skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually built something similar in Clojure for a client, if it where not for a client I would share it with you, but the basics where pretty easy, what I did was I used the HTML data attributes as my templating instructions so I would add a attribute like <div data-cms-template="header"> I then used a parser to look for the attributes and replace them with the other template file content that where specified in a config.xml file. It was simple and it worked well. I really wish the big CMS's would convert over to using the data attributed as opposed to each using some kind of proprietary custom tags. IT would be really nice if they standardized the attribute names so that at least the basic templates where cross CMS compatible.
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It has nothing to do with job performance either: measured job performance isn't variable.

Citation needed for this one. It's pretty easy to to measure resume response rates, but I'd love to know how you would even go about measuring this one.

In any case where human judgement has been replaced by measurement or judgement blind to demographics diversity has increased.

This is simply false. For one example, take university admissions - after Grutter, universities have switched from objective systems to systems with human biases in order to increase demographic diversity.

Similarly, take a look at Ricci - the objective measurement system (firefighting tests) was replaced with a human judgement system in order to increase the number of minorities.

It's certainly true that diversity has increased in some cases, however - I believe women in classical music is the standard example.
Canada ditches the penny
Maybe I'm not understanding, but there are a variety of options for touchscreen android phones on prepay here in the U.S.
Testing with Selenium Webdriver, Visual Studio and Nunit
it's abbreviations of some azerbaijani words. nonsense
This is a very interesting and novel technique, but it brings to mind a very interesting and (to my knowledge) still very much open question in human biology: just what all does RNA do?

Obviously, we know quite a lot about RNAs such as mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA, but until the later part of the 1990s it would have been nearly impossible to predict such things as snRNA, snoRNA, siRNA, miRNA, and RNAi.

Then there's the question of retrotransposons. Could they cause a spurious triggering of DRACO? How active are they and how important is that activity over short time scales (the time scale of an infection, say)? What about long time scales (say, a lifetime of treating illnesses with DRACO)? Unfortunately, retrotransposons are thought to behave very differently in mice than in humans, so if this research doesn't translate to humans, my bet would be that it has something to do this difference.

All that said, this is very creative work and should rightfully be celebrated.
Ask HN: Server Hosting Headaches
Hi all, I am looking for our new hosting provider to take us into the next few years. Our current provider has made some basic mistakes over the past year or so which they have corrected but has in the process managed to lose us a client on our servers who had 12 sites with us.

I won't name the company as they have been pretty good to us but I think I can get a better service elsewhere.

I don't rush into things, I have been researching a new host for 5 months now, trying different services like Amazon and Azure. At the height of me about to make the decision for Amazon they had their mega outage. Azure is very good but it has some obvious flaws for hosting multiple websites.

I'm interested in this "cloud" setup with scaling etc but I just don't know where to put my eggs, I'm afraid to commit.

As a bit of background, we run .net with MSSQL so server supporting this are mandatory.

My question is, who does everyone recommend? I know they all have their pros and cons but as unbiased a review as possible? I don't want to start any flames so I don't really want mega negatives about a service unless you really feel the need to steer me away from something!

I really appreciate any suggestions

Chris
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After some thoughts I came to the conclusion that I feel the same way as you do. But if the article is correct, it will be hard for the press not to talk about him if he will drive around in a real replica of the batmobile. Cheers
I tried it as default engine for a month and unfortunately had to go back to Google. There are some nice touches (such as automatic wikipedia links) but in many cases the results are just not as good as Google gets.
I had about a dozen 8" floppy disks sitting in a box since about 1982. About 2 years ago, I needed to get a file off of them. I have a friend with a machine that would read them, and they all read perfectly.

I think in the early days of floppies the quality of the media and the drives was much better.
you mean I should built a recognizable brand and it must rank for its name in google :)
I'd like to see a giant survey that cross references favorite languages vs favored zones of activity in stack overflow vs total reputation vs number of stack overflow badges.
RIM's Q4 results, Jim Balsillie off Board of Directors + non-RIM news
Congrats on getting accepted and thanks for being so candid about your application.

I have a couple of questions however:

Did you face any problems having disclosed you scrapped a competitors site for potential clients/leads? Did all the founders think that was an acceptable method for building a base?

How did you derive the potential turnover figures and was the model and revenue discussed in depth at the interview?

Finally, how did you guys decide that FamilyLeaf was the right direction?

Best of luck to you all with the company.
linode seems to be a pretty standard recommendation
Hi OhGames!

Just a quick note that I tested the game on Safari (Latest/Mac) it the keyboard keys are not recognized.

