skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a very quick look ... initially noscript meant it just said "you haven't added any tags" - no indication as to what the website was nor what the tags were for. Enabled a temporary pass for your scripts ...

Gah! move that Feedback button, it's the trendy way, but it's right in the way of the tags, push it over next to the about button.

Selected a few tags and then emotion tag of "calming". The 2nd song was "Act of Love by Neil Young" which was described as "punk" and included the tag "not calming"!

Changed emotion tag to "likeable" same song was in the list with the tag "not likeable".

I added a new tag "onions" (!) to see what happened. I think the range of tags you have is great, I wouldn't add tags based on single user additions but maybe have a threshold. Searching then for "onions" the track didn't come up but onions got automatically altered first to oasis next to inxs - interesting matching algo.

When you give out the address just post www.herdit.org/music/ - I don't quite get the herd association, crowdsourced tagging?

Oh yeah and I uploaded some RIAA group music [not really], expect a knock on your door in 3...2...1...

Not conclusive but looks like a backend issue.

Generally nice.
I love Twitter, but it isn't a news source. Just ask Jeff Goldblum.
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The ideal size of corporations is an interesting subject

ObCoase.
You're right. There's a good chance I'm totally socially inept, especially in this medium with no vocal cues or facial expressions to carry the emotional shading that I'd like to attach to what I write.

But is it really so surprising that my thoughts are internally inconsistent? So long as we're playing self-reference games, is it socially savvy to expect an absence of hypocrisy?
Perhaps a young fogey alert would be more appropriate. ;)

Here is the moonwalk, probably his most famous move (he wasn't the first to perform it, though): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIDfDFqGWc

Here is the anti-gravity lean relevant to this patent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HJbGSHtFYQ

Here is a montage of many of his dance moves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBLxh3u0tM
Wouldn't it just be easier to find some small country's government to sanction it as legal tender of that country?
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I have noticed this phenomenon.

I hate it. I've been working in IT for most of my life in one capacity or another. I LOVE my job. I'm not saying it's easy. I'm the sole income provider for my family of soon to be four and I put in well over 60 hours a week most weeks (salary, and up until now, likely below market value).

I am intellectually stimulated in my job. I have learned how to work with complicated personalities and have learned how not to be a complicated person. I've also learned that a good 20% of my job involves motivating those around me into realizing that the things they are doing are important and fantastic.

I don't get the bad attitudes...My job involves solving problems and building things. I enjoy seeing the result of my work get traffic. I enjoy solving complicated problems. I even enjoy documenting the solution because I know that a small percentage of the folks who have to read it will appreciate what was done.

I see a sense of entitlement amongst some of the folks I work with. They are very smart individuals and expect people around them to just recognize that despite their inability to practically apply their genius into something productive. They're like a jet engine sitting at idle. Lots of potential, lack of motion. I don't know what causes that.

It helps that I work for some of the best people I have ever known. I've seen the "it is what it is" attitude and it drives me crazy. I see a lot of folks in IT that learned how to write software very young, were treated badly for being a nerd and haven't matured into men of action. Perhaps I'm naval gazing a little, as it took me a while to get past that.

But "we build, we create, we solve, we are the great minds that conquer." "It is what it is" is a disease. It is what we choose to do with it.

I imagine that attitude that makes IT folks hate their jobs is the same attitude that will make them hate any job.

I'm really not trying to condemn those who are in a rough spot with technical managers who have no business managing human beings.

I'm just pleased with menloparkbum's assessment. "I would rather not draw that crowd over here, or have their stories reposted, or even links to that forum. That sort of negativity is boring at best and POISONOUS at worst."
Encryption is probably irrelevant because the password for it will be in the code, although it will make it slightly harder if someone gains access to your server.
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The first week of going polyphasic involves substantial sleep deprivation. You are basically worthless for 1-2 weeks, though you can catch up on some light reading (as I recall, I used the opportunity to dig back into PAIP...).

After a couple of weeks though, you are really refreshed by those 20 minute naps. It's rather amazing. You wake up much more alert and ready to take on the world than after any normal 5-8 hour night of sleep. And you can continue on this pattern, sleeping only 2-3 hours every day, for a seemingly indefinite amount of time, while feeling great.

That's the personal anecdote that appears (with a small and self-selected sample) to contradict your interpretation of Dement's statements.
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You didn't find his explanation at all plausible, that the sections that were copied were attributed and fomatted to indicate as much, before a last-minute reformat? Why?
Pointers to the very rare situations that applies would be welcome. Good to know (we were a DE company long before I ever heard about the veil piercing thing).

