skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um... if you think that's bad, all I can say is you haven't used public transport in the US. To pick just one thing -- the subway in NYC isn't air conditioned. In a city that regularly sees 80F-95F temperatures with high humidity. In the summer, the subway doesn't make you just sweaty; it makes you pour sweat out of your body. Entering the stations feels like descending the mouth of hell.

And in NYC, the subways break all the time. Like when it rains. Because, you know, that never happens in the city :rolleyes: And again, passenger density in Moscow is no greater than on the green line in NYC. Shoving is worse in NYC. And for the record, I rode the subway I'd at least 600 times.

Or in SF, it's a minor miracle when elevators and escalators work. Or when muni gets you places reasonably quickly. And you see stuff like, well, your halfwit muni driver pulling over to fire up her crack pipe. Or a banger dropping his gun down his pants. Or street trash with an odor noticeable 20 feet away physically assaulting passengers. Etc.

You'll note that in my original post, I compared it favorably to American public transport. The fact that you haven't mentioned, in two exchanges, any comparison except price in LA where Moscow is worse than American transport makes me believe you aren't aware of any. Quoting myself: "Better public transport, at least in Moscow, than anywhere in the US."
It's interesting how the negative list seems to be heavily-populated by unigrams from a phrase something like "doesn't actually do anything". The app store must have a significant misrepresentation-of-functionality problem.
It might not be able to regrow the limbs today, but it is nice to know that somebody in the medical industry is actually working on improving our lives through new innovations.

Far too often it looks like they are happy just getting rent and doing a few modifications to existent patented medicine so that they can get another 20 years monopoly.
Funny to find "open" in the 1-star list. (not saying that that actually means anything)
Artificial "skin" materials can sense pressure
If you have a feeling that you can do this without going to college and that it's a waste of time, you are probably right.

Also, you should consider to do formal part time study. With some skills and knowledge on your back you will find out that taking some exams part time isn't too hard when you can focus more full-hearted than a regular student. You can cherry-pick your courses and later, when you have saved some money, perhaps finish with a degree if you feel like it. Best of luck.
I don't know. But it'll usually give you the memory, send the level 2 memory warning (level 3 is kill), and then kill you shortly after. The memory warning is supposed to be a warning to release cached data, so it's sort of hard to release the data you're working on right at that point in time gracefully.
While the new crop of "Instance [website] Search" projects are cool, I feel like most are missing the key feature of Google Instant: predictions. Without predictions, the user never knows what search returned the current results. Instead of instant search, these examples feel like instant filtering.
For things like a search engine I think it makes more sense to compare it to the supply chain that produces other things that we use. The page that shows up in the web browser that we interact with is more akin to a piece of fruit we buy in the grocery store. I certainly know how to eat a banana, but I couldn't begin to tell you how many companies and technologies were involved in delivering that banana to me.
AFAIK it was written as the research, not to run at any specialized hardware, then "sold" as being able to run the phone switch, but it needed a "big iron" computer attached to it just to drive that switch (!) -- it was that slow. And AFAIK it's still very slow. Up to quite recently it wasn't even able to use more cores.
Yes. Check out Marco Arment's preview.fm. He had a similar web app that allows you to preview album.
>And do you really think the US has no legitimate interests in what non-citizens do with US citizens in other countries?

I would say they don't, since it happens on another states soil.
Shouldn't the headline read something more like "Senior engineer confirms he is woking on MacRuby for iOS" -- didn't seem to me that he is implying that it is an official Apple project.
Popup Domination Reloaded
Yes, it’s the Popup domination revolution which started all this ridicules way of list building. So many discussions was running recently about blogs with popups, blog visitors and readers who are not fans of popups, how not to annoy your blog readers while building your email list.
The average programmer skills probably stay constant but the average line of code is dependent on how many programs have versus how many lines of code they accumulated so far. However, you can bet older products will have more features by the virtue of code accumulation. With carelessness of some programming team, they become slower. Others, being more careful, will remain the same. Still others, gain in performance with practices that allow them reliable improvement in code quality.

Programs might have done more stuff, or not depending on what software you're looking at. Browsers on the whole do more stuff, but they also do it fast and efficient.

The evolution of software is much more dynamic and tricky to figure out. They are like corporations. Some corporation accumulate bureaucracy, others remain so-so, and others shed accuracy as a matter of survival.
I wish I did my degree in Physics and just took the advanced Computer Science classes.
Shouldn't the headline read something more like "Senior engineer confirms he is woking on MacRuby for iOS" -- didn't seem to me that he is implying that it is an official Apple project.
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> I'm an aspiring and pretty badass dev and designer

Some tens of years ago programming was a very respectable engineering activity.

