skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory Google BBS reply: Now the whole script of how it would connect comes from a viral video by Squirrel-Monkey.com (see also the link at the page). "Google BBS" just put this into interactive reality. On the sound: This is not a technical feature of the modem, but you would have actually a modem-script to switch it to mute. (The usual configuration was: I want to here the handshake sequence, but as soon as the connection stands, mute. But this was actually scripted behavior. You could have it all mute or monitor sound all the time. There are two distinctive sounds and the second one – reconnecting & fetching more data – isn't a handshake sound.)

@sdfjkl - I found the joke on GOOGLE.COM and the typo actually funny in the original video and wouldn't have wanted to miss it in the application.
Do you have any thoughts on how to get started on this road? I feel like I missed the boat sometimes, though I'm using doing interesting-ish work professionally and in open source. I'm not interested in chasing the framework-of-the-week, I want to work on tools that advance how we think about software.

This may be something I do later in life, but I feel very wired for R&D + tooling, and a bit locked out of these types of jobs without a PhD.
Counter-argument:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/dont-go-dark.html
Well, I think it will be hard to find serious clients in Odesk... (I have read your comment about serious clients) Have you tried joining toptal?
This makes me ponder what happens when init itself fails. This is probably a silly question.
Why is the web like a telephone directory?
I think a bunch of things that people often classify as "luck" should really be looked at as timing issues.

Part of building a business is understanding market conditions and competition. I get that things can come completely out of left field, but there are different degrees to which you can monitor competition and how receptive people will be to your product or service. It's dangerous (and potentially fatal) to be head down building your product and ignoring looming threats.
How Search Engine Traffic can be increased using Google’s In-Depth Articles
If it was just the message, maybe you could argue that he overreacted. But it isn't just the message, he can also no longer use his profile.

And why is that? Probably because some algorithm thought his profile impersonates someone else, which is apparently not the case.

And the way Google choose to communicate their suspicion and the actions that followed it to their user was by (practically) saying:

"You did bad thing x, and now you have to pay the consequences for it."

Can you see his point better now? (Personally I can fully understand him)

EDIT: Oh, and a better approach is mentioned in this HN-comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6732820
Submit your GitHub portfolio and join the Ivy League university that also develops Racket? Awesome!
Ugh, Hadoop.
Your profile has been suspended because it impersonates someone.

This message is wrong because it asserts something which isn't true. That is, you are clearly not impersonating somebody else, right?

If it was a copy writer I’ve lost all hope.

Copywriters aren't responsible for this type of mistake.

A copywriter transforms a message into coherent language. The language here is clear and readable. The message is the problem.

A straight up accusation of potentially illegal acts.

This message is not accusing you of fraud, that's your own hyperbole.
The author's writing style does absolutely nothing for their credibility. I'm inclined to be very distrustful of anything anyone says when their first paragraph includes "butthurt" and "jackass". The author suggests that Ryan Dahl has no idea what he's doing, but all his opening paragraphs certainly don't give me the impression that the author has any idea either. Reading a bit further down the page doesn't change that impression.

I'm no fan of javascript, but I'm also no fan of internet tough-guys who think that throwing a few "fucking"s and "butthurt"s into their prose makes them seem like anything other than bullies. The only thing I take away from that criticism of node is that Ted Dziuba is an awful person.
This began a year ago if I remember correctly. Thankfully, I use skype 4.something for Linux and don't have ads :)
1) Perfect for harassment, repeatedly send .000001 btc to someone, to force them to keep sending it back or be blacklisted

2)What happens when someone using blacklist A accepts payment that looks clean, only to find out they are now blacklisted on list B? No one could use bitcoin for something like ebay transactions, for fear that the payment they received might be blacklisted by some list.
Where do you base this on?
I think we can all agree, how these are licensed is currently confusing.
Why making money with open data isn't enough
I guess what you can learn from that is "write some copy that is easy to google ASAP" :)
Yeah. I like MTurk, but it's pretty impenetrable.
She's practicing number crunching and maybe some other cognitive tasks that probably can't be related to mathematical thought, unless you squint really hard. I can identify at least one cognitive task: holding configurations in your head (I have played Fire Emblem). From my experience, I would say that this has nothing to do with the type of thought that goes into mathematics. Like I said in my first post: good chess players can do this well. Does that mean good chess players are also good at some part of math?

And, you know, one would have to show that there is some "mathematical thought" that can be trained to begin with. I'm not entirely sure there is.

I don't disagree that "practice makes perfect". I disagree with the statement "practice in fire emblem makes perfect in math (not number crunching)".

