skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the comment but disagree. Leading great product teams is based on trust and trust is earned by success. Ongoing success depends on a highly motivated team and praise drives motivation as well as any other reward. Leaders do not succeed over time by hoarding kudos. They share it freely.
Actually there's another effect, too - investigate your past self via evidence rather than memory, and you'll find the memory has suspiciously shifted to portray you as more like your present self than you were. I've found old internet comments by me that nowadays I don't approve of at all.
I see one paragraph that might fit that description. The one that starts with

> However, the reality is that you need engineering more than they need you.

And it's basically true. But I thought the line

> You are overhead.

Was too harsh and a slam.

If the author really feels that's a notable point to make, it deserves a lot more explanation.
Well, yeah. What else would be reasonable, progressive state do? Exactly what the US wants.

I think the UK and Canada have spoiled the USA to the point where a foreign entity acting as tho they had sovereignty offends and confuses.
Ok. Just a misunderstanding. Thanks for the comments.
My viewpoint is coming from "just don't be an asshole." The author has every right to be upset, and he should seek monetary compensation for the use of his work. However, he didn't have to come out and publicly criticize Naughty Dog, especially before contacting them.

Like I've said in other comments, Naughty Dog might seem like a large company, but I'm sure it was just one person who decided to use that picture, and probably didn't know the rules/laws around using that kind of imagery. In fact, it was likely an intern put to the task.

So, in reality, the author is shaming some poor bastard who works at Naughty Dog and they made a mistake.

My viewpoint would have been to contact them and say:
"Hey guys, noticed you used one of the maps that I made. I appreciate the fact that you guys liked the design of the map enough to incorporate it in your game, however it is protected by copyright. Seeing as this is probably an honest mistake made by some new person you guys hired (obviously), I will not publicly flame you guys on my blog. I am only seeking $XXXX for the use of my work. Thank you, and have a nice day."
I read that wrong - I thought you were an engineer complaining about PMs
Nothing, because there are about a thousand colleges one can get into with dismal SAT scores.
It's also unknown whether or not he survived the jump -- and I think the "falling introduction" ties in well with this idea.
Hlld - A high performance C server for HyperLogLogs
Arm-js is an ARM emulator written in Javascript
The original story previously made the front page of HN at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5529202

I put a (stupidly unnecessary it seems) moratorium on my children eating rice because of this scare story, others may have done the same. It also speaks volumes about the quality of popular health reporting in general.
It's passed already? thirty hours of Warcraft a week after working to pay your share of taxes is the new bread and circuses.
Build in the Cloud: How the Google Build System works (2011)
Quasicrystals and the Riemann Hypothesis
I have been a PM for most of my career. Lose engineering and you have no ongoing product, sales and you can not sell it, support and you can not service it. You get the picture. PM is not required for the basic operations of the business. Great PM is fundamental to success, but not to the day-to-day management of the business.
I tried struggling through it once, but it's a long, dense read. (I should say that I find the complaints of Wolfram's ego overblown. I say if someone has done more than you, let them have their ego.) Anyway, Wolfram's emphasis on making the text accessible (through short sentences, etc) give it a meandering quality that makes it difficult to discern whatever implications he's actually trying to go for. There are so many examples that you forget what point he's trying to make.

That said, I found some of the philosophy interesting. I didn't get all the way through the book, but the one that stuck out to me (which I also recognize is not something that Wolfram himself came up with) is the thing about how random outputs can come from systems with very simple inputs.

The implications there are interesting because it means that you can't always reverse-engineer. ("Computational Irreducibility") It also means that reductionism isn't the end-all be-all of analysis, and that "systems thinking" and models-based analysis might be the only way to come to certain classes of insights.

It also means that the existence of highly complex systems is not evidence of a higher power, or a soul. We cannot always reverse engineer the outputs of a highly complex systems down to a simple system with simple inputs, but that doesn't mean that simple system doesn't exist.

So it starts tying into the free will vs determinism philosophical argument - the point being that we as people can be non-deterministic complex systems, and that might feel like free will to us. Which isn't the same thing as saying that we are highly complex deterministic systems, with response patterns that would be completely predictable if we could analyze it enough.
I was looking forward to watching the extradition trial snake through the Hong Kong courts, but this is fun too. It really makes the US look like a lot of incompetents trying very hard to not have their incompetence exposed, and we all know how that ends. Snowden: 2, US: 0.