Today it is basically a blue collar job, at the complexity level comparable to that of plumber or electrician (though i doubt that many of today "badass" programmers would be able to muster all the knowledge required for and successfully pass the related plumber or electrician exam. Don't know about other states, in CA you'd need 4 years of related professional experience working for somebody who already have a license before you'd be eligible to even take the exam).

Tomorrow - programming would logically come to being just a very basic rudimentary skill people apply among others while performing some professional activity.

In general, the basic education level isn't K12, it is K16. It is your own personal choice whether you wanna be a dropout and stake all your future on some basic skill you developed while in the middle-school (ie. K5 to K12 grades).
Misreporting economy in Venezuela - "Even reading NY Times, you get Fox News"
I think looking at it as i tried to outline in the post that Facebook should really only send out messages to confirmed email addresses. If this was the case it would effectively stop the problem and not allow bypassing the security questions
The main consequences are if that most of your new work will probably come from references through past clients, so if you regularly screw up, you probably won't be able to generate as much work.

However, I think you're asking the wrong question. Don't ask "What happens if I deliver a crappy product?"

Instead, ask "How can I make absolutely certain that I will deliver a product that the client is pleased about?"

You won't get it right all the time, especially not at the beginning, but you'll find that in general that's most to do with your ability to manage client expectations than with your coding skills, so don't worry about delivering a crappy product - instead worry about managing client expectations so they're never negatively surprised by what you deliver.
Love that plugin, great review :)
"It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."

Tom Lehrer

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/it_is_a_sobering_thought_tha...
I doubt that it's true in America but the vast majority of prostitutes live elsewhere. For a poor person living in the 3rd world, you're probably not going to secondary school so you end up starting your "career" a little earlier. Also, consider differing ages of consent.
My anecdotal experience is different from yours. In the early 2000s I finally reached a point where I generally didn't care if my computer was the newest/fastest kid on the block. But of course Your mileage and usage may vary
To take an extreme example, if a non-citizen kills an American on foreign soil, America has no interest in the matter?

I'm not implying they have the primary interest, just trying to ascertain if you think they have no legitimate interest.

ADDED: To take one iconic example, "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead"....
http://www.macruby.org/

not much of a secret ... and that senior engineer also is the one who pitched the project to apple for the record
It may well be a usability problem - the app does what it says on the tin, but the user can't figure out how. In my experience the usual meaning of "It won't do x" is in fact "I know it does x, but I can't figure out how to make it". Rightly so in my opinion - I think it's part of the great cultural divide in computing, where developers see software as a toolkit but users expect appliances.
I would suggest that you summarize your projects. Potential employers will research you (my current employer asked me why I'm running an OpenID server on my blog), so you should have links ready if you can. I found one very valuable technique is to create/contribute to an open source project. That way if someone asks you for a code sample you can just point them to it. If you are looking to get hired by a small company, I think having a blog is a plus. Larger companies may or may not care depending on the hiring manager.

In either case you want to underscore your core competency in everything you showcase: resume, portfolio, blog.

Slightly off topic: I have not had good luck with technical recruiters. It may be that there are some great ones out there, but I have always found that the ones that reach out to me based on my resume on dice.com or monster.com have the need for a developer yesterday. It may be a great opportunity, but to me it always feels like the company is a bit disorganized if they don't know that they need someone to start until a week from their start date.

Good luck.
What happens if someone gets access to your email though? For example, a silly person might forget to logout of their email when using a public computer. If I notice this, I can just hijack their Facebook account.
Nodejitsu's node-http-proxy at master - GitHub
Financial parity may not be sufficient, even if it is possible. It may be the case that eons of natural selection have carved out the female homo sapien to be, on average, naturally hypergamous. (Purportedly this is why "DHVs" and "negs" give men leverage in the crimson art of "game".) I doubt that financial parity would have any hope of mitigating this; women might still find themselves disproportionately attracted towards the top of the linear dominance hierarchy - which money, for better or worse, helps to signal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy
6 Hours actually. :P Thanks for the kind words.
he also acknowledges it on his personal website:

http://chopine.be/
I work in IT and my boss is precisely like this. We don't manage mobiles but wireless. He's talked about scanning the multi-campus network to find unauthorized microwaves that he can have removed.

Because of course, it might cause _some_ interference for 30 seconds at a time right? Yeah.
It's annoying to see resumes more than 1 page long from college students. Please highlight the classes that you consider most important to you. I don't have forever to talk to my buddies from your school about your resume so it's useful to be able to zoom into the stuff that matters. If you did any special projects or stuff outside of class, please label it clearly. Some of us consider that stuff to be as important as classwork.
Pick your top 2-3 projects that would have relevance to the position you are applying for (i.e. you can probably leave off a low-level C project if you are applying for a Rails gig). Put these in a section called "Selected Technical Projects". Include the general date you worked on them (Summer 2010, Winter 2009, etc) and a link to the code/demo.

