skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the onus is on you to make yourself clear in spite of the ambiguity (a simple way would be to mention a unit early in the conversation). Really, the terminology isn't going to change no matter how much noise you make, so it would be worthwhile to save yourself the effort.
then put it in a high yield online bank account or CD and get a 2% return on your money that is 100% safe.

if you want to talk something more risky and volatile, i'd be willing to share some thoughts on a stock pick or two.
I didn't have a chance to try it out yet, but from their demos, it looks like it could easily replace Basecamp for many small teams.
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What about officers of the corp, aren't they also responsible?
From the IEEE source [1] it says that he bought $25 web cams for the project (apparently MSRP$75). I doubt the side-facing cameras get any type of picture quality at all at 30mph, let alone 62. (Update: motion is extremely blurry at high resolution [2]).

Also, from the IEEE article "I wrote a Python script to capture the eight 1280-by-1024 JPEG files. That capture takes about 8 seconds." That results in 8 non-synchronus pictures, taken at 8 second intervals.

At 30mph (44 feet per second), eight seconds is a 352 foot gap—a standard block in Manhattan is about 264 by 900 feet [3], which leaves you one capture every 1.3 blocks on the short streets.

Interesting way to make a 360 degree camera. Completely unreasonable for a 360 degree camera in motion.

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[1]http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/diy-streetview-c...

[2]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=232323867291121678&#...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block
I don't think Norvig thinks differently; he's just using the term "AI" differently. "AI" in the context of the OP is "strong AI" or AGI (artificial general intelligence). Dr. Norvig takes the term "AI" to also encompass "machine learning" in the sense of developing algorithms that learn within limited problem domains. When Norvig means AGI, he says it explicitly (see the video at around 7:30 to 8:30), and he also says specifically that Google is not interested in general intelligence.
Sure, I can show up whenever I want and dress how I like, but overall is this really a good thing?

I'm going with "yes". I fail to see how it's an improvement to have to wear less comfortable clothes than you'd like, and have to be there when your body really doesn't want to be. My company went back to a minimal dress code after a year of "business casual", yet somehow we still do our jobs and as a result I'm much more inclined to stay longer when it's needed. And we've always had flexible hours; if I had to be in at 9 I'd be useless for the morning and would be gone before my most productive time in the evening.

At Startup B, it works like this: Investor X identifies a need, Investor Y disagrees on implementation, 95% of time is spent discussing exact wording instead of the usefulness of said feature. Programmer implements it, no one remembers what it was for, it gets dropped at the next redesign.

Look into Bugzilla or FogBugz. You don't need 6 layers of bureaucracy to handle new features.
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I had asked once before but we've added a handful of features and didn't get a lot of response last time.
Yes, "Those people don't exist" isn't technically correct; perhaps it should have been "Those people don't exist in significant numbers."

The point is that people who call themselves AI researches, the vast majority of the time are not working on AGI but on weak AI.
Going into an old codebase and just running ':set list' with just the default listchars is maddening enough. The mixes of tabs and whitespace characters is enough to drive one batty. Especially when you find files where someone was using tabs, but with the 'ts=8' or 'ts=2' rather than 'ts=4'.
Only if they act illegally or irresponsibly, right? Otherwise only assets of the corporation are at risk.
I think that only applies if you do something illegal. What will probably happen is that they'll get sued, and as part of the settlement the company will be forced to pay out $_ million. Since the company probably won't have that, they'll end up declaring bankruptcy.

But then again I'm no lawyer
Not unless fraud is proven. Unfortunately, bad management is not punishable,
$300 is about the right price point for a workable car-surveilance system. I'd like to have something to make a record of:

- People who hit your parked car with their doors
- Police walking up to your window to talk with you
(No voice recording, of course.)
- Interactions with other cars & traffic signals

The 3rd one bears some explaining: I would like a record of what is happening because people in an accident often flat-out lie. I hate that. Also, I want my own evidence pertaining to traffic lights. If traffic lights can have cameras, I want my own photographic record of the lights!
Mine is a behemoth, so I have pasted it here:

http://pastebin.com/f6e58888a
Tell HN: Google Voice working on iPhone through web app
Its working. And not bad.

http://voice.google.com on safari.
What Problem Does Google Wave Solve?
The name bears some explaining. (Not a pun on the logo/mascot.) It looks too much like a misspelling of "aurora."
You can't spend any time on Twitter without geeks lusting after Google Wave. Here's my quick take...it has as much chance catching on as RSS did.

