skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems more politics than HN worthy.
You know what though? For a college kid in ohio who's used to working the counter at Starbucks $5/hr for coding is a dream come true...

I've worked with a lot of college kids who got into coding after the recession started who's minds were BLOWN that they could earn extra money writing code

When there's no service / labor jobs on the local college market kids start looking for other angles and will take coding work for peanuts
Pressure sensitivity? Editing SVG nodes?? Holy crap this is a canvas drawing app. I'm happy it works as well as it does!

And a pressure sensitive extension would require some sort of modification of the available web tools, afaik.
That's very likely. It's also possible the jobs are easy enough that they just do it in fewer hours.

I was once offered a $3000 contract (at $20/hour) for a project that amounted to stringing together a few generic views and writing a python wrapper around some C++ code.

The job didn't work out for various reasons (I offered to build on spec, they wanted a low hourly rate). If I were telecommuting, I could have spent a day or two building it, wait 2 weeks before delivering it, and pocket $3000 for a days work.
What's so great about SENS? Aren't there lots of other research programs on this?
It both saddens and annoys me that programming for the web requires: A styling syntax, a markup syntax, an ugly programming language, and a xml based graphic format.
NoPC (n): A personal computing device that's neither personal, nor a computer.
And these topics are not cleanly dealt with by society at the moment. I agree that we should deal with these areas better. If we as a society can't agree that terminally ill people should be allowed to die in peace, then I don't think there's any cause for orangecat to be baffled that we don't fund anti-aging research as much as we should. You don't get a billion dollars unless you can have a sensible discussion about the necessary consequences of the research.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7166200/...
We are looking at the beginning of the "World Wage".

In virtual labor, the effect of the recession is going to be a major fluctuation seeking equilibrium between the NYC/CA USA-based $100/hr coders and the Everywhere Else-based $15/hr coders. As people get better at virtual work and clients & employers become more conscious of the value deflation of quality code work people in the US will start fetching less and less and people outside the US will start fetching more and more, until they meet in value. Watch.
Online Dating Services Are Taking a Scientific Approach
I've found headphones work better if I use them no more than 30-40% of the time or so; then people wait until I don't have headphones on to ask me something. Doesn't work if I have them on all the time.
Nice. I love that the approach is different than photoshop. And it is some amazing JS behind the thing too.
perhaps that's because saying "yep, looks great" doesn't contribute anything and would get downvoted.

if you agree that it looks great, you'll upvote the article, which more people have done than upvoting hate comments. (although obviously there are other reasons people might upvote the article.)
On the question of performance, Riak's FAQ says the following:

We've found it to be fast enough for our purposes, and our goal is not to be "fastest" but rather to stay "fast enough" as the system grows, as hosts fail, and so on.

You know what they say, when you ask about a girl and she's just called "sweet", you know she's not a looker!

Riak's probably not appropriate for anyone without a cluster of over a couple dozen nodes, at least.
Only once in a blue moon. And I'd rather walk my mom through the process of: "plug your iPad into the USB cable sitting on the desk. Now, come back in 10 minutes once it's done sync'ing." instead of the normal remote maintenance I have to do.

Do you expect to have a different experience?
I think his point was they are reinventing the wheel to roll on the information superhighway,

even though it doesn't need to go to any destinations off that highway,

and when it was already rolling faster on client-side boulevard
Good points in the article, but my favorite advice on this topic comes from here: The Interview Question You Should Always Ask ( http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2009/01/the_interview_question_you_s... ).

In short, here's the article's main argument:

After you have narrowed the pool of applicants down to those with the skills, experience, and knowledge to do the job, ask each candidate one question:

What do you do in your spare time?

Would this conflict with point #7 (Do "just enough"), or can a passionate candidate be taught to accept less than perfect results? Regardless, I have trouble seeing how you can accurately measure a persons ability to accept "just enough" without input from a trusted third-party.
Nothing can stop you from aging.

Eating right, getting out more, and generally taking care of yourself can put a <1.0 coefficient on a lot of it though.
I wrote a tutorial that might be useful: http://billmill.org/static/canvastutorial/
Any reason canvas can't win (in the long run) for casual web games?
So, they verified the bug over a year ago and haven't pushed out the fix because it's slated for an as-of-yet unreleased point upgrade?

Confidence inspiring.
There should always be guitars. Without them, you won't get new music.

Problem is, not everyone that listens to Abbey Road wants to learn to play the guitar.
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He's a friend of mine; I can forward him your contact info if you wish. It would also be useful to have some idea what you want to contact him about.
maybe the flash performance problems are also slated for an unreleased point upgrade too.

Maybe that's why Windows had all those security problems -- they were all slated for an unreleased point upgrade.
And then there's this weird group of people who don't use Facebook at all. Or so I've heard.
This has been demonstrated with human subjects and long-term follow-up?

