skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see where most of these are coming from. Estimation, consulting/sales, personality, management & leadership. The penguin in the sombrero is harder to pin down. Are they trying to see how you analyse novel situations? As in, "Well, it's wearing a sombrero but comes from the antarctic, so it's likely been on holiday. Since this office isn't in Mexico or the antarctic it's probably on a travelling holiday, which means its young and doesn't have any money. Since it's a construction company, best case is it wants a job as a labourer. Worst case, it wants to use the phone to call its parents and ask for a bail out." I know, call me Sherlock. I expect I've missed the point though. I really would like to know what other people have to say about this question.
Tom Wolfe may be on to something here. At work, I have noticed that a lot of Traders have been showing a quite a bit if interest in the s/w side of the business. One of the sharpest guys I know , a trader, took time off from trading and helped work in the backoffice code development to customize some stuff in one of our trading applications. Other traders seem to be chatting up clients. This is just my first hand anecdotal experience.
Those same corporate apps nearly always require IE.
You could write a bookmarklet for that.

I often use the "page style: no style" in firefox setting in firefox in the view menu. That gets rid of fixed positions and a lot of other annoyances.
Not available on Win8 x64?
Lenovo makes fantastic laptops as well as poor laptops. Apple is probably the only manufacturer where you can make broad statements about their products.

For all other, you have to at least specify the product line for the statement to mean anything at all.
So, I suppose no one has ripped off StackOverflow, right? Seriously? Unbelievable.
I live right off of El Camino Real, otherwise known as CA State RT 82. For those that don't know, this road is Silicon Valley's equivalent to the Main Line of Philadelphia or 57th street in NYC. The only way to travel it via transit is either taking CalTrain or the VTA 22 bus. Caltrain could definitely use work being it only runs every half hour at the best. VTA is an unmitigated disaster. If the bus even shows up at all it certainly won't be on time, and when they get to a stop early they absolutely won't wait for the scheduled time to depart.

If you want to be green out here you have two options, learn to LOVE biking or be prepared to leave hours ahead of when you need to in order to get anywhere at all.
13 Things People Hate about Your Open Source Docs
http://twitter.com/BitTorrent/statuses/289825875678076928
The true fallacy of thinking someone is going to steal "your" idea is in thinking the idea is uniquely yours in the first place, especially if the idea is more of a concept or an entire product rather than something very small like a new feature.

Smartphones were thought up long before the iPhone, web search was thought up long before Google existed, personal tablets were thought up long before the iPad existed, the internet/web itself was basically invented in fiction long before it became a real thing.

I've lost track of the amount of times I've had some grand idea that nobody was doing only to see an announcement months/years later from company XYZ whose product was pretty much exactly my idea, even though I've never publicly shared the idea.

Product/service ideas are always, to some degree, just remixes of older ideas allowed for by current technology. When you have your insight, there are certainly dozens/hundreds of other people around the world with backgrounds similar to your own having vaguely the same idea at virtually the same time. Execution (or in most cases, even bothering to turn the idea into reality) and timing are everything.

Having said all of that, being in stealth mode still isn't always a bad thing because sometimes knowing how you are executing on an idea can be helpful to other people already on the same path as you are.
Silicon Valley might be too low density to support transit inside the city, but is it too low density to support good commuter rail back and forth with SF? I don't think Silicon Valley is less dense than say Westchester County, NY, yet the latter manages to support a pretty great commuter rail network with three lines and 300,000 daily riders within a commuting region of maybe two million people.
I met him a few months ago in Oxford, UK when he was speaking. Really enjoyed his talk and he was very approachable in the bar afterwards.
Safari (the only one getting the block) isn't even the most popular browser on OSX. Chrome + Firefox have 10x more users than Safari on Macs.
Trivial math with a relatively inaccessible notation. The notation is why most people seem to have a hard time recognizing it as math I think, people have tunnel-vision and think of "math" as the stuff they learned in primary school.
I still disagree.

Collaboration is the winning strategy? For whom?

