skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In this case, 20-30 year old males.
I would argue that it's more like "Anyone who reads Hacker News, Reddit, or any other place this gets posted." (Granted, that overlaps with 20-30 year old males quite a bit.) The puzzle is more like an advertisement, not a requirement to apply.
When two giants agree not to hire each other's employees in a particular industry (mobile) and a particular location (Silicon Valley), they do serious damage to those employees' wages and career paths. They've also violated antitrust law. See this example from Google and Apple, for example, which shows communication less outrageous than Jobs' email to Palm. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57367924/google-apple-...
$20 trillion shale oil find surrounding Coober Pedy 'can fuel Australia'
Workspaces: A Super Awesome Feature Coming Soon To Chrome DevTools
I used to use Google Apps standard edition (the free one). Still do because I'm 'grandfathered in'. If I had to pay, I'd probably goo with Office 365.
Once you can read some C, I'd recommend reading over another bytecode interpreter, like mawk (Mike's AWK): http://invisible-island.net/mawk/ . Another good read is the TinyCC compiler (originally by Fabrice Bellard, who did QEMU among other things): http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tinycc . It's a small, mostly readable, fully functional C compiler.
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End result is that personal responsibility is mooted, but if the people in power are exposed as mindless policy toadies I suppose it could be worse.
the that's how "business is practiced" argument and "competition is dirty and messy" doesn't mean that's the way it has to be or that its the best way.

What's appalling is the fact that people in power are attempting to take power away from individual contributors who need these types of checks and balances; that is to be able to leave one company and join another for better working conditions/wage/purpose if the market is to work effectively.
It's pretty standard to use straight apostrophes these days . . . they even have it on the Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe -- see "typewriter apostrophe").
Bullies, zealots, and police are prone to misinterpreting words in the way which is most beneficial to THEIR ends, not yours. The kids denied entry into the US because they said they were going to "destroy" $CITY were a prime example of this, where "destroy" was local slang for "get drunk and party in $town".

Similarly, anyone looking to oppress gays will say, "He likes men. Why didn't he say he likes women? He must be gay." You can't argue what you really meant in a kangaroo court, or when a mob of angry villagers are throwing stones: it's too late by then.
Prison time? You do realize these actions are not necessarily illegal (nor immoral) and the corporation would liable, not necessarily the individuals?

Trying to stop poaching is standard practice. When it becomes too widespread, Uncle Sam steps in.

When the bankers that blew up the global economy in 2008 just got bonuses cut, what makes you think THIS of all things would be criminal?
The "Browse Ninjas" page has some extremely distorted photos. I am not sure if your tiling is algorithmic or what but it's probably not very appealing from the perspective of the people on that page (or the people seeking them out).

(edit: Firefox 15. Have not tested in Chrome)
For people like me who have terrible memory and an inability to put names to faces, this is perfect.
Hey Everybody, I'd love to hear what you think of what I've been building. Any suggestions? Constructive criticisms? Questions?
Too bad the amateur radio service forbids encryption. People do use ssh on packet, but it is a violation.
Exactly - see my comment below on this. Indeed, the more technically advanced / niche / specific the industry, the more disastrous these sorts of handshake no-poach agreements have on the salary and employment prospects of those that work in the industry.
as grunt was mentioned in this article: now is the worst time ever to start with grunt. the project is currently in flux between 0.3 and 0.4. doesnt sound so bad? these versions, and the plugins used by these versions, are not compatible with each other. the documenation of 0.4 is not yet done, most of the examples of in the internet use 0.3, the code examples of the gruntjs github plugin repos are already 0.4. most of the community written plugins are still 0.3 only. oh, last but not least, 0.4.0rc7( or was it rc5) breaks compability with the some of the plugins that worked with 0.4.0rc4.

said that grunt is great, but still a 0.X.something software. if you want a frustration free time, wait some more until everything settles down.
Jobs couldn't have done what he did if power was his motivation.
Seems like fun...

But this type of thing doesn't help our profession be taken seriously. If WibiData was a game company this would fit - but they do data analytics as far as I can tell.

I am a professional software developer. I have a very specific skill set and I expect to be treated properly. I do not appreciate it when people think I am a "geek", or that I obviously play video games or are in to Star Trek[1]. When it comes to my professional career I expected to be treated as an adult with a valuable skillset that can add value to a business.

I wouldn't apply to this company frankly because this strategy belies a culture that thinks development is all fun and games. Whether that's true or not, doesn't matter. What they are communicating to me as a potential applicant turns me off. (and the photos of a giant open room don't help either - who the hell wants to work in an office like that?)

