skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been here for a long time and I don't remember seeing a 1 day old post in the front page unless it has something like 700 or 900 points. Also posts without URL generally get quickly buried after they hit the front page and don't show up again.
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I don't understand; can you elaborate on that?
Oddly, people rarely mention Canada when comparing the U.S. performance on the PISA to that of other countries, even though Canada is by far the country most similar to that of the U.S. among those who participate in PISA.

Canada was consistently ranked approximately fourth, a fact that seems to have been largely ignored.
Except that someone else could answer while you are waiting.
No, but I see signs of something odd happening. Will investigate.
when you say portfolio do you mean having a github account or a blog or a live website running? what kinds of projects should I have?
Doorway to Blame for Room Amnesia
Old... US population is at 307 million now... but still interesting.
One criticism of IQ tests is that they measure the ability to pass IQ tests. Do we have the data to refute the accusation that standardized tests measure only the ability to pass standardized tests?

http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/intellig...
Official fighter pay is reported to state commissions and can be found on many sites after the event. What is not disclosed, and is probably the lion's share of most fighter's income, is sponsorships.

I don't know who gets a cut of the PPV -- I suspect GSP and Silva and not many others. For the rest, their disclosed pay is in usually in the low 6-figures.

In the past there were a ton of stories about tactics used by Dana and the Fertitta's to keep overall fighter pay down. E.g. they wouldn't bring in fighters who were making big money at other promotions (such as Fedor and Overeem), for fear of setting precedents. They do seem more open to that now, though, as Overeem is in the UFC and Fedor might be soon.

Edit: Some examples from the last event (copied from Wikipedia):

Henderson - 250,000

Rua - 165,000

Wanderlei Silva - 200,000

Cung Le - 350,000 (total WTF)

Faber - 64,000 (including win bonus, plus Faber is a huge draw, another WTF)

Bowles - 19,000
I want whitelisting with a little dropdown that gives me the option to temporarily or permanently whitelist domains as I see fit. I'm not really interested in blacklisting, which is I think what you're describing.
I love Pattern Language and use ideas from it all the time. It, and Alexander, are much more interesting than the mechanistic stuff that software people reduced him to. I think Chris Alexander is one of those rare cases where it's possible to see that an individual is right and an entire field is wrong.

Growing a Business I read because you recommended it on HN a few years ago!

Peopleware I remember as being pretty enlightened in spirit and ahead of its time for software projects, but one of those once-you-get-it-you-get-it things. Also, they totally made shit up in that book (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=333694).

GEB, meh. Hofstadter always struck me as the pseudo-profound type. Perhaps I am unfair.
Apple -> System Preferences -> Sharing

To confirm it kicked in, open Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal and type 'hostname'. This is what anyone else on the same network sees you as. You'll also see your machine on other Macs in Finder under the 'Devices' sidebar.

(the whole story surrounding hostnames is moderately more complicated than this, but the Sharing panel on System Preferences is what informs the Bonjour local network name and that's good enough for 95% of user-facing things)

Edit: I misread, thought you were talking about OSX.
Survival is already an non-issue for most people in modern society and non-3rd world countries. Most friendships and relationships today are built on things that are so fragile, vulnerable, and superficial.. it's not even close.

If survival was an issue (fighting aliens for instance), we'd all be united in a way that would be unrecognizable today.
The goal is to regularly provide proof to both your professional network and to selected potential employers that you are highly competent and will be a decided advantage to their organization.

Some people don't know what github is and won't care, others really like live sites even if they're modest, and still others really just want to see resume bullet points about dollars saved / created. Eventually you can put all of that together, but naturally it'll help when your prospective hiring manager has the same ideals you're demonstrating with your portfolio.

Portfolios are secondary to name recognition and social proof. Let me reemphasize that sharing your goodwill, your skills, and your successes with your professional network is probably more valuable than anything else you can do - develop a local or national reputation as a top gun and work will come to you as long as you keep your connections warm.
You are being far too generous regarding the documentation. Here's the relevant part:

---

The IPN protocol consists of three steps:

1. PayPal sends your IPN listener a message that notifies you of the event

2. Your listener sends the complete unaltered message back to PayPal; the message must contain the same fields in the same order and be encoded in the same way as the original
message

3. PayPal sends a single word back, which is either VERIFIED if the message originated with PayPal or INVALID if there is any discrepancy with what was originally sent

Your listener must respond to each message, whether or not you intend to do anything with it. If you do not respond, PayPal assumes that the message was not received and resends the message. PayPal continues to resend the message periodically until your listener sends the correct message back, although the interval between resent messages increases each time. The message can be resent for up to four days.

