skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to make the argument that zoning out on Facebook, flipping through TV channels, browsing Reddit front page for 2 hours, is all like eating mental junk food. It's tasty but not very nutritious - it should be consumed in moderation alongside a healthy diet of enriching foods/mental activities.

My main point isn't really about the technology, but the content - it doesn't matter if the material is on a cell phone, Kindle, book, or newspaper. Of course there can be junk in books and newspapers, and enriching information can be found online. I was just ranking the action of "aimlessly browsing social media" as pretty low on the nutrition charts.

OP doesn't feel strongly about social media or online shopping - he just doesn't like when you do it in the middle of a date, just as I wouldn't like someone pulling out a book in the middle of a social event.
Followup story: Stripe hires entire Delta Gamma sorority, invited to work only on Sundays
So he's going to buy a Chinese tire factory and pocket Chinese government subsidies? /s
His original comment said "January"
It was so long ago I have no idea. I defo vividly remember that I shut it down via the start menu, just one of many moments that stick out :)
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Modjs 0.1.11 released
A good Portfolio is really key. I've pivoted from being a web developer to a mobile developer (iOS & Droid).

I only got hired for this job because I had 3 apps in the app-store. I was passed over for many jobs that I was qualified for, but being a programmer most businesses want a cog that already knows everything (which is definitely a misnomer). I have a university degree in 'Music Theory & Composition', not CS, which I think has hurt me when HR people looked at my resume. Also I was passed over for a job because I didn't list HTML as a language I know. Sometimes you're limited just by the ignorant people looking at your resume.

Also the best jobs come from personal referrals.
Thanks for mentioning this problem. I filed a bug for this issue: https://bugzil.la/843220
How Microsoft messed up the Software Market
Is "179 requests per second" really an example of scaling?
> Does anyone here (besides Stripe) do this?

We did at Microsoft. Honestly, for very experienced and senior people in dev tools, "crazy intensity" were usually not needed. Great engineers tend to also have friends who are great engineers, who are being paid at/near the top of their current company, might have been there for the decade, and you might be the first person to contact them in a few years, since they also filter out all LinkedIn or blind recruiter mails.

YMMV outside of dev tools, of course. RoR folks are probably getting recruited for all sorts of random places, but there really aren't a lot of dev tools shops, particularly that are building large enough projects to challenge people (e.g. have their own compiler, as opposed to just IDE bits. No offense towards IDE bits intended).
Good points, but I want to elaborate on this:

"You can use “pull” to mean “fetch and merge”, but some authorities will advise you not to. You can also use “commit -a” to avoid the “add”, but you still have to be aware of it."

Whatever tutorial I originally used to learn Git made use of `git pull` and `git commit -a` exclusively, without any elaboration. It wasn't until long into my Git career that I was even aware of `git fetch` or `git add`. To this day I use `git add` only occasionally (but it's so useful when I do need to use it), and I honestly can't think of a case where I've needed `git fetch`.

I'm about to teach my co-workers to use Git for a project I'm spearheading, and I intend to expose them to this simplified view and let them fill in the blanks when needed.
Why Clarence Thomas Uses Simple Words in His Opinions
The fact that a language could meaningfully have a "Grandmaster Certification" should be a point of embarrassment, not pride.
Try the Github app.
> How did it work? Was there a formal meeting? Did it annoy people?

