skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A phone that could also play mp3s AND browse the web AND play videos AND display photos AND... many would call that feature creep when it comes to a phone. Certainly more so than a device that can display text AND play videos.
Launching orion from the ground would be extremely unfeasible. The best space-colonizing strategies all involve setting up a base in Earth orbit, with some space elevators attached, and building ships for colonization from there. It has to be done this way because a Mars mission would spend only half of its fuel getting to Mars - the other half is spent getting out of the gravity well. If we could mine and build in space, we can skip that step (and safely detonate some nukes to launch our spaceships)
My guess is that they perhaps previously employed someone who subsequently had a fundamental ethical objection to what they were doing, or maybe got deployed into a war zone. If you're doing something which might be politically sensitive it does make sense to have some idea of your employees views.

I'm not sure exactly what the rules are on this (in the UK). I know that officially you're not allowed to discriminate on grounds of sex, race and age but I'm not sure about political views.

The rest of the interview, which was about the technical details, was quite congenial but I knew from the initial question that I wasn't going to get the job. If I had known that the job was primarily military and involved with the Afghan war I wouldn't even have bothered to apply, but the company's web site didn't make this clear and showed only civilian/industrial applications. In this case a phone based rather than face to face initial interview would have saved time and expense for all those concerned.
And there is plenty of evidence that humans are myopic,
irrational beings.

I was responding to the above statement, which, in the context you used it, was frankly, elitist, in that you imply that the unwashed masses need guidance from their betters.
I don't have a boss :)

But my mom has a pretty awesome one. He takes them on trips for the holidays, the whole office (~15 people). They've been to the Mayan Riviera, New York (twice), Washington, and Disneyland, off the top of my head.
Rackspace Investigating Current Issue
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ec2 is one part of amazon that I haven't any direct experience with, but anyone who thinks that amazon is a good technology company should spend some time chatting with the legion of ex-amazon employees out there.
I just thought about this, but you could (in theory, and limited by certain implementations) execute your tracking scripts serverside instead of on the client. If you do this asynchronously then you can probably eliminate the hit those scripts take on page load time.

Edit: Now all the reasons this wouldn't work are pouring in (mostly for something like Google Analytics). Mixpanel works this way though, and they provide the ability.
Right, my wider point with that was about generalizing your personal experiences to the rest of the population.

And good on Extreme Blue for taking a wider selection. This event was almost 10 years ago. Now I feel old. :p
I agree with you, but designs are often constrained by what the tools expose or consider important. Believe me you dont get consulting jobs by saying Java inheritance is over-rated and that maybe more functional and less OO would be a better choice.
the interview just finished, he usually edits them and puts them up the next day, so there should be a link on HN tomorrow
Realtime twitter updates in search, cool: http://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+rackspace
She's trying to tan and apparently really ambivalent about the height and weather?
Comments like yours are just so tired. Not only does the stream of seemingly trivial information accumulate into an intimate portrait of the lives of your friends, but twitter, facebook, and other services were used to straight up protest a sham election in a totalitarian state.

What the fuck else do you want to see twitter do before you think twice about one line joke comments that hurt this community?
I wish I had this HN page up during the interview. I love the input I get from HN readers.

I'm exporting the edited video now. Should be up on Mixergy soon.
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philip: when is rackspace going to be back up?

Anarka F: looks like we just lost connection to a server in Dallas I do not have details since it just happened can I have your name and email address and I will send you details as soon as everything is back up

Anarka F: our engineers are on top of things! hang tight!
I consider myself to be a citizen of the United States of Internet. Or perhaps that should be Disparate States of Internet, given what China, Iran, and Australia are doing to it.
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Yea, I think 'Google Qualified' is misleading. "People that have shown compitence in our APIs" is entirely different than "People who are qualified to work for us", which I at least took the name to mean until visiting the link.
Starting out is always tough. Your experience has been somewhat unlucky and somewhat true. Recruiters your age are going to have a high turn over. Lots of people get out of school and go into high tech recruiting. There's no barrier to entry, but it takes a lot of hard work to stay one. They bop around for 3-6 months, and if they don't show some aptitude they get cycled out. See if you can get to know people a little older and have been out there a couple of years. Don't just work with one recruiter. Have several from different companies looking for you.

Go to your local user group meetings. Java, Ruby, Php, Python, .Net, Flex, whatever. (If you get too niche chances are you'll strike out). Typically there are always someone there handing out business cards, or job postings. Take it and send them a nice email introducing yourself the next day along with your resume.

If you have friends that have been out of school for a while try and connect with them. They might know of good people to put you in contact with.

