skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no clue why it recommends a bunch of ruby projects and totally irrelevant things. I work on python, Go, C++ and never touched a single line of Ruby code.
Paperless Post Goes Retro And Launches PAPER, A New Invitation Printing Business
Which is the single best argument I have ever heard against the supreme court.
New Programming Language, Dog, Makes Social Coding Easier
They didn't try very hard to show a realistic earth curvature. sigh Now every non-geek thinks he actually jumped from as high as, say, the ISS, instead of 10% of that.

I've already seen the non-specialized press pointing out how clearly the earth curvature is visible in the pictures - but it's highly exaggerated by a fish-eye lens!
Could you please give more context?
Which country are you working in?
Do you have a formal education / certificate for your qualifications?

In 2007 I earned about 1.300 Euros net (no perks) as a programmer (Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung) in Germany.
So if you don't have a university degree, I would assume your pay to be average.

Just my 2 cents
Meh. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: those contests aren't necessarily a good indicator of who will be a good data scientist, in the same way programming contests tell you little about who will be a good software engineer.

Being a good data scientist requires a lot more than machine learning, including a solid understanding of the business side (deep domain knowledge), the ability to write production-grade software and tools, scripting/hacking/data munging, math/statistics, and common sense. Running a sanitized dataset through machine learning algorithms is maybe 5-10% of it.

I'm not trying to discourage people, I'm thrilled so many people are taking an interest in data sciences and I want to push interested people in a direction where they can excel at it. But this article is dangerous - becoming a data scientist requires a lot of hard work. I've seen a large sample of people (through interviews) who think a single online class is enough to get into the field. It's a great start, but if you want to be valuable you need a wider set of skills.
Anytime I'm flying, if I can't find an interesting book in the book store, I buy a cheap piece of easy to read entertainment. More often than not, it ends up being one of the extended Halo universe books. They're short enough they can be finished in a flight and the lore is genuinely interesting.

... the writing is garbage, but hey, it's pulp fiction.
Well, I'd say that one of the reasons why muslims get along so well in in the U.S. is we have separation of church and state (which plays into free speech)

Christians can't use the state in the U.S. to harass agnostics, athiests, pagans, jews, muslims, buddists, whatever. If our government could stop people from spreading hateful lies about islam, we'd have Christians saying that you can't have a Koran or atheists saying that it's blasphemy to even say there is a God.

You can't say our American Way is the best of all possible worlds, but you can say that it's the least worst.
WTF ?

Are you working full-time?
Which country are we talking about?
Down vote? Really? I guess I should be thankful that I didn't have to explain this to a client: http://i.imgur.com/URf0H.png
(http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/buyersguides/money/bankingcur...)

> Another mutually-owned business, and a clear best buy in the report is the Co-operative Bank. Since 1993 – and in response to the kind of concerns shown above – it has been developing detailed public position statements on who it will and who it will not lend to. These now cover seven human rights areas, five environmental areas, four international development areas and five animal welfare issues. More details are available at www.co-operative.coop/corporate/ethicsinaction/ethicalpolicies. It also uses your money to campaign on key issues of the moment such as unconventional fossil fuels or the decline of bees. Although other banks have come up with similar policy statements, none come close to the Co-operative’s for clarity and ambition.
One of the most frequently asked questions at Ethical Consumer is how the Co-operative can be a best buy when its score is much lower than other providers. Our answer is that its relatively low score is the result of it being part of the Co-operative Group which – as a supermarket – is involved in animal farming and other activities which its banking competitors are not. Best Buys are there for us to apply a sense check to our mechanistic, but largely useful, rankings. In other areas, we weight key categories for the sector when choosing the best buys – such as workers' rights and supply chain management for clothing. In banking, having a clear ethical lending policy is a prime concern, which is why the Co-operative tops the pile.
Yeah but for only 1 billion? Worth twice that as a company now. Is hardware something TomTom can survive on (or sell?)
There are digital locks, e.g. unlocked using RFID tokens. Carrying around a token is not much more convenient than carrying around a physical key, although it does come with other benefits (e.g. easier revocation). Using something like NFC and unlocking a door using your phone would be nice, but on the other hand I don't want to be locked out just because my phone ran out of power.

Anyway, it's not a trivial modification, ie. just replacing the lock, because the digital lock needs power to process the key and unlock the door. As long as that's necessary, the initial investment and the increased complexity make the benefits moot to me personally. If you have some sort of door knob action maybe you could harness that to generate a small amount of power sufficient to unlock the door?
There are no "regular results" on Google anymore
I was slightly surprised that they just look like regular keys. I was half expecting them to have special grooves, or protrusions, or magnets or something.
So you're saying that I do see the point. Excellent, I can move on.
A lot of ISP's already support a UI for unsubscribing, for example Gmail http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-eas....

