skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. Although it was closed (not surprising due to StackOverflow's policies), it happens that there are some great answers there.
> what are the disqualifiers

I imagine that disqualifiers fit into two categories.
1. Subjective differences between you and the other people at the company.
2. Objective personality flaws.

There isn't much you can do about 1, and you shouldn't. If your personality doesn't fit in with a team, you should not try to alter your personality; it would get tiring and stressful, and you won't enjoy your job.

Things in the 2nd category (e.g., compulsive liar, arrogant douchebag, wet blanket) should be worked on in general, regardless of whether you're trying to find a job or not.
You meant astrology.
How is it unreasonable for open-source OS developers to be concerned about closed-source blobs in cryptographic components?
It's like you didn't even read the sentences you quoted.

The author's point was that these recommendations were not personalized.
Except that, for most users, ninite provides (or, their goal is to provide) the installers necessary for the main pieces of software that cause these problems in the first place.
This is a good point. I'm sure many of them are not good science teachers. Especially if they are a biology teacher.
I did not post this article to incite another evolution over creationism debate

You're implying that there even is a debate there, where there hasn't been one for a very long time.
Not disabled, white-listed.

The internet is way better when you don't allow all of the annoying to dangerous JS to run.
I'm happy that Nathan is sharing his experience here. It's an interesting project.

My development advice would be to get buildable, deployable (and deployed!) copies of the app early. A new developer's skill often peters out around the edges of the process, so working through those gotchas and hiccups early will pay off when it comes time to launch.
Glad to hear you like it. We think about configuration stuff like this from time to time, but I'm pretty sure getting all the details right would take years. So we haven't made the leap yet.
No exit strategy intended: anyone else here for the long game?
I'm not against accountability, and I'm not criticizing you wanting to focus on change. If you have no patience for other people, some of whom are still simply upset (I've moved on, I'm just commenting), that also doesn't mean you have to wait for them any more than you have to resent them for being in a different stage of grief, or dismiss their progress because it's not your progress. "Bleeding hearts" aren't really stopping any of the discussions you want... You are still free to start them; they might not even happen without you. Calling people names ("bleeding hearts") might, however, discourage others from participating with you in the discussions you want to happen.
>Once you're done

That's the thing- I own many, many books (CLRS, Tufte's work, Graphics Programming Black Book, and dozens of others in the same vein) that I'm never really "done" with because I refer to them at least several times a year. As a researcher/engineer/professional, they're as valuable to me as some of other of my tools (computer, arduino, breadboard, etc.).

I suspect that that's what Paul implies in his essay, and that he refers to such books rather than "50 shades of grey".

(but sure, when it comes to novels or such books, yeah you can just give them away after you've read them).
you will die young, ill and poor

I was ready to dismiss this as pure fear-mongering, but when you think about it, there's something to it. Would you want to trust your life to a doctor or medical researcher who, for non-scientific reasons, refuses to consider the main organizing principle of all life sciences?
I'd consider myself a creationist, but I never understood why so many creationists argue for a 10,000 year old earth. If you'll permit me quoting the Bible, here, to explain my point: there is every logical possibility of 60 billion years occurring between $WHEN_TIME_STARTED and $BIBLICAL_FIRST_DAY_WHICH_MUST_BE_NO_MORE_THAN_10_000_YEARS_AGO.

> In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
<hypothesis: stars are created here. some 60 odd billion years go here, giving plenty of time for starlight to reach the earth>
> 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

[Also, not really interested in getting into discussions of which scenario is more likely or whether I'm a fracking idiot. I just wanted to point out that I find it an intellectual curiosity that many creationists get so hung up on the young earth thing, since I'm not convinced that a 60 billion year old earth & biblical literalism are mutually exclusive.]
Why is it not a good idea? Given that he and I both don't understand why public sector jobs inherently require defined-benefit retirement plans when the vast majority of workers don't have them, it's apparently not obvious that it's a bad idea.
Do you say this as a man or a woman? Because while this describes my male worst case scenario, I think a female worst case scenario could go much worse.

The blind date idea makes it seem like there won't be messages exchanged. Which is why it's riskier.
> If you've only had this experience from _one_ book, you aren't reading enough.

He was 17 years old when he read the book.
I've noticed some really weird blips with ISPs in general in the past several months. Nothing I can pin down, but my working knowledge is incredibly low, so I don't know the tools. For instance, I run a Mumble server on a Linode, nothing special, and last night, all of my SF/BayArea friends had a storm of disconnect-reconnects. I didn't have time to diagnose at the time, but I doubt I would have found anything either.
He made a distinction between describing something well enough to correctly predict its behavior and understanding the common mechanisms leading to those behaviors. He then critiqued science for focusing exclusively on correct predictions, without also searching for insight into the underlying order.

