skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, so can you tell us what the tape looked like? Is the illustration accurate?
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It's not that free will does not exist; rather, it is a faulty model. It is causality without a cause. Saying "I decided to take action X due to biological force Y and social pressure Z" does not mean a decision did not take place.

We must believe in our own agency in order to function, but understanding its mechanisms and limits increases that agency, rather than removing it.
An assault rifle is a step down from a battle rifle. A battle rifle fires full sized .30 caliber rounds, an M-16 would be an assault rifle. Smaller cartridges than a battle rifle.
As a counterpoint, there are real sharp people of all ages. At local meetups, I've met a couple of retirees not orignally in the programming field, (medical doctor, aerospace tech) that have picked up Linux and programming well enough, I'd hire them to build software/hardware for me if they weren't pursuing their own projects. Or the older opera singer that helped me debug code while on a flight and joked, "Programming is music for those that can't sing...". I believe she could succeed in any field, scary, scary, scary smart.
Fun fact, only about 4% of english speakers are english.

I know this article is tongue in cheek, but I like to roll that out when one of my fellow brits goes on a rant about american english.

Me personally, I go with the american spellings all the way.
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Please ignore everything Schmidt says. He's creepy beyond belief.

About G+ I hope more people give it the finger so that Vic Gundotra finally understands that you can only alienate your users so much before they go somewhere else.
This reminds me what Readability used to do, before they went free.
If his profile is set up correctly you can click on his name and get his email address.
It seems to me that their control packages should have had tape with 'less offensive' text on them. This would ensure that it's not just a matter of the atheist packages being more eye-catching or out of the ordinary.
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Plus, Yahoo! hasn't been making any new waves for quite a while.

They've been making tonnes of Marissa Mayer waves. They're the New York Jets of technology.
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It also happened to me dozen of times, and it was nothing to do with google. Just plain random touchscreen messing in the jeans pocket.
They said that he had a "debilitating cardiac arrest" several years ago and had been very sick for a long time.
I was expecting "foo" and "bar", honestly. At least things like "data" you can argue the point that the variable contains data (and thus at least isn't a counter or contain state).

Which is at least better than "foo".

My favorite though is still expletives as variable names. You can tell from the number of them just how frustrating the code was to write. I recall digging through some particularly hairy boot code a few years ago where /every/ variable name was a swear word. Must have given the developer fits to get working. :-)
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Please don't down vote me. But can I ask that in a world where Unity exists, how is this relevant?
It's difficult for me to comment on something that you saw while in this room when I wasn't in the room, but I'm guessing that much of that had to do with the fact that the kid had actually put in the work and did the experimentation to build this community.

How many of the people in that room could say the same? What communities (or anything else) had they built? If they had built something, did they do it on their own as opposed to being someone brought in after the company was already successful? The kid probably ran circles around everyone because he was an expert (on this subject) among managers / developers / designers and anyone else who could probably do anything but run a successful community / e-commerce site.

I think about this sort of thing as a web developer. How many web developers who build client sites have actually built a successful site? How many designers really know how to design something which can sell? If you haven't done it, then you probably have no clue. But if you have been there, then you probably wouldn't be working for someone else either.
More people make 1+ million per year working for other people than cross get there from doing a start-up. And a 7 figure income is a long way from 'wealthy' in today's world. Of course that's not to say you can't retire on 2 million and live vary comfortably, but just because you get a windfall at 17 does not mean your 'done'.
How did you compute a p value without knowing the variance?

[Edit: my bad, didn't read the fine print which explains statistical methods at very bottom of page.]
Microsoft seems safe? I think you missed this piece of news:

http://www.canonical.com/content/canonical-and-chinese-stand...

I'd say Microsoft is in the most danger, because they actually have a big business there (well if you disregard all the piracy of Windows) - that they stand to lose.
The API should be independent of any serialization format. The serialization layer should take care of it.
Thanks Beshr!
I wonder if the massive increase in sales demand for firearms, accessories, and ammunition over the past 4 years (and especially in the past 4 months) could cause Amazon to rethink things.
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"coming from a wealthy and connected background is no longer exclusively for the upper classes"

Isn't that basically the definition of upper class in any practical terms?
Thanks for the info. I'd happily for a service like this than rely on Google's "free" stuff that they might the plug on any time they want to push their useless G+ crap.
I think the assumption is, rightly or wrongly, that the 17 year old kid is unlikely to have done anything the rest of us couldn't have done. Whereas if he were an older more experienced developer, he would get the benefit of the doubt that maybe he had special something on offer that was worth Yahoo buying.

