skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the problems is that a significant fraction of today's "leadership" views one's willingly "peeling potatoes" as one's self-identifying as a "loser". They then treat those people accordingly. [I'll include or even call out particularly the "potato peeler's" middle-management, here, who are often effectively his or her leadership.]

"Peeling potatoes" is, effectively, a collaboration. When one side doesn't hold up their end of the bargain, the other eventually learns that "peeling potatos" is a road to nowhere.

It can also be a matter of your socio-economic group. For an ambitious immigrant, "peeling potatoes" is perceived as a fine endeavor. For one coming out of a position assumed to confer entitlement, "peeling potatos" can be perceived as a failing.

TL;DR: Always be aware of the -- and your -- context.
sure, relative growth is great but how does that compare with absolute downloads metrics for download stores?
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Nice job.
I think this simplifies a bit the process, but I'm not sure it is enough to charge a monthly fee.
Most of the troubles of web scraping will still be present (like determining what elements to pull from a page).
I'm new to web scraping but I thought I'd give my 2 cents.
I personally feel that things have become a bit stale on the hardware side all around, even with the new Surface release.

I'd like to see in-device projectors soon, but is there a more useful device addition to be had? Wireless charging, maybe?
How much pressure is in the 5lb CO2 tank when it's full? Duct tape probably wouldn't be strong enough.

The canisters look aluminum, so welding would probably be difficult - aluminum is supposedly very difficult to weld, and welding different types of metal is very difficult as well. The easiest way might be to put the canister's nozzle on a tube.
Do you worry about the CO2 not being food-grade (e.g. contaminated with lubricants or whatever), or is that not an issue?
Thanks for confirming that. It seemed like something you'd hear. And given their views, I get how they'd come to that.
Amazon launches mobile A/B Testing SDK for Amazon Appstore developers
SLF4J basically won, IMO. Barring extremely specialized uses, there's not hugely compelling reasons to use anything else than slf4j-api as the logging interface to your backend of choice, I think. So there is a good default choice, and the "proper logging API" exists.

Flume uses it, logback uses it, log4j is compatible with it, and it's compatible with pretty much everything, or you can write your own logger however you like.

P.S. You sound really pissed about this. Do you have personal experience with logging frameworks?
Any welding supply shop you might go to is going to have food-grade CO2. You can also easily get it from scientific lab suppliers or any number of other places, and I've shopped at homebrew stores that have refill programs (you drop off your empty tank, and once a week the welding shop picks 'em up, refills 'em, and returns them to the store). Food-grade CO2 is dirt cheap and readily available.
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When you say nothing do you mean nothing special, or do you mean that you can't access G+ at all from google apps? Because on both of my apps accounts, google+ works just fine.
I don't use speaker notes as a script to read. I use it to list additional bullet points.

- history
- story re: jason @ costco
- importance of $foo

would be cues to me that I need to hit on the history of this slide, tell an anecdote, and really bring home the importance of $foo. No need to put exact words. Just where I should be going on this presentation if I get flummoxed.
I'm very curious to know how they would determine how much Google should pay, and how to distribute that money to the different publishers.

Anyway, I think that Google, if the law is passed, should refuse to pay and stop publishing news from publishers from Germany (there are always still Austrian and Swiss newspapers for German news).
I think a lot of people just like the clean, minimal look. That's why they install the WP theme, not because they're jealous of whatever artificial scarcity/demand hack is actually driving the original Svbtle network. Is there really a reputation boost by virtue of being an actual member?
Well isn't that a very positive comment.
At which point do you see a link to a library that someone took time to code and polish and decide "now would be a good moment to shit all over it"??
I like Google but I'm starting to have similar concerns. Google could possibly become dominant search, mobile, social, browsers and more. I'm not afraid (yet) that Google will abuse their power but that kind of monopoly would be unhealthy...
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Splunk as a Backend: Nulunk & Rulunk
Only one part of this review really matters, and that's that the "cola" and the "energy drink" both suck, read: your kids will refuse to drink them.

