skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A benefit to JSON is that people know immediately what it is. It certainly does have its deficiencies (binary data being one that outweighs dates in terms of immediate importance). Being limited to strict JSON is not a permanent decision (I'm saying this as a member of the RethinkDB engineering team), it's a conservative one in terms of API design, and in terms of limiting scope for the first release.
Another point, days don't translate to effort or even time.

I had to bring up a php site in 3 days. I charged 55 hours in 3 days.

Another time, life was slow and we were benchmarking long runs. I worked less then 40 hours in those 7 days.

Days!=time_spent
Every time I try to launch the turn-by-turn GPS on my Verizon Droid2, I get prompted to use vanilla Navigator or some Verizon crapware. Checking the box to make one the default does nothing. This is absurd.
Earlier post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4768638
Not if you want to receive in euros.
Because if just one agent gets caught, you're looking at a nightmarish scandal.
I did not. Thanks for the clarification. That's still an expensive gaffe. :-/
Hey there. Few things that I think could be improved:

1. The slider could have a wider (in height) clickable area, I find it hard to click. Make it fatter a bit.

2. When I decide whether I find a video funny or not, I then click vote and the video changes to a new one. I did that a couple of time and I was still in the middle of a video, I would have preferred if the vote was registered but that I could keep watching the video, and then click an arrow or something when I want to watch the next one.

3. I put a bogus postal code, so I can't use the "Meet people" feature. Would be nice if I could see my "laugh profile" and see people with a similar profile, without having to be geographically within 20 miles. Or let the search use different conditions, as 20 miles is kind of random.

4. Also, it's nothing major but, the rest of the world doesn't use imperial units.

I'll update as I find more.
Pirate Bay Founder Arrested Again On Suspicion Of New Hacking & Fraud Offenses
Well known inventors aren't well known because of their great inventions. They're well known because there's a corporate PR department promoting the legend. Ever heard of Thomas Edison? He founded a company named General Electric. Heard of Alexander Graham Bell? AT&T.

The reason fewer people have heard of Wozniak is because he left the company 25 years ago. He doesn't get the same PR treatment from the Apple marketing fund.

Now, here are some bonus questions: You all know who invented the transistor at Bell Labs, but who invented the LASER? How about the microwave oven? FM radio?

Actually, I don't know why few people know who invented the microwave oven, since the inventor was a big-wig at Raytheon. I guess Raytheon doesn't have much of a PR department.
How does Luvit compare to Zed Shaw's Tir [1] framework? They both seem to have the same goal.

[1] http://tir.mongrel2.org/
> the hardware premium and hardware monoculture

... the culture of hardware developers that isn't focused on 'It works on Windows', the culture of driver developers that aren't (apparently) seen as loss-centers by the hardware makers, and a number of other things that slip my mind, I'm sure.

The only thing better is something like Stallman's current laptop, which was built ground-up to be Free and Open. Given Stallman's track record with 'crazy' predictions like 'The Right To Read', I fully expect to eventually end up on something like that as my primary machine.
> But Stripe hasn't nailed it and Braintree couldn't nail the "immediate sign up" outside of the US so I too will wait to hear if it's all that much different.

Correction: Braintree hasn't nailed it even inside US, despite reports otherwise. Even though you can sign up and get started with a developer account immediately, there is a human underwriter who looks at your account and activates production. This process might take lesser time now, but its not automated (like Stripe) and some people might get rejected on the way.

This step is the key value proposition for me. If Braintree or Paymill doesn't work like that, then they are not comparable to Stripe.
Build 2012: preaching to the converted
If I am not mistaken then, yes, it does mean that. However, unlike many other trackers, when the object comes back in view, it will pick it up again - it learns how the object looks, and will continue to look for it.
Thanks for pointing out. I haven't seen Kohana at all actually. Will check it out soon.
KDE Developer Detained In Germany Over Murder Charges Of His Daughter
Really depends where. You can get a 3-bd apt for $2500 or so in Santa Clara, so ~$850/person.
The site has German words on some pages even though I've switched to the English locale.
I don't read that, but what I did read was the CEOs of both Apple and HTC agreeing that without the worry of patent litigation that BOTH of their companies would be capable of innovating instead of fighting.

