skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so fast. You don't know if everything is coming down the pipe using SSL. They might be trying something fancy with AJAX, performing a remote call, the server spits back JSON on a regular connection, screws up the headers, and it gets cached. You really can't tell. It is a possibility.
Looks good.

Demo is a bit disconcerting when it scrolls the background even though popup looks modal. thx
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Doesn't run that well on my android phone, since my browser has only 2 modes of pop-up handling: deny all and confirm each.

In firefox-ESR on Win7-64 it seems to get stuck in one of the SVG tests, unless it's supposed to take an extraordinarily long time (I killed it after 15+ minutes).

Neat idea, though. I love having a great go-to benchmark for web, so I have a good baseline for expectations when whipping up mobile sites.
Just pushed an update to solve it.
Yikes, 3 years? From scratch is where they needed to start from and it sounds like they couldn't pull the trigger until recently.

FWIW, I think the interface looks great. However, I'm definitely not the target audience - I'm not young, nor hip, nor am all that into music. I have however done my share of user interaction and development and it seems cool AND functional, which is quite a feat in itself.
It depends. Most employees are going to experience slower than four days- hiring can be difficult (not only because of trying to find the right person, but because arranging things in meatspace like phone interviews and flights and schedules can be time-consuming).

It's something we want to improve, but then again, we don't want to improve it too much... hiring's something that does benefit from waiting and thinking about someone before bringing them on.

Related: I got an email on something like a Monday, interviewed Wednesday, and got hired 45 minutes into the interview. We don't want to make that mistake again.
I was talking about the guy who got mugged. What if he had never lived in the city.
Note that Toyota declared today they are getting out of the plug-in (no gas engine) business entirely.

It's interesting it that it likely means they cannot make the margins they want.
I get what you're saying, but I think you're being overly skeptical. If you've already got a system for monitoring tasks in place, there's no reason you couldn't run both. And if you don't have a system in place, then if it fails you'll be no worse off than having never signed up.

I think most SLAs for these types of services are mostly pointless anyway. If something important to your business goes down, are you really going to be worried about whether or not you have to pay the $19?
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The individual has every right to walk down a dark alley, and the group very well may be safer if more people walk down dark alleys, but if the individual is optimizing their behavior for self-preservation (and I think that is how individuals are most likely to act, at least in the 'West') then avoiding the alley is likely the best action
Wow ... I'd like to shake your hand because I think you handled your friend's son with an amazing amount of grace. It's horrible that you had to be tormented like that, but at 17 he may have learned how to be human. In my experience, not many of us understood empathy at that age.

Let me know when you're in the U.S. and perhaps I can buy you a dinner.
To reiterate what patio11 just said, focus less on reverse engineering your former salary into an equivalent "rate" - figure out the business value you're delivering to your clients and price accordingly.
Can't blame them for trying, and atleast it isn't a straight rip.

Highrise goes a step further and A/B tests with different people and colors. There was a blog post a while back breaking down which designs converted the best for them.
Lucky teenagers don't revolt anything their older peers tell them as fact ;)
3 years back would have been before the last redesign, which didn't do a lot to improve their fortunes.
I have considered this a lot and the problem appears to be mostly a policy problem boiling down to the two following issues:

* Right of way laws in localities make it difficult to deploy cabling of any sort. Starting a network operator is incredibly difficult legally even if you have the capital. Also, counties often grant monopolies to particular cable companies and do not allow other operators to enter the market.

* It's a popular economic thought (and apparently one the FCC subscribes to) that CLEC/wholesale style systems do not incentivize network infrastructure maintainers to keep pace with technological advancements. As a result the FCC has granted control to vertically integrated operators like ATT/Verizon/Comcast.
Aside from worrying about some of the UI/UX elements - I think it looks beautiful - hopefully it's a touch more intuitive in real world use :-)
What I was trying to say is that your hypothetical does a good job of showing why blame is not zero sum. Obviously in either case the criminal receives the same blame, but I think it is fairly clear that the victim who took drastic measures to reduce risk is less to blame than the one who did not.

The important thing to remember is that the blame of the victim, while present, has no relation to the blame of the criminal and should never be relevant in, for example, a criminal trial for the criminal. I really feel like I can't emphasis that enough.
Oh god, just when web people were starting to understand how to create good benchmarks (https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/24/octane-minus...), now we're going back to 1980s microbenchmark hell.

Doesn't anyone read Hennessy and Patterson any more? The best benchmarks are real apps, not crappy little microbenchmarks that measure a single thing.

