skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to grow as a programmer you should spend time programming. Lots and lots of time. Why do you want to be a programmer? What kinds of programs do you want to write? Start writing those programs--you will learn by doing. You will learn a language by writing programs in that language, solving problems as you run into them.
Stop reading HN and get to work on your project. :)
There are few concerns about how ability to customize a hero can affect fantasy aspect of the game. It will be weird if a hero called Anti-Mage suddenly walks around with cowboy hat. There is also a concern of heros suddenly not being recognizable at all, but I think valve will provide various options to get around that.

All in all pretty good move though. It will help propel Dota2 to biggest game in China etc where Warcraft3 engine based DOTA is already very popular.
2 more parents up, the topic is about what Americans worship. The context made it obvious which was being referred to.
The judge ordered Oracle to limit themselves to their ten best patents for the case and Oracle chose ten.

Google then went to the Patent and Trademark Office to try to get those ten struck down.

Two out of ten survived review. Eight were declared to have been mistakenly granted. (One of those is still under appeal.) That rate -- eight out of ten of the very best selection of software patents obviously bogus -- is actually low; many more than eight out of ten are bogus on average, even when only considering the best ones. But that was all Google could get from the PTO.

Note that your startup can't just go to the PTO like that when attacked with bogus patents -- it takes years and millions of dollars.

Then the trial started with two remaining patents. But they were not the two that survived review. One survived review and was in the trial. One is rejected on review but can still be appealed and also was in the trial. And one was rejected on review and then re-accepted on review appeal, but had still been rejected when Oracle requested an acceleration of the trial date so they had to abandon the claims to get their earlier trial date. The other seven remain rejected.
"What is a 'wingnutism'?"

A euphamism coined by and popular with the far right US commentariat.

"Let's skip the puerilities on HN if possible."

So you're saying we should stop being so childish and get back to the serious discussion about the neutral term "Obamanation"?

Don't get me wrong, I get what you're saying and half didn't want to publish with that word exactly but I searched and the alternative was some long clinical description. While it's important to avoid epithets it's also important to be concise and using one word to do the job of over 10 should also be striven for.
And now it just doesn't make sense at all:

We found 1140 results for "Obama" and an additional 6 that contained "Romney"" - likely because Obama's been president for four years.
Stick with the private git hosting until you see a need to do otherwise. Maintaining your own repo with gitolite or something similar is drop-dead simple. Why mess with GitHub when you don't even know why you need it?
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> Get a reminder app for everything

While I agree with the thrust of this suggestion (that if you leave everything up to memory, you'll miss out on some important opportunities), I've found I'm most productive if I let my subconscious pick what to work on next (with a little artificial bias towards working on long-term projects to counter the inevitable fatigue).
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)
Just the monthly "Who is hiring?" thread. Please include the type of position, visa status, and geographic location.
I mean how advanced can you be in a scripting language ? There is no memory management, no low level systems knowledge required. Can you give me an example of writing really really advanced code in Ruby or Python ?
Chevrolet Beat Diesel is rated India's most fuel-efficient car...
python's loose typing can cause some problems when new people start contributing to a sizeable project, that can be caught earlier in languages with stronger/earlier type checking.
Solving autocorrect
This is interesting, but pedantic. Many words have a well-understood meaning that is only loosely connected to their etymology.

Better to say that "present-day publishers work hard to make the cover something you can sell a book by."
If I have 1000Mbits to send then gigE is 10 times faster. But in the article we are transferring only 2k across the network. Mixing latency and bandwidth here. The latency to send 2k across an empty network isn't 10 times greater on a fastE versus gigE network, right?
Thanks. I'm definitely rethinking implementing this in anything important.
Some parts of it are being rewritten from the ground up, and I know of at least one sizeable portion that's being rewritten in python.

edit: depending on who you meant by 'they', I bet go would be a contender for (parts of) a total rewrite
Checkout the FAQ by the EFF on responsible disclosure.

https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/vulnerability-reporting-fa...

Key points: document absolutely everything, allow reasonable amounts of time to fix (ie multiple weeks), don't ask for anything. Even then you might choose to ignore the issue and walk away, lest they sue you for exploiting it.

Before revealing the bug TALK TO A LAYWER or at least contact the EFF to get advice.
For the community generated content, Valve pays the creator twenty-five percent (25%) of the Adjusted Gross Revenue[1]. TF2 has already paid out $3.5 million to creators, so it's reasonable to assume the TF2 economy has rewarded Valve to the tune of ~$10 million.

I think this could work out very well for them.

