skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd probably be at most risk of not passing the phone screen, depending on how anal the interviewer is (read: whether they are a hard-core C programmer type). E.g. particularly if they asked coding questions about pointers and so forth. I've always hated C, ever since I tried to learn it in high school back in 1986 or so. The big picture stuff about bits and bytes and data structures I think I'd do OK on.
> We're sorry. The Google Play music player is currently only available in the United States.

Should've known...
The supply of lawyers is high, but the supply of good, experienced lawyers with good reputations is lower.
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Repost xkcd article..?
Hands-on: gesture, voice, and the many inputs of Samsung's smart TV
this was mentioned in /r/cloj

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-17...
For everyone talking about JavaScript: As far as I can tell, this is fundamentally a CSS vulnerability. Something quite similar ought to be possible without JavaScript — it would just be a bit less elegant. For example, you could just make a pixel grid of divs to simulate mousemove events and position the fake cursor with CSS hover styles.
Luckily for them and, in my opinion, you and me as well.

Edit: Feel free to downvote, please tell me why my opinion is not a valid contribution to the discussion.
Ah, but see, even that fact right there is quite telling. Do you have anything to hide? Even though you don't, how could you convince your future employer of that?
The design philosophy behind much of Objective-C is described in Brad Cox's book "Object-oriented programming: an evolutionary approach" [1]. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy handy to give you a quote.

[1] http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=U8AgAQAAIAAJ
You Are Here: The Confusing Landscape of Social Networks Just Got More Confusing
"He also argued that Africa will move into the cheap manufacturing jobs that are now becoming more expensive in the China."

To play a counterpoint, that will require various African nations to put into effect a strong strategy for an export driven economy. While "Africa" has a billion or so people, it's not a monolithic nation-state. Some countries with better governance may go that route, others may not, and others may end up with a continuous string of dictatorial regimes and corrupt governments and accomplish nothing.

In 20 years, there may still be more poor Chinese peasants looking for cheap factory work than available Africans looking for comparable factory work in countries that have switched to an appropriate economic model. It's also not entirely clear that the Asian export-driven model will work elsewhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export-oriented_industrializati...
I think deactivation and small 'd' delete are the same, but I could be wrong.
To some extent, lawyers (or, more accurately, law firms) are Veblen goods -- meaning that their services are perceived as being better if they're more highly priced and exclusive. There's a general perception that a high-priced lawyer is a top-notch lawyer, and that skimping on such lawyers carries a huge deal of legal risk.

This dynamic plays out particularly in the BigCorp world, and especially if there's ever a perceived threat of litigation. (The idea that a competitor would hire "the best of the best," or "an army of lawyers," or "top guns," drives your own desire to pay for same).
I know in the real world it is not that simple, that is why in the meantime there are workarounds. Similar to how I am not pushing for real name policies but do want the problems to be fixed if possible.
Expound on that. Why stops us from not doing harm to both?
I've done exactly as you say, and I still find Objective-C Perlesque in its obnoxiousness. I also manage to achieve that not-terribly-hard feat on a pretty regular basis with Java: intellisense (hi, IntelliJ!) and IDE-provided Javadocs do the same thing, too, and someone who isn't going to write good Javadocs isn't going to name things well.
LulzSec leader Sabu was working for us, says FBI
I forked this to use a different exploit which takes advantage of pointer-events: none.

https://github.com/Rob-ot/Fake-Mouse-Cursor
That's a good analogy, but I think you meant to say 'compliment' instead of 'complement' here. I have to agree that it is an effective tool. ;)
With all due respect, I'd wager you've already spent more time worrying about this issue than could ever possibly be warranted. "Startup" is just a word, nothing more. Do what you want to do, quit worrying about how some people use a word.

But if you really care about the opinion of some random stranger on the 'net, I'd say that a "startup" does not have to be a "technology company" but I'd say the definition has more to do with the scalability of the company. If you're starting a restaurant that will never be more than one location, and will just provide income for the proprietors, then I'd say that isn't what I think of as a proper "startup." But a restaurant that's the first of a planned nationwide (or worldwide) chain, that expects to eventually do billions of dollars in revenue, I would count as a "startup."

On the flipside, just because a company is a "technology company" doesn't necessarily mean they'd be what I consider a startup. Look at the Micro-ISV movement and the idea of small software companies that aren't meant to scale up and grow big. I wouldn't consider those startups either.