(Can you hear that thud, thud, thud? It's the sound of me beating my head against my desk.)
The rate structure 'btilly outlined --- the cost-based price for your services --- is very important to know, even though it's rarely the rate you want to be quoting clients. He's right: lots of contractors, maybe even more than half of them! are delivering below their true cost, and are losing money compared to a full-time job.
"Toyota Prius Plug-In adds electric-only mode"

http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/08/11/living/automotive/...
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Even if that's the only advantage Apple's maps are offering in this instance (and it does not appear to be, to me...the locations on the Apple version seem more correctly and specifically identified), that is still a real and substantive advantage, since it means that Apple is presenting the data more efficiently. It (potentially) means there is more space in their layout to show more items in a given area at a given zoom level.
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I think this is actually possible. Aren't we all tired of Facebook and twitter, and waiting for the next big thing?
"Get this through your head": the question here is about whether Python still has a chance of being successful, not whether they are bad people for what they did. My argument is firmly on the "no": Python is in decline after years of stagnation caused by a fork in their effort and I believe that they could have done some things differently at little effort to have had better chances.

Personally, I don't even have skin in the game anymore: I am now using Clojure, and am piecemeal porting my code over. This is actually an easier time than the brutal experience I had dealing with Python's / operator change (which I adopted ahead of schedule, thinking it would help me: all it did was hurt me as my code no longer could be used on 2.5).

I thereby wonder: what are you defending? Do you think Python is succeeding? That in another couple months we are going to suddenly hear of a massive turnaround? That it will still be relevant in another two years when 3.3 is fully deployed everywhere and most libraries might be Python 3 compatible? What is your overall position?
In 2003 PHP was already the most popular web dev language and web dev was where the action was and the transition to PHP4 from PHP3 was pretty smooth. This article points out that he's got code stuck on Python 2.x, Python is not doing well on the current hotmess (mobile) and it's not now and never has been as popular as PHP. How is this similar?
"If people in the U.S. aren’t suspicious of free money, PayPal payments that look fake, the absence of a payment in their account, fake emails from PayPal’s FBI department or just Nigerians in general, then they deserve to have their money taken from them."

Nigerian scammers are also just as dumb. A few years ago, I was easily able to phish them out of their accounts and other valuable information.

I made it into a game to see how far I could go. After I got into their accounts, I would change the password and shut their operation down (all through lots of proxies and other sorts of protections).

Most had large lists of stolen credit cards and pictures of licenses and passports.

Many of the people that actually freely gave away their info were lonely and desperate.
RE: SLA... the use case is more "I want to know sooner than later that something didn't happen" than "Something didn't happen this minute, I want to know NOW!". If and when we go down, your task won't be able to check in and we'll end up sending you a false "positive" which is better than not knowing at all when something fails.
Maybe this will help:

1: Open a web browser (look for a blue E icon, or a red/yellow/green circle, or an orange fox circling a globe)

2: In the address bar, type "www.google.com" without the quotes and press enter.

3: In the search bar of the page that appears, type "CITY web development" again without quotes and substituting the city you live in for CITY.
I think a new rule for snarkiness is in order: if you crap on anyone else's accomplishment you must also link to examples of your own awesomeness in the area so everyone can learn.
Does it matter? Producing electricity is almost trivial to scale up when compared to oil, especially if the political weather forecast for your region is nuclear-friendly.

Wolfram has the estimate for you: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2885*kW*h%29%2F%28300*...

Thats half of what you pay per mile with a Prius: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28gas+price%29+*+%281%...

Not included in these calculations is the wear and tear of a standard gasoline engine, which are still running on pretty much the design of the original 1885 Daimler Reitwagen.
Great concept to add to that XKCD concept. It's interesting - when I type "Once Upon A Time", "Upon" becomes green, whereas "upon" was yellow. I suppose the takeaway is to not follow grammatical rules with your passwords?
>"I'm talking about those of us who live in China (you know, the place with 1.3+ billion people and the second-largest economy in the world)."

This claim is preposterous. There are 1.241 billion in India and Hindi is not even supported in the ios6.

http://i.cubeupload.com/kTSpGM.jpg

As others have pointed out, the granularity on Google Maps is not one bit poorer.

http://i.cubeupload.com/3Dj8kk.jpg

Google seems to be using AutoNavi as well, for this region.

http://i.cubeupload.com/EqvYMX.jpg

I don't know what your're talking about.

Make an effort to be elaborate.

As the late Richard Holbrooke used to say:
"Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around."
It's funny, as seemingly unrelated as it is, the one thing that comes to mind after reading about how GitHub sees value in flying people to San Francisco from around the globe despite the cost is that the essence of that practice is the same as what we Americans SHOULD be seeing in our education system: People willing to invest enormous sums of money up front with the intention of producing graduates who, in turn, will generate much larger sums of money for the economy. Too bad all American politicians are too short sighted to see it.
I'm not a boss but I showed my developer could workers and he couldn't figure it out.
If this is FUD, please downvote me into grayness, but I remember an article - or maybe even a book - proving that exception-safety in C++ was impossible. I remember nothing else about this; it was probably around 1999-2000.

