skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used a VPN to watch some of the Olympic coverage on the BBC's website. While the video playback sometimes failed, I was simply blown away by all the options they provided. One aspect I never dug into much at all was on the data side. The infrastructure to input, compile and output it all is quite a amazing. I'll bet it was a fun project to work on!
Huey Lewis rocked! I heard the opening bars and I couldn't help grinning.
One way would have been not seeing it on the HN front page.
This may be only partially relevant, but I'm reading about transformer protectors and I can see all sorts of things going wrong here. Extreme heat causes arcing in the oil and consequently fire and/or explosion, in transformers. I don't know how that'd work here.
The html [1] does. If you don't like the wording, you can fork it and change the text.

https://github.com/resume/resume.github.com/blob/master/view...
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Neil Stephenson addresses this in his book, Anathem.

He states it's a fact "well known" within the military etc. that a certain percentage of folks respond very well to training for high risk, high intensity, high pressure situations (i.e facing live fire in combat) while a certain percentage simply flub and perform no better than someone who hadn't had the years of prior training.

Thing is, you don't know who's who until the event happens.

Anyway read the book it's really good in you're into this sort of idea, and into hackerish ideas in general
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There's asset covering, and there's a license where you're assumed guilty until litigated.

And going against an organization that's "saturated with lawyers"?

Even if I were creating a voter registration web site, I'd likely not use this package, as reusing this PDF fulfillment package for any other use within that web site would potentially put the organization in licensing jeopardy. With this license, it'd be safer to re-implement rather than to re-use.

I'm not touching this license with a barge pole.
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Sure, good stories have details, but a person's choice of detail reveals how they see the world. The comment's mention of "offshore" clearly serves no purpose beyond encouraging stereotype-based thinking. Knowing this programmer was offshore is as irrelevant as knowing their sex or their eye color. We've generally (and I think rightfully) exorcised this language in reference to other characteristics, why not this one?

In my experience, programmers who emphasize that "offshore" programmers are bad seem insecure about their own skills and job stability. The same is true of sexist men who go out of their way to mention when a mistake was made by a woman but never explicitly highlight when it was a man.
"I'm a developer with public repository. I've been using github.com since NaN."

I think it should read "I'm a developer with a public repository" and the NaN thing is a bit odd.

(I was just curious what my resume would look like as I don't use github much)
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It's what it is. Yet, I often feel that criticisms of the startup wave are often a few years out of phase.

At least once a week on HN we get a rehash of the meme that "startups" are too focused on advertising and social media. But if you look at the companies YCombinator has been funding lately, you'll see the dominant theme is people building subscription services that cost $X a month.

I have to admit that I already find that tiresome, and maybe someday the haters will catch up and write linkbait about how that kind of business is BS.

I can also say that a 'startup' can denote a wide range of companies.

There are the guys who want you do a PhD thesis worth of research in two months. Maybe I could do that if I lived like Howard Hughes and ate piracetam tabs out of a huge bowl, but these guys don't even have cash to buy the data they need or the EC2 time, so tough luck. At least they're doing their startup on stolen time from their day jobs so the lack of cash doesn't mean they starve, it just means their business goes nowhere.

Then there are some "startups" that are over-funded. A few years ago I was mystified at how Colours took $50 million to build a crappy photo sharing app. Then I learned, the hard way, exactly how this happens...
I interpreted that more as "After you remove the heat sink, make sure there isn't any of the conducting grease left over because it can ruin the mineral oil" but they could mean using a heat sink with no grease as well.
lol i'm no gnome dev but i read all that crap on HN since gnome-shell was released (and before unity), so yeah, i can read.

If people are too stubborn to try something new, they can still install fvwm95 and live in desktop-yesterday-land for the rest of their lives, no problem.
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>This is where I think Miguel's got the most traction, it's a historically weak area for Linux. But it's quickly becoming less of a problem. "Cloud" apps remove the issue of client compatibly breakage, Google's very successful internal use of Goobuntu proves this, and is an indicator of future business application.

At best that argument translates to "compatibility is not such a problem anymore with cloud apps". Maybe so, but that's hardly an argument for "desktop linux" not being dead. Thin clients and the "cloud" mean that it hardly matters if you are using Linux or not.

And it's not that clear cut that the cloud is wining either. For some stuff it is, for other stuff native trumps it, and he have seen a heavy switch back to native, even for mobile apps. The web and HTML being what it is, there are tons of apps that won't feel any good in cloud form, and those apps are what the desktop is all about.

>Native client apps can be distributed through Ubuntu's Software Center, and they can target LTS releases of Ubuntu for guaranteed compatibility.