LinkedIn is like crack for recruiters. Make sure you're on there and have some of your experience on there. Connect with people. You'll start to see who is a recruiter very quickly (500+ connections) chances are they're a recruiter. LinkedIn helps you keep in contact with recruiters if they move companies too.

Put your resume on Dice. It can take a month before that pays off because it takes a while for your resume to make the rounds.

The economy sucks, but IT is bouncing back quicker than other sectors.
Thanks J. I absolutely agree that the check-in concept can be very beneficial to businesses, both for understanding customers and attracting new ones.
Depends on a lot of things: where he is geographically sounds pretty good, but he also doesn't have a lot of team experience, and many (most?) places seem to discount most solo hobbyist experience, for a variety of good and bad reasons.

It's hard to find many kinds of developers, but other kinds (and experience levels!) are lucky if they have a job at all right now.

I'm in the enviable position of having about 11 years of full-time experience at coding, and ten or so more amateur/hobbyist/kid years before that, so I can still pretty much dictate terms to most employers. But a lot of people, especially people without as much education and experience, are having a tough time right now.
"Network issue, not power, you can remote desktop into device. Not sure what the problem is yet." According to phone support.
> "Qualified Developers are thoroughly vetted by Google ... and meet rigorous qualification standards."

Followed three lines later by...

> "Google does not make any representation, endorsement or warranty regarding the services of these developers."

These statements seem at odds with each other.
Sorry, but it isn't that hard to build prototypes on top of classes in a dynamic language. The cleverest and shortest implementation I've seen is http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3378 where the following snippet of Ruby code does it:

Proto = Class.new(Class) # Beware: magic.
def Proto.clone
Class.new(self)
end

(Follow the link for an explanation of usage.)

However several other languages have implementations. For a random example see http://search.cpan.org/~teverett/Class-Prototyped-1.11/lib/C....
There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans under the sea.
"Finally I reject the notion that there doesn't seem to be any other way. I have much more faith in human innovation than that. I firmly believe that there is a market for green technologies, that, when fully developed, will create jobs, boost economies, and improve our global environment."

This is what I meant when I said "We need to get on a different curve."
The specificity does not derive from my post, but from the source of the tests that you are arguing against being fixed, viewable by all, and well documented. The traversal tests seem like very reasonable cases to me. For example:

// test 1: NodeFilters and Exceptions

// test 2: Removing nodes during iteration

// test 4: ignoring whitespace text nodes with node iterators

// test 5: ignoring whitespace text nodes with tree walkers

I just wanted to know if you had something in mind or were just making vague apologies for the IE team. Either case is ok with me.
Rackspace is down
The entire Rackspace Dallas datacenter is offline, as is https://my.rackspace.com

The internal comms system in Rackspace is also down - I just spoke to somebody in UK support who says they're aware of an issue but currently dont' have any further information. He could not even look up my account details because of the outage. Sounds serious :(
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I don't want to sound negative but this is how most vaporware next versions are born. We have seen it happening way too many times. They have to be very careful to avoid the usual fate (fast forward 2 years there's still no release or if there is no one uses it because it has serious issues or is already outdated etc.) That being said, I wish them good luck and I hope to see the new UI soon.
Primarily, make sure you're on LinkedIn and one or more specialized job-hunting networks like WorkingWithRails. Put up some code samples on SourceForge or GitHub or RubyForge or similar, and link them from your various social sites.

Put up a resume online, and link it from at least the social sites. A blog is optional, and will help less with recruiters, but is worth considering. It's a good habit in any case, but lower effort-to-results ratio than the other things I'm suggesting. A portfolio, like a blog, is more effort but will pay off in the long run. Don't do it first, but do it eventually.

Recruiters do a lot of "networking" -- scraping the web for resumes and addresses, sending messages on LinkedIn, et cetera. Usually that's annoying, but in your case it can be a way to meet recruiters quickly.

All the above, in addition to attracting recruiters, gives you something to show them and gives them something to show potential employers. So you'll also be somebody they want to show off, because you make them look good. You're looking for recruiters, but you're also competing with other candidates for their attention, and to be suggested to potential employers.
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I'm confused why people think Facebook is trying to compete with Twitter. It's simply moving in a similar direction, and taking a few of Twitter's ideas that work for its social graph.

Does anybody remember Facebook's original feed, which was the first controversial invention of theirs? Even back then they were working on categorizing and indexing everybody's social goings-on. The fact that Twitter does something similar doesn't make Facebook a competitor. I use both Twitter and Facebook's public search, and Facebook's has a much different feel about it than Twitter's does.

It feels more to me like fb is moving more toward "make something we can sell" than "make something people want."