Am I completely making that up? Or did we discover ways around the "impossible" part? I haven't coded in C++ since, uh, gcc 2.97 or so.
I'm in China right now, and yes Google Maps is shit, at least in China. The AutoNav Maps iOS 6 utilizes is quite a bit better.

That been said, in China the one map you have to beat is Baidu, and I see Apple still have a long way to go.
Sorry can you fix the title to "iOS" not "IOS" please? They paid a lot of money to Cisco, might as well distinguish and get some branding value!
Ahh.. It all makes sense now. After recently trying to sell my car on craigslist I received at least 20 emails of the same nature: vague, never a specific label of what they actually wanted to inquire of mine, and very interestingly using ASAP. Almost every one used that term... hm.
Anyways I knew by the broken english and vague response it was a scam but never knew how they intended on pulling it off.
They would ask for a paypal account to send funds too immediately without even seeing the car. I never did give them my paypal account as I didn't intend on wasting my time of getting faulty payments etc.
But before I permanently deleted these contacts, I wanted to see if I could actually talk to one. I gave them all my number (it was in the add anyway) and told them before I can release my paypal info they have to call me.

The responses were priceless! 7-10 of them were in the navy deployed at sea and didn't have a phone (none of them knew each other surprisingly) a few were government officials who worked in such high level jobs that they couldn't be caught on the phone(but can buy cars on craigslist interestingly enough) and the last one claimed to be deaf.(and get this didn't know how to text!)
Moral: Ask to speak with anyone who buys items off of you locally.
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It would be interesting to see MySpace really attack Facebook by having a really really good privacy agreement etc, but if it's too nice they'll have the same monetization issues that Facebook does.
The pricing is more based on value. It is the price my clients said they would be more than willing to pay to never have to panic again when there is some EC2 problem and the backups stopped working weeks ago.

This actually happened over the weekend:

https://twitter.com/tikaro/status/250286735064436736
Subcontracting is expensive. All the work of receivables and project management adds up to a premium on your rate. If you're contracting just so you can maintain a decent income while working on an arbitrary schedule, that can be fine; it's also not a bad thing to keep relationships open so you can sub to fill in the gaps.
Chunk is a serious font, we just bought 30 licenses for a variant of it (chunk five) a few months ago.
Meh, the kids won't care. If some popular people use it because it's way more fun and exciting than shitty old Facebook, (plus they hear the odd story about how fun the old MySpace was) then it could get it's foot in the door.
Actually, Brackets itself started inside Adobe by a group of employees, so Edge Code is their distribution package as much as Chrome is to Chromium. I can't see it in a negative light, I think they're getting this right.
Umm, the people he represents weren't protesting that "Free Cities" are being built near their property (their "backyard") -- rather, that outsiders are proposing to build them on their property.
Strangely, I though the author refers to 'finding the pain', he is actually describing 'finding the customer'. The example he describes is the difference between the user, the student learning violin, and the customer, the parent of that user.

The customer's "pain" isn't that she wants her child to get into Harvard, or that the customer wants their child to learn violin. Notice, we don't describe these as "the parent is pained about getting their child into Harvard".

Not everything is a pain, I believe we sell wants more than solutions to pain.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak becoming an Australian Citizen 
From today's Australian Financial Review:

"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has listed the rollout of a national broadband network as one of the reasons he wants to become an Australian.

Mr Wozniak told The Australian Financial Review in Sydney that he had spoken to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and was in support of the federal government’s fibre rollout.

“I spoke to him and they plan to roll it out to everyone in the country,” Mr Wozniak said.

“I support it very much. It’s one of the reasons why I actually like this country and want to become a citizen. I live in a country where we don’t have any regulation of telecommunications.”"
He can't, because of HN's stupid auto-capitalization.

But fortunately, there's a hack: change it to " iOS ..." (an space at the beginning)
Tesla is licensing some of their tech to Toyota iirc. I think they are of the attitude that in the current market more electric cars from everyone is good for business.
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As a developer who received a C&D from Craigslist for a pretty innocuous app (seriously, it was built in a weekend), I'm glad to see someone test Craigslist's legal position in court.