(I'd also like to see a response from all the senators and op-ed columnists that were quick to remind us that Snowden was a "high school dropout" explain why someone so clearly inferior to everyone else can outsmart them so effortlessly.)
slightly off topic - anyone moved from coding to product management? I thoroughly enjoy product management - market research, coming up with new product ideas, feature ideas etc. No clue how to make the transition though :(
If the point of this is to keep running all the time, wouldn't it kill battery?
»Are you sure you did not break US law when you hacked computer systems in the USA?«

»I am sure we did not break Chinese law.«
i am not saying it will happen, but apple could put them out of business in an instant...
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/
Let's post random wikipedia articles without commentary, turning HN into /r/todayilearned.
He was working in the same organization as Assange, let's not act like he was some random fan who sent a one-off email.
source..?
Contempt of court is a trivial sentence compared to the sentences that you'd otherwise get for selling drugs and laundering money. It's not even clear that the government can compel you to give up something that only exists in your mind.
>So one of these concerns is more concrete,

Right, we're clearly remiss in prosecuting gov't overreach.
Mathematica is indeed brilliant software. And so is Matlab.
It is, but the normal assumption I've always seen made of governments is that they are a collection of those who were too dumb to make it "in the real world". At least, until that assumption becomes inconvenient for whatever point the person was trying to make.
Google is still pretty good for illegal torrents. Just go right to the 'this link removed due to DMCA request' entries, and follow the link to the DMCA request. You'll see a nice index of URLs where you might find what you are looking for.

Partially related, does anyone understand how chilling effects can host that index of links (within the DMCA notice), whereas Google cannot supply the links individually? Or how Google linking to right where you can find the removed linked is more legal than just having the link themselves.
FWIW, the "hidden in some old commit" problem is easily solvable with git-filter-branch. But the second two points are certainly valid :)
How did they decide on the RGB values? Or did someone just make that up?
There is a stark difference, though, between a law which merely (allegedly) distorts economic behavior, and one that affects privacy. The former is only vaguely addressed in the Constitution, in the form fo the 9th and 10th Amendments, and even then the Commerce Clause gives the federal government much power in this arena. The latter, however, is very specifically addressed in the 4th Amendment, and there is no catch-all like the Commerce Clause that would undermine it.
Your comment makes me feel really young! I'm younger than Wolfram Research but older than Mathematica.

Having just attended our 25 anniversary celebration in Illinois, it's clear there is an enthusiastic and long-lived community around Mathematica that is only going to grow.

With any luck, 2014 will be a "breakout" year in which the Wolfram Language that underlies Mathematica will start playing a more mainstream role in the software engineering industry.
FYI, Reconstructing Remy does appear to be available for iOS now.
That would only apply if people used the map within the game. Specifically, if when they wanted to find how to get somewhere by subway they actually turned on the game, navigated the character to where the map was in-game, and then studied it to find the best route.

What this is more akin to is someone posting a youtube
movie including in-game footage of Last of Us. And Naughty Dog extends a ton of grace when it comes to this. Even allowing videos of the whole game being played through.
Particle Accelerator That Can Fit On a Tabletop
You think filing cabinets in the office is more specific than e-mails in an account?
How can they collect private data on you personally if you don't use their product?

How can NSA collect data if you don't use your phone, email or browse the internet?

See Google's reach, especially via Analytics, Adsense, G+, Youtube etc. Yeah, we agree that people should think for using so many products from any one company.
Wolves, Wolf Pictures, Wolf Facts - National Geographic
Or you can find yourself an isolation tank.
No clue how to make the transition though :(

Become [executive's gender of interest] and learn how to sit on a desk.
I just wrote my first Android app, here are my impressions.
The FBI has no authority to operate within other nations, so that usually makes the domestic/foreign distinction a moot point. But there is nothing forbidding the FBI from operating abroad if the host nation allows for a given investigation.

What's more relevant, the FBI has long been involved in domestic investigations of foreigners (exactly as we might use PRISM for, in fact). In fact the FBI technically is the NSA's liaison to Google, Facebook, MS, etc.; NSA has no authority to interface with them directly so they hand it off to FBI, FBI is the one who actually works with the domestic companies.
What is your strategy for trying it? Are you starting a company?
I imagine you can do both in a really small or one man team, but to do both in anything bigger will require a very difficult context switch between job functions.
Why is this #1 on the front page? And how is it useful? I think a common pitfall for techies is amassing lots of useless knowledge (a habit I have weaned myself off over the last few years).
Whatever definition won't get them into trouble for it.
I'm pretty sure the temperature of the rhodopsin in your eye was above 30 degrees Fahrenheit :)

A toad's eye temperature can vary because it's cold-blooded. If humans' experience of eigengrau varies with outside temperature, well that's interesting and deserves study.
I have a soft spot for interactive fiction. The only game I ever finished writing was an IF game that took place on my college campus (I created it using AGT[1], and was impressed that I could keep track of time to have locations behave differently when visited.)