So you mean, fantastically? (He doesn't)

What problem does Wave solve? What problem did email solve? You could already send letters to people; so why would you need to do it electronically? In fact, why send a letter to someone? You could just go to wherever they are and tell them your message.
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Anyone care to let me know why I got down-voted?
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Ask HN: what's in your .bashrc file?
Seems like BASH got left out
So you mean it won't reboot the internet?
I think this is the most important but totally unmentioned fact....I think SO is going to make its money from reselling the underlying engine. Its really quite a strange anomaly...the whole Q&A thing is not new by any means, but I must say Jeff has made the user experience so nice that I think its possible that some sites that couldn't have existed before might now be able to pull it off (its hard to build a big enough network to make a community self sustaining....good software makes it that much easier).

Yes, they have a lot of work to do to make it truly vertical, and not disrupt anyone in the process, but I think thats where their real $ is going to come from.

I've sent stackexhange several emails, trying to get into the beta program early, even trying to pay an extra fee for premiere service...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.

Anyways, back to the article.....really, anyone that is technical (geeky) enough that can and would block ads using a script....those people wouldn't be the types to buy software from the advertisers on SO anyways (and I'm sure the advertisers know this),,,so really, I think its just a bunch of hullaboo about nothing consequential.
This is a bad, bad, question because it doesn't structure the response towards learning about the candidate's thought processes and pre-stages the context of their response as a value judgment.

At best, you'll get a narrative about a specific project context and the candidate's actions which resulted in "failure". At worst, you'll get a disingenuous canned response from someone trying to game the interview and frame the chosen scenario as "success".

A better phrasing would be:

"Please tell me about a project experience when a plan, scenario, or design didn't unfold as originally intended."

The candidate can frame their response as "success", "failure", "improvisation", etc. and this opens up avenues to explore their thought processes, strategy, and 'leadership style' when responding to novel scenarios. This is also an opportunity to weigh the candidate's level of disclosure and frank communications as to what sorts of value judgments they, themselves, apply to the chosen scenario and their qualitative reactions to it.
Culture. Obviously the generalization will be lossy - not all Ruby devs are the stereotypical super-ninja-rockstars, nor are all Java devs preoccupied with building the Leaning Tower of Layered Abstractions, but still. Culture matters.
I disagree with everyone who commented on HN and on the guy's site.

The point of asking someone about their past failure is not to put them on the spot and test their oratorical skills. It's not to see how they overcame failures and ended up successful. There are easier ways to find these things out. Ask for an essay or ask directly about how they fixed a bad situation.

When asked about your past failures, the aim is to find out if you actually grasped why you were a failure. You can fail and recover many times in your life without ever figuring out why you were failed by someone and what the hell happened. Too often a failure is seen as passing a checklist (Sell X units, ship by X date, Fix X bugs). It doesn't matter if you failed or succeeded before. If you've made it to the interview then none of that counts anymore.

Failure is about self-reflection. Let me say that again. Successful failure is about self-reflection. It takes a great amount of maturity to grasp failure and come out ahead (and this doesn't mean getting a pass from someone). Failure is about initiative to learn and look back at the story.

I'll say it another way. There are 2 ways you can learn. First is formal. Someone teaches you or you teach yourself. You apply the material and get a pass or fail. That is how school is done. It's how most things are learnt and taught. Everyone knows how to do this.

The second way of learning is what they call learning from your mistakes. Make no mistake about it - It's not easy and there is a specific way to do it. Most people can explain what the failure was and how to fix it. It takes effort and plenty of time and contemplation to analyse the experience. That's the first step. The second step is to take that new understanding and grow as a person because of it. Again, there is a method to this. You practice it and look at the results.

Studying your failures is usually left to the subconscious by most people. If you can do it or even if you know that you need to and seek outside help to self-reflect then you are a mile ahead of most people when it comes to self-management.

You are asked about failure to find out how much self development you do. People that work hard on themselves like no other and who also want to work at your company are likely very good and you should hire them.
Of all the movie/trailer combinations I've seen the one I'd predict closest to 0% would be Congo. The trailer is for a completely different film as far as I can tell, and it looked really good.
Nice website. Couple of suggestions.

1. Is there a way for people to edit their ads?
2. It's not very clear in the submit form, that the mobile number will be displayed in the ad. Some people may not want their mobile number displayed as part of the ad.

