skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of a "traditional" lab setting...I don't see a conversation about research on the "job" here.

I'm curious how some of you in a startup and non-startup handle employees doing research. I'll give a quick example and then propose a personal problem for those who want to skip my dribble. ;)

EXAMPLE: I've held various levels of IT positions at various companies. Great. At times, you need to do more than just read a quick article or blog post, you need to do some serious reading (and testing) if you are doing some major changes. At times, this reading was met with dirty looks or snide remarks from upper management, but I was lucky 90% of the time and my immediate boss would back me up. For clarification, I would also spend hours reading (and testing) at home.

I understand the thought of not paying someone in corporate to read, but at some point, I think it should be reasonable to allow employees to read on the job. How do you police it? That's a different conversation.

(unless you want to read personal dribble you can stop here)

Personal anecdote: in two different jobs I became the "go to" research person. In one instance, I stopped coding, but I kept writing algorithms. Nothing at all fancy. But my teammates loved it. One specific colleague and I worked together regularly to come up with faster and cleaner ways to do some complex business logic in our web applications. I'm not much of a sports person, but everyone else was...my nickname was "special teams" and they would call me in where there was a problem.

Sure, he could have done this on his own, but I worked better as a generalist, a problem solver. I do not like coding for work, I love doing it on the side. I was in heaven, so was he. Clients were happy.

The problem? There are not many jobs, at least that I can find, where I can say "Yeah, I don't want to code, I just want to be your 'special teams' guy." I mention this to say, be careful where research takes you. I might suggest that you let it improve your skills or go full-research route. Sitting in limbo between the two isn't pretty.
Making me enter payment info to try it out makes this a non-starter for me.

There's not enough information on the main page as to how it actually works or who is behind for me to be comfortable just plugging my credit card into a random site.

I like the concept, though, and would probably pay for something like this if there were more details on how it works. Right now, I have SSL/unlimited message archive/unlimited connections by using screen + irssi and a cheap (less than $12/mo) VPS.
what i find interesting is the disruption mobile/ tablets are causing. If you're a security company, what do you sell to a tablet user? who buys security software for an ipad?
I hate working in an office, I don't know why I've been trying to find a small space to rent myself.

So far I'm loving working remotely when I can get the peace to do so - we have a 1 year old and my soon-to-be wife is out Monday-Friday. There's nothing better than making money while sitting in your house coat :-)
This Blogger Got 50,000 Visitors in His First Month
I just interviewed this guy. Killer strategy, to say the least.
The winbeta article you've linked to is a repost of this article:
http://microsoft-news.com/windows-8-overtake-android-web-pre...

This completely ignores mobile android use!
It's basically comparing desktop Android (Tablets) with Windows 8.

StatCounter doesn't publish web traffic os data across mobile and desktop, but if you look at overall mobile vs. desktop, it's 86.7% vs. 13.3% [1]

If you look at the data for the start of the graph:

Android has 31% of mobile [2] (0.133 * .31 = 0.041, or 4% of the overall mobile+desktop)

Android also has 0.64% of desktop [3] (0.867 * 0.0064 = 0.0055, or 0.5% of the overall)

So Android has 4.5% of Mobile + Desktop

While Win8 has 0.35% of desktop [3] (0.867 * 0.0035 = 0.003, or 0.35% overall)

so it's 4.5% for Android vs. 0.35% for Win8

For the end of the period in the graph, Win8 has risen to 0.71% or 0.61% overall (Android will have stayed the same at 4.5%).

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-daily-201210...

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-daily-20121021-20121...

[3] http://gs.statcounter.com/chart.php?bar=1&statType_hidde...
Yes, but effectively nobody has ever heard of them. I've had to train a lot of both my local QA and devs to do this properly.
The fact that most of the time market leaders resist cannibalizing the main source of their income is well known. The reasons are complex and connected to the nature of large human organizations. And it is also why most truly disruptive innovation is driven by smaller companies.
True, the physically addressable memory is "only" 256TB but the virtual space is still 64 bits. The point in time when the 256TB becomes a problem is when your working set (stuff resident in memory) is ideally more than 256TB. We've got mostly 96GB machines and those are modestly hard to exhaust. I don't think even a 1TB physical memory machine would be exhaustible with our current data sets.

Even today, reading in a 32GB index shard from SSD still takes a couple of minutes.
I like prismatic, but it doesn't increase _that_ kind of serendipitous finds.

I follow mostly techie and economics topics, and I have never seen a fashion article. Heck, I'd consider it a bug if I did :)

(I do not think that is the job prismatic should be doing either)
Android-enabled car radios sound like a nice idea :) .

