skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would only make sense if he was significantly increasing his work force (25%, 50%, etc.) to "out save" the ~20% standard fee's on first year salaries for contingent staffing firms. Though I get your point on the "weight in gold," however, seems like he needs a strong internal recruiter to get his/her chops with the culture, team and technology.

Their are a few "boutique" shops around (mostly Silicon Valley) who are fairly technical and can actually understand the requirements of the client, but, they are still on a contingent (so many firms / many candidates) which still comes down a style of "spray and pray."

Most recruiting firms can't specialize (or refuse) in a niche due to the need to "branch out" to keep the money coming in, hence the all encompassing "IT staffing" agencies.

Not fun, I'd love to work in a boutique / specialized model myself as a former (and probably soon to be again) technical recruiter.
That would be because they're selectively quoted, out of context, by a biased party.
Surprisingly modern graffiti from the walls of Pompeii
Raw Javascript is simply not an option. The API is awful, default types are not powerful enough and cross-platform consistency is a joke. For every decently sized project you start in JS you have to reinvent a thousand wheels to even get rolling, so you better just leverage a framework.
"With artists and labels hit hard by declining sales over the last decade, it’s hard to argue for lower royalty rates."

It isn't really. Changing times sometimes call for drastic measures. What you were able to charge in one medium might not be the same as you are able to charge for a new medium.

It might not be fun for the people who were at the top of the heap before the paradigm shift, but that just means they should have made preparations for that shift when it was easiest for them to do so.
Bank of America, my credit card provider provides the same sort of service. They call it ShopSafe. You generate a temporary credit card number with a certain limit and you can set when it expires.

It is fantastic for purchasing goods from web sites that may not secure their card data completely, or if you are worried about fraud on the internet. I've also in the past generated the numbers for when I need to pay over the phone and don't want to hand out my credit card number!

Extremely handy, unfortunately it seems that not enough people make use of it, to the point that BoA employees in the fraud department are at times not even aware that the feature exists...
How to motivate (and avoid demotivating) teams
Late Labs: A ‘Crowdcoding’ Site Where Developers Trade Code For Equity
Well this comment is ridiculous.

If timing and marketing is all that matters for market success then Apple should NOT have been successful with iPod or iPad since they weren't the first MP3 player or tablet. And they definitely didn't have the experience of companies like Sony when it comes to marketing.

You criticize others about grasp on real history when you seem so quick to ignore it yourself.
Hey guys - by no means does this post profess to be comprehensive, so I'm hoping to stimulate a larger discussion around this issue. Anybody who works in software should be able to relate on some level...

Thanks in advance!
Assuming you mean the expected remaining life, then yes. And you must mean that, because the other "obvious" meaning makes no sense.
Awesome, I had Click2Flash installed on Chrome, but no idea it basically already came built into the browser.
This is the kind of act that speaks well of a country IMO. This place needs culture & history in the form of infrastructure. Though Tesla wasn't American, his greatest achievements happened here, and less people than you think know about him. Remind them that this place is not just about burgers.
When attempting a problem that has an obvious brute force solution ask yourself why the brute force solution is wasteful. "It is wasteful because if I've already compared element A and element B, and I've already compared element B and element C then in some cases I shouldn't need to compare element C and element A." Is the type of thinking you should be having. This will lead you towards the right data structures and algorithms. Also, understanding sets and set theory really helps too.
An excellent comment. Your point number 2, by the way, applies very well to most legal work done by large law firms. Been there, done that. It never hurts to remind people in early career as they leave formal higher education and go into the for-profit, private-enterprise labor force that domain-specific technical skill as such is just a small part of the skill set someone needs to build a successful career.
I've had five gym memberships in my life. Every one of them allowed me to cancel the membership by coming into the gym and canceling it. In every case, that method, "Come into the gym and cancel" was written write on the contract.

If you are willing to negotiate with the owner/manager, they might even allow you to pay the full year up front - because that's basically the same thing (this was my argument) as signing up for a 1 year membership, and then canceling it the very same day - you are still responsible for the full 12 months, but it would end after one year because you had "cancelled" it.

Can you name a gym that won't let you cancel your membership by coming into the gym and doing so?
I am still 'negotiating' with my wife to drop Directv and just use Netflix streaming, Hulu+, and the occasional Redbox DVD for entertainment.

This is all just my opinion, but in a digital world where there is way too much entertaining stuff to view, be it TV, movies, videos on Youtube, Reddit, online newspapers like the NYT, that something big has happened for me: there are no more "must have" TV shows, movies, or books. For example, if HBO won't let me watch a special on the web for a fair price I don't care if I miss it.

