skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm hoping (or at least correlating in my mind) that this has something to do with them stepping up their game in response to Bitbucket's overhaul.
This is what happens when the people doing the hiring don't know enough to really evaluate the candidates, so they rely on the "brand" (school) and punt on measuring the person's actual ability.
If you can offer AD as a service you could setup a tidy business, otherwise not very many people are going to look at this.

Small companies don't have the expertise, large companies can't afford the risk.
Adding a little more detail: To stylize your content, you create a 'mask' by specifying the character ranges that you want to change, and then applying attributes to the string

Snippet to take a gray-colored string "Hello World", and then make "World" show as a black color (from memory):

NSString *theEntireLineOfText = @"Hello World";
UIColor *boldColor = [UIColor blackColor];
UIFont *myFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica" size:12.0];
UIColor *baseColor = [UIColor grayColor];
NSDictionary *subAttrs = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
myFont, NSFontAttributeName, boldColor,NSForegroundColorAttributeName, nil];
NSMutableAttributedString *mainText = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",theEntireLineOfText] attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:myFont,NSForegroundColorAttributeName:baseColor}];
// Make the word "World" black"
NSRange range = NSMakeRange(0,[@"World" length]);
[mainText setAttributes:subAttrs range:range];
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My freshman year, Safeway began their online delivery service. They didn't card for the first month or two, which got them plenty of business from our dorm. Good times.
Seconded. Bytemark are the mutt's nuts for anything hosting-related in the UK.
This is not available in New York due to state laws require them to have certain license.
you have no respect for the value of money, time and our planet. You better use your spare time write a bot to feed 80 human beings in poor country. :\ disappointed how this can get so high on HN. Srsly, you guys are loosing it.
Would it be better if it were more difficult to measure the performance of all types of workers? If not, what's different here?
attackers will just do one full handshake at the beginning of the attack and then switch to SYN flooding

Except it's no longer SYN flooding at that point, it's full HTTP request flooding.

But in a sense isn't that really the goal of this design? To make it a bit more efficient to get requests to the application layer?

In any case, it seems like an application using this feature to have an efficient way of disabling it if it can't handle the current load. Kernels could add efficient heuristics to throttle it automatically too.

I'm more concerned that a bug in the entropy of the key generation process could turn these servers into massive reflected DoS amplifiers. E.g., the attacker sends 1 packet with the source address spoofed and the webserver replies with an entire HTTP result to the victim.
This would be a timely submission! :)
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A plea from all those who try and understand which acronym is being used - we will not think less of you if you use Mbits/sec and MBytes/sec - and I suspect the rate of confusion will be somewhat reduced.

(There are those who aren't aware that Mbits/second is the "SI" sense of "Mega, and think that there are not 1048576 bits/second in a Mbit/second, but, we'll leave that for another day)
McKinsey was aggressively recruiting PhDs in physics and engineering (to do business consulting) from Cornell when I was there. They claimed to be cutting edge by going after such people instead of MBAs.
This is overstated. It's true that top banks/consulting firms couldn't care less about a Rutgers grad, and that some elite hedge funds make distinctions between Harvard/Wharton and Yale, but it's overstating it to say that they aren't interested in MIT grads. Tons of MIT grads go into consulting/finance (I think they make up the top two target professions). Also, the consulting firms are very interested in people who went to non-target undergraduate schools, but went to a top graduate school (PhD, MBA, MD). Also, McKinsey/BCG/Bain are entirely willing to look at Dartmouth/Duke/etc grads.

And note we're talking about the top firms here, in the same sense that Harvard/Yale/Princeton are the top schools. Outside of Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley/JP Morgan, hedge funds and private equity funds, and McKinsey, BCG, and Bain in consulting, the name snobbery drops of precipitiously. Lots of people from top state schools end up working at Deloitte, Accenture, etc.

Also, the stuff about grades versus traipsing around in Costa Rica is outmoded. My brother is an analyst at one of GS/MS/JPM, and his summer class is, to be glib, has a huge representation of 3.9+ asian math/science nerds from Harvard/Yale/Princeton. It's not 2007 anymore, hiring at investment banks is way down, and the days of 3.7+ with a great personality skating past the 3.9+ math nerd are over. To be sure personality is still a requirement, but quantitative skills are increasingly valued.

