skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I am not perfectly happy with 'role' to be honest, but was trying to find a good analogy for those who haven't read my influences.

I've always appreciated the simplicity of Heidegger's way of talking about this in terms of 'as' vs. 'is.' There's a degree of abstraction there that, I suppose, may not work for everyone, but I find it encapsulates the issue quite well. Deleuze is also excellent here -- I saw you mentioned BwO (and have Nomadology referenced in your profile), but I think you would particularly like The Fold and parts of Difference and Repetition, both of which approach the 'is' as endlessly, imperfectly repeated 'as', much the way one thinks of DNA mutatedly reproducing itself. Making a mental note to raid my library tonight and pull out some choice bits to send your way.
I'm curious how many Earth-sized planets have a twin planet like our moon. Without the moon we'd be tidally locked, and despite all our water we wouldn't be nearly as life-friendly.
IMO if there's a single social network to worry about [going evil], it's LinkedIn. It's a phisher's wet dream right behind genealogy sites, and the data they have access to is worth magnitudes more than your run-of-the-mill "social" data.

Sure, you can better target me for a small-time sale because you saw that I "liked" some nuanced TV show on FB, but that's chump change compared to having pretty much unfettered access to 1000's of executives....execs who write checks on a monthly basis that are larger than what most households spend in a year.

There's also the worry that if they become a sort of de facto hiring platform, then we'll be forced to ante up for a premium membership in order to simply be considered for an interview.

Warranted fears or not, I don't trust them and never will.
Most UK households have upgraded to 3000W electric kettles by now, I'd guess.
I often include a link to my profile in emails with the idea that if the person has or cares about it, they can see recommendations. If not, well, then hopefully it doesn't matter to them and it's not a negative. A few people have commented on it positively, not many. The vast majority seem oblivious. That's not overly surprising considering how many people in TV news seem to not be overly "techy".

Usually something small, like:
Here is my LinkedIn profile, with recommendations from previous coworkers:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jwbridges

(I know, I need to re-write that summary pretty bad.) The only thing that leaves me scratching my head is that my profile is stuck at 90%. It asks me to fill in my current position, and describe my current position. I don't have one. You'd think a site focused around looking for jobs would have that as an option.
It's 4x the pixels and usually works out at about 1.5-2x the bytes.
Not economic - runtime performance.

The rMBP actually has 5 scaled resolution modes with 2:1 being the 'ideal' 'retina' mode that the laptop defaults to. In 2:1 mode, no filtering is done. Occasionally to get a bit more desktop space I'll shift mine into one of the modes with non-integer scaling to make the desktop bigger, and in those modes filtering is applied. There are two non-integer modes where the scaling is N:1 where N>2 as well. Switch into any of these non-integer scaling modes, though, and screen rendering is slightly but noticeably affected - scrolling windows in particular is much choppier in any of the filtered modes. This is the runtime cost of touching that many pixels in such a large display buffer in order to oversample and filter.

As for why 2:1 mode looks so blurry, I'm guessing that its a combination of pixel glow in low resolution displays smoothing edges and comparison to the relative sharpness of the rest of the OSX UI.
Well, from that perspective, the Hangout feature has turned out to be a clear winner. Has it not?

Unlike its intended use, I personally have been using private Circles for bookmarks where I drop lengthy articles in my Read Later circle (where I am the only one there) to come back to it as time permits. G+'s search feature is not bad and if you add few keywords to the text box of a post, you can make a fine bookmarking service for yourself.
Playing devil's advocate re CC bills, one of my friends has always maintained that the only reason he hasn't paid for porn online is because he doesn't want his bank manager to know he's gay. (Regardless of what would appear on his bank statement, it's just not something he wanted to risk - I've never asked for an in depth reason as to why it's a risk).
A few thoughts on the Lumia 920
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I think that hiding things on a CC statement is a feature. There's a reason so many "adult websites" advertise the fact that they'll bill you with a nondescript name when they charge you.
Because I don't want to end up being sued. Even if it is completely true I don't want to open myself up to litigation from this former co-founder.
It is a lot harder in the US and too late for me anyway. They'll offer to take the whole system back, not just parts. (In the same way you can't get a refund for the headrests in a car if you don't want them.)
Aye, my example case when talking about it with friends has been "bitcoin BSDM gear, so nobody finds out you're secretly a bondage bronie"
I can prove them, but getting sued by the co-founder or anything along those lines is not on my agenda.

