skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It shouldn't be, but most large organizations (corporate and public sector) have setup systems designed to avoid the appearance of discrimination or subjectivity in hiring decisions. The irony is that these systems make it difficult for people who don't have a "perfect" (from the perspective of the system) record to get in.

The problem with such systems is that it is difficult to assess someone's ability to perform a job objectively. So the systems are design around measurable facts (ie. years of experience, education), biased towards promoting from withing, with the final selection being made by rolling the dice using tools like job interviews that are at best randomizers.

Humans aren't "resources" -- they are people. But we try to treat them like commodity goods, and in the process create some crappy situations for many people.
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To celebrate, I'll buy the first round of drive letters and back-slashes.
Because I want to do the work, not to spend time "controlling" something.
I'm not sure I agree with his premise that, in order to change the world you must work on a problem with "big data." I can't see how the energy crisis is fundamentally data-driven, for example, and it's hard to say that you couldn't change the world by working on that.

Regardless, best of luck to him wherever he winds up (within Google or elsewhere)! And I hope he keeps writing!
What? I was referencing Buzzword Bingo.
I've yet to hear anyone make that claim. The issue is that most of the calls are from bad recruiters, not all. The reason for that is because most recruiters are terrible, not all.
Depends on the language.
For me, Allman is easier (==cleaner) to read.
That looks better. A few more paragraphs and it'll be a joy to read.
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Hi Mitjak,

Great feedback, you're english is certainly better than any of my second languages!

You've picked up some typos and areas where we can fix our copy, we'll get onto that ASAP!

Thanks,

Marcus
Wow, he really did. How this isn't on the front page, I don't know. It should be!
Web browsers running code and rendering arbitrary documents from who knows where might use or leak memory? This is surprising to people?

Every web browser I've ever used eventually needed to be quit and restarted to clear out it's memory leaks.
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What about http://moneybookers.com ?
I'm not sure I fully understand your story, but Paypal's normal policy for suspended accounts is that they'll hold the money for 180 days before releasing it to you (this should be in your suspension email).
Because you can't charge the device through the 1/8" jack. The devices would also need something to plug into to be used for any length of time.
Hi Encoderer,

I hate to admit it, but I think you're right!

Cheers,

Marcus
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Here is a more popular list of words for the same purpose:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list
Note that the markets in general are down at the moment, due to uncertainty about the US raising the debt ceiling.

Having said that, ebay is down a little more than, say, the NASDAQ index.
Me too (live in a place where cars go unlocked), but last night I watched a burglar open my passenger door, sit in the seat and look around. I never put valuables in that car, so I wasn't concerned if only for the awareness that my neighborhood is not as safe as I once thought. I shouted at him from my second-story window and he took off like a bat out of hell. The cops came and I now lock the doors on my beater every day.
fair enough. mitjak did also warn he/she wasn't the target audience.
K&R, but technically more like 1TBS (as described on Wikipedia).
Moral of the story:
By using a service like AirBnB to make some cash, you are Rolling the fucking dice. It's naïve to think otherwise, and if you're not comfortable with that kind of risk, don't do it. It seems some people see the service as "easy money" and don't consider outcomes like this.

I think it's best compared to hitchhiking:
Is it cheap? Hell yes.
Is it consistant/reliable? no.
Is it as safe as a bus/plane? usually yes, sometimes no in a big way.

I travelled in my youth (5 years ago :p) around several states via thumb. It was a calculated risk I was taking, and both I and other hitchhikers I knew were aware of this risk and took steps to mitigate it (carrying mace, turning down rides– one friend would take a photo of the plates and text them to a friend each ride, informing the driver that he/she was not anonymous).

AirBnB is like this: you save/make some money, but rather than a Hotel (or bus company) being on the hook for a bad outcome, YOU are on the hook. If you're not prepared for that, don't do it. It's not "easy money."
Have HN come so far as to upvote an Apple rumor story? wow..
Oddly enough, the deciding factor on my previous laptop from two years ago (Dell Studio 14z) was that it didn't have an optical drive where the other two I was considering (13" MacBook, ThinkPad T-something?) did.
Yes, but hadrons basically make up a lot of matter :-)

You want free quark, or if you want obscure-physics cred, you could say 'rarer than an odderon'. The (non?)existence of odderons has been an argument in particle physics for about 30 years...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odderon
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Watch the whole talk. It's fantastic. And as a 40 year old, I completely concur.

