skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the name of the player on 1st is named Who?

I'm sure git would work for most people. A more UI / user friendly version of git with cloud storage support for like.. a photography firm workflow? would be interesting.
I disagree with your premise that 'all devices will be combined into one'. People want devices that do what they're built to do in the best way possible, not one device that tries to please everyone. That's why this idea of building a hybrid laptop-tablet drives me absolutely crazy: it is neither a good laptop nor a good tablet. The reviews of Surface confirm this.

Think about it: where have you seen a good example of any of these hybrids?
- Consumer Copier/Printer/Scanner/Fax machines
- Integrated Graphics Cards
- Integrated Sound Cards
- Monitor/Speaker combos
- Pants that zip off into shorts
- Glittens
- etc. etc. etc.
See the second definition:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perpetual

occurring continually : indefinitely long-continued

As in, every time I install Linux on a new laptop, as I have several times over the past 5 years or so, problems with WiFi continue to reoccur, and require some level of googling around to resolve. Yet, years later, with an updated distribution on a new computer, they occur again, perpetually.

The problem can remain perpetually unfixed at the distribution level if everyone who installs it is willing to spend time tinkering around to get things to work right.
Ask HN: What are the best CRM tools?
I am looking for a great CRM tool that lets me really organize sales, marketing and communications. I need a simple way to be able to track sales relations after a sale is made to make sure customers are happy. I need to also easily be able to track my teams progress.

Thanks in advance!
This is such a tease! The only thing that's really clear from this post is that the process of moving logs file from EC2 instances to S3 machines before running an EMR job can now be done with the Data Pipeline, rather than cron jobs. That's great, but I hope there's a bit more to it.

Edit: Reading the article again, I think the most interesting part is the Task Runner, which presumably would allow me to have custom behaviours... but the kinds of things I can do are still really unclear.
Yeah that was my view on it, although I can see if they slow down a bit this can be good for the customer. This all just seems a little too quick.
I'm surprised, but I'm not surprised.

I'm not surprised because I knew it would have a premium over the Surface RT. At $699 for the 64GB RT, $899 sounds like just the right price for the 64GB Surface Pro.

I'm surprised, because there's no two ways about it- $899 and not even with a keyboard is pricey.

I think you're spot on though, this isn't an iPad. Looking at the photo at the top of the page, I have one word ringing about in my head, and it isn't "tablet"- it is "slate". This is not your grandma's new movie device, and it isn't meant to be.
Clojure Immutant quickstart for OpenShift
It's past time for a contrarian viewpoint.

How about we legalize child porn? The vast majority of the time when it gets brought up is in the context of using it as a pretext to attack civil liberties of law abiding citizens.

When there is a child porn arrest it almost always ends up being a honey trap run by the FBI using decades old photos, so it's not like there are many children being protected by these laws.
Possibly... though Activity Monitor (or top) doesn't show anything suspicious. If I stop audio from playing, iTunes drops to about 4% CPU. (And mdworker doesn't appear to be working overtime either.) With the Column Browser open, searching in iTunes causes a leap to 100% CPU until the UI updates. Column Browser closed, searching causes a momentary leap, but not to 100%, and obviously it's over very quickly.

There's clearly something up with the coding of the Column Browser.
I would very much like a user friendly Linux guide. "Linux DevOps for Devs" - I find the man pages gaudy and completely unreadable, precisely because I'm not that exposed to Linux.

We need something current, useful, free and community driven. A clear linear path from "Linux Zero" to "Stallman Gentoo" (lol, just kidding).

I'd kill for a site like this.
I upgraded iTunes right after I wrote the post - Up Next is exactly what I was hoping for.
Like everyone who wants to pay slightly less for cloud drives?
it's a shame that we still need VLC.

I agree, but the various "scenes" resolutely refuse to adopt industry standards.
YouTuber Banned From Making Money Because Of An Over-Zealous Fan
Wow.

