skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, as a Buyer, they had a line of candidates applying. Most of their problem was probably announcing to the world that they had an open position that people should know to apply to. That sounds like a Buyer's Market to me.

Choice isn't all there is to it.

Let's say you're at a grocery store to get onions, but all the onions you see are terrible but really cheap. Being a discerning buyer, you decide to hit the next store. Same there too; more crap onions. It's like this at the next three stores. Finally you get to a store with decent onions, but they're 4x the price of normal onions. You, starved for choice and not willing to shop any more, despite the glut of onions, grab one and go home to make dinner.

This is a classic seller's market. The sellers with the goods command premium prices because there aren't that many of them at the quality that the buyer wants. Lots of crap onions to pick from, good ones are ridiculously expensive.

A buyer's market would be the other way around, there'd be lots of good onions, so you could get them at bargain rates.

I also think you might be misreading the fact that the company you work for is letting open positions sit. What this effectively means is that the workload hasn't gotten to the point where they have to take the next person that comes along. They can still afford to be discerning. If it goes on like this the workload will either get worse, at which point they will have to take the first guy that comes along, or they'll just stop looking, deciding they didn't really need a new guy. Both outcomes are exactly what happens in seller's markets, the buyer eventually gets fed up and takes a sub-par deal or walks away.
Yeah both my and my dad use it to back up our macs. It cost me $35 for the raspberry pi and $80 for a 1TB drive a few months ago.

The only issue is that Raspberry Pi has its Lan connected through the USB internally, so the USB drive and Lan share bandwidth - which means that my backups run at 5-6MB/s, which is not ideal, but works just fine. Just leave it for a few hours when you do your first backup,and after that it runs completely fine ;-)
Wow. What are the odds! I just presented a game based on the exact same premise a couple of nights ago at a backbone.js meetup in SF. I wonder if the author of this one saw me...

http://www.meetup.com/Node-js-Serverside-Javascripters-Club-...

Here's the video I posted on youtube about it a few weeks ago:
http://youtu.be/SZAOvn0EQxQ?t=4m26s

Game is here: http://logicmason.com/Roboduel/

Code here: http://github.com/logicmason/Roboduel

Fight Code is very much like my Robo Duel game, but much more polished and it looks the robots in it are programmed in JS, whereas I wrote a domain specific language (along with an interpreter) for mine.

Great job, guys. It's awesome to see a game like this. In fact I've wanted a game like this for years!

But it's hard not to wish it had come out a few weeks later after I graduated from Hack Reactor and had a chance to use my game to boost my job interviewing process!
I don't think you understand what you're saying. Plus you should find a different word than 'superior'.

You can also say the same thing about people from a lot of third-world or poorer countries: China, Mexico, small eastern europe countries, etc etc.
Why doesn't he implement his own social sharing buttons if he's worried about having visitors send data to third parties unwillingly?

I've done that on my own blog and it works well (using FontAwesome to identify services). Saves on loading time too.
Here we go again...
Is this a Critical Advisory? Sounds like Mongo is working exactly as expected to me.
EconTalk had an excellent interview about this: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/04/autor_on_disabi.htm...

This EconTalk is also interesting: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/12/mulligan_on_red.htm... – the thing that really made me think is the observation that the marginal benefit of work is often negative for people on different assistance programs, and that comes up in the first interview too. To try to get ahead, to try to get off disability, will put you behind where you'd have otherwise been. I think it also offers something of a solution, to look at the entirety of the support systems and make sure that there's always a benefit to being more beneficial to society. I suspect that would largely mean increasing benefits for the not-quite-poor, or the almost-disabled, etc. But if a well managed slope of benefits is achieved, the incentives may lead to less total dependence.

It's also something that, in theory, could be supported by Republicans and Democrats, as analysis is based on ideas that are appealing to both sides.
You might argue that it is a slippery slope argument, which is not a problem in itself, especially since there is a loose definition for what constitutes cronyism, but it is not a straw man argument.

The post calls for not drawing attention to when a competitor experiences a failure. That sort of chumminess does not encourage more robust infrastructure, it makes it difficult for new entrants to compete based on better reliability, and ultimately does not benefit customers.
Ah, sounds great. I think you should really advertise those packages more! To be honest the 5.0 installation guide still looks terribly long. No way i would go through that again. BUT now there are packages.. hopefully for 5.0 soon.
Also, anecdotally, it seem that people are being trained-up for jobs that don't exist. . .at least not in their own geographic area. A lot of people who require training up don't want and/or don't think they are able to uproot themselves and move to where the jobs are (supposedly). I read a welfare-to-work success story where the person had gone to school, church, clinic and shopping all within a 1-mile radius of her home. She had literaly never been outside that radius. Her first job was at McDonald's. She required a lot of coaxing and coaching for that job because she had to ride a bus and go outside her comfort zone. Her family was quite impressed that she was able to do so. I was stunned. And she was able to return to her comfort zone each day. Imagine if she had to actually move her family to a new location. And she lived just a few miles outside of Washington, DC, in northern Virginia.
BikeSpike: Kickstarter campaign for water-bottle-mounted anti-theft GPS
Your right, but like everything else there are pros and cons and tradeoffs that should be considered.
Most beneficiaries of entitlement programs don't recognize them as such.
What is this nonsense? Go away.
So just be yourself as a company then right? Of course put your best face forward, but don't lie.

