skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'd like to apologize in advance if my tone is a bit harsh, I'm not trying to be insulting.)

You'll get my full attention when you pay me for 16 hours of work, what I do in my spare time isn't for you to decide. There also aren't a whole lot of programmers to pick if you disqualify all the ones that work on side projects (open or closed), just because you can see that hes working on something else on his own time doesn't mean hes not doing his job.
I like how it seems to tap into some preternatural intinct to guard, protect, and incur against other "theoretically" boundaries...

It's like you can see the player's minds working sometimes (maybe if I was better it would be more often), an interesting game to be sure.

I don't know if it's true, I could just be stealing a line from the movie Pi; but people in a movie once said that no two games are like, and thus the game serves as pseudo microcosm for the universe. Either way you should watch that movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/ , and give the game a whirl.
I'm fairly sure that the owners and employees of TechRadium would disagree and say that they are merely trying to protect their invention and defend the business they've built on it.

This is not a case of a patent troll sitting on an idea and attempting to charge a toll from anyone who uses it without themselves developing it. This is a company that actually went out and built a business and spent a fair amount of effort making sure that they could defend it. And now they are.
What is all this about him not being a mathematician?
I have a theory that at least half the improvements from Win7 have been quietly slipped into Vista without telling anyone. Or vice versa.

For me Vista with it's latest updates is rock solid, fast and slick. I want to update to Win7 but I'm having trouble justifying it to myself (mainly just the time factor, but I also think MS pricing is outrageous - they are about double what they should be).
"nytimes.com is the second most submitted domain on HN" -- perhaps, but the sample (HN audience) is remarkably different from the population in general.
"A Cray machines": I wrote "a Cray machine" first, then realized there was more than one, then forgot to edit the English. :-) Sorry.
Sorry, I don't see how either of those points are obvious.

I don't understand how a stand-alone, non-comparative review of an operating system can be biased against any other OS, Apple or otherwise.

I may be missing out on something, so if you could point it out, I would appreciate it.
Sounds like you're choosing the "cream of the crop".

From what others wrote, I like "select", "cherry-picking", and "blessed". I don't like "filter", "screen", or "cull", because they imply getting rid of (bad) stuff; you probably want to concentrate on the good stuff.

What qualities are you wanting to measure when determining what's important? I'd brainstorm in that direction, if that's something that can be determined ahead of time.

If you're doing something like an aggregator that puts the good stuff at the top, then "cream of the crop" would be good as I said, or make something up like "cream of the top". Or something about slicing off the top. Or other things that might have good/better stuff at the top: ice cream cones, cupcakes, shakes, lots of garnished food.
The point wasn't the GitHub account, although most developers I know in the Ruby on Rails land have one and put all their open source code there. Since Rails is so GitHub centric, you can see if they forked any rails apps, what they are watching, etc.

If they had stuff on their own repositories or other sites like RubyForge, Google Code, etc. that is fine.

When someone does open source code it shows that they are passionate about programming and that they are not doing it just for a paycheck.
Creativity is overrated.

Critical thinking is underrated.

Most "creativity" is just doing whacky stuff, like pasting an octopus onto a toy airplane and calling it "art."
Since machine translation doesn't work well at the moment, I don't think it's interesting when an example fails to reach equilibrium. I'm not sure what your point is here.

Additionally, I'm not sure your example, "i am a boy but not a girl", parses in English. Being a boy does not normally make one a girl, so wouldn't "...and not a girl" make more sense?
and yet don't you think the patents are still vague?
'Software Engineering' is still in it's infancy compared to most other professions. It seems a little premature to say 'lost art.'
This is a classic case of why you don't necessarily make a UI element look like something real. Every time I used the toggle switches, I just wanted to "swish" them with the mouse (a completely awkward gesture), even though they technically respond to simple on/off clicks like checkboxes do. So all they've done is make the "easy" behavior unintuitive, while almost encouraging an awkward gesture.
Command+Shift+G shows the "Go To Folder" prompt as well, with the added benefit of working in the finder as well as open/save dialogs.
But that's where you're wrong, there are quite a few global brands that have been around for much more than 100 years. Heinz, Levis, Wines, Champagnes, Newspapers, Banks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
This is neat but I'd like to be able to try it out before having to register. The register popup should be when you wanna save or print the mockup maybe.
SVG is one of the most interesting web technologies right now, even better than canvas. But there are strong forces opposing it like M$ and adobe that will never allow it to gain traction. All major browsers support SVG except IE. And they will never implement it.

I would like to know their reasons.
"It is reasonable to ban laptops and other devices from a store during lunch time because of the huge wave of customers"

But it's okay for someone to sit there and read the Wall St Journal that a previous customer left behind?

Plus, if we're talking about coffee shops, why lunch time? At all the coffee shops I've ever frequented (granted, not in large metros), the busiest time is between 7:30 and 10am when everyone is getting their coffee ...

