skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus, if everyone always wants only the best, then where do surgeons get practice to become the best?
I can really appreciate this idea, but, uh, how to put this: reddit/hn style upvoting and downvoting is not going to lead to good advice at being tactful.

The entire point of the site, after all, is that people don't often know how to be tactful. So asking those same people to crowdsource answers isn't going to work out.

Also, as soon as /b/ gets wind of this...
One of the problems with it is there's no "don't run as administrator" right click option. Developers can add a manifest, there's some crazy sysadmin tools that aren't even installed with windows to suppress it, but ordinary users don't have an out--changing the filename doesn't help, the resources in the file still identify it as "setup.exe".

This is one of the things that makes user separation hard on windows, as anyone who wants to do anything vaguely useful with the computer still needs Administrator access.
With the number of applications that they must get there's no way they can afford to talk to everyone, let alone fly them out.

Therefore they need some way to filter people quickly. Would it be better to do this purely on the basis of resume? Forcing people to invest time making sure they have the correct mixture of buzzwords or would you rather spend that time demonstrating that you can actually code?
It is a chrome extension that makes it so you can add a monetary bounty to GitHub issues, inside of GitHub.

It posts a comment on the issue with a dynamically generated image containing the bounty amount and the status of the bounty.
I agree this won't be an easy road. Personally, I don't think it will happen within our lifetimes in US.
I like the SNCF site, but not the prices.

In the end I find it easier to EasyJet or LyinAir out of SW France.
Great idea! Looking forward to the planned functionality being built in. Bookmarked for future usefulness
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Just having checked out the companies you mentioned, they are cheaper for small-midsize hosting solutions.

For running large memory and bandwidth hungry servers they just can't deliver. On Amazon you can get 256GB of ram with dedicated 10GBps clustered networking. None of the options you listed can go above 1GBps and it won't be dedicated (you'll get a 1GBps port onto a shared network, and you'll be at the mercy of the traffic conditions inside their data center.)

Amazon also has a huge amount of cloudy solutions which is not to be sneezed at.
So what benefit does solemnization provide beyond its facilitating authentication of the agreement to the contract? How could you provide authentication in a way that doesn't confirm you are in serious business?
Unwanted.

1) Write a little, one-off initialization script (I forget what it did -- probably copied a few files from point A to point B). Expect this task to take about five minutes.

2) Four hours later you discover that merely calling that stupid little script 'setup.cmd' caused all kinds of UAC havoc to ensue. Bang head against desk.

So, now I know. But it sure was counter-intuitive, and (I suggest) more than a little ham-handed on Microsoft's part.

Don't get me started about significant trailing spaces in environment variables (another little gift of non-intuitive behavior in the MS environment).
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Ask HN: Where should one go to discuss the higher topics of CS/programming?
I know there are a lot of obvious answers to this question but so far I don’t like any of them.

The biggest seems to be Stack Exchange: don’t like that because it’s totalitarian and only handles precise questions with specific answers.

Next is IRC which is great except you’ve got everybody in one big room all talking over each other and it keeps interrupting you because it is realtime and not offline.

Mailing lists seem to be full of good programmers but I don’t really like the way everything is delivered to you to be stored locally and there’s no distinction between conversations you are involved in and the rest. On a busy mailing list that is a big problem. This seems to just be an interface problem so maybe there is a good client for mailing lists out there?

Then there’s newsgroups. My ISP doesn’t provide newsgroup servers any more so I have to pay to access these now. And aren’t they all full of spam?

Lastly you have normal forums which are my favorite in terms of their interface but seem to be full of novices now. Is there a web forum for programmers who want to discuss design, methodology, programming language design, computer science, etc.? Or has that era of the Internet ended now?
It's a tough problem to solve. Too much control and you overwhelm and annoy the user. Too little and it's easy to use more than you want.

Obviously, the best solution is to magically eliminate the limitations of radio spectrum and give everybody unlimited data.... Until then, I think stories like yours will continue to be common.
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good idea . I tried posting this on Twitter this is what i got " Oops! A URL in your Tweet appears to link to a page that has spammy or unsafe content."
There is a nice big list here: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1168/what-papers...
Take "My Internet is provided by Comcast, and I know my family would like better service. I will speak for my gamer son as well." and insert any major cable company and you will get a true statement.
Apparently the fairphone will be: http://www.fairphone.com
I don't think this nullifies any of what the article discusses. Comcast only has as much of a monopoly as the city gives them, and this franchise agreement explicitly reserves the right to grant similar franchise agreements:

"This Franchise is not exclusive. The Grantee acknowledges and agrees that the City reserves the right to grant one (1) or more additional franchises or other similar lawful
authorization to provide Cable Services within the City; provided, however, that no such franchise or similar lawful authorization shall contain material terms or conditions which are substantially more favorable or less burdensome to the competitive entity than the material
terms and conditions herein."