It doesn't matter, since that doesn't mean you get the commercial apps that OS X/Windows have. Even the LTS releases provide a too small period of stability for a platform with such small market share.

>He fails to notice that innovation in OS X has begun to slow, and age. It's HFS+ file system is disastrously out of date

Which doesn't matter at all. For the things people use desktop computers for, HFS+ is perfectly fine. Journaling, extended attributes, ACL, Unicode, are all there.

Just because some geeks drooled over the possibility of ZFS on their desktop doesn't mean it solves any real problem desktop users have (oh, and if some desktop OS X user objects to this, let him check the terms "outlier" and "statistical noise").

Plus, even if it was true that "innovation in OS X has begun to slow", it doesn't matter, because it already has a huge, consistent, feature complete and widely deployed code base out there already. And, as Miguel said, too much innovation is one of the problems with desktop Linux.

>and OS X remains tied to hardware that's priced beyond what a large market will pay.

Actually OS X sells better than ever every year, and it got from 2% to 10-15% of the market. Linux being available on cheaper hardware (and free) itself, didn't help it. So the argument is moot, except in developing countries and such (where most of the population will rather pirate Windows anyway).

>The future of Linux on the desktop, in the context of something that's targeted by commercial parties and has years of stability expected, already has become Ubuntu LTS.

That's a "too little, too late" kind of stability. The LTS kind of releases are of more interest to server deployments and the enterprise, anyway, than in any commercial party interested in desktop apps. And we were speaking of "Linux on the desktop here".

E.g Adobe won't release Premiere for LTS only to see that in the next LTS base Linux/Gnome APIs and frameworks have been rewritten and replaced with something else "just because".
Why can’t we just admit that journalists are human?
I never understood why we abandoned the Moon. It’s only three days away compared to the eight months it takes to get to Mars and it also has water. We should first establish a base on Moon and then venture on to other planets.
Lame. Apparently we have been in a bubble since 2007, depending on who you speak to. I recall in a famous YouTube clip circulating at the time that people thought it was ludicrous that Facebook was valued at $16Bn.

Of course people are going to overvalue companies. There are cycles in every industry, where people speculate and get burnt. Does anyone remember the Finance industry in 2007? How that is evidence against startups is beyond me. When the tech bubble fizzles it is going to take down established companies with it, as well as their employees' stock options.

At the end of the day the choice between working in a startup and an established company should be about the quality of the people you work with, not the number of employees.

If you have crap co-workers, it's not a sign that startups generally are bad, but rather a sign that your startup in particular is bad.
I wonder what this means for design-style patents like the Apple ones. Is one similar feature now cause for suing?
Awesome idea! I'd be quick in developing it for other platforms as these ideas like this don't unique for long :)
Would "contractor" or "consultant" or "field tech" been unnecessary? Hardly. Offshore doesn't necessarily mean outsourced, it could just as easily mean a satellite office in Europe.
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I'm not sure why it's a "poor way of looking at things". I'm an individualist, so I believe that only harms perpetrated against specific individuals matter.

You seem to disagree, so I'm asking for a philosophical justification for your beliefs. Apparently it's based on an argumentum ad populum - if the masses consider some dimension empirically meaningful, slicing humanity on that dimension is morally meaningful as well.

Then again, if you want to go down the road of argumentum ad populum, I can guarantee you that everyone will also consider "height", "weight", "hair color", "good looks" and "pleasant personality" as meaningful dimensions to classify humans.

People with high levels of "good looks" and "pleasant personality" are also treated differently than people with low levels of these values, as are people with a high level of weight / height.

Should we also be concerned if, e.g., ugly people or those with an unpleasant personality are poorly represented in some field?

Yes, it is worth being concerned about this one particular subgroup, because among the 2^(6 billion) subgroups of humans, there might be something easily correctable which yields great results.

If you want to appeal to historical discrimination as something easily correctable, we've already fixed it. It worked across the board, but to varying degrees (e.g. women went up to >50% of doctors, <20% of physicists, >50% of journalists, etc).
Blades in huge datacenters are not serviced one by one. Typically you'd wait until say 20% of the blades fail and only then fix and upgrade the whole rack at once.
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I guess he's worked out that his last account was hell-banned ...
We didn't have direct evidence that the Moon had water until recently (in late 2009 when the LCROSS mission impacted a shadowed crater in search of water: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS#Presence_of_water)
I completely understand that it is fashionable to predict startup bubbles (people have been doing it every year in this current cycle since 2008), but the arguments in this post are flimsy and essentially boil down to "it's a bubble cuz it feels like one to me."

