skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a great answer.

The CV approach is old and doesn't fit the the current market (for software engineer at least). You are what you do, and that is the most valuable thing a company should look for in new employees.

I hope the recruiter's mentality starts to change soon.
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That's a genuine possibility, I guess it is an upside for the founders. They can see they equity is going to disappear and can take the out rather and accept the huge equity loss - although convertible loan is higher up the debt chain so the VCs will still get a chunk back
What's the difference between this and the bittorrent app?
Looking at my lastfm stats, I have very few songs I listened to more than 99 times. My guess, if I try to estimate the tracks that are not counted, would be around 40 tracks making it to that level, with a distribution heavily skewed towards one or two artists.

I estimated my top playing artist at 6000 listens. That's max $60 on Spotify. I have paid for more than that in albums over the years.

That's just me, of course, but I'm trying to give some perspective.
Lawyers act on behalf of clients that can afford to employ them, so I'd call it a plutocracy.
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I am worried about how well the adapter will work in cars, where the dock connector provides mechanical support as well as connectivity (I have the 2point5 specdock in my audi). I'm not sure if extra height from the adapter is going to work well.
For those looking to set habits I definitely recommend chains.cc It's a super simple way of tracking what you did each day and makes you feel good when you keep up your habits. I'm not affiliated in any way, just a fan as most todo and goal apps never really worked for me (for most of the reasons mentioned in the article)
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i don't understand what you are saying here. astronomical images don't look exactly like that - they have fewer "spikes" - but they are similar. the spikes are either from diffraction caused by the secondary mirror support (which light passes through in a reflecting telescope) or readout artifacts in the CCD, particularly when it saturates (although that looks quite different - a single vertical line, often).

i agree that the spikes (in astronomy images) don't come from blade edges in a diaphragm aperture, but they are still diffraction spikes (from the secondary support) and "everyone" (as far as i know / remember) refers to them as such.

you can see the secondary support in the top right image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflecting_telescope - the four radial "things" that hold the cylinder in the "end" of the telescope (on the right).

so what are you referring to with "internal back reflections" and how does that give spikes (rather than ghosts)?

[above from (past) personal experience as an optical astronomer on research telescopes - i am not sure if you are confused, or if there's some kind of problem i never understood. perhaps you work on a system where this is an issue?]
Is it still possible to work through the exercises or was it a time limited thing?
I doubt it. The camera seems to have HDRI. That, a looong exposure time, and a tripod can do amazing things.

Plus, it's compared to a photo they took with "a competitor's phone". Even I can take an amazingly crap photo with my camera-phone, it's not hard.
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A reference to https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/ wouldn't hurt you, author.
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Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Ubuntu 12.04
You can get the source:

https://github.com/stripe-ctf/stripe-ctf-2.0/tree/master/lev...

Don't know if it's dependant on any particular server config though. A VM Image might be nice.
Privacy and Data Management on Mobile Devices
I was going to add that NZ dumped the idea of a local car industry in the 1980s and relaxed its car import laws. As a result the average car age is much lower, and the average cost of a car is much lower - leaving large amounts of disposable income for NZ residents to spend on other things (ie, not Dealer/Manufacturer profit margins + Federal taxes). As you have shown - when people can import a vehicle from anywhere they like, they do, and no doubt that puts serious pressure on dealer + manufacturer margins and there would be very little price gouging going on.

You should hear Toyota Australia go on about parallell imports - they condemn the cars as unsafe - despite those cars being built in Toyota factories in Japan. It is mind boggling.

Meanwhile, the last round of Federal Government 'assistance' (or co-investment, as they now spin it) that was given to GM was mostly used for redundancy payouts for factory staff.

Support for the regulation + taxation + duty protection for the Australian car industry has bipartisan support - so it's not likely to go anywhere any time soon.
> But he isn't going to go start a company tomorrow that will revolutionise the way we communicate.

Maybe he won't do that because he thinks he doesn't have enough time left to properly grow such a company, to see it flourish and observe the impact it would have on the world?
Maybe he doesn't have enough physical endurance and health to endure the challenges of being an enterpreneur?
Or maybe his wisdom allows him to see that all of his ideas of 'revolutionizing the way we communicate' (assuming he ponders that problem) would not fare well if realized, and he didn't have the one that could work yet?

There are many possibilities here and the postulated lack of curiosity is just one of them.
Ah, yeah I guess HDR would do it, slanted comparison nonetheless.
Yes - on my network, Vodafone UK, these are the ones I can remember off the top of my head:

*#1345# - gives you your credit balance if you're on a prepaid account
*#100# - your phone number
*#101# - the current network date and time
*#[102-105]# - various network engineering information that I can't understand.

