skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do all of these "unqualifieds" come from if the startup is just going to hire through friends and recommendations; was there a public job listing somewhere? If there's a job listing, people are going to apply for the job. They're applying to see where they stand, they're applying to fill a quota for unemployment, they're applying because they need a job. Can any company handle all of the applicants it receives? This seems like a weak complaint.

> In the aftermath of his first interview, he has been getting in touch with all his close engineer friends and asking them to write to the company founder recommending him.

This sounds incredibly obnoxious unless your friends are well-known engineers. Has this worked for anyone here?
To clarify, I don't agree with Silhouette that we should "lay off the hype". If anything, Stripe deserves it. I just hate it because it always reminds me that I can't even try it out.
Why is this good advice? It isn't the only way to learn programming, so why is it better than others?
Copyright extension started way before "stealing their stuff" was widespread. Let's talk about the "billions" of dollars of stuff legally "stolen" from the public domain.
"Property ownership and democracy are entirely different concepts."

They go hand in hand.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters...

The poorest countries in the world are ones with little property rights. Especially ones operating on communal land ownership principals.
The fun part is that I bought another album few months ago and two minor versions of their MP3 Downloader earlier, and it worked for me just fine.
Stripe.js is a very well-implemented “or something”, where JavaScript that they’ll provide for you hooks into your credit card form with trivial work. (About ~6 lines for me.)

If, like me, you don't like the idea of loading someone else's javascript into your own domain, the "web page" side of things can also be done by dropping a single <iframe> tag into your HTML.
Conservation of momentum gets in your way: you need to "throw" something out of the back of the satellite to get some momentum in the forward direction.

Though you may read on solar sails though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
I agree; also, this would have been a much more compelling story, and still totally suitable for _Reason_, if the moral had been "NEVER CONSENT TO SEARCHES" instead of "DRUG LAWS ARE RUINING PEOPLE'S LIVES".

(Again: that's because drug laws are ruining people's lives; just, not this guy's.)

A rule of thumb: if the police ask to search your car, they're not automatically allowed to --- or they wouldn't ask.

"Because we weren't carrying drugs" is a terrible reason to allow a search. Actually, "because I've never done drugs" is also a terrible reason. Get the wrong officer, and they will interpret the crap on your floor as "residue" and call in a drug dog; police drug dogs are scams --- the police can get them to bark any time they want. Your life won't be ruined when this happens, but you'll lose a lot of time.

Just say "Excuse me. I do not consent to any search. I'm sorry, officer. I do not consent to any search."
I don't think this project will work due to several inherent economic factors. If I understand correctly app.net takes a free service (twitter, fb) has removed the best features of those services and then wants to charge money for that product. Dalton has put himself in the position of a reverse browser war which doesn't seem very viable to me.
Really? All I know about TracFone policy changes is that service days used to expire so you were forced to buy a card every 3 months instead of stocking up. But they changed that.

Either way it doesn't make sense to charge $0 for a phone to consume resources by having a constant connection to cell phone towers and reserving a number. $7 is pretty cheap so I hope it's a fair price compared to actual costs.
Mastercard & Visa v (Merchants) recently settled an antitrust lawsuit regarding this practice.

>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-13/visa-mastercard-set...

>The agreement, which provides for a temporary reduction in rates for merchants and allows them to impose surcharges on customer purchases, follows a seven-year legal battle with U.S. retailers that accused the two largest payment networks of conspiring with banks to fix swipe fees, or interchange.
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You are raising good point, as information before the modern age used to be generally free (freedom + beer), and artists earned on performance.
Maybe, but they haven't even really said anything about it. In contrast, check out http://theopenphotoproject.org/ , which has both a centralized system, but it also an open source project that you can self-host. IMHO, much better idea, implementation, and I had a lot less to be vaguely suspicious about. OpenPhoto basically did everything right that App.net is doing wrong.
From time to time I need pain medication for my back. In the past I would carry a loose pill wrapped in a tissue. I am NEVER doing that again.
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If you don't have a business and business bank account and that took you two months, you don't really have a business then...
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You dug up a great talk, but I could not find the PDF. There's no link, and the expected file FSW10_Cichy.pdf is not present with all the other PDFs in the download directory.

The author, Ben Cichy, was the guy in Flight Control during the landing last night, sitting behind the position marked "Flight Software". So he's definitely a good source for the background ;-)
> This guy got a slap on the wrist

Wow, that's an understatement. He got his life ruined, plain and simple. I'm surprised he didn't commit suicide.

