skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, despite the headline, nowhere in the actual article does it say 4s and 5s will be fired. In fact, the snarky comment for 5 explicitly says they won't be fired.

Second, I don't really see putting people into these groups is so bad because it's relative to the other employees. Even if everybody is awesome, some people will be more awesome than others. It would be ridiculous to assume everybody in the group is providing the exact same amount of value and should all be ranked 1 or 2.
why isn't the longevity of sustained use a possible and, in my opinion, a more likely causal explanation?
I disagree. The only sensible introductory text I've found about them is for Scheme - http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~cswords/monads.pdf. Folks love to emphasize the types - but how one might implement them matters just as much if not more IMO.

Also, I've found the usage of monads as the building blocks for modular interpreters to shed the most light on their power, utility, and limitations (see the various papers from Steele, Wadler et al, Hudak et al, and Felleisen et al).
Still waking up at 5am to code?
For me, I'm mostly convinced of the paleo view. It's by no means the only valid view or the whole view but I'm convinced by numerous anecdotes from people I know personally and elsewhere.

Here's one quote from Anna Karenina which suggests that a similar approach was well known in Tolstoy's time:

On the day of the races at Krasnoe Selo, Vronsky had come
earlier than usual to eat beefsteak in the common messroom
of the regiment. He had no need to be strict with himself,
as he had very quickly been brought down to the required
light weight; but still he had to avoid gaining flesh, and
so he eschewed farinaceous and sweet dishes
You make fair points. My personal opinion is that we do have a license issue pending. There is an un-written gentleman's (gentle person) agreement about open source software, where there is a minimum amount of respect towards other peoples work. This is my biggest gripe here. I feel the spirit of this is being violated. The project was started about two years ago, and Roberto never thought it would reach this point. As much as we love the GPL, I think its time to move on.
HR silliness. Supposedly, people are less pissed off by a ladder that puts them at 59 out of 70 than by one that puts them at 1 out of 12.
People forget Ayn Rand would have been 12 during the Bolshevik revolution. It obviously deeply affected her. While I don't consider Objectivism to be a formal philosophy, I don't see anything wrong with the characters in Atlas Shrugged either. They were simply sick of being the doormats of humanity. Expected to do whatever necessary to make life better for everyone else even as they persist in misery. What I want to know is what kind of person thinks anyone should live like that?
Please don't invent article titles! The correct title is "We're NASA and We Know It". Guess how I'm sure? I copied the title from the linked page.
Does it seem like insanity to anyone else that portable electronic devices would have any impact on a plane in flight? Even a cell phone. How poorly designed would a plane have to be to be affected by that stuff?

Honestly, the requirement made me less confident that anyone in aviation knew what they were doing.
How does this affect the "contract employees"? I'm guessing they don't get the bonuses, but do they get rated?

Microsoft still has a high rate of contractors (and I count some friends and relatives among this number), although less since they got in trouble from the federal government for not paying most types of benefits to contractors. [1]

1: http://archive.washtech.org/news/courts/display.php?ID_Conte...
Also, mind the difference between design and utility patents. You can hold a design patent for a certain style of mug, for example. The Coca-Cola company owns a design patent on the style of the iconic Coke bottle, for example, but it wouldn't be able to patent "System and method for containing carbonated beverages."
Twitter is encouraging services to use their new Twitter Card feature for things that syndicate to Twitter like Path and Instagram. This gives the App that posted the tweet additional attribution than "via Path" or whatever...

Although the rollout is slow, it's the ultimate solution for twitter because it does provide a better experience. For those kinds of apps at least.
> Not all kindle books have drm. I bought one recently that explicitly specified it had none.

How common is this though? I've half-heartedly done a bit of research from time to time about Kindle DRM, but always give up after (perhaps incorrectly) confirming that it is still mostly the default, and after finding pages and pages of results of blog posts bemoaning or defending some DRM related news from last year, or two years ago, or four years ago. It's why I, like many others in this thread, still buy print even though I'd consider a Kindle for convenience.

So if Kindle books without DRM are common, or even the majority, I'd genuinely like to know.

> Just as with iTunes, people should stop repeating what was once true, and focus more on what is true.

