skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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That's true. I would assume that we would be able to regain most of the basic "this is what makes us the 21st century" information. Almost everything else, in my mind, would be of questionable value to the new society. If Facebook went dark, if Google went dark, Yahoo, Microsoft, hell even Wikipedia; yeah there'd be significant loss and it would take a long time to recover from. But the benefit of the information age versus the destruction of the Library of Alexandria is that you can't just destroy the Library and all that knowledge is gone. There's a wealth of information and culture on my computer alone. If the biggest sources of knowledge were gone tomorrow, individuals would be able to rebuild the basics of the information age very quickly. We might be set back to 1970, but without the literal decimation of the human population, there's no way we'd be set back to the stone age.
I'm sure the exact same things apply to the current unfriendly url you are using now.
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Checked really quickly, Sony's electronics (from computers to cameras) division market cap is a 34.8bn, I have a number of 34.7bn for twitter.

And Sony as a brand is split in different groups depending on the activities (e.g. finance, music production, content licensing, network provider and who know what else). Twitter's not in the same league.
I'm really impressed as well, especially how helpful and outreaching the developers/contributors are on sites like StackOverflow.

Now if the documentation would improve in some of the grayer areas, I would be really happy. Wish I knew enough to contribute.
Why Stack Ranking Worked Better at GE Than Microsoft
Cjdns could handle that.
Hahaha I saw that earlier today and thought to myself "I wonder how long before we see the bookmarklet that does this pop up on HN?"
Anyone do a Greasemonkey equivalent yet?
You state your two final assertions as if they're universal laws. I'm not saying you're incorrect -- they certainly sound valid to me -- but can you point to any research to back up your claims?
FWIW, i think it's terrible. There's a few really excellent pieces of writing sprinkled throughout it, but the whole thing felt hollow and self-indulgent to me.
Cool story, bro. A regular Flowers for Algernon.
OK, it could've been that I opened it for the first time in a year, but still, there are no addons, no history, no bookmarks, nothing - a new Firefox or Chrome installation never behaved like this. It's on an SSD, too, so what could be the issue then?
Do you read NaturalNews?
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Our resort was calm, peaceful and full of couples, no rowdy partiers.

That reminds me of a funny experience I had in Cancun a few years back in Cancun. My wife booked a room at the all-inclusive Temptation resort because it had the best rate. When we got there, we were surprised to find that it was basically clothing optional. Be sure to check out the hotel website first if you want to avoid distractions!
I think it is more fair to say that, being old and well-used, the engineering behind old-fashioned hardware is more mature and its failure modes are better understood. Embedded electronic systems of various types will reach that point as they are more widely deployed and used for longer periods.

BTW, I have been through that exact failure scenario before myself (in an '81 Monte Carlo).
"I have no idea why they cling to this."

Not saying that I agree or disagree with Google, but they have explained their reasoning here: "It's recommended that you go by your first and last name because it will help you connect with people you know and help them find you." - https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1228271?hl=en
Those are some...interesting...views.

1) There is no "absolutely normal" anything about firing or laying off employees. Some of layoffs/firings will be to get rid of bottom X%-ers, but some will be good or even very well qualified and capable employees (e.g. for salary or budgetary reasons).

2) There is no such thing as a "free market." Or, put another way, "it's a free market" in the same way that China is a pure communist state.

3) You're assuming the person granting the grade--the manager--is being objective and assigning grades fairly. If you think managers do that, you're either a manager, inexperienced, or woefully oblivious (or possibly all three). There are many, many reasons a person could be placed in the bottom X% that have literally nothing to do with his performance or abilities.
What it does entitle a person to, however, is the ability to dictate the rules of the continued use of that website, and if, as part of the rules of the continued use of that website

I like how terms of service are not only equivalent to laws now, but genuine entitlements.
How did you install it? Also what games work great? For instance team fortress 2 had some weird shader problems on stable for me.
Maybe it would be fast enough if I used it semi-regularly, but it's true what they say, it's the best browser for downloading any other browser :-)...
1-2-5 should be renamed R3 and every thing above R10 and E12 should just be discarded.
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I can't speak about the other guys, but Leore is not a first time founder. We've hired interns, contractors and employees at our last company together. [1]

[1] Leore and I were co-founders together at hangtrend/dress.me
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Sorry, no.

And it's a good thing: imagine the inflation rate if salaries were raised by up to 100% overnight...
Sounds interesting. This seems to be a more natural way for conversations to develop. It mirrors real-world conversations where random users can just join and leave.

The analogy to hashtags makes sense. However since hashtag topics can last indefinitely, they can get stale and lose relevance. Allowing tags/conversations to expire after a period of time keeps the conversation topical.

