skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I'm lucky enough to catch a glimpse of LoseThos author.

I saw videos of your OS a few weeks ago and was quite perturbed (by all the flashy stuff). However I'd be curious in seeing the source of your OS. I think it disappeared at some point.

For the Github thing, I see no reason not to post code on Github as an attempt to show our linux zealot skills to eventual employers. It's better that than to just brag about code without actually showing anything.
Curious: is there anything fundamentally wrong with subscription services that cost $X a month?

It seems that it is a more sustainable business model (rather than relying on advertising and social media) because they're providing a service or product that has actual value to users, enough to have them open their wallets to the companies.

Unless there's something I am missing here?
How to grow in the craft of programming?
FYI... I get an "Error retrieving information from server [RPC:AEC:0]" when I try to install this from Google Play.
I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while now. Any thoughts on open sourcing it, putting it up on github?
Down for everyone or just me down for everyone or just me
Agreed, a subscribing system is much better.
just filed an issue - but the error message is pretty obnoxious for a catch all- bound to the $(window) error event is a catch all error that blames me for not having enough data (56 public repos not enough?)

This means that anyone who knows this url and decides to look me up will see a message accusing me of being a non-producer if anything goes wrong with the resume
Driving a car is dangerous and pointless, if it can be done better by a computer...

You seem to think your rights are infringed if you are prevented from staring at a road and pulling some levers. Well, my rights are infringed if you're allowed to choose to risk my life by driving manually on the same road as me. You don't get to make that choice.

This discussion seems to be unimportant anyway. I am happily convinced that things will turn out the way I want them to when the technology matures. You will not be able to risk my life by manually driving your car on the same road as me and my robot car. And if that makes you feel like less of a man, then maybe you need to re-prioritise what's important to you.
He's posting a lot of comments here, but the previous account got hellbanned some time ago. I guess this one will follow soon.
>that means some people are not doing what they they're best at //

It's a laudable aim to help people do what they enjoy as a career. It's laughably naive to suppose that we're able to have most people do something they're good at and enjoy as a career. That unfortunately is not the way that society is structured.

If education works and people have abilities and interests then who does the mundane and uninteresting jobs?

>a good reason to encourage well-suited women to go into the field //

Why do we have to be sexist about it, why not just encourage well-suited people?
When the Work-Life Scales Are Unequal
What a marvelous piece of work done in explaining different aspects of the game, specially the level generation. And awesome remake :D

Also its really helpful for game programmers to learn from.
Read your comment (and other's) about the PDF filling and got interested into looking at the source.

I think doing it this way is wrong. It's essentially the same thing as putting your code and HTML together in a PHP file for example.

When the format of a PDF file is fixed and must be filled computationally, I'd advise to add PDF fields to the original and fill those by name through API calls instead of using coordinates.

That way, you can hope to write your code once and update the PDF when necessary.

But OK, it's all pretty dumb and maybe not worth a mention at all.
That's an issue with Google Play unfortunately. :/
Weird, I'm in the US and I don't see the email option anywhere on the signup page. Too bad.
>To be clear: many people in start-ups may be wonderful developers and programming gurus, however many of them are missing the fundamental theoretical basis that will take an algorithm to the next level of innovation.

so, I've worked for both big companies, small companies, and startups, and I guess what I'm missing is, what does your headcount have to be for you to have this "fundamental theoretical basis"? When you hire your 50th person, do Smart People knock on your door one morning and give you a book titled "How To Think"? Or is it the 500th person? The 5,000th?
One of the main take-aways (clickable breadcrumb folders) is already present in both Windows and OS X. In Windows, the current path is represented as a series of clickable buttons, including dropdowns to the right of each folder to show their contents. You can also click to the right of the path to convert it back to text form. The new path bar was by far one of my favorite features of Windows 7, and I use it every day at work where I still have to use a Windows PC.

In OS X, you have the path bar, though it's not very obvious that you can double click each path element. You can also right-click or control-click the folder name on the title bar to get a menu of the path hierarchy.

As for the other point, searching paths, I can personally see that being very useful, but most people expect that a search in a file manager will, you know, search for files. This would introduce a jarring discrepancy.
Show HN: Dummy Defense - Instruments of Death
This is a level pack I just launched today for my iPhone game, Dummy Defense. I'm promoting Dummy Defense today with FreeAppADay and it is currently at #31 in Games -> Puzzle.

Here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ZsOB6EkuM

Here's the app store page:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dummy-defense/id460832678?mt=8

I'd be glad to hear your feedback about the game as well as answer any questions regarding the development or marketing efforts. You can get the level pack for free by following this link on your iPhone after you install the game. This link will open the game and unlock the level pack for free:
http://goo.gl/Hd54o
I thought there would be a corridor of never ending planes between north America and Europe. According to the map, there are no transatlantic flights.
the issuer is betting that the applicant won't suffer a
loss, the applicant is betting that he will. An actuary
sets the rate based on his best guess about the
possibility of a claim.

