skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the conclusion he has is right. It's not appropriate to pair 100% of the time. Having said that if you look at the way Pivotal labs pair up, they have really strict rules about what's allowed on the 'floor' e.g. No laptops, no cellphones, no distractions. So while working alone can give you more privacy and space to become creative, unless you're really disciplined by yourself, pairing up can actually be beneficial in forcing you to become more productive.

I think the other thing the author fails to mention is that in terms of up-skilling developers, the process of pairing is quite useful. Often the pairing will naturally raise the level of the weaker programmer by virtue of being exposed to new ideas and solutions by the more experienced developer.
I'm curious how much DDG's traffic has grown as a direct result of Google's perceived gaffes in the last few months.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I switched to DDG after Google started pushing Plus in their search results.
Ask HN: Becoming a hirable programmer
Hello,
I am currently a student at a community college, where the programming courses have not given me the confidence that I could hold my own at an internship. I have taken all that the college has to offer in computer science (Intro c++, Advanced c++, Data Structures, and Discrete Math) I have already applied to transfer, but in the mean time, how do I make the next step? This summer is coming up, what kind of projects should I be doing to make myself competitive for internships.
Thank you in advance.
Ask HN: anyone interested in going to Thailand to work on a startup?
First of all: not looking for a co-founder, but if you'd like good company - read on.

I'm working on my own stuff now (quit my job) and I figured going to Thailand to live for 6 months would actually save me some money. I already lived there for 6 months and it was great. I had a studio in a modern building with a gym and a pool on the roof with a beautiful seaview, which was perfect because I didn't have to actually waste my time to get to the gym. And it all costed me around $400/mo. In my opinion Thailand may be the ultimate location for a startup's stealth mode, allowing to fully concentrate and relax when needed.

What I'm looking for is good company, a technical person who's bootstrapping a startup and with whom for that reason I potentially have a lot in common. I think it's important to have at least one person to talk to about startup and technical problems. We could rent two rooms in the same or nearby buildings and... well... work! Occasional beers and discussions as well as island trips are also on the list. Like I said, I lived there for 6 months, so I know the place.

My contacts and bio are in my info. Please ask me anything here, be happy to answer.
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I don't believe it's possible for a site accepting credit cards on a non-SSL page to be PCI compliant, period, no exceptions. It's trivial to MITM to steal your card info.
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It is to give some feedback on how other people react to your submissions and comments. When you click on the up triangle next to a comment the person who made the comment gets one karma point. The down triangle takes one away.

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Yes, lisp is wonderful - Or Apple products.

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I've worked at two companies that have bet a lot more than 1M on it...
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I've been curious what accounts for variation between ddg serps and bing serps for the same terms aside from the zero click and ads. Does bing personalization account for the differences, or do partners like ddg have the opportunity to influence weightings in whats returned? Is Gabriel explicitly searching wikipedia independently?
The merchant's page is loaded over an insecure connection, but the credit card details are sent to Stripe's servers over a secure connection using an iframe. So it's secure; the customer just can't verify that it is without looking at the source.
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...quite a continent:)
If there was medical procedure that would cost a lot in a hospital an MRI would not surprise me, it such a large powerful, power hungry, complex device I can't see how it couldn't.

I wish each person could get access to an MRI each year it would be nice to track your health visually.
Of course, it doesn't actually look invisible unless you're standing in exactly the right place. That is why the stationary shots at the beginning of the video look so much more "invisible" than the moving shots later in the video. If you pause on those later shots, you'll see that there are big discontinuities around the boundary of the car.

Thought experiment: imagine the car as a sheet of glass. Think of yourself standing at position A and looking at a point X on the glass. You see a position A' behind the glass. Now imagine moving to a position B and looking at the same point X on the glass. You see a different position B'. The LEDs don't know if you are at position A or B, so they can't know whether to show the light from A' or B'.
Ask HN: Where to find computing literature in Spanish?
Hi everyone. I'm working on a project for my Linguistic Anthropology class about computing terms in Spanish. I would like to source the terms from all kinds of literature - general-audience computing books, application manuals, translation files, programming language/library documentation, Spanish-language research papers, etc. etc.

So far, I've found the Lua 5.1 reference manual, and a Spanish translation of Windows Vista for Dummies in the public library, and I will probably source translation files from GNOME et cetera. Can you recommend any other places to find Spanish computing literature? (Especially research papers?)
I think Jon was just trying to provide some information on the spectrum of possible identity solutions one can choose from. At Hypothes.is, it's extremely unlikely we would try to do anything like this. However, it does represent a form of "verified pseudonymous" identity, in which your uniqueness as an entity is verified by a central authority, but that identity is never exposed. See my comment below for more information about what we might actually implement.
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Yes, yes I do.