If you expect to take outside funding, and see a potential path to an IPO, you probably have a "startup" by most standards. But, again... none of this crap really matters. Forget playing semantic games with labels and definitions and get to work, regardless of what you call it! :-)
The TV searches "basketball scores basketball scores"

Aw, it messed up in the demo. That doesn't bode well for usability of the speech recognition software. I hope Apple's offering fixes this ;)
Culture is human nature.
Yelp is hiring an Engineering Manager - Security
Should also work just fine with the <span> tag. <i> is just shorter. I went with the same method Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 is using for their fixed-size icons:
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#icons
Intel launches high-end server chip for the cloud
Ask HN: career advice for mom? Has spent years using Fortran
Hi HN,

My mom has doing freelance computer consulting for 10-20+ years, mainly with something called GL4, which she says is similar to Fortran. It's really specific and for very niche clients.

Long story short, her client list is starting to dry up. I recommended that she learn something more modern, as there seems to be a huge demand for experienced programmers.

Any suggestions on what language(s) to learn? Keep in mind that she isn't going to run off to SF and join a startup, and that remote or semi-remote work is much preferred.

Not really looking for a huge career change here, more like... spend 6 months learning X (which is easy for a person familiar with Fortran) and get a decent position with reasonable hours / freelance work.

Thanks a ton, it is much appreciated.
I don't think I'm getting the desired result... my cursor disappears, and I all I see is a static one in the top left corner above a cropped "Like" button (in french though, that may be the problem).
See here : http://imageshack.us/f/836/28545472.jpg/
...right. Upvoted because I feel dumb for not thinking of this too.
So a lot of claims from lawyers that they operate in a free market are really not true.

A free market isn't defined by whatever arbitrary criteria you make up.

You can't claim it's not a free market because it's a hassle to switch lawyers, or because it's expensive to do so, or because searching for lawyers takes time.
http://reddit.com/r/buildapc <- everything you need.

Easiest way is just search a price point and steal a parts list. Then follow the youtube guides.
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I think you have marginal utility confused with marginal cost. For a given supply, as demand increases, that causes an increase in price. But obviously, increasing the price does not (usually) cause an increase in demand.
If they were involved an operation to export thousands of guns to Mexican drug gangs[1], surely killing hundreds in the process, then yes. If they knew, they probably wouldn't intervene. Even still, few (any?) Lulzsec attacks actually leaked unencrypted credit card data. Even then, the damage done by exposing credit cards is pretty negligible anyway.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
I think getting sued has become commonplace in the US, up to a point that institutions and corporations don't really care. If there is money to be had, that is. These kind of things get tried because they seem to offer some value, and the experiment keeps running until someone sues. In Finland, getting sued can tarnish your reputation quit badly, were you an individual or an institution. Somehow we still care about that.

About this thing in special. Finland has a pretty strict law against privacy violations in job interviews. You ask a wrong question as an interviewer and the whole recruitment process might be at risk. Of course you can ask about hobbies and whatnots, but anything too private may get you a "I don't feel like answering that" as an answer. And then you are in trouble. But that works just fine for us. A job interview is supposed to be about the work, not the applicants past time.
Alternative DNS roots[1] will get increasingly popular if this sort of thing (and the DNS-based censorship ISPs are forced into) keeps going on unchecked (read: ICANN keeps sleeping). We may yet end up with an internet where DNS resolvers check multiple roots in descending order of preference, with the ICANN root last.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
Gmail users claim Google is sending unauthorized spam emails from their accounts
And the BAR, like any other "professional" "over-seeing" monopolistic organization isn't about to reduce it's own members value... just like the AMA, Teacher's Unions, ETC. When certification(s) is/are required [to practice], those that have the certifications have a vested interest in limiting the access to said certification(s). It's all a legal racket.
Yes, I think it's extremely irritating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market#Overview

Adam Smith believed that an economy should be free of monopoly rents

If I can keep you from switching lawyers, if I can keep you from interviewing other lawyers, if I know your choice is not "lawyer or no lawyer", but "which lawyer", then I can keep my prices artificially (not a free market) high.
I don't think it is necessary to start her off w/ RoR. The web was founded without RoR so no need to start her off with RoR. How about teaching her very basic html first? Creating anchor text/hyperlinks and then having her ftp it online will be gratifying. Stick to the basics. It will probably keep you sane while you teach her. Good luck.
The term startup more reflect the growth curve than the type of business, is it something that could grow 10-100x+ fold in a short (~5 year) time period. So something like Groupon or Zappos could have been considered a startup even though they were essentially retail businesses they had that hockey stick growth curve.

Similarly a tech business which is very labour intensive (for example a consultancy firm) is unlikely to be a startup because scale that type of business tends to be a very slow and expensive process.
Great distinction of cyberwarfare and hacktivism ... its unfortunate that both get shown in the same light while they clearly have different motive behind them.
There are a few things to add in here (IANAL, but I'm close to quite a few).

A major element is billable hours.

When you want to reduce a bill for a client, during bad times or whatever, you can always under-bill the number of hours spent. Or change the mix of high-low-rate hours expended. Reducing the number of hours billed doesn't (necessarily) reduce the number of billable hours you can credit the attorneys.