Finally, I tend to think places like coffee shops do better and gain popularity when they look busy. If a coffee shop is full or near full, other people notice that ...
Turn off password logins and move ssh to a different port.
Some friends and I played Settlers of Catan for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It's a lot of fun. Definitely recommended.

I'm also very fond of Scrabble. Like others have mentioned, Othello and Go can be fun.
Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users (2005)
From code to poetry - "A Poetic for Software Engineers"
This is why I sold my MacBook and bought a ThinkPad T500. While it's nice that every single MacBook that is your exact model has the exact same hardware and runs very well on OS X, I have found that Lenovo laptops run better on Linux.
One alternative is coworking spaces. At the risk of sounding like an ad, I use one in Austin called Conjunctured (http://conjunctured.com/) and the cost is $250 a month. For that, you also get use of a conference room when needed. That's around $8 a day, and pretty competitive with coffee shops. Check out if there are any coworking spaces near you; they don't have to be expensive.

One of the nice benefits I'm enjoying that I didn't expect is meeting a lot of driven, self-motivated, young professionals. Being an old-timer, this has been really refreshing. Plus, I've actually been asked for advice; don't know how useful my advice has been, but man, it's a nice boost for the old ego.
"Open source developers have had to think on their toes and patch the programs that Microsoft has (often times) intentionally broken."

This is definitely true for members of the Samba team, but open source development does not necessarily involve cleaning up Microsoft's mess. It also does not necessarily involve a work ethic of any kind, good or bad.

I'd suggest hiring hardworking and quick-thinking developers; I don't think work in open source precludes laziness or dullness.
For the people who have downvoted my comment, it would be helpful to me to know why you did that. It wasn't an ad hominem attack, and my question wasn't all that rhetorical. I thought downvotes were only for being nasty.
Yep Maemo is the way forward for Nokia. Symbian is a OS in the previous decade.

But the problem is I don't think Nokia's top management has understood this at all. They are still favoring Symbian over Maemo and Maemo is only shipped with their internet tablets as of now.

What they need to do is to make Maemo something like Android where any manufacture can contribute and use the OS and then design their smart phones for Maemo. Otherwise they will fail miserably in the smart phone race.
It's a cheap shot, but it does cut down on obliviously repeating the process you've been taught. We want people to read directions for any new process, no?
I think the article is technically referring to traits commonly found in project leads in open-source. As opposed to, people who make only occasional, minor contributions to well-established projects, or just toss up random code snippets on a blog, never to be updated again.

I am not at all criticizing the value of these other forms of contributions to open-source. But I am skeptical that an interviewer could draw useful conclusions when reviewing someone's open-source contributions if they are minor. To examine the points of the article:

1. "Knowing how well they write code": If they aren't a chief maintainer of a project, it's not really that easy to tell which random contributions are theirs. You need some fairly large and organized example, for this to be a practical review.

2. "Knowing how to patch": I don't think the vast majority of projects have to deal with this situation. So while it is useful experience, it doesn't seem more likely that someone in the open-source world would have that experience.

3. "Passion": Again, most people aren't going to be deeply passionate about contributing 1 or 2 pages of code to a 10-year-old project that has thousands of revisions. The people who will be passionate are the ones who wrote the thing from scratch and are improving it to this day.

4. "Support": This is actually a paradoxical case, where the people merely using open-source software (and having never seen the code) may be more qualified to support software over time, than the developers. This is because developers spend their time, well, developing, and would be overwhelmed if significant time was just support. Plus, see #3, how many people would be passionate about a project that is a support burden?

5. "Saving money": This is more a reason to use open-source software, than a reason to hire any particular person because of their open-source experience.
i use this one all the time
Could be a cross site scripting vulnerability in twitter, doesn't necessarily mean that those users passwords have been compromised...but you can never be too safe!
But for the purposes of that article, that's not how an open source developer is defined. Maybe in his last point, but we'll get to that. For the most part, it seems like he's just talking about the benefits you get from hiring, or even considering, someone who hacks on open source projects. Problem is, the article isn't very cogent. All of his benefits are generalizations, and either obviously true or wrong:

1. You can look at their code on the internets.

2. They can reverse engineer obfuscated, changing protocols.

3. They like to code.

4. They can upgrade httpd.

5. You're ... apparently also adopting whatever project they hack on. Huh?

If I'm hiring developers, though, I probably am going to look positively on folks that hack OSS.
Reminds me or a story I read a few weeks back: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-2....

Asking for profile information as part of an interview process is not popular around here; I'd suggest scrubbing your earlier posts in case a future employee decides to dig through _your_ trash.
The thing that feels... unwholesome about this isn't that TechRadium is trying to crush a superior product through a misapplication of patent law; I don't think they're trying to do that at all.