You can also, as long as you're on original GSM and not 3G, use the 'cell broadcast' feature to make it show you the current area code you're in (or more accurately, that your current tower is in). This is a throwback to an ancient price plan which gave cheaper calls to your local area. It's very much deprecated, so some newer cells don't broadcast the area code info, and no 3G cells do so.
Open Source Java Speech API
Any high-demand cars are usually not available for test drives, unless you know the dealer or someone with one.

It's not unheard of for people to have to purchase a car sight unseen, never driven. Dealers may give you an 'out' - as in final delivery is subject to a satisfactory test drive - but few people are going to knock back a car they've been waiting months for.
It would be nice if the CTF site could be kept alive (meaning you can still solve the puzzles and move up in levels) for another month or so. Not as a 'competition', as it was, but just to allow more people to fiddle with it.
I got in late and couldn't afford to spend a whole day cracking but I'd love to play some more if it opens again.
Nice affiliate links for TuneCore. This may be a subtle form of advertising for that service. Fake content? You be the judge.
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As soon as you start censoring certain kinds of information (whether it's a topical news aggegrator mashup or anti-gay propaganda ... or both) you are taking a political stance. Period. Censorship means you stop being neutral.

Now whether this stance exerts any meaningful influence on society and public opinion, largely depends on the public mindshare this entity has.

You are arguing the wrong way around and attacking straw men of "conspiracy theory mongering". Please go and reply to those actual comments that say these things, if they are there, you can probably find them all the way below on the page, downvoted by the Apple fanboi and electronic freedom proponent alike.

And not particularly as a reply to you, I thought I'd look up Freedom of Speech, see what it exactly means. I thought, for something to become a Freedom-of-Speech (Human Rights) issue, you need to have a political entity that enforces it (such as the imaginary claim made by your straw men). But it seems to be a bit broader than that:

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, states that:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

I highlighted those two parts. "Through any media" means that, if this app would also get refused by the Android platform, the author is practically prevented from using the medium "smartphone app" to impart his message. Fortunately, Android is open (even if their app market would reject it). That does (IMVPO) not make it right for Apple, because they do nothing to preserve this freedom, it exists despite their actions, not unhindered because of it.

The "regardless of frontiers" part, not entirely serious, I know that it refers to geopolitical frontiers, but it could be easily extended to the walls of Apple's "walled garden": what it means to say is that you should be able to freely impart your information from Nation X to Nation Y. This blockage of the Drone news aggegrator means that he cannot in fact reach the people of "Nation iPhone-user".

(The fact that perhaps most people of Nation iPhone do not want to know, funnily enough is shared by a lot of Chinese people as well)
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Interesting Read about how this product came about. Works quite well too
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I understand what you're saying.

BUT, be careful with the concept of 4chan and "no retribution". There have been countless examples of 4chan "reacting" to threads, I'm sure I don't need to go into detail here.
Every single BMW car that is built, is built to order. You can literally have no two BMWs the same. The ones on dealer lots have been ordered by the dealers, who have an idea on what combinations sell well.

I visited the factory in Munich and you can see a big line of doors, seats, carpets, etc feeding up to the assembly line. Each is computer controlled, and when the intended vehicle gets to the seat install station, the correct seat (style, fabric, RHD/LHD) meets the correct car. When the doors arrive, they've got the right interior bits already in them, and all the wiring loom bits match up with what is already in the car, even if the prior 20 cars have all had different options (color, trim, options, etc).

Meanwhile, at the back of the factory, JIT delivery trucks are delivering the next set of seats/steering wheels/seatbelts etc - all barcoded, all ready to be loaded onto the assembly lines in the correct order.

It's truly eye-opening to watch a highly automated factory like this in operation. When a dealer in the USA presses the 'order' button - suppliers, factory, workers - everything lines up and out pops a fully finished, completely unique car.
I very much agree, I didn't have enough time that week so I only got to level 5 but I would love to try and complete the rest of the levels!
How Apple advertises their camera in iPhone: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1127246/Screenshots/sb53.png

You can say what you want about Apple, but they did it right. Unretouched photos. Full-res available for download.

Source: http://www.apple.com/iphone/built-in-apps/camera.html
>Here are videos (OIS off and on) shot with a Lumia 920

OIS in Lumia 920 can not be turned off, it's different phone. In presentation they showed photo of special device holding both phones for producing comparation videos.
Visual Encoding
What has me confused is how these automated take downs, without automated appeals, don't constitute fraud. I can't go down to the local county courthouse, spamming it with grossly erroneous and frivolous claims documents, and expect to just walk away. There are laws against that sort of thing.

