skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with most of OP's comments for live events, keep in mind frequently presentations are shared, and not really presented.

Within typical business scenarios, presentations are forwarded to other people that were not present, so you don't have the benefit of the speaker explaining what that beautiful minimalistic photo of a turtle-in-the-middle-of-the-desert really meant. Even presentations from live events will be on slideshare, frequently without the voice/video track. The examples included on OP's post ratify my point; nice visually, but almost useless when shared without the voice-over.

There's no debate that ugly or confusing slides can and should be avoided. But bullet points don't ruin a presentation, you can tell a story one word at a time, and sometimes even info-dump slides have a role to play. See Mary Meeker's crowded presentations. See Steve Jobs's smart use of bullet points. See Lessig's one-word-per-slide style.

Bottom line: presentation style is like programming languages: you have to find the best one for the job, and do it beautifully. Understand the audience and the appropriate style, rather than rely on canned rules like "bullets are evil". Code as a craft.
Take a look here: http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/coursera/?project...

Credit: http://www.aiqus.com/questions/38783/download-upcoming-cours...

Edit: Is this like posting a pirate link?
Bye, MongoDB. Hello, Cloudant
It's painful to watch this. Incredibly tacky, doesn't even represent the "Android" name properly to attack it decently.

Kinda like "Scroogled" too. I've seen it posted by a number of my friends that have no idea it's not about Google Search.
What's your budget?

If you have any real technical ability a VPS is an excellent option.
As good as your tool may be, HN generally frowns on linkspam and SEO "hacking", and you happen to have placed yourself in the worst possible intersection of both.
Apple airships pretty much everything. If you settle for transit by boat, you're going to have at least 4 weeks between leaving the factory and being in someones hands. Apple pushes to hold stock less than 1 week.
I operated my site in this manner for nearly 6 years. I enjoyed tinkering on it and got a kick out of the fact that a bunch of people used it.
From the interview - "Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that?". If accurate, this is truly remarkable.
The only way I can rationalize your post is by assuming that 1) you've never done any type of drugs, especially stimulants, and 2) you've yet to form an understanding of how the media likes to sensationalize stories to the point of making them up.

If you look at any of McAfee's current writings, posts, or comments, or his behavior on camera, or his health/appearance (that is, for a 70 year old man!), you'd see a man that's about as far away from a manic drug addicted bath salt face-eating user as you can get.

When someone asked him on the blog if he was suicidal -

McAfee said...

Don't have a knife. And I enjoy living. Suicide is

absurdly redundant. The world, from the very begining,

hurls viruses, accidents, hungry animals, defective DNA -

and uncountable more - in an attempt to kill us. It

always succeeds. Suicide is simply aiding and abetting.

http://www.whoismcafee.com/

Clearly a man that has lost his faculties.
Have you ever HAD something that was built to last. Its freaking amazing! I actually have one of those old american made sweatshirts that my dad gave me and ive been looking for someone to make a quality sweatshirt like that my whole life!
Not a very insightful read. Again, not sure why so many votes for this post. But differences exist.
The Senate was also unanimously opposed.
Converting Microsoft Office documents to PDF the easy way
I've pushed some changes out for this. I'd appreciate if you could confirm it works as expected now.
I think the counter-argument is this:

We have control over the amount of real reasoning we can do about our code. The hassle of the real can be minimized. For example, I like clojure, and there are real benefits to theoretical things like immutability by default, or garbage collection. This ability to reason mathematically while being practical is worth promoting in computer science and engineering. If I couldn't reason this way about programming, I wouldn't be a programmer. Engineering is the intersection from theory to practice, and I appreciate that in computing, incidental complexity can usually be traced back to someone's neglect. Without this, we only have heuristics.

There is no silver bullet, but things can be made measurably better. We can accept reality without giving up on reason. I think to prove it, we can look at the influence of mathematics on real discoveries in history, and maybe ponder if humans are just meant to think this way in order to make progress. I hope my code reflects more order (purity, generality, conciseness) than chaos (special cases, entropy, technical debt).

I would just call the procs thing a 'wart' and avoid using it. I don't think my opinion favors the mathematically inclined programmers over the empiricists.

So, let's think about the kinds of things that get done as a consequence of certain types of thinking.

Tradeoffs.
One of the points that this should highlight for you if you are an entrepreneur talking to lots of people is that NDA's are only of value if you have enough money to defend them. I say this from first-hand experience. Someone with deep pockets can violate agreements such as NDA if they know full-well that you don't have the resources to sue them (or sue and survive the process).
No offense but if you had built in and then did an in-place upgrade to a newer kernel, etc, I would not be surprised that things break.

These days, I'm as likely to do an in-place upgrade in Linux as I am in Windows. It's far too insanely easy to just have a separate /home partition and do a clean install. Apt makes it easy to restore packages.