The more languages one speaks, the less one speaks one.

:D
Regardless, I don't think that my original comment applies simply due to someone participating in this thread.
I haven't tried mezzanine, but I'd recommend against Django CMS. Using Django CMS, we were finding it took 3-4 seconds for the server to render a page, particularly if pagination is involved (e.g., galleries). I'm sure at least part of this is our fault, since we didn't spend a lot of time trying to optimize this.

We are now using Hyde, which is incredibly flexible (it's just files) and which is about as fast as a CMS can get (hyde is statically generated). I recommend taking a look.

We are currently working to more tightly integrate django with hyde (i.e., share templates, {% url foo %} across both worlds).
Falsely asserting copyright over bits of nature is OK for you then?
Thanks randlet!

I can't really comment objectively on Django CMS, as I've had no exposure to it. Too busy working on Mezzanine.

I did at one point take at look at their page model, which I imagine in both projects is the heart of the CMS. It was a relative mess compared to Mezzanine's, which has always strictly strived to keep a painstakingly clean code base and design, to make jumping in and hacking on as easy as possible.

I've also seen a lot more complaints from frustrated Django CMS users than I have with Mezzanine, many of those who have come to Mezzanine afterwards and really enjoyed it. But that is most likely a result of Django CMS being much more popular - something Mezzanine has a much harder time achieving without a generic name :-)

But please, take that comparison with a grain of salt. Go ahead and try both!
The Stormpulse map was originally written in AS2 by yours truly. We recently moved it over to haXe and are now generating a .swf and an iOS app from the same codebase. I should say by "we moved it over" I mean an MIT Media Lab PhD. No way could I have figured out how to manage haXe/NME/X Code the way he did to pull it off. But it does work. The biggest work left is to make the iOS app feel like a proper iOS app rather than the Flash app on an iPad.
I just tried searching for 'chrome', and an ad appeared at the top of the page leading straight to the Google Chrome download page. The first real search result was a link to that comic strip about Chrome's development.
I don't like wireless, as I find it very spotty. I've mapped the CAPS to CTRL. But the other stuff is pretty hard - mapping the arrow keys to the home row, for example, which the HHK does (not VIM, which I'd prefer, but close, on the [;'/ keys when depressing Fn). Getting rid of all the function keys and the some of the other stuff is mostly a bonus.
This is just another stupid hurdle that people are required to jump over if they want to use the internet.

If you offer products or services over the internet, stay clear of captcha. Unless, of course, you give a dam about your conversion rate.

Spam filters are effective enough to keep your inbox clean. There is no need to play hide and seek with email harvester bots.
The fact of the matter we are all professionals and everyone's job is to protect their interests.

The CEO's job is to get the best deal for existing shareholders and optimize the growth. The investor's job is to buy in at the lowest price / strictest terms they can get away with. When a better deal comes along for the company and the investors cannot match it they start coming up with all sorts of phony excuses to buy in at the original lowball offer. If you feel strongly enough about the company don't be a cheapo and match the new offer. If "it does not fit the structure of your fund" then move on to the next deal.

Jeff Bezos walked away on the offer by Olympic Venture Partners (OVP) when Kleiner jumped in and outbid them big. I heard this in a talk by OVP partner who complained that John Doerr could make what he believed to be an "outrageous" offer because the fund already had Netscape IPO exit and could take much greater risk. Guess what, Jeff Bezos did the right thing for himself and his existing investors and employees.

VCs walk away on term sheets all the time and typical deal structures favor them anyways. The deal is done when the legal papers are signed and the check clears. Nobody should act as though they are entitled to anything, whether they are VCs or CEOs.
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There is not a lot of stuff out there. You will find a lot of out dated materials.

Most computer/programming classes are taught using the English terms (mixed with Spanish), because it ends up being easier (I've taught in Spanish) for people to understand.

Send me an email (in my profile) if you need any more help.
Everything is big in USA. Even the MRI's. We in Europe developed some smaller MRIs. They are cheaper and have better mileage per gallon but are very uncomfortable.
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Well sure, corporations can be recognized by the state. That doesn't mean they require the state. There's nothing about legal personality or limited liability that requires "use of force"
I'm not sure that Google concentrates it's lobbying efforts to say anything one way or the other about Microsoft. It seems it's biggest efforts were in trying to prevent SOPA/PIPA.
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I used to wash cars at a Mercedes lot, so I've driven a lot of Benzes. I think what makes them fun to drive is their responsiveness and power.