For more info on how this works check out http://www.list-unsubscribe.com
It's been rebranded ecomstation and it's sold through another vendor now.
I've been today to Santander, and they told the only way for me to put money in my account is by using their online service. This is because I have an eSaving account type...
I started working on something that's basically Syte but as a service a while back. I like the idea of being able to "own" your content from other services in a way and to be able to use sites/services like Evernote, Dropbox, Twitter, etc. as a kind of personal blog/scrapbook/private journal. Now it's morphed into something slightly different but a lot of it is still there. I won't shamelessly promote here but you can see the link in my profile if you want. It's getting real close to being finished but I must be honest with myself and admit that things keep popping up that keep me from launching when I say I will so I'm done giving dates. But it will open. I just pushed a pretty important update to the staging server this morning actually.
Out of all the incompetent people you mentioned, why did you feel the need to refer to another incompetent, who happened to be Indian, as the Indian dude. :( ... little things like this constantly remind me of our perception in the world.
Facebook’s Wonky Privacy Controls Now Outing LGBT Youth Without Their Consent
very nice and usefull tool!
They're owned by their members (hence the name), and operate pretty much exclusively as an old-school retail bank without any of the other banking activity that tends to at least wander into ethical grey areas.
IBM Has Become a Publisher. Is It Any Good?
ServerBeach takes 1.45 million edublogs offline due to DMCA notice
How I Accidentally Helped Compromise The Secret Keys Of High-Security Handcuffs
The Caves of Clojure: Part 7.1
I don't want to sound like a douche but I've never looked for a job on a website.
Each time i needed a job i got an offer from a company or from someone in my network.

To grow your professional network I would recommend to attend to meetups, hackathons, user groups or even better to get involve in the organization. It worked pretty well for me.

I met some incredible people and got some good jobs offer.
Softbank breaks records with $20.1bn deal for 70% of Sprint
I found my current position via LinkedIn. I also searched with StackOverflow Careers, the HN monthly hiring threads (which weren't useful due to a lack of posts for my area), and the job pages of local companies. I probably would have used more sources if it had taken any significant amount of time to find a job.

My previous position was via a university career fair when I was still a student.
If they bank does not have a two token security system, its is not secure. A single password should never, ever, anywhere, be enough to legally prove identity or validate a bank transfer.
Your argument is orthogonal to my point.
Ah, the nostalgia. My father still has his multiple Amigas stored away. I believe it was on the Amiga 2000 which he first taught me how to program.

I bet a raspberry pi with Amiga OS installed on his TV would make his day. :)
Cd which directory
I like the Barclaycard (I think) fraud thing.

You get called by a computer that asks you to identify yourself by picking a piece of personal information from a list. It might ask for the month and date of your birth, for example, and give you 5 options.

Because there are 365 possible month + date combinations, and yours appears in the list, you know they already have this information so you're safe to confirm it, and they also get to confirm that you are (likely) who they're intending to talk to.
The biggest misconception I ever came across was during a job interview in which I was the interviewee.

After explaining skip-lists and sketching up the Big-O complexities for best and worst case for sorted and unsorted data... the interviewer turned to me and asked why wouldn't I use a skip-list (it should already have rung bells that it wasn't "in which instances might you not use").

My answer was that each problem should be understood in terms of the data and task before choosing a data structure and algorithm. That answer was rejected.

The interviewers answer: "No, you shouldn't use skip lists because the memory of all those extra pointers is too much for the JVM."

The biggest misconception I've come across is that Big-O says anything at all about the language you're coding in and your implementation.

I did point this out, but was shot down pretty fast.

The company in that scenario was AWS, the position was architect level. I didn't take the job. Interestingly they offered me another job different from the one that I had been interviewed devoid of any product dev at all on the basis that I was "too technical" for any role that included product.

Big-O doesn't care for your implementation.
Why are they not entering contests? What is the point of their research if it isn't to engineer better algorithms for the task of machine learning? How do they prove that their research led to better algorithms?
To go one or two steps further:

Would it be acceptable for Sony to boot you from Playstation services if they detected you were watching a bootlegged copy of a $100m film from one of their studios?

Should Apple close your iTunes account if Fox's movie studio tells them you're watching $100m films on your Mac?
Sometimes the media can help. If you have a contact, they can put pressure on the company by calling them to interview about the vulnerability they are going to write a story on.

Back when I used to read the disclosure lists, I'd see people ask "I need a security contact as XYZ Inc." all the time.
Free speech goes both ways; it is not freedom to consequence-free speech.

Want to express the opinion that women (and presumably men) who are highlighting and combating sexism are just demanding special treatment and wasting everyone's time? That's fine, but everyone else has the freedom of speech to criticize your speech and form an opinion of you based on what you've said. That's how this works.

