skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you'll be able to follow the charity you've donated to and feel like you've made a difference by seeing what they're up to.
Netflix buys US rights to The Fall
https://twitter.com/avlesh/status/324959743200350208
I have some bad news for you :(
See http://www.paulgraham.com/noop.html for an essay from Paul Graham about a dozen years ago that expanded on the dislike that he had then for OO code.

I do not fully agree with his opinion there, but he certainly has some valid points.
"Pretend everyone is great" smacks to me of the anti-competition fetishism in engineering hiring. The labor market votes with its feet. Articles like this serve the purpose of informing engineers and making them focus more on functional culture. He's not calling out companies specifically, he's speaking in general terms about things you should avoid, and that's valuable in ensuring that better companies have more success in hiring and worse companies are punished.

More generally, engineers are in an enviable and almost certainly temporary situation where they have strong bargaining power in relation to employers. They should use that opportunity to extract as much value from companies while the situation lasts. When the shoe is on the other foot, that's exactly what the employers will be doing. It's only a matter of time before the bubble ends and the management consultants come in and teach companies how to extract the most value from their engineers while paying as little as possible.
Nothing sucks in readers like a bit of Microsoft Schadenfreude. The may as well have implied the electricity powering the computers was to blame.
You Shouldn't Be Facebook Friends With Your Boss, Survey Says
It's a pain, but setting up multiple accounts can help combat this (an account to receive deposits before moving them somewhere else).
Ask HN: What is the FizzBuzz test for hiring an engineering manager?
Sent the email, no challenges received yet :( you should make it easier to get started.
Isn't this insane?

I'm watching http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive muted along with the police scanner. I cannot believe these crazy TV news people...

I believe news 7 did a live report in front of the family's home of a person that died at the marathon...at 11pm. They really are heartless.
it's probably just a matter of time, or maybe it's already happened, when the police can go to Facebook or Google and ask them to use their computing resources and data to look up someone based on a picture. In this case, I hope they do, and there is some positive result. I'll love to see this link back to the culprits facebook profile, with his email address, phone number, and all his messages.
I'm sorry bro. :(

My cofounder and I are in a precarious position ourselves, and if a bright VP decides to zig instead of zag, well, shit.

Don't let it get to you!
The whole NBN has been a joke from the beginning. The roll-out delays for what was originally a 100mbps fibre network that is now supposedly going to offer 1gbps speeds conveniently announced right around the time Quigley is about to be grilled in parliament over the delays and so close to an election it looks like Labor will be losing in a landslide.

While the prospect of 1gbps speeds sounds great as a developer, the very fact those speeds will only be affordable to businesses at a cost of what looks like could be close to the AUD $200 per month mark initially and no doubt rise with minuscule bandwidth provided for the cost. The reason current Internet offerings in Australia are so expensive is because of the small number of cables that connect us to the rest of the world and monopoly of our limited selection of ISP's, are they planning on laying more deep-sea cables to handle the increased load?

Will the high-speeds only apply to Australian content like Optus's fraudulent high-speed 100mbps addon pack promises for cable subscribers which only could promise close to those speeds for Australian content, not content from overseas.

On the outside this looks like a Godsend for Australia and while it undoubtedly is in some aspects as we saw with the rise of ADSL in the early 2000's, the project has been poorly managed from the start and this sounds like a stunt more-so than a reality based on what we've seen so far.

Having said that, I would be more than happy with 100mbps speeds compared to the 20mbps connection I currently have which costs me $75 per month through Optus Cable. And overall the premise and vision for the NBN is still better than the archaic coalition "high-speed" network plans they have of their own.
I don't think I am forgetting about those things -- read the closing paragraph of the article you link:

The real question, however, is whether or not
Japanese consumers even want these services that
we from the West can no longer imagine life without.
Hulu and Sony are making good starts, but they
certainly have their work cut out for them in Japan.
As far as I can tell, most people are pretty happy as
long as they live within bicycle distance of a Tsutaya
— that’s basically everyone in Tokyo, by the way — and
its convenient, cheap access to rented media. Which,
of course, can be copied and kept forever; a practice
that Tsutaya has gone out of its way to encourage by
actually selling burnable discs and drives alongside its
J-pop CDs. And for casual consumers, maybe it is a better
solution. No DRM, no extortionate prices, and a sense of
ownership. That’s the thing about Japan — for better or
worse, you can always count on the place to march to the
beat of a different drummer.