Stripe making its workers write out a list of all the engineers they know seems a bit extreme -- I mean, generally you can just name the top 5 smartest people you know of without much thinking. That's how the company I worked for went about this. Interestingly, it made us talk to our friends, and let them know the company was looking for workers and to expect to hear from them soon, because 'I referred you to them'.
Google Apps Script - a JavaScript cloud scripting language
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. The answer to pretty much any question is "sort by price". :-) The SAS-expanders are just a tiny bit more expensive, or at least they were the last time we checked. We were worried early on that many other designs seemed to prefer the expanders vs the port multipliers, but in all the years over 450 pods we've never seen the port multipliers give us any problems. Maybe they aren't as fast as the SAS expanders? But that isn't our current bottleneck so it wouldn't help us at all.
My local Costco has them at $139/ea for the 4TB externals right now. I wonder if they have some sort of dynamic/regional pricing that causes the price to go up in the Bay Area.
On average, I might need to fill out a PDF once or twice a year. Otherwise rendering for either one is perfectly fine for me.
Although it's absurd, it's been claimed many times before. For example, municipalities incorporate model building codes as law, which publishers objected to being placed online. In 2002 this issue bubbled up to the 5th circuit which held that the laws were not subject to copyright protection. The case is Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress, 293 F.3d 791:

https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/293/293.F3d.791.99...

This is compelling precedent if the copyright dispute ever reaches the federal district court in DC.
Man up HN, whatever they will accomplish in the end, the content is pretty great so far, no need to bitch and whine. Sad to see most of the derogatory comments here, when someone out there is actually doing a really cool project.
Probably not but developing it wasn't free.
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She would travel the same distance to see me, more often than I would even. I regret bringing romance into a conversation on HN. It has nothing to do with my point, it was an anecdote.
How Should The U.S. Respond To Chinese Hacking?
I'd really love to have this in a non-voice activated version that would simply analyse my brain activity and execute the commands. It still feels slightly awkward or unintuitive to speak your commands to a phone in an open area. If you could think "Take a picture" and have the glass perform that command it would really be incredible. I don't think we're that far off either with fMRI studies regarding object recognition progress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_i...
I seriously doubt anyone is deciding between attempting this class and getting an MSc
The article was originally written as separate article to appear alongside the main article I wrote for .net Magazine.

The main article is about creating a Google Talk bot with Node.js so if you want to create something with XMPP then please have a read through of that article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175913

Also when I submitted this article to Hacker News I entitled it "A short history of XMPP and Jabber" so I am not sure how or when it got renamed.
You're right that the quote lacks substance but again, this is basically a press release aimed at Joe and Jill Schmoe. They do not care about all the work that went into the site; they only care about the experience of using the site. With this in mind, take your revised sentence:

>"We wanted the site to feel fresh, intuitive, and beautiful which why we put a lot of work into the new real-time news feed, gave the homepage a simpler, less cluttered design, and took inspiration from designs that are both modern and timeless"

And chop it up as such:

>"We wanted the site to feel fresh, intuitive, and beautiful."

Absolutely no relevant facts lost (given the audience) and a much clearer read.

The shorter sentence is also more effective from a marketing perspective because it plants the seed of curiosity in the reader's mind. "How is the site fresh, intuitive, and beautiful? Better visit yahoo.com and find out".
This is badass. Best of luck to everyone.
I hope this is the case.

Any founders feel they fit this bill in NYC? If so, would like to meet with you and talk shop. We're almost at 60K users on a "project".

Email is dmitri [at] backspac.es
Pretty sure it's the rest of the countries that are complaining the U.S. typically has a better selection in those categories.
You'll probably like Mercurial better. However, the race has basically already been won by Git. I wish Git would be less confusing while still keeping its power. None of its terminology is intuitive, so you must spend a lot of unnecessary time learning git specific jargon to use it effectively.
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The letter should include a p.s.: "We don't have a public relations department and I am marginally literate."
Lazy and careless OR unpaid and overworked - what difference does that make to me as a critical reader of journalism?

What difference does that make to whether the Reuters puff-piece about Savile Row "bespoke" tailors is a submarine PR hit or not?
I'm starting to think what we really need around here is an English proficiency test.
There is a percentage in it for him: I'm sure he would like to own a French tire factory IF they actually had competitive productivity. With a verbal kick in the pants, perhaps the situation will change and he'll get a viable opportunity there. That aside, he's giving someone fair warning they're engaging in self-destructive behavior - a kind act.

