skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your homepage does not tell me what your service is.
Your video does not tell me what your service is.

Add some text that explains what I'm looking at, what it costs, and why it's better than similar offerings.
Thanks. Also keep in mind one of the largest competitors in the space (Jobamatic) takes 50% of your job posting revenues. So selling one $99 job listing is the same as the low end $49/mo plan. Have any degree of success and you are quickly paying 100s (or more) per month. Step up to "enterprise" solutions and you are paying 1000s per month...
Why PHP has Become the Most Chosen Language to Develop Dynamic Websites
This tutor has a problem. When presented with a new test, people naturally have a short but significant cognitive lag until they clue into what they should be typing. But this tutor's timer starts immediately, including the lag. As a result, if used as a speed test, the tutor's measurement of typing speed is very inaccurate.

The basic issue here is the length of the word string. Normally speed tests have long documents, and as a result the cognitive start-up lag is a constant lost in the noise. But with a very short word string the lag is perhaps as much as a third of the allotted typing time.
Awesome, I'll attempt it again :)
Tom:
I talk about the conventional doctors (not a whole heap) and multidisciplinary team to illustrate how medicine is ACTUALLY PRACTICED, TODAY - that is, it is not doctors in isolation but conferences of nurses, doctors, radiologists, physiotherapists and others all discussing, with informed consent from the patient, what is going to achieve the best outcome for the patient.

I apologise if that was not clear.

I am not dogmatically advocating that the only people that can be involved and making decisions are doctors, or that we should only listen to conventional therapy recommendations, or that all other therapists press-ganged into agreeing with the convening doctors.

But the contributions of alternative practitioners (the bit I believe you have issue with) needs to be evaluated with regard to its effectiveness.
"Re-rendering navigation is not acceptable"

Why? Does the tiny electronic miracle on your lap or desk that is more powerful than the sum of all computers that existed in the world in 1970 have something important to do or something?
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We all tend to sound like idiots when we're outside our area of competence or familiarity. Realize that the vast majority of people have no personal experience with trans etc. people, beyond what they've seen in the movies / read about.

This is not meant to excuse hatred, but there should be some tolerance for confusion due to unfamiliarity. It's simply not something that most people have spent a lot of time thinking about.
this is also true of 99% of open source projects. i often find myself on a github project page, trying to figure out what problem the code is trying to solve. context: it's important.
Mr Dijkstra obviously did not code in Ruby.
GREE: Despite HTML5 support, native apps remain our core focus in the west
Okay, so is the twin prime constant transcendental?
I used to rely on a 3rd party platform (named elsewhere in this thread) - they took a cut (50%) of the job ad sales - and it bothered me. Was fine when I was experimenting of course, but not when I showed any degree of success. I'm not interested in attracting people who want to throw up tons of free sites - i'd rather have customers who perhaps have something a little more established or at least are willing to put a little more of an investment in.

Of course - I could be completely wrong - but had to start somewhere! :)
Your civil rights aren't being trampled because it is illegal to download or upload and post online a 1080p rip of the latest Hollywood blockbuster for thousands to download easily.
Fujitsu has seendouble-digit quarterly sales growth in each of the last two years, says Bud Yanak, director of product management and partner development for Fujitsu Frontech North America.

He says hygiene isn't a concern because students don't need to touch the device, but only hold their hand directly above it, to register a scan.

Accompanied by picture of child resting his hand on the scanner....
What Will Google Learn From the Nexus 4 Selling Out?
> Humans don't have "qi" or energy blockages or chakras

I do. How do you know you don't?
"I'd love to have an easier way to get involved in some open source project for improving my skills, enhancing my CV, etc."

Not to sound trite, but I don't think the reasons you enumerated for contributing to a project would give most people enough incentive to spend the energy figuring out how to contribute to most projects. Find the project that makes you go "yeah!" and you'll find it much easier to get acclimated to whatever it is, because you'll really want to understand how it works.
It depends on the well-accepted legal test of whether or not they were wearing Guy Fawkes masks at the time.
Why do you think FB, Amazon, or whoever don't have better recommendation/targeting algorithms than they have now if the solution was "just hacking around enough?" Not enough "enough?"
How about a web-based design tool that lets you make a custom case, which will then be 3d-printed on demand? Alternatively, you could accept customer uploads of certain 3D design formats.

There's gotta be a market for this.
Microsoft Has Plans For Its Own Project Glass
I have a hard time getting myself to do things and stick to them.

I want to bet against myself; to put down money that I will complete a task, so that the only way to get my money back is to finish what I start.

For example, I want to teach myself machine learning but find it hard to concentrate and stick through an online program.
I would go to this site, put down "$80" as a bet, "a certificate of completion email for "Machine Learning 101" from stanford.edu" as proof, and "December 30" as a deadline.

