skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amusingly enough, while they do have a small list of HTML5 games, there is nothing in their documentation that talks about how to get one to them. The single reference is to using an iFrame to put their API onto your game that is hosted at another URL.

I am hopeful they, or Mochi, or someone like them will come along and provide a true HTML5 solution like the Flash folks already have. But I suspect we are getting rather off-topic here :-)
Yep, there's a technical reason for it. I'll work on a resolution for it and make a post here and on the mailing list when its available.
More than 5 times a day, and I question whether I'm adding value or fishing for karma. 88/day is abusive; I flag behavior like that when I see it.
Which is an issue that you should have with society in general, and not the author for such reasons. He at least tried to present his reasons from a objective standpoint for the company to actually be interested in doing something.
I'd be glad to take a pass at it! Will drop you an email...
Hey Pete. The duration of the A/B test depends on several factors. I recommend checking out this calculator on Visual Website Optimizer to get a feel for how many you need:

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ab-split-test-duration/
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A Tale of Two Keyboards
No, what worries me is that ycombinator is very tight with Facebook, and that they may access non-public information. Facebook logs a whole lot more info than most people know. Not trying to diss ycombinator at all, just stating how I felt, I apologize.
Reminds me of Jon Stewart's great quote: "If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values. They're... hobbies."
http://www.phaxio.com

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Phaxio.
I'd be happy to rent you mine...

Actually, I wonder if anyone has thought of the options of setting up "clean as a whistle" profiles to then sell to folks who need a presentable site. Tell the new boss that you usually go by an online non de plume, or use your middle name rather than your first name. Of course said service would be "For Entertainment Purposes Only"...
It's normal for the leaders of strategic projects to leave before their products ship in earnest? Not at successful companies it isn't.
Chile based wine marketing firm launches wine apps spin off
Agreed. Came here to comment on the pricing method. Call me sheltered, but I've never seen it before. Blog post idea would be great.
I no longer use Word (back to Linux and LO for work), but I'll keep an eye on the Windows and Mac coworkers and reach you if I hear anyone experiencing these kinds of problems. We also have a consultancy working on a large project with lots of documentation and specs being generated as Word documents with Excel, Project and Visio elements embedded. I'll get in touch with them as I suspect they are the most likely to be hit by problems like the ones I had.

As for the other projects and teams, we have significantly reduced the use of Project as we moved our tracking to Jira and use Confluence to keep almost all project artifacts. Despite the fact we still use Exchange for e-mail, I dropped desktop software and moved completely to OWA, with Evolution doing backups over IMAP into a local maildir rsynced to a durable datastore.
Cliff Kaplan of the Bay Area hires contract developers and designers off of Craigslist, makes them work their ass off, and does not pay.

This scumbag actually gets interviewed at conferences such as ad:tech(http://www2.webmasterradio.fm/ad-tech-conference/2009/state-...). And yet, he does not pay his contractors and other vendors. Most recently, I heard from a travel agent over the weekend(who found my yelp review). He sent a bad check of around $5,000 to the travel agent. To me, he owes over $10,000. I hear almost on a monthly basis from developers and designers scammed by him who later find my review on yelp.

Let's stop this guy. If you have a blog, you should make a post and link to http://cliffkaplanfraud.com
Novelty aside, tap water will slowly corrode the water block and cause a catastrophic failure long before a more conventional cooling method would fail. Toilet tanks aren't known for being algae free, and treating it would be difficult, if not impossible.

Please don't do this.
pretty broad question. what format is your data in? structured or unstructured?

structured would be, for example, XML or even CSV. unstructured would be on a web page in HTML.

XML? use the python XML parser (i like the xml.dom.minidom parser myself, plenty of good examples online). CSV? even easier, the csv module has good documentation and examples.

HTML? trickier. i like BeautifulSoup still, although other people prefer other tools for getting at the data.

care to elaborate?
I'd like to see submissions limited to 4 or 5 a day although that doesn't really solve the problem of people just dumping generic 'safe' links to scab karma or conceal whatever they're actually spamming or to build their social networking cred or whatever their motive.

