skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or possibly the ability to cheat...

It's becoming more of a problem, especially with university level recruitment, that candidates are either getting others to take the test for them or downloading solutions from somewhere.

Often candidates once bought in for interview fail to be able to explain how code "they wrote" works.
This article argues for potential. But for Twitter to be as high-valued as Facebook, it has to prove it can be adopted by average internet users.
Twitter has such a potential, yet Facebook has already been achieved that.

When I recommend Twitter to my friends, it usually goes like this:

Me: Try Twitter, it is interesting.
Friend: What can you get from it?
Me: a lot of interesting updates from your favorite people and topics
Friend: I already have enough internet updates. I shall pass...

The point is that average user only has several web sites on their minds. There much be a good reason for them to use one more web site.
Yes, it was placed here to complement what you have written about social needs which will be fulfilled by Android. Android as an OS plus many vastly different hardware platforms.

This not a gadget for the rich. It is now available for normal people.
That was quick! I was wanting to see some sample apps with backbone, thanks for sharing.

By the way, if you have the .0.1.1 release, you can call this.handleEvents(); inside of the initialize() function on the template instead of the render() function. This prevents having to rebind the element every time you call render. This probably won't be a huge issue considering that you are only binding one event each time, but it is probably best practice anyway.
Excellent find none the less. How did you find this?

I hosted the files in a Github project so that other people could find it in a nice convenient way. As far as I can tell, this is allowed by their license terms.

http://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL

Keyframe, Let me know if you want a shoutout, I can add your name to the README.
How the Search for Your Life’s Work is Making Your Working Life Miserable
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Ask HN: How bad is it to outsource my own job?
Work for a fortune 100 Company, and I have recently been assigned grunt research work which I could have done my freshman year of college. I'm actively looking for other options within the company (I like the salary and benefits I just want more meaningful work).

I'm tempted to outsource parts of my work to a personal assistant overseas (so I have time to keep searching elsewhere in the company or work on my own projects) but I'm curious what the consequences could be. I'm not releasing company information, but I still feel like it wouldn't be good if my manager found out.

How bad would it look assuming I'm still getting my job done and the work is good quality?
Wow, the LinkedIn guy spoke in gold nuggets. I am extremely grateful I am doing systems software, not consumer stuff. Our failures are most spectacular, but at least our success doesn't depend on others.

Waiting for it to resume after lunch break.
Here's another account of self-publishing to add to your list:

http://tynan.net/selfpublish
A lot of companies have to pay an 'Android tax' to Microsoft in order to prevent litigation. HTC paid Microsoft off in order to not be sued[1], Samsung and LG cut a deal that included exchanging patents[2][3], and Motorola decided to fight[4] (my simplifications are not perfect). I am saying all this to say that it's unfair to say that there is a "battle will be between Google and Microsoft for the exact same hardware manufacturers and sales channels" when Microsoft is blackmailing everyone and profits from either outcome. I mean Google ain't a morally perfect company (I still believe based on what I know that the Verizon deal is unfair) but to my knowledge they seem to be quite the David in this fight.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/apr10/04-27msh...

[2] http://news.cnet.com/2100-1014_3-6177381.html?part=rss&t...

[3] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/lg-microsoft-l...

[4] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870385920457552...
You are of course completely right about the former. I wasn't suggesting that someone would or wouldn't have knowledge of the future, simply that you'd have the opportunity to witness such events. I'm sure there are plenty of events now that are worthy of attending, and just down the road too (LHC switch-on maybe) but damned one-temporal-directional memory gets in the way.

The things I put forward were suggestions of ideas for things to do, not that I'd suggest you attempt to do them all and you're right in that you'd probably end up running out of money if you tried.

I'm trying to remember a set of films I saw, from a pair of then extremely rich people who largely lived on cruise lineers during the inter-war years. They filmed all kinds of stuff, like pre-war france and germany and the ceremonies of various south and east asian islands. I can't remember their names though but I'm fairly sure the video is public domain.

Of course, I digress. Thankyou for your comment, it's always good to be challenged and I think you raise a number of good points.
You seem to forget that big pharma actually invents new diseases, to sell drugs that target them.
What's so astounding is that the parasite functionally replaces an organ.
Agree - The interview process needs to be questioned too. How relevant is writing a linked list to the current position? Maybe it is. Mostly it isn't.
Canned interview processes end up in disappointment for both sides.
It's very hard to fall on your face on a unicycle. I'm actually learning how to ride one now, and although it's not easy to do "simple" things like turn, go backwards, or even stay in one place, it's very easy to fall off safely -- you just step off the unicycle. Unlike a bike, there's nothing in the way. When I fall forward, it's basically like I stepped off, and continue walking. There's nothing to think about; you just put your foot in the direction you're falling and stand up.