Why would we tolerate this of digital media?
You make a case for the redundancy of CVs but then at the end point him in the direction of what is effectively a CV. If you're going to point him in the direction of a CV substitute, I would just attach a copy to the email to save the hassle of him going to your Linkedin profile.
Linus Torvalds himself is an advocate of very descriptive commit messages: https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface/blob/master/README#L1...

And more explicitly: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...

We have been moving towards commit messages similar to those used in the kernel development (i.e. longer, descriptive) and it has proven very useful indeed
When I got a lot of CV requests from recruiters I took a similar yet much more childish approach to your mail.

I created a PDF with my name, email and a link to my linkedin-profile. That way I could see if they had a look at my profile, most did and I actually got some good laughs and a couple of interviews with it.
If only I'd known about the SHA1 padding thing :(
I think the most amusing case of UTF-16 considered harmful would possibly be the choice, in WPF/Xaml, to use UTF-16 code point offsets to reference positions in XML strings -- while supporting UTF-8 XML encoding. It can create the situation where, even if the input and output are both UTF-8, you'll nonetheless need to transcode into then out of UTF-16 in order to perform the proper string splitting.

Fun.
Yes, both from search index-ability and training point of view.
Internet Brands suing Wikitravel volunteers
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I am speaking about astronomical images not in general, but those taken with the Canon EF 17-40 f/4 L USM lens. They are almost always taken with the diaphragm wide open, and contain same kind of spikes -> spikes are not from diffraction.
Yeah that's where my knowledge ran out. Still feel pretty good about finishing everything up to level 7 on my pretty vague understanding of various attacks :)
You are right, when taking anectodes into account, I have such users around me.

Even those, who are capable of OTA updates, they often don't (if your monthly limit is 1GB of data, you are not going to burn it on update).

It may be difficult to accept on HN, but really, mainstream users do not care about firmware updates. It is actually net negative for them. They have a device they are using and the update changes the behavior, that they are used to.
So it boils down to "let collusion go unpunished this one time, because we did your job for you!". Right.

Not only would it create a precedent in letting collusion slide, but it would also misrepresent the problem: it's DRM that supports Amazon's monopsony, and only because publishers asked for it.
I have two Open Pandoras that say you Just Need To Wait A Little More (tm). ;)

And yeah, seems like every few years we get more and more college grads who seem to be surprised that there is, in fact, a lot of very cheap hardware out there to be had. I've been running and using micro-scale Linux hardware like these new-gen things for decades. Gumstix, BananaBoard, et al.

Okay, the <$50 pricing is pretty nice, but not entirely unexpected given the trend over the last 10 years of having these things get cookie-cut around. The whole point of ARM in the first place was to get to this position ..
Raspberry Pi is just the new, "hipster", eval board.

There have been cheap, affordable, fun eval boards like the Rpi out there for years. Gumstix, Beagle, and so on. Prices are coming down, sure, but don't kid yourself that the RaspberryPi is something new and ground-breaking: its just a surface feature of a rather larger industry.
I'm starting to consider this pretty seriously due to a flurry of incoming snooping laws in the UK. I normally do a bit of SSH tunneling out to a VPS if I need a proxy; is SSH my best option/most secure option? What do others recommend?
If all legal briefs were like this I suspect more people would be able to understand the law
The Art of the Imperfect Pitch
> While newspapers may report on drone strikes, that's not their primary function. The primary function of this app is obviously to make a bold statement about the atrocities of war.

The current primary function of most major newspapers however, seems to be to not make any statement either way, bold or not, and to ignore what's happening. People are being killed with the blood on the hands of the US, but because your soldiers are not directly involved, it's not being reported on, as if it's a minor thing.

It's not newspapers, it's information channels that tow the party line.

> Apple doesn't want to publish an app that is designed to provoke the audience.

Unless it's political cartoons. But only if you win a Pulitzer first and Steve jumps in ( http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/apple-approves-pulitzer-win... ).

> Letting everyone publish would drown out many good apps in favor of shit.

Everybody thinks their own shit don't smell. Personally I think a large chunk of the bland useless turds found on the Apple Appstore is a lot of shit[1], and a DroneTracker app is in fact pretty damn cool, original and fresh.

[1] I wouldn't normally do this on HN but since you've started it, I can enjoy slinging projectile poop as much as the next monkey.
Federal investigation concludes that Marc Hauser fabricated data
Reminds me of http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/performance-is-a-fe... :

"The simple act of putting a render time in the upper right hand corner of every page we serve forced us to fix all our performance regressions and omissions. [...]

Most of the performance fixes were trivial, and even the ones that were not turned into fantastic opportunities to rearchitect and make things simpler and faster for all of our users."