Aubrey de Grey is younger than I am, but looks older

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey

and his work has been subjected to a good bit of scientific criticism,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Grey_Technology_Review_contr...

so why should huge amounts of my taxes be directed specifically to his organization, rather than to the usual variety of government-overseen funding agencies, to fund projects that compete on the basis of good science

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/

to show what the real trade-offs are of various treatments?
"The dog ate my homework but I have a copy at home which I can bring some other day"
"it is a tenant of the Flash Player team that..."

Facepalm.

I think "tenet" is the word you were looking for.
Enjoying your free stress test?
One thing I read from this is that Adobe isn't agile enough to ship security or crasher fixes more than once a year. No process for out-of-band fixes? Not something I like to hear from the developer of a plugin on most computers.
Weak. "It's not our fault you don't keep up with our beta cycle."
How are you supposed to look up her skirt?
If the video were faster, people would complain about it being faster than the actual device.
They did at least say they messed up on that.

"The mistake we made was marking this bug for "next" release, which is the soon to be released Flash Player 10.1, instead of marking it for the next Flash Player 10 security dot release."

The 0.1.0 releases are for actual player upgrades and the 0.0.1 releases are for security fixes. The 10.1 release is actually a pretty big upgrade to the player that will be out some time near the CS5 release that features iPhone native app export, woot!

Besides that, I reviewed the Flash Crash code and the situation that causes this bug and it doesn't seem like a common situation where you load a single unique URL that sends two different Flash version files (7/8) when requested one after another. I know my own QA department would be tickled pink if they could recreate this problem in any of my applications but even then I'd first say "who the hell would do something so crazy, this isn't on the top of my pile of stuff to do, I'm still working on making the player run well on the Mac, awesome bug though we'll get to it later"
Adobe is really feeling threatened now, no doubt about it. They are starting to see an eventual Flash-free web as a real possibility.

I wonder if Lotus, Borland, CompuServe, and the other mini-monopolies of their day saw it coming, or just blithely rested on their laurels until they were irrelevant. I was in the tech scene back then, but without something like the internet to keep us informed, it was hard to know what those companies were up to.
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I understand your criticisms, and I agree money should be placed into places likely to bear fruit, but are you really pulling the taxes card? Would you rather have huge portions of your taxes go toward trying to kill people, or toward trying to save people? (I know that's a somewhat unfair question, but take just a bit away from military spending and you have a lot to work with.)
That looks like a reflection of the wall.
FTA:
"...about one third of the companies that had laid people off subsequently rehired some of them as contractors because they still needed their skills."

This happened to me a few months ago, I was made redundant by my employer only to be immediately rehired as a contractor because they need my skills. Now they have to pay me more than before and I get to work from home and use the saved commuting time on bootstrapping my startup. I'd never go back as an employee now. So it was a pretty inefficient cost cutting scheme on their part.
We chose Kunming primarily because of my wife's work-- she is going to document the foodways of the many minority communities in Yunnan before they all disappear via migration or assimilation.

I am learning Mandarin, albeit in my spare time. My wife speaks it well enough to function.

To the other posters: am definitely planning to visit Dali-- in fact we might end up moving there after a year or so if Kunming proves a bit too much like every other Chinese city (crowded, polluted, charmless).

I visited Suzhou 2 years ago -- very pretty city with many of the older sections in the center of town well-preserved, but they were just building the new subway, and SIP and the surrounding suburbs made it feel like the old ways were quite literally under seige from all sides (literally as well as figuratively).

The real challenge (besides finding work that pays USD and includes health insurance, learning Mandarin, etc.) will be to figure out a way to get Z visas so we can take our cats with us! ;) Will need some kind of nominal Chinese employer.

Re: pointing out a negative-- let's just say that this is a very different audience than any other place I'd be looking for work.

If anyone has specific tips for finding FT remote/telecommute jobs (not oDesk/rentacoder/etc), I'd love to hear them!
I think image manipulation applications demonstrate the graphic capabilities of the platform better than anything else. And allegorical language aside, I think web applications are not a reinvention of old solutions, but a reframing of old problems. Hint: the web will kill Adobe's Version Cue faster than it can kill Photoshop. Collaboration is the holly grail.
Theoretically Riak should work well since it is modeled after Amazon Dynamo. However it is likely to have many bugs and corner cases since it is so new.
It's pretty, and it gets you to the content fast. I have no complaints. And the bugs are rad.
An idea so simple that I would never thought of it in a million year.
They ship security updates every few months: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/#flashplayer
The experimental group also exercised more, by not relying on walking sticks etc.

