skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here the bell is a social reinforcement for choices and efforts in making a sale; it is conditional on something you did. That something was a complex and extended and learned activity, of the type that few animals other than humans ever exhibit. It shows appreciation and provides an occasion for positive interactions.

This is a far cry from a predictive signal which causes a relatively simple physiological response to occur earlier than it would otherwise, in preparation for some uncontrollable condition.

(Yes, I know I am a very humorless and literal person.)
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I would be more hopeful that they would buy up zendesk or some sort of actually useful support competency. I really think the amazingly poor phone support on things when they go squishy from Paypal is holding it back big time.
Tha article only talks about "The Senate Armed Service Committee"...sounds not like the The Senate or Congress, but rather a small company of people which most likely know what they're doing.
In my opinion the reason poorer people have less IQ then wealthier people, and also why adopted poor babys into middle class homes have higher IQ's comes down to what they spend their time thinking about. Poorer people spend their time worrying about food, money and basic needs. This occupys alot of their thought. Richer people don't need to worry about the basic needs and spend their time worrying about larger more complicated things.
Interview with CEO of Zipline Games, creator of the Moai mobile game SDK
From the article "The name, by the way, translates to “millet” in English, but it is also the combination of two Chinese words that have a powerful resonance here: rice and rifle. As any patriotic citizen will tell you, together those words mean “revolution.” "

Huh? The two characters in xiaomi (小米) are xiao3, meaning "small" and mi3 meaning "rice". In other words, millet. Rifle is qiang1.
Also, autodesk is getting into photogrammetry -- using photo and video recordings from mobile devices as the lowest-friction way to do 3D scanning.
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Several Kickstarters have badly struggled to meet their phenomenal demand - see the comments for those waiting for Elevation Docks: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hop/elevation-dock-the-b...
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Ahh fantastic, thanks
Why wouldn't I be more upset with the lobbyists and consultants? They're the ones getting rich off of lying and gladhanding. The government employees are just trying to get through the day. They have a billion processes to make sure they're not getting kickbacks or a fraction of the lobbyists's pay.

Sounds like your beef is more with corruption than it is with government.
Since there's a good chance moving the mouse is moving some gun around in 3D space rather than any visible pointer, the answer should be the same as for normal 3D games: to use the pointer or other windows, you must press ESC.
I'd be wary of including a "coupon code" that identifies myself as a potential "software pirate" when purchasing something using my name and visa card online, even if the seller has the best intentions.
We use bubble sort as a kind of FizzBuzz test.
Sorry, but we have to verify that you can actually write code. We can't go further without it.
They do share a common cause: a lack of money. Increasing guaranteed income improves those measured outcomes: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/003465399558... That is, by giving their parents money you improve children's cognitive performance. I'm not sure what more causal evidence you are looking for.
Also see https://files.nyu.edu/mw109/public/loken_mogstad_wiswall_fam... for the statistics involves.
Somewhat related, when I was younger I had no money and didn't have much of a problem pirating software (times have changed and I realize how stupid that is). I tried to pirate a piece of software and upon entering a fake key got a popup similar to yours. Basically, it said "I'm not able to stop you from pirating this software, I'm not even going to disable activation for your clearly invalid key. Just remember that I'm not some huge corporation, I'm a family man trying to support my wife and kids (with a link to picture of his beautiful children). Consider buying this to help keep me afloat and to ensure continued development."

It hit me hard, made me realize that it isn't a victimless crime and that I was literally depriving this guy of what he deserves, payment for his hard work. Definitely one of the leading factors that caused me to stop piracy altogether. Even pirates have a heart, and by humanizing the product, it is way harder to steal it and feel okay about it.
In a good way, or a bad way?
Wouldn't they also have to submit it for regulatory approval if they included wifi?
No ventilation? Have you tried running full blast with a temperature probe present?
Noted. Will look into that. Tnx!
Bad interview questions are actually quite useful, as an indicator that the company is not somewhere you ought to work.
Please reread this thread: it's documented that they make intentonal offensive moves. They do them openly, nothing hidden. It's sad that such acts are ignored: as the article says, they are as bad as Microsoft in the worst days of anticompetitive behaviour. Check who here tries to hide this by inventing the "conspiracy theories."
If you think I am defending the paper because I am its ideological ally, you have not understood what I said
All my experiences with PayPal's phone support have been fantastic, from handling ridiculous disputes from crazy customers, to getting information about services, to updating tax info for the 1099-K stuff. Given we only see maybe a dozen major 'PayPal fail' stories a year with 200+ million accounts, their record seems pretty good. Even the famous PayPalSucks forum attracts a handful of threads a month.

