skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and it still seems to me that the easiest way to get hired for a job is to work hard to be the best at whatever it is you do. Then when someone thinks "Oh, we need someone to do X job, everyone says 'This is the guy you need'," instead of having to go in through the front door like the rest of the unknowns. Your reputation should already have walked in the door long before you even know there's a job there for you. At that point, nobody looks at or cares about your credit.
OpenLiteSpeed 1.0 Released under GPL3
I think the article suggests using modifiers instead. So rather than having

.mainContentWidget {
background-color: white;
font-size: 1.5em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.sideBarWidget {
background-color: red;
font-size: 1.5em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

<div class="mainContentWidget"></div>
<div class="sideBarWidget"></div>

The article instead would suggest you do:

.widget {
background-color: white;
font-size: 1.5em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.widget-sidebar {
background-color: red;
}

<div class="widget"></div>
<div class="widget widget-sidebar"></div>

To address the bit about common values vs. special modifications. The implication is, although you might have to change some names, it's not context dependent. So if you decide that you want to put apply that same style to a widget in your footer ...and the header ...and this special case on a certain page landing page ...etc, then you just add the extra class to your HTML rather than adding a bunch of context dependent rules in the CSS.
Back in the 80's and 90's, techies (men and women) felt the same way about society in general. They defensively carved out bubbles of welcoming space for themselves, where they wouldn't be made to feel weird. Eventually it stopped being weird to be a techie. These girls are in a disadvantaged minority, and they're carving out their own bubble where they feel less weird.

Also, according to women hackers, it's important to increase the visibility of women in tech right now so I think they're doing fine. "Lack of female role models" is the biggest deterrent for women in tech http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/30/the-biggest-deterrent...
Linus wrote a few months ago that he'd switched to Xfce. Does he count as a power user?
How Apple V Samsung Threatens The Steve Jobs' Legacy
This mindset is slightly frightening to tell the truth. 33 years without debt, and having to give money to the bank because people are suspicious of purely basic financial responsibility.
I mean, taking a job is not borrowing money, you're paid after the period of work, you're the creditor, the rent is paid in advance, you're still the creditor.
Does having savings counts positively in the credit rating?
Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn basic HTML/CSS for a total newbie?
A colleague (who isn't technical at all) is trying to understand better how what we do on the technical side works and has asked me for some references.

I've found several but I'm not sure if they're appropriate for someone with pretty basic or no knowledge of anything that is CS related. Is there any resource that has helped some of you in the past?
If we go with your way, then we would have problem like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/630803/associating-enums-...

The new enum library does more without introducing new syntax, and I think that's a good thing.
Is it just me, or the quotation really sounds like some content-free marketing slogan?
In the UK, I didn't see another company than Experian doing credit reports.

To know your credit report, you have to subscribe to a 30-days-free-then-£14.99-per-month thing. And they ask you for tons of info that they can use to improve their file on you. Every time that a business asks a credit report on you it lowers your score for a while. I'm sure the businesses are also paying to get access to your credit report as well.

It seems to be a very lucrative business.
Microcenter store offering Audrino robotics session
My guess would be that full pressurization makes the suit too rigid.
It's worth installing Xfce in general. It really ought to be the default desktop environment for Linux.
While I appreciate your use of colorful language (i.e., "crap"), your point is not consistent with the author or the article. The author prides himself on looking outside the CSS; he says developers should question the bigger picture into which the CSS fits, like a Rails developer is expected to do. My point is simply that he should extend that line of questioning further and ask whether constructing advanced design patterns for CSS is the best use of time given other stakeholder priorities.
The link behind "came back online May 1" goes to http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back-... which is an essay he wrote summarizing his findings. I recommend reading it, it's very thoughtful.
Heh, you really have no idea of what you're talking about, do you? (Or are just plain stupid)
A buddy of mine in Vancouver is a plumber who does service calls, and he'll easily burn through a tank of gas in two days in his van. They'd have to be able to go 300-400 miles without recharging in order for it to make sense. I could easily see his company ditching gas for electric if they got that though, and the far lower operating costs would justify a fairly step increase in lease costs. At around $200/week in gas, they could spend an extra $500/month on the lease and still come out way ahead.
Not sure if weird or amazing.
Depends on how "distributed" it needs to be. If one node is offline and you edit on both, when it comes back online the one with the newest timestamp wins
The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition)
Show HN: My weekend project, a tool that grades your use of buzzwords
GitHub down 2+ hours (and counting)
Essentially, you're shocking your client with price because you haven't adequately explored and quantified the value of the benefits you're providing to their business.

Anytime you are building a web application, you are actually solving a business problem for your client. For example, that problem may be more driving sales or reducing staff time spend on a particular task.