Also, people arguing that this is an inefficient way to hire are ignoring a basic fact of the business model: these hires aren't keepers. These firms are built on up-or-out models and forced attrition. Most analysts are hired for a two year contract and not asked to stay on board. In essence, the initial hiring decision is just the first round--the two years on the job as an analyst is where the top people are screened out. Indeed, this process never stops. Even at the partner level, which a very select few ever make it to, there is substantial forced attrition. GS adds 100+ partners every other year, but maintains the partnership at a pretty constant 500-ish people. You do the math on that.

By hiring only from Harvard/Yale/Princeton/etc, they are just making the bet that statistically good people are more likely to be found in that pool than broader pools.
Well... I worked at a company that tried to implement OpenERP for managing the Back-End operations of an E-Commerce business.
Too many bus to fix, even on core. Money that was supposed to be used in new functionality development was spent paying partners to fix issues we found.

Moved to Tryton ( http://www.tryton.org/en/ ), which is a lot more pythonic, a lot more concise and follows standards, including PEP8 and company still Tryton today.

Financials and forecasting with OpenERP can be a mess, specially when you get users that are used with quickbooks.

Check Tryton ( http://www.tryton.org/en/ ). I am sure you will like it. There are a bunch of modules that also install as python modules, virtualenv support, PostgresSQL, clear development roadmap and much more. Also, thre is this magento integration that is pretty nice -> https://imagento.openlabs.co.in/
Note: 2010 (2 and a half years ago, the listed issues all appear to be resolved)
This. Just remember to set it to auto update and to blacklist new trackers.
Just like many existing development companies have Windows-based infrastructure with both Windows and Linux on end-user systems, it makes sense to have Linux-based infrastructure while still supporting Windows end-user systems.

Linux support for AD also allows incremental migration of this infrastructure.
Personally, my programming involves heavy use of the scientific computing libraries. But my comparison was for general programming that doesn't use these libraries, and which don't rely especially heavily on the standard library.
Tacky, cynical, nasty, and inevitable.
Level of Effort. So pretty much how much time you're spent in HTML/CSS/JS and integrating that with your back-end devs
Interesting, having used Netflix and having it 'step down' from HD to not HD when something kicked in (like a Windows update) this result suggests that they are pretty good at traffic management as well. That was one of the questions I had for my sister who lives in Kansas City.

Now this also means that folks will start advertising their botnets for a premium if they have a strong contingent of 'Google' hosts. And that will be the next interesting test.

If Google can run as an ISP and effectively deal with zombie PCs (which is to say mitigate them), they will replace any other ISP out there just because operationally they are that much more efficient.

Still waiting to hear which city is #2 on the list.
And in case you're an Emacs user, here's an equivalent: https://github.com/defunkt/gist.el :)
And you spend your time commenting on work you don't respect. Why weren't you out farming?
I agree it shouldn't happen. But honestly, is this really worse than what FB does ?
Hmm, no mater how many times I try, I always get a V for Vendetta mask as the result.
Anyone know if this system respects Do Not Track settings?
For many people who spend most of their time in SF, anything other than SF, LA, and NYC is "flyover country".
Informational noise reduction.

HN covers lots of subjects (IT, scientific news, business news, social and lots of other stuff) while not providing any tools to sort out what one doesn't need/interested in.

During 2 days I've received ~1k news. For me there were 12 useful. I've skimmed through a 20-screen long list to find those 12 and didn't even try to look through all others because there is just too much of informational noise. So please add some categories or tags to news.

Thank you.
I just ordered mine today.
Curious to know how you'd handle small county/town Kentucky, where you can only file the forms in person, and only on Wednesdays.

(I've had to deal with this a few times when working remotely for companies in town...)

Seriously, though, congrats on the funding, and let me know when you support KY :)
If it potentially could save licensing costs of about one sysadmin it is worth looking at. It is unlikely (but possible) an entire additional sysadmin will need to be employed just to support Samba.
Swarmly: To move or gather in large numbers... the future of geolocation
If I found out a site I used employed this tool, I'd both trash them publicly and never use their service again.
Much of this is invalid.

Github flavoured markdown works everywhere (that I can think of)
Notifications have recieved a much needed revamp.

Not saying none of this is relevant but posting it right now just seems like a petty cashgrab for karma :/
No one care about Dartmouth? Puh-lease. Hank Paulson, long-time CEO of GS and Treasury Secretary, was a Dartmouth grad, and I met several Dartmouth grads during my short time there.
To me it had everything to do with the original submission.

The author was showing off something he made because he was really inspired by the new iTunes, which for me was the nail in the coffin in regards to my previous methods for listening to and curating music.