Like I said: different.

It reminds me of how Japan kept (and keeps) using fax machines. It seems archaic, but fax machines are dramatically easier to use and far more reliable than any email system every devised.

Part of what is going on here is that all the digital solutions suck too much ass. It took Apple ten years from when they launched iTunes Store to make the legal digital music scene actually better than CDs (when they finally shitcanned all DRM and stopped sucking more than the process of driving to Best Buy). It took an Amazon to make digital books not suck balls.

Nobody has done that with movies and TV yet (other than the bootleg torrent scene, I mean). But I note the article mentions Hulu is doing well in Japan. Well, the suck-ass Hulu that they have in America wouldn't do well here -- they had to make Japanese Hulu significantly better (no ads, faster speeds, subtitles, etc). It's still not good enough that I can say walking down the street to Tsutaya is Doing It Wrong.

I'm not saying the Japanese are the masters of the Internet, either. It turns out that the reason all Japanese websites look like shit is because that's how the Japanese want 'em. I spoke to an engineer for Rakuten at the last HN Tokyo meetup -- turns out Rakuten actually does have some designers and they've A/B tested their current 450-blinking-mini-banners-per-6MB-page against some clean and modern designs. The horrific eyesores won. The people had spoken. And what they said was, well, different.
Sounds like things are still pretty sketchy up there. Lots of shouting about possibly another active shooter on the loose. Wow, just wow...
I would dearly love to be able to listen to the Jamaican police scanner!
among the issues in the original analysis there appear to be a messed up excel formula (they excluded some rows from the calculation)
They would also have trouble identifying the 10x programmer to begin with, and with the pointy haired-ness have trouble retaining them.
I work at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, NY. Much of what I do is building intranet web apps. About a year ago they upgraded (yes, upgraded) to IE7. We have 18,000 employees, but let's say we have 10,000 computers. Upgrading all of those computers, verifying that all of the hundreds of apps provided by dozens of vendors used in scores of departments is a huge and expensive project. Healthcare in NYC is a business that earns you a margin of - if you're lucky - 1%. It is difficult to justify the cost

Note that I'm not a decision maker - in fact, I'm not even in the IT department. Please don't try to argue this with me, as I may be totally wrong about what their decision factors even were. Personally, my life would be much easier if they would upgrade, but I can understand why they have not.
If scanner link stopped working for you, try http://www.hack3r.com/ocyrus/bostonscanner.m3u
That's in Watertown not Cambridge, so it sounds unrelated. All this stuff happening around Boston at the same time jeez

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
The stream is working for me, it's just that a lot of the radio traffic about Watertown has moved to "channel 1"
Surely.

Moments ago, WCVB had a live shot of the suspect lying on the ground arms stretched in front of him on the asphalt with police officers guns drawn but receding from him.

He may have warned them of detonating possible explosives on him.

Update:

GABE RAMIREZ (CNN Photojournalist)

Suspect was taken into custody after disrobing fully.

Suspect was put in the police vehicle "fully undressed."

"Thin darker skinned individual"
Public health: Polio's moving target
The main problem -- finding it difficult to live with a person -- is largely ameliorated amongst couples for whom Scripture-with-a-capital-S and references to Christian biologists (why does their faith matter?) is not part of the ordinary discussion.

Because they shack up before getting married.
I remember that iron geek has a few talks about this, and specifically about different ways to leak information in a darknet, usually protocols that dont respect what the browser is trying to accomplish, and depending how your tor traffic is setup (browser plugin), may lead someone directly to you.

