skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am always suspicious of advice based on studies of "what successful people do" because there is a high potential for false causality, and for inapplicability to other people's lives. I suspect that many of these habits of successful people are simply side effects of the way that their minds work, and that they may not work for someone whose mind works differently. Ripe bananas are yellow, but painting a green banana yellow does not ripen it.

I will speculate as to how it might be that being successful is correlated with looking forward, even if that is not an inherent fact: the "to-do list" is a familiar, well-known concept, while the "done list" is not. So if you're motivated by the future, you have a ready-made tool that will make you more successful. If you're motivated by your recent accomplishments, you have no such tool - and you may even make things worse by using a future-motivating tool that is not effective for you.

Like I said, this is speculation and hypothesis. But I will say from experience that it is often the case that person A has a habit that seems effective, and person B sees no benefit from adopting that habit.
Upon very politely declining an offer from a recruiter on Linkedin, I was very surprised to find a response saying "send me your resume, the offer expires tonight. one day you will be on the job market again, and I will not help you". Unbelievable, I wonder why he had to go out of his way to sound like a jerk, and why he thought that would be a good idea...
Yes, it draws every character properly.
C++ is filled with hidden input. The identity of the this pointer is hidden from the execution of the function. The identity of the function to be executed is hidden from the caller. If that's really your requirement, then you're using the wrong language, the ship sailed.

I agree with mistercow: default arguments are, on the whole, a Good Thing. Think of them as a restricted form of overloading which requires (much!) less code to be written.

Obviously they can be misused, but again, that's the nature of programming (and especially of C++). Sane default argument conventions make code easier to read and write.
Patrick's point is that he's building a piece of software that only appeals to a certain type of person and that the software makes that certain type of person feel like they have a chance. Essentially, it's a false promise. Entering your top 5 girls you want to date into this list is NOT the way to date the top 5 girls on your list.

"I really like a girl, Oh, let me enter her details here! Maybe my funny comment about recursion in my political science class will make her enter my name in this box too"

That's not how it works, instead, just ask her. Just asking her is 1000x more likely to get you a yes. It's also 1000x more likely to make you feel uncomfortable. The good news is that since it makes you so uncomfortable, if you actually do it, there won't me much competition.
Being frown upon != not profitable
How can you produce such a wall of text over a little misnomer? You obviously understood that I am referring to the current incarnation of the ARMv7 ISA, a.k.a the Cortex family.
This is pretty cool. My son's coach has him memorizing plays, so this is something he can use. I just shelled out for a dry erase board for the same purpose last week!

One comment is that the boundaries aren't letting me drag to the bottom corners. It'd be sweet if the text could shift above the player dot when you come close to the bottom edge.
This author is blinded by what he actually does for a living: consulting on Apple products and writing, again, (mostly) on Apple-related topics. When you step outside of the Apple bubble, you quickly realize that there's a much, much bigger world out there and Apple is almost nowhere to be seen.
What is the idea behind Milners German Investments?
Make an SMS voting app in 10 minutes with CouchDB
Why do recruiters on Linkedin always ask for a resume, anyway? Don't they already have it?
The revealing module pattern is one of my favorites for writing jQuery plugins. This is a great reference for front-end developers once they've gotten good enough to be dangerous with JavaScript. I stumbled across this a while ago after writing my first non-trivial mobile web app from scratch with JavaScript, and it made everything click.
ClikThis - a youtube remote control for your iPhone
Anonymous says ACTA must be killed with fire, hacks U.S. government websites
Obama may ditch most US nukes
Does Milner plan a JV with Zappos Clone Zalando to the east?
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There are some bugs. I looked up some mouth symptoms I had and the entry on Tooth Abscess talks only about depression:
http://symcat.com/conditions/tooth-abscess
On the contrary, McKinsey is very well respected within the management consulting industry. It is part of the big 3 consulting firms: namely McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group. The Mckinsey brand is probably the best known out of the 3.
That's great. Now install one of those on Lion. And you can't run anything earlier than Lion on any Mac sold today.
I think you nailed it with "unless those exact same actions are actually (YAGNI) used as endpoints of a web service". I find client side javascript apps compelling because they are simply another consumer of your web service along with any other mobile/third-party/customer apps.
How to Fetch the Checked Value in RadioButtonList Control in WinForm
The Spark is a Zenthink ZT180 so the Wifi module will be a RTL8192, which afaik has open source drivers.
Indeed, but there are zillions of good alternatives to GoDaddy (shouldn't the name be a clue???), many, sometimes no alternatives to PayPal.

(Wasn't I just reading something recently about a payments system startup that isn't likely to extend itself to Australia due to their laws and regulations?)
tl;dr and Some thoughts :

Actually talk about the project - The people sending out these emails and pitching for a position for you to fill, don't really know what the project is all about. Many a times they don't even know the difference between iOS and Android.

