skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lot of holes in this, which is why it isn't very interesting until future studies come up comparing normal applications against more thoroughly blinded applications.

For example, why is the bias against Asian applications almost gone when correcting for Asian-Americans? Why no bias against Hispanics? Are these anti-black NIH bureaucrats racist only when it comes to blacks?

And the other version I read said that the supposed bias was only in the first review step, and once you looked at black candidates who made it to the second step, the bias completely disappeared.
I worked for a year at a company and training two people to do my job from a stack of my personal notebooks and insider knowledge was a nightmare. After that I decided to keep a personal wiki which was easily searchable. Having gone the .txt route in the past and found it wanting, I decided on the next best thing and went with a Tiddlywiki.

I document all processes I develop and additionally keep a journal every day, and one at a project level. It has more than once saved my butt working on multiple projects and has made me a better manager. I finally graduated from a Tiddlywiki as I ended up wanting to collaborate on entries far too often. A year into my wiki experiment I switched to MediaWiki and haven't looked back as I can simply add collaborators and more transparently keep track of contributions.

For others wanting to transition I made a little conversion script here: http://www.itp.uzh.ch/~corbett/projects/code/tiddlywiki_to_m...

Tl;dr Keeping a wiki as a developer: ~best decision ever.
@angryasian Well, we are starting with the invite codes on Hacker News because we feel like developer quality is probably pretty good here and we need to get the site going. We are working right now on a more long term way to scale up the number of developers and still maintain high quality.
Key question in Oracle-Google suit: Can you copyright an API?
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Wordpress 3.2.1 persistent xss
@rpwilcox Yes, that requirement is taken from our personal experience / preferences. We like contract work because it's varied and interesting, but we don't want a long term commitment that turns into a full-time job.
I use this method - except I use a fork called nvalt - http://brettterpstra.com/project/nvalt/ - since text files via dropbox & simplenote. The fork has better markdown support (and a few other things I forget)

I map (cmd)(enter) as the global hotkey to bring nvalt to the foreground.
I like nvALT (http://brettterpstra.com/project/nvalt/) as a replacement for notational velocity. It is a fork of NV that adds many features.

TODO list, fullscreen and markdown support are amongst the ones I use the most.
They are only giving the hardware away to developers who have already published an application in the store. I think its a pretty good decision by MS as they are targeting developers who have at least shipped something. I don't know if I would want to switch away from android/ios though. I don't think MS will abandon the platform but I think they will end up abandoning silverlight in the future.
What are cellphone users demographic by Age?
Additional findings from the smartphone survey: People between the ages of 30 and 49 are the heaviest users of smartphone features, while respondents who are 50 years of age and older use fewer features, particularly text messaging, games and social media, and do so less frequently.
Studies found that spoilers make stories more enjoyable or one study involving a very homogeneous group found that people reported more enjoyment from stories they were forced to read if those stories had been spoiled?

I'm not sure there's actually enough evidence to even validate that study as showing what it appears to show, much less to generalize the result to all humans everywhere.
How Facebook can get you fired
Yep, I've got the same problem.
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-...

(I run a OSQA site, so can't recommend any of these, other than OSQA :-) )
Linux started supporting USB 3.0 in the September 2009 release of the 2.6.31 Linux kernel.

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_31#head-2c74ce6091fb2feb4...
Intel recruits sci-fi writers to dream up future tech
Take a look at vroomvroomvroom.com. It's the site I always use for booking rental cars. Simple UI and no hidden fees.
Ask HN: What is the standard first hire equity + salary in a new startup
We are in the process of hiring our first programmer. As a startup trying to keep costs to a minimum, whats the standard equity / salary our first tech hire should get? (ballpark is cool too)
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...TV is a luxury.

How convenient it is that media companies can perpetually turn last year's luxury into today's necessity, yet when their opponents use the same argument against them, they feel free to roll back the clock and declare everything beyond basic caloric sustenance a luxury once again.
I agree it had that potential in theory, but in practice it had nearly none of the market advantages of the iPad. It didn't have the Apple (or iPod / iPhone) brand name to catapult off of nor a large base of users that already own similar devices; it didn't have many apps nor much developer support; and, importantly, it didn't have the iTunes ecosystem of easily-obtained media. It'd be awfully tough to out-Apple Apple right now. Without some really strong differentiator, I don't know why anybody - least of all those at HP - would have thought they had a chance.
That's a bit trite, don't you think?

This is all a religious war, but at the end of the day something like Rails enables you to come a lot closer to "good design, good programming" than many other systems currently in use, i.e. your less than favourite PHP or Java framework here.

