skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't take any rating metric seriously unless it accounted for how long they've owned it. Plus there's the difference between "I've owned 12 lawnmowers and this one's pretty okay, only broke down after 1.5yrs, 3 stars" and "this is my first lawnmower, used it once, it's amazing, never going back to cutting my lawn with scissors, 5 stars". Plus niche sites sometimes have better reviews for the same products (newegg).

All that said, there is information to be harvested in some of these reviews.
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If only we could have a system where a real, live flesh and blood person could make decisions regarding punishment upon a guilty conviction... we could call these people, I know, judges.. they could judge on a case by case basis and make appropriate decisions.

I know, now the problem lies with these judges having poor decision making skills... if only there were a process to removing or overriding their decisions.. like an "appeals" process.. or a way of electing new judges and "voting" them in and out of office...

Neah, that's crazy talk.. we need absolute maximum/minimum sentencing guidelines like three strikes so we can keep those privatized prisons full, and making money.
Just because the damage is spread out to thousands of people doesn't mean it's a victimless crime. I'm trade stocks and I'm a victim, too. The damage to the share market's reputation may scare off some people, they will lose an avenue for investing their savings, as a result suffer a reduction on the return of their capital over their lifetime, with a significant chance of relying on the society for their retirement, because they were put off from investing, causing an increased drain on society's resources as well as a permanent reduction in their self esteem due to their lack of self reliance. In terms of damage to people's emotional state I still think insider trading is more insidious than breaking and entering. My home has been broken and entered into twice but I'm still more angry when insiders traded off private information in a company I invested in.
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Take a good look at your city's crime logs. At least in the US, it's not unusual for most DUIs to be repeat offenders; and again, not unusual for people to drive with revoked licenses. Revoking a license does nothing to protect society from those willing to flout the law.
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If this is the ps4 launch imagine the xbox one...
I wouldn't say it's completely different. It certainly is positioned in a completely different way but one can still log in and view their old pages and content.
`git gc` packs files with delta compression. I have a rather big git repository (daily mirroring a 25 gig repository with some large dvd iso images). And it seems to work quite well.
Well, it's not that unreasonable - even in an ice room where fire won't spread, if a hotel guest, say, falls asleep with a cigarette and the mattress starts burning, the smoke can easily kill him if there are no detectors.
I had the RROD with an XBox and they were _very_ quick getting it back. I think it was a couple of days. It's still an inconvenience, but it was also after more than a year of use.

Ctl-Alt-Del is referring to this as the "Pulsing Blue Dick-Punch of Death". I think everyone should do everything they can to spread that term. It's too good to pass up.
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It's pretty easy to have a revision number and Mercurial does it the right way: you have a canonical repo and that repo has a local revision number which maps to a particular commit.

It's impossible to have global revision numbers for hopefully obvious reasons.
I don't see the point. Seems to me that the only scenario in which stack ranking is actually efficient is exactly when you need to lay people off and have to figure out who you'll miss the least.

Lay offs are never a nice stress free process, any system you use to determine who to let go will suck badly for everyone involved.
I'm not sure I understand #1. Git can still be used (and frequently is) as a centralized repo simply by using commit and push together as an atomic unit.

If you have a super important piece of code that you want to gate access to then you're going to deal with this roughly in the same way under both systems. Probably by breaking it into a separate repo and only granting access to specific people since even under SVN everyone gets a copy of the code on their local machine.
> How it really works -- including compiling, linking, system calls, operating system involvement, hardware I/O, communication between ICs, etc. The path from the block of text to photons emitting from the screen, with fairly detailed explanations at every level.

That reminds me of JBQ's blog post from shortly after Dennis Ritchie's death: https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cn...

I would love to see that document if you still have it.
I want to watch both of these, but my Russian language (and more importantly, slang) is so poor that I'm afraid I'd miss a lot of it :/
Oh man. I live on Market too. OnTrac has done that same exact thing before, and sometimes I only discover it because someone passing on the street or a neighbor rings my doorbell to let me know I have a box outside. They also don't seem to be able to read, as they will accidentally deliver packages to xx30 when we're xx20 and vice versa.

I hate them so much. I go out of my way to leave terrible feedback for shipping on every OnTrac package I get at this point. Their reps keep telling me they're not going to do it any more and still it's such terrible service that I would cancel Prime membership if it wasn't for most packages being delivered by UPS/FedEx/USPS.
My comment would almost certainly be one that you are referring to.

I think you need to justify how it is a cynical comment please?

To me, the truly cynical thing here is that you can't seem to understand that Batkid's entire life is a lot more comfortable and pleasant than that of a great number of sick children around the world.