And no, it's not like telling a random fat person he's fat. He was approached with a request that he purchase the company. It's more like an obese slob applying for a serving-staff position at Hooters or Tilted Kilt.
I can't resist pasting this verbatim:

"This leaves the last theory: do we pay higher prices for the same care? Among prescription drug costs, we pay far more than any other country, at least 20% more than Canada and over 60% more than New Zealand. For the same MRI’s and CT scans, we also pay more: $1,080 is the commercial average cost for an MRI in the U.S. as compared to $599 in Germany; at CT of the head costs $510 on average in the U.S. versus $272 in Germany. For a hip replacement, we again pay the most: $1,634 among public payers and $3,996 among private payers, versus $1,046 and $1,943 respectively in Australia. And physicians’ incomes are the highest: $187,000 on average among primary care doctors in the U.S. versus $93,000 in Australia; and $442,000 among orthopedic surgeons in the U.S. versus $154,000 in France."

Here in the U.S. we pay roughly double FOR THE EXACT SAME PROCEDURES AND SERVICES.

And, probably not coincidentally, doctors make roughly twice as much here as other countries.

It seems we keep going round and round trying to attribute the differences between the U.S. and other systems to some philosophical differences, but the bottom line is we are simple being price gouged by an entire industry.
"People don't care where their good come from"

I don't think this is entirely true. In fact, I think Americans have been caring more and more over the past few decades, especially about items made in Asia (and please don't mention Apple).
Thanks for doing this, but it is not working well for me! It takes way longer to load than a normal PDF viewer, is slow, and basically I gave up and closed it when pages were still black, or white, with a rotating loading indicator, minutes after a regular PDF viewer already showed it. This in Linux.

Thanks!
What do you tell the people who don't pass the Sunday test?
It would be demoralizing to learn that you were technically good enough, but you're not hired because the team didn't think it would be cool to hang out with you.
On the mac, Firefox Nightly loads the PDF in a second while Google Chrome Dev loads in about three seconds. I can enter text in the pdf in Chrome while Firefox gives an annoying little "The pdf might not be rendered perfectly" error bar at the top.

Let's try Safari: Loads in under a second maybe even faster, super quick scrolling, ability to enter text and the option to download the pdf on the bottom. This is the way browsers should handle pdf. We are just not there yet. I don't want to use Safari though. Firefox is the browser for me.

I almost always download the pdf anyways and view it through Preview.app, especially if I want to actually input text in the pdf. I love Preview. It's like the best PDF reader out there. Preview is what liberated me from Acrobat. Well, switching to the Mac did that for me, really.
There are similar services for clothing. The first one that comes to mind is http://www.trunkclub.com/
From what I can gather Chrome's PDF viewer pretty much is Acrobat Reader. (It's also not available to users of the open-source version Chromium - in fact, as far as I can tell there's no decent way to read PDFs in Chromium at all.)
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New and Old Elites
Yeah, that's unfortunately the big hangup that keeps me from adopting Apple (mobile) stuff past app development reasons. It's too limited really for hacking and modding. Sure, there's some groups out there that mod with jailbreaking to add features, but if you want to add an entire OS, you're just kind of out of luck. There's a small part of me that likes seeing how I can get around all that without source, but after a while, I rather stop fighting it and just use a platform for modding/hacking that makes it easier. Even custom ROMs for Android are usually a bit quirky and full of bugs if they're running on anything other than Nexus devices, due to a mismatch in driver versions and the OS version much of the time.

If you want something to just hack around on and mod stuff, I recommend getting a Nexus 7 for that and use your ipad for your normal usage. They're cheap, battery life is good (as far as Android goes, it's 7-8 hours for me normally). Ubuntu for tablets is to be supported for it and there's an unofficial webos port for it out as well. That plus the entire AOSP android source and plenty of ROMs out there to take features from.