I don't like the "make something people want" meme. It's too bend-over for me to approve of. But Facebook's not making something they can sell. Public search isn't any more profitable than what they're already doing, which has put them in the green. Rather, they're focusing on making what they want. I'm certain their motives are more selfish than money: From the beginning, Mark and kin's focus has been on studying the patterns of how people interact, and Facebook's design has consistently reflected that. They're not doing that for money, they're doing it because that's what their goal is.
Two years ago, one of my customers sent me a 30 pound coffee table book of Leonardo da Vinci's complete works of art and biography.
Meet AOL's Fresh-Faced Future Of Local News
Note that it's only for their specific API's, ie: KML, Maps API, Gadget Ads, AJAX Search API.
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=se...

Took me five seconds to find that. Privacy Settings >> Search. How is that hard?

http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=photos

Another five seconds. Privacy Settings >> Profile >> Photos.
This is almost the exact scenario of "Debt of Honor" by Tom Clancy. Only it was a Japanese sub that ambushed a carrier.
Humans have highly attuned bullshit detectors built right in. If your intuition is telling you not to trust someone, you should listen to it, despite the words coming out of their mouth.
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Very interesting. Did you notice the dupicate guy?

Look on the left of the circular park in the middle of the round about. The guy with the knapsack is duplicated.
I can think of two (related) reasons:

a) We're more into entrepreneurship than open source. My record is unfortunately one sample point in support. I've put code up, but never contributed to an existing project.

b) It hasn't filtered through certain social networks. Like say indians in universities.
More than the lawsuit, I would really worry about the apple tablet competition which is around the corner. That news leak itself is a big sale deterrent for them.
I'm not longer a member of the ACM because of their position on this issue. If you currently pay dues, take a moment to reflect on your reasons for doing so.
Libre Planet 2010
Yeah but for a company which aims to make all the world's information accessible it's clear where this thing has to go (in my opinion).
Of course there are other reasons. The United states is more affluent which means that more people will drive cars. The USA also has a lower population density which means that CO2 caused by transportation would be lower.

Many countries (such as Germany and some Eastern European countries) use natural gas in electricity generation in some places. This has lower carbon emissions, yet is substantially more expensive. It would also be interesting to consider CO2 imports and exports (if you buy a product that was manufactured in another country, then you import CO2). As an example, power hungry aluminium smelters are located where electricity is the cheapest. Yet everybody uses aluminium.

I would also like a citation for the “example, US's GDP is slightly less than the EU's but our CO2 emissions are double the EU.” statement.
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> I was thinking about this the other day: what _is_ the best scientific statement we can make, at present, about anthropogenic global warming?

Here's what it seems like:

1. The Earth is warming at a slow rate, but at least some of this is natural as temperatures were historically considerably higher, then considerably lower than now.

2. We're still well within the bounds of normal, habitable historical temperatures.

3. Warming definitely occurs at local levels with deforesting, mining, and urbanization. This can decrease condensation and make areas less habitable to life. This can be stabilized to a large extent by planting trees, restoring soil quality, and so on.

4. Carbon dioxide currently makes up 0.3% of the greenhouse gases including water vapor, and about 5% of the non-water vapor greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide increases are lagging temperature increases - suggesting that CO2 is not the biggest culprit of global warming.

5. That said, fossil fuels will gradually be replaced - the two current biggest hurdles are battery quality and political/public fears about nuclear power. Nuclear has gotten incredibly more stable and safe, and the advent of thorium reactors is exciting. Innovations in batteries and transitions to next generation nuclear will reduce fossil fuels a lot.

6. Much of green technology isn't so green - in many areas, turbines and solar panels take enough energy to create that they won't "pay back" their energy cost within 50 years, at which point we'll likely be able to produce energy much cheaper anyways. Some areas are very well suited for green energy - deserts with solar, very windy areas with turbines, hydroelectric on rivers, but they're brute forcing some very Earth-unfriendly alternative energy into areas it's not well suited for. Much of what's called green is marketing.

Personal judgment call based on everything I've seen? Money into R&D for hydrogen power, better batteries, fusion, and safer next-gen nuclear probably goes a lot further towards cleaning up the Earth than the current proposed solutions. Fossil fuels seem like they're going to largely be obsolete within 100-150 years or sooner, and rumors of the Earth's imminent demise appear to be greatly exaggerated.
Good thing my ACM membership has just expired.
Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again.
We just had a discussion about this here, about redundancy and how to achieve it. I think a big problem is that web browsers don't try multiple IP addresses - am I correct in this?

What I'm thinking is that if a DNS server goes down, no big deal, DNS clients just try another server. But if a web-browser can't connect on the first address it resolves, it won't try other addresses?