You need to spend time diving into this with them to figure out what your project is really about. Then you can ask targeted questions to the client. For example:

"So, right now you're telling me that Jan and Ella are spending 20 hours a week processing the proposals. If we could reduce that to 5 hours per week, how much would that save you?"

"If we could improve the conversion rate on your flagship product by 10%, how much would that be worth annually in new revenue"

Once you've asked some questions like this, you can then position your price relative to these other values that the client has affirmed for you.

All of a sudden, it makes it much harder for them to feign shock at paying $25k for a system which increases revenue by $250k in the first year.

If you're not working with clients who have valuable problems to solve, find clients who do.
Gifts aren't taxed until a lifetime limit of $5 million is exceeded, after which anything above $13k/year is excluded.
I think this is a topic that deserves careful study. While this story considers replacing social security and Medicare with a basic income, I think the basic income should be in addition to Health care, and free education.
It seems obvious that we are moving in the direction of just about any material object will be able to be manufactured for close to "free". At the same time the percentage of the population required to run the process will be dropping rapidly.
While this sounds rather nice, when the music stops and production costs drop to nothing, those who do not already own a chunk of capital will have no means to obtain any.
We as a society need to consider how we can best handle this potential scenario.
yeah, I don't actually have an iPhone, but good to hear those things are in the roadmap!
You have to keep not being logged out for a month (last time I checked) before the account is actually deleted.
I really enjoy the regex completion.

Example:
$ rm * .gch dir/* .gch

<tab>

$ rm file1.gch file2.gch file3.gch file4.gch dir/file5.gch

I really enjoy it when I'm removing something sensitive and just want to make sure.
Awesome, I wish all web-app tutorials were that good.

However.

Please, for the love of old gods and the new gods, ditch the over produced voiceover. Get a real person that speaks in a real manner.
GitHub won't accept any code push or pulls while they're fixing their file servers.

I know one of the benefits of DVCSs is that these outages don't immediately affect your work, but GitHub seems to have a several hour outage more than once a month. Why can't they keep their systems available?
It's a normal variable, not one set by `setopt`. The following should make commands that take longer than 1 second be reported:

export REPORTTIME=1
For some reason there's an endless supply of people who eventually have the thought, "I should make a to-do-list app."
Sure, but you have to wait for (last time I checked) 1 month without logging in before it's actually deleted.
"...a model based on approaches that that other countries have successfully deployed."

I think they're referring, mainly, to the Fraunhofer Society for the advancement of applied research, which started in Germany, but now has centers in other countries (including the US).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society
When I was 7 I got my first "bmx bike". It was awesome. When I turned 12 I got a "mountain bike" with 18!! Gears. I went from a bike with no gears to one with 18.

I think general usage of the term means that it fits Tesla -- even I f it's not technically correct
Computing Homology
I got about halfway through this and I am more confused than I've ever been.

I think it's good, but I'm not entirely sure.
No she was not. It stinks to hear about that stuff.
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile... depending on network, image size, device and browser user-agent.
It boggles me that nobody find this article disturbing. Also written as some sort of warning for the future, yet classified in OPINIONS...

Furthermore, click on the author's name and get taken to his personal website... Where you can admire his book being promoted. And it's about scary diseases in the world that will kill us all.

Please.
That's not really good advice. I would change it to "Only code when you can't think of any faster way to (in)validate your hypothesis".
I prefer not to configure much, the more I configure on my system, the harder it's to use another system (although, just using vim makes this hard on non-vim text editors.) Although I do find bash-completion handy in many situations (mainly for sub-commands), for mplayer it refuses to tab-complete videos not ending in a proper extension, which is rather annoying.

Don't get me wrong though, bash does have its bad points.
WordPress Caching with Nginx and Redis
Judging by the article on Bezier curves, I'd say you're doing fine. Very interesting stuff, and a great approach. It even made some linear algebra stuff click for me -- that I should've internalized long ago from my linear algebra class...
I liked his short stories from Angels and Visitations
Canada has a ton of these types of public-private investments in technology. Attempting to mimic the productivity of market capital investment in technology; in order to bring some sort of meritocratic process to spending the money.

But even with that structure, it never seems to produce anything interesting.

It ends up with highly beurcractic money distribution institutions such as MaRS [1] (which is high criticized in our tech scene) where money primarily goes to lawyers and high paid ex-industry executives. Aka non-entrepreneurs.