It seems more like they invented a hammer that's custom-designed to pound nails with a square head. No one has a better hammer for that. And then Twitter made a hammer that can pound nails with any kind of head, and does it good enough most of the time. Twitter just happened to solve a more general problem than TechRadium did.

It feels unwholesome because Twitter isn't really a system for sending mass emergency alerts to people. That just happens to be one application of being able to send short messages to a host of devices. And, really, Twitter wouldn't even be in competition with ISIS if it hadn't become absurdly popular for reasons that have nothing to do with emergency alerts. The feeling here of suing someone for getting so popular that an infrastructure has grown around them that lets them do what you do is, again, unwholesome.
Yes, we all know that this is the right attitude for certain domains of software development that have become disproportionately prominent as of late.

However, we also need software to guide rockets, monitor nuclear reactors and control medical devices. In such cases, the requirements and the end product have to be complete and flawless the first time around, or people die.

We have not figured out how to do software engineering yet. It's been fun pretending that we will never have to, but we do and we will.
Ask HN: Your Real Life Notebook Tricks/Tips
Lot of people have paper notebooks. No matter how technically advanced tools are at my finger tips, there is nothing faster or easier to jot down quick ideas like old school pencil and paper. All my preliminary designs happen there. All the brainstorming. A real scratch pad.

I am sure I am not the only one.

So what are you trips, tricks and personal conventions used on your notebook. Do you index them? Organizational methods?
Saying that Microsoft and Google can't deliver an 'integrated' product is far from the truth. Apple doesn't have anything on the iPhone that can't be described in a generic sense and then the work of functionality left to drivers. At that point it's up to the hardware manufacturers to do some good industrial design and make sure they don't skimp on hardware features.

You can provide and Apple-like experience on a generic device, so long as it has the requisite hardware functionality. This can be a different story when it comes to things like computers and laptops, but the iPhone 'package' itself doesn't have much but the touchscreen.
I'm not a patent attorney, but to me, they seem to be completely different than what Twitter does:

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7130389/claims.html
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7362852/claims.html
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7418085/claims.html

It seems their technology is more push, that is, one person submits a message and their software will then broadcast it via email, SMS, phone, etc, and will even translate the message to a target language. Twitter is pull; it doesn't push. Other third parties might do the pushing, but Twitter, nope.

Also, the last two patents seem to be more business related, applying the first patent to schools and government organizations, which to me, is a painfully obvious use of the first patent (and in my world, the other two would not have been issued, but we're not on my world).
It doesn't matter what I think. It matters what the judge thinks. And having been a part of a couple of patent processes, you are encouraged to make your claims as broad as possible.
Apple's Next Product Also A "Gaming Platform"?
btw, this comment made me really happy :)
I'll start.

Type: I always use sketch pads meant for pencil drawings with thick paper, no rules or lines. I can sketch and do what ever without distraction. Great for brainstorming/design/flowcharts/etc.

Organization: Many books {Personal, Project1, Project2, ...} Then in each book, any bizarre unfit ideas I write from the back-to-front. So using the book both ways.

Indexing/Tagging: I usually bend the top right corner to signify (Useful idea use in Future). And Bottom right corner to signify temporary marker.

Other: At the end of day, I write down what I should accomplish the next day, this has boosted my productivity like nothing else.
BTW: Coke describes their logo as the "dynamic ribbon device" (in Australia, anyway).

Fun fact: Coke has added some BS to the legal fine print on the can:

"(C) 2008 The Coca-cola company, LOVINGLY CRAFTED by Coca-cola Amatil (AUST.) PTY LED, ..." etc
"This TOTALLY IRRESISTIBLE cola drink contains: carbonated purified water, ..." etc.

I mean, why not use the legally required fine print for advertising? It's post-modern. I've had this thought myself, though I can see someone eventually going too far and regretting it in court.
In my case, I have a full-time job unrelated to free software, and I dedicate substantial time outside of work to my free software.

You are wrong to assume that a developer who has programming interests outside of work, would somehow fail to give you "full attention" on the job. If anything, it shows that the developer knows how to write many different kinds of programs (a strength).
The 'inventions' look pretty obvious to me. I don't see why this business should be protected from having to compete.
Immortality. With that we can solve lots of other problems. Efficiency, see?
Dos and Don’ts in Chat Rooms
Today almost all of us who have used the internet have invariably used free chat rooms sometime or the other. We use the online chat rooms find friends or for online dating etc. We will be able to enjoy our online experience if we restrain ourselves within certain civil limits. There are certain unsaid dos and don’ts of chat rooms that we need to follow to keep ourselves out of trouble.
I just have an empty notebook shell filled with loose leaf paper. I never have to tear out pages, and, somehow, I never lose anything either.
Create an iPhone Document Scanner from Cardboard
The patent is available at Google Patents. http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=gUR7AAAAEBAJ . I couldn't find anything similar to twitter.
Agreed for the top end, but the market for low-mid range phones is really quite staggering. The UN estimates that over half the world's population now has a mobile phone (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4933263/Half-of-w...)