It's been shown that the deterioration of bone density in the elderly can be reversed by simple strength training: inactivity is partly the cause of infirmity.

http://www.naturalnews.com/010528_strength_training_bone_den...
I'm not sure if your familiar with Flash deployment services like Mochi Media but one of the biggest features they give Flash developers is their encryption which is not currently broken. What this means is that the Flash games you develop cannot be decompiled. Even the regular Flash apps you see out there have just a slight barrier to entry to decompile and come out the other end with working code. This kind of safety is comforting to developers. HTML will never have even a little of that saftey.
On the Nexus, can you double-tap an area on a web page to zoom in to that area? That's one way of zooming in with one hand that I like on the iPhone. I'm just curious to see if Google brought that gesture to Android with the recent update.
I took a course with Edward de Bono himself teaching it in the nineties. He sat with an overhead projector next to him and kept sketching all these little nice diagrams. It can help you classify the various effects of a decision. On the creative side some techniques worked for me like introducing random words and so on.
To paraphrase their response:
"The bug was filed right before release... sorry guys we have a lllloooonnnnggg release cycle"
I like how his screenshots plainly include an X-server window, because you can't easily take screenshots without X. (unless you're in a VM I suppose)
I recently went for a couple of weeks without X, after my laptop was stolen and I was forced to use my formerly-headless home server as my primary machine.

Some useful tools the blog post misses include:

Links2 is a hack of the original links that adds framebuffer image support, so you can view webpages with graphics directly. It's pretty limited in every other respect, though.

libcaca, the Colour AsCii Art library, comes with "cacaview" for viewing images on the console. Not terribly useful on 80x25, but if you can boost your console resolution it's pretty good.

vlc include a libcaca output mode, so you can watch movies.

gpm is a must, so you can still select text and middle-click-paste it (also, for mouse support in other console apps).

Of course, if you're going to be using any console tools with any regularity, especially on a remote machine, you probably want to be running them inside a multiplexer like screen or tmux (preferably tmux, since it's (a) actively maintained and (b) actually supports Unicode properly).
SQL query tool/library for static files in Python
I couldn't find a tool for simplifying complex queries on static files (e.g. Apache logs). So I created one. I would love to get some feedback if it's useful for others. I'm open to any suggestion or criticism.
Because it's a solution looking for a problem?

Make a balcony, add a sliding (or pocket) glass door and done. Why would you need to convert between them?
You really think HTML5 adoption will be held back in the minigame market because the source is visible?

I see how it's an advantage, but I think if that's the full extent of why flash will win long-term for minigames, you haven't swayed me very far.
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I felt pretty bad for being so annoyed by that, since I still understood what she was saying.
The default zooming actions prior to the addition of multitouch zoom exactly like you describe.
(seems to be a she)
Only one thing comes to mind.

http://badusure.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/featuresbyver...

(google image)
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The bug is capable of completely locking up modern browsers (to say nothing of the situation back in 2008 when the issue was discovered). Esoteric or not, this should have been on the very top of the work pile and dropped into a security patch immediately.

Yes, they admitted a mistake, but they wouldn't have done so if their actions had been at all defensible.
Work amazingly well. Is there a barrier to this being available as an ordinary font?

> In contrast, I’ve noticed that Microsoft’s smallest screen fonts are unreadable, whereas their smallest readable screen fonts are way bigger than necessary. “

Interesting, given ClearType (an example in "Microsoft’s Creative Destruction" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1100377):
"It worked by using the color dots of liquid crystal displays to make type much more readable on the screen"
Sure, I have complete confidence in using a beta product, prone to crashing, to solve a bug that's two years old.
A company that lets crashing bugs accidentally slip through the cracks like that isn't taking security very seriously yet. That's pretty scary, considering Flash's market share.
> who the hell would do something so crazy

People trying to crack other people's browsers, that's who.
How to harvest Facebook profiles from emails without logging in
That is a bit off-topic, but I guess to respond to what you said in relation to what I said above, the peer review in military research is brutally frank. If the technology doesn't work, you may die because the enemy kills you while you are still young. Yes, there are examples of waste and boondoggles in all tax-supported programs (and plenty of privately supported programs), but as a voter and a citizen I would want more evidence from objective sources before deciding to pile billions of dollars into a speculative research program.
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Except for water and fiber all cereals have almost exactly the same amount of calories per 100g.

So really, all you should check for is the fiber content.

(And it's physically impossible to make a cereal with more energy per 100g than butter.)

To a good approximation ALL foods have about the same amount of calories per 100g. The only real difference is how much water. (And how much fat, but in normal food that doesn't vary so very much from food to food. Water varies a lot.)

This system just encourages manufacturers to add water, (and salt) to their food.