Seriously, I will probably take 5 Coursera online classes this year, read 15 non-technical fiction books, 15 technical books, write several hundred pages in my own book projects, etc. Plenty of fun stuff to do.

This is similar to travel: when we go to a foreign country I don't worry about "seeing everything", rather, I just want to enjoy myself and get a feel for the people and place.

Same with digital entertainment: just graze a little.

Netflix is the absolute best value for me in entertainment.
Reality has digital error-correction built-in?
Fundamentals are algorithm design and complexity analysis, not the accidental complexities of some specific piece of hardware nobody will be using in twenty years.

On the flip side, there will always be teenagers. There will always be people attracted to assembly language for the same reasons I was: A love of complexity and half-formed (and mostly mistaken) ideas about what programming really is.
No, if you have purchases on your agreement prior to cancellation, it's obvious that you are beholden to these purchases. These are within contractual guidelines and sensible.

If a merchant tries to charge my card, and finds that they cannot, they can end their relationship with me, and if, for some reason, cannot reconcile outstanding costs through traditional means, can utilize collections agencies or any other means they wish to obtain their due.

This is not only nonsensical, but legally questionable at best, and I'm very surprised this is the first I've seen anyone bring a point against it.
I don't think that's devil's advocate - I think that's just common sense. People might start to think twice before ever giving their credit card to a business then.
A great explanation. Thanks for sharing.
I am not a fan of the Java stack either, and for the most part am successful at keeping it away from my daily work. It is a shame too, as there are some really useful things out there that were build on Java (the ones I care about run on the server).

That said, there is a jenkins box running at $dayjob that of course requires Java. However, if I had a choice between jenkins and jenkins-clone-built-with-something-else, all things being equal I would choose jenkins-clone-built-with-something-else.
Note that life expectancy is an average, meaning that a number as low as 40 years usually means a high infant mortality rate.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Interpretation_...
I think you misunderstood him. It's just as likely that the gym is trying to screw the customer by ignoring a valid request to cancel (even one sent via certified mail) than a customer trying to welch on a contract.
Is clickjacking a solved problem or will this only raise the bar a little?
Given how optimized jquery is, does anyone understand why something as simple as getting an element by id would be so much slower than Dom methods?
Doesn't a startup, founding one at least, require even more people skills than your average job?
Yep, thanks. I realize that in graph theory trees aren't directed, but in programming, saying "tree" almost always implies a parent-child relationship (i.e, directedness).

I was missing that nodes in a DAG can have two "parents", that makes sense.
That doesn't "get you out" of the contract any more than paying with a bad check would. You still owe them what you owe them, regardless of how current your credit card details are.
> Given that both are deficit funded, and dollar can be printed at will

This bespeaks a gross lack of knowledge about how a modern economy works.
Only 2 of 18 Presidential Innovation Fellows Are Women - But So What?
> you have to create a new attribute node, set its value and then add that to the element..

Erm... no you don't: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-F68F082
If everybody was 0 years old now, and the life expectancy were 67 years I guess you'd have the point?
Yes, this is shady. That's why you involve the Attorney General.
Use a debit card (and tick the box that prevents your account from being overdraft when you don't have enough funds if it's not there by default).

If there's no money on the card, transactions will go through.
There was once a proposal for an offshore incubator/co-working facility that would help individuals get around visa difficulties.

EDIT: Whoever flagged the question of the comment below went a bit too far. What in the world is wrong with someone asking, "How would that work, exactly?" (Aside from the imagined tone of voice, which can be interpreted in both a positive and negative light.)

There was an idea that people would work in international waters, but within close reach of meetings ashore. (Which they could attend on tourist visas.)
What do you think is modern about the language? Try Aristophanes.

That said, this is a cool collection. I think it would benefit from more interesting presentation, in terms of web design. Also, a more modern / freer translation technique might suit the content better than the stilted rendition offered here.
Are you thinking of any types of research in particular?

If you're thinking of human embryonic stem cell research, I'd have thought a research facility in Britain or Australia would be simpler than a research facility on a boat in international waters.
Good job Apple?

All your complaints are about the patent system. Good job Congress. Good job Representatives. Good job voters. Good job you.

Focus calls for change where the change is due.
What part is out of context? The fact that they skipped the question? The fact that you admitted they did as well?

They said they skipped the question. They skipped the question. The contention was they skipped the question. You disagreed, and then agreed.

You are acting the part of a troll, and being purposefully obtuse, and dishonest.
Sorry but I actually laughed when you said this. You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.