In all my learning, from beginner to semi-beginner (I can go forward and slowly turn, but that's it), I've fallen worse than onto my feet once.

This, of course, assumes it doesn't run out of power at 20 mph, which the manufacturers say it won't.
"Does it indicate that something is wrong with these companies"

It means that their testing wasn't very good.

If programmers are being woken up to fix something then something is very wrong with an environment.
How many platforms does the iPhone emulator run on? Is it instrumentable and controllable by user applications using nothing but sockets and octets? Didn't think so :-)

Android emulator is slow to start, but it's cross-platform, and allows for hot-updating.
I think another way to impress an interviewer is to come to your interview prepared to discuss (with technical detail) past exploits in which you were able to do just what you described. Most people just flow with the interview rather than try to (subtly) direct it in a way that is more favorable to them. This is a workaround for sure, but aren't programmers used to finding workarounds to impossible situations?

Another option is to tackle the interview itself as a challenge and practice interview skills, such as whiteboard coding. I think Steve Yegge suggested this in one of this blog posts about how to interview at Google. Personally, I find this to be very impressive: You knew there was going to be whiteboard coding, so instead of complaining about it, you practiced it. If you (casually) mentioned this during one of my interviews, I would probably give you some extra points.
Half as dorky as a Segway is about 4x as dorky as I am, and I'm a giant dork.
When you go two clicks further into WikiPedia the story takes an interesting turn :

"In November 2001, Malden Mills declared bankruptcy after the recession. . . [and] Feuerstein was relieved of actual control of the company by its creditors. . .

In February 2007, the assets of Malden Mills were purchased by a newly formed company . . .

June 28, 2007, the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation said it would take over the underfunded (by 49%) Malden Mills pension plan, which covers about 1500 employees. . . "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malden_Mills
There is no such thing as first year programming problems. At best you provide a simple problem with minimal constrains, but they have nothing to do with professional programming.

PS: What would you do if someone said write a function that will sort these three numbers? Hint: there is no safe answer.
Passwords -- The down and dirty.
Augen sells an Android tablet for either $159 or $129. Can't recall exactly.
Why would a digital version NOT be better? This is a 1500 page book that comes with a cd full of data anyways. I guessing something like this would be used as more of a reference. Seems like the ability to search the text would make things a whole lot easier digitally.

Obviously paper books have their benefits. But some books are far better suited to be digital.
This is my first security related article, thus I'm looking for suggestions and comments. Thanks
Twitter is adding value to companies for marketing purposes. What about the old spice stuff? Or various companies reaching out to users when they complain about a product on twitter? It's far easier for companies to do this via Twitter than Facebook.

Maybe the value added in that case is harder for people to measure, so it's being forgotten.
Download links were busted, I fixed them.
The Father Of CSS Talks HTML5, CSS3 (A TCTV Interview)
For simple tasks jQuery is ok, for anything more than that I find it absolutely tedious (I usually pair with Underscore.js if I have to use it).

I also generally disagree with many of the design decisions in the jQuery API.

I think it's interesting that MooTools has been around for about the same amount of time, covers the same functionality, covers more functionality, and IMO better designed ...

Yet it's not nearly as popular. C'est la vie.
There is an effort to provide tools for Android development in a bunch of scripting languages. It's not ready for prime time yet and it wasn't clear to me how well you'll be able to access the libraries, but it's a promising alternative.
In point of fact, all of the book stores mentioned in the article (and iBookstore, unmentioned) allow you redownload your purchases easily.
I watch sugar and flour. It's junk carbs that "obese" you.
Unfortunately this doesn't look to be an issue you've thoroughly researched. Other agencies and investigations got much more specific than 'plane into WTC'.

Look into Able Danger, there is some interesting information on how closely they identified the future hijackers but were prevented from following up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Danger#Comments_by_members...
Fundamentally, jQuery is just a JavaScript API to normalize the DOM. It doesn't force you to program or organize your code in a certain way (i.e. Spaghetti coding). I'm honestly curious to see a legitimate example of what you mean.
Ever since "losing" to Microsoft on the desktop, Apple have slowly perfected their strategy for being the smaller alternative. They find the most lucrative niche and design to the point where they can own that piece of the market. Built into Apple products is a sense of superiority, the feeling that the rest of the world is jealous and frustrated. It's in their ads, and its in their users. This has shown its effectiveness in the computer market, and it will probably make them a ton of money on the mobile scene as well.

But Apple didn't have to do this in the mobile world. The iPhone was the default smartphone. I was once talking with a rather avid iPhone user who he asked me "what's the market for Android?" I fina;ly convinced him that it could be everyone when I replied, "what's the market for Windows?"

