skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're shutting it down.
Yes, this. In the analysis that I'm building up (start here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/gervais-princ...) it's the tough culture. It gets people to work hard but not smart. Long-term strategic considerations are ignored, it's all about now, now, now. That mentality can be good for short bursts of superhuman productivity, but after a few months, it taps out.

The apprenticeship makes sense in the lawful-good guild culture; tough culture is chaotic evil. (Typical corporate rank cultures, where subordination is key but you can get away with pretty much anything-- even doing nothing for years-- so long as your boss likes you, are lawful evil; Valve's bossless, self-executive mode is chaotic good.) So the tough culture of startups is the exact opposite of the progressive (but usually incapable of immediate scaling) guild culture.
Cool, thanks for sharing, I was juts checking it and have generated an extended feed (using https://www.feedsapi.org ) with the full code delivered to my reader and my email inbox, here's the link: http://goo.gl/UGfK3 OR the longer version http://www.feedsapi.org/fetch.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdnjs.com...
The policy is completely clear: Knives that could best be described as weapons are not allowed. People do buy knives as weapons, but it's pretty rare for people to buy swords as weapons (instead they're decorative), so that difference is completely explainable.
> 1.9 is 4+ years old

1.9.1->1.9.2 had breaking changes (most obviously require_relative) and 1.9.2 had performance issues in requiring files. I haven't run into any issues with Ruby 1.9.3, but it's only 1.5 years old, and even 1.9.3 was not 100% backwards compatible.

I understand that this all seems like eternity if you are actively developing a Ruby app, but for everything that is in maintenance mode, 1.8.7 has been a very sane choice until now. I had certainly planned to use it another couple years if possible. :/
Yes, connexion.

No, connexion. From the Wikipedia article he links:

The spelling connexion is now rare in everyday British usage.
Umm. I trying to figure out how that title comes from what I just read in that article. The article shows a couple graphs comparing the max heap size and the max PermGen size of ~1000 different installations of java application servers. So? How can you state that java doesn't need that much memory after all? After all what? I know we've run out of PermGen with the JVM set to anything less than 192mb. We've got a pretty large app that (unfortunately) depends on a load of third party libraries. Too many libraries for my taste but that isn't my call. So, we must have this set or the server won't even start.

All applications are different and have different memory requirements. Too low of a setting and you are constantly thrashing or running out of memory. Too large and you have huge garbage collection times. It has to be tuned. Now, I've heard (as I haven't really looked into it yet) that the JVM in the JDK 8 distribution has gotten rid of PermGen setting. So, I'm curious to know what 'they' are doing now. Is the G1 garbage collector the new default in JDK 8? Does that not have the PermGen or is this something different?

Anyway, I don't know what this post is about yet. They probably should have just finished the thing instead of saying: "If you managed to get this far, then you are most likely interested to hear about our forthcoming posts. Stay tuned by subscribing to our Twitter feed." It was worthless.
Peter Gibbons: So you guys are gonna fire Mike and Samir, and you're gonna give me more money?

Bob Porter: [nods] Uh-huh.

Peter Gibbons: Wow.
+5. You can run the whole stack on a router. It's basically doing call control for a couple of channels. The heavy lifting is done in USRP.
Bespoke.js - DIY Presentation Micro-Framework
You could try Apple's own Calendar Server, http://trac.calendarserver.org/, it's written in python and is open source.
More to the point, I've no doubt that some Yahoo employees have likely investigated this sort of tech and built prototypes, only to get shot down by middle management.

I've no special insight at Yahoo (had a couple friends work there) but for any sufficiently large company with employees as talented as Yahoo (YUI, YQL, etc) this has surely happened. So... to have your idea/prototype/demo shot down, then later $30m spent on essentially what you'd offered the company for free... that's gotta be frustrating.

Again, pure speculation that this had happened, but I'd be surprised if no one internal to Yahoo had floated/demos something like this before. They certainly could have bought some of the hype (stephen fry, etc) during a rebrand. But... instead, they buy from outside vs using and promoting internally.