The website then bills my credit card for $80, and only refunds that amount back if a moderator receives the certificate of completion email from stanford.edu, verifying that I did complete the task. If the website moderator doesn't get the proof by the deadline, I don't get my money back.

The task could be anything, but the proof would have to be very difficult to fake, and would require some effort on the part of the website moderator to enforce.

I would love to make this service/website myself, as it would help people and be profitable, the only issue is that /I/ want to use the service as well, and by its very nature someone else would have to run it for it to work for me.
The idea of having medical "experts" is that they have credentials you can rely on. How can you tell if someone is a self-taught expert or a quack ? What kind of reputation system to build on this ? How do you deal with responsibility in case something very wrong occurs?

I think it is an interesting direction, but I would rather be in favor of large-scale statistical models on all treatments taken by patients with similar profiles/conditions if all medical records could be made available (anonymously).
Thanks ;) Sign up for the service - would be happy to give you an extra free month if you still want to run the job boards. email me: info at jobboard.io
Wow, this guy is amazing. Read his wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Collison
An open source cure for brain cancer
I think the security level is different. I wouldn't use a shredding service to dispose of old checks or my social security card, but for things that don't matter to the real world like performance reviews or meeting notes, I think it's fine.

Everywhere I've worked, the bin has always been "secured" with a three-pin lock that can be picked with a paperclip. That's a good way of expressing how seriously document destruction is taken.
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A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy
Are you literally retarded or just trolling? If the former, go back to jebezel with the other sluts and never come back.
Something kind of close is www.beeminder.com where you can pick a goal, keep track of your progress, and have an auto-forfeit sum of money. It doesn't have verification built in, but it's part way there.
>If you are hiring for any kind of job in the United States, prefer a work-sample test as your hiring procedure. If you are hiring in most other parts of the world, use a work-sample test in combination with a general mental ability test.

Why would you use a mental ability test outside of the US, but not in the US? Is it illegal in the US or something?
John McAfee: sex, drugs and anti-virus software
How to get Windows Phone 7.8 on your device right now
Picking a Programming Language – Chart
Which U.S. coastal areas could disappear due to sea level rise
Do not upload dev releases at PyPI
I would be interested to know what you think of Western Medicine in the light of what Ben Goldacre says about how clinical trials are conducted. There are many flaws even in the so-called "Evidence-based" system in Western drug development, which is what you guys are going to rely on when providing treatments.

"better than placebo" being enough to register a drug, cherry-picking patients in the results, targetting very niche patient groups, not publishing any of the failed studies but being able to register on a SINGLE successful trial (which could be pure luck, statistically speaking)... and the fact that nobody ever repeats the trials for confirmation.

Traditional Chinese Medicine may be bullshit, but I think we have a heavy luggage of bullshit in modern Western Medicine as well and we ought to recognize it.

Disclaimer: I have a long track record in pharma industries.
Wonder why they wouldnt just add 50k STEM Green Cards instead of swapping them out? Seems like posturing.
Thanks Benferhat for the links.

However, zip-tax is SaaS-only and charges monthly fee. And zip2tax sells the database for $660.

Seeing as how this is not proprietary data and that I am a lean-startup (read: poor), I find it hard to justify paying $660 for an excel file that likely many other people have loaded up in their e-com platform. If you do have it please let me know :)
Ah, well if wikipedia says acupuncture isn't bullshit then fuck what science has to say.
There is very little chance of this passing the Senate or President, since it takes away the "diversity visa" and because solving the universally acceptable high-skill immigration issue reduces pressure for "comprehensive immigration reform", which is primarily about (by the numbers) Mexicans in the US, and secondarily other central and South Americans, few of whom have STEM degrees or work in tech.
> LLVM IR can be target-independent.

Interesting, how would I generate that? What source languages are supported?
Experts question guilty verdict for AT&T 'hackers'
"Humans don't have 'qi' or energy blockages or chakras or any of the (frankly) bullshit inventions of Chinese and Asian medicine."

These things more or less exist, you just don't feel them unless you actively develop the ability. It's relatively easy though, you can get a pretty good taste just during a 10 day vipassana retreat. That's not to say anything about the validity of the various metaphysical explanations of energy phenomena, but I don't think there's any question that the phenomena themselves are real at least on some level.
So why don't you just come out and say that you are an apologist for CAM

Look, that's a really disgraceful comment, for reasons you're probably not able to know.

I'm not engaging with your arguments because they do all come down to one's pre-conceived position on CAM. It's a religious/identity argument, and, yes, a waste of time.

BTW...

Fair point - I did cherry pick something out of context, mistakenly. Your comments are very long and I was skimming.

But I think my point holds: it's not for you to judge what should be in or out.