IOW, I think they're better than most people give them credit for, and above average among all the big corps whose support I've had to use.
Ask HN: Startup/app naming advice
Hi HN,

I've started exploratory work on a social media monitoring and analytics project and I have a name for it stuck in my head: "socialytics".

The trouble is another project exists in this space with that name already; clearly then, I need to think of a new name. The thing is, their twitter account hasn't updated in over a year and their website is not actually functioning.

I'm tempted to go with "socialytics [app]" but part of me suspects that is a terrible idea and a bit of an uncool move. What should I do? Any other name I try and come up with doesn't seem as good.

Thanks in advance.
From your about page azat:

"My primarily fields are Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, JavaScirpt, Backbone, HTML, CSS and of course PHP!"

Now I'm sure your a great guy, but there are a lot of people out there with that exact set, or nearly that exact set, of technologies who can't program. They can take a page and hack it to do what they want, they are 'cooks' not 'chefs.' Did I mention there are a lot of them? And if someone is looking for a programming position, and they see a resume that is full of these platform things, one of the questions they will jot down is "be sure they can actually program" on their to do list for the interview.

Back in the 90's there were a ton of people who put 'web site programmer' on their resume but it meant they had used a copy of Pagemaker, not that they actually knew what the HTML spec had in it, so if you couldn't express it in Pagemaker they couldn't do it. Those interviews would start with things like "style this page using <some HTML or CSS feature>." It was a winnowing question to separate the tool users from the folks who knew what actually happened.
no ads, we just want to make it really simple to have face to face communications on any site.
Solid Inkling ripoff. Well done!
I'm not sure how you missed that I was not happy about the consulting firms. I am very unhappy money is spent do to lobbying / power players to feed the consulting firms around the beltway that are hired to do the jobs government employees were hired to do. It isn't individual corruption, it is the whole system of how government works in DC.
I feel similar to you. The bungled launch and difficult distributer made my interest evaporate.

Maybe they are easier to get if you live in the UK or Commonwealth.

Soon there will be full Linux support for ARM and we will see lots of SoC boards.
There are gaps in there for airflow around the ports and through the case over the chip and power. We've run it for 24 hours and it the result was it got warm on the bottom, so we've added bottom vents to the design which exhaust around the SD Card. We're happy the Pi won't choke.
200+ million accounts but over 99 percent of them are "limited"
>Smart move... now they just need to buy up SQUARE

No, no no no no, no, HELL no. Square is one of Paypal's only real competitors. And a real competitor is what Paypal needs to fix their horrid UI and customer service.
> Labeling the paper with the epithet "hugely nurturist" tells nothing about the paper but everything about what you are doing. You are attempting the early dismissal of some viewpoint you disagree with on a more or less political grounds but this has not very much to do with science.

Not relevant to my point about the one-sided presentation.

> Most cognitive tasks used inside an MRI are about as meaningless as benchmarks. It seems gratuitous to turn this into evidence of intentionally dishonest malfeasance and frame the whole thing as some kind of pseudo-political debate. Just engage the data, please?

I don't see what MRIs have to do with this... the DNB studies that matter are, at core, very simple: you give someone a Raven's or BOMAT test, randomly train them on DNB or not, and give them a second test.

> Setting aside the political tone you've taken here: the idea that nature and nurture are dichotomous (or can even be meaningfully separated) is not supportable.

Everyone knows that there is in IQ or psychometrics in general a continuum of positions from nurture to nature, and while only ideologues take a 100% position and everyone sensible acknowledges that there's substantial contribution from both, there's still a very big difference between someone like Nisbett and, say, Arthur Jensen.

I don't know what you're talking about with your dichotomies and caricatures, and I don't really care: because it's not relevant to my point about how accurate a presentation of evidence this Nisbett et al 2012 paper is.
Another sad thing, which I gladly didn’t see that much (but there still were a few interviewers) in the Bay Area compared to the East Coast, is asking terms, function names, definitions, slang, etc. Expecting people to remember functions’ syntax is a sin in itself! All this leads to hiring people with good memory vs smart people. That’s especially wrong when all these information is only a Google search away. And being smart can’t be acquired or substituted with search engine results.

I hate this, and have run afoul of it multiple times[1] over the past few years. I once had an East Coast company decide I didn't "know Unix" because I couldn't regurgitate the POSIX API over the phone.