By responsiveness, I mean it takes only a light touch on the steering wheel to move it at low speeds, and a light touch on the throttle to get an impressive feeling of power.

They have a lot of steering lock, which means that you can turn the wheels pretty far to the left or right, allowing the car to be very maneuverable for it's size.

As for power - well, my daily driver is a 76 Toyota Corona. The Corona has the same smooth, comfortable ride as a Benz, but boy does it ever take a while to get moving, and it's very hard to maneuver at low speeds, like in parking lots.

My other vehicle is an 83 Kawasaki GPZ 305 - a very small displacement motorbike. It's very torquey, and from a standing start it can get up to highway speed very fast.

But once you're at highway speed, that's about as fast as it's going to go. If you find yourself riding abreast of an erratic driver in the lane beside you, with someone else behind you, you might want to accelerate away from them. As quick as the motorbike is at low speeds, it will take more seconds that you would like to drop the car beside you at highway speed.

In the benz, you can tap the pedal and pass like the other cars are standing still. And it still gets going from a standing start faster than most other cars on the road.

For the record, the car I'm thinking of when I say "the benz" is a current C300, or maybe a C63.
1. Pick one of the startups mentioned daily in HN.
2. Build a clone (even if very basic).
3. Repeat.

Make sure to have some kind of online portfolio (github is fine), a place to write about your experiences (a simple blog), and make sure to talk about the difficulties you had (plus how you solved them).

Good luck.
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Do you really have to be such an extreme kill joy? I think anyone that watched the video would see the exact same thing we both saw, yes, it isn't perfect, yes if you aren't looked straight on you won't see it, but goddamnit if it isn't an awesome effect that is going to get people talking and will generate buzz for Mercedes and overall is an absolutely awesome way to advertise that your car looks "invisible" to the world it is driven in.
of course, jeb corliss jumped off of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYwZckVSzdA
I have to believe something like this already existed for pen based tablets. And I believe that for real work, a tablet must have higher fidelity input that can be achieve with fingertips.
For what it's worth, it's ~$160 in Japan. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1205455...)

Interesting seeing this here on HN after my wife and I just finished watching "Frontline: Sick in America" on Netflix tonight, in which an American reporter travels to 5 countries that provide some form of universal healthcare to discuss (with doctors, administrators, and patients) the different mechanics, what percentage of GDP they spend on healthcare, what wait times and gate keeper policies are like, what financial issues exist, etc. The fixed, negotiated price for MRIs was one of the things he discusses. (http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Frontline_Sick_Around_the_...) I grew up with nationalized healthcare, but found the documentary quite informative.
This is exactly how I do things in general. It's great for when you can't deliver. Nobody expects things that haven't been promised.
Contributing to your favorite open source projects is a favorite. I recommend checking out Google's Summer of Code, sounds about perfect for you.
I don't know about you, but next time I need an emergency room or surgical procedure, I'm not going to be shopping for the cheapest one. The article addressed this - how do you 'shop around' when you're under anesthesia, and would you really hire the cheapest doctor to diagnose your daughters life threatening ailment? It just doesn't play out in reality.
The problem is when the cleverness doesn't work. Then it's clippy time.

I desperately want a “don't be smart button”. Searching for code is pointless, even on quotes and verbatim.

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Natural gas is already really big in Europe, with a lot of cars driving on natural gas, so I am not so sure that adding Hydrogen to the mix would be that much more expensive.
I've been threatening to do it for years, and I guess this is as good a time as any. Note of course that this is based on my experience.

http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt

This is my "Note to recruiters"

http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html
What fun to drive means to me:

I have a 2000 Mustang GT.

If you punch the throttle you hear a monster come out of the engine and set you back in your seat, you get this interesting feeling in your chest as you rapidly gain speed, and when you finally let off, the strangest thing happens: you smile.
MRI specifically is overused and kind of crappy in Japan. In the rest of the world, the standard is for a 1-3T MR study; in Japan, you get a lot of 0.5 and even lower (0.2T! wtf) MR studies. They're used for a lot of health screenings, whereas in the rest of the world they're more often used for actual problems.
It's a legitimate reason to switch. I first became skeptical of Google when they released the awful Blog Search. Here was a search company, with a growing market being neglected and their entry was an absolute dud. This was around the same time that they were releasing a lot of non-search products. I wondered where their priorities were then, and today there is no doubt.
Uneven enforcement and a lack of transparency are (to my mind) the two leading causes of a perception of unfairness. If Apple is going to continue with a relatively low level of transparency (which seems to be almost a given, considering its corporate culture to date), it is even more beholden than most to try to stamp out uneven enforcement.
The situations aren't particularly different: a for-profit business intends to make money via ads run against content they didn't pay for and are republishing without permission.