Your notion of what should be allowable is governed by your apparently binary classification of modalities as being either science-based or alternative.

My point is that your judgement on this is not required: the open source process should provide the evidence.

This may or may not turn out to be true, but either way it will be interesting. Can't we wait to see the results?
since most of the target crowd probably uses orm/frameworks one way or the other, it would be nice if there were some 'export' options for that (django orm, sqlalchemy, rails orm, etc.).
Congratulations! That's the dumbest thing I've read all day.
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At least for mid-level and higher positions, read the job description and know enough about every technology and concept they mention so that you could give an introductory lightning talk on it, AND why/when that technology is preferable over common alternatives A, B, and C.
I'm admittedly ignorant on the details of why more tech green cards are needed.

Is there a country that does tech immigration "right" like Canadian health-care is compared to US health care?

I don't like the idea of discriminating who can be an immigrant based on what they know - or the model of what their income level is (ie. foreign corporate bigwigs get easy long term visas)

I also don't like the idea that immigration is being sponsored to get lower wage workers for the same position, how can we insure that high-tech immigrants are paid the same as a domestic worker and not being taken advantage of?

The worst problem I see with all of this is the idea that American colleges are not producing people who would be compatible for these jobs despite the millions of people who go into debt to get higher education. Maybe congress should be addressing that first and the timebomb of student loans and why college costs go up exactly based on what loans are available.
Just wanted to clarify a bit more than what the article mentions. Not only do Android devices allow you to install an app from an .apk you downloaded (or copied to sd card, or emailed as attachment to yourself, or put in your dropbox, or sent over usb through adb, etc etc), there are more app marketplaces than just Google Play.

That article mentions Amazon appstore (free premium app every day anyone?), but there are many others. https://f-droid.org/ is one I always use (it contains free/open-source apps only), and I guess mikandi (an adult app store) is still around.
Don't use a off the shelf database. They are overkill for this.

This only needs a very single table key->value store where every transaction is only a single access. I would just map it to a hash table mapped directly to the raw disk. Doesn't need transactions with a log if done right.

The hash spreads out the allocation, no information leaks for the allocation. If you don't have a log there are no time stamps.

Modern disks are big enough that you dont need to worry about resizing the hash table. And the random salt makes collisions unlikely enough.
I'm confident he'd look on Ruby as an insult.
Thanks!

From that site I found this[1], which appears to be the closest existing service. The only problems are:

1. Bad site design.

2. Focused on exercising.

3. You have to choose who the money goes to. This could easily be an excuse to not complete the task, as giving up results in someone else benefiting.

4. No third party that judges whether or not you completed the task. You have to find someone yourself (they recommend family members and friends).

#4 is the biggest problem for me. The crux of the service is that you can't back out on a whim, so having a strict, default third party is essential.

[1] http://www.stickk.com
There's actually lots of opportunity for this. It's way easier to get involved in open source now than it ever was.

- GitHub, Google Code, Bitbucket, SourceForge, CodePlex, ...

- Google Summer of Code, Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects, OpenHatch, ...

Getting involved in open source is easy, there's way too many projects that die or go unmaintained because there's no one to help. I have a few projects that could use contributors, but I assume you want to get involved in an active, serious, and popular open source project. Whatever project you're interested in, subscribe to their mailing list (won't hurt to introduce yourself), join their IRC channel, look at their open issues, grep the source for TODOs, look for something to improve, and submit your patch.
Just curious, how many of the HN faithful have Master's or higher level education? I would suspect that STEM grads who'd benefit most from this would predominately 'only' have Bachelor's degrees, if that even.
But the contributions of alternative practitioners (the bit I believe you have issue with)

Not specifically - it's the dismissal based on pre-conceived prejudices, anything that could potentially lead to interesting new discoveries or lessons.

needs to be evaluated with regard to its effectiveness.

Yes, indeed.

If you'd said that from the start instead of "anyone with a half rational brain should be alarmed by this statement", we wouldn't have a problem.
If they were to actually exploit their possession of the information (eg. get credit in the person's name by piecing together confetti with name, DOB, and SSN), it would be a crime.

The tricky thing is that with hacking, the line between piecing together the vulnerability and exploiting it doesn't involve as much clearcut intent and harm.
Not sure how seriously I'd take anything said by a guy who invested in 9gag.
You're deluding yourself if you think you'd be as valuable to an early RoR-based company as a good dev with a year of Rails experience. I used RoR for my start-up because I was sick of PHP and wanted to learn Rails, and I feel immensely more productive now than I did when I began. And I'm a "quick learner", too.