The concept is also scalable, since you can either have a small conversation among friends, or a regional conversation about relevant issues in the news.
that stuff is completely different (and far less conductive); it (afaict) uses graphite powder, this uses silver nanoparticles that fuse together.
"stack ranking works at the team level, not at the company level. If a team is full of morons and the next one is full of awesome developers, stack ranking will keep 90% of the morons and cull 10% of the good devs."

That may be a risk they are willing to take. They are probably firing some good people. If a team is doing great and they fire someone from that team because SOMEONE has to get fired, then that's poisonous. But if someone isn't right for the job, but because the job is badly defined, or poorly managed, or the goals are unreasonable, or whatever... it does definitely suck for the person being fired, but losing that employee is a reasonable cost for Yahoo.
We use ZeroCater at Apportable as well. It's so much better than ordering it ourselves.
Even the phrase "you were lied to" is bound to make some people defensive. People generally feel embarrassed when they've been conned or deceived, like it's a personal failing on their own part, and that statement is just bluntly calling them out for being a fool.

It's pretty tricky to point these things out without offending anyone.
Also see the other discussion from today here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6695895
We committed a regression test fix separately.
For most people it won't be first and last name. It will be first and last name followed by a bunch of junk, which isn't easy to remember.
I know that you think it's admirable or noble to "work really hard" and you probably have this whole heroic narrative running in your head; but it's actually pure bunk.

Your attitude is the product of worker-motivation-propaganda. You have been brainfucked.
Sounds like the managers didn't realize the weight of their "occasional misses" – if they had, they might have made a stand at the time of the evaluation.
One of things that becomes evident when looking at the CI Bots is how inflexible it is. From what I gather pre/post built steps require baking them into your Xcode project for example. It just seems like it was developed for very simple projects being developed by a small team with little to no external dependencies.

I wonder if people building these tools have any experience building large scale iOS apps. Maybe they do, and developing for that case wasn't their objective.
iOS 7: http://imgur.com/N7NIWW4
iOS 6: http://imgur.com/wekWLJZ
Can you give an example of where you've had to use $watch? Usually too many $watch is an indication that you could improve your app's architecture, e.g. by abstracting into directives.

FWIW I'm only speaking from personal experience and in your case lots of $watch might be necessary.
It would be really nice to be able to easily download whole (or parts) websites for offline use. One thing is SO, but maybe you also want the API of some specific library or language, some specific Wikipedia articles or whole topics on Wikipedia... does something like this exist?
There will be a tool that will help with dynamic DNS and port proxying for certain services (this may be against your ToS though). Or you will be able to use arkOS on a VPS too, if hosting at home is not a match for you.
They are both self-help books disguised as pseudobiographies. They both make overt and covert attempts to direct the reader to buying more of the author's products, or at least buy into the author's bullshit. They are both filled with the kind of empty rhetoric that, in the wrong hands, are capable of ruining someone's life. They have both found the bottom of my trash bin. Perhaps I'm just bitter, but still, readers beware!
Yes, that is a conservative estimate. The warranty on my Sharp panels is 25 years...they are expected to last longer. Though, as I understand it, the output of panels does degrade over time; I don't know by what mechanism that degradation happens. And, there are electronic components in the whole configuration that may not last forever due to corrosion.
Known as confirmation bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Somebody should organize a Cruiseathon. Hackathon on a Cruise. I will be game!
Google Reader, never forget :-)
It's not possible for the pool to hide what chain it is working on from its miners. If you're connected to the ES-pool when it is working on the mainline chain and you see it start working on top of a block that is not on the main chain, that's a good indicator that it is a block ahead of the main chain.

If you see it work on top of yet another block that is not published, it's probably two ahead, and so on.

You of course, can't just connect and immediately know, but if you watch the pool (as a miner) you can figure it out.
That to me looks broader than Google, Twitter, or Facebook's TOU. I look forward to the impassioned post highlighted here on HN saying:

"Wait, wait, wait! Did they say that they may decide to charge me for my Github account in the future? And that they may remove it 'for any reason at any time?' A Github account is an identifier. I'll use it to identify myself on this service. I'll link to it from my website. I may print it on a business card. Like Github said in their email, I'll use it to 'make software development more collaborative.' But they can take it away for any reason or deactivate it? No way. Github is not a place I own, it's a place Github is kind enough to let me visit and have some limited activity, but they can always kick me off or ask for an (unspecified) rent."

Sigh.
Desktop Link: http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=9142998

[ Also, maybe you can edit and change the title of this story or maybe post again with a title? ]

Nice article summarizing recent events, even though some sentences were little over the top ('guy in his underwear'). I would have liked if you took a Canada centric approach here, everything else is more or less known (maybe you are summarizing for Canadian public). But what is not known is what's Canada's complicity in this matter? What do you think about that?
My personal (albeit naive) belief is that the limiting factors on most startups is a good idea. Start-ups only work when they are based on real consumer desires.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" but what is the mother of a start-up....? There are few who understand this realistically.

