skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how many things are similar in my own biography.

OP: chess, checkers - me: school olympics, chemistry, math, physics

OP: tour trauma, when asking tour guide a question, everybody laughed - me: tour trauma when tour guide played naughty joke on my mom and everybody laughed

OP: abusive dad, divorced early - me: no dad, left at birth (fortunately awesome grandpa that taught me Ohm's law, how to drill, solder and lots of other stuff)

OP and me: interest in psychology (for me ended with learning what Freud was saying, I have no business in branch of science where name of such clueless bent puppy is remembered)

OP: crappy kindergarten experience, me: spent few hours in kindergarten, don't remember anything but I never went back there, I cried too much when they tried to drag me there

Fortunately, I had (still have) great, stable mother, I had close friends (full honesty with them, nearly kind of mind melt) until I was 17 or so (OP had some till 12).

I'm 34. My true self kind of melded with my fake self. They switch in seconds. When I'm interacting with acquaintances I still fake it. Often I fake amusement because I want to come off as cheerful, but I'm rarely truly amused. Pretty often I fake quite well which makes me proud. But I don't have to fake with few people that are close to me. I just have to restrain myself from exposing full me in some cases, but I guess most people do that even (especially?) with their loved ones.

I went different way than OP, I was madly in love two times as a teenager, now I have de-facto wife. She's awesome. After 8 years or so of the relationship, from time to time I feel that I love her and I feel the urge to tell her that. Not sure if that's unusual but I think it's a good sign.

But I know I chose one path. And sometimes I long for the other, for being a shut-in. I hate going out. I hate meeting people who are not my closes friends. I don't eagrely await meeting even my closest friends. Social interaction exhausts me. I used my relationship to shed off almost all of my friends. Still I think living among people takes at least 80% of my energy. I have only 20% left for doing the stuff I actually care about.

As they say, grass is always greener on the other side. I'd probably be same looser with too high IQ and too little motivation if I were a shut-in. But one can dream.
Tel Aviv is the best tech hub outside of the US and is thus very competitive for getting talent. If having a fancy office gets Google the brightest engineers then they are getting a bargain.

For more info the book Start-up Nation details stories and explains how their culture fosters entrepreneurship.
Organizations should not be able to donate to campaigns or political action committees. Unions, superpacs, all of it.

If an organization wants to petition its members to donate to a campaign or political action committee, go for it. But it cannot coerce, it cannot apply punitive measures to members that do not donate, and it cannot be a religious institution that receives tax-exempt status.
For /learnmore or seat14a.com ? Thanks!
I with they had gone for a more spectacular title, e.g. "Robot drills hole in Mars!".
They announced the complete system specs(http://www.polygon.com/2013/2/20/4009940/playstation-4-tech-... ) That's more than enough to "help" competitors.

The console manufacturers don't have any reason to copy each others aesthetics, because confusing branding doesn't help any of them, and there's no functional reason for them to all have the same shape/form factor.
I would suggest looking into the Redhat certifications. Even if you don't want to take the test, they cover a wide range of topics that will give you a good base. The list of exam objectives alone will point you in the right direction to get started. You aren't likely to brush into things like autofs just playing around at home. But something like that is much more common in larger environments.

Learn to do things that you read about in system admin blogs. Spinning up VMs, clearing log files, and setting up monitoring systems. Learn to roll your own package. Even better yet maintain one for a distro and put that on your resume.

Make a effort to become familiar with several scripting tools. You don't have to master them all, but make sure to pick up enough to be able to read code in bash, perl, python, and maybe even ruby.

The final step to being a Linux admin is learn Windows. Most real world jobs require that you have to deal with both. Even if it is not your primary responsibility, you will need to know how to inter-operate with Active Directory and the services that hang off of it.
Science fiction is not prior art. Speculative ideas don't count.
All of your data is encrypted and stored in the Barracuda Networks cloud, which is not based on a third-party service like S3.
I have 'systems programming' on my resume. I have experience with windows and linux device drivers and kernel development.

I occasionally have recruiters contact me believing this means I'm a perl/awk/bash wizard.
It says "each person". I think I understand what they mean, but honestly, I'm not sure. For small teams using contractors, this is really unclear.
What is "Quality" To a QA Engineer?
This is not the death of the hardware, it's the death of the hardware form factor (or design). The hardware is still important.
I just read the earnings report a few hours ago. Gross margin did not decrease, it increased from (17)% to 8%. The brackets in the earnings report mean it is a negative number.

Edit: Ok the article is now updated.
I'm sure they would cite it. That doesn't make it right, nor does it make him any less of a victim.
'simply' is not a word to use lightly in that sentence.

I've experimented with brain controllers and certainly at the moment, they leave a lot to be desired. At this stage, I'd rather have an unobtrusive clicker/keyer on one hand, a bluetooth throat mike or do gesture detection through the video than any kind of brain interface.