Emphatically: no! The issuer is betting that in the entire group of clients the total loss will be smaller than the rates they set. Almost nobody can ever financially deal with the greatest risk health insurance insures against. Health insurance is almost never about amortizing your own risk. It is about insuring against risks you couldn't possibly deal with otherwise. Almost nobody can pay for a long stay on the IC after an accident, with months of rehabilitation afterwards. When you need the insurance, it's the money of the other clients, that with hindsight never needed the insurance, that pays for your costs.

Of course obligatory health insurance is pure socialism (not in the pure 'political movement' sense of the word, but in the 'common usage' sense of the word, meaning forced sharing of a population's resources for a specific greater good) and thank God for it. I'll take my Western European social democracy over your government any day. I gladly pay taxes to have it this way.
"C is not high level because you don't know C" is not exactly the most cogent of arguments. The rest of it I pretty much agree with, nonetheless the actual definition of "high level" language doesn't change just because you (or I) feel it should, which is why I said it was "technically" high level.
The question is one of motive. If a person saying "we need to make things easy for women who want to do STEM jobs because of an imbalance in the numbers of men and women in these roles" but doesn't agree this is true for things like childcare or nursing then there is a question to answer as to why they don't think the imbalance is important in the later case.

It's not being snarky it's questioning whether the parent is interested in equality of opportunity or discrimination in favour of women. That's an important question in my view.
Yes, there is no right for resting on your past achievements,
there is arguably a fair way of getting advantages secured for a limited amount of time: innovation, adding to others innovations, combining others works, opening new markets.
And the other "unfair" way: patent-abuse, monopolies, cartels, copycats with no added value, lobbying for the gains of a few who are already better off.
Some of that has been made illegal some of it just feels morally wrong.
Basically it comes down to moral norms, which society can turn into laws if considered important enough by a majority.
Its all comes down to finding a balance, economics will never be perfect or fair for all, but I consider it the goal of politics to be getting it closer to that ideal state which should be beneficial to all in the long run.
Knockback.js: Knockout.js magic for Backbone.js
Perhaps I am just an optimist, but wouldn't it be a good time to evaluate everything happening with your business, look for opportunities to succeed, and give 'em a try?

I mean the worst that can happen is it doesn't work.
> Should journalists be allowed to have opinions? If so, when and where — and how — should they be allowed to express them?

How about they start with "in my opinion" or some other obvious marker, and everything else should be assumed to be fact?

> Why can’t we just admit that journalists are human?

Those of us with a bit of experience already know that journalists are "human" and that these transgressions are made, and will read the same story from a bunch of other outlets to compare.

Of course the general public is not forgiving when it's your damn job to overcome the human impulse to be partial. Do we forgive judges for doing the same? I hope not. You've been trained to cope with and recognize your personal biases, and to at least give a best attempt to separate them out and maybe put them to the side.

What's even more frustrating is the "I'm only human" defense when you're not so sure that the manipulation was non-deliberate, to incite an increase in readership. I think there is a reasonable due diligence that can be easily identified as done or not done. If you haven't, then you don't get the benefit of the doubt.
Are sleeps() always necessary in multithreaded programming?
I love this idea.

Is there a reason why you developed this as android app and not as a "normal" mobile website (navigator.geolocation)?
Came here to say just that, also their mobile website is quite amazing too. Best mobile experience I've had so far. Didn't notice any ads.
I totally agree that it is within Apple's legal rights to do what they are doing. I was just saying that it is also my right to both stop being a customer and also to try to talk other people out of buying Apple products.
This reminds me of jimmyr.com which is how I came across reddit/digg/hackernews in the first place. Not sure how I came across jimmyr.com in the first place though :\
I think that's because there are no data for that region - the FAQ mentions that the data is crowdsourced from folks with certain receivers. Although, I can't imagine it'd be hard to simulate the paths based on data from both coasts.
Very good read, bookmarking!
This might become a great transition technology. But leaves many problems unsolved:
1. All the issues surrounding fuel-burning engines OR all the issues surrounding huge and expensive batteries.
2. An inherent lack of energy efficiency. The payload/car-weight ratio is typically 1/10 or worse.
3. Cars are very expensive, they take a lot of space and require roads that take even more space.
4. Cars are not safe.

Driverless cars really only solve (4) and have small advantages in terms of fuel efficiency and congestion.
A network of Driverless taxis should be much cheaper than owning a car, since these cars will be utilized heavily throughout the day. An even better approach would be an automatically dispatched shared-taxi system that would group passengers that want to go to close destinations.

