skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me give you a significant and relevant to HN personal example. In the early '90s I worked for a small company where the VP of sales, who was our "closer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_(sales) and I would together make critical sales calls. I'd be wearing my normal casual clothes, Oxford shirt, black jeans, New Balance 99x running shoes (grey back then, but always understated), in part for verisimilitude, and would answer all the technical questions, perhaps make a presentation of the system we were proposing to build for them. Basically convince them that we had the technical chops to get the job done, and this approach was quite successful.

I might be mistaken for the non-energy model of an extrovert during one of these sessions, obviously being e.g. shy or retiring wouldn't work, nor is that in my nature.

The difference I perceived between my extroverted salesmen partners and myself was that I wasn't good for much of anything the next day, as I "recharged my batteries" or whatever you want to call it; call it an "ill-defined handwavy concept" not particularly "a measurable scientific event", but I know my productivity, how it works and doesn't, going back to long before I became a programmer. So I firmly believe this phenomena exists, even if you yourself are in-between both of these "types".
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> nor is "internet".

There is this: "including by blocking online sites."
Yes you're actually entirely right.

Therefore I proclaim your point as step -1 ! :)

It'd be nice to see solutions like this entirely browser based. LLVM/asm.js?
96% of executives expect to use IoT in the next three years.
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It's a mix. I know a lot of families in SV that have lived there for a long time and have somehow managed to hold on to their houses, working two jobs and just making it. Also, there seem to be quite a few immigrant families from Asia that cram extended families into relatively small homes and get a foothold. There are also plenty of young tech workers that can afford a small house or condo as long as they are willing to take on a lot of debt.

Whenever I visit my in-laws in Palo Alto I enjoy it but I'm always glad to leave it behind again. Every year they add a lane to 101 but they never make it any wider.
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shameless plug. Martini doesn't even have html template rendering out of the box. I originally built it because I wanted a better experience building webservices for Angular frontends :)

https://github.com/codegangsta/martini

You and I sir, are on the same wavelength
I read far enough into that to see the
code that could cause overflow and quit
reading.

I've programmed various cases of binary
search, merge sort, etc. for decades and
in all cases wrote code with indexing that
could never overflow. If some silly
academic make-work, prof-scam, busy-work,
nonsense code could overflow, so be it.

Heck, I even worry ahout

do i = 1 to n

wondering if the code is written
to exit the loop when i = n + 1
tests larger than n, which in case
n is the largest integer could never
happen.

The title here "nearly all" is to me total
BS. Take your insult of my code and stuff
it. Capiche?
Data that isn't backed up (as in a second copy) doesn't really exist.

Likewise: data that isn't backed up off site isn't really backed up.
Which namespacing features are still young? Is it still possible to evade LXC as described in this post?
http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413
People are motivated by different things. "Below market" only matters if you judge yourself by how much you're paid compared to your peers. "Having no work-life balance" assumes that your "life" doesn't benefit from "work" in ways other than the size of your paycheck.

If you already have a house/apartment you like and will still be able to afford with this job, find the work you're doing interesting, have the appreciation of your co-workers and the freedom to do your work the way you want (because no one else who works there is an IT person); if you find playing video games with colleagues a reasonable facsimile of "life"; if being a visible member of a team that has a youtube channel with 10s of thousands of subscribers who look up to them is more important than owning a bigger TV; then this job may be worthwhile for you.

And why is it a problem that someone would rather have those things than a salary at market rates, or an ability to go home at 5pm and spend time with their family not thinking about work?
Perhaps I'm jumping on the bandwagon here or not[1] but perhaps that's a good thing?

[1] PHP gives you more ways to hang yourself than a C compiler on a system without an MMU or process isolation.
Yeah, always those damn Indians and their crap code. Every other country's PHP developers write amazingly elegant PHP - it's just those damn Indians.
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Thanks Peter. I am sending an email right now.
IIRC the US requires that you prove the libeller knew it was false as well.

Basically if you act on good faith you are clear, even it isn't true. (Note that there are requirements that you took some measures to verify the legitimacy depending on your position).
I had the same thought. I used to read the Weekly Standard to see what the other side has to say but gave up on it. This piece was outside their usual sphere.
That's a good point, thanks. Note: the author and HN poster are 2 different people, but evidently we both check comments :)
> why has no one called them on this bullshit?

because you are not required to have a hotmail account. I've signed up for live with my gmail account.
Poor quality and earthquake resistant are not mutually exclusive.

Peeling wallpaper is not going to affect the structural integrity of your house.
> This suggests a strategy of bleeding out the patent trolls through their lawyers.

I was depressed when I read the verdict, but your point here gives me new hope. I hadn't thought about that.