I was super proud of myself for about a half a day before my roommate showed me that he had created our dorm as a level in Duke Nukem 3D, which proceeded to occupy all of us over a local IPX network for weeks.

It seems like smartphones and tablets definitely represent an opportunity for a resurgence, You could even utilize the platforms built-in text-to-speech and whatnot.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Game_Toolkit
Here's a more hacker-ish explanation about what is different and cool about Mathematica: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4015695
As an engineer I really appreciate the work of good PMs.
I cannot praise this comment enough.
How did you wean this habit, and has it made things better for you?
http://www.chomsky.info/interviews.htm
I was surprised to read that people in the middle age spectrum don't expect to change when they grow older? I guess I assumed that if you can identify that you've changed drastically since you were in your youth than surely you should be able to apply the same logic to your future self.

I would say this also hinges on the fact that when we're young we go through a lot of quick bursts of change, think of yourself in grade school, high school, etc. You grow quite substantially both physically and personally. That growth slows down, you establish yourself, who you really are, you 'stick' with a core group of friends in most cases and you generally, as people say, "settle down".
> Become female and learn how to sit on a desk.

Are you fucking kidding me? I don't have enough karma to downvote you, someone please do the honors.
Being an engineer (by schooling) myself...I've always found it confounding how non-technical product managers do what they do...I've seen plenty of "shut up non-techie" posts (including this OP) but are there any really great non-techie product manager musings on this topic, explaining how they are able to reliably judge timeframes and output without having hands-on experience?

I do think producers are valuable...in the art/entertainment world, for example...you don't have to be an actor/model/writer to be vital to a production's success. However, in software, it just seems that the implementation of the process is so vital in fully realizing the gains that code can bring you, that if you have a product manager who doesn't understand that, than the PM can do as much harm as good.
There's a brazilian rocker from the 70's who sang: "I prefer to be this wandering metamorphosis / rather than having that same old opinion about everything".

To change is to be alive, when you enter homeostatis it's when you start dying. I know people who had an active life with good health and working up into their 60's or 70's and died in a matter months after retiring.
Not being able to submit your own blog post presents a bootstrapping problem for new, potentially useful blogs. Also, HN's guidelines recommend submitting a blog post if you want to add your own commentary to an article (or at least they used to).

As someone who occasionally posts a Show HN from my own blog, and whose current career was heavily influenced by one such post making the front page a couple of years ago, I hope you'll reconsider your opposition. :-)
In some jurisdictions contempt of court has ended up being a virtually endless jail sentence. Even in civil cases on can be held indefinitely in jail until they comply with the court order. There was a case when one person was held this way for years because they wouldn't reveal where they put some large amount of money that their spouse was supposed to get after a divorce...or something of that sort, I believe it was in California. The point is sometimes contempt of court is not a whole lot different effectively than just a prison term.
Do you know how useless I find knowledge about Rails? Utility is relative, and sometimes things are just interesting.

I don't know why it's #1 though. Maybe pg's skewing the numbers against all the NSA content? Maybe people are just upvoting anything that's not NSA/Snowden/etc?
In terms of Australian law none of this is relevant - you're required by law to get the consent of anyone you're taking an audio recording of.

So in Australia at least you'd have a really hard time running this legally.
Do you consider "wanting to give back" or "a commitment to service" or similar expressions of idealism a sign of complete stupidity?
So generally, I'd agree with you. But the thing is, this is so much more interesting than another 30 articles and links to tweets about Edward Snowden's current location that I'm perfectly happy to upvote it. At least I've learned something from the article, and something about how my body works, no less. And then something more from the HN discussion, in which jlgreco and agf posted interesting anecdotal about the topic.
http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/spot.html
It's entirely too human to have spent 20 minutes in a jam to finally get to the bottleneck, then spend all of 5 seconds seeing what all the fuss was. It'd be nice if folks didn't do this, but they're not going to stop en masse.
What do you mean exactly?

I mean, Common Lisp is incompatible to Scheme for example.
Grand Canyon Tightrope Walk
Brainwallets cannot be seized, though they can make it exceedingly difficult to spend them in practice.
> We had to pass it to find out what's in it

Er, is it so amazing that you have execute code and see the results of the running process before you can really find the bugs?
There are 2 specialized positions (not roles) that I have been able to eliminate in a couple of successful projects (in a startup). These are Product Management and Quality Assurance. I think both the tasks are important enough to be entrusted to engineers, rather than getting someone else do it.
I woke up early. Do some code. Then breakfast with GF and went to the beach. 5pm came back and started to code again :)
I thought all the AAA publishers switched to interactive films after they gave up on making video games.
Sounds a lot more cost effective (to the end user) than the home stenographer! [0]

[0] http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/go8cre/chappelle-s-...
Perhaps Statue pivots on uneven base due to vibrations? Why is this on HN?
Good luck getting money onto Bitcoin (for Americans) without using¹ a payment network controlled by Visa (Visanet) or the Fed (Fedline, Fedwire).

and no, sketchy in-person meetups to trade for cash don't count.

