skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are limits. You cited some very obvious ones.

I have no idea why you think that you are among the "catastrophically limited" as I will call them.

You presumably can program a computer based on your comment history. This puts you firmly in the "not really limited by IQ" camp. You may never be a Terrance Tao of John von Neumann, but every other level of achievement is probably available to you.

Even your own self knowledge of skills puts you above most people I work with. When it comes to overall competency, knowing that you aren't very good at programming puts you above many programmers I know.

Just browsing through your comment history it really seems more like you lack direction for getting better.

You didn't even answer someone's direct question toward you, a question that can really help you focus and find the direction you need to improve: "What are you working on now?"

Assuming that you don't have an answer for that question: I think I found your problem.
Comb v0.1.4 new docs and features
Hard to believe he used Times font. Probably font substitution. Also does anyone know who is the guy posterized in their original logo?
" - Assange has a fundamental right clearly recognized by
the ECHR not to surrender to Swedish police before
appearing in front of the Swedish prosecutor"

I don't know about the rest, but of what I know of ECHR (which is not nothing, being a student in law in an european country), this is false. The ECHR actually rendered a decision about this in an affair concerning France (a very important affair that is changing a lot in procedural French law so it's troughtfully studied here in France). It's the case Medvedyev v. France (29 mars 2010 (yes it's that recent)). In this case a group of men were arrested in High Sea, by police, and they were then under arrest for days before appearing in front of a prosecutor. They contested this as contrary to their human rights to not be held under arrest without presentation in front of a judge. And they lost... (they lost on this point, they won other ones in the case) because the police did everything they could to actually be as fast as possible, so the article 5.3 of the ECHR was respected.

So Assange has a fundamental right to be presented to a judge/prosecutor before any arrest. BUT, he can be forced to appear in front of the judge. And he has no right to resist being arrested if this arrest has the sole purpose of putting him in front of a Swedish prosecutor.

So well... You know.. if this guy is wrong about one of the most important decisions by the ECHR in the last 10 years, then I tend to think that he may be wrong about other things he says with such "confidence".
Though this seems like a good trolling type of post for Hacker News (government incompetence about technology = guaranteed upvotes), reality is that Panama will not extradite him so there is no reasonable possibility of ever convicting him in the United States. Prosecutors ask for cases to be dropped all the time and there is pro forma language for the reasoning, that it is a burden on the government (rather than a reason like, "because we found out the guy is innocent"). The DEA will probably do exactly what you might think they would do, which is to copy the data onto a couple of drives and file them away in a filing cabinet somewhere, in case they should ever be useful. The DEA's data-handling facilities need to be large enough to handle all active cases (and no larger), and there is no evidence that they are not. Perhaps this one case represents 5% of their data storage, all other cases combined represent 45%, and the other 50% is empty.

Move along, nothing to get upset about here.
And demo that survey sticky on your homepage. I've answered side-bar surveys before and I'm more honest in my answers than when I'm trying to get behind the wall.
Salary$hare - How do you compare against your co-workers and friends?
They are trying: https://www.facebook.com/bestbuy/app_212967045493154?071612

And failing miserably, just look at the ideas that qualified for top 10 and the the other 61 that were not picked... seriously? a iPod Shuffle attached to a shoe?
For most of the visualizations I've found on Hacker News, the data is usually available directly to the client, either through an API or a static file (.csv,.json,etc.). StatWing is already using d3 to display their work, so it is possible they were also using crossfilter to do filtering as well.

So, really, past experience with this sort of thing and seeing that they were using d3.
Same here. I'm currently on a bus and it is blocked by WiPipe (category: Proxy/Anonymizer).

I remember trying to access it from work and it was blocked as well (I think we are using TrendMicro).

Anyways... thanks Tor!
Interesting idea ;)
Search Queries Alerts in Webmaster Tools
I don't put the blame all on MS. Lets face it, MS' biggest customer is corporate. And they never EVER want to see change. They expect Word to be able to open files dating back to ancient times (like Works and Word Perfect files). So MS left the old libraries in.

