skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, we did not expect to see this level of criticism from the comments.

A lot of the focus is on the 48 hour period, in that it's basically way too long to expect you guys to participate. We don't expect people to code all 48 hours; the decision was basically "make it a weekend long", but we are not tied in any way to that time period. Would it be much better if we shortened the time period to 24 hours? (We can't shorten it any more than that; as this is a global competition, everyone needs to have the same amount of daytime) The goal is not to have you guys burn yourselves out. The goal is to assess you all as quickly as possible.

From our perspective, we sort of viewed CodeSprint as a time saver; everyone you apply to nowadays requires some sort of technical proof. Sometimes you can get away with it if you have a github with a lot of open source projects, but not everyone has that.

With CodeSprint, you get to choose among a variety of problems, and companies with those specific problems get to find you. Because they receive the full code solutions, our goal is for CodeSprint to consolidate and replace the "do-a-technical-problem" part of the normal interview process. Except, this time around, this one set of problems is what's used for multiple companies, instead of just one.
Yes. In addition to the lifecycle marketing product, we have a section of the application devoted to predictive analytics.
I was just going to ask the same. I've been thinking about moving away from GoDaddy for a while and this would be just another reason among many. I take it on a case by case basis whether I do business with a company, and I'll continue to do so with many that support SOPA (explicitly or implicitly) as much as I'm opposed to the bill.

There's that expression, "Don't hate the player, hate the game". In the same way that I'm not a fan of a basketball player flopping to draw a foul, I'm not a fan of a company supporting this bill. I totally understand why they do it, but it's not in the spirit of the game IMO.

The bigger problem is the way the game itself is set up. Most people think it's a good idea to hand over their power to a small group of people who get to make decisions for everyone. Businesses see this and figure out that they can realize the benefits of the larger group while only incurring the costs of catering to the smaller group.
This will most likely result in heavy downvotes, but I don't think child pornography is a problem. At all. There's something else we should be fighting, and the Internet has nothing to do with it: child abuse.

I also find it highly ridiculous that politicians (at least here in Germany) still spout crap about "international, millions of dollar heavy child porn rings" or similar nonsense.

I'd wager[1] that most child pornography is either a) documented domestic abuse of children by relatives or b) jailbait (ie, suggestive or explicit pictures of legally underage, but physically mature persons).

For the former, we're fighting a symptom. As I said, we need to fight the cause, child abuse. But there's a problem with that: it's a long term process, and a difficult one at that. Demanding the takedown of websites with child pornography works way better to get yourself elected.

For the latter, I'd go as far as to ask the following: who is hurt by people with a paraphilia involving underage persons[2] masturbating to images? Especially if those images were made in consent with or even by the person depicted?

[1] This is another thing about the entire child porn discussion: you can't confirm anything without getting yourself in all sorts of legal trouble. There was a good example of this here in Germany a while back, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joerg_Tauss

[2] I'm putting it this way because Pedophilia isn't the only such paraphilia, even though the term is often used to mean "attracted to underage persons", which is very wrong.
I'm currently using spring data jpa for data access nd am really loving the vastly reduced boilerplate code that needs to be written. Would highly recommend to anyone who needs to implement a repository and is using spring and jpa.
Well, this is a case where the equivalent CS behaves exactly like Ruby.

class Foo
bar: -> 'bar'
baz: ->
bar = "foo"
console.log bar
bang: ->
console.log @bar()

foo = new Foo()
foo.baz() # => "foo"
foo.bang() # => "bar"
Hollywood can, and will, throw more money at the problem. I doubt you can beat them on their own game.

That said, I will contribute to the fund-raise. Better trying than not.
I think you're being facetious in turn by summarizing SOPA as the revocation of "the right of startups to avoid prosecution for user piracy".

SOPA is dangerous because it gives the executive wide power to deprive private citizens of their property, without any due process, in direct violation of the Fifth Amendment.
No Discover or Amex in my country, unfortunately.