If its not interesting or offensive there's a downvotenbutton right there :)
Switch browsers

or

Contribute to Chrome development.
Oh, ok. Like the other commentor, I took your original comment as a serious argument.
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That's a lot of eggs in a small basket.
There are other distros than Ubuntu you know... There's a whole world of modern, active, distros open to explore, that don't include shopping options in them!
Not as much money floating, flying around, so you have to be more creative, more convincing.
The fact that they use Rick DeVos as an example tells you everything you need to know about the sorry state of entrepreneurship in Michigan. Our leading VC is the heir to a fortune built on scamming entrepreneurs.
Or perhaps contribute to Chrome development. There seem to be a lot of experts here, I'm sure they'd all be welcomed with open arms.
It would be nice if it was possible to supply a seed for the randomization algorithm. Then the image wouldn't change at every reload and it's still possible to get another one if it's desired.

I imagine it would be a bit annoying if the image changed every time I reloaded the page which I do quite a lot while developing a web page. If I were to show a page I've developed to a customer I would not like to have to explain why the images are changing all the time.

Apart from that I find this really nice.
You're mistaken about the game that is being played.
Do you know of any success stories with OpenChange? Thanks for the info.
Not right. You can get access of the wiki of your repository. As a git repository! How much "history" does he want?
Do you have any suggestions on a real desk IP phone?
Interesting question! Obviously this isn't a problem that's going to happen any time soon. But if you look at a random day of usage for the California ISO (actually, the only one I could find) [1], peak load was 30,000 MW and between midnight and 6AM load was around 22,000 MW. So that's 48,000 MWh, or 48,000,000 KWh, and at 100miles/38KWh, that's 126 million miles of excess capacity in those hours on the West coast. If the average commute is ~30 miles round trip, that's 4 million commuters in California, just from current excess capacity at night time.

Needless to say, it will be a while before Tesla ships 1 million cars in California, much less 4 million.

http://www.ferc.gov/market-oversight/mkt-electric/california...
Ah, the old "piracy is not stealing because nothing is taken from the owner" card. To be fair, I don't see it often in HN- on Reddit, however...
I have illegally downloaded music, movies and tv shows for more than half of my life. I was using HotWire and 14.4 modems. This is my real name. I don't really care...

Look at the size of the original iPod. It would cost tens of thousands of dollars to fill one of those up with legal music. How many iPods have been sold?

The music industry has been dealing with institutional piracy since the Internet became mainstream.
Define failure..
Well with Facebook you sign up and agree to a big EULA that presumably allows it. If I visit site A then site B, site B shouldn't be privy to whatever I said at a different location without agreeing to share it.
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"It’s called due diligence."

And this is called talking out of one's ass. It's easy to armchair quarterback from a cozy cubicle at Pando HQ. When you run an actual company, especially as a solo founder, you'll realize how thin your bandwidth gets stretched. Unless it's core, you adopt a 'cross that bridge when you get there' mentality. Which is exactly what Apoorva did here.

Seriously, once you go down the 'due diligence' road, there are a million things to check up on. Focus on the core to get up and running, fix things as they break and worry about the rest later.
Try GASP ..that's great too..
My thoughts exactly. It's terrible, but completely expected in an age when sites like RottenTomatoes and TripAdvisor already know who I am, which of my friends are on their site etc when I haven't even signed up - all from deep Facebook Connect integration.
The screen on your Lapdock is 11.6 inches, innit?
If not upgrading the kernel every week or two is a security hole, most people are pretty screwed. I personally do not like to restart that often. Turning off automatic updates just gives you control of when to upgrade.
Is the weasel company's javascript (and/or flash bug) logging all form input back to its own servers to capture name/email when you sign up somewhere else? Are they capturing credit card numbers too?

We can tell the world all day long this is Bad and Unsafe, but within six months it'll be more popular than ad retargeting and the meebo crapbar (because, hey, analytics!).
It's not just Goldman Sachs. Hollywood and big media in general have elitist hiring. And the presidential race is always a farce.

1992: Yale/S&B vs Yale
1996: Yale vs Arizona (!)
2000: Harvard vs Yale/Harvard/S&B
2004: Yale/S&B vs Yale/Harvard/S&B
2008: Harvard vs Annapolis (!)
2012: Harvard vs Harvard

...and it goes back further with S&B even making more appearances.
Agreed. We currently have to keep a Windows admin on staff (who actually costs a lot more than the CALs) just to manage our shares, Exchange, and file servers. It'd be nice to get these final pieces of the Windows puzzle out of our environment and staff solely Linux admins.