I do think that was a mistake. But MS didn't (doesn't) have the luxury that Apple did (and still does). MS can't just shut 30 years of compatibility off and expect to keep their corporate customers happy.

Oh and just for the record (since this thread seems to be grouped by age, I was born in 1963. I remember when MS was cool and "us" nerds were running from CA and IBM.
This post seems to assume that Best Buy is in the business
of selling consumer electronics but they're not. They're in the business
of selling services that are attached to consumer electronics.

I'd wager that Best Buy makes at least an order of magnitude more profit removing spyware
for $180 then they do selling a $500 laptop. Not everybody buys those services, though, so
they need high volume items to sell to support that revenue.

The $359 appliance to "cook meats and vegetables in airtight plastic bags in a water bath" is
a perfect example of something that gives internet retailers a huge advantage - being able to
find the people before distributing the item. But trying to plug that into Best Buy's business
model would kill the thing that actually earns them a profit.
"You probably don't need a degree in experimental psychology to understand that forced recruitment gives you invalid/biased/low quality data."

Interesting point. Anecdotally, I am less honest with my selections if I'm taking a survey specifically to get a reward (i.e. contest, Kongregate points, access to a site), as I usually just want to get it done with as fast as possible.

However, if it has tangible results (i.e. will tailor my experience on the site like Netflix) then I am likely to spend more time choosing honestly.
agree, another vote for a date + time picker
HyperDex - Searchable, Consistent NoSQL
This is almost a year old. Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3238834
That's right along the lines of a possibility I've considered for BBY myself.

It would be amusing to see BBY become a champion of customer service with a curated selection as I feel like they were a major force in promoting price and selection over service in the first place.

>Your biggest asset is that when anything goes wrong, just come back into Best Buy and you'll take care of it.

One of the things that permanently soured me on BBY several years ago was seeing an elderly woman about to break into tears arguing with a manager over the "service plan" for her TV. The manager was explaining that she wasn't entitled to a replacement unless BBY spent longer than 45 days trying to fix the one she purchased. Apparently, it had only been 42 days at the time of the argument.
Clearly, there is pent-up demand from US businesses and consumers for such high speeds, but AFAIK the country's long-haul and last-mile infrastructure is nowhere near ready for handling end-user traffic at 400Gbps, let alone 1Tbps.

On the long-haul side, service providers like Level 3 Communications appear unlikely to invest aggressively to add a lot more capacity any time soon, because they are still dealing with the financial consequences of their over-investment during the 1990's telecom boom (remember Worldcom?). On the last-mile side, service providers like Comcast also appear unlikely to invest aggressively to add a lot more capacity any time soon, because their traditional business models are under threat from companies like Netflix -- our last-mile providers fear higher speeds.

So, we have demand for ever-faster speeds on one hand, and constrained supply on the other hand. Economics 101 suggests Internet service pricing is bound to stabilize or even (gasp!) increase over the coming years.
Don't cry. Here's a kleenex.
What are the rules regarding Canadian investors?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark
About time really.
Introduction To Network Security- Part 1
Journalists Dancing on the Edge of Truth
I'm pretty sure you're quoting context that wasn't present in the original comment I replied to.
Israelis Invent Anti-Date Rape Straw
RapidShare Wants A Crackdown on Linking Sites
Alright, so the obvious thing would seem to be to have a pool for HN readers, right?

http://www.salaryshare.me/10ffcd6db9cf188be1a1175de8ff8f3d
Two things come to my mind:

- the test: learning science is done via text. no tangible tests. as opposed to the pioneer of the subject field. They didn't pop theory out of thin air. Lots of intermediate steps/theories failed, many experiences that produce hints. Education systems assume students can cut corners on this and reach the same level of intuitions as the masters ? .. seems wrong.

