skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish that 20%-time policies worked, but they don't.

I think they're actually quite bad for morale in the long run. Why? People who have good rapport with their managers and are implicitly trusted will graduate to self-directed work within less than a year and be full-fledged "intrapreneurs" (i.e. have most of the autonomy that a startup founder would have, if not the same upside) within 2 or 3. You don't need a 20%-time policy to back that up. It naturally happens. So 20%-time policies exist to set a minimum on the allowance for self-directed work, but here's the problem: people who don't win the implicit trust of their managers get pissed off and disgusted-- regardless of whether they're working 32 or 40 or 50 hours per week-- and no side project can fix that: the only solution is for the employee to transfer before he burns out and gets fired.

A 20%-time policy dangles a carrot. It reminds the people who don't have autonomy and implicit trust of what their work lives would be like if they had better managers.

20%-time often becomes a negative space and a justification for reducing employee autonomy during the other 80%. You want to mentor interns? Maintain a legacy module you depend on? Work on a cross-hierarchical project (from a cynical manager's PoV, this looks like a careerist attempt to become a "socialite" within the company rather than remaining under one thumb)? That's what 20% time is for.

Also, 20% time might have been a real benefit in 1975 when average people didn't have access to a computer, but in 2012, most people would be happier just taking a day off to work on a side project. If you get fired or quit, you still have your side projects, but your 20%-time project ends up in /dev/null.

Finally, here's a dirty secret about what has happened in the professions. Until about 1980, it was typically understood that metered work (i.e. what your boss is directly asking you do to) expectations in the professions would be about 20 to 25 hours per week. A boss who asked for more than that, except with an aggressive once-in-a-career type deadline, was setting an unreasonable expectation. The other 20-25 hours were to be spent on off-meter work, such as networking, continued education, and research-oriented side projects that might not work out but would teach something in the process, all of which were intended to keep the professional current and improve his or her long-term career. After the slow-motion terrorist attack that was the Reagan era and aggressive corporate cost-cutting, that devolved. The new expectation, after that, became 40+ hours of metered work, and any off-meter work was to happen on your own time. (The consequence of this is that most professionals don't learn much and are replaced by younger versions of themselves when they burn out.) So "20% time" is just a ghost to remind us of what things were like back when the professions really were professions.
Indeed, see http://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/1388-scariest-graph-i-...
> Maybe it's time for OpenGL 5.0 to start from scratch

Yes. Someone should do it. The major industry players seem to have the interest but lack the will to put in the resources it requires.

> Right now I'm excited about OpenGL ES 3.0 for mobiles

Prepare for disappointment.
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Yet because of the licensing and laws and regulation, most law firms are still charging > $150/hour (from what I've seen), because there's still few choices. While there's more lawyers than there have been in a while, it hasn't at all brought the pricing down. I suspect it ends up as simply more profit for the larger firms. Because there's more competition for jobs, they can pay less, but because of the regulations (barriers to entry) the prices can remain high. It seems an odd paradox, but I may be over simplifying.
You wouldn't need a head-mountable life recorder to do a one second video every day or every several hours, like shown in that video.
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It appears Facebook is in need of a bailout.
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I believe the number is way higher than 83 million. I have 5 facebook accounts that I use most of them for testing apps.
Link to the same article which appeared on the front page : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4327908
My ex-girlfriend used a second Facebook profile to earn rewards in the *ville games (or something, I have no idea how those games work). Truly fake secondary accounts like that are probably quite common given the popularity of those games. All of this just demonstrates that using "monthly active users" as a metric is meaningless and Facebook need better and more well thought out metrics.
I'm not entirely sure the point the author is trying to make. As an honest question as someone who's not even played with it, why would hadoop ever get past 1% or probably even 0.01%? Doesn't it have a very specific use case?

Is he only talking about penetration in the BigData market? If not, why would it ever supplant RDBMS or NoSQL datastores?
There could also be an "unnatural" habitual reason behind it, as we are trained to be looking at widescreen, widescreen also feels more natural. Doesn't imply that it's better though.
> Hackers/programers/scientists/problem solvers is also extremely, to the point of obsession, interested in identify root issues when talking about problems. To find root issues, one need to ask questions, like are there similar issues like this one? Are they caused by the same problem? What suggested fixes are there? are those proven to work? whats does the number says, do they show a trend?

