skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, once I'm in the airport and have a ticket it's pleasant enough, it's the fact I have to block out so much time in the first place. Get off work early, etc. The only advantage I see are showers & toiletries to a lounge, I'll still have to be there x hours early and any food & wifi benefits I can just pay for myself. Even Tim Ferriss has given in and just arrives 5 hours early and hangs out vs dealing with airport bs. I doubt he would be like that if it was like catching a grayhound. I actually have 2 free lounge passes with united.
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...and if you were a fresh college grad you'd be bemoaning all the entry level jobs requiring five years of experience. I really wish that was a joke.
It doesn't seem like Dave is advocating wrapping this up into something friendlier to end users. However, you certainly could have something powerful if you did.

I agree that expecting people to muck around with DNS and even RSS wouldn't gain wide-scale adoption.
I think his suggestions are for the people who are planning on writing a Twitter-like open service: https://join.app.net/
You read my mind. identi.ca is a really good idea, it's a pity that it hasn't managed to catch up with Twitter in terms of user base.
This sort of ad-hominem attack doesn't really have a place on Hacker News. It's no secret that Scott Cleland is an anti-Google shill, available for hire by fortune 500 companies to write books and testify in front of Congress, but the correct response to his arguments is to point out the gaps in his reasoning and prove him wrong.

Instead, this is an appeal to groupthink to disregard the fair (and not-so-fair) questions raised in the blog post, instead of responding critically to them.
I use ncmpcpp (a client for mpd) and it does the same thing. I've never had any issues with its shuffling; it just works exactly as I would expect it to for everything.
You see the same thing when laying tile. If you have a small field tile with fancy glass accents or whatever, the customer really wants random uniformity, not pure random.
"we can't find your final interviewer"

This is clearly disingenuous, and accomplishes nothing other than to to convey a palpable sense of contempt and disregard for the candidate. It's an insult to their intelligence, basically.
That's what we Swiss knew for a long, long time already ...
I accused you of that, because it seemed like you knew what you were doing with the other implementations, and then just suddenly forgot data structure performance when you got to Haskell. It was an asshole move, and I am sorry.

They aren't linked lists, but you still used a linked list internal to your "iter" function, where you used a vector (or array) there in other implementations.
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Users should be aware of a detail like this if a feature they love is suddenly missing in an update.
I'm not clear on why, but the *AAs seem intent on controlling distribution, not just making money from it. SOPA and PIPA would have given them a way to control things even if it wouldn't really make them more money.
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When shuffling I want my player to adhere to the principle of most surprise ;)
If it's true, it's still only a fraction of what they'e claiming they're losing in 'potential' revenue.
I've tried it. It doesn't work well. It's easier to play those games with controllers.

The problem with those two games is that you're supposed to be pressing only one or two directional buttons at any given time in both of those games.

Directional inputs are single direction at any given time. It doesn't make sense to be using multiple fingers, because when you're switching direction from moving left to right with wasd controls(for example), you need to release the a key after starting to press the d key. There are two movements you need to do:

1. (while pressing a)Press d

2. Release a.

That's two separate finger motions, compared to just shifting the stick to from the left to the right, or shifting your thumb from left to right.

This is especially compounded with fighters like Street Fighter, where directional stick movements are important. For example, to do Ken's Hadoken, the motion is a quarter circle forward(down, down-right, right) then punch. With a d-pad or fighting stick, this is fairly easy to do. Thumb/hand moves down, then shifts right and up. The other hand then presses the punch button.

For a keyboard, it's:

1. Press s.

2. While holding down s, press d.

3. Release s.

4. While holding d, press the punch key.

So 4 discrete finger motions with 3 different fingers. Again, compared to a fighting stick, which is two motions with your hand(down, and basically move hand to the right, following the side guide), and punch. That's 1 less motion, and 1 less finger to care about. While it's certainly possible to train your muscle memory to do it, it's much easier to just use the proper controller.
I really like Gnome 3 too -- I moved from OS X Lion to it, ironically I think because Lion's bugs and annoyances provided that same opportunity to switch that many cite in the Gnome 2/3 transition.
If I were to guess, I'd guess that the attitude results from conflicts with other crazies. There are still a lot of feminists who demonize men and derail, for example, and the MRAs have to confront them instead of ignoring them. Those sorts of discussions result in paradigm shifts in many people.
Except app.net isn't open in any of the ways Winer describes.
What kind of airport are you at? At a small domestic airport I fly to frequently, they still 'enforce' 1 hr checkins for international, but security & line ups are 3 minutes, they're nice, and you don't have walk around much.
While I definitely don't undermine college degrees, it only gives you a foundation to get out there in the real world. As far as corporate or job related skills are concerned, you pick most of them up on the job. That is why I personally think that the usual 4 year structure needs a serious overhaul.
The more contention and ambiguity (in the patent system), the more work there is for attorneys. It would be in their best interest to keep the status quo.
Yes and no. They ship with a lot of gnome3 apps, but none of the unity code uses any gnome 3 libs. They do use compiz though, and have compiz use the gconf settings.