[1] My focus has always been on East Coast/Midwest companies
I have grown used to being able to click in the scrollbar background area to page up or down, which I tried to do when I determined the mouse wheel scroll down was going too slow.

And when the scroll indicator widget is over the dark part of the first graphic in the introduction, it is lost. Since there are no up and down arrow keys at the ends of the vertical scrollbar, if I did not know where the position indicator was, I am not sure I would be able to find it.

If it helps, the differential in the scrolling direction to click of the scroll wheel is two to one. Scrolling up one click covers the same territory as scrolling down two clicks.
From https://odesk.com/info/howitworks/client/:

oDesk handles all financial transactions, sending secure payments to contractors across the globe. Just use our Work Diary to review hours, and we’ll take care of the rest!

I think you pay oDesk, and they pay the freelancer, so you're just paying a vendor and don't have to deal with taxes.
Every App looks like it could be done in 8 weeks, until you actually try to do it.
Show HN: iPhone App Templates
Looking to get some feedback on my latest project. We're making iphone app templates for developers and entrepreneurs who can't design themselves.

So far we've had a few customers but i'm not sure whether the templates are of the quality they should be.

Any feedback here would be highly appreciated

Link: http://myapptemplates.com.
This is true, but the enterprise market will be around for at least 3 more years. At that point PAAS might be a bigger factor in the market and CloudFoundy might be something that makes a lot of sense.
Clickable: http://myapptemplates.com
Yeah, you are right.

And the second link I've posted is wrong, I meant to post this one:
http://www.dhaomega3.org/
I heard an interesting story the other day by the founders of Wedgies.com, they contacted the web hosting company that was hosting the landing page for the domain they wanted. The hosting company turned off the DNS, which made the buy contact them, and then passed the current contact info on to the buyer.
C programming interview questions are effective at detecting good generalist skills. I'm consistently surprised at how many people struggle with parsing an int from a string in C. Not that someone would ever do this on the job, but these questions are sort of the CS equivalent of math problems.
Mind the sampling method, it only suggests that software pirates don't read ;)
As the interviewer, the question I'm trying to answer is "Can you fulfill a role we need fulfilled?" There's no direct way to determine the answer to that. However, a necessary-but-not-sufficient condition for a broad range of development positions is "Can you write code in any language to sort/reverse/find elements within an array".

The details will vary by interviewer and by role, but the basic idea is the same: if you are incapable of doing this, nothing you say in other interview portions will fool me into thinking we can hire you.

See http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...
Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4258069 with PayPal blog post.
I'd really love it if someone could make it as as easy to buy design help as it is to buy stock photography.

There is an astronomical difference between the effort required to buy tens of thousands of dollars worth of imagery, and the effort required to buy tens of thousands of dollars worth of someone's time. The former is a matter of a cart and credit card, the latter requires lengthy emails, contracts, legal approvals, timesheets, and all other sorts of mumbo jumbo and for most projects, is enough work that I often just don't bother.

Though those roadblocks are there to protect both parties, I suspect that there's an artificially large delta between cost and risk.
A 30 day free trial on the enterprise plan? That seems odd.
your not being creative enough. keep looking for a good dotcom
You'd be surprised at how many people fail the question "reverse this linked list", and of the people who pass that, how many fail the question "now do it without using recursion".

"Stupid" interview questions exist for a reason. They filter out a lot of people.
Honestly, I can remember something EXTREMELY similar to this. I now buy all the software I can afford.
I've had Facebook, Google, and Linkedin all use these... It's pretty systemic. :(
"I" is the last letter of the alphabet.

(lol, it isn't, you got me)

What I see in your comments is the constant stream of I's.
I, me, I did, I studied, I think this, I think that.
Guess what? Nobody cares that much except for you.

When talking about basics, we should consider the least common denominator of all programmers' knowledge.
You can reason that the basics should be different, but what if you are wrong? You are a smart guy who loves scala, but there are other smart guys who consider scala a failure, for example. And there are guys smarter than you and me who just do it all in C because they can't be bothered with abstractions, and FP is an abstraction in the end.

People are different, and if you think that you're such an unique yet the most important snowflake - why?