- 'meta': the first subject you spend 10K hours on to reach some level of mastery, the next subject won't require as much, a lot of the first 10K journey was mostly about learning yourself, teaching yourself patience with regard to the relationship between preciseness and scalability. How to keep moving smoothly cm by cm when your goal is 1M meter.. Also detaching ego,emotions and perception. Don't be angry or sadistically attached to solve the problem. Focus on .. focus, not missing data, immersing yourself. Less emotions means to me less distraction, the less you miss the faster you reach your goal. Now that you've experienced a 1M meter journey, it will probably feel a lot easier the next time.
What is the difference between this and filepicker.io?
Are you sure it's the number of computer-related searches decreasing and not the ratio of computer-related searches to all searches ? That would explain a lot. Computers are increasingly used by people who don't care or even like technology. It even affects my favorite field - computer games. Games for techies were games for problem solvers, geeks, fantasy/SF lovers. Games for mainstream people are quite often mindless fun, sports, or sims.
I have noticed this trend years ago, when I tried to compare the popularity of Linux versus other operating systems.
If you're going to needlessly nitpick, at least be correct.

It's 1:3.
Anything that touches financial records-keeping would be ripe for this kind of software, too. I spent quite some time on a financial services system and our number one enemy was mutable state.
If you put a retina display next to a normal display, will a site not optimized for retina look the same on both? (Just trying to understand retina.)
There's also plenty of young people who expect everyone to listen to them because of their vast entitlement complex, not necessarily out of some meritocratic ideal. I've had 10 year olds give me dirty looks because I didn't entertain their idea of what we should do at my kid's birthday party and I've had 25 year olds with the same look on their face at work.
Almost 160k here
Why You Should Kill Your Robot Twitter Followers
If it's any consolation, Alan Kay still credits some unknown airforce programmer for the invention of OO programming. He just saw a good idea and ran with it.

On the other hand, you might look at Van Gogh. he tried his whole life then died unknown and penniless. He was told his whole career to give up painting and do something respectable.

I think the best a random person can can hope for is to do something they enjoy. We all have our little victories and losses. What's more tragic, Van Gogh, or the miner that wanted to paint and resented every day of work?
Vector images are fine for larger or very simple elements, but we're not at a point where we can rely on them for icons.

http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-...
I guess I'm a "hardcore geek" then. Hard to believe. I just find working with text and not using a mouse to be much faster than clicking if all I'm doing is reading and writing text.

In a true peer-to-peer network, as the internet was supposed to be, there are no "client" or "servers", just machines that can play either of those roles, aka "peers".

Just because you configure a machine a certain way does not make it a "desktop OS" or a "server". That is a label you've chosen. Configuring a machine's OS a certain way just means that's how you've configured it.

BSD is a kernel and some userland utilities.

It's a blank canvas. It can be configured to do many different things.

If computing to you means Gnome, KDE or OSX, or some other desktop abstraction and GUI flavor of the month, then it's true you'll find more people working on those configurations elsewhere than in a relatively small group of BSD contributors.

I like to think BSD is for command line connoisseurs. People who can appreciate responsiveness, organization and clean design all at the same time. People who are not offended by what appears to be simplicity. People who are comfortable with VGA text mode. People who would make graphics a priority, but not necessarily a GUI. BSD already has a working user interface.

It's simply a matter of learning to use it.
Life compartmentalization and better living through chemistry has always worked for me.
Hypothetically, wouldn't it be to everyone's benefit if their salary and compensation was as publicized as professional player salaries?
> and have fun at the same time!

I'd say that's probably going to be false for approximately n-1 participants. :)
Photoshop can just as easily create vector layers.

The site design I'm currently working on is entirely vector shapes with the exception of real world photographs. I can design great pixel-snapped icons and UI, and resize the document to 200% and instantly have crisp retina elements as well.

