skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, maybe I should rephrase it. It takes more than an hour to carefully think and analyze, and then implement the thing, and then make sure there aren't any bugs. Thinking things through beforehand makes the possibility of errors less likely, but even then you may have made a silly mistake at some point or another. That is why we have things like unit tests and code reviews, because even the best programmers make mistakes. I certainly wouldn't trust C code written by a single developer in one hour to be production-ready.
I do think that would be really interesting to see.

As a start, apparently 25% of road deaths are among 15-19 year-olds (src: http://www.racfoundation.org/assets/rac_foundation/content/d...).

We are usually taught about the velocity squared rule! I think I recall one of the problems on my theory test being based on it. It'd be hard to memorise stopping distances, although I think we do have to memorise approximate reaction time distances.
I did mean buzz. I think Orkut was an acquisition if I remember correctly.
Personally, I lean very libertarian (with pragmatism towards said ideals). And although i think that GenX/Y (tail end of X myself) are far more open to free expression than many generations (though the 60's/70's did have a lot of protesting, you can see the impacts that started there). I think there are plenty of people that are very closed off, and closed minded.

Positions of power tend to be obtained by those that seek it out. Those that seek out power and achieve it are generally those that are both charismatic, and ambitious. This can be a dangerous combination. When you combine this with people who love raw technology, the opportunity to work with said technology will often outweigh the moral obligation someone should have with their larger community.

This is why things like PRISM can happen, and actually start being used before leaks happen. Many people I know would have not had the fortitude (I think myself included) to actually take the steps to speak out.
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Looks nice!

One (hopefully) helpful bit of criticism about the website to Mr. Perdue: The photo of the laptop is pretty, but I had to go to Github to see an actual detailed screenshot of the contents of the file.

Maybe include just a flat PNG version of the image that I can click-to-zoom on right there on http://blakeperdue.com/ios7-wireframe-kit/ ? Maybe you could get cute and make the laptop screen clickable to see a higher-resolution version. You've got a lot of nice detail in there (like the glyphs) that people might otherwise miss out on.
Did you try disabling the tabs other than primary?
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The US Constitution has a bit about privacy for US citizens. People like me, or @cstross would not be covered by it, and the NSA would legally be allowed to spy on us. Go beyond the US Constitution.
Exactly.

It's possibly a bit disturbing that on hacker news, this thread consists of three people all complaining that, effectively, 'This bayesian filter doesn't quite do exactly what I want out of the box, so it's clearly broken and/or I'm not the target audience for it', instead of acknowledging that bayesian filters aren't psychic, and considering putting in the few seconds per email it takes to train them when they make a mistake.
Except that elections ultimately don't change the cast of characters that matter, who are either the elites pushing things to their own benefit, or the useful idiots in place as civil servants or military. Elections are all a distraction to keep us from seeing what's permanent about the oligarchy.

As Jimmy Carter says (as buffoonish as he might have been), we don't really have a functioning democracy any more in the US.
One of my favourite features: a single configuration file. No more .bashrc and .bash_profile .

However, it seems like Fish is not fully POSIX-compatible, therefore you can face weird problems in Vim plugins, for example.
You can opt out of it... why are you phrasing it like you can't?
Startups: Plot your own downfall.
Without revealing my specific generation. . .and agreeing that these are common responses. . .the first response makes me want to scream, the second simply rubs me the wrong way.. .and I admit that the third is pretty close to my initial reaction. As someone said humorously/saracastically. . .NCIS has been one of the top-rated shows for about 10 years. Did you really think that everything McGee does is fiction?
Just a random reminder that when trying to install ack (or read the man page), the name you want is ack-grep. :-p
The difference is that you have a choice.
Coinbase (YC S12) Adds SMS Commands So You Can Send BTC Via QR On The Q.T.
Anybody know what SIM size it uses? I have a hard time finding that info.
That was my thought. I always get lost in these discussions because I have to translate the bizarre lingo into basic threading primitives I can understand. Once I've done that I don't understand what all the fuss is about.
Happy Birthday Debian! Best servers I've ever had.
There are jobs out there that pay 33k or more in development. The thing no one here can know is how you compare for other candidates for those positions.
You could just keep looking till someone offered you 33k or more. It might take a year longer of working on side projects, or whatever. Or, if you put enough time aside, you might be "good enough" for 33k now. The market can answer this question better than anyone on this forum.
MBAs are just trained to optimize around the the current maximum in the "energy" landscape. These maxima are all too often not the best in the landscape, or even worse, can vanish over time as the landscape changes.