While you can have equal salaries across departments, you have bonuses, which depend on how many hours you billed. Also, #billable hours is a great sort criteria for who's first on the shit-list and first on the promote-list.
Awesome! Can't help but smile.
Once again, not available in my country (Germany). Which is extra dissatisfying because Google Music worked just fine (I was in the early beta).

Is there any way for me to get a US credit card and bind it to a German bank account, or PayPal, or whatnot?
Why not advertise it as such?

Because there is a huge selection of already existing MPD clients in existence[1] and I'm trying to stand out a bit.

[1]: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients

What are the features from MPD git that you depend on?

Client-to-client communication. Groove Basin uses it to broadcast some status messages to other clients currently connected.

Probably going to change the architecture of that soon.

Oh, another thing that is relatively new is the sticker file, which is required for Dynamic Mode. (We remember the last-queued date for each track to give bias to not recently queued songs when queuing random songs)

How does it compare to other web/browser-bsaed clients such as relaXX [1] or MPM [2] ?

I tried relaXX. I haven't tried MPM, but I checked out a screenshot and read the README.

I think when it comes to media players, it's the small things that make a big difference. How intuitive the UI is, whether it is cluttered, whether it feels like the same song keeps coming up on random, how long it takes to browse and queue music, etc.

Groove Basin attempts not to have the most features, but to get the small things right.

I'll take a deeper look at relaXX and MPM after work and give a better description of the actual differences if you're interested. I'm pretty sure the answer is going to be 1. how easy it is to queue things, and 2. Dynamic Mode.
First, this is great. The Bootstrap Sprites definitely need some love and this is a solid forward step.

I am close to dropping in Font Awesome, but the small font sizes really need work. Here is a comparison screenshot of the standard bootstrap sprites vs font awesome sprites in Chrome on Mac: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gusta/sprites-less-vs-font-awesome-...

Again, awesome work. Font Awesome is on my short list to use once it's cleaned up a bit.
how about the online "market"? It looks horrible. who designs these sites?
this is not really a name, it is generated key/address/whatever. namecoin allow you to choose name, where in hidden service subsystem you can generate one (although, you probably can setup key generator to get desired name... like vanity bitcoin addresses..)
We sounded the same alarm when employers started drug testing, and the majority of people defended the practice. "It's not a civil liberty issue, it's about employers protecting themselves. Only drug addicts oppose drug testing."

How is this any different than drug testing employees?
That's not the claim I made, and you didn't address the claim I made.

I said: the consumer cannot just walk away. If I am buying a stereo, my choice is between a) do I need a stereo or not, and b) where do I buy it. The purchaser of law services usually does not have the option of walking away from the deal entirely. His/her choice is limited to: which of these expensive lawyers do I go with?
I just approved that post. It should be fine.

And on your second note, the idea is not that you go seeking out content to mix in with your own. If you happen to come across a cool article, and it hasn't been submitted to proggit yet, just contribute it. This is probably part of the community vs content aspect you mentioned in a different comment, but sheer size of the site means that you cannot really ignore the community aspect.

I could probably get in trouble for saying this, but the reddit userbase, as a whole, is not smart enough to filter out what is good and bad. If a bunch of bloggers just auto submit every blog article they write, we will have tons of crappy, ad-ridden, off-topic posts being voted to the top. It still happens from time to time. HN might be smart enough to distinguish the good from the bad, but reddit surely is not. So we have to be at least a little restrictive.

I'm not saying your content falls into those categories, but we can't really give special treatment to people we like or are familiar with. There is one guy in the /r/programming approved submitters list, and he is a very noteworthy programmer who, for whatever reason, could not get any of his posts through the spam filter. He is the one exception. For the most part, everyone is lumped into the same bucket.

So when your posts get caught in the spam filter, just send us modmail. Sometimes we'll get them, sometimes we won't. That's just how it is. I saw earlier that you said you sometimes delete them if they've been filtered. This may be a bad idea. I cannot say for sure, because the admins don't really disclose this stuff, but deleting and resubmitting the same link has been known to hurt a user's standing with the spam filter, so just deleting it may do the same thing, I'm not sure. And there's really no reason to delete it. The only think it will clutter up is the spam filter, which is going to be cluttered no matter what.

Anyway, I hope this has been somewhat useful to you. Sorry about the massive walls of text. Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns.
IANAL, but: It's easy, "Just Say No." If they really want the information, they'll get it somehow or refuse you employment, at which point they may open themselves for a lawsuit involving discrimination based upon race/sex/creed and/or privacy violation and/or libel and/or slander, which will net you more money than if you had accepted the job in the first place. If everyone in an industry begins to refuse you based on your privacy standards, you may be able to sue based on suspicion of collusion.

