skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I can't say 100% how accurate that information is. I've also made bots that do exactly what yours does, but different prompts/responses.

I was inspired by GloatingPig: https://twitter.com/GloatingPig

Anyway, in my research, those are some of the things I found, but I don't have citations. I think the @replies are the more important half of things, and I imagine those bigger ones get a pass because they're so popular.
Even the document I cited conceded that there are some very good Unix man pages — BSD Awk may very well be one of many, I have not read it. It follows, logically, that there could be some very bad Info documentation manuals, and the GNU Awk manual may very well be one of many; I have not read it.

This does not disprove the point the citation made; namely, that the Unix man page structure is unsuitable for many things since its structure tends to make people write manuals badly, and there is no place for the kind of introductions and tutorials that good manuals should contain. On the contrary, the man page format lends itself to very strict and terse reference documentation, which is not what I would call a “manual”, as such.

Someone should perhaps do a study of which of the two formats seem to generate the better documentation.

> The bit that pisses me off is: man awk (see info awk instead). I think they fixed that but it was a pain in the butt for years. Is it in man or is it in info?

The official GNU system documentation is in Info. Now, the GNU system is meant to be compatible with Unix, and Unix uses man pages. And since many GNU tools were (and are) not actually developed to be used in the GNU system as such, but instead find their major use and development as parts of various Unix variants, it follows that most of them have Unix have man pages too. Since writing documentation is work, and writing duplicated documentation is even more work, the man pages for GNU tools are often overly terse, incomplete and/or out of date compared to the Info documentation, which is the official documentation. Some well-known exceptions exist, notably GNU Bash does not have any Info documentation, but instead has an (enormously long) Unix man page.
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It used to be in the main header but was removed so as to stop encouraging people attempting to get a higher 'score'. (A group I was in. Getting into the top 100 was my goal one year, and I pulled it off by contributing lots.)
10 hours.
It's the time I have spent last week for some open-source coding. I was happy to give my time for free to those projects I supported.
It's about 10 hours that I have spent with a friend of mine who visited me from other city this week.

I can't imagine spending this time for someone I don't know, someone who never ever bother to talk to me but demanded them.

Few years ago I have spent few days of work planning project with people with whom I had interview - just because I started to like them in 10 minutes of the interview. I ended up working for them for the next few years and some of them are still my close friends.

I could ignore the offer, decline it (as I did) and live on. But if nobody will tell those guys in fat cat corporations that they are wrong - they will continue to think and treat people as "resources", not persons.

You could be ok with that - they do have great salaries, career opportunities etc. But accepting this treatment as a norm is unthought to me. It's not about ego, it's about some tiny respect of a human being for a human being.
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This is exactly like 99 Gamers, which is also free. It was started about a year ago too, according to the original launch post on reddit. I recently started using it to get rid of Xbox games collecting dust. The experience has been painless and is an excellent way to try out other games.

Interesting to see there are other video game trading websites out there.
Recruiters from those companies are quite spammy and out of control.
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I would recommend 4 unless you have prior knowledge of an incompatible gem you can't live without. The benefits are worth it. I've built two small-scale Rails 4 apps now and all incompatible gems have been easily replaced with either custom code or other gems.
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I don't really like the author's attitude. But there is some truth to it: Working 8-10 hours to get a job at Facebook is crap. I'm a professional with a job and a life. I already have to do phone interviews and in-person interviews, and now you want me to spend 8-10 hours working on a puzzle?
Why Shouldn't I Work for the NSA? (Good Will Hunting - 1997)
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I'm working on that one right now. My solution will work but it seems very slow and painstaking - is there an insight I'm missing that will make for a more elegant algorithm?
When I was applying to college they told me that not only did I have to fill out an application, write an essay and pay a fee, but I had to spend several hours taking an aptitude test, which I had to study for for several weeks beforehand. Slavery!
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How hard would it be to do it manually? Maybe with Amazon Turk?
I agree with your stance on the subject. It's out of line for them to pass over the puzzle like that. Kudos for standing up.

On the other hand, your actual response, with all the slave talk, was pretty juvenile.
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Also, in the same sphere, RSA.

But the rationale for the patent system is to encourage innovation that wouldn't have happened without it, and it isn't clear that either of the public-key crypto patents qualifies. In each case, the inventors included academics (Hellman was on Stanford's faculty) whose job is to innovate and disclose their own innovations. (And while it's common these days for academics to patent and try to monetize at the same time, that wasn't always so. It was rarer, and sometimes controversial, in the 1970s.)