If so, could this be fixed on the client side? Would this even need a RFC?
He's not the first revered personality to have hacked the tabloids. I recently found out that some of the weirder (though in retrospect more innocuous) rumours about Michael Jackson from the late 1980s or so were honeypots of sorts, seeded by Jackson and his publicity team to find out how far the yellow-journalism industry would run with sensational, unsubstantiated stories.
My cloud server in Dallas is working fine, so not everything is down.
Predictions for 2010
That is true, but only as long as the machine continues to run.

It is like the genie (Robin Williams) in the animated film Aladdin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(1992_film)

Quote from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103639/quotes

--------

Aladdin: You're a prisoner?

Genie: It's all part and parcel, the whole "genie gig":

[grows to a gigantic size]

Genie: Phenomenal cosmic powers!

[shrinks down inside the lamp]

Genie: Itty-bitty living space!

--------

As an irreplaceable cog, you may have "phenomenal" earning power, but you get trapped in a small (employment) space.
Isn't the answer to your question what you find in:

IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group I Report: "The Physical Science Basis" ?
will you have an embed link? I want to add the interview to my the life and death of crunchpad page on http://crunchpad.com

And this way it would actually be seen on the page, instead of getting lost in the wall of text. But if not, I'll just link it

You should really get a player with embed functionality, that way you can get people hooked by the 1-2 good interviews they find posted on other sites they visit, and then they'll come to yours for future interviews.
Seriously? That's, like, the entire game.
Also, even when the papers are not posted on author's webpages, they are often happy to send you a copy over email.

Funny enough, I have the same issue with my old student ID -- it works to get access to those databases long after I graduated
Twitter Update on DNS Disruption
Almost all modern web browsers will try multiple A records on a connection failure. You do though need to make sure the connection to the first fails quickly and doesn't time out for some reason.
I was able to ssh into my server on one IP, but not another, which also meant some sites worked and others didn't. Seems like a network connectivity issue.
Three little words I want to hear from every one of our service providers in 2010:

Multi-Factor Authentication

(We're a Dynect customer too.)
Just to make this even more explicit than it was in the article: DRM had more effect on legitimate viewers than on pirates.[1]

Of all the possible snarky comments to make (and there are many), I'm going to settle for this one: maybe we really are better off not encrypting those predator drones.

[1] To be fair, some legitimate users and some pirates, and I don't know where they'll get the 3-d glasses.
I was wondering what happened. This wasn't just the cloud, it affected our dedicated box in DFW too.
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In one theater.
Ah thanks.. it feels like that's almost the wrong way round though; that if it doesn't get a rapid TCP connection establishment then it should try another address.

I guess an issue is that the client sends the first data in the HTTP protocol, so you don't get a full health indication until after you've issued your request, at which point you have to worry about idempotency etc.
Here's what I don't understand about the nobody's neutral point. Sure nobody's absolutely neutral (just like nobody's is absolutely truthful). It's all relative, but who's more neutral seems to be what they have to gain. Who benefits more by being right? If big oil is right then they get to carry on using fossil fuels until we run out. By some estimates there's still several trillion dollars of oil, coal, etc in the ground yet to be extracted.

If global warming advocates are right what do they get? Gold star, notoriety for being great scientists, pat on the back and a gold watch? Even billions of dollars in research grants? Once they're right research money dries up, and you still have to fix the energy crisis that would ensue. And, big oil is handing out money left and right for any study saying the opposite. If funding were your only incentive you could just as easily get money from the other side. If you can prove global warming is or IS NOT caused by human activity you'll be very very famous, maybe rich.

Still that's paltry in comparison to the revenue of the oil, coal, and to some degree gas industries. I can't seem to make the the pay offs for being right equal out.

I like to not be so paranoid, but quite frankly this whole debate just seems like a smoke screen from both sides at the moment. Which could be yet another tactic since status quo benefits the CO2 producers.
Hiya guys. I have produced one of these every year and thought folks might be interested in reading it. It includes figures for how this year compared with last year, my commentary about what went right in my business and what went less than right, and my goals for 2010.

I know it is technically speaking a little early but I'm getting on a plane today to go home for Christmas and pulled an all-nighter to get a head start on recovering from jet lag. This meant I had some time to kill.
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This seems like a good candidate for http://sadtrombone.com
Really, you should have just skipped it, because it’s a tired cliché that adds nothing to the discussion. There’s plenty to learn from C, if only in how to drive adoption of a language by making it an indispensable part of a useful system (in this case, UNIX). But the other side of this argument is also pretty tired after decades, so I’ll leave it there.