The writer forgot to add, "for the strongest player." For the weaker player, collaboration usually means assimilation. This is not always bad, but it must be addressed plainly.
The issue isn't ownership of the file, it's the act of copying. If the Kindle owner made copies of Hemingway's works in the U.S., then he would get in trouble.
This article makes me want to start a blog section to LaunchSky.com -- just to post this article to it and our signed up beta-users.

Based on the customer survey's we've asked a large group of the beta sign-ups, this is a fairly significant fear in the community. ~42% of responders said they'd be concerned with someone stealing their idea, so we pivoted to build a private sharing feature alongside the community exposure to an idea.

While I agree that there are steal-able parts to ideas and the creation process, the fear behind certain (often unprotectable pieces) are just about as ineffective and productively constricting as anything I can imagine.
du -h --max-depth=1 -x

I use this frequently to keep an eye on disk used by user directories. It returns the disk space used by each directory in the current directory.
Gressgraph - Visualize Your iptables Firewall
I think you missed his point. :)
It seems to me to be a cop-out to suggest you can't have good public transport in a low density area. I come from the city of Perth in Australia which is very sparse and it has managed to create a very good intermodal system with light-rail corridors connected by an extensive bus system that feeds to the rail system. You can get pretty much from anywhere in the city to anywhere else with a bus service within half-a-mile, often involving trips of 50 miles or more.

While Google Maps' colors don't make it easy to visualize, perhaps you can get a sense of it: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Perth,+Australia&hl=en...
I recently read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg which from my perspective goes in line with some of the things you stated. It's changed how I view setting goals. I still will decide on some specific result I want, but I focus most of my energy on deciding on and trying to inculcate habits that will move me toward the desired result.

Anyway, the book is good. I think it covers an important aspect of goal-setting that can easily be overlooked.
Christ, just admit you did it so you could be associated with the term when someone Googles your name.
So Linux does not have C++ those day? (Just kidding.)
But C++ definitely matches C feature for feature, even tough the way or doing things are not always the same.
And without a working prototype? Wow.
Form Follows Function - Interactive HTML/js experiments
Especially when it is the theoretical target audience (other engineers!) that can't understand them.
Workaround for Win 8: http://cl.ly/image/2g1f1h2A1h3B
You mean because there were no good music artists like Elvis and the Beatles 20 years ago? Or even Michael Jackson for that matter?
One would be hard-pressed to argue that Windows won because C++ is a great language

I'm not arguing that. I'm not even saying I know precisely why C or C/C++ is good. I'm just saying, when every major OS is written in it, can you really dismiss it so easily?
Smart fork says stop eating so fast
As someone who rides the VTA LRT and Buses daily since I don't have a car, I'd also like to point out how filthy the vehicles are. The back of most buses and the centers of most train cars smells like urine. Sometimes, your shoe gets stuck to sticky residue on the seat floors and many seats routinely have stains on them.
Speed of transit is one thing, but maintaining a standard of hygiene across all vehicles seems like a much lower hanging fruit for the VTA.
We have a Java applet used by many large companies and we have found there are very few corporate Macs out there.
With the demise of the Kindle DX, there are no large format eink tablets. Which is a terrible shame, I love my DX. Nothing else comes even close.

I'd like a full 8.5x11 size eink tablet even better. I'd buy one today if I could.
a good argument for justification of piracy

Which, by the way, is indistinguishable from rationalizing the sentiment of "I want stuff without having to pay for it"
What if you need to enable access to Java 7 again on your Mac machine? Is there a setting you click that says, "I know the risks, let it run anyway."?

