skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno how other !English languages handle it, but in German both are simply called Assembler. It would also seem that this distinction isn't generally made, due to the human ability to deduce meaning from context.
And please fix your main page.
You're right: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/9/new...
My friend is using a Dell XPS 13 2016 4K running Ubuntu 16.04 and have no big issue. Beware that while Ubuntu (Unity) itself support scaling and works fine with 4K, many applications (especially, the old ones) are unusable with HiDPI.
I come from a graphic design education, so I entered web development from the design side and am working my way through frontend, hoping someday to have full stack skills.

You can get distracted learning the ever-changing frameworks, patterns, and tools - the way I have been able to learn best has been by focusing on writing vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Also, while learning, dont be afraid to write lots and lots of throwaway code! You learn something better doing it 1000 times, than doing it once. Build at a scale where you have time and effort to build lots and lots of little things.
A very reasonable response. Thank you.

I would like to push back on one point of the top though, I don't think the world is so locked in to the consumption of a small nation or any small population. Indeed, panic would happen if America banned imports. But if many in Greece had to take a step back and dramatically reduce their IPhone consumption until they invented new ways to add value, I doubt anyone would notice. The panic of a Greek default seemed to more step from the many who invested there without expecting a collapse. Even now I think a Greek default would be pretty non-eventful given how much warning time everyone had. (Debt defaults of small countries being relatively common)
Basically you are arguing against responsible disclosure?
I would describe the tone of this whole thing as "shit-eating"
Seems they're looking for PHP developers... I don't think I'd be comfortable telling my friends and family that's what I do all day
Great! Now that these easy, low-hanging-fruit features are taken care of, maybe we'll get some of the more involved security oriented ones, like, IDK, having an indication if I verified a contact or not so I can, you know, know whether I should verify or not when the opportunity presents itself.
Some interesting highlights from a quick scan of the data:
item	hot	44

complex carbohydrate entirely grain product	whole wheat bread	4620

free rich company datum	size	33222

issue	stress pain depression sickness	11110

testing device	glucometer diabetes blood sugar test strips insulin pump	7138

big deal	real estate investment opportunity	4135

small portion	couple small cookie	2438

microsoft hardware failure	bad hard drive	2281

affordable and multifunctional furniture piece	sofa	1750

environmental factor	diet	1588

so called designer sandwich	cranberry	1460

practical add on	towel rack	1459

practical accessory	towel rack	1498

shop	el corte ingles department store chain	1499

combustible material	clothe	1405
On Getting AgileAnd Staying That Way
> Maybe people wouldn't use adblockers if their ads were elegantly integrated with their content

I would.
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I lead the User Experience team at Canary, who own all the user facing applications, including iOS, Android & Web. We’re looking for a mid-senior level full stack developer (front-end focus is a plus) to join our team at Canary. The person will work with the engineers who are responsible for building and maintaining Canary’s ecommerce (subscription platform, device sales, etc.), the canary.is website, the back of the house tools for the Customer Experience team, our Customer Communication Lifecycle email platform, and our web app experience.

Please have a look at the job posting[1] if you're interested in learning more about the team and what we do. I'm also happy to answer any questions - e-mail is in my profile.

[0]: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/canary-the-first-smart-ho...
[1]: https://boards.greenhouse.io/canary/jobs/251418#.WBoA-5MrKRs
Another tired accusation about negativity on HN, with no examples.
Earlier this year I spent roughly three months job hunting exclusively through cold-emails based on Who's Hiring posts (I'm in the London area). I applied for 10 positions (and got my 10th - at a fairly large media company)

Some numbers of reasons that I felt I didn't get through the hiring process at the positions I applied for:

* Company changed their mind hiring for the position - 3 cases

* Didn't get through due to insufficient experience - 2 cases

* Didn't get through due to for poor performance on the hiring test - 3 cases

* No response received - 1 case

These numbers are a bit flaky since in the end it's a combination of factors that results in a yes/no decision. But I tried to roughly divide them into what I felt was the main "deciding factor" of the interview process.

For background, I'm a backend / "full stack" developer with 5 years experience (Most of the places that I got filtered out for experience reasons were because I didn't have enough of Brand X, etc)
Well, their politicians rigged the books to get into the treaties in the first place. Things won't be so catastrophic for them (as they weren't for anyone else in 2008-2009) if they didn't report lies on their financial well-being to get accepted.

Why doesn't thing go bad for Poland? Or Czech Republic? Because their finances are solid, not based on vaporware, and they don't lie to the world and themselves to get short-term benefits. And they actually work.
You're describing native advertising, yes, but parent comment is referring to dark patterns like popunders and click jacking.

Edit: Never mind! I see now how this comment is relevant :) It's too early.
Custom. We started with a small Jabber bot framework. Then migrated it to IRC (and terminal for testing).

