skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Attempts a comparative analysis of experience with different tools both as a "developer" and a "designer" without explaining the significance of either term; what's a "Photoshop CS5 Developer" or a "Textmate Designer"?

It's an interpretation error, the bars indicate expertise and frequency of use (shown below).
It takes a bit of experience (and some balls) to know which people to tell off - but! Never underestimate the incredible morale boost a properly crafted "fuck you" can bring to an overworked team in the heat of battle. When followed by a company happy hour, I've seen miraculous things happen.

The world is filled with quacks and assholes - as soon as your radar is tuned, you'll be able to filter the people worth keeping good relations with.
I saw people make that mistake a lot with Philip "Don't Call Me Phil" Greenspun, aka philg@mit.edu.
>And I got you to read this far, didn't I?

he got me to skim to the end and tl; dr the whole thing
Narus deep packet inspection helps spy on Egyptian citizens?
Yep. Making a show is in itself an amazing discovery of what you could do. We keep everything simple, the script is only a basic guideline and she takes an active role in every part of the production.

I'm simply hopeful that as she blossoms into adulthood, some of the adventures her and I share in her youth help her out in the rest of her life.
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Isn't the cartoon representation possibly crossing a line with having a headshot on the resume?
"... we shouldn't support factories that beat the workers or subject them to environments that rapidly cause sickness and death either."

I agree, but how do we tell the difference between one tshirt or the other, and its associated work conditions?
The Synthesis
If they are able to get to the Caltrain station in San Francisco (which we are next to), they should email david (at) opendns.com and apply to be an intern.

All interns are paid.
Chapter 28 in Beautiful Code (http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Pra...) talks about delta debugging, how it was invented and developed. its really a great chapter in a great book. i can't recommend it enough.
The non-audio link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/realestate/14cov.html
You will have a much better time if you go with someone who knows what they're doing.

What state do you live in?
We've been working with uploadify, but I like the fact that this comes readily built-in with image preview/delete options and requires no flash. Has anyone tested this on an iPhone?
"Engels had asthma as a youngster and doctors told him he should not participate in sports. But he decided to overcome his ailment and ran his first marathon at 25. He said his latest feat is the result of 35 years of exercise."
But, the chart says there is! THE CHART!
I'm in Georgia. But I'm not really looking to camp here. I'm looking to camp elsewhere.
As I recall, the spirit of robots.txt was not about appropriateness of search results so much as "this URL space can generate an unbounded graph, please don't DoS my server by trying to exhaustively traverse it."
There is also the possibility of piggybacking on an existing search engine, like what Scroogle are doing.

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
I also spend approximately zero hours, and I regularly check my account. I just don't use it for anything but what it was originally intended for (back in 2004) - keeping up with actual people. I get a lot of value out of its original purpose and I see virtually no benefit to things like 'pages'. If that counts as "not using Facebook" then no, I don't use Facebook.
Gotcha. Because of the word 'ploy' I thought you were upset that they wanted your input.
Ryan Singer: "Cohesion" in code, interface and product design
I've been pretty happy with http://valums.com/ajax-upload/
How do you know that few people die from medically necessary drugs? I've been looking for a source of number of deaths by drug, but I can't find one.

Also, I'm fairly confident that drugs being illegal causes fewer people to die from drug use directly.[1] Drug illegality makes drugs more expensive, which makes it more difficult for the average junkie to obtain a lethal dose.

Another big issue is medical errors. This isn't a government problem so much as it's a problem with our health care system. I'm not really sure whether government-run healthcare would improve this (by removing the profit motive to see as many patients as possible) or make it worse, by creating the wrong incentives.

It's really easy to blame the government for everyone's problems, but government regulation often saves lives, even if it ends up indirectly killing some people. For example, if the FDA kills people by prohibiting a potentially life-saving drug for safety reasons, they look really bad. But you don't see the people whose lives were saved because they didn't take a drug that turned out to be severe latent carcinogens.

[1] Of course, drugs being illegal makes more people die from drug-related violence. Violence is probably a worse problem, even if it's less deadly than overdosing, because it can affect nonusers.
Not quite, the chart says they aren't quite pro at web browsers, but that they're used all day.
Maybe things are different in the US, but "earned 64 college credits before graduating from high school" sounds pretty anomalous to me -- isn't that half a degree?
2010: from the article "... The Hurd doesn't fully deliver on the everyday usability goal yet ..."

1992: from comp.os.linux, Theodore Ts'o "... I am aware of the benefits of a micro kernel approach. However, the fact remains that Linux is here, and GNU isn't --- and people have been working on Hurd for a lot longer than Linus has been working on Linux. ..." ~ http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/31a5ea16e86...
Useful advice on how to actually get to the seized sites from a commenter there:

http://www.hm2k.com/posts/find-the-ip-address-of-a-seized-we...
Perfectly optimal financial value doesn't always equal perfectly optimal social value.

