skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a limited amount of skeumorphism is still useful and quite valid, I think however giving everything a texture to match what it would be, or the tape deck motif of the podcast tool is less useful, in fact, I think its distracting, maybe even for new (read non-technical) users. Everyone knows what the play, pause, stop, fast forward and reverse signs look like, are the spinning reels needed?

It raises another question, when does chrome become just a distraction, rather than easing the user into using the product?
This worried me also. I've seen many articles here on HN where people have done far less and have had serious crimes pressed. Glad Google takes the high road but with the state of the current US legal system regarding "hacking" I definitely would not be so bold.
A month to get started, years to master (and most never will master).
Personally, I suspect the Right Way to do this is for W3C to standardize a special input field something like:

<input type="passhash"/>

which looks like a normal password entry field but automatically does some clever hashing on the client to create a per-site password.

Of course, you can still get keylogged if you use a public computer or whatever.
Currently 75% of the world's scientific data isn't shared. http://codata2012.tw/news/75-of-research-data-is-never-made-...

The main reason for that is that there is an established reputation system for papers, namely journals, but there isn't one for content formats that aren't papers - data-sets, code, videos, images etc.

Part of what Academia.edu is doing is building a new reputation system in science based on audience metrics: how many people have read your papers, from which countries; how many followers you have etc. We are then attaching various kinds of scientific media to that reputation system in order to accelerate sharing.

The idea is that if you can build your reputation by sharing your data-sets, you're likely to consider doing it.
You're too kind. :)

The full story is a bit more complex, but, yes: my wife and kids and I are sacrificing financially so that I can work full-time on Gittip. When I work on Gittip part-time, it flatlines. When I work on Gittip full-time, it grows. I'm grateful to have consulting work available to me, but at this point I'm so wrapped up in Gittip that I really just can't concentrate on other work.

I'm netting almost $200/wk on Gittip right now (thank you!) and if that gets to $800/wk by the end of 2013 I'll be the happiest kid in America. Gittip will be almost born. I'm encouraged that that's only a 4x increase.

That said, if Gittip works for me it'll only be because it's working for many other people as well. My focus in the next month or three is going to be on roughing in the features like communities and projects and funds and friend-finding that will help Gittip work for everyone and will get money moving through the system. Then the focus will shift again to building up the contributor community around Gittip, once the pieces are in place to actually get people paid for working on Gittip.

Gittip is almost a year old. If it's going to fly, we'll know within another year. I'm hopeful! :D
Let's say that Thailand has a king and that publishing a caricature of the king on the Internet is punishable by death. Meanwhile, I'm an American and I make a website in the Unites States that I call kingofthailand.com that shows nothing but caricatures of the king of Thailand. Am I getting deported?
Wikipedia is not a good start for me because I find the articles there on the subjects involved very confusing. It is like they are writing in bad grammar with poor logic and cannot follow any sort of logic I understand. Anything else to use?

Don't get me wrong I used to be big on Wikipedia, but over the years it has gotten worse, using unverified sources, taking things for granted without references and citations, claiming it is 'general knowledge' and does not need verification and citations. Every since 2007 they allowed people with fake degrees to cook the facts and statements in Wikipedia articles and now they are mostly nonsense and poor logic and hard to understand for me. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1544737/Fake-Wikipedia-prof-...
So I'm a dev who spent 10 minutes just now with Jetstrap and Froont; Jetstrap has component items such as 'navigation' etc., which can be easily tossed in. Froont has break points for responsive design. So while Jetstrap allows you to view the result on iPhone v. desktop; Froont allows you to set up very different parameters that change responsively to screen size 'break pointss'... or am I missing that feature in Jetstrap?
I remember I was 10 or 11 the first time I ordered iced tea and it came sweet- I thought their machine had broke in the most disgusting manner possible.
I saw your hack at AngelHack SF. It was a great product and I was surprise that you did not get the grand prize.

I think that the problems with technical interviews is that they focus more on algorithms than actual code. While this practice is good for recruiting students out of school who should know by heart the most efficient search or sorting algorithms, it puts people who have been in the industry or who often work in freelance jobs at a considerable disadvantage.

Unless you are working at Google or Facebook where efficiency is super important, the interview questions that Silicon Valley companies ask often do a bad job of filtering out the right candidate.

I thought that your hack was very good. I think that you could turn it into a business if you wanted to.
This is funny. But the reason that this is funny is because people actually say these things in commit messages. I mean, "updates" is a commonly used commit message for a colleague I work with. It makes me want to cry.
A local university? Any local tech employers? Are there any tech conferences held near you?
Those aren't actually real-world challenges, those are the sorts of questions I give in a job interview. Their scope is too narrow to be real-world. Almost by definition, a real-world programming challenge involves working with a software system too big to build in a weekend, because virtually all of the complexity of modern software engineering comes from managing large codebasess.

