skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has A LOT of potential. Good luck!
By the way - looks so similar to http://www.learnpython.org/
Wikipedia lists lots of activities for the time spent in Milan: several paintings, frescoes in the ducal castle, work on military and hydraulic projects, etc.

Plus, the Last Supper is a huge fresco, not just "a painting", which from concept to execution took several years.
Well, the quote is about just starting the revolution, not finishing it. If it helps, consider this - Jobs could probably have found another brilliant engineer to fill the role of Wozniak in the startup of Apple. I don't think Wozniak could have found another Jobs (or would even have tried - after all it was Jobs that found Wozniak, and not the other way round).
If Tesco and Asda weren't included (two of the UK's largest supermarkets) then the test was essentially irrelevant to most of the populace.
So true! I've always followed the guideline that, in general, icons should be viewed as purely decorative. Go ahead and add them for aesthetic purposes, but avoid making them the sole indication of something's function.

I'd make an exception, however, for some extremely common icons, such as the B, I, and X icons for "bold", "italic", and "close".
Actually it was one person who "started" the revolution, but at least one more person (with money and business skills) was needed to make that product accessible to the masses.

By the way, Jobs was not any of those two people. The real revolutionary guy was Wozniak and the business man who turned the Apple I into the Apple II (with money and business skills was Mike Markkula)

I would highly recommend you to read Accidental Empires and iWoz if you are curious about those stories.
Pictures or it isn't true!
The problem with text instead of icons is that

a)Its needs translation per language and
b)it takes longer to parse/process.

The weather information in iOS7's "Today" notification is an example (http://applenapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ios_7_6_not...). It takes much longer to read the exact weather information than just seeing a weather icon and getting it (IMHO).

In this article's case, it seems he use something that wasn't "iconic" as an icon.
Nice, is it just for basic js or tutorials like WebRTC/Filesystem api and such are welcome?
There was a demo he did of NeXTSTEP where he coded some stuff (can't provide a link - work blocks streaming video). It's certainly possible that he memorized it, but he didn't have any hesitations so I think he had more than a casual familiarity with it.
http://xkcd.com/1256/
Well, this story doesn't make much sense if he knew how to code at Apple. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Calculator_Constr...
Like cold calling?
What you are saying basically ignores the history of copyright law. Copyright was created not because society placed a high value on creative expression, but because of a desire by the government of England to censor printed material. Modern copyright was created when that system was abolished, not because of the plight of artists but because of the lobbying effort of publishers, who sought to restore the monopoly on printing they had enjoyed under the censorship system.
Perhaps because Walmart is the parent company?
Well if any of today's American cities lost 5 to 7% of their population in a single year to some sort of medical epidemic I suspect there'd be a fair bit of civil activity.
Getting the V right
Cass Sunstein is among the most famous living constitutional law scholars.

Richard Clarke built his post-government career (after being the most senior counterterrorism official in the Clinton administration) as a critic of the way the "war on terror" had been prosecuted, and has been working on "cyberwar" subjects for over a decade.

I don't like Clarke much and I don't agree with everything Cass Sunstein proposes but your dismissive tone harms your argument.
Because Obama doesn't see this as a technology issue. It's a security versus legal rights issue. Technology is involved merely incidentally. Hence a panel that involves two intelligence people (Morell and Clarke), and three law professors (Sunstein, Swire, and Stone).

The professors aren't ideologically diverse, but they're hardly intelligence community insiders like the article is trying to make them out to be. Swire was Chief Counselor for Privacy in the OMB under Clinton. Stone writes a lot on subjects like preserving free speech rights during wartime. None of these guys are anarcho-libertarians, but they're not John Woo "security first" guys either. They pretty much represent the views of the "mainstream left."

Hypothesis: what people want is not someone who knows "how to run a packet sniffer." There is nothing complicated about the underlying technology that can't be explained adequately to a bunch of intelligent people. What people are really mad about is the lack of any representation of the political views of technologists: people who put a very high ideological priority on free information and protecting communications online. Because that is the thing you can't explain in a whitepaper.
many of the feedback which we got during private beta of whatfix are incorporated (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6019078)
Woz was one of a kind.

A Mad genius, to paraphrase Ang
( from Avatar the last Airbender )

There is no parallel to him and i don't believe there is anyone who can do both original hardware design and low and high level coding like woz.
How massive are we talking? What's your finest grained fact table? Are we partitioning fact tables by customer? What's your current underlying store?

You're actually at the coalface and I'm the bookworm, so I am totally prepared to be schooled on this one.
I also bought a Filco Majestouch 2 with Brown switches. It just too high in the front so the wrists hurt and kind of heavy pushing down the keys so I go tired writing on it.

