skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This time around, focus on giving a great talk that gets you invited to speak again somewhere else.

Then go buy and read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Never-Eat-Alone-Secrets-Relationship/d...

The author comes off as a complete tool, but every bit of advice he offers is pure gold and extremely practical.
The "are you a permanent resident" question comes into play when the company thinks it will need to spend money on helping you becoming one, or in changing jobs. Many don't want to do that, so if you aren't one, you're out of the running.
Here's the thing I don't understand. Right now the US pays more per person than any other country in the world, and yet we have very little to show for it.

So I find it hard to believe that a public option, a single-payer system like Canada, or a socialized system like the UK will actually bankrupt us.

What am I not understanding?
Well I guess abc does not care what I think because they have decided not to allow Linux users to download episodes.
Depressingly close to my experience, and one of the reasons I left academia, despite significant offers to stay.

I long for the day when collaborative media allow multiple authors to converge on an agreed paper. Those that disagree can converge on an alternative paper, and readers can see for themselves the data, reasoning and conclusions.

I won't see it - it won't happen in my lifetime.
And if you want to disable this, go into about:config, search for "geo", and change "geo.enabled" to false.

I'd really prefer a way to remove it from the browser entirely. I don't want any browser to give out my physical location under any circumstance.
NLP is a hard nut to crack! Even with the Google API :)

From impressive ... identifying Greek written in English, correctly to returning French and Czech (flag missing!) for gibberish!

Nice Toy!
37signals is such a great company.. I really wish they would put a little thought and effort toward security.
It's certainly something that I've suffered from in the past; spending too much time googling or research something, when I should have been taking action.

Saying that, I don't think it's wise to dive in with zero knowledge. There is a tipping point when the extra time spent researching gives diminishing returns on the time spent.

I guess it's getting the right balance of knowledge/theory and action.
On-device speech recognition is harder, works less well, is more expensive, and is generally not the usual approach. If you need network connectivity for your app, it's usually simpler and better to send off the audio.
Does it detect poisoning? If not, only good will prevents somebody from goatse-ing the image.
Son-of-a-gun the

haiku returned to my life

I despise it still

--

I refuse to post

more haikus to this here thread

I feel so dirty.
The original op-ed: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020425140457434...

It basically argues for a libertarian approach to health care. I'm a bit skeptical about some of the claims, but I certainly wouldn't boycott a grocer over it.
In Haiku OS,
Do the docs look like these posts?
Or are they normal?
Goodbye Customer
We sometimes push customers away and pull them towards us at the same time. Customers are fed up.
This is idiotic.

His opinion was one of the few articulate, well-considered, and practical alternatives to government-run health care. It's one of few essays actually worth debating.

Whole Foods employees actually like the system he's set up. It works.
An unfair test, but it "identified" lojban as Italian.
Recently I had to roll my own Editable Grid plugin.. We started at 1.0 using jqGrid, but we got a lot of negative UX feedback after releasing it. Speed issues but the vast majority was functionality.

The User Story for 1.0 was simply to be able to edit the data in the grid directly. Balsamiq mock-ups showed the editable grid and we got their buy-in.

But when we launched, man oh man.. nobody complained, because it IS idiomatic of the web. But when we asked them for their pain points, we got an ear full about this.

What the user story should've said, was that they wanted a Spreadsheet. A domain-specific spreadsheet control.

Soooo we rolled our own and so far so good. What we learned about the speed issues is that it was the jqGrid plugin, not the framework. So we stuck with JQ and wrote our own plugin.. We give them a filter to get the data they wanted easily, and we designed it to be no-lag responsive with 100 rows and hardly-noticeable-lag responsive up to 250.

But in the wild users were digging the excel-like UI and loading up 400, 500, 700, even 1000 rows. And they were dragging and dropping and shift-selecting columns and applying functions.

So we spent a lot of time under a JS profiler in FF3 and we got it running positively speedy. We thought about making it standalone outside of jQuery but we just didn't have a reason to. The data just didn't support it.

And, of course, when we first installed a pre-release of FF3.5 we were ecstatic with the performance.

All I'm saying is, jQuery has served us well, and this use-case isn't much different than a traditional edit-in-place.

Now... users are wanting the ability to type their own formulas.... ugh... I prototyped it a few weeks ago and just the churning needed for constant circular reference checks alone makes me weep.

So I clearly disagree that jq is too slow for heavy tasks, but I also wonder... what cruft do you see in it? Cruft and abstraction are obv. different things.
Wikipedia!

Just to find what it takes

writing a haiku
I'm not happy with their greenwashing by getting rid of plastic bags and only having environmentally bad paper bags, but to boycott someone for what they said?