Hypocrisy is unbecoming. Self-censorship because other people will point out how wrong you are isn't censorship; it's doing your homework. If you don't want to be called ignorant and wrong, don't be ignorant and wrong.

Imagine some journalist coming in and saying the problem with software development was that programmers didn't document enough. It isn't censorship for their opinion to be laughed out of the room.
I think that when you're designing a logo, you need to have a clear silhouette. Right now it looks like a fancy header for a header of a section of a website, not a logo. Look at Pepsi, Coke, Apple, Toyota, YCombinator - - all of them have really clear outlines that are unmistakable. The runner in the H is a reasonable idea, but it makes the H look distorted when really small.

So, I don't really like any of the logos.
Tinkercad Launches Shape Scripts API
Rappel is an all new iOS app for the all new Basecamp
I haven't used it personally, but Angellist jobs looks interesting: https://angel.co/jobs

I like that they have to disclose ballpark salaries. Makes it easier to get a sense for how the company values developers.
btw, many of the arab mathematics "innovation" is simply copied from India. Since, Europe found those through arabs, they were named as "arab" innovation. If they were so advanced 1000s of years ago, how come there is no one coming out of it now?
Requirements for Mobile Apps Development
New article by Ben Kerschberg on Mopapp Blog
Doesn't seem too awful to store obfuscated credit card details in a short-lived cookie with httponly and secure set. (Say, in a checkout flow where you have to hold the credit card details somewhere for a couple minutes).
Reddit wants free speech, as long as it agrees with the speaker
You ever wonder if this was a strange viral marketing campaign?
Great beginner resource for SEO:

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
Increasing Returns on Your Existing “Great” App
New article by Kunal Patankar on Mopapp blog
I haven't conducted any testing, but I've read several articles which said not to use noreply. In addition, as a customer, when I receive an email from a 'non noreply', I feel better and I feel that they're there to help. Look at:

- http://customer.io/blog/dont-use-noreply-on-emails.html

- http://blog.cakemail.com/why-you-should-never-use-a-noreply/

I think this is the link ljf was looking for:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558433
> Once it's leaked, you can't really blame people for playing the game and telling people about it.

As a fan who has followed the Halo series for more than a decade, I can certainly blame somebody for spoiling the ending. Especially if they're spitefully tricking people into accidentally reading the ending, not just having discussions in threads marked SPOILER.

Seriously, if The Empire Strikes Back had been leaked back in the day and trolls were running around Hacker News saying "VADER IS LUKE'S FATHER!" wouldn't you be annoyed?

> Or worse, switch to PS3 and forget all about Microsoft.

That would be a win for Microsoft. "Hey, Sony, we're sending you some of our customers, for free! They're free because they don't pay for games. Hehehe have fun, much love, Bill"
Cardboard bike by Izhar Gafni
Yeah I must agree. I stand corrected. :)
Feedback sent, not sure how you pick a winner though My comments will be useful I hope.

But I will say the current winner #89 looks like a logo that would be more suited to a energy drink/bar.

If you could do a logo like #141 with just one letter S and the other two Hustles as a cross centeralised upon that single S union Jack style then that would be my winner.
I wonder what is the PCI DSS audit committee doing? I mean the world is fool of idiots that need policing and that's why such organs exists at a first place.

Shit like this just shows that being a PCI DSS level 1 certified means absolutely nothing in the real world.
You're right, they bought abbey first. Completely forget about that. It's probably a descendant of the abbey online site then.
Chrome gets per-domain permissions manager
I think I found it - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558433
Lovely.IO Show Episode 004 is out
For some reason, it's not updating the website link when you click on the random button. Cool site though :-)
Thanks for the feedback, if no one likes them its back to the drawing board (literally!). Thankfully I have two more days of design amends to be made so taking on everyones advice is crucial.
While I enjoy the novels, I think the story embedded in the game speaks for itself. Check out the massive story page on the halo.bungie.org website, there are pages and pages and pages of speculations from avid fans about this or that in the story. http://halostory.bungie.org/
"A BBC/National Geographic documentary is being made about the project. This will probably air first in the UK and in the US in November, .." - so I guess they will have a lot more cool pics. (BBC Website)
I just find it ignorant and misguided. He ignores reality in favor of his preferred theoretical model of the world.