I'm probably guilty of repeating anti-DRM complaints regarding the Kindle, but you have to admit that with iTunes and Amazon music, it's clear cut and there's no question when it comes to DRM.
I was surprised to find out that this study finding comes from a long-running longitudinal study

http://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz/news/dunedin-study-theme-lea...

that has produced some other path-breaking research papers on child development. In other words, while this study is not the last word on the subject of the headline here, it is conducted by researchers who are used to scholarly controversy and having other researchers check their work. So I'll be curious to check the underlying journal article (for which I have yet to see a citation in any of the several news reports about this today).
Because the Internet is supposed to 'flatten' the world, and it does in basically all cases except where money or media licences are involved. Which is annoying, because while I can happily read the New York Times while not living in New York I can't work with many of the internet businesses that reside there.
Yeah, you can be a really, really good dev in a really, really good group, and get screwed. But if you move to another, weaker group you'll start getting great reviews again.

It's nuts. It's probably what's going to force me out. I want to work with very good people, but to get good reviews I'd have to work with knuckledraggers.
I used applications on WinCE - I had a Toshiba PDA. I cannot remember all the application names, but SPB was one of the key developpers for the platforms and their organizer/calendar/scheduler apps (Spb Calendar if I remember correctly) was much better than what you could find on iOS or Android until recently. There were also applications that could open and edit actual word documents and excel sheets (forgot the name) which worked pretty well for tweaking existing files.

The main drawback was the lack of a good browser - these were the days before firefox/chromium so there were no real alternatives out there.

But I had Skype running to call people YEARS before any smartphone could do it. Smartphones were just catching up to what the original PDAs were capable of doing, basically.
I wouldn't say astounding; at least not in all capitals. In Chicago, which has some of the highest-paid drivers in the nation, bus drivers make about $60k plus benefits.

In the USA, that's right on the nose for a white male with some higher education under his belt. It's mainly an outlier if considered along with certain demographic elephants in the room.
True, many things, including strategic focus and market selection, can lead to success or failure, but certainly HR policies have some effect in favoring/repressing innovation, collaboration, and truth to power.
But sending out fake DMCA notices is perjury! And here companies are creating bots to do this? This is absotulely ridiculous.
I think that the NYT article was poorly written.

It's hard to tell what was meant by controlling for differences.

For example, fat people have a higher BMR, simply because they are larger.

Tall people have a higher BMR, because they are larger.

And so on.

The "Phelps diet" is a bit of a media beatup, apparently. Not that it matters, Phelps could still get fat if he wanted to. Elvis is estimated to have been eating more calories than that in the year before his death.
The greatest wallet on earth
Unfortunately, there are not many detailed reviews of OpenBSD I could find.
I suppose these particular paths aren't as exploitable as a logout (which isn't a GET on Twitter, either, it seems), but what about, e.g., Chrome's link prefetching? I'm not sure how it would know not to prefetch, for instance, the "cancel email confirmation" link.

Anyway, I'm teaching myself Clojure right now and this looks like great sample code to study, so thank you for sharing it.
From what I've heard, it's more to try to keep distractions to a minimum during high risk parts of flight - namely, take off and landing. But still being able to read a magazine but not a Kindle negates this whole arguments.

Trust me: if there was a technical risk from iPhones, they wouldn't be allowed onboard.
The title of the article in no way reflects the outcome of the research. The study compared measured IQ to a decision to smoke pot. There is no control group, and the study is retrospective.

A reader may ask how this result could arise by something other than a cause-effect relationship? Maybe people find themselves under peer pressure to (a) smoke pot, and (b) reject the value of scholarly activities. Someone might answer that IQ is predetermined, that it doesn't have any environmental component. But that idea has been falsified in animal studies, studies that show the development of new brain cells in animals that live in stimulating environments.

There are any number of factors that might lead an individual to simultaneously choose to smoke pot and avoid activities that might improve his IQ -- socioeconomic, genetic, and so forth. The only way to control for these things is to design a truly scientific study that tells experimental subjects whether they will smoke pot, rather than asking whether they do. But such a study would be unethical, which is why there's no science in this field of study.

This study is much like thousands of studies I've read over about 35 years, and all of them suffer from the same flaw -- they aren't science. Correlation is not causation.

The linked study represents psychology at work -- science in name only.
Ahh, but I have two interfering security cards in my wallet, one in each flap! With your system I'd need to actually take the cards out of the "wallet" before I used them.

Also, coins. Also, the inside of your wallet is less abrasive than the inside of your pocket, that could contain keys or loose change.
I bought a few packages from fiverr for a site that I built 3-4 years ago with a minor benefit.