The iPhone is a product. It has a target niche, a company behind it, a list of features, and everything else one expects. Android is not - it's a platform. The Droid is a product. The Nexus one is a different product. Like Windows, Android twists and bends to the offerings of each vendor. Android has the more scalable long tail strategy - instead of trying to please your customers directly, let the market mold your product into as many forms as it will pay for.

I don't think that Apple have necessarily screwed up. They may have given up the big fish, and they may have had a reason. For one, Apple are doing what they're best at. They also may have a strategy that integrates with the Mac. They may also be right. Maybe the mobile phone isn't the next computer. Maybe it's like the iPod, best at doing one thing very well.

I think Apple is making a mistake in breaking developer trust. As long as they keep market dominance, people will keep coming back to them, but as the numbers show, Android is poised to surpass. When there are many more Androids out there than iPhones, iPhone dev is gonna be a tough sell.
That's not a single number, it's a distribution, and it's much more complicated than that since the distribution of prices people are willing to pay for any particular item depends on the prices of the other items in the store.
Ask HN: Can/Should I make my site one size larger?
Here's my site: http://www.b-labs.com

I find the fonts somewhat small, though coincidentally I see that oracle.com has very similar fonts, so it shouldn't be too wrong.
What do you think?

Secondly if I press ctrl+ on my browser, everything looks much more readable. Is there an html directive to make my site larger like that? I know my questions are basic but I am looking for opinion and not just answers.
Push to End Job Barriers Rattles Greece and Economy
There's a pretty interesting blog about eBooks and publishing and the link. This entry http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/09/acquisitions-editor.ht... is a more humorous approach to the question of eBook costs.
"Experts say there are about 70 closed professions here, including those of lawyers, engineers, taxi drivers, speech therapists, welders, notaries, street market vendors, newsstand operators and architects. Each is protected from competition by a byzantine tangle of regulations and licensing requirements that result in high prices for consumers and a reliable living for insiders."
Echoing the other comment, unicycles are quite safe. Your feet are never very far off the ground--even if you're on a pedal unicycle--so you just walk/run out of any spill. Geared 36" unicycles can get above sprinting speed, but riders willing to push a unicycle that far are quite rare ;)

(Speaking as a unicyclist here: http://www.matthewwegner.com/topics/unicycling/ )
They aren't safe in their own country. Huge numbers of them die prematurely of random causes every month.

That can be said for every country.
Not every country is a target of a terrorist attack though.

I look both ways when I cross the street.

If you don't look, there is a higher probability of being hit by a car.
Therefore, you're trying to control the probability of being hit by a car.
You can't do that in regards to a terrorist attack.

I don't check my car for bombs every morning.

Of course not. A bomb on your car would be an attack directly towards you, and you know there is a low probability of that happening.

You weren't directly affected by 9/11, but many people were (or by the London and Madrid bombings, for instance).
Of course people are also affected when someone close to them dies prematurely, but as pyre already replied to you, people accept those random causes better than they do accept a terrorist attack.
With respect to Android vs WP7 controls is the lookless nature of Silverlight controls. This allows you to completely reskin and add new behavior to an existing control while maintaining all of its current behavior.
thanks for the making me aware of .html() and .text() :)
The world has lost a little beauty today. A talk so incredible - at age 85, I'm speechless.
>Turns out that there’s a strong correlation between a student’s grade and their assessment of the professor’s abilities.

In my experience with classmates, it initially might also look like this correlation is true, however I think the hypothesis is a bit more involved.

In one case, one class was taught with quite easy grading policies and many people ended up getting good grades - yet the smart students were unhappy with the professor and lack of challenge. In another cases, I've seen quite difficult abstract math classes and smart students would complain about the teacher as well - because of personal incompatibility - the teacher's style just didn't click with the student. And also, many times weak students would express a lot of respect and positive rating of a professor even though the teaching was over the top of their heads.

Yet obviously there were the lazy/less smart types who would just reduce the challenge to complaining about the prof - yet they are probably likely to complain about people in different situations (i.e. job)
If we assume that authoring tools don't matter and that the average game will be at the complexity level of Scrabble, sure HTML(5) is a "Flash Killer" but unfortunately the authoring tools do matter and the most impressive/popular games are more advanced than Scrabble.

