skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be a zero-sum game (no idea), but it's still a good idea to change what can be changed, instead of invoking some grand principle (I'm all for grand principles; it's just that the result of invoking them is either changing what can be changed or doing nothing constructive, usually the latter.)

Besides, it's not really good for women, per se, if the jerks are a bit less successful; it's equally good for everyone who isn't jerk-ish, which includes many men.
Does it help China increase the standard of living when Yahoo gets human rights campaigners thrown in jail?
You should make a web site with examples or a report of the kinds of traffic you get. I'd do it, and get a zillion hits on it and probably some press attention, but it's your idea.

You have a really good point.
Zsh already has the first program built-in using the = expansion. For his example it would be:

xdvi =(curl http://www.diku.dk/~andrzej/papers/RC.dvi)

Yet another reason why you should switch to zsh today :)

More about expansions in zsh: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/zsh_13.html
You have a good point and in my (much more limited than Ms. Meyer) experience, the CV is a very strong indicator. But there are times it does not work:

1. The candidate has to be truthful or you have to actually verify. Also, its worth being very careful about exactly what is said. I have met someone who genuinely had 4 years as a Senior DBA. It was true, and his former boss loved him. But when I proved for details, he was the senior DBA because he was the only DBA in the small company and mostly maintained a system consultants had set up earlier. He did not seem ready to do new development or manage a major system to me after a thorough interview.

2. The candidate is straight out of school. While there are exceptions, most people don't have much of a resume at that point.

3. The candidate is making a career change. Similar to being straight out of school (in fact they may be straight out of school for the second time) they won't and can't have a lot of experience in that particular field.

Of course, 2 and 3 might indicate you don't want to hire them for a senior position anyway, but it does make using the CV as the primary determinant challenging.
Yes, nobody questions Yahoo's evilness. That should tell you something.
There is an extremely thin line between those two.
frustrated by 'considered harmful'

Yeah, this is a clear case of "... for fun and profit".
A cloud version of the Museum of Broken Packets? http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mobp/ It could be interesting. Especially if you can identify some random proprietary/custom protocols.
While it is certainly possible to grind in WoW, it's not mandatory or necessary. You can get well along doing instances, quests and player-versus-player, and even get good items on the way. No need to grind 1000 trolls to get a good sword or staff ;-)

I myself prefer doing instance groups more than anything else in WoW.
The lesson is that our usual assessments of people are superficial and inaccurate. This includes standardized testing, people's faces, and of course subjective self-assessments.

Some people lie to compensate for the inadequacies of people's ability to assess innate capability. Other people lie to try to get more than they truly deserve. The former is a normal response from a normal person. The latter are called "douchebags."
I think that Israeli start-ups are less into front-end web things that get famous, and more into developing technology that big companies buy and that you never hear about. But I'm not sure, I hope someone else here knows the answer.
The great thing about OS X development is that you're not restricted to public APIs. :)
I think the parent is implying that while discussing with any second party, it is easier to mutually agree on which one is an issue and which one is details --- compared to discussing on the problem itself and finding a resolution.
That's true too, but what I meant was more specifically for MMOs (and games that have the player move in similar ways) - any bits of fun in the game should be not more than a 30 second drive/walk/run from another one.

Imagine, for instance, a map of Elwynn Forest (if you've played WoW) and construct a graph over it of all the quest-related things to do or see - none of them should be more than a 30 second run from the nearest neighbor. Whether this is actually the case is an implementation issue :)
I've been permanently blocking all connections from any AWS/EC2 netblock I identify after an initial exploit attempt. I much prefer temporary blocks triggered by bad behaviour, but the constant onslaught from AWS finally got to be too much. In the last several months, blocking AWS has done more good than harm. I don't seem to be blocking any legitimate traffic or users, just badly behaved startups and downright malicious crackers. It was a tough compromise, but so far it doesn't seem stupid.
Site owners really should be factoring the cost of certificate(s) into the operational costs of owning and running a site nowadays - just as they must with the domain, hosting, dns, email etc.

That's no problem for big sites, but it doesn't work for the "long tail". When a domain costs $8/year and you can get Web hosting ranging from free to $100/year, any paid cert starts to look disproportionately expensive. People will not blindly accept spending close to 50% of their budget on security.
Thanks for the info. I'm working on a Ruby on Rails tutorial book (http://www.railstutorial.org/), and some readers have started agitating for a forum. Having used Google Groups for my previous book, I was really reluctant to go down that hellish road again. I took a cursory look at Zoho, but didn't drill down very far. Knowing that jQuery is blazing a trail there makes me much likelier to give it a try myself.
There are ways to do that, but there are a lot of complications.