The talent is there but where is the business plan? It's not very often you hear a start-up idea that rattles you. If I heard one I'd hop on board just for some stake in the company. Also founder/managers are a pain... I imagine it must suck to be the engineer-slave of an ivy leaguer who is going out to another bar for a fund-raising meeting that will affect your future salary working on their hair-brained idea.
'I was an admin for Silk Road': Alleged hit-man target tells all
Has teamcity fixed it's Xcode runner yet for Xcode 5? I am using team city with shell scripts that hand off to "xcodebuild" and "xcodebuild -test | ocunit2junit" but for I would have liked to try out the runners.

I prefer Jenkins overall, but our org uses team city and I would rather use something that has people devoted to managing it versus playing system administrator myself.
well, just be aware that when you say that you care about "cultural fit" I (and many others) assume it's code for "I'm a racist/sexist twit"
Using a GUI is a great way to get your feet wet. One challenge with git is simply getting an intuitive understanding of how parts of the system relate to each other. After some time in SourceTree, it is possible you'll start to appreciate the flexibility of the CLI and maybe even find a place for it in your workflow.
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so how do you get it right?

what is right - focus on technical excellence and product fit or are you meaning trust and honesty levels in the company?
AngularJS is being one of the coolest thing since Node.js
When I set it to "advanced" level, I wondered how my computer scrabble player got 6 bingos in a row.

Scrabble is perfect information. You don't know your opponents tiles, so they may as well be in the bag. At any given stage, you know the count for each letter:

A: 3
B: 0
C: 1
D: 1
E: 5
F: 1
G: 0
...

Then you can calculate the odds of any given word using Multinomial distribution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial_distribution#Probab...

I would wonder how we could simulate human players, whose dictionaries are incomplete? And even if we know the word, we may not be able to do all the shuffling in our head (or even with the tiles).

There used to be JumbleTime http://www.jumbletime.com/ to practice identifying 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8-letter words. Certain people were consistently on the leaderboard. Now the best I can find is DailyAnagram http://www.dailyanagram.com/
(not a lawyer, this is not legal advice)

Offer severance if (and only if) they resign. You were going to offer it anyway, but now it actually buys you something.
Aren't there repercussions for unfounded chargebacks?

Also, if the rewards are physical, surely that leaves a trail - they have to be sent somewhere.
Educational-Talks and Videotutorials for Webdeveloper etc.
Ah. I see, your right, in that way you can know it's ahead, but can't spoil the advantage. Thanks for pointing that out.

So I was wrong.
December is like Next month... but I have already signed up!
Except as others have pointed out, you're not ranked according to the company, but your group. And in companies that like to keep groups small, that means even in groups where everyone is performing well, someone has to be called the bottom.

Your manager was forced to blame someone for something so you get fired for being part of a project that had better staffing so it would be less impacted by loss. This setup requires someone to be called deadweight whether that group actually has any or not.

Firing a static percentage of the company every year is horrible for morale. Managers who are doing their jobs and managing their people should find out when they need to work with them or let them go. People who should be let go shouldn't be held on to until the next review cycle.
I know a guy: several knuth checks, hardcore systems programmer, extraordinarily well read, does advanced math (talking topology), nuclear physics, taught at a respected engineering school. He's being fought over at that level..
Which companies? Theres only the usual suspects who could play on that field
Add to that Turkey and Greece.
i thought this article was going to be about how the "verify your phone number" system doesn't actually send you a text message to verify your phone, thus making it impossible to actually claim said custom URL....
^ this. The amount of "ultra-luxury" towers going on in my city is way too high. Who the fuck has $800,000 cash? Numbers don't add up.
I have the same thing on pkn.me. That just resolves to my normal blog which redirects to the canonical URL. So I can have, for example, http://pkn.me/r for my resume and http://pkn.me/mmp for my book landing page.

I used to give random 5 letter strings to my posts as their ID but now I actually put some thought into it so I can have good, rememberable short URLs.
interesting but why is this a remote service that needs to parse in-browser content? if filtering is keyword based (as opposed to ml based), why not filter locally instead ?
free-range, organic pixels. Yum.
https://plus.google.com/+AnzePecar redirects to http://google.com/+AnžePečar so infact you now have two URL shorteners. Native tongue and english.
http://google.com/+An%C5%BEePe%C4%8Dar isn't pretty, but at least it's typable. Edit: whoa ghuntley, good find!
Please elaborate. nothing on the article mentions cookies or the technology used to collect this information. Or I am expected to have read the entire set of documentation?
Show HN: Quick side-project. Tweet text as an image.
I worked on a cruise ship as an entertainer and can confirm this. Except for the gun part. We had lifeboat assignments and had drills each cycle before the passengers arrived. We were trained on getting people in, not what to do once in the water.
So much for changing the world, making a dent in the universe and all that, eh? How can someone build a COMPANY around a feature that does something so inconsequential and is basically "cute" at best? This is neither revolutionary nor innovative in my book.