You still have to rebuild the wifi module, but it shouldn't be any more work than the first time.
This reminds me of the 1993 Chretien attack ad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Chr%C3%A9tien_attack_ad).

Before the conservatives launched the attack ad, they did some research, asking whether the ad invoked negative feelings about Chretien and the Liberals. Almost everyone replied that it did.

What they forgot to ask, however, was whether it invoked even worse feelings for the Conservatives who ran the campaign. It turns out it did.

I hope MSFT knows what they're doing.
Especially when you're Apple and you ship everything by plane.
From A/B Tests to MAB Tests (video)
This should be fixed. Sorry about that.
Sp what was the huge tax break Obama offered Jobs, and Cook acted on it?
That statement is made by the Slate blog not by American Giant, so no its not legally binding. And if you don't like it, return it for free.
Launchception!
But doesn't he act on a select portion of this hapless applicant's bio?
Thanks, that's a big help. Is there any way to foolproof in git? In SVN unless you get rid of the repository on the server directly (which most users don't have access to), everything is saved so work isn't lost (as long as you check in). According to point number 7 on: http://steveko.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-abo...
a user can potentially blow everything away with no clear way to recover, is this something to be concerned about or can failsafes be easily built in so this doesn't happen?
You're not the target audience. I'd buy a piece of clothing that would last 10y
It's not enough money to worry about. Foxconn would assemble them for free if that meant keeping the iPhone/iPad business.

The Mac Pro is very easy to assemble, but is large and heavy to ship from China to the US. It would make sense to assemble closer to the target market.
Apple's original Macintosh line was extremely automated. This wouldn't be a first for Apple, much as everyone would presume. (http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/10/02/steve-jobs-designed-a...)
In addition to the mixed content issue on Chrome, I've pushed out a fix for the tab completion component. It too inherently suffers from mixed content because our autocomplete server only does HTTP at the moment.

Please let us know if you see anymore issues.
Meh. The payoff in format-string conditional log statements is in avoiding the cost of string construction only to throw it away--NOT to avoid the cost of evaluating operands.

I have always preferred the NLog style, where the default .Debug, .Warn, etc., functions use good old .NET format strings and a params argument.
logger.Debug("Thing {0} happened at {1:R}", thing, thing.CompletionDate);
HeartRescueNow (AED simulator)
- Github

- Find products you naturally love, explore cultures of those companies specifically.

- Meetup.com
Startup Company GreenThrottle Turns Your Android Smartphone Into a Game Console
This is an interesting interview, McAfee doesn't sound insane at all, in fact this entire interview sounds exactly the opposite, he is rather put together and well spoken.
I have owned and worn several pieces of clothing for more than ten years. Some styles are just classics. I find it odd that one would deride a company for attempting to produce a quality product.
Later that day: "That social network from earlier today has a gaping security hole (uses default Rails scaffolding)"
I wear a lot of 10 year old clothing out of the house. I have a DAKS suit jacket which I'm wearing at the moment. I have some ties from 1970 - 75. I have shoes which are at least 5 years old, and which I expect to last significantly longer. (Dr Martins do a range called "For Life" which would last even longer still.)

Some good quality wool sweaters (bretagne or faroe) can be expensive, long lasting, and without current trendy design.

Most modern clothing is not made to last. See also cstross's comment about clothing cost and quality here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1622503)

I happily agree that 'added value' is mostly nonsense in the form of brand names or trendy design, and not in excellent quality materials and manufacturing.
I'm amazed it took so long for someone to make this point. That was going to be my only response: "Yes, you're right. You're not the target market. End of Story."
Not doing it wrong, but only using a subset of R. For instance, R has powerful data manipulation ability that can get your data to use the subset of R that does what Excel does. R also has a huge library of packages that go way beyond what Excel can do, especially for statistics. Sure, you can do an ols regression in Excel, but you can you do a complicated machine learning model?
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Grosses $1 Billion In 15 Days
Garr Reynolds has an excellent blog about giving great, bullet point free Presentations: http://www.presentationzen.com/

His book, Presentation Zen, comes highly recommended (not a referral link): http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Delivery-Editi...
That one actually looked like a semi-poor copy of PowerShell (the concept, not the official console host application), funnily enough ;-)
I’m Not Afraid Of 3D-Printed Guns
Checking it out, I don't see anything in the app that seems to be dependent on 4.0+ features, though obviously things are easier if you can use the latest and greatest APIs.

I'm guessing that it was more of a support issue. Switching to 4.0+ drops the number of devices you have to support dramatically, and with that the headache of all of the obscure device users giving you 1 stars and angry emails.

The team I'm on is transitioning from 2.3+ to 4.0+ support for some technical reasons, but easier development and support is a huge bonus.
What does a new drug cost? Part II: The productivity problem
I've never worn a 10 year old piece of clothing outside of my house, because none of the clothing I've bought has been durable enough to survive even 5 years.