The problem with science focused exclusively on correct predictions is that it encodes implicit assumptions, and if the surrounding conditions change the previous evidence is no longer valid. It also has a tendency to lead people to think they are observing some final and universal Truth, when really they are just observing a system that is in a relatively stable equilibrium.
Doing her job? Please see the movie "Judgement at Nuremberg" regarding "I was just doing my job". Seriously, see this movie.

And, "no less"? On the contrary, all prosecutors do substantially less. They don't actually apply the law most of the time, if they did, we'd probably all be in prison. See this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...
Even an atheist teacher teaching creationism alongside science is introducing a pro-creationism bias. Merely having them in the same classroom, let alone the same class is lending creationism far more credibility than it deserves. Mentioning it at all is a bias in favor of it; based on merit it deserves far less.
Now you know why I hate anonymous
Aaron Swartz was 'killed by the government,' father tells mourners
What, do you think people have no social responsibility towards the institutions they support?

If you belonged to the Westboro Baptist Church or some other group it'd be legit to claim you're responsible for their actions to a certain degree.

Why do MIT students get a special exemption from the chain of responsibility that applies to everyone else?

If you are a member of a collectivist institution it's also your responsibility to take what action you can to shape its moral aspect. And to be silent is to abet.
Are you self-taught? I'm pretty sure that's a pretty basic CS term. To not know it means you're going to have problems communicating.

This goes back to my original comment. You probably know what polymorphism is. You've probably used code that did it. You've probably written original code that exhibits it. And if someone explained it to you, you'd probably be like, oh, right, yeah, that thing, I did something like that over here in this code somewhere.

But, we have special words for things for a reason. Jargon increases the accuracy and efficiency of communication between specialists. You don't have to spend five minutes explaining the semantics of message passing, you can just say it's polymorphic.

Being able to write code for use by a team, and being able to communicate the value of that code, and the structure of that code, to that team, is a skill set completely separate from being able to cobble something together yourself.
Social sites like Github and Facebook take you to a page that is customized for you when you click their logo. It takes you to their main functionality so to speak. I don't think it's even possible to go to the real homepage when you're logged in to those sites.

Maybe MySpace doesn't do that?
MMS is largely just an SMS with a link to a file. It's pretty easy to send a link to a file hosted somewhere.
It will take years for Simple to reach the UK customer. How unfortunate for Britons.
Notes on visiting an Herbalife nutrition club in Queens
I was a journalist for 15 years on trade magazines, and not surprisingly journalist training pays a lot of attention to story leads.

One thing that the post neglects to say is: "it depends entirely on the type of article you are writing" a hard news story will have a different lead to a feature, column or colour piece.

Most traditional news stories are structured so that can be 'cut from the bottom' - get the salient facts into the first sentence and broaden out from there, so that if your piece gets cut for the sake of space, the sub knows that (s)he can safely cut the bottom paragraph first, then if more space is required, cut the paragraph before that, and that, so that if at the end of the day, your previous page 1 lead has been trimmed to a 1 sentence news in brief, the original opening sentence will still get the story told.

With the demise of paper, 'cutting from the bottom' isn't so relevant, but the same discipline still holds true when writing a story for the busy reader.

All that said How do you write the opening sentence? For a news story, or press release, my first editor gave me the best advice I ever received:

"Imagine you're walking into a pub to meet your friend and the story you're writing has just happened. Your friend is intelligent, inquisitive, but not necessarily an expert in your detailed field. You sit down, pick up your pint and say: "You'll never guess what - XXXXXXX"

That XXXX is your opening sentence.

... or at least it's the first draft. The exercise is good way of immediately revealing what your mind thinks are the most important elements or a sometimes very complex story.
But the Babylon installer is from one of IM's advertizers, so it is possibly indicative of the types of pages that IM inserts in other installers. If nothing else, the poor reputation of Babylon is indicative of the types of software that IM wants to co-install.

In the end, we don't have much information about what IM adds to installers--I suppose they don't want it too well known. We'd need to find an app that uses their installer to get a screenshot of it. Their website does give us some clues: one image shows an offer that is made to look like a license agreement, thus duping people into clicking Agree. Another clue is how they repeat that they "manage all optimization and conversion to ensure highest earnings," which I take to mean their wording and choices are designed to trick people into installing items they didn't ask for.

