skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> potential employers want to see it on a resume

this is a problem imho - why should a vendor specific product be a defacto qualification for a job? I know it is, and plenty of office clerk jobs "require proficiency" in office/word/excel. I say, instead of requiring a product name on your resume, you instead have to show you can achieve a particular effect (say, describe a procedure to achieve a rock texture in the abstract).
Documents in many places complicates things. For example, if you have to go through discovery, all of a sudden you have to make sure you find things on every single service you've stored them. That's (part of) legal's job, and the number of different services you're using is a multiplier on a lot of things.

What gp described just seems inefficient in general.
I can think of 4 movies I saw this year so far that I enjoyed:

1. The Dark Knight Rises

2. The Amazing Spiderman

3. Bourne Legacy

4. Brave

However, I did catch a few hidden gems I had never before seen or heard of on Netflix Instant. My absolute favorites are "Morning Glory", "The Answer Man", and "Beware the Gonzo".
I'm wondering how many HN readers are looking at this comment and are thinking to themselves "That's a great problem for a startup to tackle".
This is literally the only thing the Kindle Fire is used for in my family. YMMV.
Side note, but elnode: https://github.com/nicferrier/elnode

which is used to power http://www.teamchat.net/

I think the move to program "real" applications in Emacs is smart. It encourages improvements in Emacs Lisp itself, and it leverages the skills we already have in programming Emacs.
Old Man's War – Joe Scalzi

Very Bad Poetry – Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras

Genghis: Birth of an Empire – Conn Iggulden

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and other Clinical Tales – Oliver Sacks
The innovation is that when gifts are sent to you, they can be automatically changed, or converted into credit.

So instead of this wasteful, time-consuming process where you return the unwanted gift to Amazon and get something else, you can just preemptively do it in a sneaky fashion, saving money for Amazon and time for you.
Xavier Shays diary on switching to Colemak:
http://rhnh.net/2006/09/18/the-colemak-diaries
printing up any physical object like a belt, shoe, toys, iphone covers/cases... whatever you think of and can design using 3D printing software it can be printed/created.

It's the next huge thing that will change the world and economies. I don't feel it's a positive for our struggling world economies though. Why buy that physical good you desire thru a store (online or offline) when you and everyone else will be able print it up at home?
I agree that everyone should strive for the intent and ideals you're talking about (IE not making people dependent etc) But
I still hold to my view in terms of the definitions.I think indoctrination is like social order, to a certain degree it is inescapable and inherently part and parcel to learning anything involving reading and writing. But I complete agree with the ideals you believe we should all strive for and the methodology etc. I do think there is a staunch distinction between the indoctrination of people learning through the state or a church or whatever, and the more interpersonal empathetic methodology of teaching with an intent to facilitate independence. The irony is most staunch ideologues would probably agree, then go off and completely contradict it with their actions :). Around and around we go...
Treat everyone the same, but everyone should treat the company as an investment in time and effort...
I've been using mailinator for 3-4 years and have never had to sign up.
I know some large companies use git-bisect along with their unit testing framework to notify developers/reviewers if their commit caused some sort of test failure. I thought it was pretty neat, as git-bisect was new to me.
Several of these are things that were the good-faith best effort at the time based on available knowledge and/or technology. (DNA, cold-blooded dinosaurs, star size limits, etc).

I don't much like the depiction of scientific knowledge as "manufactured facts".
This is SOP for tech journalism - throw out some inaccuracies to goad people into offering corrections, leaving some gaping holes, maybe a bit of ad hominem here and there to incite some rage, then corral people into your comment section for even more precioussss page views.
1) UI/UX: I've done too much javascript server-side to pass on the opportunity to apply my knowledge to client-side technologies and make (visually) awesome stuff.

2) Blogging: I learn too much stuff to not pass on that knowledge.

3) DreamLeaves: I've had this "group" of mine on hiatus for too long. I need to build a functional platform to showcase all of our works and make all of us "rockstars" in our respective fields.

4) Marketing: "You dev guys, you got gold in your hands!" always say a friend of mine (let's say he's a "bank-guy"). Bad news though is, I could make the next facebook/instagram/w/ever, I wouldn't know how to distribute/advertise/sell it properly.

5) More time outside of code. Today, my life is split between coding for a job and coding for a passion but even those two are still centered around the same project.

