skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have actually been on the other side of the hiring process. The best candidate that ever crossed my path was a Microsoft employee who was a high school dropout and applied anyways for a position asking for post-secondary qualifications (e.g., community college or university).

I've never been drowned in resumés so maybe my opinion would be more along the lines of yours if I had been. It's a job seeker's market up here in Toronto. I think the most resumés I've had to deal with for a particular position is a couple of dozen. When I was hiring I would only post the job ads at places like JoelOnSoftware's job board. I'd never post it on Monster as I consider places like that to attract too many poor quality candidates.
How much would you pay for commercials?
I suppose I did not really expand upon my point as much as I should have. You are right, it is a useful development, and may prove crucial in the future. I am familiar with why it can be needed in areas devoid of trees.

However, it seems that planting trees is like giving a blood transfusion to someone who has a massive arterial bleed. Yes, you are helping, and it is needed, but the real problem should be addressed first- deforestation.
The actual quote: "It's too bad this had to happen under a proprietary platform with privacy problems."
FYI, the average longshoreman in the US makes $50k-$100k annually. It's an incredibly hazardous job.
The issue that I have is that some companies play this game where they ask for the sun, moon and stars in the requirements because they think that it will draw in only the best people, but others actually make their requirements exactly what they want.

Some people apply to job postings with the assumption that the requirements are only a rough guideline, while others apply only if they exactly meet the qualifications.

When you hear hiring managers complaining about how they put up a job posting for a Perl developer with 5 years of Perl experience, but got 100s of applications from people that are fresh out of college and haven't even heard of Perl, hiring practices like the ones you advocate are at fault. If job seekers can never know when to trust that the qualifications being asked for are really the ones that employers want, then there will always be a disconnect.
If those are the issues you're concerned about then I don't think a Pirate Party is actually helpful.

But it's an interesting question: if you want a certain type of political change are you better off forming a crazy extremist group or a modest mainstream one?
Monads As I Have Known Them
The Sexy Russian Spy’s Business Plan (And A Video Interview)
Anyone who thinks this is a good idea will be quickly cured by watching 5 minutes of Entertainment Tonight...or indeed, most local news broadcasts.

I'm very much against censorship and think the 1st Amendment is one of the cornerstones of American life, but in a few matters I am unable to shake off my European upbringing. One is Court TV shows like Judge Judy where they re-enact small claims hearings for entertainment purposes. Another is mugshots and 'perp walks' released to or conducted for the media when someone is arrested. While the suspect very often turns out to be the right person, I'm just horrified by the fact that someone can be identified and displayed publicly as a prisoner before they've even been arraigned and entered a plea. It creates a presumption of guilt among the general public and (IMHO) is a direct cause of lawyers following up by holding press conferences and making statements designed to sway 'the court of public opinion'.

Public opinion occasionally yields treasures like the Declaration of Independence, but is equally enthusiastic about everything from riots to the idea of buying a pet rock. Excuse my cynicsm...this topic brings out my grumpy elitist like few others!
I don't seem to feel the same way that most people do on this issue. Why is it so bad that the corporation that owns the rights to Mickey Mouse, and still uses "him" to make money, retains the rights to that character? Why should it be our right to make money off it as well?
Data importers, pieces that deal directly with RAC, sound like critical infrastructure where GC is an issue.

I didn't mean critical computation, query and logic components. Perhaps "infrastructure" was too vague.
Oh please. Most programmers already somewhat decent editors like Textmate, Notepad++ or Vim.
And this is the crux of the biscuit.

A large measure of StackOverflow's success-- perhaps the most significant factor-- was the immediate traction that came from readers of Joel and Jeff's blogs. SO had a ready-made audience, due to the notability of its sponsors.

It's not at all clear to me that this is scalable via the Area51 model.