The hilarious thing is how counterproductive this is for the state. He was earning a significant amount of income, and paying income tax on that. After losing his job the state and federal governments lost thousands that he was paying them in income tax revenue in the short term, and in the long term his reduced earning potential over his lifetime will cost tens or hundreds of thousands. All this to punish someone who was a productive member of society and who harmed no one with his actions.
Perfectly willing to pay per song, per album, per movie, per game, etc. What matters is the method and timeliness of delivery. If I can pay for this new episode of HIMYM and start streaming it within 3 minutes on my phone, tablet, etc. I'm perfectly happy.

Plenty of people would be willing to pay $10-20 per episode of Game of Thrones to be able to watch it legitimately without Cable+HBO at the same time as cable subscribers. $10-20 seems like a lot, but the series is extremely popular, and the 100-200 per season of GoT still costs the end user less money than cable contract + HBO. Also probably leads to more money in HBO's pockets I'd imagine.

I would pay NBC $60 for a pass to have legitimate access to their Olympic streams and coverage, but instead they require cable login information that I don't have access to because cable and internet are included in my lease.
Is that implication really a problem though? I suppose for some it is. That audience is likely quite small, depending on the service of course.
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Isn't marginalia, https://github.com/fogus/marginalia, one attempt at longer form docs?

As for pushing documentation into the clojure culture, having on-demand online docs for any clojar or github repository would go a long way. We don't even have to reinvent the wheel as it's already been done in ruby, http://rubydoc.info/ (source - https://github.com/lsegal/rubydoc.info).
Sounds like James got pretty worked over. James has no business working in finance.

First, don't accept gift drugs. Seriously, that's a stupid move.

Second, don't let the police search your car without a warrant. He's coming home from a concert, in some big rush or what? you can wait 5 hours while the police decide what to do.

Third, fight in court. You're far better off dumping tens of thousands of dollars into a lawyer to preserve your lifetime earnings.

He seems way to naive to deal with the moment to moment tension, and didn't display any long term planning when going to court. What, exactly, was he bringing to the table as a finance guy?
>>But what about detecting features that are separate from rendering? Should @support check for geolocation?

>>The ‘@supports’ rule is a conditional group rule whose condition tests whether the user agent supports CSS property:value pairs.

Source - http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-conditional/#at-supports

So, no. @supports will check for css rules, and nothing else.

That would just be silly.
"avoid holding it that way"?
You may be thinking of Cassini; it is powered by an RTG and flew back by the Earth for part of its gravity assist, which caused some controversy about if it somehow went off course and re-entered Earth's atmosphere.

More info here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1997/09/cassini-controve...
>>>I was surprised that the protagonist was so unsympathetic

I don't understand how you saw that. No prior arrests or convictions, claims to have never been addicted, first arrest of this type, had lucrative career removed from him and income potential ruined. Should they have added that he liked kittens?
I agree. The way they are managing the 3rd party market is baffling and disappointing.
There's tons of risk. Did you know a TON of email servers and spam blockers click all the links in emails and analyze what is linked as well? How do you know you won't be charged for those?
My impression is that they only got the opportunity for one shot with the HiRISE camera, but that they were going for a view of the sky-crane in action. Did that turn out not to be possible? Do they have a picture of the sky-crane from one of the lower-resolution cameras in orbit?
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It's also identical to the 5.3" Galaxy Note phone.
Even the article's headline says his life wasn't ruined, but you have him on the brink of suicide?

Can we oppose drug laws without surrendering our critical thinking faculties? I'd like to think we can.
If this is the same tech I remember, Soviet Russia used them a lot for far-flung lighthouses that couldn't be easily refueled. Many of them are still out there, or have been stolen, vandalized, stripped of metal by unwitting thieves, spreading hazard all around. One was even found underwater.

edit: links:

http://bellona.no/bellona.org/english_import_area/internatio...

http://englishrussia.com/2009/01/06/abandoned-russian-polar-...
5 years ago may not have been. That might have been the joke.
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That is interesting. It seems like the safest thing for them to do would be to offer all of these features (including webhooks) in a "pro" offering which has a monthly fee (probably based on number of notifications). So they treat any developer who wants webhooks as a would-be B2B customer.
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What do you mean by model?
IANAL, but i'm pretty sure if you can show you have a prescription for the drugs, it'll get thrown out of court.

You might get arrested, but telling the police to call your doctor or pharmacist will likely be enough to avoid all that.

You only get really screwed when you're not legally allowed to posses the drugs.
Author here! Make sure you check out the previous discussion[1] about a very similar tool. For those of you who checked the docs and saw right through my false advertisement - mercurial support will be added soon.

