skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a heavy user (more than a year in the top 50 for my region) but I'll stop using it if it's bought.
I would argue 'No'.

The candidate wants a job. The employer wants an employee. They are BOTH investing their resources (time, money, opportunity cost) to achieve their respective goals.

The employee doesn't want to attend interviews any more than an employer doesn't actually want to hold them; they'd both much rather skip to the end, but the whole process is a necessary evil for both parties.

I certainly don't agree with the rudeness, mind.
I used a pirate Chinese phone for a year. It worked just like any other Android phone and the quality was great considering the price tag of 100€.
You're right. Other than iPhone and some BB, I haven't seen anything coming with subsidies. Also, in India, almost of the connections are pre-paid. As per a Nielsen study, 97% of the youth (age 15 to 24) in India are on a pre-paid connection.

http://trak.in/tags/business/2011/02/24/indian-youth-mobile-...
...for high-end phones.

For a $99 `feature phone' expectations are commensurately lower; I don't think anyone would buy this phone expecting something that's equivalent to an iPhone 5 or a Galaxy S4. They'll buy it because it's cheap, cute, does everything they want, and it has great battery-life.
>Is it my imagination, or has the number of sign-ups dropped dramatically since introducing the £6 fee?

I don't know, I think the reaction to the last one was that the speakers didn't really provide anything of use for most of the audience just sadly weren't interesting enough.

Whilst it is easy for me to be an armchair critic in the audience I do remember remarking at one point that we were witnessing the worst, most boring explanation of hill climbing / optimisation I've ever seen. It was sufficiently lacking in background to be of no merit to someone who'd never come accross the concept before, but far too basic for anyone who had. I appreciate the guest speakers don't get paid, but I know I wasn't alone in finding them a distraction from talking and drinking with the interesting people in attendance.

I can't imagine a £6 fee would put people off, most would have paid that just to travel there.
If you are having the beer and pizza it's pretty good value. I wonder how many people don't/wouldn't have the beer and pizza, and therefore consider it less good value.
trust me, regular feature phones are far uglier than this new Nokia phone (I still use one from 2011 as a secondary phone)
Coding a Digital Page Slideshow Viewer with jQuery
A Cople of Handy Scripts to Manage VirtualBox Virtual Machines
Making a login form using PHP
Should or shouldn't, is there any legal ground for billing?

Someone who hasnt been responding to you is suddenly going to pay you? I would foresee them simply rejecting your "bill" and don't see how it could hold up in court. They are spending their time too afterall, whats to stop them from billing you?
> I can't imagine a £6 fee would put people off, most would have paid that just to travel there.

The numbers did drop dramatically when the fee was introduced - it used to fill up well ahead of time, and now it regularly doesn't reach capacity at all.

I don't know the reasons why fewer people are coming, and whether it's a good or bad thing, but the numbers definitely dropped due to the £6 fee.
How Does The Federal Reserve Bank Issue Currency?
This is one of hthose thorny edges of copyright, where plaintiffs have successfully argued that the act of moving the data from disk to memory constitutes a 'copy'.
New Scientist: Crowdsourcing the Weather
I'll be honest, this looks comically bad and has no merit besides the fact that it has a geeky premise.