[1]: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/workshoplegalagreement
So a bot is recycling your comments and pushing them as ads to people in your network. As someone who doesn't use Facebook, this seems totally screwed, and has put me off using it even more.
And I can't immerse in the Game of Thrones because Nigth's Watch members stroll around in the snow without hats. Any person who was in the cold temperature for the prolonged time would recognize it as complete nonsense. Every time I see it, I get this feeling "this looks wrong", and then, "oh, they are without hats again!"
I guess one of the reasons that being a "cool kid" does not appeal to me is that I'm not as interested in appearances/image.
Were you in Platforms or Cluster Management by any chance?
They pretty much had to make it f2p to have a chance against LoL, the currently dominant game in the genre.

Dota 2 vs LoL should be pretty interesting. I'd argue that LoL has an extremely strong first mover advantage. Dota was technically first, but it wasn't a standalone game, and was completely inaccessible for new players, so I don't really count it.

What i'm curious to see is if a company with as much reputation/money as valve can overcome that. If I was a gambling man i'd guess that LoL is going to stay #1, both because they have the first mover advantage, and because this is Riot's only product, so they have way more at stake than Valve, and are going to work harder to make sure they have the best product.
I'd be mortified if any of the ads contain my face. I don't mind ads. But its getting little too far with adding my face as an endorser. Like the guy who is mentioned in this article; I may share items out of amusements but that doesn't mean I endorse that product. And if anyone from my family sees them (who still don't differentiate between ads on Google search, let alone FB) then I'd be in trouble. Especially, if products like lubes etc.
I think very few kickstarter projects (which are primarily works of art) have any utility for this. It seems like quite the feature creep for what really just looks like a project using the model poorly (though effectively).
But since it is not in his private diary it seems obvious that he is speaking to others.
I know civil and criminal are different; however, I thought that was the whole point of the special jury instructions (making it impossible/more difficult for his ruling to be overturned on appeal).

In any case, I guess we'll see soon....
They really came out with a great bundle. So great, that I have already bought all the other games. It makes a great gift.
Rather than learning a new language, I suggest that you solve a problem. Any problem. Programming is used to solve problems ranging from controlling elevators to sharing information.

Do you already know where you would like to apply your programming skills? Creating games? Creating software programs that control a space shuttle? Creating a website which a specific target?

Just look around you and think how you can possibly make something better. There are lots of interesting things that are waiting to be solved. The world is your oyster.
They are still annoying even on a 27" iMac. ARGH! Don't make your site so non-standard in a bad, pointless way.

Your content is or should be the most important part. The rest of your blog should be subservient to the content.
Everybody needs a hobby, mine is apparently teaching people. It makes me enormously happy that you and your family are better off after having implemented advice I wrote. Thumbs up.
In The Face Of Great Tragedy
1. I'm perfectly comfortable with what I wrote. I neither believe it was inappropriately flaming given what you wrote, nor do I think it is "projecting pretty badly", as you say (The "people like you" was intentional, and given the evidence I have, seems correct. If it turned out not to be correct, i'd happily retract it).

2. Yes, people who want special treatment take time. We've made the common case fast, and the exceptional case possible.

3. We do consider the costs, and try to keep the process as simple as possible while still accomplishing its goals. Note that I am an engineer as well as a lawyer, and contribute to a large number of open source projects and so I have to go through the same process everyone else does.

4. You honestly don't know what you are talking about when it comes to things you've "seen in the news", and i'll just leave it at that.
Training and terminology of medical transcription 
As of today the medical transcription field has definitely become a career which has an in built potential of growth. With the increase in demands in the industry of health care, the need of good medical transcriptionists also grows.
I agree. After looking at all of these comments, it's safe to say this isn't ready to be a recaptcha alternative, but I do appreciate the attempt at making it a better process for the average user.
Suffice it to say while I'm touched by the concern you don't have to worry about me being able to make rent.</understatement>
It is actually standard on German resumés. Not in the sense that everyone does it, but a self-assessment is often recommended.

I think it’s especially useful in showing off relative skills. It doesn’t make sense to compare across categories (or – even crazier – people), it does make sense to compare within categories. It doesn’t have to be super-precise, but it makes it easy to see where someone sees their core-competency and with what they at least played around with (and are likely to learn quickly). How good they are actually at their core-competency has to be determined in the interview process (if there is no other objective way to do it) but that is going to be the case either way. The self-assessment is just a little hint for whoever reads your resumé to help them judge your skills better.

Sometimes it’s probably better to be more descriptive, especially when it comes to foreign language skills, but it always also depends on the job. The way I do it, the self-assessment also changes depending on the job. When I put myself down as “very good” with SPSS then I’m only talking about SPSS-knowledge that is actually important for the job I’m applying to. It doesn’t mean that I know every feature of SPSS, it does mean that I know every feature that is relevant for the job.

(It’s probably always best if you can substantiate your subjective assessment with objective facts. I put myself down as “very good” in my English-language skills and I have the A in the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English to prove it.)