There was a suggestion earlier today to just do away with submission karma, I think that has a lot of merit. Domain limits could be interesting as well, it'd force people to at least be more creative than just spewing the usual tech rags' links.
Ex-student kills 7, wounds 3 at California Christian college
You don't even have to go to that extent. For the longest time my Klout profile claimed I was a 45 year old woman who lived in California because it misread a couple of my initial Facebook and Twitter posts. For the record I'm a male who currently resides in Texas...
Pinstamatic Blog: Pinterest, not just for women.
It's 17 languages. What's with all this "over fifteen" nonsense?
Let’s change the Chilean mindset
it doesn't matter. i use a web browser and a terminal. as long as i have those, i'm good.

i use mac os on my laptop, because mac laptops are the nicest. i use ubuntu on my desktop because it's the cheapest option. i honestly don't notice a difference switching between the two. all the linux kerfuffle about window managers and whether unity is better than gnome2, it doesn't matter. you can switch between windows. you can get work done.
When I left, an excellent programmer and a personal friend of mine had to crack his 401(k) because the company didn't have the money to cover what taxes he owed on the small amount it had paid him in 2010.

Perhaps it's still on life support and E is still funding H's lifestyle, but I'll stand by "failed for nontechnical reasons".
I think the point was rather that there should be no need to hide details of your sexuality from your friends in case your employer forces you to reveal it.

Personally I hate stereotyping - and stupid Americans
It is, you just missed it. FTFA:

> First we must block the signals we want to handle with signalfd(2) using sigprocmask(2). This function will be described later. Then we call signalfd(2) to create a file descriptor...
It outputs code that you can customize dynamically though...unlike pngs
I'm not a lawyer either, but as I read it the rights are similar to many other User submitted content sites. They aren't required to make it easy for you to get your content off their site, and any content you leave on the site they have a free license to use on the site. However they do not claim ownership of code you may have written when used/hosted elsewhere. I find it difficult to believe that anything you write on there would be something that would take you more than 15 minutes to recreate in a local editor... but that may just be me.
I completely agree. If I were getting started now, I would probably start learning JavaScript as my first programming language. Along with that I would want to learn HTML and CSS, but to say that most new programmers get started using HTML and CSS as their first languages seems a stretch to me.
Sony 'Confident' PlayStation 4 Will Hit Shelves Before Xbox 720
Jack's simple yet profound advise
Here I thought you were going to mention stupid mathema-tricks, but that's only an average of about 2 posts per days.

If the links are good, then I don't see a problem. But I looked at daegloe's postings. I followed only one of the first 75 links; the rest were boring on sight, and helps drown out the things I like. That one exception was to comment that the linked-to article was missing the point.

How effective is flagging at changing posting behavior?
It could be that either an interview is considered privalleged - and so any information you are told (and anything you tell the recruiter) is considered confidential anyway. In the same way that an employee doesn't need an NDA

Of course the sensible thing is not to tell you anythign secret!
That is not part of the license anymore.
I like Perf. I've worked at a lot of big companies, and promotions were correlated to whether or not they thought you would quit or not. Perf is a lot of work, but it seems perfectly capable of promoting the best employees. Everyone with a title above or equal to Senior Software Engineer has seemed worthy, which has not been the case at other companies.

I think your problem is: you can't work at Google if you want ego-inflating titles for doing nothing. When I was at Bank of America, the lowest title you could have (if you weren't hired straight out of college, that is) was "Vice President". It inflated your ego but meant nothing.
Fictional on April 2nd, my mind cannot handle the stress!