I'm sure the underlying discussion of "What if P=NP? is solved?" is incredibly interesting but what I got from the trailer was that this was a movie with a bad script, bad cinematography, bad acting, and bad editing.
Steal Like an Artist - How to be creative and do great work
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://n.premii.com:8080/news?t=1368095400890. Origin http://premii.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
Cyborg Neil Harbison can hear colors.
I want egyption gigolo phone number and his name
The form factor is very... "unique".
Have I offended someone giving my two-cents here? I thought the general consensus is that Linkedin has become a spam wasteland evident by language and tone used in the article. I don't understand the downvote here.
I spent 5 weeks in hospital last year for Pulmonary Edema (fluid on the lungs) related to diabetic-induced heart problems. Two ops and 5 stents later I can't fault the UK NHS model. It's not perfect, but it does a great job without bankrupting the patient.
Microsoft has just blown its oldest trick
DNA Tool Brings Life To The Long Dead
Not too much technical articles there, but still impressive what the output of HN over a month is. Perfect reader for the weekend.
How One of Google’s Best Customers Could Steal Away Search
Nordstrom tracking customer movement via smartphones’ WiFi sniffing
When asked for a vegetable I immediately though of a banana, then my brain said 'VEGETABLE, stupid', and I thought of a cabbage instead.
Why employees shouldn't have hours
Ouya raises $15M from Kleiner Perkins and Mayfield, delays launch to June 25
I've had former colleagues offended that I did not endorse them for skills (that I had not witnessed them using, though I knew they used them at that company.)
Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible
Yeah... you can almost imagine people making a career out of being interviewed if you take this to the nth degree, which undoubtedly, someone would.
You do realize that the regulations are in place to try to prevent quacks from killing people, right?

You sound like one of those Tea Party idiots. You have no credibility.
Queen's speech revives 'snooper's charter' legislation
Lisp before Common Lisp had it. But the Common Lisp language sorted it out, such that other languages copied it partly.
The thing about "correct horse battery staple" is that it has 28 characters including spaces. Sure, all of the words are common, but good luck trying to brute force it.
This is how iCloud works already, if all your music was bought from iTunes or if you're using iTunes match
>so as to be free to develop and test their products in a patent-free environment //

You're free to used patented inventions for development and testing - you can't use them commercially. So giving away the resulting product (which I think would include external testing by anyone considered part of 'the public').

The whole deal with patents is [supposed to be] to stimulate innovation - the sufficient disclosure parts of patents applications are for the express purpose of making duplication of the invention possible within the relevant art.

You're supposed to develop and test with patented inventions.

The problem of course comes when R&D of a product pauses and you have to start negotiating licensing and such in order to bring a product to market.
Study: Immigration reform would create over three million jobs
So, who will write J2ME apps for them?
Pertinent Bruce Schneier quote:

Anyone can invent a security system that he himself cannot break. I've said this so often that Cory Doctorow has named it "Schneier's Law": When someone hands you a security system and says, "I believe this is secure," the first thing you have to ask is, "Who the hell are you?" Show me what you've broken to demonstrate that your assertion of the system's security means something.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law....
If it's anything like Deception Point, I'll be staying well clear of it. Typically, stories in that genre use compsci-babble as smoke and mirrors to cover up the lack of storyline.
I believe that Taiwan (TSEC) does this, although I can't find a reference for it now.
xkcd: always relevant.
USB, media cards and 3.5 floppy boom: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820192...
Daltonize - Colour-Blind image processing in ruby-vips, carrierwave and nip2
If by "free access to facebook" they mean no data charge for facebook access for the lifetime of the phone, I wouldn't be surprised by this being a hit with the college crowd... especially if the camera is decent.
>while the rest is brought local to the customer //

Sounds like contributory infringement to me. Why not just host the entire thing distally and access via VPN?

The answer lies in where a product is considered to be sold. If you're targeting customers in the USA say then it doesn't matter where your server is you're still considered to be selling in the USA.

YMMV and I'm afraid I don't have any caselaw handy to cite on this.
One caution from an older programmer (upper 50s, probably 2x the age of a lot of the folks on HN): it is quite possible to spend 20 years getting 2 years of experience 10 times. This is not so easy in some software worlds, but can be done in others. VB and Perl are 20 years old, C is about 30, COBOL, and yes there is plenty of COBOL around, about 45.