Otherwise nice idea.
This is what happens when you give someone 50% of a company for simply having an idea.
And fricking sharks!
Pattern matching with functions is more 'idiomatic' Erlang, though, than case statements. At least that's what I've seen.
you could use a list comprehension to do the same thing:

print sum([x for x in xrange(101)])

although the n(n+1)/2 is probably the best, I'd just like to point that out because I wish someone would have pointed out list comprehensions to me earlier :)
"pure AI reasearch? Or are they really the result of a bunch of clever, yet extremely specialized algorithms,"

This presumes a dichotomy between "pure AI research" (whatever that is) and "clever algorithms".
There are two missing links, one between us and this thing, and another between this thing and something else. And it will keep getting worse the more missing links we find.
Science proves what Hobbes already knew: that nearly all knowledge held by any given individual is accepted on the authority of whoever told them the knowledge. Since very little knowledge is directly gained by experience, most human knowledge (especially abstract knowledge like categorizations) is belief.

Time to dust off your copy of The Leviathan.
A way for all the coworkers to easily find the one who can share a car, so it's economic, ecologic but also social. In big companies, I'm sure you don't even know people that work in a near office.
violating banking & money transmission laws can be a felony, which could make the officers of the corporation liable

if they were actually holding funds in a corporate account, and not just a front-end for paypal, they could be in a lot of trouble
In terms of "suiting my needs", that's an example from mochiweb itself, so my needs have nothing to do with it.

In terms of refactoring... I've seen code like that scattered through Erlang often enough to have a slight dislike for it (it is not a Major Problem with the language, and pattern matching is elegant).

And to some degree - it is a function of the language:

foobar(a, b, c=1) ...

is a lot less code than

foobar(A, B) -> ...;
foobar(A, B, C) -> ....

So I will stand by my statement that Ruby is generally more succinct than Erlang, which is something that strongly pushes me towards using Ruby for most things, and Erlang only where it really shines.

I don't dislike Erlang - quite the contrary - I first encountered it professionally in 2003 and have dabbled now and then with it. I just think it can be a bit "uneven" - which makes me think it will likely never catch on as a very widespread general language.

And I don't believe in "the right tool for the job" - most people are going to know a few languages (at best) and stick with them, because for most things, it's cheaper in terms of overall effort to do something with a language you know than doing it with something you don't and have to learn (also likely not doing as good a job, because you're new to it), even if the result isn't perfect. So languages that are niche only, in my mind, are probably going to be less popular than they could have been if they were more general purpose.
holding customer funds without complying with banking laws is a federal crime - making them liable personally
Seems the keybindings skip direct to the semantics in your brain, without passing through verbose names; C-w would "kill" the text.

Still, your lapse is pretty good. Sometimes I can't even name the keys -- but my fingers know :)
Its easy in that the coursework is not challenging. There could be busy work, which take time. College work even if easy still takes time. "held back" I guess is not a good way to describe it then. What I mean is that its simply wasting time I could be spending completely on the startup. And yes, I do have lots of time to work on the startup and I do. I don't mean to imply that school is preventing me from working on it. I could have more time if there wasn't school. I could also be saving a lot of money if I don't pay for school.

>it is not 20k to work on a project so you dont have to deal with professors / employers.

But from my perspective that's what it potentially means.
Well! That certainly explains the basis of many a personality conflict. It certainly raises fascinating questions as to what, then, becomes the most optimal means of bridging conflicting opinions, as clearly a factual-confrontational approach'll only exacerbate the divide.
As you say, that's a good way to force your fingers to learn the way of h, j, k and l.

I started with vi so long ago that I remember being surprised around five years ago when I accidentally discovered that vim knows about the arrow keys. So I've never had to un-learn the arrow keys.

You may want to turn them back on eventually. It's nice to be able to move the cursor without thinking about it, whether your hands are on the keyboard, over the arrow keys or on the mouse, sort of like being able to play the chord you want no matter where your hand is on the fretboard.

As for my .vimrc, there are years of settings and commands I never use and can't remember what for, like junk DNA. I enjoy discovering and sharing the occasional treat, but I've gone pretty much meat and potatoes over the years.

Depending on your setup, your ruler (:set ruler) may or may not always show the file. This will make it always show:

set statusline=%<%F\ %h%m%r%=%-14.(%l,%c%V%)\ %P

I like the tabula colorscheme, which you can find on vim.org:

colorscheme tabula

I like smartcase:
set ic
set smartcase

and I like the ability to override it when I search:
/\Cfindonlylowercaseinstances
(:help, and then look in chapter usr_27.txt)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=828692

I should add something about this to the faq...
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I don't mind ads in general, but in Stackoverflow's particular case I find them ugly, jarring, and out of place.

