skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also like to hear about their plans in this area. The current information on the Stripe web site says they don't use 3D Secure:

https://support.stripe.com/questions/3d-secure

I think if they're going to be a serious card payment service in Europe, that will need to change reasonably quickly. With the issue of transferring liability for chargebacks, saying "Well, US banks don't do it, and European banks understand that" isn't going to cut it for long with an international client base. After all, US banks don't do a lot of things, which is why we all have to use these Palaeolithic era card schemes to accept payments from US customers in the first place.
Thanks! Truth be told, my internal processes are way less useful than just asking the rest of the guys for feedback. I usually get way too familiar with the design, and devolve into just perfecting the visual appearance. Forgetting the bigger problems, until I ask someone and their reaction is basically what Peter said in the article, AKA "WTF?". :p
"If you’re not different then you’re boring."

You're unique, just like everyone else.
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* Unix tool chain and design philosophies. We live on the command line.
* SQL databases (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL data stores (Redis, Hadoop)
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* Message queuing (Resque, AMQP)
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Other ways to reticulate splines:

- Like a documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZlWmYe8HM4

- Extremely dramatically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT2gfHU6yCU
Bay Area: suit == rookie or hipster
How are you suppose to know how they will be dressed? Then, it is in fact appropriate to be the best dress rather then the worst dressed.
Did you apply for a job as an intern or full-timer?

We're mostly looking for longer-term non-volunteer commitments when dealing with things like our data/analytics, but our open source repos are very volunteer-friendly: https://github.com/khan/khan-exercises
Under "Wow, an offer!" there's a typo - "opporunities" should be "opportunities". Good luck with your candidate search.
Goodbye Groupon: Andrew Mason's dance with the devil
Sounds like that industry is getting hit by outsourcing, am I reading this right? Does look like articles about software engineering outsourcing a decade ago.
The reality is, if your work can be done by someone else at a lower cost, you're in trouble. Whether that person live in your country or not, has little impact nowadays.
If you stay at the edge, making sure your work cannot yet be done by someone else, then you'll get paid a premium for it.
That's just how things work, basic economics. Don't make taxpayers carry your burden.

Ps: written by someone who saw the impact of outsourcing first hand.
Here's one related study, "examining the extent to which individuals will tolerate delays when told that such delays are for security purposes..."

http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/emcahk...

Please Continue to Hold: An Empirical Study of User Tolerance of Security Delays
"To be fair, they do have windows in their office."
Nice wordplay.

Not all work we do can be enjoyable, unfortunately. I bet this is a fun jab to bring up with him at parties. "Remember that time Wells made you make that security gif?"
The Internet Explorer Conundrum
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) – What’s Minimum Anyway?
vim is actually the only reason I'm willing to do editing in a browser. Having used vim and ex commands for over half of my life, combined with the fact that I actually spend more time thinking about what I want to do rather than typing (pretty sure most of you do the same), makes a command-oriented editor (vim's normal mode) perfect on the go.

I actually like Vim Touch with Hacker Keyboard on my Nexus 7.
Humorless users can use "--safe-updates"

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-tips.html#safe-...
I have had the same experience. You have to DIY a lot if you want to create a graph or chart with Raphael, whereas D3 will just take your data and make one for you.
Don't agree 100%, but the quality of FB overall as a product has definitely degraded as of late as they've been pushing Gifts, Commerce, and other revenue streams onto users very strongly.

I've noticed several annoying redesigns / changes that hide convenient functionality in order to make the user click through "No, I don't want to give a gift"... Very annoying, definitely makes me less pleased and less engaged with the site.
No css, no javascript, loads in a flash (pun intended), the way a web page should be.

On top of that it contains mostly information rather than mark-up and eye candy.
You're right. Flash is the Internet.
Reminds me of something I built years ago:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080616021707/http://www.mactact...
i agree with you on all fronts, and wanna just add that i am indeed considering dropping out so that i can run, if not sprint, towards my goals. for example, html is taught in the 3rd year at my school. by that time, i imagine i could not only learn html but create an entire portfolio of websites.
Wacom working on a new mobile tablet.
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That's pretty much what I gleaned too. The paper specifies how an acceptable ("low-stretch") spanning tree is shaped, and bounds [something, error criterion?] as part of its complexity proof.
"This page is best viewed with Google Explorer"

It looks like the page is doing something funny with javascript to render the bars, why not just use good old css?
The post covered why Stripe Connect wasn't appropriate.
Are they looking for code monkeys or circus monkeys!
Google Glass is not an Assault Weapon
My understanding is that NASA gets final say, and that needs to happen about 24 hours ahead of time. I believe tomorrow afternoon NASA will make that decision, and then Dragon will go into an orbit that will intersect with ISS's.