Much better would be "fiber per 100 [kilo]calories", "percent of calories from protein", and "percent - NOT number - of calories from fat".
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Too bad it still crashes with 10.1b2 for Mac..
I will be curious to read about the results. I don't foresee it being very successful. My guess would be 1 in 100, at best, will result in a sale.

I think he'd have more success with iPhone text ads targeting running-related sites on the mobile web. It will cost him $.25 per click, but the conversion rate will be much higher because 100% of the people that click the ad will have an iPhone and be interested in running.
It really depends on the field. Mechanical and civil engineers are the most likely to get a PE, whereas electrical and computer engineers are IIRC the least likely. Mechanical and civil engineers are just more likely to be in situations where it's advantageous to have a PE. (Owning a small engineering services company, for example)
Sometimes you want a phone and not a really bad small PC.
"In this country, you can't fire an employee for any reason other than non-performance of written job duties, and only after three written warnings, and a whole pile of other paperwork. It's easy to get this wrong, and then open yourself up to unfair dismissal actions. The union representatives actively look for these types of cases to prosecute."

I'm pretty sure that this varies by state.
This was also covered in The Affluent Society, which you should read.
You might be surprised at the amount of money they save by not having you as an employee.

They save a few thousand a year on your desk; thousands on unemployment taxes in many states; SS and income tax contributions; healthcare benefits, stock awards, and bonus schemes; etc.

Regardless, it's not necessarily intended to be a pure cost-cutting scheme: switching you to being a contractor essentially improves their liquidity.

It's a little like someone with lots of cash getting a mortgage to buy a house: they could afford it, but they'd rather pay a little more over time to get additional flexibility.
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So - the challenge is, that companies are not looking for $20/Hour developers (Adjust $20/Hour California Wages for wherever you live). They are looking for $50-$70/hour developers, and all that happens, is the $20/Hour developer doesn't get a job.
C. Etzel Pearcy, some professor from some place, drafted up this concept in the 70s to resituate the States into better social groups and to allow more even representation.

Map: http://i.imgur.com/Uway1.jpg

Descriptions: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2006/09/10/5-the-38-state-u...
http://www.tjc.com/38states/
Riak's probably not appropriate for anyone without a cluster of over a couple dozen nodes, at least.

Did you pull this out of thin air?
That's a step in the right direction, and many jurisdictions seem to be doing it lately. However it is still too much. They need more gradations, like how medicine has a spectrum from phlebotomists (people who draw blood) to board certified neurosurgeons. As it is, a handyman who uses Ohm's law to choose the size of a wire has committed illegal engineering.
Apparently he didn't really want a phone: more a GPS!
Relax, guys. The general purpose computer is never going away.
These are manufacturing costs. Don't expect cheap solar panels.
New errors in IPCC climate change report - Telegraph
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So very true. 3DS is technologically horrible. In exchange for protection from certain types of chargebacks, a merchant is expected to iframe a 1995-looking webpage from Visa or MasterCard asking the cardholder to create or enter a password. It's abrupt and unexpected, does not fit into the checkout process of any website, and because it's framed the customer has no idea what site they're really giving their password to. All this adds up to lowering conversion rates and undermining all the anti-phishing efforts the banks undertake by telling you to never give out a banking password without checking the address bar.

The paper recalls a perfect example from one of its authors -- the official 3DS page is served by securesuite.co.uk for some UK banks, so he calls his bank and they tell him it's a phishing scam. Yet merchants are expected to do this, lest their chargeback rate climb too high and the account be terminated.

I've only encountered 3DS in the wild once, and only after registering a card for it in the process of testing my own implementation. It only took two days of running VBV and MSc on one of my websites to see that it would be completely economically infeasible -- doesn't matter if I'm protected from chargebacks if it means half my customers abandon checkout out of fear and confusion.

I've had a real hard time handling card-not-present fraud on my websites. I sell packaged self-service advertising services on one site, and it's highly targeted by the do-no-goods that want to use it to push traffic to affiliate sites and phishing scams. They use stolen credit cards to buy the advertising hoping to funnel good money, or more stolen cards, from the traffic back to their accounts. I still have one merchant account in limbo (bank holding 6 months worth of payments) from spending two years working on fraud detection methods to battle this. I only got chargebacks below 1% through geolocation, country blocklists, proxy detection, my own and 3rd party blacklists, minfraud risk scoring, in-house risk scoring and pattern matching against past fraud, and phone verification of all high risk orders.
> The term engineer has undergone serious deflation over the years

Sorry, but I don't buy that. The term 'engineer' has been around since the Renaissance. Licensed Professional Engineers have only been around since the 19th century.

Nobody is suggesting that just anybody should be allowed to call themselves a Professional Engineer (or the equivalent in various jurisdictions). The attempt in Quebec and a few other places to outlaw most common uses of a word that has been in the English lexicon for 6 or 7 centuries is, frankly, insane.