The matter was closed, I would like to leave it closed.
I wonder how accurately the tech adoption model applies to political ideas. It can't be far off.
Would also like to know!
The fact that somebody would even consider comparing 10 years of progress to several thousand years implies that some pretty good stuff must have happened in the last decade.
They do still work and classic pixels are scaled up to 4 retina pixels. Its just that those blocky 4 retina pixels in scaled-up bitmaps on websites look very bad next to the website's razor-sharp rendered text.
Good work! However, there is no mention of telecommuting/remote positions. Even as a US worker, I prefer remote work, and it baffles me that us "internet folk" are not working hard to fight the industrial-era assumption that software has to be written in a central office.
hell of a lot smaller.
The term "portable" is really pushing it... this thing is huge (and kinda clunky).

I'm sure it's a nice gaming platform (real controller, big screen, powerful graphics, etc), but I can't imagine many people with one of these things on the subway, or really anyplace else except at home. It's way too big to just slip into your bag and carry around with you.

One of the big reasons the Nintendo GB beat out its competitors for so long was that it was really portable, really tough, and fairly cheap. Even the larger PSP is quite portable.

I assume they've done some market research to gauge acceptance, but ... I'm slightly mystified as to the market. Maybe as a home gaming device for kids in their room, and others in a post-TV culture (lots of people I know just "watch TV" on their laptop)?
Hey, I live in San Rafael and I invent stuff :P see my robots, they're everywhere. there's still some hardware being designed over there, in addition to us there's Inertia Labs and Calbay only in a 10 mile radius from my place. Although that's the north bay I guess... maybe you have a point.
tsort. It's pointless until you need it, but when you need it, it's totally awesome.

less. Overkill, but SO MUCH BETTER THAN tail -f. Seriously. You can toggle "follow mode" without losing your place in the incoming stream.
When rewriting large amounts of ASCII text (or comments in Code), I really find "par" helpful.

: Just use it in :
: vi with your cursor in front of a badly wrapped block of text. :
: Press !}par<enter> and the text will be :
: piped to par :
: which fixes up :
: the :
: formatting and keeps aligned frame markers :
: intact magically. :

: Just use it in vi with your cursor in front of a badly wrapped :
: block of text. Press !}par<enter> and the text will be piped :
: to par which fixes up the formatting and keeps aligned frame :
: markers intact magically. :

http://www.nicemice.net/par/ (or apt-get install par)
Wow, that's pretty steep. Maybe that's just a west coast thing.

I don't think most developers realize how much recruiters are getting paid for placements. 25% is pretty standard across US, we're less then that with our flat rate.

Where I live (Ohio) that's 50% of the salary of a developer with 5 years of experience.

This is why we built this product - assuming you are even remotely decent at programming and write code in modern languages, a dev with 5 years of exp can easily be making more then 80K+.

We have several companies right now that are hiring and paying more then that for roles where the developer can telecommute 100% from anywhere in the country. Not only do they pay well but they have really awesome teams.
It's a C library, though — is that acceptable for PyPI? Thanks for the feedback!
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Our solution to recruiter spam:

Become a recruiter.

I'm sorry but how is your business model any different from that of a recruiter? (Other than claims of human or AI filtered quality.)

I just don't see how you will not run into the exact same problems that existing recruiters run into.

What makes you different than a normal recruiter building profiles of companies and employers and soliciting both? This just looks very familiar, abeit drop dead gorgeous. :-)

I guess if good design and AI are enough to solve the recruiter problem, then count me in, it's just not clear to me how you are really different from your landing page. (Other than of course it is beautiful, seriously fantastic work.)
Joeri was referring to QNX which is the core of BBX (or BB10, not sure what it is being called).

Apparently, many of your home electronics likey run QNX, and you wouldn't know it.
Glad you are aware that in at least some contexts, zero really is nothing, rather than '0 isn't really "nothing", though', as you claimed earlier.

You write: 'Putting a zero into an int certainly does not signify "no value". It signifies a value, and that value is zero.'

Again, the way you write this makes it seem like you say that this has always been the case and is the only way it could be, when in fact this idea of zero being "just another value" is a fairly recent one. And the way our machines handle scalar values (and where what you write is largely true) is even more recent and more of a special case.

'What number is greater than three but less than one? Nothing. There is no such number. "0" is not a correct answer.'

'Nothing' is also not the correct answer. What you have is a contradiction, which is not nothing. Or you could talk about the possible results as sets, in which case you have the empty set, which is also not nothing. It does have the cardinality 0, though.

