skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nick, check your facts. That is the picture now. But how did IV get started? An ex-Microsoftie used _his own money_ to acquire a critical mass of patents before anyone would pay attention to IV. None of those companies pledged funds for him to build a portfolio of mostly junk patents from scratch. He had to use his own money.

There is a pre-history of IV, before they had a website with press releases that can be cut and pasted into comments. None of those companies were signed on from day one, when IV's portfolio did not yet exist and was just an idea.

Is that what you are suggesting?
Don't bet on it.

http://ajf.me/imagedump/screenshots/ihavewaytoomanyprojects....
The discussion is over here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948234
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Feynmann's great mirror story [1]. Try and solve the puzzle before watching the whole clip.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN87y-iEx0
Endorsing only similar skills? Really?

What if I know I'm bad at something and decide to hire someone who's a professional in this area? And this person does an amazing job. I want to endorse this person to acknowledge the obviously great skill he possesses. But I can't. My skills are not similar.
I can't remember where I read the story, but it goes:

There was alien who recorded all the knowledge of Earth. Each fact was encoded as a numerical string and all the strings were concatenated. The concatenated string was converted back to a number. The number was treated as length. The alien took a stick, cut it that length, placed it in his pocket and left.

Not remembering the source drives me nuts every time I think about one of these storage problems. Not that it's a practical solution of course.
> Another option is pressing the dismiss button, you can dismiss any message from the re:me list.
Same story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947113

Disputed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947241
The problem is there's a conflation here. "States of matter" which are solid/liquid/gas and "states of matter" which are quantum spin liquids are not the same thing. One is an English term, and one is a more precise physic/chemistry term.

In English, there is just "ice", the "solid" form of water. In physics/chemistry, there are 15 known phases of ice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Phases

Don't try to understand one in terms of the other. And your "shift in thinking" has loooong since occurred. It just isn't useful to conventional English, so it has not picked it up.
"But then the question becomes, what do you do when countries actually increase spending and debt when the economy is good, and therefore have nothing to spend when the bad times arrive." "So it becomes less a question of economics and more one of politics."

Precisely. And all the western countries have been guilty of this, the only difference is that of degree. Which is why debt has generally only crept up and politics has slowly but surely ceded sovereignty to the banks, especially in Europe where new currency is apparently only created via commercial banks (unlike the US, which just prints it).

"And I imagine that, as Germany gets further integrated with the rest of Europe, that kind of thinking will be weakened."

As far as I can tell that's the current political struggle, especially between the North and South.
Say I was trying to find the next mersenne prime what would you suggest?
Alien and Sedition Acts. 1798.

This trope is Older Than Television, and may be Older Than Dirt.
On the other hand, my wife endorsed me on several programming skills. She is not a programmer, so her recommendation is kind of pointless at best in this regard.
Neckbeards are heavily recommended for 22 year old metal musicians and fixed gear riders, actually. Mercury, hmm, that's like being a clean, dylan, mozart/Oz, miranda, or maybe modern Eiffel programmer, or having a unicorn in your backyard
External auditors, other board members, chapter boards, the IRS... there's plenty of oversight if Jimmy were to do something stupid expenses-wise from now on.

And there are so many unhappy-family moments with chapter politics, that if there were any good reason to think Jimmy wasn't keeping his word, that would get leaked.
But you have to put the skill in your list of skills for them to endorse you. Why would you add a skill that you know very little of in the first place?
What constitutes a state of matter is very well defined, and in my opinion the Wikipedia article linked above explains it very well to a non-technical audience. The shift in thinking has happened more than 130 years ago, it was well established around 1870. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_mechanics
Just installed it. Can't really give feedback until I get some texts, but I will say that if I end up using this app regularly, I'll want an option to pay to get rid of ads.
Sure. I'm not saying that letting anyone endorse is a solution. I'm saying that letting endorse only those who have similar skills is not an answer as well. It has to go deeper.
A non-sequitor of sorts - on the subject of Cables and Underground - if you have never read Jamie Zawinski's (jwz) Cable Story, it is one of the most fascinating real engineering reads I've ever read.

"What happens when a 230 kilovolt underground cable shorts out"

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/
Here's the patent http://www.google.com/patents/US8180606
but it doesn't mean much to me.
Home page: http://d.pr/i/Q0jw
Opening pictures throw error 500: http://d.pr/i/XGBH
Facebook is a double-edged sword. I use it because it's the simplest way to keep in touch with all my social circles and also for the mild dopamine-kick that it gives (I'll be honest). Also, because most of them dont use Google+ yet. However, I feel an uneasiness about it because everything I read, like, comment, or try is shared over and over again with people that probably dont care. Everything I log-in I see how they combine a friend liking something and an ad for the thing they liked, it's subtle but ANNOYING. I dont care about McDonald's that much!