A bit of disappointment.
Well its not that bad, as I first thought. Here is what I know from playing with new tool for some time:

1. How can I see the exact match search volume? - The search number you see is actually exact match.

2. But why are the exact match search volumes higher/lower than those in the old keyword tool? - Because KW Tool was showing the search volumes in the current month. KW Planner calculates the average per year, so that's why the numbers are different.

3. Well, but it doesn't show the local search volume! - It does show ONLY local search volume of the country you selected in targeting. If you want to see global search statistics, then change targeting to all countries.

4. But but... it doesn't show search trends! - Yeah it does, just hover your mouse over that small graph icon right of the keyword. These new search trends are actually far more better, cause you can see exact names of the months.
A modal that you can't dismiss isn't a great idea either, with it taking nearly half of my phone's viewing area.

http://imgur.com/3K2CUG1
LinkedIn has become effectively useless as an actual talent/hiring tool, at least in my area, though it remains a pretty decent contacts tool.

The recommendation system is just as fictitious as the endoresements: it has been my experience that many recommendations are quid pro quo and have no legitimacy. Many come in a circular fashion so when assessing talent you need to walk through each of the players trying to figure out what their real motivation was.

I've watched the sausage being made. I remember once when we had to choose a team member to punt at one shop I worked, and there was universal agreement on the target, the team long having grievances about their productivity, poor quality product, etc. The deed gets done, and over the next week I see a several of my peers, including his highly critical direct manager (who hands out absurd recommendations like candy), author lengthy, lauding recommendations for this person. They were trying to trade in a recommendation to assuage their guilt, or for future considerations in return. This seemed incredible to me because it should be professionally damaging to do something like that, but in the real world it simply isn't: There are no consequences or downsides to handing out ridiculous endorsements and fictional recommendations.
I could write a 50 page indictment of Elop for killing Nokia, but Tomi Ahonen already has, so here is the tl;dr: There is no reason Nokia couldn't have had Meego and Android alongside Windows Phone. Other OEMs, including Samsung and LG launch products with alternative OSs because they don't want to be caught out if OS preferences change. Several OEMs tried Windows Phone and/or Windows RT. Those products failed to gain traction and were abandoned. These OEMs and others will launch Tizen, Firefox OS, and Ubuntu products for the same reasons.

Sticking with Windows Phone exclusively in light of its failure at other OEMs looks more like career management than strategy. Launching a Windows RT product, as Nokia is rumored to be doing, is recklessness bordering on insanity.

As for Microsoft disappearing from mobile, it looks to me that Ballmer's departure anticipates that happening. Nokia can't keep going the way it is for much longer.
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>" It made sense for Woz to do the hardware and the software."

Well yeah, for the Apple I. But that Basic had limitations, it didn't actually supported float point types and that's why they had to license Microsoft Basic later on.
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Ooh, I am sorry about this. Genuine mistake.
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Reviews:

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Why isn't anyone suggesting Eric Schmidt? He has a lot of experience in winning and kicking ass as a software company.
HOW DO I FIX THIS.
I know it sounds bad, but some "penalty" (adding a rating system for lies?) should exist for plain lies and fake revisionism in films. The extreme of this in another context are the laws against Holocaust denial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial we can't obviously compare the Steve Jobs film with it, but the cinema has a long tradition of modifying historical facts without the typical disclaimer.
No, it does not take longer to process, in general. If there is a small, well-known set of icons (e.g. traffic signs), then yes, it's easier. Same is true for weather symbols - sun and clouds are well-known.

However, I find really amusing when I (as somebody who considers himself a really experienced user and gadget-fan) can't decide what the icons mean on my smartphone, then I start getting suspicious.

If you haven't seen something many times, then icons are harder to parse, simply because you don't know what they mean.
> Once you have done that (and gained two or three order of magnitude in computation time), and you're still not fast enough, then okay,

You are talking about the language (or better implementation) that is compiled to bytecode. The speed increase that you gain by optimization is of the order of magnitude smaller than by just using language that compiles to machine code.

Once you understood how it's done in python, then you need to port it to fortran/c, what is the point?

Fortran is not much different from python in syntax.
Yep, looks like I did. I'm having a hard time remembering memory and disk sizes so small. Actually, I think I meant for the 1440 to 1.44, so it is 1.44 x 1000 x 1024 (showing mixing the base-10 and base-2 units). So a MB in the 1.44 MB floppy is 1024 x 1000. Or, to put it another way, to get the number 1.44 out of 1474560 bytes, you first divide 1474560 by 1024, then by 1000. Weird.
Please notes the use of Feds and Fed. The Feds run the endless deficit, not the Fed. And in my humble opinion, the Petrodollar system has a great deal to do with real rates of interest.
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that's correct. AFAIK the point of the OP was to understand how that "high-performance library" works.
I'd just like to add that well established icons are much more readable than text.