It does not make for a very pleasant browsing experience in my opinion.
Found it: they do have bittorrent streaming video - http://www.bitlet.org/
Should say "planned update" - it's not out yet (we're working on it!)
Fixed! Good call. (and a huge thanks from a 3.0.1 user)
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He misses one of the biggest underlying factors to Guitar Hero's sharp takeoff - Konami paved the road ahead for them. Arguably, Harmonix's strength was "merely" in westernizing a concept that the Guitarfreaks franchise had already established.

The fact that Harmonix had more insight than Konami, and focused on home console development, certainly didn't hurt, but as a gamer, I should note that even Rock Band was long since beaten to the punch by the inclusion of DrumMania to Konami's arcade cabinet lineup.
Experts-Exchange vs. StackOverflow: Why I will continue using EE
EE doesn't have any attitude about not doing your homework for you or not doing the programming for you. That's why I pay for sites like this and you'll probably never get this type of service at StackOverflow because the Answerers despise working for the Questioners . The Answerers want to know that you did your homework first before giving you an answer. If you appear to be a slacker who needs someone to bang out the code for you, sorry, you won't get an answer.
Eyes in the back of your head!
Maybe you could add support for other social networks? I mean when a company thinks about going social, they'd probably want to establish a presence on multiple networks. Maybe they want to target the facebook demographic instead of the twitter demographic?
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I hate to derail this, but why exactly do I need to register an account to read the forums?

I understand that literally everybody that uses Dropbox has an account... but I don't, and therefore I can't learn about this app (or other things real users are saying about Dropbox).

More importantly, Google can't index it. I put in a few sample searches ("dropbox cache", "dropbox can't establish secure connection"[1]) and Dropbox didn't show up in the top few results.

[1] Thanks Google for helping come up with common "troubleshooting-like" error messages
One time I was walking out of the supermarket and ran into the glass sliding door. I'm not sure what I'd learned though.
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Me too, I've done this on occasion on my iPhone. The arrows are so small and close together. If you see capitalized words in the middle of a sentence Like this, that too is the iPhone's fault.
In addition to what you have said in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=828692, I think that such teams (with slight conflict in interest) should be informed explicitly about each other being in the same market space.

Reason being, to put a word of caution in the otherwise too much friendly disclosures amongst the teams working in the friendly and healthy YC environment.

After this word of caution it will be completely upto the teams to do what they think is in their best interest.

What do you think? Should this be done as an additional practice? or does it sounds like way too paranoiac? Will it effect the environment negatively?
- check mail at most once an hour when programming

And you will get _nothing_ done. Programming should run at negative nice. Nothing should interrupt it.
Certainly. However, look at the typical Spring web application. There's 1000 lines of XML supporting the application, which is three times the size of the equivalent ruby/python application because of all of the mechanics of setting and getting and factories, etc. This is compounded by a culture that values verbosity over GTD.

Java can be written concisely. However, it's fighting against the language, and most of the libraries will prevent you from doing so. That said, it's perfect for consultingware for the same reason: I can't think of a better platform than Spring to develop customized applications based on a common platform. Write a piece of new business logic in a series of classes and maintain an
xml file for each client.

Mind you, the side project I'm working on is in java because it's going to develop into a business for small and medium sized businesses who often are comforted by the idea of hundreds of thousands of people who already work in the domain.
Heh, it does not pain me at all to say that Java is better than PHP! PHP, in turn, is better than Fortran, Cobol and the original Basic, and I guess that's about it.

(And I am not even sure about Fortran.)
C-S-t in Firefox will bring it back. Don't know if the content of the text field remains though.
Ask HN: Any remote PC rental service?
We have a 3D download app that we want to test on a bunch of different hardware configs.

Any service which lets you remotely control PC, install app/s and view screen?

Friend told me about browsercam.com but it doesn't look like you can install any additional software on it.

Thanks
Very enlightening.

Better to learn on others mistakes.
"For some people in India right now, sadly, it appears that they have no choice."

Of course they do. Google just isn't making it easy. Why misrepresent and sensationalize the situation? Anyone reading this article is going to quickly figure it out. All you really gain is 15 or 30 seconds of outrage from the reader until they realize that in fact any Orkut user in India is free to use competing services. In the end they will conclude you are stupid or a bad journalist for putting an obviously untrue spin on the situation.
I'd prefer a tweet message than a DM from a corporate that wants my money.
From the perspective of the writer it reads more like "this is what happens when you give someone 50% of a company for simply writing the code." At least one side seems to have gotten something wrong...