There will always be crappy companies being built and 3rd tier investors throwing money at them, but I've yet to hear a solid data-driven case for why this is a bubble. Sure - consumer web, ad-supported may not be a great place to be, but that's a very narrow view of tech as it ignores SaaS, b2b, enterprise focused companies.
These two conditions work together
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Nothing kills the illusion of an iPhone app feeling native faster than getting rid of overflow bouncing in a scrollable view. I understand there are performance benefits, but it feels so wrong on iOS.
Wow, this is literally in my backyard. I live in a town in between Davison and Clarkston, one road gets you to either. Ultimately this guy sounds like a true douche. In this area as a dentist you are making plenty of money and to try and promote fake races to raise money for your son's illness is truly uncalled for.

I love all the trouble this guy went through to fake accomplish these runs. It's one of those you just put more work into cheating than just doing it the old fashioned way.
"- the weird overreach. Why did he aim for a high ranking? If he'd come 50th no one would have cared. Why did he talk to someone from the new yorker? Why did he make up a whole event?"

This is what surprised me about him. If he had more respectable times, he could've run the scheme for much longer, and avoided the scrutiny of the community. Even the author at the end said his sub 4 hours times were believable and gave him credit for those.

As always, his greed got the best of him.
I agree. I have no idea how this made it to the front page. Such duplicate links are recently increased. This should have been posted before, I'm pretty sure.
What if you could also include some work from the users SO profile?
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The AT&T Hobbit processor didn't have registers, just a stack and aggressive caching there -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Hobbit

It's an interesting idea. It probably makes thread switching very cheap (just change a pointer, a PC and maybe a condition code register).

[As the wiki article says, we were going to use it for the Newton, but the price kept going up and the chip was buggy.]

On game consoles, at least, successful developers know how the cache works at a detailed level; it's surprising how often it's cheaper to recompute something than to fetch it from memory again. It's a waste to fetch a whole cache line for a single byte, and you'll see good titles make very good utilization of their cache fetches (e.g., 70%).

DSP programming environments often provide ways to lock cache lines so replacement doesn't hose performance.

At the shared L2/L3 level, things get really complicated, since you suffer cache replacement from other parts of the system. (Why did our frame rate go down? / Oh, we sent an HTTPS request, which brought in the crypto stuff and ...). It's not something you can analyze or deal with statically, and good tools and test methodologies are essential.
His LinkedIn states that he graduated last year and worked for a startup for a grand total of 3 months... nothing against the author, but he seems to be too young and inexperienced to fully understand the big picture of something as complex as boom & bust cycles in the startup ecosystem. I certainly don't understand them. Too bad that his startup-experience seems to have been a bad one. For some(most?) people a big company is just a better fit. Life is too short to be wasting it on something you're not passionate about.
It's a 103 page-long legal document - could we have some TL;DR with it, or the important part summarised?
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5896.html

That unconscious thought aids creativity is an idea with some history behind it. The only problem I have with the original article is the intentionality that the author seems to claim. Mathematics used to just happen to me when I was thoroughly immersed in problems.
A more accurate title would be "You can infringe a patent even if you didn't do all the steps yourself". This ruling is simply making the common-sense observation that you can't get around a patent by doing some steps with your right hand and other steps with your left hand and then pointing out that neither hand infringed the patent by carrying out all the specified steps.

(As everybody here already knows: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.)
I too find that planning code while in the shower or during a walk is much more effective than when at the computer or whiteboard.
There was also an article here about him. It's true that he is probably unstable, but on the other hand, the software he writes is quite impressive.
Yes, because driving a car is "dangerous and pointless" so that baseball thing it's a perfect analogy.

Since you are at it, lets talk about pre-crime too.
Could submit a pull request. Then you can have My Github Resumé on your resumé.
Breath deep. Someone had an unpleasant experience working with someone else who is in a different timezone, who reportedly explicitly said "...Change it to a 5 second Sleep so I have something to give him the next time he complains!"

You had a bad experience working with someone in a different timezone, forced to deal with necessary changes through a broken web interface.

The common issue here is the frustration that both sides feel when forced to work with people through a long lag. Ever try playing a networked game with ping above 500ms?