"The empty set is not the same thing as nothing; rather, it is a set with nothing inside it and a set is always something. "

Of course, the empty set can be used to signify "nothing", just as the number zero can.

"The number zero is sometimes used to denote nothing. The empty set contains no elements."

Again, not arguing that you can't have contexts in which "nothing" and "zero" are distinct. Just pointing out that those contexts are hardly universal enough to justify a statement saying that nothing really isn't zero.

Things are a bit more complicated and less clear-cut than that.

Which is why I always liked C's and Objective-C's somewhat loose but intuitively (for me!) workable handling of NULL, 0, nil, false etc.
No, see, when the price goes down it's "volatility" but when it goes up it's an "investment". Also, people think a higher exchange rate "validates" Bitcoin and will encourage more trade.
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Another thing recent customers can give that is very valuable is useful feedback on the product's usability. They are still discovering where buttons are and how to use the product, so they can tell you "I was looking for X, and could not find it" or "X was in page Y, but I was looking for it in page Z."

Experienced users end up trained (in the Pavlov sense) to do some pretty obscure clicking to accomplish a given job, but they know exactly what to click and where, and don't give it a second thought. I think of this as the "Microsoft Windows Syndrome" - Windows has pieces of it stuck in really unexpected places if you stop and think about it, but everybody "just knows" to right-click on e.g. "Start / Computer" to get to certain Windows features, even though most configuration is accessed through "Start / Control Panel".

The unfortunate irony of "Windows Syndrome" is that, if you move an existing item from an unintuitive, but "everybody's been trained" location to the intuitive location, you will break everybody's mental model of the software and they will scream bloody murder. The Office "Ribbon" is an example: when it first came out, the people that operated via memorized click-sequences were lost and very upset.
Usually, the notion that the business is "outmoded" is describing one that cannot survive without supporting regulation and that they may not survive even with it due to inherent business problems. Namely, "we can't stop people from sharing stuff unless we control everyone's computer" (or something close to that).

That's not really analogous to a hypothetical web-based business with a security hole. If anything, natural selection would then favor those businesses without such flaws, rather than seeing the industry itself wiped out. One might think that it already has, in that I remember the bad old days of CGI programs written in C. (I'm sure there's someone out there who could do that securely, but...)
Chasing the Rainbow of success
> it baffles me that us "internet folk" are not working hard to fight the industrial-era assumption that software has to be written in a central office

Have you considered that some of us LIKE working in an office?
He was outed as a sex fetishist. The libel action was brought over the Nazi label, and the judge found there was no evidence of a Nazi theme. If the judge had found there was a Nazi theme, then the libel action would have failed - truth is a defence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7527319.stm
Heck, my $100 non-Apple phone has a ~330 ppi display, same as a "retina" iPhone. And high-res displays (especially from Korea) have plummeted in price. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292450 High-DPI won't be a niche for long.
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I expect the intent was really the other way around. To someone who is truly interested in what you have to offer, a buck or two is just a rounding error on the salary they will eventually pay you. To someone who is harvesting contact information to fire spam your way, $2 * n-number-of-contacts starts to add up very quickly.
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GET SHIT DONE.
Regarding computation, I respectfully disagree. I believe the shift from be from software back to hardware again.

Failures in Computation: 1) general artificial intelligence, this has been touted that it's just around the corner since 1970's; so far most practical AI has been just variants of expert systems. 2) Bioinformatics, this was touted in the early 2000's and by the Kurzeweil-crowd as the singularity moment that will bring advances to biotech; unfortunately, all of the mountains of data has not yielded any concrete results because it's too complex for simple statistical methods. 3) Quantitative finance: from the failure of stat arb funds in 2007 to the blind trust in BSM in derivatives risk management software, mathematical models have beautiful assumptions that the world is smooth whereas the real world is not.

Emergence of Hardware: Fab labs, 3D printers will enable delivery of real consumer products via CAD schema. Alternative energy research, medical robotics for remote surgical operations. Just look at the real trailblazers of Silicon Valley, SpaceX, Tesla and Google Driver-less cars. All hardward projects. Personally, I'd like to bone up EE, molecular biology lab protocols, CAD, MechE skills instead of RoR or Facebook APIz.
My guess is that Corrie's kettle effect is similarly powerful, but since it's not a BBC series the BBC chose not to feature it in their documentary...

