skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Indians themselves say that cheating is blatant and pervasive." - how does that give one a license to call someone a 'rip-off'.
Aren't americans cribbing of 'lack of culture' in America? So shoudl the world start calling them names,.
"In other words, if the shoe fits, wear it. If not, then throw it." - But DO NOT throw it on other's face.
eighteen quintillion four hundred and forty-six quadrillion seven hundred and forty-four trillion seventy-three billion seven hundred and nine million five hundred and fifty-one thousand six hundred and sixteen

18446744073709551616
$9.99 Buffalo Jeans Top, Ashe Short Sleeve Feather Printed S
people can't understand that scrolling "feels right"

Am I the only person in the world for whom the inertia of a scrollable area at rest, tending to stay at rest _is_ what feels right?
Techcrunch report at http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/04/college-hackathon
It may very well be overly optimistic.

But many features of today's automobile are there because of human needs for performance. Optimize for efficiency for a moped-like 3 wheeled vehicle and you may get something completely different.

http://www.niutoday.info/2011/09/14/supermileage-team-proves-nation’s-best-again/

I'm not saying cars will actually be like this, but robotic vehicles won't need mirrors or more than one seat or even a steering wheel. A lot of things are could change.
The domain will become irrelevant in a week's time. So where does this SEO story comes into the picture?
what does your tech stack look like?
how are you generating images?
There is a lot to business than just hourly billing. If you are running a big company. Real estate, paying support services, insurance and other side costs also matters.

All these side expenditure and head ache in managing them saps a lot of money and people.

A lot of people feel its better to some money and have others do it for you. Than you doing it. Especially if that job is not your company's core expertise.
Look around you and you will find that most American companies hire lots of Indians as programmers. Do you think that the guys who ended up coming to America suddenly transmogrified in to competent programmers during their flight across the ocean? Do you think that those Indian engineers who decided to stay back and work in India are any less competent than the ones who took the flight?
Having worked in both India and the US for over a decade, my experience tells me that the distributions for programming skills are almost identical in the two populations. The top percentile of programmers in India (those who work for Google, MS, Amazon) are as good as their counterparts in the US. The $12 crowd is about as good as the craigslist freelancers who charge a similar rate.
While you may not have to worry about being replaced as a programmer, what you should worry about is an India startup like Zoho or Freshdesk competing with your company. Unlike China where startups can focus on the largely internal Mandarin speaking market, Indian startups are going to come after all the English speaking markets.
And from Corrientes!
We all should realize it's Twitter, home of public flame wars.

Agreed. That comment was from a bystander and Freshdesk pulled it into the story to sensationalize.

Yes, I remember back in 2005 when there was Kayako, Cerberus, Activecampaign, Request Tracker and PHP Ticket. All required self-hosting of files and maintenance. A cloud based helpdesk just wasn't an option.

In the end, customers will select technology that fits their needs. Those needs may be completely technical in nature but more and more, customers are making decisions about technology vendors based on the ethics and relationship with that company.

Nice to see you contribute this thread.
Here's why you should feel threatened by programmers in India.

I recently hired a guy over there to work for our startup. He's smart and he gets things done. He's still a little green, but overall he adds a lot of value to our company. He's just as good as anyone I would have found in the US.

And after we exit/die, the company he starts might be competing with yours.

India has a billion people, 10's of millions of code monkeys, and millions of good coders. The existence of code monkeys doesn't mean you don't need to compete with the smarter guys.
I've never heard an actual "no". No VC wants to be known as the guy who turned down Google (eg.)
This post is so similar to my current situation I checked the authors connections to see if he was talking me myself and my partner. I am a designer with little code experience who tried to spec and design an app using Indian developers. Needless to say its been a disaster and many months and hours paid later we have a inefficient, poorly coded app which likely needs to be rebuilt with an American team.
If you don't mind me asking, which stack did you build this in?

I built something identical in about to do the actual HTML --> image conversion. Took <40 LOC iirc to go from url to image.