Here's some cites of mine:

http://www.illinoisconstructionlawblog.com/2009/04/articles/...

http://www.wysr-law.com/articles/liabilityprotection.pdf

http://www.eminutesonline.com/why-in-the-world-would-anyone-...
Twitter isn't a credible news source, but it is a source of news.
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Like anything else the vocal minority shouldn't be allowed to represent everyone. I like my job a lot. Even when I was just getting started and doing technical support and desktop support I liked it because I knew it wasn't a long term thing -- just a stepping stone to something better. I think in any career some people get complacent and don't want to work to move up but somehow want their current job to become more satisfying, pay better, and get them more respect. It's not going to happen unless you invest the time and energy into making it happen.
I'm going to disagree with you about his music, even though I'm not a huge Michael Jackson fan, because he had a killer groove. But Jackson was never a musician first and foremost. He was a dancer. He was the best dancer of this last half century, bar none. He was the dancer that inspired enormous movements in dance. When he performed for Motown, none other than Fred Astaire, king of the old dancers, called him to congratulate him. I'm not a big fan of dance, but watching Michael in action was like watching a man defy physics. The way he moved inspired me to start working out and treating my body properly; because of him I want to learn to dance. I'll never dance like him, but he showed me that my body was an instrument as much as anything manmade can be.

To his death, he still had those moves. Just because he became the center of a freakish media circus doesn't mean he'd lost all talent. In fact, he's one of the few celebrities who never seemed to like his celebrity. He didn't get coked up or destroy things. The controversies surrounding him are all ones he wished would go away. He remained famous first and foremost for his incredible talent.
Is it just me, or is this story completely asinine? Who expected hundreds of thousands of people babbling at each other to aggregate into a reliable news source? Nobody.

On the other hand, I get more reliable news from BNO over Twitter than I ever did from CNN. BNO had Michael Jackson something like 30 minutes before it hit the front page; it had Sanford before Talking Points Memo; it has consistently better international coverage than ABC or CNN.

Saying Twitter is a bad news source is like saying email is a bad news source.
Reversed engineered the HTML with firebug: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.762361#...
TeX much ?
I hacker is, by definition, lazy in the smart meaning. A good hacker knows when you don't have to repeat work, and what is going on here? More discussion of the same thing; empty vagaries on the life of a strange man. This conversion of what MJ has left behind as a legacy and his life experiences is discussed elsewhere. For that matter it is being discussed /everywhere/.

We've all heard all about this subject, is it necessary to discuss a topic that can't be brought meaning through technical discussions or rational discourse?
I think you might have misunderstood. It was you who brought up the idea of claiming MJ as an ideal, but I don't believe anyone here has done that.
One of the main issues I have with listening is that I need to hear abstract concepts in my left ear. It is a little troublesome because I tend to stare listlessly off to the right when I'm trying to visualize what I'm hearing. People tend to think I'm being rude because I don't look them in the eye, but it's really the only way I can truly understand a long conversation. When I do force myself to look people in the eye, I end up coming away with zero comprehension of the conversation.
But really, folks, is it a good idea to claim Jacko as an ideal to which people in this community might aspire?

The man took something that was considered to be geeky and odd - dancing - practiced it feverishly and from a young age, and almost singlehandedly made his own brand of dance mainstream, sexy, and cool. To the end he worked hard at trying to keep himself at the peak of his abilities.

If he's a hacker, he was the ultimate hacker - despite being a bizarro geek in nearly every way up to and including the gradual draining of his skin pigmentation, he did what he loved, became famous for it, was the best at his line of work, and was a sex icon for two decades. If that's not hacking I don't know what is.
To be more specific: Twitter is a data source. Data is not information; it possesses no metadata informing its credibility ("color".)
Jerriji, I felt like I had to reply to this because I don't think your wrong, and in light of my last reply I think I may have come off the same way.

"If you were poor and still are poor, then it's your own problem, just get out of my sight"

I didn't take that away from the topic at hand. People unhappy in their IT jobs are employed and not poor in the Western world. So the unhappiness comes from something else. I've seen very well paid developers just fall off a cliff and suddenly hate their job.

I don't understand the reasons, but I don't doubt that they are all that different from the reasons the rest of the working world faces. Sometimes it's time to change careers. As human beings, change is feared (or family obligations come into play that make accepting risk less desirable than doing a job you hate).

I feel compassion for those individuals, but in as much as I have to work with them, my compassion is driven to finding ways to identify "great things" about the job they hate.