Then write a small description for each, ideally 2-3 short sentences. I like to have one sentence be "HR Friendly" and explain the technologies you used ("Built my own blog engine using ASP.NET MVC, MySQL and jQuery") and then one line about what I learned or why the project matters ("I built this project to learn MVC principles and learn about client-side Javascript" or "The code has been used by 50 other people to build their own blogs").

You should be including the link to your portfolio/github anyways as part of your general information. Make sure that the projects you list are easy to find on your personal site and there you can go into more detail, put screenshots, etc.
I agree, post your resume for more feedback.

That said, if you've got specific companies you're targeting, your best move is to tailor a version of your resume for each company, highlighting the projects most relevant to each company on their specific version of the resume. If you have an unrelated project that is your most significant work (e.g., a senior thesis), put that too.

But I agree with hugh3 that you'll potentially receive undesired judgement for the weakest projects, so listing them all can work against you.

Also of note, projects listed on your resume often become talking points for interviews. So whatever projects you list there, make sure they're fresh enough in your mind, and interesting enough in their implementation (technical challenges), that you can talk about them in a way that reflects your knowledge and mastery of the skills involved.

As for what other things to include on a resume, 'relevant coursework' is always a good one, again tailored for each job.
HN is such a nice community :)
hmm. I do cassandra on EC2 and I can't think of any ec2 specific setup that I need to do. Its just plain ubuntu. I do install my own custom cassandra to stay on top, but I would do that on any ubuntu install.
We deal with large photos as well, and it's usually just a matter of making sure the only thing in memory is what's currently showing on the screen, and optimizing which size of photos we're using so that we can use as little memory as possible. It's a pain though. We also run into problems with orientation changes, because the animation for the orientation change gets very, very choppy if you're using too much memory.
What I am going to be doing immediately: composing mock 5- and 1-star reviews based on these words, and running through my apps' future updates to make sure they are much more more readily described by the former.
That's far more interesting than it has any right to be. I went in intending to just see what it was about, and left a half hour later after bookmarking it.

Thoroughly entertaining and informative.
Disney Consumer Products Seeking to Establish Standards for Web-Connected Toys
All of these jsonp / iframe based instantizers have to be putting load on servers (probably not in great volume, but still). There's a reason Google had to put special consideration into how to make the ajax-endpoints scale :)
"If you are not paying for it..."
Ok I don't know a lot about iOS development or ARM development in general, but there's something I don't understand. I had the impression that the ARM architecture uses a memory paging system not unlike the one used by x86. This would imply that memory fragmentation shouldn't be an issue, unless we're talking about in-process logical memory address space fragmentation, which would be largely the developer's fault anyway. Am I missing something here?
I believe jwz ssh's into his server to use emacs. http://jwz.livejournal.com/1284712.html
They've managed to redefine the question into a tautology - "The start-ups that make a outsized contribution to job generation are the ones that survive beyond five years, and begin to take off, heading toward and beyond the government-defined boundary of a small business (fewer than 500 employees)." In other words, "The startups that create a lot of jobs are the successful ones with many employees." Well, duh.
The ACTA is an abomination. But the way it has been managed behind
closed doors is an affront to global democratic nations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agree...

The article states that the full text of ACTA is unavailable. All ACTA
texts are officially unavailable, but the consolidated text has been
leaked. I have the latest version here, and it can easily be found.

However, I speak as a European, whereas this article is presented to
Americans. As it is, I view the ACTA is an attempt at imposing bad US
regulation into the European law by stealth. Especially, pertinent to
this audience is the matter of software patents. (ACTA is more than
that, but that's the bit I'm personally defending.)

Much of ACTA we can agree with: replication of brand goods, and so
forth, but the devil is in the details, which is almost universally
misunderstood, nay incomprehensible, to most MEPs (Members of the
European Parliament).

(Note that, in Europe, ACTA is being negotiated by the European
Commission, in secret. The Commission sits above the European
Parliament. Regardless, the Parliament ultimately holds the legislative
power.)

Last week there was a great deal of activity regarding ACTA in the
European Parliament after Written Declaration 12/2010 received enough
signatories to pass.

http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Written_declaration_ACTA_12...

It was a very close run thing, and many of us were
lobbying all MEPs even during the final day. Frankly, we were all
startled that the required signatories were found. It was an
exhilarating cold beer moment. But in reality, it is a small victory.