But I do agree with the dbrain's sentiment. If it was going to have a significantly higher TCO, I wouldn't do it.
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Also NoScript for more granular control.

But when I see the anger that these types of plugins, especially AdBlock, produces in content publishers I wonder if we're not headed towards a new RIAA/MPAA-style battle front. As online publishers of all kinds get more established and consolidate their power they could start lobbying to regulate against these plugins. It might seem farfetched now but so did paying a tax to the RIAA for blank media, until it happened.
I would never use this on my site, but I feel if I was to, it should have big tick box agreement, with a simple 1 sentence explanation.
Agreed, but you subtracted 30 years of rent from the home sale. Future rent needs to be discounted.
I know a couple musicians, some of them earn enough to survive thanks to their art, most don't.

I know that if I had talent I could create and distribute an album on my laptop and distribute it globally. We used to pay record labels for this. Now we pay them to stand in the way of artists and their fans.

Regardless, musicians don't really make money from people listening to their music and never really have - unless you're talking about A-listers, but since we're talking about starving artists we're probably not talking about Metallica and Katy Perry.

Musicians make money from playing live - even all electronic musicians like Deadmau5. Most electronic musicians give their music away on Soundcloud and then tour to make money.

This is the future of the industry. The problem is it just doesn't leave a lot of room for record labels. This is something that no one will miss...
Can you please let us know the name of the company?
With the right lego pieces, you can do a lot. All depends on what libraries you can use. It could also be they're re-using stuff they work on day-to-day anyway.
You'd do well to ask these on the https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff list for a wider set of opinions. It depends on the style and complexity of the document. -ms is simple enough that people like W. Richard Stevens would tweak it for their books. I understand the relative newcomer, -mom, is comprehensive, modern, and well supported by its author on the above list. I don't recognise the Pascal, etc., analogies. :-)

I do write my own macros. They can be just short-hands for a combination of others in the same way my ~/bin/l is exec ls -l "$@", or sometimes for a simple document I start with just troff and have some macros on top of that. Yes, any distinction over semantics is purely convention.

You may wish to read Kernighan's _Nroff/Troff User's Manual_, http://troff.org/54.pdf, otherwise known as CSTR #54. It's original troff, not groff, but as a succinct reference with elegant prose we often refer back to it. At the end is a tutorial introducing simple macros.

Integrating troff and friends in pipelines and scripts is easy. They take line-based text as input and produce it as output, only switching to binary for some output formats at the last hop. You can also run system(3) from within troff documents, e.g. to include the output of a command, but often that's not the easiest fit.

I recommend again the groff@gnu.org list; they're friendly, patient with newcomers, and interested in showing how they tackle the task at hand.
I read that post a long time ago, it was very useful :).
Both RottenTomatoes and TripAdvisor require me to authorize them on Facebook before they show me any social data. Are you sure you didn't authorize them in the past and forgot?
This kind of thing is what I've always seen as the potential end result of things like google analytics and also facebook connect. Both products that have javascript running on a vast number of websites, with the potential to link to personally identifiable information, in a similar manner to that discussed in article.

I can't imagine that I'm alone in this train of thought.
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Any good app to learn programming language??
I have iTunes Match a shot - it was ok but it didn't get all of my music fixed and it didn't change any of the fundamental issues I have with the whole workflow.

Find artist
Download/buy albums
Listen to songs, rate, put in playlists
Sync to devices (this it solved)
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Based on a session I saw at the Linux Collaboration Summit 2011 in San Francisco there are actually a few competing profiling toolkits. While most of these are aimed at kernel developers there is also the potential to use these more generally either (1) for optimization, or (2) in conjunction with various security toolkits to automate the systematic reduction of kernel-level attack space.

While both are a can of worms, (1) is more so. With regards to (2), AFAIK it is generally accepted that grsec provides the easiest profiling tools here; whilst 'roll your own' is never as secure as something locked down by multiple third parties 'in the know' and to a finite extent (see: NSA SELinux), it is far better than nothing, and very frequently custom code or the latest or patched version of a certain daemon will not have publicly accredited rulesets. Therefore grsec's solution is a reasonable basis for beginning here. Docs @ http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity/The_Administration_U...
The best part of food trucks is that they undermine commercial real estate. I don't want to see restaurants go away. They form the backbone of community and produce more jobs than food trucks.

Food trucks are like locus disrupting the community as they eat the restaurant out of revenue. I would prefer to see food trucks as commandos, entering under served communities to build a bulkhead for restaurants and community.