Well, there's your problem. From what I can tell asking those questions is considered anti-feminist and evidence of misogyny. For instance, just to pick one example, there are various studies showing that an impressive proportion of men actually admit to raping women. These get used as evidence of a rape culture in which men specifically - not just society as a whole, but men and men alone - consider it acceptable and normal to rape women. Now, since the studies in question didn't ask women whether they committed rape, they actually give you zero information about whether this is something that men do or something that everyone does. They're still used as ammunition to accuse anyone who treats rape as more gender-neutral of hating women and denying its tuge gendered nature. Meanwhile, the studies that would actually be required to test this - ones which make no up-front assumption and ask both men and women the same questions - don't exist, because even posing the question of whether women rape others in this way makes you a misogynist and is apparently a really bad career move. The same happens in a whole bunch of topics around rape, domestic violence, sexual assault, prostitution/sex work, ...

You cannot uphold anything resembling the scientific method in this climate. It's impossible.
Ah I should've tried that, good tip.
> "The company may be able to collect ownership of the patent from the shell company as payment to cover the legal fees."

The patent that, by definition, was just invalidated or neutered in the defendants victory? Why would the trolls care about that?
Nicks are green for users who have made less than a certain amount of comments. I think it's either 3 or 5, but I could be wrong.
I am never sure just how much point there is to opposing such bills, due to my assumption that intelligence agencies always have and always will have all the indiscriminate access to domestic communications that they want. I think even publicised history provides more than abundant examples of that.

If there is a real fight, it is over criminal procedure, rules of evidence, and other things useful in more banal dealings with law enforcement, and thus having some bearing on the juridical outcome in the event that one is prosecuted (or persecuted) on the basis of some illegal surveillance technique. In other words, you could get acquitted of dealing drugs if the state's main evidence against you is something obtained through warrantless electronic surveillance, and that surveillance is illegal. And that's important.

But why is it important? It's important because it's small stuff, not the kind of stuff governments would throw national-level resources like NSA supercomputers at. So, the argument is really about the gaps, not the fringes. As far as terrorism and national security-type activities go, it seems to me they already have unlimited _de facto_ authority, capability, and inclination to spy on you all they want, and that this has more or less always been true.

Thus, I find that the rhetoric is a bit off. This isn't about stopping the government having "access to your e-mails". They already have that, in principle. With enough initiative and spiritual commitment, they can track you, read your e-mail, and listen to your voice communications. The real objective ought to be framed more precisely, perhaps something like: "There shouldn't be a law that goes out of its way to grant unto pedestrian police the formal sanction to employ surveillance capabilities hitherto the province of spooky intelligence agencies".

However, that's a lot harder to sell.
The fact that he's not using CSS is what makes the article more readable.
I believe that OS X doesn't prevent you installing your own "App Store", so you can get Steam on OS X.
If you prepare for disappointment, you're can't really be disappointed, can you?
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I think it is pure link bait.

I dont believe not even one download theory, maybe apps without a rating is still a possibility.

As a developer you promote it to friends/relatives/ put a site, mention on Twitter, Facebook , Get it reviewed.

Even the apps which we have not promoted/abandoned got downloaded couple of hundred times annually . On android it was about 1/10th of the apple downloads.
Their mobile iOS application is absolutely the worst application I have ever used on iOS.

It just doesn't work far too often (it took 2 months for notifications to randomly start working on my new iPhone 4S, but activating them can't load the new content half the time or just sits there loading forever; I have no network issues with any other iOS applications) and irritates me too much (e.g. I keep getting stories from pages I hid on the desktop site, you can't manage photos properly like on the desktop site, etc.).

I've reverted to using the desktop site under mobile Safari but I'm dying for somebody to replace Facebook simply with something of higher quality - I don't mind the ads or tracking and I genuinely find it a useful site, it's just of such poor quality it's annoying!
> Given that OGL doesn't support many niceties that DX does; one can assume not.

This is incorrect. OpenGL is almost feature equivalent to D3D.

Properly done, they should be able to get similar results. If they spend a lot of effort on it, they should be able to get bit accurate results.
"What are they afraid of?"

Have you not been paying attention in the last 50 years? We've made a hell of a lot of enemies, and before that it was communism, and before that it was world wars. Our military is strong because if it wasn't we would be getting attacked constantly. I'm pretty sure that a major reason why there haven't been any substantial terrorist attacks on the US since 9/11 is because our military will FUCK UP ENTIRE COUNTRIES if that happens again. Shit, we got launched into a 6-year war with 2 countries after an independent terrorist group blew up our building. If the KKK went to another country and bombed a building, would that country then attack and occupy us? Absolutely not! Because they can't.
You can't change links, you would have to submit a new story.
who do nothing more than copying a stream of digital audio into the buffer of the sound card to be sent to the DAC

That's a grosse simplification of what the audio driver does. Mixing, leveling, EQ, spatiality and a lot of other details are handled by driver as well. My last Linux laptop, running Ubuntu, had an annoying hiss when the levels were at 100. The fix was enabling SSE2, which got disabled everytime the kernel was upgrading. From that example I know the driver is doing far more than streaming audio to the DAC.
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I wonder if Facebook actually analyses the uploaded content to determine its meaning. So if you did start to hide more and more comics whether it would be able to automatically do that irrespective of which friend uploaded it.