Here are some background links:

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/european-parliament-vs-acta-r...

http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Help_sign_the_Written_Decla...

However, the WD12 victory means, in effect, that the ACTA text as it
stands won't pass. Strong objectors, like myself, are lobbying for a
complete abandonment of ACTA.

Idealism aside, it's been a fascinating journey into the political power
struggles within Europe, and between the US and Europe. I'm sure we've
all had to deal with some pretty unsavoury power junkies in our careers,
but these folk take it to an unimaginable level.
I'm not saying that public health and safety couldn't do this - I'm not even saying they shouldn't. I just find it incredibly disingenuous to assume that only a public institution could conceivably perform this function.

Btw. regarding your argument that brothels could be regulated under local planning authorities - I'm pretty sure that's exactly what the OP was talking about. We just got side-tracked by the minor point of who gets to do the H&S.
Prostitution is legal in my country (Uruguay) provided the sex worker is over 18 years of age.

And they ARE regulated, the Health Ministry does checks, and issues a license. So a "john" that purchases sexual services over here has a reasonable assumption that the sexual worker doesn't have diseases (and they're mandated to use condoms anyways)
If you never attempt things outside the scope of things you've done before, you will never do anything - its the definition of a self fulfilling prophecy.

Do research, learn, talk to people who have done it before, manage client expectations. Best of luck -
Look two good replies and I think we are all in agreement that the military will probably not be using public cloud services any-time soon (at least not until budget cuts > security concerns) and if the OP is targeting purely that of market with that risk appetite then good luck to them.

My main point was that for most corporations and individuals the risk of using a public cloud with effective security controls and the right kind of data stored and processed there could be within their risk appetitive and therefore private clouds have no long term high profit making potential
Around 4% of alimony recipients in the US are male.
Bug? No this was done intentionally.

Does anybody know how you disable that "feature"? Preferably in such a way that it causes maximum harm to the organization that uses it.
Previous reports:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674621

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1673699

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672968

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1669681

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1656369
Pretty much the worst that can happen is you won't get paid, and those clients will tell all their friends not to hire you. Which is.. not that awful.

But if you try at all, you might find that in the real world the bar is actually pretty low. Just being able to deliver anything at all is the first step!
Oh yeah, I've heard about it before. I will definitely implement it using <audio> if it doesn't heavily affect loadtime.
You don't want people to have to learn the difference between a browser and the web and a search engine and an operating system - you want things to just work.

Except that things still aren't at the "just work" stage, and perhaps never will be.

People who are ignorant of cars or washing machines can nowadays use their cars and washing machines for years without running into any weird situation they don't know how to fix. But people who are ignorant of computers seem to wind up having weird problems they don't understand quite regularly.

I'd say that's not a design issue, that's just to do with the fact that a computer is a more complex tool, with a much wider range of possible inputs, than a car is.
IOS, Flash Devs Cautiously Optimistic Of Apple's New Tools Policy
Ask HN: What is * Instant?
Hello!
I just moved to a boarding school in vermont and have slow (usually doesn't work) internet access about once a week.
What are these new "instant" things? Google Instant? YouTube Instant? ect?
Does anyone here know of any rumors of what these changes could be?

Its exciting to see the Arduino project and community grow.
But, personally I'm going to buy a Netduino soon. (http://netduino.com)
I agree that social effects are probably worse, but making prostitution legal doesn't solve all of them - after all, underage prostitution will always be illegal (I hope) and probably rightly so, and that's one way into all those illegal activities.

Here in Uruguay, prostitution is legal, yet we do have problems with minors being pressed into prostitution, and also the sex export trade, where women are more or less kidnapped and sent to Europe (Italy and Spain mostly)
I'm not impressed by posts that say "I've got a secret and I'm not telling you."

If you don't have any thing to say, don't.
Also: DataViz just released Documents to Go 4.0 for iOS, with full external keyboard support. Works a treat on iOS 4.x on the iPhone 4; a bit less stable than is desired on my iPad ...
It would be useful to separate the common words into two buckets (paid and free). Freeloaders reviewing free apps can be merciless...
However, some women stop offering sex and still get stability via child support orders.
In defense of this feature, it's very important for when a phone is lost. However, I agree, deleting peoples' data for reasons other than the device was compromised is just a sadistic thing to do.
Creator's Perspective
Could it not be because people with bigger feet tend to be taller? (I don't have evidence that big feet -> tall, but I'm pretty sure it's the case)

It's been demonstrated in the past that taller men tend to be more successful.
Another great thing to measure would be the common words in the app descriptions. I would love to find out why people still download 1- star rated apps.