skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oy. I haven't found that anyone of either gender acts particularly "mature" when you have them emotionally by the short hairs. I am female and in my forties. I am currently unemployed but previously worked for Bigco for five years. In spite of having only an entry level job in a pink collar ghetto, trying to figure out how to sidestep trouble with men at work took way the hell too much of my time and energy.

I found it especially annoying because I am celibate for medical reasons, so rejecting some man's attentions was in no way personal criticism. But I also did not feel I should have to tell someone I barely knew about my medical situation. Futhermore, I had reason to believe that divulging such personal info wouldn't have helped anyway.
Balance of Power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Power_(video_game))

The game for PC shipped with a MS Windows runtime environment, for an early version of Windows. (2.x?)

I remember it being really hard.

(http://pc.ign.com/articles/090/090970p1.html)

Such a game made today could be brilliant.
It's going well so far, I've had some really down days, just sending out emails and getting no responses. Or getting close to a project starting and it not happening. Fortunately it's all worked itself out in the end. I've been lucky!
Basically all those features are available for Gingerbread and Froyo and your chances of getting turn-by-turn in iOS6 from Apple are nil if you buy an iPhone 4 or 3GS in the next few months. So there might be more nuance to this than you let on.
I knew a guy in college who got to do this for the Sixers one year. He got to sit relatively court-side and just had to keep an key on the game and write down everything. He used pen and pad, but I would imagine that capturing that data is a lot easier today.

I was looking at espn's feed of the game the other night and they seem to have a lot of details about the game as the game is being played. things like "player missed 13 foot jump shot" and a graphic of a ball bouncing off of the rim and where it was shot from. Id imagine that they have a system like court stenographers so that they can quickly record info and send it to their servers.
The "popular" page doesn't seem to work very well for you, since those movies tend to not be available.

Otherwise, nicely done.
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this is a thinkpad. they've always been the top-end linux hardware of choice. i've had thinkpads for decades with linux. as long as you select the right wireless card there are no issues - distros even have special packages for thinkpad compatability.
Good. H1Bs are abused by employers who refuse to pay the prevailing wage and lie to the government that they "can't find anyone at the prevailing wage."

The IEEE had it right when H1Bs were first expanded: don't give H1Bs at all. Instead, give greencards so that if the wages are below market the employee can immediately jump to a company paying the actual prevailing wage.
See other comments here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4097810
Thats interesting. I've always thought that Apple was mainly dominant in Silicon Valley, and MAYBE other tech hubs but thats pretty interesting.
There's a fine line between master troll and dimwitted psycho. Which is she?
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> http://pcpartpicker.com/

Built by an HNer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123
My troll-dar isn't as sharp as it used to be as I get older, but it seems quite likely that they've just got a troll on their hands here from reading the Tweets.

Either way, anything like this was a time bomb waiting to go off if there wasn't any vetting process at all.
You're calling that a troll? Are you winding me up?
Twitter Launches Tailored Trends Based On Your Location And Who You Follow
That's just bizarre --off the rails. It's not as if she has the excuse of being an actor and could blame this whole episode on being high or coming down hard off of something.

Pity the kids. What a mom.
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Hmmm ... there was a period when my car seemed to dislike any cars in front of it at red-lights. Once we realized the turbo's waste gate was stuck closed, we sent it to sensitivity training and it's behaved perfectly ever since.
I think the criticism misses the point.

The reason why governments make very risky bets in new technology companies (and pure research) is that unlike private investors, the government's upside is spread across the whole industry. They tax them all, no matter which company wins.

So even if A123 fails as a business, if the industry grows then the government wins. No matter who buys A123's technology, the government will still get the tax revenue. Even if A123's specific tech is no good, the employees will still go on to other battery companies and help the industry grow that way. The only way the government loses is if the whole idea of improved batteries turns out to be a dud.

To put it another way, imagine if the government invested in an early solid state laser company. Even if that one went belly up, the laser industry paid out so many tax dollars there is no way the government suffered a net loss.

Some industries will grow no matter what the government does. However others can stand to use the boost of government investment, and I think green energy technologies like solar and batteries qualify.
The thing that bugs me about this model is that it's not challenge-response, so someone can play man-in-the-middle.

