skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By all means, bring out the inept rootkit installed by Steam which creates any remotely comparable vulnerability in as many PCs.
It's really hard to build a resume without having experience (in both your career and in creating a resume). When your main accomplishments consist of taking classes in your field of study, what do you put down that is both relevant and not too much information? How do you predict what the company wants to see on a resume when many job postings flat-out lie to you, puffing up the job and inventing requirements that don't actually exist? How do you emphasize that you know these skills but don't have any concrete evidence beyond a degree to prove it?

It can be done, obviously. But making a good resume is a skill that generally take time to master. If you do it right the first time, you may never need a resume again. These difficulties are why career services exist at colleges. And even they can't get it right sometimes.
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Indian Americans: The 1%
In my mind having an in-house bot network and being totally ignorant that you're charging for bot traffic via ads amount to the same thing.

This is very, very bad.
I will send my cybermen to deal with your lawyers.
Selective bias in action. LinkedIn also debuted and is far from a flop and its too early to call demise of Facebook.

Sigh, SVN used to a blog about the small guy, the startup people and advice from the trenches. Its sad to see it deteriorate into banal arguments without any merit.
Richard Branson's 5 Rules for Good Business
Get over yourself.

You're a web browsing snob of discerning and demanding tastes, we get it.

It's plainly evident by your own admission that the browser is widely lauded in the first post that Chrome on Android is not unusable. Your self-aggrandizing generalization about "people who like Chrome" and the "ghetto of mobile" sites is ridiculous.

Honestly, you should be happy. If your favorite places on the web keep rendering poorly in Chrome it will surely keep your requests from mingling with those of undesirables in the cache.
It's not gas, it's coal. Coal accounts for half of US electric production, versus a negligible amount of French production.

Coal, however, is only seemingly cheap. Most of the actual costs of coal are externalized, and not seen at the meter. Rather, they show up at the doctor's office:

http://solar.gwu.edu/index_files/Resources_files/epstein_ful...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/03/12/hiding-the-costs-of-c...

The Princeton professor in the second article estimates that accounting for the externalities of coal would more than triple the meter price of coal power. The Harvard study in the first article estimates a somewhat greater cost based on looking at a wider range of factors.
Marines Catch ‘Deserter’ … 5 Years After His Honorable Discharge
I use Google Talk via Empathy (and Telepathy) and it works very well; it appears to be extremely stable and the call quality is decent. Video worked when I tested it, but it's not something I use regularly. Empathy is improving - it's not quite as nice to use as some other IM clients, but it does what I need it to do.

http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/
Piecing email together - company integrations
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Would greatly improve the service...
Indian Americans compose 1% of the US population and according to the 2010 U.S. Census, Indian Americans had the highest household income of all ethnic groups in the United States. The richest Indian in the USA is Manoj Bhargava, the founder of 5 Hour Energy.
The third party applications are using the Growl framework, yes? Did they write the extra code to install Growl? If so, I am sorry. If, as I suspect, they did not, why does the Growl framework not ask the user when that method is invoked?
"Masters pending dissertation". Leave out from the resume that you do not currently plan on completing the dissertation...
I second your observation about Chrome randomly choosing text sizes for each paragraph on HN and Reddit, it is horrible enough I decided to get apps for those two on the Nexus 7 while on my android phone I preferred visiting the websites in the stock browser (for reddit, I used the mobile version of the website, which is great).
I think it's funny that the guy is stressing not being able to get to his programming job, when the offices are probably without power any way.
I haven't seen a credible economic analysis showing alternative energy isn't competitive that doesn't hand-wave away externalized costs or use ridiculous temporal discounting of future environmental harms.
NBC’s No. 1 Tweeting Critic Has Been Suspended From Twitter
If your goal is for your server to be urine-proof, then peeing on it from time to time to make sure would be a good idea.
From kalleboo's link, here's the particular image from Samsung's brief to look at:

http://www.groklaw.net/images/Samsung-3.jpg

If it's true, it seems pretty persuasive.

(The document is pretty amusing in general: "Design was not the only thing Apple took from other companies in developing the iPhone. While Apple touts itself in the popular press as a company of 'firsts,' it recognizes the opposite internally. As Apple admitted in internal emails, Apple was not the first [redacted] [Redacted] Ex. 4 (DX 578). Nor was it [redacted] Id. Indeed, as one Apple employee explained to an overly enthusiastic marketer, [redacted] Id."