For my current job my employer's first offer was exactly the amount I'd been looking for. So I said 'yes' and didn't negotiate at all.

Maybe I could've talked them up, but I got what I was looking for and we closed the meeting in under 15 minutes with everyone happy.

If someone offers you what you want, why waste time negotiating for more?
I found it quite surprising that Jim doesn't get CVs where people rank their skills. My first proper CV had that on, and my CV does to this day. Pretty basic stuff.

That said I reviewed a friend's CV two weeks ago. He was lucky it was over the net and he wasn't in the room... I think someone 10 years younger could probably do a better CV. Sheesh!
Sorry, I missed the connection the article has to getting fired.

Congrats on the article, by the way.
> 3) Exclusivity during expansion.

I'm not sure this helped. A social networking site is only as useful as the number of people on it. I expect Facebook would have grown faster without exclusivity.

> 4) A clean interface

Definitely.

The worse thing about MySpace, and one reason I never considered getting a MySpace account, is that users can customise their page to make it hard or even impossible to read.

If I made a site like MySpace, I'd allow users to customise their page, but I'd also give users an option to use their own customisations when viewing someone else's page. That way, people can read the damn thing!
I build apps, quite a number of them. And force myself to push every single one of them to completion (launched and deployed).

Every app must have at least 1 non-monetary gains for myself. Examples:

* When I build an app with Tornado, it's because I want to see how event driven server works and how to interact with epoll.

* When I build an app with Rails, it's because I want to experiment with things I probably won't do for professional rails work. E.g. using Rubinius or Erubis.

* One of the older app I killed was written in Zend framework because CakePHP was (a while back) too slow and I think modularity in PHP app is a good thing.

* The latest one is being written in Lua because I have heard so much awesomeness about its JIT.

* With every single app that stays running, I continually learn something new about Ubuntu administration and jQuery plugins.

Of course I killed my apps if they don't take off because VPS renting gets expensive fast.
Write short functions.
I think I do: 20.2010.36-2.002

A bit of searching didn't tell me what the latest Maemo is supposed to be, but did imply that it was released last October, so I'm sure it would have popped up for install by now.
If I were going to pick out a particular thing that stood out to me, the use of Advanced "Apple Terminal" in a resume of any format would throw me off. It could just mean that the candidate was trying to convey eg "Terminal"/"UNIX Shell", or it could mean that they don't understand what the CLI really represents.

A bit nitpicky; it wouldn't be an instant drop, but I'd still look at the rest a bit more cautiously. Oddly enough I only notice a resume's "tools" section when there's something weird in it.
This is the lie that you keep telling yourselves. Rationalize it however you want, but show a normal person the screenshots on this page and ask them if there is copying going on: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-bing/

Maybe you call it "clickstream," maybe you think this has something to do with the user (even though the users had no idea they were aiding in this), this web of rationalizations cannot get around this fact:

Bing puts things in its search index that came directly from Google's algorithm.
I think the point of a guessing game like this is to get you thinking.
Brilliant. Good luck with it.
16K FLASH/1K SRAM/512 bytes EEPROM is pretty reasonable for a traditional embedded microcontroller. Think small (ie efficient), if you want to get into the spirit of such devices.
I expected to read he almost walked them but it turns out it was 4 hour marathons every day for a year? Simply staggering!
This is literally unfathomable to me. This guy has to be some sort of serious genetic freak. I workout regularly, but I think I just got chin splints just from reading that article. When you consider how even the most elite athletes fall victim to overtraining, I can't even imagine how his body was able to hold up to this. Truly amazing.
Ive just spent the last two hours reading all the links that were posted on here. Future Timeline is an awesome site.
If you want a political discussion try here: http://groups.google.com/group/rational-politics-list/

Or email me.

I'm a (classical) liberal. This does not fit into the "political spectrum" very well. You might think that being pro-capitalism is right wing but most of the mainstream right wing is not really capitalist and doesn't have that much in common with me. They also do stuff like oppose abortions and gays, favor traditional/conservative values, etc (ugh)
Around 20,000 ranging from around 50K (web size jpegs) to 400K (finished jpegs) to 15 MB (raw files) to 100+ MB (raw panoramas).

I used to own a dSLR and shot frequently until I gave it to my sister as a Christmas present.
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E-Book Sales Rise in Children’s and Young Adult Categories
Unless you can name a minifier that actually breaks in this case, I'm gonna have to call BS on this.
An HTTP client must always assume URL paths and query strings are case-sensitive. You can't rely on the bing.com web servers always returning the same resource for http://www.bing.com/search?q=test and http://www.bing.com/Search?q=test just because the default filesystem for their OS is case-insensitive today. Actually it's unlikely the main entry point for their search engine is a file named "search" in some top-level directory. The only way for an author to tell you many URLs are equivalent is to use "301 Moved Permanently" responses to the canonical one from all the others, and Bing doesn't do that.
In other words, he also did it at age 49! Just awesome. (with a best time of under 3 hours, too)
It came out in, like, 1995 didn't it?