Negative attitudes are poison and there seems to be a lot of that in IT. I can't tell you how many meetings I attend where the various stakeholders in our organization are at eachothers throats and my boss or me are called in to mediate. It's not an exercise of mediation, it's an exercise of breaking a cycle of frustration, taking the emotion out of it and focusing on the problem as the thing that gets the brunt of the righteous anger (it's amazing what happens when you take three pissed off people and focus their anger at the problem rather than at one another).

Sometimes we're in departments that are only noticed when "nothing is broken" and are hammered on when some extraordinary circumstance causes something to fail. We resent the fact that the people doing the yelling don't understand how unpreventable that circumstance was. It's a tough roll to sit in and tolerate and breeds contempt.

But focusing on that element of the job IS poisonous.
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My comments are specific to the Joel on Software forums.

IT can be a crappy job and complaining from time to time is a good way to blow off steam. But consistently venting about the exact same thing for 6 years is pathological. It also set a pretty lame tone at the JoS forums. Certain people would show up in nearly every thread about anything to snipe it down and remind everyone that life sucks and then you die, that's just the way it is kiddo, you picked the wrong job and there ain't nothin' you can do about it now. We just don't get any respect! It was like a Rodney Dangerfield sketch on repeat, except it wasn't supposed to be funny.

One of my theories is that in addition to providing an alternative to sites like ExpertsExchange, Joel Spolsky joined up with Jeff Atwood to start Stack Overflow partially because his own forums got spoiled by a bunch of bad apples who wouldn't leave.
Put the text from a heredoc in a comment with special tags. Have a special method that lets you retrieve the text in the same source file. This puts zero syntactic load on the language, but has much the same effect. You can even have embedded methods, source debugging, regexes. But there's no additional syntax.
for younger people on this board its hard to understand how michael jackson's music has truly been a soundtrack to our lives.. for those of us growing up in the late 70's , 80's. Hearing certain songs, can bring back memories, that I could only associate with his songs. So if anything.. he's hacked the sounds and memories of my life, and his life should be celebrated.
TeX doesn't do OCR at all, let alone for mathematical expressions. Regardless of who developed it, this is quite cool.

Edit: I wonder how much of this is straight up OCR and how much of it actually watches how the text is written. Could be some really interesting tech here.
Not confused. Heredoc is one of the things that complicates Ruby syntax from the implementer's POV.

Use heredoc for metaprogramming? Now I'm starting to believe in the Lisp dogma.
Wow. So what he really was was a talented mime with some great dance moves.

Requiescat in pace, whatever his personal problems.
The syntax is a complication to implement, not to just program with.
How did you figure out that you need to do that?
"Whereas, it's quite common in IT for micromanagers to overrule the professionals."

I completely agree with that statement.

IT is a discipline of intellect. Managers are successful when they understand the strengths of those they manage and allow them to take ownership of the things they are responsible for. Men (and women) of reason, don't thrive in an environment of button pushing and lever pulling.

Micromanagers destroy innovative thinking and ultimately destroy themselves by pushing their staff into a cycle of mediocrity.

"Most IT projects are a failure in one way or another"

Managers and companies who understand this won't miss out on the handful of breakthrough innovations that transform their business as a result of a brilliant mind rethinking the way business is being done.
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This study reminds me of my own phone habits. It would seem that I prefer the left ear for long personal conversations and the right ear for more matter-of-fact transactions. Somehow it seems more natural or comfortable.

I sort of feel uncomfortably predictable now.
he did what he loved

But was he really doing what he loved, or was he partially an automaton doing what his parents engineered him to do, eventually becoming the only things he knew how to do? It seems like he almost had no choice in the matter, and all his eccentricities were his way of coping with destiny.
I own a tablet and I think that Vista really shines there. The tablet input id amazingly well integrated and the overall user experience is great.

(I have the X61t, which I think is quite possibly the nicest piece of kit ever. Silly mac users will never understand ;))
Even if I liked Bing, there's no reason why I should make the move and the trouble.

I use Gmail, Analytics, Adsense... so it's better to find search, all in one place.
Damn I could have used this in school ;) I can't even read my own math notiations ;(
I don't know enough about Michael Jackson to be able to respond well to this, but he made his career out of it, invented his own moved, and genuinely seemed to love what he did. That's not enough to say it was of his own accord, but I'd like to think it was.
> Can I run whatever software I choose on it?

Yes—you just lose the [legal] ability to connect it to the networks of any of the major phone providers. They're all too scared of what a "fully capable, no-compromises" computer could do to their network if it so chose.
Won?