There's a big lack of accountability and money still goes to those who have friends higher up in the semi-public institutions. Aka the friends of the ex-industry executives they hire.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaRS_Discovery_District
Does his hypocrisy, a debatable assertion here at best, render his advice on how to be more productive invalid somehow? Does not seem so to me.
What about other web servers that have FastCGI support?
I ran across this a couple years ago and just reread it today. I love how the narrator is about as confused by the girls as we are, and basically completely ignores what they say and focuses on progressing the night.

For instance, the second girl talks about seeing insect-eyed and winged people in Rio, and he just responds "uh, do you want to dance?". It definitely makes me realize that I've witnessed conversations at similar parties where one person(usually the girl in a girl/boy pair) could basically say anything without changing the flow of the conversation.
That's the evolution Python went through as well: reference counting, then (in CPython 2.0) an adjunct cycle-collector, then (in PyPy) a non-reference-counting garbage collector.

Hopefully in future versions of PyPy an even better garbage collector. :-)
Priorities. When their availability problems start to affect their business model, they'll devote more resources to availability. Until then, they seem to feel that they have better things to do.
It sounds like the 5 institutes mentioned at the top are able to put in proposals for projects that oriented towards the goal of each of the 3 individual institutes. Also there's this:

"Federal funds will be matched by industry co-investment, support from state and local governments, and other sources."

Also to answer your question, from what I understand DOD and DOE scientists generally publish whatever isn't deemed classified. But then there's this:

"Like the pilot institute, these Institutes are expected to become financially self-sustaining"

I can't imagine a research institute becoming financially self sustaining without licensing patents, unless they're going to start producing and selling devices themselves.
Allowing depreciation of purchased vehicles is not a subsidy, besides Hummers are not made anymore. Regardless, the same write off they get for buying any vehicle would apply to electrics.

The point I was making is that there is more than room enough for various level of government to make the first move instead of paying businesses to do so. Move mass transportation to electric first as well as school buses. Both makes lots of starts and stops making them ideal for electric drive trains.
Dependency Injection and the art of services and containers
A stdlib implementation is a whole lot easier and less disruptive than new syntax in core. This counts for a lot. But of course you're vastly more limited in what you can do. The main benefit of this proposal that i can see is not the specific functionality it provides, but simply the fact that it makes it clear and explicit that this is a set of constants that have some meaning to the module - putting such constants in ordinary classes/namespaces (along with everything else) can obscure the fact they are not variables/attributes.
Um, none of those links explicitly mention IQ tests. Can you tell me which specific parts of the links we should look at?
42 Percent of Moms have pinterest stress: the worry they're not crafty enough
I was commenting on a problem with the argument that they shouldn't be used because they may have a racial bias. I don't really have a position on whether credit reports are a useful tool in hiring decisions.
For a few days, I was thinking that Daniel J. Bernstein could be Satoshi. But after reading more about him, I convinced myself otherwise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein
I like the idea of full disclosure, but when pitching to the Internet crowd for donations, I think you need that "cool" idea to get people to read the details behind your project. I absolutely agree with being honest disclosure, but with all the things out there competing for attention, you need a quick picture or phrase to capture your audience's attention. It seems difficult to be 100% honest and still be interesting.
Bash is the gnu shell which is a superset not posix which is basic no frills mixture of minimal ksh and bourne syntax.

BSD has the almquist shell as it's /bin/sh and tcsh as it's /bin/csh. Various commercial vendors licensed the korn shell from bell labs. The korn shell is public domain and open for 13 years now. The default sh on most UNIX boxes are either ash or a hard link to ksh which emulates the POSIX definition of sh. zsh and bash also provide the option to hard or soft link so depending on your distro you may have /bin/sh linked to bash.

Debian at one point repackaged the BSD almquist shell as their system sh calling it dash mainly for speed and stability. I believe they removed it as their programmers apparently couldn't program system level scripts without their non portable bashisms or maybe just one of the NIH moments where everything must live under a single mono-cultural license and identity.
There was some discussion of this in Professor Abu-Mostafa's "Learning from Data" class at Caltech. You can use machine learning techniques to build systems that are very good at saying whether or not you should give someone credit. If your system say no, though, you have to tell the applicant why credit was denied.

The banks are pretty sure that they can't get away with just saying "well, this big black box that we got some Caltech professor to build for us looked at all our prior customers and decided you are too similar to the bad ones". They need to say something specific.

I wonder if one could approach this by fiddling the inputs and rerunning the check, trying to find a reasonable minimal tweak that would produce approval. Then report those tweaked parameters as being the reason for credit denial. For example, if you deny a car loan, run the check again with higher income, and if you find that this gets an approval, report that the loan was denied because their income was too low.

I asked about this on the class forums, and Abu-Mostafa said it was interesting, but he didn't know if it would satisfy the legal requirements.
Re somewhat unimportant problem:

It depends. In our code we have constants integers used as kinds marker that get stored in database. Messing them would break things bad. And we have them everywhere. And we have maybe over a thousand of them.