Based on the article (which does seem biased), these sweatshirts are a throwback to the days when you would buy things and expect them to last. The fancy Kitchenaid standing blenders used to be durable as hell and just keep working. The newer ones are made a lot more cheaply, and while they last longer than some other kitchen appliances, they're a far cry from their original model... without any significant improvement in features.

Our manufacturing mindset was originally about durability and quality. Cheap labor and cheap materials led to a shift into replaceable, cheaper goods. But as materials/labor get more expensive, hopefully we'll see more of a shift to making quality, lasting goods again.
Second. I own this book, and it is a must for anyone giving presentations.
Did I really want this generations monopoly in on my social data as well?
If Search== Windows
and
Apps == Office
do I really want Google having access to my social data too?
A healthy skeptic, getting more and more paranoid....
Pitching Dave McClure and getting into 500 startups from Croatia
I guess you don't have the concept of value and just look at dollar amount alone for everything in your life. I guess Coke should still cost 5 cents huh...
I haven't even found that to be the case. I have several ARM boxes including Raspberry Pi, several desktops, a few Macbooks, etc, and have yet to have to build a driver from source. Worst thing I've had to do is go wired to install Broadcom stuff in Fedora because it didn't do it for me.
u.getA() and u.getB() will still be evaluated. However I believe the conversion of A and B to strings will not be carried out if debug is disabled.

Often it is the conversion to string that is an expensive operation.

Incidentally with lots of lazy loading (Hibernate I'm looking at you...) this can lead to errors only appearing when debug is turned off - not a nice situation to be in.
I wonder about that also. None the less, if they don't offer an actual life-time warranty, they might look at a retailer like REI who accept returns unconditionally. Yes, they're not the cheapest 'outdoor' supplier, but when you take back your ragged tent or whatnot, they've always, well, so far, come correct.

I'm up for a new hooded sweatshirt. I plan on giving myself one of these for xmas. My 40 dollar versions from Gap, etc, usually last two years, so if this lasts 4, I'm even, if more, I'll be more than happy and would not feel 'cheated' out of the 'lifetime' statement.
thank you, I'll fix it asap.
can you think of any other DUH! SEO suggestions?
Electric City 2012: graphic highlights from LSE's conference on the urban age
I know it may seem strange to pay top dollar for a hoodie, but here in Boston a high quality, durable, and warm garment that you can take with you anywhere is a real comfort.

My current hoodie is the Katahdin Iron Works Heavyweight:
http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/51722?page=katahdin-iron-work...

It retails for a similar price and was worth every penny. The AG hoodie is not designed for such cold temperatures, but I would probably be getting one if I lived in NYC (and may still get one anyway, as a liner or just for warmer temperatures).
48 countries join forces for biggest-ever fight against online child sex abuse
T-Mobile and Apple sign agreement to launch products in 2013
Bitcoin-Central (a regulated Bitcoin bank)
I'm Only Afraid Of 3D-Printed Ammunition
The only problem with this company is that all their stuff is out of stock!
Foxconn plans American expansion as Apple and HP seek "Made in U.S.A."
I'm okay with that personally. The thing that bugs me is that it doesn't support multi-accounts yet. At work we use Google Apps, which I have signed in simultaneously with my personal Google account. I can pop between my personal and company GMails easily.

Whenever I click on a G+ link it insists on using my company account, telling me I can't get Google+, etc etc. There's no way to switch over to my personal account to actually use it :(
This seems compatible with his being guilty. If he is guilty (and I make no statement either way, really have no idea) then I'd still hope he's found guilty legitimately, rather than being framed or assassinated.
> His firing is a surprising move for a party that has
> been looking for ways to attract younger voters.

Apparently young voters aren't as important as old money.
to me, constantly learning is part of being smart and getting things done, especially in the tech industry. You cant be smart and getting things done unless you are learning the latest tools and techniques.

I have always like the saying "get things done, smart" better which perhaps encompasses this post's thesis better than Joel's original wording.
> I'd expect an upscale mass-produced hoodie, in terms of durability, comfort, look, and neat features, would be at least $200, if made in America.

May I ask why? where's the cost coming from?

Assuming great quality US grown organic cotton; best quality YKK zips; US minimum wage workers; good quality control; distribution and taxes - I still can't get it to $200 without huge markups. (There's nothing wrong with huge markups. Added value is great if you can get it.)
I think the post, generally, is accurate, but the author is giving a little too much slack to those who, according to him/her, don't live by default. For example, you could argue that Picasso "lived by default"; his father was a painter, and he painted from very early in his life. So even though he never made a concieted effort to escape the normal path of his life, he was still succesfu l by practically any measure.
any chance you could get the URLs to behave like links?
It's the headline of the actual article. I suggest you write a strongly worded letter to the editor explaining the HN submission guidelines.

