skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they indeed provide comprehensive UI to slice and dice the clickpaths. Our goal is to build flexible and fast API to enable creating custom reports and dashboards.

We also envision extensibility with custom functions and datasets so people can do just about anything with their clickpath stream, including mashing it up with their data.
I played Atom Zombie Smasher on Ubuntu 11.10 and didn't have any issues whatsoever. I didn't even have to mess with the screen resolution after the game ended (which is generally the norm on my Intel GMA card). It was one of the smoothest Linux gaming experiences I've had.
WxPython Project Phoenix Documentation Beta Released
goodweeds, has the best advice in this comment thread as far as I'm concerned.

Instead of spending countless hours blasting resumes out, why not do it the smart way, and make a personal connection with the person hiring the job.

No one responded to your form resume, so what. The system for hiring via web forms and resumes is broken, so what.

Bootleg the system and speak to the right people, and none of that will be a problem.
You will have incomplete stacktraces; tail calls will be removed from the stack trace. However, you'll be able to know where in the current call (and file) the error lies, which was a big problem in Erlang as soon as you had somewhat lengthy functions.
Early Sound Recordings From Alexander Graham Bell Recovered, Played Again
Articles critical of the loss of privacy that comes along with social media often come up with this type of scaremongering. 'If you know someone that has bad credit, then you won't be able to get credit either'. Well, if your relationships do actually effect your ability to repay your debts, then banks would be right to be at least a little more wary of giving you credit - amd you should not be trying to overextend your credit.

I would have said that the undesirable practices that are mentioned - such as redlining - are the result of using crude, discriminatory heuristics rather than the result of having too much data about customers. This isn't necessarily a bad development - it could enable banks to lend to more marginal borrowers if they could see they had a strong support network. Clearly, if you have a good conventional credit record, then your social credit will hardly matter. Banks that use this new source of data stupidly won't do well.
I disagree. I've been in sales for 12 years and it all happened by accident. I took a sales job because nothing else was available, so I just acted like my overly polite, "nothing to lose" Southern hospitality self. My closing technique in many occasions was not to use a line at all. People expected me to "close them". When I didn't,m and just sat there with my mouth shut, people were eager to buy, if only because they didn't feel pressured.

Closing techniques simply place the customer in the mindset that "there are constraints to buying everything, and these are my constraints to buying this thing."

Closing techniques are used everyday, even by yourself. However, most are unaware (even users of techniques) that a technique has just been used.

Ever go to buy something at your local Apple store and the employee whips out their mobile payment device and says "I can check you out right here. Any employee can help you pay for your item at any time."? That's a closing technique. Your constraints are that you are free from finding a checkout and standing in a long line. Because you realize "Hey, these aren't really aren't constraints at all! Buying from Apple is swift and easy!" That's Apple's closing technique... embedding in your mind that buying from them is never pushy and always helpful.

The techniques listed in the article are a little cliche, but true nonetheless.
Man, for a free book it is very hard to buy.

First of all, I had to sign up, ok no problems. No facebook or twitter conect. But no problem, only name and email.

But to buy I have to fill all my billing adress. Its a Free book!! I not have a flag in the website that says "If free book, proceed direct from checkout to book download". It's really pain to put all my billing adress even though I'll not pay for anything.
What defines "really great"? I'm a student graduating in two years and $110k is almost twice as high as the average CS/SE undergrad starting salary from my midwest University.
> A good design works with human nature, not against it.

Although I agree, I was responding to the possibility of an elevator punishing behavior it didn't "like". Both what edw519 and I suggested would lead to "a whole office [...] following arbitrary elevator efficiency rules." It was intended to be a very tongue-in-cheek comment. I completely agree with both you and Jandy: a good elevator design would adjust itself to normal usage patterns and maximize efficiency within those constraints.
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I think it varies from company to company. A day or two ago there was a link here on the main page to a company's recruiting puzzle. Being unable to resist such coding challenges I knocked out a solution and fired off an e-mail afterwards asking a question about their expected approach. I suspect they were getting a lot of responses. Despite that I got an answer to my question (even after the disclaimer that I wasn't writing for a position) the next day.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever
Reading this list somehow forces me to accelerate my Linux training/usage deeper.

After working with dual, triple monitors, with tons of tools, heavy IDEs, plugins, etc. At one point I decided that someday I will switch everything to a setup similar to Derek Sivers (http://derek.sivers.usesthis.com/).

Linux. Vim _and_ Emacs. All command-line tools. No XOrg except for browsing. Minimal Window Manager.

To each of his own though. I still recognize people who like to switch and try tools. Not about right or wrong but more about who you are and what you want to do.
I was going to write up a summary comment, but I think you hit the nail on the head. I think there is some skewed rhetoric and assumptions being thrown around in the media like you suggest. Regardless, there has to be some honest companies with genuine/real need out there.