I wonder if they're going to hold back on their witnesses then for the appeals process as a sort of "ace in the hole?" I further have to wonder if the reason they decided not to use that witness was because they suspected they were going to lose this case and have to appeal?

I can only hope that the appeals process ends up invalidating this patent.
Is this a joke? Serious question. I was looking for the part where they go a little too far and spoil the joke, but it never happened.
> The passwords are in the possession of at least three different people and are valid for only a brief time window each day, they said.

That's pretty weird sounding. What sort of 'cloud' setup would act like that?
Without pinning things down quite a bit more into specific proposals, I'm not willing to do much of anything. I'm just saying that sometimes increased risk for decreased money and increased time can be a good trade-off, and any given proposal should be evaluated on its merits.
First they come for the porn, etc.
And here's the discussion of that story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631027

I browsed the comments with two things in mind: was anyone uncomfortable with shucking and farming on this scale, and were the drives of equivalent quality?

Regarding the latter, user rsync of rsync.net claimed that "the drives inside these enclosures are the worst spec'd, highest failure rate drives." User budmang of Backblaze, however, said, "The drives were literally the same inside the external enclosures." User atYevP of Backblaze posted a similar comment.
I thought Hitler was Time's POTY when he was still propelling Germany out of abject poverty, and before he, you know, started a war. Is my timing off here?
so is this thing really happening to the UK? What is the happening to the UK and US?

If both countries don't take a more liberal stance towards technology/society, I believe that by 2050 the Angloxosaxon empire will be history.
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At least when it comes to call metadata, technology really has nothing to do with it

I'm not sure this is logically possible. The metadata retention by the telco's is an artifact of their business process (minimize fraudulent billing liability)[1]. A similar process did not exist for mail until the government mandated and paid for it. Now, every piece of mail is photgraphed ("to collect the 'metadata' ")and the images are recorded. That notwithstanding, the entire notion of such meta-data is strictly an artifact of technology. There is no analogue in pure verbal speech, in other words.

[1] There is no need for them to retain it or to otherwise "posess" it in an-other-than-temporary-like-snapchat-way.
I wonder if this is the same thing that causes Bitcoin-Qt to fail on modern OS X.
Microsoft ready to kill Windows RT as Larson-Green says three is too many
Plus the number of interesting startups and companies is really small, it's mostly huge companies looking for code monkeys. That's what annoys me the most here.
I think the primary difference here is going to be muscle memory. Both require creativity (to varying degrees, of course) but piano requires physical, hands-on rote work rather than purely intellectual study. There's value in "the study of music" away from the instrument but there is no substitute for hours spent practicing, playing, and performing. He talks about "practice" - practice playing chess is often against a computer or a previously played match's moves. Practice on the piano though involves you playing exercises, pieces, and or just playing around.

The other difference is the definition of "good". There is no 90% in piano - you won't "win" at piano. You don't get "points" for playing a recital and there is no "#1 in the world". So I think "good" is relative when it comes to music/art whereas it's a concrete for sport/game. You might think "good" is "Playing along with my favorite recording" while I might rate "good" as "Able to play Chopin's hardest pieces".
NSA may have penetrated Internet cable links
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Salaries are always a range. If you are in the range and they provide good benefits it can work out.
Actually, the Scottish Justice Minister "has written to the UK government stating that intelligence gathering should not be abused":

http://www.scotsman.com/news/gchq-fears-call-for-assurances-...

[NB I am not an SNP supporter, although I am in favour of Scottish independence]
The list looks interesting, but it seems like you are asking for features for apps?
> PLEASE FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER AT @RKHOO FOR UPDATES IN CASE EMAIL GETS SENT TO SPAM FOLDERS, ETC.

If you do not have a Twitter, please note that you can tune in to KCTS 9 public television at 11:35 pm every evening through December 20 for broadcast updates about the position.
In "The Devil Wears Prada" aren't the employees all entry-level, trying to break into a competitive industry?

This application is confusing because they're demanding several years of professional experience on a large-scale website deployment for a job that would be most appealing to someone who didn't have that yet.
I have, and they love it! :)
You seem to completely miss the point, however - the FDA is asking (telling) 23andMe that they need to provide the documentation of the efficacy of their testing process. Accuracy and margin for errors, and NOT, as you seem to be implying, “forbidding the use of such a service unless accuracy can be guaranteed”.