We cannot publicize all the plugins we made. If we rip out the plugins, it is just a bot framework like many others, just with less features and more convoluted code.

Ok, our filter mechanism is probably unique. We can switch the bot to various german dialects like bavarian, swabian, etc. Works similar to http://rinkworks.com/dialect/works.shtml but changes bot output instead of web pages. It was fun for a week and now nobody uses it anymore.

I once tried to migrate our plugins to Errbot [0], but then decided it was too much effort for too little gain.

[0] http://errbot.io/
It's because nobody really thinks about it until the last minute. That's kind of as it should be, since there are usually more important things to worry about. I think the "back in a jiffy" pages are fine, but if you want something a little friendlier, that's where Wrenchmode fits in.
Yes CPM payment is based on impressions. But ultimately an advertiser will stop buying ads, or significantly lower the CPM, if they don't see click throughs (or better yet, conversions to product purchases, etc.) for those impressions. They keep track of the CTR (click through rate) and if that falls below a certain level they're going to evaluate why.

I don't work in ads anymore, but I get the impression that that industry must be under the impression that CTRs and conversions are in fact dropping because of ad blockers, because there's a rash of new startups that work in the space around detecting and getting around ad blockers.
My old boss had the motto:

"Treat the cleaners like they're The Queen; treat The Queen like she's a cleaner"

I took this to mean: treat cleaners with respect & appreciation; do not fawn and scrape to your bosses.

Similarly: "grief travels up, praise travels down" and "be nice to those you meet on your way up as you may well meet them again on your way down".

I use all of these mantras on a daily basis and I believe they work. I can't guarantee my food is spittle free but I have never had reason to believe otherwise.

I confess I have been known to break this rule with phone spammers.
Have to give the MindGeek employee credit for participating in the bug thread and being upfront about his employer [0]

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129353...
Do mean from a design perspective or from a content perspective? From a design perspective, I agree, but clients pay for obnoxious ads and integrated content is hard to produce even with a sea of copy writers.
Well, I sure do hear about it a lot.
The science behind ADHD medication is far more established than things like depression.

Fear mongering about drugs has led us not to use them for fears of addictions. Alcohol is legal and yet we discourage the use of drugs that may help people medically.

Many people have seen drastic improvements in their lives because of ADHD medication. The potential risks are well worth the reward for people with truly disruptive ADHD.
Ask HN: Experience vs. Education?
I've been struggling a bit in my education, mainly because I want to focus on gaining experience in the technology industry. I was wondering, as an employer, do you tend to favor experience or education from an applicant?
What is this letter in response to?
> He literally gave a case (from memory) about the industry being an early adopter of technology. Not every anecdote needs a citation.

No, he didn't give a case (of porn pushing technology), and he also didn't say his claim was from memory or was an anecdote. So what are you talking about?

He claimed porn used credit cards before "virtually anyone". Which is vague to the point of meaningless, concedes porn was in fact not first, and has zero to back it up anyway.

It's simply a boring "observation" people love to repeat when the topic of porn crops up. That it's actually the top comment here, rather than something about the actual story/submission, is unbelievable.

> Where's your citation about it being a myth?

The fact that there is nothing to back up the claim that porn innovated or pushed technology makes it a myth. You cannot possibly not understand this, so I don't know why you're asking for a "citation".

> Why can't people stop and think about whether their words are useful to the conversation?

If you want to go down that route, what's so "useful" about trotting out an age-old hackneyed myth about porn? What's so "useful" about your reply to me?
Plants ‘see’ underground by channelling light to their roots
Edit: I meant "Non-EU" countries, not non-existent.
A common shady practice these days:

By signing up ... you agree to the terms and conditions.
...
The terms and conditions are subject to change without notice.

--

Consider WhatsApp, for example. It probably said that personal information would not be shared with anyone. And then later changed the terms, it would be shared (with Facebook or whatever).
Continuous Discussions Ep 56 – Special Episode with Electric Cloud Customers
For those wondering what this is in response to, http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/25/13405200/microsoft-teams-...
Ironically, Elementary might have an easier time charging money for it if they positioned it less as an open source project. macOS is built largely atop open source software, and while they do make the GPL'd sources available for download they're not nearly enough to compile an OS with an experience approaching macOS.
I tried spacemacs for a while but I got tired of fighting all the little idiosyncratic differences from real vi. Trying to replicate a sophisticated interface like that, especially one that allows the buildup of muscle memory, is always going to be a fraught problem. It's the Anna Karenina principle [0]:

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
Why do many companies on Inc's 5000 list seem like they don't belong?
I really don't intend this to sound condescending or arrogant in any way but a number the top 50 in Inc's 5000 are not businesses I would expect to be on the list. Yet, clearly they're doing something right. My question is, what are the key things they did right/different to achieve such growth?

