skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting variant of this system is one where executives give or take points away from organizations based upon team performance. Assume that individual rankings go from -2 to +2. The CEO gives each VP points according to his whim and/or how well their organization did in the quarterly objectives. A favored VP may get +20 points. An underperforming one may get -3. Now he has to assign points to his directors, who get to give points to their managers, who give points to contributors. Now the sum performance review score at each subtree has to match the allocated points.

So you have fixed stacks, but they're at least relative to team performance and/or political favor. This system tends to depend on the initial allocations, so you should really get in the favored part of the organization.

Throwaway so you don't know which company I'm talking about.
ha, viral tactics as usual? love it. good luck landing the G-hires
No-fly list ruling in Portland comes close to declaring it unconstitutional
> Web development in the 90s and early 00s was not a practical substitute for learning how to program.

Of course it was... many people did learn that way. If anything, it was more accessible then than now. Actually, 'substitute' nothing, something that is is not a substitute. That's not the point though, you could teach middle-schoolers to program with fucking Java if you wanted to, though of course you shouldn't.

Say you're a teenager and what to program "Snake". Are you going to get up off the ground with TI-BASIC or WebGL/whatever faster, and which is going to leave you more satisfied. On a calculator you have pushed something to its limits (in some limited way), with web-dev you have done nothing of the sort. Power and raw capability is not what you want from a teaching aid.

And to be clear, I am not arguing for a low-level next to the metal introduction to programming. (TI-BASIC is of course nothing of the sort.) I am arguing for giving children a pair of boots that fit, not a pair of boots suitable for industrial use. Something that they can properly fill out and master. Something with bounds that they can strive for and reach. Something that forces them to get clever when they reach those bounds.

If you think this is a bizarre concept, then look at Logo.
In response to point six, TI made it so you didn't have to type out "if" or "end" over and over; there are tokens for each of those calls, and remembering the number shortcuts in the menu is fairly easy. It is painful to only be able to read seven lines of code, sixteen characters apiece, at the same time, and the scrolling is horrible, but it does a pretty good job at what it's supposed to do. And there are plenty ways to extend or change the functionality of the calculator to make it easier to use and more customisable.
I've watched his series Connections about three times over. It's excellent and well worth your time.
I don't think there's really any overlap there. The overlap with the 4th would be less about secrecy and more if someone demanded full content from an account, since NSLs are not warrants (legality of procuring "metadata" without a warrant is the much larger issue there, but so far courts have been ok with it).

The secrecy part can be a violation of the 6th amendment (right to confront your accuser), but theoretically evidence procured under the NSL will be produced by trial time (except when shown to conflict with national security, which judges can sometimes accept too readily).

The real problem with secrecy is the first amendment, since you are forcing people to not divulge that they received an order to hand over information. Typically prior restraint like that is heavily circumscribed to protect an ongoing investigation but no further, which means that indefinite gag orders should have correspondingly extraordinary justification. Considering the hundreds of thousands of NSLs that have been issued, this seems unlikely to be the norm.

The first amendment approach has been successfully[1] argued by the EFF at the district court level. This has opened the way for more lawsuits, including an appeal of that case, which will hopefully make their way higher in the court system.

(read the linked EFF article if you're interested in more. It lays the case and the judge's ruling out in great detail)

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/depth-judge-illstons-r...
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Ask HN: Solve a problem or build something cool?
HN, like most of you, I want to be successful. My dream is to build something to the likes of Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat. (I like consumer apps).

However, I've done a lot of reading on the origins of these products. In the early stages of these products, you really couldn't tell if there was a $b future or not. I'm sure the founders had some idea of the problem they were trying to solve, but I doubt any of them validated their ideas outside of a small circle of friends. In short, I don't think they really knew the problem they were solving. They just built it because it seemed cool. Defining and explaining "the problem" is always easier in hindsight.

However, I know that there are thousands of programmers and entrepreneurs who built cool stuff, but whose products failed and never gained any traction.

Thus, on the path to success I am lost. It feels like building something cool and solving a problem are two lines, where the intersection is your brilliant product.

