skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like a wearable device that could record all of my interactions with police for $300. The device would ideally have shock-protection to withstand tasering and multiple nightstick beatings. You know...just in case ;) We could sell hundreds of thousands of those in the US alone ;) We could even upsell people on insurance: a "Personal Pig Protection Policy." It's a startup! Who's with me?

Seriously, though: I was once pulled over by an unmarked police car in a rural area. The cop turned his brights on and then got into my back seat on the passenger side...without saying anything at all. It scared the bejeesus out of me. He completly freaked out in my car - waving his hands and screaming - because he thought that I had almost hit him. (He was parked 'mostly' on the shoulder of the road. Out in the boondocks. With his lights completely off. At 3am. To catch speeders. I was going to work. On the highway. And I got within 50 foot of his car before I saw his cruiser's ass hanging out into the lane. Silly me.) Naturally, the video of this incident in his cruiser had been wiped "that same night." I would have loved to have video of the incident when I was disputing the ticket.

And I also wish that was my worst police experience.
When the smug from this post gets hit by George Clooney's speech, it will be a perfect storm of self-satisfaction.

I'm no Java supporter, but all those bits about "better programmers" and "average programmers" was a bit much.
Apple may have Google Maps replacement waiting in the wings
nice to see they treat their engineers well (open plan offices) ~ http://www.yext.com/recruiting/engineers/
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Why Bottom Posting Sucks
didn't like negotiating

I have never heard of a company scrapping a business deal because the world ran out of lawyers or accountants. The problem isn't a lack of developers, the problem is a lack of developers at the price the company is willing to pay.
Wow... I actually respect Zed's output; it would be a great addition to DB's team!

Now.. can I get my damn selective sync FFS!!!!!! :D
I think this is a bogus question. In fact, any of these expected questions can be well prepared for. If someone asked me this in an interview which I wanted to 'game' for some reason, I would spin a yarn about how I failed, learnt from my mistakes and am now a well-rounded, stronger human being.

But in the real world, failure doesn't work like that. You fail at times for no obvious reason. You fail sometimes and you have no idea what lessons you are supposed to learn. You fail at times and you know you can't fix that part of your personality.

The only interesting variant on this question I can think of (that I have used is) - disaster stories in technology. Everyone has one (if they don't, you should be suspicious) and you can find out a lot by the way they describe it.
There are lessons here! But no matter what your conclusion, I'd rather crash and burn than fade away. Cheers to Fundable and to making a stir.
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Actually, I found it curious that the livejournal comments were far more interesting than the thread here. The OP has some very articulate friends.
Never liked svnx - seems to be very unstable/slow (or it's just our svn server).
Coming back to my question - I was thinking about exactly the same application as tig (which is awesome btw) but for subversion (not gui but based based on ncurses).
To me, it depends if you can do something about it. Burying yourself in work does take your mind off it. Of course, if you need to resolve it, then it's a bad idea, but in the case of say, a loved one in hospital, where all you can do is wait, then I like the solution of burying yourself in work.
It does. It's not that hard to test.
"Direct message all Twitter followers"

I already hate you for that. Don't advise your clients to do that.
;; Use "newline-and-indent" when you hit the Enter key so
;; you don't need to keep using TAB to align each line.
(global-set-key "\C-m" 'newline-and-indent)

That's what C-j is for.
Disagree, bury yourself in your work. I left my gf a year ago, have thrown myself into my work, setup my own business, and I am pulling in a lot more money from that. I can almost quit fulltime work.
Ditto. I was going through a separation / divorce and I just went to the gym religiously. I found sleeping was way easier when your body was tired. It also kept my mind fresh.

Also, talk to your friends and share your feelings and a few beers.
It's a coevolutionary arms race, it follows a predictable cycle of escalating attacks and defenses until a stable equilibrium is reached, or the environment changes.

The thing is that in this case the government of China appears to have decided that it cannot afford to do without the internet; and that means that they cannot 'win' in the ultimate sense, as by allowing filtered communication they are opening a channel on which illicit communication can be carried. And from what little I know of it, the chinese government isn't attempting to enforce a particular orthodoxy, they just don't want to be swept away by the social changes that are in progress. My sense is that a few foreigners looking at strange ideas doesn't bother the Chinese government, but large groups of young people getting exposed to new and exciting ideas all at once does.
PR is, first and formost, directed at journalists or anyone who can reach a wider public. And on that front it succeded. Massivly. Look here: http://news.google.de/news/more?cf=all&ned=us&cf=all...

