skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU does certainly not place restrains on vendors which DOUBLE their costs.
Is Windows twice as expensive? Are apps on any appstore twice as expensive?

This is just Adobe trying to rake more cash in. They are betting that companies are not going to switch from Adobe products to something else because a licence is twice as expensive.
So far, it seems to have worked.
No. These days, in these types of corporations, when you are asked to "mentor" someone, start looking for your next job.

Sorry, but that's the way it works. Especially if you are mentoring someone overseas.

It's not (just) a matter of spite. Particularly if you're a bit older, and you're staying in or locked into that sort of corporate environment: You are much more employable when you are already employed. (You need a job to get a job.)

This is all, of course, from a U.S. perspective. YMMV.

P.S. I am all for mentoring and have been the mentor more than once. But these days and in these types of organizations, it is often not fostered or rewarded. And it is not up to you to make up the difference with your own sacrifice.

I don't think I'm at odds with what the parent says (who is, I think, describing a different organizational attitude, as opposed to working differently within the one that actually exists). But, as someone who was brought up to "pay his dues" -- I'm not sure whether people even learn or believe that attitude, anymore -- I'm saying, "pay your dues" is no longer a general rule and is often used as a lever of exploitation.

No great surprise, my saying that. But it bears repeating.
Be careful. The criticism was:

Putting your Myers-Briggs personality type in your CV suggests to me that you probably believe in horoscopes, too. At the very least, you think it's relevant somehow and reflects positively on you (or why would you include it?). It's twee, self-indulgent, and pseudo-science - I want more from my developers.

This poster is not saying, "everyone processes information the exact same way." Rather the poster is saying, "The Meyer Briggs type inventory (as currently administered) is extremely flawed. Therefore, putting your type on your resume is akin to putting your horoscope."

In that regard, the original commenter is correct - the description of INTP is not useful as the test itself is fundamentally flawed. While there is a whole lot of science that says, "We are all different," MBTI doesn't do a very good job of quantifying these differences.
Suppose I own 5% of Facebook.

Does that mean I get 5 votes out of 100 whether to reject this acquisition? No.

Does that mean I get 5% of the annual revenue for Facebook? No.

Does that mean I can hire my friends to work for Facebook? No.

But But.. I OWN 5% of Facebook! What the hell?

Nope, you own 5% of Facebook shares that are worth as much as what someone else is going to pay for it.

Hence Stock market = elaborate pyramid scheme

But a necessary one to support pension funds, 401Ks, retirement, etc. I mean HOW else is 1 dollar turn to 10 dollars after 40 years?!

Plus, it leads to jobs - illusionary, fake ones, but jobs nonetheless.

Younger generation paying for older - makes sense.. it'll fall apart whenever human race dies off.
Unless you're willing to spend in excess of £300 on a keyboard you can't buy a mechanical keyboard that is also ergonomic. And I think it's more important for a keyboard to be comfortable rather than enjoyable. As long as you keep replacing the cheap ergonomic keyboard every few years you're still better off, I think.
What you say was true a year ago, but the limitations of the human eye won't allow much improvement over the 300+ ppi screens that have been available for a year or so. If something is coming along to replace 4G, I haven't heard about it, and 4G has also been available for a year or so.

I have an HTC Rezound, top tier at the time of it's release about 6 months ago, and it was significantly improved over the Motorola Atrix it replaced, which was also top tier at the time of its release about 6 months previously. I haven't played with newer phones since then, but nothing I have read indicates that they've improved very much since the last batch of releases in December, and I don't think the human eye is capable of perceiving much more pixel density than we already have.

Screens have gotten so much better that there's no point in improving them. With 300+ PPI screens having been available for a year or so, the only real improvement possible would be to make them 3D or usable outdoors, which does not seem to be progressing very quickly.