While it's possible to hijack someone's phone number, as demonstrated, it requires a relatively high amount of effort per target. Whereas if you compromise a network segment somewhere (with DNS and a rogue SSL cert or whatever you need), you could just sit there, farming authentication cookies. Have your MitM check the "authenticate this computer for 30 days" checkbox and you've got a nice little collection to work with.
I remember reading an interview (probably in one of Jack Schwager's Market Wizards books) with a guy who had been a Wall Street analyst. He kept the news reports of the day sorted into "good news" and "bad news" piles on his desk. When a journalist called to ask why something had gone up that day, he'd cite whatever was on top of the good news pile. When asked why something had gone down, he'd cite whatever was on top of the bad news pile.
Regardless of the subject, this writing is terrible, and both the author and you should feel bad for posting it. There's nothing interesting to hackers here, just a polarized rant.
I think she actually fits into a third category ... those who perceive themselves to be Internet personalities.
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Thanks!

The "popular" page pulls from TMDb's popular list. I suppose I could use something like iTunes's top rentals instead, but then I'd be trying to match up titles which can be less than 100% reliable.
This is something I struggle with in writing what amounts to a long argument in discrete chunks. I was already 1000 words over my limit, and had to find an artificial stopping place. But partly where this is headed is the thesis that our systems of government are not very similar to ones that would be designed from scratch for survival as an individual intelligence apparatus, and that by comparing the theory to practice we can (possibly) improve them. The flip side of i is that if we aren't going to be serious about survival, we should create bureaucracies and economies so that they fail gracefully. Or else we should adopt an evolutionary, rather than singular, strategy: colonize other planets.
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Would you be willing to post the salary you are offering, along with some information about what you consider to be a qualified candidate? Absolutely fine if you want to keep it general, I'm just curious about what people mean when they say they can't find a qualified candidate.

One big problem I have with the H1B visa is that it was created in response to an alleged "shortage". I'm very enthusiastic about creating a general skilled immigration under a points program (like Australia or Canada), but I'm far less enthusiastic about specific visa programs designed to remedy shortages in a particular and narrow segment of the economy. As you can probably tell, I'm one of those people who doesn't really believe that "shortages" of workers exist in a properly functioning market. I wouldn't rule it out completely, as we don't have a true free market and there are externalities to consider, but in general, I think most companies talking about shortages are really just having trouble hiring at the rate they want to pay.

Double or triple that salary, and you'll get your engineers. If that's too expensive, then maybe the talent you seek has just found higher value things to work on. One extremely regrettable aspect of the H1B is that it restricts mobility. Yes, changing jobs in related fields is possible and common, but an H1B holder can't stay on that visa to go to med or law school, start a new company, or respond rationally to all kinds of market signals they way free people in a free economy would be able to... and the ugly truth is that this is part of the appeal of this visa to some companies - a captive engineering workforce with all the market distortions that brings.
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I've seen that happen with windows as well. Opened program wants to close, but needs to save or some such, laptop overheats. Sometimes it's just a lesson learned, I wouldn't say it was Linux that wrecked the laptops though.

I do find it interesting that newegg isn't using a CD loaded testing suite anyways, using windows PE or a DOS based environment. (like Eurosoft's PC-Check software.)

There's also the fact that it should take about, ten to fifteen minutes just to slip the hard drive out, hook it to an imaging workstation, and image the default OS over to it. (My imaging station takes 5 - 10 minutes). To the best of my understanding it's pretty much assumed that when you send stuff in you are waiving your right to have the same data sent back anyways.
> The Heat are the most hated team in the league.

I'd say Heat and Thunder are tied for most hated team.
>That's what Apple was promising for years before the FCP update and look how that turned out.

Yes, how did that turn out?

It turned out as a great program, that Apple spend millions and years to rewrite from scratch to have a clean future proof codebase.

If you want to bring an example of Apple not caring about the pro market, Final Cut Pro X is NOT it. If anything, it's a counter-example.

Only idiots that don't understand software engineering complained. Ie, that you have to cut some corners, since you cannot have everything from the old version + new features, in a 1.0 release and ship in any reasonable timeframe.

So, yes, it didn't have ALL the features from the previous version. But soon after it was introduced, it got 2-3 updates, with major missing features (like multi-camera editing) added. And it's just in version 1.0 (post rewrite).

Compare to what happened with Netscape. Navigator wasn't going nowhere. But Mozilla took a lot of years and didn't bring everything Navigator had from day one. But thanks to that rewrite --which took like 5 years to produce something stable and usable--, we still, in 2012, have a stable, fast, Firefox. If that rewrite had not happen, there would be no Firefox today, Navigator would have died unable to compete with IE (much less with Chrome and Safari).
It's pretty important to user satisfaction that Joe can say to Sally "You have an iPhone, right? Check out what they can do now!" And Sally be able to say "Mine does that too? Awesome!"