But all this would be naught without...
n+1) Follow a schedule.
Thanks for the tip. I always forget about these because the domains they use are usually too silly (they should just let us use raw IP addresses); and also because I use email so infrequently. Mailinator seems the only one I remember. There's another disposable email provider... I can't remember the name... the accounts are time-limited. Truthfully, it's an email forwarder; they ask for a personal email address. (Maybe you could forward to another disposable email provider.) You can choose to have the account last hours or days. I know I've seen it mentioned on HN.
The wizard diagram listed on the patent is a complete rip off of the rules dialog included as part of Outlook. I don't have a Windows version of Outlook available right now, but it's very similar.
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Ask HN: How do I validate/test if I am getting better at design?
I'm a software developer currently learning more about design. As I read various books and try various techniques, how do I validate my learning, assuming I don't have an existing site and users to run a/b tests on?
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The upshot of the article is that little should ever be published unless you have perfect information and understanding about the subject.

No publishing on DNA until we know everything, etc.
Makes me wonder about how their investment in effort has carried out over that time. I'm sorry, but X shares over Y time with additional investments of A, B or C, usually means X means a lot less (percentage-wise) for a continuation of effort.
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Or, as I see more often, "The last posting finally timed out, so I can re-post this one to try and whore some more karma"
A friend of mine recently said about Looper: "The whole movie is broken when you take time to think about its logic. It's about a future where it's easier to send someone to the past than hide a body."
You could probably install backtrack on a Pi, although it may require some tweaking if no one has created an install already.
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Very interested in checking out the beta. My contact is in my profile. Thanks.

Great list too. I'm an extrovert but I look forward to checking out Quiet.
I'm pretty sure that if Python had a slightly easier deployment option it would replace several of the other scripting languages in my toolbox. The main pain points for me right now are the Python 2 vs 3 split (only a problem because I'm frustrated by uncertainty), and insufficiently clear ways to package apps for deployment (I'd really like to be able to deploy a tool as a single file executable) without having to install a separate version of python on the target machine.

Right now I'm considering Prolog for a project, because I just can't find anything else that does what it does as easily - essentially fact chaining and logical interferencing. But I'm just planning to use it as a part of a system rather than the entire application.
I justn looked at 33mail and they ask for a signup.

As re_todd says, mailinator asks for nothing from the user. The accounts are created automatically.

Just send mail to some-new-account-foobarbaz@mailinator.com
and an account (user) is automatically created. No passwords. No sign in.
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises

(Okay, now I feel like a nerd in the purest sense of the term...)
How is this nonsense? How does personal credibility enter into it, anyway? Argue with the statement, but spare the ironical projecting (saying "mentioning this or that phrase makes anything you say suspect" IS actually like intellectually lazy slogans you pretend to be against)

The business of buying weapons that takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business - ethically and morally corrupt from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few, if any, checks and balances. Most people in power like this system of doing business and do not want it changed.

-- Colonel James G. Burton

A rose is a rose is a rose, and so is a turd; what labels you accept or don't is your personal thing, but otherwise irrelevant.
Exactly, and documents emailed around exist in many different places, in many different mail boxes and on many different machines.
Oh yeah, totally (emphatically) agree with the above. I went the very next day just to validate my first impression: best time travel movie ever made.
Wow. Thanks for writing it up, but that API just makes me cringe. That's what we had to deal with back in the day, but now we have abstract APIs like localStorage, Web SQL and Indexed DB [1]. At the very least, this wont gel with "Directories and System" component of the File API [2][3]. Microsoft will probably be implementing the W3C standard, but we may have to come up with a fileQuery.js library to do file-operations the same way across platforms until they see a need for it.

[1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/offline/storage/

[2] http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/file-dir-sys.html

[3] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/
Hmm... But why should the 'password' URL be so similar to the mail address. Doesn't this mean that if I know your mail address, I can fairly easily guess the secret URL to let me see that inbox?

(Granted that in the most common use case, if I know the email address, I probably know what's in the inbox, since I am likely the person who sent the message. But still, why not make these 2 different random strings?)

A couple more examples:
1QjYwHNM vs 1QjYwHOc
1Qk07A9x vs 1Qk07A9X
Looks good. I could've sworn there was another one like this. Maybe this is the one, or this one is a newer clone?

Like Mailinator, this is a great idea.

Kudos to these guys for putting their mail admin skills to good use.
Given the source, I can't help but suspect there's an underlying desire to willfully misunderstand how science works in order to dismiss all research that could be used to support or justify regulation.

Hey, you never know, maybe in ten years we'll find out tobacco use doesn't cause cancer. Better remove all the restrictions that have been placed on tobacco until we're certain.
Yes, I was kinda rambling more than responding to anything actually related this story.. sorry.
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Give new grads a faster vesting schedule..is that a joke?