The fact that so much that could have gone so far was spent on making an already (relatively) privileged existence fun for a day because of the air time it generates - is hideously cynical.

I really do not wish to be overdoing the guilt trip here, I'm just a little baffled by your definition of cynicism.
I'm experiencing a very creepy behavior on Twitter, described here

http://pastebin.com/KR01pmAH

(TL;DR: Twitter displays a different behavior with the user profile of my ex-girlfriend than with any user name, including people I've interacted with much more in the last 1.5 years)

I would like many people to do the experiment.
If I remember correctly, the doors are closed and locked long before the plane even taxis out onto the runway.

There isn't much you can do with a plane on the ground, and the chances of taking off in one in a post-9/11 world is basically zero.
I wonder why the rate is so high in Seychelles.

The only reason I know of the country is because it is used for evading tax in EU, and because I got a job-offer from a company that operates there, but I am a bit surprised of the high number.
Most interesting paragraph:

"It would include anti-circumvention provisions such as those that make it illegal to break "digital locks" on software, such as jailbreaking mobile phones. It also aims to extend the minimum copyright and patent terms and ensure the adoption of criminal sanctions for copyright infringement that is carried out without commercial motivation."
This may make sense for a short time at a place like Yahoo! If Marissa wants to raise the average for Yahoo employees, then the first step is to raise hiring standards and cut dead weight. The danger is that stack ranking drives away high performers who are allergic to BS, so it should only be practiced for a year or two.
I'd say that the distribution is likely that most of the people with a dead unit posted reviews, while most of the people who received a working unit have not (and are likely still playing it).

People are far more likely to complain than to praise, and a dead unit arriving for a fairly expensive hot commodity is definitely cause for complaint, especially for something people are so passionate about as a PS4.

I'd be eager to see how many of those low ratings were due to people who took the day off to play it and couldn't.
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I guess I am thinking about it from the perspective of some company like Amazon adopting it. That would be absolutely massive for bitcoin. I think we are still a long way from being able to "3d print" any product you need.
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Hm, I wonder how long these 250 GB monthly bandwidth caps can last with that kind of download size becoming more common. I've already run into one or two cases where I needed multiple months of DL cap for single downloads, so I'm hoping the pressure forces a bump...
If after using only xbox, you bought and received a PS4 from Amazon, would you leave a 1 star ranking because of the interface look? 3-stars, maybe; 2-stars, maybe; but if you put 1* on the first day after paying hundreds of dollars, then it means that you had some serious unexpected, unwelcome surprise.
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I recommend a photo album "Tokyo Nobody" - similar concept.
the thing is, you wont be able to provide superior image quality if you want to match the price of consoles. As all of them are x86 now they are all pretty equal in terms of capabilities with price being the limiting factor.
I won't deny that there may be back rationalization present. But I am not sure what the point is. To pretend anybody has a "pure" view of history seems somewhat beyond a possibility. Everyone wears the rose colored glasses of their present historical and political moment and condition. It simply is not possible to see history outside of that, I would contend. Some arguments are perhaps more intellectually honest than others. And we all operate under varying degrees of self-delusion. But I digress.

Address a couple of your points:

Fraudulent elections: not all forms of government are duly elected by a people, but there is generally some process of a decision making body coming together that can be called "elections". And this process is always ripe for manipulation. I think one could resonably point to the Reichstag Fire and its political fallout as suppressing the German Communist vote and was a form of fraudulent electioneering.

Labor power is suppressed: There is a well documented history of forced labor within Nazi Germany during WWII. It is one of the reasons the German War Machine held on as long as it did despite heavy allied bombing and sabotage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour_under_German_rule...

I think it is reasonable to say the individuals in these camps didn't have access to the benefits of free association and what in general terms a strong union and workers rights oriented economy would provide. If we can't call that a form of "suppressing labor power" then what would you suggest we use to describe the phenomenon?
That's not that awesome, that's a brand new chip vs a 7 year old console chip. And not even the whole chip, just the performance of the GPU.
Given various sums of money, what would you do?
If you had 10,000 dollars right now, what would you do? What about 50,000? 100,000?
Yep, the truly brilliant folks are very bad at social skills / marketing themselves. They're usually introverts so although they're making critical contributions THEY'RE NOT RUNNING AROUND TELLING EVERYONE HOW GREAT THEY ARE.

Generally if someone is telling me how great they are, I assume they're not.
Regarding that:
>an empty file is not a valid C program, and the compiler will not hesitate to tell that to you with a big, fat error message.