I think I'll take this as an admission by both Apple and HTC that patents inhibit innovation.
NRC Report Links Climate Change To National Security
I'm sure there were enough failures in planning and execution for it not to be attributable to any one person, perhaps by design.
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I could never figure out how to turn off the marketing that I got from having an iTunes account. These days anything Apple sends me gets caught by my spam filter and I haven't logged into my iTunes account in years.
Maps of the 2012 US presidential election results
Maybe fedora would work better for you. Or debian. Or one of the numerous Ubuntu spins which do not have ads.

The point is that there will always be a Linux distribution which focusses on the user because a lot of them are made by community
Great idea! However, when I signed up, the first clip I found was 7 minutes long. Based on that it would take quite a while to build up any sort of useful profile. Some sort of screening questions might be helpful, e.g. do you have a morbid sense of humor? Do you generally like these comedians? Etc.
I'm surprised we haven't seen more mention of ITER in this thread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
http://www.iter.org/

One of my professors from college moonlights as a consultant for the project.

What most people don't acknowledge about the "30 years away" joke is the type of environments in which the statement was made. In the 1950's the confidence was rooted in naivete (similar statements were made about making artificial life), but in the 1970's the confidence was rooted in economics. The fuel crises led to substantially increased funding in alternative energy sources.

Much lamented by my professor from college, as oil prices dropped back down so did research funding for fusion reactors (although given that the bulk of electricity in this country comes from coal, nuclear, natural gas, and to a lesser extent hydro I'm not clear why that would've been the case, maybe we were running more extensively on fuel oil back then).

If ITER proves promising (beyond energy break even) another facility will have to be constructed that will be more expensive and will take longer to construct, this facility will prove promising only if it indicates potential for economic break even (I think it has to put out >7x the input energy). If that can be accomplished then there's still a few material challenges (neutron bombardment has a tendency to make metals brittle, the appropriate containment chamber materials aren't even a glimmer in a material scientists eyes yet as well as the radioactivity issue (the entire plant will gradually become more radioactive).

If this kid built a fusor he clearly has a great deal of potential, while I'm skeptical that he can make a difference alone I wouldn't be surprised if he could offer contributions to the current projects underway to advance this field. Plasma magnetohydrodynamics has so few people that understand it that every additional mind has potential to make a difference.
It's kind of mind-blowing that there are no false-positives (that I saw) with the rapidly moving ground.
The scores are a measure of effort. For reach, it accumulates the effort of reaching away from the home row. For alternation, it accumulates subsequent keystrokes with the same hand. Raw is the sum of both.

So yes, lower numbers are better, however I do not have the research to be able to say that a lower raw number is always better. It's entirely possible that alternation matters much, much more than reach---or vice versa---such that a truly meaningful "aggregate score" would involve a multiplier instead of just summing the two.

The best we can say is that, assuming less reach and more alternation are good, Colemak is better on reach, and Dvorak is better on alternation.
Connect Fans To Their Favorite Athletes
ninite.com is a massive time saver for me with installing software
(b) is the big catch that will kick anyone. You want the hardware to work as designed, you have to start with the manufacturer install and work your way down.
My point was that you don't have to do that with rethink because the entire query gets executed on the server. You don't have to take the value down to the client, make the change, and then send it back. The entire update gets evaluated on the server and the server handles atomicity in various ways (depending on the query).
Many years ago, I applied for a Google job that I was totally unqualified for. I didn't even get an interview, but they sent me a nice snail mail paper rejection letter anyway. I've heard mixed things about their interview process, but I still get a have a nebulous warm fuzzy feeling when I think about possibly sending a resume in again one day, because of one simple, probably automated, $.29[1] response.

Conversely, at a company I won't publicly name, I got the silent treatment [2], after getting an offer, for asking if I could take two months off between jobs. I can only imagine what would have happened if I tried to negotiate salary.

I understand and appreciate the blogger's comment that people should behave decently, by the simple virtue of being human. But, that's not going to convince anyone who doesn't already want to be a decent person. But what ever happened to unenlightened self-interest, naked greed, and pure avarice? Not only did they sour me on the company, they lost two other potential hires into the same group, when I told them how their potential future boss treated me when I didn't take the offer without negotiating, after being asked why I didn't take the job.

There's pretty much no benefit to treating people shoddily, and a huge potential downside, when the candidate pool you're trying to employ hears about it. Why do it?

[1] Probably less, since they doubtless qualify for bulk mail rates.

