skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're being a little unfair. I work in quantum computing. I'll probably work in the public sector for most of my life. I have every incentive to plug government-funded research, and oh by the way, you guys all need to vote for politicians who will increase my puny grad student stipend.

Quantum computing is fucking cool. Very intellectually challenging stuff. Props for that.

I agree on public funding for basic research. Politicians who say "these guys aren't earning their keep" are idiots, and we're worse (as a populace) for not firing these assholes. The mechanism is right there, it's unambiguously legal. Let's fucking use it. Anyway, how is a PhD who makes $85,000 per year while advancing the state of science, who is giving all the work away for the public good, not earning her keep? It makes no damn sense.

Researchers in the private sector publish a healthy amount of papers in peer-reviewed journals. The elephant in the room is drug design. Many of the drugs on the market today were indeed developed and funded by pharmaceutical companies; yes, pharma companies do occasionally push bullshit products. But imatinib works. It's a trillion-dollar industry for a reason.

My issue with the drug industry is that the profit motive seems to be generating 20 variations on the same theme (e.g. statins) and underfunding a lot of greater advancements.

The US spends a paltry portion of its budget on research

Damn right. It's pathetic. We spend more on this "war on terror" in one year than on cancer research in 50. Yet cancer kills orders of magnitude more people than terrorism.
'Jurassic Park 4' flies in the face of science by cutting feathered dinosaurs
Career Watch: Linux pros are in demand
There are no successful people. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid. There are just people who work their ass off and keep focused on their goals. If you want to meet and connect with those, then get busy building stuff that relates to what they are doing.
Yeah, I got to about the third para...zzzz and popped over to the HN comments to see if it's worth steeling myself for the rest.

However, it looks like the biggest mistake was made by the submitter. Just go to the site root, and it's a pretty good thumbnail, or at least a teaser, of what the thing does. The "about" that was submitted is intended for someone who saw the root, got interested there, and now wants to know more.

The about could definitely have been better written though.
Few years ago the main business case for low latency was telephony. And that is the reason why there is/was so much inertia with replacing various frame based TDM/SDH/SoNET systems with packet based solutions (this was whole reason why ATM was developed as it is sort of in between of these extremes but still does not have latency and QoS characteristics that were originally sought).

These systems are designed to either induce constant latency (TDM, one frame period per switch) or induce lowest possible latency (SoNET/SDH with very clever mechanism to construct frames without knowing their full content and decoding them incrementally, which gives best case latency of few bit times + latency of any fiber interface, worst case comparable with traditional TDM).

The problem with latency and telephony is two fold: echo cancellation for single pair analog phones (phone itself only substracts outgoing signal from incoming so anything that is echoed from other side of line goes through) and maximal latency for comfortable conversation (which is surprisingly small). First problem can be solved with smarter interfaces that do echo-cancellation in some DSP (some kind of license for doing that is major part of cost of analog interface cards for open source PC based softswitches), second not so much.

So in all you can reasonably jam remotely (on distances of say less than 2000km) using this infrastructure and using it is probably few orders of magnitude cheaper (renting channels in SDH/SoNET optical networks is actually surprisingly cheap) than laying special fibres.
Studying, understanding, and maybe implementing this looks like a fun weekend project. Thanks!
JSON is not as safe as people think it is
NATO Researchers Say Stuxnet Attack Was an 'Act of Force'
Will Government Monitoring Force a Change in the OSI Model
Yo, developer guy, it would be nice if there was some curation involved; some, if not most, of these books are not free. Perhaps allow the community to also remove books that don't fit the guidelines or report them for just not being free? Otherwise, this is going in my bat-belt. Totally awesome idea.
I think your example also speaks to the argument I put forward to some extent - SpaceX initially chose to use a 3rd party turbopump as building an efficient turbopump isn't their objective. However, at a later stage when the 3rd party turbopumps became an issue (whether that be because they were faulty, not efficient enough or any number of reasons) SpaceX decided to build their own.

This seems like the correct way round to me for the majority of cases where subcomponents of your product could be externalised - a 3rd party should be the primary go-to choice unless a company cannot be found that fits the requirements. The issue I see in development (and have been guilty of in the past) is simply building everything when libraries could easily cover the use case - "not invented here" syndrome. That's the real problem.

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Also I think it's clear that there'll always be cases where the default doesn't apply, for example when working with a new field/concept or where the 3rd party options are too far from the mark, but for the majority of development (especially web development) there's likely a library/service to match many of your requirements.
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User Experience Principles for Lean UX
I was just about to say the same thing. The stock photo looks ammeter and spammy. That linked page looks like a template. The home page of the domain looks great and I would have linked to that with treating it more like a launch.

