skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really liked this post for a couple of reasons.

First is that I know I sometimes lose sight of the end goal of a project when I start coding for weeks on end. I'll get sucked into a bug or a feature that I think is necessary and my vision for the future of the product becomes clouded.

I also relate this to the design of a product. Without taking a day to step back and try to examine your product from a different perspective, I don't think you'll ever be able to properly analyze and iterate on anything you create.

This all stems from my feelings that every engineer should also furiously work to be a good designer as well.
This is old and already decided.
Poster has no idea, simply lifted a PDF out of context.

Here's the complete post for context:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081030150903555
I'm being a bit picky here, but IOS is an operating system that runs on Cisco networking equipment. "Images" is how one refers to the software that is loaded on the switch/router/etc. For example, I can buy an "layer 3 enhanced image" for a Cisco switches that will give me limited routing capabilities.

For that reason, one should be careful about the case of the letters when referring to IOS and iOS, as they can lead to confusion if not used appropriately.
> Not really but a friend of mine was scammed out of $40k legit AdSense earnings.

Can you give more details? Are you/he suggesting Google scammed him? Any reason/evidence to believe so?

> As for the quality of AdWords - I have not forgotten about the 500 million dollar fine Google received for pharmacy ads.

Adwords is better when compared to competitors. This does not mean it is perfect. Automation can do only so much.
A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community
This is why, short of changing the way patents are issued, damages should be based on a meaningful metric like lost sales, or licensing fees, not theoretical damages based on a hypothetical product that was never, ever going to be made.
only 54% of undergraduates graduate within 6 year

I'm guessing the people who don't graduate within 6 years are not paying fulltime tuition, and have an outside job to pay for their degree. So your point is way over-exaggerated.
How I wish there was a better language for interacting with Unix command line utilities than the godawful POSIXy shells.
I think we're in agreement, Afghanistan is a looooong way from being another Australia. My observation was that the Chinese rail system extends out to Kashgar [1] in the far western provinces. And the Chinese have proven themselves adept at creating new rail at a pretty impressive rate. Further, there are decent Fe1/Fe2 ore reserves in the mountain range that connects with China [2]. The long finger of mountains that connect China with Afghanistan would need a rail line (probably along the valleys rather than along the top (the peaks reach as high as 18,000'!) Or an easier route which would be through Tajikistan(sp?)

Anyway, China is already in there trying to negotiate mineral leases and they have the money to invest. And they have the People's Army to insure against political instability :-)

[1] http://www.johomaps.com/as/china/chinarail.html

[2] http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3152/B/ - advise not to open in Acrobat on low memory machines :-)
Google fiber is 1 Giga-bit/sec and not 1GB/sec
The author correctly capitalizes "iOS" in the article. Hacker News automatically capitalizes the first letter of submission titles, though.
If anything you are only helping them with this action (despite what they think of it). You might listen to more libre music if commercial music wasn't available for free. You pay them with your attention. You will still be recommending commercial music to friends, boosting thier youtube/lastfm playcount, etc.
It is a big statement, isn't it? I do believe it to be true, however. What I'm positing is that the technological pieces can all be deployed relatively easily. What is required is the 'spark of genius' that triggers mass adoption. The hook into the new system has to be easy; it has to be cool; it has to smart; it has to be desirable. Possibly even irrational.
Have you seen the websites of most local businesses, like restaurants? They look like they are from 1995. Web dev not easy for them.

Many of the same businesses are using Twitter to get their message out far more effectively.
Maybe we are reading different licenses (I much prefer BSD or MIT, or even public domain myself - like sqlite/zlib).

But according to this:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

1) Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking with the Library. A suitable mechanism is one that (a) uses at run time a copy of the Library already present on the user's computer system, and (b) will operate properly with a modified version of the Library that is interface-compatible with the Linked Version.

It's possible that I'm posting something out of context, or that the Tokyo Cabinet authors have changed their permission.

Another thing is that whatever was submitted by the Sparrow folks - was precompiled .a static libraries and some frameworks - not source code changes. Well there were few diff files, and that was it.
Here's where you could watch Olympics 2012 in HD online
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That is awesome. I've heard that if you send a packet with the evil flag set to 0xF, they immediately dispatch the drones for protocol infractions.
I worked on a strategy game (think Risk) with an element of randomness (dice rolls) and our hardcore players were very very keen on the true quality of our randomness. I wound up persisting the context and result of every single roll cast so people could see summaries per-game, per-turn, per-user.
When it came to monetizing search, Google was lucky in that someone else already figured out how to do that (GoTo.com). No comparably effective model exists for monetizing high traffic websites (social media or otherwise), despite many attempts over the past two decades. Not even close.