Clearly, it takes more than 360 people to make a site successful. The question is: who is in the best position to attract the attention of the prospective users quickly and effectively? Time will tell, I suppose.
New Short Contest - Coming This July
Not necessarily. Learning to program C++, learning how to design a programming language, and learning about Big-O notation are arguably somewhat removed from web development.

I have a BS in CompSci, and I don't feel like I needed to get it to do quality web programming. Design patterns, AVC, etc were all things that I learned outside of my degree.
silly idea
"Hashrocket (Rails) execs (not Obie)"

Can someone explain this? What is Hashrocket? Who is Obie? I assume this is related to ruby on rails?
Zed is not only controversial, but prolific. There are lots of opportunities to talk about him.

Not only that, but lots of his projects are relevant to HN... mongrel2 seemingly started out as a fun little "how can I put these things together" project, MulletDB is similar, etc.
thought i'd weigh in on this

obviously if you are an amazing engineer without a degree, of course come talk to us. arash, my cofounder and the slacker that he is, does not have his bachelor's degree :)

so hope you can give us the benefit of the doubt that we didn't intend to exclude qualified people
Yes, yes, yes. I'd rather read one million stories about a math mathematician rejecting a prize for solving an incredible puzzle, than a single story about Tiger Woods' life
Hashrocket isn't profitable? Why not? Consulting is a pretty straight-forward business model, and they're pretty well known, so they shouldn't have much trouble charging enough to cover their costs.
I am skeptical, since the conclusions so closely match what I'm sure a lot of people would like to believe.
Keyspace is replicated; when consistent, every node has a complete copy of the data. Cassandra distributes the keyspace across many nodes; in a reasonably-sized cluster a node will have only a fraction of the data. A write-heavy workload will scale horizontally with Cassandra but will probably be as slow as the slowest server in the cluster with keyspace.

Cassandra is tolerant of partitions in the cluster; if communication between two parts of a cluster are cut off, read and write operations that don't demand consistency will not fail. Keyspace has "dirty" reads that will continue to return inconsistent data when this occurs but all write operations require a majority of nodes to be up and in communications with one another.

Cassandra's data model is more sophisticated than Keyspace's. You can have multiple column families (essentially, namespaces) in Cassandra that can be ordered arbitrarily, given a plugin to compare two keys. Supercolumns are (this is a very simplified explanation) columns with tuples (key1, key2) as keys. Keyspace is a simple key/value store.

Both Cassandra and Keyspace support ranged gets; Cassandra supports multi-gets of a list of arbitrary keys as well. Keyspace supports increment and compare-and-swap operations that Cassandra does not.

Cassandra is used in production by a good number of places; I don't know who, if anyone, is using Keyspace.

All my knowledge of Keyspace comes from reading the thorough and clear whitepaper they offer at http://scalien.com/pdf/Keyspace.pdf.
You're on HN; You are expected to be slightly more articulate in your criticism.
that's totally inappropriate
Hashrocket is a well-known Rails consulting company, and Obie Fernandez is a founder and is pretty well-known as well.

http://hashrocket.com/
That's not how it works at all though. Speeds step down at different rates depending on many factors.
Shouldn't all software have a clearly labelled expiration date like dairy products do?
"Facebook is using some seriously magical secret sauce to figure out who your friends might be, then what you might like based on your shared demographics, before asking you anything more than your email, name and age. That's pretty amazing."

Did this part bother anyone else as much as it bothered me?

If you're not a Facebook user, then you obviously have not agreed to Facebook's terms of use, and have not given Facebook permission to use your info (e.g. email address).

I would have figured this would preclude them from keeping your email address when friends hand it over and using it as a key for datamining stuff about you even if you've never signed up for their service.
In fact, the battery percentage option on the 3GS and the 4 allows for such a choice, but you're right that it's uncommon.
I run my servers on Linode. I've set up test servers on my desktop with virtualbox. I have a wiki in which I keep track over everything I do and how install/remove software. Read lot's of books and articles on the net. Get a ServerFault account to ask questions.
She is a one-issue writer, and therefore her opinions should be taken with a larger-than-average grain of salt. How much assumed-distortion is there in an article written by Billy Graham, or the Pope, or one of the more violent terrorist groups, or a super-conservative/liberal/communist/large-international-business-owner, especially when talking about their opposition?

