skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't talk for the parent, but one significant way I expect people with formal training and people without it to differ is in how the knowledge of data structures and algorithms affects their work.

If you stumble upon a problem that cries for a trie or a splay tree and you don't know they exist, you'll have a very difficult time solving the problem with adequate performance.

If you are lucky and dedicated and talented you might end up with something similar, but it'll take you a lot longer than one who already knew they were there and how and why to use them. Likewise, if you have been trained in developing algorithms, you know what are the important things and which aren't, and have a toolkit to select ideas from.

Of course, outliers do not invalidate the thesis.
You should add a link to Clipboard.com from your blog.
I just wanted to second this. I hit it up yesterday and was almost stopped from signing up because of the errors. I persisted, but I don't think a lot of people would.
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It might be a trick but if done over and over, can't it have a bad effect mentally over time? I can imagine it can suppress your real emotions which can lead to a mental breakdown when you can't suppress them any longer.
What a non-description it starts out with:

> "The Chromebox is a fast, compact home or office device."

So...it's a computer. Why call it a "home or office device"?
I'd also like to request this, comments are a big factor of HN for me. I'll definitely be buying either way it's a lot nicer interface than a few I've seen.
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Don't think requiring 1-2 days/week of education is going to work. People who aren't interested in pursuing new technical education/re-education will not only not going to benefit from it, but it will also be a waste of the employer's money (2X actually, for the time lost and for the education). They will just either sleep during class if physical presence is required or just find ways to cheat if done online. On the other hand, those who do want to further their skills will not stop even if they are already working overtime, have a family with kids, or perhaps even personal side projects.
Here in the UK, when I did my Computer Science degree, about a third to a half was programming. The rest of it was basically hardware and mathematical type theory. There was more but the point is, it covered computing in the whole. How CPU's actually work, how data is organised on a disk, what is actually going in in CAT5 between cards, etc. AI, Databases, servers, etc.

The was another course, CS Software Engineering, or "programming" for the rest of us. They did our programming stuff, and then some. The two courses sort of forked. Programmers did more programming, we did electronics, hardware etc.

Funny thing was, the CS students became better programmers than the CS-SE people did. I think it was because they understood computers, and not just programming. Next odd thing was that the CS guys often become programmers, and the CS-SE guys ended up in support roles. Even when the CS-SE guy were programmers, they worked in herd like environments, where as the CS programmers ended up on some very interesting projects, like avionics.

Later on, when I did some support roles, I found that the programmers knew less about computers than secretaries. Web designers/coders were worse.

Not saying this is any sort of trend, and I did do my degree 15 odd years ago. But I found it interesting.
Kudos for putting effort into a personal project but...

It makes me cringe that you clearly used several open source projects (levey's AwesomeMenu[1] comes to mind immediately, and potentially CLCascade[2]) without attribution.

[1] https://github.com/levey/AwesomeMenu
[2] https://github.com/appunite/CLCascade
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But see, that's the same boat we were in before we had the DMCA. It's a problem that there's a two-week blackout on your stuff if someone files a takedown notice, but it does protect you from being sued right off the bat. In other words, if he's unwilling to risk filing the counter-notice, then without the DMCA, he wouldn't (or shouldn't) have been willing to risk uploading the models at all.

But to answer your rhetorical question, if they do sue, you contact groups like the EFF and ask for help. (Better yet, contact them before filing the counter-notification). They would likely be happy to work to establish a good precedent in a novel situation like this.
I see the Grandma use case, but it's so niche I can't see that being viable. As for enterprise, you'd have to have a pretty "progressive" company... and one that would be very sure that you'll never need a desktop app. Again, I would think very small numbers.

I realise Chrome OS is somewhat still a market experiment, but I think it would've gone a lot further at a better price point. For ~$200 I would put one in my living room for checking the web & controlling my home web apps. I see that as the perfect way to get people familiar with it (thinking of it more like a tablet, a limited utility), then once NaCl goes mainstream, you have a who market who's ready to start replacing their other PCs.
"last I have heard about this bonds is that they are not valid in the court of law"

Probably not. But what will you when they decide to not pay your final paycheck since you did not pay for breaking the bond. Heck, in some countries like HK again, you need to get tax clearance from your employer before you leave permanently, if you do. So the question is: do you just bite the bullet or go fight with the corporate giants regardless of who could win.
Not sure how that's obvious from your links. It'd be helpful if you gave some explanation.
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Sometimes it's the simplest things that are the most effective.