Unlocking + rooting Nexus devices is dead simple. Basically plug into USB, run a few terminal commands and you're done. Granted it makes taking updates a bit harder (if you mod past this), but if you're rooted and unlocked, you usually do it yourself anyways versus taking a direct update.
But at this point I might bet on the company with masterful marketing. If there is going to be a de facto standard for SMB POS Square might be able to get there. If Clayton Christensen (Innovator Dilemma) taught me anything it's that feature gaps can be closed quickly. Marketing/Mindshare gaps, not so much.
The best part is "best regards" at the very end of a fairly insulting letter. I long for the day when letters are signed honestly.
Here are two developers that have shared some stats on code reuse:

iCircuit
http://praeclarum.org/post/42378027611/icircuit-code-reuse-p...

TouchDraw
http://lipsky.me/blog/2012/9/11/touchdraw-code-reuse-updated
The Feds don’t know what to make of Audi’s new LED headlamps
Ok, you made me honestly curious. What makes you think writing a tokenizer in C++ is impossible ? I didn't see any deadline, but is it because of time ? They even provide some algorithmic hints on how to do it...
I have an idea that the differences in work ethic across Europe may be partly to do with climate and partly to do with language.

In France, the verb 'work' is travailler. Traditionally this meant literally to toil, a chore, an obligation. In Germany, the word werken means to build, create, do. The German word more aligned with travailler is arbeit. This lack of correlation in the word work I believe may explain the differences in the approach and cultural views towards work that I see across Europe, particularly with latin root romance languages.

The second factor I've seen is climate. In the more productive northern European countries, it's generally colder. There's been a historical need for produce and for people to work (not endure or arbeit) to trade in order to get everything you need in terms of food and shelter.

South of the Olive line something strange happens. If you look at Spain you'll see that there's a long siesta during the day. This is because for a large part of the year Spain's too hot to work in during most of the afternoon. While we have air conditioning now, hundreds of years of cultural differences I feel may have led us with ingrained ideas about what work is and what it means, with those differences reinforced by climate.

For example, in Turkey there's no such thing as a siesta (there's no time in Istanbul for one anyway). Culturally it doesn't really exist, yet it's as hot as parts of Spain that do.

I could be completely wrong about this, but it's just something I've noticed. I do believe that the unions are crippling France's productivity, but France is as likely to change in the short term as the rest of Europe to France's view IMHO.

EDIT : I'm not saying that Germans, Brits or whoever are harder working, or that the French, Spanish, Moomins are lazy, far from it. I'm pointing out some differences in how people perceive work (i.e. neutrally or with negative connotations) based on language and culture, based solely on my own experience. For what it's worth I've worked with lazy Brits and Germans and hard working French and Spanish people. The Moomins I've never worked with, sorry if you're a Moomin and my ignorance upset you.

raverbashing makes a good point here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5252446
Because he is not a money-earning robot despite his position?
There's a world of difference between what a lawyer will claim and what a judge will find.

The key is fighting back, copy the laws in California, add misdemeanour barratry as a counterclaim as well as SLAPP.
Skype: Automatically answer calls from certain contacts on OS X
They got a job for many years. It isn't the employer's fault if the employee declined other offers because he was having too much fun where he was.

The employer can't keep track of how much everyone is having and pay them accordingly.
Except you also need some kind of wireless connection for that iPad, which is apparently included in the price of the GoPago package. So you'll have to either pay the $30/month for the iPad data plan or get some other form of high-speed internet for about the same price plus a router. This would bring the price up to $2180 over that same three year period. So it's still cheaper, but not as much as you suggested. If you're dealing with apparently inferior software (I don't know anything about this POS stuff) is that $1320 savings really worth it?
The serviceability of those things looks not pleasant. I used to work in the storage industry and got to play with (what is now) NetApp high-density setups [1]. 60 drives in a 4U setup, compared to 45 drives in Storage Pod in the same 4U. But I'm guessing the cost is where Storage Pod really wins out. NetApp gear, even as a JBOD, is really expensive.