If Zuck took Facebook public 5 years ago, they would have gotten much less money, and they would have been distracted by investors calling for them to focus on building out that business model rather than attracting users - and Zuck may have lost controlling power in the company (less money + less users = less leverage for Zuck).
This doesn't really make sense. People who are different from the usual person have unusual backgrounds. This often includes highly-skilled "best of breed" individuals. You don't get somewhere unusual by doing all the usual things. It does not make any sense to either ostracize or acclaim candidates just by virtue of their having a degree; there are many dumb people with a degree and many smart people without (and vice-versa).

A degree really does not tell you anything useful. Unless a candidate has advanced degrees, I almost never mention education in interviews because I really don't care about it. It is not a reliable metric of anything, really.
This isn't "opensourcing Sparrow" as only binaries are in this download.
In the US, Utah and Oklahoma have a lot of natural gas cars, and kits are easily and commonly available everywhere.

So if you are looking for prices, check companies located there.
My opinion is that you're overthinking this way too much. Just because a single employee probably chose to link it to "opening ceremony london 2012" doesn't mean they're trying to avoid copyright infringement. It probably means nothing
Thanks AntiRush, KSherlock. I now understand more about LGPL than before. In my mind it was that only dynamical linking was allowed, and did not thought clearly about the static linking opportunity.
Would be cool. But I'm in Europe (in Italy).
IPhone app in Apple’s App Store found to contain… Windows malware?
But I guess it's complying with the license (LGPL) just fine. I was also surprised by this use of it.
Isn't this the same idea as https://github.com/ryanlecompte/redis_failover (which may or may not be getting any traction)?

Also note that at some point there is likely to be a standard solution built into Redis itself. (The best laid plans and all that, but comments below http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3831295 suggest that it may come relatively soon.)
SmartCheck
Civil liberties. And the report is made possible by youtube and smart phones.

Not relevant?
I've read the KSherlock and AntiRush's explanation above, and it seems that what you are saying is true. I just haven't realized that it could be done this way :)
Pressing Back to get to the song you just played, and double-clicking that exact same song, must absolutely behave identically or it will really confuse people.
You could possibly find a role working on graph algorithm design ?
Yeah, sometimes I like to just toss a album in a playlist and listen to it, and I always seem to end up skipping at least one song
Pah. You clearly don't have much experience with roguelikes. ;)
As someone who's converted from bash -> fish (arguably a much bigger context switch as fish isn't bash compatible) I haven't found this to be an issue.
Presumably this came out of the Google due diligence before purchase.
> Is Facebook just a moderately successful ad platform?

That's the direction it's going. I'm not sure that's all it could be.
Yes, for sure. My speculation (from vague recollections of ancient Slashdot posts I didn't read closely at the time - never having used iAnything for music myself - so take it with a grain of salt) is that shuffle started out randomly picking the next song, but people complained that IT WASN'T RANDOM because they kept hearing the same songs - but of course if it is random, there's no protection against precisely that, and the people for whom it has happened to be well distributed probably arent' going online searching for "itunes shuffle randomness problem" or whatnot. So there may or may not have been a bug in the randomness, but randomness isn't really what people wanted anyway, and upon realizing that they changed it to the way it works now - where you shuffle it like a deck of cards, and then run through that deck repeatedly. Now, shuffle is an action where before it was a mode - and they forgot to change the UI to match.
I wonder if recent cries for the government to reform patent law is pressuring patent trolls to hurry up and try to cash out on increasingly obvious claims. All shell companies have to start doing it, because their 'colleagues' are ruining the patent troll market with their own ridiculous claims and essentially running each other into the ground.
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> Am I the only one who thinks this is a good thing?

Definitely not.
As marriages are (generally) not arranged in this country, all marriages are about personal preferences. Mildred Loving, a black woman, chose a white man to marry. She was as free to marry a black man as any gay person is free to marry a straight person of the opposite sex. The case is completely relevant, and saying that "race is not a choice" is immaterial to the matter; the trial was not about race, it was about the freedom to marry the person of one's choosing.
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A user might be interested in knowing that the app wants to "connect to google" but that same user might not care to know that the app wants to "start a tcp session with google servers in order to connect to a web service that gives it the required data"

Obviously I'm exaggerating, but you get the point.
Eww. I can't believe you used a non-word with such corporate origins! Down with McVerbiage.

