skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue with exciting things like this and solar heating is that in most cases we are nowhere near the technological limit of climate control efficiencies that can be achieved with a reasonable amount of effort.

My aunt was selling solar heating in Minnesota. People would be really interested until they found out the first step was doing a really thorough (and somewhat costly) job insulating the house, which provides more energy savings than the solar panels themselves in most cases (it's certainly more cost-effective). They didn't really care about saving energy, they just wanted solar panels as a status symbol.

As long as energy remains subsidized and people don't have to pay for the externalities they create by polluting, eco-friendly innovations like hybrid and plug-in electric cars, solar power, and breathable skins will remain of interest only as status symbols and badges of group identity.

(as an aside, Europe and Japan seem to do a better job of actually giving people financial incentives to waste less, although people should correct me if my view is naïve)
Also do I have to add the @domain.com in my web email login or does it know because it's a hosted service? As a user I'm confused.
All those other sites are complete shit compared to ideaware.co.

The only blatant ripoff is revoblue.com
Sorry, I wasn't being sarcastic. The links on the top right aren't standard. The footer also has a funky styling. Check out the page to see. Just from reading my comment and not examining the styling I see how it could sound sarcastic.
Can't connect for 30 minutes now, stuck on the "Just a moment..." screen.

Can anyone provide mirrors?
Warning: jailbreaking your phone is now illegal:

http://investorplace.com/2013/01/jailbreaking-your-phone-wil...
Testing a candidate's ability to express themselves is a good idea, but there are probably simpler ways of doing it than phoning a friend. If you wish to test communication skills, ask them an open-ended question like "how does a browser/OS/compiler/database work?".

I wouldn't like put one of my friends in such a position when answering an interview question. Nor would I like to be (partly) responsible for a friend's performance in theirs.

Anyway, surely a candidate that can do the question on their own is better than one that can't. And surely the friend that can answer the question is better than the candidate?

A technical interview question shouldn't be about specific knowledge of particular problems (although bad ones often are, usually having "Aha!" moments). They should test areas of knowledge: reversing a linked list is checking if they understand how pointers work, something which is not really possible to learn in 5 minutes of Googling, even if they can then answer the question. Questions should test general technical problem solving skills, which are not easily Googled, even if a specific instance is.

Finally, if a candidate requires knowledge of a particular API (e.g. the order of parameters to a function), then the interviewer should tell them. If the interviewer doesn't know, then they must acknowledge that it's not really important, and allow the candidate to just pseudocode it.
<Files ~ "(^#.*#|~|\.sw[op])$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

found this in comment, it's useful to me
No, you'll get in trouble for that. But in all seriousness, I do agree with you.
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if it's not quoted the list will be treated as an expression, and evaluate "Useless", which is probably not what you want.
And if you eat cheap shit food your medical costs are going to soar within a few years, wiping out any gains you would get.
Show HN: Arduino and addressable LED kit
Even copied their google analytics js file.
If the behavior makes me uncomfortable, it doesn't matter what the target thinks of it: I have a right to speak up. Even if the target is bothered by it I don't have a right to speak for her, though I can support her if she does speak up. All I can ever say is, "that behavior bothers me; I don't believe it is acceptable. Please stop." It doesn't matter if the offense is unclear to someone else, because it is about my boundaries, not theirs. You can disagree with my perception, but that doesn't make the behavior any more acceptable to me nor does it change how I feel about it.
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Don't forget that Samus is a girl!
I agree, although having Season 1 on DVD, I'd say they managed to do a decent amount of math in almost every episode of it (even if it doesn't always solve the crime). Then my wife and I bought Season 2 and were quite disappointed.

That said, in the episodes I've seen, Charlie is almost always treated as an important contributor by the other characters. His work is glamorized and treated with respect by the writing and production staff. He's awkward, but treated like a human.
Technical Interviews should be a sit down and code session for an hour or two with someone on the team (it can even be a remote screen-share session). Everyone I've ever hired/not hired I've done this with and it is quickly obvious if they can do the job. I just give them an issue from an open source project I have and a clone of the master branch and ask them to solve it, they can use Google or whatever resources they want. With me looking at their process I can easily tell if they are qualified for the job.

I just hired someone for a job who's first response was to copy and paste the error code into Google and view a stack overflow post with a similar problem. From there he took what the response on stack overflow said and crafted a solid solution to the issue. It took him about an hour and I saw that he had to Google a few functions (Python language) but he showed he knew the resources he needed and the basics to coding solutions to problems.

