skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If he lied about being "proficient" in skill #2, how did we know he wasn't lying about certain achievements or even jobs from the past?

I think you can tell if someone is lying about specific job experience in technical areas; when you drill down, the detail won't be there.

But there's a more general issue here (though I think you're only slightly guilty, because your leap is quite small). It's about a kind of intuition about dishonesty being an aspect of a person's character, rather than a mode of behaviour in a particular scenario. A lot of people make wild jumps from single actions to an inference about behaviour in lots of different situations. I think behaviour is heavily dependent on the situation, and much of what we think of as "character" is unwarranted.

People generalize from small incidents (of honorable or dishonorable behaviour) to a character classification, and then specialize these labels back down to predictions of behaviour elsewhere. But the guy who would never cheat a shopkeeper out of mistaken change may actually be a tax fraud, not because of "character", but because of wholly different frames of reference, possibly even resentment of government.

It's the same with people who judge "attention to detail" by spelling or grammar errors. I label them narrow-minded myself :)
As seen a few hours ago... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4309598
Energy or Electricity? There's a big difference. Transportation accounts for a large amount of energy use and it is not electricity.
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[i'm the author]

i'll check out Twicca, but the primary reason i use the official client over nice alternatives like Tweet Lanes [1] is the integration with Android itself, i.e. notifications, and so on. they just keep sucking me back in. but i'm more than willing to give it a shot.

[1] link to the .apk: https://t.co/rkE4sw0j
I had a candidate in last week and I asked about some experience he had listed on his resume. He said he wasn't too experienced with what I was asking about so I specifically pointed to two positions his resume said he had and his reply was that the recruiter must have changed the job titles from what they actually were.

He was a good candidate but not quite what we were looking for and we both wasted an hour of our day. The only upside was that I was already looking for a reason to stop working with that recruiter.
I'll have to make some changes to the crawler, but everything is decently modular, so it shouldn't be too difficult.
This is a great piece from SB and one I can totally relate to. Since I've started working for other people, I've never found myself in a serious ethical quandry with interviewers regarding my dropping out of school. Maybe because in most cases, I haven't been asked about it as there are lots of folks in my field (SEO & search marketing in general) who learned on the fly through their own sites, etc. But if asked, I tell them the path I've taken to get to where I am, although I try not to go into my life story.

It's usually more of a challenge when speaking socially with co-workers, especially when you're dealing with real "job people," who follow the school-career-40-years-of misery path to a tee. Frankly, I try to avoid talking about it as you're usually subject to one of two diametrically opposing viewpoints. Usually, they don't say anything that would make it outwardly identifiable but you can pick it up through body language etc. It's either:

A. "What are you, some kind of idiot?"
or
B. (what I've gotten more lately) "What do you think you are, some kind of genius?"

It's funny because I don't consider myself either of those things. But to keep the conversation away from that, I just avoid talking about it, although I will if asked. (One guy I used to work with it just stared at me blankly like I had just kicked his dog or something after I told him I had dropped out of undergrad and not a masters program, although he was the exception to the rule!)

I don't know how many companies I've applied to declined to speak further because of the lack of degree but I've only had one company ever flat out tell me in the interview process that they couldn't hire me: and that was an education lead-gen company.

Honesty & transparency really are your best weapons in situations like this.
you can use i to cycle through different layouts, one of which is a multi-column layout.
> The best computer is the one you have with you.

best summary i've heard of the device's utility. the nexus 7 may well be the cameraphone of tablet devices.
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I wanted to add that I don't think LSD makes you a "broader guy". For me, it did not change how I think in normal life. But it is nevertheless very interesting to realize that the "normal" way of perceiving reality is just one of the possible "implementations". That your organs and your brains can interpret the same sensory input in a wildly different way.
Did you read to the bottom? He knows it doesn't really hide the code. He's just having fun and slowing down the lowest level of code-stealers.
You should pay it because after a while universities will outsource it to other thugs (i.e. mean debt collectors) who can get pretty mean depending on the amount owed. Not to mention ruining your credit. That startup job is great, but also consider the possibility of not passing the credit checks done by landlords near its office or the office of your next job.

Keep in mind you don't necessarily need to pay it off as soon as possible (though it is what I'd recommend.) I do know PhDs that have a monthly payment and they think of it the same as like the monthly power bill. They consider just something people pay in life to keep the lights on. You could go that route too.

Either route, whether it be living frugally and paying off quickly or paying it off over time in exchange for having more alcohol money, get it paid off.