I will keep looking for the right situation/job anyway.
The author is also the creator of crypto.cat. I think he knows what he is talking about.
If you work as part of a twenty member team, then for most purposes that team is the company to you. Everyone else in the company is more or less outsourced services to your team.

But you're right, it is a bigger deal.
Yeah, I've seen it. It looks like a nice suite. Are you part of Fog Creek?
And from the HN article "intellectual honesty requires bending-over-backwards to provide any evidence that you might be wrong."

The article is so close to a direct Feynman quote that it makes me wonder if the author was subconsciously plagiarizing Feynman. Normally, I wouldn't mind (subconscious plagiarism is everywhere). But in an article about intellectual honesty I would expect the author to "bend over backwards" to identify and declare potential sources of plagiarism. ;-)
How much is access to your Facebook account, Gmail, Twitter, etc, worth?

What happens if the bank offers to lower your rate if you give access?

What happens if you cannot find a bank that gives you a loan without insisting that you give them access to your accounts?
The #id selector performance tip is definitely true, but in single-page interface you never know which DOM elements may be floating around on a page, which would go against the one id per page principle.
Trolling The Internet With 'If I Were A Poor Black Kid'
How school “prepares” you for the real world
>> If you want to see some real space industry, hope that somebody discovers a gold asteroid.

They already have [1]. And a platinum asteroid. And a palladium asteroid. And an Iron, Nickel, whatever-mineral-you-want asteroid.

"At 1997 prices, a relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 1.6 km (0.99 mi) contains more than 20 trillion US dollars worth of industrial and precious metals."

"A comparatively small M-type asteroid with a mean diameter of 1 km could contain more than two billion metric tons of iron-nickel ore, or two to three times the annual production for 2004."

Supposedly the asteroid '433 Eros' contains more gold than has ever been mined from the Earth in the history of mankind (I can't find a source for this apart from an earlier HN comment though, the paper I found on it was behind a paywall).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
Reminds me of long-forgotten blog post I read where someone claimed they were able to raise their credit score by subscribing to affluent lifestyle magazines, luxury catalogs, charging small purchases from Neiman Marcus and Sacs Fifth ... just creating a trail of data that would give the appearance of being in a higher income bracket produced a lot of interesting side effects.
What do you mean for human language learning?
Like the process to learn new foreign languages?

So, Zen Habits had a post about learn foreign languages, http://zenhabits.net/fluent/.
Values are Features
Try GOW instead of cygwin... doesn't have X11, but just about handles most needs.
In terms of compressors I would not say 7zip won. WinRAR delivers better compression ratio, and xz beats them both.
Good post except I don't think the OP is complaining about having problems getting hired. The companies trying to hire are the ones having problems, and it seems they're doing little to fix them.
All OS's support multiple monitors offensively badly.

The least bad used to be linux with Gnome, which had a bad default configuration but could be quickly configured to work great (without installing additional software even). Of course both Unity and Gnome 3 screwed that up.

Overall I think multiple monitor support isn't on most software developer's radar. Have you seen the full-screen mode in the latest OS X? That's not even bad design, it's absence of design.
I think there's an underlying issue here. I would wager that 4/5 of job postings are for internally filled positions, especially with larger enterprises with heavy HR involvement.

Let's say MegaCorp Inc. wants to promote Billy, a great Jr. developer, into a senior role for a new project. The deal is done when the manager says "Billy, I want you to be the Sr. developer for X project." The thing is that HR gets in the way and says "well, we have to make this position available publicly so that we are complying with whatever fair labor and employment laws effect us."

Those 40 companies who didn't respond probably already had a Billy lined up for the job.
Gene Simmons to sue the pants off Anonymous
747s are cheap to operate compared to rockets. You can buy a ticket on one for less than a thousand bucks. Commercial airlines collectively operate them by the thousand.

Airplanes are really cheap in both money and fuel compared to rockets. The technology is more mature, the energies involved are much less, and involves much more finesse, as you gain lift from manipulating the air rather than simply smashing your way through it. A system which can substitute an airplane for a rocket for a decent chunk of the ascent can pull off a big win.

Rockets also suffer from painful exponential effects. If you add weight, you need to add fuel. But adding fuel adds weight, so you need to add more fuel. That adds more weight, etc. Removing a small portion of the trip can have big consequences for weight and fuel. Fun fact: the Saturn V first stage "only" got the rocket to about 1/3rd of its final altitude and speed despite making up 3/4ths of the rocket's total mass.

Airplanes actually experience the same exponential effect, but because the fraction of the total mass spent on fuel is so small, it's much less significant.
Linux Kernel Log: Coming in 3.2 (Part 3) - Architecture
I don't know; between the last three mini-bundles we've had Frozen Synapse, SpaceChem, Dungeons of Dredmor, The Binding of Isaac, Darwinia, Defcon, Voxatron, and Blocks that Matter.