I don't care if you know how to create a linked list in C on a piece of paper or why we have round manhole covers instead of square, this isn't useful in the real world, I want to see if you can solve a real problem and the method you go about it.
When I mentioned "GNU", I think it sort of implied that I am aware of the existence of non-GNU toolchains.

I really am not worried about that in my world. The dependencies on Linux go a great deal deeper than the GNU toolchain. YMMV.
You might want to add rel="nofollow" attributes to those outgoing links. This indicates to search engines that you do not want your links to influence the other sites' rankings. Not sure if this is possible with tumblr though.
Here's a dropbox link for the windows version. It'll be up until there is too much activity: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6469722/evasi0n-win-1.0-3c53ba10e24...
You may be interested in Diogenes the Cynic, a contemporary of Plato. He hated Plato, he accused him of entirely misunderstanding Socrates and regularly interrupted Plato's lectures to ridicule him.
I agree with the linked article's point, and the best general solution is to copy the original title for your submission. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a title that either contradicted or mangled the article's title.
> This particular individual even goes so far to say that "the biggest problem" is the alleged misuse of labels related to racism or sexism, as if this could somehow be worse that the discrimination the disenfranchised experience on a day-to-day basis.

This is one of the most persistent problems when discussing these issues: the idea that if the victim of discrimination didn't get raped or beaten by people wearing white hoods, then it does not qualify as real discrimination.
Well, on the bright side, she now has all the time in the world to spend on Reddit.
You can buy an hour with two Tesla GPUs for $2.10 on EC2.
Speaking of this, what's the simplest way to add in-field labels to an existing form?

(Assuming in not worried about the issues in this article)
Already Jailbroken. Thank you Evasi0n!
Social networking is just an inane buzzword for "communications tool". It's not a solved problem so it's not unreasonable that people are trying to solve it.
But we're surrounded by evidence that efficient market theory is not how the world works.
"Sometimes assholes are just assholes"

Good, lets out them and get rid of them whatever their issue is, so the rest of us can get on with our lives.
Evad3rs Release Evasi0n iOS 6.1 Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 5 etc
Thanks for the support guys, I'm not too mad but definitely wanted to bring some attention to this.

I will reply to some of your comments in a bit.
To steal is to deprive, to copy is to disappoint.
The propeller site actually uses the ideaware site's background image, slightly blurred, as it's cloudscape background.
If you allow the candidate to do what they'd do at their desk you can ask more than trivial questions. Certainly, if they have to ping google to figure out how to write fizzbuzz, that's a red flag, but it depends what the person spec is.

How many positions would you estimate (I'm an academic so have no experience) where encyclopedic and gap-less knowledge is required to accomplish a task? I envision a technical interview as an opportunity to make sure the candidate can actually do the task you need them to - the screening of non-programmers should be done beforehand.
I saw that talk and yes, there could have been too much planning.

There's a big difference between correct planning and too much planning and I wish I could point out the big glaring wall that divides the two. The honest answer is that I don't know until I've walked in your shoes.

Most startups always go with :
Idea > Platform > Tinkering > Launch

Between Idea and Tinkering is a feedback loop with improvements. But most importantly, there has to be someone outside the loop to tell you when too much planning is going on. When you're in it, you don't see it.
Were your predecessors predominantly CS grads or not?
What can of worms are you talking about? The one where the hiring manager admits on record that he or she rejected a candidate for unethical or illegal reasons opening the company to a lawsuit? Or is it the one where your external recruiter uses that feedback to coach the next applicant to trick you into hiring an incompetent?
Just set the placeholder attribute. You'll need some js if you want to support browsers which do not process the attribute.

I use Jason Garber's jquery plugin to imitate placeholder for browsers which do not support the attribute.
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We use C++/CLI here at work quite extensively, and it's still alive and being developed. Managed C++ is just an earlier version of the same thing.
How would you combat this scenario, though? If the person who is doing this has not been caught, then is it really a good idea to publicly state how much of an annoyance he or she is being? (I say she, because seriously, it could be another woman as well. Everybody is assuming it's probably a guy. We've all seen how mean women can be to other women, though. I grew up with 2 sisters and their friends ... I've seen a lot of that.) But, if this person is still anonymous then I'd think this would just fuel the fire and make them go even more full throttle, now. I don't think staying quiet helps either, but this is just that typical internet scenario where somebody is hiding behind anonymity and is enjoying the attention and drama that their actions are creating. I really don't know how I'd combat this, if it were happening to me.