William has received more than $1300 in Bitcoin donations in the past 3 hours.

http://blockchain.info/address/1CPKAMtD4bcLrh8SRHfSxBBMmQQ5c...
I would argue that manufacturing is real work. No matter how brilliant your advertising strategy is, or how well you sell the sizzle, someone has to make the steak.
Not quite geared toward photography, but your description reminded me of http://layervault.com .
>this might lead to a collective blindspot where a deeper problem is overlooked. Being able to professionally disagree and then work together to form a final result is very important.

I agree with you. I just don't think phone screens are a good place for these discussions. I used the tactic above just to get through the initial phone conversation where I had a high degree of uncertainty of who I'm talking to. :)
As opposed to what? Staples doing the same, but then you have to go pick it up.
I'm the article's author.

I agree with you that demand for talent far exceeds supply. That's why I think making the process professional and enjoyable is important.

In terms of being completely in "sell mode" once basic filtering has been done, I don't think that's the right approach. In my experience, great developers actually value teams that are selective. They like good dialog. They like debate. If after a basic phone screen, the company goes straight into "sell mode", I think it's a red flag for some people.

And, in terms of the term "Candidate Experience", it was less about inventing a new term, and more about piggy-backing on a concept most people already understand (user experience or customer experience).
Seems much less readable and I wasn't particularly thrilled with the reasoning that it was "more modern" than the previous font. Readability is more important to me in a news app than modern font choice.
French court clears Continental in Concorde crash
didn't know that one - thanks!
Actually I think if you can do it in Python, you can do it in C-based languages/Java/ruby etc. There are some exceptions like generators, but as a general rule Python just improves the readability and expressiveness with e.g. slices.
Solving the Pipeline Problem
If one is using tor+pgp I don't think the venue really matters all that much. I'd personally use a pastebin-like place (public or .onion, doesn't really matter) than an email server. Anyone know if there's an active NNTP network in onion land?
You're cherry picking bad examples. Good examples I can think of include cameras and phones. The iMac. Hell, the computer as we know it combines things like typewriters, mail, televisions, record players, phones, etc. etc. etc.
I'm not sure I'd call the feedback obtained by asking the candidate "Would you recommend us?" before letting them know if they've been hired unbiased. Personally, I would be thinking about ways my answer would impact the hiring decision and/or salary negotiation.
That's not what I meant. Given the chronic technophobia of the legal system and the current laws, they practically don't have a choice. He's not a telecom company, so he'll be responsible for whatever his IP address hosts. The seedy nature of Tor doesn't help here either.
The article makes Vidyard and particularly "Mike" look pretty bad and lacks perspective and empathy. The fact that he's OK with ignoring personal communications just because they look like a "cover letter" speaks volumes. I don't buy the "I'm busy" argument. I've emailed people like Mark Cuban and received prompt replies in the past.

Worse, he interviewed the guy and made him do free, unpaid work to further prove himself, and then ignored him for four weeks after he did the task! Absolutely pathetic. I can only think about my friend's startup cleaning company: he has prospective cleaners clean an apartment as part of their interview to see their cleaning skills, but he pays them the standard hourly rate ($20/hr+) for their time. And he follows up. And he doesn't have any funding himself yet.

Posts like this one just reinforce and validate this kind of behavior in the startup community. Just because you're a "busy startup guy" doesn't mean you get to ignore labor laws and have free reign to be a prick. Just FYI, having people work for free is almost always illegal if they're not receiving academic credit.

All people deserve to be treated with common decency. It doesn't matter how bad the economy is, how new the employer is, and how inexperienced the applicant is. As soon as we deem it acceptable and in fact encourage the abandonment of these principles and laws, we descend into a third world black market business culture. I wouldn't be surprised if the next boulder we crash into on this slippery slope involves applicants bribing their way into jobs: "In exchange for letting me work for you for free, I'm willing to "fund the overhead" of my training by providing you with a monthly stipend of $500/month during my free labor period!"
Hey, look how you seem incapable of arguing politely and convincingly, just because the issue is child pornography.

