skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't go around bragging about breaking employment law.
I don't understand how this person can be doing useful work that isn't worth $8/hour to you?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html?pag...

edit:

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has developed the six
factors below to evaluate whether a worker is a trainee or an employee for purposes of
the FLSA: http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL12-09acc.pd...

1. The training, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the
employer, is similar to what would be given in a vocational school or academic
educational instruction;

2. The training is for the benefit of the trainees;

3. The trainees do not displace regular employees, but work under their close
observation;

4. The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the
activities of the trainees, and on occasion the employer’s operations may actually
be impeded;

5. The trainees are not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the training
period; and

6. The employer and the trainees understand that the trainees are not entitled to
wages for the time spent in training.
I think the first ad says "I'm just another giant corporation who wants your money."

The second ad says "I'm a human being, probably with a sense of humor"
There can also be accounting considerations. Sometimes contractors are the first to go, other times they are last. Carrying a contractor frequently looks much cheaper than carrying an employee.
I think that my comment still applies. We've gone from a smaller number of people with a high concentration of those that are 'tech literate,' to a larger number of people with a smaller concentration of the 'tech literate.'
Right. Kids do tend to be a quadruple whammy though:

* Basic living costs (food and clothing and fun).

* Childcare requires either expensive daycare or a parent not working / limited working.

* Money needs to be saved for college.

* Require more bedrooms, which drives up housing costs although it's arguable whether this has an impact on net worth. (This may be double-counting the first point, but going from a $100k condo to a $400k house because of a child is more than just living costs.)

Add those up and yes it probably takes another 10-20 years to meet your net worth goals. OTOH, you have a safety net when you get older. And, you know, a kid.
This is the difference between an engineer and a programmer.

That programmer is giving literally correct answers but acting like a passive subject in what should be an active relationship.

Our role as engineers is to push back on all of the possible negative choices/directions a product-owner or business person makes and guide them to the simplest, scoped solution that solves their problem.
Nginx 502 Bad Gateway. Upgrade that Rackspace VM!
I think you're absolutely right. I would wager that if every ad on the internet was changed to a five-minute MS Paint scrawl, click-through rates would rapidly go back to where they were originally, if not drop even further.
Interestingly I have encountered ALL of the bugs from that article. However I don't mind Xcode that much, when I start to get frustrated with it I remember that It could be worse, it's not like Androids tools are much better, last time I used Android the emulator was unbearably slow.
Feel good story but analogy doesn't hold up. Try changing the way things are done in any dev group the size of a local TV station. Very hard. People will be people no matter what they do for a living. Coding your own app solo in a new way is the equivalent of making your own news and uploading to YouTube.
XCode 4 is really a terrible, terrible IDE. The $99 I spent on an AppCode license was the best $99 I've spent in a long time. Now when Interface Builder crashes, as it still often does even in 4.3.2, I just smile. When I occasionally go back to do a quick edit in XCode I'm amazed that I put up with such a limited and frustrating tool for so long.
I really want to make a customer friendly cellphone.

It would basically require a new OS, or fork of Amdroid st the least, since iOS can't be customized, but doing everything except the security model would be such a pain. It would also be relatively hostile to the network in traffic (to protect against traffic analysis, you waste bandwidth).

An iOS app plus server side services could work, but would leave the user at risk to bypassing security in many places. Moxie Marlinspike did some things like this before selling to Twitter.
This is definitely interesting. I know I'd be more inclined to click something that looks like that ridiculous paint drawing. But this bit bothered me:

Results? 0.049% CTR vs. 0.137 CTR

I hope I'm not the only one confused by this, but the lack of a percent symbol on the 0.137 means he went from 0.049% to 13%, an improvement of almost 300x.

Is this a typo? Did he mean to say he increased his CTR to 0.137% or did he actually increase his CTR by 300x?

Edit: Why is this being downvoted? It's a legitimate question.
God is just is all you have to know.

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> So if slimming down FF will make my disk trash more,
> that's the wrong direction to take.

We explicitly don't want to cause this.

When we reduce the number of nodes in the live object graph, our garbage collector and cycle collector run faster. This results in shorter stop-the-world pauses when we collect.

This isn't the only thing we've done as part of MemShrink, of course, but it's an example of how reducing memory usage and running faster aren't always at odds with each other.
0.137 CTR is seriously low regardless, 0.049% CTR is incredibly low!
You need some kind of online demo similar to http://uiblueprints.com. I'd like to not have to sign up just to give it a quick try.
I think the comments in this thread about ctr vs actual conversions are a bit silly.

Pof's target audience here is "people who like video games" and they're trying to get people to play a free online game. They don't really have anything to teach people in verticals where the consumer is making a measurable commitment. You do not need to be very persuasive to "convert" with that crowd.