Photoshop can be fantastic for web layout design. It comes down to a matter of preference.
So if you wanted to see the actual salary of a particular coworker, all you would have to do is create a pool, enter in 3 bogus salaires yourself, and give the link to the other person?
Half of this thread is unfortunate terminological noise, but phk did specify what he means by "cathedral" – software governed by a coherent design vision – and Windows and Office are not only not that, they are the poster children for not that.

The words "cathedral" vs. "bazaar" have obviously gotten too vague for people to meaningfully argue about. But "coherent design vision" has a much clearer meaning, and an enormously important one.

I think the pendulum is bound to swing back from incoherent, hypercomplex software, because at some point the reductio that we've got today simply won't be able to adapt. Who knows what will trigger that, or when. But intelligent people will always care about simplicity, beauty, efficiency, and the other qualities that come from good design. And among the ignorant programmers there are more than a few whose eyes light up when they are finally exposed to good design, and want to learn to work that way. I'm an example. So there's no point of no return here.
Now that we can see what a results page looks like, it seems like something more than a sorted list of numbers might be interesting. I mean, there's not enough data collected at the start to do something very interesting, but a chart and some statistics would be fairly simple and make it much more digestible. As it is, it's just a numberwall.
A lot of the programmers/devs/engineers I talk to don't ship much code. They just re-work some existing code base to add X or Y feature. These people don't have a clue to what it takes to design something from the bottom up and hammer it into something that resembles the original idea. Shipping code, which is my favorite passtime, is just damn difficult. Not because the code itself is hard. No. Its because we procrastinate, change our minds, focus on early optimization, decide to to talk to others about it, and just do everything expect shipping the damn thing.

That is why you shoul dno tcall your project crappy. Hell no. You went ahead and shiped something. You started a project and saw it through. You know how many people go through life without ever finishing something? A lot! But you managed to do something. And to be honest, it is quite handy. Its is a nice project that could be setup on an intranet so people would stop using email attachments to keep track of their todos.

Keep hacking and shipping. Good luck.

edit

Do you mind listing your email on your profile? I'd like to get in touch with you.
Adobe's Source Sans Pro updated, moved to Github
I don't think kids don't realize that other people hurt too. Kicking their sisters would be quite pointless otherwise.
Apple Becomes Most Valuable Company of All Time
Trulia $900k patent settlement on location-based search
Introduction To Network Security- Part 2
I use almond milk when diluting cold brewed coffee to make iced coffee.
Cool. I still remember arguing for 100Mbit ethernet at Sun and being told that it couldn't be done, use FDDI.

Personally, I'd love ethernet to be used as the interconnect for more stuff. USB is kinda weird to me, I'd much rather have my disk drives be POE devices.
"I think you read my comment, self identify as a hipster or 'bullshitter'"

Excuse me?

You need to stop projecting your insecurities outward, if you're making statements like-

"Finding information is mainstream now, and all the pseudo intellectuals are crying because their power base of personally invented knowledge is crumbling and they lack the mental faculties to think freely on a higher level and reason for themselves"

Claiming you're a free thinker" and implying that others are "mainstream hipster sheeple" (or whatever pejorative of choice) does not endear you to others. Sure, there are lazy people, however your bizarre sense of superiority about all those OTHER bullshitters is not self-justifying.
The UK does not have a strong record of protecting human rights of prisoners. Just look at their record in Northern Ireland.
Nice tool!

Rather than providing one exit value, a graph over a range could be helpful, to illustrate key thresholds, like the slope-change introduced by preferences or the exit values needed to provide the founders/VCs a particular return.

Also, adding an optional 'months to exit' would allow displaying the effective internal rates-of-return for a given exit value.
In the beginning things at GT were quiet because we didn't do a good job of marketing, but they're picking up. We've seen 30% monthly usage growth since we launched, and that growth has continued into summer, despite 1/3rd the normal campus population. Even the busiest bike systems in the world only have about 30% of their fleet in use at any given time - any more than that just becomes chaos.