A very good piece though, thank you for composing it :)
How does Y Combinator scale Y Combinator?
Design Your How: Set Three Goals
On the other hand, signalfd is kind of wonderful, and it's not like FreeBSD is about to suddenly experience a renaissance.
no one uses it yet

Totally untrue. I have almost 10K users who have circled me, and my G+ network is very active. The quality of engagement I get at G+ is leagues higher than Facebook. A lot of the people I interact with on G+ are engineers, programmers, artists, designers, scientists, and other "knowledge workers", whereas while I've tried to grow out my Facebook network, it appears to be mentally challenged. Hey, a lot of users I know on G+ have deleted their Facebook accounts and aren't coming back.

Now, that's a personal data point, and by no means a scientific poll. But it's clear to me that Google+ is very much here to stay. Even if you only look at the design and UI side of it, G+ is considerably more advanced than Facebook. You can see the influence of Edward Tufte on the Google+ DNA.
Didn't all that already happen when we created Facebook accounts?
If you flag too many stories you lose the flag option permanently.
Cool! Yea, I'm sure many companies do this, but like this? I don't what it is about the video, but it makes the whole thing seem real and original.

Idk, maybe it's just the background music, lol.
Building real-time feed updates for NewsBlur with Redis and WebSockets
That's a good point, and what I actually did last time this came up. signalfd on Linux just codifies this convention, but it is (particularly in evented code) an excellent idea.
I have worked so hard to completely replace dot matrix that I am actually trying to think were I could get access to one and am coming up blank! Many receipts are now the crappy thermal paper that magically disappers from being left on the dash.. Its like magic in the retailers favor...and just about everything else is laser. Where would you get the dot matrix?
I can't believe that HN is blatantly calling you liar. I can't believe you're calmly responding to it.

Guys, whether or not someone might or might not be lying about their own personal life is strictly their business, and not yours -- and certainly not a public matter!
The toilet water is just being used as a heat exchanger. The liquid cooling system is an isolated system. See here: http://www.clearfoundation.com/Community/Photos/Faucon/37/Ph...
no, the same bandwidth that was being taken by channels will be used by the App
Not directly startup related but check out Seattle beer&&code: http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/r5wf2/beer_code_slu...
I'd add that when you install a Linux distro (at least a good one like Ubuntu, OpenSuse, CentOS), you end up with a working environement with all your hardware recognized at once (except ATI issues). You just can't do the same with Windows. You have to download every part's driver and install them one by one before you got something working. Linux distros have come a long way and now they are simply amazingly easy to setup.
I think he meant to say "no nonprogrammers use it". Of course that isn't entirely true either, but the point is that it was able to get mass adoption among people in tech but (according to my understanding) not for people at large.

Also, design/UI isn't really all that different than Facebook, especially after the changes made by Facebook after Google+'s release.

Edit: Google+'s real advantages right now are that 1) it is not Facebook (so if Facebook's perception worsens a lot, people have a choice and Google+ growth could increase a lot), 2) you automatically become a member if you have a Google account and content is present in various Google properties (including message notifications) 3) hangouts, and 4) many of the people you wish weren't your Facebook friends aren't on Google+ yet (although this would likely change if Google+ became popular)
At work, we have a time-critical program. In that program, we need to lock a file in order to modify it safely. The files themselves are stored on NFS (don't ask---this was a design decision from long ago). fcntl() (used to lock files) does not include a timeout. We need a timeout because the program is time-critical. NFS is not a local filesystem, but across the network. If the network is flaky, we don't want to hang on locking the file.

So we have to rely upon SIGALRM (via setitimer()) to interrupt the fcntl() call so we don't hang indefinitely.
Sometimes the company has a good reason for wanting an NDA. In that case, it doesn't indicate a company you wouldn't want to work for.

Google has NDAs on interviews mainly because we want the questions to be surprises. Coming up with good questions is hard, and we don't have a enormous pool of them. If every interviewee went home and blogged them, soon anyone who wanted to ace a Google interview would just need to read a bunch of relevant blogs.
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Take a Coding+Fitness+Design+Language+Reading Challenge Together!!!!!

It is a need-to-do-every-day app, through a 7 day X challenge to help you achieve resolutions or goals.