Money isn’t everything! - I don't know how many startups actually go out and pay a recruiter firm to do this job. From what I feel, i think in a startup its always best that the founding team takes this job up on their own.

Please never call us - so true!

Be active in the community! - Most of the times because of their lack of awareness and motivation to keep themselves updated, they don't really bother doing something like this. They just go out to a forum and post a job without thinking what would happen next.

Be transparent - As I said before, most of the times they don't know.
Ask HN: I Got DDOS'ed and Possible Hacked To Ubuntu Server
Hi,
I recently noticed that my wireless router was acting weird everyday. If I bounced it it was fine for couple of minutes and then things got worse: nobody seemed to be able to connect to it, if they could the internet was slow.

It happened for 2 days then out of desperation I disconnect the Ubuntu server (Apache 2.2) connected via Gigabit cable. Strangely things started to look normal. I then looked at the router log and there were a tons of access from various IPs around the world to my web server. Apparently the router cannot handle such traffic.

Also, I remember the day when this DDOS occured, when I ssh'ed to the server, it said the host changed and possible Man-in-middle attack. When I looked at the log /var/log/auth.log
there were tons of failed attempts to su from www-data user. At this point I thought I was f*cked. So I decided to take down the server until I know what the hell is going on.

Is there anybody interested in helping me to anwser questions:
- What happened to my server? How could its ssh key or setting changed?
- What could be done to get rid of the DDoS?

I have everything in my server for forensic!

This is just my personal server anyway, nothing important.
Thanks in advance.
but the best was

Recruiter: How many years of Rails experience do you have?
DHH: ALL OF THEM!
Hard numbers...

On the iPad App Store charts:

Top Paid

3. Pages

11. Keynote

13. Numbers

Top Grossing

3. Pages

17. Keynote

18. Numbers

Those numbers seem to me to imply that a large number of people use office apps on the iPad.
While the DHH quote was amusing, sadly it turns out be just a fictional scenario created by one of the commenters of the gist: https://gist.github.com/1285068#gistcomment-56327
That would be Pineview and Cedar Trail. I am not sure if the CPU portion of these cores have the same power consumption as the N270; their TDP includes the consumption of the on-die GPU as well. As far as computational power goes, they are just marginally better performers than the Diamondville core.
They could be using Clojure for motion planning and something lower-level and more reliable for actually executing the plans.
Axel Springer invests in AirBnB
But they are related. If the conviction was upheld, he could be punished criminally with jail time. With the conviction overturned, Goldman can still go after him civilly for breach of contract which is relatively similar to a fine.
>So you are attacking him on Hacker News where he can't respond

This makes no sense. Has Gruber been banned from HN or something? Where would you say is an acceptable place to post an issue with him? If I can't post it here, and he doesn't allow comments then what do you propose? Certainly you aren't saying he should be free from criticism?
is the culture there as back-stabbing and ruthless as it seems like to outsiders? Or is it just an exaggeration and people are mostly nice and pleasant, albeit ambitious?
Has anyone else noticed a trend of getting a lot of calls from offshore recruiters? I don't mean to sound xenophobic but I seem to get this stream of calls now (often 1-2 per day) from "recruiters" who I can barely understand as they have very thick accents, that are using poor phone connections (obviously over VOIP). My solution is that I don't answer the phone unless I'm expecting a call, everything goes to voicemail for me to weed through later. I am fairly open about putting my phone number up on resumes publicly, as it has benefited me before, so I guess its a price to pay but I just find it odd and can't help but wonder if they are actually recruiting for a real position or just trying to scam me in some way.
you don't need _anything_ except for your brain to get work done. Everything else you use is just a luxury, MS office being just one that most people take for granted these days.
I don't doubt that people consume office documents on their iPad, but I'm less convinced that people sit down and create whole spreadsheets with it. So there still needs to be some program on a computer somewhere for document creation.
Actually no, I think it has to do with both health and ethics, as sticking to a plant based diet involves both. Our information diets have as much social ethical consequence as our food ones do.
Only a spaz would care about the difference.
One paying attention to the research and one paying attention to the traffic situation sounds like the right division of labor.
They imply that being featured drives sales.
Indeed, and what could be a truer reflection of the Scheme community than this ;-)
A simple Golang program that demonstates websocket usage
A few weeks ago one recruiter made the rounds of all the developers who worked in our building- with violent disregard to the skill sets of said developers. They were looking for a senior backend dev, but this recruiter was emailing frontenders, UXers, designers, devops, they really didn't care who you were. The pitch itself was ridiculous bordering on nonsensical due to the recruiter's extreme non-understanding of what he was describing, and he didn't bother to change it from person to person. Over a period of a few days we watched as this same pitch cropped up from person to person. It was painfully obvious this guy either had no clue, or wasn't even trying. Really, what kind of response did he expect? Who doesn't want to work for a 'HOT Music 2.0 startup'!
> The identity of the this pointer is hidden from the execution of the function.