I don’t really understand all the incomprehension at the scales. Putting yourself down at five points obviously doesn’t mean that you know everything or there is no more to learn. That would be non-sensical. Don’t even try to compare that self-assessment to other people, if you do, pick a random group of people with similar qualifications. Someone who puts themselves down at five points would see themselves as quite some ways above average in that group.
Know your rights about Heir Hunters
Title Research does not charge 'heir hunter' percentage fees. Our fees will always be paid by our solicitor clients distributing the estate. We charge our clients a fixed fee or a time based fee for finding missing beneficiaries.
The good news is that the original meaning was in Latin and we're happily using English -- so we can repurpose it as we please.
"Shyness is the belief that your emotions should be the arbitrators of your decision making process when the opposite is actually true."

This is the very opposite of how I've been trying to live my life. I do not know what to think of that.
Java was viewed as being "good enough"; alternatives like Scala and Clojure were not considered.

If a company enter the what-is-the-hottest-language-of-the-week game it can easily drag itself in a downward spiral of death. Just because it boils down to taste! And it leaves a lot of hurted feelings around the way. Language is a lot about maintenance 10 years down the road.

Scala and Clojure each have significant design flaws, in my opinion, and neither would have been a significantly better choice.

Couldn't agree more! Be it a startup or a mega-corp, VPs should make their minds upfront and stay on their path until something amazingly better comes down the road. C'mon, if Google had chosen Scala, for example, they could have produced clean, concise code, FP-oriented software at the price of sluggish compilation times (many wasted minutes), lots and lots and lots of generated bytecodes, and binary incompatibility (ouch!). Jump into the trendy language badwagon and you find yourself nowhere pretty soon. I know of at least two prominent startups in Bay Area who are switching of Scala and adopting the old-fashioned Java, for many reasons, but fondness of OO or lack of vision are not among them. And a third startup is stealthily switching to Clojure. On the other hand, you have C/C++.
Do not do an image search for "meconium".

If you do, however, you might get new insight into the term "tar baby" and why it has that definition.
Took 15 minutes to code up and 45 minutes to debug the array indexing :) One of these days I'll be able to write the JS and get the Blockly instead of the other way around - that'd be super awesome!

Does Blockly support turning JavaScript into blocks? That could be useful for visualizing minified or unfamiliar source code.
The playability has improved greatly since the original DotA. The UI for DotA 2 has been tweaked to be far more friendly to the novice player. Items used to be one of the most confusing elements of the game and has been fixed by giving each player a simple to follow suggested items guide.

Starting a game is also incredibly streamlined. Three or four clicks, a "time until in game" suggestion and then that's it.
They've also introduced a karma system where you reward or punish other players for their actions, including language, suicidal playing style and so on.

I agree it'll be interesting to see how it competes with other games in the same genre but my money right now would be on DotA 2 simply as Valve really know how to make their games.
Lag = fail. Interesting since it seems they use the dock connector so you would assume that there would be minimal lag compared to say Bluetooth.
I'm not an iOS programmer, but I believe that in itself could present a few difficult issues on both the client and server end.
Despite the potential for the problem to be solved, I think the real purpose in the article wasn't to say that a LaTeX based typesetter could never be implemented on tablets, but to demonstrate that implementing one wouldn't be so hard if the codebase was cleaner. I think it outlines one of the really fundamental issues in OSS today, in that everyone wants to build, but no one wants to clean up, leading to extremely powerful pieces of software like LaTeX, that no one person can reasonably read and port anymore.
Assume Windows 8 turns out to be a massive success. Suddenly everyone expects the same apps to run on their tablets and their desktops. Everyone expects to have proper multi-user support on their tablets, full productivity suites on ARM, and the option of buying an ARM laptop with 10+ hours of battery life. They expect these things because Windows 8 proved them possible.

Now what does Apple do? They've bet on single-user tablets, Intel laptops (with better-than-average but still not great) battery life, separate tablet and desktop ecosystems, and tablets that have only basic productivity apps. How do they bridge this gap and pay this debt?

I think Windows 8 is a very nice platform, and though it has some quirks, I think if people try it they will love it. I'm a Microsoft employee, though, so I'm probably biased.
Thanks to Judge Alsup for helping the cause of interoperability and thanks to grellas for a great writeup with Monty Python analogy!
That's very informative, I think I'll give a fountain pen a shot.
I expect that LoL might retain a devoted playerbase, sort of like Runescape, but I definitely predict that Dota 2 will be making a ton of money and getting all the attention.