Money wasted.
I should have been clearer. I've never been "good" at using Excel. So far, I've really only done things that I would think you could do in Excel. Might be a touch overkill, but I'm not sure. I am curious which data manipulation items you are referring to. Any good pointers?

I am going through the Machine Learning for Hackers book, though. So far it has been interesting. I guess I never realized that machine learning is essentially statistics. (Or am I looking at that incorrectly, too?)
AT&T to offer personalized video bills
I'd also like to point out that 100 million is a pittance of an investment for such a dramatic move for such a large company. It's really a no-brainier at that price.
Anyone that lives in state with medical marijuana can go to their local growshops and often get all the C02 stuff there. Where I live there are more grow shops than C02/welding supply stores. Just another tip.
From Zero to $20Million: A Founder's Story of Success
In this interview, I'm joined by Jeremy Shepherd, founder and CEO of Pearl Paradise, the #1 online pearl store in the world. The reviews my subscribers gave me on this interview were awesome, so I thought I'd share it here.
I personally go through an average of a litre per day, and after I became hooked, I was really worried that they wouldn't be in business for long (often one off companies like this don't last) so it's nice to see they are doing well.
If they succeed they will simply remove themselves from the discourse and accelerate their obsolescence.
I want to be able to say that I assuredly KNOW what my computer is doing at all times.

There was a time when JavaScript wasn't minified/obfuscated, and the libraries weren't so huge as to require expert knowledge of exactly what was happening under the hood.

I think your claim, that disabling JavaScript is merely invalid snobbery, is as silly as you think my idea of "crippling my experience (and by corollary everyone else's)" is.

You make the assumption that I want the world to bend to my will, but I don't. All I'm pointing out is that the rich experience doesn't degrade gracefully, to a no-script experience. It doesn't even tell you that you need JS enabled, you should just know that already.

I don't mind page refreshes, and I'd put forward that the type of person browsing without scripts enabled would already notice that every other page behaves that way, when scripts are turned off.

If you're going to take the time to emulate the behavior of a statistics application in JavaScript, what's it take to also ensure that users get a similar experience when not enabling scripts? If a user is STUCK with an inferior browser/experience, it's not always their fault. The point I'd like make is that the answer is generally "tough. you're SOL. go get a better computer, and figure it out. try again, from somewhere else."

You make the assumption that I'm being a snob, but as part of testing out any new website, I'll explore how it reacts with no styles, no images and no scripts. You tell me I want an inferior solution, and then call me the snob? How does that work? We'll probably never see eye-to-eye on these tidbits of taste-making, but maybe I'd accept your criticism a little more willingly if you called me pedantic, a paranoiac, or a browser-Luddite. Either way, I'm not taking your contrary opinion personally, but my side of the coin deserves some representation on this site.

I know my opinions about flashy user experience go against the grain, and clash with the opinions of the JavaScript clique here, but I think this kind of criticism belongs in the conversation, even if it gets shouted down. Especially for bigger, well-established learning websites like oreilly.com.
google glasses...
The sound quality of the voices for the two example dubbed videos is poor, in my opinion. There's a slight echo or white noise over the voice.
Yeah, I realized that mistake. I'm glad I was able to escape relatively cheaply. It could have been much worse.
I was able to find this with a little Googling (no idea on the truthfulness of the article), but I could swear there was another article listing the iPad Mini as one of the last products he worked on:

http://www.slashgear.com/steve-jobs-secretly-very-receptive-...
The jewelry company I work for has sold its manufactured profits wholesale for thirty years, but has started selling direct. The profit margins are, of course, higher.
7 Unconventional Leaders Who Are Changing The World
Running multiple python processes in a single Heroku dyno using foreman
The article doesn't seem to recognize there is a distinction between TDD, having unit tests, and having automated tests. Personally, I've used all three approaches, and think each has its place. As nearly as I can tell, anyone who says one approach fits every programming project must not have a very broad experience with different sorts of projects.
The thing that tzs was responding to is different than the khanna memo, which is here:

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/an-anti-ip-turn-for-t...

tzs is probably correct, but he was actually responding to this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4862752

(His comment is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4862752)

So long story short, even if tzs is correct I don't think that means that khanna is wrong, as his interpretation of the constitution doesn't depending on the 'sciences' part in any way. In fact, the way he is using 'sciences' seems to be consistent with the way tzs defines it.
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Women don't care as much about quality because they're more concerned about fashion. There's no point in buying something that will last 15 years if it'll be out of style next year. Thus, the more successful approach right now is that of very up to date fashions combined with mediocre quality and sold at an affordable price. This is what Zara is doing so well and why its founder is one of the richest men in the world. Other examples are H&M and Forever 21.
You want second-order smart. Not just experienced in the technologies you happen to use (as OP alleges), and not just generally quick learning (first-order smart). You want introspective and seasoned second-order learners: people who've learned how to learn, even under adverse circumstances, how to figure out what's worth learning, and how to tell when you've learned enough that the right next step is to start doing.

One of the most useful things I've gotten out of my machine learning study and work on MOOCs is second-order learning. I've learned a lot about how I learn, especially under the added and somewhat artificial difficulty of having a full-time job. Very valuable second-order insights.

"Gets things done" is ridiculous. It's a good size-up for very junior level developers, but beyond that... you want "does the right thing". The idea that there's a large number of perfectionists or lazy people who are constitutionally incapable of "delivering" is nonsense. When to stop perfecting and optimizing is one of many important skills, but not a hard one to learn.

So... let's make it, second-order smart and does the right thing.
Apparently you can buy adapters: http://www.criticalpaintball.com/SodaMod-p/sodastream-sodamo...

(edit: better link is http://co2doctor.com/freedomoonespec.htm )
My wild speculation:

Steve Ballmer is a sales guy at heart, and it's why he's been able to survive a decade of middling stock performance and strategic missteps: He must have close connections to Microsoft's largest enterprise customers, and were he to be fired, it would be an invitation for those customers to reevaluate their commitment to Microsoft's platforms.

When he walks into a big customer's boardroom, he must be furious every time he sees some C-level using an iOS or Android device. He knows that if he can't sell "Windows everywhere" to these users, he's doomed to keep reading headlines about 5,000-user iPad-based IT projects and the "post-PC era".

He didn't need to wait to see how the market would respond to Windows 8 and devices like the Surface. These users could tell him immediately, perhaps even before the product launched, and I would guess that their feedback was discouraging. If at the same time their IT departments were making noise about sticking with XP or 7, that would have been the last nail in Sinofsky's coffin.
I suspect trackpad vs trackpoint is one of those whichever you get used to first things. I use a USB thinkpad keyboard for my desk and have multiple times went hours before noticing my mouse was not plugged in. It somehow psychologically maps 1:1 with a mouse.
I just got it installed and quite like it. It may not give you interactive search capabilities, but it DOES support DuckDuckGo, and the other "elvi" are quite handy. I now have a quick way of instantly opening Lisp, Java and other language docs in the terminal, and jumping straight to wikipedia articles in w3m.
Again you push the idea that he's fully sincere and mentally grounded in any fears of "framing" and "assassination". He is not a well man from his writings/behaviors and will hopefully find the care he needs in prison or elsewhere if not found guilty.
Lessons in Prepping for a Y Combinator Interview
Yes, this is a strange article. The reality is that MS were way behind the tablet curve, having plugged the same old tiny buttons, traditional Windows, use a stylus, furrow for years and years.

Bolting Metro onto Windows 7 is likely to please very few, least of all corporate customers.