I find it hard to believe that a consumer desktop PC can be remotely controlled like that and leave NO input to the user.
What's the quality like on the cheaper non-thinkpad models?
Besides application tracking, no identifiable/compromisable data is being sent.
Hacker Fair 3
Why is it seemingly assumed that mass transit is a panacea? It's not! Folks like to compare mass transit in the US to other countries like Japan, Germany, etc. Guess what folks: Those other countries have waaaaaaay higher population densities than the US and typically don't have vast suburbs. In other words: The ship has sailed on mass transit any place suburbs exist. It's not cost-effective, hence the extreme levels of subsidization (read: stealing from taxpayers) required to make it economical.
I don't think that's in the spirit of the concepts of "deciding" and "choosing". When they made the commitment, they believed they would remember to do it. They may have made an error of judgment in not taking more precautions to ensure that they remembered, but that is not the same as choosing not to do it.
Mickey Mouse is protected by trademark.

The Steamboat Willie article is specious. Thanks to a failure to register copyrights (back when those things mattered) the Fleischer studio "Superman" cartoons are in the public domain. The world did not end. People may use and sell these cartoons, but they still have to be careful not to run aground against the Superman trademark.

The same thing would happen to Steamboat Willie.
The Thinkpad is hardly a poor laptop, it's the only laptop certified by NASA for use in space.

http://blog.lenovo.com/products/thinkpad-laptop-nasa-youtube...
Oklahoma is a defined area with one state government. Silicon Valley is made up of parts of a bunch of different counties and cities, all with the power to make their own rules.

In your example, it would be like saying 'the midwest' or something general like that.

That said: Europe was able to solve this and it's even more of a giant clusterfuck of governments. One region of one state of one country should be able to figure it out.
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."

-- Howard H. Aiken, designer of the Harvard Mark I computer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_H._Aiken)
> In fact, the county of San Mateo voted against BART because they didn't want people from other counties to come and take their jobs.

Yes. How dare the county of San Mateo concern itself with the needs of the people who actually live there. Inexcusable.
If they had really good stylus support it might work. Seeing people trying to type on a floppy faux keyboard doesn't inspire me. This is definitely a promising technology, but I think it's being misapplied.
Nanotubes turned into super fibers
Libdftw dynamically balances a treewalk over many nodes in a distributed system
I disagree. Disney is the perfect example of when copyright should be extended. Disney (the man) is dead but he didn't die owning a portfolio of cartoon IP. Disney (the corporation) owned that and still has a global business that lives and dies by the fact that it can maintain its brand. I don't see any benefit to mankind if people were suddenly free to print Mickey Mouse onto t-shirts and sell them.
Be careful not to confuse IDEAS with OPPORTUNITIES.

With caveats, you can generally be loose with ideas.

Opportunities are a very different matter. Opportunities represent an immediate or near-immediate path to revenue. They are stolen every day.

What's the difference?

IDEA:

Let's make a new toaster oven to sell at Walmart.

OPPORTUNITY:

I just met with a Joe Buyer at Walmart. They need a toaster oven with a digital timer to retail for no more than $59. They are willing to issue a PO for 100K units. They are actively looking for one. If they can see a viable prototype they'll issue the PO and close the deal.

I hope you can spot the difference between the two. Which one would you steal?
Bitcoins are constantly being mined by other people that have spent money for physical hardware; every coin they generate devalues whatever currency you're holding. I fail to see how you consider central-bank driven inflation theft but not the whole concept of mining Bitcoins.
BART _does_ serve San Mateo County, with six stations, so I'm not sure what you are speaking of.
If you change it from a nominal fee to a progressively larger and larger fee, you let content owners who really care about their long-term IP ownership compensate the public for the fact that the work isn't part of the public domain, as it otherwise would be.
They were given the copyright only with the limitation that it would expire someday. You have the argument backwards.

Can any one make the argument why we should give Disney an unlimited monopoly on the content they create? Why should we pay for courts and systems to enforce their artificial scarcity, if they cannot uphold their side of the agreement?
Haha, I'd be happy if VTA paid more attention to the time their platforms display. The time on at least half the platforms is off by 3 to 4 minutes from my phone's time (which is set on automatic).
Forget that, when DST stopped in November, the large VTA digital clocks were displaying PDT instead of PST for ONE WHOLE WEEK, and I'm talking about a major station in downtown San Jose.
So yeah, catching the train is basically a guessing game.
> The penguin in the sombrero is harder to pin down.