I'm not taking a side in this, just pointing out the intent of the post.
Space Station on SomaFM
Uh... and you think that ridiculously misleading title is anything other than a press release? The "it sucks" comment was thrown in as an afterthought.
As we’ve learned from StackOverflow, it’s better to pick a broad topic and have a lot of experts in one place, communicating and helping with each other’s problems

Yeh, solid point. All the current sites are highly active because of their broad domain overview.
You are correct I meant mean (I can't edit anymore)
> small minds discuss people.

Are you really claiming that anyone that talks about people is a 'small mind?' When my daughter gets older (old enough to talk) and I ask her how her day was, does that somehow lower my intelligence and make my expertise suspect?

> average minds discuss events

If your building is on fire, does it lower your intelligence to talk about it because it's not abstract enough?
That's a more general, interesting question. Having an expiration date to software is kind of annoying, and I think that it shouldn't be done in general. But, when it comes to browsers, I think this would be so helpful to the progress of the web that it would be worth the annoyance.
How is it you know anything about Hashrocket's profitability?
This is awesomely good advice all around.
He's particularly known for writing The Rails Way published by Addison-Wesley (http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Way-Obie-Fernandez/dp/0321445619) which he did just prior to founding Hashrocket.
I would expect that most Facebook users won't friend random people just because of shared interests. The public nature of Twitter is more strongly suited at finding people with similar interests. Suppose I want to find somebody with an interest in the Android operating system. On twitter, I can search for Android and see who's tweets look most intriguing.
> I do believe that the stackoverflow people have (much) more experience in handling such websites then Joseph. I can very easily trust them to do regular database backups

Except, you know, for that time when the stack overflow guys lost everything on their blog due to "catastrophic data loss" and also subsequently found out that their backups were toast, too. :P

I kid, I kid...

Just use the site that is currently operational, this isn't really a life-altering decision. (Right now I am agonizing if I should submit this comment to hacker news or reddit.)

EDIT: On an unrelated note, my IP appears to be banned from StackOverflow.com. I have never used/abused the site (I don't even have an account there) outside of browsing a few times. It has been banned for at least half a year. Very annoying. Even the big guys get stuff wrong sometimes.
I don't think that it's a foregone conclusion that Area51 generates niche sites, just because it generates niche site proposals. I for one believe that it's the big blockbuster stackoverflow-size sites that will actually make it to the end of the Area 51 process and will actually get created.

And, if I were a betting man, I wouldn't bet against StackOverflow's monthly 7 million users. In fact I would be betting on the statistics Stack Exchange site launching in the next couple of weeks and getting critical mass very very quickly.
Why are politically-themed op-eds so inaccurate and poorly sourced?

http://factcheck.org/2010/06/oil-spill-foreign-help-and-the-...
The question is: who is in the best position to attract the attention of the prospective users quickly and effectively?

I'm willing to bet bravura at this point. Simply because he has the traction way way before the Stackexchange versions launch plus he has all the communities together. All it needs is a little momentum and Area 51 sites will struggle to catch it.
Compass in Your Gut
I'm not so sure about that.
This uses my company's PHP templating engine (which is open source and available at http://tierratemplates.com) and our internal CMS framework:

// controller function
public getcolors($request) {
$db = CMS::GetDB();
$request->favcolor = $db->transform($db->getRows("select * from favcolor order by color, name"), "collect", "color");
}

// and the template

{@ favcolor ?
"<ul>"
`<li><strong>{$key}</strong>: {$:implode(", ")}</li>`
"</ul>" @}

the template uses a control structure called a conditerator (more info at the site). The controller uses a data transform to convert the set of rows into a hash of rows keyed on color.