MBAs are like a gradient optimization algorithm without any simulated annealing process.
Wait, are you working, or reading and commenting on HN?
You have never been in a deep relationship before have you?
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Here's one way to explain it:

Current data mining techniques take in massive amounts of similar data and output a parsed signal. Palantir takes in massive amounts of data, preserves all of it, allows their FDEs and clients to hand-draw ontological connections between dissimilar pieces of data, and outputs a gigantic raw data object. Palantir is one of the few entities with the technical know-how and infrastructure to make this gigantic object manipulatable on any old computer or phone.

Where other miners might bring you a gold ring (which may or may not be the right fit for your finger at the time!), Palantir brings you a cart full of raw gold and a map back to the mine shaft. From there you can do whatever you want.
Patent-encumbered. In particular: US2009164440, US2009164539.
Aha! I knew that these existed, but didn't know they had two rudders/foils, too. Sailing boats that can't really be used if their engine isn't running :-) (they need power, typically hydraulic, to move the keel during sailing)
What did you use to generate this LoC analysis?
On-demand on-chip teleportation of qubits performed for first time
Ouch! UC Comp Sci graduate here, whats wrong with UC?
Haha, sorry, I was just having a joke.
If you design your interviews to focus on knowledge and abilities taught in college, you tend to cut out people without college degrees who don't have the personal grit to go teach themselves those subjects. Since most people don't care for academic learning, this effectively requires a college degree in general.

That said, the big G does hire a number of people without degrees, I hear.
The fact that you cannot redirect stderr to stdout and pipe to another command is a bit of a stumbling point for me. When I saw the bug[1] for the first time I thought that it must be some strange corner case, but it turns out it is a real bug. After reading the bug report I started to wonder if there were any other other unixy features that were missing. I/O redirection is a core unix concept in my opinion.

[1] "Redirect stderr to stdout and pipe doesn't work as expected" https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/110
>an environment that asymmetrically favors transparent power over clandestine

This asymmetry only exists as organisations scale. Keep your Clandestine organisations small and your transparent organisations big. But there are two problems with making Clandestine organisations small:

1. it is dangerous: smaller Clandestine organisations would by necessary concentrate more power in fewer hands, combined with secrecy that actually works and you have the perfect breeding ground for a coup,

2. it is politically sensitive: managers in organisations grow in status as they hire more people below them/lose status as they lose people below them, any budget or size cuts will be used as a way to past the blame after the next intelligence failure (consider how the NSA/CIA would've reacted to the post-9-11 review if Clinton had reduced their size to 0.1%).
If await isn't changing the way you structure your code -- and letting your code robustly handle things that it couldn't handle with callbacks -- I think you're doing it wrong.
Sorry that wasn't clear. The latency didn't get better, but what happened is that instead of having to make a lot of calls to memcache it was just one (well, just a few), so while that one took longer, the total time was much less.
I thought it was clear that Microsoft was still asserting patents on exFAT.

Link stolen from wikipedia: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/IP...

So, GPL or not, it doesn't do Linux a whole lot of good, since it can never be properly included.
Check out http://www.collabramusic.com They are building a very cool product that allows you to jam with other musicians. Not quite real time...but it is extremely close and allows you to create various "versions" of songs with different musicians/instruments recorded right into the browser.
While I hope no harm comes to Levison, part of me wishes the gov't would charge him. I'd like to think they couldn't find a jury that would convict him, and I wouldn't be surprised if it incited a large public reaction. So I bet they don't charge him; since Levison has made it obvious that he won't be bullied.
I mean - I too call that working, or at least "working" :) I don't mean to criticize!
Expanding in New York because of real estate prices in Silicon Valley? That sounds nutty, but maybe I'm missing something.
Of course its complicated for no reason. Its an example! The same logic would apply if I had 5+ nontrivial lines of code instead of just a print statement.
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So we can effectively say goodbye to a strong engineering culture at Google. With layers and layers of PMs, the best and brightest have no desire to entire their system. So Google's left with the academically talented individuals who don't have much initiative or drive outside of extremely narrow scopes. (So, innovation was killed by the bottom line.)
... except for the fact that I use them all, so all of them should be voted for?
Do you know anyone with a 10k .bashrc?
The Bill of Rights (first "fix") was mainly to restore certain civil protections that were established in the Articles of Confederation that the Constitutions ratification took away, or didn't expressly spell out (10th Amendment).

I think after the 1830's decision to use the commerce clause in more encroach into a broader role that it was a pragmatic decision at the time... however, that expanded role continued into what we have today. We should emphatically NOT have domestic arms of the U.S. Government with the power that the DoJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, DEA, ICE and their ilk are holding.
And one ring to rule them all
The Datepicker Demo bricked my Chrome :-/
Kind of a strange point on cost cutting, but how does this fall into the arguement of "paying for talent" when hiring your executive level vs "race to the bottom" point of view for your employees? I've seen this vomitous 180 flip of statement coming from the same company in a short timespan.