Just not being able to talk to one another in the same timezone, let alone face to face, are big hurdles that many people have trouble overcoming, despite the best of intentions on both sides (and occasionally, yes, incompetence or malice of one or the other parties, or both).
Yeah I love this. I think someone at Darden at UVa is working on something similar, or that you?
Not a "So you shouldn't do this" but just a "by the way maybe something to keep an eye on" thing.
It isn't us, do you remember their name?
They have cast aside one of the most basic tenets of the medium.
I see they are talking about this at Velocity Europe http://velocityconf.com/velocityeu2012/public/schedule/detai...
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anyone who uses phrases like "popularity heuristic that defines the popularity of a repository by its sum of watchers and forks" instead of a simple "orders by no. of watchers + no. of works" is likely _very_ pretentious.

Take with a spoonful of salt.
In thinking about this, you're going to want to develop an API that lets advertisers send messages to users within a range of a location, probably referenced by lat/long. Allow users to turn off ads sent by advertisers, and develop some sort of commerce..

For example, you can send 2 messages a day. If you respond to an advertiser, you get 5 message credits... Of course I'd want to choose the advertisers I could get messages from, if any.
Flagged for a misleading title. Page 10 explicitly states:

``To be clear, we hold that all the steps of a claimed method must be performed in order to find induced infringement, but that it is not necessary to prove that all the steps were committed by a single entity''

Previously, you either had to perform all of the steps of a claimed method or induce another to perform of all of the steps of a claimed method. There was no remedy available when you perform some of the steps and induce another party to perform the remaining steps.
Seriously? Most of the world's population doesn't drive a car. It's not good for very long distances and not good for very dense urban areas where traffic is slow and parking is lacking. It can't drive in rural areas (unless you have a sturdy jeep) and it costs a lot of money. Also, it has a non-negligible probability to kill you along the way.

The modern car is not some one-true solution to transportation, it's great success in the US has a lot to do with the patterns of suburban sprawl and to destruction of the rail system by the car manufacturers.

I suspect the car is going out of fashion as people move more and more into dense cities.
Odds of making it to the front page of Hacker News
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This is very nice, but it has the same flaw that most of the github résumé generators have: it only lists my own projects, not those from other people or organizations to which I (heavily) contribute, so it doesn't show the repos that get two thirds of all of my patches.

Does the github API not allow to query all the public repos to which I have commit access?
Very cool site. Looks like you might have a Unicode problem: "Show HN: My Github rÃ©sumÃ©"
Is there something that you can do about the floating social bar?

On iOS, it hovers over some of the content :-(

http://imgur.com/hwmWN

Other than that, though... YAY!
That's a nice idea, but I'm a bit skeptical of your specific implementation. Would you really want to be so honest on your resume as to admit that you added Java to it after cramming for a job interview for 2 days? https://github.com/saidinesh5/MyResume/commit/22e6aca7711491...

Sorry to pick on you, but it was just the first commit message I read, and it stood out as a particularly bad resume bullet point.
Agreed. I've submitted lots of pull requests and taken over a small, popular project but none of it shows up.
Nice work! In some résumé, the organisation section is continuously loading (maybe a bug when it's empty?)
Well we're definitely thinking about advertisements and our early users are already using the service to post ads, some business owners even offer reductions (20% off if you come by in the next 2 hours, stuff like that).

I don't know about limiting the number of messages per user per day though. If we go that way, why not just charge to post more messages and forego the need for advertisers altogether?
Does these "echoes" ever expire? Are they permanent?

Seems like you use an image for a map, is this true/what's the reason?
What did you expect from an AOL property? Pageviews and SEO are more important than making the site useful.
Stopped caring after the first 700 lines or so.

A Midwestern dentist cheating at a marathon? That's such a homely little kind of cheating :) Bankers on Wall Street embezzle millions and this guy was just trying to fake winning a marathon; bring out the pitchforks. LOL.
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Terraform the moon first.
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I'd love to be running this on an Open Pandora console right now.
I wouldn't be surprised if the trucking companies are able to offer them a competitive wage for acting as freight minders.

They might even end up with similar pay for less total hours away from home.
Wow, really nice, thanks for sharing!
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To be clear, this jQuery plugin was not made by @voronianski not @hakimel. The original Avgrund concept is Hakim's. I think the way this was presented is really freaking confusing.
About the quarter pounders transportation problem, space elevators sounds like a great solution. Still, doesn't sound like a big gain to get humans to Mars besides as a trophy. Better to send machines with tech greater than 90's 2MP cameras. We're all gonna be replaced by machines anyway after the singularity in a few decades.
I have something similar, though it's more like a GitHub portfolio than a resume: https://github.com/dideler/projects

You can view it in action: http://dennisideler.com/projects
People who enjoyed this story will love a book by neurologist Oliver Sachs called "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Cat."
I'll give them a shout. QUITE possible by the this time their service has become something could be totally complimentary to yours and you guys could connect some dots.