If I want to fulfill my dream of having an app with 100m users, what should I do?
We all have our addictions. Being automatically prejudiced against one that happens to shorten your life isn't as useful as realizing you may be addicted to something far worse, e.g. spending most of your time thinking about dating or worrying how to shape yourself to fit the die that some institution has cast for your life, like college or work.
> that sometimes, the tree is more like a graph

I agree, but I think it's better to start with a tree, and then add graph-like features, than to start with a graph and try to make a tree out of it. Mostly because I believe hierarchy is a more natural structure for our brains.

For reading non-fiction, yes the parallax can be distracting. But I think A) the interface can be improved. B) For non-fiction, it's outweighed by the benefit of having context & details available.

We do have plans for a distraction free mode, similar to "Zen mode" on Github. But offline & deeper trees are a priority for now.

I have studied Scrivener, but didn't know about Ulysses. Thanks for pointing it out.
Also, Android, iOS, and (if my memory serves) Windows Phone all exhibit the behaviour of pausing music on disconnecting headphones. Whether right or wrong, it is common and expected behaviour - doing differently (without good cause) is bad design.
Fifty points for Gryffindor!
Processing power hasn't been a bottleneck for a long time. Even the 4MHz Saturn processors were able to do reasonably fast 3d wireframe graphing. The only reason graphing calculators and scientific calculators still exist outside of schools is because they can provide a specialized user interface: a physical keyboard with a layout designed around calculation tasks, and a software environment that is similarly optimized for that narrow range of use cases. Neither of those aspects benefits significantly from Moore's Law. Instead, they can only benefit from the complementary products that other gadgets have made commodity components: high-resolution displays, lithium-ion batteries, SoCs that replace ASICs and make features like USB and SD support free.
Why would your lawyer even try to prove you innocent if it meant not getting a paycheck?
> Lisp and related languages use Polish Notation everywhere.

> The main benefit is that (R)PN is parenthesis-free

... so what you're saying is Lisp has all those parenthesis just to troll us?

Seriously though, using PN can make implementing parsers a lot simpler as it makes the grammar less ambiguous.
The original on BBC : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038zhb9 see from 44 mins on.

It is the simplest and clearest explanation of why nanotechnology matters and what's happening while we all play with Web 3.0

I can't agree it's all coming to pass as be says, nor in those timescales. But only a few technologies need to pay off and we will see an end to scarcity.
Naturalisation, Politics and everyday life
I am not from/in Phoenix so I don't know... but isn't this what you're looking for? http://www.valleymetro.org/nextride

The NextRide electronic service provides quick access to
next bus and train schedule information. All you need is
a phone or access to the Internet, your route number and
your STOP# (located at every bus stop and light rail
station).

Valley Metro bus and train vehicles are equipped with GPS
technology allowing you to access real-time scheduled
arrival times.

...

1-15 minutes before the scheduled arrival time, real-time
departure times are supplied... 16-90 minutes in advance,
scheduled times are supplied.
Surely more Google employees have read this from here than from the window.
> I work in a high security setting

... and just found out my laptops are bugged.

Joking aside, this is a little scary. The NSA actually publishes documents for securing workstation hardware [1], where they suggest physically removing webcam, bluetooth, and mic hardware. How many webcams and mics are around you, right now? I have 3 cameras and 2 mics (phone and laptop). Are they off?

[1] http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/macosx_hardening_tip...
Does anyone know how they fixed this in sudo? I would be interested in knowing how they do a TTL without using the system time for comparison.
Karno's first book changed my life. After reading the first couple chapters, I had to put it down to go outside and go running that minute. I was soon doing marathons and ultramarathons, and I am still setting new personal records. To put his book into three words: determination equals fun.
All stories about how bad stack ranking goes like this: "I was a manager at X and all my subordinates were above average/great and the system forced me to give them lower grades."

But it stands to reason that since the system measures performance relative to the average exactly half of the managers should have had the opposite problem: "all my subordinates were worse than average but I had to give them higher grades than they deserved." I think the former problem is much more common because people tend to overvalue the people they are directly in contact with.

I suspect that if the managers could set the grade freely from 1-5, the an unreasonable amount of 4's and 5's would be given. In a large organisation like Microsoft's the skill of the engineers and the ratings should follow a normal distribution.
Germany Seizes Children in Homeschool Raid
This kind of reaction reminds me of the early days of Rails and Django.
Basic, well-known undergraduate first (or perhaps second) year physics topic making the front page of HN ?? Is this turning into a forum for high school students?
I love overthinking things!

It's true that if every card had a title, then import and export while maintaining the tree structure would be easy.