I have an HTC Rezound, which was a top tier phone when I bought it 6 months ago, and the display is leaps ahead of my Motorola Atrix, which was a top tier phone when I bought it last April (something like ~340 PPI compared to ~275 PPI). That kind of improvement will never be possible again, because the human eye couldn't perceive it. So, yeah, I think we have reached a plateau, though certainly not 2 years ago.
The LUA makes me wonder if the creator could be identified by their coding style.
Anyone else think the stairs down and escalator down icons need to flipped horizontally (direction of travel left-to-right?). As it stand's there's little to distinguish up and down, and it doesn't "read" naturally.
I'd love to know more about the command and control servers. If any of them involve paid hosting that might help to out the guilty party.
The ironic thing is that until recently photoshop's was cheaper to buy on disk than it was to download. Madness. At least they seem to have fixed that little bug, though the difference is still only £7.
And how did they avoided the reckless spanish Guardia Civil? They are thirsty for anyone's money, and they won't be stopped by this "self-driving" crap. MULTA!
I too agree. I finally understood when I moved here why americans have a streak in them that dislikes government. It's because theirs can be so bad and huge sometimes.
neat, some great links in there, too. some neat projects i hadn't seen before (e.g. doozer).
Don't worry - you are not the only one.

I don't see computers as being good enough at general driving to make it work. And, perhaps cynically, I don't see society in general liking the idea that accidents can be caused with nobody to punish. So, I imagine that even if the computer can drive it 100% perfectly 100% of the time, you'll need to have a human watching out. Which means you need a human driver. Which means it's going to be like driving, basically, only even MORE boring. Will you be able to catch up on your reading? No. Will you be legally conveyed in your late-night state of merry intoxication? No. Can you have a quick snooze? No. So... um, what's the point?

Unless a driverless cars is as good as taking the train, or going in an aeroplane, or - yes - simply being a passenger in a car that's being driven by the traditional human, frankly you might as well not bother.

Of course, it doesn't matter what I believe. There are lots of people working on this problem, whose IQs and imaginations clearly far exceed my own, and I don't mind to admit that I am already surprised by just how much progress has been made. So who knows?

Nevertheless, I think I will be proven right.

(On the plus side, even once the push for autonomous cars fails, we'll have a mind-boggling set of amazing driving assists.)
Why The Open-Source Graphics Card Failed
London has a massive affordable housing shortage. London councils are moving tenants to other cities because of new government limits on state aid for rent payments[1] Earning £35K, expect to spend about 2/3rds of your salary on rent. A 1 or 2 bedroom flat in a 'normal' part of town will cost you at least £1300/$2000 per month.
[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/24/tory-westminst...
>Hyperinflation is often associated with wars or their aftermath, political or social upheavals, or other crises that make it difficult for the government to tax the population.

The western world may be headed for upheaval. Globalization and technological progress are making western labor redundant and the economic center of gravity may eventually move to the East.

Transformation brings uncertainty. Paper money will always remain as a tool, but when global orders change, as they have throughout history, individual currencies may be casualties.
>Putting your Myers-Briggs personality type in your CV suggests to me that you probably believe in horoscopes, too.

I have a problem with the credibility of that claim.
Go direct to brand name manufacturers and they will refer you to their distributor (usually a trading co)

Curious - what's the charity?
Our API docs are now hosted on Github
Absolutely. You cannot kill such an emblematic figure like Assange without making a martyr of him. You must not kill the guy, you must kill his credibility.
Not giving a developer direct access to error reports for the code you are working on sounds like one of the biggest inefficiencies I have ever heard of.
Consider that an obvious response by the targeted country to tariffs on their exports is to erect restrictions on imports from the initiating country - a situation which can easily result in mutual escalation of trade barriers and one which the WTO was formed to prevent.

Rather than unilaterally barring goods from entering the US which do not comply with our labor and environmental laws, a better approach could be to work within the WTO framework to establish common labor and environmental standards.