But what to do about it? Hmmmm.....time to go shopping for books, or search for online courses.
This is Hacker News. schappim came to ask for critique of his website. I have provided critique and pointed out mistakes in the website. There's a chance I'm wrong but I think I've provided exactly what the author was looking for when he posted the link here.
I always thought the Hacker News ones were low contrast by design. Bad comments progressively get more difficult to read by design.
I don't think it's meant to be taken that seriously. Hence calling it 'Half-Baked'.
Well, I like iOS. I'm writing this from my iPad, BTW.

However, I made the inverse switch from the iPhone to the N1 last year. It was supposed to be temporary. I was going to Japan and wanted an unlocked phone to rent a 3G sim with data for my trip. It was also a good excuse to try out Android.

I haven't moved back. Contrarily to the author, the reason was because of mail, calendar and contacts. It's the main reason I haven't changed back since then.

The author's first mistake is to not use Google services with Android. I run my own mail servers, but integrate with GMail as a backup and UI. I can tell I can rapidly fetch any of my 40K+ emails that sit in Google servers. On iOS, which I still use, impossible. I also love my portable wi-fi hotspot which I often use with my non 3G iPad and even my old iPhone to try out apps without switch the sim card.

I may switch back to the iPhone in the future, but unless I get a mail search that works as efficiently, better calendar integration (with guests support) and useful batch email management features as useful than Android, I doubt it will be enough to switch.

My old iPhone still serves as an iPod and as a standalone GPS with the Navigon app. The music integration is what I miss the most.
I travel and work remotely. Work hard at finding a good gig at home/your native country and plan ahead - you can move and work almost anywhere in the world. Beware of the small unconsidered things: for example where I was living in Mexico we would lose power on a regular basis, for a period of hours or days. So, no working at home that day but I could get out of the house and work in an internet cafe. These small pieces of knowledge - being prepared for the unexpected - have saved my ass when travelling.
Anonymous needs to find a way to educate the public...

Anonymous has its own means and methods which you may or may not agree with.

If you agree that something needs to be done but think there is a better way to do it, then you need to carry it out, enough "armchair quarterback"-ing.
Hey Sixty,

This feedback has been invaluable! Thank you!

"Zigzag cloud lets you share presentations, spreadsheets and other files with your team using ipad and iphone (coming soon)". - Expect this change on the site shortly!

Re: Button text and pop-ups.

You're absolutely right, we'll make that change asap.

Cheers,

Marcus
Now had the Lucas camp thought to negotiate a license with royalty (smallish) then all this time they would have been making money instead of paying for one loss after another. Not to mention damage to their fan base.
Correlation does not imply causation.

Ebay's last Q2 spooked a lot of investors due to their decreased income and margins. The Nasdaq as a whole is down today (so far).

I would suspect that Ebay is more negative than the market due to spooked investors taking this general market malaise as an excuse to bailout.

Given that I see nothing about #OpPayPal in the business news journals as of yet, I would be very surprised if the movers and shakers that hold eBay stock are reacting to it.

(This post does not constitute investment advice of any kind, and I do not hold eBay stock.)
But an insurance policy would further cut into their revenue stream.

A credit card number doesn't help much when you're dealing with anti-social elements (they'll just use a stolen one).
Incidentally, while the cerebrum -- the big, wrinkled top part -- is the largest part of the brain, and the most well-studied, it actually only contains a minority of neurons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron#Neurons_in_the_brain

The cerebrum has ~16.3 billion neurons, whereas the cerebellum has ~69 billion.

Also, while people missing large parts of their brain can seem to do okay, the traumatic loss of even a small part of the brain can do severe damage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca%27s_area
And alternatives cannot gain ground because everybody uses paypal. It's a vicious circle. And one of my favorite examples for why monopolies are bad.
I doubt you will hear anyone make that claim, but only b/c it's not a flattering revelation. Truly I do understand your points and they are valid.

How about a post then on how to attract good recruiters? Seems constructive....doesn't it?
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Anyone have experience using things like this? I've just now heard about these behaviors and I worry about performance..
But the author of the article makes a point to say this was too late a point in time, as they were already out of town.
Governments don't want people to protest over anything bad they do. They want them to sit nice and quiet and let them take the decisions themselves, so they've criminalized almost any type of protest. The few types of protests you can do today are because other people have fought for them before us, too. But ideally, the Governments wouldn't want you to protest at all, whether you do it in crowds or on your own on Twitter.

From a current Government's view, all revolutions are illegal, too.
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Balancing the budget, against common sense?
Which I find hilarious, because they themselves (anonymous) decided to censor the shooter frpm oslo's manifesto.