PS: installmonetizer.com website is down for now
I agree with what you are saying but I think many who would sign this petition don't want systematic legal changes for human rights, they want law enforcement to have a free hand to pressure with plea bargaining, profiling, torture, oppressing certain minorities, and generally police state powers to protect "us". What they want is preferential protections to better differentiate us vs. them and for "us" not to be caught in an oppressive legal system. Someone might identify with Aaron but not with a Troy Davis, who was executed in Texas based on false evidence. So maybe a petition makes more sense for such people.
Assuming they haven't updated it since I was there, its an auth token that expires after a specific amount of time (I want to say 2 weeks but its been a long time)
Having grown up going to anti-science schools, it's because they simply don't understand the basic idea of evolution. They literally think it's "one day a fish just started walking on land" or "an eye just randomly appeared", which _is_ nonsense.

Understanding evolution requires understanding some of the subtleties, a bit of game theory, speciation, and so on. They need to understand that while mutations are random, survival on average is not.

Without that understanding, it comes down to "so we just evolved from monkeys? My grandma isn't a monkey!", which is rightfully a stupid idea to believe in. So given their lack of knowledge of what evolution is, they have a perfectly logical stance.
Just emailed the address in your profile so I don't get spambot'd.
There have been hundreds (thousands?) of javascript exploits. Javascript is also a major component in user tracking. Go to a news site and you'll see a dozen trackers most likely against your wishes, reducing privacy and performance. It's a hostile internet out there.

Hostile images may exist but they are an order of mag. or two less common of a threat. Of course, where to draw the line is subjective, but the idea that blocking js by default is silly is misguided, imho.
Without getting into a philosophical debate, you can read 'objective opinion' as 'it is my un-biased opinion in a neutrally emotional state, to believe the facts to be..' if it helps.

I agree the law is perhaps wrong, but who could have known he was being bullied past breaking point and would lead to suicide but himself? Do you believe that if someone disagrees with a law they can break it to cause reform, and if so which laws do you draw the line at? Is this the best way to act? Do you not think regardless of whether we agree with it or not, if we break it we should be punished? He clearly broke the current law, is 6 months imprisonment, a felon, and a highly likely suspended sentence really such a grave punishment? Do you honestly believe Aaron if convicted felon would struggle for work? Do you think he was emotionally sound and compos mentis at the time of taking his life? Do you believe this man did not show traits that he could possibly go on to further break other laws he didn't agree with in the name of his version of liberation?

I don't think Aaron went about his goal in an amicable way, and I don't think he believed he was either, he knew what he was doing, and unfortunately if you break laws, whether or not you agree with them, you ought to be punished. If you don't like the laws, cause reform without breaking them,there are other ways.

Whats the minimum requirements to be considered part of this community?
It's not a fear of being crawled, it's link tracking. It has been discussed a bunch of times (how they show the link in the status bar but then the internal link is what shows up in the clip board).

The easiest way around this is to just click the link and copy it from your browser.

http://www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011...
You just sound bitter.

.... Wait for it :)

Edit: I'll take your downvotes, but know that there's a joke there you're just not getting.
Indeed. Keep in mind that for months Bin Laden denied even having anything to do with it.
If you mean the "Smallest countries with visits to MailChimp", Vatican is 0.17 sq miles, but it's not a country ;)
My guess is someone wants to "send a message" to MIT and so they're attacking the most vulnerable, most exploitable part of MIT's infrastructure: a non-critical system run by student volunteers. I doubt it's anything personal against Alex or other MIT students.

Imagine if a thousand members of Anonymous staged a non-violent protest at MIT, marching across campus. This would inconvenience some students, possibly even prevent them from attending class. Should this protest be condemned as an unconscionable attack on students? Of course not. It's a perfectly acceptable form of civil disobedience. Why shouldn't this extend to online protests via DDoS?
To me this feels a bit like a lunch counter cook complaining all these black people showing up in his restaurant are causing him extra work.

The whole point of a protest is to put pressure on the system your trying to change. Start a walkout/go on strike if you dont want to deal with the problems the organization you're working for caused.

The school only gets power from its students. Without the students there is no school. You have more power then you think. Take a stand, make a difference.
I know thanks, but I'm avoiding Ubuntu > 12.04 until they remove the crapware they added.
> It's not about what you can prove, but what you can extort using trumped up charges to force a plea.

Yes, you elucidated my point quite well.

It doesn't matter whether or not manslaughter applies: She would have to either defend herself (let's freeze her assets, cuz they're ill-gotten gains, so to pay the victims! (which is what she has done)) or take the plea.
Ugh, but this is just terrible:

<input type="checkbox" ng-model="todo.done">

I guess I'm a purist.
I'm not talking about the people that choose to deny evolution solely because of some literal interpretation of the Bible. I'm talking about the ones that were raised by people like that, and have been incorrectly told how weak the evidence for evolution is. There is a LOT of money behind teaching people this, and teaching that scientists lie to push some agenda or another.