[2] I sent a couple of emails to follow-up, and tried calling and leaving a voicemail once. I had the hiring manager's number (and that's the person I would have been directly reporting to), because he gave it to me in case I had any questions. Months later, I asked a friend of mine at the company what happened, and he told me "Yeah, X is pretty busy". The funny thing is, it was a huge microprocessor project that was staffing about 40 circuit designers / logic implementers, and the hiring manager told me they were expecting to continue hiring for another six months. It actually took them longer than that to fill all the positions they wanted, and I would have started before they were finished with the arch/perf simulations and moved onto real logic work anyway, even with a two month delay. I would have saved them paying me two months salary without having any work for me to do!

EDIT: Sorry for adding something after there have been replies, but it's been a long time since this happened. After looking through old emails to jog my memory, I see that they sent me a standard form with a bunch of info they wanted filled out, before I interviewed. One of the fields was availability, which I listed as 2+ months out. It's a big bureaucratic company, so it's understandable that there are standard forms which get sent out that hiring managers never look at, but ignoring this particular thing this particular time is a bit funny, ex post.
You can do that too: r.table('foo').filter(r['bar'] > 5)

The use of r in filter is getting the attribute bar of the row.
I think that's pretty standard. I have a friend at a much lower level TS position that has 3 separate computers for varying levels of activity.
That's very generous but information would be much more valuable at this point :)

What devices do you recommend?
Apple pays $20m to use Swiss rail clock
How cool would that be, your files are in iCloud so you know they are safe

My open-source stuff is on Github, sure, but none of my private code is. I run a Redmine+gitolite instance on a physical box in my house for my private and private collaborative projects (one on-site backup, taken daily and rolled over three days; one off-site backup, stored every week). My code stays local and on machines I control, and the same is the case for many other businesses. It's for that reason that I don't think what you're describing is likely to be so commonplace as to make local development "fall by the wayside" in the near future.

While I get where you're going, I admit I had to restrain an eye-roll at the idea that this will be "the thing" anytime soon if only due to inertia. A development environment for Android in the cloud would be "cool," until it breaks. I have a very overpowering need to control my toolchain and my environment and that doesn't mesh with what you describe. I find the situation you are describing to feel really fucking oppressive. Unsettlingly so.

(I don't see Apple locking down the Mac, by the way. I see Mac sales being cannibalized by iPads, but I do not see Apple, at least in the near future, killing its most attractive feature--flexibility. Both for developers and for consumers. I think Microsoft has a much better chance of offing the traditional desktop/laptop with WinRT, though I'm personally not a fan.)

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I fully agree that something similar will eventually happen for a certain subset of development; there are certainly some developers to whom this no doubt sounds really awesome. But I think that, and I don't say this to be either insulting or patronizing, this may be a bit of projection on your part. This feels like a "Valley bubble" idea, a "wouldn't it be cool if" that ignores a lot of real-world use-cases. Even aside from the "ew, remote" factor for me personally, I think there are enough infrastructural hurdles to make this really difficult to do in the sort of timeframe you're suggesting.

But I am not the target market for such things anyway. I find "always-on" technology overwhelming. I find that my best development time is when I turn off the Internet and go sit outside and write code; I keep local copies of the Python manual, the Java APIs, and the MSDN library for that reason. (And my Mac is silent when I'm doing development work, FWIW.)

Perhaps I am wishcasting, but I don't think so. Here's hoping you're wrong. =)
So in other words, you're too cheap to spend $1.99 on something someone probably spent a fair amount of time making. How about supporting the developers?
When I interviewed with Twilio, they let me know the next day I wasn't a good fit (they wanted a hardcore developer with DevOps skills, I'm a decade-long SysAdmin with some developer skills). While I was disappointed that I wasn't up to snuff for the role I had applied, to this day I still have a lot of respect for them because of how they handle people (at least from what I saw during the interview process). My hat is off to them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Never attribute to malice that which
is adequately explained by stupidity.
Correct. I don't want Stripe to do the conversion. We want to receive dollars from US customers, and Euros from EU customers.
Is it just me being perfectionist, or does needing to OCD your cookie data down to census level indicate that maybe your business model needs a little work? Are there certain niches where this degree of tracking is really necessary?
relevant > http://pollingmatters.gallup.com/2012/11/polling-likely-vote...
While I agree that it is the decent thing to do, the whole '' Reply>Copy>Paste>Send. 5 seconds.' is probably not entirely accurate. Many organizations spend weeks going through hundreds of applications before contacting the candidates that they are interested in.