If you're already overdue, also call the school asap. Once they hand it off to third parties you'll be in a bigger world of hurt. Often the finance dept of the school can give some leeway if you just talk to them, including zero interest payment plans.
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Has anyone else analyzed their referrals and also seen a significant proportion of bots?
And should we also stop saying we've gotten "fucked" for similar reasons?

Sorta. Tis roughly the similar overtones of 'people-who-take-it-are-bad' (i.e. everyone who isn't a straight cis male), however it's not as graphic and not as tied to the actual imagery of receptive sex as the previous example.

Since you are the curator and sole arbiter of allowable phrases

What? No I'm not. Who said I was? Not me. Just because I call someone on something doesn't mean I'm the sole arbiter of things. How many articles on this site will lambaste some technology? Lots. Do we reply with "Shut up! you're not the sole arbiter of programming languages"? No that's not what happens here. One should talk about the merits of the complaint, rather than try some little deflection tactic.
This reminds me of a passage from Arthur C. Clark's Imperial Earth, set in 2276, in which a retrospective video on the first flight to the moon segues to a shot showing Tranquility Base at the (then) present time, complete with fallen flag and space tourists waving to cameras in the background.

There's an ongoing preservationist debate over whether or not to re-plant the flag or leave it where it is.

Other than UV bleaching and depolymerization of plastics (including the nylon the flag is made from), and slow micrometeorite ablation, these relics should stand for billions of years.
Not exactly, I stopped visiting Yahoo and went to a more neutral site like Google News for this very reason.

Last I checked, news on Yahoo was becoming a joke, in my opinion. This reflected across their entire site, and even more so in the quality of their comments. I hope Marissa Mayer changes this, I doubt that any aspiring web company wants to be known for this.
try ezPDF. It's a paid app, but it kicks the living poop outta Adobe's Android app.
Any examples of this integrating with Twitter Bootstraps layout?
I'd love to see a 37 Signals IPO, just to shut DHH up.

Also KYAK, TRIP, PANW are all up from their IPO price. I'm sure there's others.
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"We built a page logger. Any time a page was loaded, we'd keep track of it. You know what we found? The 80% of clicks we were paying for were from bots."

How do you tell if it's a bot? Just by user-agent string or repeated slamming by IP address, or is there some other technique?
Sulphur and nitrogen oxides.
My brother and I imported one each from the UK. After 4 days of use I am very, very happy with the hardware (display, sound, weight), but still have to get used to the software (changes in 4.x seem to confuse me, my phone still doesn't offer it. Sidenote: Never ever buy a phone from LG if you can avoid it).

Especially Google Now, while certainly interesting, seems to be useless to me so far (or I just don't get it?).

Even after this short time I'm confident that I'll bring this thing with me wherever I go and it already feels _wrong_ to look at the phone display again.

Do yourself a favor though and install Firefox Beta. Give it a shot against Chrome - for me the experience is so much better that I'd wish for a way to uninstall Chrome.
Are Video Games And Internet Porn Destroying Our Young Men?
No disagreement there.

Most people prefer the beaten path -> average.
Totally agreed. A few publications transcend any medium and generate great content.

I wonder if the newspapers on the ropes don't do that as much.
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Original source: http://allthingsd.com/20120729/court-case-offers-rare-glimps...
Robotic arm for shooting smooth video, manipulating objects
Very affordable robotic arm for picking up small objects and shooting smooth video pans with a smartphone. All the design files and source code will be made available to download, modify and hack. The software is currently written for Windows in C#. Creators says he hopes to have an OSX version ready by the time the product ships.
Peer-curation seems to get me information just fine, if not a wider variety that isn't filtered through the eyes of one editor.
Dropwizard has some examples of "REST server making use of JAX-RS annotations", but then its not Netty, but Jetty.
This technology is being explored since the 80s [1] and has been the source of similar images since at least 2008 [1].

Each line is the path traced by a water molecule (layman's explanation, please correct me). DSI is a variant of MRI that seems to have been developed precisely to map small crossing fibers, so that would be a huge failure.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_MRI
[2] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/410560/the-brain-unmask...
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> The Nexus 7 is my first table and I'm still sitting on the fence about the whole experience. The version of Chrome is superb and it's a pleasure to surf, but there really are a lack of tablet specific Android apps. Some Android apps are also missing features present in their iOS counterparts. For example, the MLB app is very basic compared to the iOS version. I was hoping the 7 would be useful for reading PDFs, but it's merely passable when there's nothing better around.

unlike when i bought my Xoom, i'm reasonably optimistic that we'll see tablet applications and updates arriving shortly. as chris dibona has said before, the attractiveness of the platform is basically a direct function of how many are sold. with initial sales at least perceived to be promising, i think we'll see more announcements like EA's in the days ahead:

http://phandroid.com/2012/07/30/ea-updates-dead-space-with-n...

and if i'm being honest, it was easier to take a flyer on a $250 device that may seem more applications coming than a > $500 alternative.