I do have an idea that maybe you could do something with pressure changes in the ear canal, but I'd have to do some experimentation to see if it's really practical.

Basically you want something unobtrusive that doesn't take significant chunks of your body out of action.
Just curious what you do with returned inventory? I adhere to particular brands because I more or less know general quality and more importantly, I know how the clothes will fit. With a new designer each week, suddenly variance becomes a serious issue. Big retailers can absorb the inventory, but what will you do with out-of-date items?

In any case, i like the idea and hope it works out. I buy clothing online pretty frequently (most stores dont carry my size) and it's nice to see the industry evolving.
Sony announces PS4
Best answer yet; I didn't realize that the White House actually could do something about this.

Perhaps it's not so useless after all.
While the first volume is a good book (haven't read the second) this is not a review. At most it's a summary. :-/
Hardware isn't dead. Sony just stopped using it a selling point because the average consumer doesn't care what the hardware is, just what the device can do.
@helloamar

Will you please open a support ticket by emailing support@copy.com?
How to download the jQuery Mobile documentation for offline viewing
> People don't actually own them.

Of course they do. If I buy a new house or car, I don't have to pay the full price up front, but when I have finished paying for it I absolutely do own it.

Subsidized phones are essentially loans. You pay for them over the course of your contract or with early termination fees, and when the contract is over you own them 100%.
Fair enough, although it looks like you don't have comparison with other tools. Thanks for non-hostile answer.
Could anybody with experience building mobile webapps comment on jQuery Mobile vs Sencha Touch?

It seems like if you are not building with responsive HTM5/CSS3 you may as well use a JS library for better UI. These are the two biggest names I have seen and it is difficult figuring out if either one is worth the time.
Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?
> "The problem with taking money from someone else is that, you become obligated/answerable to them."

Could not disagree more. I co-founded and am the CEO of a funded company. Investors (at least professional ones, which, if you have a good company, you can vet them as much or more as they vet you to make sure they are professional!) will encourage you, meet with you, and even help you work through problems and issues. But by no means are you obligated to do anything that they say. In fact, most would prefer that if you have market data that disagrees with them, you go with what the market says--after all, you are the expert in this space, not they...

> "And what happens when that company fails? You need to either apologize/console the investor that you will somehow get back his money."

No, on typical seed round investments (and even Series A and above), you do not owe the investors back their money. There's not even a moral obligation to pay them back--they understand the risks, and as others have stated above in the comments, if this loss was going to make them destitute, they should absolutely not ever have been investing in your round. (Which is why you should be doing the due diligence on them as much or more as they were on you, before they invested.)

Getting investors and pitching, etc. was really scary for me. But once I found the right people, I realized how awesome it was. They have a (small) financial interest in me, so I can ask them honest questions and get answers from their perspective. It is a blessing and it has helped me run my company better than I ever would have without investors.
We DO have echolocation.

What happen is that most people lose it because they don't use.

When I was younger (about 8 years old) I could do it very easily, back then I had no idea how I did it, or how it worked, I only "knew" stuff happening around me, and I thought it was something supernatural (since most people do not had the same feelings I had).

After a while I stopped caring about it, got busy with other things, and it faded away, then I learned that it was echolocation.

I want to get it back, but I don't have time to retrain myself... :(

But seriously, it was very nice, it made pratically impossible to sneak on me, anyone moving near me while there are lots of sound, like in the middle of a busy city or school, I would "feel" (it is very hard to describe) "movement" behind me, and would look (startling whoever was sneaking).

Also we have that kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1QaCeosUmw
Exactly, ask the ISO how well the standards specified by their OSI reference model [1] competed with TCP/IP et al. The only substantial remnant of the OSI network standardization process today is the generic concept of protocol layers.

Or see the HTML standardization process. Or a hundred other examples.

Standardization almost always follows implementation, not the other way around.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_reference_model#Examples (see the "OSI protocols" column and compare to "TCP/IP protocols")
Here's an older HN post comparing some of the pros and cons of the two languages: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1594479
Yes, when I debug I first verify all the obvious things with quick sanity checks, and then do a binary search down to the more detailed possibilities. Just yesterday I helped my friend find an inscrutable bug. He checked the inputs (he expected "myString" and indeed got "myString") so he delved deep into the system fruitlessly for hours. When I helped, I quickly uncovered that "myString" != "myString": his input had a carriage return prepended to it!
We added that logo because of some of the comments on here. :) We're definitely going to improve the site to give more information about what Copy is. Our main focus so far has been on the product.
I agree. We skimmed through and figured it's very new, so didn't explore more.
The section entitled "When Equity Goes Wrong" is a great distillation of why I just want to earn money for what I do. I don't want to play these games -- I'm not very good at them in the first place, there are people whose entire lives are devoted to playing them, and "the money" wins roughly 100% of the time anyway. Look what happened to Zynga people, look what happened to LivingSocial people. Equity is almost as good as a lottery ticket at this point... except when the lottery ticket says you win, you actually do win.