Once more - just speculation, but that's were I would suspect frustration would come from.
I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
The best thing about old site designs is for me their small footprint. The whole payload of viaweb is 62.5kb, a nice size for fitting in the 64kbps of ISDN.

Why do I think this is relevant today? In many countries like Germany for example it is common to have a mobile traffic upper limit around between 200mb and 512mb per month. After that you only get GPRS. Use your smartphone for a week with only 2G (53.6kbps), to get a feeling what many smartphone users here think about it: "It is better to have a Wifi ap in reach."
Yet every single day hundreds of UK companies flout the law.
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Can't really comment, I have no understanding of USA's class system, but as I said, coming from a wealthy and connected background is no longer exclusively for the upper classes. Passive aggressive reverse snobbery is pointless.
Actually, my idea was that Saudi-Arabia would be less discriminating in this matter, hence displaying the idiocy of such delays even more obviously.
I took Udacity's cs101 class as a (lazy) way to get introduced to python. While I felt like it was a very well done introduction to computer science, it wasn't a very effective way to learn a language as it made a deliberate effort to decouple python and cs (and rightfully so). I would suspect that this is also true of the other MOOCs listed here.
When nights aren't your friend
Perhaps even going back to agriculture. You typically only get one growing season per year, which means it takes many years to see different variables you may encounter play out.
Cached by Google, no less.
They have finite resources so there is an opportunity cost to everything.

More time auditing their public website means less time auditing military systems etc.
I bet if you put "Allahu Akbar" tape on a package it'd fair much worse.
Nice idea. I have just gone through the minor hassle of switching my blog off of Blogger and relegating Gmail to my backup/secondary email service - all in the spirit of controlling my own stuff. I only calendar share with my wife, so setting up something like this is probably something I will do also.

Any JVM based open source projects? I would rather not deal with PHP.
http://spiffingcss.com/ deserves a mention here "the preprocessor made for Brits"

No more scratching heads when things like the following don't work:

#id {

text-align: centre;
text-transform: capitalise;

}

:)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906480

https://github.com/dzautner/British-PHP
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Good idea but I think part of the point of the article is that the job will change. So to "Outline exactly what you need the developer to do, and have them send in proof that they can actually do it" is, again, to attract people with 'experience' that happens to fit that particular job description, rather than talent.
Yes, they should have $5 (or even $1) offer instead of free.

I signed up with a lot of these PaaS services, but ended up with my own VPN (a promo from lowendbox).

It's perfect for my development server and personal websites.
Wow, didn't expect this in a developed country :-(
I concur! Claiming that Java is not "as memory intensive as thought" means to me that they compared the memory usage profile of java applications with similar applications developed in other languages.
There are people who actually work in advertising and marketing. Their job, more often than not, is selling something to people that they don't need.

That's a big assumption. Someone also has to sell the things that people do need, or more generally the things that people would genuinely value and have an interest in buying if they knew about them. Advertising done responsibly serves a useful purpose for all concerned. The problem is that a lot of on-line advertising is not done responsibly, and that's why people find it intrusive and annoying and creepy and all those other negative connotations.

Also, marketing and advertising are not the same thing.
looks great !
What view point is being perpetuated? I read that pretty literally - that they should, indeed, try this with addresses in Saudi Arabia. Because, you know, it would be interesting.

Even if that's not true, I don't think that this is a scientific enough study to suggest that there's serious discrimination problem at the USPS, or where the problem even lies. Does the sender name trigger delays in customs? Does the sender's activity trigger delays in customs and has been flagged for further scrutiny but the name is coincidental?
I like ownCloud but it is very immature.

I mean it looks very snazzy right when you first install it and start to use it, but has a lot of little issues hidden under the surface.

Couple of examples: Randomly deleting files because it got confused. Infinite loops. Essentially unusable on Windows servers (don't even try). etc.