It's difficult to offer helmets with each bike trip, but we do offer ways for users to get subsidized helmets, and are always working to educate and improve safety. As the system becomes more popular, we hope users consider keeping helmets at their desk or at home for easy access.
I personally etymonline.com everything.. root fetishist.
I'm obviously not advocating willful ignorance or refusing to check your work. All I'm saying that I find value to trying to solve a problem "by hand" first, instead of instantly looking up the answer, no matter how easy it might be to look up the answer.
It will be close, but in comparison to the surrounding retina (eg. @2x) elements, the lower resolution will look blurry, as it is being mathematically upscaled.
I just read that and thought "meh...". I wonder how many such invention I pass everyday
If you have money going to you, doesn't the market benefit from making that knowledge public? Either you are capable and can defend your salary, or you are being overpaid and your position becomes more competitive. Something most corporations would want, right?

Too bad everyone who ranks highly at your company is severely overpaid and dreadfully scared of their competency being questioned in an open and quantitative manner...
I think you are missing a couple of things.

In this comment I will equate "Rug Market" with "Ready, Fire, Aim" and "Cathedral" with "4 Year Plan".

Firstly, the "Rug Market" beats the "Cathedral" when you haven't formulated the problem properly, and so you have bad specs.

Secondly, the "Rug Market" beats the "Cathedral" when bad software is more profitable than good software. Google for "Worse Is Better" and "The Innovator's Dilemma".

Sad but true.
Hey flatline3, I feel your pain, but it's time to stop feeding the troll.
In both cases, one should note, he nonetheless provided a personal and honest response, following the demands of politeness and social obligation that occur in small communities.

The trend in our ability to address those outside of our immediate social networks seems to be that it will only get easier as time passes. Either our idea of what constitutes polite social reciprocity will have to change, or new ways of mediating these communications will have to be found (automated prioritizing, etc).
You never worked with a service oriented environment, right? When you need to override dozens of services your build/local instance depends on, it could easily take a couple of weeks, especially for fresh graduates who used to "./configure && make && sudo make".
The transport definition is nice and all but I'd love to see what the plan is for routing/switching at these speeds. Given the speed at which 100Gbe has limped into the market I wouldn't expect to see anything capable of handling single links at these speeds for quite a long time. 1Tbps with with a 1500MTU is ~83 million packets a second. Just for illustrative comparison a CPU at 3.5Ghz would have 42 clock cycles per packet[0].

[0] I know a general purpose CPU would never be used for something like this, just putting the numbers into context.
Or get him really drunk and convince him he's underpaid. He'll tell you then.
Doesn't fit in with the bootstrap code style. Your plugin has too many semicolons.
Pinochet was protected from extradition because he, unlike Assange, was a head of state and enjoyed a supposed immunity from prosecution as a result.

I'm sure it was also quite helpful that he was friendly with various high ranking British politicians, meeting Thatcher several times, and helping them with a little war they had in the South Atlantic.
I'm sure 5 letters a day in 1961 was just as daunting as 50 emails a day is in 2012.
Boulder's Startup Ecosystem: Pros and Cons
For Those Who Want to Lead, Read Books.
Yeah, that's my point. But as I always forget, irony without smileys is difficult to convey over the wire.

(Well... maybe I'm just not good at it... )
>the people that wrote it weren't in a position to demand that all the UNIX-likes out there standardise their ld flags

Agree, but once Linux became the dominant Unix-like, the major Linux distros like Debian and Redhat were probably in a position to replace uses of libtool in upstreams with a distro-wide standard for ld flags.
Well, it's beneficial for you to know everyone else's salaries. It's not beneficial for you if a potential new employer knows your current salary. So it's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma.

That said, this is more a cultural issue-in some other countries, asking "How much do you make?" is just part of polite conversation, not a major taboo like it is in the US.
They probably group all the investments into one vehicle, with a single shareholder entity. I don't know all the details, though.
Political points. They can trade them in with the UK, or look good in Latin America.