I can sense that we are not people to them, we are a commodity. Our value to them is data, this seems to me why the ethical issues keep resurfacing and people keep getting outraged. It has an unshakable Big Brother feeling to it, almost everyone I know feels better about their life because of Facebook yet dont realize how they are the product.

I respect the company and Mark overall, I don't hate them. But...I do feel like it's becoming more and more like the Death Star of startups. Any startup that builds a great feature/app that challenges FB's existing is acqui-hired and now a part of their empire. I can see where this is going, it'll be the Microsoft of the web. Anyone who tries to build a better social network is attempting a herculean task akin to blowing up the Death Star.

I'll stop now.
I came across Snake wrangling for kids a few months ago http://code.google.com/p/swfk/
I haven't given it a good run as my son is still 3yrs old
I have lived without a car for several years, so I walked everywhere. Sometimes people would stop me in the grocery store or other place and say "I see you walking all the time. God, you've really lost weight!! What are you doing?" I also worked for an extremely large company. There were probably about 2000 people in the building where I worked. So people I did not know at all would stop me in the hallways at work and ask how on earth I was dropping so much weight, so fast.

I am tall with naturally curly hair and apparently striking features. It isn't terribly uncommon for people to notice me whom I never noticed. That sort of experience goes back at least to high school, where people recognize me and I have no clue who they are. (Edit: This is probably compounded by my crappy eyesight. I sometimes don't recognize people whom I do know until I am practically on top of them.)
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Nobody thinks the framers intended the 5th amendment to cover military age males in Afghanistan. That's just ridiculous.
everytime instead of everything. typo.
Engineering Pornography (2002)
It depends on the setup.

I've seen a CMS brought almost to its knees because the previous owner of that IP had a site that had lots of distinct pages on it. Since every page in the CMS was stored in a DB it took a DB lookup to find out whether the incoming URL existed or not. Caching/varnish wouldn't help as there were hundreds of thousands of different incoming URLs and none will be in the cache because they don't exist.

About 20% of the hits to one site I look after are 404 because they're from the previous site hosted on that IP address. Luckily the vast majority of URLs have a specific prefix so it's a simple rule in the apache config to 404 them without having to got to disk to check for the existence of any files. It still counts against my bandwidth utilisation too (both incoming request and outgoing 404).
That article is a way better intro to the site and frankly sold me on qz.

The content is good - and not content I’d seen anywhere else. More of this will keep me coming back.

---

Link to the hn thread on that article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4946820
"...I’ve also been recommended as an expert in a whole bunch of things I know nothing about."

Is this even possible? I've only recommended or been recommended for skills I or others have claimed to have in the LinkedIn profile. Nobody's endorsed my Real Estate expertise or deep immersion in String Theory, for instance.
"and even the C++ Qt5 part is not targeted to them anyway."

Thanks for reinforcing my point. Qt5 is more of a smartphone platform than a GUI toolkit for embedded systems now. There are still a lot of low-end chips that need graphics toolkits and the new whizbang stuff just can't work on these systems. Don't tell me QML2 is great for prototyping GUIs when I can't even run it on my platform.

I completely understand why the switch in focus came along, especially when Nokia took over. I still have bug reports from 2-3 years ago that have been marked "don't care, won't fix" by Nokia. My anecdata comes from actual years of experience making Qt work smoothly on lower-end hardware.
But for those that do use git, and do use github, wouldn't github do the trick?

Their interface is simple enough that you don't need to know git to browse around a potential candidate's code, evaluate their interests and abilities, etc.
Point taken, which is why I suggest the second fix using weighting. That being said, limiting to similar skills—while eliminating a few potential genuine recommendations, like the situation you mention—would stop the bogus recommendations as well, and I would guess that there are many more bogus than genuine recommendations being handed out the way it is now.

Also, do note that you're not really able to judge whether the work is professional or not. You can judge whether it works well, but for all you know the behind-the-scenes stuff could be a complete mess which will fall apart tomorrow. This applies to programming, construction, plumbing, managing a financial portfolio, anything. Unless you're an expert, you really can't judge someone's work on anything other than a very superficial level.
Sorry about that, my wife can get a little defensive.
I use it regularly to see who I know at various companies to get introduced as well as to look up people I meet or I'm going to meet to see who we know in common.
Just upgraded yesterday. DOH!
Looks really nice, did you build it for yourself / to scratch your itch?

Thanks for sharing :)
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That's what I found so depressing in the (awesome) augmented reality video, "Sight":

http://vimeo.com/46304267

When the characters have their digital glasses on, the guy's apartment is full of pendants and shiny decorations. But you can see that without the glasses, the walls are bare.

Photography is new, but humans have affixed art to walls for millennia. It would be insane if that ended.
To be fair, you could never really understand the lyrics of Smells like Teen Spirit anyways.
I'm not going to say there isn't a problem at all. But I spend more than enough time in the trenches dealing with deletion to know that the vast majority of the time, the stuff that gets deleted probably ought to have been.