As I said, I like OwnCloud, and I think it has a very bright future ahead of it. But it isn't "there" yet. I'd never use it in an enterprise in its current state.
or you know, you can use some inline scripts, brand new lib coming out next week i guess.
We must fight the twin evils of godless communism abroad and liberal humanism at home.
GCHQ, along with various other agencies, out-source some of their recruitment, mainly to sift. Perhaps you could steal the identities of the candidates who had passed the initial few sifts...but I really doubt that things like developed vetting status are going through this system.
> Python 2.7 wasn't supposed to exist. Python 2.6 was supposed to be EOL for the 2.x series

This claim is highly dubious, I never heard of it and just to be sure checked the log for PEP 361 "Python 2.6 release schedule". 2.7 has been mentioned since the first revision of the PEP, that the 2.6 release would be synchronized with 3.0 was added early on, I can not find any suggestion that 2.6 would be the 2.x EOL anywhere.

It does specify that some features would be/were backported from 3.0 to 2.6 to help transition, but that's it.

Do you have any source for your claim that 2.6 was supposed to be the 2.x EOL?
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I wonder about this -- what would people like to see on the vacancy page instead, that would attract the right talent (instead of the right experience that happens to be relevant)?
Yahoo just paid $30mm for an unknown technology and a fresh face to parade around, they would appreciate it if you didn't start poking holes in the narrative.

Thank you
How to find the way
GNU Screen can also do logging, if that helps the OP.
Sometimes you just want to make sense of something that seems flabbergastingly stupid. Hell, it's Yahoo's money to burn, but it's not jealousy, it's confusion.

It would be interesting to read any sort of explanation, not that we'll get one.

But this acquisition is eerily reminiscent of about.me's and is getting a similar level of scorn from us.

Big, dead, web 1.0 company purchases virtually worthless startup for no apparent reason. Site is like almost any HN weekend project that pops up here on Mondays. Confused!
Nobody who runs ads on their site has any right to have visitors view those ads or get impressions/clicks on those ads from visitors. After all, my browser always gets final say in what content loads for me to see, even without adblock.
The system definitely needs tightening up.
Apologies for the confusion. The aim was to demonstrate that against our expectations the typical heaps in JVM landscape are not set that high and ~25% of the apps are doing just fine with less than 256MB of memory allocated.

And another aspect we wished to demonstrate was the sheer size of permanent generation on some of the applications. I have yet to face a leak-free app where permgen > 256MB seems justified ...
Site is down.

will this solution sync with my iPhone?
Any open source equivalents to Summly's "pure rocket science" summarization technology?
> The amount you are insured against is the same as in the UK...

What is the cost if you seriously injure someone (lifetime disablement) in the two countries? That is the biggest risk the insurer is worried about. AFAIK in the UK the liability of the insurance company is unlimited.

That isn't to say that the UK system is fine. The high cost of insurance for young drivers makes driving uninsured attractive with various risks that come with that.
Why We Prefer Symfony2 Over Yii Framework
> It's not that "rules were meant to be broken"

The best way I've seen it put is this:

Rules are meant to be read, thought about well and then, and only then, broken if you find it a good idea.
If you're reusing passwords on websites you care about your behavior is risky no matter what hasing algorithm gets used or doesn't at some specific website.

If you're not reusing passwords it doesn't matter to you how they store your password. If they have broken in far enough to dump the auth table they almost inevitably can access your data stored there.
Honestly, this concept of building a product around such a sensitive issue like religion/spirituality is kind of "dumb".

Wasn't it clear to them that such problems will arise, sooner or later? People get offended if you brand your product with something "christian" or "islamic", so why should people not be offended by atheism? I dont get this whining.