Four of those are strong candidates for indie GOTY (and the others are still pretty good) so it's not too lackluster yet.
> the pain is in writing good GPU code

A viable alternative is to not write the GPU code yourself. Write a code generator in Scala that spits out GPU code in C. For details see Claudio Rebbi's work, which uses Scala as a higher level code genarator for CUDA to solve the Dirac-Wilson equation on the lattice( http://wwwold.jlab.org/conferences/lattice2008/talks/poster/... ). In finance, we are actively looking at CUDA for derivative pricing problems in risk analytics. None of us wants to actually write GPU code in C, and we do have considerable amount of risk analytics work being done in Scala, so a code generator might actually be the way to go.
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Has Verizon released the Galaxy Nexus?
I'm probably going to go to downvote hell for this, but I need to say it; I'm massively disappointed startups are still using their energy and talents to service the loan industry. It's 2011 - have we learnt nothing from the past 3 years? Build value, don't destroy it.
GOMAXPROCS it is :-).

It's a quick fixup, the runtime will eventually schedule on multiple threads without needing the user to specify anything.
Outsourcing sucks for MULTIPLE reasons. I wrote an article about a year ago about another side of outsourcing that will hurt your business regardless of where you outsource it to: brand equity -- http://d.pr/B4dJ

Sorry to hear this one though… Having worked with multiple people from India and other such countries and having good friends there, one thing I can tell you: it's a cultural paradigm. While there are many good, honest, hard-working people there, the ones that get bigger and more visibility are usually the scammers. It's a sad reality and I'm sorry for those working hard for these types of guys, getting underpaid while their bosses are ripping everyone off.
This goes both ways. If it becomes commonplace, there will be a business in SEO'ing your social media profile. I wouldn't be surprised if a large portion of facebook will consist of networks with good credit scores all friending eachother and blogging about savings tips.
In Defense of Both Simulated Violence and Parental Supervision
Nothing is wrong with that approach. Your job in sales is to genuinely guide people. You are the expert and that's why they're talking to you... because they want to, and they want you to guide them. If you don't guide them (genuinely!) then you are not doing your job. If you think that they as a customer or the product/service is not a good fit, don't move things forward.

You are not an order taker... you are not a salesperson... you are a solutions consultant/provider. <--- I hate the way that last phrase sounds, though it doesn't make it any less true.

As far as setting a "time to follow-up"... absolutely, you should. If they drag things out, politely and professionally give them a "Sounds like you're looking at multiple options at the moment and our might be an option. How about you look at the competition, and give me a call if you need help with options... even if my product/service is no longer in the running." They don't feel sold at that point... they feel taken care of.

This is your livelihood and if they control your schedules, indecisive and stringing you along... no worries, there are simply others who need your guidance.
Linux Kernel Log: Coming in 3.2 (Part 4) – Infrastructure
You tell me who they are, I'll be sending my CV right away. I'm guessing half of the recruiting work is getting in the right networks...
Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs’ deal made me cry
Assuming that this ends up using a variant of the SpaceX dragon capsule the re-entry plan would be a powered descent onto a targeted landing site.
Brooklyn-Based Bitcoin Startup BitInstant Raises Seed Round
I'm reminding of how one HN poster referred to John Dvorak as a "curmudgeon" and I responded that, essentially, JD was a troll: http://scripting.com/2006/06/09.html

Gene Marks just trolled the internet yet again for dollars. Well played.
I agree. I have been on the interview trail for 10 months
and do not get responses to either emails or phone calls.
I have a masters degree, loads of experience, and a strong
work ethic. I have a patent, have published cited papers,
and have 4 commercial languages I co-authored. I am a lead
developer on 3 open source projects, one of which contains
about a million lines of code. All I see are "ninja/super/god-like" developer ads. Something is broken somewhere.
Or helping someone becomes a dangerous proposition, because they'll likely add you to their social graph, dragging you down. It'll be just like those social clubs that determine what you're allowed to do in your private life and who you're allowed to hang around if you wish to remain a member.

Stratification would occur automatically out of fear, as each clings desperately to their social position and tries to keep their social graph pure now that it has real-world consequences.
"Followed quickly by: 'I don't have to; my less-savvy friends would. And I'm in their graph.'"

That's actually a very good point. I'm not too worried about the stuff I write about on my own Facebook wall -- I know it's set to private, I don't rant, put offensive material, etc. What scares me is what other people write about me on their own walls with God-know-what-kind of privacy setting, the pictures that they tag of me, etc. Even if everything is set "Fort Knox" mode, you're still just one Facebook bug/vulnerability away from it all being revealed.