This is nothing against the author of the article, this is just me some what brainstorming out loud about how to combat this scenario. Without trying to take action, and with the antagonist still unknown, what does the author want everybody to do, though? What is the call to action here?
The parent is referring to other sites, perhaps most notably ExtremeTech, that Ziff Davis owns often (appear to) spam HN.
We use Skype. In the old days (before I joined), IRC was used but it seems to have fallen out of favour. In my opinion, IRC was better because:

- it was entirely internal

- things can be automated easily with bots

- we have logs of everything
I Dunno - Recovering From A Botched Technical Interview Answer, Postmortem
It must be because I can't imagine anyone would prefer handmade propellers to industrial manufactured ones.
Society was very different in 1980. Maybe we should be very careful to reach these conclusions.
Considering the bible is not even a cohesive work with a single style, language, or even writer, it really never stood a chance of standing next to the Illiad as a work of literature. It's importance, besides the obvious importance of a particular translation itself, is solely historic, cultural.
Not yet:

https://www.eff.org/is-it-illegal-to-unlock-a-phone

Incidentally, can anyone comment on whether it's worth it to jailbreak your iPhone these days? Are there any must-have improvements, and do they come at a cost of stability? Is there any public review on security of the jailbreaks/apps, i.e. have they have had backdoors/steal your data? I would have no idea how to identify a "trustworthy" developer from someone random.
Deviant Identity - Facebook and the One True Account
TLS does CBC wrong: it authenticates the plaintext and then encrypts the plaintext and MAC.

Since CBC mode needs to pad its input, this means that the padding is outside of the authentication.

So, when decrypting, the padding has to be removed and then the MAC can be checked. But the number of blocks hashed in the MAC depends on the padding. So the attacker can setup the padding such that a valid padding means that it's removed and one less hash block is calculated. An invalid padding isn't removed and the MAC takes one more hash-block worth of time.

Thus the attacker can tell whether a padding was valid and that's sufficient to completely break TLS.
I thought it was Meteor and was scared for a moment. Whew!

Sorry founder(s) but no-one apparently cared much about your site. It happens to the best of us.
I think a lot of the development of apps (and before that the web itself) was "me-tooism," but that doesn't necessarily make it stupid.

It's more a matter of getting on the bandwagon while things are still heating up, and figuring out how to make it work for you as you go.

"The web is going mobile; we need to be on mobile; the mobile world is a world of apps; therefore we need an app to stake out a presence in that space."

No part of the chain of reasoning is wrong or stupid in and of itself, but the product of thousands of actors following the same logic is chaos and waste. You could see it as a variation on the tragedy of the commons.
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If the problem is technical, the candidates get their feedback immediately. Either they themselves know they botched up the question, or they are given the clue via absence of a follow up question. The best thing you could due to salvage such situations is to ask what the right answer is. That not only serves as feedback but also signals that you are willing to know.

The feedback you don't get, is almost always about personality. There's no litigation-safe way of saying "Man, you come across as a total douche, I'll pass"
This is how I first noticed them, our GA was showing some weird links.
The only one I can think of is f.lux but that's more useful on an iPad anyway. Most of the other ones are really much more useful on an iPad than an iPhone.

Unless you use emulators, that is.
Inspiration is procrastination's cousin
Both AES and GHASH have their own timing side-channel issues.

If you need to encrypt something, I recommend NaCl: http://nacl.cr.yp.to/
Me too. Even better, give the stuff for free and offer paid help. Because, obviously these guys could use some.
Automated web testing is hard
Interesting, given the copying of the js directly, you could use that to your advantage. Have it behave one way if the page is served up from an IP address you own, and slightly differently served from a foreign address.

Could be sublime, like adds a menu item/link to their pages that has "Web Design Services" that points back to you, to the silly "Get free copyrighted material here" and a link to some dubious content site. Or it could just break periodically and cause them great frustration until they give up and use something else.
Well one good thing about the rip off sites is I'm able to see what you designed originally while HN hammers your server!
Former. The latter is quite easy to spot and deal with.
The frequency hop rate for commercial stuff is pretty low.
Unfortunately `title` implementations are broken for pretty much everybody except mouse users on desktop:

http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/01/using-the-html-tit...
wilya@home $ /bin/bash
zsh: no such file or directory: /bin/bash
wilya@home $ which bash
/usr/local/bin/bash

(Yes, I'm annoyed when I see #!/bin/bash, especially on scripts which are otherwise basic enough to be portable everywhere)
Malcolm Gladwell on Manti Te'o and the power of narrative
There used to be a site that would run side-by-side comparisons of a site and a copy of that site. Some of the copies were pretty blatant.

(http://pirated-sites.com/)

They were pretty active around 2005. (http://web.archive.org/web/20050211143916/http://www.pirated...)
> it probably costs me half that to live comfortably in Denver with kids.