But as it stands, if you have the following cards:

A A.1
A.2
B

this approach wouldn't be able to maintain the structure if the cards didn't have titles (it would just list all these as A, A.1, A.2, B).

It's for this reason alone that we've considered making titles required for at least the first card in a group.

Or am I overthinking again... ?
U-play installs plugin allowing remote code execution
As some have mentioned, this is essentially spamming the markets with shallow copies of your apps, which is typically verboten by major app stores. What's really necessary to truly take advantage of this concept without being spammy is a better form of keyword association for apps, allowing you to associate a gift app with "birthday", "holiday", "diwali", "christmas", "hannukah", and all the other holidays and occasions I can't think of at the moment. Of course this would need some sort of check to prevent people from spamming keywords you're not really relevant to (maybe a means of downvoting one of the keywords that brought you to the app on the app's page?), but assuming you can enforce a degree of responsible usage, this would allow app makers to build out the semantic associations of what their app can provide to people. Google in particular ought to be interested in something like this, as it would allow them to further build out their sematic trees, and associate holiday gift apps with specific holiday keywords more easily, enhancing their search results and ensuring they stay ahead in the app-market game.
You might enjoy this "position:fixed fixer" bookmarklet I wrote, it just sets all elements with position:fixed to position:static. In 99% of the cases this does exactly what is needed to improve the page, without even having to manually click or select the elements.

javascript:for(var a=document.querySelectorAll('*'),i=0,e; e=a[i]; i++) if (e.currentStyle.position == 'fixed') e.style.position = 'static'; void(0)

I have it named "fix", so I can just type "fix" in the address bar and it applies to the current page. It's lovely, all those floating fixed elements just disappear (possibly somewhere to the bottom of the page) and you get your screen estate back.

edit: I just see a bunch of others also made bookmarklets to remove elements, so I added a bit more description as to why mine is different. Setting all position:fixed elements to position:static really does seem to do exactly what you want in one fell swoop, in 99% of the cases.
Very good solution, well done.
Minor nitpick - the PM programme had an edited version of this. For some reason they chose to host the full-length version outside the BBC - and only link to it from their Twitter feed.
I've never been able to get Readability-the-app to work on most sites. It seems far less useful than the original bookmarklet. I also don't want to send things to my "Reading List" or my imaginary Kindle.
Let's not go there again, shall we?

My personal story is that while I liked Ember, it lacked a bunch of other things that were painful to find elsewhere and integrate with Ember (such as includes). I switched to AngularJS because it gives me all this (and many more) out of the box.

Still, I'm not going to start preaching that AngularJS "greatly exceeds Ember".
Microsoft 'will move forward with litigation' against U.S. government
"I don't know how to find qualified people and can't tell a brilliant genius from a no-talent ass clown. Hmmmm... what to do, what to do. Hey, wait a minute, people keep saying this "Google" place has smart people. Well gosh, they must have figured this stuff out. I know! I'll just hire Google employees, since I don't have any other clue about what to do. Hurray, my talent problem is solved!"
Ask HN: Teambuilding for Techcrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon 2013 Sept 7th-8th
I'm going to the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon 2013, and I'm coming from out-of-state. This is my first large scale Hackathon, and I'm not sure what to expect (my local scene is much smaller). Does anyone on HN have any Tips they could share? I'm mostly concerned with the Teambuilding culture. Will there be other people there looking to build a team? Or do people usually show up with their Teams already set? I can go solo, but would prefer to work with a Team. Thank you!

If it matters; I'm a Designer/Developer with fairly strong Front End UI/UX Skills and beginner Back End coding skills (python / django / flask). Aside from Tech Skills, I'm also very confident with product development, customer validation, patents, trademarks, and Business Models that do not rely on Advertising. My product idea relates to bridging the gap between Native App Distribution and Web App Distribution, but I'm open to working on other ideas. If anyone else is going and looking for a potential team member, please let me know!
> Branding is also important (Jobs), which is why the Apple eventually fell to the "PC" - because the strongest computer brand in the world for decades was IBM.

IBM's deeply entrenched position in supply office equipment (pre-PC computers, sure, but lots beside) to business played a role in securing PC dominance over Apple in the personal computing market, but so did the fact IBM didn't protect the PC from clones (IIRC, this was not intended) or acquire exclusive rights to DOS, which resulted in both more variety and more low-price options in the "IBM PC-compatible" family.
No CLOCK_MONOTONIC in OS X?