I think that is more concise and reads better than the BRL example.
Device Lets You ‘Harvest’ Electricity From Overhead Power Lines
RIP Hashrocket
Huh? In the world I grew up in, the controller is the middleman sitting between the model (the raw data representation or, at the highest level, the ORM) and the view (the "client", if you will). The controller is where the application logic lives. In a web app, the view is the HTML chain (it requires the web server, the browser and the HTML/JS/CSS to be complete) and the controller is just about everything that sits between the database and the HTML page. Complete separation of the view and controller can only really happen with a templating system (or with a page that essentially self-assembles in the browser using AJAX/AJAJ).
This is an extreme demonstration of brand value and why some companies are so quick and determined to cut out trademark misuse.

Selling listings in a "directory" at $300 a pop isn't easy. Stick the phrase "Yellow Pages" and a YP logo on it, however, and you can clearly clear millions of dollars over several years.
So does mean that money makes executives mean or that mean executives pay themselves more than nice executives?

Correlation is not causation.
Are good artists prohibited from drawing in courtrooms? I'm not familiar with the rules, so I'm curious if a photo realistic artist could draw the scene.
The Pretence of Knowledge - Hayek Nobel Prize lecture
How is the title misleading? I don't think it is, and neither do a bunch of other readers who've commented, tweeted, etc.
I take issue with your use of the phrase "smacks of misogynism" for two reasons:

1) it makes you sound extremely pretentious

2) it's a totally inaccurate characterization of the piece

Seriously, I wish people would stop throwing the word "misogyny" around like an article. Misogyny is the categorical hatred of women. Very, very few people/pieces are actually misogynistic. Someone is not a misogynist because you suspect that they dislike women. In particular, this article is in no way misogynistic by any stretch of the imagination. Not even the quote you provided is misogynistic. It's quite cynical and quite a stretch, but it doesn't signify a hatred of women in any way.

This is something that really pisses me off in general. People need to stop abusing the English language to push their ideological agendas. I'm going to start calling people out on it from now on, and I hope that other HN readers are inspired to do likewise.
I prefer silent updates.
The two types of people who cause the biggest grief in open source
It is funny that we are still using these old systems in CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA.

This week, NuCaptcha launched a video captcha offering. They have solved the readability and sweat labor issues that have come about. It's a true security offering that also improves input accuracy to 99%.

http://Nucaptcha.com

Disclosure: I've advised with NuCaptcha on a pro bono basis.
For software which could be interesting also far in the future (I only can think of games or other somewhat artistic software), I would make it in a way that the expiration date check is only done if the software is able to find an update.
Same here. Actually, I'd say it's quite a compliment. Abnormal just means that you don't have typical tastes in beauty, so it means her beauty is of special kind.

I found the first girl on the right definitely more attractive, but I generally find slightly more masculine looking women more attractive, even though I'm quite heterosexual. I guess most men just like more feminine looking women because of some kind of dominance instinct. (Though it could also just be a flawed study, a statistical fluke of some sort.)
Silent updates should definitely be done, but they will not work under all scenarios. (e.g. computers that reinitialize themselves on every reboot like in some universities, computers that aren't connected to the Internet like in some paranoid companies, etc.)
It can't be fear of pre-trial publicity: Major trials are front-page news, with or without a video feed, and the days of the blissfully ignorant jury pool are long gone.

It can still be fear of exacerbating an existing problem. That said, would this be mitigated by only allowing release of the footage after everything is over?
Quick! Someone register "catpchaclassic.com"
One of the more irritating slideshows I've ever used.
I don't like having to click "show more" after I've read a half paragraph of text.
Seems incredibly speculative. As far as I know there's no convincing evidence that radio-frequency waves can be linked to cancer, let alone that radio waves plus bedsprings can be linked to cancer.