I wonder why there isn't more effort directed towards Personal-Rapid-Transport system. i.e.small electric carts on dedicated lanes (or lines, or rails), with low weight and no battery. Like a packet-switched version of the train system. Such systems can be highly automatic, very energy-efficient and provide convenient rides relatively cheaply. It looks like we have had all the technology required to do it for at least 30 years. It seems that the only thing stopping this type of technology from being developed is that it requires someone with a lot of capital and guts who's not afraid of dealing with a regulatory nightmare. Unfortunately there aren't that many Elon Musks out there.

Here are some specialized PRT systems in use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit#Existing...
Not an expert in typography so I may be wrong, but I'd say it's a modern take on Humanist (also known as Venetian), one of the earliest Roman typeface styles. Here's a good article about this style: http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/06/type-terminology-human.... I'm not sure if it can be classified as such though because it is built to work well on the screen and so has a lot of straight lines, closer to Transitional typefaces like Times New Roman, but even though the overall design is very modern, the feel of it seems to me closer to the Humanist typefaces. For example, the bar on the 'e' is sloping a tiny bit upwards, which is a distinctive characteristic of Humanist typefaces.
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The issue with the oceanic flights is that there are no receiving stations for the ADS-B messages, as these stations are ground based. Therefore, there is no way to receive the position reports to feed into the flight data network.
Why isn't artificial gravity considered a solution to extended periods of microgravity? Just spin the ship at the right speed and have the living quarters on the outer rim.
It's also present in Nautilus, as the article pointed out. It's called "button view".
Give dolphin a try : http://dolphin.kde.org
Feedback..

a) Nice clean UI.

b) Move send/cancel to top or side, away from the word-suggestion-list. I kept cancelling when choosing words from the word list as I typed.

c) Any way to allow me to choose the radius? 21km seems arbitrary. I might want just people on my block to see it, or people in Dallas/Fort Worth (50km away). Obviously there should be an upper limit, but that could also be opened for a price, say for political campaigns.
Furthermore, your PBS example doesn't count: PBS is not a company, they're a non-profit that survives off donations and government funding. If you like their app, you should really consider making a donation.
Generally, unless I'm working on super low level stuff, I'll avoid sleep()'s at all possible. If I find that I need to spinlock (sleep() to avoid race conditions), there's something wrong with my implementation.
And is that what happens? You get same quality code at cheaper prices? Like Wal-Mart gets cheaper made goods from China that last as long as their more expensive domestic counter-parts? Or how Dell has retained it's customer satisfaction ratings by using Indian call-centers?

I think it's been established that when you outsource for cost, you get back a product that cost you more in the long run.

Again, there are exceptions to this, but that's not what we are talking about.
I totally agree. And it sounds like the students knew perfectly well that they were cheating... "[one of the students] said that he also discussed test questions with other students, which he acknowledged was prohibited, but he maintained that the practice was widespread and accepted." Now they are just whining that they got caught ("I'm a Harvard grad, god dammit!").

I went to a small science/engineering school with a very serious honor code, and can assure you there is nothing contradictory about saying "you may use online resources, but do not discuss this test with anyone." It's sad that some Harvard students think their privilege entitles them to ignore the rules.
This post misses one important point: Startups are playgrounds.

You don't need to be the next Facebook or Twitter. You don't even need to be profitable (although we all aim for it). What you need is a team that can execute. Even if it turns out the idea was lame and the startup fails, the team learns a lot. Then they can apply that knowledge at new startups or regular jobs they may take.

And from investors' point of view, most of them have plenty of money - they don't do it just because they want more (if at all), they want to share their expertise, get to know talented people and fill their schedules with activities they enjoy.

I can't imagine, if there would be no investments at all. The investors would be just fine, but the money wouldn't flow. Because of that, there would be too much risk involved and nobody would devote their lives to great ideas. Long term consequences for the whole industry would be bad.
>>I'll admit that journalists are human when someone can show me a journalist. It's been a long time since I've seen one doing the job.

A thousand times this. Recently one of our news organizations published an article (on their online edition) about how Samsung paid Apple the 1 billion in coins delivered with 30 trucks. That tells you every god damned thing about so called journalists today. Fuck those guys.
Personally, I didn't take it that way at all. My team interacts very often with another team based in India. It has nothing to do with outsourcing, that's another location of our global company. So, to me, the term "offshore" in this context brings to mind problems of location and time difference, but certainly not some image of a cheap outsourcing shop. The parent post could have just as well meant it this way; in fact, it seems likely.
So you get a set of known stable monogamous couples to go. Or one big polyamourous family.
But what good is journalism if people don't read it or believe it? Did you catch the game last night? Dancing with the Stars? American Idol? My cat pix on Facebook? Who wants boring bad news where there are so many distractions to be had?