Flash is (in part) hugely popular because of the barrier to entry, with HTML(5) that is significantly higher.
I'm still not completely clear on how filtering on such easily lookup up tactical sort of information will be an indictor or not if they will deliver software. This is like recipe stuff when cooking. I would be frustrated because you obviously have your favorite answer which might be less important than how they would actually solve a problem in a team environment given requirements and a schedule.
I don't think the Taliban have any secret documents to be released. Their organisation simply hasn't advanced to that of a bureaucracy yet.
I just re-read Robert Heinlein's short story "The Roads Must Roll" and there is a reference in the story to something like this, but he called it a tumblebug. From the story - "It had been a long time since the Chief Engineer had ridden one of these silly-looking little vehicles, and he felt awkward. A tumblebug does not give a man dignity, since it is about the size and shape of a kitchen stool, gyro-stabilized on a single wheel"

I find it interesting that he predicted this in 1939 and it has taken 70 years to be a reality.
That explains why I also got "Answered, Hangup" with my UK landline even though the phone certainly didn't right.

Might be good if the in-page demo mentioned the limited (US-only) aspect as it wasn't obvious to me that it didn't work with my UK number.
"The fact that the vast majority of people think that ebooks should cost less than physical books means that they should, because people's perceptions of value are what makes up the market."

That's oversimplifying. What people think things should cost and what they are willing to actually pay may be entirely different things.

Furthermore, as demonstrated by your own comment, people's ideas of what ebooks should cost varies wildly. In this situation, publishers are segmenting their customers.

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend Joel's Camels and Rubber Duckies: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
Nonograms ( http://www.goobix.com/games/nonograms/ )
If you'd just understand it, you would be able to easily understand other languages, dynamic or otherwise.

I am genuinely curious to know why you think so.
Civ V at the moment.
I'm skeptical that Twitter "lends itself brilliantly to commerce."

First, Twitter pulled the plug on their @earlybrid project (http://twitter.com/earlybird). I know some companies who ran deals through them and they produced disappointing results.

Any story about why the future of Twitter is commerce will have to account for that.

Second, there have been major changes in online commerce over the last three years, most obviously with companies like Groupon and Gilt.

Commercial activity on Twitter seems a little "tabula rasa" right now. There are companies out there actively changing the ecommerce landscape. Twitter has massive usage, but it's ability to augment commerce is still a promise.

Facebook has had a much bigger impact in online commerce. Facebook Credits are going to be everywhere. You can already buy them at Target, or whatever.

Groupon's marketing spend was dominated by Facebook ads for a long time, and they (along with Zynga) more than doubled the CPC for Facebook ads over the last two years. There are two $1Bn+ companies built right off the back of Facebook.

What's the biggest company built on Twitter? I can't think of a single interesting one.

The sociology of Facebook doesn't support "commerce" in the sense of making FB posts about things you've bought, but I don't know that Twitter does either. So we're talking about monetizing things indirectly, e.g., running ads targeted against their "interest graph." What Zynga and Groupon did were essentially find a better way to monetize Facebook users than Facebook itself had, and acquired those users by paying Facebook for the privilege.

It all hinges on Twitter's advertising product. We'll see how compelling it is and if someone can build a Zynga or Groupon on top of Twitter the same way those companies were built on Facebook.
My RVM Setup and Usage
His arguments are either valid or they aren't. You should engage them on their merits rather than worrying about ulterior motives.

Pretend the person you respect the most wrote that article. How would you critique it, then?
Great news for the mobile web. Thanks, team JQuery!
Yes. Welcome to marketing.

Your last sentence is an instance of price points. Yes, price points are part of what goes into perceived value. If you want to break out of a price point, you have many opportunities to change packaging, promotion, or pricing models to do that.

Clearly, for example, textbooks don't honor book store price points. Neither do magazines or serialized books. Neither do standards documents or technical books (as graphically illustrated upthread by the $6,000 metals book). Neither do graphic novels.

The 250-page bound novel is also an artifact of the book store distribution channel. It may indeed be that to command a $20 price instead of a $9.99 Kindle standard price, authors will need to break out of the straightjacket of 250 page bound novels.
Ask HN: Facebook is making profit? Please help me here.
You are smarter than me. Please help me here. I'm getting insane.

I read in many posts that "Facebook is making profit".

Where could I find at least a link to read 'reliable' information about this Facebook's profit?

Or does someone know at least how much profit they actually do? (And if you do, from where did you get this info?)
site seems to be down? Too much traffic?

edit - now getting a 403
StackOverflow is somewhat .NET-biased, and it’s probably the most vibrant online community available. Mono provides a free development tool/environment built around skills easily transferred to .NET. Microsoft even occasionally collaborates with Mono.

Also, “everything is coupled together” occasionally becomes a feature.

However, what do I know — I haven’t ever used a Microsoft OS on a computer I control. .NET seems nice, though.
Is Bing really a big source of revenue for them though? I thought something like 90% of their profit was Windows and Office.

Either way, good point in terms of promoting their own search engine, but unless it's a significant source of profit then again I say, what is the point?