---

This is clear, unambiguous, and - if what you say is correct - just flat out WRONG. My misunderstanding wasn't just "a reasonable interpretation", its the only reasonable interpretation. At the barest minimum, competent documentation should state "PayPal will attempt to resend messages until your handler returns a 200 OK http status code." It doesn't. Anywhere.

This is a perfect example of why working with PayPal is an unacceptable developer experience. And who doubts that one year from now this document won't have changed one bit?
heh, that's me! was wondering where those HN hits were coming from... thanks for dropping by.
for me it says, "Well, you are in the clear. But look what others do"...AnalTeenAngels.com - Abbie (584.32 MB)

should i check it out? must be good!

[turns out to be a gay flick, FML]
You should only do heavy personalization once you're more sure that everything is in a layout that it will need to be. With the projects I'm working on even the smallest new information or feature being added to a page could totally change what the best functional layout and look is. With my own projects I've done hundreads of fairly drastic layout shifts - they are evolutions from ideas and eureka moments. Frameworks should be used to play around with the look to feel how the UX would be. It will be very difficult to determine full effects of design until you have substantial traffic and are able to cohort testing though, though a good designer will have this as an intuitive nature. Having data such as that click/cursor heatmaps divided into power users, first time visitors, etc. is invaluable as well for testing use-theories.
Society is a system made up of point-masses of personal integrity (or lack thereof). "The system" didn't make Apple decide to fuck over consumers by jumping on board with a patent troll; that decision was made by a group of specific persons who deserve neither my respect or my business.

Don't reward moral cowardice by hacking your own mind into considering it "just the way things are." Make the bastards work a little harder to buy you out, at least.
Any ideas what is this good for? I'm sure it's a nice intellectual exercise, but does it simplify something or make some cool tricks possible?
Actually, I'd like to find out what that program is and try it.

Disclosure: I've always been nervous around parrots.

Back on topic: I've got my students using the Pomodoro Method in workshop time, no sms, fbook, anything while the timer is ticking.
Now it's a dilemma. I can just write up my answer and wait to post it until someone else posts, maximizing the amount of reputation I'd get for the same answer. If everyone does the same, the net outcome is a longer waiting period to get answers to questions. I'd rather keep game theory out of it.
Not even remotely. I worked at an EB Games (hardly a prestigious retail outlet, but pretty decent). I had stoned-looking, unshaven, greasy-haired teenagers in ripped clothes and baggy jeans stagger into my store as if they were stoned out of their minds, throw down a folded-in-quarters resume on the counter, and say 'I'd like a job'. When I said 'Thanks, we'll let you know' they wandered off to play on the demo Xbox for ten minutes and then left.

Another guy came in, an overweight, sweaty, hillbilly-looking man in ratty jeans and a flannel shirt so worn out that there were obvious holes in the armpits, and I got the sense that hygiene was as important to him as fashion.

Then there's the women who come in with their son's resume (and occasionally even their sons) and try to get them a job.

I'd like to say 'For every talented, worthwhile individual we saw ten of these', but in three years of working there, I don't recall having spoken to a single person that made me think 'Hey, we should hire this guy', but I saw one person after another like this, people so unqualified for the job that I couldn't help but wonder if they really wanted to be employed at all, or if their parents or girlfriends were just tired of them lazing around the house and smoking pot and were forcing them to pretend to make an attempt.

My manager at EB used to manage a McDonald's, and he became one of those people who refuses to leave the drive-thru until he's gone through everything he ordered to make sure it's what he asked for. The reason? He's had to do hiring. The kids that are too blasted out of their minds to accomplish anything? The ones that stand there like idiots until you give them specific, detailed, step-by-step instructions which they immediately forget? The ones that don't actually understand what's happening, never really know how to do their jobs, and never take action on their own? Those, he said, were the best applicants he got. He hired these people because everyone else who applied was incapable of doing simple tasks even when instructed. These people were the cream of the crop.

So when McDonald's says they hired 6.2% of the people who applied to them, I also have a hard time believing them. I can't help but think, 'Really? That many? They must be desperate.'
Chromium doesn't (necessarily) send data to Google. As far as safety, it should be comparably safe to Chrome, since beyond branding, the differences between the two browsers are slight.
The article nailed it. Chances are that the world of QA sites is switching from narcism based reputation systems to the real web currency: user attention. That is, if I spend some of my attention on your problem, the system will remember it the next time I have a question.

This is what I am doing with http://www.TwoToReal.com: Unlike SO/Quora/etc. it is a synchronous QA site for questions where you didn't get an answer on the the former QA sites. As it works by pulling in other expert users into a real-time web chat, I had to be very careful to find a reasonable trade-off between disturbing the expert (i.e. asking another user by IM to participate) and benefiting the questioner. Rule-of-thumb at TwoToReal: the more you are allowing yourself to be "disturbed" the more will be asked for participation the next time you have a question. Soon it will allow you to "invest" more of your attention on one question by letting the system pull in more than one expert. Thus the currency of attention.
It said something wrong for me too. Something about "Magneto", presumably a comic book or something. I know who lives on my street, and I doubt any of them are the hack-the-neighbor's-router types.