The prime example that makes me believe this is road signs. In Europe it is pretty easy to drive a car in any country and be able to do it correctly, IF you are used to European road signage. Driving a car in USA when used to European signage is difficult. The signs in USA more often have text, but it is not always more understandable than an icon. What does "PED XING" mean, and how much time and energy do you have to dechiffer it while driving? (It took me days to realize that it is probably a contraction of "pedestrian crossing") Another example; it takes much more effort to understand what "SLIDES" might mean than it takes to recognize a pictogram of sliding rocks. When the text is not immediately understandable, you have to recognize it from earlier. This is similar to icons that are not immediately understandable.

My take-away here is that it takes lots of effort to make good descriptive text. Using text instead of icons is not a simple solution for the problem described in the article. It takes effort to communicate clearly anyway :)
They can just fill Energons and send those back to earth... http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon
Glad to see someone fulfilling my dream -- I called it "the money moat".

I submitted an idea like this to my previous job (phone company) -- it was not popular (what a surprise.)

Apparently toll-free solicitation calling is considered a sacred right in the US. Your inclinations be damned.
yeah, same author :)
Because no relevant technologist wants to sit on a panel that is inevitably going to conclude that some degree of SIGINT will need to impact Google. They've got to keep working in this industry, after all.
Here's my grandmother's old neighborhood in the near southwest part of the city (Pilsen):

http://goo.gl/maps/OlFm7

You can see where the sidewalks enter on the second floor of these flats and the original ground level entrance is now below street level.

We had lots of fun goofing around in the "cave" down on the first floor.
haha :)
what's up? :)

maybe you should write some :)
Good idea executed terribly.
Perhaps so, but still. Wal-Mart segments its departments like a department store would. Groceries are usually on one side of the store. Outdoor and auto are usually in a corner near each other. Electronics is its own thing. Home Improvement, Pet, Beauty, Pharma, Household, Crafts...they're all segmented by where their assigned shelf-space is. Each one has folks that are in some way assigned to it. This is my point.
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From the looks of it he originally used 'carnal' in the title, then recognised his mistake, but had already made the slug for the URL before he changed the error.
Taskbar is a bad example here. As I mentioned below, icons without text are good choice if and only if the user sees them all the time / knows exactly what they mean. The stuff most (98%) of people sees in their Windows 7 taskbar is really familiar to them -- IE or Firefox symbol, Word, Excel, Skype, etc. It's OK to use icons there, it saves a lot of space, and people don't really 'parse' the icons at all, they just remember the spatial locations, and maybe the colors.

But having very similar, black and white icons without text in a smartphone app? Really bad decision.

BTW, colors help a lot, even they sometimes conflict with the currently fashionable flat designs. Look at the new Visual Studio -- it looks nice, but developers keep complaining about the lack of colours.
I have to say, Isaacson's book definitely did a good job of highlighting the importance of Mike Markkula in Apple's story.

It's amazing how 'right' Markkula was, at least in the bits cited by Isaacson.
Having a technologist like Felten on the panel could provide much-needed insight into the broader technical implications of government surveillance practices. For example, the National Security Agency (NSA) has claimed a data collection practice later ruled unconstitutional by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court was the result of a complex technical problem rather than an overreach by the NSA during a press call. Someone with technical training would be well-positioned to evaluate the technical merits of this claim.

When the government is doing something bad, it's not relevant whether it came from technical problems rather than cultural.

All we need to know is that the government has been doing something bad. The evidence that this has occurred, for any reason, should be sufficient to shut it down.
About twenty years ago, I was able to do something pretty much like this for typing "cat file" - e.g. syscall interface, tty drivers, network protocols, filesystems, SCSI plus pervasive things like schedulers and memory managers. I can't do that any more, though, because I've become more of a storage specialist and some of the parts I haven't kept with have changed immensely. Also, some of the implementations of those parts in Linux are frankly insane and I no longer enjoy panning through a ton of dirt for a few flecks of gold.
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why convert from photon to electron back to photon? Why not just use mirrors to focus light on lasing material and create a laser directed to a solar panel/s on the Earth and then convert to electrons?
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Just don't try to compile universal C binaries and you'll be fine
A couple people had posted the text here. If you have showdead off you should be OK for now.
From a skills perspective HR maybe struggling, but recruitment is more than finding the right skills. It includes background checking, psychological screening, screening for fitness to corporate culture etc. I don't claim all HR are more skilled than everyone here, but most of non-HR people are not experts in all aspects of recruitment neither.
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Somewhat some time ago he must have decided to become the elder statesman of the technology circus. Not sure if it was such a great decision, but I would be very surprised if he came back into the business of "running" things.
Which exactly are you talking about?
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You're not paying for shades. You're paying for design.
How about a tooltip over the icon?
> The "property" part appears ... is a tendentious word added later, like "pro-life."