Keep religion to yourself, in all endeavors.
actually_i_do_mind is a tad confrontational. If I might suggest:

would_you_mind {
// Code here
} sorry_im_afraid_that_might_present_something_of_a_challenge_right_now (Exception £e) {
// Politely move on
cheerio('Message');
}
It would be interesting to see the time delta per state. Maybe in some states the Atheist shoes arrive earlier :D
Shell blindness
Now try thinking about what you've just said, please.
MarketInvoice awarded £5m to boost lending to SMEs
No, that's true across all of the UK intelligence agencies (probably all agencies worldwide, really). Depending on the role you'll probably have to go through developed vetting, at which point your passwords are the least of your worries...
Perhaps its God Himself intervening..
Yahoo Acquires 17-Year-Old's News Startup
On Monday, Yahoo announced it has acquired mobile news aggregator Summly, the latest in a string of acquisitions for mobile product talent. The price of the acquisition was $30 million, according to AllThings.
https://fruux.com/ is a great alternative.
Just think how rough it must be if you're not a comic or an actor/actress. There are times that Times is just too much itself.

Years ago an acquaintance said that he made people very uncomfortable at parties in Washington when they asked him what he did and he replied, "Nothing."
Maybe CCTV came up with the idea on their own, to sell a story. I wonder what the process for getting government approval is like for them? Is there a government office that takes applications for public propaganda campaigns? Do they just call Hu Jintao's cell phone?
> Carmen Morales, an Orlando-based stand-up comic who collected unemployment for a year and a half

> "Really, it was God’s plan for me to move back with my parents at age 30?"

I read articles like this all the time about joblessness and they always choose examples like this.

Why choose a standup comedian as an example? Thats one of the hardest businesses to get into... and has been a long time.

I've read lots of stories of artists (and startup founders such as the founder of Mint.com) who moved in with their parents to pursue their dream despite the low chances of financial success.

If you're trying to find sympathy among readers, at least choose good examples of struggling individuals. For example, the thousands of well educated law or psych majors who are unemployed.
How to Start Working on Open Source Projects
I'm pretty sure that he is not the only person accountable for the sale. I would even guess that's it is far from it. He's backed up by many people as someone said in the comments.

Can you actually sign any of these papers if you're a minor ?
You should read the comments for an extensive discussion on connexion.
It is so rare to see a reference to that wonderful, tragically short-lived show. Maybe it was just the right amount of pent-up angst, but that show spoke to me.
This makes the migh moral standards claim of believers staggering.
Dear James in 2050: I Hope You...
"Parse error: syntax error" -> "You taking the piss, mate?"

Because that's British manners too.
How to read the error log on an Amazon RDS SQL Server instance
Archive.org has a few months delay at minimum.
Back in the days, when I switched phones I migrated my contacts manually...

P.S.: This way you also throw out outdated/invalid contacts...
Dear James in 2050, I Hope You....
Can't read the article right now, but for contacts and calendars we have standard public APIs: CardDAV and CalDAV. Too bad Google just discontinued the latter, weirdly enough just a few months after finally supporting the former.
Isn't this just because there were fewer people online back then, and those who were online were more likely to be intelligent early-adopters with reasonable manners and a good job (to be able to afford a £1,000+ computer and expensive internet access)? It used to cost real money and take technical effort to get online and publish.

Nowadays, for better or for worse, any child with a mobile phone can - and does - spout off online, on Twitter, on messageboards, etc.

I like to discuss radio online, and I remember the good old days of alt.radio.uk and similar Usenet groups, full of interesting discussions with people actually involved in the industry.

Nowadays, the web-based messageboard equivalents are filled with kids plugging their bedroom internet streams, and obsessive ranting about radio stations that is frankly bordering on the insane. One of the popular UK radio-related boards is pretty unusable these days, because any real discussion is drowned out in noisy ranting and one-liner posts.

I just think it's an effect of everyone and his dog being able to send off comments without any thought needed.
A Hologram for the King
No one has bestowed a new meaning to anything. "Ogoogelbar" means "ungooglable", translating directly (something which cannot be searched using Google). Besides, language is organic. You can't exclude a commonly used word from the dictionary just because it violates someone's opinion on how you're allowed to express yourself in writing.