Pedosexual acts are forbidden because there is no possibility of free, informed, consent. There is an asymmetric power relationship between an adult and a child that the adult is probably not aware of. For this reason, and this reason alone, pedosexual acts are forbidden.

It's entirely reasonable to believe an adult and a child could have a healthy sexual relationship and some people will testify they had such relationships as children. The crucial point is that it is never possible to ascertain this was actually the case and is ever actually the case. If you are a pedophile in a sexual relationship with a child, it is entirely unreasonable to believe your relationship is a healthy one. To be on the safe side and because we cannot possibly differentiate, there is a blanket ban on such relationships.

Pedophilia is not forbidden. Like homosexuality, it is a minority sexual preference. However, unlike in the case of homosexuality, society is unlikely to ever allow relationships in which the physical acts to which this preference leads can have a place. As such pedophiles need to learn to ignore their feelings. They need help in doing that and we should support every single one that acknowledges his problem and seeks help.

Pedophiles are not people that abuse children. People that abuse children are criminals. Usually they are also pedophiles, but that doesn't mean you may interpret it the other way around. Most thieves are heterosexuals.

Now as to the issue of the Tor exit node. The fact that this instance deals with child pornography is entirely irrelevant. It may as well have been illegal medicine sales, exchanging stolen information or other illegal activities.
Cloud Vortices Off Saint Helena Island
The dark (yet shallow) seeds of cell phone addiction
Sony is evil. Avoid buying their products if you value your independence.

They might put rootkits on your machine. In fact, they've already done it to others [1].

They might reach out through the cloud and revoke your ability to run Linux on hardware after you've bought it. After all, they've already done it to others [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
There's so much sanctimony in this thread. "Ohh, I support the Humble team on principle!! This bundle destroys the Humble spirit!!"

Do you support open, DRM-free software? Skip this release and wait for Humble Indie Bundle 7, like they suggest on the landing page.

Are you worried Humble is losing their platform-agnostic magic? Well, they've released two Android-only bundles before.

Do you want to hook up indie devs? Their games are still available on Steam, XBLA, or Kickstarter.

If you're against these releases, why not sit this one out? There will be another indie bundle soon enough.

EDIT: forgot one. Are you really concerned about the social good? Well, the EFF and Child's Play always accept donations on their websites:

http://www.childsplaycharity.org/

http://www.eff.org/
The article specifically mentions home delivery as an option.
Is it just me, or is it really hard to edit text?

I started a test page, and perhaps its my use of Chrome, or the font size, but when I add a text box by doubleclick, the box is immediately obscured by a sizing menu. There seems no way to actually add text without clicking on a size much bigger than the menu and then clicking to the right of it.

This order of operations seems backwards. I would much prefer to type in my text, and then choose to resize it, once I know how big it looks ... not size a blank box as the only way to add text.
Google makes virtually all of their money on advertisements: almost everything else (from phones to services) they seem to be willing to do at cost.
I used a Mac for work for months and never got used to it, but obviously YMMV.
Hardware costs drop over time. The servers they needed to power S3 cost more and required more power a couple years ago than they do now. It only makes sense that the price of the service continues to drop.
Wrong for 3 reasons, I think:

1. in-person help and advice from store associates.

2. Established supplier for many businesses, which means employees can start using it without having to go through the vendor approval process. It's much easier to dip into an existing corporate budget for some new project than to create a budget for it.

3. First mover advantage. It would be better again if they had it in the actual stores, but I bet that's coming in larger markets.
Not sure whether I've noticed this or not, but recently I've become strongly focused on startups that align value with their users. Traditional consumer startups are crap, get eyeballs, sell to advertisers "or something".

Screw that. If you aren't making something your users want to pay for, start making something else.

That said, I think SEO and "growth hacking" can be very useful AFTER you get the basic "We provide value to our users" thing solved.
Perhaps that's the mindset I'm trying to get into.