Your argument makes no sense; the "this" pointer is just a function parameter, and the whole point of a function is that the arguments aren't fixed until the function is called. No part of this is implicit.

> The identity of the function to be executed is hidden from the caller.

The function is named at the call site along with all input to that function (unless you use default arguments). This also is not hiding: every part of the function and its input is explicit.

Much better arguments for your case would be overloaded operators and implicit conversions, both of which happen without an explicit information at the call site. But it's no coincidence that both of these are forbidden by the Google Style Guide also.
Antisec attacks FTC
The fix seems to have been to copy the definition of Chronic Back Pain. But those have different diagnoses in your system (I'm seeing Lumbago as 14% and Chronic Back Pain as 10% for the same symptoms)
I think they are too lazy to actually look at your profile, they just do a keyword search and then contact you directly form the search page (you can still do this on LinkedIn if memory serves me correctly), apparently, being bothered to click on your profile and read through it would take too much of their precious time
Thanks. Would it help if I increase the padding of the court a bit?
I'm pretty sure that graphic designers who work primarily on marketing materials, and the like get emails like that.

After all, they're going to take art direction from someone else on the project so in the minds of the management, one junior 'line' artist is pretty much the same as any other.
Damn. I laughed pretty hard when I read that though. Mostly because we all know full well that if you or I did invent something, we would be asked by a recruiter how many years experience we had, and if it was invented 2 years ago, you would be asked for "3 to 5 years experience".
Expert systems have a history of being used very effectively in this domain. Have you considered incorporating one?
If they disclose who they are hiring for then what's to stop a candidate applying to the company directly? Cuts out the recruiter and they lose their fee. I've known this has happened to a few friends when they've dealt with recruiters who were stupid enough to disclose this in the first e-mail.
If you search the forums on Justin.tv/Twitch.tv you can find the answers to these questions. Most serious casters use Flash Media Encoder to encode/upload their stream. There is a variety software for actually doing the screen capture and combing multiple video feeds. Usually people use some combination of XSplit, Camtasia, VH Capture, etc.
He made a lot of money out of that, that's how his customers (en masse) showed respect. The people who pirated it aren't his customers.
Owning iPhone/iPad/Android does not imply "getting work done". Work can be done with or without Microsoft Office and with or without iPhone/iPad/Android.
The assumption underlying this whole article is that you don't "need" Office to do work. That somehow iStuff will fill in your missing productivity suite. This just isn't backed by reality.

In an office setting (I'm not saying enterprise, as that would be asking too much), you make use of a word processor, a spreadsheet, maybe an email client, maybe a presentation thing.

Is there honestly any real competition in that field from tablets and iStuff and the like? No. Those are content-consumption devices, occasionally branching out into cutesy creation. There's nothing wrong with that, mind you, but work is done on a desktop, where you need to do a lot of typing and clicking. The interface is simply better for that.

Moreover, Microsoft Office has pretty much nailed its niche: I challenge you to find a better office suite. Here's what you'll have to do:

1. Find me an office suite that works out-of-the-box.

2. Find me an office suite that does everything (email, database (Access lol), word processing, spreadsheet, simple programming, presentations) for a flat fee.

3. Find me an office suite that does (2) fairly well.

4. Find me an office suite that does (2) that interops basically seamlessly across other businesses and old versions of my own business.

There's some nifty stuff on the net as thin clients running in HTML5. There's some cool stuff happening in tablets. But the author is sorely mistaken in presuming that the world has somehow moved past Office.

EDIT: And yes, I've tried Google Docs and OpenOffice and WordPerfect and all these things--but for raw "get the bidness done" Office is pretty much it.

EDIT2: And Word's spellchecker could've saved me. >:(
Why? What is wrong with them in your opinion?

They seem to work very well for producing documents.
understand it and replicate it
Mostly I put up a wall of text because I think the subject is interesting and I wanted to talk about it, but really there is no one IPC for the Cortex Family. An A5 will tend to have an IPC that is much lower than an Atom. An A15 will tend to have an IPC that is much higher than an Atom.

And for the cores being compared here, on tight microbenchmarks the superior execution resources[1] and OoO execution of an A9 will put it ahead of an Atom, but on pointer chasing code the superior branch predictor of the Atom will probably give it a higher IPC.

EDIT: [1] Well, really the 16 vs 8 registers, 3 operand instructions, and free barrel shift in each instruction. I think they have the same number of ALUs and AGUs.
Things like better documentation and diagrams are bound not to suffice if Naur's view is correct that the program lives in the minds of the people who build it. To say, "Oh, the source code doesn't tell us everything, therefore we'd better produce additional documents that do," misses that point.