On a humorous note, if personal lives are a deciding factor in whom a business chooses to employ over and above other, skills-based qualifications, the job you are applying to is likely very easy, and thus the kind of job that robots will be doing soon.
I think they'd be able to learn. In fact, I'd say I'm sure they could learn.

Keep in mind, there isn't much incentive to learn US law when it's illegal for you to practice in the US. If the US allowed foreign graduates to sit for the bar and provided a visa and path to a green card to anyone who managed to pass and hold down employment, I think many foreign law schools would appear. Many would fail, but many would pass, and some would be very talented. Honestly, I don't think it would be all that different from software development, though I suppose the bar requirement would probably establish a higher floor than you see in programming.
Another bug found, I can't upload files!

http://imgur.com/fy7Ie

37signals, this is why you don't rewrite software from scratch.
CeBIT has a 15 million pixel motion-sensing Bubblescreen
Sounds plausible (and I'd love to see an example!), but would hardly be worth the effort if JS would catch 99% of the victims.
There are both things that can be dealt with through a bit of planning. I.e. determine a pool of potential lawyers you will use and in the same regard determine a pool of potential hospitals/doctors you want to use. Then if you need one, you've done the leg work and know where to go.
Actually just CSS won't work in this case - because the Facebook Like button is within an iFrame. This works because Javascript cycles show/hide a transparant div above the Like button.
the way I had lawyer, dr, etc. fees explained was that they can charge so much as you often don't get a second chance.

If your life is on the line for an operation, you want the best doctor available.

Your life on the line in a trial, you get the best lawyer available.

This has a trickle down effect. Or put another way, if you don't get a second chance, things had better go right the first time. Fear is a powerful motivator.

Want that dream house?

Better make sure the paper work from the forclosure is done properly. Sure you can try to do it yourself or with a budget firm, but what if they make a mistake. Your dream house is gone.

Want to make sure your kids are protected in case of your death, better get the best lawyer you can to do your will. Sure, you can print a form off the internet, but we've all seen that go wrong. Don't your kids deserve peace of mind during the troubling times surrounding your death?
The fact that there is a bar and licensing means that it's not a free market.
Before I took the jump to learn Objective C and iPhone development, I dreaded the huge learning curve needed. Now that I'm on the other side, I LOVE the fact it intimidates people :)
And still no API for music.
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Can Wal-Mart Save UltraViolet?
Good luck faking my inverted extra large windows cursor.
There are all sorts of reasons, but first and foremost is the lack of transparency in all things legal. This is why I'm working on PlainSite (http://www.plainsite.org). The opacity creates the illusion of difficulty, the need for (arbitary) specialized knowledge, and uncertainty as to the real price because so many factors are hidden from view.

For example: you're expected to follow the law even without knowing what the law says. When you want to find out what the law says, it's not easy--it's certainly not available in a standardized format. When you want to interpret what you find, assuming you find it, that's not easy either. Courts interpret things in new ways all the time.

The federal court system charges you to access public information contained in court proceedings, with limited exceptions--that is, if you even know where to look for it. See http://www.thinkcomputer.org/20120209.pacer.pdf. The interface is terrible and hard to use. The way in which you write lawsuits is obscure, counterintuitive, and creates additional needless work.

In addition to all of these factors, and perhaps because of them, lawyers (especially at big firms) have institutionalized fraud. It's taken for granted that legal billing is often fraudulent. If you charge $500 per hour and your system only resolves to the tenth of an hour, that means if you spent four minutes writing an e-mail, you can charge for 0.1 hours, or $50. But really you only did $33.33 of work. That's a nice cushion. But what actually happens is that an attorney might do 45 minutes of work and round it up to an hour--even though that work is formatting in Microsoft Word that the client could have done; or printing out a Word document in order to scan it in as a PDF. Still seem worth $500 per hour?

For those lawyers not at large firms, they're covering expenses (such as law school) that are enormous. High rates are a necessity, and who would charge far lower than market rates anyway? It might be interpreted as a signal that something is wrong.

Of course, don't for a minute think that paying $800 per hour will get you a better lawyer than paying $300 per hour. It might. Either way, you'll be paying someone in a staggering number of cases to unscientifically guesstimate What The Government Might Do, when the answer is, "who knows?". That doesn't mean all lawyers are the same; some are definitely better than others. But it has nothing to do with price.

More lawyers could afford to charge reasonable market rates, and not work for large firms, if it weren't for the ABA mandating that you have to attend a law school (that results in huge piles of debt) or clerk for years (four in California) in order to join the bar. See http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/opinion/are-law-schools-an....

Lawyers know, too, that you can't get rid of them (also thanks to the ABA), and so you're locked in. There's a monopoly on business representation, for example. See http://www.plainsite.org/issues/index.html?id=137. It's absurd.
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And I think that all systems that try to do better than Paypal will run into this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539767