Anyway, here's his fairly simple php script:
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/detect-tor-exit-...
To accurate/concise for Krugman?

Chances are Krugman didn't write the headline.
Just download Emacs from here: http://emacsformacosx.com

Org-mode is perfect for taking notes in class, especially if it's a programming class. In that case, you could use Org-Babel[1].

[1]: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/
They're not taking a chance on a language only 5% of devs know, precisely because they know how painful it is to be chained to a legacy system. So they do every new project in the industry standard language, which is Java.

Problem is, the industry standard used to be COBOL. Sooner or later, if/when Java falls out of vogue and stops evolving, they will end up with two legacy systems instead of just one.
> It seems archaic, but fax machines are dramatically easier to use and far more reliable than any email system every devised.

Are you kidding me? I have never had issues with reliability of email, but fax machines are always breaking down, running out of toner, and lord knows what else. That's why services like HelloFax exist.

> It took Apple ten years from when they launched iTunes Store to make the legal digital music scene actually better than CDs (when they finally shitcanned all DRM and stopped sucking more than the process of driving to Best Buy).

Uhh, no. Most Americans I know stopped buying CDs from Best Buy some time around 2005 or 2006. And those were the latecomers. The younger people stopped pretty much after Napster became big in the late 90s.

> Nobody has done that with movies and TV yet

Have you never used Netflix?

> It turns out that the reason all Japanese websites look like shit is because that's how the Japanese want 'em. I spoke to an engineer for Rakuten at the last HN Tokyo meetup -- turns out Rakuten actually does have some designers and they've A/B tested their current 450-blinking-mini-banners-per-6MB-page against some clean and modern designs. The horrific eyesores won. The people had spoken. And what they said was, well, different.

A/B testing is not the be all and end all of website design: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/07/groundhog-day-or-th...

And I wouldn't use Rakuten as an example of shining engineering (or design) talent. I interviewed with them and quickly realized that it was a place where engineers went to get super shitty. Not to mention that Mikitani's famed "B2B2C" model is just plain idiotic. Surprise surprise, give people too much control over their "store pages", and they turn to shit. In America we'd already learned that lesson from MySpace, but it apparently never translated over to Japan.

And if the Japanese like crammed and messy designs so much, why have the iPhone and iPad been such big hits? Shouldn't they have just kept using their Galapagos keitai, with the horribly confusing byzantine UI and tons of features that no one ever used?
Deciding between soul-leeching BigCos and life-consuming start-ups is a false dichotomy. There are thousands of companies in the valley that fall between these two extremes. Companies with 50-500 employees, most of which you probably never heard of. True, there's no fame and glory working for them. If you're a vain person, not being able to reply "at this hip startup" or "at Google" when people ask you where you work can be a blow to one's ego. But those medium sized companies pay market rate, and most of them put a reasonable workload on you.

I'm at one of those companies, and there are times where I feel a bit like a second rate developer, but I work less than 40 hours a week, and I still get my six figure salary, plus 20+ days of vacation that I can actually take.
As a stop gap measure, you can grep the source of the libc module[1], extremely non-optimal though.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/incoming/src/libcore/li...
The odds that a project of this magnitude and complexity would be done on time and budget were basically zero. But it's very hard to tell what could have been better because of the Commercial-in-Confidence veil.

Quigley is not an idiot; he's a smart, well-educated bloke with decades of telco experience. He had no control over the schedule -- Treasury (remember those guys? they're the ones who said that the European carbon price would continue rising to hit $29 by 2015) pretty much drew up an estimate for a press conference and that's what got chucked over the wall.