Apple was in NO way comparable to the likes of Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Motorola etc who had decades of pre-existing relationships in the mobile and component industries. Not to mention those companies were competing for lowest cost in some areas so had plenty of optimisation work already built into their supply chains.
Might want to check your local rules on stale debt before you pop the champagne. They typically have a couple of years.

Once they figure out that you aren't going to pay with out a fight, they'd be nuts not to sell your debt -- something is better than nothing.
I agree the latch is not a good comparison, but I did have "slide" to unlock on my walkman back in the day. (lock/unlock buttons)
Merchants can (and often do) change the terms of monthly payments, ignore legitimate requests for account cancellations, or even incur monthly charges for things that the cardholder was led to believe was a one-time charge.

That's what the dispute process is for. Sign an affidavit saying the merchant violated their contract with you, and the charge goes away.
Your extrapolation from off the cuff out of context quotes is mind boggling daft in its scope. Instead of providing supporting evidence, you're merely building a larger and larger narrative on top of the same incomplete data.

This is the same sort of reality twisting that we see out of the likes of the birther movement -- facts and supporting data take a back seat to whatever supports an appealing narrative.
Way over thinking it here, there will be _someone_ that sticks a (hopefully mounted) video camera in front of the screen and hit record.
Ballys Fitness, Blast Fitness, Anytime Fitness and Gold's Gym according to just a few of the 90 reports on RipoffReport. I didn't just pull names out of titles, I read the reports and these are people that said they went to their gym to cancel, but kept getting billed by ABC.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/directory/ABC-financial.aspx
> the biggest thing I've learnt is that a separation between owners and decision makers is a great thing

There are plenty of counter examples to this. Facebook is the most obvious successful one.
I agree that it's about more than just timing and marketing, however I'd definitely suggest that Apple's marketing was superior to Sony's and played a big part in their success. Not the only part, but a big one.
Show HN: appspydr.com - xcode/iPhone programming resource search engine
http://www.appspydr.com

There are tons of tutorials out there for xcode. Starting out as a self taught iOS developer can be a scary place. A place I'd been in a year ago.

A big problem is that we don't have a solid way to go through all the vast libraries of resources. Google, in all its greatness, has its faults as it crawls the entire internet for relevant content, and isn't always the best at displaying them.

Appspydr is a search engine that indexes handpicked sites and sources that contain quality tutorials and resources. Users can also request sites/sources to be indexed into Appspydr.

I hacked it together fairly quickly (over the weekend) to demonstrate it's purpose and to gauge interests. Everything from suggestions, pledge of interest, ideas, hate mail, critiques, to anything else you guys can think of is appreciated.

Thanks!
Ash
The basis for my comment on the autoimmune is relatively poorly documented, because by definition it happened outside of academic literature. A bit of intelligent Googling will turn up a great deal of lay discussion that substantially pre-dates the earliest peer-reviewed publications on the subject. It is clear from perusing the relevant discussion forums that there are a great many parents who are advocating the autoimmune hypothesis; While this of course has no bearing on the validity of the theory itself, it is highly pertinent when considering the theory's prominence in the mainstream media.

As regards autism and IQ, your analogy to schizophrenia is completely inaccurate. Someone with high IQ can develop strategies to ameliorate essentially every aspect of their autistic symptoms - learning social and communication skills, structuring their life to deal with overstimulation, participating in behavioural therapy to minimise repetitive and autostimulative behaviours etc. Schizophrenics are by definition unaware that their delusional beliefs are delusional, whereas any intelligent autistic can be made aware of their social deficits and behavioural quirks and can learn to adapt around them.

As you said, some autistic people have high IQ in some areas but are still unable to live a normal life, but this is because their cognitive problems render them unable to overcome their autism symptoms. A specific cognitive impairment is still a cognitive impairment - strong arms do not nullify paraplegia.

While it may be the case that there are some individuals that have high IQ but severe levels of impairment, they are very much outliers. There is no generally-accepted classification for the severity of autism symptoms, but it is worth noting that those systems which simply use IQ are not obviously less useful than more complex schemes; IQ correlates as strongly with functional impairment as any other factor.
> jQuery is kind of a big download for mobile, so I often skip it for small tasks.

That's what Zepto[0] is for: jQuery's API, 20% of the size (although it drops some features, e.g. $(selector) is pretty directly proxied to document.querySelectorAll, so $('> .foo') works in jQuery but blows up in Zepto)

[0] http://zeptojs.com/
I don't see any mention of 2-factor auth on the linked page. Maybe they're rolling it out in stages?
Disrupting the startup recruitment process with a party. (Chicago UNCUBED)
UNCUBED brings together emerging companies and talented job seekers in an exciting, fun and informative environment with great speakers, panels, workshops, games, music and beer. You just bring you.