Give everyone who is good enough to get hired alot more shares and be upfront about their % it's real easy
Note that @mailinator.com email addresses are blocked at a significant number of sites due to its popularity. Throwaway email sites that alternate between several different domains work best.
> since it's a high level environment that is comparatively light on resources

Just an FYI, but Node.js needs to load the V8 engine for each process. So each process is at least 10MB, which compared to pretty much every other language, is pretty heavy.
That bandwidth for delivering video is being streamed from a CDN outside AWS.
This is horrendous. What happened to talking to people? Or being grateful?
It seems to be you would just be "renting" the URL. You "rent" a domain on a yearly basis from the registrar which "owns" it.
Hmmm... I kinda wonder sometimes. This is a ludicrous idea, but have you ever thought about the recent HSBC scandal, where they were laundering billions and billions of dollars for terrorist organizations and organized crime? The same terrorist organizations and organized crime that is the primary justification for domestic spying, paramilitary police, huge prison populations, secret rendition and indefinite detention?

Remember how the DOJ refused to prosecute? Wierd.
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Libertarian is a broad term. You have anarcho-capitalists, minarchists, libertarian socialists, etc. The least authoritarian, an-caps, do wish that everything was voluntarily. Then there those in America who I'll call practical libertarians who simply want to follow the U.S. Constitution more closely than has been done while still adhering to libertarian principles.

In this case, they believe that the federal government should be involved in defense and aiding interstate commerce (without abusing the terminology as has been done by Congress), and leave everything else, as the 10th amendment states, up to the state.
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Wow, its about time! Using Postgres full text search is okay, but I still prefer ElasticSearch. Hopefully, Mongo's implementation will circumvent the need to maintain both a persistence DB as well as a full text search engine. Looking forward to test driving it!
If you don't run your own post office, you are a clown-person. Joe 6 pack has an excuse, but nobody here does.
In our recent experience, video in Google Hangouts is great for group calls with offshore devs - much more stable than Skype, and better quality overall.

That's just one aspect, but I can see Google apps posing a serious threat to MSFT.
They demonstrated that they value police state ideals over the civil liberties. Wasn't it expected?
Google needs to charge what ever price needed to get Google Apps making money. Trying to be "the free & cheap" alternative then later drastically raising the price or killing services is unacceptable with important business software that does not even have feature parity with the competition.
Yet another repeat of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4963838
I'm going to add mine for 2012 too
Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"

http://www.amazon.com/The-Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle...
I'm not sure how you'd prove the theory that dinosaurs were cold-blooded, short of taking the rectal temp of a Stegosaur.

But you could falsify the theory by finding characteristics incompatible with being exothermic. Finding the dinosaurs with feathers and other characteristics of the (warm-blooded) birds probably helped, too.

Some of the "incorrect facts" are really theories that were substantiated to the best degree possible at the time, and no falsifying evidence existed at the time.

I suspect some, like "non-functional junk DNA", is a case of scientific qualifiers being ignored in the mainstream media and forgotten.

Humans like "facts", but we inevitably drop the error bars that originally accompanied each new "fact".
4.0.5 was released in 2001, more than a decade ago. When complaining about a language, complain about a current, feature breakage, not an old one that has since been fixed (5.3.0 came out in 2009, 3 years ago).
4-yr vesting with a cliff works, and the concept should probably be left alone. The are plenty of other mechanisms to provide incentives to good people, for the business owner/founder to experiment with.
Pay above market
Groonga CloudSearch (open source Amazon CloudSearch implementation) 1.5.0 is out
It's not that widely held bogus views turn out to be wrong by accident or from some congenital defect in human reasoning.

Issac Newton's physics, while not applying to all possible contexts, still holds as correct over a vast range, and that's because it's properly identifying an aspect of Nature's behavior, and it did so due to Newton's extreme methodological diligence. Some of these other "facts" that get overturned likely did not adhere to Newton's Rules of Reasoning, or had some other flaw that led people to jump to conclusions prematurely.

Of course, it's exceedingly unpopular to point out that we should learn why we make mistakes and then strive to not make them by scrutinizing the source of the error and adopting better methods. Most people are amenable to having their mistakes pointed out, but are extremely offended if you try to point out that the way they are arriving at conclusions is mistaken. It's as if most people don't want to believe that yes, there is a difference between wisdom and foolishness, and instead want to believe that the highest form of foolishness is in fact to believe in wisdom.
There's this odd taboo where people don't want to know (or choose) what their present is.
Current brain-computer interfaces have 96 needle-like electrodes, so can interface with 96 neurons. That produces an enormous amount of data at the sampling rates used, but is already being used for things like controlling robot arms.

