skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time accepting it, because it's not a 'natural progression' at all, it's forcing me into a headache I don't want.

Gmail is the best free email, and GTalk was convenient instant messaging. Both great, I used them daily. Using these services doesn't imply that I want a public profile, that I want a social network, that I want to share anything or that I want the constant hassle of setting privacy settings, then resetting them every month when they change or new features are added which I'm auto-enrolled into.

I don't want searching for my name to show a Google+ profile. I don't want videos I've watched, articles I've read or links I've clicked to appear in a stream/wall/circle/feed. I've had to go through facebook's privacy settings a dozen times because they keep changing or adding features which default all users to maximum-sharing. Google is too important for me to have to worry about accidentally broadcasting all my interactions with various google services to the world or my contacts.
Well yeah. The bailout terms were heavily slanted towards the unions. Of course Ford preferred the bailout to competing against some company which might buy all the assets at bankruptcy prices and then hire workers on much more favorable terms.
> It's significantly harder to style, which means it's hard to work password reset into it.

Couldn't that have been fixed with a new parameter in the Authentication header?

> It doesn't easily admit to "logout"

I think it easily admits logout—the browser should have a piece of UI which reads 'logout'...

> It doesn't gracefully handle token authentication.

It could be extended to do that, with a new authentication type, right?
I realize it's a joke (or I hope so) but it's really not up to him to decide. Language is one of the most democratic things we know, without totalitarian oppression, you can't really change the pronunciation of a word.
In the terms and conditions, we're explaining Cookening is the third party. That's also why we're using a payment system that makes the money go directly from user to user, even if payment is made on our website.

That said, our job is also to make sure everything goes well, and if something happens, we'll have to handle it.
Secure tenured positions are very competitive globally.
There are only sufficient such jobs for a small percentage of PhD graduates.

Further, the university sector may be on the verge of massive disruption - look at startups such as Coursera and Udacity. Its difficult to be sure it'll provide reliable employment by the time you reach 65.

I've just finished a PhD program in an Irish university, which I got a lot out of; but I wouldn't do it for job security, or earning power.

But maybe you are talking about doing a PhD in a best-in-world institution; if so, maybe the picture is different.
Acronyms don't strictly take on the pronunciation of their constructive words. SCUBA, POTUS, NASA, etc. all deviate from the phonetics of the words used to construct the acronym.
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Very nice, very clean. I like it a lot.

Could use a mobile site though, pretty problematic via Chrome on Android 4.2.2

I immediately noticed that it positively snaps - instantly responsive. I'd love to read something about what all is going on behind the scenes.
How embarassing for him, he doesn't even know how to pronounce his own technology.
You have a very hard awakening in queue. Of course I can only speak of my direct experience, in Mexico, but here it goes:

1. Business people tend to mistrust highly educated people with no at least as impressive industry credentials. The meme of the crazy scientist with the head on the moon an no concern to real concerns runs deep and wide. Once you have both the schooling and the provable hands on experience it starts to pay off, but getting there is not trivial. Also, to make it pay it off you must go into consulting, since no employer will think they can afford you full time past some point. And to make it as consultant you need to pick an specialty that provides hard qualitatively measurable value.

2. Scratch that immense job security in the private university. As a matter of fact, they tend to hire a lot of adjunct professors and post-doc lecturers in order to avoid giving the sinecure for full professors. Public universities and research centers are still ok, but you will have a hard time in any education center whose bottom line depends on undergrad tuition.

3. Don't count on the flexibility thing either. University may be happy to hire part time lecturers with lots of industry experience, but not the other way around. I had a very hard time crawling out of this particular hole and have know others that never were able to make it back after a "short stint as a teacher".

4. Jobs prospect after 50 might be right, but you have to know how to play your cards really well. It is not a given, and in any case you are probably better off knowing your way in industry than relying on academia.
This is a great optimization technique to have up your sleeve. The downside of course is that if you're dynamically allocating and freeing nodes you can end up having to write your own memory allocator.
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Daniel Dennett installs software on your neck-top.
Always be shipping.
There is a fountain of knowledge in these comments...

(insert bidet joke here)
Pronunciation of words I nearly exclusively see in print is a big frustration of mine.

I remember a decade ago trying to figure out if Linux was pronounced "Lih-nux" or "Lye-nux". I had originally assumed it was the latter because of the way I assume Linus Torvalds pronounces his name (I'm not so clear on that even), but found a write-up on the web where he cleared it up (and don't even get me started on Guh-New-Slash-Lih-Nux). Then lets go for SQL (es-queue-ell or sequel?), SCSI (very few would have guessed "scuzzy" if they hadn't already heard someone say it), my personal favorite "PWN" (I'm still not clear on that).