I'm also a little bit cynical about how the show presented the failure of the French interconnector - I'm inclined to assume that the documentary producers egged up the seriousness of the situation a little bit in order to provide the obligatory reality-TV deadline-drama.
Yeah, I go to school in Ohio and am going to be working on the west coast. Salaries on the west coast are >2x (close to 3x) what I would have made in Ohio (Cleveland).
A "hands on preview" of a games console where "I didn't get a chance to personally try out gaming with the console"?
If it were properly defined, it would get torn apart. It's an ideological banner for disparate, otherwise-opposed groups to unite under.
Well, i don't know.. i have a very slow internet connection and a very standard 1366x768 resolution (which i guess is by far the most common nowadays on laptops!). I wouldn't want to wait like 4 times as much to view webpages!
I can understand his arguments though. Everyone wants nice and crispy graphics.

And here is the real solution that fixes resolution and bandwith problems once and for all, atleast for icons and most of the stuff a webpage is made of (which he doesn't even mention once!): SVG. Can we please move on and ship vector graphics (for all non-photo content)?

P.S.: Yes, bad browser support, yada yada yada.. Still, what he proposes is by no means a solution for the real problem. What happens with the next generation displays?!
Different people might be involved with each initiative.
It is possible! Go for it! From the FAQ:

"Do I have to be an MIT student to participate?
Nope! Non-MIT students are welcome."

(www.battlecode.org)
Often true, but not exclusively so. One can sometimes create a process partitioning solution to a problem by exploiting speculative execution. You start workers which speculate the previous execution will result in their being run. If that speculation turns out to be false you discard their results, it if turned out to be true you continue with them. There was a talk at ISSCC about doing speculative branch prediction this way, two compute units where one proceeeds as if the branch isn't taken while the other proceeds as if it is, and when you finally get the result back that says which would have happened you retire the other thread, making it available for the next branch.
Depends on the shell. In zsh (with EXTENDED_GLOB): *(/) matches only directories.
Just a small ui thing. When the info icon is clicked the layout flicks everytime. Can get annoying for some people.
.. Especially some of us who have children.
> No. He was a philologist.

I forgot the exact term, googled the one I used, saw it was a thing, and assumed I had remembered it correctly. :( My bad.
quoting anil dash (https://twitter.com/anildash/status/221353763842174976):

"Rather than optimizing your website for Retina displays, invest your budget on the 30x as many people who have visual/sight challenges."

In the long run, the OP is probably right and we're going to have to deal with retina.
Dumping a mysql or mongo database for offsite backups
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Have you ever seen the movie Middle Men? It's about some Internet entrepreneurs who setup a payment processor for porn sites. The transaction would show up as "24/7 billing" on your credit card statements. Definitely worth watching.
But the shift on gay marriage has gained ground far more quickly than I recall anyone predicting. Even fifteen years ago, I doubt that most people (on any side of the issue) would have guessed we'd be remotely as far along as we are today. As far as I can tell, that progress has been largely the result of a small but significant number of gay people choosing to be much more outspoken than the previous norm and to actively make the case for equal rights (rather than just waiting for generational change).
favicon is only forgotten by those that never check their logs.

(Which should be part of the checklist, check your friggin' logs instead of assuming you never miss anything.)
Why not use CBC, not send IV, and assume first plaintext block is garbage?
Of course, some people like working in offices; that was never disputed. However, there are an increasing number of organizations which have caught on that offices are not "software factories", but rather, an optional luxury.
Trading page load time and bandwidth usage for crisper pixels is not exactly what I would call polish.
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I would agree, but the pricing page only claims compatibility with more modern browsers: "Cross-browser tested (IE 9+, Chrome, Safari, & Firefox)"

When's the last time you saw a laptop that old running one of those browsers? I typically see them running IE6 or 7.
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At the national level, I agree completely. At the local and state, those bail outs were not well received and the phrase "crony capitalism" has seeped into a lot of talk. I get the feeling that the DC insider would do well to start listening.
Correct. It used to say "This 16 year old from Slovakia has a better sales page than you". I think somebody posted it because they thought it was well executed and wanted HN to see it, but the title change makes it look like the creator of the site itself is pestering HN for accommodation.

I like the way HN's policy on titles prevents Reddit-esque editorialising, but it has backfired pretty badly in this case.
As far as getting into specifics, how have questions like "How often does that happen?" worked compared to questions like "when is the last time that happened?" In other words, having the user speak about a particular instance versus generalizing about a "typical" day.
Show HN: Ignoring all the rules for a "launching soon page"
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You're falling victim to a common mistake people make when they rely on anecdotal evidence to answer this question. Consumer apps by their nature are more popular, and you're thus more likely to have heard of them.