(Edit: found a bank that offers Amex, but there's no debit corporate cards, plus I'm not allowed to get a credit card here because I'm not a citizen).

Ah, duopoly.
Louis CK's self distributed special up to 1MM revenue in 12 days
I wish I had some domains to remove from Godaddy- but I got rid of my Godaddy account after that elephant killing story.
> "but it does care that it just launched a new smartphone and sales are slowing while its rivals are picking up steam."

Again, Apple's sales may not be slowing in those regions. They could be enjoying fairly large year-over-year sales increases and still be losing share if the overall smartphone market is growing faster than they are and others (Android) are capturing most of that growth. We simply do not know. What we also do not know is: what kind of profit those other phones are generating and who they're selling to. If they're glorified feature-phones with razor-thin margins (as is often the case in other regions with explosive android growth) every indication is that Apple simply would not care about that market any more than they care about the lower-margin segments of the markets for laptops, desktops, media players, tablets, etc.

So, yes, market share could be part of an interesting larger story. But we have absolutely nothing to give context or larger meaning to the market share number. So the number itself is simply useless. Particularly as justification for some assertion that based on that number alone Apple is going to change its long-standing and very-profitable approach.
Ask HN: Is there a Cardmunch for resumes?
Does anyone know of a service similar to Cardmunch for getting resumes into a uniform data format?
A company runs the risk of exposing other hiring biases by using these services, or pre-interview puzzles. If someone solves the problems, yet is not offered an interview, it makes the hiring process seem more opaque and arbitrary, not less.

I enjoy programming puzzles and solved the puzzles for Spotify one weekend. I sent in my resume to see what would happen. I was rejected about 2 hours later. I went in thinking it was cool that Spotify was so meritocratic to use programming puzzles as a hiring filter, but came out thinking the process is just totally arbitrary.
US Routes as Subway Map
It's obvious in retrospect, but applying transit map design to an interstate system seems positively Tufte-esque to me. It would be interesting to see a mapping website do this algorithmically.
No, I don't really use them on a daily basis. It's more that it's useful to know that such things exist, so that when you do need them you don't waste time scouring the web :)
http://phantomjs.org/ and http://nrabinowitz.github.com/pjscrape/ would be more fit for this.
DC is part of Warner Bros. which is part of Time Warner, which is on the list.
> I later got Real Player to work which allowed me to play some mp3s. That was one of my best days ever,

I only don't think I've ever seen "Real Player" and "one of my best days ever" that close to each other.

Seriously, do people actually still use Real Player? Doesn't Ubuntu have better solutions for playing MP3s than that?
I've heard horror stories from webmasters that got their domains taken by GoDaddy after baseless IP-related accusations and forced to pay hundreds of dollars to get them back, so they not only have the infrastructure in place, they seem to be making a tidy profit off it.
Thanks for the GetFileAttributesEx tip -- https://github.com/martine/ninja/commit/93c78361e30e33f950ee...
Daily News Updates: bombings hit Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 57 people
Using the  tag to clone a web page for social engineering attacks
Yeah, I turn off auto-renew always with them.
A Collection of Photoshop Tutorials To Design A Website
Simple text editor in a data: URI
Regarding perennial Year-of-the-Linux-Desktop talk, I think it's as Gibson says: "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." I got my wife a Dell Mini 9 a few years ago running Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS. Her response was "This is almost Mac-like". After the initial updates, all the hardware worked correctly, including sleep-on-close. She then declared that she didn't want Windows anything in the future. We've not had a Windows machine since. People act as if Linux will be "on the desktop" all at once. I think instead it's been a matter of various persons' comfort levels being met as the Linux desktop experience gets continually refined. For my wife, 8.04.1 hit the mark. For others, more recent revisions fit their needs.
I said Desktop will be replaced by Mobile.
How is this relevant? I don't spend much, and use cash in real life. But I need a card for online purchases for my business (hosting, etc.) and for access to my bank accounts in a different country. Maybe I can replace most of it with wire transfer, but Amazon, Rackspace, etc. won't accept it.
This is the approach that we took with the Derby framework (http://derbyjs.com/): we use a template engine that parses Mustache-like templates and infers bindings at the same time. You don't have to write any additional bindings declarations, and everything updates in realtime among different windows and users as well.
You can't install pirated iOS on a low-cost handset. If the same were true of Windows you'd be right, but for many users GNU/Linux and Windows have the same price: $0 or the cost of the installation media.
Do What You Love Journey Blog
Who wrote the chapter on Chinese [in The World's Writing Systems]?