My recommendation would be to build your own 2.0 sites like squidoo / hubpages link back to your main site and then blast those squidoo / hubpages with fiverr.
Cimentos Votoran 
O Cimento Votoran CP V-ARI RS Cor Canela, primeiro cimento colorido do mercado brasileiro, une funcionalidade, economia e versatilidade. Lançado pela Votorantim Cimentos em 2003, o produto atende às necessidades de arquitetos e engenheiros, que passam a contar com uma opção que oferece maior adequação aos ambientes e viabiliza economicamente obras coloridas.
You are completely wrong about CD prices. They were cheaper than tapes and records to make up for the "relatively" high cost of CD players. Back then an entry level CD player cost about 250 USD but a tape player could be had for about ten dollars. The cost of printing CD's was therefore subsidized to encourage adoption of the format.
So does bringing reddit-flavored content to HN!
This answered this question for the mathematician in me:

http://www.economist.com/node/771049

The Economist in 2001.
I've been saying for years now that subscription models are the future of digital content distribution. A generation or two from now the idea that you "own" digital content is going to seem quaint and people will just pay a monthly fee for a la carte access to content and all these problems will disappear.

It wouldn't surprise me if meta-content like user reviews and histories become more interesting as targets for preservation. Who knows, maybe my grandkids in 2064 will be interested to know what I read and watched in 2012 and what I thought of it?
Value makes them relevant to estate issues.

It seems to me unlikely that digital content will remain the domain of relatively cheap music, books and videos.
How A 65-Year-Old Toothpick Brand Became A Surprising Facebook Marketing Stunt
Yet Another Reason Not To Be Lazy Or Imperative
I don't share the security card problem, but it's a fair point. I think I like to avoid coins intentionally, their weight to value ratio is terrible, they are lost easily, and you never have the right amount and end up having to use a card anyway.
I'm Doing It Wrong
Growth Hacking Is BS...It's All Just Marketing
Not to mention "tap to zoom."

I mean, WTF...
Love the idea, but the data is not accurate. It took up to 5 minutes to load initial numbers on my small amount of data.

I look forward to similar services based on this idea. Good start :)
How so? You can already use portable electronic devices in flight, just not during takeoff or landing. I fail to see how lifting those two minor restrictions alone will open up anything to startups.
I often find myself wishing for CSS widgets, so to speak. A reusable component of HTML and CSS that can be inserted without inheriting anything from the parent elements. You can achieve this if you take a lot of care, but it should be a lot easier than it is.

But where CSS really falls apart is in layouts. What is just a simple equation in a native application ends up being a myriad of hacks to get things flowing right in CSS. Javascript comes with the missing pieces, but introduces its own set of problems if you try to rely on it.

> the difficult of writing core graphics methods for every bevel, rounded corner, gradient etc has a lot of developers just using cut images for everything.

On iOS, the QuartzCore framework provides declarative methods for those common style choices (rounded corners, gradients, etc.).
Is your iPad keeping you up at night?
We really need a Can'tchina... There are tons of stuff one cannot use in China for various reason, e.g. Google+, Dropbox...
It bothers me that he's arguing computer science jargon while citing an example containing old Statistics jargon...
The Forgotten Yahoo Project That Inspired Two Recently Funded Startups
Loser with a phone, oh boy!
> it is conducted by researchers who are used to scholarly controversy and having other researchers check their work.

Repeating a study with no meaningful controls ignores the same factors, and doesn't change the outcome -- until a prospective double-blind study is carried out, we don't have anything except a correlation, and a correlation is not a cause-effect relationship.

Here's a perfectly plausible explanation that the research ignores -- individual who choose to smoke pot are under peer pressure to avoid intellectually stimulating activities. The latter factor causes their measured IQ to drop, compared to others who embrace a lifestyle with more intelligence-enhancing activities.

Is that possible -- can an individual improve his IQ by choice of activities? Yes, according to animal studies that do have meaningful controls -- animals that are placed in stimulating environments grow new brain cells:

http://www.pbs.org/saf/1101/segments/1101-2.htm

It doesn't matter how many times such drug use studies are conducted or replicated -- if they have the same systematic flaws, repetition doesn't increase their value.

The gold standard for this class of study is a double-blind, retrospective study, and such a study has never been conducted for ethical reasons.

This study is typical "psychological science" -- science in name only.
Show HN: Write.app - Private digital notebooks
I love how people think Apple woke up the day before the iphone demo and threw it all together at the last second anything before that day is ironclad prior art.

The light bulb was invented over 120 years ago and they still hand out patents for light bulbs, imagine that.
The only part of a DMCA takedown notice that is under penalty of perjury is: "A statement [...] under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed." If a takedown notice doesn't have meet all the requirements, it can be safely ignored (ie. you the ISP or host will still get sued, but might get it dismissed).

