skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is stunning - as someone who has been trying to find a good, cheap and extensible media solution for my house a box with plex just baked in that also plays blu-rays is a sweet deal in my opinion.

Heck, if someone hacks plex onto the new appletv, I'll buy one of those too. I much prefer plex's interface to that of the AppleTV
Wild chimps outwit human hunters
I wonder if there is some service/directory/matchmaking app which helps idle individuals work together on a project. I'm certain there are millions of entrepreneurs with ideas and bored programmers with nothing to do which could hook up over the internet and work on some interesting idea together.

Anyone know if something like this exists?
Hard-Core C++/Systems Programming - Cape Town, South Africa

Good sense of design, Modern C++, compilers, source-to-source translation, object persistence, multi-threading, etc:

http://www.codesynthesis.com/company/jobs.xhtml
I expected this to address the security concerns that recently came to light in Twitter's implementation of OAuth, not some vague monologue about ... Well, nothing.
Welcome to the open web, Mr. Jobs.
Even if you take peer pressure out of it, Scotch tastes better nursed than beer (which will go flat and warm).
This applies even to film. The fact that you had to switch film when going from inside the church to outside receiving line to inside reception is lost on most photographers today. Not only were glass plates inconvient, but so was film!
The ceiling is about 58kUSD per year.
How to Get a Job at a Startup After College Graduation
Digging a bit more, it seems that this editorial isn't nearly the whole story. The professor's main area of interest appears to be in studies showing that particulate matter in secondhand smoke isn't at all harmful.[1]

Completely coincidentally, I'm sure, he has also taken significant payments from Phillip Morris and other tobacco corporate interests.

[1]: His own website, which is dedicated to defending his research on secondhand smoke: http://www.scientificintegrityinstitute.org/
It is worth noting that said "small wedge" has (historically) been a good small wedge. The point is, people seem unconvinced of the magicality or revolutionariness of this particular wedge.
What is that random bar of faceless people on the bottom of the article page?
Maybe so, but he still rules because of relativity and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power
> Probably.

You wanted me to to provide details? How about you lead by example? Or are you not paying attention? There are numerous studies showing that a lack of parental attention is a leading indicator to a poor quality of life in adulthood. You want to make an assertion that prolonged parental contact on average does not increase the maturity, social responsibility and quality of life of a child then you have to show some evidence.

> You're assuming that society is happy subsidizing the kids that you want to subsidize. How about some evidence?

I assume that the Swedish society is happy subsidising decent parental leave because there's a lack of obvious pressure from the majority to end such a practice. Just like there's a lack of similar pressure in France, Germany and many other European nations. Not only that, but the popular press are writing articles in favour of it! I'd say that people are not against it from these indicators. What kind of 'evidence' do you want me to produce?

>Also, folks who are closer to the edge economically are less able to afford to be seen as less reliable.

Now you're showing your own bias. Why do you think that someone who takes their leave will be seen as unreliable? If it's a societal norm then they are seen as decent parents, not as unreliable. The mad pressure to live in the workplace across the whole of society is American and eastern Asian - that kind of culture is not followed in Europe, happily.

> As a result, the money will go disproportionately to the well-off. That's how almost all of the "not means tested" programs "for the children" work.

Wonderful generalisation. Again, a distinct lack of details, despite your aggressive and patronising tone. How about reflecting that someone with less free cash benefits more from these programs, since they have fewer reserves to fall back on. The rich have the choice, the poor don't. And these types of scheme give the poor the choice.
> Pay attention much? The above is my first comment that addressed child care and it doesn't contain that "thesis".

You think that subsidising child care is a bad thing - your thesis/attitude/opinion is against the article, that the Swedish system is a poor model. That much is clear from your sarcastic response. Despite your aggressive tone and your begging for details, you've not put across a coherent point of view, nor have you presented any evidence in favour of your viewpoint. Instead, you've been reactionary and aggressive. How about a cogent, coherent argument in favour of your point of view with 'details' and evidence?

Otherwise your attitude comes across as you don't want to pay for it, therefore it must be bad thing.
I'm into running & cycling and I'd definitely take the muscles. Why exactly makes you think that an endurance sporter would take the weight loss?
Usually, Apple does a very good job of masking when a product is designed purely to sell other products. For example is iTunes or the iPod the razor blade? Ping is very sanitized and sterile. For the huge launch they did, there is almost no content preloaded. Plus there is even less freedom then in the app store.