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/?v...

I'm pretty sure it's by William G. Boaltz

http://depts.washington.edu/asianll/people/faculty/boltzwm.h...

whose papers about ancient Chinese are full of surprising details, with insight into how the current writing system developed historically.
I transferred my domains to NameCheap from GoDaddy during their last PR nightmare. I wish I had done it sooner. NameCheap's interface isn't the best in the world, but not having to use GoDaddy's site is worth more to me than 5x the transfer fees I paid. Plus the domain privacy option is bundled, meaning cheaper domain registrations ($11 for a .com vs. $17 at godaddy -- at least for the first year).
Natural satellites of all size are commonly referred to as "moons", so I'm not sure how arbitrary it is.

The only exception I can think of at the moment are natural satellites which are part of a greater planetary ring...
I have no idea what is going on in that article
Yes, no problem. F*ck every last one of those companies. The only two that I still have no real choice but to support would be Comcast because of my local ISP monopoly (I can get 512K DSL from SBC [ATT] or 100mbit Comcast...not really what I'd call a "choice") and MasterCard because my credit union does not offer debit cards via AmEx.
Which MBP do you have? The original MBP's have high failure rates. Pretty much any "business-class" laptop would have been more reliable.

The unibody MBP's are much better, though.

Reviews are indicating that the ASUS Zenbook has a similar build quality and a MBA design aesthetic.

Of course, there are also specialty laptops like the Panasonic Toughbook that are designed to withstand abuse.
Also forces you to build your server-side stuff as an api, which makes it much easier for others to consume.
I don't want to use Emacs.

I have used it as a REPL and I think I will only use it for editing Lisp, but never for anything else.
Free Parts of Do What You Love Book
I really wish this was baked into some SASS framework so I could get this for free.
You don't have to wait until they expire! Transferring adds another year to your current registration, and you don't lose anything at all, unless you bought hosting at GoDaddy.

For basic website hosting, I've been very happy with HostGator. For about $7 a month you get unlimited space, bandwidth, and domains. It takes care of DNS for your sites (just point your registrar nameserver information at HostGator's nameservers), has SSH access, provides unlimited MySQL databases, and has a pretty nice interface.
Since the true innovation of GNOME Shell isn't mentioned here anywhere the discussion is completely off. Surely the Shell is new and of course nobody was able to customize it on day one to his old habits. Even all these blog entries with 50-things-I-do-after-installing-XXXX did not help. The result was frustration.

GNOME 2 is customizable using entry points common to anyone familiar with *nix, there were scripts, CSS files, dialogs, options, configurations and more. All this thinking failed after installing GNOME Shell. You may call it offending. However UNITY showing 3D buttons looking like made with a pshop plugin from end of the last century is not an option.

So how do you customize GNOME Shell? Here is the new entry point: open firefox and goto to https://extensions.gnome.org/ Yes, you change your desktop environment from within your browser. Add, try out or disable shell plugins from your browser.

And the best thing all is powered by JavaScript. The language running on every computer having a browser is used to customize your DE. So stop whining and enjoy the desktop revolution. Getting curiuos? Find the location of a extension and open it in your favorite IDE, change a string variable, save it, press ALt-F2, enter 'r' press enter and voila it is there.