It's not another To-do list.
Image Vision Labs Raises $3.7MM Series B
I wish I could give credit to the person who said it in a comment, when one previous username was observed over-submitting from all the hot, karma-grabbing sites. The basic rule of thumb is that the submitter of a link should have had time to READ the link and to verify that it is a worthwhile link that will advance the discussion here and inform interested readers. I am a high-submission user here, and that is the rule I try to impose on myself.

It may be that the site already has some automated defenses against any one account submitting too often, but we have recently been observing some breaches in those defenses, it appears.
This is totally my experience with learning Dvorak, too. (I started back in 2003, also due to boredom with qwerty.) Very nice to know someone who had a similar experience!

My Dvorak experience is described here: http://www.blurty.com/users/cky (start from the 2003-07-09 entry).
FYI, all American states are at-will states, though different states have different exceptions to it.
Nitrozac: When Creepy Apps Get Creepy
Great service!

Feature request: allow us to add parameters to your url for sorting and start/end with options, instead of just the q present right now, so it can be more flexibly bookmarked and linked.
I've worked with corporate SharePoint and never heard any complaints about downtime; I've even manage a messy SharePoint environment that was left to "rot" with insufficient maintenance (both on SharePoint and on the servers) and it never went down.

Where we did have big problems was finding developers to work with it; we actually found a few that had worked with it but deliberately avoiding listing it as a skill because they did not want to ever work with it again. (in Sydney a few years ago)
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Mac launchd and launchctl — the OSX alternative to cron
Using linux since Caldera Desktop Preview 2. Things really picked up with RedHat 5.1 and 5.2. I currently am running the latest Ubuntu on my dev box and my laptop. My job is mostly C++ development of finance models, statistical analysis, and creating documents in LaTeX. I couldn't think of a better fit than Linux for this.
Latency reality check
Latency 101: What is latency and why is it such a big deal?
My definition of "A" people is "can do the job without being taught how to do the job." This is a necessity at a start-up where there is no one else to teach you how to perform your role, because your role is new.

"B" people are fine for large organizations where there is someone to show you the ropes, but smaller orgs need people making fast and correct decisions without organizational tradition/experience to support them.
Seems like without SSL there are still several scenarios where a webservice over HTTPS is more appropriate?
I think our only disagreement is that you viewed it as a poor alternative for 0MQ and I viewed it as something else. Just a different perspective that I interpreted as taking away from what this announcement was really about but I suspect it wasn't your intention.
Orin Kerr on Employers asking for Facebook Passwords
Oh, good, a methodology! That should help with their lack of actual brains and heart.
Vidvir
But, but... square detection!
How not to conduct a bad technical interview
Maybe not exactly what you meant, but Raptr employs video game players (including a few pro/ex-pro players), and is a social network for video game players.
Framework: Rails

Language: Ruby

Front end:Coffeescript/Backbone

Server: S3

Database: SQLite
Obat Alami Kanker Kelenjar Getah Bening
Obat Alami Kanker Kelenjar Getah Bening

Apa anda ada benjolan di leher, di ketiak atau pun di paha ? jangan anggap sepele itu merupakan kanker kelenjar getah bening. Apakah anda mencari Obat Alami Kanker Kelenjar Getah Bening dengan xamthone plus ?

jika anda penderita kanker kelenjar getah bening maka anda simak dengan baik artikel di bawah ini.
OS X, however?

It's not particularly hard to emulate (most of) signalfd()'s behavior by writing a byte to a pipe and checking for it in your main loop.
Obat Herbal Gagal Ginjal
Obat Herbal Gagal Ginjal

Apakah anda mengidap sakit gagal ginjal ? apakah anda mencari Obat Herbal Gagal Ginjal ? disini tempat yang paling tepat untuk solusi ginjal anda yang sedang sakit.