No thank you to all that. Just pay me for the job I do. That I can understand.
Building Our Custom ElasticSearch+Rails Integration at Pose
I'm glad so many of you don't want them- increases my changes of getting one soon :)

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
It is a problem with any patents, not with Apple in particular. Patent law was not a voluntary contract that Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Google and others negotiated between each other up front. It was imposed by entirely different group of people who pay armed soldiers to enforce their decisions.

All the incumbents have repeatedly lobbied to strengthen their advantage in the patent system so it is actually their fault. I don't know why you would presume Apple to be innocent. They have more power than most companies, they could lobby for change if they wanted to.
// This solution stores the reverse order in the nodes themselves. It's hacky so I like it :)

LinkedList.prototype.reverse = function () {
var q;

// Make doubly linked
for (q = this.head; q; q = q.next ) {
if ( q.next ) q.next.prev = q; else this.head = q;
}

// Reverse
for (q = this.head; q; q = q.prev ) {
q.next = q.prev;
}

// Better clean up
for (q = this.head; q; q = q.next ) {
q.prev = undefined;
}

};

http://jsbin.com/ugojoq/43/edit

[EDIT]

Ah, I didn't know, but it possible to reverse a singly linked list without remembering the entire list:

var p = this.head, q, r;
while ( p ) {
r = q;
q = p;
p = p.next;
q.next = r;
}
this.head = q;

(blatantly based on an answer found on StackOverflow).

http://jsbin.com/ugojoq/67/edit

TIL :)
[/EDIT]
There's no air.
Making re-creatable random data files really fast in Python (2008)
The Evolution of Web Development for Mobile Devices
In this particular instance, for reasons of a self-imposed contraint to favour ease of deployment and use by the target audience, I have no parser.

Using xpath (or just about anything else) would be smashing.

The likelihood of the markup changing to the point where the code breaks is unlikely, the target pages are open source mirrors exposed over HTTP. It even winds up being nicer code than the FTP handler.
Another camgirl porn site goes Bitcoin [NSFW]
jtablesession::Store Failed
DB function failed with error number 1226
User 'highcharts' has exceeded the 'max_updates' resource (current value: 36000) SQL=INSERT INTO `jos_session` ( `session_id`,`time`,`username`,`gid`,`guest`,`client_id` ) VALUES ( 'mbh4nviu3hiahjlihcodeib9c0','1361463774','','0','1','0' )
I think that answer was more for me than anyone else. It was something I needed to hear.
BrainF##k has even fewer keywords than Java, that doesn't make it simple.

I understand your point. Ruby and Python both have dynamic behaviour which makes it difficult to predict ahead of time what will happen when a program is run. In practice, however, the full range of possibilities is never exercised. It's not enough to look only at the language specification when you make these generalizations.

EDIT: TL;DR, essentially what matters is not the complexity of the language, but the complexity of programs written in the language.
Sony didn't talk about hardware, because the PS4 doesn't really differentiate itself with the next-gen xbox hardware-wise.

You'll have two main variables to consider:

- which (or both) slightly differentiated but mostly-overlapping game library do you want access to

- do you want to give money to the company that installed spyware via music CDs, or the company that gave us IE6, Vista, and chair-throwing CEOs?

I think of every dollar I spend as a vote on the kind of future I want. Neither MS nor Sony get a dime from me these days.
Lawmakers represent corporations in The United States.
This is great, thanks for this!
I'm using the term 'parsing' because it's the one used by the article. What else would you use regex and html together for? You only have two options: extracting data from html using regex, or modifying html using regex. Modifying using regex is just string replacement. For example, replacing all hrefs in a html document with new links. You'd use the same method as described above, with a similar 75% of all links replaced.
No, but PS2 computability and SACD over digital going away really sucked.

The point is more that Sony sells the systems at these announcements as having everything, and eventually... have less.
This just does not work well unless there is overarching enforcer, because the majority can decide to steal from the minority, or those not in the group. And there are some patents so valuable that no social penalty can keep a company from violating them; it's either violate or go out of business.

Another voluntary group like this is the UN; it is completely ineffective in matters of security.
I dunno, it works for me. I can build my web service app in VisualStudio on Windows and run+debug it, then once it's working, copy the folder over to linux. Linux is setup with mono fastcgi + nginx + servicestack.net. I don't even have to do anything on linux after the copy is done - just refresh the web page.
Is Lisp still useful in today's world? (2011)
The dismissive use of "low traffic" bothers me. We made http://disney.com on rails, it runs off a couple of VMs, is really fast, and serves a significant amount of traffic. Can you quantify what you mean by low traffic?
This wasn't lost at all, several sites and newspapers mentioned it. The answers were that Tesla collects this data on all cars given out to journalists for test drives and any cars where the owner gives consent.
The really sad thing about this though is that "the internet" no longer works for stuff which isn't TCP. I guess it does, but not for your whole target market.