And that doesn't include all the blogs that picked it up. Getting this much publicity with a non-feature (complete with a caricature of a press release) is impressive. Just one example: this is the first time tuaw.com writes about the iPhone version of Pcalc. It could have written about the app when it was released or when new versions came out. It did not. And it's not as though the developer didn't try: http://www.dragthing.com/blog/?p=172

If you can't take the direct route, take the indirect one. And know what journalists value. Not the one-millionth calculator but childish easter eggs. Mission accomplished.
I was using EE for a year a while ago and I even got to Master Level in ASP.NET category. EE was good for me when I lacked programming skills to perform certain algorithms. But that's it. No way am I going to let some other people on EE take care of my business logic.
Now I have cancelled my EE subscription a long time ago. SO is free, and it satisfies my needs.

I completely disagree the authors criticism against the "I won't do your homework..." attitude on SO.
If you need someone else to do your homework, then perhaps you don't belong as a programmer
Exactly! He might not have thought this all the way through. He will have to spend tremendous amount of time verifying if the idea people actually do have any connections to the industry. Idea people who can't execute but can BS well will ruin his day.

Required reading: http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL209.htm
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He's just a coder. That is all.
Damn, how many beavers do you guys have?
Time permitting, yeah.
Could not resist a laugh really, this is so childish. That's why I would not put any trust in an online business without knowing it's background - can as well be two boys in a basement.
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I did not upvote this, but I remember one of Zed's rants/blogs where he said he'd only consider positions that were basically CTO of an emerging startup. I know some of that might have been his manufactured persona, and I have even more respect for Dropbox now - they've managed to hire an extremely capable engineer and Zed has joined without public fanfare.
"... M.I.T. chooses its bloggers through a contest, in which applicants submit samples of their writing. 'The annual blogger selection is like the admissions office’s own running of the bulls' ..."

Which sort of sucks. Admissions choosing who is the best writer and meritocracy, don't go hand in hand.
mine's in http://github.com/adlaiff6/df.git but I don't really expect you to read it
In my case I found it dragging myself in to hacking/working on cool techy stuff more and more is a relief.

But no guarantee that you _fix_ your life problems this way.
Who is voting this up? Why aren't any editors killing it? Leave the dude alone.
Interviews can be hacked, since there is always an objective. Particularly the behavioral-based interviewing technique 'tell me about a time'. Really, if you don't know about the STAR interviewing method, you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. All HR professionals know about it; Please google it or ask a friend who works in HR. It helps your interview perfomance if you know what they're filtering for. A very common filter is leadership - have you demonstrated it. Followed closely by problem solving and creativity.
Apparently this method works well for heartbreaks :).
Hey Sachin, was that a picture of "Schloss Neuschwanstein" you uploaded by iphone?
It's probably better to stop working for a while, try to fix the problems, and back to work. But it's way too subjective I guess. For instance for me the only problems that are really problems are health problems, all the rest is for definition trivially fixable by evolving yourself or by pragmatic steps.
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"... I've sent stackexhange several emails, trying to get into the beta program early ..."

You had to get in pretty early to get the beta badge ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2781240756/in/set-7215...

"... I am more than willing to pay the ~$1000 per month fee so I can get up and running now....but no dice it seems. ..."

Having said that why not build an alternative?
Excellent idea. I was blind to it because I tend to keep a site's home page open in a separate tab.
1/I don't even understand why people complain about ad blocking. It's part of the equation. Some people don't read the ads, some block it. It's nowhere near stealing.

It's like offering a "pay as you like" service and complain that people don't pay or not enough. Well, if you have a precise idea of how much you should charge then change the price tag my friend. Stop the hypocrisy.

2/A service will be more successful if it's "free". If you cannot manage to charge money for your service, it means the perceived value is not that much and you don't have a working business model.

Stop complaining. Rethink your business model. Adapt.

3/A site with advertisement is not free. In exchange of reading content I deem useful, I will read content that might lead to a business transaction in the future.

4/I might be willing to pay a small yearly fee for an ad-free service like Stackoverflow. The deal could be "if you pay a certain amount of money, you don't get ads".

5/AFAIK the content of Stackoverflow is written by people who don't get paid. It's a community web site. People feel that they own a part of the content and therefore shouldn't suffer advertisement (which is why, I guess, you get less aggressive advertisement as your reputation go up, unless I'm mistaken I have more than 3,000 reputation and don't see any advertisement).

6/People mentally block ads on web sites. There was a link about this on HN a while ago, can't find it though.
so he's complaining about his partner being immature and the second phrase on the site gives away said partners personal contact information?

Am I the only one seeing a slight bit of irony there?
I supppose because it would cost more time and money to build an alternative of the same quality from scratch?