[1]note, just because I am totally into all that doesn't invalidate my point
Cable Industry Finally Admits That Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion
Cool, shall share!
http://github.com/bengarvey/budget
Mail read/write: Debian + Thunderbird

Mail send/receive: Centos + Cyrus + Exim
This is pretty cool for finding local talent: https://github.com/search?l=Ruby&p=1&q=location%3A%2...
Me too. Just went in and unliked everything I could.
Much of the facts found while reporting are veiled in personal interest and sometimes fibs.

Part of our job is understanding and accounting for that.
Worker Queue System
This is helpful to everyone who thinks they know who their friends are on Facebook! But the uses must be exponential!
Prescriptive Analytics: the next step in Big Data
"Getting?" Frankly I'm a little shocked that people are still using it after all the derision it's received. It's getting to be (I'd like to think) a black mark along the lines of the Web Economy Bullshit Generator.
These are federal documents, they're not related to a living person, and there is no more case/investigation. Presumably they should be available to a FOIA request. Has anyone requested them?
Will wired broadband no longer be needed in a 4G world?
In general, sure. Doesn't change that the "read" function seems to break the spirit of that.
The rivers of nonsense questions coming into stackoverflow from well meaning people who are not able to describe the difference between a variable and a browser and who don't have the capabilities to care unless it solves their immediate problem at hand leads me to believe that not everyone should program. in fact, many people who do program should be politely asked not to.

Stackoverflow needs a "entrence barrier" test where if you can't communicate or have no ability to think rationally about the words being typed there to solve problems, your question goes to the "dumb" section of the site.

point is, stop encouraging everyone to be programmers. You're slowing progress by doing so.

we've got 4.4 million questions, 90% of it from novices that should be asked not to program. you can go take a look at them, they are little better than "how is babby formed" type questions. These people are trying to program when they should be told that it's too hard.
email template for people who want to apply:
I estimated it would take X time units to finish this game. Instead I wrote this neat piece of software (github-link) in that timespan.

Hire me, gg no re
Being able to filter by stars is great...One other filter that would be nice is days-since-lsat-commit. I guess number of stars is rough estimate of how active a repo is, but as the years go on, there will probably be more and more projects that are basically dead, yet still have a high number of stars.
Ha! Thanks Mom!
If you want to make some budget visualizations of your own, let me link this site we've been working on:

http://openspending.org/help/index.html

It's powering a variety of budget sites, like http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/, http://bund.offenerhaushalt.de/ and http://cameroon.openspending.org/en/. People can just go an upload their own data quickly - OpenStreetMap for money :)
What has been added/improved in this re-launch ?
Fostering a Culture of Innovation
That's info can be found on the main site http://brettmandel.com
What is abuse? Abuse is about fairness. Fairness is not about money, though we have tried for a long time to mediate pain and suffering through money. Abuse and fairness are emotional. It is not rational. Putting a monetary value to this is rationalizing what is fundamentally not rational.

Just because it is not rational does not make it any less real. You don't negotiate with a hurricane. If you are weighing the pros and cons about renting stuff out to a friend, then there are some deeper issues involved. Is this particular friend widely known for mooching off of you? (Why is such a person your friend anyways?) Generally, if you fear abuse of your assets and personal space/time, then you also have some Jungian shadows related to abusing your friendships.

Renting something out to strangers and taking money to mitigate risk -- that seems fair to me. (But risk is emotionally related to the same kinds of issues related to renting or not renting out to a friend, or a friend abusing or not abusing your generosity).

There are ways to deal with the underlying non-rationalizable emotions that does not involve money. Hopefully, those methods will become more popular going forward.

It's interesting. I have never considered this before. Conducting transactions like this means stripping away the impersonal nature of corporations (http://onthespiral.com/unifying-value-universe), makes you much more aware of human nature, maybe gets people to start dealing with it.

Consider also http://playspent.org ... It turns out: a social net is very advantageous. (http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Need-Rise-Network-ebook/dp/B009K8...)
Filter functions

Four general filter functions are desirable:

Band-pass filter: select only a desired band of frequencies
Band-stop filter: eliminate an undesired band of frequencies
Low-pass filter: allow only frequencies below a cutoff frequency to pass
High-pass filter: allow only frequencies above a cutoff frequency to pass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_and_microwave_filter#Filter_...
Worried your startup won't get off the ground?
I grew up in Orlando. The homeless in the library is not a new phenomenon and I am reminded of a funny story..

It was the late 80's, flannel shirts were not uncommon male attire and I was cultivating the "Jim Morrison: the LA woman years" look as I walked out of the Orange County Public Library's downtown branch and climbed into my dented turd brown '74 Mercury Comet with four doors and carcinomic vinyl top and headed home. One block later, I notice one of Orlando's finest cruisers behind me me. I drove slow in those days not that the Comet's little straight six and three on the tree offered any other option besides not running at all.