Let's take a few specific companies as examples:

#11 - Small Business Owners of America provides short-term financing to businesses and offers services to startups, including incorporations, business plans, and pitch decks. SBOA has a 3-year growth rate of 12,060%

#13 - Suju Juice makes organic, cold-pressured, non-GMO juice beverages and has a 3-year growth rate of 10,511%

#21 - C&H Financial Services provides capital for small businesses, including loans, merchant cash advances, residual based lending, and e-commerce, mobile, and retail payment processing services. Its clients include nonprofits, municipalities, and restaurants. C&H has a 3-year growth rate of 8,053%

#22 - Paykings provides debit and credit card based payment processing services and has a 3-year growth rate of 7,905%

Again really don't mean to sound condescending but if you provided me nothing but the descriptions above, I would never guess these companies are in the Top 50 of Inc’s list. Clearly my knowledge is limited and I’m missing something here. Thoughts?
Microsoft Teams (Slack competitor) will be launched in a few minutes: http://news.microsoft.com/november-2016-event/
> " Currently, from one wholesaler I can order a 50lb box of hardware, and UPS charges them $21 to $23 to ship it from Chicago to Seattle in the span of about 18hrs and get it on my doorstep."

Not sure how they are doing that. The UPS rack rate for 50lbs from Chicago to Seattle is $83 via Ground, $161 for 3 day select, $252 for 2nd day air, and $310 for Next Day Air Saver. I can't see $23, even for ground...I don't know of anyone with a discount rate that good.
How to generate substantial revenues and create millions of new valuable jobs?
Your second experience just sounds like you got a bad driver, which has happened to me with uber/lyft before they left.

I mostly use Ride Austin which has been reliable, but I've also used Fasten numerous times without an issue.

It is the wild west of TNCs right now in Austin, I'm curious to see who comes out on top. I'm just glad they popped up quickly after Uber/Lyft left.
Ubuntu Built with Qt
Instagram makes it easier to shop for products in your feed
I think she meant non-EU countries.
I'd suggest you to read https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/10/bringing-salar..., the section about privacy.
Systemdemacs will take care of that.
Gravity4 laid off a large number of remote contract employees back in March, and also paid less than the total of the owed money.
No reasons provided.
Anyway you shouldn't expect much of the company of that guy with that criminal record.
Hacking a mobile API and how to protect yourself
I was a bit sarcastic, because in my mind this is a no brainer. As soon as a hacking technique becomes public, every script kiddie will get their hand on it, and then suddenly your server is not exposed to just a team of russian hackers that may have used it in a targeted attack completely unrelated to your business, but to anyone else on the web, potentially scanning all IPs.

You might have actively looked into the technique used, understood it, and done something to mitigate it. What about the hundred of millions of Windows servers that rely on monthly updates for security patches, maintained by IT teams that do not have the resources or expertise to investigate every MSFT security bulletin in detail. They will become sitting ducks. Is that a good outcome?

In my mind it is a rhetorical question.
This was one of the most stupid post I've seem a company publish. I don't know about what he is talking but I'm going to search it with a feeling that this guy is a looser.

Edit: more stupid than I thought! They bought a full page ad.
Edit 2: I hate M$, but Slack doesn't help either.
I've thought about this as well. Ultimately you need access to some pretty private data. One thought I've had is to use the mint/intuit APIs to get a list of a persons transactions in their bank account and find the ones that occur every 2 weeks, etc.

Or possibly have users upload paystubs, though you'd have to have someway to verify. I'm sure that's possible.
Wait, you've had local competitors come in and fill the gap when Uber and Lyft left? But I thought Austin's new law was job-killing regulation that would make it impossible to have modern ride-hailing services there. Surely Uber and Lyft didn't lie to us?
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To add on to this, this thinking of "fake" vs "real" gratitude falls into the typical Socratic thinking of "I can tell you what isn't XXX but I can't tell you what it is cause I'm not wise yada yada." As human beings we like to think we can tell human beings intentions. However, as miscommunication proves, we often can't, at least accurately. Having individuals go through the motions of generosity, humility, and gratitude is just as good as teaching people those intentions e.g. play the part long enough and you stop playing.
I personally value far more the possibility to easily replace hw (battery for sure, cpu, ram, and ssd at minimum, but even looking also for screen, keyboard and wlan cards). For me is a good compromise in exchange of even 1-2 cm more in thickness.