I'm very happy. Not as happy as if there were no hiccough (SpaceX has some big enemies and they will be harping on this with the FUD), but things are playing out nicely.
I don't really think people would be up for this. It's nice to think about, but for a lot of folks this would mean messing with some hitherto unknown to them screen recording software, finding a project they can transmit freely without copyright problems etc.

But one can dream…
Agreed. I talked to Philip a few years ago before I applied to grad. school. On the other hand, I had done an undergrad in EE from an average school in India, it made incredible economic sense for me to come to the U.S. to study C.S/Math. If I had studied those things in my undergrad, I wouldn't have gone to grad. school for sure.
It doesn't seem to be about time, you seem (by a conservative interpretation) to want to be able to access a the context from which a function was called from within the function: some languages allow you to do that nowm though quite often, even those in which it is possible don't have a direct and convenient mechanism in the language core or standard libraries, though the mechanism is implementable in the language, as in Ruby where Binding.of_caller doesn't exist, but can be implemented (http://extensions.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/Binding.html.)

Perhaps you want even more access to environments elsewhere in the call stack; ISTR that there are languages now that allow that.

Of course, doing stuff like that makes it much harder to reason about your programs than treating functions as sealed boxes that communicate via arguments and return values, which is one (but not the only!) reason why most languages deliberately don't make it easy to do.
I miss being able to unsubscribe from my annoying acquaintances. It's too socially awkward to defriend some people who post 15 inspirational messages a day.
>plus anything else where the user used the same password

Assuming the service is storing unsalted password hashes that can be cracked using a rainbow table, or (god forbid) plaintext passwords, right?
I recently started using Tim Pope's git-vim plugin. The first time I used :Gstatus and added a file with one keystroke had me won over. Pure genius if you ask me!
This is really neat, great work! I wonder, do people perform the kind of edits that this makes efficient very often?

For example, in the video it was predetermined exactly what was going to be moving and where it was going to go to. From my observations, these sorts of large scale changes are rarely handled so easily. Context helps people map things cleanly, and the contextual change of zooming in and out forces you to constantly rebuild that map. It's an issue I've seen over and over again with any zoom-oriented interface.

Regardless, this is cool work. We need new and interesting interfaces for code - I'm hoping to show some fun things myself at the Live Programming Workshop [1] at ICSE[2].

[1]: http://liveprogramming.github.com/2013/
[2]: http://2013.icse-conferences.org/
The first link under "Related" on the right is the paper itself. The "SimpleSolver" is at the top of page 8. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.6628.pdf
I've looked at their data, but I believe I've dropped some things that they consider releases. The whole thing is kind of subjective as to what constitutes a release or not. But no, I didn't just scrape their site. I compiled my own data from a variety of different freely available sources.
I'm a fan of throwing away resumes as long as you have a strong, short story the person reading your email can understand. If you're emailing an HR department, all is lost. If you're emailing a manager directly, you can actually talk to them instead of trying to flaunt your peacock feathers (read: resume).

My recent job inquiries have involved a short description of why I'm relevant to their posting along with different aspects of my life online. Sure, they may see me flirting with someone on twitter, but that's the world we live in. You don't want to work for a company that won't stalk you online first anyway. Make it easy for them.

Example of an online relevant context dump:

"Here are some supplemental contexts of me online:

• https://github.com/mattsta (point out which projects are relevant)

• http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=seiji (point them to my ancient HN profile)

• old stuff at http://matt.io/ (ancient personal minutia with a prominent post or two)

• life/tech/gripes at https://twitter.com/mattsta (life; uncensored)

• current slowly up-and-coming project: https://ldf.io/ (a point of information about something made from scratch)"
I got my green card in 2 months from application to interview. On the other hand, my green card was completely unrelated to the H1B visa. I switched from a student visa to the H1B visa for other reasons. I however did the math to see how long it would take for a company to sponsor me and it was roughly 2 years ( I don't fall into the Indian/Chinese bucket that has decades of waiting..)
"If it comes to this, don’t get down on yourself. Taking the rejection is an important part of the process. If it comes down to this, don’t get down on yourself."