For posterity, I'd like to record the following message:

These comments were all made when ping sucked. I'm sure that, similarly to the iPod launch, Apple will fix Ping and use it to destroy facebook. 10 years from now, all of these comments will look foolish.

Clearly Apple has gotten so good at making winning products they need a fresh and new challenge. They've set the bar very high for themselves.
But in theory you could use it to script C in debug mode, then hard compile the script before you send it to Apple.
Quote: 'Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook noted that the iPad is not taking a typical early adopter curve, and already has a "very big" market.' Of course they want to pump out as many as they can while the competition is still trying to come up with an iPad killer. Every iPad sold NOW creates more app-based customer lock-in. iOS is to the 00s what Win32 was to the 90's.
PLEASE STOP POSTING THIS F-ING STORY!!!!
Just curious: when you close the lid on your laptop, are you hibernating/sleeping, or is the CPU always running?

When I do the closelid/openlid thing on my Debian laptop, it takes a good 10-20 seconds for my wifi to reacquire...and that's after I log in. Then I need to tickle Chrome or my mail client to sync up. I'd say maybe 30 seconds before I can see new email or load a web page.

In playing with the iPad, I've found it just comes up right away and I can see mail in 10 seconds. I can also scoop the iPad off the counter with a drink and some other items and plop on the couch. Not as easy to do with my laptop.
Sure, but to sell music you need to sell it to fans. You can't just make a page with a buy button on it, call it a social network and expect it to increase revenue.

Either Apple have something up their sleeve or they're being terribly naive.
The problem with complexity as a feature is that it becomes a positive feedback loop. Marketers will always try to one-up the competition and this will ultimately lead to a backlash against complexity.
edit: I'm too tired to make a strong case for why this will happen, however as a user who recently switched to Win7, I can assure you it will.
"You have to decide who you trust before you decide what to believe."
> Q. Could you define “better” in this context?
> A. Easier to read and maintain, fewer bugs, smaller, faster development.

That's fairly subjective. I find the whole "keep track of the stack in your head" thing quite irritating, to be honest. Forth is more dynamic than C, certainly, but beyond that, I find C much easier to utilize in that you mostly concentrate on what you're doing rather than dup dup swap drop roll bee bop a lop bam boom tutti frutti etc... C's big "extraneous" overhead is keeping track of memory allocation.
They are in two different segments.

Forth and C are low-level languages. I can (and do) use them to develop firmware.

Lisp and Java are for "big-iron" system.

But you are right, one of the strength of Forth and Lisp is the availability of a REPL.
>This is a good idea. It needs more features and polish, but I see no good reason why someone would NOT use this for hiring

Other than, as Joel pointed out a long time ago - the best people wouldn't put up with it because they can always get a job elsewhere.

>It would also be awesome if you told the candidate "program in this window because the employer will be able to watch you code". Then show the employer a fast-forward view of the programming process. Does this person guess and check their way to a solution? Do they plan out the whole algorithm first? What kind of mistakes did they make?

Absolutely not - I program in a real editor, and I won't be judged by some wannabe textbox.
Referencing the 'candidate' variable from within the test case is not a good approach as it's referencing a module global instead of an attribute. Additionally, it only exists when the module is executed directly, so if it's imported and run in a different manner a name error will result for every test that references.

As for the TestProgram, it's inheriting routines from the base class in the unittest module that do introspection to find all test fixtures.
You should try out the keyboard in landscape mode. It's probably not as bad as you expect. I make a lot of errors but the software corrects them so well that I usually just ignore them and touch type at nearly normal typing speed. There are also shortcuts, like double space terminates the current sentence and starts the next, turning dont into don't, etc.
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He didn't said that. He said "it's not NECESSARY", it's quite different.

"the car is not at home"
vs
"it is not necessary to think that the car is at home"
1) That's not correct. natural selection doesn't have a narrow/expand bias one way or the other. Lineages simply survive if they manage to produce offspring.

Sometimes that's because they evolved some novel new thing (like birds learning to fly). Sometimes it's because they didn't do that, e.g. in the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event the boring mammals that were small and had a tendency to burrow to escape trouble survived.

A variation that happens through a mutation doesn't need to be present in both breeding partners for it to survive. This is obvious if you look at common dominant[1] and non-dominant genes, like the tendency towards a certain haircolor. That trait might be passed on to the offspring, and would permeate if it was advantageous enough.

A lot of variation also doesn't happen through mutation at all, but simply selection within a species. E.g. this happened to humanity [3] relatively recently. We lost a lot of biodiversity within Homo Sapiens simply because a lot of us died out.