If you're 5'4" and balding it's going to be apparent to anybody you meet, so there's no point in lying on your dating profile. The same should apply to recruiting. Both are a "dating game."
Link to official announcement by Jakub: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2013/msg00001.html
Screw live chat, I'm calling customer service
Inflation...specifically using an industrial goods index.
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Yeah, it's just marketing.
Is it so hard to cover your face?
This lawyer's approach to this is pretty enlightening and distills the issues down to their core without being caught up with various sexist biases.
Again, context matters. When a man makes a sexual joke and a woman makes a sexual joke, it's not the same thing because there are different implications to it.

Women are often sexualized and/or objectified, specifically by men. When a man makes a sexual joke, even if he is not directly sexualizing a woman, that can make some women uncomfortable, because of the societal context behind it.

Tech conferences already have kind of a bad reputation towards building an inviting atmosphere for women. Now imagine you are in a place where you might feel a little bit vulnerable, and you hear something like that. It's easy to take it the wrong way, regardless of the intent behind the joke. All this is completely ignoring that in a professional settings, these kinds of jokes are inappropriate anyway.
Because a single project in a language has Mac only development instructions the language and ecosystem is Mac only? What leads you to think the discourse devs would have documented x-platform if using node?
> Lots of programming jobs hire based on experience and knowledge, not formal education.

I hear a lot of people say this here, but that's not true for most jobs in the industry. For big companies good luck even getting past the HR without a degree.
Don’t forget that one of the advantages of CDNs is that the user may already have the file cached in their browser. This is why I use Google’s CDN for jQuery and CDNJS for everything else – more web sites use Google’s CDN for jQuery, so the user is more likely to have that cached. Not to mention the HTTP limitation of 3 simultaneous requests from one domain…
60-minute hack: Bitcoin-Central market volume animation
Parenscript gets lexical scoping by renaming variables (but only where necessary). It works fine. The original variable name is used as a prefix, so the generated code remains readable.
> Do you know why this line of C++ code compiles with Visual Studio 6, but produces the wrong result?

Are you actually serious? You ask about a quirk in a 15-year-old single-platform compiler?

I always wonder what some interviewers think they're gaining from questions about minute historical trivia like this. It doesn't provide any real insight into ability at all.
You mean like Eclipse does? http://www.eclipse.org/epp/usagedata/

Yes, if the product is collecting usage information (which does not include personal information) to help the software vendor improve the product, I have no problem with it. I like using good software. It's particularly potent in the context of web software, because you can A/B test and rapidly adapt the product to signals from your analytics packages in order to make sure that you are providing the most usable, most user-friendly product possible to them.
> Why? She reported the microaggression to the relevant organizers through a public channel.

As I understand it, the particular use of a public channel (particularly, the use of a photograph in it) was itself a direct violation of the Code of Conduct of the conference, and an unnecessary escalation. The only arguably excuse for such public shaming, independently of whether or not it was a violation of the Code of Conduct, would be if the act were more something significantly more serious on its own than she described (though a public complaint about the organizers would be in line if the act, as described, was privately reported and the organizers failed to deal with it in such a way that that failure was itself a hostile.)
This isn't the only reason; some subcultures in the US continue to encourage large families.
I'm not really sure what kind of jobs you have in mind--- an employer can basically turn you away for any plausibly-non-discriminatory reason. And the kinds of jobs we're talking about here simply don't provide health insurance. Period.

Even if you think "high blood pressure" isn't a disability, the set we're talking about is older and more likely to require expensive medical care.
I also got that last week. It was during an interview for a position that ostensibly didn't require any sort of in-depth knowledge of that process.
I bought Ridiculous Fishing out of curiosity for the water-themed game mechanics, but it's a very poor game, specially with the coins/store crap. It was sitting at the top of featured games, makes me think it's success has more to do with the names behind it than the game itself.
(http://crushbeercrushcode.org/2013/03/developing-the-rogue-p...)
HTML5 fighter with movement recognition
Author here. Hope it's not a too crude hack, I was curious about the market shifts and threw this together in about an hour while traveling. I then found it interesting to watch, and thought you might too so I uploaded it. Hope you find it as interesting as I did!
Making TimesSquare Fast on iOS
The bottom bit of copy was great -- but until then I was like "hmmm... is this real?"
And... another catastrophe where the perpetrator (Apple) will go unpunished.