I love the idea that Apple's internal emails actually make frequent use of the word [redacted]. Like, "Hey, has anyone seen my [redacted]? I think I might have left it at a [redacted]. Hopefully that [redacted] reporter doesn't get his hands on it.")
So without ANY facts your conclusion is that Facebook is fraudulently deceiving advertisers.

And that they are doing this using experience from working with the NSA/CIA in order to cover up the fact that $800 million dollars of Facebook's yearly profits will disappear overnight once people realise the truth. And as such they are willing to pay out the ad-bot companies in order to hide this conspiracy.

Right.
Google 'ssl man in the middle attacks' and you'll see that SSL does not prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.
That's a great link. I think it matches my interpretation of the No Derivatives provision.

I think you are very much in the free and clear from the standpoint of the license. The language of the CC license does say that you are free to reproduce it and include it in collections. It even suggests that the media in question is not important: "rights may be exercised in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter devised". There's no point in making reference to "hereafter devised" media if they medium is assume to be fixed at the time of license.

Further, "[the] rights include the right to make such modifications as are technically necessary to exercise the rights in other media and formats" which clearly gives you the right to change mediums as long as we do not violate the clause on adaptations.

The adaptation clause, of course, it up for some interpretation. However, the definition of a derivative work under US Copyright law is likely what was envisioned. If it was not, it would have probably been a huge blunder to call this the "No Derivatives" license. The standard test here seems to be whether the transformation had any significant creative input, and since you conversion was almost purely mechanical, I would argue that it was not significant enough to be considered a derivative.

One thing you did forget to do was to include the CC license itself.

Disclaimer: IANAL (or Copyright Scholar). YMMV.
That's really interesting, I had never really thought about it like that before. Can you elaborate a little more about your in experience in the West versus somewhere else?

While I do agree this is an issue, how would you actually go about solving it? I mean, what useful contribution can someone make in math without having learned algebra first? You need to start with the fundamentals before you can do actually important things. In fact, it seems that the ability to suck it up and "just do it" without any immediate gratification is what sets other cultures apart with respect to education.

One area where I think young people can do potentially important things is with computers, especially with programming. With only a small base of knowledge, it is possible to do many original and useful things. When I was 15, I wrote apps that were used by hundreds on thousands of people, and I don't think it requires any special talent.
It looks to me like that early 4-style prototype has much thicker glass on the front and back. I'm pretty sure it took Apple and their manufacturers a while to figure out how to the super-thin glass of the current phones.
Gadget patrol: a NAS for your iPad
Great financial planning model by Christoph Janz. Highly recommended for SaaS entrepreneurs. Thank You!
In a traditional hydroelectric generator, yes. Norway has the advantage of numerous, steep cliffs and waterfalls. It is my understanding that the Norwegian HEG's are placed in the middle of the waterfalls, so that no dam is necessary...
It is worth pointing out that the article never claims that the database contains information on every bomb the US has ever dropped. The article clearly states that more information is needed, eg:

"For the Korean War Robertson found the detailed mission records for the
first 10 months of the three-year conflict but he is still trying to
get his hands on the rest."
All this happening as employees in FB are itching to cash out their options in a few months.
To be fair, that pretty much matches what I've heard about Facebook's click quality.
shameless act of self promotion, but i threw this together a while back:
http://8tracks.com/simba-hiiipower/swing-swing

a mix of mostly ‘mainstream’ (if there is such a thing) electro-swing tracks i like to groove to.
>This is a typical anti-finance rant, with no substence. The only thing that would have made it worse would be a blantently political statement any of the parties.

Because finance in itself is something like nature, and not at all political and ideological, right?
I commented on my own post to explain why I think it's bad, sorry for not reading it aloud to myself, I can understand why you read it not the way I had it in my head :)

Should read my post as:

"Are you asking why this is bad? it is bad because..." and provided an example...

P.S. I like the Insult to injury quote, it's exactly how I felt when trying to debug it, took me an hour to figure that out...
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Why is he being downvoted?

As per RFC2119 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt):

3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
Who would want to hire people who self-describe as mediocre? Probably a bully who likes pushing people around. Anybody with an iota of self-respect shouldn't respond to an ad like that.
That's only because the investment are going up in the same curve.

Exponential means you get much more out of it than you invest.

I.e. Nuclear, Thorium etc.
Ha. That is pretty good. There are some steps between "Hi" and "Here is a term sheet" but you can definitely tell if someone is very excited.