We do have "contests" that are real-world, except they're not really contests. We call them open-source.
What is this "O"? This is what I am talking about, the Wikipedia article and even this thread throw out variables without defining what they are. "O" and "n" what are they, how do I calculate them? How do they work? That is why none of this makes any sense that I can understand.
Most online retailers use platform software, so you can assume most of them will add this feature. The opportunity lies in the ones that don't.
The King Cannot be Removed from the Board
Maybe some in Denver, but I am 15
It is not often I derive huge amounts of amusement from legal proceedings but this case (and especially this judge) has been very fun to watch in a slow-motion train-wreck kind of way.

We all knew this judgement would be good and the judge delivered.
I seem to have maxed out the number of songs you can keep track of in one URL. See: http://bit.ly/10kZyKg which loads 130 songs, but my playlist is 156 songs long (until I close the tab I presume).

I'd love to see:

1. Way to save a playlist as a shortened URL for sharing purposes.

2. Previous/Next buttons

3. Max-width for the playlist that keeps each song on one line

4. A means to save several playlists in one place

5. More obvious shuffle/repeat buttons

Overall, I really like the simplicity of the interface. I hardly comment on HN these days, but I wanted to provide some constructive feedback for you.

Best,
Shouldn't it be OK to have a knowledge of programming that doesn't derive from the theoretical canon? You can learn programming concepts in the context of "not killing the whatever-is-relying-on-it."

To be sure, not being able to reason outside of the canon is a long-standing occupational hazard and trait of the humanities, so there could be something a little more pathological in perpetuating these interviewing techniques.
Sorry clear as mud to me. I don't understand that one either.
Ehhh dont disagree with you on a theoretical level, but are the average software development manager management skills sooooooo strong that it totally overrides basic technical proficiency? definitely there are a individuals that this is true for... but most development managers naw...
Ask HN: What is your best work?
Pose a link to your best work here (Websites, games, articles, etc)!
Perceptual computing competition from Intel: $100k+ grand-prize
Starting May 6th, Intel wants to inspire developers to forge new ground by integrating voice control, gesture control, facial recognition, and augmented reality with apps and games on PCs in the second phase of its Perceptual Computing Challenge. With a grand-prize of $100,000 USD and thousands of dollars in prizing available in 4 different categories, Intel is looking for the most unique, innovative, and bar-raising uses of Perceptual Computing possible. Participants have six weeks to submit ideas for games, productivity tools, user interfaces, or generally innovative uses of the Perceptual Computing SDK. If your idea is accepted it will be selected by the panel of judges to progress into round two, where you’ll receive an interactive gesture camera in order to turn the idea into reality. Good luck to all participants!
If you remember, the Xenomorphs survived being nuked ...
"I think what they did, or at least what they wanted to do, was find a fix for the rampant theft of their products."

I don't see how this accomplishes that. The programs still get downloaded to people's desktops where they'll be able to be cracked in a way that allows for unauthorized installations. The whole "cloud" terminology with their Creative Suite doesn't require any sort of always-connected status to use their apps. You literally just download and install like any other application.
I've had similar experiences. I had a recruiter set up a technical phone interview with the developer who never called. No brief email saying something like, "Hi, our developers thought your qualifications weren't a good fit for the position. Good luck on your job search." After emailing the recruiter she said she would talk to the developer and "look into it." I never received any further responses.

My favorite is when you apply somewhere and receive no response. Then several months later, you're contacted by a recruiter from the company at which point you've long past moved on with an offer from somewhere else.
It goes to Reddit and I have to sort through comments by trolls on subreddits to try and find any answer that makes sense and is not a joke or a troll comment. I might as well search for the answer on 4Chan, iFunny, or QuickMeme.
You can bet there are a lot of plaintiff lawyers paying attention as well.
I personally think that PHP and MySQL are essential for making websites that use profiles for users and shopping carts.
I am totally impressed. There is a tiny place in coastal North Carolina where people speak with an early 1900's Boston-ish accent because they came over on fishing boats. There can't be more than 5000 people that speak this way, and I only know about it because my cousin married one of them (a high-tide'r). I am glad this mildly interesting fact is actually being recorded.
Which frankly, baffles me. I see it at the supermarket, right? Next to the other fashion magazines and it also looks like a fashion magazine?

So I'm not contesting the truth that it sometimes has serious heavyweights writing for it, I'm just baffled by that fact. It's like if you found out Gore Vidal had been writing for Good Housekeeping.
CN900 4D Decoder
CN900 4D Decoder connects directly with CN900 multiplexer, then you can copy 4D chip, no need to connect with the laptop.