It still feels weird to think about the process making the product as not the most important, and not where the "real work" is. I've been slowly coming to terms with myself and accepting/discovering how the world actually works, and accordingly trying to change fields from IT to business.
I think they've wanted to make the margins on bandwidth for a while.
That's a great point.

I wonder which would one be less biased. My leaning now is towards asking the question after the decision. Perhaps even discard the feedback from folks that were offered a position -- that way, the focus is on making sure even those that weren't offered a position still had a positive experience.
I mentioned the 3rd party software in your link ("Mouse Acceleration Preference Pane") in my initial post as something I'd tried. In any case, it was a work machine and I'm no longer there, so it's not particularly important anymore.
Is there a technology that is as versatile and cost effective for small scale batches, but slower to finalize the product? The promise of 3D printing is appealing to me because it means I can start making things out of materials that I have thought to be previously out of my budget's reach.

Time is less of a concern from my point of view. If someone can create my one-off plastic model using, say, injection moulding for tens of dollars but it takes a month to get back to me, I'm cool with that. Does such a thing even exist though?
STEM Visa Bill: IEEE-USA Response
I saw a thread on HN yesterday that pointed out that president Obama will veto the STEM Visa bill if it reaches his desk. I was curious what was IEEE USA's view point of this change of situation, so I emailed my IEEE-USA contact who is in charge of pushing the STEM Visa bill.

For those who are interested, this is the exchange:

me: "Given that the president Obama has promised to veto the bill, what exactly is the next series of steps for the STEM Visa bill?"

contact:
"That is, unfortunately, a good point. President Obama had said he was supportive of the STEM bill prior to the election. We expected him to take the same position now. But, since the election, the Democrats have chosen to take the position that until they can reform the entire immigration system, they will not reform any of the immigration system. It isn't that they don't support STEM Visas, they just want to use STEM visas to win support for other reforms, like amnesty for illegal aliens. It is unlikely that this play will work.

The bad news is, if events unfold like we now expect, we will win the vote on Friday, and then the bill will die. We will have to start all over next year.

The worse news is that we can't do much to promote the STEM Visa bill until after comprehensive immigration reform fails, which it eventually will. That will be late 2013, at the earliest.

We can take some comfort in knowing we came closer to winning than any other immigration bill this Congress, and we are well positioned to play a role next year. But for now, we have lost.

I'm waiting to see how tomorrow's vote goes before sending around a general notice to everyone. Nothing is ever really over in Washington, so we could yet win, but I doubt it.

[name redacted]"
You're right. I reconsidered that particular idea and have struck it out of the original article.

Thanks for the candid feedback.
I just think the resolution is too low for development work.
Thanks for your reply! What do you mean by "vest founders over time"?

We are not intended to actively looking to raise capital (though we don't mind it) but neither do we see it as a short term project. We want to see growth of revenue and profit.
If you need to rapidly iterate that badly, then you're probably going to buy a 3d printer for your business. Not everyone requires this.
Four-year vest, early December 2008 and all? :P
I actually prefer this feature to JavaScript. Coffee forces the developer to use parentheses in a meaningful way. Many developers are using outer parentheses in Coffee, similar to Haskell, and I think that provides more clarity.

Realistically in CoffeeScript these versions of the article's examples are far more common, and much less ambiguous:

doSomething = -> true

doSomething -> false or: doSomething (-> false), otherarg

doSomething()(-> false)

I feel that extreme flexibility of JS spacing leads to much more ambiguity. Syntax highlighting is in every modern IDE and I never find myself confused. A programmer can write ambiguous code in any language.

I think the amount of controversy over CoffeeScript's syntax is a indicator of its level of innovation.
I wonder if there is second category of attack which is less direct. When you browse a website the client side javascript dedicates a large portion of your computational cycles to tasks such as breaking passwords? The implementation would be not dissimilar to the javascript bitcoing miner.
"Launch something"

That's all you need to get a startup to pay for your time. Honest. Every time I launch something, emails start pouring in from people who are interested.