('Loving' is an adjective or 'describing word'. 'Love' is a verb or 'doing word'. Therefore "6 things I love about derbyjs" is correct, and "Her partner is very loving." is also correct. What you have written is glaringly incorrect. However, abuse of the real and imagined present continuous verb form - that is, *ing words - is wildly popular in parts of the Indian population.)
Getting into the online dating scene would be a great money move for FaceBook. It's such a simple and obvious move that there must be something/someone internal that is preventing it. FaceBook has access to millions of people listed as "single", a large % of which are already using a pay-service like Match or eHarmony (which collectively boast around 35 million members).
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>more important and more valuable products and services

Matter of opinion. Communicating and connecting with other people is pretty damn important.
It's ridiculous to call "spending millions funding bigotry" as a matter of simple "disagreement."
This doesn't work correctly - on my iPad, rotating my site to landscape from portrait just makes everything slightly larger, rather than triggering a different layout, as this does.
Runge-kutta adaptive step size 4-5 is a better algorithm in some cases. (Numeric Recipes in C.)

I thought about doing a SPICE in LoseThos. Everything is pointless, in jail.

God says...
C:\Text\BIBLE.TXT

his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

20:11 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth
Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.

20:12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And
when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out
of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw
that every one that came by him stood still.

20:13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on

----

Here's my interveiw question:

double f=2.125;

printf("%016X\n",f);
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Sorry, copied from the wrong place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_Licen... says:

"Alternatively, a statically linked library is allowed if either source code or linkable object files are provided." But with no citation.

From reading on it, the consensus is that if your wrote your code such that it was possible to replace the LGPL part with a different (API compatible) library, and all you would need is a recompile then it's legal.

But if your code is written such that the LGPL parts can not be replaced then it's not.
I recommend Extending and Embedding PHP by Sara Golemon as a good starting point to PHP internals.
Negotiation Points
How to check index status of your website on Google
I think that's a marketing problem, rather than technical.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2646753
Google faces new Street View data controversy
Heh. Well you've obviously got it all figured out.

Just keep this in mind: running a telecom network that requires lots of field personnel isn't something that GOOG has a proven capability in. For their money, their BEST bet would have been to BUY a cable company for the network. They get all of the customers in one fell swoop along with a network that can be upgraded to FTTH or low-split HFC.

One city doesn't a telecom company make. I would be VERY surprised if the monthly ad revenue pulled in by a broadband subscriber will cover the lifetime customer acquisition cost.
Twitter Missed Their Boat
Some places, like Maggianos Little Italy in Santana Row even have a separate will-call/take-out type pickup window.
I would like to see a study like that controlled for cardiovascular exercise.

I am also concerned about the validity of the theory because of the trend stall in figure 2 at ages 80-89 and the stark reversal in the 90-93 age group, where high-high was at almost low-low levels.

It looks to me like there is a good chance of some unaccounted confounding variable, even beyond the possible effects of exercise (which would not explain the 90-93 group).
That assumes that the people opposing gay marriage would even consent to the notion of equal civil unions, something that even Mitt Romney (not exactly a fringe political figure) has stated he's against. So it's really a moot point.

The name of the civil contract is obviously important to people on both sides of the issue. As you've pointed out, many people have trouble distinguishing between the legal definition and the religious one. Those people are no doubt going to be upset that the government is telling them they aren't "married" anymore, but only "civil unioned" ("civilly united"? There's another problem, it doesn't verb well).

Even if this compromise would be acceptable, the government has no business rewriting laws to cater to certain religions. That's pretty much exactly the thing America was founded NOT to do. We even wrote it into the first amendment. Should we make a law making it illegal to draw pictures of Mohammed, since that offends some people's religious sensibilities?
I know what you mean. Not all businesses are going to have the same technical competency. In fact if they lack the technical competency, perhaps Twitter is their best choice.
Mashape auto-generates a nice documentation and 6 client libraries in PHP, Ruby, Python, Erlang, Java and Obj-C without writing a single line of code.

Example: http://mashape.com/lambda/face
People with good contacts, are good at networking, good at marketing, and interested in money go where the money is. A history of creating business value, and a bunch of people who know about it, are a lot better than a general education.

This is slightly complicated by the fact that people going to well-known colleges get a head start on the network. A decent education on its own has more dubious value. Most companies want experience. I know that when I evaluate someone, relevant experience is way more important than if or where they went to college.
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Basically the same problem in Germany. The kid is officially adopted by only one father even so they are recognized as same sex couple by the authorities (in fact the biological mother had to agree that the kid would be adopted by a same sex couple as she left her son for adoption deliberately). This means that the kid get less protection than a normal kid in a family in case of death of the "official in the papers" father.