I think that someone who honestly believes PHP has RUINED them may be a bit of a tool. We're programmers, we can figure it out.
Count me among the "no mouse" people. I'm a touch typist, and constantly moving my right hand back and forth to the mouse just slows everything down to an unacceptable degree.
What is to stop developers from logging in remotely to commit changes, knowing that any attack will be directed at an empty chair?
Is GTD the "Extreme Programming" of Time Management
Respectfully and realizing it is all relative, $25M is not swinging for the fences. By a very long shot. It is a great outcome for them certainly, but not swinging for the fences.
Excellent stuff. I had a similar idea once, hooked it up to an irc channel and made a bot with commands to shoot people in the office by typing their name. Unfortunately I couldn't get the rocket launcher to be accurate as the same command sequence wouldn't always result in the launcher aiming at the same position.
The only barebones essential is that the people in my social circle are on it. How you hook people into that seems to be 20% features/80% luck/celebrity endorsements.
Love the idea. The concept of short, self-contained projects is really appealing, particularly if they're for high quality clients.
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As you go about setting up your workout program, you might start to wonder how to get bigger legs. Leg training is going to be a critical aspect of your overall workout design because the legs are such large muscles in the body and will really have an influence on your testosterone release.
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Here are three key things to know about getting bigger legs.
Perform At Least Two Major Lifts per Workout
The first thing to remember about how to get bigger legs is that the more muscle fibers you can work with an exercise, the better. So for example rather than focusing your program around leg extensions and hamstring curls, focus the majority of your program around squats and dead lifts.
Personal trainer NYC you will also be able to lift more weight using these movements, which is another critical factor that’s required for building big leg muscles – a constant increase in load over time.
Keep Compound Work In The Lower Rep Range and Isolated Work In The Higher Rep Range
The second thing you must know about how to get bigger legs is that for your lower body workouts, you should aim to mix up the rep ranges slightly. This increases the variability of the stimulus the muscles have to face, further promoting growth.
Since lifting a higher amount of weight will call for you to use a lower rep range and the opposite applies for the higher rep range, use 4-8 reps total when doing your squats, dead lifts, leg presses, and step-ups, while using the 8-12 rep range when doing lunges, leg extensions, hamstring curls, and calf raises.
Allow For More Rest than With Upper Body Training
Finally, many people who are asking the question of how to get bigger legs place all of their focus on what they are doing in the gym. Do not overlook the time out of the gym. It is actually then that the muscles will be repairing themselves and when the growth process takes place.
Since the leg muscles are much larger and stronger compared with the upper body muscles, they will require more rest after each workout session. Personal trainers NYC be sure you’re not overdoing your leg training and adding in numerous cardio workouts as this will really hinder your progress.
Also, if you’re serious about building stronger leg muscles quickly, you should make sure you’re taking care of your nutrition as well. While the rest process is taking place you must provide the body with the raw materials it needs to synthesize this new leg muscle.
So be sure you keep these points in mind. By using the right program for your leg training, you will progress much faster than you have before.
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It's always very painful if a codebase is not internally consistent.

I usually try to find some sort of dominant naming scheme to follow and clean up old code left and right, but yeah, sometimes starting anew can be the only sane thing to do.
Some people learn better with videos. It doesn't have much to do with the subject matter.
I'm a huge fan of the Zite app. In fact, it's one of the only apps I use on my iPad. I'm surprised at the $20-$25M price tag (assuming that is what it sells for). Not sure how you would monetize something like this, although I gladly would have paid something for it.
I've been doing rails for a long time.

My biggest advice, use rails plugins sparingly, and when you do ensure they are well maintained. Nothing is worse than an old rails project that is using 20 plugins and you need to update it to a new major version of rails.
and 4 viruses concurrently trying to connect to their respective master nodes?
Looks like a great easy-to-use service, but not one that I expect hackers would use. Why wouldn't you just host your video on Amazon S3 and play them back on your website using something like JW FLV Player?

That solution would cost about 10-20 cents a month (unless you've got heaps of traffic, in which case you're hopefully making heaps of sales anyway...).
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Advertising intrusiveness It impossible to determine how the promotion of Cowboys actually received But the film was certainly difficult to avoid,
This point is understood, this discussion is about dangers of using this weapon even against somebody without retaliatory capability since the ones with the retaliatory capability can launch counterstrike by mistake since early warning system is not going to be able to distinguish launch of this weapon from the nuclear missile launch.
Sorry guys, we're working on that. Should be fixed soon.
I think it depends a lot on age/experience and how you got into development. In my case, I'm relatively young, lack a college degree, and started out in sysadmin and, shortly thereafter, operations engineering roles. I've discovered good ops people are a pain in the ass to find, and I had the misfortune to be very good at it, so I naturally keep getting already-"running" systems dropped on me with instructions to maintain, fix, and interface with them. I've only had one true greenfield project (still in progress) since I started getting paid for my work.