First, most truly good workers, especially in the tech industry, aren't sitting idle for a long time, so they are often either being hired away from a job they already hold and possibly being asked to relocate. A lot of those good people will not make a commitment like that to you and disrupt their lives if you aren't ready to make something of a commitment to them. So, this might work well for entry level positions but probably less so for senior people.

Then there is the cost of dealing with them for three months or until you figure out if they are right. While this is much less expensive than keeping the wrong person on for a long time, it is still very expensive. Most managers want to try very hard to find the right person the first time not go through a whole series of short term hires looking for the right person.

In some situations this is a great idea (and what many companies actually do), but there are many occasions it is impractical.
The truth dogs reveal about evolution
It's hard to believe nowadays that a President said something as radical as what Roosevelt said in his inaugural address:

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

You can be too careful, and schools need to realize it. Incidentally, so does liability law.
From my experience looking at those graphs, I see that the iorate is pretty low and that the cpu is almost idle. Checking "top", I see that the RAM was sufficient, as there were almost no swap use.

I also use chartbeat.com to see how the users are interacting with the site in realtime. They provide also two useful metrics: user load time and server load time. Looking at those, I can see that the user experience is pretty good, and that the server is up and responding very quickly.
When you want to deliver video or games on the web then it's flash, period. There is no alternative, consequently adobe doesn't need to care about a few crying developers.

As you pointed out this may partly change at some point in the future with the HTML video tag, but that happens independently of happy or unhappy developers.
Thanks. Do you know if anyone has written about this more extensively?
Then why do they (as far as I've heard) continue to waste people's time with week-long interview barrages if they don't work?
I would guess that people who play slots don't find them boring. The contradiction seems to be that grinding could be both boring and addictive at the same time.
This seems like is might be awkward for mechanics who were all ready good at the job.
To be fair, threading is a very important feature in a mail client, and by no means all mail clients have it. Yes, there's a lot of very crappy webmail around.
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Articles like this preclude the idea of style. Different cameras have a different style. I'm quite fond of the hyper-real style that comes with long, low-light exposures with Canon DSLRs. Also, most adapters I've found for using one lens to another tends to lose something to be desired, whether it's the various auto-focusing features built into the lenses, or an f-stop of light, or both.
I like the attempt to use Haskell type signatures as terse documentation. For 'tmp' it pretty nearly tells the whole story (especially rewritten flipping the first two arguments as below)

tmp :: (FilePath -> IO ()) -> (Stream -> IO ())
Transforms file-accepting function to work on an input stream.

'keep' is a bit more ambiguous, but I think it's more clear if you write it instead as

keep :: IO a -> IO [()]

which has parallels to 'repeat :: a -> [a]' and suggests that the first action will be "kept" and repeated periodically, throwing away the output. At this point, you have to guess when it repeats, but since you provide 'keep' no further information, blocking until files update is a pretty logical guess.
Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
>To survive these daily onslaughts, Esther put on her familiar mask of haughty confidence and switched on her emotional autopilot, mimicking social interactions while feeling nothing

Hmm, that summarises about 50% of social interactions generally.
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It seems to be aimed at military in-field repairs, though, in which case it probably makes sense.
So how do these systems work? Do the goggles have some sort of position measuring devices or do they work through image recognition of what's in the field?
Well, then you wouldn't be hearing about it.
Your best bet for survival with this is to connect it to facebook and give your users some sort of points/leveling system to use. That way, there's at least something to earn (even if it doesn't go to anything) and you can rely on the already existing network of facebook to grow the app.
I can't believe this isn't on the front page
By what mechanism or algorithm have you determined that gold is in bubble territory?
Yes, we all know this is the case, this is not novel information and I will in fact take it a step further and say that its not just games but just about any media products on the web where Flash is the only answer. For example, it is completely unrealistic to make a YouTube or Vimeo or even ESPN.com without Flash today.

My point is that they could have more than just the pure media market if they got their act together. Its never a good place to be when the only reason people use your software is because theres nothing else, and not because they actually like it. Additionally, assuming that there will never be an alternative is just silly. When your developers are unhappy, they will switch once its possible. The fact that Google Docs and similar apps are being done in JS+HTML should be scary to Adobe, if it isn't then they are frankly not very intelligent. Google will define the web tomorrow, and you better believe the second they can realistically go Flashless they will.

Again, all these same arguments apply on the standards side as well, they have dropped the ball and missed the same opportunities again and again, which is why Flash is still in the running (again, both survive due to eachother's weaknesses rather than their own strengths).