In Quigley's position I'm pretty sure anyone would have struggled to make it work.
" To me reasonable is less than 50hrs/week or less. 40-45 is ideal"
++1 Not only it's not reasonable, I seriously doubt quality of code can be sustained when coding such long hours. There can be "temporary" bursts, couple of really late nights, or working over the weekend, etc. but in my experience, there is always a price to pay if it becomes the norm.
Am I crazy or does the person in this photo sort of resemble one of the people in the marathon suspect pictures released by the FBI? http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/759765692....

I was wrong. But news outlets are reporting the people responsible for this tragedy are the same people suspected for the Boston Marathon bombing.
Breakdown of what is happening on this reddit thread [1]. You can listen to the police scanner here [2]. Live steaming video here [3]. For those listening on the scanner this is the area/streets they are talking about [4].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cnwms/mods_removed_th...

[2] http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s...

[3] http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive

[4] https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=100+talcott&hl=en&ll=4...
The Solar Cell That Turns 1 Photon into 2 Electrons
Kind of, Trade Hill lost a hundred thousand or so when Dwolla falsified their tranaction record and stuck them with the fraud. This was a bunch of reversed ACHs (which Dwolla claims they don't allow). Very shady company.
A much-needed mirror (broadcastify is getting slammed):
http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s...
> 10% of billions is much better than 50% of millions

In a VC startup? Sure. In a lifestyle business, I'd rather get a 99% chance of millions (and a fun place to work.)
That's a valid concern. My suggestion would be this: Usually you're being interviewed in multiple rounds by multiple people. Absolutely don't ask an HR person about this, and probably don't ask your future manager. Ask an engineer after a technical interview. They'll probably (a) understand why you're asking and where you're coming from, and (b) or more likely to give an honest answer.
The great H1B visa farce
We are working on Glass applications for low vision users, you can see our previous research in this area at http://openglass.us , specifically http://hci.cs.rochester.edu/pubs/pdfs/vizwiz.pdf . The terms of the explorer devices limit sharing with others, etc. but we're eager to test them out with users as much as we are able to.
Updated -- thanks!
To be fair, Excel's concept of a weighted average has no basis in statistics or common sense, as I have seen in a couple of published works.

Here's a tip: if your results are reproducible only in Excel, something is terribly wrong.
The days of this being an issue are long gone, especially since there is now good competition in the submarine cable space. Last mile is starting to be the bottleneck.
I don't think they're proposing to block the PROTOCOL. (Is it even possible to reliably distinguish Tor traffic from other encrypted traffic?) Rather, I think they're proposing to block all packets being sent to known Tor end-nodes. Of course, miscreants can get around this by bouncing their packets off a relay outside Japan.

This will actually HELP Japanese criminals who go to the trouble of using a relay. When they cause trouble, the first response of the authorities will be, "This is the work of foreign criminals." (A common scapegoat, alas.) "It can't possibly be coming from Japan, because we've blocked Tor." (and we're certainly not going to admit that our firewall leaks)
> Being able to count on near-ubiquitous FTTP and speeds of 100Mb - 1Gb p/s for a whole country completely changes the tech startup landscape.

Let's not kid ourselves. The Australian market is tiny.

> so it's pretty disappointing that Malcolm Turnbull was convinced or corralled into playing politics on this one instead of just neutralising the issue by committing to FTTP.

There's also the possibility that Malcolm Turnbull, a former barrister, investment banker and venture investor in and director of Australia's first major ISP (Ozemail) has his own thoughts about balancing costs and benefits.

> They happily make baseless blowout claims around the current NBN project, so I don't see why they couldn't have instead made baseless "we'll do the same, but cheaper" claims.

It's pretty easy to demonstrate that paying someone to dig up every street in the country is more expensive than deciding not to dig up every street in the country.

> Being a first-mover in Western society brings a significant number of benefits for Australia's tech environment.

Japan and South Korea have shown that it's really not that big a deal. Really nice, and enables some new businesses. But you have to trade it off against alternative uses of the funds. The same money could build about 20 new hospitals, a new Sydney airport and a clutch of cross-city tunnels. It's possible these might have been more valuable in the long run.