Regardless, which supernational authority is going to enforce a claim like this? I think it is you who need to cite which part of international law regulates the organic development and official acceptance of new words.
I see center and meter so much I often get confused when I'm required to write them correctly!
This is unbelievable, somebody gotto do something about it.
Heck, I read HN and had no idea about Summly, went trough my radar.
Yes! Religion, as sexuality, should only be visible at home, and expecting a fair treatment of atheism in public is as silly as expecting to be allowed to hold your boyfriend’s hand in public or expecting to be allowed to discuss last Sunday’s sermon on the street.
Turing, Galileo, Socrates, Aaron Swartz.

Talk about "one of these things doesn't belong".
> investigated this sort of tech and built prototypes, only to get shot down by middle management.

Bingo.

in fairness the culture there prob prevented people from even feeling this innovative and self motivated.

I've worked in a couple of large orgs where i've told management about great little cheap ideas that just get ummed and ahhed and then forgotten (despite in 2 instances using my own free time to make a prototype).
White House Can't Afford Its Shapeshifting Alien Reptile Guards
I agree that companies need spend more time developing talent than chasing a dwindling pool of people who already have it. My mom had a similar career path to your father - she was hired out of college in the late 60s with zero programming experience by one of the railways to work on scheduling systems.

There is one difference, though - the opportunity to learn programming (actually, to learn most things) has exploded in the past few decades. In 1969, I think you needed access to expensive technology (like a mainframe) to have the opportunity to learn. Now, a few hundred bucks and a web connection gets you started. So if someone wants to be hired into a programming position with no experience in 2013, that does say something about the candidate that it didn't say in 1969.
I think that the issue is less clear cut than the OP says even in the UK BUT you do need to think carefully about the requirement AND the impact.

Asking for 10 years experience you would need a VERY good reason why that was necessary for the role. Asking for a year or two probably would be unlikely to cause issues especially if the experience could be gained outside of employment (e.g. open source or personal projects).

I think you would be at very high risk of problems if you specified something like: "PhD or Masters and 3 year commercial experience or Undergraduate degree and 4 years commercial experience" as you would be basically saying you want someone over 25.

On the other hand there might be issues if you specified recent graduates for a Graduate Training scheme as it may be seen to discriminate against older people.
Are you seriously saying a private business has no right to conduct uhh private business with their customers because it might offend someone?

Essentially you're just playing the classic victim blaming card.

Someone was mean to you because of your religion/sexual preference/etc? You should have hidden it better, quit this whining! It is your fault for being different!

Atheism also isn't a religion.
It comes back around though. Currently there is a severe shortage of COBOL developers, and they are commanding very good salaries. Many major corporations and banks still use it. Today's cutting-edge is tomorrow's underdocumented legacy codebase mess to clean up.
ownCloud does sync with iPhone, yes. I am still basically on Google myself, but did a trial install of ownCloud and it worked pretty much instantly. Just add as CalDAV and CardDAV accounts on the iPhone, the correct addresses to use is shown in ownCloud somewhere.
well how much does it cost to get your company name on the front page of every tech site without allowing a massive data breach
On a related note, perl happily let's you subclass the language to the dialect of your choosing. Here's Australian (ie "strine")

http://search.cpan.org/~simonw/Acme-Lingua-Strine-Perl-0.54/...

or perhaps you prefer to program in Nigerian Spammer?

http://search.cpan.org/~jwalt/Acme-Lingua-NIGERIAN-1.0.0/NIG...
They sent a mix of parcels, some with "ATHEIST" branding and some without it.

They claim that the parcels with Atheist tape were delayed. If the problem wasn't with the tape we'd expect to see delays spread across all parcels.

> I don't think that this is a scientific enough study

I agree. It'd be interesting to see a bigger study with better numbers.

140 parcels is a tiny number compared to what USPS handles per day.
Apple plans to scale up presence in India, to triple exclusive stores to 200
If indeed 3/5 developers rejected yahoo offer, that's a PR nightmare