Most of the other developers I know are older, have computer science and/or EE degrees, and have been around the startup block a few times, and have several greenfield projects under their belt.
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>Permits might be expensive

freedom isn't free.
And this matters in this context why?
Christian Neukirchen (the creator of Rack, among other things) created knock[1], a TAP tool for Ruby. It doesn't seem to have developed much a following, though.

[1] https://github.com/chneukirchen/knock
@dbalatero Yeah, that's taken from our personal experience and preference for no long term commitments in contract work. I'm glad you like the idea!
Garbage article.

> Repair/Fix Permissions

Terrible advice. There is a very small number of problems which Fix Permissions is the appropriate solution, and "slow boot times" is not one of them. In some rare cases it can actually hurt (generally only when you have a badly configured installer package that modifies files used by other packages though).

> Clear Caches

If anything, that will increase boot time as the caches need to be regenerated. Caches are called caches for a reason.

> Select a startup disk

This one confuses me. How did you end up with no startup disk? I imagine that if your real OS is the first drive in the system than this will have zero effect. If your first drive is a slow drive that doesn't contain an OS, I can imagine that this might do something, as the system will have to ping each drive to find an OS, but that's just speculation. I still don't know how someone would lose their startup disk though, and I doubt this will affect anyone reading this article.

> Free Some Disk Space

Reasonable advice in general, but I don't see how it's related to boot times.

> Lose the GM seed

Useless advice. IIRC the GM seed was build 11A511, which is the same build that was released to consumers. In other words, the GM seed is identical to the App Store version. Installing the app store version on top of the GM seed is a waste of time.

> Do a Fresh install

Reasonable suggestion in the face of a number of issues, but I don't see why this would affect boot time unless you had a number of daemons installed system-wide and set to launch at startup (and in that case you probably have a reason to have those installed).
I love Hipmunk, but I think they assume their superior interface warrants pretty radical price increases (anything over 5% is kind of ridiculous considering how easy it is to compare prices for the exact same flights with another competitor).

Maybe I'm missing something here, but it's never been worth it for me.
CVE-2011-2527 and 0011 are local attacks only, guest can't trigger it. CVE-2011-2212, 1751 and 1750 are serious, but mitigated in various ways making actual exploitation difficult (and conspicuous). selinux will mitigate it even further.

Remember that all of these fixes are upgrades to userspace - which means there are many more upgrade options than if they were kernel or hypervisor (think the equivalent of a live migrate to the same host, as an example).

Btw, Brightbox happened to be the original reporters of CVE-2011-0011 :)
Just because it's an open source project does not mean that your contributions will be happily accepted.
Regardless of the ethical justifications, and even if you have an ostensible legal right to be watching a show (e.g. you have a cable subscription and you recorded the show with your DVR), their watchdogs will still send DMCA notices to your ISP if you happen upon a file they are watching.
Five Years Later, Twitter Rolls Out Image Galleries
"...this is an alpha release..." Not exactly what you want to hear when you're testing... I already have enough problems trying to run an actual version of IE6 on Virtualbox
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Why Credit Card Companies Are Scared Of Change
Thanks for the olark.com link. That is an impressive service.
The quality of published apps on WebOS is questionable (there are probably both great and very poor developers out of those 1,000). What Microsoft is telling people, in contrast to HP, is that they are not intending on abandoning their phone strategy anytime soon, and are willing to go through great lengths to woo developers over. At the same time, had this offer been extended to iOS devs, they would've had a great response rate for hardware, and it would still remain to be seen whether anyone would actually start developing for Windows Phone.

This does add another way to analyze the hardware-ecosystem tradeoff that people are considering with the Touchpad fire sale: what's the sweet spot for burning money in order to build a thriving ecosystem?
I've used vi editors for longer than I remember, I don't remember any of the things I type. They just happen. I'm 30 btw, vi and its arcane "behind the state of the art" interface are only behind if you don't understand the reasons behind the separation. Every single time I login to a ssh server over a slow ssh link, I am imminently thankful I can type and update a file faster than the screen can refresh my changes. One thing for which vi excels at.

Also, don't use :q!, just use ZZ, its quicker.

If you want to learn how to do something vimgolf is a good choice as the goal is to do a task in as few commands as possible.