Regards,
HTML5
Direct link to the app (PDF): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19699329/FamilyLeaf_YC_application.p...

P.S. Wow, small world. I went to the same high school as you guys. Good luck with FamilyLeaf, I'm now a big fan!
Good advice. This is usually something I try to do, but invariably some context switch happens and...hey cows!

It is nice to give back if possible though.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

I find it incredible that RIM or their customers did do all of these things. In fact, a lot of the major phone companies did this, even Nokia and Microsoft.
Whether it is or isn't appropriate is the topic of a separate discussion altogether. That would have to touch upon personal and community etiquette, professionalism, audience, and so forth.

You don't think that's important? If you had put a lot of time into this presentation, were proud of it, and submitted it to Hacker News to share it with others (without realizing that some people would take the profanity as a linkbait attempt), wouldn't you be at least a bit upset if someone said:

"Why do you people keep linkbaiting by putting profanity in the title?"

If it were me, I'd probably tune them out and their (valid) complaints would go unheeded. But if someone said something like:

"That was a great presentation! I think it would be even better if you excluded the profanity though. To be honest, it's a bit offensive. But that's just me. What do you think?"

...then I'd be more likely to listen, and might change the title just because I couldn't fathom offending someone so nice. Wouldn't you?
I've read about it recently and found a snippet interesting that said the kids who could wait longer were better at distracting themselves with other stuff. Interesting because the initial thinking would be "discipline", but just teaching your kid discipline might not be the thing that helps them over the marshmallow challenge...
The down-vote was not mine, and I consider it unjustified. Thank you for pointing that out.
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Where do you live on a startup mode salary? Are you still burning leftover fortune 500 developer money?
Is Linode not just for Linux though?
I've got your Real Artists Ship poster and it's great! http://www.busybuildingthings.com/products/real-artists-ship...
Dying a long, painful and drawn-out death.
Smartphones now account for half of all mobile phones
The Offensive Honeypot
If I recall, the successful Photo365 app was created with completely outsourced programmers.
* Another example I read about is how different cultures see the drawing of a box (a 3d wireframe). Apparently in western cultures people would see it as a drawing of a 3d box, whereas some poor test takers in Africa just saw a 2d drawing. This was then interpreted as Africans being less intelligent, when really they were just as correct as the people who saw the 3d shape. It just wasn't such a common meme where they lived to draw 3d shapes like that.*

This is an excellent example of the way IQ tests can indeed succumb to cultural training effects. It's pretty clear that this is what's going on with the Flynn Effect, for instance, which is not a real increase in intelligence since not g-loaded:

http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/2010%20Editoria...

It's also why Raven's matrices don't work as well as they used to (IMHO). I think my own childhood IQ score is 10-20 points too high, because I'd seen too many IQ-test-like problems.

So, certainly a problem with all IQ tests. But a minor problem, or an existential major one? If it was a major one, these tests would lose their predictive validity - which remains quite high.
Can your share some of your art? I'd like to see what silverpoint is.
Parts of the D compiler were written in 1982-3 and are still in use.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd

30 years!

It's sorta like our genes carry bits and pieces of the animals we evolved from millennia ago.
Bacteriophages are one type of beneficial virus. The way biology goes I wouldn't be surprised if there are 100's/1000's more. The other complication is it's not necessarily binary whether an invasive agent is good or bad. Slightly tangible, but fascinating nonetheless: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/404/e... Listen to the part about hook worms.
I was (somewhat) recently given the Wonderlic test as part of the standard interview procedure for a fairly large US company that does a lot of recruiting on college campuses.
Why do the technical people always seem to get the short end of the stick? I have people approaching me on a monthly basis with their 'great idea' and 'all I need is someone to code it', and compensation varies from 'money when it gets big' all the way up to a very enticing 20% equity. After working on a few of these I now ask for cash up front, no equity. I have plenty of my own ideas and not enough time to work on them, tvym.
No, employers don't value these degrees.

I'm looking for two things. Did they get accepted into MIT/Caltech/Stanford - or Cambridge/Imperial in my world. OR have they done lots of interesting real work, and possibly completed some of the free online courses from MIT/Stanford/etc.

Having completed a degree from NoWheresVille U is like having 10years experience at Acme corp. Unless you have something else special to offer - I really don't care.
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Here is a link to the actual paper instead of someone's highly editorialized blog post.