I'm a non-JIF GIF pronouncer. I know how it's supposed to be pronounced, but it had been part of my vocabulary for almost a decade before I discovered the right pronunciation. And in North America, JIF is a very well advertised brand of peanut-butter.

Person A: Can you send me that JIF?
Person B: Sure (heads to fridge)

I doubt I will ever say this (or even want to say this) correctly.
Seems obvious–having a female in the group might ease some anxiety/intimidation (which the community has caused) of other females who visit the site and want to follow their progress.
You should definitely report him to HR. This is just stupid
No, it's pronounced /d͡ʒɪf/.
Yeah, it's an option. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giga-
Because it's easy to order all sorts of things off Amazon on an iPad, not just books. That's why Amazon pushes the Kindle Fire so hard now, but they have a long way to go to catch up to the iPad installed base.
Since people often ask me this question, here is why I personally pursued a Ph.D. in CS: http://pgbovine.net/why-pursue-PhD.htm

YMMV, though.
^he speaks the truth. Although I think this is a fair last-ditch effort to revert back to the original intended pronunciation.
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Good point. In the US we have Jif peanut butter. That's where the name comes from. The slogan was "Choosy moms choose Jif."

And so the .gif slogan is "Choosy developers choose Gif."
The joke about the integral of 1/cabin is wrong. Integral with respect to what? Integral[1/cabin, x] = x/cabin + k
Can't have it both ways. The article says they're not doing as well financially compared to the non-academic path. Well, if you really loved science you'd do it anyway, and its not all about the money, and scientists are supposed to be poor because thats how its always been. OK whatever I'm not doing that to my kids. Oh OK well it turns out that despite the article, the ones I know are doing great. Um nope, its one or the other.

You might have selection bias. All the pro athletes I know of, appear to be financially healthy. That doesn't mean pro basketball is a great plan for kids, given the evidence that 99.99% of kids who want to be pro basketball players end up doing something else, something much less profitable than NBA star... I would theorize this is directly analogous to going into academics.

The winners win. Turns out that winning is, in fact, pretty fun. The losers, well..., that's most of the them, but we're not going to talk about them.
I used to have links to lectures explaining this, but they seem to have 404`ed.

The general approach is to view quantum computers as a series of quantum gates. Specifically, the CC-Not gate takes 3 inputs and, if the first 2 are true, it toggles the third. This is sufficient to build an arbitrary gate, including a binary adder.

I would try explaining how these gates might be constructed, but its been so long since I've studied it that I would probably butcher the explanation.
Tesla's early repayment of their DOE loan has prevented the U.S. government from exercising three million warrants, which would have netted America around $250 million at the current stock price. Smart move for Tesla, almost a huge boon for U.S. taxpayers.
GIF is an acronym. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format.
The word graphics starts with a "g" that sounds like gurgle, good, golf, gallbladder, gun, grapes, etc... NOT giraffe.
Thus, it should be pronounce "giff". The inventor of GIF made a format, but he didn't invent acronyms.
Pronouncing it like "jiff" would be like pronouncing GIF like "fignewtons". It doesn't make sense.

Giff4life.
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A few of their suggested ideas are great. I'd double down on:

1) Mental health services (made more accessible and cost effective using technology). Gun-based suicides are a major cause of death using guns (I think more than third-party shootings); high per-capita rates in places like Wyoming where people are remote. Mental health services in those markets would be great.

2) Drug war issues; using technology to help reduce violence in the drug war (which is the main driver of third-party violence). Could also use technology to reduce profits or demand for drugs, too.

3) Technology applied to domestic violence; the smallest of the three major forms of gun violence, but still a major issue. (guns are a pretty minor part of domestic violence, which on its own is a much bigger issue)

Interesting to note that none of these are really firearms-specific.
What you are talking about when you talk about those large salaries is something of a pipe dream for most people pursuing degrees. I too was lured into more education with high prospects but the truth is that it's really difficult to get in on the awesomeness. If you want to make a statement about long-term benefits you better talk about the average situation. Some PhD's do provide quite a bit more money on average, but a lot of PhD's (math, for example) provide only a marginal benefit over a Master's degree. I don't have the data in front of me but when I checked the situation for math, the difference in the mean was about 2-3 thousand dollars per year. If you take into account the financial opportunity costs of doing a PhD (things like low wages, tuition, loans), it will take you about 40-50 years AFTER finishing your degree to be on par, on average.
Check out section 4. If the assignee attempts to assert the patent improperly, the inventor has the right to give out licenses. The inventor's rights are permanent, not a function of who happens to own the patent.
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I think it makes sense in that the base technology is exactly the same. There is really only so much you can do with HDMI + IR blaster (or for the lucky few with very new TVs and/or set-top boxes) HDMI with CEC.