My response would be, "If a penguin in a sombrero walks through the door and starts talking, the most plausible reason for why he's here is that you've spiked my coffee with LSD."
This is a discussion about public transit, why was the ad hominem attack necessary, or the blatant straw-man stereotyping? Has anyone here indicated that they live in NYC/Chicago and haven't been elsewhere?

FWIW, I've lived in 9 cities in 3 countries across 2 continents. This includes San Francisco, and I can tell you, I've lived in metro areas substantially smaller than the SFBay and had better transit. There are many places in the US substantially worse, but there are also many others with a similar density profile or population size that are substantially better.
It was not the county that voted against a BART system that would go around the Bay, it were the interests of a real estate devloper and Caltrain that fucked this up for the rest of us. It never even got to be voted on.

Seeing the pathetic state of public transit in the Bay Area, and thinking how much better it could have been, it incenses me to see how darwinistic capitalism rides roughshot over the common interest.

Here the story from our local paper, lest we don't forget history:

Electric trains could have been here long ago. In the late 1950s, San Mateo County was one of five counties in the San Francisco Bay Area Transit District. The district could assess taxes and issue bonds and had a round-the-Bay light-rail system planned, according to a history at the website of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).

The plan derailed, according to the BART account, because San Mateo County supervisors were "cool to the plan." They chose to exit the district in December 1961, citing the proposed system's "high costs" and the "adequate service" from Southern Pacific commuter trains, now Caltrain.

George Mader, who retired in 2010 after 45 years as Portola Valley's town planner, has another angle. The "cool to the plan" characters were two men of influence, he said in a March 11 letter to Portola Valley Mayor Ted Driscoll.

The "major problems," Mr. Mader said, were T. Louis Chess, who chaired the county Board of Supervisors and worked for Southern Pacific Railway, and David D. Bohannon, a "major player" in the county and the developer of the then-new Hillsdale Shopping Center.

Mr. Bohannon claimed that BART would take shoppers away from Hillsdale and into San Francisco, Mr. Mader said, adding that "shopping was rather good (in San Francisco) at the time." For his part, Mr. Chess was protecting Southern Pacific, Mr. Mader said. And the county voters would have had to decide on whether to join BART.

"These short-sighted and selfish people did not let the residents vote," Mr. Mader said. "A travesty!"

EDIT: cited from http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=10935

EDIT: clarification
Who dropped the ball, Microsoft or OEMs?
SV is suburbs by any standards. It's completely unservable for mass transit, so it's no surprise that there is little of that. Only SF, Oakland, Berkeley, and SJ have the urban density and mix of housing, commerce, and industry that makes mass transit work. Cupertino is never, ever going to have effective mass transit unless they bulldoze the place and start over.
Indeed. I find ctrl-p ctrl-a is faster than going to the cursors.
I put Arch on my MBA a while back. I used it exclusively for a while, but ended up going back to OS X. The trackpad drivers just aren't there yet, and with such a limited keyboard I really need the support for 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-finger gestures.
But that's just it, I lived in San Mateo county until recently, and having BART service would have been great for me!

The argument that public transit might steal jobs is one of the lamest excuses I've ever heard for not having it.

Governments are going to have to get over it; mass public transit is best option for the future of everyone.
Don't be a dreamer, be a planner
What you see as "Apple is remotely fiddling", my grandmother likely sees it as "Apple fixed something for me" (if she were to become aware of what they did).

Don't assume your perspective or belief is shared by vast majority of users.
I was actually pretty pissed that it wasn't explicitly labeled as a "remote code execution" vulnerability in the CVE post title. This is open source, you don't get to hide. The code is there. Trying to be clever about releasing a patch isn't going to help, because every patch gets looked at by a large community of security people. Some of those people are the good guys, but some are the bad guys.