Sounds like the mayor has decided to grant some other franchises. And, the article also explains in several places that Comcast is being given similar opportunities to work with the city on fiber rollout...satisfying the clause that nobody else gets preferential treatment.

And, this agreement is pretty focused on cable television service; it's an accident of history (and probably a mistake of regulation) that cable television companies are in the internet business, at all.

It sounds, to me, like the mayor is negotiating with any interested party, and is insisting that conduit construction include provisions for fiber. It's all within his purview, and the franchise agreement with Comcast doesn't nullify that.

That said, I think the cable monopolies (and telco monopolies) in the US have been disastrous for innovation and consumers (we have among the worst Internet service at the highest prices in the developed world). But, I am suggesting that the mayor of Seattle may be coming down closer to the right side of the issue than most.
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This is extremely harsh. Nearly all startups fail, technology or otherwise. I'm sure you're aware of how difficult starting and running a company is, and how many factors are well outside of your control.

His startups could have failed for any number of reasons, and even the best strategy and implementation and ideas and people cannot guarantee a success. Nothing can.

Regardless of what I think of his opinions or ideas, I respect this man's attempts at starting his own endeavors, as I know firsthand how difficult that is.
You're assuming voyages-sncf == SNCF which is not the case. It's a travel agency whose shareholders are SNCF and Expedia. So they are a private company that have a preferential treatment for which they been condemned once IIRC (not that it changed anything ...).
>> Engineers create products. MBAs create processes.

Generalize much?

Most MBAs have undergrads from a wide array of backgrounds, from liberal arts to engineering. Most MBA programs provide some useful education in areas like finance, business law and entrepreneurship, but you don't become a process geek from the curriculum unless you're already a process geek and choose to focus on process oriented courses.

The MBA is usually there to augment existing work experience and education. Most grads just go back to whatever profession they were in armed with a better business context for how things work in whatever industry they're in.

If your experience with MBAs is all about process creation, it says more about the people who hired the MBAs in those companies than it does about MBAs in general.
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We get a lot of interest from far away people that we just can't take on right now, and this was a concise way of stating that. Chin up.
Consistency is totally killing GNU/Linux on the desktop for me. Ubuntu does a pretty good job at providing an usable desktop experience out of the box, and by that I mean decent UI, decent font rendering, decent defaults. However, it is not seldom that, for example, I have 4 windows open and each one of them has a different type of scrollbar. I know this is not important for many people, however, for myself this is totally killing it. I grab my Mac and I can focus on my work without being annoyed by the environment.
Is it really accurate to talk about market share when looking at shipments? A lot of those phones may never make it into users' hands...
Actually they're right. It's very easy to fuck up in LINQ and end up with code that balloons memory or scales poorly for example.
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The hard problem is: How to fund science, without also funding "politicians" (or liars or whatever)?
Traditionally, GFS used 3 replicas (they may be doing something different now) but Google has a lot more than 3 data centers, so I highly doubt that all Google data is replicated to all data centers. In fact, I'm not sure why Google would bother replicating a US user's data to a non-US data center where the data will probably never be accessed.
Nice to see someone who knows about 'Spruce Goose'.
Working with a technically competent people manager can be awkward, but I think it's over all a positive.

The fact is, only the people actually implementing a project can know what the reality is. There are times when a technical tradeoff gets made (for specific example, turning exceptions off entirely in C++ is actually pretty widespread for various reasons, good and bad). Sometimes, that tradeoff may even be wrong in hindsight - a legacy of an earlier iteration that there was never budget to correct.

In that sort of situation, a technical person on the outside of the project trying to be helpful can come across as annoying. They are likely telling you what you already know.

However, many of these problems actually originate in people management land, and need a people management solution.

For instance, I think a lot of projects mess up because they are trying to achieve too much with too little budget, or because no one with the right skills for a particular task is on the project.

The people manager needs to solve those problems. It takes an unusually humble programmer to say 'Hey, I've mostly worked in python, and now I'm needing to write all these C++ modules for optimization, I'm in over my head'. If the people manager can understand his skill gaps and hire to fill them, that's really valuable.

Similarly, if you need to explain to your boss that 'In hindsight, the way we are doing this won't scale. I need a whole lot of money to rewrite, and you won't see a single new feature for a month', it's going to be a much better conversation if he has understood how and why things got that way, rather than feeling a betrayal of his trust in the guy who's job it is to understand tech stuff.