Always curious to see how many different ways the same problem can be solved. :)
$50 sounds low to me--I'm not on the sales side, but I'm told that $75 is closer to the minimum for, e.g. a Ruby skillset, and many shops, such as my employer, charge much more--but yes, at that rate you're better off going local, particularly for the colocation benefits.
I think this website has a pretty poor UI. And it's PHP also.
No I was talking about making software and giving access to spies such as the government. I think programmers should consider the privacy and ethical implications of whatever they create.
This is going to hurt Freshdesk more than help. Creating that site was an immature move. They're framing it like this is an issue that anyone besides the guys at Freshdesk cares about. And calling the site "ripoffornot"? Cheap move. I honestly thought I was about to visit a website dedicated to comparing products and deducing who is ripping of who. Then I saw it and I thought "damn, what a cheap, crybaby, attention whore move".

Freshdesk is playing dirty all while trying to convince us that it's the other guys that are playing dirty. I hope we all see through the BS. You don't win hearts and minds by being a bully and they're being bullies while trying to look like victims.

When I see a company do something like this, that's so cheap and obvious, I immediately wonder how desperate they are. They're also doing themselves a disservice by calling attention to the fact that they've been called a ripoff. People's first reactions will be to wonder why they feel the need to defend themselves so vehemently against that sort of thing. If they're not a ripoff then why do they have to work so hard to convince me otherwise? Am I saying they're a ripoff of Zendesk? No, but their actions have now put the idea in my head. Major backfire.
Is there a Windows Phone app for Hacker News?
Is there a Windows Phone app made for Hacker News, because if there isn't, I'd like to make one.
Blame it on me being a dyslexic kid. What is there to rip-off? I fail to understand what is rocket science in Zendesk that any other customer support tool should not have? Zendesk's reactions are uncalled for.
Run into scaling problems.

Seriously though, here are the lectures notes for Stanford's CS193S Scalable Web Programming:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193s/syllabus_and_slides.htm...
Cygwin is not perfect, but he's the thing that I prefer over other options.

It's unix emulator layer, and as such tries it's best to emulate fork() - which the other alternatives does not even think to put in.

VM is not a real alternative, as there is actually more work to be done to plumb source A with tools B from the VM.

I don't use cygwin from bash, but rather start it directly from the FAR manager (console based Norton Commander/Midnight Commander application for Windows). It's very useful, as a lot of commands just work.

Then there are others, which are some kind of symlink (one of the downsides of cygwin for me), but that's understandable. Symlinks as they are on linux are just starting to appear on Windows Vista and 7 (and I'm not even sure how compatible they are).

So for such cases, sh -c would work. For example checking out latest SDL using cygwin, but from the command-prompt:

c:\p\sdl> sh -c "hg pull -u"

And then other stuff works even better:

c:\p\libzmq> git pull -u
c:\p\libzmq> sh -c "gitk --all"
How to Tell if Your Silver Jewelry is Fake
I've had decent luck on Odesk with Wordpress stuff. (Tangent: I enjoy using Wordpress less every day. It's time for something better.) I only outsource easy/boring work. I found a couple developers for the first job that were good enough for me to continue hiring them for subsequent jobs without looking elsewhere.

The way I did it (I was taught this by a friend who does it more regularly) takes a bit of extra micromanagement for the first job, but it will pay off for subsequent jobs because you should be able to re-hire the same people. Post a job, wait until you have about 15 offers and then pick the top 5 (filter them on their English and whether or not they specifically respond to your post). To those 5, assign different pieces of your total job as a test job (less than 3 hours of work each, and limited by the hours/week setting). The most important part of Odesk hiring is communication - use middle school English and make it clear that they are to ask questions immediately if anything is unclear. Be friendly and be sure they know that you are happy to help.