There was a BlackHat talk this summer called "Faces of Facebook" by Dr. Alessandro Acquisti [1] where he extracts a person's SSN just from an image of their face (by cross referencing Facebook and other things). Scary stuff.

[1] http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/face-recognition-study-FA... (PDF)
Anyone have any performance stats about the memory allocation improvements in erts? Couldn't find anything with naive Google queries..
It's a lot for a remote employee. For a good senior on-site dev I'd gladly pay that, or more.
Stop Telling Cats to Do Startups
Multiple return values are not tuples, Go doesn't have tuples in the type system.
Pretul aurului in cadere libera (UPDATE)
UTF-8 works quite nicely across terminals you know.

Anyway, if you want to discard the classical model terminal stack, invent something better first. You can't just declare that we should bin it without providing a viable alternative.
Last summer I spent a day on a motorcycle tour with two retired IBM salesmen. They reminisced sales stories all afternoon. I couldn't believe the amount of preparation and planned sales tactics they employed. A blue suit was required at all times because blue conveys trust and will result in a higher sale.
I recommend installing 7zip even if you never use the 7z format archives. It's just so much faster than the built-in .zip file handling in Windows. (Which is not as stupid-slow in Win7 as Vista and XP, but still not great.) And its implementation of DEFLATE has higher compression than zlib.
The social graph is much easier to fake than paying your bills on time: Unfriend, apply for mortgage, refriend.

However this does sound an awful lot like collective punishment -- and may even open the banks up to discrimination lawsuits.
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I actually don't think this article falls in the same category as someone doing "A benjamin franklin close" or a forced close or whatever other closing technique involves manipulation.

The article states very simply that there are three different ways you can close a call, hard, medium and soft. It's not a technique, he paints with a broad brush and leaves the article very open to interpetation and adaptation to your sales style.
sorry. that blog post is just wrong. a "fanboy" is someone who's identity is wrapped up in the products/brands they consume. they are intertwined to the point where an insult to the brand is interpreted as an insult to the self.

it's not an apple specific syndrome. apple fans have just probably been one of the most prominent examples of this coupling of brand to identity.
> A lot of people in this sub-thread don't buy that return codes are inferior, but they really are.

What a great argument, I know better!
How acquiring The Knowledge changes the brains of London cab drivers
Didn't anyone here play Sim Tower? Obviously you want the send all your elevators to the ground floor for the morning rush hour and distribute them evenly among your floors for the later part of the day. Perhaps leave a couple extra ones at the ground floor 24/7 for mid-day visitors. :-P
Without looking at it's source, what 'unbuffer' does is likely allocate a PTY for the things under it. That's how the rest of Expect works after all ;)
I've had a company give me a written hour-long (easy) test followed by a several-hour-long coding assignment without contact from anyone technical. (Both administered by a secretary/office manager - I appreciate them tons but not when I'm trying to get a sense for your technical organization.) Sorry, I don't think so.
Typosquatting - study reveals the real risks when you mistype a website's name
Why would you think that salary has to be lower for telecommuting position ? Premise is it will be same quality of work as on site so should be same and company saves on office, space equipment etc..
Wow. This is really impressive.

I am surprised that RapidSMS (the python framework it was built upon) is not given as much props as it deserves. We used it for collecting election info this last April.

I wonder how the tech scene is in Kigali.
All of your data plus a byte saying it was deleted.
GitHub UI changes: New Header
Am I the only that finds it odd he spent $32,000 on a website that features small, dark red text on a black background? I had to highlight the text to read it.

Otherwise, I'm glad his experiment worked out for him as in a small way it proves new business models can work if only tried. My question is whether the related industries will learn anything from this?

My guess is no.
Thats a really good point in general. The issue is none of the 50 companies included MegaCorp or the like and based on my experience at startups I'm guessing HR is non-existent at most of them.
Nielsen survey shows video streaming on game consoles up 7% since 2010
why would you guess that?

Banking is a business, and always has been.
Introducing Palantir's first open source releases
It's a nice, comprehensive list. If you (or anyone else) feels inclined it'd be nice to have a heavily biased list of tools that in your opinion are the cream of the crop. A honed version of this bigger list.
This brought to mind Mendel's experiments on inherited traits, which I don't believe anyone has been successful at reproducing as they were stated. It's unknown whether he got extremely lucky with his pea experiments or fudged the data, but he should not have had a large enough sample to provide the kinds of results he used to extract his laws of inheritance. This was during a different era in scientific research that did not demand nearly the kind of rigor we see today, yet somehow we still got along.

The more egregious kind of dishonesty is something like the Bell Curve, where a single exceptional example from a study (one out of 21 if memory serves) was used to essentially propose that minority racial groups were genetically inferior.