Dengan XAMthone plus penyakit gagal ginjal anda akan sembuh dengan cepat dan menyehatkan anda untuk terus hidup.
Freelancer looking to submit feedback: blog or email?
Title says it all. I'm a freelancer, so I have a decent amount of visibility to gain by exposing my opinion on, say, my blog. It's not bad feedback, but it's feedback. What's the preferred way of startup people to get their feedback? Is it wrong if I choose to publicize it to gain notoriety instead of doing it behind the curtains?
Adobe website issues? "It works"
Last October, Graham said that the firm was seeing about one submission per minute for the most recent class.

Is this right? It sounds wrong. Or was it just on the last day of submissions or something?
Ah, interesting, reminds me of RtAudio. (Similar thing for C++, though this seems to require even less boilerplate.. on the other hand RtAudio is cross-platform.)
Maybe I'll return to Linux when I get a tablet and can consume media, read long articles and play little games there.
That's the theory. Enforcement makes things harder.

At least in the US, (and I strongly suspect in Canada as well) it's up to a jury to decide if the given rationale is genuine or an excuse to cover bigotry. Anyone who knows anything about how to do the job is likely to get blocked at jury-selection. Imagine explaining to 12 literature majors why cubic-time lookup is bad, while opposing council wants to know how often you use key-value stores in your day-to-day work.
As I recall, yes, it was right near the last day of submissions that they started getting 1 per minute. Most applications are on the last day.
I agree with you in principlr, but let's not over-think a fictional situation where a job applicant threatens a company that makes sharing FB information a condition of employment.

It's all made up and the points don't matter, but from where I sit, once a company behaves like this, you have to either walk away or play hardball. They might actually respect your cojones if you cut it rough, you're speaking their language.
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Nobody is calling him a liar, they are just pointing out that his story may not be as factual as he portrays it to be. If he's choosing to air his dirty laundry in public, it's expected that people are going to comment on it. Those without inside information may not know what is true and what is not true. Those with inside information may feel that it's inappropriate to disclose the exact details which may discredit the argument. This makes the process very difficult. There's really no way anyone can say "everything michaelochurch says is wrong".
As a current applicant, I'm glad to see that YC is thinking hard about scaling. With rising application numbers, I'm sure the noise to signal ratio gets worse and considering that funding a bad startup is probably better than missing a good one, I can only applaud any measures that help in that direction.

Actually, the cost of funding a bad startup are relatively low, aren't they? It's more the time of the partners and the resources of the alumni network, I'd personally be concerned about.
How much would 1GB worth of clay tablets weigh?
It actually puts a legal requirement to do the opposite - to hire the best candidate regardless of their race, national origin or their interest in yiffing at FurrCon.

Not always. For example if you somehow learn that a candidate plans to take several months parental leave in the near future, they can't possibly be the best candidate, but you're forbidden from taking that into account.
I have also worked at Google. Please go into more detail re: unethical management practices. In my experience, Google goes to great lengths to be fair to its employees, so I'm a bit surprised.
I have much more of a problem with accounts submitting every story from large-ish websites; for instance, "IT World Magazine" has had a series of accounts that do exactly that, most recently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bdking

Similarly, a small core group of people seems to be feeding Bitcoin stories, and another core group feeding Torrentfreak stuff.

The site would be better if the heaviest and/or most consistent/homogenous submitters submitted less.
Using the @ symbol as the hook for a function call would seem to be not only dangerous (corner cases of email or twitter address) but also superfluous -- if Mojito is acting as the web server, shouldn't every request be mapped to some sort of functional request, even in the case of serving static content? If it isn't acting as a web server, would the proxying server in front of it be routing the appropriate functional requests to Mojito?
Not only ironic, but Orin Kerr has argued (http://www.c-span.org/Events/Washington-Journal-for-Monday-A...) that in the case of police departments using this practice (they appear to be big users of the practice) it might actually be barred by the 4th Amendment.

And private employers might or might not be violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as far as civil damages.
Libertarianism being the dominant political philosophy of the moment

I fail to understand how one could look at the events of the last decade and determine that the major problems are that people have too much freedom and government has too little power.