Of course, this is strongly resisted by developing nations who justifiably see the strict pollution controls as a way to prevent their transition from vassal states to competitive members of the global economy (see: Carbon Taxes).
We'll definitely keep you posted with more news as we get them!
I started using blank keyboards about three years ago and it did in fact force me to touch type and has increased my typing speed a lot. Even after ten years of programming I was a 4-6 finger hunt & peck typist. Once I started using a blank keyboard I quickly broke the habit of looking at the keys and picked up proper touch typing form naturally.

Plus it is badass.
The problem with including the MBTI on your resume has nothing to do with its accuracy, precision, or scientific basis. It's about relevance.

Flip the problem around: If your interviewer asked you for your MBTI type, would you think that was a good sign? Is that the kind of company that you want to work for, the kind that spends valuable interview time quizzing you about being an INTP? Let me venture to guess that the answer is "no". So why provide such detail?

(If the answer is "but I would never want to work for someone who doesn't know, and care, that I identify as an INTP", then I withdraw my observation. Good luck to you.)

My more general advice is: A resume isn't a dossier that summarizes one's entire life. You're not trying to adopt a child. You're trying to score a six-month gig. Focus, focus, focus.
Thank you for your insights. I thought about this, and try to promote 'me' as a product first (given time constraints) versus the 'web design solutions' all the other freelance shops are doing already. If this doesn't work out I'll probably do both.
>Poll usually is run with threads on incoming connections/work, while epoll is keeping conections sleeping and wake up on incoming work. So in which way does this have "nothing to do with threads vs events at all"?

Poll and epoll are trivial implementation details in both cases. Nobody is going to be choosing threads vs event loops based on poll vs epoll, you are using one or the other in both cases, and it is no more relevant to the decision than what you had for breakfast in either case.
Facebook’s $100M purchase of Face.com would actually make sense
In the context of flight / hotel / car / etc., I think hotel-building is very clear. In fact, much clearer than a bed -- after all, having an airline seat represent a plane would be quite confusing, and having a bed represent a hotel is no clearer.

However, outside the context of other reservation-related icons, I agree that the "building" icon is lacking in specificity. The bed icon is slightly better, but still by no means good. It could just as easily mean sleeptime or rest, as opposed to daytime or work.

It's a shame there are no symbols or architecture inherently associated with hotels. Maybe that's why they tend to feel so anonymous and devoid of any soul...
I care. I make websites and this article made me think some more about page weight vs other trade-offs.

I'm not sure what your comment has added to the debate.
Defining a Personal API
Mentioning 'clean code' is surely a message that the OP understands that his code will 'be picked over by multiple people throughout the lifetime of the software'?

I'll take clean domain level clear and concise coding even if it under-delivers on the abstractions occasionally. Code will always be read and maintained more often than it is aggressively extended.

I vote to keep it in!
There's really no reason for that camper app to load so slowly. Rendering the initial screen then loading additional assets in the background with a prioritized queue could probably cut the load time by 90%.
If you're fed up with that, avoid the mainstream media & delve into the blog post linked up above :)
I am saying that by using Ajax to partially update a page, that updated page no longer has a URL which identifies it. This breaks HATEOAS badly. The idea of REST is that every state on a site has a representation. REepresentational State Transfer you know... So while there are many other ways of shooting yourself in the foot when designing a REST website, using Ajax makes it almost inevitable.
I think we DDoS'd them.
More technical details (pdf) on:
http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf

Although the naming differs it has been noted on several blogs that it is the same malware.
From two years ago to six months ago is a world of difference, and the draw to upgrade obviously would be dramatically different.

Screens have gotten so much better that there's no point in improving them

When did pixel density become the only element worth considering? Give me a screen with the power consumption and long-term viability of super LCD, with the contrast ratio of SAMOLED and I'd be over the moon. As is, however, each are serious compromises in one way or the other.

Make battery life better while offering high performance (the the Krait). Give me better cameras and speakers and sensors. Give me a little projector. Give me better integration.