There are tons of edge cases you run into when you don't have full control of the tuning stack. As one example (I can think of dozens easily):

Family has a single-tuner old school Scientific Atlanta DVR (still very popular with cable operators despite being horribly obsolete). They set it up to record a show, it is currently recording said show, person interacting with the Xbox One does something to change the channel to one different than the one being recorded on... oops! There is no way for the Xbox One to know this is a potentially destructive operation for the DVR. At worst the DVR changes the channel and loses half your show, at best the DVR is smart enough to prompt you about this and stop the channel change, but how does the Xbox One know this occurred? There are some high-end DVRs with APIs that exist in an attempt to deal with situations like this but they are very few, very far between and there are no standards for them.

Corner cases like this present themselves all the time with these HDMI-in/HDMI-out devices like Google TV and they are inherent problems with the current state of set-top box technology. No matter how many resources Microsoft throws at this, the end result will still be kind of lame a lot of the time and a far cry from the seamless experience you see in the on-stage demos.
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Not sure why, other than to evoke some kind of emotional reaction, why it matters that "at least two of these businesses are non-profits that assist developmentally disabled Vermonters".
I wasn't even aware that this was up for debate. I've pronounced it with a "g" since I had an IMP dialing up to Arpanet. That's just...how it's pronounced.
There are many who have always pronounced it 'jif'. I thought it was strange when I first learned that there are people who say 'gif' with a 'G' sound.
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Here is the actual complaint:

http://www.atg.state.vt.us/assets/files/Vermont%20v%20MPHJ%2...
Justice served! Finally!
So, what does it take to be a product manager?
Oh give me a break, Apple products are nowhere near perfection. They do plenty right, but plenty of their stuff is awful (just like every other company out there). Finder is awful. The calendar and notes app are awful. One of the ugliest things about Apple is the constant insistence by users that everything Apple does is perfection.
People pronounce POTUS?
Thank you !
I'll forward the feedback to our UI/UX guy !
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Following the thread of building upon sqlite, Yelp (along with the fabulous mrjob library) also open-sourced sqlite3dbm (http://pythonhosted.org/sqlite3dbm/), which is a document store on top of sqlite. Python only (meant to give random-access data to your EMR jobs running with mrjob), but the same approach could be applied to any other language.
Words can have many pronunciations. This one has two, as evidenced by the fact that we are even discussing it.
SMS is a great option since it supports people with feature phones. But, IMO, SMS should be a fallback, rather than the primary option, since it is network-reliant and subject to a number of attacks that app-based authentication is not subject to.
Thank you so much!

Please add pickup from Tokyo Fish Market and Berkeley Bowl, both in Berkeley, and maybe Mollie Stone's.
As stated elsewhere...

Acronyms don't strictly take on the pronunciation of their constructive words. SCUBA, POTUS, NASA, etc. all deviate from the phonetics of the words used to construct the acronym.

Why do people take this so personally?
I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make.
Thanks .... I must have missed that github did this too (been a while since I tried to post a download there, but I have a number of active Google Code projects).

I wonder if it gives them some kind of safe harbour from the copyright industry. Perhaps a Google Code download is a "download from Google" vs a Google Drive download being a "download from that user".
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I wonder if this will work with hangouts on phones. For instance if I call someone who also has GV, would I be able to hop into a video call seamlessly.
If this interest you, check out QCL [1], it is a quantum computer programming language and emulator.

I suspect that quantum computers will, at best, be simmilar to how we view GPU's now, good for specialized programming tasks.

[1] http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/qcl.html
It's more like the father of his kid telling you that you're pronouncing the kid's name wrong. This word is only 25 years old, not centuries.
> You mean to say people using Google Code to share porn,

The abuse reports I find from doing a search seem mostly to be that and malware, yeah.

> when they can actually do so via other more effective means?

I don't think Google really cares if people currently abusing Google Code's download hosting could do the same thing easier elsewhere or not, they care that they are doing on Google Code, and consequently are consuming Google staff resources (and, hence, $$) addressing the resulting abuse reports.
Me too (as a french speaker)
> Why do people take this so personally?