It's easy to over-engineer a solution to this problem (let's freeze-dry the application when the user left, or, the user has a pattern of launching this app after that one, let's warm it up for them just in case, or, the user always launches this app when turning on their phone at 8 in the morning, etc. etc.)
No, technical specs tell you what a device might be capable of. Only the software defines what computer-like devices can actually do.
Why no price info on the landing page?
cotton candy: $199, 1.2GHz dual A9, quad Mali400 GPU, 1GB (comparable to iPad 3, I think) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Candy_%28single-board_co...

MK802: $74, 1.5GHz single A8, single Mali400, 512MB
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/563764893-Freeshipping-... (NB: many websites give 1.5GHz/Mail400, but not listed on the device's own site...)
I've tried Collusion. I was resting my hand on the screen. There's an option to allow for this so it only detects the pen, which is awesome.
And accurate.
I have used AwesomeMenu and acknowledged it in the acknowledgement section.

CLCascade however I have not used.Took me a lot of time but I made my own!Was totally worth it!
Cricket is based on the Sprint PCS network IIRC; their data speeds aren't great (here in the Milwaukee area) but it is unlimited and it gets the job done.

I do get to some places where Siri won't work, or works slowly - but my data speed has never been so slow that the AGPS doesn't work properly (which is all I really care about because I get lost easily).

I certainly wish I could stream videos faster but the phone does what I absolutely need so I can't complain.
I used to have nightmares. I had died from falling, been injected with deadly painful poison, been shot up by various kinds of projectiles, or simply kept running. I built up a certain confidence in my waking life and my dream life where, rather than run from or be taken out by the enemy, I eagerly hunted them instead when they manifested. I tackle problems head-on and face danger boldly. In the dreamworld, in spite of the initial spark of fear, it is enough that I suddenly start doing the extraordinary, be it shrugging off bullets and lasers, becoming immune to poison, or sending out waves of power to overcome my foes. I once stopped an elevator from crashing on the ground while I was in it (that situation required a replay because something in me did not like how it ended when I started to escape to the waking world). After the first time I turned a situation around, it became easier. In a way, you could compare my attitude/behavior change to the light switch and watch check; it just became a part of my psyche to defy the darkness. I do not bother to actively control the dream, though: I just respond in kind to the events and take as much control as I need in order to succeed. Once success is met, the dream usually changes, and I am adrift again. "Well, we didn't get him this time..."
We used to get those, or at least articles that were like LOOK WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THIS THEOREM.
Ask Bradley Manning.
Oh I definitely agree. I am assuming that he has a legitimate complaint for the sake of argument, because if he doesn't, then this is just the DMCA doing exactly what it's supposed to.
The main "win" would be to keep the logic for converting between units within the Carbs class. Otherwise every screen in the app is going to have to know that the integer value needs to be converted before displaying it.
Yes you can add bookmarks to instapaper.
I've tried it. The pen was accurate enough for me to color in tiny squares (same as those on grid paper). Writing felt natural too - I was surprised.
It's not required now, but it will be to get a Windows 8 Certified logo. Which means basically everything will have it when Windows 8 comes out.
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Yes, sometimes the compiler can compensate bad decisions from the programmer, the jvm can collect your garbage etc. - none of these will save you from stupid data models and idiotic objects.
Via SF Examiner:

"A spokesman for the lieutenant governor’s office said in a phone interview that the show will be for Newsom to promote California, which Newsom has been doing since talking office in January 2011. The show, his office said, will be separate from his political office, and no state funds will be used for the show."

There must be a better use of his time as the second-in-command of the largest state in the U.S. and one of the world's largest economies.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/04/gavin-newsom-host-sh...
How is mutex lock/unlock different from any other memory access?
i think the key to remember when looking at google vs possible competitors isn't the actual hardware, but the software behind the glasses. Yes, Oakley might be making their own HUD glasses, and they will probably be very good looking and functional, but will they be useful.
I wish I was able to take 9 weeks off. This looks awesome.
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Very true.

I find actually find that iOS quite laggy after using WinPhone for a bit. It's obvious a fair amount of crap is hidden behind pretty graphics in iOS.

Conversely, if WinPhone is doing something, it makes you aware of it up front by making you wait. To put that point in perspective before everyone blows and says "WinPhone is shitty", it's done that only TWICE since I got the phone 3 months ago and both times were after the only two reboots the phone has ever had. Apart from that, EVERYTHING is instant.

I want it now and get it now with no illusion!
no, I had assumed it was an HTPC from the landing page.

I've completely forgotten that Chromebooks even exist because I've never heard of anyone buying one.
Or the "click, click" empty revolver sound on a semi-automatic pistol. This pretty much only happens if you're evil though.

The slide just never seems to lock back like it should unless the hero has two guns that need to be thrown on the ground before he/she walks forward defiantly and grabs two MORE guns.
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I've never known anyone take or refuse a job because of any specifics in a benefits package.