The temptation is always there to do the same work that is comfortable, and it can be hard to resist.
And I will start using it so it will even out.
I've seen the film already - there have been a few screenings of it here in Cambridge, UK at the university maths department. (Indeed, I wasn't aware it hadn't been generally released!) It's an interesting idea and quite reasonably played out without too much cliche and, impressively, not too many blunders in maths or tech. The way the premise has been turned into plot is not, however, so sound. Still, I found it sufficiently engaging and I'd recommend a viewing for anyone with an academic maths or science background.
Don't calculate p-values without understanding them
RailsConf 2013 Review
That's weird, I was still thinking 6.
about five years ago
> Because if "pain" and "emotions" are felt pretty much in the same way by animals and humans (for which there is more and more evidence on that as we learn how the brain works), why would it be moral to inflict pain to animals but amoral to inflict pain on human beings ?

Without being an antispecist, I surely agree with that. It would have been indeed a great thing to start with writing some kind of animal rights chart, or even a global "life rights", that would include human rights (and which would probably leads to questions like "how much is it ok to takes from nature" or "when taking animal life for food, how to do it respectfully"). But I don't think that's what this government had in mind.

I may be wrong, of course, but it seems to me they had more anthropological considerations about apes than considerations about animal suffering, or else, they would have proposed some kind of general animal law.
Sony posts first full-year profit in five years
Reminded me of The Matrix Office Space Mash Up...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDHDYy_9cE
Certainly agree with you here.
Your web app simply looks and performs beautifully. Great job.
Is it really relevant in this day and age ?

I can think of a very few cases (like, being lost in the Borneo jungle) where this would be actually useful in a normal environment.

If you live someplace where you don't have easy access to a power outlet at least once per day, it's unlikely you will have support for the advanced features of a smartphone, and an older Nokia phone will work just as well ...
Great idea.

However, is such a policy implementable at a large corporation like Google or Microsoft? It is certainly within reach of startups that have a dozen or even a couple of hundred employees.
Wait, you can make calls with it?
The application cache is no longer a douchebag
For some companies, for some types of work, for some contexts, fine. But I'm getting really tired of people assuming that their limited experience in their limited world applies universally.

More importantly - be intelligent about your policies. Consider what the work is, and how people work best. Give them the power and the responsibility to get things done. Allow them to take control, and make sure they are well informed about what you're trying to accomplish, and what the various external forces might be.

But don't tell me not to set hours for my employees. I've consulted with them, we've worked together, and for our context, with our customers, with our work, and in our marketplace, we, together, have concluded that regular hours in the office are the best way to work as a team and get the job done.

Your context will be different - be intelligent about your choices.
How to not steal a website design
Looks like total shit. You probably can place this movie on one shelf with Birdemic and The Room.
I find it quite helpful that I don’t have to carry a charger with me for shortish trips, although my phone only lasts about 5 days with medium usage. Granted, if I carry my laptop with me anyway it is just an extra USB cable, but if I don’t, it’s another 200 or so grams I potentially have to carry uphill on a bike.
Your synopsis is more general than what I'm thinking of, so of course it's going to catch more things. It's really the specific story of: 1) protagonist's life sucks; 2) protagonist gains deeper understanding about how life works; 3) protagonist sees the same life he was living before in a new light. I guess A Christmas Carol is about like that.

I've seen quite a bit of film, but honestly, if it's really that generic, what are some other examples?
You can justify anything, and therefore nothing, with that speculation.
It is common for large companies to have policies stating employees have to report a gift above a certain value, but that's mostly to prevent outright bribery (which still happens anyway, in most procurement departments).

Paying cash can create some tax complications that vouchers avoid too.
Very pleasant looking. But you should have at least a HN link to each of the items so I can read HN's comments
How small should a function be?
That's the exception in his list, but it does package the same hardware as the Chinese ones.

Regarding the Archos 35 Carbon Spec (the only one under $100), I have never seen a single core processor running Android decently. Most of the time, it actually drains the battery because the processor is struggling to accomplish any task. Not saying Android is a bad OS, just saying that Android requires much more power than S40, and I am sure the Meego-like UX on the Asha is actually nicer than the one proposed by a slow Android phone.
48 DAYS (because I didn't pick up on it at first, even with your comment, it's so unexpected).
I find it absolutely dramatic that people have just accepted that battery life should be terrible with modern smartphone.
cost, how much will it cost. do not make me fill out a form before you tell me.
Is it just me, or is there a huge variance in the wattage drawn for the 5GH/s miners? The article measured the power drawn at 50W, while David from Coding In My Sleep [1] measured it to be 30W [2].