There is even a debugging tool, (Alt-F2, 'lg', enter). Now go and implement whatever you were missing in GNOME 2.

It is time to see how users would build their perfect desktop interface.
Lion-Compatible Quicken Coming to Max OS X this Spring
Before You Outsource...
It's not surprising that most people (even programmers, and the technically inclined) can't even comprehend how the desktop model will be replaced by natural user interfaces. That's precisely why paradigm shifts catch people and entire industries off guard.

I guarantee in 10 years you won't be using a mouse, you won't be resizing windowed applications, and moving scrollbars up and down, none of this will be necessary. I'm not just talking about iPad replacing your Windows PC. I'm talking about a mouse not even being necessary to perform your tasks. Why use a mouse to click a button, when you can just touch it with your finger, or why click through 20 context menus to activate an option when you can just speak to your computer and say "turn music on".

The operating system and form factor of the device is irrelevant. Natural user interfaces (touch, sound, speech, vision, gestures) are going to blow the desktop model into the dark ages. And it's going to happen way, way faster than most people expect.
Why would Apple care about profits or margins its rivals are achieving? What matters is what Reuters is suggesting: For whatever reason (they suggest pricing/economy) people are buying not-iPhones instead of iPhones in what appears to be an increasing number of cases. Market share is an indication of that. Apple may not care about market share as a metric per say, but the company absolutely cares about people buying not-iPhones instead of iPhones. This, of course, is why they're suing every single one of their biggest competitors to begin with.
The "problem" with science is that it's discoveries now, might not hold any value in the present time, but could be proven worthy in a later stage when we have discovered other things.

Let alone the fact that when they pursue a goal to find out for example about a magical Higgs particle, there will be innovations in other side-fields of that particulair research (e.g. computing power, more advanced sensory array's etc). And these technologies can then perhaps be applied in fields that people can actually relate to in their own environment: Making a planetrip more safer by enabling sensors to be less error-prone for example.
It's sad to see someones career fall apart. The web is written in ink and it doesn't remove so easily. I cannot imagine this guy being able to get another round of funding to save his company with all that surrounds him.
You can just buy iron filings cheap from these guys:
http://www.scientificsonline.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=iro...
Well, Chinese is not obfuscated. On the contrary, it's written form carries a more direct interpretation that combining alphabet letters.

Do you actually know enough of both Chinese and English to judge this? because it would be a bit silly to discuss with someone who does, if you don't.
Name.com also has a rocking transfer special if you use the promocode "NoDaddy" as a response to their SOPA position.
Leonardo Venture Invests Six-Figure Sum In Codingpeople
Yes, I did know HTML/CSS. Not so much JavaScript, but I still don't do any of that by hand (not condoning, that's just my current experience level).

The pre-existing skills did help a bit, but HTML/CSS are not that hard to pick up. Add maybe a month to get up to speed with there. Twitter bootstrap is a good help in that area.
No way i can believe this results.

There is no mention of "Dropbox" anywhere. Are you kidding me?
Thank you for sharing! I always like to read this kind of stories. For me, I started coding in a silly way. First wave of motivation was when I tried to impress my current girlfriend, her sister needed a website and I said I can code it for her. Right after saying that I jumped into YouTube and searched for "How to create a website". Then somehow I forget about coding when I got my internship at one company, which required me to visit hospitals and some other boring stuff. I didnt want to do it, but it was a requirement internship at university. My roommate was a great programmer so I requested a transfer to software department counting on my friend and knowing only a little bit of HTML/CSS. Suddenly, even a single week didn't pass and my friend had to leave, so I was kinda forced to learn ASP.NET and other stuff. After that terrible time of continues googling, stackoverflow, youtubing I became a programmer for a living :)
Awesome. More people with influence should (be brave enough to) take their part of action if they think something sucks!
Final Designs are Always the Simplest and Most Practical
Tons - but the context is that it was "during my second year at the National University." Back when I got Real Player to run on my SparcStation in (maybe 1998?) I remember thinking it was pretty cool too.
When I tried to see problems of fall 2011 (using Facebook for login).
Of course direct feedback to congress is a crucial part of fighting the legislation, but choosing where to spend our money is an extremely powerful method of indirect action to enact political change. Companies like GoDaddy pick their sides in fights like this because they believe they have something to gain from supporting it. If enough people ditch their product because of this, they will have no choice but to rethink their position on the issue.
Ask HN: Do hyphens in Github usernames look unprofessional?
I've been an on/off user of Github for a few months but am soon going to use it much more.