There is a tonne of improvements to be had.
Japan may be on the other side of the scale, I also find their plugs look flimsy (as an European).

But the UK plug is just an artefact of the dangerous series circuits in many houses built during copper shortages. Such circuits are dangerous anyway, the remaining such houses should be fixed instead.
I'm inclined to agree. If I were hiring and I saw this in a pile of CV's and portfolios I would probably ditch it and move on.
> It really is useless except for self-identifying that you like the myers-briggs categorization scheme and which of the 16 boxes you think that you are in.

That's about the gist of the MBTI reference when I included it in the page.
The rest of the bay area is car land. Especially the peninsula where most of silicon valley is concentrated. I tried living in the peninsula on a bike for 5 months, wasn't so nice.
Or links to sources - this is the web for god's sake!
On Nielsen and mobile design
There has been hype about how to design a mobile web site/application. Instead of promptly writing my opinion, which would have been pretty guts-driven, I preferred to wait for things to settle down a bit (in the media and in my mind) and then write down, calmly, what I think.
Ask HN: Should a Startup's blog  have the same design as it's website?
We are setting up our blog at Posterous. I would like it to have a different design than our website. Take more liberties with it, have "more fun" with it. My partner thinks it should match our website. Thoughts?
...a lot of the wealth that's caught up in the top of the economy right now would be forced down. That wealth would create a lot more consumers with money to spend,...

This doesn't follow. Most of the wealth that's "caught up in the top of the economy" is simply the means of production. I.e., Zuckerberg's wealth is mainly 30% of Facebook.

Suppose we redistributed 30% of FB to the lower classes. How will this raise living standards?
It's perfectly legal, and ethical, but that doesn't mean Apple has to play nice about it.

Plus the question wasn't whether AirFoil was in violation earlier, but only over the most recent update which I think was after the licensing model was in place.

(incidentally I think Apple is stupid for enforcing the rules this way, but it's their playground and if they want to protect their private key by being stand offish, then there's not much you can do, except Cydia)
All of that is true. However I doubt you could claim "opt in" because the user's browser accepted the cookie. It's not that easy to get around the letter and spirit of the law.
Can anyone speak to the difference in key feel between using one of these and using one of the more traditional modern-day Model M clones (e.g. Unicomp/http://pckeyboard.com)? I love the idea of getting a mechanical keyboard, but can't shake the feeling that the blank keys is just something of a gimmick.
Highly unlikely that that will happen, simply because even the smaller virus writers take precaution when buying servers, they usually do it using stolen credit cards that are not hard to acquire. In addition, the it also depends whether the hosting companies are willing to assist people with the investigation.
I really like it, and the "artistic direction" is lovely.

With that said, I would put more of the specifics (my software) earlier and some of the generalities (traits of a great software engineer) later on.

If you start with a lot of generalities, it's easy to think, "oh, he has no specifics to recommend him" when in fact you do.
Yes, frivolous and bizzarre work... or surrogate activities as the Unabomber would put it.
LOL, yes we have.
Wow we have lots in common, except your resume reads like a grown up version of mine!

"I'm a small business owner, programmer, biker and overall nice and knowledgeable guy. I love creating beautiful code and simple interfaces."

I may be still a university student, and my "freelancing business" is worth only $10k a year, but I'm also a biker (started this year), a nice and knowledgeable guy, and the passion of mine in software is beautiful code and simple interfaces. You're an independent contractor, and... I guess, me too.

I too am involved in development of the entire website - backend, frontend, database, the whole thing, but the number of technologies I know is around a third of yours. Maybe I can describe myself as "I am an aspiring FULL STACK developer"?

I'm going to assume those programming traits are shared by all programmers because I have those too.

At least your list of projects is completely different to mine (and much bigger)... And of your list of 6 techniques & best-practices I only actively employ three.

Definitely a grown-up version of my resume alright.
Haha! yeah I just finished reading the kinda-more-informative analysis (http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questi...). Seems very interesting. I wish that they would share the samples so other hobbyists could also see what it is like
You do not have to give GMail up, not sure where you read that...