They've won legal battles, yes. Rather hollow victories if you ask me. The real battle is fought in the court of public opinion, which they are losing horribly. Hulu is not a win for the television industry, it is damn near an admission of defeat.
OMFG I WAS ABOUT TO SAY "BEST DAY EVER"
and then I realized the 48g with RPN wasn't there ;(
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Any concrete examples of the actual reuse of the encryption keys as MAC keys ?
Yes! All types jobs have problems and unhappy employees and generalized complaints of dissatisfaction.

Consider the other, personally motivated side of this "IT dissatisfaction" scenario: specifically, that the type of people who work in IT fields are often fairly passive and sometimes choose not to stand up for themselves when they really wish they had.

Someone with this type of demeanor might tend to find themselves settling for the wrong job, as well as staying in a job that turns out not to be so great somewhere down the road.

Could it be?

I have experienced this personally and have seen others go through similar scenarios. Not quite Milton in "Office Space," but some have come close.
Since you mentioned it, here's Marcel Marceau on Michael Jackson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj8oIrdGNiw
Examples? Google code search for "AES CCM" or "AES EAX". If you trust Wikipedia, I believe this point is also in the first graf on CCM.
Um, fly.com launched 4 months ago. Kayak has been around for several years. I.e. you have it exactly backwards. In addition the comment about the same underlying database is a gross simplification. While ITA software aggregates a bunch of government mandated databases, both Kayak and Bing get data from other sources.
hpcalc has been a project on google code since 2008. (Yes, you need a developer's license to build and install it - or know a developer who can build you an ad hoc distribution copy)

http://code.google.com/p/hpcalc-iphone/
Not sure why the OP linked to the European Patent Office. Here is the link to the USPTO's site: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
Funny you should mention that; I remember playing with single-bit audio on the Apple II's speaker, and the title track from Thriller was about the only thing you could digitize and still recognize. Of course, only about 20-30 seconds would fit into memory...
A side note: I wonder what affect the situation in Iran has had on actual mobile traffic in the middle east. Is it just the rare citizen journalist that managed to sneak a video online for the west to see, or is youtube and twitter experiencing exponential growth in traffic from the Middle East as well?
The real question is: can it do commutative diagrams?
It's part of my secret plan to drain Europe's resources and maintain US dominance. Seriously, I thought of changing it to the US link, but apparently HN doesn't let you edit the URL in your submission. Fortunately, it's the same information anyway.
A: it's an established market leader. You could copy it too!
I think this is more a consequence of the "lot to lose" side of being empowered rather than the existing benefits of being empowered. What I mean is that those who are empowered are probably not at all opposed to becoming more empowered. The risk from them may be greater than the reward though.
In my opinion, kayak is in trouble. They're grossly overcapitalized (~ $200 million in investments) and are watching their product being commoditized. Resorting to lawyers is a classic reaction to that problem.
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That's because there is significant income in the popups generated by those checkboxes. But hopefully bing is leading the way in making them disappear.
I haven't, and I signed up ages ago. But hey, it is getting closer at least.
I don't think I've ever seen ";(" before. I see a meme in our future... ;(

Edit: I'm honestly curious; is this a common emoticon? It seems simple enough that I should've seen it before.
I don't see how having a design goal to allow for a key reuse explains the "usually" part of "fastest MACs use AES themselves, usually with the same key as was used to encrypt". What you listed was the list of MACs that, from my experience, are meant to be used with their own key. That's what I asked about - where did you see them used sharing the key with an encryption cycle ?
Just curious- in what respect are the prices unsustainable? Couldn't one as easily argue that the Blackberry app prices are unsustainably high?
You have to admit that Michael Jackson was just plain weird. But then many of the greatest innovators were also considered weird in their time.

I don't think that anyone would want to emulate every aspect of his strange lifestyle, but he definitely came up with a few ideas that were worthy of a hacker. He found new ways to entertain people, and whatever strange personal identity crises he may have had he still hacked together an identity that most people are at least slightly familiar with.

To my way of thinking, that is relatively successful, even if he did end up dying young.

I think if there is anything worth emulating it would be persistence.
Would be better if it could also upload to Facebook, Vimeo, etc.
There are converters to convert MathML into TeX (e.g. http://www.orcca.on.ca/MathML/texmml/mmltotex.html).
I like the feature of assessing slow CSS. I'd never realized that constructs like the following would be "very inefficient":

#foo p span{
color: #fff;
}