Seriously though, three people was working on that site almost full time for more than a year now. That's about 600-650 workdays. A decent junior developer (the cheapest programmer who could possibly do it) earns at least $200 a day. That's $120000 worth of wages. Which means, you will have to use this software for more than 10 years to justify writing an alternative, and we haven't even considered any additional future development.
Agreed. I shouldn't have posted it. I'll delete it.
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I was thinking the same thing. As a matter of fact, my next project (in few months) will be collaborated on wave. The twitter "bot" also removes the need to rely on a twitter client for updates. With open API the concept of one interface for all clients makes it very interesting to me.

I don't remember the last time I was excited about about a web app, like I am with wave.
> Failure is about self-reflection.

> Failure is about initiative to learn and look back at the story.

Two gems. Thank you - I'm going to have to borrow these next time I discuss failure. About the second - do you have any tips on making your perception more learning based?
I concede that scrolling through pages and pages of previously seen text on a small device, ony to get to the one new line that says "Yup - I'm on it!" is a strong argument for deprecating bottom posting.

However, it's an even stronger case for applying some common sense in quoting. Why should you quote page after page after page, when quoting the subject, one line of context, and then your one new line, is not only enough, but time saving and preferable?

The answer is obvious - people are simply too lazy.

There is a less obvious (to me) answer. If it all goes horribly wrong, you can't be blamed if you didn't cut. If you quoted everything, you've covered your six.

For most people the combination of making sure youdon't get the blame and not having to think is simply irresistable.

Yup, long and pointless quoting is here to stay. Anyone with a workable replacement will have an overnight success, even if it takes 10 years to come.
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The OpenStreetMap project does stuff like this:

They've just started stitching together aerial shots from small planes into flat "satellite" images that they can trace map features from. (Yahoo also lets them trace some of theirs, and the bought some for coverage in Palestine but this lets them fill in the gaps):

http://www.cloudsourced.com/2009/09/22/openstreetmap-takes-t...

Flickr just announced that you can associate photos with streets, buildings etc in openstreetmap via machine tags:

http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too...

There is an OpenStreetView but they've only just started, not much more than a domain:

http://openstreetview.org/
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Pretty new to emacs, so my first move was to make it more familiar and avoid breaking my fingers:

;; Switch buffer

(global-set-key [f5] 'buffer-menu)

;; Save and load

(global-set-key [f2] 'save-buffer)

(global-set-key [f3] 'find-file)

;; Compile file

(global-set-key [f9] 'slime-compile-and-load-file)

;; Goto line

(global-set-key "\M-l" 'goto-line)

;; Go to other window

(global-set-key (kbd "<C-tab>") 'other-window)

;; And probably the most useful one, numpad Enter for eval line:

(global-set-key (kbd "<kp-enter>") 'slime-eval-last-expression)
Although open source appears to be gaining a little traction in Japan, the country isn't typically associated with open source technology.

That tells you a lot about people doing the associating, but not necessarily so much about Japan. For what its worth: its a big country, with all sorts of big companies in it. (And small companies, too.) I work in Big Freaking Enterprise Web Applications.

We use more OSS than you can shake a stick at.
Been through some changes lately - this is the trimmed down of my .gvimrc (MacVim).
" window settings
set lines=70
set columns=200
set fileencoding=utf8

set incsearch
set ignorecase
set hlsearch

" make the status line more useful
set statusline=%F%m%r%h%w[%L][%{&ff}]%y[%p%%][%04l,%04v]
set nocompatible

" backspace mode
set bs=2

" highlitt current line and add line numbers
set cursorline
set number

" yummy
set guifont=Monaco:h11.00

" turn off the scrollbars and the rest of the crap
set guioptions=eg

""set foldenable
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filetype plugin on
filetype on

" autoindenting
set cindent
set smartindent
set autoindent

" display improvements
set list
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set ruler
set showcmd
" i use tabs instead of spaces, wanna make something of it?
set noexpandtab
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set softtabstop=4

" temp files
set backupdir=~/.vim/bak
set directory=~/.vim/tmp
" colorz
syntax on
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" PLUGINZ
" allml settings
let g:allml_global_maps = 1
let g:HiMtchBrkt=1
let g:SCMDiffCommand="/opt/subversion/bin/svn"

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nnoremap <C-B> :call PhpDocSingle()<CR>
vnoremap <C-B> :call PhpDocRange()<CR>

" PHP specific fixes
" highlights interpolated variables in sql strings and does sql-syntax highlighting. yay
autocmd FileType php let php_sql_query=1
" does exactly that. highlights html inside of php strings
autocmd FileType php let php_htmlInStrings=1
" discourages use oh short tags. c'mon its deprecated remember
autocmd FileType php let php_noShortTags=1
" settings for cake
au BufNewFile *.ctp set filetype=php
au BufRead *.ctp set filetype=php
There seems to be a lot of speculation involved. And what was the point of the randomly inserted "sex for food" paragraph? My respect for National Geographic just went down several notches.
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All of our comments may work for us, but there will be something that works for you, and that will have to do with putting whatever is out of balance for you back into a place so you can be healthy, happy and focused.