If this becomes common then free speech is fiction.
It just might

http://www.viddler.com/explore/CameronNeylon/videos/9/

http://www.viddler.com/explore/CameronNeylon/videos/8/

These are related to sessions at Science Online London held over the last few days. Of course as Cameron notes, there are still significant challenges

http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2009/08/23/refl...
Do you have any plans to open source the plugin?
It seems that the problem is with everybody expecting everything on the web to be free, is just that point, we always 'expect' it to be free. Maybe the key is in changing the mindset of users to expect to have to pay a little for things we need/want, rather than just starting to charge.

Just to contradict myself, if anyone wants to do about a weeks free programming on a Google Maps/Calendar mash-up project that we're going to provide for free to users, we'll swap for a weeks free arts/graphics 2D/3D work. Email in profile if you're interested, hope this isn't against the submission rules.
Pixar should team up with Facebook and Myspace to render their next movie!
Creately for best RIA of 2009
Do flavors correspond to colors like timbres do?
I tried this obscure eastern European language. It identifies polite phrases correctly, but curse words get identified as Portuguese for some reason.

They need to bone up on their international cursing.
Dragon's Den is a much better show. You can watch the Canadian version online (which also features Kevin O'Leary and Robert Herjavec):

http://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/
I believe --- for a bunch of reasons --- that they do put thought and effort into security. I think they often come to the wrong conclusions. We still rely on them, but we're careful about how.
Apple worried for getting sued for 3rd party app content
"They buy large amounts of drugs (much more than one could consume and not die) and sell drugs to other people. I consider this to be a nasty abuse of sick people..."

You just described the whole pharmaceutical industry and its distribution chain.
Without the XSRF, the "XSS" wouldn't be exploitable. Without the "XSS", the XSRF would still be exploitable. This is an XSRF attack.

It's not a silly discussion, but it is academic. The vulnerability should be fixed.
Yeah... from personal experience, if an app is intentionally or unintentionally built without XSS or CSRF protection, a complete fix-up of a codebase as large as Basecamp is pretty expensive. Granted there are solutions that take care of 99% of the vulnerabilities, but the amount of testing/debugging/coding to close that 1% gap is huge.

Especially when you're still required to churn out new features in parallel.
which IRC channels would you recommend?
Adventures in Shell Scripting
Yeah I can testify to that.

We tried on-device speech rec. The unfortunate barrier to entry for this technology is something called Acoustic Models which are basically normals data collected from voice sampling. The bigger and better your AM, the more accurate your speech rec. A good sized AM could be gigabytes worth of data and we're just talking about US English.

Not only that but the actual recognition itself is pretty intensive CPU/memory wise. Sure you can have local speech rec as Apple does on the 3GS but that speech rec is pretty constrained: only having to recognize several hundred contact names or song titles and even then has a hard time. Try loading up thousands of contacts or songs on your device and see how well or consistent it is.

At any rate, AMs are like gold and pretty much all of them are proprietary. Ever think why Google offers a free 411 service..?? They want to build out their proprietary AMs.

So you either have to make your own AM - very hard to do - or roll with an existing solution, most of which are server based. I used Lumenvox (lumenvox.com) since they seemed to be the most developer friendly and were a pleasure to work with. The Dragon guys would sooner compete with you then sell you a product.
> The poster's question is a classic comp.lang.c "favorite"; misunderstanding operator precedence and the two flavors of incrementing in C.

It is a classic C question not knowing about the sequence points and side-effects. It has nothing to do with either operator precedence or lexer behavior.
Canada is far more restrictive about non-skilled immigration than the U.S. It's the political decision to turn America half-hispanic by the next century -- despite what anybody here actually wants -- that has killed enthusiasm for skilled immigration in America.

If we want more and better skilled immigrants, we need more xenophobes, not less. Limit unskilled immigration, and Americans will be happy about skilled immigration.
I think the problem is that people do want to become a permanent resident, but cannot. "Permanent resident" is a specific immigration term which essentially means "person that has a green card." I know many people that want to make the US their permanent home but are simply not able to get a green card.
How do I turn off Location-Aware Browsing permanently?

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* In the URL bar, type about:config
* Type geo.enabled
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For those of you who dislike Scribd as much as I do, here's a direct link to author's website and pdf:

http://www.physics.gatech.edu/frog/How%20to%20Publish%20a%20...
A new tradition
To replace "Erlang day", we
could do this instead
Very cool! it's like the browser version of Autodesk's Backburner network ;)
The problem isn't really the technology - the problem is the egos and the assignment of credit. It has been said that it's remarkable what can be accomplished if you don't care who gets the credit, but getting the credit is critical to the continuing employment of academics.