If Sinofsky is as bad as painted, could he really have turned around the Longhorn mess, salvaged Vista, then reshaped the organization to do a fantastic job with Windows 7?
Should Apple Buy Flipboard? This lad thinks so.
> Ask instead, "was this a politically effective policy memo?"

Exactly, Republicans' strongest constituency (rich white guys[1]) don't care all that much, if at all, about details of copyrights, something that costs their households a few hundred dollars a year at most. On the other hand, people who care either already lean libertarian enough to vote red, or will never, ever even consider voting for a Republican.

A senator will get more votes going door to door than by pushing through any reform like that.

[1] http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2012/11/2012-electoral-maps-by...
Yeah, that's an awesome point. I've heard there are also paintball shops that will do CO2 refills, although I haven't tried it myself.
I would watch Steve's Stanford commencement speech if I were you. In it he talked about only being able to 'connecting the dots' in his life looking backwards not forwards. This idea that he planned his time at Apple is just revisionist delusion on your part.

That said there is nothing wrong with Apple thinking more short term.
I like the separation of folks that manage: prospecting for leads (sales development reps), following up with inbound leads (market response reps), closing deals (account executives), and maintaining accounts (account managers)

It fits my experience of the different skill sets necessary.
This is not HN related at all (unless you count the guy's shameless promotion of his startup)

Also the math is way off, and exaggerated to the highest possible degree.
This is a hard pill for people to swallow, but I think even among the larger engineering crowd copyright reform is a fringe issue. Remember, software companies were hard-chargers in the push for DRM, TPM (remember that?), etc. Copy protection in games, software dongles for high-end software, etc. Most traditional software engineers still strongly support copyright--it's the thing that keeps people from "stealing" their products.

It's a subset of the software engineering crowd, the one that works in web space for companies that make money off other peoples' creative work, that sees copyright reform as an important problem. And I think there is a total lack of acknowledgement among this crowd that maybe there are more stakeholders in this issue than just themselves or the big evil music/movie companies. I think there is also a denial of how much certain web companies really depend on other peoples' copyrighted material for their viability (cough Youtube cough).
He was also running against an incumbent.
Yeah, I don't see it. Liberals are generally in favor of improving and expanding the safety net, whereas fiscal conservatism typically espouses the opposite. Likewise for issues related to women and minorities, or income inequality; liberals generally favor more government intervention rather than less.

Certainly there's a lot that liberals and libertarians have in common (drug war, religious freedom, wars), but they have very, very different principles and premises motivating their policy positions.
Some more about Alex Okrent:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-14/news/chi-obama...

BTW, if you Google his name, you'll find a large number of articles from right-wing sites that allege there was foul play...which I guess is the kind of BS that we have to expect in partisan politics. What is surprising to me is that the OP talks about how Okrent's death has made him more conscious about health, but Okrent did not look at all like the stereotype of unhealthy. I wonder if the heart attack was related to some congenital heart disease?
These devices are boring because they just keep getting better without really changing at their core. So what would make them better? Software that just keeps getting better without changing at its core. It's like saying you're bored with the Xbox 360 so you're just waiting for the new Madden to come out.

I'm not seeing the point of this piece. It doesn't offer anything in the way of information. It's a fluff piece that can be boiled down to "things are going good, so let's just keep on moving forward" with the call to action of "hey mobile devs, have you ever thought of developing for mobile devices?"

I would even argue that the big innovation isn't coming from software next, it's coming from hardware. Notice that the big talent is switching back to hardware? Just because Apple's profit margins don't push them to make another huge innovation doesn't mean that no one is innovating.
Storage: the crack cocaine of cloud computing
I think that they did have an opportunity here. Are there going to be a lot of Democrats in Silicon Valley for the foreseeable future? Yes. But there are also a lot of people in Silicon Valley who are libertarian, want small government, low taxes, less regulation, etc.