It also didn't mention things I have pirated off of public trackers, so, meh.
Looking at position 26/27

Poll: Should we rename Amber.js?
34 points by wycats 20 hours ago | flag | 54 comments

Ask HN: know of any successful app in Google marketplace?
8 points by vijayr 22 hours ago | flag | discuss

A few minutes again there was an "Ask HN" story in that position (26) which was sent 22 hours ago too. That might give you a clue.
You'll never find a politician worth his/her salt taking cash from a company.

I appreciate the sentiment, but you're using a One True Scotsman fallacy. Try again!
The media's censorship of Ron Paul's campaign is predicated on exactly that idea - that without the federal government there would be no social services.

For example, Conan's satirical RP ad http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-08/politics/3048...
Researchers develop 3D nanowire transistor, target 10nm.
Couldn't agree more. I've never been a fan of TC, and am something of an Apple fanboy, but they stepped in it here and I'm glad TC did the homework to call them on it.
> 'd be surprised if those groups didn't have similar and more encompassing databases already.

Those groups don't have Facebook verified identities of people admitting of downloading specific files. Pretty hard to prove that "it wasn't me" at that point.
Look at the screenshot of Amazon from 1995.
drchrono, like any other EMR system here in the States, meets HIPAA requirements: https://drchrono.com/security/

If you don't understand what HIPAA entails, have a look at: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/
"Last year, Google was named the “Happiest Company in America” in an annual survey by job satisfaction–focused web resource CareerBliss.com. Lately, however, Google’s looking a little blue: In the most recent survey, the Internet search engine company didn’t even make the top 50."

I've never really trusted those surveys, but wow... how amazing is that? That's spot on.
I'd rather put my efforts into reducing the power of the President and move toward more of a parliamentary democracy in the US, which will increase the number of parties and diminish the power any particular party has, and therefore companies won't have such a lock on legislation.
Cute. But I would like to see a dynamically updating breakdown of all countries, for comparison, of all this data. Sadly, what governments publish may not be factual.
SuperPACs...
More than it should be. Was literally researching alternatives to our IRC sys this morning.
Since others are handling the arguments over technical and stylistic aspects, I will comment on another problem with the Facebook dedesign:

Pokemon was not yet popular in 1997. The anime scene was all about Ranma, Slayers, Evangelion, Techni Muyo, and whatever movie had aired on the Sci-Fi channel the past Saturday. Sailor Moon was running on TV and was very popular but we tried to forget about that. Of course, the user could be from Japan where Pokemon had been running for half a year, or they could have gotten a sub off Usenet, but Pokemon did not get popular in the English-speaking world until the dub was aired later in the decade.
My guess is that he subscribes to the theory that companies use questions that would normally be taught in college to filter out older applicants. Ie, some assume that time since college isa major factor in people knowing these answers.

Personally, I find it terribly unlikely that any such filtering is intentional on any level.
I think they mean that they can't stop someone who may have already scraped that info before you requested the delete.
> They could sell this information to MPAA and RIAA for gold.

Maybe in the US, but in many other countries they would be breaking several privacy laws. In fact, even the collecting the initial minimal information (IP's + downloads) already breaks privacy laws in most of Europe. Commercially, this information has no value.
My understanding is that according to US labor law, computer programming is not one of the limited group of employment positions for which a degree is (or can be) required. That is, coders can't be required to have a degree, so HR designs questions that are most likely to only be answerable with university-style training.
The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
(I'm starting to tire a little of the female hero character who's in all his books, but on the whole, The Baroque Cycle, which this is the second volume of, has been very educational and always entertaining)

The Visual Display of Quantative Information, Envisioning Information, Visual Explanations, and Beautiful Evidence
(I picked up all four books by Edward Tufte at his one day training course. At the 2011 SVG Open, I was blown away by Mike Bostock's D3 demo, and Niel Fraser told me to read all of Tuftes books to see where these revolutionary ways of displaying information came from)

ESV Bible, actually hoping to find time to get my Python script running so I can download the audio, chapter by chapter, because the audio version I bought is nigh impossible to navigate.
Placing a particularly high value on undergraduate-level CS theory as a pre-employment hurdle provides a market advantage to people with fresh undergraduate training.

This coincidentally depresses the marketability (for a certain class of job) of older workers and demographics less likely to achieve a degree from a top N computer science program.

Certainly you could read between the lines and say that observably favoring e.g. Stanford 2012 CS majors effectively disadvantages some protected minorities (age, gender, race). By placing the emphasis on a particular credential rather than on demographics a hiring company gets a level of plausible deniability from such claims.