Also, there does not seem to be anything groundbreaking or 'newsworthy' about the submission. You are just looking to get your product more customers, not looking to start a discussion.
Producing a Game in HTML5
I think it's more likely that it's a result of their automatic pricing gone a bit haywire. I'd think that if the item was out of stock, it would automatically be marked as none available, not change the price to some huge number because you don't think anyone will pay that price. The link above does a pretty good job of explaining how their automatic pricing adjustments can get out of control.
There are all sorts of anti-troll, anti-spam and anti-voting ring measures in HN. Two that I know of, having run into them:

If you get too many friends/new accounts to upvote a story that you've submitted, it'll assume that there's collusion and your story will get killed off the front page.

You can't submit a story with the word 'troll' in it (this probably applies to other words too).

In your case, it's possibly the words 'enterprise' and 'portal' in the title/URL. Based on what I can see from the link that you've posted, it may be right, ie. enterprise portal solutions are not usually HN fodder unless there's an interesting twist to them.
> I kind of want to punch the guy who said "no programmer would do this" in the nose.

From my reading, it appeared as a complement as in "no beginner programmer would actually go through the pains of finishing it, and finishing it on your own is a feat."
It's not the fact he's 17. There are 25 year olds in startups, as recently as yesterday's Demo Day at YC, who've been given multi-million dollar investment and acquisition offers.

It's the fact that they paid $30m, for what essentially a lot of people here could build.
Heck, Yahoo has talented hires, they could create a similar app from scratch for significantly less.

But they instead chose to buy it, at the stupidly high figure that they chose. That is why people just don't understand.
Probably pricing bots gone into some kind of boundary loop, which is a lot more interesting than a fat fingering entry mistake, and reminds us of algorithmic stock trading.

See:

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

and

http://carlos.bueno.org/2012/02/bots-seized-control.html
Encryption that is out of your control is not encryption in any meaningful sense. You must be the only one who has the key, else the whole process is compromised.
You're confusing two statements: "emotions and irrationality play a big role in people's poltics" and "emotions and irrationality should play a big role in people's politics". The former is undoubtedly true. I hope no one would argue against being rational and objective in matters of, say, world economics or armed conflict.

If critical thought is at odds with irrationality and emotion, then that is a conflict that must be resolved in favour of critical thinking, if democracy is to survive. Carefully considering the arguments for and against political statements is a good thing. I (again) hope no one would argue against that.

However, I reject the notion that critical thought is necessarily liberal. There's nothing in theories of critical thought that's inherently opposed to conservative values. I do not believe critical thinking is a drive towards any particular school of political thought. It is a drive towards knowledge.
The Trials, Tribulations and Triumph of PyCon 2013
Thanks, you're right. Of course, I glossed over some of the gory details, such as a bag liner in the bucket. Or, the upgrade to a substantial sized stainless steel stock pot (which can be sourced at your local restauraunt supply store).

OT: Not sure why I always look forward to these discussions on HN.
Additionally, there's a not insubstantial chunk of Medicare spending that's essentially fraudulent, and that no "real" insurance company would pay, but Medicare lacks the "overhead" to do much about all but the most egregious cases.

Why else did you think there were so many daytime TV ads for "free" scooters before Medicare cracked down? And that's just one example.
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Ocean Array Could Clean 7,250,000 Tons of Plastic
Very apt given I was just moaning (zombie?) to my colleague about this. The problem is how you get your pride back though - especially when management continually gets in the way.
I signed in to Reasonwell. The page keeps refreshing in a way that scrolls me momentarily back to the top of the page. In Chrome.
I worked for a company that actually did periodical restores of backups, and had a smaller scale version of the "Chaos Monkey" (per company procedures, someone would periodically delete on purpose a file at random - it could be part of an important product, documentation, accounts, an SQL database - and we were asked to get it back from backup).

After I got to the "real world", I'm shocked that some extremely large companies (financial institutions that should know better) don't have anything like it in place, and have far worse and untested but expensive disaster recovery plans.
"Also, there does not seem to be anything groundbreaking or 'newsworthy' about the submission. You are just looking to get your product more customers, not looking to start a discussion."

Well, I think I have even more to learn about HN and netiquette in general.
The original post was a "Show HN" ... what I was supposed to write to start a discussion?
The Amazon Phone Rumor Again
Well, skimming that title makes me double-take.
I don't think a microwave could effectively heat the center. The skin depth on a turkey is probably only a couple inches so a microwave could only heat the exterior.
As a cynic who is constantly looking for ways for human structures to fall to pieces, I'd be very worried about the large-company politics of a center-of-excellence/"honors college". When you set up a CoE, the rest of the organization feels put out.

If you put some set of people into R&D roles where they have full autonomy, then everyone wants it. The "Real Googler" issue (~10% of engineers have 20%T and the freedom to move around the company; the rest have manager-as-SPOF bullshit) is definitely a source of resentment at the Big G.