If Flash absolutely sang on every computer, it would be a much more difficult argument to make to go the standards route. Not necessarily impossible mind you, but certainly much harder. If it worked well and exactly the same on every computer, then its a hard thing to beat.
I would switch to Linux - any distro - in a heartbeat if I can find one that does these this one thing well:

I use my laptop with multiple monitors depending on where I am. Windows handles this perfectly. On all the Linux distros I tried, I always had trouble, and required some kind of editing of some text file hidden somewhere require root access or something. Horrible user experience.
That's entertaining advice.

The US dollar's value is dropping (and will continue to drop) sharply since they are printing them like mad. If the value of the dollar drops, the value of things relative to the dollar rises (like gold). There isn't a gold bubble, there's a dollar devaluation. The dollar may have been stable in the past, but those days are almost certainly over.
How about using the diamagnetic properties of water as an umbrella? Make say a 20 tesla magnetic field above your head and the rain would get deflected away?
I don't think he means that the CVs are complete fabrications, but rather not wholly accurate.

His suggestion is to be applied on top of the traditional gauges of qualification to reduce the margin of error so that the truly spectacular individual can gain an edge over the noise caused by exaggerations.
My first thought was

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
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If you have a nvidia card, skip the distro tools. Using nvidia-settings directly does any monitor/resolution/projector etc. combination you want. No xorg.conf hacking required.
with a stripped down/custom distro and FastCGI perl i could make that happen. you could go crazy and use an epoll perl httpd too. backend would be nosql with a small cache in memory. you'd need a decent chunk of bandwidth as gzip may push cpu over the edge, and hope you have fast disks. how many hps is HN anyway, at peak?
one of the greatest app store success stories will be AppViz
e is such a better programming language than c!

edit: Oh come on, it wasn't that bad a joke.
And I recently finished reading A Confederacy of Dunces. . . .

If you don't understand it, segregate it and isolate it ! What sort of sick kick do people get out of cowering geniuses into corners? Here we are, improving and saving the world for everybody, all day long.

I wish there was a way to let the kid know that he's a little bit of a hero.
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I think there's a lot of validity in the assumption that if you are extremely technically capable (a good programmer), then it is also extremely unlikely for you to not have come up with an idea (and thus be passionate about it) and committed to its realisation. That is, if you truly are good, it's pretty unlikely that you never implemented something on your own.

But also keep in mind it's a tip for hiring into startups, and startups at the early level require a certain amount of passion that usually comes with programmer who actually love to program (and if you love to program you've probably done it outside of necessity before).
The most striking thing about this story to me is how this girl ended up being suspected of being Public Enemy Number One.

That truly says something about the world we live in these days. Sad.
If you have an ATI card, this is pretty much par for the course. I've spent countless hours trying to get mine to work with dual monitors. It just simply doesn't work since I have monitors with different aspect ratios (one is widescreen). Nvidia, as mentioned is a good brand of card to have as it works much more nicely on most linux distros.
you could go crazy and use a uClibc buildroot. build it on your desktop and transfer an image to your slice. i use slack, but that's not exactly tiny...
I had a bad experience with Fedora about a year ago. I seem to remember the package manager wanting me to pay someone so I could listen to MP3s. Yeah, no thanks. There were various other things, but that one sticks in my memory.

I still really like Ubuntu, but several versions ago (I think around Fiesty) I realized they were headed in a direction I didn't want to follow, and I discovered Gentoo. That's where I am and that's where I'm likely to stay, though for fun I do try out other distros from time to time.
How have you measured if its done more good than harm if your doing a complete block?
In general, two random numbers are not equal. In this specific case, I see no apriori reason to assume it.
Once he had the equipment and his story he was able to get a real film job. That was the point of his story - to get him the job.
"Surely I was not the first to write the following two higher-order programs..."

He's right. There is, for example, rc (the Plan 9 shell, made in 1989).

The following is from section 10, "Pipeline branching" of: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/rc.html

"< or > followed by a command in braces causes the command to be run with its standard output or input attached to a pipe. The parent command (cmp in the example) is started with the other end of the pipe attached to some file descriptor or other, and with an argument that will connect to the pipe when opened (e.g., /dev/fd/6)."
One can pay for mp3 (and other) codecs with Ubuntu too, if one is so inclined:
http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=244
very good idea although I believe I've seen a copy of it on HN before. (i tried looking for it, can't find it)

I agree, you need to be hooked up with some social media or maybe even on college bulletin boards and e-boards online.

i tried adding my school, but i need to add the class prefix and number also? what are you going to go course by course (as everyone adds them)? I would suggest getting the list from http://www.ratemyprofessors.com and crawl the site for all the courses.

good work though, keep it up!
Right.