Note that for a counter-notice, the penalty for perjury is somewhat broader, in that it includes your statement that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed by mistake or due to mis-identification. This means that you technically cannot make a valid counter-notice for what you have reason to believe is a bad-faith takedown notice, even if that bad-faith notice does not carry the penalty of perjury for the sender. (The sender may still be liable for your legal fees.)

This imbalance where the first to send notice in a copyright dispute has such a strong advantage and presumption of being right may even be a violation of the equal protection clause.
What a silly false dichotomy posed by this post. Either you have the ability to interact with others or you don't? Those who know how to meet new people are douchebags? Not only is this post silly, but it is profoundly naive as to how people behave. I do wish we could down vote articles sometimes.
New Interpolated HD Video of Curiosity Mars Rover Descent
The Siege of Academe: Silicon Valley, Higher Education & Disruptive Technology
The problem isn't ranking people, it's how they determine the score.

That's not the problem either. The real problem is stack ranking is a morale killer. You get rid of the bottom ten percent and then the top ten percent says "Damn, every day I come to work I feel like there's this black cloud hanging over the cube farm. This place sucks, and I can get a job anywhere I want!" Then they do.

So you're left with the middle - people who do their job reasonably well and aren't dumb enough to take risks that might get them downgraded. Projects that are in trouble can't be turned around because the best (remaining) people stay away. And the people who couldn't get away find other jobs. I saw this happen on a project at a financial company I worked for. They needed eight or ten developers and went through at least twenty in the space of a year.

Does Microsoft have well-motivated top talent? It certainly doesn't show in the product lineup.
This is a repeat posting of a survey with serious methodological flaws, not least of which is a failure to define its terms. "Hacker" can and does mean nearly anything.
The paper: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2012-wood.pdf
so you're saying $100k + benefits is below market for someone who just graduated?
It's a monster
Ex-Digg Engineers Launch “Well,” A Social List-Making App
You're not listening
I was Grandfathered in from GC and was lucky enough to have my Canadian cell number transfer too. I have a Seattle GV number going to BC.

For 403 (Calgary) I believe GV works great.
I think it's a "to each his own" thing. Personally I've always found Haskell's syntax to be distracting. The operators are kind of visually "thick" and the prefix/postfix/infix mix obscures the logic for me.

Of course, this is because I only barely grok Haskell. If I really knew Haskell I'm sure I wouldn't have an issue with the syntax, but as someone trying to learn about Monads from a category-theoretic perspective, Haskell just ends up confusing me more than the extra annotations provided by its type system can compensate.

I found I understood monads a little better after this article, because the Lisp syntax is uniform enough that it disappeared into the background. The lack of type annotation brings some fresh confusion right back in, but that's the cost of using Clojure for this example.

Again, all of this is just how my own brain works. Your brain may vary :)

An interesting approach would be to try teaching monads with typed Racket. [1]

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/
I think people get confused by the ".org", when it's really a typical corporation doing whatever it takes to maximize profit.
nice piece of article
I seem to recall that a cell phone isn't likely to operate at 30,000 feet to begin with. There is an issue with a cell phone, at altitude, associating with many cell towers at once which consumes too many resources and is automatically shut out from the network. I tried to find the reference (probably from ~10 years ago on Slashdot), but couldn't locate it thus far.

EDIT: Here's one source http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=213012&cid=1732... saying that thousands of people switching cell towers frequently would strain resources. It also mentions that planes may be installing cell equipment into the plane to eliminate this issue.
Hooha for App.net released on Google Play
> Similarly, if it has already been published in a journal, then it should be off limits for being patentable.

It is. Patents can't be issued for something available to the public; this is called "public disclosure" and has bitten lots of researchers who publish before applying for their patent.
> If the entry is malformed the parser skips it...no harm.

How is the poor non-technical person who made the file to know there was a problem? Run it through some kind of validator? Or just wait a couple days and see if Google has picked up the file properly? The former is what you get with XML, the latter is what you get with DNS (and which necessitates tools such as DNS Report). If you dislike the complexity of the first option, you must be saying you prefer the second, which is ludicrous.

> Text encoding handled like any other text file.

So not, in other words. Or we can implicitly include HTTP in our non-specification, and now our user has to be sure the server is going to issue the file with the correct encoding header. Which again is not something our poor benighted user is going to have the chops to do.

> Attribute and content validity issue exists with XML, too

I didn't say XML magically makes these problems go away. I said XML forces you to deal with them up front rather than later on.

> txt: 1, XML: 0

You've done nothing but push food around on your plate and dodge responsibility for technical problems you created. If this constitutes "proof" of anything but an inability to see long-term consequences of short-term "let's throw some code at it" thinking, we're all doomed.