If you're going to do that, then have open allocation for all engineers. It's a much ballsier step, but it avoids resentment of the "special friends club" that gets to do cool R&D and that the rest of the company ends up undermining.
How hard is it to 'de-anonymize' cellphone data? - MIT News Office
EFF blasts plans to build DRM into HTML5
While I'm sure it looks fantastic on a dedicated monitor/tv, it's lack of a responsive layout limits it's use in my books

Looking at something like http://dash.social-biblio.ca/torontolibrary on a sub 1080p monitor is less than optimal.
Personally I interpreted it without any ill intent, more in the sense that no programmer would do it this way because programmers are lazy, they'd recognize "there's got to be a better way".
Spam please delete this link, misleading the books are not free
North Korea Stops Offering 3G Data Service to Tourists
And the more regulated providers will have no way to sell their added oversight as a benefit worth paying for? That doesn't seem plausible: Certainly PPO's were able to sell "see a specialist without a referral" to many group plan customers.
If you check its page one of the other sellers is listing it for £999,999.
Please don't question decisions that have been made for you, and have a nice day.
When I read posts like this I always wonder... why not just use canvas?
There have been schemes with cards that you can load digital currency to and off of, that to my understanding remove the server from the transaction. They still don't let you give ¤5 to your kid, but they're a step in that direction. It's just that no one wanted them.

I'm not certain that they didn't need servers, I merely believe so.
In fact, the "Reinvented" is the keyword here.

That's really the point, because Entando is not an Enterprise Portal as in Oracle Portal or whatever "slow and heavy" thing the word Portal may recall.

[Edit: typo, think --> thing]
AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies Amazon cloud deployments
How are they planning on structuring the collections methods? Is map going to be on Arrays, and Maps and Lists etc? Or will they utilize some sort of typeclass approach and have them as modular as possible?
We have been working on developing RSS reader since last 8 months. We felt google reader is not for everyone and we wanted our rss reader to be used by anyone... who may not understand RSS. While implementing the RSS reader, we have learnt a lot and one of them being the power of RSS. I hope what we are building helps a lot of people. Check out http://multiplx.com
The Great Fall Of Internet Explorer
"Or you fire three as a message to the others."

This got my upvote. ;-)
Maybe it's not just about talent, you could certainly hire amazing talent for a lot less than $30 million.

I imagine this kid will disappear into Yahoo and emerge again in 3 years time more mature and having been groomed for a leadership role by Mayer etc.

He will be the "lead developer" for some new product they have spent $serious_R&D_budget on and will make another promotional video where he talks in a charming British accent and drinks cups of tea with Stephen Fry.

In other words "The wonderkid who turned the crusty old dotcom around".

Technology is a celebrity culture and Mayer knows this. Liken to manufactured "boy bands".
Just because it is not plain text does not mean it is secure.
ship it and write up a janitor card to clean it up.
pick up the janitor cards when you're low energy or waiting on somebody else.
agreed - management is a key problem here. That extra 20 minutes to make your class readable, multiplied by 20 for all of your classes, is going to be very difficult to explain when your boss walks over to talk about why your project is overdue. There's an argument in there for time estimates to include refactoring, but that's a whole 'nother problem.
Scaling Teams and the Fight Against Human Nature
How about making it a launch announcement and not just a feature update page? Your product is not a large popular project like coffeescript or ruby, thus version update announcements for products like yours are not newsworthy.

Maybe if your product is groundbreaking or has a unique value proposition would not be marked as spam.
Are Amazon and the CIA doing business?
Yeah, I realise that - perhaps my response was unclear.

What I mean is, when people say "Medicare costs the US more per member of the population (covered or not) than the UK, even though it only covers 1/6th of the population" the stat is unfairly biased - because the segment of the population that medicare covers is the segment that requires by far the most healthcare.

The stat would be dramatically improved if we accounted not by percentage of the population covered, but instead by percentage of healthcare resources used.
If it became known that they wouldn't audit a 10 year old, bad actors would certainly exploit it.
Rails' Insecure Defaults
My favourite under 'Who wants to get fired':

> Les Lesboss P.

> I fucking hate the boss i wish Bruce springsteen had of gone the way of bon scott,Kurt cobain or Jimi Hendrix. But at least they had talent and i wouldn't be hearing his shit on mmm right now
Everyone complaining about the Flat UI. Isn't the use case for something like this to be displayed on a TV or large monitor around the office anyway? Seems like one place where the flat UI would be OK.

I'm not a Win 8 fan by any means, but I think this dashboard looks good. The bright/contrasty colors are exactly what are needed to broadcast metrics across the office.
Silly question time. What does being [dead] mean? Banned?
Kleiner, Sequoia Fund Returns Could be Exposed in CA Lawsuit
For anyone interested in only the grid/rearranging js behind this: http://gridster.net/
Remember: DARPA and SRI designed the global panopticon.