In 7.5 years, perhaps it'll be up to 192 neurons, if the connected computers and processors can keep up with the data flow.

7.5 years after that, maybe it'll be up to 384. Etc.
Open Source 'Needs To Ignore' Stallman, says GNU Maintainer
How many of those machines are pwn3d?
Thank you. This is much more useful for the sake of creating code. The raw numbers are irrelevant in the overwhelming majority of cases. What matters are the ratios. They impact the decisions we make every day.
Since both of your links are web services, they are not even comparable to GNU typist, which one can run on ones own computer.

Are the webservice accessible when on a bus without internet connectivity? Is it modifiable so one can customize it fit each personal need and requirements? Is it discoverable for a school to certify that the program is teaching correctly? Can it be certified, under legal liability, as to be safe?

On all of those, neither of the web services can say Yes on those questions. This is a fact when dealing with webservices. On other hand, GNU Typist can be run even when one is without internet connectivity. It can be customized to fit the exact need of a pupil. It can be verified to teach correctly, and can be certified under legal liability to be safe. It can also be verifiable shown as not storing any logs on who is using the tool.
Definitely read the other Hitchhiker's books. At least, the second one, which is as good as the first, if not better. Also, absolutely recommend the radio series. Even after you read the books, it's different enough to keep you entertained, and worth it for Marvin's lines alone.
I wish I had time to re-do the original (cyan) Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. The things I loved about it were:

* error analysis (ie: transposition errors, substitution errors, etc).

* finger-by-finger analysis

* lessons tailored to target speed

* metronome / rhytmic typing

It did a fantastic job of really analyzing and focusing on trouble spots, and it did it back in 1982 or whatever. I think there's a gap / opening for this sort of typing analysis backend that could be plugged in to some different frontends.

in: Source Text + User Keystrokes + Microtimestamps

out: "analysis" + recommendations for future lessons / word lists.

There's so much cool algorithmic stuff you can do with an "analysis + dictionary + markov chain lesson generation".

You really suck at xyz? Why let me generate an infinite pile of semi-nonsense that is either word or letter-pair based and tests you on that portion.
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People should not need to switch accounts.

IMHO Dropbox should not count Team shared files onto each member. Let the admin pay the bills.
Using war to cure terror is like using cyanide to cure a headache.

Osama bin Laden would have killed more Americans by investing in Ford and GM+. And after the bailout, he would have made a profit too!

+ I'm not picking on Ford or GM here, they make fine cars. But automobiles kill far more people every year than terrorism has in the last decade.
The thing that will enable you to design at a real level, is being able to assess designs, including your own. "Having an eye" "Taste". Start getting opinionated about other designs you see. Look at every detail. Be harsh in your evaluation. Then go back to your own work and be just as harsh. (It helps if it isn't work that you just finished).

Just keep designing and being critical of other designs. After a while, show some of your stuff to professional designers and ask them to be honest about it. Learn from this.

Even if you never are able to learn to do good design on your own, this practice will allow you to direct designers much better at some later stage in your career.

Gaining an "eye" is also the only way you can be a real designer. You can't A/B test stuff in your head.

Putting a bunch of elements, both UX and visual together into a coherent whole in your head, using taste is the only way you can break past local maxima and really come up with new things. A/B testing is to polish after.
You found my comment offensive? And you think it helps calling me an asshole? I don't think I need tips from you.
nice tool! Tried searching for friends by first name. Some dont work with just first name. Might need to do finagling with the regex.
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Some of these are tech-related: http://www.meetup.com/cities/us/ny/new_york/

Also, a good Reddit meetup: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Redditors/events/96246432/
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I find the whole situation quite absurd. Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and most of the 2000s, we saw real advancements being made. Things were generally getting better over time.

Fortran made programming much more accessible. C and UNIX made for an effective, practical platform. Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk and ML brought some rigor and new ideas to the table. Perl and Python allowed for rapid development of scripts and prototypes. SQL let us really push relational databases to the limit. Even C++, Java and C# allowed for the development of large, real-world systems.

Then around 2007 or so, everything went completely stupid. We saw the rise of JavaScript and NoSQL, and things have only gotten worse since then. It's like we lost 50+ years of accumulated knowledge, programming language functionality, libraries and platform support.

What happened to our craft? Everything that was good is being discarded, in favor of languages, databases, APIs and platforms that are rubbish. It's not even a case of "worse is better". It's "worse is much worse".