Stackexchange open sourced their profiler at http://miniprofiler.com/ (.NET & Ruby)

The post provides some data showing how they improved their site performance over time where Github just states they have a strategy to use "powerful internal tools that expose and explain performance metrics". Guess it's just common sense now.
What you pay for albums != what the artist receives for them.
So? Sry I don't get it...
Startup Sauna Puts Some Money Where It's Mouth Is, Secures Inventure Backing
Using a Hacked Nasdaq Terminal to Trade in 1987
It's also something I can do nothing about, so booooooo!

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Are most VPN providers fine with you using your VPN as a server (e.g. web) of some kind? Or is that frowned upon / against TOS usually?
Big step for the Northern European, Baltic and Russian startup ecosystem. The VCs are putting in an effort to help early stage companies!
Yes, that's exactly what he's saying. Though, in his cartoon he makes it clear that this is only OK as a one-time event to correct what Amazon is doing (i.e. selling below cost in an attempt to put competitors out of the market and thus preventing the market from being able to efficiently price eBooks).
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Spotifier here. Just wanted to chime in on the 5 times per month limit. We actually removed that limit in all markets except the UK and France back in March. If I recall correctly, it never existed in the US.
Because from love to hate there is only one step. When you trust someone or something you don't want to be taken advantage of.

A friend of mine loved his Nokia's phones. He always bought Nokia for 10 years during his teenage years because they were very good phones. He had good memories of those times.

He wished he could buy Nokia again, get super enthusiastic with the videos and now he discovers that he has been fooled. F*ck them!!
Found this interesting article http://qr.ae/8WSb7 from Business Insider that shares an opinion that bands/artists are probably not making much.
However, here's another article (http://goo.gl/FjuiN) that predicts that the global revenues of streaming services like Spotify, Pandora, etc is set to grow 5 times faster than the revenues from downloads.
So I presume streaming business is here to stay & artists would just have to deal with it. Not to sound all markety, but I've set out to address this problem & have just launched my new startup, Moshbag (http://moshbag.in). The idea really is to provide a platform for artists to launch their new releases & let subscribers download all new releases for a subscription fee on a monthly basis. We are also distributing 90% of the entire subscription fee collected to all artists.
To all those who'd be interested to know more about us, here's a link to our blog: http://moshbag.tumblr.com
P.S.- I've just posted it hacker news as well http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474589
Please do upvote & comment!
I have a WRT54GL Router with Tomato "Victek" firmware so I can connect with Open VPN. Cheap and secure solution.
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Try to capture a stream of video or a screenshot in most operating systems, and the OS declines to do so or produces a blurred or blacked-out display.

This really surprised me. I'm right up there with the other tinfoil-hat wearers, but it'd never even crossed my mind that this might happen because of copyright infringement concerns. Can anyone confirm this claim by the Economist is correct?
This is a great idea actually. Take your mobile phone and let's shoot with us.
Does anyone know why books are the size and shape that they are? Is it optimization over time for users or because it fits better in a truck pallet? Or something else? Suit pockets maybe?
For most people shooting Canon gear the 24-105L is the much more common go-to lens for street shots like this.

For true pros, the 16-35L would be more common than the 17-40L, since it is an f/2.8 instead of f/4.0 lens. It's almost a given that anyone shooting Canon owns the 24-105L, so when opting for a wider angle lens the 17-40 and 16-35 are your two most common choices. The 16-35 gives you the wide-angle, PLUS lower f/stop (The 24-105L is f/4.0 also)

I don't think you can tell with any degree of certainly which specific lens was used for these shots.
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Doing your duty in the military is serious business, especially in a war zone with insurgents, everyone's life is on the line. So your quote isn't an apt analogy to furniture or software interfaces. Not all jobs are worth doing well, many are worth doing "well enough" given budget,time constraints and no lives at stake.

(Not to be too harsh, but I'm speaking from the experience of having been in the military and having spent years in the software industry.)
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A Short Lecture On The Value And Practice of Unit Testing
I can't recommend enough the use of sshuttle: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

Way better than a SSH tunnel (check the readme) and you don't need to have a VPN server on the remote server, just ssh access. Supports both Linux/OSX, been using it for nearly one year without issues.
It's all very well saying a VPN services keep your communications secure, encrypted and away from the prying eyes of your ISP - but why would you trust a VPN provider more than an ISP?

These consumer-oriented VPN services marketing to bittorrent users seem kind of sketchy to me.
Why Ticketmaster has always been the best choice for ticket brokers?
One of the biggest and the best ticket selling website that has been ruling United States, Canada, Australia is the Ticketmaster.com
VPN providers simply give you the VPN endpoint to use with e.g. OpenVPN configuration. They don't give you login information for a server (unlike VPS).

You could maybe run a server behind the VPN, but many don't give you a dedicated IP but use NAT. It could be that you're allowed to open ports and redirect them to you, but whether this is possible differs per provider. It's not usually part of the normal package.