It will take time for the rules of the society to adapt to the changes in the society.
If someone can put this together in a package that consumers can wrap their head around, I think the open twitter movement would have a shot.

Probably the best candidates would be all the Twitter client apps that are getting burned by their API lockdown
Here's the link to PhoneGap Plugin:
https://github.com/opentok/PhoneGap-Plugin
It would be absolute suicide for Microsoft to release the Surface for anything north of 800$ (for the WinRT only version at least)
Are you anxious?
Good post. One thing I like to do is take a bit of my time each week and sit down with a person who has never used my product. In fact, ideally they've never even heard of it. Shut off the programming-mindset and just watch an average person do their thing with your product. Some amazing insight there.
Jamie Zawinski (jwz), one of my heroes, is a well accomplished software engineer/hacker, as we would all agree. One fact is that he didn't go to college.

I am in my final year of college myself, and I believe there's no one right way of succeeding in your career.

EDIT: some re-wording
That's why you have to change the rules first. It should require a much higher level of innovation to qualify for patent protection. And if we are going to grant temporary monopolies, then there should be the relevant resources to keep the system honest, otherwise it is just massive economic friction.

The idea of part-liability for examiners on costs is so that the liability of a particular examiner is limited and is decided in the court and covered by professional insurance, much like an architect, so it is not going to bankrupt you, but getting too many of them could ruin your career and it is automatically on public record.
Tools similar to z:

1. [Autojump](https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump), first implementation and what z was based on, written in python. Functionality similar to z.

2. [Fasd](https://github.com/clvv/fasd), feature-rich fork of z, support for files, support for more shells and platforms (BSDs, Android).
That was a great article. I can't help but think the comment about it being a metaphor for and an an homage to Steve Jobs got it right.
>If Zuck took Facebook public 5 years ago, they would have gotten much less money, and they would have been distracted by investors calling for them to focus on building out that business model rather than attracting users - and Zuck may have lost controlling power in the company (less money + less users = less leverage for Zuck).

Would this be a bad thing? The entire reason that Facebook needed to go public was because they needed the money to pay off their investors.
If I was the teacher I would have just taken everyone for Ice Cream and use the time to teach the students.
Swiftype (YC W12) site search added to Mixergy
Below $1k was a given anyways. Microsoft has said repeatedly that it would be competitively priced with the iPad.

$1,000 for a new and unknown tablet is anything but competitive.
Neat idea - we were looking at doing http://www.usertesting.com/ for helping out with this
The original online ordering systems for pizza places would actually generate a fax to the restaurant with your order.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/sexuality/chickfila.asp

There's now way to solidify proof based on this. However it seems clear Jim Hensons Company severed ties after Dan Cathy (son of founder Truett Cathy) expressed his views in an interview with "Baptist Press".
I was mis-remembering how iTunes work there. It will auto-re-shuffle in some cases -- you don't always have to do it explicitly -- but it looks like it has more to do with whether you switch away from the playlist after the music stops playing. If I simply "pause" and select another song, without switching away, the order remains stable as you say. If I switch to say the Music library view, and then back, and double click a song (any song), it re-shuffles with that double-clicked song on top, playing.
Where I work we wouldn't fail to at least interview someone without a 4yr college degree with some form (formal or otherwise) of related experience.

However, college degrees do have some advantages:

From the POV of hiree: we recruit on college campuses because that's the only place you find any significant population of qualified people who don't already have full-time jobs.

From the POV of hirer: GMA tests aren't allowed, but when hiring programmers, a CS general knowledge test is, and when comparing dozens of people who all went through exactly the same CS program, it's a pretty darn good proxy for a GMA test.
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not under the gpl, you can't
Is it just me or building such an app should cost $50k-$100k? Why do they need $1.35M?
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You didn't read the article. That's their repo, which they linked to in the article.
"Slope" implies that the denominator is a distance. In the context of a graph on paper or screen, it is clear how rise and run are mapped to distances. It's a totally sensible definition: slope only makes sense given a choice of axes.

"Rate" implies that the denominator is a timespan. This does not make sense, as there are many slopes which are not rates and which are not presented as rates.

It's kind of a silly thing to worry about, but Khan's answer is unequivocally better.
Integrating Google Drive with Web Intents
It's nothing to with copyright or trademark, the olympic brand has special protection due to legislation written specifically for it. Unless they're an officially sponsor they can't associate the Olympics with their brand.

That's different from providing information about the olympics.