That said it is a bit strange that you would seek to blame Facebook when clearly it is a problem with your friends. I for example never receive any 4chan content.
Blocked by my work firewall, but duplicate of these?

http://daltoncaldwell.com/dear-mark-zuckerberg
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325231
Any suggestions for software to read this on a desktop?
I thought FB did most of its stats on "active" accounts? Surely there are many millions of abandoned and testing accounts.
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Well grounding is built in (and required) into every socket. We have to main pins and secondary pins for grounding on most of the plugs. There are hovever some plugs for electronic devices, that do not have the grounding-pins.
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I see what you mean: the link to the download is buried way deep in the OP. Though I don't think anyone would feel it's blogspam if you'd linked to it (as it is clearly Donald Knuth's), directing them to the relevant link on the page is near impossible and linking directly to the download is more efficient. I think you made the right trade-off here.
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I've done Backbone course in codechool.com It's very basic and targeted at beginners but in last lessons already I've seen how it becomes tangled and begins to fall apart.

I feel that Knockout provides you with much more structure that prevents you from making too much of a mess.

Custom bindings provide easy way to insane flexibility http://learn.knockoutjs.com/#/?tutorial=custombindings and the models don't look like hundredth attempt at just implementing CRUD. Also no re-rendering of html and no need for rebinding DOM events (vide http://ianstormtaylor.com/rendering-views-in-backbonejs-isnt... ).

Thus my noob preference.
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The German approach in my opinion does more to alleviate outcast-scale poverty.

I'd be curious how this actually plays out in practice.

In the US, we have a great document called the American Housing Survey. It breaks down what percentage of poor people (and non-poor people) own various goods - e.g., 75% of poor people own a car, 65% own a washing machine and 45% own their home.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf

Do you know of a similar German document? It would provide some facts to support/dispute your opinion.
Actually, over the years both MS and Apple have heavily messed with developers in various ways.

Microsoft refined the practice to the point they coined a new term for it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

As a recent example from Apple, they are now requiring sandboxing in the App store, which is heavily messing with a number of developers. But they are not sandboxing their own applications.

EDIT: this comment appears to be unpopular? what's the disagreement?

EDIT: Also, I should point out that apple didn't used to mess with developers, probably because they were primarily a hardware company, with low market share, so developers were key, and there was no competition. However, they have expanded and are now also a services company, so they have an incentive to mess with the environment in order to defend their services against competition. Microsoft, conversely, made quite a bit of money off of it's office products, so always had a reason to manipulate the environment.
This might be true. But a lot of info is clearly biased toward a negative image on Germany, when it comes to the outdated information.

So for example regarding privacy and data that is kept by you ISP - nothing on recent developement to abolish the 6-month periode in germany, as well as nothing on the recent developement in the US.

Just an example, but a lot of this comparison makes Germany look worse than it actually is.

disclaimer: I am from Germany and I really do not like a lot of things, that do go totally wrong here (imho).
Hold on there. Even at the low end (i.e. "hundreds of millions" less than $1.9 billion), that's more than 1% of the state budget ($91.3 billion). They can't just ignore that. Besides overall revenue it will impact things like cash management, especially since the impact is irregular over the course of the year.

So, they made an estimate. It was off. That's life. Nevertheless, in making an estimate they're going to be substantially closer to reality than ignoring the impact altogether. That's what's supposed to happen.
No, it doesn't. The grounding wire is an equipment ground. It connects to metal cases and other points inside the device that require an earth ground, and not all devices actually require an earth ground. Electrically, though, it does nothing for the cord itself or the outlet.

The sparks are caused by the physical design of the plug and outlet, specifically that US outlets are designed in such a way that you can actually see them. Any mechanical connection between two conductors (outlets, switches, etc.) has the potential to spark if the voltage between them is high enough. Other conductors have nothing to do with this potential.
>"These are very legitimate use of a social networking platform."

I have many friends (not strippers, unfortunately) who are active on the site with completely fraudulent personal information.

The problem isn't that the accounts are inactive. The problem is that businesses are buying ad-space based on the data produced by these "fake" accounts. When my 30 year-old female friends from Canada are generating data as 65 year old, married men from Wisconsin, someone trying to advertise to those men is going to get a raw deal.

>"It would be a mistake for Facebook to target such accounts and close them down."