Don't be silly. The word "property" in "intellectual property" is used in its legal sense: a particular and well-defined set of characteristics that a bundle of rights can have (such as being transferable to other entities, and binding the world).

The definition comes from common law, and certainly predates your country's constitution.[1] By the legal definition, modern implementations of patents, copyright, and trademarks are very definitely property rights (in the UK and USA anyway).[2]

Whether they should be is a different question, but at the moment, they are. E.g. in my country, the relevant Act begins with "Copyright is a property right" - that isn't trying push a point of view, it's defining it as a property right. To use a programming analogy, it's telling you that Copyright inherits from the class IntangibleProperty (which itself inherits from Property), which gives it a bunch of preexisting attributes and methods.

[1] Which isn't to say that copyright etc. was a property right back in 17whatever - especially as, back then, choses in action were generally untransferable - only that "property right" was defined back then.

[2] Well, mostly: in some countries (IIRC not the US), writing a work that qualifies for copyright also gives you a few non-proprietary rights, called 'moral rights'. If you're being picky you could argue these aren't technically "IP" rights, but they're usually included under the IP banner for convenience.

(IANAL)
Your questions need to be:

1. More direct

2. Well thought out
Sorry but your comment doesn't make much sense.

I have been programming for 15+ years. It doesn't mean that I instantly know every application framework in existence. Especially the (looking back at it now) the pretty complex way the original Mac OS apps were written.
>" If it helps, consider this - Jobs could probably have found another brilliant engineer to fill the role of Wozniak in the startup of Apple"

I disagree, if he would never met Wozniak, Jobs wouldn't have any product at all (hence he wouldn't have an engineering role to fill at all). As for Wosniak, he would eventually find an executive guy inside HP with the guts to produce it (Woz mildly tried that when he was forced to go full time to Apple)

To put you in context, Apple I was the first personal computer that resembles the ones that we have today, before that there was just the Altair which was a kit to build a computer unit with switches as input and leds as output)
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Apart from the fact that this is a non-story ("a gambling website picked Elop as the favorite", which website? with how many users?), as others have said, Microsoft needs Elop in Nokia to keep getting their support with Windows Phone.
Yup, there are certain low rates bids you compete against with.
http://imgur.com/TdrXpxS.png

Funny. I was thinking a non-disappearing modal on a mobile browser would be a fairly cardinal UX mistake. Call me crazy.
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There's a wonderful post similar to your old project.
https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cn...
Yikes! Seems super awkward for all involved.
this is better known as 'mystery meat' navigation and google is one of its most famous adherents

but then again, google has shown again and again that they know absolutely nothing about UX or UI
Interesting! One of the slightly counter-intuitive solutions the city has implemented in recent years are flow restrictors in catch basins that service street storm drains. The rationale is that the sewer system can't handle the combined volume of rainwater from the street and from peoples homes (mainly runoff from gutters or sump pumps), so they opt to let the streets flood instead of people's basements.

Oddly though flooding in the city proper where there building density is high is generally not a problem. This past year when we had very heavy rains, it was the northern suburbs that had real get out your boat type flooding.
Wozniak Says `Lot of Things Wrong' With Jobs Movie
Not sure if she qualifies for cute, but the only other female high profile tech personality that comes to mind would be Sheryl Sandberg.
Xhon - a 10 second platformer

You play an alien life form that pollinates itself by shooting out spore that live for only 10 seconds. Some of your pods give the spore special powers!

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
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My bad. Fixing it.

Update: Fixed.
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I apologize for not having any suggestions for you but I do have a quick question. Just out of curiosity, what would you consider cutting-edge in front-end development?
I think sp332's point is that if you have 15+ years programming and you can't get a guy to produce you what you exactly want, then you would eventually do a prototype by yourself to show them how to do it.
With people like Larry Page, Jeff Bezos leading its competition, MS sure does need someone very technical. May be Bill G makes a comeback.
He definitely lack the kind of ego of engineers of our times.
a recent example of this taken to extremes would be the film "Mermaid: the body found" - pretending to be a documentary claiming evidence of the existence of mermaids, until the credits roll and reveal that the whole film and most of the evidence was a fiction. Granted the subject matter is unlikely, but the deception comes off as very unethical.
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