Most of the biomass on this planet never "expanded" in any significant sense. Multicellular life is still relatively rare, most of the biomass on earth is bacteria.

2) The notion that each species has an ecological niche is false. We live on a large planet, so there's a big opportunity for species that "do the same thing" (to simplify). Of course that's only true up to a point, consider the example of the Eastern Gray Squirrel displacing the Red Squirrel in the UK.

3) There's a lot of things that species could do but aren't doing. Not because that thing would be a "bad idea" as such, but simply because it hasn't evolved yet.

E.g. insects could probably take up a lot more space than they do now if they grew larger, but that would require evolving a whole new breathing apparatus. Maybe monkeys would be better suited to trees if they had four hands, but two is all they (and the whole vertebrate line) had to work with.

4) I don't get this. Why do you think species should be much more inter-breed-able. They are to an extent, but once speciation occurs they aren't anymore.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_(genetics)

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Gray_Squirrel#Displacem...

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
http://www.cacert.org/ has been jumping through Mozilla's hoops for years now, and no sign of being accepted. Shame, because they're certainly more secure than the typical "trusted" CA.

EDIT: Looks like CAcert withdrew their application until they get their internal audit out of the way: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215243#c158
people are frequently unconvinced of a lot of things. and that's a good thing. its the fundamental principle of science.

its the reaction and tone that bother me, not the content.
Your conclusion is incorrect given your assumptions. You are assuming no floor, in which case all the weights will rise. Only the man will fall. I think the problem was intended to include a floor that simply isn't drawn.
It's a good way to get complacent in any environment.
Keep in mind that this is a pretty old article (2006), so things could've changed a lot.
More gotchas with Titanium: Titanium.include() is one big leaky abstraction
Some context for those unfamiliar -- Ken Rockwell is considered to be a bit of an agitator in some photography circles and this particular post is comparable to Zed Shaw's "Rails is a Ghetto" in infamy.

At the time there was a lot of sensationalist noise that film was "dead", and I think that's why he spends so much time focusing on the virtues of film photography.
As an applicant, what do I get out of using your service? Why shouldn't I just skip ahead to the next job posting, if some would be employer demanded that I used your service?

if you are Google this does not apply, but otherwise the first problem you have is to answer "why would I ever work for that company", since most large companies are the same anyway.
I should have googled for other sources rather than just posting the link I was forwarded. The email also had information not contained in the link, and I didn't think before submitting. My bad.

Here is the college paper, which goes into more detail: http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2010/08/ucla_res...

Also a mainstream news site: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/31/pc-professors-firing-fu...

(I wish I could edit the URL of the submission, oh well.)
I certainly didn't expect this one. I always thought the difference between Plex and XBMC was the integration with iLife and it feeling and running like an Apple application.

I guess this Plex server is better than I expected if a big company like LG is backing it. I'm curious why they didn't choose the original over a fork. XBMC seems to have a more active community than Plex. Primarily attributable to its availability on multiple platforms.

BTW, I'm not in the market to buy another TV for a few more years. But if they manage to get Plex working on the new Apple TV then I would be locked in.
are you guys open to remote developers? we've got two erlang guys down here in Buenos Aires and we're looking for projects!
So he has a marketing message: "we purchase on features", and we "equate apparent [...] complexity with power'. His solution is spot on: give the appearance of power (for purchase), but make it actually simple-to-use (for use.)

He also mentions users' "favorite features" (it's well known that we don't like having to change our behaviour, even for the better); and "“critical” features" (sometimes they aren't actually necessary; and sometimes, as Joel says, "everyone uses a different 20%" - Linus has also said this). An example of the latter, and as people have said here, is when really do need to customize a default behaviour.

Love Joel's linked comment on bootstrapping:
So you sell "simple" as if it were this wonderful thing, when, coincidentally, it's the only thing you have the resources to produce. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/09.html
This one isn't.
1) I'm annoyed I can't enjoy looking at clouds (which I really do) and pass their test.

2) I'm annoyed by companies who think working for them is some great gift to me. Various wordings in this test exuded that attitude.
You can use variables in Forth. It's just scorned as non-Forth-ish. And you also have to keep track of memory allocation in Forth. (Though it's possible to write a garbage collector.)
> As for your self-replicating pixel-drawing program that can evolve to a web browser -- you are more than welcome to have a go at it. I can tell you from now that it will fail. There's a simpler experiment, that will also fail: http://www.randommutation.com/darwinianevolution.htm

That's a flawed example for several reasons. The main one is that the selection is based on a target (the new word) or is considered over too short a timespan. Even worse is that you are getting random variation in every generation, which is actually against the principle of evolution. In your cited example the whole chain would die out very quickly - favouring chains that mutated more slowly.