Well at least this time the victims aren't entirely innocent, since they gave money to the evil empire.
On hackable human systems
We've been bulletproofing software and hardware as much as possible for a while, but it is amazing how little attention is paid to the prevention of cheating in human systems (anything from designing a coupon system for marketing, to physical gamification tools, to laws, to entitlement systems and regulations). Should those who create a system that is easy to abuse be held morally responsible for teaching people how to cheat? Why do I ask? This has been bugging me for years, after growing up in Eastern Europe where corruption created by really bad human systems is grinding innovation to a halt. I wonder if there is a way to create predictive algorithms or at least a check-list for ways people might misuse a human system.
The U.S. has a fairly weak welfare system, especially if you don't have kids. The EITC for people without kids maxes out at $487/yr. And many other assistance programs, such as Section 8 housing, are full in most of the country and not accepting new entrants (in SF even the waitlist is closed). In places where you can manage to get on the waitlist, it may take 2, 3, 4 years to qualify. Hardly equivalent to a minimum income, whose point is to function as an immediate/constant floor.
Nodjs + html5 game server
That's an interesting point and I notice similar behaviour in the UK. People will talk up a politician who promises to "end the benefits culture" despite being on benefits themselves.

The reasoning is usually along the lines of "oh he's just talking about those other people on benefits who don't deserve them. Not good hard-nonworking folks like us"
The part of the code of conduct you are referring to was added AFTER this whole thing happened. So you don't think it was a serious thing. I disagree. It's brushing off these things as "not serious" that is part of the problem.
I hope everyone can make it out! :)
Hi Walter, the only manual webspam action I see regarding onlineslangdictionary.com is from several years ago (are you familiar with a company called Web Build Pages or someone named Jim Boykin?), but that no longer applies here.

You're affected by a couple algorithms in our general web ranking. The first is our page layout algorithm. See http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layo... or http://searchengineland.com/google-may-penalize-ad-heavy-pag... for more context on that. In particular, comparing a page like http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/compy to a page like http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pepperazzi... , your site has much more prominent ads above the fold compared to Urban Dictionary.

Your site is also affected by our Panda algorithm. Here's a blog post we wrote to give guidance to sites that are affected by Panda: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-guid...
You offered unsolicited advice. Now its my turn to do the same and its really simple: Pipe the fuck down. Grow the fuck up. CHILL the fuck out.

Interestingly, I do agree with some of your points.
slaps forehead repeatedly

I love Parse, but their iOS devs ... I don't know what the hell they were smoking when they designed their iOS SDK. It's so poorly designed, that they've now introduced this horrible kludge to do something that it should have done out of the gate. A protocol for subclassing? Are you kidding?

ModelKit (http://github.com/jawngee/ModelKit) is an alternative Parse SDK I wrote out of frustration with Parse's offering, with the added bonus of having a swappable backend or no backend at all. I've used it on four shipping projects already. It has the additional benefit of working disconnected as well.
That kind of site is a trend not an original idea. The guy in question had his js files ripped off but I think I remember it being quite different from this one. None of the javascript looks ripped off (no names of other sites or anything) but that was just a couple minute glance.
It's not that hard to figure out - you just set a tax-free threshold of at least the amount of the minimum income. Minmimum income is $10k? Then the first $10k of any private income is tax-free.

To entice people to work, you'd probably do it so that it takes a bit more than a dollar of private income to remove one dollar of minimum income, so that you're always better off if you work, and if you properly set up your tax rates, there will never be a point where you are a cent worse off for earning an extra dollar.
The title this was submitted under is totally divorced from the content of the post.

The point of the post is: obsessing over line coverage is stupid.

The post says nothing about how much coverage to shoot for, or how to assess whether or not you're testing too much. It does not use word 'antipattern'.

Change the title.
Although a lot of people have weak passwords that need to be updated to enable two factor... which apparently invokes the three day wait.
Haxe 3 is just around the corner, the RC is out right now.
http://haxe.org/manual/haxe3/features

Not sure why it doesn't get more love here, it's awesome for developing complex js libraries, in addition to what you can do server side, and/or on a mobile platform.
We probably should have waited but it was one of those silly ideas you get on a Friday evening and we're probably never have got round to it if we'd not done it right away.

In terms of traffic to our main site -- not too much, 400 extra visitors or so. But that's not a problem, we did it because we thought it was funny, and put in the link to PythonAnywhere as an afterthought. Just wanted to share the joke.