> Android 4.1 is a pleasure to use and is snappy. The hardware is nice, but I had to call for a replacement since my screen started to peel off after about 10 days.

this is the second time i've heard someone mention this, and depending on how widespread the problem is, it could certainly impact sales negatively. mine has had no such issues thus far, but i guess i'll see what happens in three days.
Shh, if you keep pointing out that the system isn't broken then people will think they don't need to always continually try to make it better.
The main technique is to notice a pattern that is only explainable by bot activity.

Generally speaking, in addition to the patterns you mentioned (invalid user-agent strings, rapid succession of same-IP access) there are also other patterns, such as failure to load referenced CSS or image files, or 100% failure on Captcha challenges.
Nope. The people I worked with were almost all from Spain. They spoke Castilian. My main exposure before them was always from Latin American sources. I LOVE the way Castilian people speak since it's so clear.

We had Latin American folks in the office too. They never had a problem speaking with each other. Maybe a border guard speaking broken Spanish confused someone, but this woman was just trying to ask basic Spanish 101 type questions.

The follow-up to the story is that I came across the same candidate's resume 6 months later. He had changed the "fluent in Spanish" to something like "basic Spanish".
Nice! and indeed needed...
How do you handle scroll areas? can one column be independently scrolling? that was my main pain point with JQueryUI draggable...

Note that your "Fork me on github" banner points to http://github.com/you, which shows me MY profile page :)
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Well, it's inexhaustible within the next few millennia, which is the same criteria by which geothermal is considered renewable.

Nuclear really should be considered renewable, the only reason it's not is politics.
If you clarify it as the first thing you do in the interview I'd expect most people to not consider this lying, but as a safeguard against silly HR/recruiting.

Some countries have a "master without dissertation". It doesn't technically exist here either, but you could just put that...
Public vs private interiors.
Plenty of people were warning about Groupon and Zynga being unsustainable businesses BEFORE they went IPO, and I have no sympathy for those that played that risky game. It's disingenuous to be outraged about those two stocks being below the IPO price when it was a common sentiment before they went IPO.

Facebook is actually a real business, making $1B/quarter in revenue. Maybe they should have went IPO at $8 and allowed all those high net-worth investors who could buy at the IPO price to double or triple their money. But why should they do that?

I'm beginning to think that the stock market is not a place for individual investors, with all the computer traders and momentum investors. But that's a different point entirely.
PageKite is not a localtunnel clone, it is a much bigger concept. Otherwise I wouldn't have founded a company around it.

It just happens that the use case for web developers overlaps and that is what folks seem to care about around here. :-)
Columbia Gets in on Action, as NYC Coughs Up $15M for Tech Campus Project
I tried again and it started working... must have been a server issue.
Hi there.

The only current integration of the tool is Ducksboard, where we use it to handle widgets arrangement.

The documentation is pretty extensive anyway, it should be easy to integrate anywhere.
Most likely a combination. In addition to analyzing the user's navigational path, exit points, IP ranges, etc...
> Especially Google Now, while certainly interesting, seems to be useless to me so far (or I just don't get it?).

this is interesting, because for my usage, Google Now was one of the most useful additions in Jelly Bean. i use it all the time, and love the notifications about nearby public transit, time and distance notifications for appointments from my calendar and so on.

it's pretty basic at present, but it's already useful for me day to day and if they were to open the API could be dramatically more so.

> Do yourself a favor though and install Firefox Beta. Give it a shot against Chrome - for me the experience is so much better that I'd wish for a way to uninstall Chrome.

several people have said this as well, so i will definitely be giving it a shot.
Yes I've seen recruiters change/add additional job titles to match exactly what they knew we were looking for. Then the candidates come in and have no idea what I'm talking about and everyone's time is wasted.
re: Google Now. The only ways I've seen it noticeable function is when you leave your current "home location" and if you turn on your Google web history (on the account that is tied to Chrome on the Nexus 7).

Since I neither leave my home location often nor want to turn on web history, for either of my accounts, it's relatively useless for me.
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They said that for 80% of their clicks , Javascript was off.
Now there will be plenty of users who have disabled Javascript but nowhere near 80%.