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal....
The issue is not that men perform less well because women are admitted into MIT. The issue is that women admitted due to AA might be lower quality than other candidates (men and women who would be admitted without AA), and therefore drag their group average down.
Last month I found, in an old box, a listing of the first computer game I wrote back in 1975. I thought that had been lost forever. I'm going to try and scan it & OCR it.
I don't think it's fair to characterize Rails' early accusations against Java webdev as "The frameworks are too large." They accused Java frameworks of requiring too much ceremony, repetition and verbosity, but I can't think of many instances where early Rails advocates attacked Java for having too many features.
The original quote was about assuming its futile from the start. "Don't argue with men"! not "Don't argue with men when you're convinced its futile". This sort of passivity pisses me off. Assholes must be called out. I'm an asshole sometimes and if it wasn't for the people who told me my behavior was unacceptable I would still be an asshole. Thank you all who've been brave enough to teach me a lesson. I believe most people are like me and will learn if given the chance. Difficult and futile are very different things in my world.
That isn't a strategy, that is cheating. ;)
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> there's one of those in Somalia. How's that for an example?

First, I asked for an example of an alternative that works better. You gave me an example of what you think a free market system looks like.

Second, that's not even an example of a free market system. That's anarchy. Anarchism. An ism. A free-market system still has a functional judiciary, a respect for property rights, etc etc. Somalia has none of those.
To me, the good hypothetical recruiter would be like a talent scout in the sports industry, and have the ability to find quality players. This is easier said than done because even many technical people cannot spot true talent. Further I don't think the market is completely there to incentives such a scout. A good deal of the large companies still view developers as a replaceable resource that can be shuffled in and out. As such even if you could identify quality, the demand is not their and the quality does not want to work in that environment. So you would have to specialize in the few companies that do want quality and build a reputation among them. When one evaluates the reality of that it becomes easy to see why it is just easier to sling questionable quality individuals into organizations that do not demand quality.
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My girlfriend told me about this because she gets blood clots from hormonal birth control and we wish this was an option today.

You should complete this survey like I did if you are interested:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TSKSKGM
Good piece. I've talked with numerous people looking to start a startup with the assumption that implementation is just a case of hiring a few devs or outsourcing to n freelancers.

I especially liked the wake up call to developers at the end. Would be very interested to read any reciprocal articles on why technical founders need a business co-founder.
House votes down stopping employers asking for Facebook passwords
Last time I looked, Facebook photos are not protected by any security other than the fact that their .jpg link is difficult to guess. (I.e. anybody can view them who has the link.) I was very surprised when I noticed that. Makes sense, cost-wise, I guess; it would be very expensive to integrate their CDN with their security model somehow.

I'm not familiar with FamilyLeaf, but I do wonder what will happen if more people/apps start exploiting that fact and start sharing photo links outside the facebook framework. If a page featuring the photo gets crawled, the "private" photos will be out on the web for all to find and see.

<RANT>I wish more people were selective about what photos they post to facebook, given that the privacy of one's content is not "all that". An acquaintance of mine just posted hundreds of pictures of young girls that she coaches in their leotards, some of them really embarrassing. Argh...</RANT>
Good luck in the NFL draft.
What is the best tool for testing things like this (are there big datasets available for public stock markets?)

From everything I've seen, beta for tech stocks has been positive for basically all of the past 40 years, and S&P has been up by a lot, so yes, tech stocks did well. That doesn't really say it did better than other sectors individually, but better than average.
No, you are correct, sukuriant. The mechanism here is working on the host cell. Which is precisely the point of the article. Past attempts at working on the virus directly have all but failed. That's why this method is so effective and promising. However, its effectiveness is also what makes it so scary.
That is strange. I don't have a mac to test on until next week unfortunately. Thanks for the note though.
Egor Homakov, github's 'hacker', hints at next attack.
Bookmarked for easy access so I can send this out on a regular basis. Nicely summarized and stated.
ah yeah, sorry didn't catch you were looking for a windows server.
It's a bug. Nothing else.
We often do get the short end of the stick, and the article addresses that bit, but probably not clearly enough.

The message that I've taken away from it is "dude, hustlers need hackers and hackers need hustlers, so equal footing is probably a good idea."
[U]nfounded prejudice is unstable in a competitive market for labor.

Ah, if only this were true. This assumes the market is ultimately a meritocracy, and I don't think the evidence supports that assumption. And even if it were, inefficiencies in a market can persist for a very long time. While conscious, ideological racism is less common today, unconscious racism is a virtually universal feature of human behavior, affecting all corners of the job market. Adam Smith's invisible hand isn't going to fix job discrimination.
Do they offer a discount (no commission) to those who come to a YC interview? ;)
The time for small course corrections has long since passed.