So, being able to say 'we should be handling exceptions' is important, but as a people manager, it is actually probably your fault. They are probably not doing it because you insisted they implement 'that important feature absolutely by next week'. If you are in charge, it's worth remembering that at some level, it's usually your fault.
I know the intent here is well-meaning, but I suspect this app will get a lot of derision from people who dislike the "there's an app for that!" trend, or the idea that so much of human experience can be encapsulated either by algorithm or the wisdom of the crowds.

In particular, this area of human experience is very dependent on context, and what is tactful is not easily captured by a bullet point. And one of the consequences is that the wisdom of the crowds is not going to be helpful...it's not enough to say that something was tactful, because it depends on the situation and the person involved.

I've liked reading essays on how to comfort someone in times of need, not just because they're interesting, but because they show how complex it can be. Here's one column I still remember from the NYT a couple years back:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/fashion/what-to-say-to-som...

In the OP's app, for example, one of the top voted suggestions is: Offer assistance. Example: "Please let me know if I can help."

From the perspective of the NYT op-ed writer, that sentiment is the top thing not to say:

> 1. WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP? Most patients I know grow to hate this ubiquitous, if heartfelt question because it puts the burden back on them. As Doug Ulman, the chief executive of Livestrong and a three-time cancer survivor, explained: “The patient is never going to tell you. They don’t want to feel vulnerable.” Instead, just do something for the patient. And the more mundane the better, because those are the tasks that add up. Want to be really helpful? Clean out my fridge, replace my light bulbs, unpot my dead plants, change my oil.

Who's right or who's wrong? I'm not saying either the OP or the op-ed writer is more correct, just pointing out how much nuance is involved here.
There are other ways to get the apk if you have an android device. There is an app called "App Backup and Restore" that allows you to backup the apps that you have installed (without root). If you place the backed up app in dropbox, you have it available anywhere.
I used capitaine train recently, I love how fast the site is (and how it saves my credentials). No mobile site though (voyages-sncf has a great mobile site, in that it's the bare minimum).

Someone was telling me that capitaine train was having a hard time getting real traction though, hope that things turn out better for them.
Like a cow's opinion? :)
The fontcombiner versions appear more appealing to me, more crisp and bold and weightier, than the G webfonts. iphone 4s, ios7.
I feel like youmood.me (lets you comment on any webpage) has been tried and failed 100 times already. Am I just not remembering things?
> BTW , the researchers behind research started this research by building a DIY 3D printer[1] , which is pretty cool.

Funky. If I still were in my phd slavery time, I would try to have a go with a 3D printing project. Thank you for pointing out the literature. Do you have more to show?

> talks about getting some short list of base materials
> which you can synthesize many materials from.
> Is that theoretically possible

Why not. But I would add the assumption that you get a repertoire of click reactions [A], otherwise optimization of reaction condications in regard to thermodynamics/kinetics/byproducts/etc might kill your 3D printing lab fun.

The question is what the main benefit of the 3D infrastructure is when it comes to chemical synthesis. On a first glimpse, producing your own chemicals in your printer sounds like fun. But why not buy them in the first place? Once a synthetic route is explored, chemical manufacturers take over the task to scale up production or produce chemicals on demand.

Unlike mentioned in your article [1], solid phase synthesis is already in use in industry and blurs the line between reaction container and reaction.

Let me make some random guesses: There is definalty huge potential in 3D printing once it leaves the current domain of base materials. One could print solid state batteries, logic circuits (organic electronics), matrix like containers for combinatorial chemistry. I think there is a huge benefit materials research / prototyping when it comes to 3D printing.

However, the problem with chemistry is that many parameters play an important role in reactions e.g. the effectivity of stirring, solvent choice - and that solid analytics are a must-have. After all, every chemist has had a 'Monday Morning' reaction.

[A] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_chemistry
I remember one of the pipeline guys telling us a story about a trench collapse which buried a worker. The backhoe operator panicked and tried to dig him out, but ended up cutting the guy in half.

I think this was in response to our story of a near-miss when a (7 ft, 23 inch rack) router dropped off the shipping dock, nearly crushing someone. Employees were no longer allowed to move routers after that incident- it became the shipping company's problem.
Something something potato. There, we got that out of the way, let's move on.
Ask HN: In one sentence, tell me a random useless fact.
One more thing gay people aren't allowed to do [unless they're on a serious dry spell or they're celibate]. :(
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The problem with labelling something "proto-singularity economics" is that the whole point of a "singularity" is to hit a condition in which economic production completely outstrips not merely the demand for goods (overproduction) but even the ability to charge for goods (scarcity as experienced by people). We are still at the stage of a mere capitalist overproduction crisis and its ensuing capital glut.