Symbian will serve that market quite nicely for a while yet...
Good observation. Its more important to use opensource software
I think it's more informative to judge a brand by the profitability of the company owning it. I like to use return on equity:

| Coca-Cola Co. | PepsiCo
return on equity | 27.51% | 34.83%

I was expecting Coke (KO) to be way ahead, but actually Pepsi is trouncing them - over the last 12 months, according to Wolfram).

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=KO+PEP
(you need to change the drop-down menu from "Fundamentals" to "ratios" - wolfram doesn't seem to have a way to get a link with a particular menu selection).

OK, so here's data that better fits my preconceptions, looking at the rat e of growth of equity, over the last 3 years:

2005 2008
Coke: 29,427.00 --> 40,519.00 = 37.7% over 3 years
Pepsi: 31,727.00 --> 35,994.00 = 13.4% over 3 years

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:KO&fstype=ii (balance sheet, annual data)

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:PEP&fstype=ii (balance sheet, annual data)
Are you a cat breeder?
Cats are one of the most preferred pets. Cats are one of the easiest pets to own and they require very little maintenance. Moreover, they are one of the most inexpensive pets to own and they have very little demands of their own when compared to the number of other pets that people have. Because of all these reasons, more and more people have started choosing cats as their pets. If you are a cat breeder then you have a very good market. You will be able to earn a lot of money by breeding cats.
I've never been there but isn't that rather a sweeping statement? I thought Canada was pretty big, isn't like me saying in CA many of our cafes...?

Sounds like a good reason to move to SF. Any coffee shop that limits or bans internet usage will quickly loose trade to those that embrace it. Wifi is like having a bathroom, its just part of a coffee shop.

I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy, the coffee shops need to factor the price into their drinks, people are willing to pay for the things they need, just like the cost of cleaning the bathrooms is factored in. I realize every time I spend nearly $4 for a drink that probably costs under 50c to make that I'm subsidizing the experience.
Their earliest patent was filed in 2005. Maybe I have a poor memory, but I feel like anyone 'skilled in the art' of web/mobile technologies would have anticipated applying and combining existing technologies in this way back in 2005.

There was a recent supreme court case - KSR v. Teleflex - that hopefully comes into play...
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/05/01/ksr-v-teleflex-the-supre...
"Now, all knowledge in the relevant field — technical knowledge, changes in implementing technologies, consumer demand — will be available to show whether the invention was truly innovating or just the product of connecting the dots in the prior art."

If their patent had been filed 10 years ago, I could maybe see an argument. But 4 years ago, not so much.
The driving school test I just passed (with flying colors I'll have you know) had this in the middle of it:

"A frog is a term used to describe train car couplings."

Then, in the test section, right after something about how far behind another car you should stop at an intersection, would be "What is another term for a train coupling?"

I assume this was to make sure you read the test. I just cut & pasted the stuff into a text editor, so I could search for these odd duck questions when they came up.
I continue to wonder why the 2-box model ("single old version of Windows" -> "single new version of Windows") is so unpalatable to Microsoft.

If they think they need so many different versions of Windows, aren't they really saying that the OS has too much packed into it? Make one OS for $100, and then by all means create 3 or 4 add-on software bundles for whatever price...much less confusing than this grid.
It teacher you to follow instructions.

The one we had was a set of increasingly complex instructions, and the last instruction saying to just sit there quietly. So you would be working hard at solving the problems, and various people would just be sitting there with a smile on there face. You knew these people, since they were your classmates, so they weren't savants, so how did they get through these problems so quickly. Eventually each one of you realise, and look for the trick, getting to the last question. There is always someone who just keeps going.
The Main library in Santa Monica has a cafe in a central courtyard.
Maybe this means they'll open up some of their windows-only codecs for us.

I downloaded some content recently that was VP8 encoded. Came with instructions to download a codec.. which is Windows XP and higher only.

Not even VLC can play that.
I've been keeping an active design book for the last 3 years. I buy the largest spiral bound artists sketch pad from the local art store that fits in my backpack (usually $16-$19). I go through one a year. The notebook is for ideas, concepts and stories. Day to day notes are done elsewhere.

Opening the notebook immediately puts me in the right mindset. Each page get's it's own idea or subconcept, though some pages are just a mix of smaller ones. I'm not afraid to be messy, to write in different size text, sometimes bold, for important items. I write 'idea!' in large text for new worthy ideas.

I also use good felt tip pens also from the local artist store. I get a set of 5 from 0.1 to 0.5, and usually write with 0.3.
Phrack 66 (June 2009)