That's a horrible comparison. The difference in potential salaries, potential connections, business opportunities and so on would put make Denver the expensive one IMO (costs half as much as SV to have none of those advantages? wtf!).
That's a very misleading article. It's conflating jailbreaking with carrier unlocking, and they're two different things - in iOS community terminology, "jailbreaking" is removing software restrictions so that you have root on your own device, and "unlocking" is about carrier unlocking.

In any case, unofficial carrier unlocking isn't illegal now - it's just in a legal grey area for newer devices. See the EFF's corrections to sensationalized articles like this one: https://www.eff.org/is-it-illegal-to-unlock-a-phone
>Please explain how the original statement that you responded to above is incorrect.

I quoted it in my response, it is easy to see: "yet for the joke to be funny you have to understand". That is false. The vast majority of the audience do not understand that at all, and yet find it to be funny. The fact that one of the writers slipped in a deeper meaning does not mean the joke requires that understanding, and thus does not support the notion that the show is targeted to people who possess that understanding.
I'm lucky to enjoy living in Memphis, TN. Various reports put the median house price between $73,000 and $99,000, which seems about right based on my experience. Avg income reports range from about $39,000 to $46,000. Luckily, salaries for developers and engineers is roughly consistent with national averages, and sometimes higher due to unmet demand, which obviously sits well in this housing/income market.
There is also an increasing amount of state and local funding for startups and entrepreneurship, and with it a growing amount of programs to foster startups and small businesses and connect them with VCs. I've interviewed with several companies, small and large, in the valley and bay areas, but I've always found the absurd cost of living and crowded population to be a turn off. All that is to say, I wonder if the disproportionate costs and perceived lower-quality-of-life (to outsiders) will slowly decrease the centralization of tech startups in the valley. Perhaps it is a question of when, not if...
Sources:
http://www.homeinsight.com/home-value/tn/memphis.asp
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2011/snapshot...
Could one infer that indie games for the next xbox console are dead as well?
Are Real-Time Ads the Next Big Thing?
When they are even referencing/loading resources from your server, you could serve some "Thx for copying my design, the invoice is on its way."-images to their pages: http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html ;)
This, they copied markup. Some files even have names from our team members who coded them.
Can anyone recommend a good book (preferably on Kindle) that explains climate change and our actual scientific knowledge? The issue seems to be so politicized that all sources seem incredibly biased. Sure, there might changes happening, but from history, isn't that what the climate does? It seems that one side portrays it as no big deal, and the other says we'll all die in a few decades.

I'm not looking for something telling me how to behave or react, just something that covers how/what we know for certain. Or is the science and understanding required too far out of reach for laymen?
You've missed the point about the nature of their discomfort, i.e. the fact that they're upset simply because their egos aren't being stroked.
Agree, if you make a twitter bootstrap theme you'll find someone who's willing to pay for it too.
can someone provide a mac download link?
Your username seems familiar. Are you also the same linker3000 who was outside of the shipping district for some of Jeff Atwood's personal free stuff he happened to use Super User to give away to? http://meta.superuser.com/questions/3720/three-free-video-ca... You left shortly after that. Were those the rules you're talking about?
> The question is, how much of this deal is government subsidy?

From the original article:

"When you add in the incentives, the PPA value becomes more comparable to rates we’ve seen signed in California," said Kim.

Apparently nearly all of the difference between standard solar rates and this rate is due to government subsidy.
That's why the show is so popular. It's not taboo to admit you play WoW or consider yourself a 'geek' these days. The moniker has been appropriated and means many different things now.

However nothing about being a geek is considered normal by popular opinion. If there was no geek shaming going on then inviting someone you just met out to a game of D&D on Friday night would be as normal and banal as going down to the pub for a drink or catching the new Seth Rogan flick. However it's not and as someone who enjoys the role-playing hobby, I am careful to get to know someone first before I ask them to join us on a quest to slay the terrible wizard, Mordrak.

Instead of using satire to say anything interesting about why that is, TBBT just exploits these social norms. It's about as hilarious as any other Chuck Lorre show these days. The same formula is used for Two and a Half Men and is equally as vapid in my mind.

So when I do watch an episode of TBBT, I don't really identify with any of the characters and feel like I am being laughed at for the most part. The jokes are predictable and not funny for me. These kinds of shows are typically the most fun for the people who are not being made fun of.

Shows like Community, Journey Quest, and movies like Dorkness Rising are funny. They pander to the sub-culture I most identify with and lack any condescending stereotypes. I can laugh at myself in these sorts of contexts because they're written from a perspective that is sympathetic and jovial. It makes fun of the stereotypes in our own sub-culture without laughing at them because they're weird and unconventional and not like us, the people doing the laughing.