Email has essentially converged on a patchwork ad-hoc net-wide implementation of a few of the proposals lampooned in the famous Slashdot copy/paste thing. Small businesses who are serious about getting their mail delivered pay what amounts to a delivery tax. The difference is it is not actually a tax, it is just a per-piece rate paid to a mailing service that keeps up with all the SPF records, feedback loops, blacklist monitoring, etc for us. However, considered from the perspective of the firm, it is essentially a tax, and it means that people paying a penny or two per email end up trustworthy. Everyone else is left in the email wild west, where they either have massive amounts of physical and reputational capital (Amazon et al) and get their mail accepted for free, or they're almost certainly trying to spam you (statistically speaking).

This is strongly related to strong centralization of email. I just had my 20,000th email submitted yesterday. Of those 20k, over 12k belong to just 10 domains. Even that overstates the diversity of spam squashing strategies, since most of the domains eventually use the same RBLs, etc.
"... We can imagine wild wolves scavenging on a rubbish tip on the edge of a village. Most of them, fearful of men throwing stones and spears, have a very long flight distance. They sprint for the safety of the forest as soon as a human appears in the distance. But a few individuals, by genetic chance, happen to have a slightly shorter flight distance than the average. Their readiness to take slight risks — they are brave, shall we say, but not foolhardy — gains them more food than their more risk-averse rivals. ..."

I see flight distance every day outside with birds but have never seen it explained well.

There are some birds like Coots (Purple Swamphen, Pukeko ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukeko or Porphyrio porphyrio) who's flight distance is about 20m. I cannot take an photo from the front ~http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/492391687/in/set-72157... The same with the little Corella (Cactua Gymnopis) ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3594879014/in/set-7215... No matter how careful the approach they always fly away at a set distance. Now compare this to the common everyday Magpie (Cracticus tibicen ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Magpie) who even a young age ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3046710061/in/set-7215... don't seem too concerned how close I get ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3993808413/in/set-7215... The Sulphur Crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur-crested_Cockatoo) also seem to have evolved a shortened flight distance ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/490365274/in/set-72157...

Now the question I'd really be interested in is, "could ideas like 'flight distance' be explained in Startups with respect to risk?", "Can you think of Startups in business evolutionary terms? where founders take more risks to obtain more personal reward?", "What are the 'pleiotropy' traits associated with Startups? and are they close to what's described in 'Startups in 13 sentences'?" ~ http://paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
Unfortunately, the market is no better. The governments allow their central banks to print fake money while the market allows its financial institutions to print fake assets.

Whether it's currencies or CDOs, a bubble is a bubble. Valuation is an art that got lost somewhere in the science.
Not to mention Yen has been the strongest currency for recent period and Japan is actually fighting deflation. If there is one currency I'd be worried about - it's GBP and less so USD. UK still has not shown any positive fundamentals out of the recession, while others have.
That was part of the apparent intent behind No Child Left Behind. Since some people just aren't as capable as others, the only way to keep anyone from getting "left behind" is to keep anyone from getting ahead. The "Harrison Bergeron" Act is coming up.
The claim that Ubuntu is somehow related to Windows is, of course, ridiculous. What's more ridiculous, though, is how the author assumes it matters which free desktop he's running. It's, basically, an open invitation for flame war.
The vast majority of users are of the highest quality so I fail to see the benefit of eliminating points on comments. The reality is that the entire problem is downvoting comments. Trust the users, eliminate DV comments, and the quality comments will rise. What is the downside of losing DV while keeping UV of comments?
'Had he not sold on the "lie" it would of never happened... Sometimes you have to get creative with your marketing and take a chance when you believe in yourself.'

So it's OK to lie, because you can put it in scare quotes and talk about it all worked out in the end?
I remember first running into this point with http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html and I'm sure Slava or somebody has pointed out that in postfix languages like Factor and Forth everything is essentially chained which very naturally leads to a function composition style. And that despite the "reverse" nature of RPN it often ends up being "forward", witness in Factor REPL actually being REPL instead of L(P(E(R))).
very interesting... so how do I get bought?
> Consider that in general games and rich interactive things take more CPU than static HTML and graphics, so of course it will take more CPU to render those things. If you don't like it, don't play Flash games and boycott sites that use excessive poorly coded Flash.

There are Javascript/CSS demos out there that are much more dynamic/interactive than the average Flash based ad that still use less CPU.

In a similar vein, there are other Safari plugins out there that do much more than the average Flash based ad that use less CPU.

The Flash plugin uses more resources than people expect it to based on their experience with Flash in Windows, as well as their experience with other technologies on Safari/OS X. I don't think it is a collective hallucination.

Flash on OS X could be better.