The first sentence is repeated twice in that paragraph. :)
4K Movies Confirmed for PlayStation 4
That's always been the primary way people got white-collar jobs--networking contacts.

Resumes, to the extent they were required for a job application, are a very recent phenomenom.
> "Then we have the recent departure of Blake Ross, the company's Director of Products. In his now removed goodbye letter he mentioned that he did an informal survey and found that teenagers would actually answer 'no' to the question of whether they still viewed Facebook as 'cool', and this influenced his decision to leave the company."

Blake Ross was being sarcastic.
Does this give anyone else a flashback to IE days and ActiveX exploits?
You can still do that they just changed the name. Where the unsubscribe thing was there is now a drop down that you can uncheck put posts in your your feed.
Modal editing did come first, and universally agreed upon better things did evolve afterwards. I remember "modes are bad" being established UI-design wisdom as long ago as the mid-'80s, after the Macintosh came out and everyone started moving toward graphical interfaces. I'm surprised there is anything about this question which is seen as being open to debate here in 2013.
Not to mention the state of the art hasn't moved very much - that 27" IPS LCD panel is still the very same that's being used by Dell, HP, et al.

There's been a lot of development on both smaller and larger screen sizes, but the 27" form factor seems to be at a relative standstill.

I don't expect to see an update unless there is a major change to either the panel tech or the interface tech. I really do hope that Apple reopens the >= 30-inch space though.
http://stream.circles.io/#event/jack
> This is an interesting line of discussion, but it's really orthogonal to one's race/gender/ethnicity/etc. Some people (like|accept|are willing to play) the "networking game" and some people aren't. In either case, it's a simple truth that a willingness and ability to play that game usually corresponds with more money, more responsibility, etc.

Exactly. Most jobs in companies are not ridiculously hard to do, you don't necessarily need to amazingly brilliant to do that. Hell, I was challenged more in grad. school than I have been in any job after that. On the other hand, I get paid shit tons more. The "real world" has a lot of bullshit to deal with like meetings, chit chatting with your boss and getting ahead. I don't think it is good but on the other hand, you would be particularly foolish if you think that the world is a meritocratic system.
HDF5 is a very nice format indeed, and in fact, BLZ is borrowing a lot of good ideas from it. However, HDF5 has its own drawbacks, like not being able to compress variable length datasets, the lack of a query/computational kernel or its flaky resiliency during updates. Also, its approach for distributing data among nodes diverges from our goals.

Finally, you are right, speed is pretty important for us, and we think that our approach can make a better use of current computer architectures.
That youtube lecture is confusing two terms. 'Being a professional' is being a member of a profession. "That surgeon is a great professional" is saying "that surgeon is a great member of her profession". 'Being professional' is acting in a way that is suitable for a member of a profession. You don't have to be a professional to be professional.

Also, how divorced he is from his own example is when he says 'professionalism to [cosmetic sales] is nice car, clean clothes, no offensive language'... and then says 'but that's not professionalism to a surgeon - they have a lot of money so probably a nice car, but I don't expect them to be clean'. A surgeon!? This guy doesn't think it's in a surgeon's professionalism to be clean!?
Edinburgh UK or REMOTE

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Looking for experienced web engineers to help develop and scale leading SaaS product. We like Ruby, elasticsearch, MySQL clusters, AMQP, SOA, machine learning, burritos, Puppet, SmartOS, OOD, TDD, acronyms.

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Well, really Cloudflare was started AS a WAF service. That it sped up websites was a side benefit of the service. The DDoS protection and protection guarantees are relatively new. Until sometime last year they didn't even guarantee they would protect against DDoS attacks (They would, but wouldn't guarantee other than to say something along the lines of 'Yep, it'll work but we may or may not take your site down if it affects other people').

Basically if I remember right the original creators of Cloudflare even had some involvement with Snort, no?

So essentially as I see it the core feature that Cloudflare is supposed to offer, isn't being offered in one form or another.

