skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd prefer to invest in a student that is going to be more responsible about their health than eating ramen for a significant portion of their meals. But I'd also rather not invest in one that is going to spend it frivolously drinking every day of the week. Alas, if only there was a rational middle ground position to hold.
Ruby on Rails-Developer (m/f) for gaming platform
Your tasks:

- Design, develop and maintain our innovative HTML5 gaming platform and all connected services and components
- Implementation and optimization of existing features within the existing Ruby on Rails application

Your profile:

- Passionate about Ruby on Rails and at least 1 year working experience with it
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience)
- Experience in RESTful application design
- Interest or even experience with Haml, Sass, Compass, CSS, jQuery, Javascript
- Delivering best quality in a fast-paced agile startup environment
- Coachable, open-minded and ready to learn more about Rails
- Can work independently, but also likes to collaborate as part of a team

What is waiting for you?

- Be part of a young, international and enthusiastic team!
- Be responsible for your own projects!
- Casual work environment
- Full-time position at our office in the heart of Berlin

We are looking forward to your application! Please send a CV (English or German) and a brief portfolio of your previous works.
I think it's difficult to simply recommend one type of therapy and expect it fit everybody's needs. Having said that, I would recommend CBT just because as far as I can tell, its effectiveness seems to backed by a lot of science.

I'm kind of in the same boat though. Finding a therapist takes a lot of work, and building up the motivation to do the work is especially difficult when you're depressed. It's a catch 22. When the depression passes, so does the motivation to find treatment.

Maybe if you have somebody close you can confide in, you should ask them to help you find a therapist. If you have any friends who are seeing therapists, their therapists may be able to refer you to others. In the US, many have sliding scales.

Good luck!
Slashdot used to be full of field experts discussing ideas and tech, you could see discusions on there from genuine industry and academic luminaries. Most of them have long since left as it devolved into negativity, trolling and fanboyism.

I stopped going there when it became obvious the the first posts on many topics were no longer genuine. Not only were the subject-matter experts gone, but the 'discussion' was being led by paid reputation managers who had prepared statements on various things.

Slashdot is dead so far as I'm concerned.
He was just on the Today show. Unfortunately, this is real.
Linux annual survey shows Linux is growing faster than ever
I echo this observation.

By now, I'd actually be more surprised not to find a VMAX or Shark in an "Enterprise" datacenter.
There’s more to the CSS rem unit than font sizing
Ramen noodles were just an example to be honest, personally, I've been through a student style life in the last year or so - at one point I had nearly no money for food, but now I have a moderate income, I mostly eat home cooked meals with the occasional pack of noodles.

They aren't a terrible meal if you add some real meat and vegetables in the mix.
Bokeh has three components. BokehJS runs in the browser, the Bokeh server and the Bokeh Python client library.

BokehJS draws plots in the browser with canvas. BokehJS maintains a data model of plot models (plots, renederers of different types, tools) with Backbone JS. It has a a connection to the Bokeh server via web sockets.

The Bokeh server keeps track of plot objects and other models with redis. It keeps these persistently in documents.

The python client connects to the server and either create new plots or updates existing plots. You can create a plot with python and get a url to embed that plot in any web page. This means that your python code can just be a script that doesn't have to worry about serving up a web page.

We intend to write client libraries in other languages like java, R, and ruby to name a few.
I think you've shown me the way here. My issue, I suppose, is the problem with word problems in math. Generally that problem is two-fold. Does a word problem sufficiently describe the situation? And do you sufficiently understand the situation it describes? I believe this to be at the core of all the supposed "controversial math problems". BTW, thank you for suggesting Kahneman's book, it is now on my reading list.

I did take notice that a sub-set is likely to be smaller than the set it came from: the set of all accountants vs. the sub-set of all accountants who are also plumbers. So therefore P(accountant) > P(accountant and plumber). Unless P(accountant) be zero, or P(plumber|accountant) be one, in which case neither is greater.

Reflecting on my own human biases, I think I ended up reading it as if this were a multiple-choice question, and I had to pick the "best" choice. In other words, it isn't enough that this person is an accountant, but that this person is also a plumber. Or put another way, if I had to wager on whether anyone would pay just any old accountant to go mess with their water heater, I would find it more surprising that the particular accountant in fact hired had no demonstrable plumbing skills. I'd imagine Kahneman could teach me more on this.

My favorite word problem joke goes something like this. If there are three cans on a fence, and you hit one with a thrown rock, how many cans remain on the fence? Answer: Two. Now, if there are three birds on a fence, and you hit one with a thrown rock, how many birds remain on the fence? Answer: None - they'd all start flying off when there's a rock hurtling towards them.
Anticipating Patentable Subject Matter
Ah, ok, that does sound much easier.