The standards aren't that arbitrary: for an article to exist, there needs to be significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
I don't know. The two scenarios differ because when coding you often stare at one line, whereas when web surfing you often skim the text. It sounds as a subjective feeling.
Does it burn the encryption key out of memory prior to hibernation? I should hope so or else I'm still right.

And if the system requires that the volume be mounted when resuming the hibernated state, just turning the system on could compromise the system.
I think he's asking if it's like Moore's Law (expect consistent geometric gains) or if it's like battery technology (consistent linear gains). Will next years' printers do 8 micron steps or 15.5 micron steps?
> Is your life really so humorless that it gives you satisfaction to type angry/defensive notes on an online forum?

It really is difficult to pick up tone on an internet forum.

> As someone who evidently cares a great deal about what other people think...

Don't know where you got that from. You should see how I dress. My friends are impressed if they see me in a shirt with buttons on it.

> ...[lots of other crap I can't be bothered to defend myself against]...
There is also the possibility of leaving "positive" endorsements that, uh, aren't: http://i.imgur.com/mcgek.png
This patent is not for the non-reversing mirror but for another type of mirror which was invented earlier.
Except, when a rational person does not know something they are far more likely to say those magic words 'I don't know'.
"The former. There was no mechanism to allow someone to leave the Euro"

Hmm...this is once again conflating defaulting with leaving the Euro. From the article you cited:

"Actually, a second [default], as Greece technically defaulted on its debts when it renegotiated a 50% write-off of its debts with its creditors earlier this year."

So Greece has defaulted, but they haven't left the Euro.

"The drive for greater fiscal union, a common regulatory authority, etc, that we see now is an attempt to fix such issues - ie having so much control that these defaults never happen."

I would say: "...that this sort of debt-binge on someone else's dime can't happen."

If you have a common currency, you also need these other mechanisms. It wasn't politically feasible to get this at the time, so the Euro was used as a "forcing function". Once you had the Euro, there really wasn't a way around more common financial control.
Hmm, are x86 debug registers not stored along with all of the other registers during context switch? Or why is that more secure?
Here's a monstrous list of online sandboxed REPLs, i think the first group, codepad, IDEone, etc can do scala and clojure but probably you'll want to go with one of the one click donwloads like Haskell platform, the typesafe installer or leiningen, unless they've somehow developed a miraculous classpath hell resolver.

http://jkirchartz.com/2012/06/rocking-stackoverflow-sites-to...

http://joel.franusic.com/Online-REPs-and-REPLs
You're living in a bubble if you think more than 10% of recruiters have even heard of Github.
Publish peer reviewed journal abstracts with data showing efficacy --- yes for software, not only for devices. Then present data at major conferences (though, you cannot be a presenter directly as it conflicts with vendor conflict of interest restrictions).
Thank you for this. abook had something not right about it. This seems to have made contact management in CLI simple an amazing.
Getting started with the new OpenDylan 2012.1 release
I just realized my earlier post http://code.google.com/p/swfk/ is by the same author
But, variables are not standard in CSS. I always perceived less variables as JavaScript variables.

Now, I need to figure out a way to make Vim treat hyphenated words as words for filetype=less.
2 new F# books

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024033.do

http://www.manning.com/petricek2/
Dylan is a programming language with a lot of influence from Common Lisp, Scheme and others. It was originally designed at Apple (with external input) in the early 1990s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
"Smiling" and "Comedic Timing" are two of the predefined skill tags that I find useful.
> When you look in a normal mirror, the image you see of yourself is in reverse.

Funny thing: Mirrors don't reverse left and right. They reverse front and back.

So this "non-reversing" mirror is actually mapping y to -y, x to -x (Where the mirror is in front of you in the z-direction.

Curious.

Edit: I believe tomerv below is correct: x is mapping to -x but y is kept the same.
HL7 CDA R2 works pretty well as a data storage format for certain types of medical records.
It would be nice if that was true, but people have been able to successfully game Google with SEO. Google can't actually tell the quality of content, so the SEO shortcut often works.
I am using Pwinty for my site (http://www.posterhaste.com) and it is really easy to use. They do the printing and fulfilment and even stick a sticker on the packaging with your logo so that it looks like it is coming from you.

I assessed a few of the printing api services and Pwinty were the easiest and most others would ship under their own brand.
I was just thinking yesterday I need this feature for email. I got a busy cofounder who forgets to answer emails sometimes so I'd like to set it up so it sends a digest of all the emails he hasn't answered each morning from the day before. That'll teach em!
Same opinion with mrud.