The chinese MP3 car radio I used to have was pretty limited, I'm hoping for something like that for the masses.

Maybe I just need a pod/connection for my smartphone, not really a radio.
... especially if it's a BYOD bring your own device, owned by the employee.
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I am sorry to say, but no. It's how I actually write :-(
Good luck. Depending on where you live, there are now some good options for computers with Linux installed.
Its interesting to see YC going after such a risky ideas. Perhaps its just a sign of huge cohones, which is good, or maybe just a pure desperation? I mean, they hit jackpot with AirBNB and decided to invested, despite the fact the co-founder was or still is on FBI scamers list [1] and he ran his scheme off of government servers that you and I had to paid for in tax-dollars.

But aside this, I get the deception here that they don't get pricing directly from Geico, but rather they calculate the price per Geico per State (if that is really true, because what stops them from harvesting the data off of a carrier website anyways and switch algorithm just in case they get subpoena or something - can you see a similar pattern of questionable legality of business practices with AirBNB?).

But the issue remains: what stops Geico from requesting their name to be removed from said website? After all, Geico is a protected trademark, and if Geico can prove that this website was providing incorrect information in regards to their rates, then they can claim that said misleading information is harming their business. To me, its a straightforward quick court case.

[1] http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...

Side note: its really sad to think YC would go after such a business idea. Whats next? YC-founded youporn version 2.0??

EDIT: I never treated hackernews as a popularity contest. I always stay behind my word even if it may hurt someones feelings. I knew I will get heavily downvoted (which is fine) since YC is investing into this idea, but perhaps when you do so, maybe you can point out where I am being wrong, instead of just clicking down-arrow. That's kind of covardishy, if you ask me. :)
I've been thinking about this lately, with regard to my own privacy policy.

I was thinking something to the effect "I will make all data I save that references your account or IP available to you through the following portal" - I of course, can't do it yet, as I haven't built the portal or figured out how to separate the data, but I think it's a neat solution to some of the problems I have (e.g. I really want to start doing console logging on VPSs 'cause it gives me a wealth of data when someone says "something was wrong with my VPS last night" - but so far I haven't (I do log physical consoles, just 'cause it's impossible to deal with hardware otherwise) due to privacy concerns.)
Colour is a terrible visual cue because colour perception is heavily relative to the viewer. Strong visual signposting is more apt (hence why playing with underlining should not be abused).
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Interesting read. Realistically, to "know all the cards in online poker games" wouldn't you also have to reverse engineer how they map the random number to a card?

You would get a jack of hearts, not an integer between 1 and 52, right? or does the exploit somehow work for arbitrary patterns as well?
I'm sorry to hear that. Here is a page about us and who is behind it: https://www.ircrelay.com/about

A high level overview of how it works: When you sign up, we provision a private ZNC installation on EC2 for you. It is multi-tenant, but we leverage various mechanisms for security: passwords are one-way hashed, each ZNC process runs as a separate unix user for each IRCRelay user, file permissions are such that no other ZNC user can read another users config even if there was an exploit, etc.

As for the payment: We only wanted to sign up people who were serious about using the service, and asking for payment details up front is a way to do this. All payments are done through stripe, and we don't see the CC details, ever. Your card is not charged until after the 30 day trial, and we send a warning email a few days prior so you can cancel your account if you're not happy.

But thanks for checking it out!
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> Search for a string in all revisions of entire git history

The example they show can be shortened by using xargs:

git rev-list --all | xargs -n1 git --no-pager grep -F "search string"

And here it is as an alias that you can add to your .gitconfig:

grepall = "!f() { git rev-list --all | xargs -n1 git --no-pager grep -F \"$1\"; }; f"
No, you are mixing things up here. commit is a local operation.
These estimates of security should be considered an upper bound, not a lower bound or average. In other words,

> If the time that it will take to break the encryption by brute force is significantly longer than your expected remaining lifespan

....just because we don't know about a vulnerability in SHA-3 today doesn't mean that we won't in ten years. SHA-1 and SHA-2 were once thought to be secure, and they may yet be even more broken than we realize.

Furthermore, that also makes a major assumption about computing hardware. Particularly with the (possible) advent of quantum computing and the possibilities that large-scale quantum computing would provide, I think it's impossible for anybody to do more than speculate about the future like that.
I've been using the Android UI editor in IDEA 12 EAP for quite some time and it's been really pleasing to use, especially for a first release of such a complicated component.

[OT] It is, however, very stupid and frustrating that an IDE has to recreate all the Android drawing and layout engine just to show a static view of what your screen will end up looking like. Compared to the experience of web development where you can edit the living DOM model and see the changes in real time because there's no difference between coding time and running time, the Android UI experience feels very arcane :(
Great post. As someone who works in a different field of science, one bit got me thinking:

>Like any academic community, the work within NLP had become largely an internal dialogue about approaches to problems the community had itself reified into importance.