My username currently has an hyphen in it. Should I change it?
"An abuse of the word authoritarian."

Only because it goes against your personal views.

"Shutting down freedom of speech, indefinite detention, arbitrary expropriation are authoritarian. A non-flat tax is not."

I'm not talking about taxes now. I'm talking about what taxes would be if the left had it their way (much higher), which in my mind, is authoritarian. Take a look at every single hard-left country in Europe: taxes are astonishingly high and the government has much more control over citizens' daily lives.

When lots of people are dependent on the government through large social nets, they will almost never vote against the hand that feeds them.

As you go too far right or left, you meet in the the same place and it's something I really don't want running my life.

Taxes are important, but we need to have a balance.
What's the best way to see what my local rep has said about SOPA?
I just read through this at work (Slow day before Holidays). Very nice. I've also been going through The Joy of Clojure as a beginner book to lisp and small projects like this are very helpful. I learn the same way. If something seems daunting or if something seems trivial, I am not as motivated. There is a good balance that I have to find.
I got my domains on GoDaddy because it's cheap, easy, and didn't seem important enough to invest time into. I'll be moving them off GoDaddy now. Even if small boycotts didn't accomplish anything (which I don't believe), I would move my domains on principle.
Great (and extremely thorough) summary of Great By Choice - a book I think everyone building sustainable businesses should read. While a lot of the points Collins makes will be familiar to those familiar with the Lean Startup, GBC provides some awesome, real-world examples of how to translate those "lean principles" into action.

However, I think you gave one of the most valuable and counter-intuitive points in the book too light a treatment: That successful 10X'ers not only consistently hit their goals, but actively tried not to exceed them.

Living in the start up echo chamber you'd think that "speed" was everything; we do "agile" development, we take venture rounds to "supercharge growth". Hockey stick graphs are treated like the tech world's pornography, depicting circumstances just a tad too good to be real. The mantra is that if a little growth is good, a lot of growth is really good.

GBC turns that on its head. Growth is good, but only a little bit. Only as much as you can handle. Explosive growth can quickly become uncontained growth can quickly become webvan. Facebook limited itself to college campuses, taking years to go public. Southwest started with 3 planes and didn't expand their routes until they had to. Zipcar stayed in Boston until it was absolutely sure it was ready to go to NYC.

The 20 mile march is as much about having discipline in self-restraint as it is about pushing forward.
I sent an email:

Hello,

I am writing to you to inform you that because of GoDaddy's continued support of SOPA I am transferring my domains to a different registrar as soon as I can(they were renewed recently so I have to wait).

I read your press release today and I felt that you didn't actually respond to a bulk of the criticism of SOPA, that is that takedown requests can be filed by private parties and the respondent is legally required to remove the content before even considering challenging the takedown request. This obviously presents a large challenge to sites based on user-created content.

A world with SOPA is one in which businesses can't run websites with user-generated content without having a legal team on hand.

SOPA is bad for the open internet and if GoDaddy refuses to look into the issue and actually give a reasoned, intelligent response(as opposed to the "well, we have to stop piracy!" argument your press release made -- yes, something should be done about piracy but SOPA is NOT the answer) then GoDaddy, too, must be considered bad for the open internet and I will stop hosting my domains with you and stop recommending my clients host domains with you.

Thanks,

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