The thing is, they could switch to a qt based desktop, without touching any unity code.
You can learn computer science, programming, physics, chemistry, english, psychology and more...in your own home. You don't need a B.A. or a B.S. for that.

You cannot learn the skills companies like Siemens are offering like that, definitely not in a way that would get you a job.

Closest to it is how my dad got started, by tinkering with motorcycles in his youth and eventually getting a start in manufacturing, but it was a really really long time before he got a decent job.
Red Hat petitions the Supreme Court of America to end software patents [pdf]
You are one awesome mom :)
Really? Pretty sure they do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._virginia
One problem with apprenticeships in the US is that they aren't really tied in with larger employment landscape. In Germany apprenticeships are an integral part of a highly regulated system of guilds. You can't really run a business as a painter or plumber unless you've gone through an apprenticeship and then followed that up with a "Meister". At that point you can be licensed to have apprentices of your own.

Here in the US everything is more freeform and unregulated so apprenticeships are mostly an informal way of companies and employees to augment the existing labor market.

The other aspect that usually goes unmentioned is that there's a glass ceiling for workers without a university degree, both in Germany and the US. The pay might be more equal in more regulated countries but the status of a university degree is much higher.

What's also interesting is that the relative cost of a university degree is much lower in Germany yet apprenticeships remain popular.
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I don't buy that. That's like arguing that janitors would have opposed the vacuum cleaner on the grounds that it would speed up tasks, therefore decreasing the amount of work available for them.
We'd do it anyway. I'd be bootlegging and sharing bootlegged music if it was the 80s. Why? Because I'm dirt poor and can't justify paying for such high level things. I still want it though. You can definitely make the argument that I'm stealing from them, I'll give you that, but I'd never buy it in the first place so I don't see how my copying something disrupts their bottom line so much.
As another commenter suggested in the article, the government probably found the man because of factors external to TOR, such as the delivery address and the payment processor/information he used.

I don't believe the TOR network was compromised just yet, although I wouldn't test that assertion by buying drugs on it...
Thanks for reminding. Can't edit the post, so: my mail address is artem.mindrov@gmail.com, the public key is at http://pool.sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&fingerp.... I'm also in Skype as artem.mindrov.
The real problem here in most of Europe is that if you allow same sex marriage, you give the couple all the rights of a married couple. These rights include adoption. This is the main driving force against same sex marriage in most of Europe.

Same sex couples adopting is a very sensitive issue, I am lucky to have friends who adopted (in Germany we have less than 10 men couples having adopted), the boy is now a bit less than 2 year old and I am still wondering if this is a good thing or not. This is why I completely understand that the general population can react strongly as even me, being able to play on the floor with the little boy, being a rational kind of person and seeing the little boy smiling and happy, can still have some doubts.
App.net is a subscription-based service. i.e. Users and developers pay a yearly fee.
> If he had picked any other song to double click after playback was stopped, it would have re-shuffled the playlist.

Pretty sure that's not the case, and the answer indicated otherwise. The order is stable until it's explicitly reshuffled.
The Unicode characters page on Wikipedia might be of more actual use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters
Technically they never had that right and won't until the Supreme Court rules on it. So they aren't taking away anything at all. Currently in the majority of States "marriage equality" is one man can marry one woman and that applies to everyone.

The big deal is that someone that is "famous" said publicly that he doesn't support gay marriage. The LGBT movement, "tolerant" as they are, just can't have that.
Because Silicon Valley doesn't traditionally have much of a presence in Washington, and there isn't a lot of outrage over patents outside the tech sector. Also, it's hard to change a complicated system in a way that doesn't break it further (as most hackers can attest), so it will move slowly even once the will is there.
On 2, I don't want to get into conspiracy theories, but a "Mask behind the mask." scenario wouldn't surprise me at all.
Selection.

I tried to buy some Def Leppard the other day. Couldn't find any.
There are a variety of phrases that come to mind to describe someone who wants to withhold basic privileges from other people because they believe a man in the sky commands it.