Or maybe not. We don't know because no cost-benefit analysis was ever done.
Apps and Technology for the Disabled
Could you elaborate? I don't see prices for bandwidth dropping at Australian hosting facilities.
If you find Org-mode hard/complicate to use, you could skip the agenda and export function, they are the most difficult part in Org-mode. But if you only use Org-mode to keep/organize notes or make outlines, it is a perfect tool.

Some other application could handle the agenda part and integrate with your OS better, like Omnifocus etc.

But the user experience of MobileOrg (the mobile client of Org-mode) is not very well, it may be the only weak point I could see.
I have friends with great skills who I want to work with at my startup, but none who I would really expect "founder" levels of commitment out of.

It seems that they agree: what we both really seem to want is that, after I get the business off the ground on my own, I just hire them for cushy jobs as employees. :)
Signin Wall
Thanks for the great overview, I really appreciate it. I guess it's all about finding a good company that values its employees. Maybe I'll drop a line to friends at Google after all...

(Thanks also to the other kind commenters who replied - ctide, rayiner, smartician, bkanber, prostoalex, avenger123, and akurilin - your answers are valued!)
#3 is also known as "the DailyWTF material". ;-)
Thanks for all the comments, I'm well aware of ZeroClipboard and various flash-related tricks and the html5 API, but seems none of them are really viable solution when targeting iOS (mobile safari).
Spoken like a true academic.
Wow, so bottom line
1. useful for Streaming cause of the nature of the file system.
2. Probably will loose the append nature of HDFS.
3. Retaining data in memory makes it hard to use with any of the hdfs based databases like hbase.
So raw map reducers should definately try it...
NBN download boost ups ante in web war (2010)
The most accurate information may be gleaned from police scanners. News cameras may give you pictures of the amount of police officers at the scene, but they cannot get close enough to give you video of what's actually happening. The irony is that of those three sources of information (Web site, radio, news camera), the best source of "real time" information is the oldest. Yes, it's true that the scanner is being broadcast over the internet, but you could listen to the police scanner with amateur radio equipment decades ago.

EDIT: I find that it is much easier to listen to the police scanner than a news station, because the SNR ratio is much higher. When there is a break in the action, news reporters fill the air time with speculation or repeat the same old information. On the police scanner, when they have no new information, they are silent.

Having said that, I still find it cool to hear an officer ask the dispatcher (on the radio) to tell an overhead helicopter to point a searchlight at a certain location, and moments later see on television a helicopter flying overhead with its searchlight on.
When I used to live in Philadelphia, summer holiday nights used to be very unnerving. Previously I had thought that firing guns wildly into the air in some form of celebration was something that was only done in underdeveloped countries... I grew up in a very rural area where there were lots of guns, but nobody was that irresponsible with them.
Thanks for the reality check. The combination of visa requirements and tight competition for spots at good firms is admittedly more daunting than I'd expected.

The H1B is a tough obstacle, and I'm instead looking at the 18-month renewable H1B1 which applies to workers from Singapore and Chile and doesn't lead to permanent residency. I'll have to look for people who've made the jump and get their advice, I guess. And network with people in good companies which might be hiring.
An intense twitter feed on the shootout: https://twitter.com/akitz
What's semi-NBN?
>You do run your app under a different account

No, why would I do something like that on a development box? (Or run web stuff on Windows servers for that matter.) And pretty much the only things I install with -g are useful CLI tools - any code I write will have its dependencies installed locally and listed in package.json for 'npm install'.
I think you somehow missed the 'ignore' part.
Not sure if still the case, but SourceForge required you to select/declare a license from a list when you created a repository.
Same here.

I made the article text appear by switching tabs back and forth. I'm using Boat Browser.
Not to mention friggin Utopia is like iProvo 2.0.
Hrmmm....now that I think about it...so would I!

I wonder how that could be arranged.
Set up http://fastlane.grasswire.com to follow it - hopefully the aggregate of all social media can be of some help