¹ directly or via an intermediary
It looks like this site was originally advertised as HarvardConnection.co [1] and that the references to HarvardConnection on the site are vestigial.

[1]: http://allfacebook.com/facebook-domain-sale_b69390
Honest question: Is there any doubt that Snowden is guilty of the crimes he's charged with (e.g. "unauthorized communication of national defense information")?
I kinda feel like useless knowledge is an oxymoron.

If knowledge about our world is a pitfall, then I'm happy to seek out new traps.
"In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit. Maybe that is what is causing the movement."

Yeah, that's likely.
You know...
This brings a part of my life back to mind that I hoped to forget... FS, if you're reading and recognize this, I still respect the hell out of you and wish you well. I can't go into too much depth here without revealing more than allowed. I am purposely vague and I apologize if that bothers or offends you but I don't want to see any litigation in my future.

I don't know how to take this article. I wish some of the insight had been around when it mattered to me (working 60 - 80 hour weeks because of management over-promising because they wouldn't take the time to understand the scope because the PM was sure it was "trivial") but some of it also smacks of the PM thinking of her/himself as some kind of deity whose wishes would make the work happen magically. Me, personally, I like my deities to be left in church where I can ignore them as I deem necessary...

Anyway, the best PM like being I ever had contact with was a QA department head who had been in the line of business his whole life and knew exactly what something needed to do to succeed in that business. He had a second in command that was also a lifer. Between those 2 guys, when they got interested in something, that something did some smooth sailing. If they were disinterested or too busy with a fire, all hell would break loose.

Well, at this particular company, every time all hell would break loose, they would, instead of fixing the original software, buy something similar and try to massage it into the product. During the ~19 months or so I was there, they bought, had been in talks to buy or were suing the seller over the bought product not working for 4 different products. The funny thing was, all of these products were based on disparate technology... The original software was built in a combination of Delphi, Borland C++ and the Borland DB engine. Of the bought software, One was Java based, it wouldn't run for 12 or more hours at a time. One was based on .Net and it crashed more than it worked. 2 were based on popular C++ App Frameworks. Those 2 kinda worked, sometimes, if you held your mouth right and kept your support contracts up to date.

Now, we have a company with at least 4 different technologies with maybe 2 of the original developers of any of the software left. The only guy that remains with any sense and sanity is the QA guy because his family is tied to the company. And all along he's been yelling/screaming/cajoling/nurturing, whatever he can do to get the management to leave the programmers alone and so they can get the work done.
It would be interesting if this is on accident or it was built that way somehow.
"Sadly, I suppose that would be a demonstration of the "arrogance" the US is so often accused of."

Accused my ass.. more like "IS".
One detail from that interview that didn't get much attention: when those guys went through official channels inside NSA and brought their allegations of wrongdoing to the Inspector General, the Inspector General recommended criminal prosecution of them. From the article:

Jesselyn Radack: Not only did they go through multiple and all the proper internal channels and they failed, but more than that, it was turned against them. ... The inspector general was the one who gave their names to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act.
Can you specifically mention what "ethnicity" the president has that prevents criticism of his behavior?
> they can be as smug as you sound

This is the pot calling the kettle black.

Also, you're acting as if the bitcoin community is a single entity that could come so some kind of agreement.. it's not. Just as can be said for the "business community."

Also, the situation is a lot more complicated than you're giving it credit for.
> They still have plenty of other targets.

As long as they are internal affairs, it's their problem. If the problems cross borders, there are international organizations with proper authority do deal with them.

When one country decides to make a military intervention, the international bodies are further weakened.
How good is the mic pickup when the phone is in your pocket?
It's a little of both. I like the ideas behind Linux, distros, and FOSS in general, but having grown up in the shadow of Redmond means I'm frustratingly out of my element when trying to set up RasBMC or Raspbian.
I am confused, I thought we were discussing "the revolving door problem." From the outset your comment seems to be concerned with the government's use of private contractors.
NKS contains a mention of the proof that Rule 110 is Turing Complete. This is genuinely interesting, but it doesn't change its field in a significant way.

Of course, Wolfram didn't come up with the proof himself. That was done by Matthew Cook while he was working for Wolfram Research. Stephen Wolfram obtained a court order preventing Cook from presenting his result before NKS was published, because he claimed that publishing this result violated an NDA Cook signed.