stuff have basically been outlawed one by one."
That's not an honest question--you are being fatuous. Every culture suffers from this to a very large degree. It's easy to give examples drawn from parts of the world where printing presses predated European inventions. The traditionally taught dynastic histories of China go back thousands of years beyond where there is any credible archeological evidence of a civilization in continuity with later Han culture. Koreans are similarly taught that their civilization has a 5000-year history based on nothing other than latter-day textual sources to support the deeper part of its antiquity.
It seems like EasyRide doesn't follow the rental companies time tested way of doing insurance. Having a company policy is interesting, the problem is the courts assume company policies cover vehicles "owned" (through actual ownership or lease) by a company and driven by employees or people under their hire (e.g. consultants). They probably should have gone with part of the fee being an actual insurance policy for the driver for the car. It would be a much easier and known business scenario for the courts.

If your business model requires new rulings by the courts, then you better have deep pockets.
This explanation makes sense: one (cost) is easily measurable, the other (productivity) isn't. The first gets optimized.
Dear Mr. Thiel:

How about throw some money Gary Johnson's way? It's pretty clear that Ron Paul won't be winning the GOP nomination; but Governor Johnson will likely be on the ballot in all 50 states, as the Libertarian alternative to the major party hegemony.

Thx,

Mindcrime
It's not that hard. I just did it and didn't have a problem. Bring proof of employment (offer letter) and be prepared to pay a higher deposit.
There's an app called "Water" which does that, btw.
By the way, it seems that the author forgot to mention that one of the 'western' innovations was the adjustable mould. Basically it is a device where you can put matrices of different width, used to cast lead types; in that way you can cast letters like /i/ or /m/ or even ligatures etc. with the same mould. I must add that I don't know if Gutenberg actually invented the mould as we know it (according to James Mosley[] the mould was first described in the XVI century).

[] http://typefoundry.blogspot.it/2007/04/drawing-typefounders-...
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Can someone explain why Google must have sought Chinese approval? Both companies are American, so what's the problem? Why get approval in US,Europe,China but not somewhere else?
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