So when censorship fits their needs, it's okay.
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Probably because most people who want external input have iPods. I recently got a new stereo in my car explicitly so I could get a USB input port - I just picked the cheapest stereo that had one.
"The Google Gods have banned you. You have 48 hours to collect your child pornography."

Yeah, that would be fantastic.

They should, however, tell you precisely which part of the TOS you violated - down to highlighting the specific words.
At the very least requiring theft/fire/vandalism insurance for people renting out their home.

Also interesting: limiting vacation rentals to accredited investors.

(edit: and requiring places like AirBnB to verify those requirements before you can list with them)
> How is the CGI model fundamentally different from a servlet model,

Since both are web server to application server interfaces, they aren't fundamentally different - the difference is cgi was language independent and hence defined for the common minimum. cgi couldn't have been defined in request and response objects - it would have caused trouble for languages which doesn't have objects.

> where your application code is given a request as a parameter to a function, and must return a response?

cgi is not given a request parameter - the request parameters are passed in the environment. And cgi doesn't return a response object - whatever it writes to stdout constitutes the response. cgi had to cater to all sorts of implementation - assuming request/response objects wasn't a possibility.

Servlets and cgi aren't fundamentally different, but I guess we can agree they are sufficiently different.
What a recruiter can do that a job board can't is access passive candidates.

For example a recruiter might have a pre-established network of candidates who aren't actively looking or might cold-call people working at your competitor to get them to come and work for you.
$50k?

I'd be more worried about a guest setting the house on fire, by accident or not. Fire-damage can easily clock in north of $500k. Good luck explaining the AirBnB concept to your insurance company after a stranger turns out to be "not available anymore" (stolen CC, etc.).
I've used PIE on a handful of projects. Performance only suffers if you're attaching it to a ton of elements. Using it here and there doesn't cost too much.
I think the idea is great. There are way too many things about IT that are just not really usable for 'normal' people out there.
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Conversely, why do most people with a full brain exhibit so many signs that they have none?
What about regular homeowner's insurance? Surely there can be policies that can cover this kind of thing which a host can obtain on their own. AirBnB doesn't have to muddy their business model with doing insurance, let the insurance people do this.
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Ok guys, it's been an interesting day and now we are heading off to bed. Thanks for zany chat antics over the course of the day ;-)
Medical school is 4 years after college. Average cost is $100k-$200k.

After medical school comes residency, which lasts from 3-6 years depending on speciality. Compensation during residency is $40k-$60k.

After residency, you can get a job. At that level of training, the salary will be $150k-$250k.

Optionally, you can get a fellowship after residency. This will be another 3-6 years of training, with compensation around $50k-$70k.

After fellowship, jobs pay in the $250k-$500k range.
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So far I would say the land rush method of domains has been a failure. There is an incredible number of domains that have been registered that are not being used in any way.

Well, I guess for the people making money from the land rush wouldn't feel it's a failure. But for anyone who actually wants to use a domain but cannot do so because it's parked with ads for the next twenty years may feel different. Of course, if you're willing to dole out the cash I'm sure you could get it but it ruins the fun for a personal project.

I like the idea of use it or lose it. The problem being who decides if the domain is being properly used? But it could solve a lot of issues with names, copyrights, trademarks and so on.

EDIT: I looked at their "special domains" for public use list. I see what you mean. Why should angrybirds.app and google.app be reserved for community use?
Hey Iain,

Thank you for your comments.

Re: The terminology.

You're right. We've been wondering about how you market such a product. We have a close relationship with a certain fruit company and they've been feeding us some good leads every time a crate worth of their product goes out.

The need becomes very apparent when you have 50 iPads and need to get content out to them.

I'm always up for a coffee, I'll flick you an email!

Cheers,

Marcus
I think the wonderful human beings are also lunatics. Just some a less extent than others.
Sapir Whorf all over again?[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis#Computer...
Something like 1TBS style. I it is quite popular among my friends and different to both K&R and Allman. You could add it to the poll, since there are few votes at the moment and bias won't be too big.
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I still don't understand why Google can't advise the user that the account is suspended for legal reasons and that it has been handed over to the authorities to deal with. Just closing it and go silent, is really not acceptable, as I see it.
Congrats MS-DOS!

I may not remember correctly, but wasn't it that MS-DOS 4.0 was replaced by 4.01 two days later or so?

Also, typo below the MS-DOS 2.0 picture: It should be 5 1/4" (the floppy with the half one was 3 1/2").
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I was sitting here mulling over why you wouldn't think that people are essentially good and it dawns on me that a lot of people are scared and likely have behaviors that suggest they aren't good (e.g. drive by someone with a flat tire in the rain because they are scared it's a robbery setup for passer-bys)

I think if you just look at your day to day interactions, most people are decent. I doubt many people are trying to rob you, hit you or actively steal from you. Sure there are outliers, but the majority don't do this.