"good people" is not among them.

> Chick-fil-A will never agree with their moral stance

There's the problem. Morals are neither here nor there. You can believe that homosexuality is wrong and still recognize that allowing homosexuals to enter into a civil marriage contract is just and right. I think lying is wrong, but I wouldn't try to advance legislation that prevents liars from getting married.
Regarding licensing your tech to your existing company, do be very careful about that.

It's just as possible that the wrong person gets wind that one of their employees is trying to sell them code that might already belong to them and depending on your employment contracts, they may simply exert control over its ownership.

You should definitely speak to a lawyer about this, and possibly be willing to forego your current employer as your first sale.
While I agree that college is a poor substitute for vocational training or an apprenticeship, I think it can provide a great benefit. For most, college is a stepping stone to being an adult. You are now making more decisions for yourself, meeting many new people, hopefully living with your peers instead of your parents. At the same time, college provides a fairly structured environment, go to class, study, take tests, have summer break, and do it again. This is similar to high school, but you have a lot more control. The college will help when you want it, but unless high school, they are more willing to not give a damn when you don't give a damn. With all this, there are all the generals that everyone hates. These are phenomenal. I wish I spent more time learning about history, languages, psychology, communication, and art (well I got that education by marrying an artist).

Learning to program and the basics of math (I am calling anything less than abstract algebra basic math) and the basics of computer science theory (automota, grammars, etc) was worthwhile, but I have met enough self taught programmers that I don't think college is that special in this regards. Other industries might be different, especially more formal engineering ones like EE, but I could be wrong. No, all the other bits that rounded me out helped me the most to be who I am. I am not just a programmer and college helped that.
App.net isn't open nor closed, because it doesn't exist yet.
I think companies started asking for BA degrees precisely because college education is readily available and almost everyone they are interested in has a degree.

Yes, college is over-hyped, yes we're in tuition bubble not unlike the housing bubble from not-so-distant past but if most of the crop has college education and you're interested in hiring the cream of the crop, requiring a college degree is given.
I absolutely love it. Two player Harry Potter was glitchy, but other experiences (ie. Borderlands, DarkSiders) all performed perfectly. One of the big bonuses was the fact that it's almost device agnostic -- you can play certain games on touch screen, PCs, Macs, and on the OnLive device itself.
Yes, you are right. I forgot. It was four 1920 x 1200 sections, hence 3840 x 2400. It required four DVI connections.

My feeling was always that it was just too small to really take advantage of the resolution. Later on AUO (or was it CMO, don't remember) came out with a 55in 3840 x 2400 panel that was really interesting. Expensive.
Gay activists is a more appropriate term. And many people might agree with you they are "big meanies" looking for a fight.

As far as funding campaigns that support their moral views as a "private" company, why is that so bothersome? They don't get out in front of a microphone in the public media and state this fact every time they get the chance. Although Bezos seems to think this is a good idea.

Gay right=Civil right=Yeah right
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Karl, I'm currently working fulltime on a summer project in the online education space. The differentiator is that for a given topic, there can be multiple teachers and multiple videos each trying to teach it in the best way. http://neoteach.com. I imagine you're very busy, but I'd love to hear feedback from someone who has so much education experience. And from anyone else in this thread, for that matter.
"The redefinition is relative to a variety of traditional definitions which include weird (and also Biblical) concepts like polygamy, concubines and having compulsory sex with your brother's wife."

If the definition includes all those, then there isn't really a definition worth the name.
Not really a well thought out suggestion, but wouldn't we get a lot less of these lawsuits when there were a stronger defense mechanism in case the alleged patent owner looses? It seems that changing the patent system is a long shot project, but making it unattractive to sue could maybe become a quick-fix easier to implement. These kinds of digging-in-the-dark lawsuits are seemingly a by-product for many startups as soon as they get somewhat their feet on the ground.
Please, they didn't scare anyone. When it is put up to a vote, in almost every instance, people vote for traditional marriage.
Well, to be fair, there is a lot of spare sillicon in most households. One giant powerserver per family, is much more efficient and should provide more bang for your buck.
You don't know what you don't know. You may think you know computer science, but you could be missing critical parts. That's what formal courses are for.
Yeah, but the number of practicing patent attorneys is very small. It's not really useful to talk about "lawyers" as a class when dealing with a very specific point of law, like software patents. It's not like changing the patent system will a) put lawyers out on the street or b) even reduce the overall complexity of the system.