That would be about right.

I remember that because all my IRC friends immediately got to work on crazy crypto tools with algorithms and ideas cadged from that book. It definitely didn't teach them that crypto was hard.

It's one thing to do some fun project. It's another thing to do something for production. It's yet another thing to read such a book and realize it means there's people who know a lot more about this than you. At the same time, it is a fun read for a techie.
Annotated source code and literate programming
DAMN. Wish I had thought of this! Very well done. Seems like it's already taking off...
For cooking, you can take a portable gas stove and a pot and do chili/stews/retort foods, or you can eat dried food. A lot of people I know tend to just pack up tons of junk food and cold canned ravioli and they live off of that.

As far as tips, take clothes for weather colder than you expect -- night is COLD -- and prepare for the worst. My mother went camping recently and there was rain so torrential that it made her tent collapse.

Garbage bags, duct tape, compass, flashlight, multitool/knife, string.

It also really depends on what kind of camping you want to do. Many national/state parks have campgrounds nearby where you can "rough it," but there are also lots of more-established campgrounds with grocery stores, restaurants, entertainment areas, and pools where you just pitch a tent to sleep in. Which are you looking for?
No, he's right. It's hard enough trying to keep normal stuff to two pages without all that random stuff. My "high school" (UK secondary school), gets 1 whole line. I dropped the bit about being the top student (at GCSE) in my school years ago.

OK, I admit, I have dedicated 4 whole lines (3-5% maybe) on my C.V. to my personal interests. If I get an inexperienced interviewer who wants to make me comfortable they provide easy openers (it's cool, I'd rather get straight to business and talk about their business), and emphasise I am not my job.
Thanks for your thoughts, I am very interested in both of the things you mention.

While it's dangerous to memorize precise answers, as your comment shows there are many good habits of thought worth remembering. They don't provide an answer, but they lead us to think about the question in a new way. A lot of faerie takes have that quality, where there isn't a clear moral but you learn something anyway.

And sometimes they are helpful even if irrational. Certainly that is the case when you are looking for consolation or hope in a bad situation.

Next, many of us still communicate in allusions, just to a new canon made up of The Simpsons, internet videos, or pg essays. Every community has its canon, it's just a question of how we will learn to share it. Online communities like HN have done a very good job of creating this idea of a body of writing that the community is expected to know, and this is only going to get more popular (and the communities more specialized) over time.
Individually, it negligible. Cumulatively, the time spent by the many thousands (millions?) of users who are clicking links they deem relevant for queries all over the web (Bing are collecting data from all sites) is huge...

My point is that the assertion that Google are doing all the work in creating the data used by Bing is clearly false.
Engels averaged around four hours to complete a marathon. He said his best time was 2 hours, 56 minutes.
This is unfortunate. The google toolbar opt-in was one of the things that most impressed me about the company when I first joined.
Whilst it's an interesting image, I find it hard to believe the "average South African" woman is white.
That's a sorry testament to the quality of resumes everywhere.
I do not think it would matter if Sergey and Page personally delivered a stone slab engraved with a statement that Google does not use their toolbar's clicks. As you say, you would have to rely on trusting their statements. You seem to require extraordinary evidence that they do not and have no evidence to back up that they actually do use it, and yet cling to belief that they do.

Matt spent 5 paragraphs on the subject, and yet you have laser focus on one statement that is not even contradicted by other evidence and try to derive whatever you want from it.

Here are some other comments from the panel at bigthink, but I'm sure you will find enough wiggle in them to assert that Google faked the moon landing.

Matt Cutts: "I'm not sure that users realize...when they search on Google and click... those results appear--those clicks appear to be encrypted and sent to Microsoft which then appear to be used in Google's [sic] rankings?"

[stuff about EULAs]

Harry Shum: "Everyone does this Matt you know.."

Matt: "Google... I want to categorically deny that Google does this."

Harry: "That Google does what?"

Matt: "We don't use clicks on Bing's users in Google's rankings."

http://bigthink.com/series/62#!selected_item=4845 around 25:00
"He said the key was a slow pace over the 26.2-miles."

"He ran every race, he never walked. He ran at a rate of 10 kilometers per hour"

The man ran 6:13 miles[1]...in a marathon...each day, for 365 days in a row.

And he calls that a slow pace!

[1] Update: It's actually 6.2 miles per hour (the equivalent of a 9:40 mile), - still not too slow. I apologize for confusing miles per hour with mile times].
I may need both before it is all done with. I am considering taking a very long walk and prefer to avoid hotels. With the health issues in the family, it's important we eat healthy. So I am concerned that it will be necessary to do a lot of cooking. On the other hand, we are all healthier and more able to tolerate things like junk food and restaurant food, but so far as an occasional thing, not something we "live off of".