Had we had this enum from the beginning we would now probably have a code base in a slightly but significantly better shape.
"I can testify to the fact that employees with financial problems can be an incredible drain on the company"

Most people have problems at some point in their lives that impact their ability to concentrate on their work. An employee could be going through a divorce or other relationship break-up, or have health problems or have family members with health problems. Are employers going to try to dig up this kind of information about potential employees as well? Where does society draw the line?

For that matter, I imagine that many employees who have financial problems would make an extra effort to succeed at work, since they really need the income.
No one has ever satisfactorily explained to me how the government can "invest" in something.
I think the argument Freeman makes is that that sense of value is misguided and actually serves to perpetuate the problem.
I am typing on a cheap Logitech K120 keyboard I got at Walmart. (at work I have a nice WASD[1] keyboard) I spent about $10 on this keyboard. if it stopped working in the next two years I wouldn't want to even bother dealing with the warranty mailing it back and waiting weeks for the replacement to arrive. I'd just throw it out and go buy another $10 keyboard.

1) http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/
>On the other hand, if we empirically observe that Mr. Cooper can't find a job, why does the theory above fail to hold in the real world?

I think what you're seeing is the effect of credit monitoring agencies marketing departments.

Sure over the long term those companies that discriminate based on credit may lose out, but in the short term HR managers are going on the word of Equifax/Transunion/Experian that checking new hire's credit history is beneficial.

The history of business is full of stupid trends that aren't supported by the evidence.
In bash you'd use HISTCONTROL=ignorespace
Tell HN: We should say “shim,” not “shiv”
In the last 4 years, give or take, there has been a lot of discussion and work relating to adding features to old or sub-par web browsers.

These have been called, variously, “polyfills,” “shims,” and “shivs.”

What’s the best term?

Well, a shiv is a homemade knife-like implement, such as one created and used in a prison environment. Where’s the word come from?

> “a razor,” 1915, variant of chive, thieves’ cant word for "knife" (1670s), of unknown origin. [1]

A “shim” is something that raises something up a level — that is exactly what we are doing within an old browser! Origin:

> “a slip of wood,” 1723, a Kentish word, of unknown origin. Originally a piece of iron fitted to a plow for scraping soil; meaning “thin slip to fill up a space or raise a level” is from 1860. [2]

Similarly, “polyfill” originates from “Polyfilla,” a brand of wall filler (or spackling paste, which is less relevant). That also kind of makes sense: it’s filling a gap (in a wall, and now in provided functionality).

Please — two terms is already too many and hurts searchability. Three is absurd. Let’s start with, ahem, cutting out the obvious worst option. Don’t say “shiv” when you mean “shim”!

[1]: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=shiv&searchmode=none
[2]: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=shim&searchmode=none
I've been looking for a "Personal Knowledge Base" for a while. There are plenty of "Personal Information Managers" like evernote or devonthink; places where you can dump and tag your files. But it seems that not many have tried to create a piece of software that can act as your own davinci notebook.
What's in a Number? New Carbon Dioxide Level Unseen in Human History
JSON also does not permit comments, which makes it unsuitable for many applications such as handwritten configuration files. :-/ It would be tempting to use JSON for such things, but it requires too much markup...and without comments it's pretty dead in the water. Things like YAML have been succeeding in this space instead...much to the annoyance of Rebol advocates.

But there is some potential for copying the successful aspects of these formats, while bringing back that Rebol flair with REN (REadable Notation):

https://github.com/rebolek/REN

Just basically Rebol "taking back JSON" and competing with the likes of YAML. We'll have to wait and see where that goes.
Yes. It's called libpng.
I'm not too sure how directly replaceable those two car types are, since performance matters a hell of a lot more in a truck than in a "white van".
>Also, named tuples are profoundly more useful (i.e. using them is one of the easiest ways to improve the clarity of your code).

I read that and I thought, "that's such a thing Raymond Hettinger would say". Then I glanced up at the username :)
pasuspender cat
I believe shiv was used to mean something that didn't quite produce the correct behavior 100% of the time, or only produced the correct behavior in part. I agree these names are not intuitive but I believe that there are subtleties to the naming variations.
Sooo..what happened at the end?
Huh. I used it successfully (pushing and cloning) several times over the last three hours, including just fifteen minutes ago
> ps aux | grep bin_name | grep -v grep | awk ... | xargs kill -9

I know this isn't the point of the story, but, friendly reminder to everyone about the existence of `killall`
If Tesla becomes a car company of similar size to, say, Ford, what will its stock price be?