Chicago UNCUBED
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That's a lot of effort for a rip that will make the releasing group the laughingstock of "the scene".

(I giggled the first time someone told me about this, but Wikipedia has an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene)
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Seems like it to me as well, I don't see any options to do 2-factor auth on my settings page either. Maybe it's a pro feature right now?
This makes NO sense what so ever. Apple has had plenty of failures in the past e.g. Cube G4 so it is not the case that people will just blindly "buy and try" Apple products.

And the idea that ANYONE is going to spend nearly a thousand dollars and lock themselves into a year long contract just to "see if Apple would make a good phone" is plain and utter lunacy.
Vaya con Dios, Mexico. Thoughts on the war...
Try this: https://www.dropbox.com/try_twofactor

Although tray login still logs you in without the need to enter password or the code.
I would go one step further and recommend that you uninstall Java thus removing one attack vector. I did so a couple of months ago and have yet to find a case where I really needed Java.
That worked, thanks! Also, I just discovered a checkbox under 'Account Settings' that seems like it's an opt-in for early releases. OP probably already had this checked?
This won't help everywhere, but sometimes you can give the compiler a hint that a certain branch is less likely to be taken. The computation branch is going to be slower anyway, and only happen once, so tell the compiler to assume the lookup branch will be taken most of the time.
No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch
When I was working for Opsware, after it had just become a software business, pivoting from Loudcloud, 90%+ of our revenue came from a single, very, very large customer. (And, for the first 6-9 months, they were 100% of our revenue).

At every several all hands, I would ask our CEO, "What happens if they decide not to pay us?" - and his answer, at the time, was, "They will pay us" - basically we were betting the company on it - but at least we all knew that.

There is a reason why corporations are required to identify if a significant amount of their revenue from a single customer.

If you are getting all of your revenue from a single source, the question isn't what to do "if" that revenue disappears, it's what to do when that revenue disappears.
Pallotta Teamworks is a bit of a special case. As a private, for-profit company who raised money for AIDS and cancer non-profit organizations, they had a business model that was quite controversial. While their rides and walks were popular with the participants, and they raised a lot of money, the entire non-profit sector was ambivalent about them. They loved the money but hated the commercial message, hated the profit angle, and was not happy with the percentage of revenue that made it through to actual research. I would bet this was a major factor in Avon taking control of their fundraising events.
I use netbeans for php coding mostly for its code completion and use ElasticSearch for some sites I build. There's two.
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If everything Apple has done existed before then it should have been EASY to find clear examples of prior art to convince the jury of this.

But there were no clear examples. Just stretches of the imagination e.g. Star Trek.
Interesting take that gets to the heart of the matter but my
interpretation is different.

Like you say, the genius of Apple and Jobs is an incredible focus on
the simplicity and intuitiveness of their products. I have seen two
year old kids able to use ipads. This was their innovation and it has
won them millions (billions?) of loyal fans.

This was so radically different than the prevailing ethos in the tech
industry at the time that their supporters feel they should be
protected or rewarded for changing the industry.

However, there is a problem in granting protection for these types of
innovations, in that we are setting a dangerous precedent for patents
and innovation. The individual user interface elements that make up
the iPhone, by themselves, are all relatively obvious. Swiping to turn
a page is the natural evolution of the book. Movies like Minority
Report suggest the range of gestures we can imagine given the
appropriate technology. It's quite a stretch to suggest that something
so similar to what we have done all our lives should be protected by
law and in effect create a protected monoply and prevent others from
using these ideas in their products.

Instead those that admire Apple and what they have done should
continue to do what they have been doing, buy their
products.

As someone who has owned multiple ipads, ipods, iphones, and mac
books, I know how compelling their products are and the loyalty it
breeds in their users. Therefore, I think it is unlikely that many
will step back and think whether this really is the best result for
our industry.
The thing is, I don't see how this gets around government restrictions. From what I understand, a ship has to sail under the flag of some existing country, otherwise it is a pirate ship and subject to coercion by any country's navy. So the laws of whatever flag it is operating under will apply to that ship.
A well designed GOVERNMENT website.
The LG Prada looks a lot like the iPhone ?

That's crazy. I couldn't think of two phones that looked less alike.
Why exactly is profit / commerce considered a bad thing - especially here?

Is it an ideologic war waged by charities?

I could believe such feelings to be popular in Europe, but in the US - some deep ideological changes (of the business-unfriendly kind) must be happening :-(
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No. Even if everybody was 70 years old I'd still have a point.