Probably best send it in triplicate, just to be sure.
The scariest thing in being happy is how much of our everyday lives turn into meaningless pile of deprecated trade-offs.

Things that you thought meant something for you actually don't. Things that you thought you'd keep for life actually turn out to be nonimportant. People you considered close were just vehicles for you: you gave them that love you didn't know how to give to yourself. And finally, things that you so cunningly shielded from your gaze for years begin to pop up and become unavoidable challenges.

That is because you can only be happy when you do things for the right reasons. Otherwise you just think you're happy and yet you spend your time trying to fill in gaps in yourself and your life, gaps that you don't know how to love. In other words, you're sitting on the passenger's seat yourself and letting what you think other people will think of you drive your life.

Go stand in front of a mirror and ask yourself if you're happy. Are you so happy that you wouldn't want to change anything in your life? Are you so happy that while you might certainly want to change some things you would still be perfectly content should those things actually never change? Ask yourself if there's some part of yourself that you don't love one hundred percent? Not 99, but 100? Ask yourself if you see too much fat, a body too skinny, or a person too unpopular and rejected, or someone who can't steer away from too many bad habits? Or do you see a person with weaknesses yet completely accept him/her just the way s/he is?

I'm not entirely happy myself but there have been, and there are, occasional moments when I am 100% happy.

It's those moments when I wouldn't replace a single bit of myself, whether it's hemorrhoids, feelings of guilt, or the history of how I've lived.
To be honest, I didn't think there was much of an argument or a point here. The conclusion that "there's no substitute for experience" doesn't follow from the rest of the article, and most of the rest of the conclusion falls into "getting things done" anyway.

You were able to think of an edge case for language feature that neither of your friends had considered. Awesome. Smart. Realising that upfront is the kind of skill that saves you hundreds (anecdotally) of hours of debugging because you solve it in the design phase.

Saying "smart interferes with gets things done" is exactly what Joel was saying when he tacked on "and gets things done" - so you can't really use that to argue he left something out.

They would rather mull over something academic about a problem rather than ship on time. These kind of people can be identified because they love to point out the theoretical similarity between two widely divergent concepts. For example, they will say "Spreadsheets are really just a special case of programming language" and then go off for a week and write a thrilling, brilliant white paper about the theoretical computational linguistic attributes of a spreadsheet as a programming language. Smart, but not useful.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html
The video is a conecpt video. There has been a lot of work done on the game itself but please understand that we're gathering interest in the concept alone at this time. Our goal right now is to produce a proof-of-concept by putting together our technical demos into a single application. Please read the follow blog post for answers to many of the most asked questions: http://universeprojects.blogspot.ca/
Facebook in Talks to Buy Microsoft’s Atlas Ad Platform
The excuse that the application grew faster than scalable is amateur hour. This entire article makes any true sys engineer cringe in their stomach.

You are ~100 million dollar company and it seems like you drew your systems architecture with crayons. The article is upsetting. The lack of segmentation is embarrassing.

"oh it's the switch's fault, it doesn't learn MACs fast enough" - actually you could subnet your racks and use f*n vlans. You might use public Ips on everything but this could still be educational for the company.

Your solution to all of this was to spend twice as much on a "staging" network. Something doesn't seem right here.

It makes me cringe when I see any one sentence that has the following three words in it: escalate, network, vendor.

This isn't a boeing airplane, you cannot just rely on the vendor. This article just gives me a good sense of job security in the field of sys engineering. I really think that they should sit down and really go over their network. A bridge loop like this for a company this large is pretty amateur. Github you can do so much better.
High quality clothing is not a revelation, but direct-to-consumer internet clothing operations are a great business. Bonobos (http://bonobos.com) started out with this model (but now does sell on other outlets), and Everlane (http://everlane.com/) is doing an awesome job bringing extremely high quality basics for a very reasonable price by only selling through their own site, and owning the whole thing soup to nuts.

American Giant might do fine, but high quality online-online direct-to-customer clothing stores is not groundbreaking.
Need aside, I want most things I buy to last a lifetime.

Exceptions are for things like food and toilet paper.
To be fair, it is not that bad. You just have to know what you are buying.
I (and many people) are in favor of give control to the ones less likely to corrupt/change it; unfourtunaly we dont know who that is so is better to stick with the one already in control to avoid surprises.
You're right, though $80 for a sweatshirt most certainly does not qualify as serious money for clothes. That's Banana Republic level, designer lines from someone like Neiman Marcus on the other hand can cost $500 (and still appear hideous).

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/DSquared2-Long-Sleeve-Logo-Swe...
I, on the other hand, suspect that many people buying these books don't even want to get a job in programming... maybe they just want to learn, or build their personal projects. http://planoa.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/why-google-and-others...
Looks like an old-school version of http://drop.pr