I would argue that this is an issue of goals. If you're motivated by the application of research results to solve practical problems (as the author is), then this is a valid criticism. But for me science is also self evidently valuable — understanding the principles that govern the universe is a noble goal irrespective of finding opportunities to apply them.

Perhaps the field plays a role as well. In all sciences one's goal is to discover the rules and facts that govern a particular system. In the natural sciences, this system happens to be the world in which we live, whereas in the formal sciences (math / CS), the system is often an artificial one of human construction. In the natural sciences, the importance of the rules you discover is self evident (they govern our own lives and capabilities!), whereas in the formal sciences, its more necessary to justify the importance of your discoveries (with, say, practical applications) because the importance of the system you're studying isn't as self-evident.

This isn't to say that the natural sciences are in some way superior; just a speculation about the attitudes/motivations of academics in different fields.
I thought I could write any kind of code
Neat. However, installing ZNC on your own an Amazon EC2 micro instance is cheaper.
I kind of hope that "HMHP" learns of this letter from "Baffled Boss" and decides to GTFO.

I've had more than one "Baffled Boss". (While I was not simply dismissive of process, neither was I a slave to it.) In retrospect, there is only one solution: Find a different boss.

I realize this will sound harsh. Maybe I'm over-reacting, at the moment. But looking back, the longer such friction continued, the more problematic it became.

I had one boss who was smart enough to kind of figure things out, and after a rocky start we ended up getting along. Another boss who didn't understand what I did, technically, but with whom I established fairly strong mutual trust. (He in turn came through for me significantly in terms of management.)

But then, I've had some "Baffled Bosses". They simply aren't batting in your league. And eventually, they will cut you one way or another in pursuit of their own career and/or sense of well-being.
In the employer/employee relationship, I think the balance of power has tipped too far towards the employer. I'm supposed to show up at their office for eight hours a day, five days a week, fighting serious traffic both ways, which saps a lot of my energy. Leaving for any reason other than lunch is frowned on.

I agree this is usually the case, but I don't think it's tipped towards that: it's been like that since at least the 19th century, and is basically what mass employment in companies looks like. If anything, the employer's control over working habits is somewhat more relaxed now than it used to be, especially in tech. Programmers in 1960s IBM had to follow dress codes, and had to be in the office at 8am, whereas most tech companies today are pretty relaxed about both dress codes and shifted work schedules (e.g. 10am-6pm).
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How I confirm mobile numbers with Android
I think it's a bit of a shame that they're playing the game on the same terms as the other car companies. You're absolutely right that each model seems to target a particular "class" of cars.

I think a little more adventurous designs would have been great. For instance I think it would have been perfect if they made a Tesla land-yacht in the style of 70's cars. Big, heavy (lots of room for extra batteries), nice cushy suspension, lots of power, a super comfortable ride.

Disclaimer: proud owner of a 86 Crown Vic.
This is just supposition, but I believe that it is also periodically increased. It was around 200 at one point, I think.
> A good investment is a good investment.

Only if you have the money to invest, as opposed to keeping it to cover your tax bill.
Exactly, why store all the data in your super-expensive top-secret warehouse, when Facebook and Google will keep it for you for free?

Free == didn't come out of the NSA's budget
give "bad ideas" more thought

Paul Graham wrote about this just a few months ago. It's worth a read: http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
Here's a bit less cluttered one..

http://imgur.com/rhZQZ

With the search for class/file/symbol navigation it is usually possible to live in this mode most part of the day :-)
--bare ensures you don't have a working directory. It is the bare .git directory only. You don't want people pushing to your working directory. Simple as that.
It's Not Always a Narrative
I've had small parcels shipped by air from China (eBay, mostly). They typically arrive in less than a week. They could drop ship directly from China to the customer.

My point was, the cost of shipping by air versus hiring an American worker is probably a wash. I suspect they do their custom work in SF because it's a token gesture. Sort of local-washing, versus green-washing.
not to mention the css alone for an instagram profile page weighs in at 400k.

edit: well, it was 400k when they launched a few weeks ago, its about 250k now... still huge
The old boil a frog slowly metaphor.

I think this myth was debunked, interestingly enough
And zealotry.
AppCode EAP got dark theme too if you're an Obj-C kind-of-guy
Well, for ARM devices, Microsoft doesn't allow OEMs to provide a way to change the keys.