The top gets paid an exponential figure for 'talent', but is ignored in any cost cutting measure... yet, any purely non financial 'talent' sets you on a crash course race towards minimum wage of "Oh, you did awesome this year, but times are lean.. here is a 2% raise."

Maybe I am more irked now because the company I work for just got bought by a huge company and R&D staff was slashed in half and "No more research." became a mandate
I've had people try it on me. It was incredibly awkward. It did come off as arrogant. And the first thing it made me wonder is 'wtf? who are you?'

I don't know if it was tone, timing or something else, but I don't think it should be a cold opener. There needs to be some small talk beforehand, a decent understanding of what someone is doing.

If you and I talked and I just told you what I'm working on and you actually seem engaged, interested and knowledgeable then asking 'Is there something I can do to help you?' might be a natural and genuine statement.

Taking advice/help from someone requires some degree of trust, establish a little before trying this imo.
Levison poisoned his well, and every other well like it.
GMail does a pretty good job at blocking trackers. However, this is not enough to prevent users from triggering the tracking themselves.

As gyardley says, there's the option to enable images. I rarely enable them, but sometimes I decide that I gain more from seeing them than from avoiding the tracking.

Another mechanism is links: clicking on one will get you tracked too. Normally, if there's something that catches my eye I look it up on Google instead of clicking on the link. But sometimes I either don't care or don't see a benefit to do it.

Now, the above is my behaviour, which is that of a paranoid, tech-savvy, power user who, for example, wasn't surprised in the slightest when the whole Edward Snowden story came about. Think of how a normal user will behave instead.
In general, most developers have a lot of freedom in employment and can probably escape it given a little planning.
Not at all - MBAs teach company management and company finance. There really isn't anything in an MBA that would have anything to do with the job of corporate oversight that a board of directors handles.

The board of directors are simply large shareholders who are put there to make sure management does what is in the best interests of share holders. In most large companies, these people are mostly made up of employees of pension funds and similar institutions. Their job is to try their best to make sure the company is committed to giving their investors a return of x% and are usually there because it is conventional thinking that having control of a company is in your best interests.

Now obviously these guys have no idea what should be going on in a technology (or just about any other) company. They aren't really concerned with employees or anything like that - only with a few accounting and market figures such as return on equity, share price, potential acquisitions of other companies they have invested in, and whether or not to sell the company to others. Actually running the company or how the company works is the furthest thing from their minds.

Now, as I said above, these guys are not actually to blame. They are just doing their jobs - giving returns to the guys who have dumped money into their funds. The people ultimately to blame are you and me. We put our money in these massive pension funds and similar. We don't even care where the money goes. Each year we check our statements and say 'oh, 13% returns only, maybe I should switch pension funds?'.

As always, the problem is apathy, entitlement and 'well these guys are a big company, they must know what they are doing'.
It's useless to ask "how can I help you" unless they already know how you could help them. They can learn that if you first introduce yourself, tell about your life and your business, etc.

From Christoph's post:

> After about an hour of covering topics ranging from places to see around the area to consulting gigs to building a SaaS application, I asked him one very simple question: "How can I help you?"

The question works because before he made it to his interlocutor, he had already told his history. The interlocutor had enough information about him to know what to answer when he made the question.
While I understand the desire for custom HTML elements I'm also certain they are going to result in monstrosities.

It's not the tool's fault, in the end. But it is opening up a basket of horrors.
I've had this experience once last year. This is called PVC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature_ventricular_contracti...
My doc says that a one-time is not dangerous, but if it starts happening more often it's cause for concern.
What if money had no role in getting exposure in App Store?
While this is great it doesn't work in Android Webview or "Browser", in chrome its just fine.
I reported a different vulnerability to Amazon a few days ago. I've gotten a case number, but haven't heard anything beyond that. It's nice to see their timeline and know that they are responding and fixing stuff.
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I have yet to see one of these fake email ads.
They can, and are supposed to, but they have morphed into a box-checking exercise used to keep politicians and professional guilds happy and management asses covered. Hence the reason most of these professionals see the requirement as a burden. I felt the same way back when I was actually working as an electrical engineer.

That said, self-study is a different animal from the side project nonsense that the thread root is referring to. I personally engage in a significant amount of self-study. Some of it a roll back into my day job, some I experiment with in my free time, the rest is purely academic knowledge acquisition. I don't have anything tangible to show off, though, because most everything I have done off hours is the software equivalent of a carver or welder practicing with scraps.