Didn't someone win a IOCCC some years ago by providing an empty file that got compiled successfully?
Yes it does. Assuming you can pay for highly talented people who know how to build at scale distributed systems. There aren't enough of those to go around.
No one is or can remain a high performer forever. At some point in life you get different priorities. Kids, spouse, family in general and etc.
I'll put up with some BS and dead weight instead of elitists.
No one is saying that it's fool proof or totally secure. It's just an easy, mostly reliable way to automate the process.

If you develop a way to recover people's email accounts that is simple for consumers, requires no human intervention, and is more secure than phone numbers, patent it and make millions. Seriously, this is a hard problem to solve and companies will gladly pay you for a better solution.
Amazon's packaging also seems to leave something to be desired: http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/1qrawl/this_is_how_my_b....
doesnt this happen release cycle ?
If he had, he could have gotten the three (at least) people out of the second-to-last shot. :-)
Humans are no longer responsible for such things at google. If you have objections, submit them to the Algorithm, Who already knows what you have to say and doesn't care.
Buy more Bitcoins, of course.
I've done a couple of these, and that's close to what I did.

I started with a small "industrial" computer — Intel D525, 2g RAM, 40g SSD — costing about $300. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 Alternate with X and Fluxbox. I used Chrome for the display. I configured it to log on automatically upon booting, start X, and run a script configured to start Chrome pointed at the proper URL.

Then I used remastersy† to create an installation USB stick. Boot from the stick, and it installs the customized Ubuntu non-interactively. The first time the system boots, it runs a little dialog where you tell it its role in the system (i.e, what view of the overall status should it display).

If you later need to reconfigure it, you can log in over SSH and run scripts to change the configuration. Or, if absolutely necessary, you can visit in person, open the cabinet, and hook up a keyboard.

It spends almost all its life waiting on an XHR, which asks essentially, I'm showing version x, send me the next version when ready. When version x+1 comes along, the server replies to all the XHRs waiting for version x+1 with a chunk of JSON describing version x+1. The displays then all update their DOMs and hang an XHR for the next version.

I later added a separate heartbeat loop. Once a minute, it asks the server if it's alive, and it puts up an out-of-service screen if the server stops responding.

†http://www.remastersys.com/
Of course you should pay for this, but, at $0.5 for the first thousand emails after 10k, you'd have to try very hard to pay even a buck. I use them for all my products, though, and pay them gladly.
> In the paper, there are many comparisons to physical buildings and architecure in the traditional sense (even many of the pictures emphasize this). These analogies are good to a point, but it is important to remember that in many ways developing software is NOT like a constructing a building. In particular, in software there are no physical laws that constrain the structure, so it is possible to make things a lot more complex, and with a lot more coupling than in a physical building.

Software engineering and architecture analogies often turn up, because both are design problems ("design" in the broader sense of using creativity to propose solutions given the requirements). The fact the final output of architecture is a concrete artifact doesn't change the challenge all that much, you still need to provide a solution that fits a set of requirements, often hard to quantify objectively.

1. You can tell whether your algorithm will run in O(N) or O(log n), this is computer science. You can't tell whether it's producing the output your client expects in all cases though, because it's hard to quantify this requirement.

2. You can tell whether a house will stand up after built, this is physics. You can't tell whether this house will provide adequate quality of life for a middle-class family with two kids though, because it's hard to quantify this requirement.

> I like the fact that the authors recognize that the BIG BALL OF MUD architecture is successful (in the sense that many working systems have this architecture – or rather lack of architecture).

Christopher Alexander, who is an architect (fun fact: he coined the term "design pattern"), also identified this "pattern", in which solutions that emerge naturally - as opposed to upfront planning - are more often that not a more adequate solution because the solution is shaped by the constraints - as opposed to being shaped by a person who doesn't fully comprehend the problem, or introduces it's own biases and motivations. E.g.: shantytowns solve the habitation problem of many people more adequately than if the same people had to wait under the bridge for the market to provide beautifully architected villas at affordable prices. [1]

The same might be said about software. The reason we have so many big balls of mud in production might be because it was the best solution given the constraints at hand (time, money and labor skill), and it solves the problem reasonably well (in the grand scheme of things, bugs and downtimes are tolerated and circumvented).

[1] The author discusses different approaches from which solutions emerge ("unselfconscious vs. self-concious") by contrasting ancient cultures and modern architecture, how solutions fit to constraints (or rather how constraints shape solutions) and other interesting topics on his book "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_Synthesis_of_Form). I highly recommend this reading.
Usually the truly brilliant are good at both - social skills and their work.