A lot of the same people don't believe in climate change for the same reason, that is, they don't think it's supported well enough by evidence. I think that makes this subset of evolution-deniers skeptics at heart (At least for some things). Beginning from first principles, I think skepticism is a great attitude with which to teach science. I think a lot of these people could be taught, given willingness to learn, and an absence of mistrust of science in general, which a lot of them have been unfortunately taught.
No. If he did commit suicide then he definitely is the one who killed himself.
The problem is wider than the CFRA. The problem is with criminal prosecution of citizens that were not intending to commit a crime. Criminal intent is a cornerstone of our legal system but more and more it's becoming unimportant in prosecutions.
True but Aaron's activism resulted in him being bullied until he took his own life.
It's a difficult topic.

If you assume that ddos from a collective is similar to blocking a road by a collective during a strike or manifestation then I must say that some people won't be able to get to work that day and in general nobody would get hurt.

This sort of pacific interruption raises awareness, which by itself is very important for a functioning democracy.
If you accept an old earth (and I assume a similarly accurate timescale for how long life has been around), how would you expect life not to evolve? Given that much time, it's really just inevitable. How could it possibly not happen?

If you're a catholic-style "theistic evolution" type, then I suppose that is another thing. I'm mostly just curious how you stretch a non-evolution creation/development of life out over more than a couple thousand years. Catholics do it by just calling evolution "divinely guided" or whatever. Of the origin thoughts that involve deities, "young earth/no evolution" and "old earth/theistic evolution" seem the most logical to me.
NPR News is very aware of the persistent bias allegations and often works hard to "balance" the presentation, sometimes to the point of creating an unreasonable false equivalency between points of view.

I didn't see any glaring factual inaccuracies, nor was it sensationalized. It seems to be a good intro to the case for a non-technical audience.
It is entirely possible for Google to have an outage that takes down GAE and G+. Given that reality, it makes sense that their "emergency public communication" should be as separated as possible from their own infrastructure.

This makes twitter a very natural choice.
Hardly. The Lousiana law also made allowance for "supplemental material" on climate change, and Kopplin himself mentioned that "We don't just deny evolution... We are denying climate change and vaccines and other mainstream science...". Evolution denial is in the title but climate change denial is not because evolution is the main issue Kopplin has focused his activism on.
OkCupid App Bug Exposed Email Addresses and Birth Dates
When I was a child I used to fawn over toy catalogs too, until I got a computer.
Do you think Pussyriot would be free today if there were no laws against "hooliganism and incitement of religious hatred"? Once the prosecutors go after someone, they will try to win at all costs, to the point of ruining someone and their family members.
To be fair, all z-indexes are scoped to something, you just assume that "page" is the scope, but the spec presumes otherwise :)
Simple is explicitly not a bank[1]. It's a financial-experience-as-a-service -- they manage your interactions with depositing, withdrawal, budgeting, etc. Their partner bank takes care of the money itself.

[1]: https://www.simple.com/faq/#thebasics
Microsoft goes public with its plan to manage Windows, iOS and Android devices
Context is King (Why You Should Make Your Marketing Personal)
Merged. The Filepicker.io demo in the blog post now supports sending email via SendGrid.
So you don't take the Bible literally, do you?
Filehippo.com and Oldapps.com give the real, original installers, not the crap-wrapped. Sadly, both sites usually are not in top 5 in Google, so you need to know of their existence. Actually I rarely use them, addiction to Google is too big (though I usually go to the author's page from the results list). But when I can't find a 'normal' installer it's awesome to have them.
The Positives of Negative Space
The entire CPU is "closed source." If you can't trust the CPU, then it's game over for everything you're doing on the CPU.
That is not my experience at all. Sure, some people will feel uncomfortable, but it shows right away, and I stop. Some people are more open and return the joke, keep the conversation going, etc

That's always nice, for everyone involved (or so I like to think).
I meant this in a positive way, ie, that the breadth is so enormous and he is so prolific that I am constantly impressed.
Yes, it looks the same (I actually still see it on Coursera, but the link takes you to this site).

I'm not sure if maybe they decided for the second time offering the class to do it themselves (I am now "enrolled" at about a half-dozen different online course websites, it's actually a little bit of a pain to manage them all).
What problems are you trying to solve to write software for? I would suggest small programs, if desktop then console based until you learn how GUI programming works. Then you can move on to mobile and web that are different.

What is your target operating system? Windows, Linux, Mac OSX? What is your target web browser? Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, HTML5, HTML4/3.2? I would suggest learning simple HTML and CSS before learning Javascript. For mobile devices, well if you want an iPhone app you have to own a Macintosh and use XCode to submit apps to the app store. Android apps don't have limitations like that, and you can develop for them first.