At the very least, I hope it will expose that Craigslist is not just a happy, hippy-infused neighborhood listserve like many seem to think; rather, like most other companies, it actually goes to great lengths to quash threats to its very profitable business.
Zapier (YCS12) was started at a Columbia, MO startup weekend last year. A nonzero number of people have heard of us.
Thanks to Max Tilford who helped with the Ruby gem.
Ctrl-Shift-C in Chrome, or Ctrl-Shift-J in Firefox,
will give you a programmable computing environment more powerful and expressive than a 20-year old Atari, Commodore, or Apple.
>>But, sad truth is, they will develop the very tech that nissan, toyota, hyundai, et al, will use to kill them.

Could you expand on this? How exactly will Tesla bring about its own demise?
It is apparently required by the Chinese government, see comment thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4548840
Can you expand on what you mean by "Workflow builds"?
This isn't as egregious as some other copycats in the past. 37 Signals came up with a novel landing page concept, and we will likely continue to see companies test derivations of it.
It got fairly big attention here, and every Github page I visit has a button to launch a clone via Github for Windows. Can't remember if an email was sent out though.
Isn't that graue's point though, that it looks like it would be part of the scam and thus should throw alarms?
No, you don't need unlimited developer time to do feature detection. It's just good practice, after it's ingrained it doesn't take any more time than not doing it.
Again, you can avoid this whole unproductive discussion by simply charging a day rate.
I understand that. It's just not that valuable for my personal projects.

I'd go further and say, that most of people willing to pay that much (serious about their backups and availability) already have some solution in place.

The service is very appealing for people, who don't really care that much (because it's very easy to use). I'm afraid that those people won't pay $19/mo.
That is a pretty compelling story. I'm not sure I could let it go without a bit more narrative around the 'game thing.' It sounds too much like 'making your bones' in a street gang.
The extra money is usually not a scam in itself if they are trying to actually get you to ship the item. Once upon a time scams were all about moving cash, but I surmise those have gotten harder, so now they secure your item and (presumably) resell it.

Thus, the promised extra money is actually just a way to both ensure you'll "sell" to them as they made the highest bid, and also perhaps an attempt at triggering just a touch greed which does wonders for putting the blinders on.
Nice artist dashboard - Good to see focus on the artist too.
Thank's for pointing out that price != cost. The value of the service is in not having to ever panic again when checking the backups during an emergency.

It is very easy to be notified when something happens (for example, MAILTO in cron) but it's hard to know when something DOESN'T happen, especially if you work on a lot of sites.

There are plenty of ways to be notified when something doesn't happen if you are willing to use a little elbow grease... we use one of them to make sure DMS itself is working properly.
I don't think we are talking about the same thing.
I didn't ask the question, maybe you should learn to read. I merely commented on the uselessness of his answer which did nothing but rephrase the statement the question was about while adding nothing of use.
This! I consider it a professional obligation to yell at people who default to hourly billing. Other good things come from day and week rates besides not having to track time; for instance, it incentivizes you to find faster ways to deliver the same work, and makes it easier for you to negotiate scope/price without taking a rate hit.
compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.
Obviously I can't say for sure, all I can speak to is anecdotal evidence that racially Chinese in America observably seem the same as Caucasian Americans in my experience. Even if there is some genetic difference, it seems clear that the vast majority of the difference is cultural and not genetic.
I think it comes from Google Web Fonts that one.
Agree, 4 days is absolutely remarkable. But its much better to take a long time and do it right, than to fall in love with the candidate and screw everything up afterwards.

I recently had an absolutely excruciating experience after a startup on HN made an offer literally 0 days after meeting with me. We met for a sandwich and 2 hours later I had an offer. Three days go by and the hotshot young founder has now found a new muse, we have a falling out for an absolutely contrived reason, and I'm out on the street with no job in a new state with no health insurance and having to break the rental lease.

Thankfully the next weekend, once again I clicked on the "Ask HN: Who is hiring? " thread and landed a new job, but this company took 50 days and a ton of coding interviews.

Better safe than sorry.
In real life I have my parents to keep a watch on me for most of the early part of my life. This takes years of intense involvement, with a lot of teaching about risk and safety.

I have Public Information Films on a variety of subjects:

Tables are dangerous (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icbYf_aR91o)

A collection of terrifying ads (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xmSV6aq0g)

There are a variety of crime prevention and community safety websites. There are radio and tv programmes with advice about avoiding scams. There are magazine articles (even a well respected consumer law advice magazine "Which?") about scams and consumer law.

All of this is built up over many years and modified when needed.

How are people expected to learn how to keep themselves safe on the WWW? What search terms are they expected to use? (This is when I need Matt Cutts or some other Googler to give us useful stats about the words people use to find information about scams)
Except that the Free City concept wasn't dreamed up in a libertarian vacuum.

Except the way Thiel & Co mean it, it was. There's no way you can compare their schemes with historical examples with HK, Trieste, the Hanseatic League etc (if that's what you're thinking).