(Thanks for the explanation! :) )
Obviously this is a joke. Look at his sleeping excursion, it didn't work so he stopped. It's a fun cute thing to do but little beyond that. Does he have the same legal protections and obligations as a company? No. Would any of this hold up in a court of law?. No. Congratulations to the hacker news reader who got a comment in the paper. I also don't know what to make of the sentence about "fooling around" with that guy. Can some explain what I just read there?
I think I just did...
awesome - nice move from ShopLocket
Crazy Fast JavaScript Hits Firefox Nightly (With A Few Conditions)
Unusual menu editor - Drop Down Menu Generator
Bing isn't as good as google yet, but its reached the threshold of good enough. Hosted Exchange email is very feature rich. I pay outlook.com 5 per month and get wonderful integration with all my devices for calander, contacts, and ToDo. Gtalk is hard to replace because your friends use it. I use apples messages and it works fine with people on gtalk.

For my core functioms, outlook.com is head and shoulders better. People have probably just gotten used to how utter shit the gmail UI has become, but outlook.com is refreshingly well designed (the web client). And activesync support is of course killer.
Not necessarily. A placebo might perform as good as a regular drug in clinical trials, where there is a 50% chance of it being the real thing and there is significant personal interaction with researchers. Also for some reason people always assume that if there is a clinical trial with humans involved the real drug will probably work very well.

In real world scenarios however drugs might be bought with _no_ personal interaction with professionals at all. Furthermore people are very sceptical of the long-term effects of any psychology related drug. In this case the placebo's might perform a lot worse than the actual drug, which may have an actual noticeable effect.

The placebo effect is effective, cheap and safe, and might be present in both the placebo and the tested drug. But the placebo can't be sold as medicine. And the tested drug might still work without the placebo effect.
Depending on what kind of impact angle they can achieve they may not need to add high explosives to this. Mach 20 is 400 times the kinetic energy of mach 1 and 40,000x the kinetic energy of a 76mph collision. So, even a 100lb craft = 1,000 times the impact energy of a 4,000lb truck at highway speeds.
Trailing singleton dimensions in N-D arrays was a far worse problem that I believe Julia fixed.
As a natural cynic and old ex goth, let me say that being positive is really hard work. But worth it.

I noticed one day in an old job that two distinct things happened when management presented an idea to the engineering teams. Nearly everyone (self included to a greater or lesser extent) would start racking their brains for reasons why this, whatever it is, is a terrible idea that must be argued against, or why it just straight out couldn't work.

All except one guy, a friend and one of the brightest sparks on the team, who would start thinking of how he could implement it and what new, interesting tech he could use to get there. Sometimes he would come to the conclusion it was a bad idea, or impossible, but he didn't look for that first. As a result he did more novel, interesting work than the rest of the team(s) who generally spent their time mumbling and complaining.

That's when I decided to try and be that way too.
Motivate Yourself By Choosing Your Friends Carefully
I suspect I'll get downvoted for this, but for some reason, I find this quote chilling,
“Children are a financial drain,” Merrill wrote. “The time investment of raising a child is immense. The responsibility is epic. The impact on future projects would be drastic. In light of these factors, it makes sense to reduce the chances to nearly zero and have a vasectomy performed.”

It seems to completely remove the joy and satisfaction that comes from raising children. Only a few things should be viewed from a financial lens. Wealth is not money, wealth is discretionary time.
Dear Google: please make the HTC Nexus 5
Time for everyone to order teddy bears, propane bottles, and a copy of the Quran from Amazon whenever they book a plane ticket. Bring back the "spook fodder" concept from the heydays of USENET.
After what GNOME developers did with GNOME 3, I wouldn't trust their classic mode one bit. Cinnamon devs clearly understand the UI needs of users, and Cinnamon is already superior to pretty much every DM out there in usability.
Evolution of the F1 Car
If you are single, you can probably live there with minimal life adjustments. The rule of thumb with housing is that you spend twice as much for half as much space as compared to most parts of the country.

If you have a family with school age kids, the situation is far worse as the family friendly housing costs are closer to 3x-4x compared to other areas.
Crowdsourced Delivery: Wal-Mart’s Foolproof New Way to Beat Amazon Prime
A photo effects app and a caption creator :)
A lot of places on CL advertise with 'section 8 OK'. I'm from The Netherlands, where we have a vaguely similar program. Some neighbourhoods are okay, some not so. How is this in Silicon Valley?
I read this 1996 article by Neal Stephenson about the construction of FLAG. It's really interesting and deals with how cables are laid and possible damage to them.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
* Is this even a good idea? We're an all-developer team and don't have much experience in the space of working directly with designers.
- An intern is inherently someone who is learning, who needs coaching. If you have no experienced designer for them to work under, they're likely going to have a hard time and you're going to have a hard time working with them. If the intern doesn't have experience working with developers, and you don't have experience working with designers, it could be a recipe for disaster. If, on the other hand, you hired someone who has experience working with developers, they may be able to walk you through it.