Disclaimer: I have an MSci in CS and I'm only 30, so I'm not too worried about the things implied above. Yet.
Yep, exactly -- not only can the images be cached, but the HTML too!

The ideal way to do it is have the "loader file" (index.html) only cached with last-modified date, so as soon as it changes the client is aware. The client requests the file each time, and is returned the full file or a simple Not Modified response.

Within the file, you have references to permanently-cached, versioned resources (<img src="/images/foo.png?build=123" />). If the cache expiration is far enough away, the browser won't even issue the request to check for a new version.

Some browsers don't cache query params so you might use rewriting rules to change foo.png to foo.123.png. This rewriting is done automatically for you with Google Page Speed module for Apache.
Understanding the Crust of the Computing Pie
On a tangential note, apps like HandsOff and LittleSnitch aren't effective at sandboxing malicious software. (This should be obvious, but it apparently requires saying.)

The easiest way to bypass HandsOff/LittleSnitch is by temporarily replacing a trusted executable with another binary - there is no mechanism in place to verify that the binary itself hasn't changed since it was granted permissions.

http://natanyellin.com/2011/11/03/bypassing-little-snitch/
The new developments in Perl syntax mostly solve this by having an explicit separator for invocant specification:

method foo ($bar, $baz) { ... }

has $self, $bar and $baz, while

method foo ($class: $bar, $baz) { ... }

has $class, $bar and $baz.
A possible solution: When someone answers, the karma clock is "reset", so it is then based on the time since the last answer given.
While you're clearly implying that this is an indicator of a second tech bubble, you're using faulty logic to arrive at that conclusion. Computers were also popular during the dot-com boom. So was the Internet. That doesn't mean that a focus on internet computing caused the bubble, or even indicated it.

If you want to say that this is a managerial dashboard wankfest that may indicate a company more obsessed with metrics than with building a great product, just say it.
Research Insight: Does Content Matter?
It seems DotCloud was forgotten.
Hiring 'smart' engineers, 'talented' artists, 'courageous' firefighters, etc.
Please consider your writing when you post a job ad. Out of consideration for us 'dumb' engineers, or talentless artists (I can be both.)
There was that, too, but who knows which straw broke the camel's back?
Were they ever asked to do so?
I think a lot of members have gone to various subreddits.
There was a post like 55 days old that somehow was on the first page.
This brings up an interesting question; since by default on iOS the hostname is based on the user's name, what will happen when two people with the same hostname (e.g., john-smith-iphone.local) both connect to a public WiFi network? Is there automatic conflict resolution?
Enough of the exit topics already. This has been covered before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3304359

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517191

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511104

Entrepreneurship should be about building great companies, not about the millions you'll make from an exit.
They are an American company.
Somehow the top stories stopped getting sorted. In the past there have been bugs that caused the thread that resorts the frontpage to stop working. Presumably it was another one, but this time the cause was gone by the time I looked. I resorted the top few pages manually. I hope they will now stay sorted.
Earlier I'm pretty sure I saw a 797-day old post on the front page about Github switching to Unicorn. I figured it was some kind of coordinated practical joke by people who were upvoting it.
I think one of the root problems is how Senate and House committees work, i.e. almost completely unaccountably. I'm sure they have a few debates, but nothing is public. They then present their findings to Congress, which is too busy to properly examine every committee recommendation.
I'm really glad he did this. I picked up a copy, and in fact am quite glad when I can actually purchase DRM free content. I take a principled position against intellectual property, but that doesn't mean I don't support artists - I just don't endorse monopolies. Hopefully, overtime as more and more artists release content themselves the middlemen will go out of business and we can move towards a more free society.
Diamonds.net - Tokyo's Intl. Jewelry Fair to Run January 11-14
Very true, mobile wasn't really taken into consideration with this plugin.

One option would be to use a <select> dropdown as the element you attach $.timepicker() to, and only initialize the timepicker for certain screen sizes. Other screens would see the default <select> element, which works better on mobile devices.
That screenshot is NOT from 1995. It has a reference to zShops, which didn't launch until 1999.
Because lower level languages mean more bugs.

Not all languages are equally good.

Hacker News sure has changed...
Both the author and Forbes have it backwards: there are developers out there that are ten times >worse< than the average developer. There are also, contrary to the articles assertion, plenty of teams that are 10 or a hundred or even infinitely worse than normal. (infinite meaning they never release anything at all, ever)
Yeah, these styles seem to be targeting '94, not 97. I have fond memories of imdb around that time in the mosaic browser I think.
Does the fact that this 791 day old story made the front page again fit with what you're suspecting?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872283
Yup, the time inputs just need a common parent element for the datepair example, and it doesn't have to be the direct parent. You could use a table or do something with floats.