Of the five people you hire for a test job, at least one of them will probably not even start it. Another couple might start but not finish. You will almost certainly have a few that do decent work, though, and even if they represent different skill levels you can leverage them across different projects. (I have a contractor from India who inserts content really nicely, but she can't edit themes very well. I hire her regularly for page content, but I pay her less than my contractor in Kenya who takes care of editing themes for me.)
Given that the exam is from 1869 for entrance into college, I suspect that's basically what they are looking for.
Merry Christmas 2011 | Special Christmas Card | 3d Christmas Card 
Download Free Merry Christmas Card, Greetings Cards, New Year Greetings Cards, Special Christmas Card, Christmas Card wallpaper, Vector Graphic, 3d christmas card, merry christmas card, christmas card design, merry christmas e-card. You can right click and save image.....
SEO is only one factor. The name they registered (on 12/3) is ripoffornot.org - This will help feed (edit: aid) the controversy as well. It's similar to "ripoffreport.com (.org redirects to .com) which is a fairly well know site which people bitch on about companies. On a quick look you see "ripoff..." and you click the link. That's a decent touch in itself.
does the requirement of Latin strike anyone as a bit elitist? or was Latin really that necessary in order to (presumably) study some Classics?
Ask HN: Why is http://News.YCombinator.com not mobile compatible?
I surf from my smart phone for a significant amount of time, and I'm sure I'm not alone. I couldn't help but notice that this site is not mobile compatible. Any particular reason as to why http://news.ycombinator.com is not compatible with smart phone browsers?
I don't think that's the case. As baddox says, it's trivial to show it is true, especially using simplified definitions for exponentiation (i.e. sticking with integer or perhaps rational exponents), but demonstrating truth doesn't tell you about the "reason".

Is the question about a philosophical position as to how mathematics relates to God? A "reason" seems to imply a purpose.
Jason has been an Android user for a while and him being partial to Android is not a secret. He clearly says it himself. In my opinion, this review was an honest assessment of what had improved with respect to earlier versions of Android; the comparison with iOS at each step is fair because that's the only other game in town.

Judging by all the reviews I've read thus far of the Nexus and ICS, I think it's great that Android is slowly catching up in areas where iOS was the clear winner, it'll keep Apple on it's toes. Can only be good for us, the end users.
The only fly in the ointment for me personally is the sheer attention to detail that Apple puts into it's hardware, something that I don't think Samsung can ever do (maybe Motorola can?) with it's finger in too many pies (Win Phone, Android, feature phones etc.)

EDIT: My nitpick with the review is the somewhat flippant dismissal of Siri.
I work with a hosting provider and Cygwin is used all the time to provide SFTP access on Windows boxes. Haven't looked at sshwindows though.
Cool. The trust factor makes sense. So does being the oldest and being able to say yes or no.
Mobile compatible site.
I think the Siri bit is interesting. People have bought the 4s specifically for this feature. I think the jury is still out on it, and it'll no doubt get better over time.

But I remember lots of people buying the 4 for facetime, and I don't know anybody that actually uses it anymore.
I care about scheme.
Her complaint here, one of many many complaints of sexism, seems to be that her manager is unhappy that she loads him down with complaints and too much detail that he doesn't want to know.

She puts this down to sexism. It's not clear why this is sexist. She is wasting his time. If he is like most managers he is very pressed for time and he doesn't need his time wasted.

In this case, sexism is a redundant explanation because other, better, simpler explanations are available. in Bayesian theory this is technically called "explaining away" and it is a good thing. Fact A is not evidence for claim B if explanation C is better.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/bnintro.html
Talking to the OWS protesters at LaSalle/Jackson in Chicago, this is about all I got out of them. They also run around with signs saying "democracy, not anarchy" as they block traffic during rush hour. The irony amuses me, but doesn't say much for their movement.
Real-Time Log Collection with Fluentd and MongoDB
"Have a crystal clear idea of what you want built."

Rarely have I ever worked for a company that knows this. The last company where I worked would change their mind mid-stream every couple of weeks and it added almost a year of extra time onto the final release date.