It needs works together with CN900 key programmer, can not works alone.
Can I please request someone here to offer this man a job? He's onto his last buffer month. He has a daughter, he's desperate & contrary to what he may believe, he IS a good developer. And yeah, please have a broad smile when you have him over. He probably needs it most right now. I'm sorry, but that was too depressing to read. We've all been through this stage of self-doubt and agony. But as they say "This too shall pass" and sooner or later he'll be kicking ass! :)
wouldn't searching for

"debian 7"

with the quote marks fix that issue?
Thanks! I am still working on Coderang (the version I showed yesterday is up at http://coderang.com), and I think I could definitely turn it into a business.

I was told that the only reason I didn't win the grand prize was some of the judges didn't think I could have made the app by myself during the competition/I had cheated.

Honestly, I'm more flattered that they thought I was too good to win than I would have been if I had won. :)
Zuckerberg Delayed Instagram Deal to Watch 'Game of Thrones'
That codinghorror.com article is great and is a must read for any developers on the fence about attaching a license to their open source projects. I have to admit I was feeling both awkward and douchey debating whether I should attach a license to a few miscellaneous projects that no one may ever even see.

"That's ironic, considering the whole reason I posted the code in the first place was so other developers could benefit from that code. I could have easily avoided this unfortunate situation if I had done the right thing and included a software license with my code."

Also, a nice summary of various licenses. Thanks
Zuck’s got it right, 50% of our staff turned down for tourist visas
Where are you? Any co-working spaces near you? We're spoiled here in the SF Bay Area.
It doesn't look like this allows me to add non-standard attributes. If I'm using AngularJS, I have to export this HTML, then add my ng-* markup, and then if I want to modify my design I have to do that all over again. Am I missing something?
The fact that someone can tell you what the big O of an algorithm is wont prevent that though. You would be better off following a decent peer review process and performance profiling the application.
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To be clear, the out-of-control things belong to governments outside SF, SJ, and Oak. The three major cities continue to add housing at a fair clip, as they have for the last 15 years.
I am grateful that judges can bring down the hammer from time to time.
Let me get back to you about that.
"Custom exploit" might be a bit of a misnomer, Billy and Terry (the same researchers that are credited on the initial ICS-CERT Advisory regarding the Niagara framework) were referencing a set of utilities/scripts they put together to automate testing.

Original ICS-CERT Advisory: http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-12-228-01

(Edit: Disclaimer, I work for Cylance.)
The difference between SF and NYC is in SF the homeless never freeze to death. And the difference between SF and Oakland is in Oakland the cops will taser you and the street gangs will break your legs for sleeping in the wrong neighborhood. Compared to everywhere else, SF is a hobo paradise.
A public plaza with a blue opera-house and a reflection pool bathing its own image.

http://i.imgur.com/ROT7Hf9.png
Great. contact me at doanhqdo at berkeley.edu if you want some free business advice. I am currently working on a start-up that is being incubated out of the UC Berkeley's Skydeck incubator. I should be able to connect you with some people if you'd like.
I feel bad for you son, but I can't completely blame the recruiter and the company in this case.

Complaint 1: The recruiter asked you questions you didn't find relevant.
I have often asked "curveball" questions just to see how a potential hire thinks on his feet or perhaps to see how he handles a situation in which he doesn't know the answer to something (the correct way being "I don't know that off the top of my head, good thing for Google and Stack Overflow, right?"), so it's not really up to you to determine which questions are relevant. Then again, he could have just been a dick, but not necessarily.

Complaint 2: The company had to be prompted and prodded to respond to you
Certainly, this isn't very professional, and it would also leave a bad taste in my mouth, but know this: the company doesn't owe you a damn thing. Silence = rejection, simple as that. If there was anything to follow up with, I would have emailed the company that day, and then promptly put them out of my mind until they replied and kept applying to other jobs.

Complaint 3: The company didn't get back to you in a timely fashion.
Unfortunately, this is simple supply and demand. Or, the company is terribly incompetent. But it seems to me that they would prioritize reviewing candidates if they had a small number who were qualified. If there was already a week backlog of candidates, they were probably getting plenty of them already.

I understand the point of your piece, that you believe the recruiter failed the company by not properly interviewing you, and that you believe that the company shot itself in the foot by not giving you a real chance. OK. Then do you really want to work at a place like that?
Yeah, I so reject this myth. The areas you name have a clear, non-standard accent, and on TV or radio would stick out like the proverbial sore thumb.

The "neutral" accent you're imagining is western. Not eastern.
Hah, I had the same problem. I also learned English in Canada, so I guess it makes sense.