Sally won't be able to do Turn by turn if she has a 3GS or iPhone 4, whereas even out of date Android's on 1.6 can.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#Peripherals:

"built-in display was a one-bit black-and-white, 9 in (23 cm) CRT with a resolution of 512×342 pixels, establishing the desktop publishing standard of 72 PPI"

ImageWriter prints were 144dpi, and you could verify thtat the system was WYSIWIG by holding a print in front of the screen. Also, Mac OS graphics used 1/72" pixels for years (with various hacks added soon in order to support the LaserWriter's 300 dpi)

Windows (initially?) had separate notions of device pixels and logical pixels (dialog units?) that allowed for some resolution independence. Its most obvious disadvantage was that it was not simple (neigh impossible?) to know whether two parallel lines you drew looked equally wide.
Will WebRTC alleviate this at all? Looking over the spec[1] it seems that there is a "reliable" flag on the DataChannel, although the implementation of the underlying transport is not specified.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/webrtc.html
it sounds like you've also been persistent.
VC Dumps 13% Stake in Habbo Over Dodgy Child Content
The real challenge will be what happens when Windows 8 tablets start showing up...

It also seems like there have been more stories lately that portray Microsoft and its products in a more positive light....
I stepped in and bought some shares at $5.00.

ZNGA's current market cap is $3.5B. But it has about $1.2B in cash, and little debt. Regardless of how you feel the games, they do have a real business, so if Instagram is worth $1B to Facebook, ZNGA must be worth somewhere north of $2.5B, its current enterprise value.
A little bug: when I search for a movie and hit "View More", it just repeats the results of the search.
What? Amazon is no stranger to restocking fees on electronics.
It's not relevant; the owner tested it with a Windows install on a USB stick to ensure Linux wasn't the issue. And while Linux doesn't always have the most compatible drivers, I've never seen them fail in that kind of way.

Anyway, the problem here is that Newegg are refusing to replace it simply because of the presence of Linux; by far the most likely explanation is that the hardware really is defective and Linux isn't at fault.
What is your privacy policy? Couldn't find on your site. That's a ton of data you will have which is worth a lot of money if sold raw/processed. Somebody already asked you about security of data, so am not bringing that up.
Aside from the "statement" it makes, I think it is useful to identify responses that a resource provider might like to make but is not permitted to make (i.e. censorship).

Given the prevalence (editorial: "enormity") of censorship problems -- both current and pending -- being able to distinguish between them and other failures provides actionable information on a useful scale and frequency.

The particular response code proposed does make an elegantly concise and culturally cognizant statement -- something that RFC's are not entirely unknown for. The proposal is both practical and well-put, IMHO.
If you had said you were returning a two year old unit for warranty repair, and it was denied because you did not use the original box, I would sympathize with you. Expecting you to keep all your boxes for years would clearly be ridiculous.

But for a DoA unit? You couldn't keep the box for a few hours or days? Seriously?
> You are suggesting that a server which blocks illegal requests is broken.

What? I suggested no such thing. What I am suggesting (if you read up the comments) is that a middleman has made the error and thus it is incumbent on that middleman to return a proper error of "Access denied for legal reasons".

If you use the 451 error to denote censorship, what code do you use when access is denied for a legitimate legal reason?

* broken multitasking - accidentally inserted political for legal in the last sentence.
That is beyond stupid. Why not have different signing/encryption keys on the individual fobs?
What is good customer service?
Teacher at my school defined entrepreneurs to be irrational and unreasonable...
Other definitions includes passionate, confident, manipulative, charismatic... Do you think that definition works? Why would there even be a definition for the personalities of a entrepreneur?<p>Just to clarify, I'm not taking that 2nd year entrepreneurship course so the other contents might be really good... I just can't bear to think that students who sit in that class believe that they have to be a certain type to start their own business.
Big mistakes companies are making with their existing customers
Nice post... I used to do freelance a few years ago, now I am building my own stuff. Thought about doing freelance again so I can leave my day job, but I'm iffy on it as it's not stable reliable income.
The problem with privacy and security is that it's considered a "nice to have" but not a "must have".