The NetApp box has same type of padding for all the drives, but they are much easier to access (pull out trays are stable and easy to use).

Fun issues I saw with the NetApp box (at least 3 years ago): fully loaded with drives, it went over the weight limit that Fedex or UPS would ship with standard shipping. It required freight shipping to ship a single, full-loaded, E5400.

[1] http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/e5400/
It looks more like an online ladies store or a Microsoft website.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. We make the decision to switch to the more dense drives when the "break even" point is about 1 year of operation. We have a little spread sheet (it isn't rocket science) of how much electricity a drive uses, what we are paying for the physical space rental, etc. We plug in the prices if the 4 TB drives pay for the overhead within 1 year we go ahead and buy those.

The drives seem to last about 5 years in our experience, so technically we should be able to buy the more dense drive it it pays back in 4 years, but cash to run the business is very dear to our hearts so we don't like going out much more than a year on a payback.
Can someone explain in plain language to a non-developer:

1. I have web site

2. I do not have FB app

3. I have FB page

4. I enable for users "Login with your FB account"

5. I have FB Like button on the web site

Am I vulnerable and if yes, what's the vector/consequences?

Edit: formatting
Was early 2011 that different a place? Anecdotally, I've run PDF.js on a PowerPC desktop from 2005 with a late 2011 version of Firefox, and it was a bit pokier than I'd like, but it was usable for me.

(BTW: Apologies, it looks like I somehow fat-fingered a downvote on your post. Unfortunately there's no way to undo that on Hacker News. No slight intended.)
I didn't meant in a disrespectfull way.

I'm just saying that stuff like the Nexus (any of them) haven't been released here.

Which probably is the same thing as with you :)
None of my contacts use it, so I can't say anything about adoption. But if someone needs to use an IM network - there are good XMPP services. Simply invite your friends to any federated XMPP server and you have an interoperable way to communicate with them.
Lawrence Houlihan deploys cost effective MPLS alternative in their 25 offices.
Thanks! Very happily employed now at a former startup that I also interviewed with back then. Decided not to go with them at the time because their 5-year plan was to sell the company within a year and move on to something else. They got bought out, I found another job, and when I got sick of that, got an interview here through a friend, and wished I'd started 6 years sooner.

Somewhat back on topic, since my current company was built on RSS initially, I doubt I'd even have this job without Aaron Swartz.
Very similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5219782 which did the same thing a few days earlier and was on techcrunch.
I get the accessibility point, but the html should still be screen readable with js turned off. Regardless, it depends on your target users. I'm not going to worry about js turned off for a interactive rich site OR a multitude of other use cases.
Interesting,

We have developed kind of the same concept but agnostic to the underlying runtime.
by agnostic, I mean that we can take advantage of Hadoop (via cascading) for our full indexation processes or Storm for the incremental indexation processes.
Another difference is the way we handle the data, we chose to use tuples (as in cascading and storm) to transfer the data between the different components.
Sorry, I don't mean to be rude. But I think you will get more useful feedback if you ask your question in a forum that is primarily for writers, rather than in a forum that is primarily for IT/business people. (Unless your site is aimed at IT/business writers?)
Your analytics talent pool is not made up of misanthropes
Why Smart Glasses Might Not Make You Smarter - a Q&A with Steve Mann
That's interesting, because PDFs are an inherently un-streamable format. It requires seeking within the file to work (hence why command line PDF tools can't take STDIN for the PDF file - or they fake it by copying to a temp file first).

I wonder how google got around that problem.
Fundraising Tips for Canadian Startups
I've never somewhere that used that model aggressively, but at the startup I worked at during college, most of the engineering team was out of the personal networks of the founders and the head engineer. The founder expressed to me several times that he much preferred to hire people this way (and asked me to send him referrals even after I left).
My bad, only skimmed the comment.
Dynamo - a lightweight web framework for Elixir
Not to mention that it's illegal.

You cannot turn someone away who wants to pay with cash, that whole "legal tender" thing.