At least, that's what's going through my head.

EDIT:

If the assumption that the Summly codebase doesn't actually contain anything worth $30 million is true, then this purchase is all about branding. It's about fooling Wall Street into thinking Yahoo is revitalized and focused on new technology and talent.

When IMHO, in reality, any sane investor should see this purchase as evidence that Yahoo is acting irrationally and I'd pull every dollar I had out of it.
KEXP.org, OCRemix / Rainwave.cc.

When at home and working on side projects or things that don't need much concentration I put on a podcast or Netflix. I like the background noise.
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In fact n= 178, which is more than enough for a study with only 2 conditions.
You can't add methods to a type in a different package as you might break that package. By locking the method set of types when a package is compiled you provide some guarantee of what it does, and it doesn't need to get recompiled again! This is central to Go's ideals of compiling fast.

Besides, embedding a type is very easy http://golang.org/ref/spec#Struct_types
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Another fun fact- the "z" spellings are actually the original. After people left for America, all things French became fashionable, including spelling. A favourite of mine to pull out when a fellow Brit is spouting language-hate.

(I still use the "s" spellings, though)
So you think your hard drive is more reliable than a Google Data Center?
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In this case, I imagine the method involves reading it from one of the images towards the bottom of the linked page.
1MM downloads is far from 1MM users. So it's not really a factor of five.
BTW, the latest files are here:

Hardware: https://github.com/damellis/cellphone2hw
Software: https://github.com/damellis/cellphone2
The only thing really stopping me from migrating to my own platform is email. I've had many terrible experiences and heard many horror stories about running mail servers, I just don't want to deal with it.

Suggestions welcome.
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Hey guys -- a little over four years ago I launched my first web app, Domain Pigeon, on HackerNews [1]. Domain Pigeon helped you find available brandable .com domain names and was somewhat popular here back in the day.

Lean Domain Search is my follow-up to Domain Pigeon however instead of helping you find brandable domain names, it has historically only helped you find keyword-based domain names. With the launch of this new section today, I'm taking it back to its roots with a section dedicated towards finding quality available brandable domain names, something that I think a lot of people are interested in.

There's more info on the blog [2]. I'd love to get your feedback -- thanks!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=456471

[2] http://www.leandomainsearch.com/blog/36-introducing-lean-dom...
Funny that I see companies complaining about the lack of skilled workers here in Brazil, but they are not startups... they just don't want to pay the price.

They want engineers, programers, etc. with huge experience and paying a little. Just yesterday I saw a news article talking about the lack of car mechanics... and they say (like it is a great thing) that salaries go high as $450 bucks a month (40h per week)... they don't understand why nobody wants to be a mechanic :P
To be fair, Unity3d _does_ have a free version, but it is not Open Source.
You are right :-)

I did see the other discussion. Good stuff there.
China couldnt declare war on my left nut. China is my bitch.
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It's not like stuff made with the GCC has to be GPL. I'm not even sure they can enforce this.
Where do you live? In MA, CT, and NC I have had a USPS package go missing exactly twice. In the first case I'm pretty sure the mailperson just left it on the wrong porch and the neighbor never admitted it. In the second, they had confirmed delivery, but the package was not there, so Amazon sent another item.
War doesn't just mean armed conflict. From dictionary.com:

"active hostility or contention; conflict; contest: a war of words."
No, but I suspect I care more deeply about my own data than Google do.
Just to confirm, not all of the packages pass through Jamacia Bay and we were careful to ensure the packages were as similarly eye-catching as possible... but those selecting humans would be wiser than to only choose the most eye-catching packages. I'm not gonna put a flag on a package containing drugs, for example. And as the other commenter says, we only sent tote bags, not shoes.
I don't think anything was acquired from SRI except a license.
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No, it's not just you. My heart sinks every time I see this type of pompous self-regarding wankery.

I suppose some people must like it, because here it is getting voted to the #2 spot. Dear upvoters, that's your prerogative, and even if I could stop you, I'd have no right to. But I must insist on publicly voicing my disapproval.
There were apparently a lot of temporary dotcom gazillionaires that were temporarily very good at business circa 1999 too.