For what it's worth, I think Microsoft are doing this for the security reasons they give. But I think they were well aware of the hurdle it would present to Linux distributions when they chose to do it.
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How about using LaunchSky to verify LaunchSky idea itself? I would be interested in seeing the result report. Until then, thanks but no thanks.
Which ones do you think have potential? I'm asking because I'm on the list and would like to know what you think.
This makes a lot of sense. I'll see about tweaking the wording to encourage more "doing" and less "don't-ing".
Yes - example.com

For testing emails, don't use foo@bar.com (that's a real email address!) or anything else that you can come up with. RFC 2606 guarantees that those domains be reserved for test/placeholder use.
Really depends on what you actually do as a company
" demonstrate a value, and charge for that value. Sell the app for a competitive cost in the app store. "

The value is the stats and the other premium services they are trying out.

"It was nicely packaged and a joy to read. "

Isn't this the value that you hoped to receive?

$5/month isn't much to support a service you like. I don't know why you are complaining. Especially since they are offering you real value.
Depending on what you need you could buy a Chromebook for $200-250. I was considering getting one, and then installing linux on an SD card (assuming this works on the Samsung Chromebook, have only vaguely looked into it).

If you are into games and are looking to run Steam, I suppose you want more horsepower. I usually buy stuff off of Newegg and build my own if it's not a laptop.
It's easy to forget what the iPad looked like when it first came out.

It was roundly mocked for merely being a larger iPod touch, and the same criticism that is the thesis of this post was levied against it. Industry experts claimed it had no place, and posited that Apple was inventing a need simply to push a product into.

Over time, people found and invented new uses for their iPads, and they came to realize that they can serve legitimate needs and desires.

This article is as myopic as those experts once were. Perhaps the Surface will be complete failure. Perhaps it will catch on, and people will invent new uses that make them compelling. Reading tea leaves and slamming Microsoft are fun to do, but this is hardly convincing.
What do you mean by sustainable? Plenty of things are capable of being done, but people happen to prefer alternatives. An example might be constructing every building in the US on stilts. It's more expensive and wastes some resources but you can still manage to run farms and cities that way.
You can have minimal governments, and going in that direction often seems like the right choice. Like most people I would be happy to cut 50% of all government spending, the problem is we don't want to cut the same 50%.

Take the US government remove the Air-force and you still have a functional government. In fact, we would still have the largest and most powerful Air force due to the Navy. But, that does not mean the Air force is worthless or even that taken in it's entirety it's a waste of money. And a lot of people want the Airforce which in a democracy means a great deal.

The real question is not how you can make a smaller government, but how you can have a better society and those are not always the same thing.
From kidnapping and bribery to insurance comparison: Leaky
Do you have ideas for how academia can be brought back into touch, or is it a lost cause?
It couldn't be dangerous because it doesn't produce any quality software, instead, it is just annoying, trying to make things more complicated for people, because it cannot produce any good software, but still can collect fees.)
Are you suggesting an option to add a few different links to Wikipedia or a similar resources that were used instead of the book? If I understand you correctly, I like that idea a lot.
"If you design for the web and then port to mobile, you will find that it is really hard to fit your UI onto the small screen."

Then don't try make it fit. Try designing for it separately, since it's an entirely different experience.

If you're trying to work out which order to design in, this is really bad advice, as it isn't one-fits-all.

Think of it this way: should the majority of usage happen when we're out and about (native mobile), or when we're sat at a desk (full web)? or do you want to do both in the shortest amount of time (responsive web)?
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That's a debugging view on a really small window. The bottom panes only show up while you're debugging and the left pane is your project browser, which you can show or hide with Ctrl-1 or Cmd-1 depending on your OS.

I use it at 1680x1050 on my rMBP and it's fantastic.
Why would dashes in phone numbers be better than dots?
Ironic that our iOS app got rejected today for “mature themes”.
I think the aim was to show how the dark look looked across various windows and panes.
The problem? Anonymous does the exact same thing. They are no different.
I love the idea of this, but the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost when I can get a VPS for less.

EDIT: that said, I do normally only use 2 networks, and I'm fine with the first tier cost. It's just those occasional times I need to connect to a third network. Also I'm not sure how much 10000 messages is, but I imagine idling in a freenode channel could tear through that pretty quickly.
Becoming Better Communicators
I believe I read once that the threshold increases as membership does.
Yeah, this really can't compete with irssi running in screen in some datacenter. Even less configuration involved.
This is very true, and actually had a strong influence on Leaky - especially in the early days. I spent a lot of time in the UK (and actually spoke at a price aggregation conference in London), and there are a few structural reasons for why the markets evolved so differently and have made the US much more resilient to adopting comparison services. Suffice to say, we think that's changing.
Oh thank goodness. I'll hold off on setting up the relief fund then :)