I also find PyCharm better with javascripts. WingIDE has a better debugger but I find PyCharm good enough for me.
They are clearly crying themselves to sleep on their pillows stuffed with hundred dollar bills.
But i'm also a metal musician (guitar) but not 22 (since a long time :)... And Mercury yeah that's my fondness for Prolog (ducking) and Haskell combined. Shame it's not more famous; it's very nice language imho. (I'm not telling you about Einhorn though, that's a secret)
HL7 V2 actually defines two standard encodings: ER7 and XML. They are both logically equivalent. The ER7 encoding is similar to old EDI standards and typically uses the '|' character as the field delimiter (although certain other characters can be used instead). Unfortunately the XML encoding is poorly supported and most applications use the ER7 encoding.
The LinkedIn Skills Recommender is one of the most impressive features LinkedIn has released in a long time, both from a UI perspective and a data science perspective. Here's what they are trying to do (long term)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57554673-93/linkedin-ceo-si...

Calling this "broken" shows a misunderstanding of what LinkedIn is trying to accomplish. LinkedIn has a huge amount of data on you and your professional relationships, starting from how you know the other person to how many times they have viewed your profile.

They are trying to increase the depth and value of your LinkedIn profile by strengthening the graph of data connections, and encouraging users to enter more skills data into your own profile. They are also trying to increase engagement amongst their user base.

The author suggests that if Linked either:

a) Limit skills recommendations to people with similar skills.

If you did this, you will collect an order of magnitude less recommendation data. How many people in your LinkedIn list actually know the same skills as you? I have a lot of connections in adjacent industries. Every time I see that someone has recommended me, I have two incentives. First is to ensure that my skills profile on LinkedIn is complete (so that I may get the appropriate recommendations). Second is to recommend others effectively.

If someone perceives you to be good at a particular skill, even though they don't know that skill themselves, isn't that valuable? LinkedIn is about managing your reputation - not just among people with the same skills, but amongst your entire professional network.

For example, if you knew someone was good at MongoDB, even though you didn't know anything about MongoDB, couldn't that be something that is important on your resume? Don't you think it could help you get a job?

b) Create a new feature to rank the "strength" of the recommendation.

FYI - Here's LinkedIn's skills page for "C#": http://www.linkedin.com/skills/skill/C%23?trk=skills-pg-sear...

- They've got some clustering algorithms to find similar skills
- They know who are the most "influential" people with that skill (wow)

So, this is a good idea, but I think that LinkedIn is already doing it. I would not be surprised if they are using it, but perhaps not in the way you think. It could be used on their recruiting tool to find the best "C#" developers out there.

It often doesn't make sense to publish these kinds of "reputation" scores publicly; that will just encourage you to game it. For example, if you knew that the strength of your recommendations impacted how often you showed up in candidate search results, you might start encouraging your friends to create bogus recommendations, just to move up the rankings.
I agree that this won't make much practical difference.

I think it depends on the chargeback reason code. If the chargeback was due to fraudulent reasons, merchants have very little chance of having it reversed. Now, they may be able to fight it and win based on procedural reasons relating to the chargeback dispute process. Not something worth doing though for most merchants.

Sometimes, its more costly in time to fight a chargeback than the fee that is imposed. Many merchants just let it go and eat the costs.
It's funny how he stresses many times contributers don't get paid, and then goes on to complain about money going to photographers for photos. Which IS contributors getting paid.

Also he presents no evidence for the fact hat wikipedia doesn't need the donation money, is his idea really that wikipedia should add ads? Do they really have vast cash stockpiles to keep the site running for many years. To me it seems they spend 50% of their money on hosting, for any other website that % would be absurd.

Seems like he misses the mark on many points.
I think better examples might be:

http://usatoday.com

and

http://app.ft.com
Not sure if it's intentional, but yes, the effect seems to be a form of denial of service.
Its a legit site. Its a good membership to have because about twice a year they will give out some games for free. In fact, just last week, Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition was free for 48 hours. These are in addition to the eight or so titles that are always free.

If you are looking to buy, their current holiday sale seems to run like most Steam sales, so it may be worth holding off on purchases until the end of the sale for a chance at getting more than 50% off.
This is indeed an awesome explanation. And I'm regularly shocked when people do not explain Fourier Transform as generalization of Fourier Series.

This makes it quite intuitive to me (well, at least as far as FT can be intuitive ...)
has a low capacity for complex thought

So rude. I'm sure you have a lot of good things to say (given your other posts), but resorting to insults and ad hominems is the sort of thing that comes from those who have a low capacity for intellectual discussion.

Besides, per the URL you provided, it's a 10 page printout, not 3.
I don't think any recruiter or HR person looking on LinkedIn places any weight on the recommendations whatsoever. It seems to be an overt attempt to get people to engage with the site more, thus making LinkedIn's active user numbers look better. LinkedIn is one of those networks that is only really useful on an occasional basis when you need it to find a particular person or connection at a particular company.
The wrong meaning of Web