Welcome back to the stock market being at all time highs again, with Yahoo's stock now back to the highest levels since the crash (nearly five years).
Alexis Ohanian calls out 'fellow geeks' for ostracizing, sexist behavior
Telemundo is an American network based in Florida.
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Link to patent application; http://www.scribd.com/doc/132418122/Bittorrent-Live-Patent
This is a bullshit premise. A policy of "non-branding" packages, is not discriminatory. In particular, one that is actually enforced on politically sensitive/provocative topics. If the "brand" were white supremacy (a-chromatic or KKK...) or perhaps anti-semetic (NAZI brand !) packing tape, I don't think the PO should feel bad about not putting these types of "billboards" // "targets" on people's door steps. The USPS, is strictly not in the business of delivering Hate Mail.

But...Nice try!
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In Australia there is a program distributed by the government each year, based on some sort of spreadsheet type thing, that looks up as much info as it can from central records (when provided with identifying info) and then walks you through the rest of the process of filling in a return.

Not as simple as "yes, that looks right" that happens in a bunch of places, or the UK system (no tax return unless you have special circumstances) but it works well.
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Ask them what the official national language is of England as well. ;-)
For some who need perspective:

Right now, somewhere in the world, a child is being born into an uberly rich family. That child will grow up to inherit millions for absolutely no work. He'll live the good life full of yachts and private jets.

Right now, somewhere in the world, there is a party happening full of gorgeous wealthy people who need not lift a finger to attain the luxuries that they have. Their success is only a matter of genetics and luck.

Right now, somewhere in the world, is an investment banker who is making literally millions after clicking a few buttons and making a few phone calls to a few friends. He knows the right people and is in the right place, and that's all that matters.

Right now, somewhere in the world, is a 20-some year old guy who is worth billions because of a website he started. He was born into a family that sent him to the right high school. He then went on to one of the best universities in the country, built his website, moved, met the right people, and raised $500+ million in funding. He and likely generations down the line are set for life.

Right now, somewhere in the world, is a 17yr old teenager who started a company with some money from his parents, built a product, with help from friends and family, and got acquired for $30 million.

There's always someone becoming richer than you for much less work, every second of the day. Look past that and just keep working. I get down about how unfair that is from time to time, but there's nothing you can really do about it, other than focus on your work.

Edit: Others are asking where in the article is jealousy mentioned. It isn't, but I took the entire post as one rooted in envy and bitterness. There certainly wouldn't be any of this type of reaction had the guy been a 40-year old who finally got acquired after years of failed attempts. If anything, I'm sure people would be applauding him and the whole affair.
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I don't think the OP was talking about the article, rather, being asked similar questions about 'being British' over and over again.

I'm not really how you could regard this article as pompus self-regarding wankery, but I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree.
You're welcome to see the data if you like - we ran it by two independent statisticians to make sure our sample size was large enough... n = 178, in a 2 condition study, really isn't too bad. The important point here is that the variance should have been equally spread across both conditions... and it wasn't.
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Even though they are somewhat contrived benchmarks, I still like to refer to the "Language Shootout" to get some idea of the quality of code that the Go compiler is producing. I would expect the numbers should be better than Scala, for example.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?t...
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Often the majority of a programmer's portfolio is code that is intellectual property of former employers and they can't show it around. In fact, most times they're not supposed to have that code in their personal laptops.
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Your comment does a lot to make the point that Summly was a horrific acquisition on any count.

I don't think nearly as many people here are jealous as they are aghast.
I've bought two artofmanliness.com shirts online that were to be delivered by USPS, they never arrived... all I know this service is shit.
Still paywalls for me.
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An excerpt from the linked article:

"The attacks weren't coming from just the darker corners of the Internet, places where people trade "creepshots" of 14-year-old girls. This time, many of the threats came from places like Hacker News, a respected computer news discussion site run by Paul Graham's venture capital company, YCombinator. Ambitious computer professionals post on Hacker News under their real names to boost their careers—and felt comfortable posting vicious abuse under those same names."
Here is another active discussion of company hiring procedures here on HN. Most of us have been hired for at least one job in our lives, and all of us who have built up an organization have had occasion to hire someone else before, so we all think about this. I searched the comment thread to see if anyone has linked to the Hacker News FAQ on this subject. The last full posting of that FAQ was a while ago,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923

and the tl;dr of the FAQ is "If you are hiring for any kind of job in the United States, prefer a work-sample test as your hiring procedure. If you are hiring in most other parts of the world, use a work-sample test in combination with a general mental ability test."