I don't know all the particulars yet. I am trying to gather information in part to test the idea, find holes in the plan and so on. There are lots and lots of unknowns at this stage in my thought process. I didn't think it would be terribly complicated to ask for some general feedback/resources as a place to start. :-/

tl; dr

Information on both options would be fantastic! Thank you! :-)
This topic seems to coincide with the recent findings of a culture living in Peru that has not been contacted as of yet.

The standard arguments are that we will bring them "better" technology so they can make their lives easier. Of course, we also bring in the health argument and use that excuse because they will be healthier.

What natives living in Peru and sweatshops have in common are that we are trying to force a Westernized way of living regardless what those very people say.

In sweatshops, many have denounced them as bad conditions. Yeah, we had sweatshops in the USA, and child labor up until 1938, when the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed.

Sweatshops also dont have USA minimum wage attached... Well DUH. They aren't in the USA specifically because US labor costs too damn much. Even when automotive first went to Mexico, they later left to China because.... it cost too much! (Aside the drug cartels and lack of US immigration laws, Mexico is doing worse. But that's for another essay.)

It all goes back to quality of standards we project on others. Wether it is wealth accumulation, healthcare, living, electricity/clean water, and services, we project what we expect others to have. Of course they don't have it. However in the case of sweatshops, the people will assemble once they have enough income and start their own companies. They will grease the wheel of commerce, and we're providing the bootstrap.
It's a subtle point, but the whole point of this issue is that Bing actually does copy more than just "clickstream data". Think about what "clickstream" data is - user clicks a link, the link and the text of the link get sent to Microsoft. But in Google's text the search term was not in the link text, nor was it in the target page the user went to. So then how does the search term end up in Bing's index? They have to get it from somewhere - where? The logical conclusion is they get it from the URL of the page the click is performed on, or from the referrer header when the link is clicked (essentially these are the same thing). But how do you do that generically? The search URL contains the query terms in a format that is unique to Google. The only way Bing can be seeing it is if they deliberately are parsing out the Google search terms by specifically targeting how Google encodes them.

So rather than just generically "incorporating clickstream data" this is actually using a special procedure to extract search terms from clicks that are determined to be google searches and then putting those search terms into the bing index.
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Yeah I saw that. I also asked this question before endlessvoid94 did.
I think it's fine to say and let the counter party realize that various factors and details may affect the actual rate, but another to do this is to still state a single rate and qualifying it with a statement that lets the counterparty know that it is still negotiable. Because sometimes giving a range I feel is almost giving off as a sign that I'm not confident in negotiation process and I don't exactly know where to place the counterparty.
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>agree, but how do we tell the difference between one tshirt or the other, and its associated work conditions?

The international fairtrade mark is a good way of telling the difference ... http://fairtrade.net/about_fairtrade.0.html
Either research the background of your products or purchase directly from known fair-trade/fair-conditions producers.
Some good tips here: http://www.wisegeek.com/how-do-i-know-if-i-am-buying-sweatsh...

I do agree with the premise that what we consider a 'sweatshop' may actually just be low wages in comparison to OECD wages. What is critical as a consumer is to do what you can to support genuine means of production where slavery/worker abuse is not tolerated. For example start with chocolate: I'll only purchase fair-trade chocolate due to the known conditions where Nestle/other cocoa purchasers support child slavery in West Africa. There are plenty of options for chocolate purchase in grocery stores and boutiques.

I'm not much of a mainstream consumer anyway (haven't been to McDonalds since I was a student for example) though I'm sure I support undeserving conditions with my spending - as such I'd love to see a mobile app that gives me an overview of what I'm buying.

And yes, a quick google shows this Free2Work app: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id406044086?mt=8 which I'll be checking out though it only seems to cover major brands.
10 km/h is approximately 9:40 per mile. Not a fast pace.

[BTW, what he did is insane and probably very dangerous for most people to attempt. The odds of getting injured/sick/suffering long term health consequences are high.]
Nobody making a web-based business should care unless their business relies on showing people a bunch of ads on their way to pirate the latest movies etc.
It is a little more simple if you go to a boarding school, in my experience.
He was 49 years old. Wouldn't this cause problems for his hips and knees? I'm all for pushing physical limits, but not to the point where it could backfire. Even 20 year-old professional footballers (soccer) are told to take 2 weeks complete rest at the end of a season, and during the season they only train maybe 3-4 days a week.

I hope this guy doesn't regret doing this down the line, because right now it is very inspiring.
The point of the OP was that fairtrade's standards don't make sense. So why look for their mark?
I wrote it in python, and the website is put together using the web.py framework. If you'd like to see the code, I could try throwing it up somewhere, but it's pretty messy right now.