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Can you explain what you mean by 'reverse browser war?'
On a related note, anyone know a good way to get 4.1 on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus?
agreed, the 'learn to code' is bad advice for someone who knows how to code. almost self-explanatory, really. but other 'advice' - guidelines, really - that I've doled out has centered around networking and marketing. And I get ignored, in favor of people burying themselves in code and minutia (logo sizings, colors, etc).

But if when FamousPersonX suggests that "you should be networking more, getting feedback, and iterating on smaller offerings of functionality while expanding your network of interested customers", somehow that's revelation from on high, and how insightful that is, and wow... no wonder they're a huge success, etc.

Doesn't even actually mean the people in question follow the advice (generally they don't) but the reaction is annoying.
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I would say that he ruined his life, not the other way around.

1. He accepted what he knew was an illegal drug at the concert, and kept it, planning to 'give it away'. Who does this?

2. His passenger was carrying screens and a pipe, and he had an illegal prescription drug in his pocket. Why would he consent to a search?

3. He went to court and plead 'no contest'-this is equivalent to a guilty plea. Why not spend the time to tell his story? He gave the judge no opportunity to be lenient.

4. After getting on probation, he made no effort to educate HIMSELF on the rules. Instead, he operated on assumptions.

I'm not arguing that the drug laws are good or bad, but this guy screwed up.
If you're signing up as a business, can't you provide an EIN instead of a SSN? I see the box for it in their account settings page, but since I'm using it as an individual, I haven't been able to test whether that works without an SSN.
To be fair, when you include BART's ridership (379,000), the Bay Area beats Chicago. You might also want to include the Capitol Corridor and ACE lines, which have minuscule ridership (5300 and 3700 daily, respectively), but add considerable trackage (168 and 84 miles). San Francisco's Muni Metro is a hair under 37 miles, but transports 162,000 riders daily. There's also San Jose's LRT, but let's leave that out for now.

A comparable rail map for the San Francisco Bay Area: http://www.urbanrail.net/am/snfr/sf-bay-area-map.htm

That puts the Bay Area commuter rail at 472 track miles and 598,000 passengers daily. Rather closer to your Chicago numbers.

But we've got to add in Chicago's CTA 'L line (709,000 daily riders, 108 miles). Tips lead to Chicago again.

Chicago benefits greatly from having grown up around (and not torn down much of its) commuter rail lines, including significant urban and suburban growth from 1860 - 1910, pre-automobile. It's occasionally noted in both areas that commute times a century ago were comparable to, or faster than, today (dedicated rights of way, less traffic, arguably fewer safety restrictions). The Bay Area notably tore down its old Key System commute rail, and several counties (San Mateo, Marin) have fought BART extensions for a half century, and saw much of its growth in the car-friendly post-WWII era.

The Bay Area's layout is actually fairly rail-friendly, with a few major transportation corridors (Peninsula, East Bayshore, CA-24, I-580, I-80, US 101 north of SF), though overall densities are low. Chicago has experienced a great deal of sprawl in the past 30 years, as well as employer flight to the suburbs, greatly increasing suburb-to-suburb commuting, though both SF and Chicago have also seen an increased appeal of the inner urban core especially for younger professionals.
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>...pushing the $ value of their craft down to $0.

This isn't remotely true. Sure, the value of a copy of software might become $0. But I'm not a software copyist! I'm a programmer. (Well, sort of :P.) I do not get paid to give people copies of my software--I get paid to write the software. There is a difference!

This just means that I will not be able to make money writing software to do something somebody else has already done. After all, why pay me when they can just have a copy of the existing program? But this is a good thing! After all, since the solution already exists, it would be a waste of resources to replicate it. Instead, I would be relegated to writing software that is novel. A horrible thought indeed.

Essentially, if some business needs a program to do something, and that program does not exist (which is a rather common occurrence) they would have to hire programmers to write it. Even if it did exist, they would have to hire programmers to integrate it, add features and fix bugs. And those programmers would be more effective because they would have access to a great software commons of all the software ever written--"don't repeat yourself" would become "don't repeat anyone".

I wonder if you're going to be making the same arguments when automatic programming comes around. After all, technology like that also pushes the value of your "craft" down to $0!
I would like to know who the judge was, I'd also like to read the court record for myself.

But apparently it's expunged, so it doesn't exist and I can't.

It's not normal for a judge to "Stack on Penalties" for no reason, but of course we can't read the reason for outself.

So many of these type of internet stories turn out to be not true, or at least written in a very misleading way, leaving out very important info.
Why not have the best of both worlds? All you can eat music downloads for a low monthly cost, but DRM free. It doesn't exist in a necessarily easy to consume product right now, but it does exist. I could imagine using something like the Zune Pass plus Tunebite giving you this exploiting the "analog hole". Tunebite plays the music files from a virtual audio output and records it in a virtual audio input. Similar to taping songs off the radio, or playing a CD and recording it to tape. The file would go from a protected WMA to an unprotected MP3 (or ogg, or flac, etc), and all you're doing is playing your legal copy of the song.