[1] http://codinginmysleep.com/bfl-jalapeno-unboxing-and-demo/
[2] Around 7:33
You're right, the post is essentially meaningless. If it's secure why doesn't MI5, CIA, and banks use it as their CMS? Oh because it's not that secure.

In addition to your questions, I would ask

* What types of attack is it secure against?

* How much work is involved in doing all the ongoing maintenance?

* The risk tends to come from plugins, but those plugins are one of the main selling points of Wordpress. To what extent does this lessen Wordpress's value proposition?

* If you do ever get hacked, what kind of auditing is there? What help does it provide for damage limitation?

The OP is an overly-simplified response to typical boilerplate comments - [insert language or framework] is [fast/slow/secure/insecure]. Of course Wordpress is secure enough for the average professional site as long as it's maintained, but the OP sounds like a car salesman saying "Sure it's _real_ fast" without telling you the actual speed.
Open APIs are the new software patents
I had a great time at the previous meetup -- interesting conversations, accompanied by food and drink. What's not to like?

Now one of my primary reasons for attending was to check out possible job openings, and as expected, there were a few I was interested in.

I had what I thought were useful conversations with the people that had advertised said jobs, and came away with a couple of email addresses.

Unfortunately, despite repeated emails, I didn't hear back even once. Not even with a "thanks, but no thanks" sort of response. This strikes me as quite unprofessional, especially from a community that supposedly looks down on this sort of behaviour.[1] Given that I also experienced this for most of the approaches I made to organisations at previous Silicon Milkroundabout events, I have to conclude one of either two things about the "hacker community":

1) My abilities/skills are really quite ordinary at best, and not a good fit for pretty much any technocrat organisation. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5664839

2) Most people are simply paying lip-service to transparency and "the right way to do things".

FWIW, in my job search efforts, Big Companies have been far more transparent and forthcoming with their communication than absolutely any startup I've applied to. And that is depressing as hell.

/end self-flagellation.

[1] It's quite possible that I just got unlucky and stumbled onto precisely the few orgs that do, in fact, follow these practices amidst the remaining shining paragons of virtue.
Very nice, thanks. One thing that is odd/slightly annoying is the way the comments initially scroll up. The issue is that the comments list scrolls at a different speed to the speed at which I'm dragging it due to the simultaneous scrolling up of the title bar. I think initially just the title bar should slide out of the way, and when it's gone, scrolling should continue on the comments list. Ultimately my finger should at the same position in then comments list as when it started the drag. i.e. Very much like how a category slides out of the way in a regular UITableView.
Gov't drops big data bombshell on U.S. hospital industry
As a student, having to fork out £40/£50 for train tickets was a pretty tough decision - having to weigh whether or not I thought I might get the job vs having the cost of train tickets.

Most companies would reimburse travel either way, which was fine but some companies wouldn't.
It only sends the credentials once when you login, and that's only to HN's https login page. It then only includes HN's regular cookie in the http headers on requests that go to an https page inside HN after you've logged in.
Spideroak hive
This is not a comment. What is?
The Evils of Non-native Programming
For me, I eventually grow bored and want to try new things (new languages, environments, domains). That's the the great thing with programming - there is a lot of interesting stuff to learn, and at the same time you can benefit from the core knowledge of SW development that you acquire along the way.
+1 Cabbage. That's too much cabbage to be a coincidence, I'd say.
Actually it does already :) - just double click the header bar in a comment (where the username is) and it will collapse that comment and all nested ones under it.
Let me guess, they discovered another leap year bug?
Short battery life would be more acceptable if they all charged from usb, but they don't. Festivals, staying out of home for days at a time, holidays - times when you really need a phone, are easier with long battery life.
Don't know why people accept it.
There weren't all that many programmers 15 years ago, let alone 30. Things have changed.
Hey, man, the OP is almost 30 years old. He's figured it all out.
I would suggest a change of title. "Open" in title hints at non-proprietary APIs, which doesn't make sense. A better word would be "public" (admittedly not perfect though). Maybe just remove it, like this: "APIs are the new software patents"?
And So The Next Nook Will Be Windows RT
The radiolab podcast is well worth a listen for a bit of layman's insight into HFT. The conclusion at the end makes it clear what the implications are.
EEE describe embracing standards, extending them with proprietary features and then using those features to drive out the software that implements the actual standard. I don't see how it applies here, even if MS buys the Nook to kill it.
For all the non-impressed people.
It was unveiled in New Delhi, meaning it focus group isn't western world. It is not meant for you, who already own a smartphone.