The law is complex and difficult because it does so much, not by the iniquitous behavior of a cabal of lawyers. The only way to reduce the complexity is to throw away a lot of what we have decided is best handled through the courts. It obviously can seem perverse and weird, but the world is perverse and weird. Shit, even programming computers is an exercise in weird perversity.
It's actually October for most employees.
He mentions the lack of a notifications system. Isn't there room in this open system for a ping type notification service or group of services? The benefit for such a service to be free would be that they could aggregate the data and mine it as twitter does. Then clients could fail back to polling should this service not be available.
It will be if its paying customers demand it.
I believe it's both.

Linux continues to grow so organizations need more admins to support more servers as well as more developers to write applications, scripts, and programs that run on those servers.

I don't see a glut of talent in either case.
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HN has a subtle anti-college bias, so I want to put my point out there: my college experience was not defined by my classes or by my professors, but by the serendipitous connections that I made by being mixed in with a bunch of smart people who like to tinker. In addition, being a part of an institution makes it much easier to find out about and get access to lines of research and thinking I normally wouldn't have thought about. I entered as a kid who wanted to design chips, and I left an amateur computational linguistics researcher (emphasis on the amateur). This was something I 'fell into,' not something I sought out.

Also, if you discover something and want to find out more, emailing the person who worked on it is a great start. If this person happens to be part of your institution, you have a 'free pass' to just email them. Compare to if you were just someone off the street: you have to work harder to get a response. It's a little silly, but a very real effect -- once you're "in" people will be more open to you about their work.

This doesn't mean you can't do any of these things if you choose not to go to college, but if you're making that decision then you should know that the experience is more than just 'expensive and ineffective vocational training.'
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If everyone has the processing power to run the games in their own home it sort of removes the point of OnLive..
While I love the pointing out of logical fallacies, this is not necessarily an ad-hominem attack on the argument. I think this post provides important context for the reading of the article. Since I did not know of the blogger's background, this comment allowed me to put it into context.
Of course you can always abort the on-site interview early. You don't even have to give a reason, necessarily.

But there's no point to giving a transparently dishonest, "the dog at my homework"-style response, like was apparently done at Twitter in the two occasions cited above.
What is a useful skill? How do you decide if it is useful? Why can't those people spend the time learning what they want to learn? Why does everything have be applicable to life in the way you imply?

Do you know what someone learns from an English degree? How is all that different from a single semester of an English class?
It's good to know that you guys are a non for profit and that you're just looking at improving in any way possible the current education system, whether as a supplement, or as a self learning tool.

I personally think that Khan's response was one of tact and class, as is your comment. Keep up the good work.
Whenever I get stuck with a Windows box, one of the first things I do is load cygwin.

I even have it on a Win-VM running in OS X.

It's not a perfect solution, but it works well enough that I can live with it (which is rare).
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Not entirely true, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29#Wea...

"security consultant, revealed that he had intercepted usernames and passwords for a large number of email accounts by operating and monitoring Tor exit nodes.[27] As Tor does not, and by design cannot, encrypt the traffic between an exit node and the target server, any exit node is in a position to capture any traffic passing through it which does not use end-to-end encryption such as TLS."

It's strongly suspected that China used that method to arrest some opponents of the regime that were talking with TOR. I don't know if Australia has the same level of organization and can drop into communications like that though.

For this story, it really looks that they just used other factors than TOR to find out this guy.

edit: apparently Silk Road is 100% TOR, so it does not work in that case! Mea culpa
They also pretty much end up badly in the Bible. God never endorses it and warns (Solomon for example) against it.
Imagine how much HIV-Resistant Marrow would be on the open market.
Do note that Facebook automatically groups 'close friends' based on your interaction with them. It's worth double-checking to see if anybody is in your 'close friends' (and other) groups because while you may not have explicitly done so, Facebook may have done it for you.
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It is a common misconception that DVI is limited to 1080p. The standard provides a budget of 165 million pixels per second, shared between active image, blanking and frame rate. It's easy math to figure out how far it can go based on a given frame rate and percentages of non-image time. I remember doing the math years ago and the results were well beyond 1080p. I don't know the Toshiba DVI->LVDS converter you are referring to. I have personally designed a couple of them and they have non such limitations.
As awesome as the TOR network is, you can't send drugs through it, and physical delivery is way more difficult to obfuscate.
I am not sure about this but I believe that is one of the rules for any State to come into the Union. My brain is fuzzy on that one though.
Why exactly might it not be a good thing for a child to be raised by a same sex couple?
I know nothing about Twitter's patents. Wouldn't something like this infringe upon them?