Lastly, as a reformed paranoid "everyone is out to get me", I would make the observation that the energy you put out there has maybe 70% to do with the types of reactions you get back.

A friendly, open-faced "Hello" gets a hell of a different response from a shrouded, closed off, nervous "Hello".

Try and be more free for 3 days and see if the experience you have with others is better.
The most important thing to note is this has happened even before it hit critical mass, hell its in its infancy still.
This is the reason why Airbnb never made sense to me as a business. The author is lucky there was no bodily harm done to him. It's too much of a risk to rent out your personal property to total strangers. Now they forever know where you live and more so know the complete layout of your house and what you have in it and your schedule. At the end of the day it cannot be more than bedandbreakfast.com used as a listing sits for businesses. That is why the 1billion valuation does not make sense either.
As a developer, shielding me from crap means forwarding customer/client e-mails to me and telling me what they said on the phone, but never giving them my direct e-mail address or phone number.
Except in this case it's a free car that you've used for years with free gas.
That's only counterintuitive if you consider density of neurons to be the most important factor for capacity. I'd be well surprised if the cerebrum continues to be outranked in things like dendritic and/or synaptic density.
People are generally good, but there is no bar so low that 99% of humans can not be convinced to slither under given the right circumstances. The world is full of horror.
I think this case of unofficially renting out your house/apt is difficult to buy insurance for. Most homeowner's insurance policies explicitly exclude damages caused when renting your house. You need a separate landlord insurance to cover rental, but you typically can't buy landlord insurance unless your property is properly registered/licensed/inspected by your municipality as a rental property.
I don't do hiring directly, but when I see a LaTeX resume it's a +1 in my book!
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> The president is best advised to do the same: declare that the other side has foregone all pretense at rational legitimacy, and simply proceed to govern as best he can for the good of the country.

This is seriously how the article ends? How does the author suggest he do that, considering one house is controlled by these "rogue elephants". That's the important question. Professor Captain Obvious hasn't really contributed anything new by labeling the republicans as a much of crazy animals...
Purely pulling this out of my ass, but I'm hoping whoever took his initial call(s) just severely misunderstood the situation. Maybe people have had trashy guests or items broken and became irate over them, and that's what this person thought was happening. I hope.

I don't know the company's "side of the story", and would be surprised if it was ever really discussed in any way aside from steps taken to remedy this situation... But as this suggests, they apparently need, above their "urgent" number, a "Bat-Phone" for severe cases.
No you're definitely not alone.

Most of the people I know in the tech and creative industries rarely use their optical drive, downloading instead and viewing media through consoles/players connected to their TV.

I assume that they won't have the extra hard drive slot because the majority of consumers don't need to have two hard drives. But I'd be happy if Apple proved me wrong because that's exactly what I'd like.
This looks similar to Bubble Babble (look at ssh-keygen -B, or the Wikipedia page). This method's advantage would seem to be that it's feasible to do by hand, but I'm not sure that the chosen set of words would actually reduce errors when read aloud compared to just reading off hex digits.

Bubble Babble has its own set of pronunciation issues, but it
does have checksumming as part of the spec...a big advantage for the suggested use-case.

This method: dem bag:bip nog:kep lip:bep nig:bot dad:kip dug:bap him:hod fum

Bubble Babble: xemab-cifor-mycup-fydet-fugic-nadid-vabel-bisog-maxox'
> You only need basics of PHP to become CMS guy.

If you only use the basic, then your CMS will be very basic - and probably shitty, and full of security holes.
I so wish he had a camera at least on the entrance of the apartment. Besides I hope that since the burglar used Internet for communication the IP address is recorded with AirBNB or Google and that will help track him/her down.

Horrible story to be sure. Trust no one goes too far but trust and verify should be the norm. I for one would have thought twice before giving out house keys to a person who misspelled his/her own last name. I guess as he seems to indicate AirBNB model/markting fooled him into 100% trust.
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The best use for HalfBakery.com in my experience, is as Snopes for Ideas.

If someone guardedly shares their own half-baked idea over dinner (especially if they think they need to find a technical partner, investor, or get a patent), rather than give them a lecture about customer development, I tell them it sounds interesting and send them a link to Half-Bakery or http://www.cambrianhouse.com/idea/.

The hit rate is shockingly high. And even if they don't find their idea, they'll realize ideas are a dime a dozen and start focusing on how to validate whether their idea actually has legs.

edit: there->their