I don't get it. No offense, but if this gets funding, then the Silicon Valley echo chamber has officially spread east and legitimate tech companies are doomed.

There are too many of these fly-by-night half-baked apps out there that people think they can become a millionaire from.

I can't wait until all this hype ends so people working on REAL problems can get back to doing REAL work.
Does anyone actually like postfix notation?
Isn't this a bait tactic for them to scrape data on startups?
I think it's for Google accounts in general. Even getting a gmail account requires this.
When you read this, think about how many words an otherwise smart man wrote about something that's completely inconsequential. Down-vote me all you want but please consider how you're spending your brain power.
While that may technically be true, it's a problem because it violates user expectations. It makes sense that clicking a link on Wikipedia's contents section would update the URL, but I think it is much less clear that interacting with this page should change the URL for every click.
Cool site! I am just curious, where do you get the data from? Is it scraping? I've had a few ideas for cruise-related sites, but have been consistently stifled by the lack of affordable data about cruise itineraries.
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Me in 1993: Yeah, but seriously, nobody is going to start charging for domain names. Writing a hundred bytes in your named.conf? What would you charge, ten cents? Doesn't make sense. And everybody swaps secondary service with everybody else, and your upstream includes it at no extra charge.
Considering that images were now auto-displayed, wanted to make something where you can tweet text as an image. It seems that Twitter doesn't auto-display pics from 3rd-party apps (which seems like a reasonable measure). So it is not as cool as it could've been. Source is on github if you want to play with it.
1- I don't need to find a job anymore
2- It doesn't really matter if I lose my job, let's take some "vacation"

A bit more about myself :
I'm self employed in France, and I earn less than the minimal wage (because I pay 46+% in taxes). But I'm not entitled to any unemployment benefit if I stop working. I would greatly benefit from a 1000€/m Basic Income, but I KNOW it's unfair because someone else will have to pay for it.
I KNOW I have to work to earn a living.

We (almost) have Basic Income in France, it's called RSA (450€/m). That's why I'm paying 46+% taxes. That's social taxes, not income taxes (almost 50% of the population in France don't pay income taxes).
I'm running into a similar issue and fairly new to angular. In fact, the tutorial I followed even set up the server calls to use the _id field when looking at a specific model (ie leagues/{{ league._id }} ). What's the proper way to go about fixing this?
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tig is so handy that I'm almost incredulous when people tell me they've never used it or heard of it.
Internet on cruise ships is fairly cheap
Running a business comes with its own challenges, but I was really only referring to the work directly related to farming. Maybe my brain is just better wired for computing tasks, or something, but it has always seemed so much easier to me.

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it easier to obtain work as a farmhand than as a software engineer, in terms of credentials and experience required?

You're going to have trouble finding a engineer's salary (it's possible) on the farm without tons of experience and a proven track record, but you are right that "green" employees are often hired for little pay with hopes of making them good at the job.

Farming is interesting is that it is highly constrained by time. When the crop is ready to come off, it must come off now. You cannot wait for six months to find the best employee like you often see in other fields. Most farmers would rather have the highly trained people – I think I hear about farm talent shortages more than I hear about tech talent shortages – but in the absence of talent, you have to hire somebody, else the work isn't going to get done at all.

Because of the time constraints, you're often left hiring anybody you can find and hope their lower pay makes up for the mistakes they will inevitably make. Engineering firms, on the other hand, would rather wait for someone who isn't going to make those mistakes. They tend to have that choice, farmers do not. If we had more skilled farmhands, so that farmers could actually be picky, I expect it would become far more difficult to find a job on the farm without skills though.

I see what you are saying though. I will note that educational requirements usually indicate that you have too many people competing for the same job. You'd need a PhD in agriculture to get a labouring job on the farm too if everyone wanted to be a farmer. Most people believe it is a horrible job though, so they run as far away as they can from it.
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I understand Git quite well and I still only use the CLI for the rare actions the GUI doesn't allow, like deleting a remote branch or using reflog to find a commit that's no longer pointed to. I use Git Extensions on Windows, SourceTree on Mac. I have a slight preference for Git Extensions.
Game looks fantastic! How is your business model doing? Only purchase option is the $4.99 coin doubler, seems risky.