Solve that with technology and you've got a winner.
When measured in $/IOPS, even good SSDs are cheap. I think the real problem is the lack of caching software (but I would think that).
This is a minor script, even I was doing this sort of stuff ten years ago, but this is the sort of stuff I would like to see more of. So my question, and primary reason for posting this, is: what web sites and aggregators do you know where this kind of stuff, interesting scripts and even functions, is posted? Most of the more formal sites like CPAN for perl are a pain for just browsing to learn new tricks and ideas.
I have no idea. We have no expertise with immigration type stuff, so we just forward startups to lawyers who do.
hmmm...so how do we fix that? Redefine residency (interim residency) as something that can be more easily attained prior to the Green Card status? Decouple it from the employer?

I'm trying to get to the heart of some of these problems as I hear too much high level rhetoric around things like "just increase the number of H1-Bs". I'm suspicious that these arguments hold well for employers but not so well for the immigrant.
I'm not sure that would work -- since each person gets the next line in the batch (seems like anyway), the best you can do is poison a few random lines. making a cohesive image out of that would mean you'd have to poison the source data.
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There is, but it's in the other direction. It means fewer of the startups we fund have non-US founders than would be the case without this constraint.
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I believe it's spelled 'wary'.

Good point though.
Fantastic! Will definitely check it out. I', currently using Assembla.com for my version control hosting - good to see that they already support GIT.
YC startups grow up and get funding and then can pay salaries. Pg gets to observe that too.

But I think PG was mainly referring to non-US YC applicants that want to continue staying in the valley after the 3 months. In general a YC round is about 10-20% foreign
Cable Vs. Wireless: Guess Which Is Growing Faster?
In the trees

Sour grapes glow —

fireflies
Basecamp is not a bank.
If your website isn't crystal clear about what you offer, when you offer it, what your prices are, and how to hire you, it doesn't matter how many leads you get. Your conversion will suck.

If your site does all those things, your (first and) last slide just needs to have your URL and people will look at it (during and) after your speech.
Networks are Killing Science
Oldie but goodie. :)
I've never looked properly into Rebol and don't want to take the time to do so now. But if any HNers know about it, I'd be really interested in seeing a couple of examples of how Rebol does code=data. Specifically, is there a mapping between how Rebol represents code symbolically and how Lisp does it?

The OP did prompt me to take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sassenrath, which is actually pretty interesting. I hadn't known about his work on operating systems and the Amiga.
Kevin Smith: On the Perils of Strip Clubs
The wrong way to search Google in Firefox
I see your point but is the target audience for this technology using $350 commodity cards to begin with? High end Nvidia Quadros cost in the range of $4,000. This CUDA solution looks like it provides less impressive results and I don't think a video production company is going to sacrifice image quality to save a buck. If this were targeted toward Joe average consumer than I agree with you.
Actually he covers that towards the end of the article.
What's not to like about scribd? It seems to do the job just fine...
I truly don't understand why academics put up with journals. If I were in the biz, I'd be organizing a torches-and-pitchforks mob to burn them down and replace them with arXiv, personal websites, and peer review panels who link to good papers.
This could set an interesting precedent.

If Apple is going to say that it is not responsible for content in iPhone applications then that could mean that the review process will have to be relaxed. And that the SDK agreement will have to be changed.

Because right now they do look in detail at content in applications and numerous apps have been rejected based on their usage of copyrighted content.
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I love Kevin..he's like the Simon Cowell of the VC industry
I love the smell of sql in the morning ...
A confusing thing:

Many seem to say "Oh Ess"

Whereas I say "Oss"
Canada, baby! Or the UK. The UK is a great place to be.
I tried just the word "reddit" and it identified it as Portuguese as well. Maybe that's a default for unknown words.
What network are you on, if your access is via a corporate net then perhaps your connection is being tunneled to another location first; or maybe it's picking up a proxy server address?
Javascript is extremely heavily influenced by Self: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)
Read http://blog.bradgessler.com/i-dont-get-scribd
Of course, for the given question you can simply do:

rename oldname newname *

or, for other unix-like systems/flavors

rename "s/oldname/newname/" oldname.*
I get a huge kick out of the piles of cash they have out during the pitch. I find it mildly entertaining in a "driving by a car accident" way when I have nothing else to watch on Hulu.
Anyone outside of Canada able to watch the full episodes? I'm not having much luck except with the short clips.
That's ridiculous. People use Basecamp to run their businesses, which are the source of all their future income, which, in most cases, is more valuable than your current bank account balance.
Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food
I'm studying for a PhD at Cambridge, UK, and I'm seriously interested in fixing this. Well, maybe fixing the whole thing is too big, but I'd like to try :-)

Anyone know of anything worth getting involved with? Anyone want to work on an alternative to journals?
Tick tock tick tock hands,
you behave like molasses,
be more like Usain
That is so definitely true. You dont know how many people i am working with at the consulting company i work for that would say ...