Also, if an employee is really really good, they will not make the negative curve of the graph. It is normally the fringe players who are (unfairly) impacted.
Ironically, Yahoo is still hiring. A friend of mine, a recent grad was offered $135k base. That's on par with GOOG/FB and he's no stellar candidate either. Looks like they could've rehired them into different areas without laying them off.
Ask HN: GitHub login for B2D service?
I have been working on a B2D service. Right now my only login method is GitHub. I thought it made sense, since most seem to be using GitHub for their projects. It will use GitHub as a way to help add services to your development projects.

I wanted to know if this a bad way to go? Should I allow a native login? Various login types?

Thank you for your time and feedback on this issue.
> It was a great Danny Boyle movie, incidentally.

28 Days Later is one of my favourite documentaries. It evokes London beautifully, and the zombies are shown in an unbiased manner.
I don't suppose you see the irony in your comment.
It sounds like there's nothing wrong here -

Bitcoin is (since its beginning) exchanged for something else at market rate (e.g. dollars), so that a more convenient transfer can be made later, and then exchanged back into something else (e.g. dollars). At no point did it have "no exchange value on account of other employments".

Right? It's the same way how physical money works. They were exchanged for goods (e.g. horses), so that a more convenient transfer can be made later, and then exchanged back into goods (e.g. horses).

It is more convenient than our existing currencies, and you should be able to see our existing currencies as being similar to "goods" like horses.
Stack ranking sucks if the 'bands' are enforced on a small team level. Sure, your organization may well have 10% of people that noticeably underperform and need to be identified and fired; but yahoo-style ranking doesn't implement that.

Think of it from pure statistics viewpoint - if you put in a bag 10 red balls and 90 green balls; and then grab handfuls of them to form "teams" - you'll get a bunch of teams with no underperformers and most likely a team where most or all of them are underperformers. Put the same 'level' quota for each team - and you'll get exactly what you deserve.
"Sony has never stood behind their consoles."

This statement is false.

When SONY was hacked we all received identity theft protection and 2 free (good) games.
Apparently it's an overheating issue[0]. The 'red line of death' is not a sign that your PS4 is dead, but a sign that it needs to shut down to cool off.

The Amazon reviews are complaining of a blinking blue "light of death," which I don't see described in the manual you linked to. "PS4 blue light of death" returns over 2 million Google results already.

I'm no EE but I wonder if there is something really strange at play here ... like perhaps old wiring in your home.

I really don't think so.
What do you believe the price ceiling to be?
Because saying you're the next OpenID won't allow you to be the next social network sensation à la Facebook.
For Americans who want to replicate this, Thanksgiving day around 2 - 3pm is also similarly eerily quiet and a great chance to get a shot like this.
Is there research to this stereotype of "smart people are introverts"? Especially in highly collaborative environments like software engineering. Being an introvert and an asshole seems completely opposite to asking for, receiving, and giving help. My experience tells me this is bad in the environment we work in...
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When we bought a display for purely display (Samsung), it came with Microsoft Windows built-in so there was nothing else to buy and we didn't need to mount another device.

Before that, we had a Mac mini in the conference room because we found a nice mount, and now we are just buying TVs and mounting an Apple TV.
Mercurial can do that as well, with "hg revert -r <revision> <directory>".
I mean SMTP servers with no reputation. I've been running my own server for years, but I never looked much into it, I am led to believe that the server must have good reputation to avoid spam lists, is that not so?
Simply put, express is a server-side node library, Meteor is everything possible. Server-side, client-side, database, different package system, different philosophy.
You mean if you're using a Gmail address? If you have your own domain, you can just redirect it.

Would anyone be interested in me doing a writeup of this? It sounds like maybe it should be put out there.
There was a company that built this a while back called Plura Processing. They got pretty decent distribution (50k-100k nodes at any given time), but even on flash gaming sites and such the user duration wasn't long enough on a pageview to get any real work done and report it back.

The press also took note of Digsby (one of their distribution partners) and the controversy was huge.

They are now out of business.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/plura-processing

http://lifehacker.com/5336382/digsby-joins-the-dark-side-use...
I agree with most of your points, but software is constrained by physics. Bandwidth (disk/network), calculation speed, which processors to allocate resources, ram. In fact, many software architectural decisions are made because of these inevitable physical barriers.

Sometimes the barriers are themselves architectural. How do you network together two computers when there's no simple route for a network cable and the Wifi is saturated? Where do you put this monster rack?

In real buildings, there are tons of dynamics - it just depends on the building. You can have commercial shipments, foot traffic, elevators, go karts, water pipes, and more. The reason we don't think of these is because buildings are well designed so that these things are managed well. Imagine if all commercial shipments were made during peak foot traffic and weren't given access in the back?

In any case, food for thought. :)
Far more concerning: people exhaling carbon dioxide while reading about these things.