(You are not alone ;)
6 Reasons Google Keep Can’t Replace Evernote
That reminds me once again of Dotcom's proposal to encrypt almost everything to be safe from the government persuasion.
Watch for file changes using inotifywait and flock
Why is Node So Weird?
Nice UI. I need something like this for Android... Are there any recommended? I've been meaning to make it myself but just haven't made the time.
Sounds good - do your clients breathe down your neck less than managers?
Oh, did I sound grumpy? I was totally going for sweet and agreeable, but I guess I chose the wrong words.
"The Entando platform was born in 2005 as an open source software called "jAPS" .

The software was initially employed by its creators and it started soon to be adopted by other organizations.

The Entando company was founded in 2009 by the founders of the project with the aim to help our partner network to build faster tailor-made solutions for their customers.

Our team believes in delivering superior quality product and support for our customers through technological innovation and partnerships.

Our Mission

The Entando Company exists to make simplier, essential and faster building the next-generation of enterprise-class portals"

Maybe you want to finish your About page?
Paper moneys have received haircuts too. To deduct from a balance, all you need is someone with read and write access to said balance, be it physical or virtual.
Since you are reading here, the "powered by" link at the bottom of your pages seems a bit messed up. Check it out.
For comparison: I'm from California, and was studying abroad in Holland. I had travel insurance, and went to the general doctor for a similar situation (lung infection).

How it's supposed to work is that I pay in full and get reimbursed from my travel insurance company. They had never done that before, so just waived the costs of the visit.

They wrote me a prescription for antibiotics and asked me to wait a few days before filling the prescription to see if it goes away on it's own. The pharmacist did bill me in full, but it was so cheap that I never even bothered to ask for reimbursement (€20).

Anyway, for many reasons (including health care) I permanently relocated to NL. :)
This looks interesting, but I don't know how useful it would be for me given most of my cards have to be swiped or inserted into some kind of device.
Bah, I just noticed I completely forgot to include the link for the lazy: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...
You should really find someone with English fluency to help with copy editing. The English is so bad I -- if I were going to spend company money -- wouldn't even consider it due to lack of perceived professionalism. Note: we were recently considering portal options for our intranet (Joomla, Drupal, etc) and went with Drupal.
In my case it so happened when I tried submitting a link about a post I'd written, it said: "Your account is too new to post that website".

Which sort made me think, sort of panic, that either the link was unwelcome or I was. Obviously I was unwelcome given that the website (a blog post) I wanted to share had already shown up at HN on earlier occasions positively.

Then I posted the URL through my bosses' account which is relatively HN matured. But then his HN_id got all the up-votes (which he obviously didn't want to acquire) but meh?

That post went to no. 3 spot on the top threads, and I still feel the pinch that HN did not give me a fair chance. Sorry, did not want to write this way, but this is what happened to me. And this is the first HN_id I ever created only after reading it for months. I like being here.
0%, which is odd, because I had a tough conversation with my boss yesterday :P (of course this thing doesn't check Hacker News, or my odds would improve a lot :) )
This is great demo. But i really don't know, do everyone have the same use case? There is so many library that work great in demo, but doesn't suit my use case. I hate to build my own library (if i am able to use existing lib, why creating new?), but i must do this because some library/framework isn't really customizable. The time cost between customizing existing lib and creating new lib is the same, so i prefer to create my own library most of my time.
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For those confused on the notebook, check the full seller list. Unfortunately, Amazon's sorting and filtering algorithms are non-obvious when multiple sellers are involved.
peer code reviews. I don't they are done often enough. But, as a developer, if I'm sitting writing a line of code, and I know my peers are soon going to review it, I'd be less likely to cut corners and make myself look unprofessional.
thank you for your advice, I just wrote to info@ycombinator.com
we are talking about the same thing here.
If it's really only 20 extra minutes to do this, maybe less time on Hacker News :)
Mind if I ask doing what? Consulting?
One thing the author doesn't really take into account is the team dynamic...and once you're no longer the sole guy in charge of that feature/product whatever...it get's vastly more complicated (and tainted) once five or ten others have gotten their paws on the code.
if one has google glasses i don't really see a use case for the watch...
It means your comments will only show to people who've enabled showdead. Sometimes the bans are hilariously off the mark. It's known as a hellban.
"There are no successful people. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid."

Great comment - this sums it up perfectly. Your definition of successful, seems to be limited to wealth - and that may not be everybody's definition of successful. My grandparents survived the War, but died poor.
Why the law is slow, impersonal and obsessed with details.
thank you! somebody's fixing it right now!
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