The RSA patent made R, S, and A very rich --- but it isn't clear what it did for the rest of us.
Is insurance obsolete? How about tax? How about making sure businesses aren't run in inappropriate locations?
Snowden document reveals key role of tech firms in NSA data collection
SEEKING WORK, Chicago, IL. Remote OK.

- UX design

- Mobile Apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone (Phonegap/Cordova)

- Front end stuff: jQuery, BackboneJS, AngularJS, Coffeescript, Bootstrap, LessCSS (can work with most other frameworks or languages)

- Backend end stuff: Python/Flask, Rails, C# / .NET (MVC4/WebAPI)

- Managed live deployments on AWS, Heroku and GAE
Yes good modularity is the essence of what I was calling good design.

The point was that Lisp has better tools for achieving good modularity.
It is a classic design failure mode - form over function. It may even be the most common category of design failure out there.
> Would shareholders be able to claim breach of fiduciary duties if they did?

By claim, I suppose you mean sue over? In that case the answer is no. There's this notion that companies legally have to be run so as to maximize shareholder value, and there's some case law in Delaware to support that notion. But what overlooked is the context of those decisions. Invariably the litigation has to do with change of control or measures designed to encourage/discourage same. Outside of those contexts, the business judgment rule reigns supreme. So long as there's no self dealing and the company doesn't lie in its public statements, it is almost impossible for a shareholder to win a derivative breach of fiduciary duty case.
I think it appears once you have 500+ karma
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Hell, I can remember when you could fit the whole danged internet in a teacup.
Because they can't be purchased as a second home, the down payment is the biggest hurdle in getting a unit (30-35%). The cash flow after that is quite nice if you can find the right property.
How did you get OSAP while having co-op income? I could take a 30% pay cut and still not qualify for any OSAP.
"bit out of the way" - I thought where I was living in West Dorset was remote :D
I use OpenBSD as my main desktop and dev machine, with Awesome as the window manager (it's a tiling window manager).

http://awesome.naquadah.org/

I use Xombrero (formerly called xxxterm) for browsing, or Chromium from packages if I'm working with anything on Google.

https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero

I use Emacs as my editor and email client, and do pretty much everything else in a terminal.
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Would like to hear the community's experiences on how they find initial interviews. How they picked up by recruiters and headhunters?

Would also like the recruiters in the community to chime in one what they look for.
You probably know this, but the Darwin/FreeBSD relationship is much, much more complicated than a fork.

Darwin's the successor to NeXTSTEP, which included a Mach microkernel and some BSD APIs and userland. When they developed OS X, Apple updated much of the userland using more recent FreeBSD versions as a base.

Even more confusingly, Apple has contributed some subsystems to open source that have made their way into FreeBSD (notably the compiler and libc++).

So Darwin's not a fork in the same way that OpenBSD is a fork of NetBSD.
wait, what's the functional difference between those two? intent?
> The official GNU system documentation is in Info

There is nobody in the world outside of the GNU foundation who prefers using info pages to man pages.
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It's simple supply and demand. Facebook no doubt have hundreds of applicants beating down their door every single day.

Some of these people will be great, some will be ok and some will be useless.

Throwing up a filter like this weeds out people who have no chance of a successful interview or those who don't want the job all that badly.

You would seem to fall into the latter camp.

8 - 10 hours for a prestigious job like FB isn't all that much. I have heard of people doing weeks of unpaid work for a chance at a minimum wage job.
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SR-71 Blackbird follow-up revealed: A Mach 6 spy-drone bomber
so it's a subscription to random tickets?
I am responding to this (quoted from the Ars article):

"We had an air-gapped computer that just had its [firmware] BIOS reflashed, a fresh disk drive installed, and zero data on it, installed from a Windows system CD," Ruiu said. "At one point, we were editing some of the components and our registry editor got disabled. It was like: wait a minute, how can that happen? How can the machine react and attack the software that we're using to attack it? This is an air-gapped machine and all of a sudden the search function in the registry editor stopped working when we were using it to search for their keys."

"Ruiu posited another theory that sounds like something from the screenplay of a post-apocalyptic movie: "badBIOS," as Ruiu dubbed the malware, has the ability to use high-frequency transmissions passed between computer speakers and microphones to bridge airgaps."