Maybe that isn't the right attitude for a programmer, but in that case a programmer is a different animal than any of the professions listed previously.
Probably not actually; the NSA isn't big on HUMINT.

And because no-one wants to win a war against a repressive political ideology and come home to find more of the same?
I have to disagree. Strong people will pursue their passion and find their ways. Weak people will succumb and be scared. It depends entirely on the person. Most people simply prefer stability, that's all there is to it.

Not everybody has this amazing idea they are absolutely passionate about and prioritize above everything else.

I just started working in a corporate environment. I'm the best at what I do. I work beyond hours. I also have a life. I can choose to go home and have a four hour game of thrones session, or I can invest my time into personal interests and developing myself.

It's up to the individual entirely. We live in a world where we are capable of forging our own path.

There is no lack of freedom, there is simply too much of it.

> while we have become more free have we really gained anything in terms of long term ability to do what we actually desire or be our own masters?

YES. You have all the resources at your fingertips. Institutions, counselling, meetups for specific interests, the INTERNET where you can communicate with anybody in a millisecond.

It's up to you what you do with these powers. Will you be complacent, or will you use them to your advantage? It's sad that most people use our new found technological superpowers to bore themselves instead of learn about our beautiful planet and all it has to offer.
What is so different from wordpress to medium
The only difference would be the blog post interface.
Our modern "arrow" is essentially a field point expelled via explosion at incredible velocity.

It's a bad metaphor.
"Personally, I like to understand problems, rather than grok them."
The problem is that business school doesn't teach you to close a sale or manage an organization (vital skills, true). Its a place to learn useless business theory and network with classmates (which is only as valuable as the selectivity of the program).
* sales & customer service

* marketing

* accounting

are all required for a successful and effective business. Of course its possible to learn these on the fly, but why not sponge up some knowledge without taking the high levels of risk involved in starting your own business.
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Care to elaborate on that insight?

Yes, Bulkowski observed that most people are in unfulfilling jobs, and he was happy to escape that life to pursue what pleased him. He failed to note that to leave those jobs would be a terminal move because they had nothing they found fulfilling which would at the same time create livable productivity. He was lucky enough to have notable talent in doing something fulfilling to the point that someone else was willing to exchange a "living wage" for it, and he was happy as a result. I'm happy too, having found my equivalent combination of joyful productivity coupled with a satisfying fair wage for writing (iOS code instead of English prose).

Yes, we lament those who toil to unsatisfying ends. So ask each and every one of them: what do you want to do? Most answers you receive, alas, would be either "I don't know" or something not rising to the exchangeable equivalent of sustenance farming. Natural reality being that you do not get fed & clothed just for mere existence, all have a natural obligation to produce enough for themselves & dependents to survive on, and if they can't find a pleasant way to do it then they must find an unpleasant way as charity (while morally obligatory) can only go so far.
No, no. The fully communist model is where you have listings of every single worker in existence and choose your hires based on that so that you have an accurate estimate of scarcity.
Am I the only person left on the planet who pines for tactile buttons in a small device I can use with one hand?
No, it's not even that. The linked article (http://www.cliffc.org/blog/2013/08/15/tcp-is-unreliable/) at the bottom tells you what's actually going on.

The only thing slightly fishy is that the peer application didn't receive any connection attempt, but if you're anyway quite overloaded, e.g. running out of file descriptors, that may well happen.
leaderboard doesn't appear to update (at least in real time).
Google allays PRISM fears with automatic encryption for Cloud Storage
I just wish my phone didn't still chirp regardless of tab

What client/platform?

Using the gmail client on Android, for me the experience has been that email to the alternate tabs don't count for notifications -- neither sound nor notification icon. It HUGELY reduced the amount of notification noise I was getting, and just for that is a huge improvement. Now when there is a notification it is almost always legitimate.
Nothing. It was great, and the profs were excellent. But it's not on the coasts so it might as well be from somewhere that ends in -stan. :)
> It used to be that HP engineers were expressly given Friday afternoons

What a huge sacrifice HP made thereby. Friday afternoon is otherwise the most productive time of the week.
You mean it WASNT aliens faints in surprise
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It will be interesting to see how Oregon's Pay-It-Forward will pan out, but it will take half a century to get any real data:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/03/pay-it-forward-oreg...

Ohio has also shown interest:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/ohio-tuition-plan-o...
If you allow to display images from senders domain it can still be tracked. Just a minor shift in the industry will overcome this.
But last I checked SV and California in general pumped out more innovation than the rest of the country combined, and is preparing to colonize another planet and electrify transport.

This is what people refer to as a 'reality distortion field'.