Hmm, from the first post I replied to (by 'there'):

I am baffled at how people continue using such a service
Sure, and as long as I keep torrenting things I'm also giving them an excuse to just blame it on the pirates. Both are valid arguments, and both are a bit over board.
thats racist
>the description of INTP is not useful as the test itself is fundamentally flawed.

Another logical fallacy. The test and a person's test result, are irrelevant to a persons actual personality type. It may or may not correlate. That is all we can say.

For example a person could test as an ESFJ, whilst in reality actually uses the cognitive functions, Fi Se Ni Te which correlates with an ISFP personality type.

And anyone that thinks everyone has the same personality type or thinks the same way, or that different personalities do not exist, is simply delusional.
Would a travel plug not be easier?
Square adds encryption to its Square reader
Here is a copy (as PDF) of the article in case you can't access the site:

http://christian-kienle.de/ShinyVideo/Flattr.pdf
This might be obvious, but PDF isn't usually reflowable (and if it is, it's not very easy to do so), which makes for a painful reading experience on a smallish widescreen monitor, and isn't editable easily.

I usually just decide between plain-text, HTML, Google Docs and LaTeX/PDF, going up the ladder as the complexity of the document requires, or if it needs to be editable.

I hate it when I'm e-mailed a Word document that could easily have been plain text, in which case it would be searchable and more easily found when looking through e-mails manually.
I dunno.. I see a lot of depressed faces in NY subways - the pinnacle of economic growth.

While those Himalayan villagers and monks don't seem to worry about economic growth and efficiency.. and they're always smiling.
>At the moment, we haven’t seen use of any 0-days; however, the worm is known to have infected fully-patched Windows 7 systems through the network, which might indicate the presence of a high risk 0-day.

I really want to know what that 0day is, I can't comprehend how hard it would be to find a 0day remote execution on a Windows system
So what you are saying is that you would prefer to just develop in and manage anything other than MS products?
The common UK plug is large and chunky, put them on the ground and someone'll stand on them barefoot. That hurts. This is the sort of thing that people know instantly what the advantages are. Tis great.
This is pretty interesting. Definitely useful for the tablet. You can hold the tablet up and type. Hope they go through with it to build it.
In the US it's almost impossible to get a re-wireable plug except for industrial extension leads.

Most Americans have no idea which pin is 'live'
you dont need to earth it when the power consumption is so low. The plastic pin is essentially to open the covers for the lower 2 pins.
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Because you may think you're not looking, but -- unless you're a trained touch-typist -- you actually are looking. Even if only occasionally noticing something in your peripheral field of vision. 'Looking' is not necessarily a conscious act.
How the heck did you get shocked 3 times in 3 years? I grew up in Turkey which has a no extra protections and quite shoddy electrical work all around, and neither me nor anyone I know has ever been shocked.

I really don't see how you could accidentally get shocked that many times unless you are repeatedly violating something that is common sense to everyone else.
Why didn't you just buy a converter? One side is the UK plug, other side allows you to plug in a variety of different plugs (including the continental one) and they are very cheap.
Probably best to keep the same colour scheme and make sure your name / logo is at the top but there's nothing wrong with changing things a bit.

The Google blog is a pretty good example: http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/ You can immediately tell that it's a Google creation, even if the Google logo wasn't there, and the moving circles at the top make it a bit more fun.
>"Between PHP or Flask, would one be better suited than the other to start with?"

IMO, it doesn't matter if your goal is to have a business. What matters is the problem you are going to solve and how solving that problem turns into money.

On the other hand, if your goal is to learn another programming language or improve your programming skills or learn a web framework, then it's really just a matter of personal preference...so again, it doesn't really matter.

Finally, if your goal is to get a job, there are lots of them for PHP. Some for RoR, some for Python, and probably not all that many for Flask.