I presume the computer that had reflashed BIOS, fresh disk drive, with zero data, installed from a Windows System CD, was uninfected. Then it became infected. Then he mentions a theory that it jumps airgaps with speakers and microphones.

This strongly implies that the claim is of a virus that jumps airgaps from an uninfected machine to an infected one through sound.

Which part of this is incorrect?

(Also, the claim that infected computers communicate via sound to bridge airgaps is not mutually exclusive with the claim that infection can spread over airgaps. So what you quoted does not contradict this claim, which is why I didn't take it as a refutation of my previous reading).
That's a little different. In that case they aren't trying to lure you in with the monetary value of Apple gear, what they are really saying is you won't have to worry about working with crappy hardware. It's assumed that you think the latest Apple gear is the best tool for the job. That May or may not be correct, but that's for you to decide.
this is definitely happening in NYC. A friend of mine just told me how he was considering getting in on it.

In NYC there's an enormous arbitrage. The cheapest hotel room in the city is $300/night. Meanwhile, you can rent a 1BR apt for $2,500 / month.

So you rent an apt for $2,500 / month and book it out on AirBnB for $200 / night ... and you're looking at a monthly arbitrage of $3,500.

The guy I know heard about it from a friend who's already doing this with 6 apartments ... so he was making something like $18K / month (less the cleaning expenses).
The way to handle this is probably just to send them an invoice for their requested 8 hours of work, advising them that your standard terms for assignments of this size are 50% in advance against a final payment of $200 US per hour.
Android API version isn't as big of a deal anymore, since they've been moving to offload everything onto apps which are updatable separate of the OS.
Ok?

You wanted to know why they didn't test whatever you thought was the optimal setup for your use case, and the answer should've been obvious - there's dozens of frameworks across multiple languages and OS platforms. If you look around on this thread and those for previous iterations of the benchmarks, a consistent response from the benchmarkers is that they didn't test some specific scenario because they lack the expertise to do so.

The tests are on github. Go write one that suits you and send a pull request, or, god forbid, do it yourself and make a post about it on HN and get yourself some karma. But as it stands, your post was lazy and trivial. I've said similarly dumb things in the past, gotten downvoted or called out, and we all moved on.

I'm sorry your fee-fees got hurt because you said something dumb, and I pointed it out in terms that failed to indicate respect for you. I upvoted your response as a gesture of love and understanding.
Well, it makes me see the appeal of the Vegas tech scene ;)
Wow $40,000 for an apartment that provides ROI in one year. if only you could do that in London...
Your incessant whoring for Canonical in this discussion is the precise behavior that many in the Linux community hate about vocal proponents of Ubuntu. The fact that you just implied that the developers of other distros (which includes Debian!) are not good and competent is disgusting.

It's people like you to whom Martin was referring when he wrote, "There are many users who seem to think that Ubuntu is a religion and Canonical without fail. If you criticize technical decision you are a heretic and the holy inquisition is coming after you to burn you."
wikipedia user agent based logs are not a reliable source, and from this source it seems to me the closest competitor is linux other with 4 times more hits than ubuntu.

Funny that distrowatch stopped being used as reference by ubuntu followers since ubuntu fell from the top to make room for mint and debian, /r/linux survey data doesn't corroborate wikipedia data either.
Only 456 to go...
No, it's for everything, though it might sound that way. Add a user on the settings page, it'll open up the switching UI, no sign-in required. (unless they changed that recently, of course. but that would suck.)
> The dialer and incoming call screen now automatically perform Google searches for phone number information (and will display Google Ads)

Of course Android is still more 'open', but as a person who dislikes advertisements, I feel like Apple products might be the less user-hostile choice now.
If you really are an atheist you've taken this whole idea of "open-mindedness" way too far and let a slough of nonsense overwhelm your rational sensibilities. Stop trying to be "ok" with everyone and everything. It's foolishness. There are truly fucked up people in this world with truly fucked up beliefs. You don't need to be "ok" with them. You need to confront them and help educate them. Fight ignorance, don't condone it. Help make the world a better place. If you have nothing to say in response to divinedefault, fine. But there's no reason to storm off in a huff and refuse further dialogue because he questions the authenticity of some of your claims. I doubted them too. Be a man. Deal with it. Get over it. Continue the dialogue if you can. If you can't, keep processing what he's said. He took a lot of time and spent a lot of effort replying to your blog post. You owe him more than this "I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU ANYMORE" nonsense.
Frustrating...didn't think of this before posting, sorry to those of you who get the "Sorry..."
Maybe give TunnelBear a try? It's a free VPN service capped @ 500MB / month I think.
We launched 2 and a half years ago on HN and have been growing a lot in SF. Insiders Club is a "pivot" in our business model. It's a subscription club that gets you out trying new things. For $20/month, you pick from 12-40 unique events like cooking classes, dance parties, tomato fights etc. You pick one and we put you and your guest on the list. No lame coupons. This isn't a use it or lose it membership either... if you don't pick anything, we automatically mail you a pair of movie tickets.