Probably the best "mainstream" journalism is coming from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and they're already preaching to the choir.

It makes me so sad.
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How to Hang Yourself with Statistics
It is. From the article: "A rotating spacecraft would create artificial gravity that would keep astronauts in tip-top shape."
> People take a lot for granted

I would say the average user doesn't understand correctly a good 70% of what's on his screen. Programmers sure do take a lot for granted.

Edit: missing "user".
The high level problem is that compilers take the memory layout of data as given and punt on optimizing the
memory behaviour of programs. Partly the fault of languages
that aren't amenable to dynamic data layout optimizations
but it doesn't seem a very active area of research either.
Impressive Wipeout clone in html/js created by a single guy
Invisible Bike Helmet
Bringing Black Talent to Silicon Valley
Random Ruby Tricks: Struct.new
That couldn't possibly go wrong.
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* Extensive experience building RESTful APIs

* Built complex systems like recommendation engine, ad targeting systems (big data)

Languages:
C++, Erlang, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Pig.

Databases:
Cassandra, MySQL, Riak.

Frameworks:
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email in profile, prefer 3 or 6 months contract.
also, if e.g. the algos for the rank of the articles would be known exactly, it would make it substentially easier to game them...
That's interesting. What were you doing with your PHP4 classes that didn't run in PHP5?
Is it possible to have an invitation too? colt450 on Gmail.
Thank you roryokane!!
The problem here is not that the journalist is human, had an opinion, or has shown a little emotion, the problem is that he mindlessly bashed subjects of his reports revealing bias that is most likely crippling his ability to properly do the job and apparently influencing published materials.
I haven't personally been in the Valley recently, but...

"Startup" in the old Silicon Valley used to mean companies with serious technology like Amiga or Apple or Illustra. The staff used to be PhDs and sometimes professors from Stanford & Berkeley EECS. "Startup" did not used to mean "3 marketing dweebs and a website".

Valley interviews used to be "Super Saturday" 6-hour exams with theory questions for junior positions. Startups had more rigorous requirements than big companies; BigCos would at least look at entry-level resumes, Startups not so much.

I have trouble believing London's Shoreditch is any kind of "Silicon Valley".
Pythy  Having it all now: Pythy syntax for C++11
Good technic, there is a quote somewhere that sums up your strategy, which goes something like:

"As long as you do not speak, the word is prisoner of your mouth, once spoken, you are prisoner of your word"

Wise nthnclrk is wise :)
Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Cambodia
Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL
Computing power: A deeper law than Moore's?
>Yahoo fired its former Washington bureau chief on Wednesday for a joking comment he made during a video broadcast from the Republican convention. Isn’t it about time we admitted that journalists have emotions and opinions, rather than expecting them to be impartial robots?

The worst is the hypocrisy of it. All major political news stories have ten tons of hidden agendas, prejudices and interests they cater to, but when a guy makes a joking comments it's suddenly too much...
It disgusts me to see that kind of response. It's a mental illness, yes. It can be disruptive, yes. But what has he done to you to deserve a nasty response like that?

Schizophrenia patients are rarely put in long term inpatient care any more - whether voluntary or not - in any case, because it is rarely necessary.
REST vs SOAP Adoption - A Perspective
>The problem here is not that the journalist is human, had an opinion, or has shown a little emotion, the problem is that he mindlessly bashed subjects of his reports revealing bias that is most likely crippling his ability to properly do the job and apparently influencing published materials.

Yes, whereas cunningly (instead of "mindlessly") bashing subject of your reports gets you promoted.

Fact is, almost all news stories have an agenda, and all newspapers cater to various interests.
^ Yeap. This. I was mainly trying to share a problem solving technique that's been working for me. I did look up Wikipedia for an explanation and linked to it. It was a pretty decent explanation with credible research sources. I'll make it more obvious that it isn't some sort of scientific self-quote.

Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for backing me up.
Like other people here, I have also created a resume that uses the Github API. It's nothing special, just an example of how easy it is to make something like this. https://github.com/wildlyinaccurate/resume
Second (third?) both these points. Btw, I remember Alan Kay telling in one of his articles, that he often got his best ideas while taking shower.
I personally suspect this is due to the embryo-like mental state a person quickly falls into when a) in (physical and acoustic) isolation from the outer world and b) surrounded by a ~fluid medium.
I think the difference between the parent post and the grandparent post is experience with "outsourced to overseas" code.

Having worked extensively with outsourced code (4+ years) I can tell you without a doubt the vast majority is poor quality crap, more so than "insourced code" by far. But... Everyone produces bad, buggy code at times.