People want to share stories. I get it. But if we're not being rigorous about it, then we're just fooling ourselves. And then the conversation devolves into a circlejerk where everyone thinks they're brilliant.
http://youasked.it/ Answer random questions from people on Twitter
> I honestly doubt 99% of consumers care, since the NSA isn't concerned with their business.

True, but some of the rest (like me) are more concerned with Amazon (or Google, or Facebook, or Apple) having access to their information than with the NSA. Personally, I'd rather have a government spying on me than a corporation.
That's very good news actually. If first stage trials are successful might be marketed sooner than expected. However, I didn't read the paper, so I can't comment on the mechanism of action which the mos interesting part of an drug. Bacteria might become resistant if this procedure becomes overused (as usual) and it would be a shame.
Investment Manager Explains Why 99.5% Of Americans Can Never Win
I'm not on the google+ hate train.

I don't think this message is really horrible. The fact that they suspend your account is kind of weird, but IMO, you shouldn't be using G+ as your "home" on the web. I don't think it's meant to be that way. I've been using it since beta, and I've found that joining relevant communities and following certain people makes it an awesome mix of reddit (sans-comments) and twitter. My home feed has all the stuff I want to see from G+, and I will look into new communities once every few months.

I would never send anyone to my G+ profile. There's nothing really on it. I don't use it as if it were Facebook and load my history with vapid statements or "inspirational" quotes.

I think now, more than ever, it's easy to get your own "destination" site up and running with minimal effort. The social stuff? It's just a way to kill time. It shouldn't be everything.
See how you got down voted? Groups are afraid of dissent.
The scary thing is what would happen if these bacteria fell into the hands of terrorist extremists. They could potentially create bio-weapons of mass destruction. Or imagine if some suicide cult decided that the time has come for the doomsday of reckoning. Al-Qaeda anthrax letters are nothing compared to this. It could also be used to threaten mutually assured destruction in asymmetric warfare. Iran could probably develop it more easily and stealthily than their (not very) secret nuke program. Developing countermeasure to this is a matter of national security. Insha'Allah people will come to their senses and please think of the children: We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children before it is too late.

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I suspect it has the opposite effect; rather, it promotes spammy linkbait reblog content on HN.
Abstract vs. Concrete
Flickr doesn't make me use my real name. Nor does tumblr, nor does Skype. If Google wanted me to merge my YouTube and G+ accounts, and didn't try to force me to use my real name, I would have much less of an issue with it - indeed when other services merged identities, I didn't complain. But merging combined with real name policy is poison as far as I'm concerned.

Some of us belong to minorities that are actively discriminated against, legally and illegally. If services start forcing us to use our real names for discussion, we are opening ourselves up to potentially dangerous situations, all in the name of allowing Google to monetize us better. Wow, sounds like a great deal.
I assume you meant she submitted a photocopy of her passport, not her password?
Ok then attack with 2 of them, or 3.

Its hard for an unalerted human to defend against a fast-moving strike drone flock. Against a civilian - no hope.
As was pointed out above, this is not blogspam.

Well, boingboing is festooned with ads and affiliate links. It's a business, after all.

The problem is not so much whether BB is blogspam[0] but that blogspam often has a better chance of getting up-voted on HN.

[0]: My view: There are many ads, but half the time there's some sensible additional commentary for the target post, so there's plausible value in exchange for the ads.
He mentions at the end of the piece that his EP-based analysis only applies in "typical" close games in normal weather when the clock is not yet a major factor. And that an analysis based on Win Probability could correct for most of these factors.

I'm skeptical of that last point. There are many, many variables that underlie football outcomes. Unlike baseball, where the most critical two players by far in any situation (the pitcher and the batter) are known in advance by both teams, a football play has the potential to be affected dramatically by any combination of players on the field. I am sympathetic to the idea that more teams should play aggressively on offense more often (and indeed I believe there are signs of this in today's NFL), but by no means should every team be expected to act according to the punt/FG/go-for-it chart in most situations.

I think you're absolutely right to emphasize variance tradeoffs. When coaches try to reduce variance they are often criticized as "risk-averse", but that's often a winning strategy, even in games that are close enough score-wise to be considered "typical".
The Google real name policy (and that breaking TOS is a crime in many jurisdictions), and the policy of requiring phone number on sign-up.

It won't stop the most persistent people who are out to hurt someone, but it will stop others.
Has Microsoft already picked its next CEO?
Usually the kernel halts.
I've had YT comments hidden for years with browser extensions. It's quite good.
Hack the shit out of it, say "Re NO"!
Did you mean to send that reply to me?
It's a good question. I was wondering that myself when I was writing the comment. Either the kernel would have to restart it or it would bring down the system, because no other process would have a parent.
Its not ok or not-ok; its a marketing model (lease the battery) to bring down the purchase price of an electric car, who's major cost component is the battery. Go ahead, buy a Tesla if you can afford it.
The Data – Information – Knowledge Cycle
True - if the open source project you've contributed significantly to is, say, a well-acclaimed machine learning library, and you're applying to a machine learning Ph.D., then the sum of your accepted pull requests might be a reasonable proxy for a recommendation letter from the (presumably well-acclaimed) maintainers of said library.
Never saw the issue with YouTube comments. Always was much ado about nothing. So people were immature - it's funny. So people were insulting - grow up, they're having fun.