My example is better because the end product is irrelevant; the code becomes a program. Programs that are "better" in some ambiguous way will be used more frequently. Over time the most useful programs will evolve; but only over millions of generations. The end product is uncertain; but according to Darwinian theory it would fit the environment (so, if we had no internet there would be no network scanner to evolve).

> Yet another instance of hand waving. You might think it is possible, but until you prove it, I will claim that this is an unscientific claim.

I'm sorry but what is unprovable about mutation; this is one of the aspects we have observed! Both at a cellular and DNA level.

> The part that is often overlooked, even though it is so crucial, is the lack of evidence for whether mutations have the ability to actually produce any useful set of variations for NS to act on.

Most of your argument seems based on the idea that a mutation can produce a change/feature - but that it cannot be shown empirically that good changes/features have or can occur. This does not seem logical at all; you are basically arguing that it is impossible to a random mutation to have a positive effect on the offspring. This is incorrect; the mutation inarguably, as you agree, can produce a change - so at some point a positive change must occur (even if it is entirely unlikely).

As I am sure you appreciate; subtle improvements take a long time to take effect. That we exist in this form is highly improbable - but that is not dis-proof of the theory.

Please bear in mind I am just trying to be helpful here - not making any criticism of how informed you are. However you do not appear to be schooled in Darwinian theory because:

> Darwin focused on NS so much, but that's because he assumed that NS is the force that drives the variations.

Is 100% counter to what Evolution says.

> If you really think about it, he's making an analogy with market competition

He's not. In the slightest. He is making an empirical observation that animal survival is related to competing with others. NS is the process by which organisms with inheritable mutations that favour them survive longer and slowly mix their genes into the species.

The process of stacking mutations in sequence to achieve what we are today is complex and highly unlikely; but not impossible. That is the point Evolution makes. I don't see a counter explanation with such solid theory, that is all.
I'd hit ^A and some other key and everything would be lost.

Seriously, you'll lose your better qualified candidates if you force them to use a strange editor.
Distribution. Distribution. Distribution.
Consider two developers that make 100k per year before taxes and live off of 40k / year. Now assuming they work for each other they pay 100k and get 65k after taxes, spend 40k and get to invest 15k which they spend on advertizing for their company.

Now assume the work for themselves They pay they only need to live off of 40k so they pay themselves 70k and get to invest 30k on advertizing without paying taxes on that value. Note: numbers are not accurate but they do give context. The idea, is companies can invest in future earns though things like advertizing or R&D without paying taxes on the income uses to pay for that advertizing.

Now you are supposed to pay yourselves market rate, but if you generate 300k in value each year you don't need to pay yourself that money.
I think the author is underestimating the psychology of astronauts. We often think of them as some kind of scientist or explorer but in fact they are an elite military force, made up of the sort of men that we would expect to fly dangerously unpredictable test aircraft.

Anyone being sent into space is well aware that they have about a one-in-twenty chance of not coming back. They are selected and trained on the understanding that if they become unwell in space, they could jeopardise the lives of their fellow crewmen.

Repatriation of remains is an unaffordable luxury in space and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. No-one with the constitution to be an astronaut would allow their own death to hamper a mission.

As to whether Mars is worth dying for - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/390933.stm
Next week on Daring Fireball: Why Ping is much smarter than you think and will prove the naysayers wrong.
SSL certificate authorities unknowingly inviting man-in-the-middle attacks
I don't think that the article claims that Einstein doesn't rule.
Not to mention that most glass plates are hand coated and very slow.

However, the media and the camera that shoots it is a tool. Large format glass plates are not the right tool for a wedding. They are better suited to portraiture or landscapes.
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It kept flickering constantly adding/removing 'people' and didn't really let me read anything on that page.
It would depend on the company -- the "best" people would be more willing to write some code if [insert awesome company here] was using the tool, versus a company like Initech.

Would be a plus if eventually the tool could behave more like an IDE.
Flickr is hiring!

Specifically, we are looking for an amazing front-end developer with great mobile experience (iPhone, mobile browsers, etc.). We are located in the Financial District in San Francisco, CA. The work is challenging, your coworkers are sharp, and the atmosphere is tons of fun and you get to work on a product that millions of people use daily.

My email address is nolan AT nolancaudill DOT com. I'd love to hear from you.