My other answers must have been pretty different from yours though: I only got 22% for "North Central", with 93% for "the Inland North".
only in America... where they forgot Blackberry was already a smartphone that was popular there,

He also disregards that touchscreen smartphones have been around since the 1990's and there were plenty of people outside the US who used such devices. If he mentioned that it could be used with just your finger, accurately, then he maybe right.
I think the word you are looking for here is "tax". Currently rising property values are created by the people who live and work in the city, but the value itself is captured by incumbent landowners who largely live outside the city and haven't had their property tax assessments adjusted in over 30 years. Taxing rent fixes this problem and erases the stupidity of Prop 13.
You just don't hear it. You also pronounce words like "party" as if it was "pare-tee".
I think L.A. is going to happen because it has a dictatorial and thus effective office of Mayor. Antonio Villaraigosa has been cracking the whip and I think his successors can follow in his footsteps.
Homeless girl goes to Harvard.
Can a certified provider charge for the service?

Can I use an uncertified provider?

Can I create my own and compete with the certified providers?

How difficult is to become "certified"?

Do you have any sources on how this process works?
The protest is right across the street from the cop shop.
As a French guy living in New York, I am pleased to have gotten 91% Northeast ;)

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
I actually don't think any of this is relevant to the OP's situation, as by his own admission his interviews never progressed to any sort of production-level problems. He was just given algorithmic puzzles to solve.

It sounds to me like the opposite of what you're saying: he's good at delivering to production, but he's not good at pet interview questions.
Art0039: Passion or Pressure?
OP here.

To clarify: I do understand algorithmic complexity. You don't often study information theory and ordering while skipping Big-O and friends if you're into CS. I was rather mad at myself for missing it in an interview. I should know it but I struggle with it under pressure.

If it's not one thing it's another though... and the repeated failures to find market acceptance for all the effort I expend to be a good developer is draining. I don't think I had any specific intent before I wrote this. I've just been trying to write it for weeks because this is something I'm going through and it's not something I find easy to talk about. I started out hoping to find out more about myself but I'm just left with more questions.

I'm ten years into a career and have had a long passion for programming (ever since I was a young kid copying BASIC listings into a Commodore).
> Estimation, intuitive reasoning, analogy, pattern
> matching, logic, etc.

Alas, most of the things on your list require a pretty solid foundation to work. You need patterns already committed into your brain to do pattern matching and to see analogy, you need to have internalized experience for intuition to work, you need to have previous exposure for any meaningful estimation.
All to often people forget foundation when they move to the upper layers and sadly sometimes this leads to thinking that foundation is not necessary. And now matter how you look at it there will always be bits of the foundation that require rote learning.
This reddit thread is not at all hard to find: http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/mfswi/eli...
In the introduction the judge stated that the settlement costs were calculated to be just below a bare bones defense, ie it'd be more expensive for people to fight the lawsuit as opposed to settling; so the judge says that his punitive measures were calculated to be just below the cost of an appeal, ie reap what you sow Prenda.
Rent control is not tenant friendly. It collapses the supply of housing in a city. It's "old people"/"I got here first" friendly.
I'm drawn to this for several reasons...

Trite though it is, admitting that you don't know truly is on the path to wisdom.

Not taking time to think things through is endemic in the workplace, not just an interview quirk.

in the real world, many O(N) algorithms are in fact O(I don't know) because of unexpected or unpredicted behavior from language, compiler, interpreter, runtime, os, etc.
I think that it is more of an issue with conditioning. As you and others have mentioned, one could indeed learn Gimp's UI with enough practice. However, I'd say that someone who picked up Photoshop, or MS Word, or any complex piece of software for the first time, then it would be a horrible UI.

The education system (at least here in Australia) heavily focuses on Adobe and Microsoft products, so high school kids are familiar with them from a youngish age. If they were taught general principles of word processing or photo editing, perhaps with a few different programs, then I feel that everybody would be better able to cope with different UI's much more easily.

Incidentally, (as a non-professional) I found Gimp much easier to grok than Inkscape or Scribus (coming from a Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign education/background).
Hearing that you would knowingly and consciously choose to antagonise upset people for absolutely no reason beyond your own entertainment, I am already unsympathetic to you should the situation escalate beyond your control.
Thank you, sir, for bringing some needed humor to the evening.
Not yet! Actually we probably need a separate github issue to track this. Want to create it? :)
About a year ago I actually build a tool to build these 3d models in the browser! You can add elements in a grid (stacking multiple on top of each other), and move them and resize them. It's a little painful but quite fun to see the result!

http://tilt.jlongster.com/
So it's ok to shell out 350 dollars just because your day rate is higher? Sorry, but the logic of that statement fails me.

Why spend 350 dollars on this vs something else would be rather interesting point to make.
I have one I'm not using anymore, so I wouldn't mind selling to a follow dev with a good home.