Almost all marketing advice more specific than "the customer is always right" and "sex sells" etc. is dependent on the product and the audience.

What this is is a great ad. It's really funny (The speed lines especially. This car does not look very fast, but the speed lines show it's got a lot of heart), and it understands its audience. I think it has broader application than many are giving it credit for, it probably would work with any sincere product (i.e. selling something other than "one simple rule") targeted at younger people that does not solve a "serious" problem. Once you are proposing that people spend more than $40-$50 you are pretty smarmy if you are trying to push them into an impulse purchase

No one should decide on a health insurer based on a MS Paint ad, no matter how hip, nostalgic, and casual they are. On the other hand, you can make a lot of money selling funny ads to people and I think that's what's going on here.
I worry about the griefing potential here.

I can imagine nothing pissing off a noob more than getting a virus within 10 minutes of play and having no idea how to stop his ship from self destructing.

Perhaps this will need some sort of firewall system built in where ships cannot communicate unless ports have been explicitly opened.
Perhaps some sort of communications proxy that can serve for safe communications.

It could have a system similar to EVE where high security systems have infrastructural to mitigate risk whereas low sec systems lack this but contain the best rewards.
Nice! I think I'll use this. I was going to suggest also including calls to platform-specific byte swapping functions for compilers other than GCC, but maybe it's better to wait until it's actually demonstrated to be a benefit.
We're on it! We're getting so many requests, we're sorting that now - thanks for flagging it up!
The new 2.3.3 x86 images for the emulator are actually really good. Definitely give them a try if you have to do any Android dev.
Better async postgres client for EventMachine
Really? Top three stories on Yahoo News UK right now are "Driver survives 200ft truck plunge", "Labrador 'adopts' abandoned duckling" and "Flying car cleared for takeoff" [1]

By what metric exactly is Yahoo News still the top news site?

[1] http://uk.news.yahoo.com/
I'd be interested to see details on memory protection. Self-modifying code means evolutionary programming, which I am very much for.

Conditional branching is strange.
I never run into #'s 3,4. With 6, why god why are you doing it the long way? Control+clikc+drag to your header file. It will generate the property, and synthesize it for you automatically.

As an aside, I've never found an IDE that was great. I've found great editors (Submlime2, TextMate, VIM) but never a great IDE.

Microsofts .NET IDE wasn't bad (it's been six years since I've touched a Microsoft technology) so I may not remember the rage like I should (like child birth).
Definitely agree the fancy ad is filtered out subconsciously as it's an obvious ad.

I disagree that the simple ad looks like part of the content (unless the rest of the page is kindergarten kid's drawings). It's unique and an eye catcher. Until everyone starts doing it and then it'll become filtered just like the "fancy ad".
Of course they will be. They aren't going to cut exclusively from sales and service engineers.
The actual quote reads: The maximum penalty to be imposed by Member States for these offences would be at least two years' imprisonment, ...

Each EU member will have to make this local legislation, and two years are the minimum time for the maximum sentence. The upper limit can not be lower than 2 years in other words.

I don't think that's unusual.
TradingView adds free European stock data
I have access to a laser cutter, this is exactly what I had in mind - to create a set of masks that would, layered upon each other, filter out each part until they're sorted.

Rather a large effort, though .. and I wonder if there is a way to model this without having to laser-cut a lot of test pieces. Well, I think about it every time we end a Lego Mindstorms session in my house, anyway .. ;)
The line between state security organs and "national champion corporations" or government owned enterprises is pretty thin. There have been numerous cases of government intelligence resources being used to spy on foreign business people to help domestic businesses win deals.

The US is one of the new countries which doesn't do this (along with Canada and the UK), at least to a great degree. In China, it is basically standard, and even in France it has been widespread at least internationally.
Not to be a downer, but I don't see that working to well for different shapes, only general sizes.

1. It would be nearly impossible to account for length of rectangular pieces. Every rectangular piece of same width x height could go through that hole vertically

2. Smaller pieces could fall through every hole larger than itself. So, unless you're using a multi-tier system it's pointless.

Basically, I think it could be easily done for general sizes of pieces, not shapes. I'd love someone to prove me wrong because that would be an awesome tool to have.
Yahoos –

Today we are restructuring Yahoo! to give ourselves the opportunity to compete and win in our core business. The changes we’re announcing today will put our customers first, allow us to move fast, and to get stuff done. The outcome of these changes will be a smaller, nimbler, more profitable Yahoo! better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.

Over the last 60 days, we’ve fundamentally re-thought every part of our business and we will continue to actively consider all options that allow Yahoo! to put maximum effort where we can succeed. As part of this process, I believe we have to focus to win in a select group of core businesses globally:

· Core Media and Communications: Our content, media, and communications experiences must be best in class. That includes getting today’s core properties right and innovating on a next generation of great product experiences across all screens.