The lowest common denominator is users behind an NTLM proxy. Mass market products don't generally work unless they have a fallback which is "I can make it tunnel through proxies". Which is HTTP or CONNECT :( Which means no teams will do something which isn't TCP anymore, since it's not a thing they can tunnel :( Interested in counterexamples though.

This is the same reason why a UDP replacement is a great idea but a waste of time for most people developing a product. This makes me sad.
We will be baking in a detailed sizing chart soon. The chart will also have the closest analogy interms of fitting wrt size to a popular brand ( Zara, Armani ..etc). In terms of returned inventory - donations were one of the routes we were thinking.
Yeah, I hate to be that guy, but the 'petition to end all petitions' comes to mind. Particularly the bits about 'politically safe non-answers' and 'channeling public activism into a cul-de-sac'.

:-/
They'll also memorize your name and make sure to use it regularly when addressing you. And you get metal cutlery instead of plastic. And the nuts are heated, and served in a little cup instead of in a plastic bag.

(Never paid for business, but United is ludicrously easy to get upgrades on if you fly trans-atlantic flights with any frequency and pay attention to ordering correctly coded tickets)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.hig...
Fair enough, let's not confuse ourselves though.

Shanley's blog post asserted as motivation malice (vicious lies) to some common phrases used to describe some company cultures. She didn't really support any of her argument and used a lot of emotionally charged language that I interpreted to mean she had been told that she wasn't a good 'culture fit' for a job.

harryh here, felt I was being dismissive (pejoratively) of her accusations, which I sought to understand better as that wasn't my intent. He proceeds to try to put together an argument around the emotion shanley wrote.

The basis for my compassion to shanley's emotion was that I have experienced people who are trying to work in a place that is incompatible with a company's culture, and so I see 'cultural fit' as a legitimate line of reasoning for not offering someone a job. I've also seen those same people flourish when they found a better fit for their style of work.

That said, any part of a company's culture that is based on sex, age, race, religion, or sexual orientation is fundamentally illegal. But that isn't what we're talking about here, people who "love sports" are not a protected class.

So perhaps it is required that one stipulate in a discussion on culture that any culture that subverts existing anti-discrimination laws either by intent or by proxy is bad and should be called out as such. Prosecuted even. If so, consider it so stipulated.

And I would be the first person to say, in a discussion of company culture that the more inclusive and supporting a culture is of diversity and viewpoints, it is both healthier and more successful for the company over all as it is welcoming to the largest number of potential employees.

But that is not what this thread was about. Not for me. This thread was about ascribing malice and deceit to some concepts that are bandied about in the form of company culture. I see it as unfair to those companies who really care about their employees, and offering up one of these as a company value only to find the well poisoned by a someone such as shanley. To what end?
Question regarding stock options: I have some but I'm not sure if the company will ever sell for enough to make it lucrative for me, however that assumption and my knowledge of the company are based on what I've casually been told, what I've observed, does being offered stock options (or purchasing stock) grant me access to financial information or some sort of "insider" information that would allow me to make a better informed decision?
No, you'd be surprised. You can do an experiment where you just take 2 large masses (say bolders) and put them across from each other with a suspended balance-bar in the middle (suspended from the ceiling so that it spins freely). Over the night the bar will align to the masses via gravity.

Can't find the experiment because of no keywords for it I can think of, but this shows that even a few 100 kilos have real amounts of gravity.

Edit: Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment
>In the case of the new Xbox... software you buy is locked to the device

What gives you that idea? Even on the Xbox 360, I own many games that are "on demand" (no physical disc) and I have them installed on multiple consoles as long as I'm logged into my Xbox Live account. I haven't heard Microsoft say that this would be changing.
Instructions for flashing a phone or tablet device with Ubuntu
They said all the specs up front:
PlayStation 4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4 controller

They even gave more details specs later:
http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2013/02/21/sony-announces-play...
I invite you to also consider using my project, Brian's Taskforce:

https://usa.brianstaskforce.com/

https://brianstaskforce.com/blog/more-than-a-petition

The idea is to combine charitable giving with petitioning so as to establish the weight or importance of your idea to the powers-that-be.
Well you, as the consumer, have to decide what each service provided is worth. I would pay handsomely to have my fingers re-attached, but if I was on a tight budget I might think twice before going into the doctor for every sore throat (I do that now anyways despite having good coverage). It's up to the individual to decide how much care they want or require and are willing to pay for.