Anyway, it's been in beta since the start of September 2013 with hundreds of happy customers in SF. Signup with the code "hackernews" and get your first month free.

Would love to get some feedback on the landing page and service itself!
Maybe - I can't see prices ever dropping significantly though. Maybe 20%, but they'll always be intimidatingly expensive for first-time buyers.
HOA appears to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association .
Can someone explain why, if I change the slider to indicate that I have only one friend, the number of "friends of friends" is 163? Is my only friend really so popular?
Same. I never qualified even when I declared myself as an independent.
Don't hold your breath on that one. Does any major manufacturer have a flagship slider keyboard any more?
The computer had been infected. They scrubbed everything you would normally scrub, and it was reinfected. The hypothesis being that the infection persisted somewhere, such as the Realtek firmware.

At no point has anyone believed a never-infected computer would become magically infected via audio. You are looking for such a suggestion and finding it in poor writing. In reality, it is not there.

If you want to lambast Ars Technica for shitty writing, go right ahead, but don't criticize Dragos's claims until you are certain you know what they are. And as we all know, such a certainty can never come from the press. You must go to the source. Read Dragos's Google+ page and his Twitter feed. And read them carefully, not hastily and not with the intent of finding fantastical claims where they don't exist.

You've been primed by a sensationalist article to look for something sensational. Be conscious of that.
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I think it's 250 (I have 307 and have had it for a while)
what turn are you talking about ? Looking back it seems to me that ubuntu is going in a straight line from the beginning.
Electronic Cigarettes: Public Health Hazard or A Safer Alternative?
Great points, here's some of our thinking around this:

1) The voting is not a judgement of people's contributions, it's more the community's valuation of a particular piece of work. The votes help prioritise the importance of a task or feature which can then be claimed by anyone who completes the work.

2) It's a tricky thing, what is the idea worth? 1%, 2%, 10%? 5% felt about right to us but we'll definitely be reviewing this over time.

3) We're going to actively keep WIPs small where we can to help avoid this problem. We also have a core team that helps guide the community towards a shared vision. They can promote certain tasks so they attract more upvotes which in turn makes them more enticing for people to complete.

Thanks for the feedback, we're expecting to do a lot of iterating and working with the community to keep evolving the process.
(2) only because they are members of larger organizations that can strong arm prices down.

(1) I'd rather the aggregate recommendations of a million people than the personal opinion of just one in most of these situations - you want the statistical mean experience, because a travel agent can be given special treatment or just have had a lucky streak placing clients in an otherwise seedy place.

(3) Hopefully another thing tech can fix. I mean, yeah, you have the rare extremely special case circumstance you can't easily break down into a power search, so they have a niche, but as a general tool for people looking for places to stay, you really don't need another fleshy body directly involved with the seeker.
It makes sense if Google Glass is less a fundamental transformer of society and more an expensive and overhyped toy for rich young technophiles.
For completeness: Canonical still claims that they couldn't do what they wanted, especially with mobile devices, using Wayland. Or at least, they would have needed to write various non-standard extensions to the Wayland protocol which would make it incompatible with vanilla Wayland. The best source for this is this blog by someone working at Canonical: http://blog.cooperteam.net/search/label/mir

I don't understand graphics systems enough to evaluate their claims, and I've yet to hear an impartial analysis of them. Possibly no-one who can evaluate them is impartial.
So are widgets still supported?
I hope my YC application gets approved for BusBNB: disrupting traditional fixed shelter in favor of housing that is simultaneously mobile, social, AND local. Extensions to the bus add food truck capability, washroom/shower facilities, dedicated hacker spaces, and more.
Is this a global thing?