Forget everything else anyone says, just launch something.
In-store pickup is nice in that once it's there, it's there. You can just go grab it at your convenience, instead of dealing with the "can only pickup during this small window" thing UPS does.
x264 isn't a standard?
Other than some Macs, the screens all suck. I am fond of Lenovo other than the screen resolution - matte is important to me. I swapped my 2007 vintage T61 for a T430s. Everything works fine out of the box. I did replace the DVD drive with another battery since this model doesn't have the stick out batteries like other models do.

The specs are a dual core/quad threaded i7-3520M, 16GB of RAM, 500GB 7200rpm spinning disk and a 250GB mSata SSD stick. I got the version with a Thunderbolt port although I haven't tried using it. IIRC you have to get the i7 and no Nvidia to get Thunderbolt. Memory, drives and msata are cheaper anywhere other than Lenovo.

For Lenovo stuff I highly recommend the forums at notebookreview.com.
Coming Soon: Programming in Lua 3rd Edition (photo)
Noone on this planet can compete with Google on storage prices. I dont want to know how many petabytes of space they have laying around "just in case" another planet comes around and they have to index/mirror all the information.
Yes it all boils down to peronal taste. But i would try to restrain myself from statements like "one of best games of last 5 years", because clearly most of "fallout folks" that liked fo1 and 2 just didnt like it - so clearly you are the target audient - I am not. Also, there were a lot more interesting quests in New Vegas - and more side quests in general - maybe you didnt explore the game enough ;-)

Then again nothing beats Vampire:Bloodlines which is one of best examples of how a modern RPG could look like.

And back on original topic - this is what some of kickstarter games are about - made for an audience like me :-)
Your comment made me think of Idiocracy (the movie), which is always a good thing. :)
IPhone 5 case with 4" e-ink screen
Analyzing Hurricane Sandy's impact on hosting companies from Twitter data
The HP Envy 17 is expandable to 16GB and the Lenovo T430S is as well. I know this ecause I use both of them.

The HP Envy is a beautiful machine, but it lacks the drivers for Linux. I am currently using Linux in VMWare because of the lack of drivers. Especially the Graphics Card Switching driver. That is the one I miss the most, because it makes my battery last for 5-6 hours.
For those using other distributions than Ubuntu on their XPS13s, I am collecting the necessary kernel patches to get both the trackpad and backlight keys working here: http://lorenzo.villani.me/dell-xps13/

(Unfortunately, information to get this hardware working on other distributions is spread out across several web sites, git repositories and bug reports, that's why I created the page).
Am I (Un)Hireable As A Coder?
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Pass.
Windows-only, Steam-only, not DRM-free

Games: Saint Row the third, Darksiders, Metro 2033, Red Faction Armageddon, Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts, Company of Heroes Tales of Valor
The rest of the Internet is too slow for Google Fiber
He was clearly #1, inexperienced. Which the job application said was OK as long as you were willing and able to learn as you go, so there is a clear narrative he's following: "let me prove that I can work myself into this role."

The side benefit is that even if he fails or works for free for a month or two he will have gained valuable experience that could get him a job elsewhere.
Piracy isn't a morals problem, it's an economics problem.

I find it difficult to reconcile this with the near-constant moral tirades about it, such as those which claim piracy is not about people being cheap, or those which claim rightsholders are "forcing" people into piracy.

One might also recognize those arguments as the ones this post is actually addressing on its way to (as you say) "missing the point".
I still can't authorize more than 5 computers. Yes, 5 computers is a lot, but if you home/work computers for a couple with a shared account/library and a family room iMac, that's it.
That was part of it - to my mind, the title was this agglomerated collection of words that needed decoding: "what's the noun / verb / etc.... ack, to heck with it, I'll click on the article and figure it out from there"

I know there's a limit on title length. If I may suggest a good eyeball catching title for this would be:

"It took Bezos 60 tries for him to get $1M for Amazon from 22 investors"