How many people do you know with families, or with serious health conditions? Differences in benefits can make a real difference in cost-of-living if anyone in your family falls outside the "healthy 20-something with no chronic issues" bracket.

It may be hard to see these people in the startup world, because they often steer clear of even speaking to companies that can't provide these benefits.
I don't get it. What's the joke? I never really cared enough about zdnet to know anything about it.
I think it would be useful to see the his models and relevant GW models side-by-side to assess whether any similarities are present. He has obviously had sight of GW models which would allow GW to argue a form of copying has taken place.

You probably should read the article. Even if there were similarities it wouldn't matter.

Physical objects can be protected by (normal) patents, which protect physical functionality or design patents[1]. Even if GW did have a design patent (which is fairly rare) then it would only protect against identical copies. The standard of proof for design patent violation is that the new object could be mistaken as the original (not "has some similar features"), so provided they weren't copies of GW models then he was probably safe.

The article says "so Valenty decided to design a couple of his own Warhammer-style figurines: a two-legged war mecha and a tank", which sounds to me like he was on very safe grounds.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent
As of last August, Apple was the most valuable company in the world, and Microsoft and IBM were sixth and seventh, respectively. By that same measure, the four most valuable US companies were Apple, ExxonMobile, Microsoft and IBM, in that order.

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/scottdecarlo/files/2011/08/Cu...

I think your information is out of date.
Here is a screenshot of your comment :)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23360122/Photo%20May%2031%2C%209%200...

Also some more improvements to the comments UI coming soon in the next version!
Unfortunately, I consider gadgets like this to be a harbinger of how they'll handle projects like Glass. I know people love Google's R&D efforts but... I loved Xerox PARC's R&D - it took Apple to productize it successfully.
I am working on a webapp called Vanish Drive. It lets you share files in the Cloud in a non persistent way. Get the sharing done and the files will be erased from the Cloud after some while.

I've made a quick pitch site: http://usejquery.com/vd-pitch/index.html

Last week I re-structured the app (updated with my knowledge, because it's in the works for quite a while now) and yesterday I modified Backbone.js' Sync function to handle the CRUD actions via websockets.

What do you think?
I think this is about software erosion. http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/6/28/the_new_heroku_4_e...
see a huge strain on non-renewable resources

With a plastic chipper, feedstock extruder and a suitably stocked waste dump, this becomes less of an issue.
It's a stretch to automatically call FOSS well-optimized.

But I think you're right with the perception of powerful = slow to start.
I believe up to this point they have milestone contracts. I'm not familiar with which milestones those trigger, but they did negotiate a failsafe in case it got to some point successfully but then failed. From here on out though, their forthcoming contracts are not milestone.
I am working on a private Android app provisioning service with the ability to silently update apps on rooted devices. It started as a way to easily deploy Android apps I develop to my multiple test devices and has become a great method to manage and update my volunteer beta testers.
I won't argue that the benefits are at the user's cost since I pretty much always have to request a new set of images as the ones I get tend to be so distorted I can't make out a letter.

But how is this (cracking audio CAPTCHA) an example of how image CAPTCHA is a weak spam deterrent? I don't see the connection.
This is practically a high brow version of "math is hard, let's go shopping": hash tables are hard, let's use java.utils. Yes, you can write a lot of programs with a few primitives you've learnt in high school and some random bits of practical wisdom you've picked from co-workers. But you're horribly limited as well. (To pick a simple example: if you don't understand how hash tables work, then you probably also use naive O(n^2) algorithms where O(n log n) is possible with little extra effort.) It's a personal decision to stay this way, but it's quite awful, for other people who may look up to you, to quash their interest to become more educated by proclaiming higher knowledge is "dull" and useless.
You are part of the top 1% then. Most makers try to cobble something together and don't approach it from first principles.

3D printers need to print high strength components and TechShops need to be all over the country before I think we'll see this take off. =) Also, at scale, things get cheaper - why not look at scaling your actuator production? What would it take?
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People talk about the types of programmers you company needs, things like:

Starter
finisher
bug fixer
architect

In many ways I think these are the sorts of things that are influenced by your background. People with a CS background tend to be better at the architecting side of things in my experience. The self taught are better starters because they are super comfortable learning new languages and enjoy the thrill of the new stuff. Some of the best finishers I've ever met tend to be EE folks.