Familiarity with Active Record, and making it reasonably performant, handling rails security issues, experience with the gem ecosystem, understanding the intricacies of the routing DSL, getting a handle on reasonable rspec/capybara or cucumber practices, ruby metaprogramming, knowing the Rails conventions and what it looks for automatically in controllers, views, and partials, and which methods are available where, knowing all the various helper methods rails provides for text processing, working with dates, and html tags, best practices integrating with AJAX, migrations, rack middleware, the asset pipeline, etc, etc. I've been working on our Rails app non-stop for 9 months now and every day I learn new stuff.

Long story short, for a start up which needs to iterate fast before it dies, acclimating a competent programmer to the "Rails Way of Life" just might not be worth it. Now, it's a completely different story if you have important domain specific knowledge, and the company is working on something especially innovative, but it seems like a lot of start-ups are scrambling for a pretty low-tech piece of the pie where "execution wins". My point is, Rails is surprisingly big, and while you can become useful in a matter of weeks, you can't become extremely productive with it for awhile longer.
I think the example was "botnet" implying exploited consumer-level hardware not likely to have hundreds of gigabytes of free RAM that's not going to be missed.
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What do software developers do for fun on game day?
Do you have any paying customers for this new payment model of jobboard.io? Has this been less of a pain or an improvement in sales or reduction in support hours?
"How can you tell if someone is a self-taught expert or a quack?"

You read the sources they're citing. Which is exactly the same way you evaluate whether or not a doctor knows what they're talking about.

"What kind of reputation system to build on this ?"

Does it really matter? Either their sources pan out or they don't.

"How do you deal with responsibility in case something very wrong occurs?"

The responsibility is all on you, the same as if you decide to do something a normal doctor recommends.
The apps that are actually useful I keep using, not even bothering to try and find a better app for that task because of laziness.

The toy apps that I download because of marketing or curiosity or as a diversion? My usage fades quickly.

Is it a surprise to anyone that hucksters have a problem with customer retention?
One fifth of all apps on the market is nothing to sneeze at.
The funny thing about this is it wouldn't even benefit most people who hold a non-U.S. Master's degree.

U.S. Bachelor's degrees usually take 4 years to complete, after which a U.S. Master's degree takes 2 years.

Many non-U.S. bachelor's degrees take only 3 years and as a result, the USCIS deems having a 3 year Bachelor's + 2 year Master's as being unworthy of a U.S. Master's degree, instead equating it to a U.S. Bachelor's degree.
I had no direct access to my own information, since I use Linux and OSX rather than the files' Windows-based viewer. As a software engineer, I found software and programming tools to hack the files and make them open -- but a nontechnical person would have difficulty making use of their own medical data.

What does he think a non-technical person would do with an open source format? Being open source doesn't fundamentally change things in the sense that it's not like my grandmom is going to say, "Ahh... this is file format IEEE-12312. Let me write a quick viewer optimized for my concerns."

I suspect the author thinks there would be a rich ecosystem of tools for an open source file format, but in something as specialized as medical records I don't think the non-technical user would do much better. Viewing your vaccination history is much different than identifying sepsis vs trying to diagnose MS in the brain vs cancer vs high blood pressure. You need to have some degree of medical expertise to even know what to begin looking at and what tools are providing useful data.

With that said I'm not opposed to open source file formats. But I just think it doesn't dramatically change the equation -- at least not today.
Hilarious cat poster story, super-funny
If only there were some more obvious connection between the bullet points in this outline, I would be compelled to finish reading it...
But your score includes mistakes that you make! Is a space not a mistake? Is it not a key that you need to press? When it skips to the next word, it's quite non-intuitive to not put a space first.

If you don't press space, you're violating the idea of words. If you press space, the sentence you've constructed in your head is broken. Either way, it slows me down and frustrates me too much to play :)
I think for most of us we have gone past the issues with semantics, that file sharing is no the same as stealing.
What I am more intersted in is how can content producers be fairly rewarded in this new world and what the future of content production looks like if there is less money for producers. Technology destroying some of the middle men should make producers more even with a smaller pie, which will help a bit.
File sharing has been around a long time and yet it still seems more quality content than ever is being produced, maybe the incentives are less of a problem than I think.
There is no reason for me to believe that I, or you, do, much as there is no reason for me to believe that ghosts exists, or that crystals can heal.

There is no evidence that the things I listed exist, and there are much simpler, scientific explanations why acupuncture relieves pain and discomfort than reasons offered by Chinese medicine. (Acupuncture has not proven consistently effective for much else.) With simple explanations, Occam's razor implies we can rule out the more convoluted explanations.

Equally importantly, the phenomena I listed have no rational, scientific basis. They are superstitions, or at best philoshopical abstractions irrelevant except as historical curiosities. If you could formulate a testable hypothesis I would be happy to discuss their validity, but unfortunately their existence are predicated entirely upon faith.
Any comments on flot vs flotr2?

I'm trying to choose which to use for a project, and I can't find much reason to prefer one over the other.