* Is it reasonable to expect him/her to be able to provide much help with our overall application look-and-feel, or does that tend to require a more highly specialized designer?
- You definitely want someone with UI design experience... a "designer" who's just made a couple of logos and a flyer for their university club isn't going to cut it.

If this is an afterthought, hire an intern and see if it works out. Look at their work samples and ask - if I got this same quality of work from them, would I be happy with it (aka don't expect anything better than what's in their portfolio).

If this is essential to your application and delivering value (I feel UI/UX often is) then you should find the resources for an experienced professional instead, even part time, instead of a full-time intern.
Just curious, do you really make more money as a photographer than as a developer? Or is one firmly work and the other firmly hobby?
I feel a strange sense of guilt in closing the page
It's not insane. By definition, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.

He changed his sleeping routine and had a homosexual relationship, found out they didn't work out for him, gave up on them. Nothing insane about that.
Sounds like an opportunity for Dropbox. Go Dropbox!
RedisToGo to join the Rackspace Family
In the future, all humans will be employees of either Wal-Mart or Google.
The bank wants their money regardless of how much you earn. With this scheme, if you don't earn anything you don't pay anything and when you do pay it is always a managable amount. This sort of arrangement could be very handy for a programmer-mendicant or compulsive volunteer.
The unexpected appleID problem is, in my opinion, a world stopping bug...the kind that would cause a code red meltdown if it wasn't fixed 24 hours. This bug has been reported for years, with no resolution. The apple stores pretend the problem doesnt exist or they give you the runaround because their product that "Just Works" doesnt have a fix for it yet. My wife, who was a hopeless apple junkie, has decided that her current iPhone5 will be her last apple product...with her continued frustration with AppleId authentication being the straw that broke the camels back.
"The importance of this case cannot be underscored. It demonstrates that a [East Texas] court that has been favored by patent plaintiffs for years recognizes that there are some really bad patents out there, and the court is not going to hesitate to throw them out at the first opportunity."

(Obsessive-compulsive edit: actually, it can be underscored; it just was. Never mind that. Never mind that.)
I don't understand your statement at all.

The only thing I'm locked into is Chromium, and even that I can replace.
Apple's dalek lawyers will emerge chanting litigate! Litigate! Litigate!

Serious Apple have always done a crappy job of online services - why would you expect any more.
I've worked with iCloud in conjunction with Core Data. It's as broken as the article describes, and in fact has gotten worse over time.

No one really fully knows WTF is going with iCloud - documentation is basically nonexistent, support unavailable, implementation broken in trivial ways, and error messages inscrutable. I was at an Mac/iOS conference recently where the Core Data iCloud talk morphed from a standard talk into a "here's the mic, anybody have any idea what's going on with this thing" affair. Helpful, but indicative of the state of things.

IMO, from having studied this for many, many hours over many moons, is that what Apple is trying to do is fundamentally hard, if not entirely unfeasible. They're trying to replace a smart server with one that's dumb as a doorstop. More specifically, they're trying to emulate a CRUD web service with a file sync engine.

Conflict resolution is left up to individual clients, since the server doesn't do any "thinking". Likewise, there is no canonical, authoritative state of the store, since the server doesn't "think", only the clients do. Apple was hoping that by shoving a bunch of diffs of your database onto the server, that clients can reliably reconstruct a sane database by playing them back - except that multiple clients are updating the diffs simultaneously and there is no server-side conflict resolution.

Oh, and if stuff fails, there are no regular snapshot states to fall back to, because iCloud is a file store, not a database engine. Your whole store is now corrupt. Enjoy.

Oh, and there's no way to nuke the database and start over - there are metadata files that are undocumented or that we don't even have sandbox access to, that interfere with completely destroying the database.

At this point you might think "Fine! I'll go to my Settings -> iCloud -> Manage Storage menu and delete everything associated with that app and start it off on a clean slate!"

And then you find out that, even today, in iOS 6.1.3 land, there is a bug from iOS 5.0 where if you delete an app's iCloud bucket it can never be created by that app, on that account, ever again. I wish I were exaggerating. In perpetuity. Presumably some state gets fucked and now this app is forever more unable to store anything on iCloud.