"Reasons for being selective when choosing personnel selection procedures" (2010) by Cornelius J. König, Ute-Christine Klehe, Matthias Berchtold, and Martin Kleinmann backs up this advice:

"Choosing personnel selection procedures could be so simple: Grab your copy of Schmidt and Hunter (1998) and read their Table 1 (again). This should remind you to use a general mental ability (GMA) test in combination with an integrity test, a structured interview, a work sample test, and/or a conscientiousness measure."

http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2012/8532/pdf/prepri...
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The idea doesn't make sense for most, but it's a nice, simple set of instructions if you wanted to do it.
Considering that MySQL is in the running for worst database ever coded. I realy dont give a shit what fork ARCH LINUX chooses. Since I wouldnt use that bullshit either,
I saw these all during Alumni Demo Day last night, and if you're an investor, I would strongly suggest going to Demo Day this time.
the illustration is accurate. you're right about the better control, we may do that if we replicate the study... but really I don't think the absence of writing on the neutral tape can explain the findings.
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I believe that the beauty of a tool relies purely on its usefulness. Your comment sounds to me like someone saying that Michellangelo's David is "ugly" because the sound it makes when hit by a hammer is not armonious.
As micampe points out in this thread, Google is shutting down their CalDAV API [0] in favor of their own proprietary one [1] OwnCloud supports the open WebDAV/CalDAV standard, as do several other self-hosted implementations [2].

[0]https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/caldav

[1]https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/

[2]http://caldav.calconnect.org/implementations/servers.html
The notion of free will isn't silly - 'giving up' on it is an absurd suggestion. It appears to serve a very useful purpose towards enabling us to not all be sociopaths, and is possibly fundamental to our view of self as rational agents in society. Without it, we immediately start 'misbehaving'.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/science/22tier.html?pagewa...
Sorry, I meant for the entire project, not per hour.
But the t-test says otherwise. Why is it that you find the t-test is wrong?
>Who's we if you don't mind me asking?

I can't say. But nobody you would have heard of, just a small marketing/web dev type place.

>How's your experience of snap been

In 15 years of web development, this is the closest I have come to being happy with the results of my work. I'm sure part of that is just my experience letting me do things better as time goes on, but a good portion of it is that haskell and snap are less irritating that the other options I've used.

I found frameworks in the java/RoR style to be more of a hindrance than a help, so snap suits me well personally. It is more like a library than a framework, it basically just takes care of the "what kind of monad stack do I need here and how do I nest components" problem for you, and then gives you some components you can choose to use or not as you see fit.
Good discussion on this subject here:

https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=131222&...

And here

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-open-source-text-sum...

The best candidate is MEAD

http://www.summarization.com/mead/
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I'm sure Google quite loves your data.
if only that were the truth. sadly not, no data spoofing involved.
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...except that Yahoo just got $30 million worth of controversial press.
> Atheism also isn't a religion.

Are you speaking in terms of philosophical semantics or in terms of legal equivalence?
This is why the US can't have shiny things.

I've always thought the IRS should provide us with a lot of the tax info, since it gets reported to them so regularly.
I posted this not so much because I was amazed by the thing itself or thought it represented some pinnacle of "true" DIY, but more so because I like the idea of making things that were once far out of reach of anyone but serious hackers into something that a broader collection of people could feasibly tackle. It isn't quite there yet, but it is due to people like this that it will be, one day. You could nitpick all day about how most anything isn't truly DIY unless you mine/refine all your own materials and create your electronics from first principles, but that starts to get a bit silly.

More generally, I am a believer in the idea I first read from Clay Shirky that as more people get involved in an area average quality goes down but innovation goes up a lot as you get lots of people trying lots of new things, which in the end is only goodness. Except, perhaps, for those that prefered it remain elite so they could feel special (not saying this is you, but I see this attitude in a lot of pioneers in areas that later become more mainstream).
This really doesn't make much sense. What is the use case for this?
Why would you convert an image (that is usually stored in a compressed and well-designed format) to a huge CSS file describing every single pixel in raster format?
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I agree with many of the quotes below in that this his findings only state they are more "likely" to commit another crime.

I wonder if the lower activity in the ACC isn't a factor in them committing another crime but in them being caught? To put it bluntly they don't have a lot going on upstairs so they will do something very dumb, where as a criminal with more cognitive capacity would likely take longer to slip up.
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