And for its focus group, it is pretty darn impressive. Battery life for people who don't have toilet, not mentioning wall outlets.

edit:
I think it would be perfect phone for kids first phone. Simple, cheap, good battery, durable.
That's not how it usually works Mr. Ignorant.
you really should not be saying 'Dont click on this link'. What do you think people are gonna do ? Evil you !
It is, but I don't get your point. Though the writer is from Romania
haha true that !
Relevant Dilbert cartoon:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-05-06/
No, but it does not matter. Either you have already decided not to hire them, or they have decided not to wait any longer for you to make your decision.
right, but what vegetable did you pick?!
"It’s time to bring your company into the 19th century."

The 40-hour week isn't "a fossil" from the era of production lines; it exists because workers fought for it.
It's a trade-off between features. A smartphone does much more than a traditional phone: wireless, 3G, and most of all, high resolution screens make the high consumption a necessary evil in order to deliver the added functionalities.

Personally, I can't really see the added value of having to plug my smartphone less frequently than once per day, as opposed to have all the features offered in exchange.

Power consumption only tells only part of the story : it should be compared to the features offered by the phone, and in which conditions. I doubt we are talking about 48 days of standby with wifi and 3G active, that would be how you normally use a smartphone.
I thought Cabbage too! But I'm not a native speaker, which may have an influence.
Take it to the extreme: say IBM patented the `operating system software`, for example. Would Microsoft and/or Apple have come to exist as projects out of a basement or dorm? Say someone patented a media player that could hold a library in the cloud and could stream it to the user via a network / internet... would Spotify, Rdio, or any other competitors exist today?

Software patents are suffocating innovators, rather than inspiring them.
But if you are a competent recruiter, you should be able to spot these people quickly.
Good point!

It also says vegetable, which starts the same way cabbage ends. That may account for so many people thinking cabbage.
Fought and quite literally died for it.
World first atomic pocket watch: Hoptroff No 10
Programming pays well. The field is populated by mathematically competent people who likely grasp the benefit of compounding interest. Perhaps they are...retiring early?
Wanted: Date/time stamps on interwebs page loads
Something I've wanted for ages is this: a date/time stamp telling me when I loaded a web page. It would be cool if somehow a small icon were injected into the top right, and if I mouse-over then it expands to show me the local date and time that page was loaded.

Any takers? Would you find it useful?

Can you do it? And if so, how?
Writing an Empirical Paper in APA Style
Consumer Reports gives near-perfect score to Tesla Model S
Actually this affects the main news items list also.

In addition, when I'm part way down the list I can't tell whether the grey "x Points ... y seconds ago by zzz" separator bar applies to the item above or below it. Maybe adjusting the shading of the bar and border would make it more obvious to which it belonged.
It's not Symbian, it's S40. So, J2ME apps.
I'm sorry for your loss.

Healthcare professionals are very aware of this problem, but
privacy issues will kill your startup. Seriously. In Norway (top 3 in healthcare) taxis are used DAILY to transfer patient journals between hospitals in Oslo [1].

[1] http://www.vg.no/helse/artikkel.php?artid=587052