The main option for them is to become smaller, and to do one thing well. Their perceived strengths are mobile messaging (BBM) and "security". If they became a software only company then they would be at the mercy of their (fickle) partners to get it deployed. When they are playing the hardware game then there is ferocious competition and you have to do a full software stack (proprietary or adapting Android/WinMo).

In their position I would do exactly one hardware device that is a best of breed, adapt Android for it and have a layer of BBM/security on top. I'd try to get the BBM/security licensed by as many manufacturers as possible and use the own hardware as a showcase. Eventually the hope would be to get out of the hardware business - it exists purely to ensure there is at least one way to market.

There is so much to be done on the communication side with lots of half assed solutions. On the security side consider running an IT department or being a consumer and a device is stolen. Now list what sensitive information was on the device.
I was a coop student working at RIM in 2007 when the iPhone came out. Their complacency and ignorance ensured I found work elsewhere post-graduation.
They will be free (or very very cheap) for ever - it's a great business model

There is no threat to MIT/Stanford/etc from running free courses. Even IF somebody decided = I could afford to go there, I could get accepted, I'm not planning to do a startup - but I have decided to only do the online courses instead of attending - their place would immediately be taken by somebody else.

The real impact of these courses is that they destroy the market for 3rd rate universities. Why did you waste your time going to NoWheresVille U when you could have done the MIT courses and something relevant to me as an employer?

A very similar thing happened 10years in the UK. All the community college equivalents were allowed to call themselves universities. All the 'IVY league' were promoting this as 'access for all'.

Of course what it meant was that employers weren't sure if somewhere they hadn't heard of was a decent 2nd tier university or some degree mill - and so to cover themselves began demanding IVY league degrees only.
Fair enough, although I'd like to speak up and say that a world in which nobody is allowed to say anything that could hurt anybody's feelings wouldn't be a very interesting place to live in (for example sometimes the truth hurts). I don't want to defend sexist jokes or whatever is the problem, I just don't like the emotion argument, because it is too easy to manipulate people using it.
Definitely feels faster here in Paris, France.
That's right. When you first plug in an Apple Mouse or Magic Mouse it is in one-button mode. However, any multi-button mouse will have all the buttons enabled. This is probably why some people think that multi-button mode is the default.

So let me clarify – all apple hardware comes by default with the secondary click disabled.
I played it once... For about three years straight.
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Chris,

Are there cost considerations? Are you looking for a SLA (Service Level Agreement) to come with the hosting?
Mr. Heins (new RIM CEO) says "we are undertaking a comprehensive review of strategic opportunities including partnerships and joint ventures, licensing, and other ways to leverage RIM's assets and maximize value for our stakeholders."

Can you imagine Steve Jobs saying stuff like "maximize value for our shareholders"?

Steve was obsessed with providing a user experience that blew people's minds and designing products that changed the world. And he did, repeatedly.

RIM's leadership has no vision, and so there is no chance they will survive.
Technical skills and business acumen aren't necessarily the same thing. Technical people have a tendency to discount the market value of their abilities because they often seem "trivial" once mastered. Also time spent developing technical skills often comes at the cost of developing interpersonal skills that are important at negotiation time (and for detecting BS).

But anyway, my sense is that a lot of these "needs technical co-founder" people have sufficiently poisoned the well that it's getting difficult for them to find bright, bushy tailed nerds still naive enough to accept their terms.

Now if only programmers would demand what they're worth from the game industry..
Thanks so much for the compliments and support! I really appreciate it.
Exactly! My point wasn't to get a ridiculous number of votes on it. My point in writing this was to be useful - even for me - as a "go-to" answer for the question that gets asked all the time (I did start out short-ish, and expanded it over time).

It's an outlier for sure; I think 99.9% of all posts never get beyond 50 votes, and most don't get over 10 - mind you, most of my posts have fewer than 2 votes. With popular topics, you get more votes simply because there are more people looking at your question; does that make this one so great because it has 700+ votes? I'd say it says that sending e-mails is a popular topic, first and foremost - and apparently the question is also somewhat useful. And then the snowball effect kicks in, and the post gets more popular because it's so popular.

Anyway, a +5 in a niche (such as this answer which someone gave to me on a rather narrow problem: http://stackoverflow.com/a/413836/19746 ), to me, carries more weight than +500 in a topic with which everyone is somewhat familiar.
Works fine out of the box on Plan 9, too. Pretty slick!
I would be concerned about forgetting to get it redone on year 11.. then surprise!

From the sounds of it though, you'd still have the same side effects of a traditional vasectomy: sperm granuloma. So one is mostly permanent (reconnection can happen, though super rare).. and one is only good for a few years? Yeah.. I think I'd wait for the first 10 years to see the efficacy.