Facebook won't close them down, both for the reasons you mention (these are real, active users) as well the fact that it's important for them to be able to boast about user figures. If the published number is 83MM, my bet is the reality is higher.
Depends. Religion can include ethics, but that's not all there is to it. E.g. you can have creation myths without deities, and they don't necessarily make for ethics.
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And the speed difference measured is also "pretty much" insignificant.
> On the other hand, Nvidia still has no proper support for multiple monitors under Linux.

Multi monitor support should be fixed, latest Nvidia beta drivers have Xrandr. It's still a new feature so it can have a few rough edges, though.
Maybe, because he is German, lived here a long time and moved to the US? Maybe, because he has no direct knowledge of Sweden?

Your voice and words, dear gentleman, make you a troll.
I thought "fast enough now" explicitly excluded hardware a couple of generations old.
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You can always be more disappointed.
Every language I read about is dubbed the second coming, and I rarely hear about it again. Why is that?
I feel like people are giving the impression that because some of the material is dated it is worth less. This is simply not true. I found the first two sections very interesting.
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This is a huge problem I've harped on before, that will get worse in the future. We've all seen Zynga get buried the past few weeks; what happens when large flows of people stop playing these games? It's much harder for the people still playing to achieve some of the "Ask 10 friends!" objectives that are so prevalent.

How is that solved? By making more fake accounts.
Bluetooth headset? Microwaved food debate?

Parts of the text seem to be ten or more years old, while other parts have been updated.

Still, a good read.
> High FPS numbers are useful as a guide to efficiency, not subjective experience.

Not really. FPS readings >= monitor refresh rate give skewed results that may not reflect the actual performance. Despite this, it's still used widely in performance benchmarks.

FPS is the new MIPS.
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http://cl.ly/image/3z33443u2P0Z Where's the "Do I look like I give a toss about football?" button? Seriously. I thought we'd gotten past gender-profiling and stereotypes back in the 90s.
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Author probably never went to Poland - there is much more drunk people in than in Germany. And I never experienced problems with Germans in Germany. And untaxed work in Germany was quite prevalent prior to last year May. And some other things that should be corrected.
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I think it was a good idea initially - socket.io is a great domain - but now that everyone is doing it, it feels cheapened.
The word tweet has existed for over a hundred years. Assuming that birds still exist in 50 years, its meaning should be pretty easy to infer in that context.

I'm betting "social" and "network" will still be recognizable words in 50 years too.
Isn't "OpenGL - The good parts" actually called OpenGL 2.0 ES?
Windows 8 doesn't prevent you from installing Steam, either. I'm running it right now on the Release Preview.

Windows RT does, but that's like comparing OSX to the iPad.
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I use HN reading as a reward when boring work is done. It works well.
I thought stuff like SDL was used precisely because it abstracted away all the crappy parts of openGL and gave you an easier API to work with?
This is a solver in 11 lines of AMPL (http://www.ampl.com), a modeling language for optimization problems:

param n:=9;
set N := 1..n;
var x {N,N,N} binary;
param fix {N,N} integer;
minimize obj: x [1,1,1];
assign {i in N, j in N}: sum {k in N} x [i,j,k] = 1;
row {i in N, k in N}: sum {j in N} x [i,j,k] = 1;
col {j in N, k in N}: sum {i in N} x [i,j,k] = 1;
cell {c1 in 0..2, c2 in 0..2, k in N}:
sum {i in (c1*3+1)..(c1*3+3), j in (c2*3+1)..(c2*3+3)} x [i,j,k] = 1;
fixit {i in N, j in N: fix [i,j] != 0}: x [i,j,fix[i,j]] = 1;

data;
param fix:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 :=
1 1 0 0 0 0 7 0 9 0
2 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 8
3 0 0 9 6 0 0 5 0 0
4 0 0 5 3 0 0 9 0 0
5 0 1 0 0 8 0 0 0 2
6 6 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
7 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
8 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
9 0 0 7 0 0 0 3 0 0;

You can solve it by submitting it on line at, for instance,
http://neos.mcs.anl.gov/neos/solvers/milp:scip/AMPL.html (just save it to a file and submit it in the "AMPL model" field).

This is an optimization model of an assignment problem. Certain problems should be approached not only with the right language, but also with the right tool. Optimization solvers are not always the best tool for feasibility problems, but this solver (of the branch-and-bound type) can also solve difficult sudoku instances.

[Edit: clarification]
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A ground wire is only useful if you have metal (or conductive material) that isn't connected to the circuitry. The ground wire connects the case metal to the ground - if you get a short-circuit, you're safer as the current flows through the pin rather than you.

If your electronics has no 'floating' metal, there is nothing for a ground wire to connect to, so there's no point to including one.