I think this is possibly as much about their background as it is about the personality types that choose these different paths. That said, lets look at the coding style. The EEs I've worked with have all written extremely "simple" (This is not derogatory) code that was easy to verify and tended to not use as many "high level" features. The self taught programmers I've worked with write amazing code using some cutting edge shit that looks great and usually works great... but often don't think about optimization until the very end.. some times to the detriment of architecture and design. The CS folks will tend towards over optimizing up front and getting caught in the pre-optimization trap. They may over design it up front and tend towards some middle ground between "simple" and "cutting edge" that half the time ends up being worse than either of the other methods.

This is of course an over simplification and doesn't fully capture all of the differences I might've noticed.. it's simply an example and obviously I understand these are generalizations that won't always be true, but it's clear there are differences.

Additional example, if you want to know what a bunch of different grad students specialize in stick them together on a moderately complex project and just watch which items each person obsesses about. Some will obsess about network latency, some may obsess about the cache performance, others about security. We need all of these people... but it's clear they will hone in on different items.
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> shells that pipe objects

Powershell rocks!

No wait, sorry it doesn't. I agree!
i'm not really in the 'startup world' myself.

I've known people who've taken jobs with benefits vs jobs without benefits. But I've never known someone comparing two jobs and saying "well, this one has a $500 deductible and this other one has $1000 deductible, but the first one also has 2% matching vested over 4 years, and the second one has 4% matching vested over 3 years, so I'll go to job X".
Has anyone tried to use a home Chromebook as a development tool connecting to a corporate network over VPN and using VNC to connect to a linux box?

I think it would be much better for my marriage if I could handle the "work emergencies" from the same room as my wife.
I suppose it's one of those areas where surely there is a fantastic opportunity for someone like GW to get on board with 3-D printing rather than looking to suppress usage.

It's interesting because the whole point of the models is that they have specific attributes and fits in with the codexes.

Surely if someone is making a separate design, it would be beneficial in terms of fostering increased support and take-up of the GW models. Although of course it all depends on the similarities between the two!
Ah yes. This is right on.
Looks great. I currently use news:yc app for HN but don't love it. I am constantly confused on which icon to use to comment.

Might give yours a shot soon!
Drogue chutes deployed ...
Maybe not. Like VP of the US, LG of CA is largely a ceremonial role. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Califor...
There are positions that took us 6-12 months of full time interviewing to staff. Finding good engineers is hard.

And this is the real problem in the tech industry if you are looking for a job. Unlike other industries, there are no externalities forcing companies to hire a poorer employee.

Speaking as a farmer, there the job has to be done on time, no matter what. If not, the food will spoil, or the animal will die, or what have you. I see other farmers offering pretty decent wages (around $50/hr) for skilled talent. If you're not skilled, you will be paid closer to minimum wage because your contributions end up costing more to the farmer. But the job has to be done, so in the absence of skilled labour, which is hard to find, you pick the unskilled labour and do your best to make it work.

In tech, as you've highlighted, it doesn't really matter if the job gets done and is often better if not done at all, if it was going to be done poorly. If it takes a year for the very best to become available, it is worth the wait. This puts us in a situation where only the top N% of talent is employable, no matter how many have a degree of skill necessary to do the job.
What, because they're square? By that measure, an Apple TV, Mac Mini and Airport Extreme are all in the same category.
>But there's more to it as the L2 cache is often shared amongst cores in a multi-cpu system (where as the L1 is per-core)

As comatose_kid notes, this is highly dependent on CPU architecture. Intel's architectures from Nehalem to the current Ivy Bridge have smaller per-core L2 caches, and a shared L3 cache across all cores.
I don't usually get it wrong.. but that is because I usually request new images if I'm not pretty sure I have it right. Sometimes the distortion is absolutely ridiculous.
A coincidence, I'm sure, but Samsung's Chromebox looks kind of familiar
First parachutes just deployed...
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As a musician (string player) and programmer, my neck, back, and wrists are under constant stress, and I find biking tends to exacerbate problems with those joints. Also, I live in NYC. I can go run in the park, or I can ride my bike and get hit by a car. I know lots of people who ride their bikes in the city, and every one of them has been hit by a car, including me.
Seems like the RIAA is ALWAYS accusing someone of something. Organizations really show their focus and true colors when their power and strong hold is threatened. Control is a powerful and dangerous thing. Especially when someone else threatens it, even if it is for the greater good of the people and promotes their ability to choose.
For anyone that has Spotify, we'd love to get feedback.
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Main chutes deployed ...
I use news:yc too and I miss the collapsed comments. It was way easier to skip over irrelevant discussion threads when you can browse just top level comments.
> Music is an artistic expression, while computer software isn't.

Unless it is? The sentiment that the pursuit has to be entirely about doing a job or providing utility is frighteningly inhuman. I need to go for a walk after reading that. Or maybe watch some demoscene.