Nothing about this situation was good, but hiding it would have only made it worse. When you're serving shit sandwiches for lunch, it's best to let everyone know that's what's on the menu. End of story.
Saw this on the Technology Review feed, being able to replace copper wires with carbon nano-tube fibers will be a huge deal if this holds up. The players in the story are all credible so that is a plus in its favor. I'm particularly interested in the signal transmission characteristics of such a system since a data center's CAT5/6 cabling is getting much more expensive as the price of copper rises and this could offset some of that if we similar signals can be transmitted over it.

The other area this might change radically is wiring across moving parts (like pick-n-place robots) which can (and do) suffer from metal fatigue in the conductors between parts that move relative to each other.

Something to keep an eye out for.
I just installed Slackware on my 2007 17" MBP because Leopard was EOL'd and I'm not enamoured with Mountain Lion as a development environment. I wish I had done it sooner.
Bitcoin has inherent value and "physical properties" that far exceed what Gold can offer.

1. Bitcoins can't be counterfeited. If you receive them with even just a few confirmations on the blockchain, it's probably going to be there forever.

2. You can confirm the legitimacy of Bitcoins, en masse, without any cost.

3. You can store bitcoins without any cost.

4. Bitcoins are much easier to transfer to other people.

5. You can form contracts and advanced redemption conditions for transferred coins.

If Bitcoin had no "inherent value" then it should be worthless. Maybe Mises Regression Theorem is wrong?
Harsh Truth - Sometimes the algorithm is on purpose obfuscated to make the authors gain a competitive edge.

PS - Speaking from CS perspective.
The density isn't the problem in the way you're thinking. There is definitely enough people per square mile in the Valley to at least support good commuter rail (I don't think it's any less dense than the suburban areas around Chicago or NYC). The problem is density around the train lines. In Westchester County, NY, every Metro North is the hub of a small urbanized area. I live 20+ miles from Manhattan, but in a 40-story high-rise from which I can walk to the train station in under 5 minutes. Have you seen what's around the Cal Train stations? Nothing!

Here is the area around a Palo Alto Cal Train station: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=palo+alto+cal+train+station...

Here is the area around a Westchester Metro North station: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Station+Plaza+N,+New+Rochelle,...
Right, the Phusion post was referring to the previous bug though, right?

I disagree with Moe that labeling the latest bug as an SQL-I instead of RCE is a good strategy to ward off blackhats.
My point was that the Thinkpad is hardly the only laptop series that Lenovo makes ...

And you can't really make any broad statements about the Thinkpad family either since lenovo introduced Thinkpad Edge and Thinkpad L. Which is just your typical cheap laptop with a quality label on it...

The "real" thinkpads however are great and I'm a huge fan of the Thinkpad X-series. But that doesn't make all of Lenovos laptops or even Thinkpads great.
Facebook probably looks awesome when you do that.
Schemanator: Love Child of Deployinator and Schema Changes
Why is it idiotic?

I see more value in having Disney pay an appropriately large amount of money to keep their IP than I see in making sure that their specific content gets into the public domain.

Who cares about steamboat willy if Disney is going to fight tooth and nail over it? It's everything else that will expire into the public domain that I care about.
Some of us prefer not to wait for our computers.

This message was brought to you by Thinkpad T430s.
8-car (or even shorter, sometimes) trains at rush hour are also infuriating. But mainly what BART needs is better software so they can shorten the headway.
you could write your app with a web app ,get a quick preview , compile it and deliver it through a cloud service so you can test localy directly ( it already exists ) , applicationcraft .
I'm not sure I agree that Apple should try to explain to the users what they did. It is really hard coming up with one message to communicate something to tens of millions of people. The end result is often confusion or panic--both of which I would not want to see in my users if I am Apple.
Low density is a reason to invest in public transportation, not a reason to divest from public transportation. To wit: most of Queens was farmland when the subway transit was built.

Good public transportation, along with solid city centers, begets population density (and economies of scale).

Poorly planned public transportation lingers as an afterthought; a mistake; a rallying cry that public transportation does not work in low-density areas.