And yet I'm sure there'll be thousands of people going to sleep tonight, spooked that their beds are about to give them cancer.
This has been happening in politics for quite a while now. Serious pundits and campaign advisers openly discuss issues of narrative, image, and perception on mainstream news programs, with little regard to how well that perception matches reality, and without any concern that viewers will read between the lines and realize that they're being sold an illusion.

Meanwhile, everyone knows that no politician writes their own speeches anymore, but clap and cheer anyway when they're told what they want to hear by a professional marketer whose job is to create warm fuzzies around a brand.
It'd be nice if freelancers could post their resume/company info as well.
I don't have any specific advice for learning but if you're having some trouble researching a specific topic or you have a difficult question drop by #slicehost on irc.freenode.net and ask your question. Someone should be along within an hour, usually faster. (IRC can take some time to get answers, I drop by a few hours a day to read what's happened while I was busy with real life)
Thus, as we sleep on our coil-spring mattresses, we are in effect sleeping on an antenna that amplifies the intensity of the broadcast FM/TV radiation.

How, precisely, does this work? The perpetual-motion-machine club would love to know. If it's just referring to focusing... I'm still curious as to how. And I'm still doubtful that this amount of energy has even remotely as much impact in breast cancer as the increased complexity of your left chest compared to your right.

And comparing nation A's cancer rate to nation B's and claiming it's strongly related to one difference is, I suspect, nuttery, unless an entire nation decides to camp on Chernobyl annually. How about diet? Different building materials? Different chemicals in the ground-water? Or the giant, radioactive lizards doing daily battle with the monster-of-the-day? (how DO they rebuild so quickly?!)

Still, if this is the case, wouldn't grounding your mattress solve the problem? Why not do that and see if it's different? All those metal springs are attached together by wires anyway.
small minds discuss people.

Your comment is a good warning against making generalizations about people's behavior considering you spent the next three paragraphs doing just that ;-)
You're confusing Hashrocket, the web development company, with United Directories, the company being charged. The people being charged are essentially initial investors. Pointing a finger at Hashrocket in this scenario is not unlike blaming every startup that was invested in by an angel or VC that later ended up involved in fraudulent activity. None of this means that Hashrocket is not at all at fault, but based on the news that we all have, you're drawing unreasonable conclusions. If however you have other sources, please share them here, otherwise you're just trolling.
Why don't we all wait until after the holiday here, let the dust settle a bit, and see what happens before we start taking sides?
Well, this is the dumbest thing I've read today, but it's still early. I guess SciAm is trying to reclaim some of the lucrative New Scientist demographic.
If the iPhone and Android were women…
Now imagine everyone not having time for other things in their life. We would be a much LESS productive society..

Not much imagination needed. That's exactly what the pre-industrial age was like :-)
This is really stupid.

We get lots more exposure to sun on the left-hand side because of driving.

Think "truckers tan".

This explains the anomaly with the japanese, who sit on the right-hand side of their car.
Hmm, now I want to get to the bottom of this.

This article from deepseanews contradicts sections of this:

http://deepseanews.com/2010/06/the-jones-act-and-the-oil-spi...

As far as I can tell, foreign-flagged vessels can operate, but only if they're at least three miles offshore and (more importantly) have their crews replaced by Americans. I can see how this could cause problems, not only because vessel owners might be reluctant to hand over their vessels to new crews but because the new crews might not be experienced at operating them.

There are definitely fifteen foreign-flagged vessels participating in the cleanup, but fifteen isn't very many. Is it not true that the Jones Act is preventing more from showing up? It still seems like a completely insane set of restrictions.
and homeopathy.
Chuck Feeney's philanthropy checklist (entrepreneur friendly)
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Article I
Section 1.

All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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Regardless of our respective opinions on the matter, I don't see an [honest] interpretation of the above which gives the court (a) legislative power to (b) abridge the freedom of the press [within it's on courtrooms].