Political parties are not full of people who agree with the party on everything. They are full of of people who agree with more of one agenda than another. There are a lot of people who the Republicans could attract. And even if the demographics are not that big for this group, some of the people who they would pull in are exactly who they need to make an answer to Narwhale.

As for how big this issue is likely to be nationally, the Pirate Party in multiple countries regularly polls over 0.5%, and has thrown up several election results where their candidate scored in the 6-9% range. No, that's not enough to win an election. But that is enough to be a significant wedge issue in a tight election. (And US elections are all tight these days.)
I feel like this post might be talking about the arrogance/humility axis, which is important but orthogonal to both dumb/smart and lazy/gets-it-done (depending, I suppose, on how you define those things).

Humility is necessary to say "yes, I'm smart, but there are the limits of that intelligence." Any smart person can learn enough C++ to get things done if they know Java, but it takes humility to say "I will learn C++ idiomatically and approach it on its own terms, rather than coding up Java paradigms with C++ keywords and libraries".
Linkbait headline with little relation to the meat of the article.
"Clearly Ballmer will assume a more direct role in Windows management, with Windows VPs Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller now reporting directly to him."

The sexism upon which this statement is partially premised aside...

I have an entirely different take on this promotion. Microsoft has been run by a pair of consuls, Ballmer and Gates, for a long time. One focused primarily on the business side, the other upon the technology.

At this point it is only prudent for them to look at leadership succession. Larson-Greene has real technical chops and has worked on compilers, Office, UX, and Windows. Teller went from receptionist to CFO at Great Plains, leading them through both an IPO and Microsoft's acquisition.

It is clear that the future leaders will be from the post IPO generation of Softies. It may be clear now that the tradional pointed elbows approach to the throne is frowned upon.
Well, the Comanche was canceled a while ago and never entered service. The Black Hawk is an ideal testbed for this tech because there are so many of them in service and its handling and controls are well understood. It's a pretty conventional design, and would benefit more from being unmanned due to cruising lower and slower (more vulnerable) than the Osprey.
Uh, no.
If it was "cash", or equivalent, it would be under "cash and cash equivalents".
Marketable simply means they can be traded (IE they are not something like non-OTC stocks)

They may be long term instruments that they would take a loss on if they traded before maturity.
Heck, they may be long term instruments that have trading restrictions on, etc.

It's simply not cash.
Period.
Well, the false or blanket DMCA take-down requests are a real problem.

Here's the recent HN example of how idiotic these have gotten: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4867216 (Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Their Own Films, Facebook and Wikipedia (torrentfreak.com))
Thanks for saying this. Apple had a quarterly net profit of 8.2 billion.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/10/25Apple-Reports-Four...

Quarterly. Net. Profit. That's less than 1% of their pure profit reinvested in the US. Ignoring the credits and subsidies they will get. Cry me a river.
These are reasons for testing, not TDD. There is no discernable difference between 2 shipped products with identical test coverage where one team used TDD and the other just wrote regression test.

The worst part about TDD is the people trying to shove it down your throat.
Of course McCain was running after 8 years of Bush. Even ignoring the Bushiness of Bush, running for a party that just had 2 terms is a disadvantage.

I am not sure what to make of McCain getting more votes than Romney, but I think it is telling. Telling of what? Beats me.
The Sneaker Speaker
Just like its name says, it’s a speaker that you wear on your sneaker.
NHTSA gets White House OK to mandate vehicle 'black boxes'
Can anyone share how latency is overcome using a cloud based database?
And not to mention 2012 is when there were new minimum wages for Malaysia and other SE Asia countries.

It's made manufacturers seriously consider Africa as a low-wage manufacturer, but unlike some of the Asian countries, they do not have the political stability to enforce contracts.
True. These translations are reviewed but were not dubbed by a voice talent. Since we're using our web technology for recording, the sound quality will never be a studio production quality, but neither will the price :)
That's kind of ridiculous "example.com wants permission to make your phone vibrate".