It's extremely difficult to sell "nice to have".
But even people who dislike the Thunder have a lot of respect for Durant
"Sure, with iOS there are updates and features that don't get patched into older devices. But those situations are vanishingly few compared to Android."
Wouldn't this mean the experiment has been a success? The experiment is "... based around the idea that no single voice can represent the country, so a slew of guest Swedish curators will do the best job to portray the national character."

Take a cross section of any society and you're going to get people of all kinds, including people like Sonja.
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"All of this is true, it is unethical and illegal. But it is also true, that in cities like San Francisco and NYC (especially SF-Co) rents are absurdly high, and landlords care nothing other than making the most of it. My previous two landlords forced me to pay only cash for rent, and I know many other landlords do the same, and cheat on taxes."

Way to go on painting every single landlord as greedy bastards who care about nothing other than squeezing every single penny out of the tenant based on your own personal limited experience. Don't be so quick to generalize that all landlords are slumlords. For every story of landlord abuse, there is one for tenants who take advantage of the system as well.
"I’m new to the tech scene.."
Stop right there.
The description of the retransmission timeout is kinda wrong. All modern TCP stacks (at least Linux and Windows, not sure about OS X) implement the selective acknowledgement ("SACK", see RFC 2018) option by default[1]. The receiver will notice the out of order sequence numbers and immediately push a SACK package back to let the sender know about the drop.

And if you look at the charts, that seems to be exactly what happens. At low-but-nonzero packet loss rates, the maximum delay is never more than one or two RTTs. With high packet loss rates, you start to see a long tail of longer times due to double-loss events, I suspect.

[1] "By default" becuase it can be turned off. SACK can be used as a DoS vector by forcing the sender of a large transmission to buffer and reprocess essentially all of it repeatedly by pretending it "lost" a packet.
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But the good bits of Amazon are the customer service and product delivery.

The Amazon website is - and I say this gently for any Amazon workers reading - fucking awful, a hateful experience. (In the UK.)
Oops.

Thanks for catching that. I built that button for the popular and top-rated pages, which come with lots of pages. It should be hidden for searches that return less than 20 results.

I'll get on this right away.
It's even got a bit of "who's the real villain", due to the manner in which the Sonics/Thunder left Seattle. While those who weren't Sonics fans tend to enjoy the way the Thunder play and the humility of KD, a lot of Sonics fans who watched the Clay Bennett saga and read the leaked e-mails are quite bitter. It was similar in heart-wrenching status in Seattle to "The Decision" in Cleveland.
I have so many technical questions about his software. How does he plan on implementing this in iOS? It is difficult to modify the Phone app, and impossible without a jailbreak. Is this going to be a separate app for phone calls and emails?

And on top of all these technical limitation imposed by Apple, will this service only work if both parties (you and the recipient) have this software installed? This will prevent widespread adoption.
I have had this happen when I was running a XP mode virtual machine in a Windows 7 laptop. The Virtual Machine prevented the main OS from going to sleep.

It was surprising my backpack didn't catch on fire.
You’re a polyglot. Shouldn’t your PaaS be polyglot too?
I am a Linux user for years now, and I have never even come close to wrecking anything with it with 'improper configs' or otherwise, on a laptop or desktop.

The problem you describe is not a matter of an 'improper config' wrecking a laptop due to the awful user-unfriendliness of Linux. It is a matter of you messing with something you didn't understand, jamming the machine in a bag to overheat, and then having to replace the battery.

There does not exist an operating system which is impervious to this kind of nonsense.
Then you're pretty much alone, from anyone I know who has both.
Rumor has it that the insider lock-up is tomorrow, which doesn't help as it's being discounted.

http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/company/zynga-inc-782377-...
I love pcpartpicker. It's great to see someone reverse engineering the pc part sales cycle. The fact it helps people communicate complete builds and see compatibility between parts is a nice feature too
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I think there's really only one thing to say when you've got such a short time under your belt:

Don't give up and your persistence will pay off. Good luck!
Tape's probably still used for a lot of work and will for some time, but it will be like bringing back the floppy disk:

http://collider.com/film-camera-production-ended-arri-panavi...

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/the-silver-screen-no-...
Likewise, I've spent thousands. Stopped buying with newegg when they sent me a defective HDD and told me to RMA it with Western Digital.
I find it really fundamental to swipe left and right to change the foregrounded app, and have the other apps still there where I left them when I swipe back. That's a huge huge change, and takes it from toy to tool.

Agree that notifications pull down and similar are gravy, but tasty gravy nonetheless.