- They seem serious about sponsoring tournaments and making it competitive and balanced

- LoL turns off a lot of people with pay to win

- Their interface and client is already holy shit way better, like night-and-day better, and I expect that it will just get more better, since they have more talent and more man-hours

- They should know how to promote and run F2P games as well as Riot, since TF2 was a big success for them
Camscanner + regular pen and paper is solution i'm currently using. I use camscanner to create a PDF version of my paper notes.
Well, I would argue a clear precedent dramatically lowers the cost of defending yourself as well. Instead of a team of lawyers to finesse obscure complicated points and amassing huge quantities of research and evidence it just comes down to a simple well established point of law: the stuff is not copyrightable (I'd agree doesn't help so much with patents, which aren't affected by precedent in this case).
Livescribe works pretty well.
I prefer to think of 'hack' and its variants as neutral terms that can, in context be either good ('Look what I hacked together!') or bad ('They hacked into the servers').

(Actually, the way usually explain it to non-techies: duct tape. Everyone understands what duct tape is meant for: it won't necessarily win any awards for style[1], but it's powerful, and it sure as heck gets the job done in a pinch, and quickly too! I find that analogy generally holds well enough, whether we're talking about black-hat hacking or 'real' hacking.)

[1] Most of the time, that is: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=duct%20tape%20cloth...
http://uxmovement.com/content/all-caps-hard-for-users-to-rea...
As far as I know it's the latest source. It doesn't have everything from Chrome OS though, for instance plugins and the auto-updater [1]. Browsing the commits I see an update from 8 minutes ago [2].

[1] http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromium-os-faq

[2] http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium.git;a=summary
I'm insanely jealous of your gf. I've been doing programming as a hobby for nearly 10 years and haven't knocked out anything as cool at that.
Nice skills section too. I might make that as an extra attachment page to my CV.
Ask her, Python or Ruby and why for me.
They are not common outside of the US. Whenever I see people eat them in films and TV Shows I think "Ewww". Surprise, not everywhere is the same.
You should definitely mention things like this to your recruiter. Sometimes interviewers misunderstand or make a mistake, and that shouldn't be counted against you.

Obviously it's rational for this event to make you uninterested in working for Google, but if that's not the case, it helps to escalate your concerns or complaints.
The author seems to blame Latex, when the fault squarely lies with Apple and their "any iPad app be a single executable" policy.
Oh, and Latex is not 4GB. The standard,minimal distribution (which is what 99% users will ever need) fits inside of 50MB (with all the fonts). For everything else there is CTAN.

So now it's Latex's fault that Apple does not understand the concept of packages and libraries ?
Have they fixed any of these problems?

http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/05/visual-studio-is-it-g...
Does Valve care if it can't make it to #1? More sophisticated arguments aside, having the largest userbase is not necessarily a win when following the f2p model. What you really want is the largest paying userbase, a distinct metric that is easy to forget.
Sadly, I can't comment on the jury instructions except to encourage you to look around at other patent and copyright cases and see if you think they are really all that special or different.

I can say it is statistically more difficult to overturn jury verdicts than it is to overturn judge verdicts. On the patent side, you can find interesting but slightly out of date data here:

http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/04/are-appeals-at-the-f...

You should be able to figure out which issues are eliminated by having mainly a jury decision on patents instead of a judge decision.
"there is nothing like it for composing beautiful documents, and the iPad is the most beautiful platform out there, so it is natural to try and combine the two"

That's where I stopped reading.
Why is "swipe from edge" hard to learn? This is one of my favorite things about Windows 8, because in hindsight it's so obvious.

Disclaimer: MSFT employee
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The best explanation I can come up with is that there's a ton of pressure for Metro this and Metro that. Partners at Microsoft must be upset Apple's market cap is twice Microsoft's, and well, they're gonna fix that no matter what.

ALL CAPS is a highly visible thing they can backpedal on; it's supposed to be sacrificed. Then they can say "See, 95% of the comments were about the menus, and we changed it, so now we're all good!" Deflects from more serious criticism, as this comment demonstrates.
Reflecting on SpaceX's Historic 9 Day Voyage
Why Windows 8 scares me
The exact thing happened to me, I shared the same story from Boing Boing and my friends told me what happened:

http://mrjasonroy.com/blog/2012/02/23/problem-facebook-spons...

And, lately, there have been a a bunch of ads from "whitetruffle" that have had my picture and freaked me out.

Spooking me out is not a good way to sell me things.
While Python is a sizeable part of App Engine (SDK, admin console, tooling .. some other things I can't remember right now), the majority of the code is Java and C++. It's one of the reasons Python isn't listed as one of the top needs (http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/wanted-app-engin...) over C++ and Java.

That being said, it's a very Python friendly team. Guido's on it (HI GUIDO).
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and debug the problem with the foods by examining many, many dumps.
It is not just luck and talent. Think about "positioning"