The best contribution I know of that works well with Naur's idea is Eric Evans' concept of ubiquitous language.
I was making bumper stickers of people's email addresses in 1994. What a dumb idea, but demand was high, though in hindsight what I did was spammy in what was then listserve topics. Then I went onto make printable business cards for your newfound email address. It said 'Net Citizen' with a nice logo/graphics -during the templated printer paper craze.
I'm pretty sure that's an accurate picture of the kind of sales operation that's required to make the magic work...

The key difference, though, is that a stockbroker Boiler-Room is usually operating at (or around) a threshold of legality since making markets in stocks is a highly regulated industry (at the very least there's the threat of sanctions if a salesperson goes too far).

OTOH, the Groupon sales team will have no such restrictions on how they sell the dream of increased customer awareness through the magic of the internet, and their vast mailing list.
The point wasn't that people don't need office apps, it was that people don't need MS Office.
JotForm domain released by Secret Service, won't say why it was seized
This title is some of the worst linkbait I've ever seen on HN. It reminds me of so many low-quality ads on blogs going "one mom discovered this trick that doctors don't want you to see"; please consider not advertising your site this way.
Lemnos Labs: A New Incubator Breeding Great Hardware
You're right (I think), so GS could go after him for breach of contract and/or copyright infringement but not any of the criminal offences that were originally available to them (including the copyright related ones).

Given that their return might be limited to their provable losses & that they'd have to demonstrate those in court I suspect that they'll probably decide it's not worth the effort. The guy has already spent a year in prison after all & they've successfully demonstrated to all their other employees that GS will go for the maximum possible sentence if any of them transgress in the future, which was probably the main point of the whole exercise in the first place.
I'd like to think the conclusion is that Office-style work actually isn't that necessary most of the time. I'm sure there are jobs where some of the capabilities are required, or where there's a bunch of important VBA code lurking in a spreadsheet somewhere. But it seems a lot of people use Excel because they have a simple list to keep track of, or Office because it's easy to drag a bunch of pictures in, or Powerpoint because it's how one makes Powerpoints, where in many cases a simpler tool would work.

I should admit that I do not use my iPhone for productive work, except reading, because the tools I use, Latex, Bibdesk, Processing and Python, are not available on the phone, will never be, and would be ill-suited to it in any case.
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The slow rise of the SoMoClo OS
I think, like many others Microsoft did not take iPhone seriously back in 2007. Like everyone else, they also regret the fact that they did not "copy" the original device.

I think, what Microsoft really missed out on was getting the Metro UI mainstream earlier on. Not looking at what the Zune team was doing. They started with the UI innovation back in 2006, but MS just didnt take things seriously.

Let's see how things are changed with Windows 8
This article would make sense if Microsoft Office was Microsoft's ONLY product. But isn't it obvious why they haven't developed serviceable clones of Office for other platforms? They are selling the platform. Office, more than any other factor, has driven the market leadership of Windows for two and a half decades; and Windows in turn has driven the market leadership of Office. That's the Microsoft catch-22: they can't change anything about this relationship, because changing even one detail means losing market share.
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Yes, and I can't imagine anybody I would want to work for using such a service.
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The exact same thing happened when I tried to copy text from a slide - the white space didn't copy over.
People keep repeating this but I see no evidence for it being true. Instead I keep reading reports of companies replacing large numbers of laptops with iPads. Are those reports wrong? Are those companies supplying iPads so their employees can watch (consume) movies instead of working?

The iPad seems quite capable of handling moderate document creation. Add a BT keyboard and it becomes very similar to a low end laptop.
I don't think author means to claim the world has moved on. Early adopters have, and as the tablet replaces the desk/lap-tops with internet everywhere, Office will be irrelevant.

1. Google Docs.

2. Gmail, Google Docs [Free]

3. Google Docs

4. Google Docs can preview / edit. You just need internet.

I haven't used office in ages. I consider myself a fairly early adopter of technology and yes I've moved on. My mom has not, I don't think she ever will.

It's like mobile phones made wrist watch redundant. But people still wear them for:

1. Luxury.

2. Habit.
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I've had a lot of this as well. I don't think it's a scam (though I wouldn't know since, like you, I just ignore those calls). The positions these people are recruiting for seem awful to me, which would explain why they're hard to fill (and why the company is using a seemingly cheap service to fill them).
Google Drive screenshot emerges (leaked)
Agreed. One of the things I love about HN is its general resistance to run-of-the-mill marketing techniques like this headline.

In fact, it makes me wonder if the submitter of this article is an affiliate for the site this story links to. His only activity is made up of 3 submissions that seem to be related to this site http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=cmonsen

It's an interesting site but it's sad to see HN being gamed like this.
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