It's usually not this bad, but if more companies followed this (not even just with outsourcing), there wouldn't be as many failed projects.
Wait, you mean to tell me you think this menu idea is unique and original? Oh, it's not seen that often, for sure, but it's not unique or original. It is well worn territory, used in a variety of applications prior to Path. This example might have seen their design and drawn inspiration from it, but they aren't the originators of this.
Liking a lie-in in people's genes, researchers say ~ Daily World News
There might already be services like this, but I'd love something that quickly that will let me see how my page renders in IE 6+7/8 and also runs validation and speed tests. (quickly is the key word)
I doubt it. Why do you ask? I don't understand.
I don't think any of that is difficult; it is, rather, a test of memorization, not ability. A lot of the mathematics section is also on the basis of memorization.
Sorry, our users are posting NSFW images.
Photo Data
I'd love a way to see what other people are investing in, and perhaps follow their investments.
I agree, but sadly I think a lot of testing is the same now. We are still strongly skewed towards giving people who have rote learned the right things a 'leg up', rather than those with true 'ability'.

To be fair though, at least now you can rote learn the right things to pass the tests in any country, not just a few wealthy western schools that teach latin and greek....
The source of the Amazon: Seattle?
Radhanath Swami leaves Vrindavan
Facebook's Zuckerberg answers the big question "Is Google+ a threat?"
> id like to hear impendia's explanation

I personally like cousin_id's the best, as it is (IMHO) the simplest.
It isn't "chronological hubris" that the vast bulk of human knowledge has been generated since 1869. Precise measurement is difficult to even define but it's difficult to imagine a non-pathological definition for which that would not be true.

Personally I'm a huge advocate for the fact that what one might call "wisdom" is not unique to our age and may indeed be getting a bit lost in the shuffle, but nevertheless, there's no way that we can go back to covering everything that took 12 years to learn in 1869 and cover all the things that take 12 years to learn today. When you push an hour into the curriculum to cover, say, the basic functioning of electricity, to name just one thing that I think one should not be able to escape from modern schooling without having gotten exposed to at some point, an hour has to come out of it somewhere else.
It would seem easy to retrofit using something like Foundation (http://foundation.zurb.com/).
Please mark it as NSFW :)
It does make them stupid when they don't consider how much harm has been caused by people helping the government or law enforcement to implement things that cross ethical and moral lines.
That's a good point about textbooks. Do you find that if a book includes Exercises at the end of each chapter that you actually do them? That's been a big challenge for me - so many great books have 'Action' sections but I rarely find myself putting down the book and doing them.
A fitting response from Freshdesk.Zendesk has to pay for its badmouthing. They started it and Freshdesk is milking the controversy surrounding. May be FD scripted this long before, expecting this attack from zendesk.
I don't understand the "you aren't allowed to comment if you haven't submitted code" sentiment.
I'm not arguing for either but trying to state a point. Putting a side-by-side feature list face-off showing you have more features than the incumbent does not in anyway, prove that you are not a rip off. In fact, it probably proves that you are and just trying to outdo the incumbent. There would be little to compare if both were playing in a different area.
WinSCP works very well for sFTP. http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
Be it onsite/nearshore/offshore,
"What was the parameters evaluated to choose a Consulting company or freelancer?"

If price quoted was the only criteria to evaluate, then there are many unknowns

We face the reverse problem, so many times american clients come to us to get a quote, after getting quote then telling it is 2x their budget.

When we give them a detailed breakup question the need for documentation, requirement freezing in the name of Agile.

Also many question why the need to signing off with acceptance testing and would ask for perpetual warranty support.

Now our new presales activity includes gauging clients software life cycle knowledge and understanding working with remote teams.

We take clients and projects where we find a right fit, and can meet or exceed client expectations.

We have been growing at 100% year on year for past 5 years, and employ 132 people now
Yep. http://blog.pluckytree.org/post/12223068604/the-last-time-i-...
Here's a graph comparing ycombinator.com and digg.com:

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&...;

(Keep in mind that the scale is logarithmic.)