In a David Tennant voice: Wait, what?? What?!

~$ grep CLOCK_MONOTONIC /usr/include -rn
~$

Ahh, it's in the POSIX realtime extension... Dammit.

Apparently [1] one solution would be to #IFDEF DARWIN the following, as on Darwin SYSTEM_CLOCK is supposed to be a monotonic boot clock.

#include <mach/clock.h>
#include <mach/mach.h>

...

clock_serv_t cclock;
mach_timespec_t mts;

host_get_clock_service(mach_host_self(), SYSTEM_CLOCK,
&cclock);
clock_get_time(cclock, &mts);
mach_port_deallocate(mach_task_self(), cclock);

Not sure if processor affinity would affect that code (don't have time right now to do the in depth reading on it), but you could always set affinity to CPU0. Though then you'd have to make sure to run the sudo'd command as a child process and appropriately reset affinity to default before a call to exec...
it's a good place to source A talent from, but as with any big organization they have people who are good & bad, smart & dumb. Interviewing and identifying A talent vs B talent is a different skill set, but a needed one in order to build a successful company.

This post was more focusing on how to source all types of talent from a big organization like Google.
What's all that about Hollywood and Wall Street?
We will never see an end to scarcity. It isn't merely a flaw that humans seek power. A society without concentrations of power is a weak society, and weak societies will always be subservient. Concentrations of power means inequality, and there can be no inequality without scarcity. Therefore scarcity is both unavoidable and valuable.
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Absent any evidence of abuse, true neglect (homeschooling doesn't count, regardless of Germany's laws on the matter), or other violation of a worthwhile law, this can only be considered further evidence of consolidation of power in the hands of the State and governmental overreach.
The documentation is leagues better than where it was 6 months ago.

I couldn't comprehend much of the Ember docs last time I was faced with a decision point on which front-end framework to use.
You can actually prevent the exploit from working by locking the "date and time" tab of the system preferences. The exploit will then cause the usual password popup to appear. (On 10.6 at least.)
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2013/05/bill-gates-once...

Forbes last calculated in March. Gates overtook more recently.
Study and maybe you will get lucky. There are no shortcuts to success.
Interesting, but a couple of points worth considering.

It is more an issue of them missing alot when you speak to them

Language grasp =/= communications skills.

(1) Plenty of studies on body language and other forms of cognitive bias back this up. Attractive people are deemed more trustworthy etc.

(2) There are huge swathes of social interactions and nuances that cultural signals. 'Westenized' children educated for example in the us or uk grasp intuitively things completely alien to their parents or to similar kids brought up in the east. Such examples of ""comprehension has noting to do with wether or no the kids have accents or their "language skills".

(3) A regional welsh, working class, or a northern uk dialect is almost indecipherable to many americans. But such would not likely be a signal that this person won't be able to pick up westernized social cues.
Math books are the hardest for me to read online,so I have hard copies.A pile of them.
The article's description of lacate threshold ("[the point where] your body is no longer able to convert the lactate as rapidly as it is being produced") would be the one I'd use but it doesn't square with the test, which appears to be measuring the point where he begins to rely on the anerobic system. It makes sense that they would want to test for that, since Karnazes isn't particularly fast, but he can run quite a long time, so testing where his anerobic system begins would be more interesting. If they'd wanted to find the point where Karnazes' body could no longer clear the lactate it was producing, they'd be able to find it.

They mention testing his aerobic capacity, but I think they are referring to his maximal aerobic capacity (VO2-max).
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>Microsoft has 8329956402 shares outstanding. Do you honestly believe that MSFT stock price can rise to value in the trillions, making the MSFT market cap ten sextillion dollars?

He said the market cap would be trillions, not the share price.
(apart from the numbers adding up to 130%...)

One issue is that the area of the figure should correspond to the number it represents. For example, the area for 3% should be 75% of the size of the area for 4%, but it clearly isn't in this illustration. If they don't match up, what is the point of having a visual at all? To show that 3% is smaller than 4%?

Even if some of the others match up (I can't tell for sure), their shape is so different that it really doesn't give us any better understanding of how 34% compares to 89%. And again, what is the point of a visualization that doesn't aid in understanding?