This is not really about an image format. Linguistic prescriptivism is the real issue.
I had this philosophy for every single crack.

Computers do what they're programmed to do, they do what you told them to do, if you didn't want your computer to respond to a buffer overflow by writing over the stack and executing a sequence of commands that escalated the defendant to an administrator, you shouldn't of programmed that feature in.

When you inserted that string directly into that SQL command, you gave your users access to a wide range of features. Now all of a sudden you don't like that feature any more because someone used it? You gave the users the ability to ask for arbitrary tables in your database, why should a hacker go to court for asking for a "user table"? Shouldn't you be the one in court?

That's how I saw things when I was ~15, anyway. I still kinda think that way... Though I've figured out that just because someone left their safe open, doesn't mean you get to steal the gold.
Wait, what? 2kb JS? 4kb CSS? Why does this take so much?

I use a similar fullscreen textarea toggle (actually an ACE editor), that is very simple. For the Javascript, you just need to add a new class to the text area. For the CSS, you need to make the '.fullscreen' class the following:

.fullscreen {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}

Now, this doesn't get you the little button in the upper right corner and the styling for the full screen textarea, but it is very functional, very configurable (just style with CSS), and quite small. Add a small button of your own and let the browser do all of the heavy work, by just adding a CSS class.

Oh, and this doesn't break Chrome/webkit's ability to resize the textarea when not in fullscreen mode...
Xilinx's official dev boards are all pretty expensive, but they tend to be all-singing all-dancing affairs, with largest-in-class FPGAs, tons of peripherals and interfaces, and enough little blinky lights to blind a goat. Third-party dev boards (like the ones from Digilent: http://digilentinc.com/) tend to be much more reasonable.
Google is tidying up. Why have two storage facilities on an island when Google Drive is as good as it is universal.
I don't use many Google product but yeah, I do feel entitled to mock them for Politburo-style decision process and rhetoric.

I sit with a bag of popcorn watching them ruining their image.
Hey DennisM,

The first thing I would check is that you can hit the webserver. You can do some of that with a tool like PortCheck: http://mvolo.com/check-iis-network-connectivity-with-portche....

Best,
Mike
The hard G pronunciation probably comes from its similar spelling to the word "gift."
I don't make major financial decisions in an hour, either, and hiring an engineer is a 6 figure commitment.
One thing not mentioned here - if the iPad launched without HC titles, and the iPad became a hit (which was unclear at the time of this negotiation), then customers would have an incentive to put pirated HC content onto the device. A few sophisticated customers would have figured it out, and then that knowledge would have spread. Even if Murdoch later succeeded in getting pricing flexibility from Apple at a subsequent date, it would be a pyrrhic victory, as many customers would have been trained on how to do it for free.

So HC had a lot to lose. And Steve knew it - all he had to do was to let Murdoch know that he Steve knew.

It's good to have a good hand.
Downloads are hardly a minor feature. Having a downloadable package makes it significantly easier for users to try open source software. The average user is very unlikely to want to compile from source.
Is this a hypothetical or have you actually done a PhD? For people considering a PhD, personal satisfaction had better be enough. If it's not, don't don't don't go to grad school.
For a little more context on why this might matter: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/salesforce-orac...
I was never a GReader user (I've always prefered my hacked up self hosted rnews aggregator; http://rnews.sourceforge.net/ ).

However I have been hunting for a decent rss reader for android ever since flipboard made changes which have resulted in exactly 1 line of text being displayed for each item.

Just today I found Holo Reader.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.hdodenhof.h...

Super simple, good layout, deals with my hacked up yahoo pipes feeds (where I've jammed header img tags into each description). I'm very impressed by it.
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I had this happen to me twice, and in both instances the call did not ring my telephone.

Clearly some kinks to work out.
Cube (YC W12) is looking for mobile and web interns
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To solve our own problem, we developed the ability create real merchant accounts for our users in less than 60 seconds, process card-present and card-not-present transactions with an encrypted reader, and disburse funds to merchants' bank accounts all from one platform. Now, we're extending that ability to developers.

The Market:

Did you know that $3.8 trillion in credit card transactions are processed each year? Of that, 5% is e-commerce, 5% is mobile, and 90% are in-person card-present transactions.

The Role:

We're looking for motivated mobile and web interns who want to spend the summer hacking as part of a very small team. We'll cover all the annoying things, like food and rent, so you can concentrate on building, learning, and networking with peers around the Bay Area.

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Could anyone explain this in terms for a beginner? I'm a developer who is using APIs (I think), but I don't quite get why I need this. Thanks!