That way you can burn it to a CD to listen to in your car or put it on your iPod Nano to take to the gym with you, and the file can't be revoked just because Microsoft changed the license. These are completely legitimate use cases. I'm sure such a hypothetical situation would work with Rhapsody or other music subscription services. Various services may embed a code in the file to tie it back to you if it winds up on a sharing site. I don't know if this method would remove that, so I would suggest keeping these files purely for your own benefit.
He did straight-up break the law, deliberately. He was carrying around recreational narcotics. And he didn't get prison time; he got probation, and presumably finished up his MBA. The list of things you can do to lose a broker job at Merrill is very long.

In other words, he got off a lot easier than a 19 year old carrying a bag of weed would on the West Side of Chicago.

There are much more sympathetic stories about people's lives being ruined by drug laws. For instance, there are doctors who specialize in the treatment of intractable pain --- as you can imagine, the life stories of the people who they are treating are heartbreaking. Some of those doctors have had their entire careers destroyed; some of them have received lengthy prison sentences. All because they prescribed drugs that can in fact be lawfully prescribed.

(There is a backstory to those stories too, of course; a terrible injustice has been done to those doctors, but not out of malice. It turns out that there really is a special breed of asshole doctors who prescribe things like fentanyl for recreational addicts.)
During the browser wars, web browsers went from paid software to free. Dalton is trying to do the reverse by turning social networking streams into a paid service.
>The method -randomObject (NSArray+SSToolkitAdditions) is supposed to return a random object but when he is generating a random number he is generating non-uniform random numbers.

You mean because of the modulo operator, presumably, and yes, the technically correct way to do it is to retry if the raw random number is larger than N*floor(UINT32_MAX/N). Still, that's a pretty minor bug considering what a minor deviation from uniformity it causes.

>In general his category methods are not prefixed. This will definitely break something sooner or later.

Yeah, this is a common mistake for people making "additions" frameworks, and it just strikes me as egotistical. When I was doing ObjC development, I'd even prefix my own private category methods, because hey, you never know.
So when is Google going to scrap the automatic takedown engine already? Or are they really "cool" with stuff like this happening every now and then, even if they feature extremely important stuff like landing on Mars.
That's highly unlikely. People said similar things when Oink was raided. And as Wikipedia notes, "Alan Ellis was tried for conspiracy to defraud at Teesside Crown court, the first person in the UK to be prosecuted for illegal file-sharing, and found not guilty on 15 January 2010."

But now we have What.CD, which is infinitely better than Oink in terms of features and content. From What.CD, we also have Project Gazelle, which has made setting up new torrent sites much easier by providing up-to-date private torrent site software (what runs What.CD) under the GPL. And the What.CD admins have learned from Ellis's mistakes and set up the site in such a way that it can't be taken down so easily.
Many newer ATMs do this, but there are still some old ones around.
How much power does the device generate? How much will it generate in 14 years when it is "expended"?

Edit: Initially 2 kW of thermal power and 125W of electrical power, falling by only 20% after 14 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMRTG#Design_and_specification...
Good point. It's called "pushbroom scanning" and is used on lots of remote sensing satellites.

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1. My grandmother was a doctor who had treated a lot of holocaust survivors, and collected their stories, which she later told my entire family. Several were about "miraculous improvement" in health conditions; some of it was, of course, survivorship bias (no pun intended ...) - those who were killed first where the less healthy and less able. But my grandmother had medical reasons to believe that a big part of it was nutrition (or rather, lack of it for long stretches at a time) -- especially because after the war, with the availability of a variety of foods, many illnesses came back. On that week, I verified with the family that I remembered her stories and conclusions correctly.

2. I found a book by Bernarr McFadden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernarr_Macfadden (can't remember the name right now) that correctly described my experience (it's hard to find descriptions at all; and everyone around has the anthonyb opinion that I'm about to die because I haven't eaten in x days). That book had very old references (from the '30s) about fasting practices in some indian castes - which I was then able to altavista (that was before Google hit the scene) and confirm

3. I consulted my doctor, and a friend who had finished his medical studies and was doing his internship at the time. Both had the immediate anthonyb reaction, but a few minutes later conceded that any of the things they feared would trigger horrible pains, blackouts, etc - and that couldn't be right as I was feeling good.

YMMV. 1) and 3) may not be available to you. 2) was available to me from the university library, but I'm not sure where I can find it today. But it was available to me at the time.