Edit: Yeah... seems like they're pushing the 'security' aspect of their service and I'm not remembering incorrectly that part of things: https://www.cloudflare.com/our-story.html
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As an engineer at Adzerk, you'll have the opportunity to work on all parts of our system, from the front-end web UI to the engines that serve the ads. Our system uses Node.js, C# (Mono), ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, MongoDB, Hadoop, and RabbitMQ.

We're also looking for someone to fill a more devops-oriented role. We use Chef to administer our systems on AWS, build and deploy using Travis-CI, and monitor using DataDog (a pretty cool startup based around statsd).

Performance and scalability are our two primary concerns, and with the traffic and growth rates that we're experiencing, lots of the lessons that you've learned start to break down. Because of that, it's not as important what you know right now – what matters is how quickly you can learn and adapt.

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Nope. Here's a difference: My parents never signed up for MySpace. It takes a lot of momentum to stop a beast as big as Facebook. MySpace was never even close.
I posted this comment about obscenities on another thread recently, but I think it is relevant to this thread as well.

"According to Paul Fussell's Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, aversion to profanity is a middle class thing. The upper class[1] do not use euphemisms for profanity or obscenity. Fussell wrote that Jilly Cooper reported "I once overheard my son regaling his friends: 'Mummy says pardon is a much worse word than fuck.'"

I doubt that many members of the upper class (see Fussell's book for a definition of upper class, it is roughly the tastes of "old money" but not dependent upon actual wealth) read Hacker News. It is likely that those who do not object to obscenities such as the word "fuck" are more socially liberal freethinkers who dislike formality. Those who do object are likely to be members of the middle class who believe (foolishly) that in censoring profanities and vulgarities, they are emulating the upper class."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5299882
This thread has, without doubt, been pinned to the bottom ( it was sitting at the top a couple of hours ago and has received as many votes since then).

Editing the title is one thing (which I largely condone), editing a URL is another thing entirely and then to blatantly attempt to hide the discussion is boardering on outrageous! The HN "mod community" has gone well down in my estimations.
I'm guessing that there is a cognitive divide here, between:

1. people who apply for jobs they see ads for, by just doing the phone screen + showing up at the interview; and

2. people who know someone who works at the company, have heard stories of how the company is, see people from the company getting lunch around town, might have even informally asked the person-qualified-to-make-hiring-decisions whether they're hiring--and then go through the interviewing process.

In the latter case, you obviously know exactly what the dress code is like before getting there.
Chinese TV Special on Executions Stirs Debate
Is having a public GitHub presence really necessary? I've been a GitHub user for years, but I haven't made contributions to any public repositories...
As usual, the title is a little bit sensationalist. According to the company, Facebook is curently being used actively by 1 billion users. For Facebook to go the MySpace way (let alone in single year), something incredibly extraordinary would have to happen, akin of Google as a search engine becoming irrelevant. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it's a bit naive to suggest such thing because teenagers engage less with the site these days.
Some toady a lot more than others.
Oops. Right enough. It was in its own file because before I knew about stops+empty_line, the macro was simply a compound equivalent to pressing up 4 times.
Are young entrepreneurs too dumb to fail?
Designing Product Emails That Convert
Knoq in Seattle, WA is looking for a Senior Rails Engineer: https://www.knoq.com/jobs

Knoq.com is a well-funded startup that bring neighbors together and helps them get things done. We are revolutionizing the way household services are bought and facilitating neighborly interaction. We give people the ability to choose the level of interaction with their neighbors while still enjoying the best aspects of the place they live. Knoq also is a strong advocate of local small business and gives them incredible tools to run their business better and integrate themselves into the community.
As obnoxious as those gift suggestions can be for some people I'd never think of sending a gift, I've found the actual experience of sending a gift on Facebook to be great. You can send something across the country the day of someone's birthday (as opposed to sending something with a belated birthday card), because a lot of them give the receiver an option between a couple of gifts (say a bottle of red, white or rose wine).
thanks this is very useful. i made this little video tutorial http://captico.com/animation-with-raphaeljs/2010/07 showing how to take an illustrator exported svg and animate the paths... i think having your rappar will make the whole process of building animations much easier... thanks!
fb is the premier social product in a world going social. they have a great foundation. everybody needs to take a step back and allow them to make some mistakes as they build a better product. think about some of the most revolutionary companies out there. everyone of them has a hiccup or two.