Yes, 23andMe makes claims, and uses phrases like “likely”, “most often”, and so on. The FDA is asking to be provided the evidence that such statements are accurate, or how accurate they are.
In the previous story, user brianwski of Backblaze said, "We have been told that until we buy blocks of 10,000 drives, we cannot deal directly with the drive manufacturers. We're not there yet."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633213
I thought this was the opposite of honest, actually:

> we’re not a terribly money-motivated group

If they aren't money-motivated, wouldn't they pay an above-average salary? They're spinning their cheapness as a virtue. I guess at least they feel uncomfortable enough to make excuses for the low salary: hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
Looks like they were trying to leverage their name to find someone who wanted to work at Penny Arcade, versus someone who wanted to fill the position.

Can't blame them for trying :).
While sort of plodding and very rote, I know many teachers start with the Suzuki method, at least for a novice student. The method takes the form of a series of volumes, with the level of difficulty increasing with each volume. Not only does this allow you to self-select a starting point based on your existing skill level (if any), it also gives you a large library of material calibrated to be the right degree of challenging for your current level of skill. The first volume is very easy, so even a total beginner could likely work through the excises, and it's great for autodidacts, since the booklets explain the material and theory very thoroughly.
Terrible article. Ironic comparison to Paris Hilton (who is still getting richer every day, last I checked; may Bitcoin be so blessed as to 'go the way of Paris Hilton'!), unself-aware worry about dealing in dozens of currencies with different rules (newsflash: there's literally hundreds of currencies out there! Almost one to a country, even...), complete failure to recognize the value of Bitcoin as a secure decentralized digital cash with tons of advantages like a built-in scripting language for doing escrow and other smart contracts...

That this is appearing in the NYT is a reminder that while Bitcoin may seem to be everywhere and almost a done deal from a HN bubble, the rest of the world really still has no idea.
I'm not really familiar with Go, but according to their documentation, the Go runtime currently uses a mark-and-sweep collector. So, at the level of detail this article is talking about, it's similar to the Ruby one. The details may be different though.
I came to make a snarky comment about the job requiring you to be ok with working with Mike Krahulik, who I consider despicable. But their job posting does the job for me:

> We’re terrible at work-life balance. Although work is pretty much your life, we do our absolute best to make sure that work is as awesome as possible so you at least enjoy each and every day here.

*Edit: Originally reversed the author's pen names. Now using real name.
> No, tangible items are inherently controllable because they are rivalrous and excludable.

You missed my point. Tangible things are only as inherently controllable as the capacity of the owner to control them. Without "legal fictions", what's to keep someone more capable than you to simply take it from you? After all that's your argument against copyright: people can just take it, so owners have no control. What stops a bully from taking your school lunch?

> Sure they have, but just because it happens sometimes does not contradict the self-evident fact that people love to share.

"Sometimes"?! It happens all the time! It's been happening since the existence of competition over limited resources, even before humans consciously realized knowledge is power! Think of all the "priests" throughout various cultures in history. Think of why encryption exists. Think of why the CIA and NSA exist. Saying something is self-evident doesn't make it so.

>Next time you send someone a lolcat, remember that.

Heh, I don't send lolcats. Guess I'm not human, then :-P

> Rape, murder, theft, these are all behaviours that are (1) not the common case and (2) inflict harm because the objects of the crimes are essentially rivalrous

Wait, by (1) you mean if rape, murder, theft ever become the common case, it will be OK? You know, like when it happens during wars? And (2) what's so rivalrous about sex? You can have sex with multiple people simultaneously, and once somebody has had sex does not mean they cannot have it again. And heck, we have the technology to make it so people don't even remember having sex, so there's no harm done!

But you know what is rivalrous? The food, shelter and clothing creators need to live to create new works.

> Arguments about quality of the information are completely orthogonal to the topic

The characteristics of the information do matter matter in determining what protections are afforded it. Would you share here all your private information, financial accounts, photos, and so on? That's just knowledge after all, and it's human nature to share. Or say you get "doxxed" and it's all out on the Internet, you'd be OK with people sharing it? No? Oh, it's your private information, and suddenly you feel it should not be shared? Thank god for privacy laws but down with copyright laws! Funny how that works.
Great example! Wish I'd included it in my original list.
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In some sense everything is learned, from the ability to hold ones head and stand erect (every child learns this by trial and error) to habits and behavioral patterns.

Social habits (or skills as we call them) are definitely learned rather than hardwired.

Reading facial expressions, maintaining eye-contact, following other's gaze, catching other's emotions is hard-wired, while patterns of using such abilities (habits) are learned and could be altered.
Sure, they have some problems with hydraulic fracturing... a solution to that problem won't help Egypt, and a solution to Egypt's problem won't help North Dakota. Widespread regional issues are still regional issues.
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Considering fusion in the sun happens at 15 million degrees K, then anything in the hundreds of degrees is considered "cold".
Intellectual property laws steal and misappropriate property - not protect it! My use of "your" idea doesn't exclude your use of that idea. There is no conflict of property.