· Platforms: We must make our core platforms and systems a genuine strength for Yahoo! – platforms that we can really leverage to support our massive scale, drive the deepest personalization, and boost speed to market.

· Data: Our massive data sets must become a genuine competitive advantage for Yahoo!. We have to unlock the value in our data to allow us to really understand our 700 million users, encourage and win their engagement and trust, leverage everything they do with us to more fully personalize their experiences, and to give our advertisers the immediate insights they are rightfully demanding.

We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities. Our goal is to get back to our core purpose – putting our users and advertisers first – and we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal.

Unfortunately, reaching that goal requires the tough decision to eliminate jobs, which means losing colleagues and parting with friends. Today, we will begin the process of informing employees about these changes. As part of that effort, approximately 2,000 people will be notified of job elimination or a phased transition. We value our people and for those who will be leaving, we thank you for all you have contributed to Yahoo!. We will treat all of our people with dignity and respect, providing resources to help manage through their transition.

Change is never easy. But the time has come to move Yahoo! forward aggressively with increased focus and accountability. Our values have always been about treating all Yahoos with dignity and respect, and today is a day to embrace those values. This is an amazing company with exceptionally talented people and I know we will all do our best to encourage each other through this difficult period of transition.

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EDIT: The mail sent to us by our respected CEO Scott Thompson.
I believe that is set in the metadata of the original article. I may be wrong, though.
Please upgrade to Xcode 4.3.2 - Apple released an update to fix the bugs 4.3 and 4.3.1 had. It is much more stable than before.

I have had some problems when the debugger was connecting to the Simulator, but most of the times it was because of other things which were installed in my system.

I know that Xcode4 used to be shitty and slow and used to crash. But Apple has come a long way from what they started.

Even though Xcode4 is a little painful to use on a small screen, still it is far better than Xcode 3.

Android, on the hand has different screen resolutions, different specifications and that alone is a pain. I have not even started with the OS fragmentation yet.

Many others have already answered the problems you were having with iOS4 and iOS5 backward compatibility. I think, you should spend a little more time with Xcode before making a judgement call.
Entrepreneurism seems under-represented: most of the responses seem to be inheritance or stock investments. I'm wondering if that reflects on the reddit community makeup, the type of people who would answer this question, or just that growing a successful startup is really hard / rare.
>I've worked for minimum wage, not so long ago. I could still afford running water, Internet, TV, electric lighting, refrigeration, my own automobile (second-hand ofc), and even a cross-country flight once.

Where were you living?
> tests never catch unanticipated parts

No, but calling a function with arguments of the wrong type is something tests would catch.
#6:
1. Add UI element to your view.
2. Ctrl-drag from element in view to the @interface section of your view controller .h file. This will add @property and will also add @synthesize in .m
As someone who has spent $100,000 on advertising over the last few years, at least $10,000 of which was on the Plenty of Fish platform, you're very wrong.

You only need about 1,000-10,000 impressions to get an idea of how a creative performs. Often less. As you get more and more used to each particular advertising platform, you also get a feel for how an ad is performing.

In my business, a difference of 0.02% CTR could mean the difference between earning 30% ROI and 50% ROI - the words "test everything!" mean everything to me and my results.
It's because the fundamental issues causing the layoffs should already be priced into the stock (due to poor earnings reports and such). So layoffs are considered a good response to the fundamental issues and cause a price increase.
I've never had problem with the inspector but I have to agree the stack trace is HORRIBLE. Almost unusable.

Microsofts IDE (the .net one from six years ago) had awesome debugging tools.
Yeah, in California that's definitely illegal.

Which is a shame, because I've seen some people benefit enormously from similar intership-ish things. They got in the door of cash-poor companies, were ambitious enough to take on hard things, and eventually got hired at a level way above what they could have achieved through the normal process.

Of course, I've also read about no-pay internships that were total scams, companies just using and abusing the naive so they could get out of paying minimum wage. So I'm glad this stuff is illegal, but I regret that the cheap assholes have ruined it for everyone.
You mean, like "my systems have 16GB of RAM - I want Firefox to use as much memory as possible to speed up my experience."?
This has been known about for a long time; ugly sells.

People are more likely to trust something that looks amateur since it feels more like a recommendation than an advert.

Mr.Green, a well renowned CPA Marketer/Blogger, wrote a brilliant article about this. You can find it here - http://www.mrgreen.am/affiliate-marketing/the-ugly-truth/
Experience is not payment. You are breaking the law and exploiting the kid.
>"Other tech sites are calling the Lumia 900 a flagship phone, and thus comparing it to other flagships like the iPhone 4S — but that’s like comparing the latest Hyundai with a Ferrari."