Unfortunately, it is harder to tell if someone is disinterested as VCs try hard to maintain or preserve relationships for the future, which makes them more cautious in just saying "no" outright. I think the good ones are pretty up front about not being interested early.
Are you even aware that Apple is only releasing this in the first place to prove that Apple didn't copy design from the Sony Style, which is identical to the iPhone but older?
Need inspiration? Watch this video
While it looks like a slightly promising competitor to iOS and Android, if they don't lock down good pricing, it will fail. $1000 is just not a good price point when it comes to a tablet. I understand that this thing will support a full Windows environment, but honestly, I use my tablets to surf and play. If I want to run Photoshop or an IDE, it's going to be on my workhorse laptop.
There should be a corollary to Godwin's law, but with hipsters instead of Hitler. I am so, so, SO sick of hearing about how they supposedly ruin everything.
Very nice! Any tips/issues on making it responsive to the window size? Having just viewed at the demo and not really digging into the code, I am not sure if this is rather obvious or not. Thanks!
Might be because the benefit of lying is immediate, but the drawback much more distant (getting fired in the future). People aren't always very good long-term thinkers.

You might be right that pathetically lying on resumes in the end provides a career with a higher average income or whatever. Given that many of us here are probably honest and/or having to hire off resumes, I'd guess we're all collectively hoping that's not true.
Yep, bad choice of English words from my side. not may native language... yep, I was trying to explain why it's bad, not asking why it is bad... :)
In addition to Skeleton and Bootstrap, I've used Zurb's Foundation and FluidBaselineGrid

http://foundation.zurb.com/

http://fluidbaselinegrid.com/
Mystifying HP tablet appeared in a commercial, may perhaps run on Windows 8
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people in that situation. Me included.

I bought myself a home when I was 24, so finishing up college wasn't reasonable for me. Instead, I started working on my own projects as well as learning as much as possible to do the job of me and the developers above me. I've learned a lot in those 4 years (and and continuing to do so). So much so, that thinking about going to college gives me mixed feelings.

Its either...
1) Should I spend X amount of money to re-learn the stuff I've learned just to get a small increase in pay, so I can pay off those college bills that I've accumulated from the year and a half training?

2) Should I work on this project (the Bachelor's Degree) instead of finishing up my personal project (that's potentially a great startup idea)?

3) Is and extra $5-10k a year "guaranteed" now better than an extra $500k-10 mil a year "probable"?

I don't know. Perhaps, I can compromise a little. Finish up slowly and have my cake and eat it to. All I know is, with my personal project, I have an opportunity to do something great. In the meantime, I have a good job and am earning a very good paycheck (well as far as the rest on the US is concerned).

I feel that I can always go back to school and finish up. In the meantime, I will continue to learn things on my own through my projects and my day job.
I recommend the book "Dark Pools" by Scott Patterson[1]. It is an account of how traders beat each other by microseconds to get an order in, and can find and exploit every possible way they can in order to get an advantage.

There is (perhaps) no way a human can compete in the stock market any more. This is the age of AI, where computers are pushing around billions of dollars in an automated fashion. Taking every arbitrage advantage in milliseconds, and are even able to find under- and over-valued stocks in the blink of an eye.

[1]http://www.amazon.ca/Dark-Pools-High-Speed-Traders-Financial...
Out of morbid curiosity, are you always this obnoxious?
Why Apple's new ads look like Microsoft made them.
Don't 5 gallon buckets kill more people than magnets?
That'd be like the entire USA being without power. Wow, it puts India's size into perspective.
An article whose logic I'm not particularly enamored of, but whose underlying import probably matters, as magixman noted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312648)

IPO valuations, and post-IPO stock performance, have a lot to do with funding rounds for startups. This affects not just startups, but the overall employment and economic climate, especially in startup-heavy locations such as the SF Bay Area.

Given that much of the counter-cyclical economic activity in the Bay Area is a consequence of startup-related companies, I'd expect a fairly broad overall cooling, at best, from the Groupon / Zynga / Pandora / Facebook, et al, experiences.

David (no last name)'s financial logic is flawed. His concerns aren't.
If you're looking for design inspiration then check out the admin themes on themeforest.net, lots of great examples there if you filter by # of sales. Although it won't give you a lot of ideas as far as functionality goes
No, I'm not. The low number that gets thrown about is for commercially available deposits at the present market price. The price of the raw uranium is a very small portion of the price of running a nuclear plant -- it could increase by two orders of magnitude and not have a material impact on the plant bottom line. At that point, it would be economically feasible to extract it from seawater, where there is enough of it for effectively forever.