Also, in general, if you've applied and haven't heard anything back by the end of the week, it's probably safe to cross them off your list. If it turns out they are a dinosaur that takes longer to get back to you - then their response simply gives you another option, or perhaps your first option. It's really not that big of a deal overall.
This isn't Windows users. This is HP users. Big difference.
Sounds like Janet Napolitano has the right idea.

http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2012/09/napolitano-...
The Five Stone Questions
Rupee has been volatile in the last year or so. The higher prices have been the case even before that.
Clearly, Samsung is testing the market.
When Women Don’t Negotiate
It's also worth remembering that this article and discussion is all about engineer-heavy tech businesses. Silicon Valley is the nexus for that industry but if you were trying to launch a magazine, say, SV would be as pointless a place to start as Ireland, when instead New York or London would be the equivalent of SV.
While you might disagree, asking to start in two-months is not exactly the same as salary negotiation. Most places have schedules and deadlines and the reason they are hiring is often due to the fact that they have a project that needs to meet some deadline on schedule.

Two months in the project lifecycle is a long time for any project. I'm not surprised they gave you the silent treatment. On the other hand, had you asked for more money, I'd be surprised if they balked -- if their offer was genuine.
Precisely because alcohol is legal and regulated, ironically.
You can easily download the drivers from the manufacturer's website but I understand that even doing that may be too complex for some users.
This. A thousand times. Not only is it the decent thing to do, it's incredibly fucking rude not to.
Ah, I skipped right over "tech." Though I feel now that's kind of justified. A few these people started ISPs, admittedly those are about technology, but just barely. The technology was very rapidly commoditized, and then it became about business. I don't see any significant difference between that and Virgin Mobile.
it is possible to bootstrap to success, and going for an early exit is not the only route startups can take.

It not only is possible, it's how it's (usually) done! What a bubble this site is in when the way 99% of businesses work is portrayed as an alternative approach ;-)
Then they could have politely replied and stated their position.

Edit: The usual spelling update.
Braintree tutorial instructs devs to put charge amount in hidden form element
My reading seemed to indicate complete architectural failure. 11 database servers for the desktop app, but only 1 app/DB server for the mobile app, which most people were using. Also, Comcast shut them down over DDoS concerns somewhere, meaning they were going through a home or office account as a choke point?!
Any pc/tab bought from the MS store won't have this problem. Also, if u take it to the MS store they'll reimage it for free. Just my 2 cents.
Congrats guys! Looks great from the specs. Any thoughts on architecting for multitenancy?
... It's really not that big of a deal overall.

This is where the problem starts. People (who are most likely comfortably employed) rationalize to themselves about the mindset that the applicant should have and then they act according to how they believe the applicant should be reacting to the communication breakdown.

When planning and developing a strategy for applying for work, the nagging unknowns can be a significant hindrance. A thoughtful organization would take this into account.

And as has been alluded to in other comments, automation of the process of properly dismissing unwanted candidates is an investment. One that surely has a large effect on goodwill and company culture.
I have been instructed by legal affairs that non-contact after rejection is the safest choice for avoiding discrimination lawsuits. whether or not this is true, too much direct disobedience of management and legal usually results in starting ones own job search...
I agree. I have been on the side of not receiving any update after an interview, and also on the side of having to poke the recruiters about whether they got back to the interviewee when we decided to pass on him/her; and finally doing it myself.

It is absolutely the decent thing to do. I feel sorry for people who only have interest in you as long as they can potentially get something from you. Typically I avoid associating with such people, as that says a lot about their ethical standards.

Edit: Spelling
Asking to delay the start date by two months might not be standard, but it isn't incredibly unreasonable either - if they are already employed, they are going to be delaying by 2-3 weeks by default anyway, and finding another candidate may end up taking just as long anyway.

It's probably something that should be brought up before an offer is made, but I don't think it is a good reason for a company to simply ignore someone they've made an offer to - a polite "no, we need you to start within 2-3 weeks" is an acceptable response.
Between The Go tour and the Go reference does is the Effective Go guide. It gets you going pretty well with lots of practical examples and patterns of how to do things in Go.

http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
The irony here is that the policy is to direct people to use official clients for Twitter, of which one exists on Windows 8, aside from the website.

The error is so non-descriptive that users are likely going to blame the app developer for being unable to use the app, rather than Twitter for having an arbitrarily defined token limit.