"why is this vendor charging X millions for this crappy software, i could have done this as a uni student" the software may be crappy but they dont realize the amount of work that goes into getting the application polished, having correct messages for all actions and making it generally user friendly. Also the fact that it does the job that someone needs done is why someone is willing to pay X millions for it.

The devil is definitely in the detail ...
Drive Free. Retire Rich.
We've done it at Loopt. I can't remember the exact cost but it wasn't that bad. I've heard startups that haven't raised at least an angel round have a harder time. Good immigration lawyers are pretty good at this.
Fixing CSRF is pretty formulaic. You can probably do it across your whole codebase using nothing but sed. Stick a copy of your session cookie as a hidden field in every HTML form, and validate it as the first step of every form processing routine. The only time you need to introduce anything more thoughtful is if in some cases cross-site requests really are a feature, e.g. API calls.
One of my favourites:

"Cherry blossoms fall"
Is a sneaky haiku trick
Cherry blossoms fall.

from jwz: http://bethesignal.org/misc/jwz-haiku.html
I'd love to make a video game, but I value my time at $9.25 an hour, which is currently Canadian minimum wage. I'm not going to work for less unless it fulfils some other need, and I doubt video games will ever be need fulfilling for me.
I like seeing what projects on which people are working, but the investors are ridiculous. There's no amount of diligence presented, they never justify the valuations they pull out of the air, they always seem to want to own 51%, and they act like they are the only way that one of the entrepreneurs is going to make it. It feels almost predatory on the poor entrepreneurs they bring in front of the panel.

Of course, I have it on my DVR and can't not watch it. Someone said it was like a car wreck - more like a blimp accident.
> ... numerous apps have been rejected based on their usage of copyrighted content.

that is untrue, Apple doesn't care if you violate copyright. They consider the violated party to handle that deal. (example: there was a blatant ripoff of mario, it was not by nintendo and still made it on the appstore)
wtf? Identifies Arabic correctly but displays the Saudi flag. I like the service, though, despite of this minor annoyance.
Great. Now I get to watch the well-connected zip past me on the career path, even though they don't know as much as me.

That's always fun.
ORM is a tough problem. News at 11.
Hacker finds success,
contentment not guaranteed.
Feature, not a bug.
rebol is very nice, my last 4 web-apps are done 100% in it
I really wish apprenticeship was the common method of learning programming. I'm currently in college, and while the current program isn't awful, I feel like learning from an experienced programmer in a one on one setting would be much more valuable. I've approached a few programmers, and they all think it's an amazing idea, but none of them seemed remotely interested in mentoring someone.

I think our cultural mindset has to change for the mentoring system to work.
On the other hand, preaching about how adulterous behavior is a straight ticket to hell and all adulterers need to be hanged while being MEGAadulterer in the background tends to hurt your cause.
As for taxes, I was paying taxes in California, so the difference in total taxes is really not that much. Plus you get free healthcare. The healthcare benefits I get from my employer on top of government healthcare really goes above and beyond what I've seen in the U.S.

Just to be clear, Canadian Health Care is not "free". It is publicly-funded and privately-delivered through a single-payer insurance system. For example, my MSP payments are $250 or so for each quarter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Health_Act

I think we should be extra clear about how the Canadian system actually works especially given the debate currently in the US.
this researcher seems to take it for granted that there is something fundamental/sacrosanct about the "scientific method", but there isn't; it is a learning algorithm whose role is being diminished by new, more powerful learning algorithms.
Nice piece. I like the end part! The Self-Righteous Retards.
They only have 310,000 active registered users? (6,200/.02) Wow.

EDIT: sigh My surprise is that it's not higher. It's an incredibly well designed experience. (Come on guys, at the very least it would be bad business for me to badmouth any game developer/publisher with an off-hand comment. We don't now, but we've always wanted to cut them in on a share of used game sales on Dawdle.)
Would you skip engineering and cs books? Is whom you know more important in life that what you know?

Essentially, the article calls you to try to be Steve Jobs, not Steve Wozniak. If you are an MBA type rather than a hacker, then go ahead, skip the books, get to know right people, take care of you network and create 500+ connections in your linkedin.

Oh, by the way, don't be fooled: becoming Steve Jobs would still require hard work on yourself (on your taste, philosophy and general personality, if not on your technical knowledge).

For some reason I think spending life making things is more fun than spending it bullshitting, networking and kissing ass of your 'mentors'. And there is less competition in the former field, as they say.
The first thing he says is that he didn't invent JSON. He also tells who used it a year before as such. Around 8:30 he also explains why he did create a website - to create a "standard" out of it, etc..

It would be better if you watched the video before commenting this.