That said, the Pinode site is running in one of our standard $5/month accounts and is handling a Hacker News front page (a few dozen hits/second) without even breaking a sweat. Just sayin'...
>I bet...

>...probably...

>And it IS...

Believe it or not, your opinion isn't fact.
um i added recipes, now how do i search? is there a search functionality ?
It's about risk reduction. The risk of bugs and failure can never be 0. That does not say that you should not try to improve as much as possible and try to achieve and measure "easy accountable" "risk reducing metrics" like test coverage.
For what's it's worth, I've had a very similar experience to what most people described (tried Ember in August '12 and after struggling with it for some time, gave up). But the Ember team's recent efforts have made consider giving it another look. Keep it up.
There have been a lot of submissions about people copying designs,
so I've got no clue to which one you're referring. One of the more
recent I remember is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5367790

Using the HN Search box at the bottom of the page should turn up
more.
Linux-powered CD player attempts audio perfection
Lacking conversion analysis is not a "con." It is a mandatory feature in something like this.
CloudFront Design Patterns And Best Practices
> I hear a lot of people say this here, but that's not true for most jobs in the industry. For big companies good luck even getting past the HR without a degree.

Most of the people I know who do hiring, including some in Fortune 100 companies, very frequently identify through networking, not HR. Yeah, if the company hasn't heard of you until you hit the HR front door filtering process, your going to have trouble without a degree, but if you are coming in that way, you are already behind the curve.
Why People Still Reject Science
I've been wondering whether I should start using this language for a project, and almost every time there's a good reason not too, but I'm still thinking one day there won't and i will.
I'm curious to know what makes you think it will never happen, though.
+1 to this.

Also people need to realize that client-side library support is different from what the product's website itself supports. Chartbeat, and every analytics provider I know of supports IE for their tracking library.
You don't use a whiteboard when you code?

No, I don't. I find them very uncomfortable to write on, and when I have to, I thus try to write as quickly as possible, resulting in messy lettering and not caring at all if I get every (or any?) semicolon in, just so long as I get ideas across.

I suppose if I had to use one in an interview I would try harder to write neatly, but my real-life day-to-day use of whiteboards is minimal.
There is also indiestatik ( http://indiestatik. com) which is entirely based around indie games.
I've been running mongo for 2 years now with out a single dropped document or data corruption. so I don't believe this is a case of "Sounds like Mongo is working exactly as expected to me".
Initial evaluation results released for first set of new gTLD applications
That's where I (respectfully) disagree. There are many ways to apply pressure for social change that don't involve identifying and shaming individual bad actors.

Even discussing the event in public is fine, (although I'm not convinced that the level of discourse on Twitter is appropriate for something as nuanced as Microaggression), but including the picture feels like an out-of-scale response to what the guys did.
This is an awesome, excellent and scientific understanding of process quality control.

This is essentially [Deming's 11th point](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming#Key_principle...) applied to software. Deming warned of using numeric goals or quotas, since the target of the simplistic quota or numeric target will affect the output of the very thing you're trying to measure.

This is not to say that numeric measurement is not useful—quite to the contrary. Statistics are an extremely useful tool to understand your process. But using them as a target of performance is where you draw the line, since that is when they begin to affect the quality itself. That was exactly the point of twpayne's post, and it's a nuanced and constructive argument.
this is the one you're talking about:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5367790

and I think this is the one the OP is referring to:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5165016

hope that helps!
Project butter did nothing for the Nexus S, which in my experience has been mady worse with Jelly Bean.
You still might face very high effective marginal tax rates, though, even if below 100%: instead of an hour of work costing you money, an hour of work might effectively be worth $2.00. Still a huge disincentive.

That's really hard to avoid when you do have conditional benefits that phase out with higher income. To "properly set up your tax rates" amounts to not having conditional benefits, which is a basic income under another name.
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> You don't say if you used the 'dart2js --minify' setting

I did. I'm no stranger to Closure Compiler, and even after fiddling around with ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS for an hour, those ridiculous $variables persisted. What was even weirder was, just as a test, I imported a module I wasn't even using at all, and for some reason, Closure Compiler still refused to remove its code...
Another thing that bothers me about some positions:

- 5-10 years experience with all of the following: PHP, Python, .NET, Javascript, C++, Perl, Erlang, Haskell, Ruby, IronPython, Lua, etc...

Seriously. Please god tell me you don't actually use ALL of those all of the time.
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But then there's that one guy that tells you you need to run 12 miles per day, otherwise it's not worth existing. False, and not helpful.

The reply was great; it acknowledged the value of test coverage metrics while also understanding the dangers of using it as a numeric goal in the extreme. True, and helpful.