Think of it as talking to your editor in as minimal a way as possible.
http://vimgolf.com/
I found the best music player ever...
I saw "Post to my wall", and closed the tab. Why is this necessary? And why do you want my email address?
@scottyallen Thanks! Short and self-contained is kind of the ideal for us, too. We think lots of good developers like that kind of work so they have the free mindshare for their other big ideas.
Miramax joins Warner Bros, Universal and Paramount in movie rentals via Facebook
I love the UI and use it pretty frequently, but I have never booked a flight through there site because they do not support flying with infants and children.

The prices for my most recent trip were the same for what I searched on Kayak actually, but it may be because that it was more short notice (2-3 weeks in the future).
Yeap, edit doesn't work here either.
You may want to reconsider your target audience, because I'd be willing to bet it is roughly equivalent to the null set.

The kind of people who care about the lives of celebrities are quite likely not the kind of people looking for book recommendations. Mascara or purse recommendations, perhaps. But not books.
Have you actually used org-mode to say that these are "essentially equivalent", or do you just say this because your favored tool cannot possibly be worse than someone else's favored tool?

From what I've seen, vim people generally are not really interested in creating enormous extensions as the emacs people are, so if they actually created something similar in power and complexity, I would be really surprised and impressed.
I think you are on to something there with the 15 prints a month limit...

Figure out some way to create a scarcity of images, so only the worthwhile pictures are used/shown, not the 150-per-facebook album, as you mentioned.
True, but in this case, the platform in question (WebOS) is disintegrating... someone offers you safe sanctuary while you reconsider your options... why not?

It will be interesting to see what comes of this.
It's called "OpenInstall", see openinstall.com - after looking up the domain owner, old owners, servers and registration of the company as well as multiple addresses, I found it is the same company responsible for this:
https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/FXL1y8qG...

"Viveli" or "GameTheory" are the company names, see comments on Cutts page. According to the posting, they even lost ties to their former toolbar partners Zugo.com because Bing.com shut them down for forced installs (like on Bright.com or on CNET).

http://www.openinstall.com/aboutus.html - seems like most of them are former founders of "FreeCause", a toolbar company that hides installs under the false impression of charitable donations.

The person behind it is Eduardo Vivas, who just opened up his new startup Bright.com, which is Co-Reg scam, if you look at the getsatisfaction.com support requests this becomes very clear. Sign up people, send them to education affiliate offers, cold call them from a call-center and have them download a toolbar to get access to job postings.

Scam.
After the reported bugs are ironed out, can you also add a 'weekly' option to email frequency? Thanks for the invites!
This is a very good book. Worth the money.
Skiena has a companion website with a lot of good info too,
http://www.algorist.com/

I loved the Stones quote.
The book does have some bugs, if something doesn't look right, check the website errata.
We're working on fixing it right now! Thanks for the feedback.
Users voted for best KDE-based Linux distribution
+1

http://www.craphound.com/lifehacks2.txt is a good read, why plain text is still the favorite among geeks.
So after any sort of sensible application of this work is employed, these people would continue to write those same fake reviews and wonder "I wonder why my reviews are being taken down and my ratings not counted!"

And if it is in fact spammers spending their time designing software which writes fake reviews, not business owners trying to hype up their own companies, the spammers' wellbeing is dependent upon how well their reviews pass as real ones. If some kind of software were developed and employed by the company whose pages will host the reviews, I think the spammers would be hard pressed not to make sure their software works and discover some kind of issue quickly.

Then again, this study could have been meant not to be applied practically, but intended as an academic analysis of fake reviews, posted by random individuals who love to dishonestly talk up items or companies with which they are not well acquainted. But then this is no more than a psychological analysis of a minor issue, which is interesting, but not the article I thought it was.
That's a valid criticism of APIs that think "it's not SOAP, so it must be REST", but this is close enough to REST that it seems pedantry to claim it isn't.

So all apologies to Roy Fielding, but through success, he has lost control of his terminology. This is what people mean by REST today.
It's time to end the war on salt.
Can you elaborate on what command queuing is, and whether it helps sequential or parallel transfers?
Non-Windows Operating Systems for the Beginner
"... For web stuff in particular, using a comparatively low-bandwidth and/or high-latency connection can also be useful, ..."

If you teamed low bandwidth with virtualised browsers of all flavours, this would make a pretty good testing service.
>It works on a deep psychological level to offer vast productivity improvements.

some other extremely effective methods used in [another organization where people are treated like sh!t] the Russian Army: blocking access to the exit door, restroom and/or food/water, gang-chaining and/to the utility pipes, forcing to wear gas mask [and if weather is warm enough - rubberized fullbody chemical weapons protective suite] ... until the task is completed/corrected,

and the best of the best methods is to having [only] your teammates [who have no connection to the error] being forced into the above described conditions until _you_ correct _your_ own error. After it happens once, your teammates would make sure that you wouldn't repeat the error ever ...