It's more like comparing a well optioned Toyota Camry to a base BMW 5 series.
Firewall? Ports? Communication proxy?

It has 64K 16-bit words. What exactly are you expecting the default software to do that opens it up to viruses?
Escape Velocity - from the author of Crossing the Chasm
Much less dangerous, in my experience, than the programmer that thinks he can keep a huge system all in his head. I've moved back to static languages after over a decade with dynamic languages and I couldn't be happier to let the compiler take care of a lot of low-level consistency issues so I can focus on the code.
I got 19gb, for very little work. Our software has a backup option as a feature so we simply wrote a tutorial on how to use DropBox in conjunction with the backup feature with our referral link inside it.

- Good for us because we get enough space to back up everything

- Good for customers as they have a good tutorial on how to backup their games

- Good for DropBox as they get more users
How Facebook Finds The Best Design Talent, And Keeps Them Happy
Actually we have plans to make it a standalone application (like jsfiddle) where signup will be needed only to save and reuse widgets.
Well… of course you do. You're a well educated, well informed professional capable of using the internet who is solidly in the middle class. People like you are the core of every group of people seeking change.

What do you do? You form an organization, a lobbying group. Organizations are the base unit of power.

You throw up a website, you get as many like minded people as possible (literally, thousands) to sign up for your mailing list and you badger every single person you can find across the political spectrum on the issue. You write letters to politicians, you write software that makes phone calls, you get people who run companies who would be affected by the issue to give you financial and moral support, and you try to talk directly to every politician or candidate to be a politician on the issue.

Ideally, albeit hard on this weird technocratic issue, you get some mass public outrage on the topic. With some luck, you can go: small company CEO who knows a medium company CEO who hangs out with someone higher up who can have a one on one with people who actually vote on the issue.

The catch is, before this is over it will be a more-than-full-time-job but… it's a startup like any other.

This is how any issue becomes mainstream: there are a bunch of people working round the clock on it. Think about illegal trade unions in Poland in 1978 or gay people going from being beaten indiscriminately by the cops in 1969 to being on the verge of legalizing marriage across the West.

In the meantime, get started by having you and all of your friends write personal letters and call your eurodeputies (not having clicked on TFA I assume that's the body in question).
But did you click it?
Yeah, I don't know what the "P" in "TP" stands for. Maybe "pageset". "T" is for "Talos". It's version 5. Or at least, the previous one was TP4 -- I don't know if there was a TP3. :)

> So 'after TP5' means after loading a manually curated
list based on the top 500 web pages?

Yes. TP5 is a list of 100 pages (based on Alexa 500, I believe, but I'm not sure), and we load the pages 5 times in 30 tabs.
If you need a reason to buy this book, watch G. Moore's talk at Stanford http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2725
Brooklyn's Bitbanger Labs builds a lucid dreaming mask for the masses
Yes, this.

As the person who makes hiring decision at a startup, all I care about whether you can actually make things. College degrees and resumes correlate with making things, but the stack of projects proves it.

Go now and put some functioning thing up on the web and get some people using it. Iterate in response to feedback, improving both the product and the code. You don't have to make something massive; a few hundred users and a few kloc of code is sufficient for me to be able to measure your skill.
No. They're a set of compiler-enforced contracts between pieces of code. Maybe more importantly, they enable a kind of constant, aggressive refactoring that's just way too dangerous in dynamic code.
Agreed - particularly if you are the advertiser paying for a ton of "curiosity clicks" from people wondering where the ad goes.

It would have been interesting to see a measurable goal (downloads, newsletter signups, watch a 3 minute video... something measurable) and how the conversions were across the two ads.

The MS Paint ad still may have more total conversions but it would be interesting to see how the cost per conversion compares. If both cost per conversions are within budget, then by all means go full speed ahead with MS Paint.
Kurt Vonnegut’s Tips on How to Write a Great Story
I was thinking they could treat software and components like we do when granting third-parties permission to access our Twitter/Facebook accounts:

Plasma Shield Generator requests the following permissions:

* Read/write to the ship's log
* Draw power from the core
* Use the red alert system

Plasma Shield Generator will not:

* Access communication protocols
CloudStack-OpenStack dustup - takeaways
But why do our computers have to come with 4GB+ of RAM, when 1GB might suffice? It's an circular argument to claim that it's OK to use lots of RAM simply because the computer comes with lots of RAM.

After a manufacturer begrudgingly provides the RAM that developers refuse to conserve, we shouldn't then use the presence of this additional RAM to use even more.

Your friend's anger at application waste is justified. Witness new devices like the iPad that survive with much less RAM than a desktop -- just 512MB, which happens to be enough to support an excellent browser.