This whole movement to control YouTube comments reeks more of management's personal embarrassment that their customers weren't as serious and high class as they. Again, grow up. Not everyone is like you - not even your customers.
But the real Google started out even in HTML quite sparse with a simple white page. It took 10 years before there were more complex doodles.

Don't miss the ASCII image previews at http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS/images -- maybe some kind of a redress.
I design my own. As for recommendations, I'd first like to request you avoid sites like Fiverr because it devaluates design work.

Forums/reddit are your best bet. Try /r/forhire, or your nearest forum that has a buy/sell board. Frequently tech boards do; I used to design logos for $50-100 on neowin.net. You can give their graphic exchange board a shot if you like.
Some people believe anything from a government agency is wrong and that there aren't smart, capable people doing their jobs on the other end. Of all the things with air travel to pitch a hissy fit over, this one has always comes across as the silliest to me. Things really are going down the tubes if you can't be bothered to not look at your piece of glass for a minutes.
Google has a real name only policy on Google+. This does result in accounts being suspended and all sorts of weird interactions with google staff/robots. For instance I have a friend who's last name is Love but created a google+ account using a pseudonym. Now she wants to use her real name but despite several attempts, they refuse to accept the change since the GOOG doesn't believe that it's real sounding enough.
Why would you be filling out a PhD application if you already had an offer letter from Google or YCombinator?
Intelligence Officials Object To New Regulations
Google has a development office in Chicago but I don't think it's very big. The 600k sq ft of Chicago office space mentioned in this post is probably a reference to the new Motorola office space in the Merch Mart.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120726/BLOGS02/1207...
The contents of said book is a red flag if you want a security clearance - it says you are willing to cheat to get a job doing governmental work.
Also, the one in the video doing the tricks is probably optimized to be very lightweight. I guess adding any kind of useful armor would slow it down considerably.
Or the fact it seems to be very prevalent in places like India and China.

The fact there is a new fashionable language in the valley doesn't mean it's going to be popular world wide.
About 4 years. As another commenter said, the problem wasn't loading time, but choppy scrolling/resizing. I am on Mavericks/latest version of safari.
That's how every trading platform works. You can put in a limit order where you buy or sell at a certain price, but it's not guaranteed to go through because there has to be someone else willing to take that price. You can also put in a market order, which will always go through, but the price will be whatever is available on the market at the time.
It's not a moratorium, but here's an article from today with an early description of proposed amendments:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-politicians-Restri...
Great point here:

"I go through periods of self-doubt about my qualifications as a web developer. I have a sense I’m not alone in this. Our field is by nature a generalists’ field, where expertise involves synthesis of concepts and technologies, not complete mastery of a single, static topic. It’s hard to know how to tell if you’re good at your job."

I'd say, I'd agree fully but you can look at it as an advantageous position, in my opinion.

The ability to bend a lot of different concepts/technologies that were put together by experts into something that solves the problem puts you in an important place.

I'd say show love for the open source community and the people who know everything about a particular framework or technology, but really it comes down to asking, "No, not familiar, what are the advantages of this [new thing] over what we've been doing?"
This really doesn't contribute. Everyone knows that what's new is the particular technologies, not the idea of using electricity.
> The point is that the HTTP server isn't the same entity doing the application work.
http://youtu.be/jQjocZXHOg4

to the point video from discussion on the site about the article.

2c.
This post hit a lot of nails right on the head, for me at least (I even played midfield).
Five Years Of SoundCloud
Additional point: Google's now chasing Facebook's stupidity--on Android. Facebook put out an idiotic failure of a launcher based on Facebook messaging. Well, now Google's following suit with an idiotic failure of a launcher called Google Experience Launcher on the Neuxs 5. Everyone's still crowing over it (because few people actually have it or have experienced it's uglyness), but it's truly atrocious.
That is true to an extent. But, most people don't do PhDs to end up doing purely software development.
Sounds like a use After free vulnerability. IE Is well known for these [1].

If you know C or C++ it's very straight forward. A function creates an object or structure on the heap. The malicious code writer or the function can then pass a pointer to that object/struct to another function which then frees it. The problem is the other function doesn't realize that the pointer has been freed and is still able to write into that memory address even though it's sitting on the free list.