As a website owner, I would love it if my site were dying like Digg.
Micromax X275 Dual SIM Mobile With Marathon Battery
New Micromax X275 is a latest Dual SIM GSM Mobile Phone comes with 2GB card pre-loaded with 20 Full Length Movies. It has Multi Format Music Player, Video Players and Stereo FM Radio.
I noticed YouTube videos don't work... webs fonts work so that's good
Lots of people can put things on URLs under princeton.edu, or the domains of most universities. In this case, note the ~username in the URL--this is the personal page of a graduate student. Usually universities do not censor pages of their students. I do agree, though, that it would be surprising to see this on a departmental page or anything else owned by a PR team.
> And it's PHP also.

I have never heard that before. What part is PHP?
>Either it's software running on one chip, or it's software on another chip. That's irrelevant.

No, its not irrelevant. The terms have meaning, regarding the separation. And while it may technically be a misnomer, feigning ignorance to the misnomer to try and point out the misnomer to people who already know about it is not only arguing semantics, but doing so in least constructive way possible.

To address your other post that its all marketing speak, well no, not really. In discussions, what gets called hardware or software conveys meaningful information, but it is highly context sensitive to the bits being discussed at the time, because technically all computing is some combination of hardware and software.
Being able to explain proofs intuitively is a valuable way to check how deeply you know them.

In this case, the reason that when different powers of the same quantity are multiplied together their exponents are added is because powers are short hand for a series of multiplications:

2^4 == 2 * 2 * 2 * 2

When you multiply 2^4 * 2^4, that is short hand for:

2^4 * 2^4 == 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 == 2^8

Of course you can also prove this using algebra, but the intuitive explanation is IMO more useful for building understanding.
To understand how "grassroot" Chinese internet companies make money, one does not need to look much further than Zynga.

They spam low production value wares or blatantly clone the hottest startup in the valley, engage in ethically questionable business strategies, great guanxi with officials would not hurt. You think Zynga and Groupon are bad? Their Chinese copycat are far far worse.
I guess webkit2png

http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/rotapken/2008/12/03/creat...
Your comment would hold more weight if you elaborated on what is chaotic about Android. I have my complaints but "chaotic" is not one of them.
While Calculus may nominally have been invented a couple of centuries earlier, even by 1869 it still had a lot of development to go through before it would approach the relative ease of modern calculus. Limits were still only a few decades old, with the modern notation for it not developed until 1908[1]. It takes a long time for things to go from the cutting edge of math down to pre-college curricula. Perhaps some students had been exposed to it, but testing for it on the entrance exam may not have provided much information for the examiners.

In fact, reading that sort of makes me curious about what pedagogical approach was taken to teach pre-limit calculus.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_of_a_function
Indeed this is informal and could be made more rigorous, but even at the highest level of rigor, I think it's most natural to do integral exponents and then rational. Indeed you have to construct the integers before you can construct the rationals.
Batik Mega Mendung Collection
I like how beau's version collapses the nav buttons when you scroll up or down the page on my iPad. I haven't taken a look to see if it was intentional or a bug; but it's neat nontheless, if a user decided to scroll, I think that the nav should collapse out of the way.

Can anyone comment on how the iOS path app behaves when you scroll?
I see Vim on that list.

Best way to learn Vim is to get stuck without internet for 30 minutes. Once you explore every avenue of entertainment in your documents/downloads folders, you remember `$ vimtutor` and just have a go at it. Tried and true.
Do you have 1:1 screenshots available? Being able to generate a website screenshot for specific OS/browser on demand might be a far better niche than trying to compete in a thumbnail segment (even if you will deliver a better service, there's a SEO battle to consider - make sure you know how to win it).
If You Do This In An Interview, I Won't Take You Seriously
This is true. Usually they will say "I'm interested" which means you can move to the next stage or "I think it's interesting" which probably means "no."