Left turn at the Junior High. It's pacing me - past the light at Central, under the East-West, across Anderson and just over the rise he hits his lights. I pull to the curb and stop. I look in my mirror. Holy Shit! He's got his gun drawn and is yelling at me to show my hands. They're up. I'm to reach out and use the outside latch. The door is open and he's yelling at me to get out. I can't. He's yelling, I'm yelling that my seat belt is buckled.

I have to put my hand out of sight while we are yelling. I get out. I lay on the street. Spread eagle. The gun is against my occipital lobe while I'm cuffed. The lieutenant arrives. They've run my plate. He's got my license. My car and I live four doors down from Glenda. They thought my car was stolen from Michigan. Despite the Orange County tag. Glenda is a city commissioner. Later she becomes mayor and then Secretary of State. I ain't going to jail. They don't even search the car. Turns out it's all just a misunderstanding.

This was before the militarization of the police. Before Giuliani's broken window policies. Back before the prison economy really took off. Even before Rush Limbaugh made popular jokes about the homeless and dumpsters to set the stage for conservative meanness.

I hope the homeless using the library is playing out differently from my low expectations. But I doubt it.
Working on that right now! Should be up shortly.
Thanks for the comment! Android is probably the next platform for us if all goes well. I started off with iOS because I'm more familiar with it and it has less device variations. Extending the offering won't be trivial though. Before we start support for a new platform, we'd need to build the testing tools, develop new training materials, and acquire new hardware.
My Ignite session Slides from DevOpsDays, NY
I agree, as long as it's understood that San Francisco's insane anti-development policies (and indeed, rent control) share at least as much of the blame for the difficulty in finding a place.
Really, a downvote for this? Just pointing out the obvious -- that you probably shouldn't use justify for blogs.
"XBox on site," says to me, "we're (hiring) young people."
What's your recipe for innovation?
This is very good advice: "My opinion is that if you're fortunate to have friends that know how to program then you should learn to program in the language they're best in."
Did anyone else feel like the gifs were overused?
They have always supported it, but it's never been valid.
There is no correlation between the rise in rental prices in SF and Airbnb. It's absurd to think that they could impact that at this point. A large chunk of the hosts on the site rent out a room in their own homes. If you want someone to blame for the raising prices, I think it's more rational to point the finger at the spate of IPOs and the newly minted folks who are in the buying market at the moment. Or if that's not your cup of tea, then perhaps blame the size of the city (as it can't get any bigger) or even more appropriately, blame the blood hungry landlords who still insist you pay by check and raise their rates by at least 30% every time one of their properties free up.

Either way, just wildly saying that without any substantial evidence is pretty weak.
The site uses D3.js http://d3js.org. I'll write up a full recap later.
>When an executive leaves one place and goes to another (say a CIO or VP), they bring people with them.

Well, see, you treat people like property that can be "brought with them" rather than have their own mind, and you endorse collusion to restrict people's ability to move around. You should not be appalled that people object to being treated like that. We don't like sociopaths very much.
Supersonic Ejection - A True Story
> at present it is a gimmicky feature

Its also labelled beta.
Thanks for the feedback! It's a known Firefox issue and we are working to resolve it right now.
Forgetful Chef looks to the crowd
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very nice. one bad setting (perhaps a default that never got overridden) is that searching for foo_bar searches for foo and bar separately, rather than treating foo_bar as an indivisible token.
Is there an "order by" functionality? When looking for code. I like to find the code with the most stars.

Ugh.. that reminds me of the good old days when HN had visible karma points...
O'Reilly's book _Data Analysis_ is very good.
Visualizing Hackathons in 2012
I read recently that Abelson has some ties to JSTOR and/or JSTOR management personnel. I hope that these will be fully described in the report, as well.
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Because the SAW movies are about killing people and thus leave nobody alive to testify?
This is also why journalism is an actual field of study, not just a word to make oneself sound important. Assessing the credibility of sources is one of many very hard problems legitimate journalists face, and as a whole we have some obligations and expectations in place to ensure due diligence is followed.

Which isn't perfect, but certainly a good foil for situations like this.

I miss real journalism.
I agree. "adding the two numbers to the right and left of it on the row above it" makes no sense to me whatsoever. I could interpret that in about many different ways, and during an interview I'd probably crack. To put this in perspective, I got a 1450 on the SATs.

My thought process: I take a number, add the right and left on the same row, then put the result on the upper row. Or, add the left and right and current and put it on the row above. After a while I guess you mean any position is the sum of the numbers to the 1 position upper left and upper right.
Mildly entertaining, not very practical. If you can write an algo in their box, you can write an algo + data feed handler for IB or other platforms that expose sufficient API.
I don't disagree with your point. I view this as a conflict of interest between managers and labour.