Just recently I was looking for a new laptop and ended up buying a refurbished thinkpad t430 (270e with 8gb [gonna become 16] ram, ssd and i5 3rd gen)just because I am sure I can change basically every part of it whenever I want for a low price.
Another Chapter Finished
Can ms do something better than the pile of crap that is Skype for business?
Yes anonymization is the problem I was thinking of.
Oh yah, well what if I had javascript disabled altogether?
Yes. Working since 1 year for one of the company regularly posting in the "Who's hiring".
Maybe these companies started at a low base.
The failing business and laid off workers combined with executive compensation increases/bonuses is very much an example of why Sanders and Trump are so popular, and why candidates like them (or more extreme) will come out of the woodwork in 4 years.
You're right, I completely forgot to mention the battery life! Mine is around 2-3 hours currently, and it will probably go down as it gets older. My last laptop had similar specs and similar battery life, so my current thinking is that most high-spec 15" laptops just have crappy battery life (although I've never owned a 15" Macbook, so if they have similar battery life to the 13" ones, they wouldn't fit this hypothesis). Of course, I have extremely few points of data for this, so if someone has had a different experience with a similar laptop, I'd love to hear about it!
When did Slack become an "open platform"?

Ugh, really hate work going this way. Slack is an all-day all-hands meeting with no agenda. I miss async email.
A new dimension of passive aggressiveness.

Honestly though, that's hilarious.
You could quite easily make an application that looks like that in either GTK or Qt and fits with the current desktop theme on Linux
Before posting, double check your severance agreement. It's common to have a non-disparagement (no bad mouthing) clause in it.
It appears that this isn't one of those cases.

On June 27th, someone pointed out in the Chrome bug tracker[0] that an ad network called RevDefender started using WebSockets to deliver ads.

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129353...
Didn't see your comment when I posted mine, but I feel much the same.

It's just far more interesting and satisfying. Telling someone to walk on a treadmill to help their focus is like telling them to watch paint dry. But team sports are dynamic, which I feel suits people such as myself, who have a hard time staying focused on one thing.
In the store-based model, the customer handles the 'last mile' of getting the product from a distribution center (the store) to their home.
Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
Much ad revenue comes from views, not clicks. Some quick back of the napkin math:

- 21.2 billion visits in 2015

- Average of 9% of users using Ad Block

- Let's assume an average CPM (amount paid per 1000 views) of $2.00

- Let's assume 0.01% of users use adblock

That's ((21,000,000,000 * 9%) / 1000) * $2.00 = $3,780,000 in lost revenue due to adblock.
The problem isn't (at least with me) not that I have a problem with paying for content, but with opening and attack vector that isn't even controlled by the primarily visited outlet (be it porn or journalism).

It wouldn't (at least in my case) be a problem with advertisement per se.

Adservers with additional adservers behind them (and cascading further down) where only one would have to be compromised to infect my machine is what makes me use hard rules not to let (unknown) third party requests on any page pass.

I try to minimize my flank surface in regards to such online attack possibilities. In my case it is with adblocking, a curated and regularly updated host file, 3rd party request blockage and so on...

OK, the net is mostly unusable and painful nowadays, but that is the price to pay.
Presumably the site in question wouldn't be functional then, but it would solve it.
Another reason is that nobody is detonating nuclear bombs in space these days. A major cause of Telstar's short life was intense radiation from high-altitude nuclear tests. I'm not sure how long it would have lasted without that....
It's not like NSA and Chinese gov. hackers weren't doing the same, hilariously hypocritical to blame only one party. Same was happening with surveillance, with basically everyone with their hands in the cookie jar.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37833146
This is really terrible. Since nobody's name is actually on it, I assume their marketing team wrote it.

I understand that Slack's valuation is based in part on the idea that they can convert large portions of the enterprise market, and that Microsoft has a pretty great track record of burning that market down. It makes sense that they'd want to write something to maintain their claim on the enterprise market.

But this piece can't decide who it's talking to, and so it's probably pretty cringe-y to everyone.
Tell HN: Dear downvoters, I cannot read your thoughts
Hi downvoters!

I firmly believe that there is more to learn from being challenged than from an upvote and a few nice word.

Based on the downvotes I receive I think I can sense that a number of you disagree with my views from time to time even if more people usually agree.[0]

This is where I'll have to admit my fault: this feeling of disagreement is as far as my thought reading skills goes, - I cannot read your thoughts unless you post them.

So please: in addition to your downvote - which I appreciate - please leave a comment on what I got wrong.

Thanks in advance,
R Q

[0]: Or less flatteringly: downvotes close before upvotes and less people have access to downvote.
Try out this Chrome extension that works as a LinkedIn recruiting assistant, it provides salary range estimates based on company, job title, and region. As well as the likelihood of changing job along with many other data points.

https://candidate.ai
To add onto this, I remember explaining the idea of our devops team to my non-technical/muggle coworkers at one point. Explaining how "the cloud" and "servers" are really just OPM (other peoples' machines) and that you need entire teams to orchestrate those servers (among other things) opened their eyes to how comparable IT teams are to civil engineers.

I like to think they enjoyed learning about the process and will appreciate it more in the future.
Does anyone other than people walking into the UPS store pay those rates? I've shipped things for work before, and our rates are nearly two orders of magnitude less than those rack rates. Maybe the actual price is not what's being shown to me though.