Extracting it from seawater is, however, not necessary. Even small increases in the market price make a lot of new deposits available -- uranium is quite abundant in earth's crust.

The reason uranium and nuclear fuel is so cheap is that it was consistently overproduced during the cold war. Before the 2007 speculative bubble there was effectively no new activity since the last government-funded uranium boom.
Very nice, does the license allow this to be used in a commercial project?
Yes, bad English from my end!
Please read it as "Why this is Bad: ", and not "Why is this bad?"...

Thanks for all the ones who corrected me!
bash on mingw. I've got a few aliases for things like code scanners and custom tools. I use Komodo Edit as my editor but bash is very much my IDE.
#NBCFail Now Fails Even Bigger
Non Facebook link http://www.metro.co.uk/film/906841-peter-jackson-confirms-th...
He worked nights and weekends finding out.
Robertson unearthed 1,000 original World War I
raid reports, and entered each by hand. For World War II,
he scanned roughly 10,000 hand-written or typed pages.
More modern conflicts meant combing a hodgepodge of
conflict-specific databases.

This is the kind of thing I wish they [the Pentagon] would open up to hackathons. How many hours of this valuable historian's time was wasted doing manual entry, something that could've been expedited with some mTurk + OCR work? Not all civic data projects draw attention, but this one at least has the cachet of notable history, worldwide good (to help identify areas of possible unexploded unordinance) and, of course, things that go boom.
Siemens produces world's largest wind turbine blade, 246 feet
Sorry, I was commenting on my own post and wanted to provide an example for "why this is bad" and not ask "why is this bad" apparently, HN also teaches me English (not my native language)
Beyond Google Chrome
Because finance in itself is something like nature, and not at all political and ideological, right?

The math in his post is clearly, scientifically wrong and represents a typical rant from an uninformed observer. It would be the equivalent of workers blaming computer scientists (hackers) for eliminating all of their jobs that were based around making phone books.

It is an anti-finance rant, with no substence.
One of things I think you need to answer is why I would use/switch to this service if I'm already using some WP Plugins that handle this social media sharing.
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Making Apps Indistinguishable from Magic
We need to see some real numbers before making these kind of predictions. What was the volume of clicks that OP couldn't detect? 10, 1K, 1M? It makes a big difference.

Also given FB users' aversion to ads this whole issue could be explained by users just clicking the back button. Ad supported sites have trained users to do three things very well: install adblock, habitually ignore ads, quickly click away from any interstitial or unexpected ads like on Hulu.

Another note on the "back button": I recently discovered the awesome power of "three-finger swipe back button" on Macbook trackpad. So it's possible users can "click" back even faster than before. I can and before the swipe I was well-trained in the art of "CMD back arrow" :-)
They said they would allow us to change our name. NICE! But only if we agreed to spend $2000 or more in advertising a month.

Well, apparently there is an exception from this rule. Obviously there is a huge potential for abuse when changing name of a page that has plenty of users. However, allowing only the "money making" pages to do so is a bit of an unfair move in my opinion. Reasonable but unfair.

I wonder if this situation will escalate and fb will publish some explanation. Nevertheless, it is still hard to believe for me that a company with such value would fake clicks at all or in a way that is easy to detect.
Does this implement any auto-layout / best fit methods given a random set of tiles?
Ask HN: review our startup's first job posting
Our startup is now at the stage where we're looking for a skilled technical employee to join us.
Hiring is hard, so we're looking for feedback on the job advert we've taken out. Is it appealing? Does it look interesting? Or is it boring and just like the rest?

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/22447/asp-net-c-sharp-and-javascript-developer-fast-scirra?a=qwii82k

Thanks for any feedback! We've been working for ourselves for such a long time now there may be obvious things we've omitted or overlooked.

Please do also share any of your experiences/results with job listings and hiring!
Just because some of the popular resistance to nuclear energy production is based on fear doesn't mean there aren't rational arguments against it.

Personally, I consider the current generation of fission reactors technologically unsound: Neither the problem of radiactive waste nor shutdown in case of catastrophic failures are adequately solved.

Research in Thorium reactors is worthwhile considering the growing energy needs of China and India, but smarter transnational grids with more efficient load balancing can probably make renewable energy production viable in Europe.
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Ask HN: Standard format for common data types other than contacts?
. . . such as exercise data or study sessions.
Consumer Internet companies get far more attention than they deserve because their business model involves using your time. There's a massive number of far more interesting, profitable companies in tech that you rarely if ever hear about.
How many "hackathons" are about pure data entry? In my opinion the hackathon comes after the data entry process...