It may well be true that we could convert our current economic condition into a post-scarcity economy by shifting away from capitalism, but at the moment we're stuck in an overproduction/overaccumulation/debt crisis.
Dunno if French guys based in New York count, but Placemeter are awesome. So many things they could do with the technology.
You'd think that would be a capitalist incentive for corporations to act to better the living standards of the global poor, so they can become potential customers and consumers of their products.
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I can relate to you. I stopped watching YouTube years ago and I've never missed it since then.
You might enjoy this paper:

Gonon, F., Bezard, E., & Boraud, T. (2011). Misrepresentation of Neuroscience Data Might Give Rise to Misleading Conclusions in the Media: The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. PLoS ONE, 6(1), e14618. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014618.t003

It's thankfully open-access:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

They argue that a few prominent examples of misreporting in the media come from researchers misrepresenting their results in their abstracts, and journalists rarely read past abstracts.
I would agree - from the perspective of someone who isn't an insider but follows stock news - that there's a cash glut in the market (AAPL's the well known one here). Where to put that cash? Just maybe it's reasonable to stuff it in startups as part of a diversification strategy; use it as part of a "Black Swan Farming" approach.

At any rate, there's a lot of, shall we say, underperforming froth in the tech startup world at the moment. Stuff that doesn't appear to have a direct connection of value to what's being offered. Whether it constitutes a broad marker of the tech market being in a systemic bubble is debatable, but certainly some of the ridiculousness of a bubble is visible if you watch the news float by.

It's my opinion that we don't have a broad bubble in tech. The stock market is probably getting close to a bear market. That's true enough, we've had a long bull run. But it might (I bet it's more likely) be the case that there's a "Startup" + VC/angel market inflation.
What, are we supposed to use Dells or something? Ha! Get it? :/
Chose bad backend provider. Thought I'd use Parse.com for a quick start. Ended up rewriting the whole thing to plain node. But until I have time to write it all, parse is cashing in on me. After that, It'd probably go down to around 30 bucks.
Capitaine Train just released last week an iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/id599502670) - wondering what % of their sales mobile now represents
Yup. I have made an active use of GPG over the last few months, and there's a few big problems:

1. A UX that is... Hard. As you say. See the last few minutes of this talk I did: http://youtu.be/LjZk8PP-u3c

2. You can't PGP with webmail.

3. You can't PGP on mobile.

4. This means that unless you're on your desktop, you can't do things like search through older emails, which is really important.

5. It requires both people to use PGP.

I fully agree with your final sentiment. If I could fork myself, this is one of the things I'd be putting a ton of time into.
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In America, from the people who cannot pay for the best.
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That requires you to first install it through the play store. Side loading like this lets you install apps without Google being able to snoop on what you install on your device.

edit: Actually, that's not true for the browser extension. You have to provide your gmail login and your device ID. Bleh...
Should probably include zengularity.com, the creators of the Play! framework.

Not sure if they qualify as a startup; at a minimum they're a highly successful French development team, perhaps the most successful in France (LinkedIn just contracted with them on a major project, for example).

Lot of bright cats on their team based on what I saw at scala.io conference in Paris.
I recommend "Difficult Conversations", which is an excellent book on this topic. It gives many good examples of difficult conversations, analyzes them and provides great advice.

http://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-M...
Replicant's maintainers have a real attitude problem imho
http://redmine.replicant.us/issues/669
Dennis Ritchie is certainly an important figure that every computer scientist should know about, but that post reads incredibly slowly and is filled with grammatical errors. Looking at the author's other posts, it appears that English is his/her second language, so I won't fault them for it.

Wired put out a nice, concise obituary soon after his death[1] and there are many other great sources online about his life and influence. I would definitely recommend reading up on him out if you don't already know much about his life.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchi...
This is why theres the web of trust concept. Which is even harder to explain than public/private keys.
I think it can be very helpful, as I often don't know what to say. But it must be seriously moderated, esp if the answers are crowdsourced.

I thought of all sorts of funny things to say under "Don't", though I controlled my impulses. This is a site that currently teeters between useful seriousness and utter potential for hilarity. If it's meant to be the former, than the mods need to guard hard against the latter.
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Oh wow, I'd recommend turning off the ability to add suggestions before actually demoing this on a stage or anything. You're at most an hour away from being flooded by all kinds of very rude suggestions.

http://www.betactful.com/just_lost_their_mother_or_grandmoth...
Not sure about mobile site but it's probably on the roadmap, they've launched an iPhone app this week: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/id599502670