Although they stated they built their own analytics software, so there's also a chance that it wasn't working as they thought it was.
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Exactly. The sad thing is that I tried to install it precisely because it's the sort of thing (interesting new software[1] I want to try!) that I almost never see from the Haskell community. Yet I can't (well, won't), because the only way to use it is to build and install the bleeding edge version of the whole stinking platform from source. Yuck.

[1] Software that integrates well with the existing OS environment, to boot (again, something often sorely lacking inside the Haskell gardens). I mean, it uses git and runs as a self-contained web service. It looks nifty.
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'It is great for learning to code '

When the machine was first pitched it was as a spiritual successor to the BBC Micro computer - to inspire and create a generation of bedroom programmers.

Compared to the home computers of the 80s, the Raspberry Pi isn't as simple to use, you have to jump through quite a few hoops to get to a point where you can start to code in Python and in my opinion is sufficiently difficult enough to deter the lay person; a little bit more complicated than turning on a machine and getting a BASIC interpreter you can start typing commands into.

In my experience most of the Raspberry Pi community has been more interested in porting emulators and media players, rather than nurturing basic skills in computing for kids. I believe the world still needs a machine to get kids more interested in computer science and away from the spreadsheets and word processors, but I don't think this is the machine to do it.
The big problem with the liberal arts is the subjectivity of grading.

The algorithm that works best in the liberal arts is "guess what the teacher wants to hear and say it."

The horrible truth is that this is an unreasonably effective algorithm for functioning in management. At worst, it's used by scam artists like Madoff and Ken Lay. Many executives have left a trail of destruction, moving from one company to another just before reality sets in.

If there's any attribute that will cause mankind to end up like the dinosaurs, it's like this. It's got everything to do with our inability to deal with problems like global warming and it drives the everyday mediocrity that drags us down.

Back in college I remember some of the humanities profs were known to be liberal and others were conservative. Students who had different politics frequently believed they weren't graded fairly.

The mediocracy hates STEM and has waged a war against math because, often, we can say results in STEM are objectively right or wrong.

For instance, one time I pointed out an error that a math prof made on the board and he was happy to be corrected -- it's a bit of evidence that he's succeeding at his job. But after class, a student told me he was shocked that I'd been arrogant enough to think the teacher was wrong!

On the other hand, if you don't agree with what a humanist says about Shakespeare, for instance, she might reply that "different people can believe different things" or she can be bullheaded and not admit the subjective element.

I remember having a English teacher in high school who was the most respected, but I couldn't get better than a "D" in her class because she thought I couldn't write.

A few years later I had a strech when I got most of my income from writing and copy editing so there.
I think that was removed in the course of Apple's anti-GNU crusade
Forest? It's not forest, it's an endless plain of monoculture - no insects, no birds, no ecosystem.
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Wow, even if this is a little true the implications are big.

Is this similar, or related to other ad space inflation? I'm reminded of Google (and others)(1) sending out free $75 adwords coupons to easily allow the costs of bids to inflate since it's not my own real money (thereby increasing the percentage of real cash being made on the ads)?

(1)Edited and clarified
Problem being that in programming you don't have 50 candidates to choose from. At the moment things seem to greatly favor the candidates rather than employers.

As a programmer I really like this, but as somebody who hires programmers it makes things difficult!
When the mouse pointer gets close to the bottom of the viewport while dragging an element we scroll the document. Columns are not scrolled on their own, since the whole grid is a "block".

We built it because jQuery sortables were limiting us to use separate columns, which couldn't handle "wide" (more than 1 column in width) elements.

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"For some reason there is a perception that American schools are failing, but I don't see it in the data."

It's been a linchpin to the ultra-conservative and libertarian arguments for "free market"-izing education in the US. The opinion being "well, school sucks when I grew up and/or for my child currently, and it's because government is involved". They point to other countries and their educational superiority (erroneously thinking that the countries' respective governments are somehow not at all involved in education when, in fact, the top-achieving systems have similar if not identical systems as the US).

Let's not even discuss how little they care for teacher's unions, how much teachers get paid (way too much is the current sentiment), and how all teachers are as lazy as unionized NYC construction workers on their lunch break because schools have summer breaks.

They point to a combination private schools and vouchers for the poor as the ultimate solution to our educational woes, some even going so far as saying let the dumbest, poorest, and difficult kids opt out of school by not making K-12 school mandatory.
Thanks i corrected my comment
Well done guys!

You're going to make my children very happy indeed!
And imagine how much being hacked affects revenue!

I don't doubt, though, that some sort of similar short-sighted thinking led to this decision. Is it really possible that such a large organization simply doesn't understand password policy? Not to mention, an organization that's on the board of PCI-DSS?