I find meditation relaxes me enough and gives me a sense of calm that is good enough to address both the personal problems and the work. Mainly this occurs because as my mind settles, I am more able to address the issues one at a time.

Good luck, you will move beyond this! Have hope :)
When I was going through something like this, I was just coding like there's no tomorrow. It almost felt like I'd turned into a bot. This lasted for some 2-3 months or so after which things came back to normal. Looking back, it feels like its better to drown yourself in work rather than brood over your circumstances.
Mount the whole thing on the top of a broomstick with a switch on the bottom. Walk, set the stick down (activating the switch), hold it still, waiting 8 seconds (maybe the PC could make a sound when the capture is complete), and walk on. You could map out a reasonably sized neighborhood in an afternoon.
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Thank you for pointing that out. The choice of a single source file is a great C feature. The author appears to have started from a few hundred lines in 2006. Grew that 10x, to a few thousand. Curses/ ncurses bring back good memory of various mail and news readers. I bet a few of you tried curses/ ncurses. IMO, character user interface has its efficiency; prefers CUI to icon bars, ribbons, etc.
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You didn't learn to watch where you're going? I'd think that'd be a rather valuable lesson...
What's "usual CS trivia"? And does relocation assistance include people outside the states?
I agree with most advice here:

a)Do Meditation and relaxation, yoga, self help books, fill your mind holes.
b)Exercise regularly, this is important, if one day you don't have time to run, just go out and run for 5 minutes, but don't stop.
c)Talk with friends about it.

For the kind of work I do, just putting myself to work won't help, e.g if I broke with my gf I can't help but I will be 85 per cent of my time thinking about her, or if someone of my family dies(my mind just says: F*CK THAT stupid work thing, this is more important!!.

Only when I solve the issues, I'm free, just look at Graham Chapman funeral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsHk9WC7fnQ&feature=playe...
i dont get it ... how do they help the businesses with the junk calls with transcribing and categorizing them? it seems to me that those junk-callers call anyway.
What does "3 POC" mean? I'm interested in learning about methods that don't require a 3rd party.
First, thank you for all the tips. They are indeed appreciated.

I don't overwork, actually, I have flexible work schedule so these last days I'm actually underworking since it is very hard to concentrate (I'm a programmer) when I don't have much sleep and thoughts keep coming to my mind which distract me from my job (boss knows about it and he's being supportive but his patience can only go so far).

Unfortunately, this rump is mostly due to external factors I can't really change, only try to accept them as best as I can, but still wreaks havoc on my job which I need to pay the bills.
I don't understand why this is getting voted up :/
> Internet Relay for real-time messaging

It seems like they have an IRC channel and the editor thinks it is something really fancy. Maybe we should have told more people about IRC at some point.
It's nice to see an alternative view for a change.
I sometimes solve this problem with

> Stuff I'm responding to...

My response to stuff...

==== Original message follows ====
All the original content, including stuff I copied
and responded to at the top of the message...

This has the disadvantage that it creates two copies of the text I'm responding to; but in cases where I'm responding to one or two lines out of a much larger email (but where having the entire email copied can provide helpful context) it seems a small price to pay.
I thought the GFW worked by sending a RST to any TCP connection that it didn't like. If you ignore the RST then the connection goes ahead. Has that changed?

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/talks/060628-Ignoring.pdf
The title needs renaming.

(Currently is "Bad News")

[edit: I didn't think the story deserved to "die", just for the title to be renamed]
Let me try to understand this:

1. "pay per action" is paying for a qualified lead, as opposed to a raw lead (which could be anything, e.g. even a wrong number).

2. Doing it with phone calls (as opposed to clicks on online ads, or emails etc), because that is how many businesses and their customers contact each other. e.g. gyms, vets, car repairs.

3. Doing it for local businesses.

The technical achievement of speech recognition is significant. I like his point that because the speech is interpreted relative to a specific business type, the domain is highly specialized, and so the task of recognizing the particular terms of that domain is much easier. I've been impressed by automatic speech recognition for telephone directory lookup - for me, it works 90% of the time; and that's out of the whole phone book, not restricted to a domain. I guess this is an example of "speech recognition" is still not good enough in general, but it's good enough in specific roles.

The next step after "pay per action" would be "pay per sale", which Google can do when you use both their adwords and their payment facility (I don't know how well that's working).

Anyone care to correct my misunderstandings, or elaborate on these points?
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