The interesting arises when another object gets allocated to the same location. Since you still have a dangling pointer, you can write into that object. If it's C++ you can overwrite the virtual function table pointer to one you control, or if its C hope that there is a function pointer hanging around.

[1] http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/pr...
It does not seems so to me. To show that your interests align, you do one of the challenges that Jeff lists in part 2. Part 1 is only to show you are a strong programmer/ambitious so your projects can be in anything it seems.
... now her regular, good commenters comments hover at the bottom of the pile, while hateful trolls whose messages generate a lot of replies are judged "good" by G+ and promoted to the top.

Can someone link to an instance of this? I checked out three or four of her videos and the top comments all seem non-hateful, non-trollish.
Great article. I'm a big fan of admitting I'm not familiar with something!

It's scary - but it's so much better than actually knowing something and having your expertise dismissed because you've already blown your credibility.

Looked at another way, I suppose my readiness to admit I don't know things is slightly egotistical: when I say I know something well, I want motherf----- to believe me.

Being up front about what you don't know well is kind of the price you have to pay... well, that and actually knowing stuff in other areas.
"Why should YouTube have an island comment system given that it's a Google property?"

That's a very Google-centric way of looking at it. From their point of view, merging everything may be a big convenience and make them more money through more detailed profiling of users.

But my end user point of view is the opposite. The fact that one company with a product I use bought another company with an unrelated product I use, because it happens to create efficiencies on a balance sheet, doesn't magically create a desire within me to use those products together.

I don't need some stupid cat video I clicked on and watched for 10 seconds affecting my searches and ads I see. My choice of what videos to watch is by default disjoint from my other online activities. If I want to share a video, I'll do it explicitly and don't need any integration to make that happen. Having my actions tracked across unrelated sites and reported to everyone I know, and a labyrinthine scheme of privacy settings I would need to constantly monitor to stay configured the way I want, just keeps me off social networks altogether and using adblock/ghostery everywhere.
Skype is considering adding automatic removal of typing sounds from calls
It's not a trick

It is an unusual deviation from the normal sequence of play-calling, and the advantage is that much of the time opposing defenses aren't prepared for it. They have plays set up for when they need to make a stop -- particularly at the goal line -- but they're not used to using them in this situation and it is, I suspect, almost entirely the novelty of being forced to run the "must stop this one play" defense that makes it a successful tactic.

Which in turn implies that if people start doing it all the time, defenses will simply adjust, become accustomed to making a dozen or so fourth-down stops per game, and that will be the end of this "Opposing Defensive Coordinators HATE him -- learn this one weird trick" story.
The parent comment should probably be read as 'research and development' - working for IBM's research arm, Microsoft Research etc.
"Windows, Linux and OSX, pretty much all the major players of today" - any plan to support Android and iOS? Why and Why not?
As a Ruby guy, one thing off putting to me is that what appears to be "idiomatic Go" involves naming things as tersely as possible. Most Go code I look at has maybe-usefully named types or interfaces and then they usually go and assign them to something utterly meaningless like 't', 'vt' and so on.

Go's official docs and standard libraries seem to reinforce this style choice, and most 3rd party code follows this general C++ style inspiration too. I know I can do what I like in code that I would write, but it seems like I'd be swimming against the current.
They need to have "Real Genius" on there somewhere. Symbolics is actually listed in the credits, presumably for the contrived simulations that were run.
Good old Impostor Syndrome.

Sometimes, I feel as if I have no idea what I am doing. I mean, I only know Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. I can only design websites, program them and launch them. I am such a fraud. I can't even use .NET or Ruby! How can I call myself a web developer? And I keep using google to find answers or keywords I forget! If I wasn't such a fraud, I could write code on paper, and it would be perfect!
Who would have thought that the loud and obnoxious people would continue to be loud and obnoxious? That's craaaazy talk. :)

Also I have a hard time believing the switch to real names has even mostly to do with improving discussion. It seems more like a concerted monetization strategy through fine grained tracking and marketing.
IMO their Unix emulator is a way more impressive. But in the days of CPU-X-eumlator-in-js outdated.

http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/
You don't have to see a gazillion of them if the good stuff is on the first page.
I'd say that if it isn't a system of discovering truth by repeatable experiments, it isn't a science. Ergo, economics isn't (at least not on a macro scale).

That doesn't make it invalid. There are other ways to discover truth; eg, reasoning, mathematical proof, or detective work. The latter applies the knowledge gained from science, but the crime itself isn't repeatable.

Then again, given how divided economists are on basic questions, there must be a lot of blarney in the field.
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I would call it a sensationalist title, but the article itself is far from sensational.

I actually found the writing to be pleasantly balanced and scientifically detailed, without jumping to unreasonable conclusions.