In this particular case we are talking less about general poaching and more about the poaching activities of an individual (Rubie) soliciting others out of personal relationships. I can see why many jurisdictions actually enforce anti-soliciting agreements, because this practice is very damaging.

On the other hand, broad based poaching collusion hurts labour, who should be protected by Uncle Sam.

The point is that, such a conflict is natural, and I'm observing that the HN crowd in these threads seems to be surprisingly supportive of government intervention. Maybe the libertarians are avoiding Apple threads.
> Are the cloud providers (dropbox in this case) even allowed to look at the contents of your files?

DMCA safe harbor means the hosting provider should not have editorial control. If you have editorial control, you're open to liability for not exercising that control. Better to go the legally proven route of getting a credit card and an adult signature, to keep all the liability on the user.
Wasn't there a breach of fair employment practices? If the OP is true, it essentially means you can't move over from Google to Apple. Why should that be the case?
Of course we're better economically. The previous situation -- where the price of the couch was vague and hard to discern -- had worse inefficiencies and waste, it's just that it was harder to get a grasp of all the willing couch-surfers you were screwing out of an opportunity.

Learning about waste != creating waste, any more than learning about employee theft is responsible for draining the company's resources.

Btw, you're being generous (or not) in both cases; the only question is just to whom you're being generous: the friend, or the strangers ready to put significant money down for the scarce resource.
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I don't take issue with an Xbox on site, after all plenty of workplaces provide leisure facilities of some kind, especially since there is a legally mandated lunch break here in the UK.

What raises the red flag is making it such a prominent part of the actual job description.
This is awesome, but I'm a little confused about the treatment of underscores. If you search for something like "secret_key" (teehee) it will return results for just 'secret' and just 'key' seemingly :-\ Not what I expect out of code search, but easy enough to fix if it's deemed a bug.
You mean the same professional news orgs that publish 14 stories on Pussy Riot's plight but only a brief bit of wire copy from AP concerning Bradley Manning's first week of testimony? http://t.co/dCsfOEsf
That would imply a doubling every nine to ten years. A link from an earlier comment...

http://www.akbars.net/images/battery%20energy%20density.png

... would imply that this is overoptimistic by at least 2x.
Thesis = GIS + Chicago Restrooms = Awesome Maps
"You upload a build of your app without providing any additional instructions, and we'll test your app from a user's perspective..."

It seems like a user should have at least some idea of what the app is. For example, I'll read the first couple sentences of an app's description and look at some screenshots/video before I decide to download it. This might be something you want to consider instead of having absolutely no idea what the app is before running it, since I assume most users have at least some context when opening an app.
Is it me or does is seem like every day either Github or Stripe shipping some sweet new feature?

I need to read less and code more.
I've been there. Being older and having kids obviously forces the issue.

When I was single I could easily spend 18 straight hours coding and barely notice the passing of time. So, I do get it. Perhaps I was lucky in that I fell into a work environment early on where there were older people who did have other interests and some of them sucked me into other areas. That is, for example, how I got into sailing.

I think it's important to really make an effort not to look at a computer screen all day. This is particularly true for entrepreneurs. I know it's hard.
Cool, here's mine: https://tapfame.com/bennyg/
Good. I'm tired of monkeys. We need something more intelligent.
>>There is nothing wrong with poaching (and it is certainly not illegal).

I've always found it unethical. It's similar to going to a girl who has a boyfriend and saying "hey baby, I know you're dating Mike, but I would be such a better boyfriend for you..." Whether or not you would actually be a better boyfriend, or whether it is good for the girl, is quite besides the point.
We just launched OpenSignal 2.0 for Android
It's worth noting that it's in Zuckerberg's financial interest should such a No Secrets reality come to pass.

Which should give one pause about whether he's giving an honest, objective assessment of the available information. One would expect quite a bit of confirmation bias when billions are on the line.

As to whether there will be a time without secrets: I don't see how that's even possible. Humans are social and tribal but they're also political. Politics is all about the tactful (mis)application of lies to swing tribal balance.

There will always be something people want to keep 'private'. Always something that the tribes disagree on and judge one another over. Regardless of whether those feelings and beliefs are substantiated in objective reality.
How many of you laughed at how credulous news sites are before verifying that this blog post was accurate? Finding a reliable news source is hard, and not just in the games industry. Even here on Hacker News I usually read a headline, wonder if it's true, check the comments for contrarian views, then read the article.
Why Functional Programming in Java is Dangerous
That graph shows Li-ion as the highest energy density, which is in accord with the article. What am I missing?
A proposal for the world's dumbest smart pointer [pdf]
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