The difference being that Computerworld recognizes that they screwed up by letting a freelancer boost an illustration, whereas for Pinterest it appears to be their business model. Also, Pinterest's TOS indicates they are legally hiding behind their users, while Computerworld took responsibility for the freelancer's actions.

I'm not saying this is necessarily illegitimate; one could argue that digital culture makes it necessary to look again at the basic notion of copyright. Or perhaps we need some sort of new metadata that lets creative types say "ok to republish X for promotional purposes". And congrats to the Pinterest team for making something that people like. But in Pinterest's shoes, I would be setting aside money for the inevitable lawsuits.
... I don't recall ever saying that Mac vs. PC was fair game. Please don't project onto me.

I thought they were in poor taste - as it tends to be when a company spends more time trashing a competitor than touting its own products. I for one am happy that Apple has moved past that marketing tactic.

That said, even Mac vs. PC was better done than the salesman ad - PC was always the well-meaning, wholesome, but hopelessly out of date buffoon... whereas Google here is being portrayed as slimy, dishonest, and malicious. There's a difference - in my eyes this is incredibly poor form on MS's part.
By coincidence I am also in South-East Asia (Indonesia but building a presence in Malaysia). I do not know exactly what you are interested in doing and I am more of a Perl/Python guy than a Ruby guy but would be interested in talking.
I don't have a budget, and it's not worth enough to fight legal and/or someone with a budget for this. I don't mean to complain about the license — when I write open source code, I use the GPL too. That being said, I maintain a network file daemon for work and would be interested in using this library to simplify the code (assuming it benchmarks and tests OK). That's all.
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Why risk doing anything? If I go outside, I could get hit in the head by a meteor, killing me instantly. But I go outside anyway, because I like to.
So one guy listens to Swedish dubstep? That doesn't make him a role mode. Just someone who has his own routine.

No doubt. I mean, plenty of us listen to Swedish death metal and/or black metal, and we don't go around patting ourselves on that back for that. Not sure what any of that has to do with programming in the first place...
Are there many examples of language features / designs where expressive power isn't derived from prior academic research?

Off the top of my head, you might consider that the following count:

* Design by contract

* C3 linearization (i.e. multiple inheritance)

* Traits (or mixins)

* Prototype-oriented programming

* Aspect-oriented programming

* Compilers ;)
The capital costs for an MRI, while large, are not the biggest part of the price. I had an MRI done in Pune (with a good machine, 3T/32 channels) for 6500rs/$130.

Labor costs are a biggie. In the US, you need to pay technicians high US salaries, in the $60-70k neighborhood from what I hear. In Pune, the technician is almost certainly poorer than 95% of Americans. The high ratio of capital costs/labor costs also causes higher utilization of the MRI - in the US, many MRI places are 9-6, I had my MRI done in Pune at 9:30pm, and someone went in after I finished.

Labor costs are actually a much bigger deal than GDP figures would suggest. High skill individuals get a much bigger premium in the US than most of the rest of the world. A top 1% person in the US gets $384k/year, in Canada only $181k.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-001-x/2007109/article/409688...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/business/29tax.html
Depends on your notion of responsible. One thing a webserver does nicely is control access. By copying somebody else's copyrighted work and republishing it, you've deprived them of control of their work. Some photographers may not mind that; some will mind quite a bit.
Ask HN: What website analytics do you use?
I have 3-5 domains with fairly low traffic that I'm looking to put analytics on.

I've done some research of my own, and am playing with Google Analytics (which seems to be where everyone starts), but I'm curious about what everyone here uses, since I find news.yc to generally have good taste in technology.
Getting the 1st working version out is the #1 priority in your life, everything else a distraction.

Check.

You'd rather stay in coding on a Saturday night than going out.

It's Saturday night, and (the occasional HN break aside) I'm home coding. So yeah, definitely relate to this one...

You don't give a shit if you get funded or not, you're gonna launch no matter what!

Absolutely.
Not sure if this message will ever see the light of day, but just wanted to let you know that I put the recipe creation in place earlier today.

Thanks again for the suggestion.
"Brand of ethics"? You either stick to your word after you give it, or you don't. I don't think it has anything to do with which party is telling the story.