It is sexist, in that advocating for the sexist status quo is advocating for sexism.
This is basically a Daily Show segment from last week with some additional details thrown in.
I think I get what you mean, someone else pointed to a simpler design and smaller logo as well, thanks!
When I was looking for a job I would routinely go through:

- careers.stackoverflow.com
- prospects.ac.uk (Though you need to have been a student to register)
- s1jobs.com (Mostly so I could have at least seen one ad a day)
- talentscotland.com
- workinstartups.com
http://www.hackerjobs.co.uk if you're looking for UK based work. We occasionally get some European roles posted too. Had a few Irish & German jobs in the past.
Go on! From my admittedly brief reading after seeing this item, it appears Pandoc still suffers from a lot of compatibility issues?
when 100s of barbarians surround a village populated with unarmed, un-prepared people and kill them all, do you call them war? No, It is not war. And it is not "terrorism" as well. Its worse than that, may be "genocide" is a better word. Today, the rest of the world is caught up with these barbarians, so their only option is "terrorism".
Articles like this always renew my distaste for discussing politics. There are clear problems with the US's legislative process and elected officials, but there seems to be no way to effectively induce change in them, especially as an individual. Not just riding the science bandwagon here either; partisanship in general, etc. are all incredibly frustrating to discuss, and I'll almost always just stay out of discussions on politics as a result.

I'd love to help change these kinds of things, but I don't feel I could give up my job to start some sort of organization against it, nor do I feel such an organization would gain much traction anyhow. Maybe I'm just an a-typical slacktivist.

Any suggestions on stifling my feelings of futility? It seems the only way to affect change in this country is to get enough upvotes on reddit (see: SOPA). So I'm upvoting this.
Sarcastic flamebaiting isn't appropriate for HN. Your previous post was problematic.
That is pretty much when the religious violence started...
The problem with the second part of your argument is that you force me to pay, through my taxes, to a subway and then prevent me from posting things I want to say (but allow the other guy, because all he wants to do is sell soap).

By obviously you should have the right to not listen to a particular radio or tv show or not to look at a particular billboard. And yes, Fox News shouldn't have to argue points they don't want to.

But protecting you from seeing something you don't want to see? I don't want to see niggers, should the government lock them up?
Do users want "regular results" or "relevant" results inside their bubble?
Why do you think LGBT can't reproduce? I know someone who is literally the spawn of a lesbian with a turkey baster.
Does Rails scale?
Reddit wants free speech – as long as it agrees with the speaker
At the time I was reading it for the first time many years ago, I encountered in the stacks of a college library a quarterly devoted to the works of Joyce. At that point there came to mind Hynes's (?) remark that "Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of minds that have lost their balance", accompanied by the suspicion that Joyce aspired to replace Shakespeare there.

Undoubtedly knowing about Irish history, Irish literature, Catholicism, etc. helps one to follow what is going on. Yet I think it repays the effort of reading. I have read it through twice, once when younger than Stephen Dedalus, once when older than Leopold Bloom, and found that that my perceptions of the book had changed considerably, though I enjoyed it both times.

Should "you" read Ulysses? Don't know: who are "you"?
With no hesitation, yes.

And I would expect everybody else to do the same.
Typemock CEO: I was wrong - Good design matters
All the evidence from kaggle indicates that deep domain knowledge is not required. Jeremy Howard has some youtube videos discussing this. Pretty much all the skills you outlined (except for production grade code - which is a software engineer problem, not a data scientist problem) are covered by the contest.
You're not a douche for saying that, I don't think. (At least I wouldn't be that harsh)

The problem is that people in your network are often, well, in your network so if you haven't exhausted your network already, you wouldn't be posting online asking where to look for jobs.
Scroll bars take away from widths.
That would be nice, but the atheist would die.

Part of the reason atheists give a shit about what religious idiots say is that not too long ago they were burning us at the stake.
How do you look for them on Reddit? I hadn't heard of that.
It should be possible to get exceptions raised in event listeners too (including stacktraces) if you wrap the DOM prototypes. I do something similar in the exception catcher we use at Cue:
https://github.com/Cue/greplin-exception-catcher/blob/master...

Not only does it log stacktraces, but it also breaks Firebug. And you'll find out that most of your exceptions end up coming from JS injected by shady toolbars and malware on people's systems :-(.
Does not work with my wordpress.com blog. Blank. I know it's not responsive, so maybe instead of blank it should throw up a dialog box instead of just blank?
You got that right. Most IT shops I've noticed (at least in Australia) used to ask software vendors if their software was "PCI-DSS 2.0 compliant".

Stupid thing to ask. The only key things a software vendor can really answer is that they don't store credit cards in their database, or if they do then they don't display them to anyone. Everything else (well, almost everything else) can be dealt with on the infrastructure side of the equation.
http://reddit.com/r/forhire
Publicly, that is. In a private forum like Hacker News, exclusion of disgusting hateful speech is legitimate and even necessary for the survival of the community - or people would leave because the "trolls" have taken over.
Softbank Confirms It Is Buying 70% Of Sprint For $20.1B
Those who oppose an open Internet always drag up things like pedophilia, abuse porn, stalking, libel, and bullying. These are forms of abuse and harassment, not free speech.

Very, very badly handled... so badly in fact that the dirt seems to stick. Also, as the article points out, very bad for the cause of genuine free speech.
How to Steal a Coworker's Idea and Sell It As Your Own