To make even the most trivial experiment on the iCloud API involves creating a brand new app.

iCloud (in so far as it relates to Core Data and document storage) isn't just buggy, isn't just poorly implemented - it's non-functional.
Working with CSS3 animation tools
It looks like the price is slowly going up over months, but I would have expected a spike with a Today show appearance. Maybe he didn't plug his shares well enough? Or needs a buy button right on the first page instead of buried in after login or something? His voters really need to control his actions better to capitalize on PR like this to grow the stock. ;/
How does WebRTC do NAT traversal? Does it assume udp out on a port will map back in on that port from any source? Or is it trying to upnp map a port?
Apple envisions future iPhone with wrap-around display
Show HN: Simple Google keep like app build using angularJS
The fact that you say calories in == calories out is typical of my complaint. Follow the metabolic pathway of glucose versus fructose in the liver and you quickly see a calorie is not a calorie, and many types of calories are much worse for you than others. Look at how ketones impact cell efficacy (admittedly, early results in rats hearts) and contrast that with conventional wisdom of "ketones are poison" and you can see the study of nutrition and obesity has not followed the study of biochemistry and endocrinology at all.
I'm assuming Redis to Go is currently hosted on EC2; will that be relocated to the Rackspace Cloud? If so will that affect latency for users on Heroku, for example?
Great post ;) Thanks.
Or perhaps both are work?

He wouldn't be the first person in history to work two jobs when one paid more than the other.
It's a wonderfully quirky and entertaining spoof/joke, and all of the
people involved seem to be having a lot of fun keeping it running all
these years. My question is simple; how to you expect this to end?
How is this different from Feross' PeerCDN?
Idea behind Rework (real preprocerssor, not language) is better and more flexible https://github.com/visionmedia/rework
it's not at all. we've been working on the same thing essentially
I read the whole article, and I read all the HN comments (so far), but I still have no idea what the "unexpected appleID problem" is. Care to explain, for the unintiated like me?
Ask HN: What happened to boxPAY?
boxpay.com (SMS payments) is still online and used by Wikileaks to accept mobile donations. But their contact e-mails addresses bounce back, their Twitter and Facebook accounts are no more and Twitter accounts shown in the About page are inactive.

I received donations using boxpay but they are listed as "pending", and can't cash them out.

Users of my site wanted to thank me by sending donations, which apparently got lost/trapped in the way.

Any suggestions?
Someone knows what's going on with this company?
Losing weight is immaterial. Keeping weight off is what matters, and pretty much every study for the last 100 years has shown reducing calories does not keep weight off. Just the opposite: reducing calories invariably leads to a gain of 5-7%.
Ask HN: oncefooled.com domain, worth?
Failed idea for startup. Selling what's left out of it. What do you guys think is fair price for this domain?
Hardly a novel idea. Comes down to their implementations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5448400
"how do you insure against fraud and liability"

A large pool of customers with known purchasing and probable credit histories? Travelling through neighbourhoods with known income, employment, substance abuse, and past crime statistics? I'm presuming this will be presented as a perk to the store's "best" customers. Insuring this would not be insurmountable.
This.
Basis of all CS and I went through school without learning it.
You could just use the chrome developer tools to change the colour ;) But yeah I agree
Google offers free unlimited same day delivery for 6mo in SF
Yeah, they're legitimate "research" projects, not "engineering" projects. No usable device is expected to be produced and put into service at the end. People funding that research are buying knowledge, not useful systems.
It's a solution in a search of the problem, I think.

If it's a poorly designed system, then the view will be a muddy web of connections. On the other hand, if it's a well designed system, it will be highly modular, with each module being small enough to be readily comprehensible in one go and with very few connections between the modules. So I basically don't see a use for the system that you are describing.
Angry Birds of JavaScript: Blue Bird - Events and Messages
"Skepticism, contrarianism, criticism, etc. are incredibly valuable tools and are fundamental to HN and to discourse in general. One should not have the merits of their ideas judged solely on the "tone" articulated by them, and HN should certainly not seek to create institutionalized positivity."

Completely agree with you. I've seen way too many comments that where downvoted only because of the tone (even though the content itself was very relevant), or because it expressed a dissident, politically incorrect idea. When I see such a comment being downvoted, I automatically upvote it, regardless of whether I agree or disagree with the content. I don't hang out here to read opinions I'm already agreeing with. I'm far more interested in intelligently argumented opinions that contradict mine. So, no it's not fun to be bashed by the sarcasms of someone else, but if the opinion contained in the bashing is relevant, then we should just suck it up, and answer to the content.
COM 101 - a DOS executable walkthrough
If I'm not mistaken, there seem to be better cross platform options in Parse and Dropbox. A case can be made for the "walled garden", iCloud doesn't seem to be one of them.
One less reason to ever leave your apartment.
Overweight doesn't matter. Metabolic disorder matters, and that can be traced to simple, refined carbs. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM&sns=em.
It's interesting how the iCloud branding plays into this. Because Apple includes so many services under the umbrella term iCloud, it can lead to a very different impression of the service between the users and the developers. All the talk about "iCloud is broken" is about one specific part, Core Data syncing. The rest, like online backup and document syncing and calendars, seems to work most of the time. I actually saw some comments elsewhere along the lines of "iCloud works fine for me as a user, so it's probably just bad developers who can't get it to work, not any issue with Apple."
DrClojure: Newbie friendly Clojure IDE written in Clojure