According to the reasoning behind IP, if I chop some wood I should have to ask the person who invented fire if I can make a fire. IP is the idea that you own my uses of that wood, and get to tell me whether I can build a fire or not. You can then have a bunch of thugs take my wood if I even dare try to build a fire with it. Or if I do build a fire and use it to cook food, then the thugs also demand food.

The important part is that building my fire doesn't exclude you from building fires. In no way does my knowledge of how to build a fire prevent you from using that knowledge to build fires.

> That we have good and effective Intellectual Property laws. It seems one of the big lessons of the Industrial revolution was the right property laws. The principles behind patents and copyright law make sense in this regard. Its the specifics that have problems.

No, the principles don't make sense. IP is not based on the same principles as property. It doesn't even share the same legal history. Copyright law originated from the church attempting to regulate and control the printing presses. Copyright shares more legal history with censorship than anything else. Early copyright laws in England were even referred to (correctly) as "monopolies."

> The analogy to physical property is worth following more deeply

There is no analogy. Ideas aren't physical things. My use of "your" idea doesn't exclude your use of that idea. There is no conflict of property.

> Software should be copyright.

No, I have the right to use information as long as that use does not exclude others from using it.
To be 100% clear: we have never been asked or ordered to share log data with the NSA. We've not participated in any program like PRISM and would fight vigorously if we ever were. We do receive law enforcement requests on occasion, typically to determine who owns or hosts a site behind our network. When we've received law enforcement requests for customer data (e.g., account information like the email address of an account) which we determine are abusive or do not follow the principles of Due Process we have and will continue to go to court to fight for the rights of our users. Whenever possible, even if the legal request meets our standards, we also notify customers of legal requests and allow them to challenge the requests themselves before turning over any data. We take this extremely seriously and spend significant technical, legal, and public policy resources to ensure law enforcement's job is neither easier nor harder by the mere existence of CloudFlare.
RubyMine is going to get some more consideration as we haven't seen a lot of movement from Sublime Text 3 in a while. Rapid developer and continuous releases like this give me real confidence in the editor (IDE).
US Patent: 8593564 Digital camera including refocusable imaging mode adaptor
It might be the case that that's what happened, and the job description is basically "New Karen."
Or you can use serialisable transaction isolation and retry on conflict.
I don't know why they don't hype up how a by-product of this process is super valuable copper.

Next up: Machine that turns lead into gold and Bitcoins.
Exactly, my Microsoft Xbox Live account is linked to my Gmail account and this hasn't caused any problems.
But in 2013 do I really want to use server side HTML tempalating?

Many people do yes. It may seem old-fashioned but when I load a web page I don't want to sit looking at a 'loading' message or a progress bar before I even see the content as json is turned into html, and I'd rather all the logic was server side and a flat page was served to a web client (browser).

I don't agree doing rendering server-side necessarily means a significant performance cost, or is harder to maintain or slower to develop, why do you think that is the case? Caching and a server-side framework can make things far faster and easier, depending on what you are doing, and raw speed of rendering is not often an issue nowadays anyway.

I'm not sure what the test you pointed to there was showing, because using Go to output json could be done with a framework too by just bypassing the framework, in exactly the same way. It hardly seems a relevant test, and there were other issues in those tests when I looked at them previously - like comparing wildcard routes in one test to hard coded ones in another. Comparing bare JSON production with go to JSON production with webgo (do people use webgo?) is hardly very useful or a fair comparison. It would be trivial to make those equal in speed and I suspect the diff will just be down to different routing and/or template rendering. In addition, I don't want clients to see JSON, so the rendering speed of that is pretty irrelevant, what matters to most people is when html finishes rendering.

It would be interesting to hear the reasons behind the string of assertions in your penultimate sentence, are you sure all types of app would benefit equally from your approach? Can you describe the advantages as you see them to this approach?
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I honestly cannot tell if you are trolling, but I will bite.

Free online services do not have a monopoly on force. The government does. My choice to use Google means that they will know more about me, but the Google SWAT team cannot kick down my door in the middle of the night and drag me to a black site for an indeterminate length of time because I said something that Larry Page did not like.
Munich tries to quit Microsoft, The Weather Channel goes open source, and more
This is directly addressed in the article. He is a .Net developer.
I unplugged my N5 this morning at around 07.00, it's now 16.30 and I'm on 80%. Did some web browsing on the train into work, have been messaging on and off all day. Lowest I've seen on a weekday for me was about 40% by the time I go to sleep.

Admittedly I tried some games on Sunday (Real Racing 3 and PvZ2) and the battery drained much faster, but the same happens on my ipad mini so it wasn't unexpected.