Nobody questions your ability to write successful FP code. So what? What does it prove? Nobody even questions that.
But there are people who write FORTH. And there are people who write Prolog. Both groups claim they get much bigger bang for the buck than anyone else. Why do we listen to you and not them?
I think recently they added some options to omit nested informations in apis.
OTOH, duplicated data _is_ easier to handle and produce and probably on the wire efficiency wasn't a big concern in the original twitter app.
Any future employees who ask that I whiteboard for the will be required to whiteboard for me. If they're okay with it...then I am.
Heh. And I started reading the paper with such high hopes when it came out months ago, too.. For those not familiar, realitygrill is referencing a classic Crichton quote:

"Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
The problem is one of resource utilization. $80,000 will buy you about three months of a developer and designer. Or you can walk away and make $150,000 working for someone else with far greater stability.

That's why $80,000 isn't enough. The risks are too great to continue for the demonstrated return.
Opportunity cost. If we're comparing it to annual income, we should compare to the annual income of the median mobile developer, which is less than $80k.
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I'm surprised there are not more sites like mugshots.com. Moral considerations aside, it seems like a sure fire money winner.

I wonder how many states/countries make arrest records & mugshots available publicly online?

For every arrest/mug shot, do some basic SEO stuff with the person's name, city and state to have the best chance of hitting the first page of Google, and charge people $50 to get it removed.

I've never been arrested, but if I was (even if in error), I'd sure as hell pay $50 to get my mugshot off the front page of a Google search.
So what, you just let them hang around the office for while? Maybe poach a few employees? It might not prevent any damage that's already occurred, but there's no reason to allow more damage.
Will you provide the bubble sort algorithm if asked? The first comment on this post also says they ask search questions as a FizzBuzz filter, but unless you will provide the algorithm then you're also asking it as an algorithms question.
> Yes, 10 years ago it did matter which function to use, because memory and CPU were expensive. Not anymore!

entirely wrong. if a candidate doesn't understand the difference between a linked list and a random access array, the difference between a hashmap and a b-tree, there's a good chance they're going to be making some pretty fundamental mistakes.

O(n^2) is still bad, no matter how much modern CPU and memory you throw at a problem.
You guys really did create a wonderful UX for a very separate market segment. Admittedly, we did draw some conceptual inspiration from your reader. In my defense, I will say that UX/UI is very constrained by a set number of factors which make "sidebars" necessary/obvious/essential and the organization of them preferable over other organization possibilities (TOC on left, misc on right). I'll admit that you executed this arrangement visually much better than I did, in my attempt not to scalp.

I'm a big fan of Inkling, and you guys make me wish I was still in school so I could use your reader. Major props.
Yeah, well, I'll puke if I hear another badly mangled implementation of an array search again, so I guess we're even.
Could you please share your website url?
I would vaguely say Facebook is a social network people actually want to be on. LinkedIn is a social network people might believe they need to be on. The two aspects are at least somewhat contradictory - a some significant portion of Facebook users are there to share things they wouldn't want an employer or potential customer to see whereas LinkedIn is fundamentally about selling one's self.

If Google+, using a tighter identity and so-forth, happens to replace LinkedIn, that would be one way to not be in direct competition with Facebook. But also to guarantee a certain limit to growth (at least until everyone in the world has to sell themselves to potential employers and customers all the time - sadly real possibility but one that thankfully isn't appearing tomorrow).
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Sadly, it's still common for a demo to not be really representative of the actual game.
There's a timing thing too. If you put PHP on a resume in 1998... you were doing PHP because you had a passion for it (or strong hobbyist interest in it) and there were very few resources out there.

Putting 'node.js' on a resume today in 2012 doesn't provide the same signal. If only because of the hype about node itself. It might be signifying you're an early adopter, but it might also signify you're a serial early adopter, and that you'll jump ship for the next shiny thing.

rails/node/backbone - whatever their strengths are - signal something about you that might not be what you think you're signalling. And yes, it also says something about people like me who read something like that in to a resume with those technologies on it.
I'm torn at hearing about this because although it seems a logical move, the RPi official site has its own support/tech forums (and Wiki), so do Farnell (Element 14) and adding another technical resources site is going to fragment the support collective even more.
Out of curiosity, why don't you currently use the official Twitter app for iOS?
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Just because some clueless monolithic companies don't know how to interview, doesn't mean all of us should follow in their footsteps.

True story, i know a guy who was denied a job at FB after an interview, a few months later they ended up giving him a few hundred thousand after they acquired the small company he ended up working for. He now works for FB.

Interviews are poor indicators of performance.
Personally, I'd rather Square and Stripe got married.
You can't do bubble sort off the top of your head?